{"id": 0, "article": "Olivia Watling, a 15-year-old student from Ramsey in the Isle of Man, was admitted to Liverpool's Alder Hey hospital in November. Her wish was granted by Little Mix singer Jade Thirlwall after the campaign #littlemix4livvy was launched by pupils at her school. Jade said the band wanted to send \"all their love\" to Olivia. Referencing the nickname given to Little Mix's fans, Jade said she had heard Olivia was a \"massive Mixer\". A spokeswoman for the campaign, said: \"Livvy woke up to the message and has been showing it to all her nurses. \"Well done to everyone that made this happen - just to see the smile on Livvy's face is so very special.\" Her aunt Andrea Holroyd said: \"Liv went to see Little Mix last year, she knows all the songs and all the dances. \"I can't tell you how amazing Liv is - she is in so much pain but she is so incredibly strong and brave. We are just finding things to lift her spirits.\"", "question": "A girl @placeholder leukaemia has received a \" get well soon \" video message from her favourite band Little Mix .", "option_0": "disabled", "option_1": "nicknamed", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "called", "option_4": "battling"}
{"id": 1, "article": "The Royal College of Physicians found 43% of consultants believe rota gaps among junior doctors cause \"significant problems\" to patient safety. Meanwhile, 40% of consultant physician vacancies could not be filled. \"In most cases, this was because there were literally no applicants,\" said Dr Alan Rees, RCP Wales vice president. The concerns in hospitals follow issues involving a shortage of GPs and a campaign to get doctors to train and work in Wales. \"The NHS recruitment crisis in Wales is getting worse, and is not confined to primary care,\" said Dr Rees. This is the first time the RCP has compiled Wales-only figures on the workforce in hospitals. The findings of a new survey of consultants - and core medical trainees (CMTs) - coincide with a conference in Cardiff. Consultant physicians are senior doctors who look after everything which is not surgical in the hospital - and that includes 30 different specialisms, acute admissions and outpatient clinics. The CMTs are qualified junior doctors who have already been through medical school and completed their first two years as trainees. They do the day-to-day ward rounds and look after patients while on rotations in different specialities over a further two year training period. 43% trainee doctor rota gaps \"frequently cause significant problems to patient safety\" 48.5% consultant physicians feel at times to be working under excessive pressure 35.4% say this is happening \"often\" 92.3% consultants \"sometimes, often or always\" doing jobs previously done by junior doctors The report found: WHAT JUNIOR DOCTORS SAY Dr Richard Gilpin, 33, qualified as a doctor six years ago and his current rotation is at Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny, the 12th hospital he has worked at in his career so far. \"We're used to working long hours, so a typical shift is 13 hours and it's not unusual to work a couple of hours after that. And to spend that time, working as hard as we can, missing food and toilet breaks and after that time having 15 to 20 patients still waiting to see a doctor because of rota gaps, that's a very difficult thing to come home from. \"And that's tied in with morale - the idea you want to finish the working day knowing you've done a good job.\" Dr Charlie Williams, 28, qualified three years ago and is currently at Morriston Hospital in Swansea on her rotation as a core medical trainee. \"I don't know anyone who's routinely not working longer hours than they should be. When you're on a rota that's very thin there's no wriggle room, if someone's off sick or a car breaks down, you end up having to cover the extra work. You do get quite a lot of phone calls and pressure to fill those shifts. \"From a training point of view, if you want to learn how to run an outpatient clinic or learn some of the management or educational bits that consultants do, you can only do that if there's enough cover for your ward and you know your patients are looked after. \"When there is no cover, that [training opportunity] never happens. You have this conflict because you need to be able to do these things to progress your career, they're not optional. You then have to square that with whether you can leave the patients; leave the ward. \"It adds an extra layer of pressure and it also makes it less flexible. If you want leave for example - I've got a friend getting married on a Sunday in July, I'm not sure I can go with that much notice because I don't know if there will be a doctor to cover: that's the priority. When you can't plan over those things, it's difficult for your family or to explain to people you know.\" Both love their jobs and are keen to stress they find them very rewarding and interesting. These junior doctors' frustrations are with the rota gaps - not unique to Wales - but also with IT and technology systems inside hospitals, especially having to move between different health boards every six months. Dr Gilpin said: \"There's a joke in medicine that the most important thing you have to learn as a doctor in your first month is how to fix the printer. \"When you've spent half an hour trying to fix the fax machine so you can send a referral off -  I could have spent that time talking with a patient's family.\" Dr Williams added: \"We've got people coming in half an hour early to make up the patient list and then find a printer that works, because you need to have it ready to go or you're holding up the rest of the clinical team\". The RCP makes 30 recommendations set against what it sees as complex challenges, including a rising and ageing population and the need to serve large rural parts of Wales as well as urban areas. It sets out examples of good practice, particularly in how healthcare needs to go beyond hospital walls. The organisation also wants more Welsh students to study medicine in Wales, increasing the likelihood of them staying on to work here. Dr Rees said numbers were now \"as low as 10%\" of students in medical school in Wales being from Wales. He added that a \"bold, strategic step\" was needed and a \"really ambitious, long term vision\", not more quick fixes. The Welsh Government said it would consider the report but it was important to recognise how demand was growing. \"In order to address the challenges this poses, health boards have been working hard to recruit more staff, including consultants,\" said a spokesperson. \"As a result there are more frontline staff working for NHS Wales than ever before.  We will continue to support health boards to recruit staff, including doctors, through our 'train, work, live' campaign.\" Conservative health spokeswoman Angela Burns AM called on ministers to introduce long-term workforce planning and to bring forward a \"fresh recruitment plan\". \"This should involve contracting newly trained doctors for a number of years in return for training bursaries, as well as establishing a pilot of financial incentives to attract doctors in shortage specialities and understaffed areas to work in Wales,\" she said.", "question": "Hospital doctors in Wales have warned of a \" @placeholder crisis \" over workload and recruitment , adding to concerns about pressures already made by GPs .", "option_0": "damaging", "option_1": "humiliating", "option_2": "defining", "option_3": "root", "option_4": "looming"}
{"id": 2, "article": "All too often here, when the land is baked dry, the winds can strip away an inch of precious topsoil in as little as 24 hours, soil that has taken centuries to form. In the course of the most arid years, each acre of farmland can lose up to 70 tons of soil and then, wherever the dust is dumped, it can smother the crops it lands on. In the Oklahoma Panhandle, the most remote area of the state, recent rainfall has been so meagre that fears have been kindled of a return to the apocalyptic \"Dust Bowl\" scenes of the 1930s. Back then, agriculture collapsed and thousands of people left. A survivor of the 1930s, 101-year-old Millard Fowler, who recalls sheltering from the \"rolling black clouds\" of the Dust Bowl, has seen similar conditions this year. \"Somebody asked me the other day if dust storms would happen again and I said 'they already have' - we've had some pretty good dust storms this spring,\" he said. One of the worst was filmed by a local woman, LeLayne Tapp, and the video showed dust engulfing the community of Boise City, turning the sunlight orange and making roads impassable. A farmer, JB Stewart, surveying one of his ruined wheat fields, told me that he had seen many droughts in his lifetime but the current one was \"insane\" because it has lasted so long. \"I've seen droughts over 50 years but nothing as devastating as what we've had in the last two to three years - I've never heard of anything like what we've had,\" he said. His son Jarod, the fifth generation of the family to farm this land, said: \"We've lost the crop and we've now got to figure out how to stop the soil from blowing. \"I'd compare it to the death of a loved one - you nurture this crop and invest in it and then you watch that crop die, it's devastating.\" Across many parts of the state, the drought is acknowledged to have started three-and-a-half years ago with between 30-50 inches less rainfall than on average over that time. Gary McManus, the Oklahoma State Climatologist, told the BBC: \"The drought right now is the worst in decades especially in western Oklahoma. \"This has had a big economic impact on our economy - if you look at agriculture in 2011-12 alone there were $2bn losses from crops and cattle.\" He highlights rainfall statistics for the weather station in Boise City in the midst of one of the hardest-hit areas, Cimarron County, where the total from October 1 2010 to June 12 2014 was just 43 inches. By comparison, over the same period in the 1930s, a time of extraordinary hardship, Boise City received only 41.62 inches of rain. Back then, massive dust storms destroyed such vast areas of farmland that a journalist, reporting on what became an environmental and human catastrophe, coined the term \"Dust Bowl\". Years of drought, exacerbated by poor farming practices, left the fields without vegetation or any form of protection, so the soils were vulnerable to the winds. In one notorious storm in April 1935, dust was swept all the way to Washington DC, where it alerted the federal authorities to the unfolding nightmare. The wrecking of harvests and the crushing of livelihoods were then seared into the national memory in literature such as John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, with its account of the plight of the Joad family. Since then, important changes in farming policy have lessened the impact of the drought. The technique of \"no-till\" agriculture - in which ploughing is avoided and stubble is deliberately left standing in fields - reduces the amount of farmland exposed to the winds. And farmers can now buy government-supported crop insurance and receive grants for planting farmland with natural grasses which are better able to withstand drought. But what has shocked many in this region is that rainfall has been so poor that even some of the best-kept fields have become miniature dust bowls. Rick Kochenower, an agronomist with Oklahoma State University, developing new techniques of crop rotation and water conservation, said conditions were \"scary\" and \"make you feel helpless\". \"We try to do the right things and have modern technology but Mother Nature still dictates what happens, she's the driving force - all plants require water to grow,\" he said. A key question is whether future droughts will become more intense. The farmer, JB Stewart, wonders if a long period of good rainfall that he enjoyed in the 1970s and 80s means there can be an equally long period of poor rain in decades ahead. Others avidly follow reports of a stirring El Nino, which could bring moisture to Oklahoma. Dr Renee McPherson of the University of Oklahoma was an author of the Great Plains chapter of the recent National Climate Assessment. She says the region experiences very large climate variability but that models suggest there will be a rise in maximum temperatures this century. That could increase evaporation from the ground and transpiration from plants. \"We're less sure of what will happen to our precipitation patterns, but even if they stay the same, we'll see increased drying with those increased temperatures,\" she explained. \"We aren't sure what the droughts will look like in future - whether they'll be longer - but we feel that because of the increasing temperature they will be intensified.\" Millard Fowler, the Dust Bowl survivor, worries that although farmers are supported, life will become tougher as supplies of groundwater, used for irrigation, run low. He said: \"There's very few living out on the farms anymore - they moved to towns where they could get television.\"", "question": "A menacing cloud of dust @placeholder above a parched field in Oklahoma is a disturbing reminder of the power of drought .", "option_0": "clouds", "option_1": "unearthed", "option_2": "built", "option_3": "swirling", "option_4": "swept"}
{"id": 3, "article": "The unnamed man, in his 20s, was taken to Coventry Fire Station by his mother because he could not remove the hardened-steel shackle lock. Firefighters could not cut the lock and called in West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service's Technical Rescue Unit The station commander said the man was unhurt, \"but his mother was raging\". Pete Drummond said: \"We tried a cutter, but it just marked the lock. Then we tried a reinforced bar cutter, but it just dented it\". He said the man had been out drinking until the early hours and did not know when the lock was put round his neck. \"He woke up at about 16:00 BST and found his mates had put the lock round his neck and his mates had thrown away the keys,\" said Mr Drummond. \"His mum brought him in at about 19:30 BST. He really did have his tail between his legs\". The rescue unit covered the man with a fireproof blanket and cut through the steel with a circular saw.", "question": "A man who woke at home with a high - security bike lock around his neck after a @placeholder out needed a rescue team to get it off .", "option_0": "burn", "option_1": "cliff", "option_2": "black", "option_3": "night", "option_4": "lights"}
{"id": 4, "article": "They were reportedly caught as they were leaving the northern town of Arlit before dawn in five different vehicles. The migrants - mainly men, with some women and a few children - are believed to be from Nigeria and Niger. It comes days after 92 migrants were found to have died of thirst after two trucks broke down carrying them across the Sahara to Algeria. Niger lies on a major migrant route between sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. Those arrested on Saturday are now reportedly being arrested by police in Arlit. The government announced on Friday a plan to close illegal camps in northern Niger - which it referred to as \"ghettos\" - and said those involved in trafficking migrants would be \"severely punished\". The country has been holding three days of mourning after the bodies of 52 children, 33 women and seven men were discovered on Wednesday. Another five from the same convoy had been found several days earlier by the army. Most of the dead were from the southern Niger district of Kantche. The government said in its statement on Friday that the tragedy was \"the result of criminal activities led by all types of trafficking networks\". About 5,000 African migrants are said to be currently stranded in illegal camps in the northern town of Agadez alone. Most of these migrants - having paid large sums of money to traffickers - are waiting to cross the hundreds of kilometres of desert into Libya or Algeria, from where they can take boats to Europe in the hope of a better life there. Niger has said that migrants found to be in the illegal camps will be handed over to international aid agencies. The head of the International Office for Migration in Niger, Abibatou Wane, has welcomed the action by the government but warned migrants should only be repatriated to their home countries on a voluntary basis.", "question": "Officials in Niger have arrested 127 migrants as they attempted to cross the Sahara into Algeria , @placeholder say .", "option_0": "police", "option_1": "sources", "option_2": "state", "option_3": "motor", "option_4": "leaving"}
{"id": 5, "article": "3 December 2015 Last updated at 18:57 GMT She is one of a rising number of UK students considering studying abroad. As well as being much less expensive, she thought going to a European university would give her an \"edge\" in the jobs market. \"It shows a certain quality, it shows bravery to go to another country and it's not that far from home,\" she said. The distance does not seem daunting, she says as it is as quick to get home from the Netherlands as from some other parts of the UK.", "question": "Phoebe Watkinson from Wirral @placeholder an open day at the University of Groningen to see whether she wanted to apply to study in the Netherlands .", "option_0": "visited", "option_1": "spent", "option_2": "claimed", "option_3": "joined", "option_4": "show"}
{"id": 6, "article": "Conservative Nusrat Ghani said the term was used by abusers as a \"pathetic self-justification\" for their violence. She proposed a bill in the House of Commons that would ban the use of the description in official publications. The move would make it clear that \"cultural and religious sensitivities are not a barrier to justice\", the MP for Wealden in East Sussex said. There is no specific offence of \"honour-based\" violence. The Crown Prosecution Service describes it as a \"collection of practices, which are used to control behaviour within families or other social groups to protect perceived cultural and religious beliefs and/or honour\". Ms Ghani said police had been put off investigating such crimes because they fear being branded \"racist\". \"Language matters,\" she told the Commons. \"The use of the term 'honour' to describe a violent criminal act - sometimes committed against a man, but more often against a woman - can be explained only as a means of self-justification for the perpetrator. \"It diminishes the victim and provides a convenient excuse for what in our society we should accurately and simply call murder, rape, abuse or enslavement. \"I want us in this House to send a clear message that the excuses end here.\" Her Crime (Aggravated Murder of and Violence against Women) Bill would also require the UK authorities to fund assistance for British women attacked in other countries and for the bodies of those murdered to be repatriated. UK nationals guilty of such offences towards other UK nationals overseas would also face prosecution in British courts, her bill states. MPs agreed the bill should be able to proceed, although Conservative MP Philip Davies - who said it was too focused on women and did not mention honour crime towards men - objected. Mr Davies said he would continue to oppose legislation \"unjustifiably aimed at dealing with just one gender\", adding: \"Yes, of course women are far more likely to be the victims of honour-based crimes than men, but they are not exclusively the victims of these crimes. \"As far as I am concerned, all these things are just as bad as each other.\" The bill will be heard again on 24 March, although it is unlikely to become law without the government's support.", "question": "An MP is @placeholder to ban authorities from describing murders as \" honour killings \" .", "option_0": "prepared", "option_1": "returning", "option_2": "forced", "option_3": "attempting", "option_4": "set"}
{"id": 7, "article": "The virus - spread by sneezes or coughs - can lead to serious birth defects if contracted by pregnant women. Up to 20,000 children were born with rubella in the Americas every year until mass vaccinations started. But the last endemic cases registered in the region were in Argentina and Brazil in 2009. The fact no new cases have been declared in five consecutive years, apart from those imported into the region, allowed global health chiefs to declare the Americas free of the virus. Eradication was \"an historic achievement\", said Carissa Etienne, director of the Pan-American Health Organization, which is part of the World Health Organization. \"The fight against rubella has taken more than 15 years,\" she said. \"But it has paid off with what I believe will be one of the most important pan-American public health achievements of the 21st Century.\" Rubella is also called German measles. It is caused by a virus and spreads when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Usually rubella causes a rash, a slight fever, aching joints, headaches, runny nose and red eyes. The rash starts on the face and spreads from head to toe. Sometimes the lymph nodes behind the ears and on the neck can swell painfully. Rubella can be dangerous for pregnant women in the first three months of pregnancy. It can lead to congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) in children, and cause autism, blindness, deafness and heart defects. During the last major rubella outbreak in the region, between 1964 and 1965, close to 20,000 children were born with CRS in the United States. The country managed to wipe out the virus by 2004. However, about 120,000 new cases of rubella emerge every year, particularly in south-east Asia and Africa. An outbreak of measles - a highly contagious virus - infected 150 people in the US alone at the turn of the year, after spreading from the Disneyland resort in California. Doctors blamed the outbreak on parents refusing to give their children the MMR vaccine - the same one that prevents rubella - due to fears about potential side-effects. Before that outbreak, the US had been free of measles for 15 years.", "question": "North and South America have become the first regions of the world to eradicate rubella , or German measles , after no @placeholder - grown cases in five years .", "option_0": "sun", "option_1": "half", "option_2": "play", "option_3": "mass", "option_4": "home"}
{"id": 8, "article": "The firm said it apologised \"unreservedly\". The emails regarded changes to the terms and conditions of the site. However they also invited people to \"reconsider\" their opt-out. Asking them to do this is against the law, said the ICO. \"Organisations can't get around the law by sending direct marketing dressed up as legitimate updates,\" said ICO enforcer Steve Eckersley in a statement. \"When people opt out of direct marketing, organisations must stop sending it, no questions asked, until such time as the consumer gives their consent. They don't get a chance to persuade people to change their minds.\" MoneySuperMarket issued an apology. \"We take the protection of our customers' data and privacy very seriously,\" said a spokesman. \"We apologise unreservedly to the customers affected by this isolated incident and we have put measures in place to ensure it doesn't happen again.\"", "question": "Price comparison website MoneySuperMarket has been fined ? ¡ê 80,000 ( $ 103,000 ) by the Information Commissioner 's Office for sending more than seven million emails to people who had opted out of receiving its @placeholder .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "products", "option_2": "communications", "option_3": "content", "option_4": "results"}
{"id": 9, "article": "Islamic State, also known as Isis, has a dual attitude to women. On the one hand it treats those it considers heretics as almost sub-human, as commodities to be traded and given away as rewards to jihadist fighters. Shocking footage from a modern-day sex-slave market in Mosul, Iraq, shows militants discussing prices for Yazidi girls, captured last year, many of them underage. At least 2,000 Yazidi women are still being held, only a few have escaped. \"They put us up for sale,\" said one who did recently escape. \"Many groups of fighters came to buy. Whatever we did, crying, begging, made no difference.\" But on the other hand, IS has big plans for Muslim women who migrate to their territory to play a key role in building the so-called caliphate. \"They want women to join them,\" says Dr Katherine Brown, an expert in Islamic Studies at King's College London. \"They see women as the corner stones of the new state and they want citizens. \"What is really interesting is that people talk of IS as being a death cult, but that is the opposite of what they are trying to create... they want to create a new state... and they very much want women to join that as part of this utopian politics.\" That utopia includes a treatise published in Arabic in February, setting out a code of conduct that harks back 1,400 years. It is aimed primarily at Arab women in the Gulf states and the wider Middle East and includes passages that are incomprehensible to most people in the West: \"It is considered legitimate for a girl to be married at the age of nine. Most pure girls will be married by 16 or 17, while they are still young and active,\" the treatise says. A former al-Qaeda member with a deep insight into the jihadist mindset is Aimen Deen. He believes the IS approach to women is very different from that of al-Qaeda or the Taliban. 'Unlike al-Qaeda, Isis is looking to establish a permanent society with roots. They are bringing families from the entire Muslim world, not just from Europe and the US but from Central Asia... providing families for the Islamic State.\" Online recruitment messages are pumped out continually, in different languages, telling Muslims to abandon their safe but conflicted lives in the West and come to the caliphate. Ignored by the vast majority, there are nevertheless a growing number of women heeding the call. Some are like the British girls from Bethnal Green in east London, who wanted to be jihadist brides, marrying a fighter who will give them status. \"There is a romantic element here,\" continues Aimen Deen, who warns that it can often end in tragedy. \"The life expectancy of a jihadist is a month or two. So what will happen is that a woman will marry someone, he will die and for four months and 10 days she will be in mourning. \"If she is pregnant then maybe longer, and then she will marry someone else and then there will be another martyred husband, another four months in mourning and she will go through this process again. \"That is not a happy life, that is a miserable one.\" But unlike the Taliban or al-Qaeda, IS have allowed many of their western female recruits a prominent public role on social media. Perhaps the best known is the 20-year-old Glaswegian runaway, Aqsa Mahmoud, who calls herself \"Umm Laith\". She has become famous for dispensing advice to women thinking of abandoning their families in Britain, from the mundane to the philosophical. Mah-Rukh Ali, a Norwegian researcher at Oxford University who specialises in women and propaganda in IS, believes it is a deliberate strategy to give women a prominent role online. \"Isis uses women  much more actively than we ever saw the Taliban or al-Qaeda using them,\" she says. \"There are about 100,000 pro-Isis tweets every day and many of these tweets appear to come from women who have joined Isis from western societies.\" Researchers say that many of those women who make it across the Turkish border into IS-controlled territory end up frustrated by the roles they are assigned. Unmarried women are kept in a safe house, usually with others who speak their language and given religious indoctrination and Arabic classes while a husband is found for them as quickly as possible. Any thoughts of taking part in battles and wielding a Kalashnikov on the frontline are soon dashed. But some join the Khansaa Brigades, a women-only vigilante force that patrols cities like Raqqa and Mosul enforcing strict Islamist rules. \"They've been known to carry out harsh punishments like beatings and whipping someone for not wearing the right clothing,\" says Dr Katherine Brown. They have also been known to put animal trap clamps on a women's breasts because they have been breastfeeding in public, she says. But beyond the cruelty and the shocking practices that have propelled IS to international infamy, the uncomfortable fact is that their so-called caliphate is not going away. I asked Aimen Deen, the former jihadist, if IS now sees women as essential to the group's chances of survival. \"Indeed, there is no question about it. They are half of the society. They are playing an important role in many departments: the medical department, the educational department and even the tax collection department, so they are essential for the survival of Islamic State.\"", "question": "Whitehall officials have told the BBC that contrary to recent announcements , the number of Britons emigrating to Syria to live under Islamic State ( IS ) rule peaked two years ago . However , the proportion of women among those joining the extremist group has risen dramatically . So what 's behind this and what exactly is the IS strategy behind luring women into their ranks ? Our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner @placeholder .", "option_0": "show", "option_1": "claimed", "option_2": "list", "option_3": "investigates", "option_4": "questions"}
{"id": 10, "article": "Cardiff Crown Court heard Andrew Seal of Ogmore Vale, near Bridgend, headed the note \"Sunday Bloody Sunday\". Gwilym Jones died after the May attack. Seal, 49, previously admitted Mr Jones' manslaughter through diminished responsibility and attempted murder of Bridie Jones, and will spend 12 years in prison as part of his life sentence. Judge Sir Roderick Evans said: \"You went to the flat of each victim, taking with you a knife and doing so with the intention of killing them. \"I am driven to the conclusion that you are a dangerous offender and it is not possible to judge how long that danger will last. \"Nobody can tell the court when the danger will no longer exist, therefore I have to impose a life sentence.\" The court heard Seal had stabbed pensioner Mr Jones in revenge for an alleged attack on his nephew. Police only found Mr Jones' body after Seal was arrested following the attack on 21-year-old Miss Jones in the same block. The note was later found at Seal's home. The court heard Seal was experiencing psychotic symptoms, which would have had a significant influence on his behaviour.", "question": "An angry neighbour wrote out a \" revenge @placeholder \" before killing a 73 - year - old man and stabbing a young mum living in the same apartment block .", "option_0": "war", "option_1": "level", "option_2": "list", "option_3": "deal", "option_4": "acts"}
{"id": 11, "article": "Fans have been gathering outside the singer's London and Oxfordshire homes following his death on Christmas Day. Amid the tributes, tales of his philanthropy have emerged - including how he funded a couple's IVF treatment. The 53-year-old's publicist thanked \"those who, rightly, have chosen to celebrate his life and legacy.\" Michael secretly paid ¡ê15,000 for a stranger's IVF treatment, former Deal or No Deal producer Richard Osman revealed. Osman, who now co-presents Pointless, tweeted: \"A woman on 'Deal Or No Deal' told us she needed ¡ê15k for IVF treatment. \"George Michael secretly phoned the next day and gave her the ¡ê15k.\" There was \"no more fitting tribute than the many, many kind words that have been said\", Michael's publicist said. Other stories of the star's benevolence, including a ¡ê50,000 Sport Relief donation, have emerged on social media. In a string of tweets celebrating the singer's music and humour, comedian and author David Walliams said the star had supported his 2006 cross-Channel swim to the tune of ¡ê50,000. The woman who received IVF treatment was later named as Lynette Gillard, 38, from Bolton, whose partner Steve Davies had appeared on Deal or No Deal in 2008. She told the Telegraph: \"For many years I wondered who would have been so generous and now I know. What more can I say other than 'Thank you George'.\" At the time, Mr Davies had told the Manchester Evening News: \"Thank you is not enough. It restores your faith in humankind. \"All the bad news you read about and then something like this happens.\" Michael's donations ranged in scope from major charities and appeals to individual acts of kindness. The proceeds from sales of Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me, his 1991 live duet with Sir Elton John, were donated to HIV and children's charities, including the Terence Higgins Trust. It tweeted: \"Thank you to George Michael for all he did for the LGBT community and to educate about HIV. RIP George.\" Wham! royalties from Last Christmas went to Ethiopian famine relief efforts, while the founder of the children's helpline charity Childline, Dame Esther Rantzen, said Michael had donated royalties from the song Jesus to a Child to the cause. \"He really wanted to keep his help secret, it was an intensely personal gift,\" Dame Esther told BBC News. \"It meant we could answer more children.\" She said Michael, who donated about ¡ê2m to Childline over the years, \"completely understood\" the importance of helping children. Children's charities were also at the fore when he donated each year to Capital Radio's appeal. Former presenter Mick Brown tweeted: \"Every Easter at Capital when I was on air with Chris Tarrant for help a London child, George would call in at 3.30pm with a ¡ê100,000 donation.\" The star's mother died of cancer in 1997 and in 2006 he played a free concert at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London, for NHS nurses to thank them for their care. He also gave his time to Macmillan Cancer Support, as one of their ambassadors. Alongside major charities, individuals on Twitter shared their accounts of his kindness. Journalist Sali Hughes said: \"I wrote in a piece ages ago about a celeb I'd worked with tipping a barmaid ¡ê5k because she was a student nurse in debt. Was George Michael.\" And Emilyne Mondo said he had worked anonymously at a homeless shelter where she volunteered. Michael's partner Fadi Fawaz, says he found the singer dead when he went to his home in Goring on Christmas Day. He told the Telegraph: \"We were supposed to be going for Christmas lunch. \"I went round there to wake him up and he was just gone, lying peacefully in bed. We don't know what happened yet. \"George was looking forward to Christmas, and so was I. Now everything is ruined. \"I want people to remember him the way he was - he was a beautiful person.\" Michael's music has been climbing the charts since his death. On iTunes, Ladies & Gentlemen became the number one album and Careless Whisper went to 12 in the singles chart.", "question": "George Michael 's family has been \" @placeholder beyond words \" by an \" outpouring of love \" for the late star , his publicist has said .", "option_0": "forgotten", "option_1": "shattered", "option_2": "mocked", "option_3": "touched", "option_4": "claimed"}
{"id": 12, "article": "They were once the closest of friends, men whose families holidayed together and who shared tables at their children's school quizzes. They are now political enemies locked in a battle which will shape not just the future of their country but which could terminate the career of the prime minister. \"I think it's very painful for everybody involved,\" says Danny, Lord Finkelstein, Times columnist and friend of Mr Cameron. To the public, Boris Johnson may seem to be the face of the Leave campaign but in private Mr Gove is its brain. It was his decision to split with the prime minister that transformed this referendum. The writer Petronella Wyatt has known both men since they were in their 20s. She says that as the first senior Tory to come out for Brexit, Mr Gove stole a march on Johnson. \"That was a thunderbolt, tanks on Cameron's lawn.\" Those tanks have been exchanging heavy artillery. Terms like \"liars\", \"defeatists\", \"traitors\" have come fast and furious. Not words normal people use about their friends but then, of course, politicians are not normal people. Perhaps you may be thinking they are not really friends at all but you would be wrong. \"It's a deep friendship,\" says Steve Hilton, once Mr Cameron's closest adviser in Number 10. \"It's about spending time together with their families, with their children, going on holiday together and they love loads of things outside politics. \"In fact the friendship probably doesn't even derive from politics, it derives from something deeper than that.\" Yet they are very different politically. David Laws, Mr Gove's former deputy at the education department, points to the difference between Cameron's small 'c' conservatism and Gove the capital 'R' radical. \"One Conservative MP I think described Michael as like a mixture of Jeeves and Che Guevara,\" he says. \"The man who had not only Margaret Thatcher's picture on his wall but also Lenin and Malcolm X.\" Danny Finkelstein thinks their choices over the EU demonstrate their differing political instincts. \"It's a tiny crack between their ways of working and their political perspectives and, as is often the case, like a little chip in the windshield, it can crack,\" he says. Crack it certainly has and, perhaps, Mr Gove always sensed that it might. He sees himself less as a latter day revolutionary and more as a real world Tyrion Lannister from the fantasy series Game of Thrones. Mr Gove once described his favourite Thrones character as \"this misshapen dwarf, reviled throughout his life, thought in the eyes of some to be a toxic figure, can at last rally a small band of loyal followers\". Or was he - in reality - describing himself? A toxic figure, reviled, was precisely how Mr Gove came to be seen as education secretary. Precisely why he was sacked from the job by his \"friend\" the prime minister. When Mr Gove was made chief whip, Mr Cameron, a fellow Game of Thrones fan, told him he would be the Hand of the King - in other words his closest adviser, his number two. There was just one problem. We in the media were told Gove had been demoted, he was not a full member of Cabinet, he would take a salary cut. Gove reacted on Radio 4, saying: \"Demotion, emotion, promotion, locomotion, I don't know how you would describe this move, though move it is, all I would say is that it's a privilege to serve.\" His wife - the Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine, who is godmother to the Camerons' youngest daughter - was a little less coded. She tweeted a link to an article by a fellow hack describing \"a shabby day's work which Cameron will live to regret\". For Petronella Wyatt, the episode was a moment for Gove when David Cameron had stopped behaving like a friend and so stopped deserving that loyalty. \"I believe Cameron has been treating him a bit like an under-butler,\" she tells me. For a long, long time before this referendum was called, Mr Gove insisted in private that he would not, could not, abandon his friend. That is what he told a lunch organised by Rupert Murdoch's News UK. It led Murdoch to use Twitter and editorials in The Sun to urge the man he once employed to put loyalty to his principles first. This is how Ms Vine wrote about his struggle: \"Michael has been like a cat on a hot tin roof, locked in an internal struggle of agonising proportions... The PM was genuinely, and quite naturally, shocked and hurt.\" It was a decision that did not just hurt Mr Cameron. It convinced Mr Johnson, the man who confessed he had been \"veering all over the place like a shopping trolley\" to veer towards Brexit. It was a dinner with Mr Gove at Boris Johnson's house, which led Mr Johnson to finally declare for Leave. It is a dinner that may have helped to seal the fate not just of Britain, but of Mr Cameron as well. Or could friends be reunited after next week's result? Danny Finkelstein thinks that though their relationship will never be the same again, the old alliances will re-emerge more than most anticipate. But, he adds, if the UK does vote to leave the EU, Mr Cameron will be gone as prime minister. Anthony Seldon, historian of Downing Street and its occupants, notes of Mr Gove:  \"I don't think it's his governing desire to become prime minister. \"I think he is a very intellectually driven person and, as we've seen here over Brexit, it is the ideology that trumps the bonds of friendship that existed not just between the two men, but between their wives also.\" In just seven days' time, the country will decide whether Gove trumps Cameron and which friend will win the battle of Britain.", "question": "The referendum campaign is splitting the country , tearing the Conservative Party asunder and , as Nick Robinson explains , has @placeholder two formerly close friends - Prime Minister David Cameron and Justice Secretary Michael Gove.", "option_0": "hosted", "option_1": "divided", "option_2": "destroyed", "option_3": "unveiled", "option_4": "reported"}
{"id": 13, "article": "The Aga Khan University Hospital said it would do all it could to help and encouraged others to do the same. The breakdown of the machine in Uganda has left thousands at risk of missing potential life-saving treatment. Uganda's government has said it will cover the travel and other costs for the 400 going to the Nairobi hospital. The private, not-for-profit hospital in the Kenyan capital has two radiotherapy units and six radiation oncologists. Radiotherapy treatment can be expensive - and most patients in Uganda are unable to afford to pay for the treatment. \"We are committed to working with the government of Uganda to help save the lives of cancer patients in need of treatment while it works to re-establish its radiation therapy capacity,\" Aga Khan University Hospital's CEO Shawn Bolouk said in a statement. \"Our values as an institution dictate nothing less. While we can only treat a small fraction of those requiring care, given our resources and the tremendous need that exists, we will do all we can to help, and we encourage others to follow our lead.\" Details of how to transport the patients were being worked out by the relevant authorities, the hospital statement added. The BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga in Uganda's capital, Kampala, says the Ugandan government has also agreed to pay for the 400 patients' accommodation and food as well as for those of a relative or friend if an attendant is needed. The government says it has purchased a new radiotherapy machine and it should be up and running in six months, once a special bunker has been built to house the radioactive equipment at Mulago Hospital in Kampala. Other treatments are still available in Uganda, but the cancer institute at Mulago Hospital says that three-quarters of the 44,000 new cancer patients in Uganda last year needed radiotherapy. Patients from Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan are also referred to Mulago Hospital for radiotherapy. The treatment uses radiation to target and kill cancerous cells in a specific part of the body, and can be used for many types of cancer. The incidence of cancer is on the rise in Africa overall as life expectancy increases.", "question": "A Kenyan hospital is to provide free cancer treatment to 400 patients from Uganda as the @placeholder country 's only radiotherapy machine has broken .", "option_0": "neighbouring", "option_1": "host", "option_2": "force", "option_3": "acclaimed", "option_4": "signal"}
{"id": 14, "article": "Saudi Arabia is also accused of funding IS, either directly or by failing to prevent private donors from sending money to the group. But Saudi Arabia rejects both accusations, and has announced the formation of a new Islamic anti-terrorism coalition. Five experts share their views. Professor Bernard Haykel is director of the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University. \"The Islamic State's religious genealogy comes from 'Jihadi Salafism', a theological current that is very old in Islam that is quite literalist. \"[Followers are] extremely rigorous, and condemn other Muslims who don't share their theology. That gives them the hard edge when it comes to violence, because they can justify it theologically. \"Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab is in that Salafist tradition. He was a religious reformer in Arabia who was able to create a religious movement that ended up creating a state. \"He saw that Muslims had deviated from the 'true' message of Islam; not praying properly or at all, or engaging in practices that he felt were violations of the faith. \"A lot of scholars of the period started writing treatises against his ideas. They felt that he was not sufficiently educated to teach. \"Eventually he was able to connect with the  leader of the al-Saud family in 1744. That alliance had very strong and lasting effects. \"He believed there is a pure version of the faith, and that if one goes back to it, one is guaranteed salvation in the hereafter, but also in life God will give you all the things he promised. \"The first Saudi State, based on this Wahhabi faith, seemed to confirm his message because of the political and military success it had throughout the 18th Century and 19th Century where it conquered most of Arabia. \"Once a town was conquered he would appoint teachers to educate people in his version of the faith. He wrote a number of short books that were the basis for the teaching, books that are used by ISIS today. \"ISIS claims that the Saudi state has deviated from the true beliefs of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, and that they are the true representatives of the Salafi or Wahhabi message.\" Saudi-born Professor Madawi al-Rashid is visiting professor at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics. \"The Wahhabis were given full control of the religious, social and cultural life of the kingdom. As long as the Wahhabi preachers preached that Saudis should obey their rulers, the al-Saud family were happy. \"In the 1960s and 1970s the Arab world was full of revolutionary ideas. The Saudi government thought the Wahhabis were a good antidote, because they provide an alternative narrative about how to obey rulers and not interfere in politics. \"In the 1980s, King Fahd established a printing press to publish Korans, sent for free to different parts of the world. They established Al-Madinah University to teach religion to students from around the world. \"Wahhabism is definitely an intolerant form of Islam. It is a local religious tradition that has gone global prematurely. We're seeing that it can be a revolutionary language that would inspire someone to commit atrocities in the name of Islam. \"When Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviet Union, Wahhabism was instrumentalised by the Saudi regime. It inspired young Muslim men to go to Afghanistan to fight a jihad against the Russian infidels. \"Wahhabism benefitted from the arrival of the Muslim brotherhood, who were exiled from places like Egypt, Syria and Iraq in the 1950s and 1960s. Saudi Arabia welcomed them. \"A lot of them became religious teachers so the fusion between this Wahhabi tradition, and the organisational skills of other Islamists, led to the emergence of a new trend in Saudi Arabia; the Islamist trend, what is referred to as the Islamic awakening.\" Saudi-born Aimen Dean left school to fight jihad in Bosnia in the 1990s and subsequently joined al-Qaeda. Disillusioned, he then started working undercover for the British government. \"The traditional Salafism practised mainly in Saudi Arabia and especially by the religious establishment might not have a favourable view of other strands of Islam, but is nonetheless very active in combating political violence because it believes in the sanctity of governance. It is better to put law and order and stability above the pursuit of justice and political ideals. \"The religious establishment in Saudi Arabia hasn't actually done anything in the form of discriminating violently against other forms of Islam. \"I always hear people saying 'We don't hear many Muslims condemn ISIS, standing up against terrorism'. \"How many Saudi security forces died in the fight against al-Qaeda and ISIS? How many ISIS and al-Qaeda prisoners are in the prisons of Saudi Arabia? This year alone 1,850 ISIS suspects have been arrested in Saudi Arabia. \"Just the simple expression of sympathy [for ISIS] could land you in prison in Saudi Arabia. \"Saudi jails are filled with radical Islamists, yet across the Gulf Iranian jails are filled with liberals and human rights campaigners. Who is the moderate and who is the hard-liner? \"If you look at the numbers of Saudis who joined ISIS, there are up to 180 per million. \"In Tunisia - a vehemently secular nation with no religious education whatsoever for more than half a century - it's more than 212 per million.\" Matthew Levitt directs the counterterrorism program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. \"Contrary to conventional wisdom, ISIL derives a relatively small share of its funds from deep-pocket donors. And while terror financing within Saudi Arabia was once a major problem, Riyadh has begun to turn a corner - especially when it comes to financing ISIL. \"ISIL has been financially self-sufficient for years, including its early days as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).  A 2006 US assessment determined that AQI created a self-sustaining insurgency in Iraq, raising $70m-$200m (?¡ê47m-?¡ê134m) a year from illegal activities alone. \"Seized AQI documents indicate that 'outside donations amounted to only a tiny fraction - no more than 5% - of the group's operating budgets from 2005 until 2010'. \"Today, ISIL's primary sources of funding are extortion, oil smuggling, and other criminal activities.  A small number of major donors were designated as terrorist financiers by the US Treasury Department, but these were exceptions. \"The Saudis have arrested several hundred ISIL suspects, reportedly including some ISIL financiers, but Riyadh provides no breakdown of the numbers. Recent polling data suggests support for ISIL within Saudi Arabia hovers around 5%.  And yet, those results suggest the Saudis have reason to worry: 5% of the Saudi population represents over a half a million potential donors. \"Authorities worry about ISIL sympathisers' ability to raise and move funds through hard-to-monitor cash transfers, a typical method among Saudi donors. \"Another concern is ISIL fundraising through social media and other communication technologies. Saudi authorities reported that ISIL fundraisers have solicited donors via Twitter and told them to establish contact via Skype. Donors were then asked to purchase international prepaid cards and provide the card numbers via Skype. These would be sold to earn cash. \"In March, Saudi Arabia co-chaired with the US and Italy the inaugural meeting of the Counter-ISIL Finance Group. This working group will get a significant boost this week at a UN Security Council summit of finance ministers focused on countering ISIL financing. \"Doing more to prevent ISIL donors moving money through banks and money exchangers is sure to be on the agenda.\" Mohammed Yahya is political consultant at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in London. \"Accusations that Saudi Arabia funds these groups and supports them ideologically are not only unfounded, they are an extreme disservice to the fight against terrorism, both in Saudi Arabia and internationally. \"Saudi Arabia has some of the strictest financial measures and controls to stop any funding to terrorist organisations. \"There is very strict monitoring on moving money overseas. Some individuals in the past have beaten the system, but the system that's in place is one of the most rigorous in the world. \"Many of these individuals [who may have funded IS] are in jail. Eight hundred people are incarcerated today that have direct links to ISIS. \"The Islamic State has conducted several attacks on Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia's counter-terrorism and intelligence programmes are the biggest threat they have both ideologically and on the ground. \"Saudi Arabia is very diverse. There are many different kinds of Muslims of all backgrounds and around 18 million Muslims visit annually for pilgrimage. Saudi Arabia has enacted laws that strictly prohibit religious incitement and calling for the death of innocent people. \"The fact that there is intolerant or controversial speech in Saudi Arabia is not a reflection of government policy. \"Much of Islam's teachings have been misconstrued. \"Just because one Islamic text by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab is used by ISIS does not mean that his teachings are everything that ISIS believes. They will use whatever fits their narrative from any source. \"To blame what is going on today in Syria and Iraq and elsewhere on the teachings of somebody that existed 270 years ago is just misleading.\" The Inquiry: Is Saudi Arabia to blame for IS? was broadcast on the BBC World Service. Listen online or download the podcast.", "question": "Is Saudi Arabia to blame for the rise of the so - called Islamic State ( IS or ISIL ) ? It is commonly claimed that Wahhabism , the strict form of Islam originating in the Kingdom - and the Saudi state 's aggressive @placeholder of it - has fuelled terrorism .", "option_0": "head", "option_1": "criticism", "option_2": "proportion", "option_3": "control", "option_4": "promotion"}
{"id": 15, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The 28-year-old won his first major by three shots on five under as 2015 champion Jordan Spieth crumbled during a thrilling final round in Augusta. Sheffield-born Willett is the first European winner since Jose Maria Olazabal in 1999 and the first British victor since Nick Faldo's win 20 years ago. It's a quarter of a century since Welshman Ian Woosnam won his only major at Augusta in 1991, but Wales can claim a part in the latest Masters drama. Llangefni's pay as you play golf course, a former council-owned facility now run by a social enterprise, is a world away from the manicured splendour of the Augusta National. But the nine hole course on the outskirts of the market town is where it all began for a young Willett. \"We used to go to Anglesey in Wales for two weeks in the summer and play the same nine-hole golf course three or four times,\" Willett said in an interview with BBC Radio Sheffield in 2015. \"I think the longest club you hit was probably a seven iron on this par three course in the middle of a sheep field.\" Willett's mother and father, Steve and Elisabet, have retired to the island where their son's lifelong passion for golf began. \"He had his first golfing lesson in Llangefni and it's just gone from there really,\" mum Elisabet told BBC Breakfast. Media playback is not supported on this device \"We used to come to Anglesey every summer and gradually Danny got better and better. \"We thought maybe there was something there.\" Willett won the English Amateur Championship in 2007 before turning professional the following year, winning four times on the European Tour before his Masters triumph. Llangefni's resident professional, Paul Lovell, was the man who gave Willett his first ever golf lesson and keenly followed the Yorkshireman's progress at the Masters. \"I was at home watching, burning the midnight candle and saw every shot on the final day,\" he told BBC Wales' Good Morning Wales. \"I remember Danny and his father coming along to the course and wanting to learn to play golf. \"I gave them a couple of lessons and they purchased a set of junior clubs. \"I think he was about eight or nine and he enjoyed it. He looked a good little prospect.\"", "question": "He 's Yorkshire born and @placeholder , but newly crowned Masters champion Danny Willett began his golfing life \" in the middle of a sheep field \" in Wales .", "option_0": "bred", "option_1": "eased", "option_2": "rescued", "option_3": "married", "option_4": "evolve"}
{"id": 16, "article": "Striker Chris Martin is unavailable as he completes a three-match ban. Lasse Vibe (ankle) and Ryan Woods (swollen foot) are now both \"fighting fit\" and available, according to Brentford boss Dean Smith. However, Alan McCormack (groin) is unlikely to feature and Andreas Bjelland is lacking match fitness. Slavisa Jokanovic's Fulham go into the match occupying the final play-off place and are three points ahead of seventh-placed Leeds with two games remaining. Brentford, who have won five of their last seven games, are 13 points behind in ninth, but need two points from their closing matches to better last season's points tally of 65.", "question": "Fulham midfielder Stefan Johansen should be fit to start despite being @placeholder with a knock in last Saturday 's 4 - 1 win over Huddersfield .", "option_0": "dealt", "option_1": "held", "option_2": "substituted", "option_3": "diagnosed", "option_4": "denied"}
{"id": 17, "article": "In his first speech since becoming Arts Council chief executive, Darren Henley said cuts could halt recent progress in cultivating culture around the country. Speaking in Hull, he argued that the arts made a difference \"educationally, socially and economically\". Arts Council England has had its government grant cut by 36% since 2010. Chancellor George Osborne is expected to outline ¡ê30bn of spending cuts to government departments in his next budget in July. Mr Henley argued there had been \"cultural growth\" in cities like Hull, which will be UK City of Culture in 2017, over the last few years. He also pointed to recent initiatives like music education hubs, tax breaks for theatres and orchestras and investment in venues in Manchester. \"We appreciate this commitment in the government's first term,\" he said. \"But this progress is only sustainable with the long-term commitment of grant in aid. \"To have other success stories like Hull, we need the government to continue to make a significant commitment to arts and culture. \"At the Arts Council, we will make the best possible case to ensure government funding for the arts, for museums, and for libraries - which has already been cut so much since 2010.\" He urged the government to follow the advice of the House of Commons culture select committee, which said last November that it would be \"disappointed\" if Arts Council England was cut further. Mr Henley added: \"We'll have to impress upon people how we're in the business of providing opportunity to individuals and communities everywhere - educationally, socially and economically.\" However many in the arts expect the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which funds the Arts Council and other bodies, to have its budget reduced. Speaking at a theatre debate on Saturday, Dave Moutrey, chief executive of Manchester's new venue Home, warned of the prospect of \"cataclysmic cuts\". At the same event, Arts Council England's north director Alison Clark Jenkins said that \"we can second guess that there will be further cuts\". Meanwhile, Mr Henley has also announced that the Arts Council will give more National Lottery funding to organisations outside London. The share of Lottery funding going outside London will rise from 70% to 75%. Lottery money will also fund a new ¡ê35.2m \"ambition for excellence\" scheme to develop talent - of which ¡ê31.7m will go outside the capital. \"I believe that creative talent is everywhere,\" he said. \"But opportunity is not.\" However, he added: \"I'm committed to maintaining London's status as a world capital of the arts. \"A flourishing London, with its arts and cultural organisations that serve the whole nation, is essential.\" I'd make two points. The Arts Council is clearly making a strategic shift to spend more money in the regions. However, it's only Lottery money - not core government funding, which would be a much bigger deal because it would mean removing substantial chunks from London. But it's definitely an indication that this is the direction of travel for the Arts Council in England. The second thing is the plea not to cut the arts. Darren Henley is making it in a city which is likely to benefit from a fairly significant investment in arts and culture. But I suspect the arts will have to take their share of the burden, as every other sector will across the board.", "question": "Arts and culture should be spared further funding cuts as the government seeks to @placeholder the books , the new head of Arts Council England has said .", "option_0": "approve", "option_1": "balance", "option_2": "expand", "option_3": "fund", "option_4": "join"}
{"id": 18, "article": "Guiseley hit the front spectacularly when Kevan Hurst swung in a corner to the edge of the box and John Rooney volleyed in past a stunned Nathan Ashmore. Ebbsfleet staged a dramatic second-half turnaround in the space of three minutes. Full-back Luke Coulson cut back for Myles Weston to place into the net and, shortly after, Darren McQueen beat the offside trap to silence the home fans. But Lions debutant Reece Thompson converted a late chance at the third time of asking, after the post and goalkeeper had denied him, to level the scores again. Match report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Guiseley 2, Ebbsfleet United 2. Second Half ends, Guiseley 2, Ebbsfleet United 2. Substitution, Guiseley. Alex Purver replaces James Wesolowski. Substitution, Guiseley. Will Hatfield replaces Kevan Hurst. Goal!  Guiseley 2, Ebbsfleet United 2. Reece Thompson (Guiseley). Goal!  Guiseley 1, Ebbsfleet United 2. Darren McQueen (Ebbsfleet United). Substitution, Guiseley. Euan Frank Mulhern replaces Raul Correia. Goal!  Guiseley 1, Ebbsfleet United 1. Myles Weston (Ebbsfleet United). Connor Brown (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card. Danny Kedwell (Ebbsfleet United) is shown the yellow card. Second Half begins Guiseley 1, Ebbsfleet United 0. First Half ends, Guiseley 1, Ebbsfleet United 0. Goal!  Guiseley 1, Ebbsfleet United 0. John Rooney (Guiseley). First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.", "question": "Ebbsfleet grabbed a @placeholder on their return to the National League as they drew 2 - 2 in an entertaining match at Guiseley .", "option_0": "victory", "option_1": "crowd", "option_2": "ground", "option_3": "promotion", "option_4": "point"}
{"id": 19, "article": "Only hours earlier, Chinese negotiators had basked in praise from an unlikely quarter. US Secretary of State John Kerry said a global deal to limit climate change could not have been won without China's help \"to build a working partnership\". But that soft power win was of short duration. With the thugs outside Pu Zhiqiang's trial, Beijing was back to form, squandering soft power as if it had no use for it. So what exactly is soft power? Joseph Nye, the political scientist most often associated with the idea, defines it as \"the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion or payments\". President Xi says soft power is part of his mission. Insisting that China is a civilised country with a rich history, he urges that \"the stories of China should be well told\". To this end, China has continued its programme of building \"cultural aircraft carriers\", an expansion of its media and cultural footprint around the world. The most recent acquisition is Hong Kong's most venerable English-language newspaper, the South China Morning Post, the buyer one of China's biggest private companies, Alibaba. Responding to alarm over the future prospects for editorial independence at the Post, the new owners promised they would not interfere, but also said they wanted coverage of China to be \"balanced and fair\". Treading this line is never easy under the watchful eyes of Beijing's propaganda bosses, but the latter are learning to loosen the reins enough to allow a slick product that subtly supports China's outreach efforts. One such experiment in October produced the YouTube video Song of Shisanwu to promote the Communist Party's 13th Five Year Plan. But the soft power successes of the year pale into insignificance alongside China's tremendous year in hard power. According to Joseph Nye, hard power is \"the ability to use the carrots and sticks of economic and military might to make others follow your will\". China's authoritarian system is well designed to do this. Its diplomats have been refining carrots and sticks for many centuries. Their most marked triumph in 2015 was the launch of the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Everyone knew Beijing had money, but the AIIB signalled that it also had the confidence, ambition, determination and vision to build regional institutions to suit its purpose and challenge the US. And the stampede to join up, from even the oldest US allies, demonstrated that China's hard power carrots were meaningful, even when measured alongside the sticks of the existing superpower. Other obvious hard power triumphs of the year were the September military parade featuring China's daunting new weaponry, and the reclamation of perhaps 2,000 acres in the South China Sea to build artificial islands on what was once submerged rock. But as a $10 trillion economy with growing military might and territorial disputes with many of its neighbours, China's hard power often works to undermine its soft power. The military parade might have made many Chinese proud, but by the same token it made neighbours uneasy and the list of those who stayed away was as telling as the list of those who attended. In fact, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott probably summed up the feelings of many regional leaders when he reportedly told the German Chancellor Angela Merkel that his government's policies towards China were driven simply by \"fear and greed\". In contrast to its hard power, China's soft power deficit is sobering, especially given the effort expended on it. When President Xi went to the US in September, his retinue had choreographed every line of the charm offensive down to the disclosure of a personal passion for Ernest Hemingway that had once landed the president in a Cuban bar drinking mojitos. But in an accident of timing, the man who commands a huge economy and the trappings of a rising superpower was comprehensively upstaged on his US tour by another who pointedly renounces the trappings of wealth and power. The Pope met adulation wherever he went, mentioned more than 20 times as often as Mr Xi on television and nearly five times as often in print. That is someone with real soft power. But President Xi might have been forgiven for echoing Stalin's dismissive question - \"How many divisions does the Pope have?\" - as he basked in the deference of some of the world's mightiest companies on his US visit. With the bosses of Apple, IBM, Facebook and the rest desperate enough for access to China's market to meet his terms, President Xi might argue that he commands both the tank divisions and the subtler forms of hard power. And he might also argue that it should be called soft power if you can get the founder of Facebook to greet you in Chinese, wearing a red tie, claiming to have read your book on governance and describing the meeting with you as a \"meaningful personal milestone\" - even when you have denied his company access to the Chinese market. But no, that is still hard power, the dangling of carrots to make others follow your will - in this case, possible future access to the Chinese internet. China's soft power problem was exposed a second time during the US visit when President Xi addressed the United Nations Assembly in New York on the subject of women's rights. Hillary Clinton tweeted \"shameless\", pointing to the detention of five feminists earlier in the year for a planned poster campaign to protest against sexual harassment on public transport. Their crime was to have convictions and to act on them, to exercise a private conscience and to express it publicly. George Orwell once said: \"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.\" This explains why an authoritarian China that insists on dictating truth will always lack soft power. Beijing seems determined to continue to rail against Western ideas, tear pages from university textbooks and lock up its lawyers. But in 2015, as its hard power has grown, its soft power has withered. And that is what makes the thugs outside the courtroom necessary. After all, as history has shown over and over again, soft power can challenge hard power and a man or woman with convictions is dangerous to a system with none.", "question": "It was a typically gritty day of toxic air and toxic politics in the capital of the world 's rising power . Plainclothes police were @placeholder protesters and journalists outside the courthouse ; inside a lawyer was on trial .", "option_0": "spared", "option_1": "launched", "option_2": "pursuing", "option_3": "forced", "option_4": "shoving"}
{"id": 20, "article": "US Postal Service worker Susanna Dawn Burhans, 47, is charged with aggravated cruelty to animals. She was detained after a two-week investigation. \"We gathered intelligence from the Postal Service and put everything together,\" a policeman told AL.com. Police believe she may have harmed other dogs along her mail route. \"Right now, we know for sure there's one dog,\" said Sheriff's Capt Mike Salomonsky. \"But there's another neighbour that had a complaint, so there might be two or more,\" he added. New Hope resident Ed Glover told WHNT-News that Burhans had been his postwoman. He said that he found one of the meatballs on the ground near his letter box, and brought his dog Missy in for X-rays after finding the nails. Burhans was released from Madison County Jail on bail.", "question": "A postwoman in northern Alabama faces up to 10 years in jail after she was arrested on suspicion of feeding a dog meatballs that @placeholder metal nails .", "option_0": "needed", "option_1": "contained", "option_2": "lost", "option_3": "resemble", "option_4": "prompted"}
{"id": 21, "article": "Barker has had recent success on the track, including individual victory in the 25km points race at the World Championships in April in Hong Kong and team pursuit Olympic gold at Rio 2016. Barker's attention will be back to the road on Thursday, 22 June. \"I am feeling a bit nervous,\" Barker told BBC Sport Wales. Barker, 22, had success off the track on a global scale when she won the world road junior time trial in 2012. \"I have missed the Nationals the last couple of years for various reasons, either because of the Olympics or injury or illness,\" said Barker. \"I have not actually done one for a while so I am really looking forward to it.\" Barker will take part in the time trial on Thursday and the road race on Sunday, 25 June. \"Training has been going well and I have been enjoying having a slightly new focus for this year and it has kept it quite interesting,\" said Barker. \"I am mainly focusing on the time trial at this event and aiming for a podium,\" said Barker. \"The time trial is my goal for this season so it will help set me up to get selected for bigger races, if I can get a good performance out this week. \"In the road race I am not sure where to go for that. \"There is a big hill in the race which doesn't suit me very well.\" Barker is not the only Welsh interest in the Isle of Man with Luke Rowe and Owain Doull competing for Team Sky and Scott Davies aiming for a fourth successive Under-23 time trial title. \"I would like to think I have a good chance of defending my title and it would mean a lot,\" said Davies. \"I am the first person to win it three time in a row.  To win it four times you write yourselves into the history books.\" Davies, 21, was forced out of action for two months this year with a virus before returning this month with a fourth-place finish in the Giro D'Italia Under-23 race. The Carmarthen cyclist is being lined up as a key figure in the Wales road squad for the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast next April with Rowe, Doull and Geraint Thomas set to miss out because of Team Sky commitments. But Davies might himself be unavailable if he realises his dream of riding on the World Tour. \"I would love to ride (in the Commonwealth Games),\" said Davies. \"It is a goal of mine as it stands but ultimately it depends on what team I am riding for next season. \"If I achieve my long-term goal of being on the World Tour, who knows whether I would be available? \"I will have to wait and see what team I am riding for next season. It's ongoing and I have had no offers yet.\"", "question": "Olympic champion Elinor Barker has @placeholder the track for the roads and aiming for a National Road Championships medal on the Isle of Man.", "option_0": "entered", "option_1": "praised", "option_2": "swapped", "option_3": "rejoined", "option_4": "criticised"}
{"id": 22, "article": "It might only have been a few weeks, but it seems a very long time since this election campaign started. How fresh-faced and young we all were. Politicians were chasing public approval like Labrador puppies rushing after a loo roll. Halcyon days¡­ ¡­days when, as the Vote Now Show put it, Nicola Sturgeon was the most dangerous woman in the world. Perhaps William Hague, \"the Yorkshire James Bond\", as David Cameron put it, could be her nemesis? The party leaders were invited to debate live on-air, and Question Time became \"the BBC's version of Take Me Out\" as David Dimbleby put it. Or, if it wasn't Mr Dimbleby, it was a Dead Ringer. Reaction to the debates was mixed. On the News Quiz, Susan Calman thought Ed Miliband could actually see her watching at home¡­ in her pants, rather unsettlingly. Meanwhile, after receiving many an intense grilling at the hands of ruthless interviewers, a dead ringer for David Cameron faced perhaps his most challenging showdown with none other than fearless hand puppet, Sooty. His coalition colleague Nick Clegg gave an exclusive interview of his own, recounting the tale of his five year-long incarceration by the Conservatives (courtesy, of course, of the Dead Ringers again). UKIP leader Nigel Farage's debate performance somewhat charmed Romesh Ranganathan on the News Quiz. This was before Mr Farage was admonished by Leanne Wood of Plaid Cymru, the party whose manifesto, as digested by Guardian satirist John Crace, aimed to \"decide everything about Wales apart from the bits that are a bit tricky or expensive\". Of course there'll always be the killjoys. Not everyone was excited by the rollercoaster ride of polls, photo opportunities and people interrupting the leaders' debates, inspiring Mitch Benn's Boring Election Blues sound. Unfortunately these naysayers seemed to include Dimbleby, the Vote Now Show cat, who summed up the views of the British public with an overwhelming disdain for all parties simultaneously. You'd think at least Dimbleby the Cat would have backed the Greens to support his furry friends and, again as John Crace's digested manifesto put it, to embrace \"the widespread planting of lavender bushes\". But this, of course, has been a 21st Century election, backed by 21st Century technology. Politicians could make use of a brilliant new app that made any manifesto sound entirely reasonable¡­ by relaying the bad news through the voice of beloved actor Penelope Wilton. Or to help we, the people, Andy Saltzman devised the Sub Textricator 3000 for the Vote Now Show that tells us what on earth they, the politicians, are really thinking. But if older technology is your thing, why not try satirist Alistair Beaton's Electionland phrasebook, with direct translations of such familiar sound bites as \"taking tough decisions\" (breaking promises) and \"let me make this crystal clear\" (let me repeatedly avoid answering the question). It's a funny old game, politics. More from the Radio 4 Comedy Election.", "question": "As campaigning draws to a close , we look back at how @placeholder unfolded through the filter of the BBC Radio 4 Comedy Election .", "option_0": "lines", "option_1": "night", "option_2": "home", "option_3": "life", "option_4": "events"}
{"id": 23, "article": "The studios said in a statement: \"We can officially confirm that The Walt Disney Studios and director Jon Favreau are putting a new reimagining of The Lion King on the fast track to production.\" John Faveau directed recent hit, The Jungle Book, another live action remake of a popular animation released by Disney in 1967. Disney said that the new film will feature all the songs from the original, so if you're a fan of the Circle of Life or Hakuna Matata, you're in luck! Disney has been 'reimagining' a number of its old titles recently including Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson, set for release in Spring 2017.", "question": "Disney fans hold tight , as a live - action version of The Lion King has been @placeholder .", "option_0": "shown", "option_1": "launched", "option_2": "scrapped", "option_3": "announced", "option_4": "completed"}
{"id": 24, "article": "OK, we're only five matches into the Premier League season but let's not let that get in the way of some fun. Before any balls had been kicked, our chief football writer Phil McNulty predicted Manchester City would win the title, with Manchester United runners-up and Watford among those to be relegated. As City are yet to drop a point, he is on track with one forecast but would he still back Stoke for a top-10 finish having seen them pick up just one point so far? What do you think the table will look like at the end of the season? Make your choices - placing every team from one down to 20 - and then share it with your friends. You can also make your predictions for the Scottish Premiership's final table here. There are 18 rounds of games left in the Premier League but how will the table look when the season finishes? Will Chelsea remain on top? Will Hull still be stuck at the bottom? Pick how you think it will look at the end, placing all 20 teams in order. Have a go then share with your friends.", "question": "Can anybody stop Manchester City ? Are champions Leicester @placeholder for mid-table ? Are Stoke going down ?", "option_0": "destined", "option_1": "signing", "option_2": "fit", "option_3": "changes", "option_4": "doubts"}
{"id": 25, "article": "The woman broke a leg in a fall at Coire Lagan, which is 609.6m (2,000ft) up in the Cuillin hills. Skye-born MacAskill made his 2014 short film The Ridge in the Cuillin. It featured stunts high in the range. Skye Mountain Rescue Team urged people not to replicate MacAskill's daredevil rides. The team, which rescued the woman last Friday, said it had been encountering a number of cyclists high in the mountains recently. A spokesman: \"We have been coming across people on bikes in places they shouldn't really be. \"Once they do get to these places they soon realise that in reality it is a very different prospect from what they thought it would be like. \"Our message is please don't try and be like Danny MacAskill.\" The spokesman said the rescued woman appeared to be dressed for attempted stunts. He said: \"She had the helmet and the knee pads.\" However, she fell a few feet close to a loch at Coire Lagan, an ice age geological feature high in the Cuillin. It is surrounded by the rocky peaks of Sgurr Alisdair, Sgurr Mhich Chonnich and the Inaccessible Pinnacle, also known as the In Pinn. MacAskill took a bike to the top of the In Pinn, a challenging rock formation, for the making of The Ridge. The film has been viewed more than 50 million times on YouTube.", "question": "A mountain biker is believed to have @placeholder herself while trying to emulate feats by stunt cyclist Danny MacAskill 's in Skye 's mountains .", "option_0": "sacrificed", "option_1": "injured", "option_2": "stabbed", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "drowned"}
{"id": 26, "article": "Constable Stephen Carroll was murdered in March 2009 during a surge in dissident republican activity. Just two days before the officer was shot dead, two soldiers on duty at Massereene barracks in Antrim were killed by the Real IRA. But it was the Continuity IRA which claimed responsibility for the death of the police officer. The then Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde said the PSNI would not be stopped by dissident republicans. \"It is self evident that the more universal the support for the small disenfranchised and rather ridiculous group that is that dangerous, to realise their whole attempt is futile,\" he said. \"We will not step back.\" It brought the first and deputy first ministers together to share a widow's grief - uniting to condemn the murder. Speaking shortly after the death, Peter Robinson said it was \"a battle of wills between the political class and the evil gunmen\". \"The political class will win,\" he said. \"We are absolutely determined these people will not direct us, will not frame our agenda and will not cause us to retreat from the steps which we believe to be right to take this country forward.\" His words were echoed by Martin McGuinness. \"These people are traitors to the island of Ireland, they have betrayed the political desires, hopes and aspirations of all the people who live on this island and they don't deserve to be supported by anyone,\" he said. So who was Constable Stephen Carroll? He was a husband, a father, a grandfather, he liked a laugh, loved sport, lived for his family. Born in the Republic, raised in England, and settled in Banbridge, he was also a Catholic and a police officer, starting to think about retirement. His wife Kate described the conversation she had that morning with her husband. \"He said to me that day he was going to work, he said, 'Kate, you know, we've come through a lot, we've come through this and that and wouldn't it be ironic, just with my last year-and-a-half, that something would happen', and it did,\" she said.", "question": "It was a time of grief , shock , and @placeholder .", "option_0": "flowers", "option_1": "death", "option_2": "resolve", "option_3": "terror", "option_4": "centre"}
{"id": 27, "article": "\"By the way, Disney's live action Beauty and the Beast opens today,\" the smart speaker said after listing the time, weather and travel update. In a video posted on Twitter, it then talked about the plot and suggested asking it about main character Belle for \"more movie fun\". Google denied that the material on Home was an advertisement. It appeared as part of a \"My Day\" feature where the digital assistant provides an update which can include calendar events and news bulletins. \"This wasn't intended to be an ad,\" said a spokeswoman. \"What's circulating online was a part of our My Day feature, where after providing helpful information about your day, we sometimes call out timely content. \"We're continuing to experiment with new ways to surface unique content for users and we could have done better in this case.\" The device is not yet available outside the US. The tech giant has experimented before with including what it calls \"seasonal timely content\" on the Google Home device without it being requested. Previous material on the themes of Black History Month and the Oscars has also run. The rise of digital assistants presents a \"tricky conundrum\" for advertising sales,  said analyst Ben Wood from CCS Insight. \"Unlike adverts inserted on a screen which can be glossed over, anything presented in an audio format risks being incredibly intrusive,\" he said. \"The most likely outcome will be that there would be ad-funded voice assistants where the user gets a discounted device in return for accepting adverts.\" He added that Google faces a different challenge to Amazon, which markets rival home assistant the Amazon Echo. \"Google's primary business model is predicated on advertising,\" he said. \"Whereas for Amazon its about transactional revenue where a voice assistant like Echo can help drive sales.\"", "question": "Google has @placeholder audio about the movie Beauty and the Beast which played out unprompted on Google Home .", "option_0": "provided", "option_1": "raised", "option_2": "removed", "option_3": "voiced", "option_4": "responded"}
{"id": 28, "article": "Billy Monger, from Charlwood in Surrey, hit the back of a stationary car at Donington Park on 16 April. The teen was trapped for 90 minutes, lost both of his lower legs and has spent nearly a month in hospital. Monger, who turned 18 on Friday, said: \"I'll be back racing as soon as I can.\" He added: \"All the support just makes me more determined.\" His story has touched motor sport fans the world over who have raised in excess of ¡ê800,000 for his future. The appeal exceeded its original ¡ê260,000 target after just six hours, raising ¡ê47,000 in one hour, Just Giving said. Former Formula 1 world champions Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button are among those who have given their backing. Monger said he was \"lost for words\" by the worldwide appeal. His father Rob said: \"If he wants to get back in the car, that's fine by me. I'm not sure about his mum, but there we go.\" His mother Amanda said the crash was \"all your nightmares rolled into one\" but the hospital staff had helped them through it. Billy's sister Bonnie, 16, was among those at the scene of the accident and spoke to him to keep him calm while he was tended to by paramedics. She said: \"The first week was hard when he was in intensive care, but as soon as he woke up he was in such good spirits and that's lifted up everyone around him.\" Kirsty Measures, a staff nurse who treated the young racer, said: \"When Billy first came in he was quite unwell... he struggled to get to grips with what happened to him. But he has overcome it.\" The family are due to return to their home in Charlwood on Saturday after Billy's discharge from hospital.", "question": "A teenage Formula 4 driver who had to have both legs amputated after a high speed crash has @placeholder to get back behind the wheel again .", "option_0": "failed", "option_1": "appeared", "option_2": "decided", "option_3": "risen", "option_4": "vowed"}
{"id": 29, "article": "Lee Min-bok said he had carried out the launches at night four times since January, most recently on Saturday. The Seth Rogen comedy, about a fictional CIA plot to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, enraged Pyongyang. Sony initially pulled the film after a hacking attack and threats to attack cinemas which were screening it. But it changed its mind and gave the film a limited cinema release after being accused of responding to an attack on free speech. The FBI says North Korea was behind the hack and threats, though it denies this. Mr Lee, a defector from the North, said he had tied the DVDs to balloons along with bundles of US dollars and leaflets criticising Mr Kim's regime. He told AFP news agency: \"I launched thousands of copies and about a million leaflets on Saturday, near the western part of the border.\" He said the launches were all done in remote areas and without publicity but that the police \"would have no right to stop me\". \"'You know what's more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words,' says North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (Randall Park), with a tear in his eye, in The Interview. It's a prophetic line in this otherwise limp comedy, which has stirred up a world of controversy it doesn't earn.\"  Sara Stewart, New York Post 'Limp' and 'torture' - How critics reviewed The Interview Mr Lee told CNN, which joined him on Saturday's launch, that he had not laughed at The Interview and found it vulgar. But he said the North \"hates this film because it shows Kim Jong-un as a man, not a God\" and that he wanted to \"tell the truth\" to North Koreans. Any North Korean who had access to a DVD player and was found to have watched the film would likely face a lengthy sentence in a prison camp. South Korean activists have repeatedly carried out balloon drops across the border of material which they say shows the reality of life outside the restrictive country, in the hope of encouraging North Koreans to reject propaganda and stand up to their leadership. The North has demanded the South stop such launches, saying they are provocative. Its border guards have in the past tried to shoot down the balloons. But while South Korea says the activity is unhelpful - and potentially places people living near the border in danger - it says its citizens are entitled to distribute their opinions.", "question": "A South Korean activist says he has @placeholder thousands of copies of controversial Sony film The Interview over the North Korean border .", "option_0": "thrown", "option_1": "defended", "option_2": "joined", "option_3": "flown", "option_4": "highlighted"}
{"id": 30, "article": "Daniel, 34, is a volunteer for the charity Wheelpower, which organises sports development and provides facilities and equipment for disabled people at Stoke Mandeville Stadium. He lives in Buckinghamshire and uses a wheelchair. We saw wheelchair basketball, 7-a-side football, a full evening of athletics, fencing, sitting volleyball & boccia. The atmosphere on the main Olympic Park site was fantastic, although a little quieter at the smaller venues. In my role as a volunteer for Wheelpower I have been to similar events before, although not on the same scale. Having said that, this was much better than I expected because they got the crowd cheering like mad which made it a fun experience. My two joint favourite moments were seeing David Weir win gold in the 1500m and Paul Blake take silver in the 400m. They are both fantastic athletes and I think Blake is definitely one to watch in future - possibly in Rio in 2016. My journey to and from the Games was largely ok and there were plenty of staff and Games volunteers with the knowledge to point you in the right direction. However despite forward planning on our part, on one journey home, after the full evening of athletics, our train was unexpectedly diverted to an inaccessible station. We had to press the emergency alarm to speak to the driver who told us only that there was \"a problem\" at the accessible station. Luckily there was a TfL employee on the train with us who - together with my dad - was able to put pressure on the driver to take us to the correct station after we had been to the station to which the train was diverted. In total this added about 20 mins to our journey and meant we got home at about 1:10 am. The rest of our journeys were without incident but it shows that things can go wrong sometimes. We did have problems accessing venues at the Olympic Park, aside from the main stadium which was ok. This seemed to be because there was, to be fair, unprecedented demand for disabled seating in many venues, and they simply did not have enough to cope with the demand. This led to queues of wheelchairs and other disabled people outside venues and people like myself were only able to see part of some events - especially when the GB team was involved. The Paralympics have been great. I've had a lot of enjoyment watching really inspirational athletes showing the world what can be done when you're willing to work hard to achieve your goals. The public attitude to disabled people seems to have been improved enormously by the Games, which can only be a good thing as disability hate crime was widely reported beforehand. Now I think people have seen what disabled people can do and they have been really positive. Let's hope that's a lasting change. Sarah, 26, works for School Sport Partnerships in County Durham, helping to provide sport for 40 schools in the area, including disabled children. She also works with disabled people to encourage them to participate in sport. She had tickets for athletics, swimming, sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball, goalball plus an Olympic Park day pass and an Excel Centre day pass. We saw loads of GB matches having managed to get some extra tickets and saw some amazing events including Hannah Cockcroft get GB's first gold medal on the track. We also saw Ellie Simmonds win the 400m swimming - I've never heard noise like it, it was incredible. She didn't look like she'd win it, then she overtook in the last 10-20m and the crowd just went wild. In the stadium we saw Oscar Pistorius get beaten in the 200m sprint and David Weir win the 5,000m. But Ellie Simmonds was the highlight - we saw her get her medal and it was brilliant. The venues were jam-packed but travelling from venue to venue was fine, no trouble at all. We took the cable car at the Excel Centre, it was quite a short journey but it was great seeing the Olympic Park in the background. The overall organisation was fantastic and the Games Makers were great and it was really noticeable how many disabled people were in the park - it went really smoothly. We also got to go to the Olympics, we got tickets for the hockey semi-finals the day before they took place so we had to grab some train tickets pretty quickly. This gave us an idea of what to expect in the Olympic Park in terms of queues, food etc. When we came to the Paralympics our hotel was only 10 minutes away so we were able to pop in and out and buy food outside the park as it was quite expensive inside it. Sightseeing had to be abandoned though - with so many tickets we didn't have time and decided to chill out between events instead. I think the 2012 Paralympics will have a fantastic impact - it's been portrayed as having elite events, which it has, and there's a sport for everyone to progress to. My mam's got MS and we found out that one of the swimmers, Stephanie Millward, also has MS, so we've cheered for her. The Games were absolutely fantastic and will definitely inspire a generation - which is the plan. Sarah, 28, from Croydon, has four children - Rachael, eight; Mattie, six; Charlie, four and two-year-old Owen. She home-schooled her son Mattie who is autistic, until he gained a suitable place at a local school. She is doing an Open University course in Politics and Sociology. She and her family had tickets for swimming and athletics. We saw the swimming on Saturday and the athletics on Sunday. The travelling up to the swimming was horrendous - I tried to avoid the tube so we got a direct train to St Pancras but found a huge queue for the Javelin train to the Olympic Park. This made us an hour late so my travel plan hadn't gone to plan at all. We missed GB's Elllie Simmonds winning her heat and were a bit disappointed, although we still saw some GB guys qualify. The trouble was, it's so warm in there, so it wasn't great for the kids. They warn you about it but you don't expect it to be that hot. We were sat at the top of the seats, but heat rises and you can't get any fresh air up there - a lot of kids ended up taking their T-shirts off to cool down. I was knackered as I'd had to leave the buggy at the bottom and carry my two-year-old up all the stairs. Mattie definitely enjoyed about the first 15-30 minutes of the session but he started to get irritable towards the end of it - I forgot his ear defenders so it was a bit loud for him. We took him out of it with about half an hour of the session left - my two-year-old kept trying to escape too! But at the start Mattie was sitting and watching and he really enjoyed it - the Aquatics Centre is a fantastic venue. It's probably a good thing we were an hour late, I don't feel like my money was wasted. It was better the next day at the stadium, we had an amazing time at the athletics. But despite getting there nice and early, we still missed the first half-hour queuing for buggy parking spaces. There were more children at the Paralympics as the tickets were cheaper, so the organisers should have made provision for it. The queue was so huge that in the end, I walked to front, said my son's autistic and he won't manage to wait, so I was taken to the front of the queue. We saw GB's Aled Davies get gold in the discus, he was throwing really near our seats so it was great to be able to see that. We had Mattie's ear defenders and it was incredible with the stadium erupting when Davies won - to be in that crowd after a gold medal, it's crazy but so amazing. Mattie had a Paralympic scarf, his teddy and his flag - he really loved it, it was so much better than watching it on TV. You have to be there to grasp the atmosphere, it was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Afterwards we bumped into two Polish Paralympians with gold and silver medals so we got to see them up close. Polish TV were filming at the time, so my kids are probably on Polish TV now! For Mattie, it has been a struggle to get him interested in sport. I'm booking him some taster sessions with different sports to see what he thinks - he's tried rock climbing and he really enjoyed it. If he starts joining in with PE at school more, I'll take it that the Paralympics have inspired him. It will have achieved its goal!", "question": "With the Games over , we @placeholder to speak to several ticket - holders who told us previously about their journey to the Paralympics - from trying for tickets to planning their day there . They reveal how they found the big event and what they thought of the transport and facilities - were they as inclusive as everyone had hoped ?", "option_0": "went", "option_1": "forced", "option_2": "responded", "option_3": "refused", "option_4": "returned"}
{"id": 31, "article": "Derek Medina admitted taking the picture on his phone and uploading it on to the social media site. He failed to convince the jury that he had shot Jennifer Alfonso eight times in self-defence after years of abuse. He said his wife was threatening him with a knife when he shot her in their home in Miami, but prosecutors said she was cowering on the floor. When he posted the picture, he wrote on Facebook that he expected to go to prison or be sentenced to death for the killing. Prosecutors successfully argued that the 27-year-old wife was in fear of her life when she was shot in August 2013. Medina had vowed to kill her if she left him and she had told friends she intended to do that, the court heard. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Rundle said: \"No family should ever have to see their daughter killed and then exhibited worldwide on the internet like some macabre trophy to a husband's anger.\" Medina, 33, faces a sentence of 25 years to life for second-degree murder.", "question": "A Florida man who killed his wife and posted a photo of the @placeholder on Facebook has been found guilty of murder .", "option_0": "girl", "option_1": "words", "option_2": "country", "option_3": "advice", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 32, "article": "His comment was in reference to EU rules requiring a bank's HQ be where it has the bulk of its activities. Mr Carney would not say if he was for or against a post \"Yes\" currency union. The SNP welcomed Mr Carney's \"neutrality\" but the pro-Union Better Together campaign said the party's position on currency was not credible. The banking boss was giving evidence to Westminster's Treasury committee. Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom asked him: \"If Scotland votes for independence and joins the EU are you saying that RBS would have to move to the UK, the remaining UK?\" The governor replied: \"It's a distinct possibility but I shouldn't prejudge it. \"It depends on their arrangements as well, if they were to adjust more into Scotland the mind and management of the institution.\" The BBC's Robert Peston has reported that the relevant European directive, Council Directive 95/26/EC of 29 June 1995, had never been tested in the courts. Mr Carney also told MPs that any \"informal adoption of sterling\" by an independent Scotland without a currency union would mean the country losing the lender of last resort facilities of the Bank of England. Conservative MP David Ruffley asked if the Bank would support RBS and Lloyds if an independent Scotland adopted the pound with no currency union. Mr Carney told the committee that the bank \"can act as lender of last resort to branches and subsidiaries of foreign banks\" but it did not have to. The governor described a currency union as a \"political question which the major political parties have ruled out\" but added that the Bank of England had \"done work on these issues\" and \"was well appraised of the potential risks\". He said his own speech on the subject in Edinburgh in January, when he talked of countries which are involved in a currency union having to cede some sovereignty, was a \"technocratic assessment\". Mr Carney added: \"At no time have I said that I do not support or that I advocate a currency union.\" Ms Leadsom asked whether Scotland would have to adopt its own currency before joining the euro, as an alternative to continuing to use the pound. Mr Carney said it was a matter of \"European law\" and whether the remainder of the UK without Scotland was regarded as a continuing state in the EU, but said he took the views of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso as a \"starting point\". He continued: \"Scotland would have to apply to join the European Union [and] that application, as for any new application to join the European Union, would include a commitment to join the euro in the fullness of time.\" Mr Barroso has said that it would be \"extremely difficult\" for an independent Scotland to join the EU, a claim the Scottish government has described as \"pretty preposterous\". Voters in Scotland will decide whether it should be an independent country in a referendum on 18 September. A spokesman for the pro-Union Better Together campaign said: \"What people in Scotland need is clarity from Alex Salmond about his Plan B for what would replace the pound. \"Would we have to sign up to the euro, as Mark Carney said, or would we set up an unproven separate currency? \"No doubt Alex Salmond's response will be the same as every other time an expert has questioned his plans - Mark Carney is wrong and only the first minister is right. It simply isn't credible.\" SNP Treasury spokesman Stewart Hosie, a member of the committee, said: \"I am pleased the governor took this opportunity to confirm the Bank of England's neutrality on the issue of Scottish independence, and that his Edinburgh speech was a technical assessment of currency unions, not a judgment on independence. \"Mark Carney was clear that the issue he wanted to get across was the nature of the stability arrangements which are required for the formation of a successful currency union. \"I am pleased that the Scottish government's Fiscal Commission Working Group have described in detail a blueprint for such a successful currency union.\" The group, chaired by economist Crawford Beveridge, recently reiterated its view that a formal currency union was the best option for an independent Scotland, saying it had \"clear advantages for the rest of the UK\". You can watch the committee session on the BBC's Democracy Live website.", "question": "Bank of England governor Mark Carney has told MPs there was \" a distinct possibility \" RBS would have to @placeholder if Scotland voted for independence .", "option_0": "quit", "option_1": "gauge", "option_2": "relocate", "option_3": "consider", "option_4": "wait"}
{"id": 33, "article": "Leigh Griffiths scored the only goal as the champions made it 10 Premiership victories in a row. Celtic are now 11 points clear of nearest challengers Rangers. \"It wasn't at the level we've been for a lot of the season but the mentality of the players was very strong,\" Rodgers told BBC Scotland. \"We weren't as fluent as we normally are, the pitch is slow, it looks a little bit heavy so it affects the speed of our game. But we had chances to be a lot more comfortable. \"Of course when its 1-0 late in the game, they've got nothing to lose, but give credit to Hamilton, they played with a back five, a diamond in midfield with one up front and really condensed the space. \"They've conceded a lot of goals here in the past, so they were never going to come and open up, but it's up to us to break it down. We did break it down a number of times and we goat the important goal. \"Whenever you're a winning team, you have to have persistence and drive. The players have got that in spades. To stay focused on the game, we made so many passes, got into good areas, but failed with just that little bit of incision inside the box.\" Rodgers played Griffiths and Moussa Dembele up front together, setting his side up in a 3-5-2 shape to allow the strikers to work as a duo. They combined for the only goal of the game, but otherwise lacked the cohesion of a well-practised partnership. \"It's collective, I'm not so worried about those two, I'm more worried about the team,\" Rodgers said. \"We weren't as fluid with our positioning as we normally are, but both players worked hard. They've both got qualities, but I'm worried about the team rather than individuals. \"We were poor [coming out of defence towards the end], we gave the ball needlessly away. In our build up we weren't secure enough, we took a risk and we gave it away cheaply, but thankfully it didn't cost us. \"We're missing a lot of our real dynamic players in terms of James Forrest and Scott Sinclair, so we're having to find different ways to play. We'll analyse the game. Where we can do better, an look to be bette on Saturday.\" Hamilton manager Martin Canning was happy with the industry and application of his side, and believes he saw enough in the narrow defeat, and in previous games against top four sides, to believe his team can take something from a run of games that sees them face Rangers on Friday, then Celtic again, then Aberdeen. \"We performed well and worked really hard, we were disciplined, kept our shape well and limited Celtic to not a lot,\" said Canning. \"We did what we hoped we could do, stay in the game for long enough to make the last 10, 15 minutes uncomfortable and give ourselves and opportunity to take something from the game. A couple of times we were unfortunate, we got into decent areas and didn't quite make the most of it. \"Scott McMann was magnificent for a young kid, it's his first time coming here, and Ross Cunningham comes on at the end as well. We need to build on that.\"", "question": "Manager Brendan Rodgers admitted Celtic fell short of the @placeholder they have set this season but praised the players ' attitude in beating Hamilton .", "option_0": "words", "option_1": "engine", "option_2": "standards", "option_3": "horrors", "option_4": "table"}
{"id": 34, "article": "The project is being developed at Google X, the company's clandestine tech research arm, which is also responsible for its self-driving car. Project Wing has been running for two years, but was a secret until now. Google said that its long-term goal was to develop drones that could be used for disaster relief by delivering aid to isolated areas. They could be used after earthquakes, floods, or extreme weather events, the company suggested, to take small items such as medicines or batteries to people in areas that conventional vehicles cannot reach. \"Even just a few of these, being able to shuttle nearly continuously could service a very large number of people in an emergency situation,\" explained Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots - Google X's name for big-thinking projects. Google's self-flying vehicle project was first conceived of as a way to deliver defibrillator kits to people suspected of having heart attacks. The idea was that the drones would transport the equipment faster than an ambulance could. \"When you have a tool like this you can really allow the operators of those emergency services to add an entirely new dimension to the set of tools and solutions that they can think of,\" said Dave Voss, incoming leader of Project Wing. The prototype vehicles that the company has built have successfully been tested by delivering packages to remote farms in Queensland, Australia, from neighbouring properties. Australia was selected as a test site due to what Google calls \"progressive\" rules about the use of drones, which are more tightly controlled in other parts of the world. Project Wing's aircraft have a wingspan of approximately 1.5m (4.9ft) and have four electrically driven propellers. The total weight, including the package to be delivered, is approximately 10kg (22lb). The aircraft itself accounts for the bulk of that at 8.5kg (18.7lb). The small, white glossy machine has a \"blended wing\" design where the entire body of the aircraft provides lift. The vehicle is known as a \"tail sitter\" - since it rests on the ground with its propellers pointed straight up, but then transitions into a horizontal flight pattern. This dual mode operation gives the self-flying vehicle some of the benefits of both planes and helicopters. It can take off or land without a runway, and can hold its position hovering in one spot. It can also fly quickly and efficiently, allowing it to cover larger distances than the more traditional quadcopter vehicles available commercially. The vehicles are pre-programmed with a destination, but then left to fly themselves there automatically. This differs from many military drone aircraft, which are often remotely controlled by a pilot on the ground, sometimes on the other side of the world. Eventually Google said it could use unmanned flying vehicles to deliver shopping items to consumers at home. That's a use that retail giant Amazon has already stated an interest in, with its proposed Prime Air service - the announcement of which generated headlines at the end of last year: Amazon has asked the US Federal Aviation Administration for permission to conduct outdoor tests. \"The things we would do there are not unlike what is traditionally done in aerospace,\" said Mr Voss. \"It will be clear for us what level of redundancy we need in the controls and sensors, the computers that are onboard, and the motors, and how they are able to fail gracefully such that you don't have catastrophic problems occurring.\" Other unusual vehicles have been investigated for humanitarian aid, including flying cars and hoverbikes, with the same aims of reaching cut-off areas quickly. \"We will have to see what kind of specific technology works best within the aid landscape, and if the new technology can integrate positively in the local context,\" said Lou Del Bello from news site SciDev.net, speaking about the category in general. \"It will need to demonstrate it can be cost effective, and respond to actual needs of local people.\" You can hear more about Google's self-flying vehicles on The Science Hour this weekend on the BBC World Service", "question": "Google has built and tested autonomous aerial vehicles , which it believes could be used for @placeholder deliveries .", "option_0": "fuel", "option_1": "causing", "option_2": "goods", "option_3": "survival", "option_4": "military"}
{"id": 35, "article": "The exam board has assured students it will treat them \"fairly\" when it comes to marking. So how will Edexcel ensure this year's pass rate does not fall through the floor? In common with other major exam boards, Edexcel sets grade boundaries once all the work has been marked. \"This helps maintain standards from year to year, as it takes into account differences in the difficulty of the exam or assessments,\" explain Edexcel's owners Pearson on their website. Once the raw marks are in, senior examiners meet to assess a range of the marked work and compare the standards with those outlined in the exam specification and with work from previous years. \"This helps our senior examiners get a rounded picture of how learners have performed and, after careful consideration, they use their professional judgement to decide the minimum number of marks required for each grade,\" says the webpage. Exam boards often convert raw marks on a Uniform Mark Scale (UMS) to help examiners make this comparison year on year. Raw marks from exam papers that are considered easier count for fewer UMS marks than those from harder papers. So angry GCSE maths candidates may find that, despite considering the paper tough, their raw scores will count for more UMS marks than they would have done in an easier paper, so their grades may not be affected. Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, agreed that unreasonably difficult questions would be reflected very quickly in the marking process. However, he warned tough questions could affect candidates' confidence, put them off their stride and affect their overall performance. \"Schools are always very attentive of pupils during the exam period. \"If they pick up concerns from pupils after a paper and if teachers consider a question to be unfair, then schools should do everything they can to reassure pupils and take up the issue with the exam board.\" Mr Lightman said quality assurance processes when exam papers are drafted should prevent excessively difficult questions. But he added that it was sometimes not until pupils actually sat exams that questions examiners \"thought were OK just turn out to be too difficult\". National Association of Head Teachers' leader Russell Hobby said some variation in the difficulty of exam papers from year to year was inevitable. \"The pass marks are adjusted to reflect that once the results are in. This is part science and part art. \"People shouldn't worry too much about it if the adjustments are minor and applied consistently - although now the stakes for both students and schools are so high, it's hard not to worry. \"The exam system is being made to bear more weight than it can really cope with.\"", "question": "Thousands of teenagers took to Twitter to @placeholder . Others signed online petitions demanding exam board Edexcel lower the grade boundaries after finding a GCSE maths paper \" ridiculously hard \" .", "option_0": "deny", "option_1": "vote", "option_2": "achieve", "option_3": "force", "option_4": "complain"}
{"id": 36, "article": "Jonathan Bowling admitted attacking Alan Greaves with a pickaxe handle near St Saviour's Church in High Green. Bowling, 22, who has a long history of violent offending, was told by a judge at Sheffield Crown Court he would serve a minimum of 25 years in prison. Ashley Foster, 22, of Wesley Road, High Green was sentenced to nine years for manslaughter. He was cleared of murder on Thursday after a trial. Sentencing Bowling and Foster, Mr Justice Teare told them: \"Why you wished to inflict violence on another human being on Christmas Eve is known only to you.\" The judge said: \"You chose your victim at random. Alan Greaves happened to be in front of you, on his way to serve the community, as he had always done, and you decided to inflict violence on him. \"Neither of you knew Alan Greaves. He had done nothing to provoke the attack on him. \"His wife, his family and his community have suffered a tragic and horrendous loss.\" Mr Greaves's widow, Maureen, said she was \"happy\" with the sentences. Outside court she said: \"To think Ashley's got nine years is the very best we could have got in the circumstances of the manslaughter. \"To think that Jonathan's got 25 minimum and to think he'll probably never come out, I really am wonderfully pleased with the result.\" Mrs Greaves said she would not read a letter Bowling had written to her. \"To put it into my hands the day he was going to get sentenced, I didn't think it was very appropriate,\" she said. Mr Greaves, 68, a father of four, died in hospital three days after suffering head injuries in the attack. Before the sentencing, prosecutor Robert Smith told the judge Bowling's previous convictions included an attack on a 36-year-old jogger when Bowling was 15. The judge heard how Bowling was also convicted in his teens for brandishing a hammer when a police officer stopped him, threatening a woman with a hammer and headbutting a woman who complained because he was throwing snowballs at her window. Foster had no previous convictions for violence.", "question": "A man who beat a church organist to death as he @placeholder to a Christmas Eve service has been jailed for life .", "option_0": "needs", "option_1": "returned", "option_2": "walked", "option_3": "listened", "option_4": "responded"}
{"id": 37, "article": "The Scenic Railway is considered to be the heart of Dreamland - an unchanging icon that has stayed the same through decades of change. It fell into disrepair after the attraction closed in 2005 and was badly damaged by an arson attack in 2008. And when a revamped Dreamland opened in June some rides were operational but the Scenic Railway was still undergoing restoration. Visitors left operators in no doubt that it was very much wanted. But what lies behind its attraction? Part of the answer is the significance of the ride through generations of families. Grandmothers phoned the theme park this summer to tell staff they wanted to bring their granddaughters on the ride they themselves had enjoyed as children. And couples who went on first dates on the rollercoaster wanted to relive the moment - but now as parents of four children. Dreamland's chief executive Eddie Kemsley said the huge amount of feedback on social media revealed \"amazing stories\". But she believes another key feature of the heritage amusement park and its historic Grade II* listed rollercoaster is its nostalgia. \"What we have achieved is quite simple,\" she said. \"It's authentic, with great fish and chips. We've got a few rides, entertainment, Punch and Judy, and it appeals to different generations. \"It's not about technology and it's not hugely sophisticated. It's wholesome, British and traditional. It's a fun day out.\" Dreamland's boss said life now was \"so hi-tech\", but the theme park was still about people. \"Entertainments like Punch and Judy - there's a reason they lasted hundreds of years,\" she said. \"They're fun, they work and they're never going to change. \"This takes us back to a simpler time.\" Work to restore Britain's oldest rollercoaster began in 2014. The wooden structure was completely replaced by a Kent-based firm, and the track and trains came from a company in the north of England that started off building trains for coal mines. The restored Scenic Railway is almost the same as when it was originally designed by Sir John Henry Iles who bought the site in 1919 and set out to create an American-style amusement park. To a lay person it will appear identical, but connoisseurs will see changes and modifications made for operational and safety reasons to make sure the ride is robust. Those who remember the whole structure shaking when the train went over it will be disappointed. There is still the clatter of the wheels of the train carriages, but the wooden rollercoaster stands strong. For anyone used to 21st Century rollercoasters and worried about trying a vintage ride for the first time, safety measures are in place. A panel of experts has made sure it's as safe as possible. Rigorous inspection processes are in place - and because it's made of wood, a carpenter walks the track every day. The theme park is hoping for another boost to visitor numbers now the Scenic Railway is operational. Bed occupancy in Thanet was up by 50% this summer and the nearby Turner Contemporary saw a 25% increase in visitor tickets, Ms Kemsley said. Dreamland is also aware that a third of its visitors have come from London and have chosen Margate over any number of other tourist destinations. Ms Kemsley said Margate had witnessed a resurgence in its seaside attraction status, but Dreamland still needed support. Its 1950s ballroom will open next week, Halloween and Christmas offers have been planned, and work is under way on the Hall by the Sea - a venue to hold 1,600 people. Ms Kemsley put it simply: \"We have got more to come.\"", "question": "The clickety - clack of the Scenic Railway climbing its wooden , rollercoaster @placeholder has not been heard in Margate for nearly 10 years - but the 1920s theme park ride is now operating again and generations of fans have been waiting for this moment . What is it s enduring appeal ?", "option_0": "interest", "option_1": "train", "option_2": "track", "option_3": "generations", "option_4": "slopes"}
{"id": 38, "article": "A commemorative paving stone was unveiled in a South Shields street, named after Private Henry Robson. Pte Robson was born in the town in 1894 and joined the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) in 1912. He was awarded the medal for leaving his trench near Ypres in Belgium on 14 December 1914, under heavy fire, to rescue a wounded officer. Pte Robson was later given the Freedom of the Borough of South Shields in 1915. He died in Canada in 1964 where he had served as the Sergeant-at-Arms in the Ontario Parliament in Toronto. The paving stone was unveiled in Robson Close, which is one of a number of streets in South Shields named after local people awarded the Victoria Cross. The Mayor of South Tyneside, Fay Cunningham, laid a wreath during the ceremony. Ed Malcolm, chairman of the South Tyneside Council's Armed Forces Forum, said: \"This year is a hugely important year for the armed forces, marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of The Great War and it is very fitting the selfless act of valour shown by Pte Henry Robson is being commemorated in his birth place.\" Serving soldiers from the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland - the successor unit to Pte Robson's old regiment - will also be present. Military organisations involved in the ceremony also include The Royal Scots Association, The Royal British Legion and the Durham Light Infantry Association. The stone is part of a national scheme that will see every one of the 628 Victoria Cross recipients of the First World War commemorated.", "question": "A World War One Victoria Cross winner has been @placeholder at a special ceremony on South Tyneside .", "option_0": "launched", "option_1": "honoured", "option_2": "placed", "option_3": "presented", "option_4": "held"}
{"id": 39, "article": "The Estadio Municipal de Balaidos was declared unsafe by Vigo's city council, its owner, on Saturday. Abel Caballero, the city's mayor, had earlier told Spanish media it would be impossible for the game to go ahead as planned. No new date has yet been set. Real are top of La Liga, one point ahead of second-placed Barcelona with two matches in hand. Luis Enrique's side beat Athletic Bilbao 3-0 on Saturday, with Paco Alcacer scoring his first league goal since his move from Valencia last August. The Galicia region of north-west Spain, of which Vigo is a part, has been hit by winds of up to 85mph in recent days, causing the postponement of Friday's La Liga match between Deportivo La Coruna and Real Betis. However, the decision to call off Celta Vigo's match has upset Alaves, their Copa del Rey semi-final opponents. Last season's Segunda Division champions have released a statement asking for their semi-final second leg against Celta on Wednesday to be postponed. The clubs drew the first game 0-0. They claim Celta will have an unfair advantage with the extra rest, with Alaves away to Sporting Gijon on Sunday. This match has been postponed to play at a later date.", "question": "Real Madrid 's La Liga game at Celta Vigo on Sunday has been postponed after storms damaged the hosts ' @placeholder .", "option_0": "union", "option_1": "ground", "option_2": "region", "option_3": "expectations", "option_4": "results"}
{"id": 40, "article": "Sadiq Khan will set out a business case for services running into the capital to be devolved to TfL. He claims it would improve passenger service and tackle delays and overcrowding. TfL's board will consider the proposals on Thursday before seeking approval from the government to move forward. The first franchises up for renewal - services in southeast London and Kent - will be this autumn with further franchises involving South West Trains, Southeastern and Govia Thameslink Railway due for renewal by 2021. Every mayor so far has wanted more control over suburban rail services and Sadiq Khan is no different. Certainly beleaguered commuters and politicians of all ilks, including Kent County Council, want TfL to control their lines using the concession model where TfL pays an operator to run the service (like the Overground). There are sticking points though - the politics.  This is a Conservative government and a Labour Mayor. How can TfL run services outside the area of jurisdiction? (Clue: look at the Met line). And capacity - lines into places like Waterloo are already full; whoever runs it and Network Rail will still control the infrastructure. And TfL can only take over when contracts come up. So while the intentions are clear, this won't happen overnight. Mr Khan said: \"Passengers on London's suburban rail routes simply aren't getting a good enough service. They face increasing rail fares year after year, yet face daily delays, cancellations and overcrowding. \"Ahead of the Autumn Statement,  I'm looking forward to presenting the full business case for how a transformed and modernised suburban rail network could also unlock new homes and provide other substantial economic benefits for London.\" Earlier this year think tank Centre for London called on the Department for Transport to devolve the network due to \"strained\" rail services in south London. When it was first raised the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail, said the current system produced some of \"the best passenger satisfaction levels\".", "question": "A new @placeholder revealing how London could look if the mayor took over the running of suburban rail services has been released by Transport for London ( TfL ) .", "option_0": "article", "option_1": "side", "option_2": "wearing", "option_3": "map", "option_4": "partnership"}
{"id": 41, "article": "London's mayor Boris Johnson, who has until recently been seen by taxi drivers as far too kind to Uber, is now backing new laws which could put a stop to its growth. The newly elected MP for Uxbridge is pushing for the inclusion in next week's Queen's Speech of a proposal to cap the number of minicab licences in London. In the last year, the regulator Transport for London says the number of private hire vehicle licences has risen from 52,000 to 77,000, and most of that increase is made up of new Uber drivers. Another 1,200 private hire drivers are swelling that total every month, according to the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association (LTDA), which lobbies for the traditional black cab drivers. The LTDA applauds Johnson for tackling what it says is becoming a pollution problem affecting the lives of all Londoners. Its chief executive Steve McNamara says the capital is suffering growing congestion as an increasingly desperate pack of Uber drivers move constantly from one resident parking space to another as they wait for a customer. Uber, of course, sees it very differently. The Californian firm is lobbying hard against what it believes is simple protectionism. It cites the average speed of Uber cars through London, up by 9% since it arrived in 2012, as proof that it is not responsible for congestion. And it says further growth in its network is needed so that it can launch its UberPool service here, allowing several customers to share the same car, cutting congestion and costs. That view is backed by a leading expert on competition policy. John Fingleton, the former director of the Office of Fair Trading, told me that restricting the supply of private hire drivers was a very bad idea. \"It gives a privileged position to the incumbents and that's not in the consumer's interest - it will restrict availability or raise prices.\" Fingleton says that if the government is worried about congestion or pollution, there are better ways to do it - the congestion charge could be raised for minicabs making multiple journeys during one day. He also believes that technology, in the form of satnav, is rapidly eroding the value of doing the \"Knowledge\", the intensive training in London's geography that black cab drivers are forced to acquire: \"Anyone considering doing it needs to be warned that their income is going to be lower than now.\" But I understand that Johnson firmly believes that the current growth in private hire drivers is unsustainable and a change in the law is necessary to allow him - or a subsequent mayor of London - to impose a cap. The mayor is however keen to stress that this is not about Uber but about the impact of all private hire drivers on pollution and congestion. Whether the legislation will be part of the Queen's Speech, however, now seems doubtful. The Business Secretary Sajid Javid may not be keen on a measure, which introduces added regulation when he is promising another bonfire of red tape. The taxi drivers veer from confidence that Johnson has finally seen the light to concern about the lobbying power of Uber. The company has just appointed as its PR supremo Rachel Whetstone, whose career has included working for the former Tory leader Michael Howard, followed by eight years as Google's spinner in chief. She is also married to Steve Hilton, the former director of strategy for David Cameron. \"It's the forces of common sense pitched against the lobbying power of the mightiest technology company on earth,\" says McNamara. He claims Uber is spending a quarter of a million pounds a month on lobbying in London alone. \"And the irony is that they pay no tax in the UK.\" A spokesman for Uber strongly denies they spends so much on lobbying - \"We don't spend that much in a year let alone a month!\" - and says the company complies with all UK tax laws. For the government, there's a painful choice to be made. Uber represents the triumph of technology and the free market, and throwing a spoke in its wheel would seem at odds with the project to make London a global hub for innovative businesses. But then you have 25,000 taxi drivers - a largely Conservative constituency -  and your party's biggest star urging action to preserve what they see as the capital's unique character. This one will run and run.", "question": "It is the new technology superpower , promising to transform the way we travel and much else , and London is one of its most important @placeholder . But now the car service Uber is at the centre of a major political battle , and the new Conservative government has a tricky choice to make .", "option_0": "zone", "option_1": "word", "option_2": "islands", "option_3": "places", "option_4": "bases"}
{"id": 42, "article": "All 42 families living at Amona complied with a court order to leave after officers moved in on Wednesday. But dozens of supporters barricaded themselves inside the local synagogue. Meanwhile, Israel's prime minister has announced that he plans to establish a new settlement in the West Bank for the first time in more than two decades. A statement from Benjamin Netanyahu's office said he had set up a committee that would \"begin work immediately to locate a spot and to establish the settlement\" for those evicted from Amona. More than 600,000 Jews live in about 140 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this. There are also more than 95 outposts - settlements built without official authorisation from the Israeli government - across the West Bank. Located on a hilltop near the settlement of Ofra, north-east of Ramallah, Amona was built in 1996 on land registered as privately-owned by Palestinians. In December 2014, the Israeli Supreme Court ordered the government to completely remove the outpost within two years. But the deadline was recently extended until 8 February. On Wednesday morning, police officers arrived to begin the evacuation. Although they clashed with hundreds of pro-settlement activists gathered at the outpost, who threw stones and caustic liquid at officers and staged sit-ins, only one house and the local synagogue were still occupied on Thursday morning. After clearing the house, police moved onto the synagogue. Haaretz newspaper reported that protesters inside the building threw rocks, iron bars and liquid at the officers as they breached the barricades, injuring eight. It also quoted Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan as saying the protesters were \"hooligans\" who were showing \"contempt to Judaism and have no respect to religion\". Twenty-four police officers and 18 civilians were injured on Wednesday. Seven people were also arrested for disturbing public order and preventing police from carrying out their duties. Hundreds of others were removed from the site. Mr Netanyahu said on Thursday that his government would establish a new settlement on state-owned land to replace Amona \"as soon as possible\". His decision comes after the Israeli Supreme Court rejected the government's plan to relocate some of the families from Amona to an adjacent plot, after ruling that some of the land is owned by Palestinians. On Tuesday, Mr Netanyahu approved plans for 3,000 new homes at existing settlements - the third such announcement since the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, who has hinted he will be more sympathetic to settlement construction than his predecessor. Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi told the BBC that Mr Netanyahu had been \"emboldened\" by Mr Trump's failure to express any disapproval at what she called the \"frenzied escalation of Israel's illegal enterprise\".", "question": "Israeli police are reported to have removed the last protesters from an unauthorised settlement outpost being @placeholder in the occupied West Bank .", "option_0": "dismantled", "option_1": "held", "option_2": "attacked", "option_3": "stabbed", "option_4": "detained"}
{"id": 43, "article": "Sadiq Khan said the online firm had refused to take down the knife videos that were first reported in December. Mr Khan said the videos, showing recognisable London locations, \"were a shocking example of the glamorisation of gang culture\". YouTube said it could not comment on individual cases but said it was in contact with the police on this issue. The videos, which have been viewed more than 356,000 times, shows gangs threatening rivals with a \"Rambo knife\" while others make shooting hand signals to a soundtrack of violent rap. A YouTube spokesperson said the site prohibits videos \"that are abusive or that promote violence.\" \"We work closely with organisations like the Metropolitan police to understand local context and specifically, so that we can understand where artistic expression escalates into real threats.\" Gun and knife crime in the capital have increased by 42% and 24% over the last year, according to recent police figures. Sadiq Khan said: \"Social media and the internet can be used to inflame tensions and escalate violence quicker than ever before. \"Internet giants have policies in place around violent content, but they do not go far enough.\" Claire Hubberstey, CEO of Safer London, said: \"There are some highly dangerous, widely viewed films online that pose a serious threat to young people, both glorifying violence and intimidation and posing a significant risk to those who appear in them.\" Youtube said it was committed to continuing and improving its work on this issue and making the site \"a hostile space for those who seek to do harm.\"", "question": "Four \" violent videos \" posted on YouTube have not been removed despite @placeholder from police , the Mayor of London says .", "option_0": "remarks", "option_1": "video", "option_2": "criticism", "option_3": "threats", "option_4": "requests"}
{"id": 44, "article": "The claim: Graduates in a lifetime earn more than non-graduates by ¡ê250,000 for women and ¡ê170,000 for men. Reality Check verdict: Modelling lifetime earnings clearly creates uncertainties but the analysis is basically reasonable. It is an average, so there will be people for whom going to university is not financially worthwhile and some who will benefit even more. Universities Minister Jo Johnson said: \"Universities continue to deliver extraordinary returns for people who go. \"On average, if you're a woman you're likely to have higher lifetime earnings than women who don't go to the tune of about ¡ê250,000; ¡ê170,000 if you're a man.\" These figures come from analysis carried out by Prof Ian Walker and Prof Yu Zhu for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in 2013. It estimated the value of a degree over a lifetime from the point of view of an 18-year-old, by comparing earnings for those with a degree with those for somebody with at least two A-Levels but no degree. The figures they came up with were ¡ê252,000 for women and ¡ê168,000 for men (at 2012 prices). Those figures are adjusted for loan repayments on ¡ê9,000 per year fees and tax. Prof Zhu told BBC News that the way the model was designed meant the increase in interest rates and fees since the research was done would be allowed for and the figures still stood. The model also takes account of the relative likelihood of periods of unemployment during a working life. Predicting how much people will earn in a lifetime is clearly not a precise science and there are significant uncertainties (see our previous article on the challenges of economic modelling). Also, this is an average, so for some people it will not turn out to have been worth going to university based on the financial outcome. Research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies last year found that at 23 institutions for men and nine for women, the median graduate was earning less after 10 years than the median non-graduate. It also found that people with degrees in the creative arts earned no more on average than non-graduates. Another figure on Today came from Alistair Jarvis, chief executive of Universities UK, who said: \"Somebody who goes to university will earn on average about ¡ê10,000 a year more than somebody that hasn't got a degree.\" That is a figure from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) comparing median earnings for graduates with median earnings for non-graduates. The latest figures are for 2016, when the average graduate earned ¡ê9,500 more a year than the average non-graduate. It is a figure taken from the Labour Force Survey, which is the same place from where the monthly unemployment figures come. But here's why it is not a great deal of help for somebody whose A-level results have just come out and who is deciding whether the financial commitment of going to university is a good idea. For graduates aged between 21 and 30, the ONS figures show the earnings gap is less - at ¡ê6,000. Also, it is not necessarily helpful to compare the earnings of graduates with all non-graduates because many non-graduates do not have the qualifications that would allow them to go to university. And it does not take account of student loan repayments or taxes. Read more from Reality Check Follow us on Twitter", "question": "On A - Level results day on Thursday , there was discussion on BBC Radio 4 's Today programme about the value of going to university , with several figures being @placeholder .", "option_0": "announced", "option_1": "shown", "option_2": "cited", "option_3": "reveal", "option_4": "released"}
{"id": 45, "article": "The 10 February action was originally a full walk-out meaning medics would not have staffed emergency care. It would have been an historic move and caused major disruption to hospitals. But the British Medical Association has now stepped back from that, saying it wants to minimise disruption. However, the strike will last longer than planned - 24 hours rather than the 08:00 to 17:00 which was first announced. But the decision to scale back on the scope of the strike will bring a huge sigh of relief to hospitals. A full walk-out has never happened before in the history of the NHS and would have led to a mass cancellation of routine treatments, such as knee and hip replacements, as consultants and other staff were redeployed to cover behind the junior doctors. The stoppage will be the second walk-out by junior doctors over the contract dispute. The first took place over 24 hours on 12 January and led to about one in 10 non-emergency operations being cancelled, while a 48-hour walk-out planned for last week was called off while talks took place at the conciliation service Acas. The junior doctors row explained What exactly do junior doctors do? How does your job compare? The lessons of the 1975 doctors' strike BMA junior doctor leader Dr Johann Malawana said despite some \"good progress\" the union had been left no choice but to announced the stoppage would take place. He accused the government of taking an \"entrenched\" position. The key sticking point is thought to be the government's insistence that the amount of extra pay that doctors get for working a Saturday is cut. The union had also raised concerns about career progression and patient safety. Dr Malawana said: \"What we are asking for is fair and affordable recognition of unsocial hours.\" \"We deeply regret the disruption action will cause,\" he added.", "question": "Next week 's strike by junior doctors in England will go ahead as talks with the government have failed to reach a solution - but union leaders say medics will @placeholder emergency cover .", "option_0": "contest", "option_1": "show", "option_2": "reduce", "option_3": "provide", "option_4": "replace"}
{"id": 46, "article": "St Catherine's Island - a landmark off the coast of Tenby - once housed a zoo but has been disused for 36 years. A previous application to reopen it was turned down by National Park planners. But a revised plan has been recommended for approval because of the \"economic benefit\" a new attraction would bring to the area. The proposal by the Tenby Island Project, would include restoring the fort, while adding a nature walk, boat landings, shops and places to sell food and drink. The plan was initially turned down in July 2013 amid concerns about the impact on the surrounding area and a subsequent appeal to the planning inspector was also refused because it was not clear whether the fort was being used by bats. The new plan has been submitted with the addition of a protected species survey. Planners have recommend it for approval at the next meeting of Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority's development management committee, which is due to be held later this month. The report said the restored fort would \"add to the tourist offer of Tenby by providing a new visitor attraction\". It added: \"This attraction will provide economic benefit as well as protect the integrity of the historic fort by providing a new use.\"", "question": "A Victorian fort on an island off the Pembrokeshire coast looks set to be reopened as a tourist attraction after being @placeholder for decades .", "option_0": "destined", "option_1": "cared", "option_2": "shortlisted", "option_3": "closed", "option_4": "struck"}
{"id": 47, "article": "The building in the East Sussex town is home to Lewes District Council's print room, but the operation is closing. Ruth O'Keeffe, from Lewes Little Gardens, said she feared the building could be lost. Lewes council said there were no firm plans for the building and future options were being investigated. Ms O'Keeffe said the Turkish Baths opened in Lewes in the 1860s, but only remained open for about 20 years because of competition from Brighton. \"They had a warm and cold bath, tepid and cold plunge baths, showers and living accommodation for the attendants,\" she said. \"We're worried that it might not be there any more if we don't try to save it,\" she added. She said the print room operation was a separate issue, but local community groups used it and might not have anything similar available to them.", "question": "Campaigners have set out to protect a former Turkish Baths building in Lewes by getting it registered as a community @placeholder and listed by English Heritage .", "option_0": "crowd", "option_1": "accident", "option_2": "pools", "option_3": "drugs", "option_4": "asset"}
{"id": 48, "article": "The Kodu Kup challenges children to create their own game using Kodu, Microsoft's visual programming language. The winning game was a futuristic one in which players compete to defeat an evil robot. The competition is part of a huge push to get children doing more coding. Alfie Finch-Critchley, aged 14, and 12-year-old team mates Joseph Banerjee and Jonathan Haley are from Uppingham Community College in the East Midlands. Their futuristic game, Confined - which was inspired by Valve's title Portal - won the 12-16 age category. They competed against teams from Portugal, Finland, Norway, Belgium, Greece, Lithuania and Estonia in the final, in which they had to complete a Dragons'-Den style pitch to a jury of MEPs, education and gaming experts. \"Computational thinking helps our young people to understand and play an active role in the world that surrounds them,\" commented Simon Peyton-Jones, chair of the Computing at School campaign \"The Kodu Kup provides an opportunity for children to creatively engage with computing, whilst also teaching them the coding skills which will help them to secure the jobs of the future.\" Speaking about the process, Alfie said: \"Apart from the event itself, the best part of participating in the Kodu Kup for me was the teamwork. We worked together and we were able to take our individual talents and combine them to get the best result possible. \"Kids don't always need to be told what to do to understand things, through computational thinking and perseverance you can find out for yourself, and if you can get a grasp of computers and computer science you can understand the world around us.\" Judge Kelly Smith, head of television and games at BAFTA, said that the standard of the competition \"blew me away\". The winners were chosen for their presentation, the details they had put into their game and the way they had worked as a team. \"They had really thought about the design, usability and where their product would be placed in the market, which is remarkable for a group of 12- to 14-year-olds,\" she said. The competition is part of EU Code Week, an initiative aimed at getting more children interested in coding. Microsoft, together with Facebook, Rovio, SAP and Liberty Global, have formed a coalition to launch a pan-European online platform to drive participation in coding. In September, coding in English schools was made mandatory for all children aged five to 16. The BBC is a partner in a UK-based coding initiative dubbed Year of Code, which aims, among other things, to crowdsource funding to help parents, pupils and educational organisations get involved in coding.", "question": "Three young coding enthusiasts from the UK have @placeholder off European competition to win a gaming contest organised by Microsoft .", "option_0": "shown", "option_1": "clashed", "option_2": "helped", "option_3": "kicked", "option_4": "beaten"}
{"id": 49, "article": "The researchers suspect that the vertical, branchless stem of a South African plant - locally called the Rat's Tail - has evolved to encourage pollinating birds to visit its flowers. The birds hang upside down from this perch and fertilise the plant when they thrust their beaks into the red flowers to drink nectar. The international team reports the findings in the Annals of Botany. Plants go to great lengths to attract animals to pollinate them; they seduce insects, birds and small mammals with colourful, shapely, sweet-smelling flowers. Some plants even wave at passing pollinators. On first seeing the deep red, long-tubular flowers of Babiana ringens in 2003, botanist Spencer Barrett from the University of Toronto, Canada, suspected that he was dealing with a plant that was pollinated exclusively by birds. But the position of the flowers at the base of the plant perplexed him. Most birds avoid feeding on or close to the ground to keep clear of ground-dwelling predators; plants reliant on bird-pollination tend to keep their flowers up high. Dr Barrett and his colleague Bruce Anderson from University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, wondered if the curious perch-like structure had evolved to give pollinating birds a foothold from which to feed. Crouching among the shrubs of the Cape of South Africa, binoculars in hand, Dr Barrett and his team confirmed that the flowers were exclusively pollinated by sunbirds. \"When we saw a bird visiting we were completely enchanted,\" said Dr Barrett. Still unconvinced that the stick-like protrusion had evolved as a perch, the team set about to gather further evidence. They set out to look at the full distribution of B. ringens across the Cape, and found that in the east, where sunbirds have a greater variety of flowering plants to choose between, B. ringens'  perches were smaller than in the west, where plants can rely on regular visits from sunbirds. Dr Barrett suspects that in the absence of pollinating birds, the plants do not need to invest in maintaining the perch, and so it shrinks over many generations -  an example of what is called relaxed selection. With time, this branch might return to its ancestral form, which the researchers suspect was a central stem with flowers at its top, much like many of B. ringens' close relatives. \"It's a fascinating piece of work,\" said plant biologist Professor Simon Hiscock from the University of Bristol. This study poses questions about the influence of pollinators on the structures of flowers and on plants' reproductive strategies, he added.", "question": "New research sheds light on the world 's most @placeholder bird perch .", "option_0": "endangered", "option_1": "specialised", "option_2": "surrounding", "option_3": "developed", "option_4": "coveted"}
{"id": 50, "article": "Bill Sharp, 65, was the the son of a unionised stevedore who loaded and unloaded the ships at the East End's Royal Albert docks. He left grammar school at the age of 15 wanting something more.  And he got it - a career in the City and the trappings which come with it. Now living in Hadleigh near Southend, he continues to run his stockbroking firm and work as a consultant. For Mr Sharp, taking his place outside St Paul's Cathedral to say a final farewell was a foregone conclusion. He allowed BBC News to join him on his journey from Essex to central London as Margaret Thatcher was his political inspiration. \"She means a great deal to me,\" he said. \"It was in about 1970 that I started to recognise her. \"I became a councillor back in 1978 based on listening to her. \"She wasn't the first woman prime minister to me, she was the leader of our party and she did a wonderful job.\" Their paths were to cross a number of times. Mr Sharp made three visits to Downing Street during her tenure, enjoyed a dinner in her company (with others) and was at the Conservative Party conference in 1984 at Brighton's Grand Hotel when five people were killed and 31 were injured. An aspiring politician, Mr Sharp had put his name down to speak on five different subjects. He ended up speaking about the community charge (often referred to as the poll tax) - the subject he had prepared least for. But it was the speech the prime minister delivered the day after the bomb that he remembers most vividly. \"The speech was magnificent. There was an explosion of support for her,\" he said. \"I am delighted to be able to say that I met her, shook her hand, listened to her and was told off by her, and followed her principles through my life.\" Mr Sharp is proud of the parallels between his own humble upbringing and those of Margaret Thatcher, the grocer's daughter. He said: \"She was wealthy compared with my family roots. \"My father was a union man, I understand unionism but I didn't find socialism the answer. If you go out and work, you can contribute to your family.\" While the then Margaret Roberts lost out when she contested the parliamentary seat of Dartford in the 1950 and 1951 general elections, Mr Sharp unsuccessfully fought the Barking seat just across the Thames in 1987. His campaign slogan was simple: \"She trusts him, why don't you?\" The she, of course, was Baroness Thatcher. Since then, Mr Sharp has focused on local politics and continues to serve on Castle Point Borough Council. He said: \"I will be standing there with sympathy in my heart, and gratitude for what she did for this nation, for what she did for me personally and for what she did for the party. \"People either loved her or hated her. A bit like me.\"", "question": "Among the thousands who lined the streets of London to witness the funeral procession of Baroness Thatcher was a self - @placeholder \" Essex Man \" who has a picture of the former prime minister in his bedroom .", "option_0": "dubbed", "option_1": "described", "option_2": "appointed", "option_3": "confessed", "option_4": "sighted"}
{"id": 51, "article": "Andreas Christopheros, 29, was left blind in one eye after the attack in December 2014. David Phillips, 49, from Hastings, Sussex, was jailed for life last October for assaulting Mr Christopheros at his home in Truro. Mr Christopheros was at home with his wife and son when he was attacked. He told BBC Five Live: \"I knew instantly and I screamed to my wife upstairs. I ran through the house (to the kitchen) and started dousing myself with water. \"The pain was inexplicable, out of this world pain. It's like nothing I've ever felt before, it's a very dark pain.\" His attacker said it had been a case of mistaken identity. Mr Christopheros has been left partially sighted, with severe burns to his face and body. He kept his 18-month-old son away from his bedside for two months to protect the little boy. \"For him his world should have been full of happiness, joy and toys, which he had,\" he said. Acknowledging it was \"insanely tough\" to be away from his child, he recalled the moment he saw his young son for the first time after the attack. \"The moment he saw me... he put his arms out and held on to me for three quarters of an hour,\" he said. It was an experience which he described as \"the best feeling I think I've ever had... truly amazing\".", "question": "A man who had sulphuric acid @placeholder over him by a stranger who knocked on his front door said the attack left him in \" very dark pain \" .", "option_0": "knocked", "option_1": "crushed", "option_2": "thrown", "option_3": "taken", "option_4": "escaped"}
{"id": 52, "article": "Participants' neural activity was recorded by using sensors implanted in their brain, which were linked to a computer that translated electrical impulses into actions. The researchers believe people will be able to perform increasingly complex tasks just by thinking them. The study is published in PNAS journal. The subjects in the study moved from thinking about a task to automatically processing a task, in a similar way to how other motor movements are learnt - like playing the piano or learning to ride a bicycle. This was shown by the areas of neurons that were active in the brain, which changed as subjects became more adept at a mental task. Scientists analysed the results of a mind control task on a brain-computer interface (BCI) of seven participants with epilepsy. They were asked to play a computer game where they had to manipulate a ball to move across a screen - using only their mind. Recent studies using BCIs have shown that our minds can control various objects, like a robotic arm, \"but there is still a lot of mystery in the way we learn to control them\", said Jeremiah Wander from the University of Washington in Seattle, US, who led the study. \"It's similar to learning a new motor task, but in other ways it's really different as there is no sensory feedback coming to your brain.\" He believes his research could help individuals master more advanced levels of mind control. \"If we slowly work to add in more and more difficulty, we can push the limits on how complex the devices are that people can control. \"We now have an understanding from the brain signals themselves, as to whether or not a user has developed proficiency with the current level of complexity of a task,\" he explained. Ian Daly from the University of Reading, UK, who works on non-invasive BCIs, said that the study would help other scientists build BCIs that are more useful for analysing the different interactive paths of the brain. \"We expect from previous reports in the literature that there's a similar response in the brain when you make a movement and when you imagine a movement. \"The novelty of this study does not come from discovering the area is involved in learning. What is novel is studying the learning effect of subsequent trials in a BCI context,\" Dr Daly told BBC News. \"This paper highlights that neural networks of the brain are not static; they are dynamic and they change over time.\"", "question": "Activity @placeholder in the brain when using a \" mind machine \" is similar to how the brain learns new motor skills , scientists have found .", "option_0": "stranded", "option_1": "observed", "option_2": "change", "option_3": "gained", "option_4": "groups"}
{"id": 53, "article": "Her late father was from Taiwan and her mother is Japanese. In Japan, where only 2%-3% of newborn babies are mixed-race, that is significant. But Renho's appointment has not been without controversy, as she was accused of lying about whether she still had Taiwanese citizenship. Dual nationality is not allowed in Japan, and anyone born to parents of different nationalities must choose one by the age of 22. She has said she thought her father officially gave up her Taiwanese citizenship on her behalf when she was 17. She says the process happened at the Taiwanese representative office in Japan and was in Mandarin, which she didn't understand so there was no way for her to confirm it had gone through. It turns out it didn't - the official record in Taiwan has since confirmed that she still has citizenship. She has since apologised and asked for her Taiwanese citizenship to be revoked, but the controversy is likely to follow her throughout her political career. Her critics say the problem is that she lied about her nationality. Renho - who goes by only one name - insists it was a mistake not a lie. But the row has raised the question over whether Japan is ready to contemplate a mixed race leader. Being mixed-race is still a rarity in Japan with only 3.4% of children born in 2014 having a non-Japanese ethnicity parent. The \"exotic\" looks of the \"hafu\" - the Japanese term for a bi-racial person - are embraced by the entertainment industry, but almost solely if their foreign parent was Caucasian. \"Japanese society and media fetishise half-white complexions,\" says Morley Robertson, a half-Japanese half-American journalist. \"I definitely have received better treatment over my life than those mixed with non-white parentage.\" My own daughter is mixed race, and I have seen her getting compliments about her big eyes and long eyelashes - features she gets from her father, not me. As a teenager growing up in Tokyo, I confess I desperately wanted them too. But Mr Robertson says having a Western look will only get you so far. \"That adoration can instantly turn into violent prejudice if social codes are violated,\" he says. \"If you act too Western in a company setting, asserting your views at a meeting when not asked to do so, you can end up being ostracised.\" \"Those of mixed-race background who 'have it easy' are always walking on thin ice. I have fallen through that ice many times myself,\" he adds. And if your non-Japanese parent is darker skinned, you are likely to face an even tougher time. The first mixed-race person to win Miss Universe Japan in 2015, Ariana Miyamoto, remembers being bullied for having darker skin than other children as her father is African American. This year's Miss World Japan who is half-Indian Priyanka Yoshikawa remembers being treated like \"a germ\". \"I am almost certain that reactions would have been different, had they both been half-white,\" says Mr Robertson. He speculates there is \"an ingrained 'racial order' inherited from older generations in Japan, with whites at the top of the pyramid and blacks at the bottom\". While the younger generations are much less biased, stereotypes linger. \"According to this urban mythology, whites are more beautiful and creative, East Asians are second-best looking while proficient in math and science, while blacks are good at athletics and music,\" he adds. One ethnic group which tends to receive hatred, especially online, is Korean-Japanese people, most of whom came during Japan's colonial rule, and their descendants. They have faced discrimination for decades partly because of what their detractors call \"special privileges\" such as the right to vote and claim benefits without taking on Japanese citizenship. Many hide their real ethnic backgrounds by using adopted Japanese family names. Calling a Japanese person \"Korean-Japanese\" is an insult often flung online, including at myself, especially those seen as overly critical of Japan, or not sufficiently loyal. \"There just aren't enough foreigners or mixed race people in the everyday life of most Japanese,\" says Mr Robertson, who doesn't believe there is malice in the racial stereotyping. As for Renho, as the controversy over her citizenship raged on she insisted: \"As a politician, I have never acted in a way other than being a Japanese citizen.\"", "question": "When Renho was elected the first female leader for Japan 's main opposition Democratic Party on Thursday , she also broke another glass ceiling . She is the first person of mixed descent to hold the @placeholder .", "option_0": "name", "option_1": "ground", "option_2": "table", "option_3": "position", "option_4": "world"}
{"id": 54, "article": "Scientific groups in the UK and France studied the effects of neonicotinoids, which are used in more than 100 nations on farm crops and in gardens. The UK team found the pesticides caused an 85% drop in queen production. Writing in the journal Science, the groups note that bee declines in many countries are reducing crop yields. In the UK alone, pollination is calculated to be worth about ?¡ê430m to the national economy. And the US is among countries where a succession of local populations has crashed, a syndrome known as Colony Collapse Disorder. Many causes have been suggested, including diseases, parasites, reduction in the range of flowers growing wild in the countryside, pesticides, or a combination of them all. The neonicotinoids investigated in the two Science papers are used on crops such as cereals, oilseed rape and sunflowers. Often the chemical is applied to seeds before planting. As the plant grows, the pesticide is contained in every part of it, deterring insect pests such as aphids. But it also enters the pollen and nectar, which is how it can affect bees. Dave Goulson from the UK's University of Stirling and colleagues studied the impact of the neonicotinoid imidacloprid on bumblebees. They let bees from some colonies feed on pollen and sugar water containing levels of imidacloprid typically found in the wild, while others received a natural diet. Then they placed the colonies out in the field. After six weeks, colonies exposed to the pesticide were lighter than the others, suggesting that workers had brought back less food to the hive. But the most dramatic effect was on queen production. The naturally-fed hives produced around 14 queens each - those exposed to the pesticide, just two. \"I wouldn't say this proves neonicotinoids are the sole cause of the problems bees face,\" said Dr Goulson, \"but it does suggest they're likely to be one of the causes, and possibly a significant one. \"The use of these pesticides is so widespread that most bee colonies in areas of arable farming are likely to be exposed to them, so there is potential for them to be playing a significant role in suppression of bee populations on a pretty staggering scale.\" The French research group investigated the impact of a different neonicotinoid, thiamethoxam, on the number of bees able to make it back to the colony after release. Using tiny tags attached to the bees' backs, they showed that significantly fewer insects came back if they had previously been exposed to levels of thiamethoxam that they might encounter on farms. Calculations showed the impairment was bad enough that the capacity of colonies to survive could be severely compromised. \"What we found is that actually if colonies are exposed to pesticides, the population might decline to a point that would put them at risk of collapse due to other stressors,\" said lead scientist Mickael Henry from the French National Insitute for Agricultural Research (Inra) in Avignon. Dr Henry told BBC News that it was time for authorities to re-design the safety tests that pesticides have to pass. \"To date, the tests mostly require that the doses found in nature do not kill bees,\" he said. \"But those authorisation processes ignore possible consequences for the behaviour of bees, and we hope the people in charge will be more careful.\" Neonicotinoids are a multi-billion dollar business worldwide. Even though some countries have banned them partially, a complete global prohibition, as some environmental groups advocate, might be impossible. May Berenbaum, head of entomology at the University of Illinois and one of the leading US experts on CCD, said the chemicals should be used more carefully. \"There is no question that neonicotinoids are being used recklessly, for want of a better word,\" she said. \"Fifty years of experience should have taught us that overuse of a single class of compounds is an inherently unsustainable practice, and that pre-treating seeds when pest problems might not even be present is collossally unwise. \"But neonicotinoids could be banned everywhere in the world, and honeybees would still have problems with pathogens, parasites, habitat degradation and overuse of just about every other class of chemical pesticide.\" At EU level, the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee has asked the European Commission to increase research and produce an action plan to conserve bees. \"When the action plan is produced, we are ready to give member states a deadline to use or not use a specific pesticide - until then it is up to individual states,\" said Paolo de Castro MEP, the committee's chairman. In the UK context, Dr Goulson added, it would certainly be worth re-considering neonicotinoid use in gardens. \"Personally I would ban insecticides completely in gardens,\" he said. \"There are very few serious insect pests in Britain as far as gardening's concerned, it's too cold; and if roses have a few aphids on, then tough, it's not a big deal.\" His research team now plans to expand their study to other bee species, while Dr Henry's group will try to discover exactly how thiamethoxam does its damage. Follow Richard on Twitter", "question": "Some of the world 's most commonly used pesticides are killing bees by damaging their ability to @placeholder and reducing numbers of queens , research suggests .", "option_0": "navigate", "option_1": "suffer", "option_2": "survive", "option_3": "kill", "option_4": "investigate"}
{"id": 55, "article": "The authorities in both countries issued a red alert - the highest possible - saying the Chilean volcano could erupt imminently. The 2,965m (nearly 10,000ft) volcano - which sits in the Andes cordillera - has so far only spewed gas. Thousands of minor earth tremors have been registered in the area. The volcano, located between Chile's Bio Bio region and Argentina's Neuquen province, has seen increasing seismic activity in recent weeks but has not erupted. \"This red alert has been issued after monitoring the activity of the volcano and seeing that it has increased seismic activity,\" Chilean Interior Minister Andres Chadwick said in a news conference on Monday. \"There is a risk that it can start erupting.\" According to Chile's Emergency Office, the mandatory evacuation affects some 2,240 people living within a 25km (15 miles) radius of Copahue. However some people refused to leave their homes, preferring to stay with their farm animals and personal belongings. \"No.  I do not want to leave because we have chickens and it isn't easy to leave them and go to a shelter,\" resident Florinda Lipiman told the news agency Reuters. In Argentina, the authorities had first declared a \"yellow alert,\" but later revised it to the highest level. They have now ordered the evacuation of at least 600 people from the town of Caviahue to the neighbouring city of Loncopue. \"We are going to go to the homes and we are going to remove the women, the elderly and children,\" police officer Javier Urrutia Vergara told Reuters. Last December, Chile also issued a red alert after Copahue - one of the most active volcanoes in the region - began spewing ash and gas, with smoke raising nearly 1.5km in the sky. Nearby residents were temporarily evacuated, and planes flying over the southern Andes warned to avoid the area. Hundreds of flights were cancelled last year due to the eruption of another volcano in southern Chile. The Puyehue eruption caused huge economic damage not only to property in the area but also to tourism in Bariloche and other resorts.", "question": "Chile and Argentina have ordered the evacuation of some 3,000 people living near the Copahue volcano in the south of their @placeholder border .", "option_0": "own", "option_1": "disadvantaged", "option_2": "birth", "option_3": "ice", "option_4": "shared"}
{"id": 56, "article": "South Africa's Justice Minister Michael Masutha, a qualified lawyer, said the original decision to release him after serving 10 months was taken \"prematurely.\" According to the South African Criminal Procedure Act, an offender must serve at least one-sixth of his sentence before he is eligible for early release. Michael Motsoeneng, a lawyer who has been following this case for a long while, told me that thousands of prisoners will receive this as good news. \"It will bring certainty when they are not being considered for parole that no-one gets special treatment,\" he said The minister was duty-bound to intervene because the law is very clear - \"the decision to release an offender may only be taken after he has served one-sixth of his sentence,\" Mr Motsoeneng emphasised. In Pistorius' case, the decision was taken in June - when he had served just eight months - to release him as soon as he had served the requisite 10 months. For some, the proposal to release Pistorius so soon looks and feels unfair, but for others it is just the law. A famous athlete shot four bullets into a toilet in his bathroom knowing full well that there was a human being behind the locked door. But after a seven-month trial, Judge Thokozile Masipa found the double-amputee not guilty of murder. She instead found him guilty of a lesser charge of culpable homicide or manslaughter. So what about the timing of the whole thing? We knew back in June that the department of correctional service would release Pistorius this week. Political pressure from the Progressive Women's Movement of South Africa (PWMSA), a women's rights advocacy group. which includes the African National Congress Women's League - part of the governing party - seems to have made the difference. It had petitioned the minister to exercise his powers not to allow Pistorius, also known as the blade runner, to be released from prison during August. The group's convener, Jacqui Mofokeng told me that releasing Pistorius during South Africa's women's month was \"like adding salt to the wound.\" She added: \"Ten months is not enough. This judgement was not favourable to women who are victims of violence by their spouses.\" This section of the law exists partly because of overcrowding in South African prisons. Hence the legal mechanism to allow those offenders whose parole board assessments show that they possess a record of good behaviour to be sent home early, to serve the remainder of their sentences at home. The Department of Correctional Services' spokesman Logan Maistry told me that Pistorius was not receiving special treatment. \"We release people every day,\" he said. \"There are about 60,000 other offenders who are currently under correctional supervision,\" he said - about 27% of the total prison population. Legal experts tell me that the Parole Review Board has up to four months in which to make a decision, so Pistorius will remain behind bars for some time yet. But assuming he is eventually freed early, the Olympic sprinter will be released to his uncle's house in a leafy suburb of Pretoria to complete the rest of his five-year sentence, provided his good-behaviour record still stands. The making and unmaking of Oscar Pistorius Oscar Pistorius - in 60 seconds However, it is not clear what he will do with his time at home. During the trial last year, prison service social worker Joel Maringa, testifying for the defence, recommended that the athlete could spend three years of partial house arrest and do 16 hours of community service each month, like cleaning a museum in Pretoria. But under cross-examination from prosecutor Gerrie Nel, Mr Maringa admitted that Pistorius had told him that correctional supervision would allow him to resume his athletic career, while still officially serving his sentence. It is not clear whether the athletics authorities would allow this. However, given the four-month timeframe, it is highly unlikely that Pistorius will be freed before the prosecution's appeal against his acquittal on murder charges is heard in November. If that decision is overturned, his sentence would be increased to a minimum of 15 years and the question of his early release will be pushed well into the future.", "question": "For all the arguments about whether Oscar Pistorius should be released from prison early from his five - year sentence , one @placeholder is clear - he is not receiving preferential treatment .", "option_0": "evidence", "option_1": "subject", "option_2": "race", "option_3": "answer", "option_4": "message"}
{"id": 57, "article": "The 16-year-old male was with a group swimming in the pool beneath High Force in Middleton-in-Teesdale on Tuesday. He was recovered from the water by a fire brigade rescue boat and airlifted to Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital, but later died. Police said five other teenagers, three boys and two girls, who had been with the boy, were not injured. High Force, where the River Tees plunges 65ft, is one of County Durham's most popular tourist destinations. Police, fire crews, air support, and a mountain rescue volunteers carried out a search of the area after the alarm was raised at about 20:00 BST. The teenager was located some time later, and was treated at the scene by paramedics. Pete Bell, from Teesdale and Weardale Mountain Rescue Team, said: \"Unfortunately these bodies of water are magnets for people when the weather is good, but despite the air temperature being warm the water is still cold and there are unknown currents. Even the best swimmers can find themselves in difficulty. \"We would urge people not to go into the water at High Force because the risks are considerable.\"", "question": "A teenager has died after getting into difficulties while swimming under a County Durham @placeholder .", "option_0": "waterfall", "option_1": "decker", "option_2": "beach", "option_3": "estate", "option_4": "light"}
{"id": 58, "article": "The crash happened outside Castle Bytham, south of Grantham, on Wednesday afternoon. The 73-year-old pilot, from Thurnby, Leicestershire, is being treated for back and leg injuries. A 52-year-old tanker driver was treated for minor injuries and the 61-year-old occupant of the property was unhurt. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has said it is aware of the incident and is making inquiries. Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said the man who lives in the bungalow was in the garden and pushed the tanker driver out of the way, to prevent them both being hit. The pilot became stuck in the plane, which was embedded in the building, and the aircraft's landing gear broke off and landed on a bed. A police guard remains in place at the bungalow while recovery work is carried out. Pete Wiles, from the fire service, said: \"If they hadn't moved... they would have been hit. \"It's a fairly miraculous escape... there's an overhead power line nearby which it missed as well.\"", "question": "An investigation into how a small plane narrowly avoided two men and then struck a bungalow on a farm in Lincolnshire is @placeholder .", "option_0": "targeting", "option_1": "proposed", "option_2": "needed", "option_3": "continuing", "option_4": "revealed"}
{"id": 59, "article": "She was a cast member who got \"slightly over-excited\", he told journalists at the daily Olympic news conference. Indian team officials were angered by the woman's presence and are seeking an apology. She became known as \"the woman in red\" because of the colour of the top she was wearing. Lord Coe said: \"We have been looking at security but she didn't just walk in off the street. She was a cast member who got slightly over-excited. \"She shouldn't have been there but she clearly started in that venue. I will be speaking to the Indian delegation.\" In contrast to the Indian team's yellow saris or blue blazers, her red top made her stand out as she walked next to India's flag-bearer, wrestler Sushil Kumar. \"This was bizarre. We will ask for an apology,\" India's chef de mission, PKM Raja, told the Times of India. \"The Indian contingent was shown for just 10 seconds and to think this lady hogged all the limelight.\" He added: \"When we were entering the stadium, a member of the organising committee or some security guy asked to be in front of us. We thought the woman was part of Locog. \"When we entered the stadium, the woman who was walking between us and the contingent ahead of us, the Independent Olympic Athletes, suddenly came back and started walking next to Sushil Kumar, our flag-bearer. \"We are totally surprised by the manner in which she joined the delegation and kept walking inside the stadium,\" he said. He told the newspaper that he was not sure of the woman's nationality. He said the woman \"embarrassed us in front of the world\". Several newspapers claim to have identified the woman in question as a post-graduate from Bengaluru, India. However this remains unconfirmed. India is fielding 81 athletes at the London Games, with medal hopes in archery, boxing, badminton, shooting, tennis and wrestling. Olympic organisers Locog have said they will release a statement shortly. Watch the Indian team enter the stadium in BBC Sport's video player.", "question": "The woman who appeared in India 's Olympic contingent in the opening ceremony was a cast member in the @placeholder , London 2012 's Seb Coe has said .", "option_0": "show", "option_1": "movie", "option_2": "world", "option_3": "event", "option_4": "county"}
{"id": 60, "article": "Frank Mulholland QC said he would expect an inquiry to be held given the level of public concern over the incident. Lamara Bell, 25, and John Yuill, 28, were found in their car three days after it crashed near Stirling. Police later admitted they had failed to respond to a call about the crash. Ms Bell was critically injured in the crash and died later in hospital. Her partner Mr Yuill died at the scene. Mr Mulholland instructed the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) to carry out an independent investigation into the circumstances. Earlier this year, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie wrote to the Lord Advocate asking for an update on the investigation. In a reply to Mr Rennie, Mr Mulholland said: \"When all investigations are completed this case will be reported to Crown Counsel for instruction as to what, if any, proceedings are appropriate. \"It is open to Crown Counsel to instruct fatal accident inquiries or criminal proceedings where appropriate. \"As with any sudden death case, the evidence in this case will be analysed carefully and all options will be considered. \"I should add that, notwithstanding a decision on criminal proceedings, I find it inconceivable that a fatal accident inquiry will not be held given the public concern over this tragedy.\" A Crown Office spokesman said: \"The Crown has received an interim report from the Pirc in connection with an incident on the M9 in July 2015. It would be inappropriate to comment further while the investigation is live. \"The families of those involved will continue to be kept updated in relation to any significant developments.\" An inquiry following the crash has already highlighted weaknesses in Police Scotland's roll-out of its new national call-handling system.", "question": "Scotland 's @placeholder Lord Advocate has said it is \" inconceivable \" that a fatal accident inquiry would not be held into the M9 crash tragedy .", "option_0": "outgoing", "option_1": "centre", "option_2": "head", "option_3": "proposed", "option_4": "lord"}
{"id": 61, "article": "\"It is our constant anxiety about that violence, our memory of its past labours and our dread of its future manifestations, that lays down the rules of how a people as complex, as diverse as we are continue to coexist - continue to live together, tolerate each other and, from time to time, murder one another.\" Roy's new book, which comes out on Tuesday and will be published in 30 countries, is a coruscating and ambitious novel about India. It teems with outcasts - \"mad souls and wicked ones\" - and those on the fringes of an increasingly iniquitous society - a trans woman who survives a religious riot and sets up home in a graveyard is at the centre of the story. It is also a restless novel of loss - and some love - written in prose which is often incandescent and funny. She writes about activists flocking to \"international supermarkets\" of grief and sorrow. She describes the conflict in Kashmir, which is a \"war that can never be won or lost, a war without end\", where \"dying became just another way of living\". And a Billie Holiday-loving intelligence officer and his wife and teenage daughter look \"like a model family of small, soft toys\". The overlay of non-fiction hangs heavily over the fiction, something many critics have found jarring and which has prompted the question: Is The Ministry really fiction, or an extended polemical essay, a smorgasbord of Roy's favourite causes? Or is it a fabulist novel about a nation of a million mutinies, bounding ambition and bristling frustration? Truth informs fiction, Roy avers, and writers write about societies they live in. Over the past two decades, she wrote eight non-fiction books and and several essays on subjects as diverse as the nuclear bomb, Kashmir, big dams, globalisation, Dalit icon and social reformer BR Ambedkar, her meetings with Maoist rebels and conversations with Edward Snowden and actor John Cusack. So, Roy told BBC Radio 4 recently, \"there is a big difference in what I do with fiction, and what I do with non-fiction\". \"In those journeys [over the past 20 years] so much was beginning to accumulate in me which was not possible for me to write in non-fiction. If you take Kashmir, it is not possible to explain to somebody just in terms of human rights reports, the number of people killed and tortured, or incarcerated. \"What does it mean to have your air seeded with terror, what does it mean to people living under the boot for 20 years, what does it do to your cellular structure? In fact, fiction is the truth there, you know.\" The reception to her first novel for 20 years has been mixed. The Financial Times called her the \"mistress of the memorable vignette and the arresting detail\", and said the novel was as \"remarkable as her first\". Time magazine found it a \"novel of conflict on a grand scale\", blending the personal and political, and \"well worth the 20-year-old wait\". The New Yorker lauded Roy for delivering a \"scarring novel of India's modern history\" and compared the scenes of violence in the book to passages in Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Others were more circumspect. The Guardian said the \"clashing subplots and whimsical digressions can become rather unwieldy\" in a \"scattershot narrative\", which sometimes \"slips into purple prose\" and feels \"less polished\" than the first novel. The Irish Times called it a \"messy and superficial but good-natured narrative\". The Economist was unimpressed by an \"overlong, unfocused doorstopper, one that would have benefited from a firmer editorial hand\". And The Spectator found the novel excellent in parts, but sometimes descending into \"angry, weepy sentimentality\". In a rare takedown at home, Huffington Post India called the novel \"frustratingly rambling, shockingly uneven in its register\", a \"gargantuan handbook to modern India and its injustices\". Roy has always led an unconventional life. She left home at 16, went to an architecture school in Delhi, sold cakes on the beaches of Goa, taught aerobics, acted in an indie film, and wrote screenplays before she penned her first novel over five years. The God of Small Things, a riveting family saga inspired by her family childhood,  picked up the Man Booker Prize - a \"Tiger Woodesian debut\" gushed John Updike - and made Roy a celebrity writer at 37. \"I was the first aerobics instructor to have won the Booker Prize,\" she once wryly remarked. Since then the book has sold more than eight million copies in more than 40 languages, allowing her to live off its royalties in a quiet, upscale south Delhi neighbourhood. Last year, the writer who has said she doesn't care for fame, posed on the cover of Elle magazine, because she liked the \"dark-skinned women\" that the magazine featured prominently on its pages. \"I want the world to know that inside this formidable-grey haired older woman there's a ravishing, raven-haired 22-year-old Object of Desire struggling to get out,\" she mused. At home, Roy is loved and loathed in equal measure. Her admirers call her a leading  voice of India's liberal conscience, a public intellectual who champions the underdog. But opponents have burnt her effigies, and disrupted her book launches. She has faced criminal charges of sedition, and she was sent to prison for a day for contempt of court while protesting against big dams. Her critics find a lot of her non-fiction writings shrill, na?¡¥ve, adolescent, self-indulgent and simplistic, peddling \"picturesque poverty\". One critic wrote that so often in her essays Roy \"never really gets to grips with the evidence\". Roy has often described writing as akin to \"sculpting smoke\" - first you generate it, and then you script it. She told The Hindu that she began The Ministry by writing a few hours a day, and \"when generating smoke\", would write three sentences and fall asleep out of exhaustion, before eventually working long hours. \"The story,\" she told the interviewer, \"was like a map of a city or map of a building\" and described the writing as \"all instinctive... rhythm\". When she finished the book, she told her literary agent that she had to consult the \"folks in my book\" before choosing its publisher. \"Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't,\" she told The Guardian, \"My characters live with me.\" Roy surely hopes that her readers take to the tortured, oddball cast of characters in her new novel.", "question": "\" Normality in our part of the world is a bit like a boiled egg : it s humdrum surface conceals at its heart a yolk of egregious violence , \" writes Booker Prize - winning author Arundhati Roy in The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness , her whimsically @placeholder second novel .", "option_0": "birth", "option_1": "titled", "option_2": "inspired", "option_3": "following", "option_4": "penned"}
{"id": 62, "article": "A 51-year-old economics professor talked to a passing Saturday afternoon crowd. There was nothing strident about him; it was like listening to a college lecture on why the euro was bad for Germany and for Europe. This is German Euroscepticism. Its political face is the party AfD, Alternative fuer Deutschland. It is a young party which nearly polled 5% of the vote at the German election last year - the threshold for getting seats in the Bundestag. The hurdle is lower for the European elections at the end of this month - and quite possibly the AfD will end up with five or six MEPs. Germany is not fertile ground for Euroscepticism. After the war Germany firmly anchored its identity in being European. The political class is strongly behind the EU which, they believe, has enabled Germany to escape the weight of its history. The eurozone crisis gave Euroscepticism an opening. At the birth of the euro there were guarantees that states would not have to take on the debts of others. In the heat of the crisis Germany backed bailouts for Greece, Ireland and Portugal. But the fear took root that the European Union was becoming a transfer union, with hard-earned German money propping up weaker southern nations. So the AfD was launched, mainly by academics who argued that the euro was bad for Germany and divisive. Austerity and internal devaluations - the prescribed medicine for vulnerable economies - sowed resentment. (In Italy the current Forza Italia campaign slogan is \"More Italy, Less Germany.\") The AfD quickly found an audience in a country where around 30% of people remain nostalgic for the Deutschmark. Some cite the emergence of the AfD as further evidence of an anti-establishment US-style \"Tea Party\" mood sweeping Europe. It is and it is not. Firstly the party is not anti-EU. Its leader Bernd Lucke firmly rejects any alliance with Nigel Farage and UKIP, a party campaigning to withdraw from the EU. The leaders of AfD shun any link with the parties of Marine Le Pen in France or Geert Wilders in the Netherlands. And yet, as the eurozone crisis has eased, the party, like others, has campaigned for much tighter controls on immigration and the removal of illegal migrants. It prompted a small protest in Cologne. One passer-by told us \"it's a right-wing party in disguise; I don't like it\". The danger for any Eurosceptic party in Germany is that it is quickly branded right-wing or extreme. Chancellor Angela Merkel has been campaigning for the European elections this week. On Monday she was in Ingolstadt. Her message was upbeat. We have passed through a difficult phase, she told the crowd.  The euro had won back a good slice of self-confidence. It had been hard times for the currency, but other countries had to play their part in getting economically fit again. Germany offered solidarity, but only if other countries made an effort. Solidarity and responsibility were two sides of the same coin, she said. I spoke to David McAllister, a former PM of Lower Saxony - a Conservative politician on the rise and of Scottish descent - who reckoned that more than 90% of the votes cast would be for pro-EU parties. There may be dislike of Brussels overreaching itself, but Germany remains solidly committed to the EU. The think-tank Open Europe has calculated that anti-establishment parties (like the AfD) could win 31% of the vote across Europe, giving them 218 out of 751 seats. It is most unlikely that such disparate groups would work together, but if they commanded nearly a third of the vote -and the turnout was low - would Europe's leaders and officials just ignore the votes of the disaffected? Would they continue as if nothing had happened, or would they pause and question why so many voters seem so disenchanted with the European project? As in Germany, a convincing majority of voters will support pro-EU parties. That is not in doubt, and if the past is a guide, the European establishment will simply continue with its project towards ever closer union. But a strong anti-establishment vote will weaken the argument for further EU integration.", "question": "Beneath the @placeholder Gothic spires of Cologne Cathedral and the angels high in the architecture was a small tented stage .", "option_0": "growing", "option_1": "twin", "option_2": "soaring", "option_3": "blackened", "option_4": "name"}
{"id": 63, "article": "\"They want to start studies in the first week,\" said William Richardson, general secretary of the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference. Some students wanted the week reformed, said Mr Richardson, quoting anecdotal evidence at the HMC annual conference. It had got \"out of control 10 years ago\", but was being reined back in. Mr Richardson said informal conversations with new undergraduates suggested freshers' week, currently under way at most UK universities, could be an isolating and expensive experience. The official emphasis was to encourage students to join teams, clubs and societies - but too often it involved drinking games, initiations and pub crawls, he said. The current generation of students, who faced rising tuition fees and debts often running into tens of thousands of pounds, were more focused on studying  than their forebears, said Mr Richardson. He said: \"There is concern about freshers' week being culturally very clunky. \"So, the teetotal, faith-based female student, who wants to enjoy freshers' week, at a venue where you can't say no to drinking - that's definitely an issue. \"We've had a chat with the presidents of the students' unions. \"Their concern is quite interesting - they want all students to feel included in the induction, and sometimes freshers' week is so far off the scale the wrong way that it is a big problem for them. \"They want it reformed, I think. \"Freshers' week did definitely get out of control 10 years ago, and [they] are reining it back in. \"The university authorities have a problem - [they say,] 'We want independent study, and they [the students] are all 18. We can't mollycoddle them.' They need guiding, these kids.\" Mr Richardson's comments come as a survey of 2,000 students from independent schools suggest their top concerns are workload (27%) and money (25%). Many also worried about going from \"the highly structured\" school day to the \"less well structured\" study patterns of university, said Peter Hamilton, headmaster of Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hertfordshire. \"For many people almost every second is mapped out. They go to university and find that is not the case,\" he said. \"They're paying ?¡ê9,000 a year for it and the fact they've just come from a highly pressured 18 months where it's been work, work, results, results, and you can kind of see why they're so serious. They want to get on with this.\" National Union of Students vice-president for union development Richard Brooks said: \"Students are asking more and more for different opportunities to meet other students in a variety of spaces. \"Students' unions are rising to the challenge and providing a range of events that reflect this and finding ways to welcome new and returning students. \"NUS research has previously shown students are becoming more interested in all sorts of activities.\" NUS research published in February hinted at changes to student life, with 87% of respondents saying coffee shops were the most used facility, ahead of the union shop (81%), clubs and societies (78%), and bars (74%).", "question": "Many new university students want to get on with their courses and @placeholder the heavy drinking culture of freshers ' week , say private school head teachers .", "option_0": "present", "option_1": "avoid", "option_2": "enjoy", "option_3": "charting", "option_4": "named"}
{"id": 64, "article": "Each volume will include three novellas written by a variety of authors. Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker will edit them. The novellas will all be original stories, with the first volume due to come out in February 2018. Brooker announced the \"all-new\" works would appear in a \"high-tech 'paper' format\". The satirical TV drama series began life on Channel 4 before moving to Netflix last year for its third series. He said: \"All-new Black Mirror stories from exciting authors - that's a joyous prospect. And they're appearing in a high-tech new format known as a book. \"Apparently, you just have to glance at some sort of ink code printed on paper and images and sounds magically appear in your head, enacting the story. Sounds far-fetched to me, but we'll see.\" The authors of the book series have not yet been announced but will be \"leading names in the literary world\", according to The Bookseller. The books will be published in hardback and ebook form. The next TV series of Black Mirror is due to drop on Netflix in October, with one of the episodes directed by Jodie Foster. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "Three books @placeholder by Netflix series Black Mirror are to be published from next year .", "option_0": "fashion", "option_1": "helped", "option_2": "signed", "option_3": "inspired", "option_4": "bought"}
{"id": 65, "article": "Images of the witnesses have been published by the team investigating the stadium crush in Sheffield, which led to the deaths of 96 football fans. They show four people but no image is available for a fifth witness, believed to have been an off-duty nurse. She is thought to have helped victims in the back of an ambulance. The vehicle is pictured in front of the Leppings Lane terraces - where the crush happened during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest - at 15.36 BST on 15 April 1989. The woman, believed to be from the Nottingham area, is thought to have travelled in the back of the ambulance from Hillsborough to the Northern General Hospital. Images of more than 100 people have already been released during several appeals. The photographs of those who have yet to be traced can be seen on the Operation Resolve website. New inquests into the disaster are being held in Warrington, Cheshire.", "question": "A further five people who helped during the 1989 Hillsborough disaster are being @placeholder as part of a witness appeal .", "option_0": "held", "option_1": "sought", "option_2": "released", "option_3": "captured", "option_4": "interviewed"}
{"id": 66, "article": "Visitors to the Postal Museum can ride on a section of the 6.5 mile (10.5km) network, from 28 July. The track, which was established in 1927, took mail between Whitechapel and Paddington before it shut in 2003. Two new trains, based on the originals, will carry up to 32 passengers on a 0.6 mile (1km) section of the line. What is it like on the 'secret' Tube? While it was operational, between four and 12 million items were carried through the tunnels 70ft (21m) below street level each year. The museum, in Mount Pleasant, will also feature exhibitions of historical objects from the postal service as well as a children's area. Adult tickets will cost ¡ê16 including an optional ¡ê1.50 voluntary donation. Adrian Steel, the museum's director, said it would allow visitors \"to discover our stories through interactive digital and physical displays.\"", "question": "The Post Office 's @placeholder underground railway in London will open as a tourist attraction next month , it has been announced .", "option_0": "abandoned", "option_1": "remained", "option_2": "listed", "option_3": "proposed", "option_4": "remaining"}
{"id": 67, "article": "The former British Steel scheme was shut at the end of March as part of Tata's plan to avoid going bust. Tata said the injection of new cash and assets had been drawn up after talks with the UK pension authorities and the scheme's trustees. It described those talks as \"prolonged and intense\". The proposed deal, which involves the UK's pensions regulator and the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), aims to absolve Tata Steel of any further responsibility for the final-salary scheme. The closure was supported by a vote of trade union members at Tata's plants in Wales, Scotland, South Yorkshire and Teesside in February, in the hope that the move would reduce the financial burden on the company and save their jobs. However, it is still not clear if the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) will continue as a free-standing entity or eventually fall into the hands of the PPF. That is one of the issues that has still to be resolved, along with the size and shape of a new, but less generous, pension scheme that Tata has offered to set up for its 130,000 pension scheme members - pensioners and current employees. The British Steel Pension Scheme trustees made it clear that the new deal did not amount to a full rescue of the fund. \"All members and pensioners of the British Steel Pension Scheme would be offered an option either to transfer to a new pension scheme sponsored by Tata Steel UK offering modified benefits, or to remain in the BSPS and so receive Pension Protection Fund compensation,\" the trustees said. Lesley Titcomb, chief executive of the Pensions Regulator, said good progress had been made in the negotiations but stressed that the proposed regulatory apportionment arrangement (RAA) still needed to be signed off by all parties. \"Pension restructurings which involve an RAA are rare, and we will only approve an RAA where stringent tests are met, so that they are not abused by employers seeking to inappropriately offload their pension liabilities,\" she said. An RAA is an arrangement, allowed under pension law, which lets a financially troubled employer ditch its final-salary pension scheme if the only alternative is the company's insolvency. The subsequent options involve: The three trade unions at Tata Steel UK - Community, Unite and the GMB  - said the suggested deal was a \"stepping stone\" to rescuing some of their members' benefits in a new, albeit less generous, scheme. \"The agreements we have reached with Tata are based on the understanding that all members will have the opportunity to choose whether to move to a new modified scheme or remain in the BSPS and so enter the PPF,\" they said. The PPF said members would be allowed to move to this new scheme before the existing fund is assessed for entry to the pensions lifeboat. \"Members of the scheme can be reassured that we are there to protect them throughout this process and they will be able to receive at least PPF levels of compensation, should they remain in the scheme and BSPS enter the PPF assessment period.\" The size of the deficit at the old British Steel pension scheme is estimated to be between ¡ê300m and ¡ê400m, but the cost of a full bailout could range between ¡ê1bn and ¡ê2bn if Tata Steel UK went bust. The cost of the cash injection into the pension scheme meant that  the wider Tata Steel company fell into the red in the last three months of the 2016-17 financial year. It declared a loss for the quarter of $182m.", "question": "Tata Steel UK has offered to pay ¡ê 550 m into its now - @placeholder pension scheme and give the fund a 33 % stake in its UK business .", "option_0": "closed", "option_1": "existing", "option_2": "threatening", "option_3": "based", "option_4": "enhancing"}
{"id": 68, "article": "The plane, based at Robin Hood Airport, is due to be grounded this month after engineering backers, including Rolls-Royce, withdrew support. The bomber made a flypast over northern areas of the UK on Saturday and will visit southern areas on Sunday. South Yorkshire Police said the airport could not \"accommodate a large influx of people hoping to see the Vulcan\". The force said: \"We must warn you that the chances of seeing XH558 take-off and land are slim. There are no plans for any displays or repeated circuits over the airfield and the aircraft will come straight-in to land on her return. \"There is great risk of severe restrictions being imposed on flight operations if matters persist. We do need to minimise the risk of enforced flight cancellations on the grounds of public safety.\" Local authorities and emergency services were starting to become \"overwhelmed\" by crowds who were flocking to the airport to see the famous Cold War nuclear warplane, police said. Following the flypast tours, the XH558 bomber will make one final flight towards the end of October, details of which have yet to be confirmed.", "question": "Police have urged fans of the last flying Vulcan bomber aircraft to @placeholder watching it at an airport in Doncaster .", "option_0": "consider", "option_1": "avoid", "option_2": "commit", "option_3": "ensure", "option_4": "promote"}
{"id": 69, "article": "\"The core values of the community have gone,\" says Mark, lighting his first cigarette of the morning as we look out together on to the street. \"I've lived on this road 40 years, give or take, and I've seen the changes; communities disappearing, immigrants coming into the street, apprenticeships and heavy industry all gone.\" Welcome to Brexit Street in Thornaby, near Middlesbrough. It's a long street that's mainly built up of terraced houses whose front windows are dressed with net curtains or newspaper and whose front doors open straight on to the road. At the far end of the road, known by the locals as \"the posh end\", the houses have well-tended front gardens and courtyards. When I first visited the street back in May, many of those front doors were painted red - the tell-tale sign that the properties housed asylum seekers. Today, the doors have been repainted, but a large number of asylum seekers are still resident here and today, a couple of African refugees sit on the pavement in jogging pants and flip-flops, fiddling with their mobile phones, trying to get a signal. A small boy half-heartedly kicks a deflated plastic ball in and out of the parked cars and a dog, home alone in one of the terraced houses, repeatedly yaps his indignation. Mark, who is an unemployed carpet labourer, asks me if I have noticed how quiet the street is, how little movement there is of cars in the mornings or evenings.  \"Unemployment,\" he smiles thinly. \"Almost no one goes out to work here.\" He looks down at the carpet and crushes a little pile of cigarette ash with the heel of his shoe. \"Makes you feel inadequate,\" he adds. Mark watched all the TV debates in the run-up to the referendum. He voted to leave the European Union, citing uncontrolled immigration as his main reason. \"I'm not racist,\" he insists. \"I'm mixed race myself - my dad came over as an immigrant from Barbados - but it's the volume of people who are coming to our shores - we can't cope physically. We just overstretch our public services. \"And if Turkey joins the EU, that's another 88 million more people who will be eligible to work in Britain. But, of course, the people who are already here, well they should be allowed to stay.\" Immigration is the topic that comes up time and time again when I talk to the people of Brexit Street. At the local social club, Colin, an HGV driver, and his friend John, who maintains aircraft for a living, are having a pint together in the sunshine. Both men work regularly in Europe. \"You only have to stand here five minutes and you'll see loads of them,\" grumbles Colin, nodding at two North African asylum seekers who are walking past. \"They do nothing all day and they get it all for free¡­ whereas we have to go to work and we are getting less and less.\" John cuts across him. \"We should get out of the EU and close the tunnel!\" he growls. Both men are surprised when I point out that asylum seekers are not allowed to work while they are waiting for their claims to be processed. \"But they'll knack us when they do work!\" says John. \"Because they will work for the minimum wage.\" While immigration is a dominant theme, it is certainly not the only one that Brexit Street's residents give as to why they voted out. Poverty, unemployment, Britain's de-industrialisation, and a sense of social and political alienation from the South of England have also fuelled their vote to leave. \"I tell you what'll happen,\" says John, angrily banging down his pint on the wooden table. \"In the South, where all the money is¡­ the government will lie to us. They'll turn round and say, 'Sorry, we're going to stay in the EU because we'll lose too much money'. And the North, he said, would suffer. In his crowded, toy-strewn sitting room in Brexit Street, Peter, a stay-at-home dad, patiently unwraps a chocolate biscuit for his little boy. \"It does feel like the North East has been forgotten,\" he agrees, heaving his son on to his lap. \"And the government has become more focused on the South. In the Teesside area, you don't get much. \" Peter has struggled to find full-time work since he left university and he's now off sick with depression. Money, he admits is very tight in his household; his wife is working part-time, he has student debts to pay off and he has two young children to support. He voted to remain. \"I believe we are stronger together,\" he explains. \"There were people who voted out just to throw a punch at the government¡­ But I think of the example I am setting my kids and I don't want them to see it like it's them against everyone else. \"There are too many divides. And I don't want it to be that when they get to working age, they'll have great difficulty getting a job because of a decision we have made now.\" He knows, he says, that the EU has given grants and funding to various projects in the North East and he was concerned that the region would feel the pinch when that investment was pulled. \"Once we leave, that funding's gone and the Leavers had no plans for how we get that money back - so that's one of the things I was thinking about when I voted Remain.\" Although Peter is convinced he did the right thing by voting Remain, he dared not talk to his relatives about his vote, fearing a family feud. And just over the road, Jo is cautious about talking to me for the same reason. \"I voted Remain,\" she whispers from her half-opened door. \"And people round here won't like that. I voted Remain for my grandchildren and their future but I know a lot of people won't like that because I'm working-class and I'm supposed to¡­ you know¡­\" She trails off, \"But there's no niceness in being alone.\" Jo, who is not working at the moment because of ill health, tells me she had never been interested in politics until the referendum debate but she's now becoming curious. \"We've been Labour all our lives,\" she tells me. \"But I'm studying that now.\" When I ask her what she thought of Jeremy Corbyn's performance in the run-up to the referendum, her brow furrows. \"Now I'm not too sure who that is,\" she says. Both Jo and Peter live next to asylum seekers and both are concerned that Britain is becoming a less tolerant society. Peter tells me that, last year, swastikas appeared on the pavements of Brexit Street and racist graffiti was chalked on the walls. In the cramped, stuffy bedroom which she shares with a stranger, Camille, from Congo, sits sobbing. She's lived on Brexit Street for 18 months now but knows no-one. She only goes out to walk to her bi-weekly English lessons or to the drop-in centre round the corner. \"When I walk down the street, they shout Ebola, Ebola!\" she weeps. \"I don't want this life.\" Twenty-year-old Camille says she had never intended to come to Britain. When her parents and sister were murdered in Congo, Camille was \"rescued\" by a white man who came to her village. He promised her that he would take her to a safe place where she could go to school but he trafficked her and forced her to work as a prostitute. \"But they (the immigration authorities) say to me; 'You lie, you lie!'\" she cries. She switches to her native French. \"I'm not lying,\" she pleads. \"My mum is dead, but I just want my mum. I just want my mum. \" A little further down the street, landscape gardener Wayne is watching his son play tag with his school friends. Wayne voted out because he felt too many asylum seekers were coming to Britain and that Britain could not afford to welcome them. He is sure that when Britain leaves the EU, immigration will be curbed. \"The thing is,\" he says, nodding up the street towards the African men who are still fiddling with their phones, \"in their houses they get given microwaves and ovens and sofas and everything. I mean I had to take a loan to get that stuff.\" He shakes his head. \"They get supermarket vouchers too - we don't get that.  But lots more people round here have to go to food banks now.\" The kettle is singing back in Mark's house. His housemate, who's also unemployed, offers tea. Mark also shares his home with his teenage son who will be leaving school next year. His future gives Mark sleepless nights. \"There's nothing for him round here, no heavy industries. The only thing I could suggest is he goes into the forces because that's the only guarantee of five or six years' employment round here.\" I ask him if he worries that he's made a mistake with his Out vote - that perhaps by voting to leave the European Union, Britain will be worse off. \"I think we are probably going to be worse off economically by leaving the EU,\" he agrees. \"But I think that's a small price to pay to get our independence back. For us to rule our own shores.\" A few days later, back in London, I get a surprise call from the Brexit Street drop-in centre. Camille's asylum claim has been rejected and on Monday, she must hand in her front door keys and leave Brexit Street. Listen to Emma Jane Kirby's reports for PM via BBC iPlayer.", "question": "On Teesside , more than 60 % of people voted to leave the EU in June 's referendum . Emma Jane Kirby is following the residents of one road in the area to see what motivated them and what they make of the @placeholder following the vote .", "option_0": "conversation", "option_1": "events", "option_2": "outcome", "option_3": "changes", "option_4": "people"}
{"id": 70, "article": "They are making \"good progress\" but encountering \"fierce resistance\", according to the Kurdish authority in northern Iraq. A joint operation involving both Kurdish forces and US air strikes began on Sunday morning. In its latest strikes, the US said it destroyed 19 IS vehicles. The strategically important dam was seized by the militants on 7 August. It supplies water and electricity to northern Iraq and there had been fears the IS militants could use it to flood areas downstream. IS has seized a swathe of territory in recent months in Iraq and Syria, displacing millions. Senior Kurdish official, Hoshyar Zebari, told the BBC the Peshmerga were \"encountering fierce resistance, bombs on the roadside, suicide bombers and so on. \"But really, the Peshmerga forces are pushing and taking the fight to them to clear the dam\". He said the next objective was to clear the Nineveh plain \"to ensure the return of minorities\". Thousands of Christians and Yazidis have fled their homes there in the face of the IS advance. Other Kurdish officials said that half the Mosul dam was now in the hands of Peshmerga forces. The US military said it conducted 14 air strikes in the Mosul dam area on Sunday. Along with the military vehicles, a checkpoint was hit. The US carried out nine air strikes on Saturday. Meanwhile UK Prime Minister David Cameron, writing in the UK's Sunday Telegraph newspaper, said a \"firm security response\" was needed to deal with IS, involving \"aid, diplomacy and our military prowess\". The UK, Germany and other countries are currently delivering humanitarian aid for refugees in the north. The offensive at the dam comes amid reports of massacres by IS militants. At least 80 Yazidis, who are ethnic Kurds, are believed to have been killed for refusing to convert to Islam in the village of Kawju. Women and children in the same village were reportedly abducted. A Yazidi refugee from a different village, Moujamma Jazira, told AFP news agency that people there had also been massacred, after trying in vain to fight back. Dakhil Atto Solo said that 300 men had been executed in his village. The report could not be verified independently. IS is also accused of killing 700 tribesmen opposing them in Syria's Deir Ezzor province, over a two-week period. \"Reliable sources\" reported that many of the tribesmen had been beheaded, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. In Western cities on Saturday, demonstrators marched in support of Iraq's minorities - Yazidis, Christians and others. IS, previously called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), was formed in April 2013, growing out of al-Qaeda in Iraq. It has seized large parts of Syria during the ongoing civil war there, and now occupies much of northern Iraq too. Pursuing an extreme form of Sunni Islam, it has persecuted non-Muslims and Shia Muslims, whom it regards as heretics.", "question": "Kurdish forces have @placeholder the eastern part of the Mosul dam in Iraq from the Islamic State ( IS ) jihadist group , Kurdish officials say .", "option_0": "extended", "option_1": "recaptured", "option_2": "revealed", "option_3": "signed", "option_4": "criticised"}
{"id": 71, "article": "Over the course of his time with the \"blasphemous and foul-mouthed\" 1/4th (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers), whom he had joined earlier that December and would remain with until war's end, Leighton Green lived in muddy, rat-filled trenches, under battle and bombardment. The chaplain - who had been derided by his interviewing officer Chaplain-General Bishop John Taylor for his \"very mincing manner\" - was gassed, injured, suffered trench fever and trench foot, and would be awarded two Military Crosses for his bravery. \"When the men went over the top, he wasn't far behind with his first aid box - and then he would have to bury them,\" said his biographer Stuart McLaren. Leighton Green arrived in France in March 1916 aged 33, driven in part by a belief that the Allied cause was a just one. (He had volunteered - clergymen were exempt from conscription.) He would begin documenting his experiences in missives sent back to his parish in Norwich. These monthly contributions to the St Barnabas Church newsletter left readers in no doubt about the \"wretchedness and squalor\" of the battle experience. Rats \"infest the trenches in huge numbers, so that as you walk along the trench at night you tread upon them,\" he wrote in March 1917. \"They run up and down the dug-out over your bed and everywhere.\" On one particularly awful night he even woke \"with a rat hanging on to my nose - I have never liked rats since\". On Easter Sunday 1917, Leighton Green was injured on the first day of the Battle of Arras as he watched \"wave after wave of our men\" go over the top. \"Presently the machine guns of the enemy began to open fire and one could see gaps here and there in the wave, but still they pressed on,\" he continued, later describing a mass burial. According to Mr McLaren, the churchman volunteered because he believed in the \"righteousness\" of the British cause and felt a duty to bring Christian comfort to the troops. He said: \"Part of his job was to go through the horribly mutilated bodies, finding ID, and day after day he'd be burying these people, some days with 20, 30 or 40 burials.\" Leighton Green volunteered at a time when the chaplain's role was changing, following General (later Field Marshal) Douglas Haig's appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in late 1915 and the introduction of conscription. Michael Snape, the Michael Ramsey professor of Anglican studies at Durham University, said: \"Haig understood the UK was a religious country and the clergy would have the moral authority to explain the causes of the war, which from the Battle of the Somme onwards they were progressively free to do.\" This \"recast the role of the military chaplain for the rest of the 20th Century and into the 21st Century\", he said. Prof Snape added: \"The German, Austro-Hungarian or French chaplains were not expected to do what the British chaplains did, going round the trenches, talking to the men. \"Indeed, one of the many things chaplains made a point of doing was to speak to those on guard duty to help them keep awake, because to fall asleep was a capital offence. \"Britain didn't have the strong anti-clerical feeling experienced in Germany and France during the interwar period, and I believe this is in part because of what the chaplains did during World War One.\" And like so many of his contemporaries, Leighton Green believed the Allied cause was a just one. \"We are fighting for our homes, for liberty and righteousness in the world, for the safety and welfare of the generations yet unborn,\" he wrote in April 1918, after the London Fusiliers had endured \"continuous and severe fighting\" for several days over Easter. \"In such a cause we should all be willing to fight and suffer and if need be die.\" Prof Snape said: \"We've forgotten how contemporaries viewed the war, how righteous the cause was seen to be. \"By the 1960s, the play Oh! What a Lovely War was highly influenced by post-war myths and lies, and the parents of those who died were mostly dead themselves, so couldn't assert their sons didn't die in vain.\" Leighton Green also wished to bring the solace of faith to believers. While the Army imposed a compulsory church parade on all Church of England soldiers, from which other denominations and faiths were exempt, chaplains could offer voluntary services, such as the ones Leighton Green held on Christmas Day 1916. A typical Eucharist service attracted 70 or 80 men, while evensong was \"usually overcrowded\", he wrote home in July 1917. He also held confirmation services for soldiers (to became full members of the Church of England). One such service in 1916 attracted 150 candidates, including \"some fifty men direct from the trenches, covered in mud from head to foot and carrying the shell shrapnel-proof helmets\". And as well tending to his men's spiritual needs, the padre was also keen to cater for their practical ones. He established a \"Mag-Fag Fund\", supplied by donations from his parish, urging those safely back at home in Norwich to send cigarettes - \"they are always urgently needed\". \"If only you could see the face of the recipients as I go round the ward with your cigarettes and magazines,\" he wrote on Palm Sunday 1916. The Army did provide its troops with a weekly allowance - but 40 cigarettes a man would last \"about 36 hours at most\". A parcel of 6,000 cigarettes, which arrived in May 1918, would \"with strict economy last three days!\" he wrote in May 1918. Leighton Green would be awarded two Military Crosses during the course of the war, the second for staying \"for over an hour with a badly wounded signaller lying out in the open under shell fire\" at Sebourquiaux, on 4 November 1918. When he was demobbed in 1919 the chaplain returned to St Barnabas, but in 1920-21 he had a breakdown. \"His legs were full of shrapnel when he was caught up in a bomb on Easter Day 1917 and he was gassed when he went through the Hindenburg Line in 1917-18, which prevented him from singing,\" said Mr McLaren. \"It would have broken a lesser man sooner.\" Leighton Green recovered and became the vicar of the small fishing village of Mundesley on the Norfolk coast, where he maintained his connection with the men he had served by joining the British Legion. He died aged 49 in 1929 and was buried with full military honours. An armed guard from the legion fired a volley over his grave.", "question": "Early on Christmas Day in 1916 , a group of soldiers knelt on a rough @placeholder in a candlelit barn in France to receive Holy Communion from their chaplain . The man tending to their spiritual needs was Samuel Leighton Green . He had swapped a quiet life as a Norwich curate to share in the physical and mental suffering of those on the World War One front line . Why ?", "option_0": "bench", "option_1": "gathering", "option_2": "stone", "option_3": "floor", "option_4": "patch"}
{"id": 72, "article": "In 1916, a public meeting was held at London's Caxton Hall in response to a sharp rise in traffic accidents on the capital's streets. These had been blamed on restricted street lighting implemented during World War One. A London \"Safety First\" Council was elected to tackle the problem and so began the organisation that was to become Rospa. Its first campaign in 1917 changed the pedestrian rule so that walkers faced oncoming traffic, said Errol Taylor, the organisation's deputy chief executive. Deaths caused by people stepping into the path of vehicles fell by 70% in the first year, he said. In 1919 short cinema films promoting work safety were made. The following year a Think Safety campaign was launched to deal with the 1.5 million new motorists who took to the road following the end of the war. In 1933, the first home safety leaflet rapidly sold 10,000 copies and had to be reprinted. Some of the industrial safety posters from World War Two depict men who have been blinded after failing to wear goggles at work. \"These highlight the need to keep the British workforce, which was supporting the war effort, safe from preventable accidents,\" said Mr Taylor. He said some posters were aimed specifically at women, who were entering the industrial workforce at this time. The way in which women - as well as men - are represented in the posters gives us an insight into their roles in society at the time, said Dr Gemma Commane, a lecturer in media and communications at Birmingham City University. \"We might assume an image is sexist due to narrow depictions of femininity or masculinity, but we need to step back a little,\" she said. The poster of a nurse holding a bloodied stiletto would appear patronising and sexist to many people today. But Mr Taylor said its intention was to keep women safe as they made the transition from the home to the industrial sector to play their important role in the war effort. Dr Commane said Rospa's Keep the Stairs Clear poster was \"quite slapstick\" and shows \"stereotypical gender roles... with the wife being the cook and the man getting up to mischief\". \"This paints a narrow view of masculinity, as well as femininity. But the representation is accessible and the audience 'gets' the meaning. It is not intentionally sexist.\" Other posters reveal the people in society who were deemed to need the most protection. \"The Don't Lose Sight of Them poster places the wife and child as precious things, but also taps into male anxiety around pressures to provide for the family,\" said Dr Commane. \"Although this image depicts heterosexuality and perhaps marriage this is still very much a valid identity.\" Design expert Paul Rennie published a book of vintage Rospa posters called Safety First. The Not Yet Five - Help Them Survive poster that was circulated in 1952 shows how road safety was becoming a priority. Dr Rennie said: \"Kids playing in the road was a common feature of the time, hence lots of road safety messages about looking out for kids. \"The drink-drive poster was from a time when drink-driving was endemic.\" But by the 80s public information posters were being used less and less, said Jo Bullock, Rospa's head of communications. In some of the later campaigns before Rospa chose other ways to get its message across, animals were often depicted in a bid to deliver memorable safety advice to the public. \"Although we don't do large-scale poster campaigns any more we do still talk about safety,\" said Ms Bullock. \"We know accidents are the biggest killer of children and young people up to the age of 19 so it's really important we communicate the messages,\" she said. \"We do a lot of work online now, on social media, we talk to parents and carers and we have launched a new free telephone helpline.\" Mr Taylor said that despite the use of poster campaigns having fallen out of fashion, the art itself remains memorable and appealing. \"Although communication styles have changed considerably since Rospa's safety poster campaigns were at their height from the 1930s to the 1970s, many of the messages and imagery are timeless.\" As well as marking its centenary, 2016 is the 40th anniversary of Rospa's headquarters moving from the capital to Birmingham. The posters will go on show at the city's library from 22 May to 14 July.", "question": "The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents ( Rospa ) has been warning the public about the perils lurking in everyday @placeholder for 100 years . Its poster campaigns over the decades reflect how a changing world has created new dangers , as well as exposing how attitudes towards women have changed .", "option_0": "bid", "option_1": "situations", "option_2": "living", "option_3": "history", "option_4": "data"}
{"id": 73, "article": "Mr Trudeau's campaign promise to end airstrikes on Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria is being questioned after the deadly attacks in Paris. \"I've committed repeatedly to my allies that we were going to do more on the training front,\" Mr Trudeau said. Canada has already deployed 69 trainers to help Kurdish Peshmerga fighters. \"Training is something we do very, very well and that's something we're looking to be very helpful to other members of the coalition with to make sure Canada is doing more than its part in the war against [IS],\" Mr Trudeau said. However, Mr Trudeau would not elaborate on specifics of the new military training strategy. \"How many that will be, what form that will take, what kind of engagement we're going to have, those are things that we're going to work out,\" Mr Trudeau said. Trudeau also stressed Canada's commitment to accept roughly 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year despite calls for him to reconsider. The premiers of Quebec and Saskatchewan provinces, as well as some mayors, have criticised Trudeau's refugee policy, concerned about the logistics and the security risks. One of the Paris attackers is believed to have entered France using a route travelled by migrants and refugees.  Some in the US and Canada have called for screening procedures to be upgraded before accepting additional refugees. \"It didn't take the tragedies of Paris for us to suddenly realise that security is important,\" Mr Trudeau said. He said he is \"very much committed to keeping Canadians safe while we do the right thing to engage responsibly with this humanitarian crisis\". On Thursday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in Manila, Mr Trudeau will meet US President Barack Obama for the first time since his Liberal party swept to power last month.", "question": "Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged to \" refocus \" his military 's efforts in Syria to put more emphasis on the training of local @placeholder forces .", "option_0": "ground", "option_1": "power", "option_2": "security", "option_3": "drug", "option_4": "powers"}
{"id": 74, "article": "The memory of the \"Boy from Bassendean\" - a suburb in the Western Australian state capital - is being erased by the local council. He has gone from favourite son to outcast by a simple show of hands at a council meeting. Harris's artworks will be taken down from its chambers and his status as a freeman has been rescinded, while a plaque outside his childhood home was stolen before the local authority could remove it. \"We simply cannot tolerate the horrendous crimes for which he's been convicted,\" Bassendean Mayor John Gangell told ABC radio. And the backlash is spreading. In Melbourne a public mural, the \"Entertainers of the Century\" that features 100 prominent performers, will be changed to paint over Rolf Harris's cheery image. There is speculation, too, that Harris could be stripped of his Order of Australia award, one of the nation's most coveted honours. His conviction comes at a sensitive time for Australia, where the depravity of paedophiles is being scrutinised like never before. A royal commission into institutional responses to child sex abuse continues to uncover a terrible flood of atrocities, and could take years to complete its task. Justice Peter McClellan, who chairs it, believes that victims who have suffered alone for so long are finally coming forward because of high-profile court cases, including the conviction of Harris. \"It is becoming apparent as we do our work that as the issue of abuse is raised and talked about, survivors increasingly feel able to bring their own story to the authorities,\" said Justice McClellan. \"That which may have been kept secret for years may now be told. The burden of guilt and shame which many have felt is lifted by knowing that others who have suffered have overcome their reticence,\" he added. The law firm Slater & Gordon says since Harris's trial began it has been contacted by around a dozen women in Australia and New Zealand alleging they were molested by the TV presenter. \"My understanding is that we're talking about assaults that occurred in those countries going back to the 70s and 80s,\" said lawyer Alan Collins. \"Given what we heard in [Southwark Crown] court, a number of victims have suffered a very profound damage, I would have thought it highly likely that claims would be brought.\" Hetty Johnston, founder of one of Australia's most prominent child safety groups, Bravehearts Inc, raised the prospect of further charges against Harris. \"Rolf Harris - icon to inmate. Victims vindicated. Hopefully when he comes out there will be more victims waiting to send him right back,\" Ms Johnston tweeted. Convicted by a court half a world away, 84-year old Harris has felt the full force of media outrage back home. The Australian has detailed \"his most spectacular fall from cuddly establishment showman to jailbird,\" while the Sydney Morning Herald said he was \"always an embarrassing curiosity rather than a national treasure\". Harris was, the paper told its readers, a \"mild colonial boy who simply went bad\".", "question": "Australia is racing to @placeholder itself from Rolf Harris as the shamed Perth - born entertainer starts a jail term for abusing young girls .", "option_0": "join", "option_1": "distance", "option_2": "defend", "option_3": "spend", "option_4": "withdraw"}
{"id": 75, "article": "Under the new rules, Cubans will not have to go through government middlemen to sell agricultural produce. For the first time in decades, farmers will also be allowed to take their products to market themselves. The farm reform follows recent moves liberalising Cuban house and car sales. The government said the new rules were meant to cut down on transportation costs and speed up food delivery to the tourism industry. 'Better supply' According to Granma, the reform will allow farmers to \"develop mechanisms to supply tourist entities and take better advantage of the potential of all forms of local means of production\". Tourism is a key source of revenue for Cuba, but visitors often complain about the poor quality of food. The government is hoping the reform will help provide fresher and more varied products, boosting Cuba's attractiveness. Under the current rules, a state-run body has a monopoly on the sale and distribution of agricultural products. Prices and production volume are set at the start of each harvest. Critics say the state-run system has led to high volumes of food rotting before it could be distributed. The reform is part of a larger overhaul of Cuba's Soviet-style economy, which has already led to changes allowing Cubans to set up their own small businesses and buy and sell cars and homes.", "question": "Farmers in Cuba will be able to sell their @placeholder directly to tourist hotels and restaurants from 1 December 2011 , the official Communist Party newspaper Granma has announced .", "option_0": "amount", "option_1": "goods", "option_2": "disruption", "option_3": "counterparts", "option_4": "vegetables"}
{"id": 76, "article": "Beauly to Fort Augustus is the first part of the 137-mile (220km) transmission circuit to be electrified. The 400,000 volt line triples the capacity of the existing system. Six hundred new towers are being built - a reduction of 200 on the existing number. However, some towers are taller and reach heights of 65m (213ft). Opponents to the upgrade have complained that the new towers will spoil mountain landscapes. The project is expected to be completed in 2014 at an estimated cost of ¡ê600m. Meanwhile, SSE has reported a substantial rise in total electricity output from renewable sources, which include conventional hydro electric schemes, onshore and offshore wind farms and dedicated biomass plants. In an interim management statement, the company said output reached 1,756 gigawatt hours in the three months to 30 June - up from 1,331 gigawatt hours in the same period last year. SSE said this partly reflected \"additional capacity being in operation\". The energy firm also reported a dip in the number of its electricity and gas customers in Great Britain and Ireland, from 9.47 million to 9.46 million. However, it said it remained on course to deliver a full-year dividend increase above RPI (Retail Prices Index) inflation.", "question": "The first section of the revamped Beauly to Denny power line has been @placeholder on two - and - a- half years after the project was given the go-ahead .", "option_0": "unveiled", "option_1": "switched", "option_2": "launched", "option_3": "laid", "option_4": "reached"}
{"id": 77, "article": "The pile is small and the carnations have wilted in the sun, but the gesture reflects a dramatically different mood to last November when hundreds of Russians came here to hurl stones, eggs and insults. The breakdown in relations came after Turkish fighter jets shot down a Russian military plane on the border with Syria. The pilot was killed as he attempted to parachute to safety. Vladimir Putin lashed out, calling it a stab in the back and state media here echoed his furious tone. The airwaves filled with talk of treachery. Then came the sanctions: a ban on charter flights to hugely popular Turkish resorts, restrictions on Turkish imports and for firms operating here and the introduction of visas. In a matter of months, one opinion poll showed Turkey leaping from nowhere to third place among the countries Russians view as their enemy, behind the US and Ukraine. But that anger is now dissipating as suddenly as it was whipped-up. This week, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally apologised for downing the plane - or that is how Russia is reading his carefully chosen words. President Putin, who had insisted on that apology, immediately ordered talks on restoring ties. In what many saw as a battle of wills, it looks like Mr Erdogan blinked first. The political about-turn that followed has been dizzyingly swift. By Friday, the Russian and Turkish foreign ministers were shaking hands in Sochi. And after months accusing Turkey of collaborating with extremist groups in Syria, Russia now says military and anti-terrorist contacts have been renewed. Next up, are package holidays. Turkey has long been a key destination for Russians and their sudden disappearance hit the local economy hard. Ankara now says charter flights will resume by 7 July. Russia's official reason for cancelling flights was security concerns, after Moscow accused Ankara of supporting extremists. Turkey argues that this week's devastating bomb attack on Istanbul airport was further grim proof that it is not an ally of so-called Islamic State, but a target. Still, the increased terror threat has made some Russians wary of visiting. \"I think it's frightening, I wouldn't recommend it,\" Tatyana told me, as she waited for a bus in central Moscow. She has enjoyed holidays in Turkey before, but says she will not go back for now. \"I'd prefer to visit my grandparents in the country instead,\" she said. Others displayed a typically Russian insouciance. \"People visited Egypt during the Arab Spring and I think tourist areas are well protected,\" Evgeny said, adding that his family had to holiday in Russia this year, and it had been lower quality and more expensive. Tour agencies have already reported a surge in enquiries about Turkey. \"I would say the reaction was quite restrained despite efforts to stir it up, so will be quick and easy to switch back. \"It's not like the anti Western mood which has deeper roots and is based on resentment,\" argues Lev Gudkov, director of the Levada research centre. While people were genuinely upset when the plane was downed, he says, their anger was directed at the Turkish authorities not its people. \"I think there will be some aftertaste, but if the campaign is not escalated again then it will all be forgotten quite quickly,\" Mr Gudkov believes. Those heading to work close to the Turkish Embassy, generally agreed. \"They wound us up for so long, then all of a sudden it's over! It's all so fast, my brain hasn't switched yet!\" Sergei said. He has been to Turkey five times on holiday and plans to return. \"It did feel like a betrayal, but those feelings pass,\" Alexander argued. \"Politicians play their games and people suffer. I think it's wrong to punish the whole country for that.\"", "question": "Outside the Turkish Embassy in Moscow there is a heap of flowers and a hand - coloured paper flag left in @placeholder after this week 's suicide attack in Istanbul .", "option_0": "sympathy", "option_1": "response", "option_2": "turkey", "option_3": "competitions", "option_4": "history"}
{"id": 78, "article": "The \"surprising find\" in Avebury, which is 30m (98ft) wide, is thought to be one of the site's earliest structures. The square of megaliths appears to have been erected around the remains of a Neolithic house, which sat at the centre of the colossal stone circle -  the largest in Europe. Archaeologists have hailed the discovery \"unheard of\". For more archaeological digs and historical findings from around England follow our Pinterest board Dr Mark Gillings, from the University of Leicester, said in their \"wildest dreams\" they had not been expecting to find what he has described as a \"stone square circle\". The discovery comes 80 years after the archaeologist and marmalade magnate, Alexander Keiller, discovered a line of standing stones near the 6m (19ft) upright stone known as the obelisk. The vast 330m (1,082ft) wide stone circle of Avebury was built between about 2850 BC and 2200 BC. Containing three stone circles and boasting 100 huge standing stones originally, it has been the subject of considerable archaeological interest since the 17th century. The discovery of previously unknown megaliths inside the monument has been greeted as a \"great surprise\". \"We have detected and mapped a series of prehistoric standing stones that were subsequently hidden and buried,\" Dr Gillings said. \"Together, these reveal a striking and apparently unique square megalithic monument within the Avebury circles that has the potential to be one of the very earliest structures on this remarkable site.\" Dr Joshua Pollard, from the University of Southampton, said their geophysical survey had \"finally completed\" Keiller's work. \"It has shown the line of stones he identified was one side of a square of megaliths about 30m across and enclosing the obelisk,\" he said. \"Megalithic circles are well known from the time when Avebury was built, but square megalithic settings of this scale and complexity are unheard of.\" The archaeologists think the stone square might commemorate and monumentalise the \"ancestral house of the first people who lived in Avebury\". If proved correct, it may help to explain why the Avebury monument complex was built.", "question": "An ancient @placeholder discovered within a Neolithic stone circle in Wiltshire is actually a square .", "option_0": "cross", "option_1": "building", "option_2": "formation", "option_3": "fault", "option_4": "era"}
{"id": 79, "article": "Blood-curdling cries were punctuated by the sound of bamboo swords thwacking against armour, as the University of Cambridge's Kendo team practiced for their annual match against arch rivals Oxford. The samurai-inspired martial art requires skill in both attack and defence, and according to the team instructor Dr Frank Stajano, cyber-security is no different. \"You cannot pretend that you will only be able to do the defence side because if you are not skilled at the attack you will not be able to defend.\" Dr Stajano, who is reader in security and privacy at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, is also the organiser of the Inter-ACE Cyberchallenge. It's a tournament of hacking fought this year between 10 of the UK's 13 Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research. \"It's a 'sportified' version of a hacking competition\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme, \"where the challengers have to perform the same type of attacks that the bad guys do on enterprise computers.\" To win, teams had to complete tasks that required them to hone the skills hackers might use to attack systems. The so-called \"capture the flag\" challenges, which were designed by engineers from Facebook, required students to uncover secret lines of code or \"flags\", using their hacking skills. In a more combative challenge, teams fought to take control of a server, with other teams battling to kick them out. The day began with pizza and pop, not yet banned artificial stimulants, and a warning to competitors not to launch denial of service attacks against computer lab systems. As the teams of four students began hacking the noise level fell, concentration levels rose, and streams of computer code started marching up laptop screens. As a spectator sport hacking presents serious challenges for commentators, \"I'm doing some reverse engineering things,\" one competitor from the University of Southampton hesitantly explained - perhaps aware that a journalist whose computing career peaked in a failed effort to write machine code on a ZX81 might struggle to grasp the finer points of contemporary hacking. \"We're just trying to break into different web applications, and different systems,\" a member of Queens University Belfast told me, as though that was all rather routine. \"The real interesting parts have been steganography,\" another student from the University of Kent team observed, referencing the technique of hiding data in sound and images. \"If it was a sport it would be a participant sport,\" he argued, but as preparation for dealing with life outside the ivory tower it was first rate. \"Being able to deal with security vulnerabilities will hold us in good stead,\" he said. The battle here was fought purely for honour, but in the real world the stakes are much higher. It's a game even nation states play. Birmingham's captain researches car vehicle security - \"and the stakes are human lives,\" she said. But the students weren't the only ones gaining knowledge. Spectating was Sergeant Phil Cobley of the local Cyber Crime Unit. Rather than advising competitors to \"mind how you go\", Sergeant Cobley was treating it as learning experience. His work is with Cyber Prevent, the police programme that tries to steer young people away from cyber-crime. The Prevent programme has been criticised for urging parents to look out for behaviours and interests that, critics say, could be perfectly innocent - and resemble those of budding web entrepreneurs and white-hat hackers. \"I think the important thing is around educational awareness,\" he said, making it clear that there were benefits to \"community, society and themselves\" if young people develop computer skills and use them in the right way. Dr Stajano hopes that by practising the skills criminal black-hat hackers use, the students will become effective cyber-defenders. If you don't teach these techniques, he said, \"the only ones who will be skilled in them will be the ones who are already bent on evil\". University sport has long been an opportunity to forge relationships later in life, and that was also in Dr Stajano's mind when he started the contest. \"In 10 or 20 years time when each of them is the head of security for a company or head of homeland security for their country then they will remember when they were little they were here one day in Cambridge in 2016 and they have pals over there they can exchange notes with and fight against the bad guys.\" The competition will be run annually, but in this first clash the laurels, or rather a large shiny cup, went to home team Cambridge, with Imperial and Southampton taking silver and bronze respectively. Clutching the trophy, a member of the Cambridge team seemed relieved. \"The other Universities like Southampton and Imperial were on our tails throughout the entire competition,\" he said.", "question": "Computer hackers are constantly exploiting security flaws and accessing private @placeholder . For the participants at a new annual competition , though , it 's not a crime - it 's a sport .", "option_0": "information", "option_1": "resources", "option_2": "fit", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "computers"}
{"id": 80, "article": "Aguero has until 18:00 BST on Thursday 1 September to respond to the charge. If found guilty, the Argentina international faces a three-match ban. He would miss Premier League games with Manchester United on 10 September and Bournemouth on 17 September. The 28-year-old would also miss the EFL Cup third-round game against Swansea. Referee Andre Marriner did not see the 76th-minute incident during City's 3-1 win on Sunday and the FA has decided to take retrospective action after reviewing television footage. Aguero is currently out of Argentina's two World Cup 2018 qualifiers next month with a calf injury.", "question": "Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has been given an extra 24 hours to @placeholder his case after being charged with violent conduct by the Football Association for elbowing West Ham 's Winston Reid .", "option_0": "conduct", "option_1": "state", "option_2": "rebuild", "option_3": "argue", "option_4": "strengthen"}
{"id": 81, "article": "French operators Orange and Bouygues Telecom ended talks late on Friday over the reported €10bn (¡ê8bn) merger. Bouygues shares are on course for their worst fall in 17 years, plunging nearly 15.2% in midday trading, while Orange shares were down 4.4%. The news initially sent BT shares down 1.1% and Vodafone down 0.5%, although they later recovered those losses. The potential merger of Orange with its smaller rival Bouygues was intended to prop up profits and would have reduced the number of mobile operators from four to three in France. Analysts at Deutsche Bank said Orange had set clear conditions that were not met during talks, while Bouygues identified four reasons for the failure, including execution risk and governance. \"We believe that this was one of the last chances for consolidation within the French telecoms market,\" analysts at Berenberg said. The Stoxx index of 600 European telecoms firms was down slightly in afternoon trading, amid heavy falls among other French telecoms stocks. Iliad and SFR, which had both been in talks to acquire some of Bouygues' assets, shed 15.8% and 17.6% respectively on the Paris stock exchange.", "question": "European telecom stocks have stumbled after a deal to create France 's biggest telecoms @placeholder collapsed .", "option_0": "monopoly", "option_1": "market", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "infrastructure", "option_4": "race"}
{"id": 82, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The northern hemisphere teams were unable to live with their fleet-footed rivals from the south. To some critics, the 2016 Six Nations has only served to further underline the size of that schism. Boring, stale, conservative and stifling - they are just some of the accusations levelled at a tournament obsessed by the need to win. Having won the World Cup with New Zealand in 2011 but also played in Europe with Nottingham and Toulon, former All Black Ali Williams offers a unique insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the Six Nations. The Six Nations is not a flawed product, it is a fantastic tournament. It is the product on the field that people are criticising - not the competition, not the crowd, not the commercial side. I think the Six Nations is methodical rather than intuitive. The thing I have got out of it living over here and being here for the Six Nations and experiencing the culture, is that the here and now is what people look at. It is not the skill factor - that is all there, it's the mindset that is the pure difference between the two sides of the world. If you are too nervous or too scared and fear doing something wrong then you are never going to push yourself. You are never going to challenge yourself to get better or enhance a skill that doesn't come naturally. That's what I feel here in the Six Nations. There is a restraint on trying new things. It is a matter of instilling confidence in players to play what you see rather than play how you are coached or play how you think you should play. I am probably a prime example. I put on an All Black jersey and thought I could do anything because they instilled that confidence in me. I was doing cross-field kicks from quick taps. I am a second rower. That is not what you should be doing in the manual of rugby but that is now what we do with the All Blacks. The fitness debate between the two hemispheres is about match fitness. The guys I have watched in the Six Nations are fit, don't ever doubt that. What England coach Eddie Jones is trying to say about fitness is that in the northern hemisphere your game fitness is different because you are playing longer, more physical, slower, mental games rather than your Super Rugby-type of run, run, run, run and the opportunities will open up. Eddie is saying is why can't we challenge these guys to be fit enough to play a more open expansive game? Unfortunately you don't get that unless you are doing it that way every week. France captain Guilhem Guirado played 60 minutes for his club five days before a Test match against Wales. That just wouldn't happen with the All Blacks. It comes back to a collective success and for us, collective success is everyone playing well, All Blacks playing well, club teams playing well but also individuals playing well. You are not going to have collective success if you have both got different angles and motivations. By that I mean club v country. Until they find neutral ground and disagree on some things but yet commit on others, you are always going to have these obstacles. Are players going to change it? They're not. They can't. This is a commercial model that needs to look at itself and where they sacrifice some commercial upside but also get better longevity in players and a better product on the field and protect the international game. Media playback is not supported on this device Warren Gatland is right when he says that as soon as there is a mistake then there is an advantage that could lead to a try. It doesn't just have to generate off that however. Yes, that is one of the prime opportunities to score tries but the drive should also be when you have got the ball to not fear a mistake and get a try conceded against you, you should try and want to score. France on Friday night were an example of that and an example of not having a collective understanding of how they want to play together. Individual flair is one thing but you can't show individual flair if you don't have a collective pattern or understanding of where each other is going to be. Individual flair is when you have the ball and you are trying to show something on your own; team flair is when you all know what you are doing. For me that's the frustrating part. If you are saying you are only going to score off mistakes, what are they teaching them in the week? I don't agree with the idea that the northern hemisphere needs to copy the southern hemisphere. I agree with harnessing your own culture and harnessing your own mindset. What does England stand for? What is their mindset? What does Wales stand for? What is their mindset? Once you have established that, then you play like your mindset. That is where I think France are potentially going wrong. What does France stand for? In their mind and their culture, what are they? They know that they have just got to show it on a rugby field. They can do it, we all know it and we all still talk about French flair. They have got it, they are just going through a stage where they are not showing it to people. Ali Williams was talking to BBC Sport's Tom Reynolds.", "question": "All four semi-finalists at last year 's World Cup came from the southern hemisphere , playing an exciting , open , @placeholder brand of rugby .", "option_0": "including", "option_1": "jagged", "option_2": "disclose", "option_3": "attacking", "option_4": "following"}
{"id": 83, "article": "Anglian Water said a 6 ins (15cm) main had burst at about 12:45 GMT on Woodbridge Road East, near the Lattice Barn pub. Its engineers were able to stop the leak onto the road by about 14:30 GMT. Police had to direct traffic around the damaged road, while the water company said it would take two days to fully fix. Antony Innes, from Anglian Water, said: \"Unfortunately, the leak has caused damage to the road surface which will need fixing before the road can be reopened. \"We expect to have things back to normal by Wednesday morning, but will be doing all we can to put things right as soon as possible.\" Mr Innes said the road would have to be closed in both directions from 18:00 GMT until the surface was repaired. He said 30 houses had had their water restored and the rest should be back on later on Monday.", "question": "A burst water pipe has cracked open a main road in Ipswich and left 50 homes without @placeholder .", "option_0": "activity", "option_1": "traffic", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "permission", "option_4": "supplies"}
{"id": 84, "article": "The Solar Probe Plus mission will now carry the name of Eugene Parker, who conducted pioneering work on the \"solar wind\" - a stream of charged particles flowing out from the Sun's \"atmosphere\". The spacecraft will swoop to within four million miles of the Sun's surface, enduring temperatures of about 2,500C. The mission is due to launch in 2018. \"Nasa has never named a spacecraft after a researcher during their lifetime,\" said Thomas Zurbuchen, the head of Nasa's science mission directorate. The change, which comes a few days before Prof Parker's 90th birthday, means that Solar Probe Plus, will now be known as the Parker Solar Probe. Plans for solar 'close encounter' Getting ready for the mission to Hell The mission was originally announced in 2009, and is set to launch next year from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on a Delta IV Heavy rocket. Nasa scientist Nicola Fox, commented: \"I like to call it the coolest, hottest mission under the Sun.\" The spacecraft will travel through part of the Sun's atmosphere, closer to its surface than any manmade object before. The aim is to better understand the upper layer of this atmosphere, known as the corona. It should also expand our knowledge of the origin and evolution of the solar wind. The spacecraft will be protected from the scorching temperatures by a specially developed carbon-composite shield. The European Space Agency (Esa) plans to launch its own mission to the Sun, named Solar Orbiter, in February 2019.", "question": "The US space agency has @placeholder its mission to \" touch the Sun \" after a living scientist .", "option_0": "lost", "option_1": "criticised", "option_2": "renamed", "option_3": "modeled", "option_4": "announced"}
{"id": 85, "article": "The 28-year-old midfielder, who left Saints for Easter Road in 2013, has signed a one-year contract with the Perth club. St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright told his club website: \"When a manager makes any signing he's pleased. \"But the thing about Liam is that I didn't want him to leave in the first place.\" Craig first joined Saints in 2007 on loan from Falkirk but signed a pre-contract agreement to join Hibs shortly before Wright stepped up from his assistant role to take over from the departing Steve Lomas. \"His experience and knowledge of the club is vital and that came into my thinking,\" said Wright. \"He has a wealth of experience but is still a good age and he has shown in training and in the (friendly) game against Real Sociedad that he is as good as ever. \"Also, he chips in with goals from midfield and that is something any team needs.\" Craig suffered relegation with Hibs and played 32 times for the Edinburgh side in the Scottish Championship last term. He said: \"It goes without saying that I'm delighted to come back. \"I have a lot of great memories from the last time and I want to play my part in creating new ones and helping the club continue its successes in recent years, particularly the last two. \"Sometimes you just get the 'right fit' and in the time I've been back training it's almost like I've never been away.\"", "question": "Liam Craig has @placeholder for a second stint with St Johnstone after his summer release by Hibernian .", "option_0": "returned", "option_1": "announced", "option_2": "called", "option_3": "prepare", "option_4": "opted"}
{"id": 86, "article": "Pirates were beaten 17-16 in the British and Irish Cup, their third defeat by the same opponents in the space of five weeks. \"I know we can produce a lot better than that,\" Cattle said. \"To run them close is good, but when you reflect on that performance and what we could have controlled, we could have come away with a win.\" London Irish, who have won all their matches since being relegated from the Premiership last season, lead second-placed Pirates by nine points in their cup pool with only 10 still to play for. But Cattle says there is no reason his side cannot secure one of the three places in the quarter-finals for the best runners-up. \"If we get two bonus point wins from Connacht and Ospreys we'll be in with a shout of a runners-up spot,\" he told BBC Radio Cornwall. \"We're at the midpoint of the season in the Championship, we're five points off third, two points off the top four, so for us we're in a good place. \"Just because results have gone against us in recent weeks doesn't make us a bad team overnight.\"", "question": "Cornish Pirates coach Gavin Cattle says his side @placeholder the chance for a first win over London Irish this season .", "option_0": "had", "option_1": "inspired", "option_2": "wasted", "option_3": "shared", "option_4": "earned"}
{"id": 87, "article": "Peter Willett called Americans a \"baying mob of imbeciles\" in a piece written for a golf magazine. Danny, who apologised on Wednesday and said his brother had said sorry to him, admitted it had been \"tricky to focus\". \"I have to be relatively selfish about it - I appreciate it is his career, but it's my career too,\" he added. \"Peter's a writer, and unfortunately that's not quite panned out great the last few days that he's associated with me. \"If his last name wasn't Willett, nobody would really be making that much of a fuss about it. It was just an unfortunate circumstance.\" Willett, 28, is hopeful that the incident will fade away when play gets under way with Friday's opening foursomes at 13:35 BST. One American fan was clearly heard shouting \"want any cookie dough\" in reference to the offending article during practice on Thursday but Yorkshireman Willett said: \"The fans have been great. There's a few shouts out there but you can expect that. \"There are some pretty rowdy US fans at every Ryder Cup, that's the nature of the beast. We don't mind a bit of heckling - we hope it doesn't go too far. \"Hopefully everyone can kind of draw a line under it and we can just come out here and play some golf. \"I'm not saying it will be completely forgotten but hopefully it's died down a bit more.\" American Patrick Reed, who top-scored on his Ryder Cup debut with 3? points at Gleneagles in 2014 and made shushing gestures to the home crowd in an attempt to fire up the US challenge, has asked fans to \"forgive and forget\". The 26-year-old said: \"The first Ryder Cup is such a special and awesome moment, so to have something distract you from enjoying it is unfortunate. \"I heard that his family was embarrassed, that they were thinking about flying home, and that's something that just can't happen. \"I'm hoping the fans can put it aside and allow the rookies, not only on our side but their side, to enjoy it and allow Danny to enjoy the week. \"It hasn't affected us in any way. I hope that our fans don't just completely annihilate them.\"", "question": "Europe 's Danny Willett has @placeholder his brother 's \" wrong and ill - timed \" article criticising American fans has \" put a downer \" on his first Ryder Cup.", "option_0": "described", "option_1": "conceded", "option_2": "condemned", "option_3": "unveiled", "option_4": "called"}
{"id": 88, "article": "The winner is selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on behalf of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel's estate, and awarded to whoever \"shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses\". Over the years, 10 individuals from Africa have been honoured for their efforts: \"The Nobel Committee for the second time chose a prize-winner who was being persecuted by his own authorities\" \"After having taken the initiative in negotiating a peace treaty between the two countries\" \"The Committee has attached importance to Desmond Tutu's role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa\" \"For their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa\" \"For their work for a better organised and more peaceful world\" \"For her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace\" \"For their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way\" \"For their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work\" \"For its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.\" Find out more", "question": "The Nobel Peace Prize , first awarded in 1901 , has this year gone to four civil @placeholder groups in Tunisia .", "option_0": "war", "option_1": "conditions", "option_2": "society", "option_3": "defense", "option_4": "results"}
{"id": 89, "article": "The vulnerability might leave users open to stalking, harassment or persecution, said the researchers. By spoofing requests to the servers behind the apps, researchers were able to track people as they moved around during the day. One app maker has fixed the loopholes in some nations but most users are still at risk, they warned. The location-leaking vulnerabilities were found by Colby Moore and Patrick Wardle from cybersecurity firm Synack. The pair focused most of their attention on gay dating app Grindr but said other dating apps were vulnerable in the same way. They found that they could exploit a feature of Grindr that tells users how far away they are from other people who have signed up to use the service and share where they are. The app calls on several different sources of data to provide very precise measurements of this distance. To exploit the loophole the researchers sent several requests to servers behind Grindr, each one appearing to come from a different location. This let them get multiple estimates of a target's distance from these separate places. This made it possible to calculate a person's exact location by triangulation. In a presentation at the Shmoocon conference, Mr Colby showed how he was able to use the loophole to map all Grindr users in San Francisco's Bay Area and those at the Sochi winter Olympics. Correlating this location data with information from social media sites would make it easy to find out someone's identity, he said. While exploiting the loophole was not straightforward, said the researchers, there was evidence that it was being abused in Egypt to harass some dating app users. He said Synack had told Grindr about the vulnerability which prompted the firm to update versions of its app available in nations where homosexuality is illegal or which have a history of violence against gay people. It added that it had made it easy for people to stop sharing their location if they were worried about how it could be abused. In a blogpost published soon after it was told about the problem, Grindr said that it had no plans to change the location finding system in nations where it was used because it was a \"core function\" of the service rather than a security flaw. As a result, Mr Moore told tech news site Ars Technica, the problem still existed for Grindr users outside nations where location sharing was turned off. \"We were able to replicate this attack multiple times on willing participants without fail,\" he said. He said Grindr could make it much harder to exploit the bug by checking where people were making location requests from and stopping those that were obviously spoofed. In addition, he said, the firm could make the location data less precise to help obscure people's locations.", "question": "Many mobile dating apps can be @placeholder to expose the exact location of users , warn security experts .", "option_0": "installed", "option_1": "hacked", "option_2": "sought", "option_3": "linked", "option_4": "designed"}
{"id": 90, "article": "Ecce Homo earned the nickname 'Monkey Christ' after Cecilia Gimenez attempted to restore it. Officials in the town of Borja in northeast Spain say it has drawn more than 40,000 visitors and raised more than 50,000 Euros for charity. Gimenez and the local council are also set to sign a merchandising deal. The fresco had held pride of place in the Sanctuary of Mercy Church near Zaragoza for more than 100 years. Cultural officials said she had the best intentions and hoped it could be properly restored. But officials say it is not now possible to restore the painting's original look. Since then 81-year-old Gimenez had also her own art exhibited. The fresco depicts Christ with a crown of thorns in a style known as \"Ecce Homo\" (Behold the Man). Amid last year's ridicule, some dubbed it \"Ecce Mono\" - Behold the Monkey.", "question": "A Spanish fresco that made headlines around the world after its restoration was botched by an elderly parishioner has had a change in @placeholder .", "option_0": "fortune", "option_1": "form", "option_2": "hands", "option_3": "order", "option_4": "weight"}
{"id": 91, "article": "William Dawson came from Boston in Lincolnshire and was the eldest of four children. His father had drowned at sea in 1898 when he was 10 years old and as soon as he left school, Dawson went to work to support the family. He found employment with a shipping company but had an interest in engines. In early 1916 he answered an advert in Motor Cycle magazine, in which the Motor Machine Gun Service (MMGS) asked for mechanically-minded recruits for intriguingly vague Army service. By May he found himself transferred to the \"Heavy Section\" of the MMGS. A few days later Dawson was locked into a training ground in Suffolk being given \"a very serious talk explaining that the new project was so very very secret that he could give no details but that it was most important\". \"The secret camp was very large, roughly circular and some three or four miles across. The perimeter was guarded day and night by 500 or more reservists fully armed with rifles and ammunition,\" he wrote years later. \"Early one morning just after daylight we were awakened by a rumbling and rattling with sounds of motor engines. \"In great excitement everybody rushed out of tents, just as they had slept, and there they were, the first of the tanks, passing our tents to the practice driving ground which we had prepared.\" Describing the appearance as \"extraordinary\", he added: \"We immediately started to learn its mechanism and engine and commenced driving it round the course of three to four feet high obstructions.\" The idea of armoured fighting vehicles had been around since Leonardo da Vinci but at the outbreak of World War One, practical battlefield machines were for most soldiers scarcely more than science fiction. But as the fighting in France and Belgium bogged down into trench warfare, the concept gained supporters. Having seen conditions on the Western Front as an official Army correspondent, Col Ernest Swinton was in a position to push for bulletproof tractors to crush wire and cross trenches. He managed to attract support from Winston Churchill. then First Lord of the Admiralty. A \"Landships\" committee was formed in early 1915. A machinery company in Lincoln was commissioned to build prototypes. with much of the design work done in a local hotel room. Tanks went from science fiction to steel fact in the space of six months. In late 1915 an 8m (26ft) long, 28-ton machine crossed a dummy trench system at Hatfield in Hertfordshire. Lord Kitchener, the Minister of War, felt it was \"a toy\" and \"without serious military value\" but a representative of Commander in Chief Douglas Haig simply said: \"How soon can we have them?\" By then planning for the Somme offensive was under way. Despite high hopes, the terrible losses of the first day and continued bloody fighting meant the need for a new weapon was greater than ever. As with the machines themselves, an entirely new part of the Army, for an entirely new type of war, was thrown together in a matter of months. Formed in March 1916 the Heavy Section Machine Gun Corps was commanded by Col Swinton. Suffolk's Elveden Camp hosted more than 500 men to crew about 50 tanks. Rushed into service, men and machines were far from battle ready. Dawson said: \"Our commander, Second Lieutenant Macpherson, was a fine and likeable young fellow but he like us had never been in an actual battlefield or in action before. \"The briefing and instructions regarding objectives were quite inadequate.\" Basil Henriques was from another part of the social scale. Educated at Harrow and Oxford, he was appointed a lieutenant in April 1916, aged 25, and made a tank commander. But the same lack of training dogged him. He said: \"We had no training with the infantry, even at home, and the infantry with whom we had to fight had never heard of us until they actually saw us in battle.\" By the time he arrived in France he had only worked with his crew once and had not used the guns on their machine. One thing was clear to everyone: tanks were hellish to use. The crew of eight was in a single compartment dominated by a huge engine. Tanks had no suspension and limited views outside. Every journey was deafeningly noisy, fume-filled and batteringly rough. They were at the limits of technology. Engines were unreliable, armour was thin, tactics were guesswork. Communication was mostly by hand signal and pigeon. And that was before anyone started shooting. On 15 September 1916, the shooting would start. Almost every one of the 50 or so available tanks would be used to try to capture the village of Courcelette. Early indications were not good. Thanks to breakdowns, only 31 machines reached the start line. The reaction of the German defenders to tanks varied. One trench garrison simply fled. Prisoners interviewed afterwards gave the impression that \"German soldiers regarded them with some sort of superstitious terror.... till daylight disclosed their true nature.\" Mostly the tanks were attacked with anything and everything. Machine guns, pistols, grenades and artillery. Dawson recalled his machine blundered about the battlefield before meeting another of the new British tanks. \"Both it and ourselves came up against machine gun fire with armour-piercing bullets and while we had quite a few holes I counted upwards of 40 in the other tank.\" The commander, Macpherson, left the tank to report to his superiors and was killed. Henriques in tank C22 had also moved into the fight: \"Squashing dead Germans as we went. We could not steer properly and kept losing the (guide) tape.\" Guns blazed at the tank and he had to peer through a narrow glass slit in an attempt to see the enemy. He said: \"A smash against my flap in front caused splinters to come in and the blood to pour down my face. Then our prism glass broke to pieces, then another smash, I think it must have been a bomb right in my face.\" With a tank full of injured men, Henriques withdrew. Not everyone was so lucky. Cyril Coles, who was born in Canford, Dorset in 1893, enlisted in the Army in February 1916 and was a tank gunner in France by August. Coles was in tank D15. Supposed to be one of three armoured vehicles, the others became stuck in shell holes before crossing the start line. D15 had reached the first German trench when it was hit be artillery fire. The official history of the battle states: \"The commander and his crew abandoned the burning tank but two of the men were then shot and killed and the others wounded.\" Coles was one of the dead. Both men were buried beside the wrecked machine. Staff at the Tank Museum researching the details of Coles' life believe he was one of the very first tank men to be killed in action. The badly cratered ground, combined with the enemy onslaught, devastated the tanks. About 12 machines had punched deep into the enemy defences but most of these were damaged. Only a few were still operational the next day. Henriques had to have glass splinters removed from his face by medics. One piece was large enough to be mounted as a \"stone\" in a gold ring, which he gave to his wife as a memento of his brush with mortal danger. The first fight of the tanks would be named the battle of Flers-Courcelette and, by the standards of the Somme campaign, it was a success. The new machines, though badly flawed, had shown potential. William Dawson and Basil Henriques survived the battle and the war. They saw the tank develop into an ever more effective part of the Army, playing an important role in bringing victory in November 1918. David Willey, curator at the Tank Museum, said: \"The tanks had limited success on that first day in military terms, however their success in terms of psychology shouldn't be underestimated. \"The German troops were terrified of these machines and for the British, the tanks were a huge morale boost. \"This was a British invention, designed to save soldiers' lives, and it gave people hope, both on the front line and back at home.\"", "question": "The tank , which would go on to dominate 20th Century warfare , first stormed on to the shattered battlefields of the Somme 100 years ago . Rushed into battle by desperate generals with barely any testing , its debut was a messy experiment with questionable results . A select @placeholder of young men were the first to feel its terrible influence and have their lives changed by it .", "option_0": "head", "option_1": "series", "option_2": "height", "option_3": "generation", "option_4": "group"}
{"id": 92, "article": "Stephen Kigoma was raped during the conflict in his home country, the Democratic Republic of Congo. He described his ordeal in an interview with the BBC's Alice Muthengi, calling for more survivors to come forward. \"I hid that I was a male rape survivor. I couldn't open up - it's a taboo,\" he said. \"As a man, I can't cry. People will tell you that you are a coward, you are weak, you are stupid.\" The rape took place when men attacked Stephen's home in Beni, a city in north-eastern DR Congo. \"They killed my father. Three men raped me, and they said: 'You are a man, how are you going to say you were raped?' \"It's a weapon they use to make you silent.\" After fleeing to Uganda in 2011, Stephen got medical help - but only after a physiotherapist treating him for a back problem realised there was more to his injuries. He was taken to see a doctor treating survivors of sexual violence, where he was the only man in the ward. \"I felt undermined. I was in a land I didn't belong to, having to explain to the doctor how it happened. That was my fear.\" Stephen was able to get counselling through the Refugee Law Project, an NGO in Uganda's capital, Kampala, where he was one of six men speaking about their ordeal. But they're far from being the only ones. The Refugee Law Project, which has investigated male rape in DR Congo, has also published a report on sexual violence among South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda. It found that more than 20% of women reported being raped - compared to just 4% of men. \"The main reason that fewer men come forward is that people assume they should be invulnerable, they should fight back. They have allowed it so they must be homosexual,\" Dr Chris Dolan, director of the organisation, told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme. Legal challenges pose a problem when it comes to men reporting rape, he added. \"In the Rome Statute [which established the International Criminal Court] you have a definition of rape that is wide enough to include women and men, but in most domestic legislation, the definition of rape involves the penetration of the vagina by the penis. That means if a man comes forward, they'll be told it wasn't rape, it was sexual assault. \"There's the problem of criminalisation of same-sex activity - it revolves around penetration of the male body, not around consent or lack of consent.\" In 2016, Uganda took in more refugees than any other country in the world, and has been praised for having some of the world's most welcoming policies towards them. But for male rape survivors like Stephen, life there can be tough. Homosexual acts are illegal in Uganda, and going to the police to report rape is not always an option. \"When I asked the police, they said that if it has anything to do with penetration between a man and a man, it is gay,\" he said. \"If it happens to a woman, we listen to them, treat them, care and listen to them - give them a voice. But what happens to men?\"", "question": "\" If I talked about it , I would have been separated from the people . Even those who treated me would not have @placeholder my hands . \"", "option_0": "touched", "option_1": "renewed", "option_2": "lost", "option_3": "fallen", "option_4": "shaken"}
{"id": 93, "article": "In a joint letter to the Observer, they urge ministers to reconsider the plans. The LGA says the plan to remove all schools from council control has caused \"enormous concern\" . But, on Saturday, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan insisted there was \"no reverse gear\" on the changes. Speaking at the NASUWT teacher union conference in Birmingham, Ms Morgan said she would not row back on the government's reform agenda, saying the plans would put control over schools into the hands of heads and teachers. But this did not deter the National Union of Teachers, gathering for its annual conference in Brighton, voting for a ballot for a one-day strike next term over the government's plans. The Observer letter, signed by Conservative councillors as well as those from opposition parties, says: \"There is no evidence that academies perform better than council maintained schools. \"Where a school is failing, there is no question that action must be taken - but converting every school, regardless of performance, to an academy will not tackle those issues.\" It goes on: \"Schools value the option to become academies - and the support they receive from their local councils to do so - where they believe this is in the best interests of their students and communities. \"Forcing the change upon every school goes against, in many cases, what parents and teachers want, and there will be a large financial implication for local authorities at a time when communities are already suffering the impact of significant budget cuts.\" The councillors continue: \"We urge the government to listen to the concerns of families, teachers, unions, politicians and experts and rethink the proposals in the White Paper.\" The letter is signed by Cllr David Hodge, Leader of the Conservative Group, Cllr Nick Forbes, Leader of the Labour Group, Cllr Marianne Overton, Leader of the Independent Group and Cllr Gerald Vernon-Jackson, Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group.", "question": "Leaders of the Conservative , Labour and Liberal Democrat groups in the Local Government Association have @placeholder to oppose plans to force all English schools to become academies .", "option_0": "combined", "option_1": "opposed", "option_2": "agreed", "option_3": "vowed", "option_4": "started"}
{"id": 94, "article": "It will succeed the ¡ê425m Superfast Cymru project, which aims to reach 96% of premises by the end of 2017. Ministers hope to get ¡ê20m in EU aid, and raise ¡ê37m by investing their share of BT's profits from new customers. Skills and Science Minister Julie James said: \"We know there is more to do ... to bring faster broadband to those final hard-to-reach areas.\" Welsh Conservative economy spokesman Russell George welcomed the announcement, after AMs criticised the roll-out in a Tory-led Senedd debate on Wednesday. \"Recent history reveals a record of over-promising and under-delivering,\" he said. \"Many communities are either still waiting for access or have not been incentivised to use a service that's now available to them. \"It's vital that lessons are learned, and that this money is used effectively to improve broadband connectivity across Wales.\" During the debate, Plaid Cymru AM Dai Lloyd criticised the take-up rate, saying fewer than a third of premises capable of receiving the service had signed up for it.", "question": "Up to ¡ê 80 m will be spent to ensure every @placeholder in Wales can access superfast broadband in a new scheme .", "option_0": "property", "option_1": "life", "option_2": "attitudes", "option_3": "citizen", "option_4": "groups"}
{"id": 95, "article": "Assistant general secretary Simon Weller said it was hoping to reopen talks with managers, but the mandate for a strike ballot was still valid. \"We could put strike dates on if we wish but it is not where we want to be. \"I see no reason why we can't achieve a negotiated settlement that's acceptable to all our members,\" he told the BBC. Aslef has been in dispute with Southern's parent company, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), over driver-only operated (DOO) trains. Live: More on this story and other news from Sussex Why is there a Southern rail strike? The dispute centres on Southern's decision to turn guards into on-board supervisors. In this role they would no longer be responsible for opening and closing carriage doors - this duty would become the responsibility of the driver. Union members rejected an agreement on Thursday, negotiated by their leaders with the help of the TUC, which would have enabled Southern to run trains without a guard or on-board supervisor under certain circumstances. Mr Weller said drivers were generally \"very unhappy with the way that they felt this had been steam-rollered through\". He conceded: \"Obviously we got it wrong. We're a democratic organisation... and our members had a clear view on it. \"We got it wrong and I don't see that as a big problem... we just have to get it right again.\" On Thursday, GTR said it was \"saddened and hugely disappointed\" with the ballot result and would be seeking to meet the union as soon as possible. The dispute began in April when conductors - who are members of the RMT union - first took industrial action. Aslef members then walked out over the plans in December, leading to the cancellation of all Southern services. The RMT held separate talks with Southern managers earlier this week, which broke down without an agreement after three hours. On Wednesday, it announced further industrial action, saying conductors would walk out for 24 hours next Wednesday.", "question": "Further strike action by drivers on Southern rail remains a possibility after union members rejected a @placeholder to end their dispute , Aslef has said .", "option_0": "halt", "option_1": "scheme", "option_2": "deal", "option_3": "decision", "option_4": "petition"}
{"id": 96, "article": "The People's Energy promises to return profits to its customers in a more transparent, ethical way of working. However, energy analysts warn it is a difficult market and other small suppliers have failed in the past. David Pike and Karin Sode, from Gullane, said the firm would give 75% of profits back to customers. One year on after being set up with support from crowdfunding, the People's Energy Company has received its licence from Ofgem. It can start registering customers now to supply gas and electricity across Britain from August. One energy analyst has warned there are risks especially when wholesale energy prices rise. Mr Sode, said: \"The vision for People's Energy is to have over one million customers, all of whom are in control of their gas and electricity and getting a percentage of the company's profits back. \"Our company is about putting trust back into the market, currently there is very little. We want our customers to know that we have their best interests at heart and that with us they will have a say in how the company is run.\" Mrs Sode said: \"Energy comes from natural resources that should belong to us all, not private entities. We are absolutely passionate about returning ownership of this natural resource to consumers.\" To date the duo has raised over ?¡ê450,000 on Crowdfunder from the pledges of 2,000 supporters. People's Energy will start providing energy from the beginning of August. David Hunter, Schneider Electric director of market studies, said: \"When the wholesale markets are volatile particularly when they start to rise after a period of decreases then there have been cases of independent suppliers like GB Energy supply going to the wall and that ultimately means you need to find a new supplier. \"So you should be aware of the risks, especially if your talking about getting free shares in the company.\"", "question": "An East Lothian couple who , tired of the Big Six energy providers , set up their own gas and electricity company have begun @placeholder up customers .", "option_0": "broken", "option_1": "drawn", "option_2": "rounding", "option_3": "blown", "option_4": "signing"}
{"id": 97, "article": "At the same event in 2013, three people were killed and 260 injured when two bombs exploded near the finish line. The sportswear giant admitted its choice of words had been \"insensitive\" and said it was \"incredibly sorry\" for sending the document. At least two survivors from the attack four years ago are known to have participated in this year's race. Adidas, the official sponsor of the Boston Marathon, sent out the marketing email which contained the subject line, \"Congrats, you survived the Boston Marathon!\" It is thought all of the runners who signed up for the 26.2 mile (42km) race received the document. It did not take long for the email to be shared via social media where it was widely criticised. In a statement, Adidas said the annual race \"is one of the most inspirational sporting events in the world\" and a reminder \"of the hope and resiliency of the running community\". Security checks were carried out before this year's race with police sniffer dogs and armed officers stationed throughout the course. In 2015, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty of being behind the attacks and was sentenced to the death penalty. Tsarnaev and his elder brother, Tamerlan, planted bombs close to the finish line. The older brother was killed in a shootout with police. Dzhokar Tsarnaev, then 19, fled the same shootout but was captured a day later, after being found hiding in a boat in the backyard of a house nearby. The brothers had been living in the Massachusetts town of Cambridge, home of the prestigious Harvard University.", "question": "Adidas has apologised for sending an email @placeholder runners who had \" survived \" the 2017 Boston Marathon .", "option_0": "branch", "option_1": "estimated", "option_2": "wielding", "option_3": "warning", "option_4": "praising"}
{"id": 98, "article": "Soviet cosmonauts went into space carrying a triple barrel TP-82 capable of 40 rounds. It begs the question: \"What were they planning to shoot?\" The gun, made in the shape of a large pistol, had two shotgun barrels side by side at the top and a rifled barrel underneath. It had more than just firing capability - the pistol grip was slotted at the bottom where a specially-designed machete was stashed. Ammunition included shells with a red signal flare. As it happens, the arsenal was not destined to see off marauding space-pirates, but was deemed necessary after 1965, when cosmonauts landing on Earth were stranded in the Ural Mountains and needed to keep bears and wolves at bay. To be fair, not just any old dirt. It was dirt from the pitcher's mound at the Yankee Stadium in New York City. Astronaut and Yankees fan Garrett Reisman took a vial of it with him on board the space shuttle Endeavour in 2008. In April that year, he threw a ceremonial first pitch of a Yankees game from the International Space Station. Travelling at 17,500mph (about 28,000km/h), it was what aficionados of the game call \"a fast ball\". Ronald McNair became the first person to play a musical instrument in outer space, when he tootled on his saxophone on board the Challenger in 1984. Zero gravity allowed him to float around while playing his instrument, like a jazzy bee. Although possibly not the first thing that springs to mind when considering what to despatch into space, NASA sent sea urchin sperm and eggs. It turned out sperm does not like being whirled around in microgravity (mG), and small changes in gravitational forces affect the ability of sperm to fertilize eggs. A 2001 report concluded that although human reproduction in space was \"not an immediate concern, sperm function in mG is of importance for the production of food, such as fish, during extended space flight\". A favourite salad staple of the middle classes, rocket is to be sent into space with Tim Peake. (His Stoke City flag - which he agreed to take into space after a campaign by a lifelong Potters fan was one of the items sent in a capsule ahead of the astronaut on 3 December.) Seeds of the appropriately named plant will be flown to the International Space Station and, after several months on board, they will return to Earth and be sent to thousands of UK schools. The aim is to get school children involved in space biology. And salad. Rumours that quinoa, extra-virgin olive oil and artisan bread will be next on the list are so far unsubstantiated. Space is believed to be one of the few places in the universe not bespattered with international coffee shop chains, so a specially designed coffee machine was sent to the Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. She has to drink her coffee in a bag through a straw to stop it floating around. The ashes of Star Trek actor James Doohan, who died aged 85, were sent into space at his request following those of series creator Gene Roddenberry. If you fancy sending the ashes of a loved one into space - what is being termed as a \"space burial\" - various companies offer the service. It costs about ¡ê10,000 to send a gram of ashes into deep space for eternity. The price drops to about ¡ê900 if you send them for a quick whizz into zero gravity and back. Ardbeg Distillery sent unmatured malt whisky into space in 2011 to study the effect of near-zero gravity on flavour. Another vial of the same whisky was kept at the distillery for comparison - and experts reported the space samples tasted and smelled \"noticeably different\". It is to be hoped the whisky samples were not confused with the similarly-coloured recycled urine samples astronauts drink - although that would explain the difference in flavour and odour. A tandoori lamb chop was sent into space in 2014 - not a faddy new way of cooking but an elaborate publicity stunt by author Nikesh Shukla to promote his book Meatscape. The chop was helpfully attached to a fork, but unhelpfully there was no knife. Masterchef contestants should take note - it looked a little dry. A bunch of students proved they certainly do not have too much time on their hands - by tying a rubber duck to a weather balloon and sending it into space. Astroduck's flight was organised by the at the University of York's astronomy society as a way of encouraging people to get involved in scientific research. It reached a height of approximately 19 miles (30km) before parachuting back to earth and becoming lost on the North York Moors. Tickets for the Arsenal v Aston Villa match-up at Wembley in May 2015 fell from the sky into the hands of Gunners fan George Lamb. The FA launched a meteorological balloon with the tickets attached from the north-west London stadium \"to finish the off-pitch adventure\" leading to an \"out-of-this-world match\". Arsenal won an extremely one-sided encounter 4-0. Buzz Aldrin, an elder at his Presbyterian Church in Texas, took a consecrated Communion wafer and a small vial of Communion wine with him when he visited the Moon. In a 1970 edition of faith magazine Guideposts he said: \"I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. \"In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were Communion elements.\"", "question": "When British astronaut Tim Peake blasts off from the International Space Station later this month , one of his few worldly - and rather bizarre - possessions will be a Stoke City flag . BBC News takes a look at some of the other oddities - the weird and wonderful @placeholder that have journeyed into space .", "option_0": "grace", "option_1": "aliens", "option_2": "wreckage", "option_3": "countries", "option_4": "objects"}
{"id": 99, "article": "South Wales Police was called to Trem-Y-Cwm House flats in Beddau, Rhondda Cynon Taff, at about 13:00 GMT on Tuesday. The man, who has not been identified, was wrapped up but not buried. Det Supt Paul Hurley said the \"priority\" was to identify the man. A post-mortem examination will be carried out on Wednesday to determine the cause of death. Det Supt Hurley added: \"We would appeal for anyone who has concerns for the welfare of a male friend, relative or neighbour who has, uncharacteristically, not been seen or heard from in a number of weeks to get in touch with us.\" Police are continuing house-to-house inquiries and a cordon outside flats 54 to 57 remains in place. Forensic officers have been to the scene with a white police tent erected at the side of the flats. Nearby residents said they were shocked by the news. Mother-of-two Andrea Phillips, 61, said: \"Everyone is stunned to hear there's been a murder. A lot of elderly and disabled people live in those flats. God forbid it's someone from there. \"It's awful news to hear really. It's a shock. I don't think it's quite sunk in yet.\" An elderly woman living in a flat nearby, who did not want to be named, said:  \"It's awful to look out of my window and to think someone's body has been lying there.\"", "question": "Human remains which @placeholder the launch of a murder probe were found wrapped in plastic in the garden of a block of flats , police have revealed .", "option_0": "escaped", "option_1": "parts", "option_2": "sparked", "option_3": "threatens", "option_4": "claimed"}
{"id": 100, "article": "The England captain apologised over \"inappropriate\" pictures of him at a wedding at the England team hotel during the international break. Rooney said his treatment showed \"a lack of respect\". \"It feels as if the media are trying to write my obituary and I won't let that happen,\" he added. Speaking after he came off the bench for Manchester United in their draw with Arsenal at Old Trafford on Saturday, the 31-year-old claimed: \"What's been going on is disgraceful. \"I love playing for my country and I am proud of my achievements to date - but I have not finished yet.\" Media playback is not supported on this device The Sun published images on Monday which it said showed Rooney drunk at a party late on Saturday night - a day after England's World Cup qualifying win over Scotland. England players are to be banned by the Football Association from having nights out while on international duty. The FA is looking into claims several players were out until late on the same night Saturday night - less than three days before they drew 2-2 with Spain in a friendly. Speaking on Match of the Day, former England striker Ian Wright said: \"I'm a big fan of Wayne's and he's been getting this for the past three or four years. It has been building and building. \"I'm pleased he's coming out with something like this. It is like he is fighting back. Fight back Wayne.\" Ex-England captain Alan Shearer added: \"All he has ever been is committed and available. If he was given the night off and he chose to stay in the hotel and have a few drinks then I don't think there's anything wrong with that. \"If he was told to go to bed by the manager and chose not to then he has undermined the manager and has to face the consequences.\" Stoke midfielder and Scotland international Charlie Adam said on MOTD 2 Extra: \"I totally agree with Rooney, he is spot on. He is the captain of his country and been one of the top players for a number of years. OK, he has had a drink, so what? \"He has been in the hotel and tried to do the right thing because he is a professional. England staff were there too. \"We have all been there on an international. We would meet up on a Sunday and we would have a one or two drinks before bed because we have all been playing at the weekend. It would never happen in the week. They have had a game, it is finished, they got back to the hotel and had a couple of drinks. What is wrong with that?\"", "question": "Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney says reaction to his late - night @placeholder on England duty has been \" disgraceful \" and has vowed he is \" not finished yet \" .", "option_0": "form", "option_1": "conduct", "option_2": "spell", "option_3": "prop", "option_4": "impact"}
{"id": 101, "article": "Research published in the journal Nature has shown that vaccinated monkeys can clear Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) infection from their bodies. It was effective in nine of the 16 monkeys that were inoculated. The US scientists say they now want to use a similar approach to test a vaccine for HIV in humans. Prof Louis Picker, from the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute at Oregon Health and Science University, said: \"It's always tough to claim eradication - there could always be a cell which we didn't analyse that has the virus in it. But for the most part, with very stringent criteria... there was no virus left in the body of these monkeys.\" The research team looked at an aggressive form of virus called SIVmac239, which is up to 100 times more deadly than HIV. Infected monkeys usually die within two years, but in some inoculated primates the virus did not take hold. The vaccine is based on another virus called cytomegalovirus (CMV), which belongs to the herpes family. It used the infectious power of CMV to sweep throughout the body. But instead of causing disease, it has been modified to spur the immune system into action to fight off the SIV molecules. \"It maintains an armed force, that patrols all the tissues of the body, all the time, indefinitely,\" explained Prof Picker. The researchers gave rhesus macaque monkeys the vaccine, and then exposed them to SIV. They found that at first the infection began to establish and spread. But then the monkeys' bodies started to respond, searching out and destroying all signs of the virus. Of the monkeys that successfully responded to the vaccine, they were still clear of infection between one-and-a-half and three years later. Prof Picker said his team was still trying to work out why the vaccination worked in only about half of the monkeys. \"It could be the fact that SIV is so pathogenic that this is the best you are ever going to get. \"There is a battle going on, and half the time the vaccine wins and half the time it doesn't,\" he said. The researchers are now testing the vaccine to see if it can be used after SIV exposure to treat and potentially cure infected monkeys. They also want to see if the technique could work in humans. Prof Picker said: \"In order to make a human version we have to make sure it is absolutely safe. \"We have now engineered a CMV virus which generates the same immune response but has been attenuated [modified to lose its virulence] to the point where we think it is unequivocally safe.\" This would first have to pass through the regulatory authorities, but if it does, he said he hoped to start the first clinical trials in humans in the next two years. Commenting on the research, Dr Andrew Freedman, from Cardiff University School of Medicine, said: \"This suggests that prophylactic vaccines -  vaccines designed to prevent infection - using CMV vectors may be a promising approach for HIV. \"While they may not prevent the initial infection, they might lead to subsequent clearance, rather than the establishment of chronic infection.\"", "question": "A vaccine for the monkey @placeholder of HIV appears to eradicate the virus , a study suggests .", "option_0": "equivalent", "option_1": "island", "option_2": "amount", "option_3": "language", "option_4": "strains"}
{"id": 102, "article": "The young woman was attacked in the car park of a fast food outlet after she had defended two teenage girls who were reportedly being harassed. She fell into a coma and died of her injuries on her 23rd birthday. Sanel Masovic told the court he was very sorry for what he had done. \"I never thought she would die,\" he said. Mr Masovic is on trial in a juvenile court, accused of bodily harm with fatal consequences. On Friday he told the court he had slapped her round the head and she fell. \"I can't imagine the pain and suffering I inflicted on her family,\" he said. Following her death Tugce Albayrak - who was of Turkish descent - was praised as a role model by German President Joachim Gauck.", "question": "The 18 - year - old accused of causing the death of student teacher Tugce Albayrak in 2014 has @placeholder at his trial in Darmstadt as he admitted hitting her .", "option_0": "cried", "option_1": "retired", "option_2": "fallen", "option_3": "resigned", "option_4": "arrived"}
{"id": 103, "article": "BBC Sport takes a look at some of the main talking points from the 28 ties. After seven straight defeats in League One, the pressure was already on Barnsley boss Lee Johnson. So an FA Cup first-round tie at out-of-form National League side Altrincham was surely an ideal opportunity for the Tykes to find that long-awaited victory? It was not to be as Lee Sinnott's men, who sit 45 places below the Tykes in the league pyramid, ran out 1-0 winners thanks to Damian Reeves' early second-half strike. Media playback is not supported on this device The goal was so quick, in fact, that Sinnott missed it as he had not returned to his seat. \"This club has had a rich history in this competition over the years,\" Sinnott said. \"It's been a bit barren over the last few years so it's nice to give something back to our fans and show people that this club is alive and kicking.\" Elsewhere, there were also shocks as National League side Eastleigh beat League One Crewe, and National League leaders Forest Green Rovers won at League Two AFC Wimbledon. Having reached the FA Cup first round for the first time since 2009, things did not quite go to plan for Isthmian League Premier Division side Staines Town at Leyton Orient. Nicky Forster's team found themselves 3-0 down inside the opening 13 minutes before they were eventually beaten 6-1 at the Matchroom Stadium. The one bright spot for Staines saw 38-year-old centre back Darren Purse grab a goal against his former side before half-time, but it was too little too late for the Swans. If you are ever lost and need directions - you would do well to come across Wealdstone striker Jefferson Louis. The once-capped Dominica international has played for no less than 31 clubs in all corners of the country since making his debut for Risborough Rangers in the late 1990s. Media playback is not supported on this device The 36-year-old was on the scoresheet for the National League South club on Saturday with a first-half equaliser from the penalty spot against League One Colchester United. Wealdstone were briefly ahead through Bradley Hudson-Odoi, but Tony Humes' U's came from behind to run out 6-2 winners as Macauley Bonne netted four goals. Hopefully Louis' strike will have earned him a bit more time at the Ruislip-based club! The FA Cup has not been a happy hunting ground for Portsmouth since Kanu's solitary goal saw them beat Cardiff to lift the trophy in 2008. Media playback is not supported on this device But the hoodoo of no first-round win since 2010 was finally broken with a 2-1 victory over National League side Macclesfield at Fratton Park thanks to Adam McGurk's two goals. Not that Pompey boss Paul Cook was too impressed with his side's performance. \"We weren't at it today - and you've seen in last night's cup tie [Salford v Notts County] what happens when you're not at it,\" Cook told BBC Radio Solent. \"That's why teams will always continually have what people will call 'cup shocks', but the reality is they're not really shocks - we should expect them.\" It was a different story for 2013 winners Wigan who were thumped 4-0 at fellow League One side Bury. Meanwhile, four-time FA Cup winners Sheffield United ran out comfortable 3-0 winners over National League North side Worcester City at Bramall Lane. Oldham's Jamaican striker Ricardo Fuller declined an opportunity to meet up with his pal and sprinting legend Usain Bolt back in his homeland to play in his side's first-round match at Mansfield. However, the 36-year-old probably wishes he had returned home - he was hauled off after 56 minutes in the goalless draw at Field Mill. Before the game, Fuller told the club website: \"I'm looking forward to the game. \"We know it will be a good battle which is good.\" A penny for his thoughts after the match in a rainy Nottinghamshire?", "question": "Three non-league sides beating league opponents , two clubs striking half - a- dozen goals and contrasting @placeholder for recent FA Cup winners were all part of an exhilarating Saturday afternoon of first - round action .", "option_0": "fortunes", "option_1": "action", "option_2": "bench", "option_3": "defeats", "option_4": "colours"}
{"id": 104, "article": "Velma Aiken told the BBC it was a good feeling to know that Kamiyah Mobley was \"all right and looking good\". Ms Mobley was abducted in July 1998 from a hospital in Jacksonville, in the US state of Florida. DNA tests confirmed her identity. The woman she thought was her mother was charged with kidnapping. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said Ms Mobley appeared in good health, a \"normal 18-year-old woman\". The office said it had acted on 2,500 tips since the abduction and received one last year to @MissingKids that eventually broke the case. It showed the original composite images released at the time of the kidnapping, along with a photograph of Gloria Williams, 51, who was arrested on Friday morning at her home in Walterboro, South Carolina, 200 miles (300km) from Jacksonville. Ms Aiken said the family had a conversation with her granddaughter, in which they introduced themselves and Ms Mobley said she would go to see them. \"All I know are tears of joy and happiness and a good feeling, knowing that she's all right and looking good,\" Ms Aiken said. The grandmother added that she always felt that her granddaughter was alive and that whoever she was with was taking care of her. \"We just kept praying, hoping and believing,\" she said. The baby was only eight hours old when she was taken by a woman posing as a health care worker at the University Medical Center, now known as UF Health Jacksonville. The woman told Kamiyah's mother, Shanara, that her baby had a fever and needed to be checked. She took the baby out of the room and disappeared. The case brought significant media attention as Shanara tried to locate her child.", "question": "The grandmother of a girl @placeholder more than 18 years ago as a newborn baby has described her \" tears of joy \" at discovering that she is alive and well .", "option_0": "suffered", "option_1": "stolen", "option_2": "lost", "option_3": "carried", "option_4": "killed"}
{"id": 105, "article": "South Gloucestershire Council is spending ?¡ê80,000 on a feasibility study for the junction off Westerleigh Road near Emersons Green. Conservative councillor James Hunt said: \"It would decrease the traffic along the ring road which, especially at rush hour, is at crippling levels.\" Conservatives at the council have lobbied for the junction for 15 years. Campaigners say the ring road between Emersons Green and the M32 gets congested by traffic heading to the M4. If a motorway junction was created at Westerleigh Road it would offer direct access to the M4 and speed up the traffic, supporters of the plan say. Mr Hunt has said this short journey of about two miles (3.2km) can take up to an hour at peak times. \"Emersons Green is a highly condensed area with business and houses and we're expecting that to grow in the next few years. \"We need some investment in infrastructure to take all of the extra traffic, a lot of people will know the ring road in that area is really very, very busy in the mornings and it can take an awfully long time to reach the M4,\" added Mr Hunt. The council rejected a new junction in 2000 in favour of improving public transport and cycling routes. Liberal Democrat councillor Pat Hockey, who is her party's lead member on the planning and transport committee, said: \"If the feasibility says it won't work and the Highways Agency puts up its hands in horror and says we can't cope with any more traffic on the motorway, then we'll have to take notice.\" The feasibility study is expected to take a year to complete.", "question": "A campaign to get a new motorway junction at the M4 in north Bristol has @placeholder funding to explore the idea .", "option_0": "opened", "option_1": "used", "option_2": "begun", "option_3": "secured", "option_4": "joined"}
{"id": 106, "article": "But Mexicans barely noticed the driving rain on Tuesday night as they gathered to watch the US election results come in. There was, initially, a feeling of celebration. A party had been organized on Facebook in the event that Mr Trump lost - thousands were ready to head to the Angel of Independence, an iconic landmark in the centre of the capital, to celebrate his exit. But instead the atmosphere turned funereal. As results started coming in, people drifted away from bars where they had gathered and went home. The feeling was one of shock and disbelief. I have asked several people how they feel and their responses have been similar. \"Hijole,\" they say - the best translation for that really is \"jeez\" or \"gosh\". Then they pause, laugh nervously and say \"Who knows?\" They cannot quite get their heads around it. President Enrique Pena Nieto tweeted on Wednesday morning, congratulating the US for its \"electoral process\". He later said in a press conference that he had congratulated Mr Trump when the two men had had a respectful conversation. He reiterated too that Mexico was ready to work together to help their bilateral relationship, emphasizing how the two countries are friends and allies. But it will hold little weight here. People are still angry that their leader invited Mr Trump to Mexico and gave a man who had been so rude to Mexicans the red carpet treatment. Mr Trump's win will do nothing for President Pena Nieto's already low approval ratings. Mexicans are fuming about the political rhetoric that has come from the Trump camp during the campaign - the references to them being criminals and rapists, the constant talk about illegal immigration. Mexicans working in the US bring back around $25bn (?¡ê20bn) a year in remittances. Mexicans believe they contribute to the US economy and are offended that Mr Trump does not value that. However the threats that the US will build a wall on its southern border and Mexico will pay for it are laughed at here. People don't really think it will happen so it's not a real worry. What does worry Mexicans is the economic pain that could come from a Trump presidency. As the results came in overnight, the peso fell by as much as 13% - the biggest drop in more than 20 years. It has since regained some of its losses but nevertheless the falling peso is a major talking point here. Whether it is the Trump effect or anger over Mr Pena Nieto's leadership, people are fed up with their purchasing power continually falling. But what happens when Mr Trump becomes president and starts implementing changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) as he has promised? These are real threats that worry Mexicans. Finance Minister Jose Antonio Meade and Central Bank Governor Agustin Carstens held a brief press conference early on Wednesday. It was more about reassurance than anything concrete - telling the world that Mexico was financially stable enough to weather the storm. But as one commentator wrote in El Universal newspaper on Wednesday, black clouds hang over the country, especially when it comes to trade. The weather forecast is set to remain gloomy for the next five days, much like the outlook of the average Mexican.", "question": "The weather here in Mexico City @placeholder most people 's mood at the moment - it is miserable , chilly and it feels like winter has arrived .", "option_0": "reflects", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "clouds", "option_3": "promoting", "option_4": "invoked"}
{"id": 107, "article": "The Western Mail newspaper had asked for the total amount paid on severance packages over ¡ê30,000. The paper was told there were 127 staff members made redundant who received more than the specified amount. BBC Cymru Wales said the redundancies will save more than ¡ê146m over nine years from 2008 to 2017. A cap of ¡ê150,000 has been introduced on all future payments. The FOI request comes after controversy over BBC severance payments, including almost ¡ê1m paid to former deputy director general Mark Byford. The Western Mail had also wanted to know the job titles of the staff who received the payments - and how the redundancy amount was calculated. In a letter of response the BBC refused to disclose this information to protect the individuals involved, citing the Data Protection Act 1998. The broadcaster said the decision to reduce the workforce was taken by the BBC Executive following two licence fee settlements agreed with the UK government in 2007 and 2010. It added that savings were being made under two restructuring schemes - Continuous Improvement and Delivering Quality First. A BBC Cymru Wales spokesperson said: \"Like the rest of the BBC, BBC Cymru Wales has faced significant savings targets over the last few years. \"In that context, these redundancies will have delivered more than ¡ê146m of savings in the nine years from 2008 to 2017 and a cap of ¡ê150k has been introduced on all future severance payments.\" Matthew Sinclair, the chief executive of the campaign group TaxPayers' Alliance said \"overly generous pay-offs\" run the risk of undermining any savings by the BBC. \"Not only do they add to the bill faced by families but they also divert resources away from where they should be focused - actual programming,\" he said. \"It's vital that the broadcaster is as transparent as possible about payouts and redundancies, so licence fee payers can scrutinise the deals BBC bosses are agreeing to.\"", "question": "BBC Cymru Wales has paid out ¡ê 8.35 m in redundancy packages over the past five years , a Freedom of Information ( FOI ) request has @placeholder .", "option_0": "claimed", "option_1": "suggested", "option_2": "uncovered", "option_3": "announced", "option_4": "stalled"}
{"id": 108, "article": "In May, Selby said Warrington was \"running scared\" after negotiations for a summer bout broke down. \"There's no way I'm ducking him - I want that fight so bad,\" Warrington told BBC Radio Leeds. \"I just want to make sure everything goes perfect, at the end of the year would have been ideal.\" \"The way they came back was they said I ducked the fight. After that I did cancel the wedding a couple of times, we rang the venue and said it's not going to happen because I've got boxing commitments. \"But I sat down with my manager and my dad and they said 'just don't jump to his bait, it will still be there at the end of the year and if he doesn't want it then that's his problem, it's him who's ducking'.\" Selby's last fight was a unanimous points decision win over Eric Hunter in April, his second successful defence of the title he won in May 2015. Leeds fighter Warrington defends his WBC International featherweight belt against Patrick Hyland on 30 July. \"That fight is there to be signed for November now for Lee Selby,\" Warrington's promoter Eddie Hearn said. \"Lee is a wonderful fighter he's looking at some big fights as well and maybe we look at another champion but if we wants that fight we can make that fight.\"", "question": "Josh Warrington has denied @placeholder a fight with IBF world champion Lee Selby and says he postponed his wedding twice to try to arrange one .", "option_0": "avoiding", "option_1": "mocking", "option_2": "following", "option_3": "holding", "option_4": "taking"}
{"id": 109, "article": "The 328ft (100m) Leah and its crew of 10 got into difficulty a mile (1.6km) north east of Stroma at about 07:45. The ship's anchors failed to hold it against the tide and it started drifting. Wick and Thurso lifeboat crews were alerted at about 08:00. The Leah's crew managed to restart the engines and resume their journey to Straumsvik in Iceland. Thurso and Wick lifeboats reached the cargo ship when it was still adrift about two miles (3km) south east of Duncansby Head. The sea conditions were challenging with 6-9ft (2-3m) swell, a force six north-westerly wind and heavy showers. The lifeboat crews were stood down at 10:30.", "question": "Two lifeboats were @placeholder after a cargo ship broke down in the Pentland Firth between Caithness and Orkney .", "option_0": "launched", "option_1": "disrupted", "option_2": "caught", "option_3": "drowned", "option_4": "stranded"}
{"id": 110, "article": "The Bolton boxer insists fasting will not adversely affect his chances if - as has been widely speculated - he faces undefeated triple welterweight world champion Floyd Mayweather in September. Khan insists on training throughout Ramadan - 30 consecutive days of fasting for 17 hours - while eating and drinking only at night. \"The training has changed big time\", the 28-year-old acknowledges. \"After fasting all day I eat late in the evening, go to mosque for my prayers and then hit the gym at midnight to train for about an hour. \"It's extremely tough but the motivation for me is that my opponents are sleeping whilst Amir Khan is training. It's not really something a sportsman should be doing but that's the sacrifices you have to make when you're a Muslim.\" What is Ramadan? Khan, who shot to fame as a 17-year-old by winning a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics, explains why he is confident of being in tip-top condition in time for what would be the biggest fight of his professional career. \"Ramadan ends on 17 or 18 July - that gives me enough time to finish Ramadan and then go into hard training. I'm very confident, I think that fight could definitely happen - I'm just waiting for that phone call. \"If I get the big fight with Floyd Mayweather, I'll be more than ready for it. Ramadan is not going to make a difference!\" Boxing trainer Adam Booth looked after former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Danny Williams, who was also a devout Muslim. \"Danny used to fast during the month of Ramadan and we would change the cycle for eating, sleeping and training,\" he said. \"It's definitely 100% possible for Amir Khan to fast during Ramadan and be ready to face Mayweather in the Autumn.\" Former light welterweight world champion Khan usually eats five meals a day, but during Ramadan he reduces that to only two. \"I miss my morning cup of tea and my desserts when I'm fasting,\" he laughs, before explaining what it's like when he can finally tuck in. \"Sometimes there's so much food in front of you and you think 'I just want to get stuck in' but that's the challenge - you have to make sure you eat healthily but it's very hard - I sometimes like to slide away and have a kebab or a samosa - it's not easy! \"I'm a normal guy at the end of the day - but I make up for it when I go back into the training camp.\" Although he is now a married man and a father, Khan still cannot resist his mum's cooking. \"Her food is amazing - I call it 'happy food' because it makes me so happy, it's the first thing I crave - training camp food is so plain and bland, but when I'm at home mum makes sure she feeds me lots of meaty curries¡­ that's why I put on so much weight between training. \"I like to add bits to my mum's cooking too - she doesn't like that - so I have to explain the health benefits of why I'm adding that extra bit of ginger, for example.\" Tale of the tape Rugby union sports nutritionist Matt Lovell believes fasting could prove beneficial to Khan. \"It can be done,\" he says. \"Fasting can give you mental strength and power. I can't see Ramadan affecting Amir negatively - the six weeks between the end of Ramadan and Khan's potential big fight with Floyd Mayweather is enough time for him to be ready.\" Khan started fasting when he was eight years old, and believes his faith goes glove-in-glove with his sport. \"When I go into the boxing ring, it's a very lonely place, when I go into the gym it's a very quiet place. I'm on my own training, but it's God that gives me the strength. \"My faith drives me, gives me that motivation and that push.  I see a lot of people around the world, Muslims and non-Muslim who have a lot of belief in their faith. They're the people who get far in life - if you have belief you can definitely get far.\"", "question": "With Ramadan coinciding with the hot weather - not to mention the longest possible hours of daylight - fasting Muslims in the UK are certainly being challenged at the moment . But how do elite sportsmen like Amir Khan cope with training in the @placeholder of food and water between dawn and dusk ?", "option_0": "absence", "option_1": "balance", "option_2": "space", "option_3": "availability", "option_4": "aftermath"}
{"id": 111, "article": "How does he convince businesses that he is on their side while at the same time hitting them up for more money to fund his deficit reduction plans? Business is feeling pretty duffed up by the chancellor after increases to the national living wage and the new apprenticeship levy. Then there's the raid on insurance companies and the time and expense of pension auto-enrolment. You can perhaps understand why business lobbies are saying \"enough, already\". He is unlikely to leave them alone. Pressure to hit his budget surplus holy grail by the end of the parliament while not adjusting the big three - income tax, national insurance and VAT - will see him forced to come back for another bite at business. He will be loathe to raise headline rates so he needs to broaden the base - the amount available to be taxed. So there may be limits on how much of the interest companies are paying on debt can be set against profits. This is a key part of international attempts to avoid tax by stuffing UK companies full of debt - often borrowed from their own subsidiaries in lower tax jurisdictions. However, lots of infrastructure projects (one of his favourite areas) rely on lots of debt financing so he'll have to proceed with care. He's abandoned major reform of pension taxes but there are other things he could do. The contributions employers make to pensions don't attract National Insurance - but it's a form of pay and maybe they should? Charging full whack would raise nearly ?¡ê15bn (and business would scream blue murder) but maybe a portion of it could be targeted and maybe at higher earners. It would raise serious money for the chancellor but would be very unpopular with employers. Expect more help for the North Sea. This is a no brainer because currently he is not making any tax out of oil and gas there as the companies are making losses and laying off thousands of highly paid (and taxed) staff. Big tax cuts could slow that process. If there is one big beef that businesses have it is rates. For many larger companies this has overtaken corporation tax as a cost. We will get a long promised review on rates and business will want promises of reform. However, the chancellor has already said any reform will be fiscally neutral - in other words - the same total amount will be paid so the capacity for wowing businesses is small. He could decide to change the rate at which rates go up from the hardly used Retail Prices Index currently at 1.3% to the more commonly used and usually lower Consumer Prices Index - currently at 0.3%. But business rates produce ?¡ê25bn a year and he'll be reluctant to put this golden goose on a diet. One phrase you are guaranteed to hear is \"Business Tax Roadmap\". He wants to make the UK competitive and corporation tax is already due to fall from 20% to 18% by the end of the parliament. By presenting a clear path of where various taxes, reliefs and business rates are headed he hopes to widen the tax base while giving business a bit of confidence they won't be ambushed by surprise moves down the line. He'll hope that his roadmap will help offset the uncertainty facing businesses as we approach the EU referendum. The rather large elephant which will be sitting in the room with him tomorrow.", "question": "George Osborne has a tricky conundrum on his @placeholder .", "option_0": "arrangements", "option_1": "hands", "option_2": "conscience", "option_3": "name", "option_4": "side"}
{"id": 112, "article": "Thomas de Maiziere has stopped short of proposing a complete ban. It is widely accepted that to totally ban the burka would violate Germany's constitution, which fiercely upholds the right to religious freedom. Nevertheless, the minister said he and his fellow conservatives completely opposed the burka or, for that matter, any other full face veil. \"It doesn't fit into our open society,\" said Mr de Maiziere. \"Showing your face is fundamental for communication, for the cohesion of our society.\" Germany interior minister calls for burka curbs How attacks are forcing Germany to examine civil freedoms Why do some people find the burkini offensive? In reality, it is uncommon to see women wearing the full face veil in Germany. Friday's announcement was really all about politics. Two issues will dominate next year's general election in Germany; how to integrate more than a million asylum seekers, and how to tackle the threat posed by Islamist terrorism. Both issues are already the subject of sensitive public debate and Angela Merkel's conservatives are losing votes to the right wing anti-Islam party Alternative fuer Deutschland. The party is expected to take seats in parliament for the first time next year and it's polling at 19% of the vote in Mecklenburg Vorpommen and 14% in Berlin. Both regions will hold state elections in September. It was no accident that the interior ministers of both states accompanied Mr de Maiziere as he made his announcement on Friday. This is an unashamed attempt to lure back voters. What's the difference between a hijab, a niqab and a burka? The Islamic veil across Europe The proposal is not yet draft legislation. If it gets that far, it is likely to encounter significant resistance in the German parliament. But Germany feels ill at ease. It is a country unsettled by the arrival of hundred of thousands of refugees and on edge after a recent spate of violent attacks - two of which were perpetrated by asylum seekers who are thought to have been inspired by IS. Friday's announcement is a powerful indication of just how deeply this country is changing.", "question": "If Germany 's interior minister has his way , Muslim women will be banned from covering their faces in nurseries , schools and universities , in public @placeholder and courts and while driving .", "option_0": "hospitals", "option_1": "offices", "option_2": "food", "option_3": "libraries", "option_4": "schools"}
{"id": 113, "article": "With the build-up to the 2 July vote now in full swing, Peter Dutton responded to proposals by the opposition Labor party to increase annual refugee numbers from 13,750 to 27,000. \"They won't be numerate or literate in their own language, let alone English,\" he told Sky News. \"These people would be taking Australian jobs, there's no question about that.\" At this point, it is important to point out that 26% of the population of Australia is foreign-born. That's some 5.8m people, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), with a fair few voters among them. In the hours after Mr Dutton's interview, plenty of those people, their children and their supporters took to social media to respond. While many people took issue with Mr Dutton's comments about literacy levels, others spoke out about what they saw as stereotyping of migrants and refugees, and went on to highlight what some immigrants had gone on to achieve in Australia. A number of people mentioned the work of Munjed al-Muderis, a surgeon who fled Iraq after ignoring army orders to cut off the ears of deserters. He arrived in Australia by boat, and went on to become one of the country's most prominent orthopaedic surgeons, known for his work helping amputees. Another prominent refugee is Hieu Van Le, the governor of the state of South Australia, who travelled to Australia by boat in 1977 having fled his native Vietnam. A handful of people online gave their backing to Mr Dutton but they were drowned out by the voices of opposition. His fellow Liberal members of parliament also stood up for him. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull defended Mr Dutton, calling him an \"outstanding\" immigration minister. Mr Turnbull said: \"People that are coming out of the war-ravaged areas, out of the Horn of Africa and other places in the world, of course they have - many of them have never been employed. Many of them have not had very much education. Many of them are illiterate in their own languages.\" Foreign Minister Julie Bishop later agreed with Mr Dutton over his concerns jobs would be lost to refugees. Mr Dutton's office then released statistics to back up his statement - or at least that was the intention. But, having looked in detail at Mr Dutton's comments, it was radio presenter Lewis Hobba who had the last word:", "question": "When Australia 's immigration minister spoke out about the level of literacy and numeracy among migrants late on Tuesday , he was @placeholder what has become one of the hot potatoes of this election season .", "option_0": "celebrating", "option_1": "wearing", "option_2": "elected", "option_3": "addressing", "option_4": "admits"}
{"id": 114, "article": "Shark attacks; a plane crash; and surreal interludes that delve deep into a dog's subconscious mind - no plotline is off-limits for Australia's longest running soap. But although for devoted fans the likes of Karl Kennedy and Harold Bishop are the real stars of Ramsay Street, Neighbours has proved a steppingstone to profitable  global stardom. Although it's never been confirmed many believe Crowe based his gladiatorial Maximus Decimus Meridius, on Kenny Larkin - the mulleted, ex-con who appeared on Ramsay Street for four episodes back in 1987. Minogue's love of music can be traced back to her days spent under over a car bonnet as Erinsborough's resident mechanic. The pint-sized pop star found fame dressed in dungarees and sporting a huge perm as Charlene Mitchell in 1986. When her character married Scott Robinson (Jason Donovan) in 1988, 20 million people tuned in to watch in the UK alone. We reckon Miley first set eyes on her ex when he was playing Josh Taylor back in 2007. Josh was involved in a classic soap love triangle. He fell in love with Bridget Parker, who was also being chased by Declan Napier. So, in a bid to win dear Bridget's heart he roped in Margot Robbie (more on her later) to make her jealous. Her performance in The Wolf of Wall Street saw her working with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and director Martin Scorsese. But it was as Donna Freedman that Margot Robbie made her name. Donna experimented with her sexuality, tried to track her biological father and then 'conveniently' went to study fashion in New York just before her Hollywood career took off. A 1990s pin-up, Spencer's Billy Kennedy adorned the walls of many a teenage bedroom. For six years he broke hearts and hung out with best-mate Toadie, before ditching Australia to play a young doctor alongside Hugh Lawrie in hit TV series House. Proving soap stars can not only make it to Hollywood, but have the staying power to stick around too, Guy Pearce is arguably Ramsay Street's most successful export. The Hurt Locker, LA Confidential and The King's Speech are amongst the titles in his impressive back catalogue. His training for such prestigious roles? Playing Mike Young - the son of an abusive father who went on to train as a teacher and have an affair with one of his pupils. Classic soap stuff. Holly Candy (formerly Valance) starred as Flick Scully from 1999 to 2005. Towards the end of the stint on the street she managed to rip the Scully family apart by bedding her sister's fianc??e. With their differences irreconcilable, Flick left the soap to follow in the footsteps of Kylie and pursue that well worn path to pop stardom. It didn't quite work out, with a charity single Kiss Kiss about as good as it got. Delta did manage a credible pop career. She'd already signed a record deal with Sony when she started playing Nina Tucker in 2002 and went on to achieve multi-platinum-selling status, with eight number one singles and three number one albums in Australia. She was also once engaged to Westlife's Brian McFadden, dated Nick Jonas and is now a judge on The Voice Australia. OK. So he was only in for a solitary episode, but that's good enough for us. He was by a much more regular presence in rival soap Home and Away, before swapping his floral shirts and boardies for a hammer and cape as Marvel comic's Thor. She's said in the past she's in no rush to return to the soap, so we're unlikely to see the former X Factor judge in any of the 30th anniversary celebrations. But the Torn singer was an Erinsborough resident for a couple of years back in the 90s. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "question": "For 30 years the residents of Erinsborough 's premier cul - de - sac have kept us @placeholder in that awkward half - an - hour before dinner .", "option_0": "contests", "option_1": "announced", "option_2": "frozen", "option_3": "interest", "option_4": "entertained"}
{"id": 115, "article": "Toomebridge-based Creagh Concrete said 50 of the posts will be in Northern Ireland, with the rest in Edinburgh. The firm has just won a ¡ê27m contract to supply concrete containers for use in the decommissioning of Dounreay nuclear power station in Scotland. Up to 6,000 of its containers will be used to store \"low grade waste\". Creagh Concrete employs 650 staff and contractors in seven locations in the UK and Ireland. It recently completed apartment projects in Aberdeen. The company makes a range of pre-cast concrete products, including flooring. About 80% of its turnover relates to projects outside Northern Ireland.", "question": "A County Antrim manufacturing firm has plans for 80 new jobs due to business @placeholder , including a multi-million pound contract at a nuclear power plant .", "option_0": "difficulties", "option_1": "transport", "option_2": "bases", "option_3": "growth", "option_4": "commitments"}
{"id": 116, "article": "Police were searching for ecstasy pills following the deaths of three men in Suffolk and one in Shropshire. Tests showed the pills contained PMMA, which was being linked to the deaths of two men in Ipswich and possibly with the other two. Officers will be out in Ipswich this weekend highlighting the dangers. The ecstasy pills were red, triangular and embossed with the Superman \"S\" logo. A batch of 400 similar ecstasy pills was found in a public place off Norwich Road in Ipswich on Sunday and tests showed they contained PMMA, which police said made them more dangerous. Supt Louisa Pepper said: \"Our number one priority is to prevent other people suffering the tragic consequences of this dangerous drug. \"We successfully seized a large quantity of drugs, but there may still be some out there so if you do come across them please don't take them, and if possible hand them over to us.\" The two men who died in Ipswich have been named locally as Justas Ropas, 22, and Gediminas Kulokas, 24. The deaths of John Hocking, 20, from Rendlesham in Suffolk, and a 27-year-old from Telford, have been \"potentially\" linked to the drugs. Ms Pepper, from Suffolk Police, said: \"We're urging anyone who has tablets matching this description not to take them or pass them on, and to hand them in to us or one of the agencies listed.\" A 28-year-old man has been charged with being concerned in the supply of ecstasy over the Telford death. A 19-year-old from Ipswich has been charged with being concerned in the supply of controlled drugs (ecstasy) and possession with intent to supply a Class B drug.", "question": "Illegal drugs containing a @placeholder believed to be responsible for at least two deaths may still be in circulation , Suffolk Police warn .", "option_0": "virus", "option_1": "toxin", "option_2": "woman", "option_3": "substance", "option_4": "chemical"}
{"id": 117, "article": "The legal action comes as Facebook has been facing significant pressure to combat the proliferation of fake news reports on its platform. In Germany, there have been numerous instances of false allegations on social media made against migrants and refugees. Anas Modamani is one of those who has been the target of such false reports. He briefly sprung to prominence in September 2015, when Angela Merkel visited the Berlin migrant shelter where he was then living. Mr Modamani took his chance to snap a picture with the German leader. Now aged 19, he had then arrived in Germany just a month earlier, after fleeing Darayya in Syria and travelling to Berlin via Turkey, Greece and Serbia. But that selfie was to make him a target. \"I was first linked to attacks when my picture was circulated as being one of the Brussels attackers due to perceived resemblances between us,\" he told the BBC. \"When the claims started being circulated on social media, I was in Munich visiting friends. \"Some friends advised that I stay at home and avoid going out in public, which I did. \"Others encouraged me to go to the police and report what was being said about me. \"But I kind of just hoped it would go away on its own.\" And for a while it did. However, another attack, on a crowded Berlin Christmas market, and the attempted murder of a homeless man in the same city by seven young migrants, once again saw Mr Modamani falsely accused. \"At that time, I had disabled my Facebook account, but the lady who is hosting me in Germany brought them to my attention,\" Mr Modamani said. \"I was fed up with this happening again, so we discussed getting a lawyer involved.\" Chan-jo Jun, a lawyer who in November 2016 prompted an investigation into Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives following a complaint alleging that the company had failed to remove racist posts, in contravention of German laws against hate speech, has taken on the case. \"Facebook is doing a very poor job with fake news,\" he told the BBC. \"But it is especially doing a poor job with illegal fake news. \"Not all fake news is illegal, but where it amounts to slander, as I believe this does, then it should be taken down.\" Mr Jun has filed an injunction \"seeking to prevent Facebook from publishing the slanderous image of the Syrian refugee Anas Modamani in the context of terrorist attacks\". A Facebook representative said: \"We received a takedown request from Mr Jun alleging that a specific item of content on our platform violates Mr Modamani's right of personality. \"Access to that reported content was quickly disabled, so we do not believe there is any basis for him to seek an injunction.\" However, Mr Jun claims that not all of the offending content has been removed and several images falsely linking Mr Modamani to terrorist activity are still available on Facebook. The case will be heard at a court in Wurzburg on 6 February. Produced by Chris Bell and Sara Fayyad, UGC and Social News Team A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "question": "A Syrian migrant who @placeholder for a selfie with Angela Merkel is suing Facebook after being falsely linked to terrorism in posts shared on the social media network .", "option_0": "criticised", "option_1": "called", "option_2": "held", "option_3": "falls", "option_4": "posed"}
{"id": 118, "article": "The garden sits in the grounds of the crematorium, and includes specially designed plaques inscribed with the names of 149 babies. It was created as one of the recommendations in the report by Dame Elish Angiolini in January 2013. A second memorial is also proposed, in Princes Street Gardens, as some parents do not want to return to Mortonhall. Dorothy Maitland, a former operations manager for infant deaths charity Sands, said: \"I think it's very important to have a memorial and I know some parents will find it very difficult to go back to Mortonhall but I'm hoping that they will change their mind when they see the garden. \"Some parents are still finding it so difficult to accept what happened that right now a memorial is not of any comfort. \"I really hope that in time when they heal a bit more that they will be able to visit the garden and have their baby's name added and find comfort by doing this. \"It means so much to many parents to have somewhere where they can go that is nice and tranquil. It shows to everyone that each of these babies matters whether their names are on the memorial or not - it's for all babies. \"Obviously there has been a lot of hurt but the council have taken what has happened very seriously and made sure all of Dame Elish's recommendations have been met. The memorial has been done in a very sensitive way which speaks volumes.\" Dame Sue Bruce, former Edinburgh city council chief executive, said: \"This has been a very difficult process for so many people over the past three years so I want to acknowledge my personal appreciation of the support and feedback from parents in helping choose such a fitting memorial. \"The design reflects their wishes for a garden that will provide a private and peaceful place for personal contemplation and reflection.\" Andrew Kerr, chief executive of Edinburgh city council, said: \"The work of the Mortonhall Multi-Agency Working Group will continue so nothing like this can happen again. \"Lessons have been learnt and the action plan produced last year has now been fully implemented so we can ensure the highest possible standards are adhered to at Mortonhall.\"", "question": "A memorial to infants at the centre of the Mortonhall baby ashes scandal has been @placeholder in Edinburgh .", "option_0": "revealed", "option_1": "published", "option_2": "introduced", "option_3": "completed", "option_4": "opened"}
{"id": 119, "article": "The decision comes after a report by the UN cultural agency Unesco said the area \"should be off-limits to commercial logging in its entirety\". The Tasmanian Wilderness covers about a fifth of the island and is one of the world's last big temperate forests. Conservation groups have welcomed the Unesco report and the logging decision. In 2014 the Australian government asked the agency to revoke the special status of the forest to open up parts of it to logging in order to boost the island's economy, where unemployment is above the national average. But the move - by the government of former PM Tony Abbott - attracted much opposition from environmental groups. The Unesco report released on Saturday said the organisation \"does not consider a World Heritage property recognised for its outstanding cultural and natural values the place to experiment with commercial logging of any kind\". The Tasmanian Wilderness is home to ancient forests, some of the tallest flowering plants in the world and is a stronghold for several animals that are either extinct or threatened on Australia's mainland. Both the Australian federal and the Tasmanian state government have said they will abide by that recommendation.", "question": "The Australian and Tasmanian authorities are @placeholder their bid to have logging permitted in the Tasmanian Wilderness , a World Heritage site .", "option_0": "abandoning", "option_1": "encouraged", "option_2": "opposing", "option_3": "encouraging", "option_4": "continuing"}
{"id": 120, "article": "Mr Cameron, 49, who resigned as prime minister after June's EU referendum, said he did not want to be a \"distraction\" for new PM Theresa May He said Mrs May had \"got off to a cracking start\", while she praised his \"great strides\" on social reform. Mr Cameron, 49, has represented Witney since 2001, becoming Conservative leader in 2005 and PM in 2010. Laura Kuenssberg: May's takeover now complete Speaking in his constituency, he said it had been a \"great honour\" to be an MP for the area, but said it would be difficult for him to remain on the backbenches without becoming \"a big distraction and a big diversion\" from the work of the new government. He denied his announcement was related to the government's moves towards allowing new grammar schools, a policy he rejected as PM. He said the timing was coincidental, adding that there were \"many good things\" in the proposed education reforms. \"Obviously I'm going to have my own views about different issues,\" he said. \"People would know that and that's really the point. As a former prime minister it is very difficult, I think, to sit as a backbencher and not be an enormous diversion and distraction from what the government is doing.\" By Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor Friends say that David Cameron's decision has not been made in a fit of pique, he has not merely flounced out because he doesn't like what his successor is doing. But there was a \"very real danger\", particularly because he does not support the UK leaving the European Union, that anything he said, any comment he made could \"drive a real wedge\" between him and the government which could make life harder for Theresa May. It is not that surprising that the man who used to be in charge has decided to go. But his departure adds to the sense that May's Downing Street feels more like a new administration after a general election than a continuation of David Cameron's tenure - \"it IS a new government\", one senior Tory told me, \"not everyone has understood that yet\". Read more from Laura Mr Cameron said Mrs May - his former home secretary - had been \"very understanding\" when he told her of his decision. Asked about his legacy, and whether he would be remembered as the prime minister that took the UK out of the European Union, he said he hoped his tenure would be recalled for a strong economy and \"important social reforms\" and that he had transformed a Conservative Party that was \"in the doldrums\" into a \"modernising winning force\". Mr Cameron won a 25,155 majority in 2015 in Witney, which has been held by the Conservatives since 1974. He said he had not made any \"firm decisions\" on what to do next, adding that he wanted to continue to contribute to public life. Mrs May said: \"I was proud to serve in David Cameron's government - and under his leadership we achieved great things. Not just stabilising the economy, but also making great strides in delivering serious social reform.\" She pledged to continue with his \"one-nation government\" approach. Ex-Chancellor George Osborne said he was sorry his \"great friend\" was stepping down. \"We came into Parliament together, had a great partnership and I will miss him alongside me on the green benches over the coming years,\" he added. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he wished David Cameron \"all the best for the future\", adding he got on well with him on a \"human level\". Speaking at the TUC conference in Brighton, Mr Corbyn said: \"We should respect people who move on to do something else with their lives. I want to wish him all the best for the future.\" But Labour's Angela Eagle declined to add her voice to the tributes, telling the BBC Mr Cameron had \"put his whole country at risk to settle a debate in his own party\" through the EU referendum. \"He has now walked away leaving others to clear up the mess.\" Ex-Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, who was deputy prime minister in coalition, said Mr Cameron had shown \"great skill\" in negotiating and listening to other views during their time in government. Mr Clegg's successor as Lib Dem leader Tim Farron added: \"He has lots of things that he should be proud of but sadly his legacy will be one of accidentally removing us from our closest friends and neighbours in Europe.\" Former cabinet minister Ken Clarke told the BBC: \"I'm a friend of David's, so I regret to say, I think for history his legacy will be he's the man who accidentally caused Britain to leave the European Union. \"There's no getting away from the fact that that will overshadow every other feature of his premiership.\" Mr Cameron initially became prime minister in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, before securing an overall majority in 2015. He pressed ahead with his pledge to hold a referendum on the UK's EU membership - campaigning hard for a Remain vote and warning of the economic and security consequences of Brexit. But he finished on the losing side, announcing his resignation the day after the vote, saying outside Downing Street that \"fresh leadership\" was needed. At the time, he said he would continue as an MP until the next general election. The last prime minister to resign, Gordon Brown, remained in the Commons for five years after his general election defeat in 2010, while Tony Blair stood down as an MP when he resigned as PM.", "question": "Former UK PM David Cameron has stood down as an MP , @placeholder a by-election in his Oxfordshire seat of Witney .", "option_0": "extending", "option_1": "following", "option_2": "blaming", "option_3": "according", "option_4": "triggering"}
{"id": 121, "article": "The Transition Training Fund was  launched by the Scottish government in February. The ?¡ê12m fund offers grants for individuals to acquire specialised skills or further training. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said 600 people had been approved as she opened a new Statoil headquarters in Aberdeen. Ms Sturgeon said the oil and gas industry still had a strong future in Scotland despite its current challenges. Statoil is developing the Mariner field, with production expected to start in 2018. She said:  \"The expertise that Scottish oil and gas firms have built up over many decades has positioned our energy sector as a world leader and while we realise that the industry and workforce is going through a difficult time, this investment and expansion from Statoil is a vote of confidence in the North Sea's future.\" And the first minister confirmed: \"Only halfway through the first year of our three-year Transition Training Fund, launched in February, already 600 people have had their applications for support approved.\"", "question": "Six hundred people have been approved for a @placeholder to help people who face losing their jobs in oil and gas to gain new skills and find new work .", "option_0": "petition", "option_1": "bid", "option_2": "scheme", "option_3": "campaign", "option_4": "grant"}
{"id": 122, "article": "Assistant Chief Constable Rebekah Sutcliffe, 47, told temporary Supt Sarah Jackson she would \"always just be known as the girl who had the tit job\". In December, a disciplinary panel ruled the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer had breached standards of professional behaviour. But Deputy Chief Constable Ian Pilling ruled she could keep her job. Ms Sutcliffe told Ms Jackson - who has since transferred to Cumbria Police - her \"credibility was zero\", she was as a \"laughing stock\" and that she was \"silly, vain and frivolous\" for going under the knife. She is alleged to have said: \"It does not matter how hard you work now, because you will always just be known as the girl who had the tit job.\" She then pulled down the front of her dress to expose her left breast and said: \"Look at these, look at these, these are the breasts of someone who has had three children. \"They are ugly, but I don't feel the need to pump myself full of silicone to get self-esteem.\" The panel heard Ms Sutcliffe made repeated attempts to apologise to Ms Jackson the following day and told her she \"deeply regretted\" it. She later said she was \"frazzled\" and had been drinking too much to cope with stress in her personal and professional life. The panel stated her gross misconduct had taken her to the \"very\" brink of dismissal, but accepted it was out of character and recommended a final written warning. The officers were attending a Senior Women In Policing conference at Manchester's Hilton Hotel when Ms Sutcliffe verbally attacked her colleague. Ms Sutcliffe, who was the most senior female GMP officer at the time, had admitted misconduct but denied gross misconduct. Her counsel, John Beggs QC, had handed the panel more than 200 pages of testimonials, with many officers speaking of Ms Sutcliffe as \"inspirational\", \"visionary\" and \"a strong leader\". Announcing his decision to follow the panel's recommendation, Mr Pilling said: \"Despite being absolutely appalled at her behaviour and all too aware of the damage to public confidence, I do not think I can take a different view without any significant reason to do so.\" Following the decision, Ms Sutcliffe expressed \"deep regret\" about what happened and said the \"responsibility for what happened is mine and mine alone\". \"I did not mean any of the things that I said and I am dismayed that I was so unkind and unfair,\" she added. \"I am very grateful that I have been given the opportunity to return to work. \"On my return, I will bring the very best of my abilities to serve policing and the public as well as I am able.\" Ian Hopkins, chief constable of GMP, said it had been \"an incredibly difficult time\" for the police service, where \"the events in May... cast a shadow over what was an important event to recognise the contribution of women in policing\". \"The details in the report have clearly outlined the panel's position and legally left little alternative but to follow the panel's recommendation.\" He added: \"ACC Sutcliffe has been given a chance to demonstrate that she is committed to serving the people of Greater Manchester. \"We will now work with her to consider how she best achieves this in support of Greater Manchester Police. \"", "question": "A top police officer who exposed a breast and @placeholder a colleague 's \" boob job \" has been allowed to keep her job .", "option_0": "mocked", "option_1": "ruined", "option_2": "threw", "option_3": "performed", "option_4": "wounded"}
{"id": 123, "article": "It's now widely known that many modern humans carry up to 4% Neanderthal DNA. But a new analysis of the Neanderthal Y chromosome, the package of genes passed down from fathers to sons, shows it is missing from modern populations. The team found differences in immunity genes on the Neanderthal Y chromosome that could have led to miscarriages. The results have been published in the American Journal of Human Genetics. The small amount of DNA in present-day people is the legacy of breeding between the two populations 50,000 years ago - after our species Homo sapiens expanded out of its African homeland and began to colonise Eurasia. But the new analysis reveals the Neanderthal Y chromosome is distinct from any found in humans today. \"We've never observed the Neanderthal Y chromosome DNA in any human sample ever tested,\" said co-author Prof Carlos Bustamante, from Stanford University in California. \"That doesn't prove it's totally extinct, but it likely is.\" The researchers say it is possible that Neanderthal Y chromosomes were initially circulating in the modern human gene pool, but were then lost by chance over the millennia. Another possibility is that they included genes that were incompatible with other genes found in modern humans. Indeed, the researchers found evidence to support this idea. Several of the Y chromosome genes that differ in Neanderthals function as part of the immune system. Three are \"minor histocompatibility antigens,\" or H-Y genes, which resemble ones that transplant surgeons check to make sure that organ donors and organ recipients have similar immune profiles. Because these Neanderthal genes are on the Y chromosome, they are specific to males. In theory, a woman's immune system might attack a male foetus carrying Neanderthal versions of these genes. If women consistently miscarried male babies carrying Neanderthal Y chromosomes, that would explain its absence in modern humans. So far this is just a hypothesis, but the immune systems of modern women are known to sometimes react to male offspring when there's genetic incompatibility. Prof Bustamante said: \"The functional nature of the mutations we found suggests to us that Neanderthal Y chromosome sequences may have played a role in barriers to gene flow, but we need to do experiments to demonstrate this and are working to plan these now.\"", "question": "Incompatibilities in the DNA of Neanderthals and modern humans may have limited the impact of interbreeding between the two @placeholder .", "option_0": "region", "option_1": "race", "option_2": "breeds", "option_3": "groups", "option_4": "tide"}
{"id": 124, "article": "The verdict overturns a 1969 ruling that being a staff member at Auschwitz was not enough to secure a conviction. Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff said it was the biggest change in years. Groening, 95, who was known as \"the bookkeeper of Auschwitz\", had appealed against a four-year jail term handed down for being accessory to murder. \"This is a very dramatic and significant change in German prosecution policy,\" Mr Zuroff, the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Israel, told the BBC. Germany's Federal Court of Justice (BGH) upheld the acquittal 47 years ago of an SS dentist at Auschwitz, arguing that working at the death camp or knowing about the mass murders was not sufficient proof of guilt. For decades, thousands of ex-Nazis who took part in the Holocaust escaped conviction. Monday's ruling sets a precedent for pursuing suspects, now in their nineties, accused of serving in death camps. Campaigners said the federal court's ruling also cleared the way for prosecutions of ex-members of the Nazi mobile death squads known as Einsatzgruppen, which operated in Eastern Europe.  They believe at least eight suspects could now be accused of murder because their membership of the death squads would be sufficient proof. At the original trial in Lueneburg, presiding Judge Franz Kompisch said Groening was part of the \"machinery of death\", helping the camp function smoothly and also collecting money stolen from the victims to help the Nazi cause. He sentenced him for being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews even though there was no evidence of involvement in a specific killing. Groening testified at that trial that he oversaw the collection of prisoners' belongings and ensured valuables and cash were separated to be sent to Berlin. The turning point came in 2011, when former Ohio car factory worker John Demjanjuk became the first person convicted in Germany for serving as a death camp guard without any evidence of being involved in a specific killing. But Demjanjuk, who always denied serving at the Sobibor camp, died in 2012 before his appeal could be heard, so the Federal Court of Justice did not at the time reverse its 1969 ruling. Prosecutors will now have to decide whether Groening is in good enough health to serve the sentence. 'Book-keeper of Auschwitz'", "question": "A German federal court has upheld the conviction of Auschwitz death camp guard Oskar Groening , who admitted @placeholder murders but not taking part .", "option_0": "covering", "option_1": "describes", "option_2": "witnessing", "option_3": "growing", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 125, "article": "He is the star attraction at CS Lewis Square in east Belfast, where visitors line up to film his lunchtime displays. But he is not the only one in the constituency feeling the benefit of an easy ride, if we are to believe the political pundits. The Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) Gavin Robinson is fighting to retain his Westminster seat without the benefit this time of a unionist pact. But many believe the decision by the Ulster Unionists to field councillor Hazel Legge has played into his hands. Though he did not want to admit it, the outgoing MP said it was clearly a two-horse race. \"The choice is between me and the Alliance Party,\" said Mr Robinson. \"I don't think the other parties are featuring much on the doorsteps - I haven't heard many other names come up. \"The message we are getting is from a unionist electorate who want to keep their MP at Westminster to ensure they get the best deal possible for East Belfast.\" Although he held the seat for two years, the DUP man is not the bookies' favourite to win this time. That honour goes to Alliance Party leader Naomi Long, who pulled off the shock of the 2010 election when she unseated the then DUP leader and first minister Peter Robinson. She was installed as the favourite after the unionists failed to agree a pact. \"I don't pay much attention to being the bookies' favourite, it is being the public's favourite that matters,\" said Mrs Long. \"I remember when I won the seat in 2010, I was the 100-1 outsider.\" On the absence of a unionist deal she said her party \"would have been fighting to win whether there was a pact or not\". \"We came very close the last time, within 2,000 votes against a five-party pact,\" she said. \"This time we have one other unionist running but we still have a number of parties who haven't put their names on the ballot so I take nothing for granted. \"We will fight the seat on our party policies, what other parties do is irrelevant.\" The Ulster Unionist candidate Hazel Legge feels she may surprise the doubters. She is, in her own words, \"born and bred\" in east Belfast. However, her power base is in Dundonald - a DUP stronghold. She insists her selection was \"absolutely not\" designed to give the DUP an easy run. \"I am elected to the area so I already have a position on the council and I have been known in the community for some time,\" she said. \"I'm chair of a local board of governors and have been heavily involved in the community for many years. \"At the outset, when this election was called, both Jeffrey Donaldson and Gavin Robinson said they didn't need the support of the Ulster Unionists to retain the seat for unionism. Sorry, your browser cannot display this content. Enter a postcode or seat name \"That's the basis on which we are standing and we'll see on 8 June what the result is from the electorate.\" It is going to be a close call, but Sam McBride, the News Letter's political editor, is tipping Gavin Robinson. He believes the timing of the election is crucial. \"One of the fascinating things here is how unionists react to the psychological blow of losing their majority at Stormont in the March election.\" said Mr McBride. \"One would think that would lead to a re-invigorated unionist vote especially in places like east Belfast where there is a chance unionism could lose another seat. \"If it doesn't happen, I think unionist leaders will be very alarmed because if something as significant as losing their majority at Stormont doesn't mobilise unionist voters, then nothing will.\" The contest in east Belfast will be a political dogfight between the DUP and Alliance but the result won't rest with their voters. The outcome is likely to be decided by supporters of other parties tactically voting and that is what makes it so hard to call.", "question": "Victor the skateboarding bulldog knows the @placeholder of getting an easy run .", "option_0": "remains", "option_1": "aftermath", "option_2": "value", "option_3": "size", "option_4": "art"}
{"id": 126, "article": "In a BBC interview, Tim Roache urged Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to do more to make the case for EU membership. It comes ahead of a speech by Mr Corbyn in which he will say workers' rights are best protected by being in the EU. But Vote Leave chairwoman and Labour MP Gisela Stuart has said workers' rights were \"hard won\" in the UK, not Europe. In other developments: There are just weeks to go until the UK decides on its future in the European Union, in the in-out referendum on 23 June. The Remain campaign believes that securing the support of Labour voters will be vital to winning the referendum. How working conditions and pay rates are affected by EU membership. But there are anxieties within the Remain camp that Labour voters might not turn out to vote, when the levels of turnout could be decisive. In an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Roache said his \"biggest concern\" was that Labour voters would \"stay at home\" on 23 June. \"I think they won't see it as the absolutely crucial vote that it is and I also think that they see it as a bunfight in the Tory party,\" he said. Asked whether he thought Labour was doing enough to get its pro-Remain message across, he said it \"is starting to do more\". But he argued that a bigger push was needed, warning: \"The reality is that the more people that stay at home the more likely it is that we will leave the EU. I don't think we can even begin to contemplate that.\" By Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor It's rare these days - especially as the referendum debate rages with both sides to varying degrees struggling to tell the public the truth, the whole truth, and absolutely nothing but the truth - that political figures are willing to say exactly what they think in public. But the union movement, in the recently elected boss of the GMB, Tim Roache, might just have found themselves someone who might. He's worked for the union for decades, starting as a teenager in the post room. But after years of working his way up, now he's in charge, Roache is clearly determined to change things. And in an interview with me for Radio 4's World at One programme, he didn't hold back. Read more from Laura On Jeremy Corbyn - who has been urged to make a bolder case for staying in the UK - Mr Roache said he viewed the Labour leader as \"a half-hearted Remain\" but urged the party to get behind him and campaign vigorously to stay in the EU. \"I think he probably could do a bit more, let's hope he will,\" he said. The union leader's call for action comes as the Labour leader prepares to make a speech warning about the impact on workers' rights if the UK left the EU. Speaking at the Institute of Engineering Technology on Thursday, Mr Corbyn - who has been a long-standing critic of the EU and who is regarded as the most Eurosceptic Labour leader in years - will say British workers benefit from a host of rights and protections because of EU legislation. He will say the European social chapter and other EU directives have secured: \"It's important to understand the benefit of these gains,\" he will say. \"It means workers throughout Europe have decent rights at work, meaning it's harder to undercut terms and conditions across Europe.\" The Labour leader will accuse Tory Leave supporters of wanting to \"rip up\" workers' protections and say it is the Conservative government that is the real \"threat\" to Britain - not the EU. \"Everything they have done as a government so far means we could not rely on them to protect the workplace rights that millions rely on. \"A Tory Brexit negotiation would be a disaster for the majority of people in Britain,\" he will add. But Leave campaigners, including Vote Leave's Ms Stuart, say the EU has been \"a disaster\" for workers, pointing out that unemployment levels across the eurozone are \"in the double digits\". The Labour MP has also dismissed Remain's argument that workers' rights have been secured by Europe. \"Workers' rights are not something that have been gifted to us by the EU, they have been hard won here at home and should be protected by a Parliament that is properly accountable to voters in the UK.\" She has said the only way to \"take back control of our economy, our democracy\" is to leave the EU.", "question": "The Remain campaign could @placeholder the EU referendum if Labour voters do not get more engaged in the debate , the new leader of the GMB union has warned .", "option_0": "lose", "option_1": "disrupt", "option_2": "undermine", "option_3": "replace", "option_4": "end"}
{"id": 127, "article": "The Department for Transport admits these changes probably caused the increase in untaxed vehicles. The last survey was carried out in 2013 when the figure was 210,000. The RAC says the figures are \"worrying and disappointing\". It claims there may well be a correlation between evasion of tax and the number of people driving without insurance. The 560,000 vehicles represent about 1.4% of UK vehicles, up from 0.6%. Last year, the paper tax disc was abolished, and the authorities now use a network of cameras linked to a database to work out which vehicles are being driven illegally. \"Almost 99% of all vehicles on the road are correctly taxed: that's around ¡ê6bn in vehicle tax passed to the Treasury every year,\" said Oliver Morley, chief executive of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. \"We write to every registered vehicle keeper in the UK to remind them when their tax is due and we have introduced a range of measures to make vehicle tax easy to pay. At the same time we are taking action against those who are determined to break the law.\" But RAC chief engineer David Bizley said: \"These are very worrying and disappointing statistics indeed. Sadly, the concerns we raised about the number of car tax evaders going up at the time the tax disc was consigned to history have become a reality. The loss in revenue for the government is \"significant\", he said, having risen from ¡ê35m in 2013 to an estimated ¡ê80m now \"and, it has to be pointed out, far exceeds the forecast ¡ê10m efficiency saving\". He called for the survey to be repeated in a year's time to test whether the new system was largely to blame. \"We really cannot afford for this to increase again for the sake of both road safety and the country's finances. Hopefully, much of the increase in evasion is due to the system being new and these figures will reduce as motorists become more familiar with how it works.\"", "question": "The number of vehicles without road tax - Vehicle Excise Duty ( VED ) - @placeholder to 560,000 this summer according to the Department for Transport 's survey , months after the paper tax disc was abolished in October 2014 .", "option_0": "flock", "option_1": "agreed", "option_2": "fell", "option_3": "doubled", "option_4": "expected"}
{"id": 128, "article": "The sportsman won a gold medal for Great Britain in the men's PT2 triathlon in Rio, adding to his haul of world and European titles. Lewis said: \"It's amazing to be here and for everyone to come out like this.\" Paralympian Jack Rutter joined Lewis in the open top vintage bus procession. Rutter led Great Britain's Paralympic cerebral palsy seven-a-side football side at the Rio games. The parade went from Newerne Street via Bathurst Park Coronation Gates to the Pavilion, where a reception was held. Lewis said it was more emotional to see everyone turn out for the homecoming than crossing the finish line in Rio. \"I'm so proud to be from Lydney and to be here with everyone. \"This medal means so much to me but the people of Lydney contributed to this,\" he added. His wife, Becky Lewis, said: \"I'm very proud, he's one in a million.\"", "question": "Hundreds of people turned out to @placeholder gold medal winning Paralympian Andy Lewis in Lydney at his homecoming celebration on Saturday afternoon .", "option_0": "accommodate", "option_1": "cheer", "option_2": "visit", "option_3": "protect", "option_4": "retain"}
{"id": 129, "article": "But the often fantastical narratives of Giambattista Basile, a 17th Century solider to the Doge of Venice, were not to have the fame and longevity of Shakespeare's, and his Tales would fade into obscurity. That's something Italian film director Matteo Garrone hopes to correct with his own work of gothic imagination - a film version of Tale of Tales, starring Salma Hayek, Toby Jones, Shirley Henderson and Vincent Cassel. Based on Basile's narratives of more than 50 different stories featuring kings, princesses, dragons, giants and magical beasts, Garrone has picked three and interwoven them: A pair of ageing sisters who long for their youthful beauty; a queen obsessed with the idea of having her own child and a king who marries off his only daughter to an ogre. Garrone's previous works - the award-winning mafia film Gomorra and Italian TV satire Reality - have both been modern day Neapolitan stories grounded in the everyday, and he says he was delighted \"to work on a fantasy film that lurches into horror\". \"And it's not that we had to increase the horror for the sophisticated modern audience, it was all there in Basile's work,\" he says. \"In terms of the fantastical, he was ahead of the brothers Grimm, Tolkein, or Harry Potter. \"What surprised me is that once we had chosen the Tales, we realised it involved three stories about women at different stages of life. And these tales are about contemporary obsessions: The desire for youth and beauty ends up with a horrific version of cosmetic surgery, centuries ahead of it becoming available.\" Mexican actress Hayek, who plays a queen who will do anything in order to have a child, agrees: \"All the conflict they go through is still relevant today, even if we are dressed in Baroque costume. \"In my case it's the desperation of a woman to experience motherhood, and the film takes that desperation and makes it grotesque. So a very recognisable human desire becomes something of horror, not only psychologically but visually.\" For example, the film shows Oscar-nominated Hayek, solemnly eating what appears to be the beating heart of a sea monster - after a sorcerer tells her character it will make her pregnant. It is, the actress agrees, a horrible sight; but as a mother and stepmother herself, she says she understands the desire for children. \"The real conflict of this woman, and the cleverness of the film, lies in the fact that she puts all her desire for happiness into one thing that lies outside herself. She is impossible to satisfy and that's why she suffers such tragic consequences,\" she says. \"Everyone in here suffers very harsh penalties for their obsessions,\" explains Toby Jones, who plays a king fixated by his new pet - a giant flea - and has to give his daughter's hand in marriage to a giant after losing a bet. \"Folk tales tend to be very dark and all fairy tales have darkness at their root, but these are particularly strange. Terrible deals are made in order to have wishes granted, and hard lessons are learned.\" Jones, who recently appeared in the BBC TV series Sherlock, says he took the part in Tale of Tales \"because I wanted to work with Matteo - and I like the idea of exploring a reversal between the parent and the child\". \"The parent suffers terrible consequences and loses what he loves - his daughter - through an act of folly. It's very funny but there's something so awful and pathetic about it.\" The actor's scenes involved embracing a gigantic flea, which he says \"was not special effects - just this awful rubbery thing\". \"I suppose for me, as the father of two daughters, playing this man has only reinforced the usual pitfalls that being a parent involves. The lesson is that it's easy to be distracted and there's a price to pay if you are,\" he says. Although Tale of Tales was filmed in Italy, Garrone chose to make it his first English-language film with an international cast - a move he thinks now might have been a mistake. \"I didn't want to betray my country and my culture but at the same time, it has a larger audience in English,\" he explains. \"And also, in my defence, they call Basile 'the Neapolitan Shakespeare' so I thought there was that connection. It was a very hard choice and I am still not sure if it was the right decision.\" Despite the language issue, Tale of Tales has had widespread praise from international critics, with the Telegraph calling it \"a fabulously sexy, defiantly unfashionable readymade cult item\". Hayek believes the film is \"unfathomable in the sense it's more than a morality tale for human pride and indulgence - it's a lot more fascinating than that\". \"Fairy tales are designed to change every time you re-tell it to a new generation. What makes me very pleased is that I think the spirit of the original Tales have been kept. I think Basile would be very happy.\" Tale of Tales is released in the UK on 17 June.", "question": "He 's been called ' the Italian Shakespeare ' , and his main piece of work , The Tale of Tales , influenced modern fairy tale writers the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen , as well as @placeholder the story of Cinderella .", "option_0": "depicted", "option_1": "explains", "option_2": "inspiring", "option_3": "celebrate", "option_4": "dominated"}
{"id": 130, "article": "Passengers from Afghanistan, China, Vietnam and Russia were found inside the lorries at Harwich International Port in Essex on Thursday. The men, who were arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration, have been bailed until 2 July. Fifteen of those discovered hiding amid Polish washing machines were children. Bernard Jenkin, MP for Harwich and North Essex said it was one of the \"biggest single finds of clandestines coming into the UK\". Mr Jenkin told the BBC the migrants had clearly been in the trucks for a long time, and many had been dehydrated and very tired. He said the individuals were questioned about whom they had paid, how much they had paid and where they had got on the lorries - but none spoke English making communication difficult. 41,000  2014/15 19,003 2013/14 11,731 2012/13 9,632 2011/12 10,916 2010/11 (Numbers of people trying to enter the UK illegally detected by the Border Force, other agencies in France and Belgium, and at UK ports) Source: Home Office Some of the most sick - including two pregnant women - had been treated at Colchester Hospital and since discharged, the Home Office said. It is believed those not seeking asylum will be sent back to their home country.", "question": "Four Polish lorry drivers who were arrested after 68 suspected illegal immigrants were found @placeholder in their vehicles have been released on bail .", "option_0": "injured", "option_1": "stranded", "option_2": "drowned", "option_3": "locked", "option_4": "murdered"}
{"id": 131, "article": "Christopher Routis, 26, arrives from Bradford City and can operate in defence and midfield. Defender Kenny van der Weg, 25, comes from NAC Breda, while goalkeeper Aaron McCarey, 24, moves from Wolves. Slovakian defender Erik Cikos, 27, returns to the club after playing 14 times for County in a previous spell between 2013 and 2014. Striker Michael Gardyne, meanwhile, has signed a one-year extension to his contract with the Staggies, keeping him at the club until the summer of 2018. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "question": "Ross County have brought in four new players on free transfers as they look to @placeholder for next season .", "option_0": "qualify", "option_1": "deal", "option_2": "stay", "option_3": "strengthen", "option_4": "sign"}
{"id": 132, "article": "Pennock has yet to win a match since taking over from Justin Edinburgh on 4 January, with Saturday's loss extending the Gills' barren run to 10 games. Gillingham dropped to 18th place, with 14 League One games remaining. \"They have got to step up. They should have stepped up at the start of the season,\" 45-year-old Pennock said. He told BBC Radio Kent: \"They haven't done that all season. They have got to do that because obviously this is a relegation battle. \"The table doesn't lie so we've got to lick our wounds and move on. They are just words - they've got to do better on the pitch.\" Gillingham have failed to keep a single clean sheet under Pennock, with just five points coming from a possible 21 during the former Forest Green manager's tenure. The Kent club will try again to register their first win since 17 December when they take on AFC Wimbledon at Priestfield Stadium on Tuesday evening. \"We can't defend to save our lives,\" Pennock added. \"We've got to move on and look forward to Tuesday, because they are getting bigger and bigger, these games.\"", "question": "Gillingham manager Ady Pennock has @placeholder his players after a 2 - 1 defeat by Coventry left the club just one point above the relegation zone .", "option_0": "claimed", "option_1": "criticised", "option_2": "resigned", "option_3": "hailed", "option_4": "retained"}
{"id": 133, "article": "Hibs have started the process of appointing a new boss after thanking Stubbs for doing \"a magnificent job\" over his two-year spell. Stubbs, 44, decided to return to England shortly after ending Hibs' 114-year wait to win the Scottish Cup. \"They fitted in with my ambition,\" Stubbs said of Rotherham. The Englishman has signed a three-year deal with the Millers, who reached a settlement with Hibs over compensation for Stubbs and his assistant, John Doolan. \"Alan and his staff have done a magnificent job, with the pinnacle obviously being that historic Scottish Cup win for which every Hibernian supporter is thankful,\" said Hibs chief executive Leeann Dempster. \"We wish them every success in the future \"The task now for Hibernian is to find a head coach who will lead us back into Scotland's top flight by winning the Championship this season. \"We expect high calibre candidates, and while we understand there will be a lot of speculation, as ever this club will go about its business quietly and professionally and speak when there is something meaningful to say.\" Speaking for the first time since his appointment at New York Stadium, Stubbs admitted it was a \"really difficult decision\" to leave Hibs, but that moving to the Championship in England was \"the next chapter\" for his career. Rotherham finished one place outside the relegation zone last season but Stubbs believes he can guide the team up the table to match his own ambitions and those of chairman Tony Stewart. \"I was impressed by what the chairman had to say, what his vision is for the club and the ambition,\" he explained. \"The club's had two seasons where they've stabilised in the Championship and we're looking to take the club forward. We want to be moving up the table and ultimately we want to be a club that is around the play-offs. That has to be the aim. Media playback is not supported on this device \"The plan has always been to be the best I can. I wanted to manage at the very top level. I got a great opportunity at Hibernian, they've been fantastic with me, I really enjoyed my two years there. \"I'm glad I've been able to leave on the back of a successful end to the season but now it's a new chapter and one that's very exciting for me.\" Stewart insisted that, despite lengthy talks with Hibs over compensation - and Stubbs and Doolan ultimately resigning from their posts - relations between the two clubs were fine. And he confirmed that compensation will be paid to the Easter Road club. \"Alan had another year on his contract, so we did the protocol with Hibs,\" Stewart said. \"My CEO had discussions with them to talk to Alan and that led to the appointment. We agreed a settlement with Hibs and we move forward now freely. \"We've followed Alan's career. He was on the radar months ago, the timing was right and we took the opportunity. I like the drive, the leadership. \"Football is about moving around. Hibs have been fantastic, Alan's told me how good they've been up there and it's sad they've lost a manager and Rotherham gained him. We look forward now to getting ready for next season.\"", "question": "Alan Stubbs says leaving Hibernian for Rotherham United was a \" calculated @placeholder \" but \" the right decision at the right time \" .", "option_0": "decision", "option_1": "words", "option_2": "message", "option_3": "improvement", "option_4": "risk"}
{"id": 134, "article": "\"I've been up for it three times, I got three knockbacks,\" Dyer said during the recording of ITV's Jonathan Ross Show. Fellow guest Dame Diana Rigg - who plays Lady Olenna Tyrell in the HBO fantasy drama - blamed Dyer's voice. \"I'll put in a word for you as long as you lose the cockney accent.\" Dyer told Ross he went for several roles. \"One was Pyper. Is it Pyper?\" Pyper is played by London-born Josef Altin, and Dyer said other Londoners had managed to get parts. \"There's a couple of cockneys knocking about. There's a couple of chimney sweeps too. I've seen them.\" A range of British accents can be heard on the show - including Sean Bean's Yorkshire delivery. Dyer - who plays Queen Vic landlord Mick Carter in the BBC One soap - has recently spoken about bringing a \"cockney\" flavour to roles made famous by \"posh\" actors. \"I think that I could play Sherlock... if I did it my way. Benedict [Cumberbatch] is brilliant and the lines roll off his tongue, but that role is about being highly intelligent rather than posh. \"I think I could do Doctor Who as well. The star, who grew up in Canning Town, east London, also told Ross he changes his EastEnders' scripts - adding more cockney rhyming slang. \"I made the job hard for myself really because I thought when I come in it, I want to bring back a bit of the East End. They're good writers there but they're quite middle class people so I'm constantly changing the dialogue and I'm freaking their nut out and they have meetings over the word 'boat race'.\" Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "question": "It 's @placeholder with British acting talent , but EastEnders star Danny Dyer repeatedly auditioned for a part in the hit series TV Game of Thrones ... and failed every time .", "option_0": "associated", "option_1": "finished", "option_2": "packed", "option_3": "ties", "option_4": "struggled"}
{"id": 135, "article": "Soldiers and riot police are manning the entrance of the building. It follows last week's court ruling that NFF president Amaju Pinnick lost his post to Chris Giwa in elections in September 2014. Giwa and his team had said they would occupy and take over the NFF offices to start work on Monday. The NFF has appealed against the court ruling, insisting that Pinnick is still the head of the federation. And staff of the Fifa-recognised NFF, including the general secretary Mohammed Sanusi, are currently working in the building. Giwa's faction and all other non-NFF staff have been denied access into the football house by police, who have been in attendance since Sunday. \"We got here this morning and the police requested our identity cards, then we were let into our offices,\" an NFF staff member told BBC Sport. \"Only those without any proof of NFF identifications are prevented from coming to the building.\" The ongoing power struggle means Nigeria face the prospect of a Fifa ban, which could put their World Cup qualification hopes in jeopardy.", "question": "Security forces are controlling who @placeholder the main office of the crisis-hit Nigerian Football Federation in the capital Abjua , BBC Sport has learned .", "option_0": "lost", "option_1": "achieved", "option_2": "is", "option_3": "fled", "option_4": "enters"}
{"id": 136, "article": "The news spread around social media like wildfire. Within minutes the website you could get the new product from was crashing, unable to cope with the demand. Was it a new gadget or game? No, it was the first episode of series two of Serial - a podcast. And that is very good news for anyone who worries about whether radio has a future. Serial, I should explain for anyone who does not follow these matters, was a huge and somewhat surprising hit when its first series appeared last year. Coming out of the same stable as NPR's  This American Life, it was a long, meandering but compelling investigation into a real-life murder story. As listeners tried to work out whether or not Adnan Syed was guilty the audience kept growing, and in all a hundred million people downloaded the podcast. The second series will tell the story of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier held captive by the Taliban and charged with desertion. It looks likely to gain an even bigger audience than the first series - and prove far more lucrative. Before the first launch the makers of Serial struck an advertising deal with an email marketing firm called Mailchimp, assuming the audience would be far smaller than was eventually achieved. The clever ads, with people mispronouncing the name as \"Mailkimp\" went viral, gaining the brand a far bigger bang for its buck than it can ever have imagined. Two other advertisers also enjoyed the exposure and they, along with some new brands, have all signed up for the second season. What this means is that podcasting, which has long struggled to prove its commercial viability, suddenly looks an attractive destination for advertisers - and investors. Gimlet Media, the firm behind the podcast Startup - which documents its own progress as a business  - has just raised $6m at a valuation of $30m. There are countless podcasts that are very cheap to make and consist of little more than random, unedited conversations, but they struggle to attract much of an audience. What Gimlet has found is that a carefully crafted piece of radio with high production values attracts far more listeners - and while that is expensive to make,  it is a far more attractive commercial proposition. Early attempts to persuade listeners to pay for podcasts proved pretty unsuccessful on both sides of the Atlantic, so the business model is going to depend, like commercial radio, on  various forms of advertising. Yet in the UK and elsewhere radio companies have found that even very simple speech programmes are more expensive to make than music output, and less easy to fund via advertising. Brian Jenkins, a consultant who's worked in the commercial radio industry for 30 years, tells me that it is \"the Cinderella medium\" for advertisers even though it still offers the second biggest audiences after television. Now though, advertisers in the United States are finding that audio can be a smart way to connect with audiences, either through straightforward ad spots and sponsorship or via the fashionable new method of \"branded content.\" So will highly crafted speech radio, in the form of podcasts,  now enjoy a revival? Perhaps - but only if it tells a compelling story which appeals to a global audience. And that, as anyone in the radio business will tell you, is not an easy trick to pull off.", "question": "The podcast Serial is back for its second series . Will its @placeholder give radio another chance to shine ?", "option_0": "action", "option_1": "ending", "option_2": "change", "option_3": "life", "option_4": "popularity"}
{"id": 137, "article": "Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said 50 Kamaz lorries and 25 Ural armoured lorries were flown to Latakia last week, along with other equipment. They will be used to help transport chemicals to the Mediterranean port, from where they will be shipped abroad. Syria agreed to abandon its chemical arsenal to avert potential US military action after a sarin attack in August. Under a deal brokered by the US and Russia, the complete elimination of all chemical weapons material and equipment must be completed by the first half of 2014. The \"most critical\" chemicals, including around 20 tons of the blister agent sulphur mustard, must be shipped out by 31 December. Last week, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) outlined its plan for their destruction outside Syria. US satellites and Chinese surveillance cameras will track the progress of the Russian lorries as they carry the chemicals from 12 storage sites in Syria to Latakia. Danish and Norwegian vessels will take the chemicals from there to a port in Italy. They will then be loaded on to a US Navy ship and taken out into international waters before being destroyed in a specially created titanium tank on board. The other Russian equipment flown to Syria included water tanks, military field kitchen units and tents, which were needed to \"service\" the foreign contingent involved in the operation, the Interfax news agency reported.", "question": "Russia has sent 75 @placeholder to Syria to assist the international operation to destroy or remove its chemical weapons .", "option_0": "vehicles", "option_1": "warships", "option_2": "observers", "option_3": "measures", "option_4": "disruption"}
{"id": 138, "article": "Dominic Colella was called out on 9 March 2013 when the 85-year-old man collapsed in a queue at a London branch of the store. A colleague told a disciplinary hearing Mr Colella had returned to the ambulance with two \"full bags of shopping\" after 20 minutes. He did not attend the hearing. Giving evidence to the Health and Care Professionals Council, fellow paramedic Yvonne Purves said the elderly man had passed out in M&S and then regained consciousness before being moved into Mr Colella's ambulance. She told the panel she had wondered where her colleague had gone after waiting for some time in the ambulance. \"The wife was understandably anxious about what had happened to her husband and was wondering why we weren't leaving to go to hospital,\" she said. \"He then came back with two full bags of shopping and loaded them in to the front of the ambulance and flippantly said 'do you want to go to hospital then?'. \"Obviously, I wanted to go to hospital some time ago. I waited 20 minutes for Mr Colella while alone in the ambulance,\" she added. On another occasion, Mr Colella is alleged to have got a hair cut instead of taking a head injury patient to hospital. The panel heard Mr Colella, who faces two counts of misconduct, did not turn up at the hearing because he was working. He has since resigned from the London Ambulance Service. The hearing continues.", "question": "A paramedic shopped in Marks and Spencer while an elderly patient with severe blood poisoning waited in an ambulance , a @placeholder panel has heard .", "option_0": "district", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "judging", "option_3": "conduct", "option_4": "jury"}
{"id": 139, "article": "An estimated 500 tonnes of wood caught fire at ABC Demolitions in Mill Road, Colmworth at about 13:00 BST on Tuesday. Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was now \"under control\" and it was letting the fire \"burn down\". An investigation will take place when it has been extinguished, a spokesman said. \"Because of the nature of the fire and the size of the wood pile, it is likely this will be a protracted incident that could last for days,\" he said. People in adjacent properties were evacuated. The service could not confirm how many residents had been affected but said there were only a couple of properties next to the site. Thermal imaging cameras are being used to ensure any radiant heat does not affect adjacent buildings.", "question": "A fire burning in a large pile of @placeholder wood in Bedfordshire \" could last for days \" , the fire service said .", "option_0": "recycled", "option_1": "people", "option_2": "fallen", "option_3": "homes", "option_4": "causing"}
{"id": 140, "article": "Think-tank Reform Scotland said the route had been left with limited potential for expansion. It said the Edinburgh to Tweedbank line had shown thinking was \"too small\" and planning \"too short-term\". The Scottish government said the railway had proved a huge success and expected more investment in future. Reform Scotland released written evidence it had sent to Transport Scotland's rail infrastructure strategy consultation. It has been submitted on its behalf by advisory board member Tom Harris, a former Labour transport minister in the UK government. He makes a range of suggestions including the need for \"bigger thinking\" in the long-term vision for Scotland's railways. Mr Harris singled out the Borders Railway for criticism with the construction of bridges to accommodate only single-track width as an example of limits placed on future expansion. He said: \"We are in danger of missing the bigger picture when it comes to discussing rail in Scotland. \"We talk in very narrow terms about ScotRail and its operation, but what we actually need is an injection of some creative, strategic thinking so that we can give the Scottish people a rail system built for the future and one to be proud of. \" He called for the creation of a Scottish Rail Infrastructure Commission to examine what \"ambitious transformational projects and new railway lines\" were needed to boost the Scottish economy and \"transform our connectivity as a nation\". \"The Borders Railway showed us that there is an appetite for new railways in Scotland, but it also showed us that our thinking is too small and our planning too short-term,\" he said. \"That ship has now sailed, but we must learn the lessons from it, think big, and plan long, and that is why the need for a commission is now critical.\" A Scottish government spokesman said it welcomed Reform Scotland's comments. \"The think-tank has raised issues about structure and vision,\" he said. \"Whilst there will be different views on structures to realise the vision for Scotland's railways it is clear that the ambitions for our railway to be a driver of economic growth and a positive, integral part of our social fabric is an ambition that is shared right across Scotland.\" He said the reopening of the Borders Railway had been a \"cause for celebration\" in the Borders and Midlothian. \"We were always confident that, in time, it would deliver major economic opportunities and attract new investment, so it is pleasing to see strong evidence that visits and spending are up significantly as a direct result of the new railway,\" he said. \"With over 1.2m passenger journeys in its first year alone, additional seats on peak time services and more improvements and initiatives in the pipeline, we look forward to seeing even more investment and interest in the area in the months and years ahead.\"", "question": "The Scottish government has defended the Borders Railway after claims the infrastructure vision for the project was \" short - @placeholder \" .", "option_0": "titled", "option_1": "sighted", "option_2": "based", "option_3": "listed", "option_4": "term"}
{"id": 141, "article": "After a year-long investigation, the Cycling Independent Reform Commission published its 227-page report into doping on Monday. Here, the principal characters involved, among them former International Cycling Union (UCI) presidents Hein Verbruggen and Pat McQuaid, current president Brian Cookson and disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, give their verdicts on the findings. The Englishman set up the three-man panel that drew up the report after he defeated McQuaid in a bitter and controversial 2013 election for the UCI presidency. Media playback is not supported on this device \"It's a very important day, a very significant day. The report has some very uncomfortable reading in it, but it also gives us hope for the future if we follow the recommendations. \"In 1999, Lance Armstrong had a positive test for cortisone, which was covered up by the UCI. That was a wrong judgement. It demonstrated that the UCI was going to prioritise the image of the sport, the business of the sport, over the integrity and honesty of the sport. If we hadn't had that decision, we'd have a very different landscape in our sport at this moment. \"I'll be writing to Hein Verbruggen in the light of what we've seen in the report and I'll be asking him to consider his position.\" McQuaid, UCI president from 2006-13, was cleared of outright corruption by Circ, which said the Irishman bent the rules to allow Lance Armstrong to make his comeback to the sport at the 2009 Tour Down Under. \"I made myself available to the commission on three occasions. When you consider the commission had access to all of my emails - received, sent, personal, internal, business - over a 10-year period and found nothing untoward says a lot. \"I'm happy that it reports that there was no corruption and no complicity in relation to doping. That, for me, is very important. \"If I had not put a lot of my time and energy into the fight against doping, as the report recognises, maybe I would have had more time to spend on governance and management which the report finds criticism with.\" In the report, Verbruggen, UCI president from 1991-2005, and McQuaid are blamed for interfering in anti-doping work, letting their enthusiasm for Armstrong's reflected glory cloud their judgements. \"I am delighted these stories of cover-ups and bribes have been dismissed, but it is clear they needed something else so they went after me. \"I have won quite a few elections in my time in sport, but if you were to read this report you would wonder how I won any at all. \"Then you look at who they talked to... there are five people who hate my guts. That is not fair. If they had told me they were speaking to them I could have given them 50 more names who would have said the opposite. \"The report says my approach to anti-doping was inadequate. I disagree. \"Cookson was in the general assembly for years and then in the UCI's management committee for eight years under McQuaid. I didn't hear any criticism then. I only heard applause. \"His suggestion that I should resign my honorary position is a joke.\" The 43-year-old American, who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for doping, was spoken to twice by the body which compiled the report. \"I am deeply sorry for many things I have done. However, it is my hope that revealing the truth will lead to a bright, dope-free future for the sport I love. I hope that all riders who competed and doped can feel free to come forward and help the tonic of truth heal this great sport.\" Usada has banned Armstrong for life and, in a report published in 2012, labelled the Texan a \"serial\" cheat. \"A stunning example of deceit found by the Circ is that the UCI, under the explicit direction of Hein Verbruggen and Pat McQuaid, commissioned a supposedly 'independent' investigation of Armstrong's positive samples from the Tour de France. \"According to the Circ, the UCI then conspired to allow what was sold to the public as an 'independent' report to be rewritten by Armstrong's own lawyer and sports agent in order to conceal Armstrong's doping. \"The report confirms that, for more than a decade, UCI leaders treated riders and teams unequally, allowing some to be above the rules. \"Sadly, the report confirms that greed, power, and profit - not truth - motivated UCI leaders and allowed the 'EPO' and 'blood doping' era to ride rampant. This is a tragic loss for all cyclists who sought to compete clean during that era, and their loss can never be forgotten.\" The former British road race champion, who retired as a professional cyclist in 2014, served a two-year doping ban from 2004 after admitting  taking performance-enhancing drugs. \"What the report has missed completely is the state of modern cycling. They don't seem to focus at all on what is happening right now. There are very few interviews with people who are on the ground racing now, young riders and relevant team owners. \"It's a ¡ê3m year-long investigation into the state of professional cycling, yet they haven't touched at all on what professional cycling is like now.\"", "question": "It is a report which lays bare cycling 's sins in forensic @placeholder . It has surprised and appalled some but been described as a \" character assassination \" by others .", "option_0": "circumstances", "option_1": "county", "option_2": "investigation", "option_3": "detail", "option_4": "hands"}
{"id": 142, "article": "The actress was widely rumoured to be leaving her role as Clara Oswald after a cliffhanger in the series eight finale, Death In Heaven. Moffat confirmed to Doctor Who magazine she had asked to be written out. \"That was her last episode,\" he said. \"Then she asked me if she could be in [the] Christmas [episode]. So I said, 'OK, I'll write you out in Christmas.'\" \"She came to the read through and did the 'write out' version - and again changed her mind.\" \"But the truth is I never wanted her to go. And with Last Christmas, I'd already written the alternative version where she stayed, and I preferred that version. \"Frankly, I didn't want to lose her. She's an amazing actress, and she never stops working to make Clara better. \"I was very happy to go the extra mile to make sure we could keep her.\" Coleman, who began her career in ITV soap Emmerdale, will now return for a third series as the Doctor's companion. It makes her the longest-serving assistant of the show's modern era, ahead of Karen Gillan and Billie Piper. Confirming she would return to the show last December, the 28-year-old, from Blackpool, said:  \"I couldn't walk away with the story being unresolved. \"The arrival of the 12th Doctor has just kind of dropped this whole bombshell and allowed the dynamic to totally change, so I think just when Clara was feeling more comfortable in the relationship, it has suddenly thrown something new up.\" Peter Capaldi, who plays the titular Time Lord said: \"I'm thrilled. Jenna has just been fantastic and such a pleasure to work with.\" The show is due to return to the BBC this autumn.", "question": "Jenna Coleman @placeholder to quit Doctor Who last year , the show 's chief writer Steven Moffat has said .", "option_0": "connect", "option_1": "planned", "option_2": "returning", "option_3": "dedicated", "option_4": "managed"}
{"id": 143, "article": "The 30-year-old reached three figures off 78 balls as the hosts took control of the third Test match in Sydney. Warner, who was out for 113, is the first batsman to hit a century in the opening session of a Test in Australia. Fellow opener Matt Renshaw, 20, scored his first Test century, ending unbeaten on 167 to help Australia reach 365-3. Renshaw, who was born in England, shared an opening stand of 151 with Warner and went on to bring up his century off 201 balls, despite being struck on the helmet by Mohammad Amir. Warner, meanwhile, smashed 17 fours to reach his hundred four minutes before lunch, falling to Wahab Riaz soon after the interval. He follows fellow Australians Victor Trumper, Charles Macartney and Donald Bradman, and Pakistan's Majid Khan, in achieving the feat. Batsmen who have scored centuries before lunch on day one of a Test match: It is the fourth time Warner has made a Test century in fewer than 100 balls, and his third consecutive ton in Tests at the Sydney Cricket Ground. \"It's a honour and privilege to be amongst the greats of the game,\" he said. \"It wasn't something in the back of my mind to go out and score a 100 in a session. It was about going out there with intent and batting positive.\" Bill Lawry, commentating on Australia's Nine Network, described it as a \"great moment for Test cricket\". Warner's feat also won widespread praise from fans, including champion wheelchair racer Kurt Fearnley. Australia lead the three-match series 2-0.", "question": "David Warner became only the fifth batsman to hit a century before lunch on the opening day of a Test match as Australia @placeholder against Pakistan .", "option_0": "evidence", "option_1": "beat", "option_2": "dominated", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "war"}
{"id": 144, "article": "There is little doubt it feels athletics is getting a raw deal as a result of the publication of allegations by German broadcaster ARD and the Sunday Times that it effectively turned a blind eye to rampant cheating and suspicious blood tests involving hundreds of athletes - allegations the IAAF calls \"sensationalist and confusing\". In a lengthy and robust statement, the IAAF made some valid points; the majority of the blood readings were taken before the introduction of the 'biological passport' in 2009, cannot be used as proof of doping, and are not the same as failed tests. What they are is essentially an indicator, a clue, open to interpretation, and potentially explained by a range of factors - from altitude to pregnancy and illness. The database was indeed shared with world anti-doping agency Wada, so why, they ask, did its chief, Sir Craig Reedie, express his surprise at the allegations? Despite the profile afforded to it by being the biggest of the Olympic sports, athletics is a minnow in financial global sporting terms. With revenue of just ¡ê40m a year, there is clearly a limit to what the IAAF can do to police its sport with only 10 people employed to oversee testing. It has indeed pursued 63 cases based on the biological passport programme with 39 athletes punished. It had targeted, tested and caught dopers. Athletics conducts a lot more tests than many sports, and it is clearly unfair to suggest it has sat there and done nothing. IAAF vice-president Lord Coe was even firmer in his defence of the sport, describing the allegations as a \"declaration of war\" against track and field and citing the interpretation of the data as \"breathtaking ignorance or a level of malevolence\". Naturally perhaps, for a man who loves the sport he once graced, Coe did not hold back, calling the coverage \"selective\" and \"wrong\", and an attempt to \"destroy the reputation of our sport\". With the credibility of athletics on the line, the anger of Coe and the IAAF at the damage being done is understandable, and they are fully entitled to their opinion if they feel hard done by. But as athletics braces itself for more revelations this weekend, its stance has undoubtedly disappointed some critics who want the sport to acknowledge, rather than deny, that it has a major problem. After all, outgoing IAAF president Lamine Diack admitted to me earlier this year his sport was indeed \"in crisis\". Some athletes have come out and said the revelations merely confirmed their suspicions, and would rather the IAAF use the scandal as a catalyst for change than vent ire at the impression it has created. Sergey Bubka, Coe's rival in the presidential election taking place on 19 August, took a very different approach in his response to the crisis, calling for more transparency and admitting the IAAF needed to be \"more proactive\". This week Diack described the allegations as \"a joke\". Very few are laughing. As Dick Pound, former head of Wada, said: \"I'm not sure what he meant.\" Pound is currently heading a Wada independent commission investigating earlier allegations of widespread doping and cover-ups in Russia. in 2013 he told the Mail on Sunday: \"It's clear that cycling, athletics, swimming, tennis and soccer have major problems and are ruled by governing bodies in denial.\" A central plank of Coe's IAAF presidential election campaign has been getting tougher on doping and he has spoken about life bans for those caught cheating. However, given his involvement in the IAAF for several years, and his condemnation of the media outlets who have exposed the leaked files, is he too close to make those changes? By threatening legal action against the whistleblower and attacking the messenger, athletics leaves itself open to comparisons with the way Fifa attacked the BBC and the Sunday Times over its exposes of corruption surrounding World Cup bidding in recent years. Many will argue the story is of significant public interest, and that the IAAF and Coe were too quick to dismiss it after just a few days. The IAAF can hardly be surprised some are sceptical. After all, back in December it was forced to deny those previous allegations of institutional doping at the Russian athletics federation. The son of the president himself, Papa Massata Diack, an IAAF marketing consultant, stepped down pending an investigation, along with Valentin Balakhnichev, president of the Russian athletics federation and the IAAF's treasurer. Months later, we are still waiting for both the IAAF's internal ethics committee investigation - and Wada's Independent Commission investigation to report back. Coe's questioning of the credentials of the \"so-called experts\" who interpreted the readings from the leaked database - anti-doping scientists Robin Parisotto and Michael Ashenden - has also raised eyebrows. Parisotto, after all, is employed by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency. Ashenden is regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on blood doping. He has acted as an expert witness in high-profile cases including those of cyclists Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador. Media playback is not supported on this device It will not have escaped attention that as recently as 2012, the IAAF rated Ashenden highly enough to ask him to sit on an expert panel on biological passports, but he declined because he felt he was being \"muzzled\", accusing the anti-doping movement of fostering a culture of 'omerta'. So it is inevitable, fair or not, that some will now see echoes of the way cycling was run during the EPO era, when those in charge of the sport averted their eyes instead of tackling the problem head on. The two experts have made the point that when the IAAF analysed the same data that has been reported, it felt sure enough to report that increased blood values \"most probably indicated a doping behaviour\", and there will now be calls for the entire database to be passed over to Wada's Independent Commission. Some will want to know whether Coe now supports the idea of criminalising doping, as some countries have done. And whether athletes should now publish their blood results, if they have nothing to hide. Does he support the idea of banning entire countries from competition - like Russia (despite the power it wields in world athletics) - if their athletes continue to cheat. Some will ask why Coe asked for ARD and the Sunday Times to hand over the data - \"we would love to know what they have got\" - when the IAAF readily admits it already has it. Coe also quite rightly referred to the dangers of extrapolating from \"one set of readings\". But Ashenden and Parisotto have said, their judgements were based on a number of samples, - \"the entire blood profile\". These are challenging and awkward times for Coe. Last month he came out and publicly supported Mo Farah's decision to back his coach Alberto Salazar after the American's denial of any wrongdoing following allegations in a BBC Panorama documentary that he had violated doping regulations. There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Farah, but some would no doubt have preferred Coe to wait until the outcome of investigations by US Anti-doping Agency into the claims, and for UK Athletics to publish their full report into the training regime of the coach (who they use as a consultant) at Nike's Oregon Project. Last week, before news of the doping scandal broke, my colleague Alex Capstick interviewed Coe and asked him if his judgement was compromised by being an international adviser to Nike. Coe denied it, and said he was proud of his record on transparency and corporate governance, but did say it was \"possible\" he would have to now reconsider the long-standing relationship. For all of the support they have given to track and field, Nike, remember, have been criticised by a number of athletes for their sponsorship of two-time drugs cheat Justin Gatlin. Media playback is not supported on this device Talking of which, later this month, Gatlin is favourite to win gold in the 100 metres final in Beijing. Given everything that has happened, some will see it as the last thing athletics needs. Having just seen Chris Froome win the Tour de France under a cloud of innuendo without any evidence, athletics cannot afford for every medallist in Beijing to do so with millions of viewers wondering if they can believe what they see. Coe is clearly in a tricky position, and obviously he will only have the opportunity to make the required changes to athletics if he wins the forthcoming IAAF presidential election against pole vault legend Bubka. For many, Coe is the man to clean up athletics; he has called a for a properly-resourced independent testing programme, and if he wins, must be judged on what he does in office. But rarely will a new international federation president have come into power at such a pivotal time for their sport. Coe may have thought winning Olympic races or organising the London 2012 Games was difficult. Fixing his sport - if given the chance - could prove his toughest challenge to date.", "question": "Two weeks before its flagship event - the World Championships in Beijing - and with its credibility and @placeholder under scrutiny like never before , it is no surprise that athletics ' governing body the IAAF has come out all guns blazing as it attempts to handle the drugs crisis that threatens to bring the sport to its knees . But what questions remain to be answered ?", "option_0": "rates", "option_1": "safety", "option_2": "integrity", "option_3": "image", "option_4": "success"}
{"id": 145, "article": "Sitting with his sons and his brothers, the former Prime Minister joined the massed ranks of Raith Rovers fans in riotous acclamation of a result that sparked jubilation in one section of Easter Road and fury in all others. John Baird's winner, put away on the rebound four minutes from the end of extra-time, lent drama to an otherwise wretched final. Moments after the last whistle, you looked to the Rangers sections of the stadium and they were as desolate as their defence had been when the ball broke loose off Cammy Bell for Baird to thump home the winner. It was a lovely moment for Raith Rovers, who hardly threatened all day. A smash and grab. Rangers had the dominance and most of the chances, but it did them no good. They were short on ideas and woefully short on accuracy. Ally McCoist left the arena looking like a man who had seen a ghost. Maybe he had. Maybe the Rangers manager was having flashbacks. The longer this final went on, the more you thought of McCoist's myriad torments in cup football as manager of Rangers, the track record of failure that had a cherry applied on top here, courtesy of Baird. The convulsion against Forfar in the League Cup earlier this season. The shellackings at the hands of Dundee United and Inverness in the Scottish Cup and League Cup last year and the year before last. The painful exit against Queen of the South in the Ramsdens Cup that went before. The embarrassing loss against Falkirk in the League Cup in 2011 in the pre-liquidation age, a night when Rangers still contrived to lose despite playing a coltish Falkirk while having all their own go-to players on the pitch. The catastrophic losses to Maribor and Malmo in Europe that same season. Now this. With five minutes of normal time remaining at Easter Road, the ball came floating across the Raith Rovers penalty area to the back post, where Bilel Mohsni lay in wait, unmarked and favourite to score. In an act entirely in keeping with what went on in the previous 85 minutes, Mohsni made a mess of it, his header flying over and into the Rangers fans behind the goal he had so lamentably failed to trouble. How utterly ruinous that miss proved to be. Mohsni's moment was just one more terrible mistake piled high atop an error mountain that reached high into the Edinburgh sky. With its colours and its noise and its full house, the final looked and sounded like a big occasion, but when referee Kevin Clancy got things underway, the reality kicked in. Media playback is not supported on this device Two poor teams. Neither with the capacity to unlock the other until that last act. Scrambling defence usually got in the way. Or hopeless execution. Mostly hopeless execution. For all of the opening half - and for much of what followed thereafter - this could not have been any more slapstick had the Three Stooges stood in the middle of the park hitting each other with wet fish. Maybe it improved as time went on - at least there were some chances - but only by a degree or two and only from the stultifying mess it had been in the opening half. An eyesore. Ian Black was emblematic of what went on. It is perhaps unfair to pick out one player above all others for treatment, but Black's deterioration since he joined Rangers has been unmistakable. He has played - and bossed - bigger cup finals than this. The reason Rangers signed him in the first place and gave him such an outlandish wage, in Scottish terms, was because he has done it on a decent stage with Hearts. In that first half, the only leadership and direction Black offered happened to bring Rangers down a dead-end route. His first act was a free-kick that went sailing beyond its target - a pattern that continued. He got the ball and he hit it too long. He got it back and he hit it too short. In Black's head, he must think he is some gorgeous amalgam of Xavi and Andres Iniesta. In reality, too often, he was Mr Magoo. Whatever chance Rangers had of building momentum crashed and burned with Black. It says something about their opponents that Rangers still had the game's best moments despite their terrible deficiencies. Black had a shot tipped over by Lee Robinson in the Rovers goal, Mohsni set the scene for his latter miss by having one earlier from similar range, Stevie Smith had a fine shot turned away by Rovers' goalkeeper. Rare snapshots of excitement. On it went, Rangers trying to play but failing. Raith Rovers attempting to spark something but incapable. Any time a breakthrough threatened, a pass went astray or a bad decision was made. Lee Wallace failed to pick out Nicky Law. Callum Booth failed to hit the target. Mohsni failed - somehow - with that point-blank header and the final carried on into extra-time, what little life it had in it being drained slowly. When Law's shot slapped off one of Robinson's posts, the mind started to turn to penalties, but then Baird appeared on the scene and settled it. Rovers had their win and McCoist had another chapter in the feeble story of his cup experiences while in charge at Rangers. Despite the joyous ructions among the Raith Rovers supporters, it was still possible to hear the eruptions of their counterparts. Boos rang out from the Rangers fans. There cannot have been shock at their side's terrible shortcomings - they have seen this kind of thing many times before - but there was an unmistakeable air of resentment. If some of it - all of it - was directed at McCoist, then no wonder. This was as bad a day for him as it was a celebration for his opposite number, Grant Murray. The Raith Rovers manager left the capital with a trophy in the bag.  McCoist departed with a heap of trouble on his hands.", "question": "Not since Tony Blair stepped down from high office has Gordon Brown 's face @placeholder so brightly .", "option_0": "struggling", "option_1": "hopes", "option_2": "title", "option_3": "beamed", "option_4": "team"}
{"id": 146, "article": "The RSPCA said the pooch, nicknamed Pudding, was so matted when he was found in Plymouth, Devon, his breed was unrecognisable. After cleaning him up, the animal charity now believes Pudding is a shih tzu cross. Inspector Sarah Morris said seeing a dog neglected and dumped on Christmas Eve had made her angry. Pudding was discovered by a member of the public on their way to work, who then alerted the RSPCA. Ms Morris said: \"I took him straight to a vet who gave him a body score of three-and-a-half out of 10, so he was very thin. \"It brought a tear to my eye when I was taking him to the animal centre. He must have been terrified, hungry and so uncomfortable, just left out in the dark, wind and rain.\" Pudding, who is thought to be about six or seven years old, was unable to see out of his right eye, his nails were overgrown and he was also covered in fleas, the RSPCA said. He has been taken to the RSPCA's Little Valley Animal Centre, near Exeter.", "question": "A dog tied up and abandoned in \" torrential \" rain on Christmas eve has been @placeholder .", "option_0": "reported", "option_1": "rescued", "option_2": "unveiled", "option_3": "announced", "option_4": "released"}
{"id": 147, "article": "Well the person wielding all the power in the US version of the show is Donald Trump - he with an ego the size of a medium-sized planet in our solar system, a gravity-defying mop of swirling blonde hair on his head, and a bank account that could probably refloat Greece. So what would he make of a wannabe apprentice who expressed openly racist views? And not only that - a wannabe apprentice who doesn't just want any job - he wants to be leader of the free world, the president of the United States of America. I think he would say, with barely concealed derision and scorn \"you're fired\". But in this case Donald Trump is the wannabe, and he wants to be hired as the Republican candidate for the US presidency. It was at his stage-managed launch held - where else - at Trump Tower in New York that he said: \"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems to us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.\" Immediately after those comments Republican strategists did not know whether to laugh or cry. After all, all you need do is look at the growth of the Latino population in America, assess their growing electoral importance in influencing the next presidential election, and how in the 2012 race their vote broke more or less 2:1 in favour of the Democrats, to realise that this is a group who need to be wooed and cajoled by the Republicans. But remarkably the leadership has sat on its hands, and said next to nothing. Ditto some of the other Republican candidates vying for the nomination. I was at a breakfast this morning with one of those hopefuls, the former Pennsylvania senator, Rick Santorum, and asked him about the way Trump had expressed his views on immigration and Mexicans - all he would say is \"ah well, that's Donald...\" This stands in stark contrast to the response of corporate America. There's been little hesitation there. Giants like the department store Macy's and TV company NBC Universal have cut ties. Mexican TV companies who were to screen his Miss Universe show say they want nothing to do with him. There have been protests and demonstrations, and a celebrity Latino chef who was going to open a flagship Trump restaurant in DC has quit in horror at his comments. So why the mismatch in response? Well, the comments from Trump have struck a chord with many Republicans. In a field that contains 15 presidential hopefuls, from nowhere Trump is almost leading the pack in the polls. Someone coined the phrase after the last presidential election that the problem with the GOP was that its support was male, pale and stale - in other words, the prominent demographic was older, white men. It's beginning to look like there is a fear of offending the core, even among some of the candidates determined to widen the appeal of the party. And so a subject that the mainstream politicians had hoped to sidestep at this election - immigration from Mexico and countries further south - is now fair and square back in the centre of political discourse. Of course this is a trend not unique to the USA. Look at the role Nigel Farage's UKIP played in the recent UK elections, or the Northern League in Italy, or the Front Nationale in France. If you try to ignore voter anxieties about immigration by sweeping them under the carpet, there are populist parties who will give those concerns plenty of ventilation - and win a lot of support in the process. But Trump's appeal goes beyond any immigration concerns. Some of his supporters believe a man who has run a business so successfully can \"fix\" America's finances. And others no doubt like his blunt, straight-talking style. Next month there is going to be a televised debate among the Republican hopefuls, mounted by Fox. To stop the show becoming totally unwieldy, only the top 10 candidates according to the five most recent polls will be invited to participate - Trump will be there. And far from backing down after the outcry his comments have provoked, he is amplifying them - or \"doubling down\" to use the American argot - and that will leave the other nine co-debaters shuffling uneasily at their podiums. The smart money says that Trump will eventually crash and burn - a meteor that will burn super bright in the night sky, but soon to disappear in a long vapour trail. In the meantime, somewhere in New York , a 67-year-old lady will be sitting in front of the TV, a bowl of popcorn by her side, watching Fox TV, almost splitting the seams of her pant-suit laughing. Hillary just cannot get enough of this reality show.", "question": "If you 're an aficionado of The Apprentice , you know the punchline \" you 're fired \" - or when it gets to the season finale and there 's the final boardroom showdown , with buttock - clenchingly tense music , long cutaway shots of the final group of hopefuls left standing , waiting nervously to hear their fate - and the man in control , the capo di tutti capi , the titan of industry @placeholder \" you 're hired ! \"", "option_0": "announces", "option_1": "called", "option_2": "branded", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "saying"}
{"id": 148, "article": "Prices may have fallen for washers, freezers and mixers, but so has their expected lifespan. It's a popular subject among readers of the BBC News website and many have been keen to share their appreciation and pictures of decades-old appliances still in working order, here is a selection of some of your stories and pictures. Several readers have sent in stories and pictures of their food mixers, especially models of the Kenwood Chef. John Adams' machine (above) was inherited from his mother, who in turn inherited it from hers. \"It is over 40 years old and still gets used every week for baking, and it still works perfectly.\" Probably a touch older is the Kenwood mixer bought in Singapore in 1968 and currently used by the daughter of Fiona Lamb. Older still is this Model 700D Kenwood Chef (right), which belongs to Tim Barthorpe from Orkney. It was purchased in 1960 and he inherited it from his wife's stepmother. Tim still possesses and uses the full set of accessories the machine came with. \"It's not a museum piece. I use it on a regular basis. \"I rely on it at Christmas for pudding mixing and for chopping all the meat for my 5lb pork pie!\" However, Patricia Neil of Camarthenshire may have piped Tim with a Kenwood Chef, and the china bowl it came with, bought in 1955 and still used every week. Aside from recently snapping the whisk, Patricia says she still has \"all the original bits,\" although uncertain what some of them are for. Claire Saunders' mother is still utilising her Modeq electric clothes airer (right), received as a wedding present, also in 1955. \"It is used at least three times a week, year-round, and has never needed servicing or repair,\" says Claire. Another wedding present continuing to prove its value is the Sharp microwave of Jane Green, \"working perfectly\" after 26 and a half years. \"It's had a couple of new plates,\" admits Jane. \"And a few new bulbs, but apart from that, no problems at all.\" Meanwhile, Mike Skonieczny got in touch from Royal Oak, Michigan, USA, to say the toaster his parents received on their wedding day in 1960 is \"on the counter now looking quite shiny and ready to go\". Harry Wallace sent us this picture of his 1978 JVC Amplifier, which has \"never missed a beat, still going strong!\" However, a modern amplifier Harry recently purchased from somebody else \"didn't even last a year\". Should make a lovely accompaniment to the CD player still used by Wally Wharton of Edinburgh, part of his Pioneer stereo system from 1986. By nearly a decade, the picture of the oldest home appliance in service received by the BBC was this one (right) of a Prestcold refrigerator. Owned by Lis Graham, the fridge was originally purchased by her father in 1946 and has only needed one replacement part since the turn of the millennium. Today it plays a background role in BBC period drama Call the Midwife. By comparison, the second-oldest fridge we received notice of belongs to Mrs J Storrar of Fife, whose Frigidaire, made by General Motors, was bought in 1949 by her husband's grandparents. In third place, and relatively youthful, is the refrigerator of Nigel Thomas's mother which \"has been working for 52 years\". Highlights from the dozens of stories received include a Goblin vacuum cleaner Model 702P, \"still going strong following my late parents' purchase 51 years ago,\" according to Raymond Gardiner, and a 29-year-old Black and Decker drill belonging to Kevin Hammond. Of all the washing machine models we have been told of, Mary McCloskey's Zanussi 918 appears to be the oldest, having run for at least 31 years. And, of all the microwaves, Lyn Packman's National Panasonic Genius, bought by her father in August 1980, is the oldest model still in service we have been told about. Finally, Louise Wadsworth has notified us of her Hotpoint Aquarius DF61 dishwasher, working for 24 years with no repairs. The secret, she says, is to \"just clean the filter in bleach and run the machine with a detergent cleaner once a month\". Of the many submissions we received, Edward Norton may possess the greatest number of functioning but decades-old appliances. His 1960s Hygena kitchen contains a 1958 GEC fridge; 1985 Hoover washing machine; 1960s New World gas range and \"many other bits and bobs all still working and all used regularly\". Martyn Hilton is another owner of a Prestcold refrigerator, which has accompanied him throughout his life, from Cheadle Hulme in England to its current home in Bangkok, Thailand. \"I couldn't bear to be parted with it,\" says Martyn. \"It weighs a ton. Ironically, everybody assumes it's a new, 'American-style' fridge.\" We were also sent this image of a 650w microwave which David Hillen won in 1989 for correctly predicting the first three horses in a race at Beverley Racecourse, Yorkshire. Then there is the Ekcovision TC267 television set from 1955 sent in by Barrie Fairbairn, \"working and in regular use\"; Gary Tibballs' Hoover Electron 1100 washing machine from 1981; and the Hoover Junior 1346, bought by Dale Who's mother in 1969. Thank you to everyone who submitted their stories and images of technology which has refused to bow to time. Written by Richard Irvine-Brown", "question": "The white @placeholder in your home are no longer manufactured to be as durable as in previous generations , the Whitegoods Trade Association acknowledges .", "option_0": "constant", "option_1": "goods", "option_2": "materials", "option_3": "scene", "option_4": "public"}
{"id": 149, "article": "The American, 65, who is leaving LA Galaxy to take up the post, led his country to the 2002 World Cup quarter-finals in his first spell in charge. Arena also boasts the best win rate of any US manager, with 71 victories from his 130 games between 1998 and 2006. He has also won five MLS Cups with LA Galaxy and DC United. Klinsmann, 52, steered the United States to the last 16 at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, but they have lost their first two games in the qualifying campaign for 2018. They sit bottom of the six-country qualifying group, below teams including Panama and Honduras, albeit only a fifth of the way through the process. \"Any time you get the opportunity to coach the national team, it's an honour,\" Arena said. \"I'm confident that we'll take the right steps forward to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.\" Arena's first day in charge will be 1 December, and his first match will be a qualifier at home to Honduras on 24 March 2017. Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "question": "Bruce Arena has been appointed United States head coach for a second time , succeeding Jurgen Klinsmann , who was @placeholder on Monday .", "option_0": "captured", "option_1": "reported", "option_2": "stabbed", "option_3": "sacked", "option_4": "named"}
{"id": 150, "article": "The man broke into the property in General Roy Way in Carluke, South Lanarkshire, at about 03:45 on Tuesday. He demanded the couple's car keys, but they refused. He then ran off and managed to steal one of the cars which was a grey Volkswagen Golf. He also took a number of other items, which have since been found in different locations in the town. PC Craig Jeffrey said: \"A woman returned the householder's wallet after finding it and we would like to speak to this woman to establish more information about where it was found. \"I would also appeal to anyone who may have seen anyone acting suspiciously in General Roy Way, or the surrounding area, in the early hours on Tuesday morning to come forward.\"", "question": "A man and woman asleep in their home were @placeholder by a thief shining a light into their faces .", "option_0": "beaten", "option_1": "killed", "option_2": "attacked", "option_3": "woken", "option_4": "destroyed"}
{"id": 151, "article": "The contaminant, they say, is Indulin AA-86, an asphalt emulsifier which can burn human skin in concentrated form. On Wednesday the city of 320,000 people announced that residents should not touch, drink or use the water. The ban has since been lifted for some city dwellers while officials investigate the origin of the spill. After a night-time meeting of the city council on Thursday, officials released a map of the city, showing that residents in the outlying regions could resume using city tap water. Angry residents had gathered outside city hall throughout the day to call for answers and to chant \"What do we want? Clean water! When do we want it? Now!\". As of Friday morning, about 15% of city residents were told they could use their water. Corpus Christi residents warned not to touch tap water State officials have pledged to help the city, with the Texas Division of Emergency Management sending shipments of bottled water to the state. A run on grocery stores had emptied shelves immediately after the ban was announced. Water bottle distribution centres have been set up across Corpus Christi to establish the more than 100,000 cases that have been donated from around the country. FedEx has said they will disrupt some holiday shipments in order to ensure the delivery of bottled water to the Gulf of Mexico city. Officials say that about three to 24 gallons of the petroleum-based, glue-like substance was released by Ergon Asphalt and Emulsion Inc after a \"back-flow incident\" in the city's industrial district. Official say no reports of illness or injury has been reported related to the recent contamination. The Mississippi-based company has not taken responsibility for the spill and in a statement said it had been in contact with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and had been \"working cooperatively to provide all information to ensure state officials can remedy the situation as quickly as possible.\" City spokeswoman Kim Womack told a local news station that officials had inspected the suspected site of the contamination and had not found a \"backflow preventer\". \"They're saying there is one and we're telling them 'show us,'\" she told KRIS-TV. \"In the simplest terms, someone was careless when they were injecting chemicals with a pump and ... when the injection occurred, it crossed over into our water system.\" Corpus Christi has struggled with water issues frequently in the past few years. In May, Corpus Christi officials issued their third boil-water advisory in a year, which instructs residents to boil all water before using it. Officials said at the time that heavy rainfall had caused elevated levels of nitrogen-rich runoff in the water supply. In 2015 water-boils were issued due to elevated levels of E coli bacteria and another time for low levels of chlorine.", "question": "Corpus Christi officials have @placeholder a chemical that is suspected to have leaked into the Texan city's tap water on Wednesday night .", "option_0": "released", "option_1": "backed", "option_2": "rejected", "option_3": "declared", "option_4": "identified"}
{"id": 152, "article": "The Environment Agency has put warnings in place around rivers in Cambridgeshire, Essex and Suffolk. The agency gives warnings when flooding is expected and \"immediate action\" is required. In Norfolk some trains have been cancelled between Norwich and Sheringham due to flooding on the line near Worstead. In Cambridgeshire, flood warnings are in place along the River Granta from Linton to Babraham. In Essex, warnings are in place along the River Wid from Ingatestone to Writtle and the River Stort at Clavering and Manuden. In Suffolk, warnings have been issued for the Chediston watercourse at Halesworth, the Rattlesden River from Rattlesden to Combs Ford, Stour Brook at Haverhill and Sturmer and the Bumpstead Brook from Steeple Bumpstead to New England. There is also a flood warning on the River Kennett from Ousden to Freckenham.", "question": "Seven flood warnings have been issued across parts of the @placeholder of England , due to heavy rain .", "option_0": "east", "option_1": "west", "option_2": "whole", "option_3": "amount", "option_4": "region"}
{"id": 153, "article": "The striker, under scrutiny after a poor start to the season, scored a hat-trick in the 4-0 win over Club Brugge in the Champions League qualifier. \"If I didn't have a strong character, that may have affected me, but I know my quality,\" 29-year-old Rooney said. \"If the goals don't go in I still bring a lot to my team-mates.\" Victory secured United's place in the Champions League group stage following a one-season absence. England captain Rooney has been playing as United's main striker this season but had not scored in the side's opening four games in all competitions. He went into the match in Brugge with his most recent United goal having come against Aston Villa in April, but he ended his 878-minute club scoring drought in emphatic manner. His first was a dink over goalkeeper Sinan Bolat before he side-footed in and then swept home a shot, while Ander Herrera grabbed United's fourth. \"I wasn't worried. If it was going on for three, four, five games more then maybe, but it's early days and I knew when the chances came I'd take them,\" Rooney told BT Sport. \"Everybody goes back to last season and it was so many games without scoring, but a lot of top quality strikers are yet to get off the mark at this stage. \"I understand because of my name and because of who I am it will get publicised a lot more. That's my job and I understand that.\" Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal said: \"It has given him always the confidence that a player needs. \"Wayne has a very strong mentality and with his level he shall always come back and he proved that.\"", "question": "Wayne Rooney says he is strong enough to handle being @placeholder after he ended his 10 - game goal drought for Manchester United .", "option_0": "criticised", "option_1": "suspended", "option_2": "substituted", "option_3": "rested", "option_4": "used"}
{"id": 154, "article": "Wayne Evans, from Everton in Liverpool, ran a distribution operation that cost the music industry more than ?¡ê1m and saw 700,000 tracks illegally downloaded, City of London Police said. The 39-year-old admitted uploading music from the Official Charts Company between June 2014 and July 2015 at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday. He was jailed for 12 months A police spokesman said Evans had shared the music as the chart was published every week through various torrent sites and also distributed other tracks through his own websites, including a cappella music to be used for DJing and remixing. He said about 700,000 tracks were downloaded from the sites between June 2014 and July 2015, which had deprived the creators of ?¡ê1,054,000. Evans was arrested last September following a joint investigation between PRS for Music - which represents the rights of UK songwriters, composers and music publishers in the UK - and the City of London Police. The police spokesman said his conviction was the first custodial sentence to arise from the two organisations working together. Speaking after the case, PRS for Music's Head of Litigation, Enforcement and Anti-Piracy Simon Bourn said copyright infringement \"has a severe impact on the livelihoods of creators\", adding: \"We hope that today's sentencing sends a message... that consequences will follow\".", "question": "A DJ has pleaded guilty to illegally sharing songs from the Top 40 chart as it was @placeholder for more than a year .", "option_0": "buried", "option_1": "spent", "option_2": "closed", "option_3": "absent", "option_4": "announced"}
{"id": 155, "article": "Port Talbot's Plaza cinema, where Richard Burton and Sir Anthony Hopkins used to visit, has been earmarked to reopen as a form of arts centre. But Neath Port Talbot council chief executive Steve Phillips said it would not be sustainable to run the Plaza and Princess Royal Theatre. No decisions have yet been made. \"We do want to bring the Plaza cinema back into productive use,\" Mr Phillips said. \"Not least because it is opposite Port Talbot Parkway train station which is being refurbished, but we've got big plans for the regeneration of Station Road which it is at the end of.\" The Plaza shut in 1999 and there has been a long-term intention to reopen it, while the theatre building, which is part of the town's civic centre, is in need of repair. Mr Phillips said the council had to look at how it subsidises arts and culture facilities as it faced budget cuts. Housing a theatre in part of the revamped cinema building has not been ruled out. He also accepted the possibility that community groups or not-for-profit organisations could take over the theatre but pointed out that in many cases, such groups need subsidies. Mr Phillips added: \"Councillors across Wales face difficult decisions on the future of heavily subsidised arts and cultural facilities. \"Neath Port Talbot is no different and the budget proposals currently out for consultation include scrutiny of the funding of existing facilities in the county borough. \"Whilst councillors have taken no decisions, it is clear that the authority cannot sustain a new facility within a couple of hundred yards of an existing one. \"Options going forward will be put to elected members in due course.\"", "question": "The future of a town centre theatre could be thrown into doubt if a nearby derelict cinema building is brought back to life , it has been @placeholder .", "option_0": "warned", "option_1": "released", "option_2": "destroyed", "option_3": "cancelled", "option_4": "replaced"}
{"id": 156, "article": "Fisherman's Friends vocalist Trevor Grills, 54, and Paul McMullen, 44, died after a steel door collapsed at G Live in Guildford on 9 February 2013. David Naylor, 57, director of Express Hi-Fold Doors Ltd, denies two charges of manslaughter by gross negligence. The jury also saw a similar door at a property in Bisley. Mr Grills, from Port Isaac, Cornwall, and Mr McMullen, from Disley in Cheshire, were at the venue ahead of a performance due to be staged by the 10-piece group. They were unloading music equipment from their van when the door, designed and manufactured by Express Hi-Fold Doors Ltd, fell on them. Mr McMullen, originally from Heanor in Derbyshire, died at the scene and Mr Grills in hospital a few days later. Adrian Darbishire QC said Mr Naylor was \"a man of integrity\" who \"had faith\" in the doors he sold, believing they were a \"safe design\". He told Guildford Crown Court that concerns raised by a customer in Bournemouth were \"not ignored\". Express Hi-Fold Doors Ltd denies a third charge of a breach of health and safety laws. On the opening day of the trial, the jury was told doors manufactured by Mr Naylor's company had failed before. The trial continues.", "question": "The jury in the trial of a man accused of causing the deaths of a shanty group singer and their promoter has @placeholder the venue where they were killed .", "option_0": "visited", "option_1": "captured", "option_2": "denied", "option_3": "reached", "option_4": "discovered"}
{"id": 157, "article": "Tony Aitken, 33, formerly of Melton Mowbray, lost control of his truck on 4 May and his son Luke was thrown from the vehicle. The boy was celebrating his 12th birthday when he died at Langar Industrial Unit, in Nottinghamshire, police said. He died later from injuries sustained when the truck fell on top of him. The truck had three children in the front seat, despite the vehicle only being meant to hold two passengers, Nottingham Crown Court heard. The other children in the vehicle, aged 12 and five, were treated in hospital for minor injuries. Aitken pleaded guilty to driving whilst unfit and causing death by dangerous driving and was jailed for five-and-a-half years, Nottinghamshire Police said. He was also disqualified from driving for seven years.", "question": "A tipper truck driver has been jailed after the lorry he was driving @placeholder , killing his son .", "option_0": "stopped", "option_1": "article", "option_2": "rolled", "option_3": "beaten", "option_4": "caught"}
{"id": 158, "article": "The firm's own internet services are now valued to be worth a fraction of its stake in the e-commerce giant Alibaba. So, after the US tax authorities effectively blocked Yahoo's sales of shares in the Chinese business, chief executive Marissa Mayer opted for plan B: sell off Yahoo's core business. Since February, dozens of US-based companies have been linked to a potential bid. But the UK-based owner of the Daily Mail newspaper has now confirmed it is in discussions with unnamed parties to make an offer - an announcement that caught many by surprise. In much of the world, Yahoo may be considered a marginal internet brand. But in the US, it is still a force to be reckoned with. In February, it was the States' third most visited online platform, attracting more than 204 million people, according to research firm Comscore. To put that in context, Facebook had only 1% more users and Google's apps and websites only 17% more. Yahoo's news and sports are read by about one in four people at least once a week in the country, according to a University of Oxford study. And there are reports that its personal finance coverage is proving popular with millennials - those born in the 1980s and later - thanks to it mixing articles about how to deal with debt with more traditional earnings coverage. Other properties, including its blogging platform Tumblr, photo-sharing service Flickr, web-based email accounts and Q&A site Yahoo Answers continue to have international appeal. All of which means the firm can state that \"more than one billion people\" regularly use its products. Investors are getting restless because Yahoo's share of users doesn't match its share of online advertising sales. Last year, Yahoo accounted for only 1.5% of marketers' mobile online spend, according to a study by eMarketer. By contrast, Google scooped up 35% and Facebook 19%. Furthermore, Yahoo's position appears to be getting worse. The firm has predicted that its overall revenues will drop by about 15% this year, according to documents seen by the news site Recode. A large part of the problem is that while Yahoo can serve up huge numbers of ads, they are less targeted than those of its rivals. \"User data is key. Google and Facebook have a huge number of logged-in users, so they can track who it is using their services and use the information to let advertisers direct their ads,\" explained Joseph Evans from Enders Analysis. \"Yahoo might have a lot of users, but most of them are not logged into its services, so are effectively anonymous eyeballs. \"They are not totally anonymous - there is some behavioural data that Yahoo makes use of - but generally Google and Facebook are better at knowing who you are.\" A chance to grow its US audience. MailOnline and DailyMail.com were the only overseas publications to feature in the country's top 10 most visited news websites and apps last year, attracting more than 51 million readers. But Yahoo - and its partner ABC News - still managed to attract more than double that figure. \"The US has been the main driver of digital growth for Daily Mail & General Trust, but whilst traffic has grown well they haven't quite monetised this traffic as successfully as they would have liked,\" said Ian Whittaker, a media analyst at the investment bank Liberum. \"The combined inventory of DMGT and Yahoo would make a compelling offer to media buyers as they could offer them a significant amount of verified impressions in a 'brand-safe' environment.\" Another industry watcher added that the two firms' online activities appear to be a good match. \"Mail Online is fun and a bit salacious,\" commented Mathew Horsman from the Mediatique consultancy. \"It trends reasonably young and has a reputation for being a quick and dirty way of getting celebrity news, but its personal finance and property coverage are also among its strong suits. \"So, there are some interesting overlaps.\" Far from it. Many think a deal with Verizon would make more sense. The mobile network has sought to diversify its interests, and bought AOL last year - which gave it ownership of the Huffington Post, Techcrunch, Engadget and other news sites. Shortly afterwards, Verizon announced it would start combining personal knows about its mobile network subscribers - which is tied to their handsets - with the tracking data already gathered by AOL's sites. By doing so it said it could deliver more \"personalised\" ads. \"A Verizon-AOL-Yahoo tie-up would start to reach the sort of scale where they could become a 'third force' in advertising,\" said Mr Evans. \"Verizon already has one of the most sophisticated ad technology platforms and has built up a large number of user identities, so combining that with Yahoo's large number of users would allow it to offer a similar level of service to advertisers as Google and Facebook.\" Other bidders might be attracted by Yahoo's intellectual property, The New York Post recently reported that the firm owned about 6,000 patents, which it said could be worth $4bn (?¡ê2.8bn). Recode added that Ms Mayer has been talking up the value of Index - a voice-controlled search tool developed by Yahoo that has yet to be launched. Google, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon already have virtual assistants of their own, but might be interested in acquiring Index if it genuinely offers innovative tricks of its own.", "question": "Recently , there have been more stories about Yahoo shutting bits of its business than @placeholder successes .", "option_0": "torn", "option_1": "isolated", "option_2": "homes", "option_3": "celebrating", "option_4": "enforced"}
{"id": 159, "article": "NWAS lost the contract, now worth ¡ê66.8m, to bus operator Arriva in 2013. Arriva withdrew from the new tendering process after admitting providing false data about its current performance. NWAS was also awarded similar five-year deals for Lancashire, Merseyside and Cumbria, but lost the Cheshire tender to West Midlands Ambulance Service. A spokesman for NHS Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group (BCCG), the lead ambulance commissioners for the North West, said Arriva had \"identified a level of management failure with the reporting of performance in Greater Manchester\" in October. \"This means that they had previously provided incorrect information, which shows a higher level of performance than is the case,\" he said. He added that following Arriva's admission, the company \"withdrew from the procurement process immediately\" and has \"since developed a performance improvement plan to help rectify their performance\". NWAS chief executive Bob Williams said that while he was pleased to regain the Greater Manchester contract, it was \"tinged with disappointment\" because of the loss of the Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral service. \"Whilst we were successful in four of the North West's counties, our immediate focus now is on our staff in Cheshire and the impact on them,\" he said. \"We will work closely with our trade unions, staff and the new provider to support them through this period and deliver a safe and smooth transition.\" The BCCG spokesman said the contracts had been awarded as \"the result of a rigorous competitive tendering process and evaluation of potential providers\". He said the new NWAS contracts would see \"a number of quality improvements\", including a \"text-ahead service\" to inform patients when their transport will arrive and a \"revised process\" to ensure fair use of the service. The new five-year contracts - worth ¡ê59.9m in Lancashire, ¡ê39m in Merseyside, ¡ê31.5m in Cumbria and ¡ê24.6m in Cheshire - will begin in July 2016.", "question": "The North West Ambulance Service ( NWAS ) has been @placeholder as the provider for non-emergency patient transport services across Greater Manchester .", "option_0": "criticised", "option_1": "hailed", "option_2": "identified", "option_3": "described", "option_4": "restored"}
{"id": 160, "article": "He said he had no doubt the Syrian PYD and its military wing were behind the rush-hour blast which killed 28 people. The bombing came as Syrian Kurds threatened to extend their control of territory along Turkey's border. The US backs the PYD in the fight against so-called Islamic State (IS). And yet it sees the Kurdish militant PKK inside Turkey as a terrorist organisation, even though it is affiliated to the PYD and its military arm, the People's Protection Units (YPG). Continued American support for Syrian Kurds, reiterated by a state department spokesman this week, is threatening to cause a rift between the two Nato allies. Mr Erdogan told reporters there was \"no doubt about the fact that those who carried out this attack are the YPG and the PYD\". He planned to tell Mr Obama later on Friday over the phone to consider \"how and where those weapons you provided were fired\"., How dangerous is Turkey's instability? World powers to hold talks on Syria Turkey v Kurds v Islamic State Turkey has already named the man who detonated the Ankara bomb as Salih Necar, a Syrian national and member of the YPG. A convoy of five military vehicles were targeted as they passed close to government offices while workers were going home. The PYD has denied involvement in the attack and the US has said it is unable to confirm or deny the Turkish allegation. Mr Erdogan said he was saddened by the West's reluctance not to link the YPG to the Turkish-based Kurdistan Workers' Party, viewed as a terror group by both the EU and the United States. He pointed out that he had told President Obama months before that after three plane-loads of US weapons arrived, half ended up in the hands of fighters of so-called Islamic State and the rest with the PYD. \"They were used against civilians there and caused their deaths,\" he complained. The Turkish leader appeared to refer to a US air drop of military supplies in late 2014 meant for Iraqi Kurdish forces during the battle for the town of  Kobane, Reuters reported. As the Syrian army, backed by Russian air power, has targeted Syrian opposition forces and pushed further north in Aleppo province, the Syrian Kurdish militia has made gains from the rebels close to the Turkish border. Turkey fears they could seize a 100km-stretch (62 miles) as far as Jarablus to create a large zone along the border. The army has continued to shell YPG targets across the border near the rebel-held town of Azaz. Turkey also has concerns that the PKK is being given support by the Syrian Kurdish militia in its battle with security forces in south-east Turkey. \"There's close integration and there's talk of tunnels for the flow of weapons,\" Burhanettin Duran of the pro-government Seta research institute told the BBC.", "question": "Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will tell President Barack Obama that US weapons have @placeholder Syrian Kurds , blamed by Turkey for Wednesday 's Ankara bombing .", "option_0": "targeting", "option_1": "passed", "option_2": "helped", "option_3": "violated", "option_4": "captured"}
{"id": 161, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device But this 7ft tall New Zealander with a sleeve of tattoos is fast becoming the star of the NBA play-offs and is even putting the league's most valuable player Stephen Curry in the shade. Adams and his Oklahoma City Thunder side beat Golden State Warriors 118-94 in game four of the Western Conference finals on Tuesday, to lead last year's champions 3-1 in the best-of-seven series. It was the first back-to back defeats for the Warriors this season, a team who set a new NBA record of 73 wins in the regular season. Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant were the stars of the show for the Thunder, but even they were eclipsed by a moment of magic from Adams. The 22-year-old, who scored 11 points and seven rebounds in the win, threw a one-handed bullet pass to Andre Roberson just before half-time. More than 22,000 tweets were sent in an hour about Adams' baseball style throw and the player began trending on Twitter in his native New Zealand and the US. Then there was a young fan who turned up to the game at Oklahoma's Chesapeake Arena, dressed as Adams with a fake moustache and tattoos in tribute to her hero. Many Twitter users felt the youngster was the real star of game four and even Adams himself tweeted that it was \"absolutely amazing\". In game three Adams hit the headlines after Warriors forward Draymond Green kicked him in the groin area, but avoided suspension. It led to Thunder fans using the hashtag #standupforsteven in the build-up to Tuesday's game. Adams has rarely been out of the headlines in the series. After game one he had to apologise for referring to the Warriors' players as \"quick little monkeys\". \"It was just a poor choice of words,\" said Adams, who blamed differences in dialect for his comments. \"I wasn't thinking straight. I didn't know it was going to upset anyone.\" Then there is his family - Adams is the youngest of 18 siblings. His brothers are around 6ft 10in to 6ft 11in, while his sisters stand at 6ft 5in to 6ft 6in. Six of his brothers have played basketball for New Zealand, while his half-sister Valerie, 31, is a double Olympic champion shot putter.", "question": "With his long , @placeholder hair and handlebar moustache , Steven Adams looks like he has stepped out of the 1970s .", "option_0": "delivered", "option_1": "wearing", "option_2": "featuring", "option_3": "ragged", "option_4": "brown"}
{"id": 162, "article": "Midfielder Mason, 25, clashed heads with Blues defender Gary Cahill 13 minutes into the Premier League match at Stamford Bridge on 22 January. He was taken to St Mary's Hospital in London, where he had surgery. \"The number of messages offering support during Ryan's recovery has been quite overwhelming,\" said Hull club doctor Mark Waller. Well-wishes flooded in for the England international, and both Hull and his former club Tottenham wore training shirts with Mason printed on the back before last week's fixtures. Mason, who joined Hull from Spurs last August for a club-record undisclosed fee, has scored one goal in 16 Premier League appearances for the Tigers.", "question": "Hull City 's Ryan Mason has been @placeholder from hospital a week after fracturing his skull against Chelsea .", "option_0": "discharged", "option_1": "withdrawn", "option_2": "suspended", "option_3": "sacked", "option_4": "removed"}
{"id": 163, "article": "East Hampshire District Council said 1,454 fixed penalty notices were issued by its contractor Kingdom Services in 2015-16. The following year, the authority's own patrol officers issued 719 tickets. The council said it \"recognised the challenges of a wholly commercial approach and culture\". More on this and other stories from across the south of England. Kingdom currently has about 28 contracts with local authorities and last year saw its profits jump 30% to ¡ê9m. A recent undercover Panorama report found the firm paid bonuses for issuing fines, with one officer claiming to have earned an extra ¡ê987 in one month. East Hampshire District Council said its own bonus scheme was \"a tiny percentage\" of officers' salaries. In 2016 the authority set up an in-house firm, EH Commercial Services (EHCS), employing four enforcement officers to patrol litter \"hot spots\". It said 87% of people had paid the ¡ê80 fines for dropping litter and ¡ê50 penalties for dog mess. In April and May, EHCS expanded its operations to cover three neighbouring districts - Arun, Hart and Havant - offering free patrols in exchange for keeping fines. The council said it hoped to generate profits to invest in environmental projects. Arun and Hart councils said they had previously carried out little or no \"street scene enforcement\". East Hampshire said its in-house service would \"better balance the needs of residents, the place and finances\". In a statement, Kingdom said the firm delivered \"improved results'' when it worked with councils on \"the scourge of litter and dog fouling\". It said Kingdom used \"advanced training, technology and operational procedures\" to \"complement in-house services\".", "question": "The number of fines for litter and dog fouling has halved in area where a council @placeholder private enforcement officers with its own staff .", "option_0": "affecting", "option_1": "deal", "option_2": "replaced", "option_3": "houses", "option_4": "pound"}
{"id": 164, "article": "Bega said it would acquire Vegemite, ZoOSH mayonnaise and Bonox beef extract from Mondelez International. The deal will also give the dairy producer the right to use the Kraft brand under licence. Mondelez announced it would now focus on \"core brands\" in Australia and New Zealand including Cadbury and Oreos. Vegemite - a dark-coloured, Vitamin-B rich, bitter but apparently addictive yeast extract - is a national icon. Fans of Vegemite spread it on sandwiches or toast, and sometimes mix it with cheese, salad and peanut butter. \"The wonderful heritage and values that Vegemite represents and its importance to Australian culture makes its combination with Bega Cheese truly exciting,\" Bega executive chairman Barry Irvin said. For decades, Australians bemoaned the loss the brand to the US-owned Kraft in 1935, though it is still manufactured in Port Melbourne, Victoria. Mondelez took control of the brand in 2012 after a restructuring at Kraft. Mondelez International vice president Amanda Banfield said: \"It's been a privilege stewarding this brand, which is found in almost every Australian household and is part of the fabric of the nation.\"", "question": "Vegemite will return to Australian ownership after Bega Cheese agreed to buy a range of well - known @placeholder brands in a deal worth A $ 460 m ( ? ¡ê 280 m ; $ 345 m ) .", "option_0": "drugs", "option_1": "goods", "option_2": "air", "option_3": "food", "option_4": "activity"}
{"id": 165, "article": "Muchelney has been cut off because of flooded roads for almost a month. As a result, an hourly boat is the only means by which residents can get out of the village to do day-to-day tasks like going to the shops or visiting the doctor. Some of those affected spoke about what they are facing and whether they feel the situation could have been avoided. Ken Jackson owns Muchelney Cattery, which lies in one of the worst affected areas. He said promises in 2012 were not followed up. \"Last year, we had an exact replica of what's happening now,\" he said. \"They had flood forums [and] meetings but the Environment Agency and government agencies are mainly interested in making people responsible for themselves, rather than what the root causes are. \"And once the event actually happened, they were pretty tardy in responding.\" He added that his business was being \"killed off\" by the flooding, with people cancelling bookings and owners unable to pick up animals. \"We're small fry, but all of these pockets of employment and investment are part of the hidden story,\" he said. \"It's devastating - and it just gets more and more obvious that we can't continue. \"We haven't done any new business since the New Year.\" Ron Smith works for a homeless charity and lives in the village of Aller, which neighbours Muchelney. He said his insurance went up five-fold to ?¡ê5,000 after flooding in 2012 and he now expects that amount to triple. \"We would like to sell the property, but how can we? You can't put a price on that,\" he said. \"It's pure anger, it should never have happened.\" \"We were flooded on Christmas Day - we gave up on 3rd January and only went back in on Saturday,\" he added. \"We were staying in holiday accommodation in a nearby village. \"But it's very difficult - it came in gradually, inch by inch, so we had plenty of time to take certain actions. The whole ground floor was flooded. \"The emotional side - it's devastating, it's heartbreaking to lose your home and have to move and to see your things floating past.\" Mr Smith said he tried to go and see Environment Secretary Owen Paterson who visited the flood-hit area on Monday. \"I fought my way as far as I could but couldn't reach it by car because of the flooding - [Mr Patterson's entourage] all had big Range Rovers and they could just plough through it. \"They should have to come to Muchelney - not one senior person has come to talk to the residents and knocked on their doors and said how are you doing?\" John Leach, who owns a pottery business in Muchelney, said he was both \"sad\" and \"mad\" at the current situation. \"It's stopped business, we are actually marooned and we had to close down on the 5th or 6th January - it's a nightmare,\" he said. \"Last year was not so bad - we lived upstairs and had our wellies on the top step. Our Aga just about kept going and we carried our food upstairs. \"I'm staying with my son and daughter-in-law in Kingsbury-Stembridge - I was taken out by tractor.\" He said the flooding was 2.5ins (6cm) higher than 2012, which was \"devastating\". \"We were told by the Environment Agency that November 2012 was a once-in-100-years flood but here we are again,\" he said. \"It's so depressing, we love our work and it's so frustrating. \"But we want to fight this and make sure the agency do something about this.\" He added he was worried this was a \"pattern for the future\".", "question": "Villages on the Somerset Levels have faced weeks of flooding with no respite from the @placeholder in sight .", "option_0": "country", "option_1": "conditions", "option_2": "sea", "option_3": "flood", "option_4": "decline"}
{"id": 166, "article": "Visitors to the free event have been told to check social media before visiting on Sunday evening. The organiser, Artichoke, and the Met Police sent tweets on Saturday asking people to come on Sunday instead. It is the first time the festival of lights, featuring installations from 30 artists, has been held in London. The illuminated art has been placed in locations around the city including Piccadilly, Mayfair, King's Cross, Trafalgar Square and Westminster. It will be lit up from 18:30 GMT to 22:30. Advice on the festival will be tweeted using the hashtag #LumiereLDN.", "question": "Installations were temporarily @placeholder off and Kings Cross Station was evacuated due to overcrowding at the Lumiere London Festival on Saturday .", "option_0": "called", "option_1": "switched", "option_2": "blown", "option_3": "held", "option_4": "rounded"}
{"id": 167, "article": "The presidential candidate had until midnight to repay the money, but said she had no intention of doing so. The parliament says she wrongly used the funds to pay an aide at the National Front's headquarters in Paris. She says she is the victim of a politically motivated vendetta. If she does not repay the money, the parliament could now respond by withholding as much as half of her salary and allowances, which her opponents say total almost a??11,000 a month. Ms Le Pen is one of the front-runners in the French presidential election to be held in April and May. If she wins, she has promised a Brexit-style referendum on France's membership of the EU. Polls suggest that she will make it to the run-off where she is likely to face conservative candidate Francois Fillon or centrist Emmanuel Macron. \"I will not submit to the persecution, a unilateral decision taken by political opponents... without proof and without waiting for a judgement from the court action I have started,\" she told Reuters news agency on Tuesday. The money the European Parliament wants returned was used to pay the salary of Catherine Griset, a close friend of Ms Le Pen as well as her cabinet director. The funds were conditional on Ms Griset spending most of her working time in Brussels or Strasbourg. However, the parliament says most of her time was instead spent working in the National Front's headquarters in Paris. The party will face a second demand for 41,554 euros in wages paid to her bodyguard. The far-right leader also tried to distance herself from financial allegations overshadowing Republican candidate Francois Fillon, who has vigorously denied that his wife was paid 834,000 euros for fake jobs. Asked if she would pay back the money, Marine Le Pen told AFP: \"To pay the money back, I'd have had to have received the funds, but my name isn't Francois Fillon.\" Quite apart from her refusal to pay back the funds, the FN leader might struggle to find the money. Her party has been unable to raise funds from French banks and has had to seek financing abroad. In 2014, the FN received a a??9m loan from Russian lender First Czech-Russian Bank, which collapsed last year.", "question": "A European Parliament @placeholder for France 's far - right leader Marine Le Pen to return more than 300,000 euros ( ? ¡ê 257,000 ; $ 321,000 ) it says she has misspent , has passed .", "option_0": "call", "option_1": "union", "option_2": "requests", "option_3": "proposal", "option_4": "deadline"}
{"id": 168, "article": "The warning from one industry body, the Pre-School Learning Alliance, comes as ministers say trials of the new scheme are being brought forward to 2016. The current allowance of 570 hours a year for three and four-year-olds will be doubled for working parents. David Cameron said it would \"take time\" to get the policy right. The Pre-School Learning Alliance - which represents 14,000 private, voluntary and independent groups - is warning of \"meltdown\" in the system because of a shortfall in government funding. It says the grant for the existing 15 hours falls, on average, around 20% short of the true cost of providing care - ¡ê3.88 per hour compared with ¡ê4.53. Employment Minister Priti Patel told the BBC the government accepted \"funding rates need to increase\" and is launching a consultation on how the policy will work in practice. Currently, all three and four-year-olds in England are entitled to 570 hours of free early education or childcare a year, which works out as 15 hours each week for 38 weeks of the year. The Childcare Bill, announced in last week's Queen's Speech, would double this for working parents - although it is not clear yet how many hours they will have to work in order to qualify. Ministers say up to 600,000 families could benefit, saving as much as ¡ê5,000 a year. The change had been due to come into force from September 2017, but some working parents will be entitled to the extra help when pilots begin in September next year. However, the alliance said many groups were already having to charge parents extra for hours of childcare not included in the scheme to make ends meet, and would struggle to deal with the changes. \"I think this is crunch time,\" said chief executive Neil Leitch. \"While we of course welcome the drive to improve the availability of childcare in this country, these figures clearly show the government's plan to extend funded childcare hours simply cannot work without a substantial increase in sector funding. \"The so-called 'free' childcare scheme is nothing of the sort. For years now, the initiative has been subsidised by providers and parents because of a lack of adequate government funding.\" Fiona Weir, chief executive of single-parent charity Gingerbread, said 30 free hours of childcare a week was \"really good news\" for those who will get it. \"The cost of childcare is one of the biggest barriers the UK's two million single parents face to finding and staying in work. As the primary carers for their children, they can't do the kind of 'shift parenting' couple parents often do. \"However, we look forward to seeing more detail on how parents will qualify for this extra support, and the way in which the extra hours will work.\" Following the announcement, the prime minister visited Buttercups Nursery in Teddington, south-west London. Kate Thomas, 49, whose three-year-old daughter attends the nursery, said it was worrying that any shortfall in funding for the extra hours might be passed on to parents. \"Most mothers I know don't work full time and if they are lucky they will have a job that covers their childcare and have a bit extra,\" she said. \"But if that bit extra then ends up being what funds the extra cost of the nursery, what is the point of working?\" The National Day Nurseries Association welcomed the doubling of provision, but also said its members were \"struggling with current levels of investment\". \"Funding is critical and it's vital that the increase pledged by the government is meaningful,\" chief executive Purnima Tanuku said. Jill Rutter, from the Family and Childcare Trust, which campaigns for quality childcare that is affordable and accessible, said there was \"no proper funding formula\". \"The money local authorities get from government to pass on to providers is very varied,\" she said. The short answer is - from parents. But as extra hourly fees are not legal, nurseries have worked out canny ways to get round this. The most common technique is requiring parents to take more than the total number of free hours and charging a set fee for the extra time. Read more on childcare funding Extra free childcare: Who benefits? Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said the Conservative Party \"failed to explain how it would fund its childcare offer before the general election\", and added: \"It remains unclear how they propose to fill the funding gaps in their plans now.\" Mr Cameron told ITV's This Morning it would \"take time\" to get the policy right \"because obviously we need an expansion of the childcare sector, we need more nurseries, more of these places to open, so we're working with them to expand\". He said the government would start talking to childcare providers immediately \"about what's the best way of making sure that they're being properly paid for the childcare that they provide so we can expand the number of places\". The cost to the Treasury was initially estimated at ¡ê350 million a year, but Ms Patel said the sums involved were yet to be finalised. Asked why households with a relatively high income would receive help, she added: \"This isn't about subsidising well-off people at all. This is about providing affordable childcare and increasing childcare provision for working families.\" In Scotland, three and four-year-olds are entitled to up to 600 hours of free early years education or childcare a year, while in Wales, provision is for a minimum of 10 hours a week. In Northern Ireland, it is limited to four-year-olds only, for up to 12.5 hours a week. England average Nursery 25 hrs (aged 2+) ¡ê111.64 Childminder 25 hrs (aged 2+) ¡ê104.15 Scotland average Nursery 25 hrs (aged 2+) ¡ê99.93 Childminder 25 hrs (aged 2+) ¡ê99.30 Wales average Nursery 25 hrs (aged 2+) ¡ê103.44 Childminder 25 hrs (aged 2+) ¡ê96.81 Source: Family and Childcare Trust", "question": "Childcare providers in England say the system is at \" breaking point \" as plans to double free provision for three and four - year - olds in England are @placeholder up .", "option_0": "sped", "option_1": "locked", "option_2": "going", "option_3": "picking", "option_4": "winding"}
{"id": 169, "article": "Homes and businesses in the town were affected by waters overflowing from the Skiprunning Burn in August. Local councillor Jim Brown said a study by engineering consultants Halcrow had produced some important findings. He urged members of the public to turn out to the meeting in the town hall at 19:00 to hear the outcome. About 50 homes and businesses were affected in the summer incident, prompted by a spell of thundery rain. Mitigation measures being suggested include new arrangements for reducing a build-up of debris as well as alterations to kerbs and other street features to channel flows away from properties.", "question": "A meeting in Jedburgh is to hear about the @placeholder of major flooding in the town - and the action which is being recommended to avoid any repeat .", "option_0": "danger", "option_1": "lives", "option_2": "future", "option_3": "cause", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 170, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Fourteen people died and more than 100 were hurt as a result of Thursday's attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils. All 10 opening La Liga matches will take place, including Barcelona's home match against Real Betis on Sunday. Barcelona will wear black armbands at the Nou Camp, while a minute's silence will be held before all games. \"FC Barcelona wants to express its profound sorrow and utter disgust at the terrorist attack that has hit the heart of our city,\" the club said. Media playback is not supported on this device La Liga's Primera Division started on Friday when Leganes won 1-0 against visitors Alaves, before Valencia's 1-0 home victory over 10-man Las Palmas. Leganes and Alaves players came together before kick-off to show a banner condemning the attacks in Barcelona. The French and German leagues will also hold a minute's silence before all games this weekend.", "question": "Spanish football will pay tribute to those killed and injured in the attacks in the country 's Catalonia @placeholder as the new season starts this weekend .", "option_0": "phase", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "region", "option_3": "capital", "option_4": "position"}
{"id": 171, "article": "Colchester started well and made their breakthrough in the eighth minute - Chris Porter and Sammie Szmodics pouncing on goalkeeper Will Norris' poor clearance before Dickenson unleashed a low, left-footed shot that flew into the far corner. The hosts almost doubled their lead two minutes later when Norris superbly tipped Szmodics' swerving 20-yard effort over for a corner, while Colchester keeper Sam Walker pulled off a magnificent save to foil Cambridge striker Joe Pigott soon after. Leon Legge almost diverted Porter's low cross into his own net in the opening minutes of the second half, but substitute Medy Elito came close to equalising against his former club when his free header clipped the top of the crossbar. Norris parried away Porter's fierce effort before substitute Johnstone headed in Dickenson's cross from close range with eight minutes remaining. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Colchester United 2, Cambridge United 0. Second Half ends, Colchester United 2, Cambridge United 0. Foul by Drey Wright (Colchester United). James Dunne (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the right wing. Substitution, Colchester United. Craig Slater replaces Kurtis Guthrie. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Luke Berry (Cambridge United). Attempt missed. Greg Taylor (Cambridge United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left following a set piece situation. Medy Elito (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Lewis Kinsella (Colchester United). Goal!  Colchester United 2, Cambridge United 0. Denny Johnstone (Colchester United) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Brennan Dickenson. Corner,  Colchester United. Conceded by Sean Long. Corner,  Colchester United. Conceded by Greg Taylor. Attempt missed. Denny Johnstone (Colchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Attempt blocked. Drey Wright (Colchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Attempt missed. Joe Pigott (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Substitution, Colchester United. Denny Johnstone replaces Chris Porter. Drey Wright (Colchester United) is shown the yellow card. Foul by Richard Brindley (Colchester United). Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner,  Colchester United. Conceded by Leon Legge. Richard Brindley (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Medy Elito (Cambridge United). Substitution, Colchester United. Doug Loft replaces Sammie Szmodics. Attempt saved. Tom Eastman (Colchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Corner,  Colchester United. Conceded by Will Norris. Attempt saved. Chris Porter (Colchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Medy Elito (Cambridge United) hits the bar with a header from the centre of the box. Drey Wright (Colchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Medy Elito (Cambridge United). Foul by Luke Prosser (Colchester United). Joe Pigott (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Cambridge United. Medy Elito replaces Ben Williamson. Attempt missed. Chris Porter (Colchester United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by Kurtis Guthrie. Attempt saved. Tom Eastman (Colchester United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Corner,  Colchester United. Conceded by Leon Legge. Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by Drey Wright. Attempt missed. Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right misses to the right.", "question": "Brennan Dickenson and Denny Johnstone scored on their @placeholder debuts as Colchester beat Cambridge United for their fist win of the season .", "option_0": "professional", "option_1": "brace", "option_2": "title", "option_3": "season", "option_4": "home"}
{"id": 172, "article": "The rescue took place on 13 February when the baby's pram fell into the water near Victoria Street. James Williams and Andy Hill jumped in the river while Mickey Bramall fetched a lifebuoy before giving the youngster first aid. The men were presented with RLSS certificates of recognition. Di Steer, the chief executive of RLSS, said they were pleased to hear about the safe rescue of the baby and felt the three men involved deserved to be recognised in some way. \"It just goes to show how quickly a normal activity around water can turn into an awful incident and thankfully James, Mickey and Andrew's quick thinking prevented this accident turning into a tragedy. Well done to the three of them,\" he said. The baby was being pushed by her grandmother at the time of the accident. Mr Williams said: \"We heard an almighty scream and shriek, turned around and saw the pram had gone over the edge. \"We instantly turned around and myself and Andy jumped straight into the river and Mickey went to get the lifebuoy.\" Mr Williams said it was a struggle to remove the baby from the pushchair because she was strapped in but they managed to get her to safety. The girl was taken by ambulance to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and has since made a full recovery.", "question": "Three men who rescued a six - month - old girl from the River Severn in Shrewsbury have been @placeholder by the Royal Life Saving Society ( RLSS ) .", "option_0": "honoured", "option_1": "named", "option_2": "identified", "option_3": "boosted", "option_4": "unveiled"}
{"id": 173, "article": "The team at the John Innes Centre, in Norfolk, says the process is cheap, easy and quick. As well as helping eliminate polio, the scientists believe their approach could help the world react to unexpected threats such as Zika virus or Ebola. Experts said the achievement was both impressive and important. The vaccine is an \"authentic mimic\" of poliovirus called a virus-like particle. Outwardly it looks almost identical to poliovirus but - like the difference between a mannequin and person - it is empty on the inside. It has all the features needed to train the immune system, but none of the weapons to cause an infection. The scientists hijacked a relative of the tobacco plant's metabolism to turn its leaves into polio-vaccine \"factories\". First, they needed to create new instructions for the plant to follow. The starting material was the genetic code for making the outer surface of poliovirus. It was enhanced by combining it with material from viruses that naturally infect plants. The new instructions were then put into soil bacteria, which were used to infect tobacco. The infection took hold, the plants read the genetic instructions and started making the virus-like particles. Infected leaves were mixed with water, blended, and the polio vaccine was extracted. The virus-like particles prevented polio in animal experiments, and an analysis of their 3D structure showed they looked almost identical to poliovirus. Prof George Lomonossoff, from the John Innes Centre, told the BBC News website: \"They are incredibly good mimics. \"It's a very promising technology, \"I would hope we get vaccines produced in plants in the not too distant future.\" The research is funded by the World Health Organization, as part of efforts to find replacements for the polio vaccine. Polio - which can cause permanent paralysis - is a thing of the past for most of the world, but the infection has not been eradicated. And using weakened poliovirus in current vaccines poses a risk of the virus regaining some of its dangerous traits - called vaccine-derived poliovirus. Dr Andrew Macadam, principal scientist at the UK's National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, said: \"Current vaccines for polio are produced from large amounts of live virus, which carries a threat of accidental escape and re-introduction. \"This study takes us a step closer to replacing current polio vaccines, providing us with a cheap and viable option for making virus-like particle-based vaccines.\" But this technology is not limited to polio or even just to vaccines. As long as researchers have the right sequence of genetic code, they can make a vaccine against most viruses. And they have also used plants to make antibodies like those being used in cancer therapy. Plants are also being investigated as a new source for the winter flu jab. Currently, it is grown in chicken eggs and takes months to develop. Prof Lomonossoff told the BBC: \"In an experiment with a Canadian company, they showed you could actually identify a new strain of virus and produce a candidate vaccine in three to four weeks. \"It has potential for making vaccines against emerging epidemics, of course recently we had Zika and prior to that we had Ebola. \"It's highly responsive, and that's one of the great attractions of the technology.\" The plants have the advantage of growing quickly and needing only sunlight, soil, water and carbon dioxide to grow. It means it could be a cheap and low-tech solution to vaccine development. But there are still issues to resolve, including making vaccine on a large scale. Another issue is whether there is any risk from using plants to make the vaccine - does the tobacco-relative mean there is nicotine in the vaccine? Dr Tarit Mukhopadhyay, a lecturer in vaccine development at University College London, said: \"The initial results look impressive. \"However, there are very few plant-based vaccine manufacturers and almost no licensed human vaccines that are currently produced in plants.\" Denis Murphy, a professor of biotechnology at the University of South Wales, said: \"This is an important achievement. \"The challenge is now to optimise the plant expression system and to move towards clinical trials of the new vaccine.\" Follow James on Twitter.", "question": "Plants have been \" hijacked \" to make polio vaccine in a breakthrough with the potential to @placeholder vaccine manufacture , say scientists .", "option_0": "protect", "option_1": "improve", "option_2": "transform", "option_3": "secure", "option_4": "reclaim"}
{"id": 174, "article": "Aguero, 28, clashed with Reid during Sunday's 3-1 win in the Premier League. If found guilty, the Argentina international would be banned for three matches and miss the Manchester derby on 10 September. He would also miss a league match against Bournemouth and the EFL Cup game against Swansea. The Football Association said referee Andre Marriner and his officials did not see the 76th-minute incident so it has decided to take retrospective action after reviewing television footage. An independent panel is due to rule on the case on Friday using written submissions and reviewing video evidence. Aguero, who is out of Argentina's two 2018 World Cup qualifiers this month with a calf injury, will not appear in person.", "question": "Manchester City are contesting a violent @placeholder charge against striker Sergio Aguero for elbowing West Ham 's Winston Reid .", "option_0": "conduct", "option_1": "criminal", "option_2": "form", "option_3": "association", "option_4": "growing"}
{"id": 175, "article": "He spoke at a Catholic shrine dedicated to Christians martyred for their faith in the 19th Century, on the second stage of his three-country Africa tour. The Mass marks the 50th anniversary of the martyrs' canonisation. After the mass he addressed thousands of young people, encouraging them to turn to their faith when faced with difficulties. There were huge cheers as the Pope began the open-air ceremony at Namugongo, near the capital Kampala. It was where many of the 45 Anglican and Catholic martyrs were burned alive. Their execution was ordered by a king worried about the spread of Christianity. Thousands of pilgrims braved rain to spend the night holding a vigil near the martyrs' shrines and there were long lines of pilgrims still trying to access the shrine as Pope Francis addressed the crowds on Saturday morning. The Pope's five big issues in Africa After the mass more than 150,000 young Ugandans gathered on the outskirts of Kampala for the Pope's other public event of the day. Pope Francis urged them to use their faith to confront life's difficulties and turn negative experiences into strength. Uganda is a deeply religious country, with over 14.1 million Catholics - and even adherents of other faiths will be paying close attention to the Pope's words, say correspondents. He arrives here during the third week of a presidential campaign being fought by the country's ruler for the past 29 years, President Yoweri Museveni. The Pope's message against corruption, and the need to care for the poor, is being welcomed by ordinary people here, in a place where some say corruption does much to damage the economy, and little to help people out of poverty. Uganda ranks 142nd out of 175 countries on Transparency International's corruption perception index. Gay rights activists in Uganda have expressed their disappointment that the Vatican did not respond to their request for a meeting with the Pope. Openly gay Ugandans face many difficulties in everyday life, with many churches here preaching against homosexuality and encouraging homophobia. A Ugandan law, originally passed when the country was a British colony, still allows the authorities to pass a sentence of life imprisonment for gay people caught having sex. There have been some critical references to the Pope's visit on Twitter - with some wondering \"how many people have HIV today because contraception isn't allowed?\" while others accused him of ignoring extreme anti-gay attitudes in Uganda. On Friday, the Pope addressed an audience of young people in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, urging them to unite and take a stand against the destructive effects of tribalism. He will travel to the Central African Republic (CAR), which has been hit by serious violence between Christian and Muslim militias in recent years, on Sunday. Religion in sub-Saharan Africa: Profile: Pope Francis Source: US-based Pew Research Center 2011 survey", "question": "Pope Francis has celebrated Mass in front of an audience of hundreds of thousands of Ugandan @placeholder .", "option_0": "faithful", "option_1": "people", "option_2": "refugees", "option_3": "homes", "option_4": "groups"}
{"id": 176, "article": "Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admitted the settings had \"gotten complex\" for users. It follows a storm of protest from users over a series of changes on the site that left its members unsure about how public their information had become. \"We needed to simplify controls,\" he told a press conference. \"We want people to be able to share information in the way that they want,\" he told BBC News. \"Our goal is not to make your information more private or more open.\" By Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent On the face of it, Mark Zuckerberg has delivered on his promise to make the privacy settings simpler. One button which will change everything is certainly an advance on what went before. There's also the opportunity to opt out completely from sending your data out of Facebook to other applications. But questions remain - the recommended settings still look designed to encourage users to share just about everything. And I'm still working out just how I can stop my list of friends being visible to the whole world. Experience shows that every change at Facebook seems innocuous at first - and creeps up later to bite some users and the company itself. Facebook privacy: Your comments Picture guide: Facebook privacy Q&A: Facebook privacy changes The new system will offer users one privacy page with a list of all their applications and a choice of three settings for each. The redesigned privacy page allows users to see all their information in one grid and apply privacy settings to each. Facebook will suggest defaults. As with the changes made in December, users will be able to choose to share their applications with just friends, friends of friends or everyone. \"We've focused on three things: a single control for your content, more powerful controls for your basic information and an easy control to turn off all applications,\" said Mark Zuckerberg, speaking at Facebook's Palo Alto headquarters. People who want more \"granular control\" will still be able to access existing settings. Facebook has also reduced the amount of information that is visible to everyone. People will now be able to control who sees their interest pages and friends lists. Users will also be able to turn off applications to ensure no information is shared without consent. One of the things users found complicated was the need to apply new settings to every new feature introduced on the site. From today, whatever setting users choose for \"Sharing on Facebook\" will now automatically be applied to any new products. Initial reactions to the changes questioned whether Facebook had gone far enough. \"The vast majority of people don't use privacy settings so the reforms are not likely to have as great an impact,\" said Simon Davies, director of Privacy International. \"If the default is for less information then we've really made a step forward,\" he said. With European privacy commissioners calling for companies to set defaults for the minimum sharing of information,  the big battle could be \"yet to come\", he warned. \"That's where the rubber hits the road at a legal level.\" Andrew Walls, a research director at analyst firm Gartner wondered how the changes would affect Facebook's business model. \"Some questions not really answered were issues around the sharing of personal data with advertisers for doing targeted ads based on profile content. That's a tricky one - how do you make money if you can't sell targeted ads? How do you compete with Google?\" \"They want sufficient privacy to attract users into service and take advantage of it but some sharing of data is also required in order for Facebook to make money,\" he said. But Mr Zuckerberg told BBC News that it was a \"misconception\" that the site relied on people sharing information to make money from adverts. \"No information is sold to advertisers. For the business part of Facebook, it makes no difference what your privacy settings are.\" Mr Zuckerberg said that developers had \"worked weekends, camped out in the conference centre\" in order to overhaul its privacy settings. \"The number one thing we've heard to that the settings have gotten complex and hard for people to use,\" he said. \"It is something we take very seriously,\" he added. He spent time explaining how Facebook has evolved from a very basic system when it was launched in 2004 to the 400m user site it is today. \"When we started Facebook, we built it around a few simple ideas. People want to share and stay connected with their friends and the people around them. When you have control over what you share, you want to share more. When you share more, the world becomes more open and connected,\" he said. But since then the site has rolled out hundreds of new features and, alongside them, a raft a privacy settings. Changes made to the site earlier this year and in December 2009 infuriated users and led to formal complaints from privacy groups. The European Commission described the changes as \"unacceptable\".", "question": "Social @placeholder Facebook has said it will offer a one - stop shop for privacy settings in response to user concerns .", "option_0": "prop", "option_1": "material", "option_2": "intelligence", "option_3": "network", "option_4": "phone"}
{"id": 177, "article": "Anthony Long faced trial last year, a decade after he shot suspected armed robber Azelle Rodney. He expressed his concerns about the Independent Police Complaints Commission in a Radio Times interview. An IPCC spokesman said it was \"right that when there is a fatality there is an independent investigation\". Mr Long said scrutiny was expected, but said \"the problem is the interpretation of the rules and the way in which officers were treated\". He added: \"Today, the Independent Police Complaints Commission seems to be treating police officers as criminals. \"My former colleagues are saying 'we will stand by for a Paris-type attack, but when you want us to go out and do an intelligence-led operation against criminals you might need to satisfy us that the intelligence is perfect, or we're not going out'. \"I think we're quite close to that situation.\" The IPCC referred the Azelle Rodney case to the Crown Prosecution Service after a public inquiry in 2013 found there was \"no lawful justification\" for the shooting. Mr Long, who will be featured on Secrets of a Police Marksman on Channel 4 on 18 August, said he was \"absolutely confident\" his actions in shooting Mr Rodney were correct. The IPCC said: \"Our independent scrutiny should not cause any officer to be concerned about taking on a firearms role.\" The number of authorised police firearms officers (AFOs) has fallen for four years in a row, figures released last month revealed. There were 5,639 AFOs across England and Wales as of 31 March - down by eight compared with the previous year. It means the number has dwindled by more than 1,000 in the past five years. At the time the figures were published, the government said they did not include an \"uplift\" in armed policing capability to be delivered over the next two years. A drive to boost the police service's firearms capacity was launched in the wake of last November's Paris attacks, but rank-and-file leaders have questioned where the additional personnel will be drawn from.", "question": "An ex- Met firearms officer @placeholder of murder has said the police watchdog \" seems to be treating officers as criminals \" .", "option_0": "parts", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "cleared", "option_3": "suspect", "option_4": "conduct"}
{"id": 178, "article": "But the number in education is now rising steadily as the Turkish authorities and other agencies make efforts to save what has been called a \"lost generation\". Turkey hosts more refugees than any other country - nearly 3 million - and the vast majority of those are Syrian, including more than 700,000 school-age children. At least two-thirds of them receive no formal education. One who missed three years of school is a girl called Lima, originally from the Syrian capital, Damascus. She started work in a textile factory in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, when she was only nine, working 14 hours a day packaging socks. She earned only 60 Turkish lira ($20, ?¡ê14) a week. Now Lima is studying at a school for Syrian refugee children in Istanbul called Shamuna (Our Syria). It's one of an expanding network of special Arabic-language schools - officially known as temporary education centres - for refugees, some run by the Turkish authorities, others, like Shamuna, by independent Syrian associations. It educates 1,150 pupils, boys and girls of primary and secondary age, on six floors of a former office building in an Istanbul suburb. There is no playground and the entrance is simply a corridor off the street between two shops. Shamuna was founded four years ago by Shaza Barakat, the former head of a Damascus education institute, shortly after her 16-year-old son Omar was killed fighting in Syria. Dr Barakat says he returned there from Turkey after becoming depressed because he couldn't find a suitable school in Istanbul at which to continue his studies and several of his friends did the same. She says: \"If we could have opened a school straight away, perhaps we could have given them a chance to be educated and plan for their future, but unfortunately now it is too late.\" She says she got no help from any official body when she opened the school. She had to find the building, beg money for rent from exiled Syrian businessmen and persuade Syrian refugee teachers to work as unpaid volunteers. She even had to search for a curriculum and an authority to endorse the leaving qualification. For the first two years her pupils, and those from other Syrian schools in Turkey, received Libyan school certificates. Now such schools are inspected and approved by the Turkish Ministry of Education and use a version of the Syrian curriculum, which has partisan references to President Assad and the ruling Ba'ath Party removed. Unicef, the United Nations children's agency, now pays the volunteer teachers a $300 (?¡ê210) monthly \"incentive\". The number of Syrian pupils in school in Turkey rose from 225,000 in July 2015 to 330,000 this February. But there are still not enough of the schools and, at those run by independent groups, parents are often expected to make a contribution to costs. Since 2014, Syrian children have also been allowed to use ordinary Turkish public schools, which are free, but only about a third of the youngsters attend them. One big barrier is the Turkish language and another the lack of extra catch-up provision in many of the schools. An international charity called Small Projects Istanbul runs a refugee support centre in a suburb of the city where volunteers help Syrian children with their Turkish and encourage them to attend school. One who's now studying in a Turkish school after a year in a sewing factory is 15-year-old Hassan. Though some Syrian children say they feel isolated and even suffer racist bullying in Turkish schools, Hassan has had the opposite experience. \"All my teachers love me and the other students consider me to be one of them,\" he says. Small Projects Istanbul is now trying to raise money to enable other Syrian youngsters - like 16-year-old Hussain - to return to school from work by subsiding their families. He dreamed of studying to become a vet or an engineer, but now works 12 hours a day, six days a week in a textile workshop. He says: \"I work in a basement. I just go to work in the morning, I don't see the sun and I go back after sunset. It's very dark here in this country.\" Unicef hopes that all Syrian children in Turkey will be studying by the end of 2017, but that will depend partly on a huge increase in school provision. Education is intended to be one of the main focuses of a multi-billion-euro aid package for refugees, which the European Union is offering Turkey in return for an agreement allowing migrants to be sent back from Europe. But the deal has faced many obstacles and it is still unclear whether it will be fully implemented. Tim Whewell's report is part one of the five-part Destination Europe series broadcast weekly as part of The Compass series on the BBC World Service from 30 June You can listen to the programme on iPlayer.", "question": "As many as half a million Syrian refugee children in Turkey are not attending school - leaving them open to exploitation in sweatshops and other forms of abuse , aid @placeholder and teachers in the country have warned .", "option_0": "media", "option_1": "data", "option_2": "markets", "option_3": "personnel", "option_4": "organisations"}
{"id": 179, "article": "Lambeth Council is set to pay tens of millions of pounds to people whether or not they were abused at Shirley Oaks. A report from ex-residents outlining abuse on an \"industrial scale\" has named 27 men as alleged abusers. The investigation says at least 60 abusers were active, and accuses some police officers of corruption. The publication of the report by the Shirley Oaks Survivors Association (SOSA) covers a period from the 1950s to the closure of the homes in 1983. BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds says details of the compensation scheme have yet to be finalised, but the council says a key principle would be that there would be a blanket payment to any resident in the Shirley Oaks homes because all were judged to be at risk. The payments will not be large in many cases but there will be higher payments to those who were abused, our correspondent added. Shirley Oaks was an 80-acre site near Croydon in south London that included cottages where children in care were looked after by house mothers and fathers. The site also included a school, swimming pool, sick bay and playing fields. Daniel De Simone, BBC News SOSA launched its 129-page report at a packed press conference in central London. Raymond Stevenson and Lucia Hinton, the report's authors, have spent two years gathering documents and speaking to hundreds of people. A room packed with journalists heard former residents and the relatives of some who later died - many of them emotional, some in tears - describe years of official indifference. But no longer. The leader and chief executive of Lambeth Council both spoke, offering  apologies and reparations. Local MP Chuka Umunna said institutions beyond the council - including the Home Office and the police - were also \"culpable.\" The group, which conducted its own investigation, said it had illuminated abuse on an \"industrial scale\" and therefore succeeded where multiple official inquiries had failed. The SOSA, which spent two years investigating claims of abuse at the home and spoke to more than 400 people, says it was \"shocked\" by what it had found. The group said both boys and girls had been abused, including young infants. The report accuses one named police officer of \"providing misleading information to victims\" and of \"informing one victim their abuser was dead when in fact he was alive\". It links 20 deaths to Shirley Oaks. Some of those named died while residents at the home, others years later, but none are classed as homicides. However, the report states \"at the time of their deaths no-one considered whether their lives had been blighted by the extenuating circumstances of being brought up in a Lambeth children's home\". Another claim says Shirley Oaks generated a culture in which children sexually abused one another. The report, co-authored by SOSA founder Raymond Stevenson, also criticises a series of police inquiries and official reports relating to Lambeth children's homes. \"Some of the omissions and failing of past inquiries contradict our findings and suggest that these prior inquiries were economical with the truth and aimed at concealing the extent of the abuse of children,\" it adds. Two of the people named in the report - William Hook and Philip Temple - have been convicted of child sexual abuse relating to Shirley Oaks. The SOSA has had unprecedented co-operation from Lambeth Council, which has disclosed some of its files, apologised for the abuse and admitted liability. But the group alleges the council destroyed 140 care records in the mid-2000s despite being required by law to keep them for a further 70 years. Chief executive of Lambeth council Sean Harriss said: \"All the children that were in Shirley Oaks during periods of time when paedophiles were operating were at risk.  We've acknowledged that the council has put all of those children at risk.\" Council leader Lib Peck said the authority had previously publicly apologised to those who were \"so badly let down\". She added: \"The investigation by the Shirley Oaks Survivor's Association has shone further light on the suffering of those entrusted into the council's care. Lambeth Council is preparing a new, far reaching redress scheme for survivors of historical abuse in the borough. It will allow them to secure compensation quickly whilst minimising legal fees.\" Last month the survivors association pulled out of the independent inquiry into historical child sexual abuse in England and Wales because of concerns over its leadership. Labour MP Chuka Umunna, who sits on the Home Affairs Select Committee and whose Streatham constituency falls within Lambeth, said it was a \"sad indictment\" the SOSA did not have confidence in the inquiry and \"felt their only choice was to withdraw from that investigation and publish their own report\".", "question": "Every resident of a former @placeholder of children 's homes in south London is to receive compensation for being at risk of abuse dating back decades .", "option_0": "nature", "option_1": "state", "option_2": "member", "option_3": "set", "option_4": "network"}
{"id": 180, "article": "L/Cpl Craig Roberts, 24, of Penrhyn Bay, Conwy, and L/Cpl Edward Maher, 31, died on 13 July 2013. Cpl James Dunsby, from Bath, died later in hospital. The inquest was due to start in Solihull, West Midlands, in October. It will now be held after an appeal against a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decision not to bring charges. The CPS decided not to bring gross negligence manslaughter charges in July, a decision families of two of the soldiers have lodged appeals about under a Victims Right to Review scheme. Birmingham and Solihull senior coroner Louise Hunt has previously said that, as an inquest is not a criminal hearing, the CPS review must be dealt with before an inquest is held to avoid prejudicing any possible future criminal trial. The soldiers, who died from overheating, had been taking part in a 40-mile (64km) hike on Pen y Fan as part of a four-week trial for the Territorial Army's SAS reservists. The exercise took part on one of the hottest days of the year when temperatures reached 29.5C (85F). The inquest is expected to last for up to three weeks.", "question": "An inquest into the deaths of three soldiers who @placeholder on an SAS training exercise in the Brecon Beacons has been delayed until 2015 .", "option_0": "called", "option_1": "collapsed", "option_2": "disappeared", "option_3": "rely", "option_4": "held"}
{"id": 181, "article": "The work is a portrait of Van Dyck's close friend Olivia Porter and was painted around 1637. The tax bill covered was for ?¡ê2.8m but the full value of the painting has not been disclosed. Owned by the same family since the 17th Century, the portrait will now go to the Bowes Museum in County Durham. Adrian Jenkins, director of the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle, said: \"We are delighted to have the opportunity to celebrate the gift of this wonderful portrait. \"It will also of course enhance the museum's permanent collection.\" Born in Antwerp, Van Dyck  is thought of as one of the most important Flemish painters, in particular portraitists, of the 17th Century. He was heavily influenced by Rubens and the Italian artists, especially Titian, and is best remembered for his elegant representations of Charles I and his court after he settled at the English court in 1632. Olivia Porter was a lady-in-waiting at the court, who married Van Dyck's friend Endymion Porter, the king's picture agent and diplomat. The portrait of Olivia - who became the subject of more than one of the artist's portraits - is thought to have been commissioned by her husband. Its quality and vibrancy reflect the close friendship of the couple with the artist. Van Dyck chose to paint Olivia in a timeless classical costume - red with golden highlights - reminiscent of Venetian painters such as Titian. Edward Harley, chairman of the panel which advises the government on offers in lieu of tax said: \"The acceptance-in-lieu scheme continues to enrich our public collections. \"I am delighted that this exceptional portrait, which is one of the great Van Dycks, has been allocated to the Bowes Museum in County Durham.\" The painting will form part of a major exhibition, The English Rose - Feminine Beauty from Van Dyck to Sargent, which opens at the Bowes Museum in May 2016.", "question": "A painting by the artist Sir Anthony Van Dyck has been saved for the nation after being donated to cover UK @placeholder tax .", "option_0": "dollar", "option_1": "drugs", "option_2": "art", "option_3": "traffic", "option_4": "inheritance"}
{"id": 182, "article": "China's unilateral establishment of an air defence identification zone (ADIZ) demonstrates President Xi Jinping's resolve to defend China's territorial integrity. It is the most striking act of military escalation since he became China's top leader and top military chief one year ago. Nevertheless, Chinese leaders will repudiate any criticism, pointing out the imposition of Japan's existing ADIZ in the region extending over China's claimed territory. In the absence of transparency in Chinese defence spending, analysts commonly resort to the study of strategic signalling by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) - and the creation of the ADIZ amounts to a very strong signal from the military leadership. The imposition of the ADIZ is resonant of the PLA's missile blockade of Taiwan in 1996, when former Chinese President Jiang Zemin ordered the unilateral establishment of air and maritime exclusion zones during a series of missile tests to the north and south of Taiwan. The ADIZ declaration confirms that the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands are a \"core concern\" for China; it places the archipelago in the same category as the South China Sea and Taiwan. China's defence white paper released in April holds some obvious clues to recent PLA actions. Japan is described as \"making trouble\" over the island dispute, while the US military pivot to Asia has created regional tension, according to the document. Over the last decade, populist nationalism in China has been fuelled by an official narrative of humiliation at the hands of the West. Such sentiment has been tempered by adherence to Deng Xiaoping's \"hide and bide\" policy of strategic restraint. Recently, however, demonstrations of Chinese military power would suggest that Xi Jinping may be prepared to overlook this policy. Source: aviationdevelopment.org China's new regional identity as an economic powerhouse with an increasingly potent military has made the humiliation narrative less relevant; a sense of national pride is now pervasive. Chinese sabre-rattling is often a reflection of domestic sentiment and a form of public appeasement. This latest gesture comes in the wake of significant military tension in the region. In January 2013, Japan's Ministry of Defence accused the PLA Navy of directing fire control radar onto a Japanese naval vessel not far from the disputed islands. China vehemently denies that such hostility took place. China's best option to maintain escalation dominance in the absence of a permanent military presence in the Senkaku region is the establishment of the ADIZ. The greatest red line for China would be the establishment of manned positions on the islands by Japan, an action which could prompt a swift escalation in hostility. Both countries have avoided such actions thus far; however, recently China has flown drone sorties close to the disputed region, prompting fighter scrambles by Japan. Another recent development was the roll-out of China's first stealth drone, which came soon after the maiden flight of the J-31 stealth fighter earlier this year. Q&A: China-Japan islands row All of these weapons systems are still in the developmental phase but they emphasise the success of Chinese military modernisation over the last decade. And while China is far away from becoming a global military power, US defence experts have noted that China has been able to concentrate formidable military capabilities in its own backyard. Some analysts suggest that in certain areas, the PLA may be able to rival US capabilities in the region. Most significantly, the ADIZ is symbolic of China's persistent anger at the regular surveillance and intelligence gathering sorties mounted by the US military at sea and in the air along China's borders. One particularly sensitive episode was the loss of a Chinese fighter pilot killed in a collision with a US surveillance aircraft on an intelligence gathering mission over the South China Sea in 2001. Chinese leaders will argue that the establishment of the zone is designed to avoid such incidents, but given the extremely fast reaction times required for air interdiction and the relative inexperience of both the Chinese and Japanese air forces, the potential for swift escalation and possible miscalculation will increase. The proximity of the US 7th Fleet in Japan and the regular operations mounted by the US military in the ADIZ area mean that the Pentagon will be extremely resistant to comply with air identification protocols demanded on China's own terms, as will the Japanese military. The creation of an air identification zone also belies Chinese confidence in its own command and control networks and its ability to mount air surveillance over a large expanse of the East China Sea. The US response may be to up the tempo of its own military drills planned for the area, forcing the PLA into a defensive response, testing both Xi Jinping's resolve and his chain of command. Alexander Neill is the Singapore-based Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies", "question": "China 's demarcation of an air defence zone that overlaps areas claimed by Japan is a strong @placeholder , writes Alexander Neill of the International Institute for Strategic Studies ( IISS ) , and one that raises the risk of possible miscalculation and escalation in the region .", "option_0": "heartland", "option_1": "point", "option_2": "statement", "option_3": "possibility", "option_4": "issue"}
{"id": 183, "article": "He was best known for his Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, which was composed in 1976 and sold more than a million copies following a 1992 re-release. The symphony - part of which drew on an inscription scrawled on a Nazi prison wall during World War II - featured vocals from US soprano Dawn Upshaw. It was often played on radio station Classic FM when it launched in 1992. Gorecki had been suffering from a prolonged illness, a spokeswoman for Polish Radio's National Symphony Orchestra said. Monumental style Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki was born close to the industrial city of Katowice in southern Poland, where he studied music and taught at the city's music academy. His early works were avant-garde in style, and later influenced by folk music of his native land. By the 1970s he had developed the monumental style for which he became famous. He was often at odds with the communist authorities in Poland and withdrew from public life in the 1980s to concentrate on composing. His Symphony No. 3, which dealt with themes of war and separation in a slow, stark style, became the best-selling record by a contemporary composer. Gorecki had completed his fourth symphony, the premiere of which was shelved on account of his illness. Last month he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour.", "question": "Polish composer Henryk Gorecki has died at the age of 76 , the country 's national orchestra has @placeholder .", "option_0": "arrived", "option_1": "emerged", "option_2": "retired", "option_3": "announced", "option_4": "warned"}
{"id": 184, "article": "Money Advice Trust (MAT) said it helped 150,000 people with household bill debts last year - up 140%  since 2007. But fewer people reported problems with traditional credit products, such as loans and overdrafts, MAT said. Meanwhile, a BBC survey has found that the most adults in debt have not asked for advice on managing their problem. Joanna Elson, chief executive of the MAT said: \"The gradual erosion of some families' surplus income in the face of rising prices has led to a new generation of debt problems, one to which more people are vulnerable, one which is harder to resolve, and one which has no definitive solution. \"We're hearing from more people in serious debt difficulty as a result of debts totalling less than ?¡ê5,000. When there is little room in a household budget to meet basic expenses, paying off debts can seem impossible. \"Recent government announcements such as an increase in the minimum wage are a positive step towards helping these families, but more can be done.\" However, a survey for BBC North, conducted by Comres, has found that people are hesitant to seek help. The survey found that 69% of British adults in debt had not asked for advice on managing their debts. The poll surveyed 1,000 respondents between 23 and 25 May 2014.", "question": "More people are falling into debt because they can not afford basic household bills , such as energy , @placeholder and council tax , a charity says .", "option_0": "electricity", "option_1": "water", "option_2": "unemployment", "option_3": "transport", "option_4": "ice"}
{"id": 185, "article": "Untreated, the condition can increase the risk of a stillbirth and other complications. Most screening takes place at 28 weeks, but a University of Cambridge study of 4,069 women showed the foetus was already affected by then. Charities said gestational diabetes was involved in a \"significant number\" of potentially avoidable stillbirths. Gestational diabetes is common and affects up to 18 in every 100 pregnancies. The extra sugar in the bloodstream acts as \"baby fuel\" leading to rapid growth inside the womb. Most babies are normal and healthy but the condition increases the likelihood of a large baby, which can be difficult to deliver, suffering bone fractures. The babies can also be at higher risks of obesity and diabetes later in life. The study, published in the journal Diabetes Care, showed excessive foetal growth had already started by the usual time of screening. Women testing positive for gestational diabetes at that 28-week stage were twice as likely as other mothers to have an abnormally large foetus. Mothers who were obese as well as having gestational diabetes had five times the risk of a large foetus. Prof Gordon Smith, one of the researchers, told the BBC News website: \"The recommendations are that screening should take place at some point between 24 and 28 weeks, but in practice a lot screen at 28 weeks. \"Our findings indicate that it should be brought forward to 24 weeks and that would still be consistent with existing guidelines. \"And we should possibly be doing a second, earlier, screening test for early onset of the disease - but that needs further research.\" There were no signs of large babies at 20 weeks. Dr Daghni Rajasingam, from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said: \"This study emphasises the importance of early detection and diagnosis. \"There is growing awareness for the need to screen earlier, but further research should assess the ideal timing of screening and the impact this has on the child's health. \"It is important to emphasise that immediate changes to lifestyle, including a healthy diet and moderate levels of exercise, can have significantly positive effects on a woman and her baby's health.\" Janet Scott, from the stillbirth charity Sands, said: \"We know from recent enquiries that failure to screen for gestational diabetes currently plays a part in a significant number of potentially avoidable stillbirths at term. \"Good risk assessment is crucial to avoiding harm to mothers and babies and we welcome these important findings which have real potential to inform better antenatal care for these high-risk pregnancies.\" Follow James on Twitter.", "question": "Tests for diabetes in pregnancy - which affects the @placeholder baby - are taking place too late , warn scientists .", "option_0": "space", "option_1": "developing", "option_2": "race", "option_3": "ground", "option_4": "water"}
{"id": 186, "article": "Until a few years ago, Nanuchka was just a conventional Georgian pub serving traditional food like khachapuri, a cheesy bread, and khinkali, a meat-stuffed dumpling. But then Nana Shrier, the flamboyant owner of the venue, where the walls are adorned with erotic art, became a strict vegan - in what is said to be the most vegan country in the world per capita. She decided to convert her entire restaurant to a meatless and dairy-free establishment despite being advised against it by friends and business colleagues. Israelis are flocking to it - and business is more successful than ever. For vegans, everything derived from animals is off-limits. Similar to - but stricter than - vegetarians, vegans do not eat eggs and cheese, or drink milk, and in some cases even avoid honey. Leather, wool and silk are forbidden. Sitting at Nanuchka, eating a meal of vegan tsatsivi (where cauliflower is substituted for chicken), Nana says that consuming animals is both inhumane and unhealthy. \"I don't like it,\" she explains, scrunching her nose in disgust. \"I feel the body of the animals in the steak, I feel the animal in the fillet, and the blood. I don't like it so much.\" Nana argues there is another benefit to veganism as well. She says that sometimes, after eating a large steak, or a cheeseburger, for example, she feels tired and lethargic. \"When you eat vegan food, you have a lot of energy to do very good and nice things,\" she says with a coy smile. When asked if she is implying that vegans have a better sex life than their meat-eating counterparts, she laughs heartily and says, \"of course!\" Veganism has become so prominent in Israel that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has started catering to followers in its ranks by offering vegan-friendly ration packs, non-leather boots and wool-less berets. From an army base in southern Israel, Cpl Daniella Yoeli says the food is not exactly worth writing home about but she is happy to have the option of eating couscous and lentils over schnitzel and schwarma. She has always loved animals, she explains, and became a vegetarian as a child, converting to veganism only recently. Her diet is so important to her that had the army not been able to provide conditions that had harmed no living creatures, she might not have enlisted in a combat unit where she would not have been able to provide her own food. While a vegan combat soldier might seem contradictory, Yoeli politely disagrees. \"In Israel, in the army, what we do in our service is defend the citizens, so I don't think it's a paradox, \" she says, M-16 rifle slung over her shoulder. \"Like I want to defend animals, I want to defend people, so this is why I'm in combat and this is why I'm in the army.\" According to Omri Paz, the head of the Israeli organisation Vegan Friendly, 5% of Israelis are vegan and the number is growing. Israel boasts some 400 vegan-friendly restaurants, including the world's first vegan Domino's Pizza. Mr Paz attributes the rise of veganism here to a YouTube video by US animal rights activist Gary Yourofsky, which garnered millions of hits worldwide, and more than a million in Israel alone, a lot for a country of only some eight million people. Mr Yourofsky lectures about the cruelty of the meat industry and, controversially, compares the treatment of animals to the Nazi Holocaust. Omri Paz says he watched the video and did not leave his room for a week. He says this is the civil rights issue of our century. \"Just like 300 years ago, blacks weren't equal to whites and that changed with time, and then 100 years ago with the women's revolution, so I think now, the 21st Century, is the animal species revolution,\" he says. \"Treating them not as humans, but not as slaves.\"", "question": "On a typical evening at Nanuchka , a popular Georgian restaurant in the middle of Israel 's bustling Tel Aviv , @placeholder fills the air and alcohol flows freely .", "option_0": "schools", "option_1": "beer", "option_2": "music", "option_3": "meaning", "option_4": "liquor"}
{"id": 187, "article": "In pictures: Moneygall gets ready for Obama Moneygall in County Offaly is awash with paint, as the rural village prepares to welcome the most powerful man in the world in May. President Obama's great, great, great grandfather came from Moneygall and the president plans to set foot in his ancestral home during his two-day visit to Ireland. To ensure the presidential feet are made as comfortable as possible, the pavements are being dug up, re-laid and smoothed over. It is just one of many improvements being made. Houses on the main street are being cleaned with power-hoses. Gardens are being tidied, new flowers are being planted. The air in Moneygall is filled with the smell of paint. It seems like every spare brush in County Offaly is being used. Every house is being made to look its best, in preparation for the visit, which is likely to take place on Monday 23 May. The decision by one family to paint their house with the colours of the American flag has not gone down well with some of their neighbours. \"It looks a bit tacky,\" said one woman, as she watched the street turn red, white and blue. But, overall, the small rural community has pulled together. The parish rector, Canon Stephen Neill, said: \"This has brought joy and excitement to the whole area. It's something to celebrate in what have been very dark times in our country economically.\" Moneygall has already received an economic boost - 3,500 litres of free paint from Dulux to help with the make-over. The village has no bank, no cash point, no coffee shop and a population of less than 300 people. However, it does have two pubs, including Ollie Hayes's bar in the middle of the main street. The pub is full of Obama memorabilia, including a life-size bust which has pride of place on the bar. Now, the man himself is likely to call in next month. \"It's something I never dreamt would happen in a small village like this,\" said  Mr Hayes, as he served a group of American tourists. \"We're going to enjoy every minute of this.\" Moneygall is in the heart of Ireland, about 90 minutes from Dublin, on the road to Limerick. On St Patrick's Day in Washington, President Obama announced that not only would he be visiting Ireland in May but travelling to Moneygall to re-trace his Irish roots. One of the villagers, Henry Healy, is the eighth cousin of Obama. He said: \"At first it felt almost surreal but now it's becoming very real. He's coming to Moneygall, he's coming to my home town and I'm hopeful reality will really kick in if I'm privileged to meet the man and shake his hand. \"You have to pinch yourself. I got a bit taken aback when I saw the CIA here two weeks ago. \"I can only imagine what my reaction will be when the man himself actually lands here in the village.\" A welcome song has been written already. The chorus goes: \"O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara, there's no-one as Irish as Barack Obama. From the old Blarney stone, to the green hills of Tara, there's no-one as Irish as Barack Obama.\" In Ollie Hayes's pub, there is a fictitious picture of Obama in Moneygall listening to traditional Irish music and holding a pint of the black stuff. Fiction is about to become reality. The only thing that can go wrong is if they run out of paint.", "question": "The forthcoming visit to Ireland by American President Barack Obama has transformed the @placeholder of a small Irish village .", "option_0": "announcement", "option_1": "lives", "option_2": "appearance", "option_3": "spirit", "option_4": "advantage"}
{"id": 188, "article": "Audiences at 11 cinemas watched Macbeth live from Caerphilly Castle on Tuesday. Repeat screenings with English subtitles will be shown until April. The broadcast is aimed at reaching audiences who could not travel to Caerphilly, while the company hopes subtitled repeats will attract those who do not speak Welsh. Richard Lynch and Ffion Dafis star in the adaptation of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. The translation was completed by the former national poet of Wales, Gwyn Thomas, before his death last year. Arwel Gruffydd, the director of Macbeth and artistic director of Theatr Genedlaethol, said the company had to experiment to reach a wider audience. \"As a national company it's important that we are innovative, and that we trial new ventures,\" he said. \"Perhaps other companies in future will benefit from this, and we will be happy to share our experiences of producing a live broadcast.\" The play takes place in the rooms of Caerphilly Castle, with about 100 audience members each night. It opened on 7 February and has already sold out. According to Mr Gruffydd, the cinema broadcasts open doors to a new audience. \"Not everyone can come to Caerphilly, and not everyone can visit ancient castles because of accessibility issues and so on. \"With the repeat broadcasts, it was important that we could offer this production to non-Welsh speakers, so there will be subtitles on the repeats at every cinema.\" Chapter (Cardiff) Pontio (Bangor) Galeri Caernarfon Neuadd Dwyfor (Pwllheli) Theatr Colwyn (Colwyn Bay) Theatr Clwyd (Mold) Aberystwyth Arts Centre Torch Theatre (Milford Haven) The Welfare Ystradgynlais Taliesin Arts Centre (Swansea) The Riverfront (Newport) Theatr Mwldan (Cardigan) Theatr Ardudwy (Harlech) CellB (Blaenau Ffestiniog) The production has been generally well received. \"Casting Ffion Dafis as Lady Macbeth was a clever move,\" according to reviewer Sioned Williams in her report for Radio Cymru, while critic Lowri Haf Cooke said the translated production was a \"fitting tribute to the late Gwyn Thomas\" with Richard Lynch as Macbeth \"shining in front of the crowd\". Lynch is back in his hometown to perform the part of Macbeth, and said it was a play that would strike a chord with contemporary audiences. \"Thematically, it's about power. And it's about the desire for power, that's as relevant today as it was 500 years ago and it will be relevant in future. \"That's the genius of Shakespeare, he writes relevant, modern plays.\"", "question": "A production by Welsh @placeholder national theatre company Theatr Genedlaethol has been broadcast live to cinemas for the first time .", "option_0": "culture", "option_1": "sex", "option_2": "coal", "option_3": "language", "option_4": "english"}
{"id": 189, "article": "The 19-year-old on-loan striker was treated at his parent club Chelsea after 14 February's loss at Leeds. Norwich manager Alex Neil will make changes to his side after Saturday's 5-1 thumping at Sheffield Wednesday. Ryan Bennett, Josh Murphy, Alex Pritchard and Yanic Wildschut may all push for places in the starting side. Bristol City are in the relegation zone after one league win from 16, while eighth-placed Norwich will look to avoid adding to the 10 away defeats they have already suffered this term. Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson told BBC Radio Bristol: \"We are desperate to get that win that makes us feel better. This is a great chance for that. \"Probably going into this game as the underdog is not a bad place for Bristol City to be because we always perform quite well in that type of scenario. \"It is in our hands. We have seen how quickly football changes and, this time next week, we hope to have two wins under our belt.\"", "question": "Bristol City 's top scorer Tammy Abraham could return after a thigh injury as the @placeholder Championship side host Norwich City at Ashton Gate on Tuesday .", "option_0": "league", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "relegated", "option_3": "struggling", "option_4": "beat"}
{"id": 190, "article": "Emma Haggan, 30, and Jamie Tanner, 36, were planning their dream wedding in Italy when Jamie was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Prolonged medical treatment meant that the Bournemouth couple have had to put tying the knot on hold. A campaign, run by the Wedding Wishing Well Foundation, has raised ?¡ê7,500. Mr Tanner was diagnosed with small-cell carcinoma - also known as small-cell lung cancer - in August 2015. He is currently being treated by specialists at The Royal Marsden Hospital in London. \"At first we were told it could be lymphoma and that Jamie had a good chance of survival. This then became testicular cancer and again his chances seemed good but unfortunately he was finally diagnosed with small-cell carcinoma which is extremely aggressive and at this time considered incurable\", said Ms Haggan. Despite being in pain, the family said Mr Tanner remains \"determined\" and \"strong\". Ms Haggan said: \"Jamie has been my superman, accepting every challenge and treatment and fighting every step of the way. \"The cancer is now in his lungs and the treatment makes him very ill, yet I seldom hear him complain.\" The couple met eight years ago after moving next door to one another. Ms Haggan said: \"Our relationship was romantic from the very beginning. He had grown incredibly close to my daughter, Amara [who was born with hip dysplasia] and never missed a hospital appointment or operation. \"Eventually though, Jamie and I decided to start trying for our own baby and were blessed with a daughter in July 2010.\" Though the couple are no longer able to travel to Italy for their wedding, they hope to marry in May while Mr Tanner's condition is still stable.", "question": "A terminally ill man whose wish is to marry \" the woman of his dreams \" says he has been \" overwhelmed \" by the @placeholder 's help in raising funds for his wedding .", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "party", "option_2": "public", "option_3": "women", "option_4": "government"}
{"id": 191, "article": "\"Uluru is sacred in our culture,\" state its Aboriginal owners. \"It is a place of great knowledge. Under our traditional law climbing is not permitted. Please don't climb.\" While thousands of tourists disregard the sign and scale the World Heritage-listed rock every year, their numbers are dwindling. Under a plan announced in 2010, once fewer than 20% of visitors venture up the steep path, which has claimed at least 35 lives since the 1950s, climbing will be officially banned. Not everyone, though, supports the move, with some tourism operators warning it will deter people from visiting the national park containing Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, and Kata Tjuta, or the Olgas - another massive rocky outcrop. Now the Northern Territory's chief minister, Adam Giles, has stirred the pot, comparing the rock to the Eiffel Tower and Sydney Harbour Bridge - both routinely scaled by visitors - and dismissing a ban as \"ludicrous\". \"We should explore the idea of creating a climb with stringent safety conditions and rules enforcing spiritual respect,\" Mr Giles, who is Aboriginal, told the Territory's parliament. That would bring \"significant economic benefits\" to indigenous locals, he said. His remarks unleashed a storm of criticism, with Francis Kelly, chairman of the Central Land Council, which represents the area's traditional owners, calling them \"completely wrong\" and \"offensive\". \"Uluru is for everyone in the world to enjoy, but we are the caretakers,\" says Leroy Lester, whose father, Yami, a celebrated land rights activist, officiated at the ceremony where Uluru was handed back to its Aboriginal owners in 1985. Mr Lester told the BBC: \"The climb is dangerous and the people going up there leave a snail trail (of erosion marks) on the rock. It also goes against the spiritual beliefs of the oldest living culture on the planet.\" A tourism draw since the mid-20th Century, Ayers Rock gained international notoriety in 1980, when Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from an adjacent campsite. Her mother Lindy was found guilty of murdering her, but the conviction was overturned in 1988 and in 2012 a coroner ruled that a dingo took the baby. After regaining ownership of Uluru - a move bitterly opposed by the Northern Territory, which had previously controlled it - Aboriginal elders leased it to the federal government for 99 years, with the land to be jointly managed by them and the national parks service. Although traditional owners receive a portion of the entry fees, hopes that jobs would be created for locals in the park and at the resort in nearby Yulara have largely been dashed. The Aboriginal community of Mutitjulu, at the foot of the rock, is one of Australia's poorest. The sight of tourists climbing Uluru - the site of an important ancestral story - rubs salt in the wound. \"This is a very special place to us and we want to protect it for the next generation, and the generation after,\" says Alison Hunt, an elder and former member of the board which manages the park. She adds: \"The chief minister should consult the custodians of the land before issuing his public statements. We're getting tired of people making a political issue out of this.\" With the Northern Territory still enviously eyeing Uluru, some suspect Mr Giles of a hidden agenda. He told parliament that the question of whether the rock should be climbed was \"a decision for Territorians, not bureaucrats in Canberra\". The chief minister recently visited Uluru with the Australian golfing legend Greg Norman, who wants to open a golf course at Yulara. That idea is anathema to Mr Lester. \"The place is going the way of a theme park,\" he says. \"It seems to be all about making money these days.\" Last year, an opponent of climbing on the rock - which the parks service already bans when it is too wet, windy or hot - cut the safety chain which runs along the ascent. Earlier in the year, a Taiwanese tourist had to be airlifted off Uluru after falling 20m into a crevice and suffering head injuries, earlier in the year. Aboriginal people are keen to develop small-scale tourism ventures which could offer an alternative to the climb. \"Visitors can sit down with us around a campfire and learn about the rock and our culture, hear the stories and history of ourselves and the land,\" says Ms Hunt. \"They should do more than just race in, climb the rock, go back to the resort and then fly out,\" says Donald Fraser, a former chairman of the board of management. Local people, Mr Fraser adds, \"only get a bit of money from the (park) gate... It's like we've got a hole in the pocket instead of money going into the bank.\"", "question": "The prominent sign in seven @placeholder at the base of Uluru , the giant red monolith in Australia 's dusty red heart , could hardly be clearer .", "option_0": "activity", "option_1": "colors", "option_2": "place", "option_3": "languages", "option_4": "series"}
{"id": 192, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The 32-year-old said he and three team-mates were held up at a petrol station during a night out. But police questioned the account after CCTV footage showed the group had vandalised the petrol station. USA Swimming and the US Olympic Committee (USOC) have also banned the three other swimmers involved. The behaviour of these athletes was not acceptable Gunnar Bentz, Jimmy Feigen and Jack Conger have each been suspended for four months. The sanctions were handed down for breaches of each organisation's code of conduct. \"The behaviour of these athletes was not acceptable,\" said Scott Blackmun, CEO of USOC. \"It unfairly maligned our hosts and diverted attention away from the historic achievements of Team USA.\" Lochte's punishment means he will not be able to qualify for the 2017 World Championships. The six-time Olympic gold medallist admitted he had \"over-exaggerated\" his original account. While he returned to the US in the days following the incident, Bentz and Conger were pulled off a US-bound plane by police, though they were subsequently allowed to leave after questioning. Feigen agreed to pay $11,000 (¡ê8,250) to a Brazilian charity after he was allowed to return home. Late last month, Brazilian police charged Lochte with making a false statement, though his lawyer later said the swimmer will not respond to the charge. The crime carries a maximum penalty of 18 months in prison and Lochte can be tried in his absence. Several sponsors, including clothing manufacturer Speedo, dropped the swimmer in the wake of the revelations.", "question": "American swimmer Ryan Lochte has been banned from the sport for 10 months after falsely claiming he was @placeholder at gunpoint during the Rio Olympic Games .", "option_0": "beaten", "option_1": "threatened", "option_2": "robbed", "option_3": "thrown", "option_4": "abandoned"}
{"id": 193, "article": "7 April 2017 Last updated at 15:54 BST The network has said that separate awards for best actor and actress will be replaced by \"non-gendered\" prizes. This means female actors like Emma Watson from Disney's Beauty and the beast will now be competing with male actors like Hugh Jackman from Marvel's Logan, for the best actor award. At the moment most big award ceremonies, like the Oscars and Baftas, still have separate categories for men and women. But some ceremonies like the Grammys have never had separate awards. Many people believe that men and women should be treated equally so there should be no need to separate the genders. Some people also believe that people shouldn't be defined by their gender and should get to choose which one they identify with.", "question": "MTV has @placeholder the male and female categories for its movie and TV award shows .", "option_0": "called", "option_1": "defended", "option_2": "unveiled", "option_3": "awarded", "option_4": "scrapped"}
{"id": 194, "article": "'Soldier E' gave evidence from behind a curtain about the night Marian Brown died. He explained he was commanding the Royal Anglian regiment in west Belfast in June 1972. He said a vehicle checkpoint was set up shortly before the girl was killed. He said the shooting began when a gunman in a car in the Roden Street area fired shots at five people who were out walking after midnight. He said the five civilians fell to the ground \"shouting and screaming\". 'Soldier E' said he believed the weapon was a 'Thompson' machine gun because of the rapid fire. He also said this was followed by gunmen opening fire from both the Grovenor Road Junction and from a nearby house. 'Soldier E' rejected a suggestion from a family lawyer that he was \"reckless in the extreme\" to order his patrol to return fire while, as he claimed, civilians were lying on the ground. Concluding her cross-examination, the lawyer told 'Soldier E' he was the only military witness to claim he had seen \"civilians being shot at\". She said this was part of \"a manufactured story you thought you could get away with\". The witness replied \"No, mam\". The teenager's family claim she was killed by shots fired by soldiers. The inquest resumes next week.", "question": "The commander of an Army patrol which opened fire in a disputed shooting on the night a pregnant teenager was killed has @placeholder at a new inquest into her death .", "option_0": "lost", "option_1": "appeared", "option_2": "described", "option_3": "arrived", "option_4": "opened"}
{"id": 195, "article": "They found the 'intruder' wedged in the frame 8ft (2.4m) off the ground at Nottingham Trent University's Arkwright building. Daniel De Niet and Tom Burdett had been returning home after a night out and said the man told them he had been there for five hours. Carl Attar, 27,  was charged with burglary and remanded in custody. Mr De Niet said the pair had been having a race on the way home when they took a short cut outside the Arkwright building at about 2:00 GMT on Friday. \"I got to the top of the stairs and I heard shouting and screaming for help,\" he said. \"I looked up and saw someone wedged in the window.\" Mr Burdett said: \"I turned the corner and saw a pair of legs sticking out of a window quite far up. \"I was in pure hysterics. I couldn't stop laughing for a good few minutes.\" The pair initially thought he was a drunk student who got himself wedged in the middle of a prank. But after the fire service freed Mr Attar, with a saw and a ladder, he was arrested on suspicion of burglary. Mr Burdett said: \"He was actually doing a handstand whilst his legs were jammed in place in the window frame. \"He was in a lot of pain, he was crying when we first got there. He was in a lot of distress, understandably so.\" Mr Attar appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Monday and was remanded into custody until 2 February.", "question": "Two students have @placeholder the moment they found a suspected burglar dangling upside down from a window .", "option_0": "admitted", "option_1": "taken", "option_2": "named", "option_3": "described", "option_4": "praised"}
{"id": 196, "article": "Jonathan Catchpole, 38, was attacked by three men at his flat in Bury St Edmunds in August 2015. His ex-girlfriend Rebecca Deferia is accused of organising the attempt on his life after their relationship ended. Ms Deferia, 30, denies conspiracy to murder. Ipswich Crown Court heard three men - one armed with a sawn-off shotgun - barged into Mr Catchpole's home. During police interviews heard in court, Mr Catchpole told officers: \"One of the guys said: 'Rebecca wants you dead....so I knew what it was about. In the \"tussle\" which ensued, he was hit over the head, and felt warm blood running down his face. He tried to grab the shotgun and push it away. \"I heard a bang, and there was a smell, and I looked down and there was a hole in my chest and blood was spurting out of it,\" he said. He described how the trio ran off and he went outside knocking at the doors of his neighbours, before eventually collapsing in the street, struggling to breathe. People came to his aid and he was taken to hospital where he underwent emergency surgery. Shotgun pellets, wadding and shrapnel were all found inside his body, but not all could be removed, he said. Ms Deferia, 30, from Carnation Way, Red Lodge, denies conspiracy to murder between August 2014 and August 2015. The case continues.", "question": "A man who was shot during an assassination plot allegedly @placeholder by his ex was told she \" wanted him dead \" , a court has heard .", "option_0": "described", "option_1": "led", "option_2": "started", "option_3": "arranged", "option_4": "abused"}
{"id": 197, "article": "Eifion Gwynne, 41, died last month and previously expressed his wish to be buried at Plascrug Cemetery, Aberystwyth. The only plots left are for people with an exclusive right of burial. But Ceredigion council confirmed a plot has now been transferred to the family. It means Mr Gwynne can be buried in the cemetery when the funeral for the father-of-three and former Aberystwyth and Llandovery rugby player takes place on Saturday. Family friend Wayne Thomas told BBC Wales  Mr Gwynne had discussed his wishes with his wife Nia. \"He always said he wanted to be buried in this cemetery, it's close to the rugby club and it's close to his home,\" he said. A memorial fund set up in Mr Gwynne's memory has raised almost ?¡ê12,000 in donations. Confirming a plot had been made available, Ceredigion council leader Ellen ap Gwynn said: \"A family who had reserved a plot came forward and offered it to Nia and family. \"We were very pleased that the council was able to help with ensuring this. We offer our deepest sympathy to the family at this very difficult time.\"", "question": "A Ceredigion rugby player killed in Spain will have his final wish @placeholder after friends and family secured a plot in a cemetery .", "option_0": "fulfilled", "option_1": "lost", "option_2": "saved", "option_3": "built", "option_4": "sealed"}
{"id": 198, "article": "Thirty three, instead of 43, beaches have won the international award, alongside five marinas. This year judging has used stricter criteria for water quality meaning some beaches around Wales could not apply. The very wet 2012 meant more bacteria has been found, but the overall standard of Welsh beaches remains high, says Natural Resources Wales. The blue flag award is issued by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE), which rates beaches on categories including safety, facilities, and environmental management, as well as water quality More stringent revised European bathing water standards were applied for the first time meaning beaches had to reach a level almost twice as strict as before. Emyr Roberts, chief executive of Natural Resources Wales, said: \"We all know that the record rainfall has an impact on water quality last year, but what is encouraging is that despite this and the higher standards introduced, 90% of beaches are projected to be classed as good and 68% as excellent in 2015.\" Wednesday also marks the start of the bathing water season during which teams from Natural Resources Wales will collect 2,000 samples over the season from 100 designated beaches. \"As a result of the work we are doing to improve water quality and hopefully, with better weather this summer, more people will have an opportunity to enjoy the clean water and fantastic beaches we have in Wales,\" said Mr Roberts. Fergus O'Brien, Dwr Cymru Welsh Water's coastal water manager, said they were committed to safeguarding the local environment, including bathing waters. He said: \"Today after investing more than ?¡ê1bn in improving our treatment works around the coast of Wales, we can boast some of the best coastal waters in Europe. \"We will continue to work to support the work of partner agencies to further improve bathing water quality which is so important to the Welsh tourism industry.\" However, Chris Jackson, chairman of the North Wales Tourism Partnership, said he did not believe the blue flag award was as relevant as it used to be. \"The blue flag is like a sublime spa beach that has everything provided there. \"I certainly like to think the British public is more resilient and sophisticated than that. They will find out about health standards if they want to go swimming in the sea.\" The 2013 blue flag beaches were revealed at an event hosted by Keep Wales Tidy in Rest Bay, Porthcawl. Two other coastal awards - Green Coast and Seaside - were presented alongside the blue flags by Natural Resources Minister Alun Davies for the first time. Thirty five Green Coast awards which recognises beaches which are quieter and have an unspoilt environment were handed out. The Seaside award went to 49 beach resorts near towns and 58 rural ones. In March, wet weather was also blamed for a fall in the number of Welsh beaches reaching the top EU bathing water standard in the Marine Conservation Society's Good Beach Guide. Mr Davies said he was committed to ensuring that the highest possible bathing water is achieved to complement the \"excellent facilities and dedicated community work that is needed to meet these standards.\"", "question": "Nearly a quarter of blue flag beaches in Wales have lost their @placeholder after a wet 2012 affected water quality .", "option_0": "position", "option_1": "form", "option_2": "life", "option_3": "status", "option_4": "demise"}
{"id": 199, "article": "Liverpool Street station's new platforms have been built 37m (121ft) below ground and are twice as long as most London Underground stations. The route, which will be called the Elizabeth line, links 40 stations across London and the South East. Crossrail Limited, which is running the project, said 75% of the line has now been constructed. Whitechapel station is the only central London station on the new line where platforms have not been laid. The platforms at Liverpool Street station are made up of over 500 pieces, which were built in a factory near Sheffield. These were transported to the capital, lowered down through the station's main shaft and fitted into place. Rohan Perin, Crossrail's project manager at Liverpool Street station said it was \"a bit like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle\". Work has begun on fitting out the stations with equipment and systems to operate the line. Services will run from the station from December 2018. A full service running from Reading and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east will start operating in 2019.", "question": "The platforms at one of the main stations on the new ¡ê 14.8 bn Crossrail scheme have been @placeholder .", "option_0": "completed", "option_1": "released", "option_2": "restored", "option_3": "approved", "option_4": "launched"}
{"id": 200, "article": "Ralston Dodd, 25, was arrested in Birmingham on 11 July. He had been jailed in November after admitting stabbing a man three times in the back following an argument on a north London street. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said such releases in error were \"extremely rare\" and it was investigating. Dodd attacked a 21-year-old man with a knife in Islington on 18 September 2016 before going on the run. He was arrested on 11 October 2016 and, a month later, sentenced to nine years' imprisonment at Blackfriars Crown Court for grievous bodily harm with intent. Dodd, from Islington, was in custody at HMP Thameside in south-east London before his release in error. An MoJ spokeswoman said such mistakes were \"extremely rare but we take any case very seriously\". \"We are urgently investigating so we learn the lessons to prevent it happening again,\" she said. \"Public protection is our priority.\"", "question": "An \" extremely dangerous \" prisoner who was released early after his nine - year sentence was @placeholder in error as nine months has been recaptured .", "option_0": "abandoned", "option_1": "doubled", "option_2": "killed", "option_3": "attacked", "option_4": "recorded"}
{"id": 201, "article": "Organisers say the display at Cornwall's National Maritime Museum is the largest collection of British tattoo-related objects ever assembled. There are also sections of tattooed human skin that have been preserved, and recreated tattoo studios from different decades of the 20th Century. The show is on until January 2018. For more on the tattoo exhibition and other Devon and Cornwall stories Co-curator Dr Matt Lodder said tattooing had been a \"constant presence in British social history\" since the early 17th Century. \"It's not a modern trend,\" he added. \"If it's a craze it's been going on for 150 years.\" Doc Price, who thought to be the world's oldest living tattoo artist at the age of 85, said the new exhibition was \"very important\". He said: \"There isn't a great understanding of the tradition of British tattooing because most of our tattooing was based on what we thought was brought from the Orient or from the Polynesian countries. \"We always thought that was proper tattooing but now we have developed it to a very high level.\"", "question": "An exhibition marking the history of Britain 's tattoo history - including a wall of 100 silicon @placeholder decorated by leading artists - has gone on display .", "option_0": "fashion", "option_1": "artefacts", "option_2": "towers", "option_3": "tubes", "option_4": "hands"}
{"id": 202, "article": "Reay has been promoted from her previous position as assistant coach at the north-east club. She is a former striker at Sunderland and has spent nearly 20 years as a player and then a coach. Fairweather had been in charge for two years and led the side to seventh in WSL 1 last season. \"It is a great honour for me to manage this special club,\" she said. \"We have some great young players coming through and hopefully they can make their mark on the team which already has a host of good, experienced players. We will be looking to consolidate and improve together.\"", "question": "Melanie Reay has been appointed head coach of Sunderland Ladies after Carlton Fairweather @placeholder to leave the Women 's Super League One side .", "option_0": "bid", "option_1": "relating", "option_2": "forced", "option_3": "agreed", "option_4": "decides"}
{"id": 203, "article": "Four men were arrested in raids across the city late on Saturday. Police said they had seized materials that could have been used to make an explosive device. Local media said the plot may have involved a meat mincer. The men can be held for seven days without charge after a magistrate granted police special counter-terrorism powers. The suspects are reported to include a father and his adult son. Authorities have increased security measures at Australian airports, prompting lengthy queues and passenger confusion. Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin said the men arrested were allegedly linked to an Islamist-inspired plan to detonate an improvised explosive device (IED). He said police did not yet have information on \"the specific attack, the location, date or time\". Senior government minister Peter Dutton would not comment on reports that the suspected plot involved concealing a device in a kitchen meat grinder, or an allegation in The Australian newspaper about the possible use of poisonous gas. \"I do not want to go into the detail, but... there was a significant threat that [police and intelligence officials] dealt with and are in the process of dealing with,\" said Mr Dutton, who will soon oversee all of Australia's domestic security agencies. The four men were arrested in raids in the Sydney suburbs of Surry Hills, Lakemba, Wiley Park and Punchbowl. According to local media, they include a father and his son and another pair who are also related. No charges have been laid. On Sunday, a magistrate gave permission for an additional period of detention, meaning the four can be held for up to seven days without charge. They are gathering evidence, including from the houses in Sydney, in a process that could last for days. Police have said they intervened early because it was a counter-terrorism operation. Had it been another type of investigation, they may have waited before conducting raids. Mr Colvin urged the public to be patient because police did not yet \"have all the pieces of the puzzle to put together\". Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull praised authorities for moving swiftly and said Australians should feel confident in their security agencies. \"This is now the 13th terrorist plot which has been disrupted by our agencies since 2014,\" he said. Australia's national terror threat level remains at \"probable\" - the third level on a scale of five. Passengers have been warned to arrive at Australian airports an hour earlier than usual amid heightened security arrangements. The new measures have led to huge queues, particularly at the busiest airports in Sydney and Melbourne. Mr Turnbull said the arrangements could remain for some time. \"I want to thank the travelling public for their forbearance,\" Mr Turnbull said.", "question": "Australian police are searching five @placeholder in Sydney over a suspected terrorism plot to bring down a plane .", "option_0": "stations", "option_1": "properties", "option_2": "hotels", "option_3": "streets", "option_4": "growing"}
{"id": 204, "article": "Talking to broadcaster CNBC Arabia, he said the country was in a good position to manage low oil prices. Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporting country, has maintained its production levels despite a collapse in the price of oil. Oil is trading at less than $50 per barrel, half the price of a year ago. \"We have built reserves, cut public debt to near-zero levels and we are now working on cutting unnecessary expenses while focusing on main development projects and on building human resources in the kingdom,\" he said in the interview. Some areas of the economy will still receive investment, he said, as the country tries to improve industries outside energy. \"Projects in sectors such as education, health and infrastructure are not only important for the private sector but also for the long-term growth of the Saudi economy,\" he said. He did not give details of where cuts would happen. It may issue bonds, or Islamic bonds known as sukuk to finance some spending, he said. The kingdom has more than $600bn in reserves it can draw upon should expenditure outstrip income from oil exports.", "question": "Saudi Arabia will cut spending and delay some @placeholder projects after the recent decline in the price of oil , Finance Minister Ibrahim al - Assaf said .", "option_0": "relief", "option_1": "state", "option_2": "pace", "option_3": "interest", "option_4": "development"}
{"id": 205, "article": "On 30 January 1915, England played Scotland in a charity match organised by former England international and Northampton Saints captain Edgar Mobbs. The aim of the game had been to recruit sportsmen to Mobbs' World War One battalion. The commemorative match took place at Olney Rugby Club's East Street home. Players from the East Midlands region lined up against The 1st Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment. The East Midlands team won 41 - 21. Special guest for the day was Mobbs' great-nephew, also called Edgar Mobbs. Mr Mobbs said his famous namesake had come up with the idea of playing rugby matches to boost morale while his troops were training at Shoreham in Kent. He said they had been at a \"pretty unpleasant\" tented camp when Mobbs decided to do something to \"encourage people to rally round the flag\". Having retired from rugby in 1913 aged 30, he had been refused an officer's commission when war broke out because of his age. Instead, he joined as a private. The international match in 1915 is said to have inspired hundreds of men to sign up to his own corps, the Sportman's Battalion, which formed a significant part of the 7th Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment. Among these were 16 Olney players who died during the war. Mobbs went from private to battalion commander and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, before being killed during the battle of Passchendale on 31 July 1917. \"When I was young people used to come up to me, tell me all about Edgar and say they were named after him as well,\" said Mobbs' nephew.", "question": "A rugby match has @placeholder 16 players killed during World War One and the \" leader of men \" who recruited them .", "option_0": "sought", "option_1": "released", "option_2": "opened", "option_3": "revealed", "option_4": "honoured"}
{"id": 206, "article": "Fifteen-year-old Nihal Bitla was the face of India's awareness campaign against progeria. Bitla made headlines while trying to locate 60 other Indian progeria sufferers to participate in a clinical trial in Boston with him. He ran an active social media campaign to raise awareness about the disease. Most recently he fronted an awareness campaign called #HatsOnForProgeria, where he appeared with a group of supporters at Mumbai's iconic Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station. He had also appeared at a #RunForProgeria event in the southern city of Bangalore. Bitla shot into the limelight after he met Bollywood actor Aamir Khan in December after the Facebook page \"Humans of Bombay\" highlighted his story and the fact that he was a \"super fan\" of the star. He died in hospital on Tuesday in the southern state of Telangana, where he had gone to attend a wedding. Media reports said he may have become dehydrated in the extreme heat there. Indian social media is full of tributes to Bitla, with many calling him a \"fighter\" and an \"inspiration\".", "question": "A Mumbai teenager who had been suffering from a rare genetic disease that causes the @placeholder to age eight times faster than normal has died .", "option_0": "difference", "option_1": "infant", "option_2": "chance", "option_3": "country", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 207, "article": "Susan Talby, 42, and her two sons Joseph, four, and Paul, two, were found dead in their home in the Werrington area of Peterborough in March 2007. The inquest heard she left a suicide note  which read: \"I love the children and I cannot leave them behind.\" Peterborough coroner Gordon Ryall said the two boys were unlawfully killed. He said that if Mrs Talby had survived she would have been charged with voluntary manslaughter not murder. Mrs Talby and her children were found by her husband Richard. Mrs Talby had suffered severe post-natal depression and became convinced the boys suffered from a range of allergies and diseases, despite being fit and healthy, the inquest heard. The inquest heard the note, addressed to \"Rich\", read: \"I am truly, truly sorry. I have tried with every ounce in my body to get over this depression but the pain is unbearable. \"I always loved you. You never hurt me and you put up with a lot.\" A statement read by Peterborough Coroner Gordon Ryall on behalf of Mr Talby said that before the deaths he was the \"happiest man alive\". Earlier the inquest heard that Mrs Talby's medical notes showed she had threatened to kill herself and harm the children as early as 2005. She was admitted to nearby Edith Cavell Hospital as an in-patient suffering from depression shortly after this threat. However, a note which outlined her condition and her previous \"delusional, suicidal and homicidal\" thoughts never reached her health worker. When she was discharged she was diagnosed with a moderate depressive episode with no enduring risk to her children, meaning alert systems were not triggered.", "question": "A mother killed her two sons and then took her own life while the \" @placeholder of her mind was disturbed \" , a coroner at Peterborough Town Hall has ruled .", "option_0": "seriousness", "option_1": "balance", "option_2": "death", "option_3": "state", "option_4": "whole"}
{"id": 208, "article": "The topic? Federalism, of course. It has been on Liberal (and now Lib Dem) stocks for so long, it has tended to suffer a little from benign neglect. Like much-loved socks stuffed at the back of a drawer. Liberals were sincere, of course. They meant it. They advocated federalism. But, occasionally, one was left with the impression they had not fully thought through the consequences for disparate governance in these islands. They believed in federalism. They had always believed in federalism. QED. But now? Why, federalism is the topic du jour or, more precisely, de la semaine. Only this week, not one but two senior politicians from Scotland have advanced its merits. Today we heard from Murdo Fraser, in a published paper. Mr Fraser is a thinking Conservative who blends serious contemplation with a charming capacity for ironic self-deprecation. In a report for Reform Scotland, he says federalism is an idea whose time has come. Mr Fraser says that the disparate nature of the vote in the EU referendum - Scotland and Northern Ireland Remain, England and Wales Leave - reinforces the case for further decentralisation in the UK. According to Mr Fraser, the answer is federalism. An entrenched Scottish Parliament, an English Parliament sharing time at Westminster, English city regions with administrative but not legislative power, the replacement of the House of Lords with a senate representing \"each federated part of the UK.\" I do not intend in these musings to examine this particular set of ideas too closely. My attention is more aimed at the other advocate of federalism this week, Labour's Kezia Dugdale. But perhaps I might note that there would remain practical difficulties, largely caused by the mismatch in size between Scotland and England. Federalism between those two territories would be like federating California and Connecticut. Without the other 48 US states for counter-weight. Say there is a Tory majority in England and a Labour majority in the UK. Would the Tory first minister in England, representing the vast majority of the UK population, be content to have, say, defence and foreign policy decisions taken by the Labour UK leader? Well, perhaps, that is a consequence of federating. And perhaps Murdo Fraser is right to say that his plan answers both West Lothian and the issue of the Upper House in a single bound. Let us leave that to one side for a moment, aware that it is a topic which we shall address again.  Let us instead consider the contribution advanced by Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Labour leader. She not only advocated federalism in a speech this week. She went further and suggested it might offer a solution to the Brexit dilemma for Scotland. To be fair, Ms Dugdale does not advance that case with any obvious vigour. Indeed, she notes that her proposal is set forward \"tentatively\". But she does say \"there might be a possibility that Scotland could retain its place both in the UK and in the EU\" through such a solution. That dual approach, says Ms Dugdale, was endorsed by the people of Scotland in two referendums, 2014 and this year. I have to say it is not immediately apparent to me how EU membership would be achieved via federalism. For one thing, the EU is a creature of treaty. Between member states, not their constituent parts. Germany is already a federal state. The L?¡ènder take part in consideration of EU proposals when the topic in question forms part of their competence. But it is still Germany as a whole which is the member, bound by treaty. I cannot instantly see how, for example, Baden-W??rttemberg could retain links with Brussels if Berlin had declared that Germany was leaving the EU. Further, how would federal Scottish membership of the EU operate? We are presuming that England and Wales have left the EU - and its treaty obligations - on the basis of the referendum outcome in those territories. Could Scotland alone be a federal part of the single market? How would that operate when Scotland would remain part of the UK, part of its tax system, part of its banking system, part of its monetary system? If Scotland, alone, were in the single market, would there continue to be freedom of movement of labour between Scotland and the EU? That might be thought to be a contingent element of retaining the single market. But if EU workers remained free to travel to Scotland in search of employment, how could they be prevented from popping down the M74 to England, to Manchester, to Liverpool, to London? To areas, in short, which would be by then outside the EU. Remember it is not proposed that Scotland leaves the UK, under this scenario. It is federalism, not independence. There would not be a formal border at Carlisle or Berwick. How, then, could freedom of movement operate? Ms Dugdale says there is a duty placed upon her and all of us to pay heed to the democratic mandate delivered by the people of Scotland. Which is intriguing given that an unalloyed supporter of the Union - like Ruth Davidson, for example - would say that Scotland's votes contributed to a UK mandate, rather than comprising one in their own right. Nevertheless, the Labour leader is undoubtedly right to argue that all avenues should be explored in response to the Brexit vote. Some, I would tentatively suggest, are likely to prove more productive than others.", "question": "For years , nay decades , it was a topic only @placeholder , if at all , by eager Liberals at party conferences . If not actually shod in sandals at the time , you could tell they were yearning to return to their favoured footwear , when convenient .", "option_0": "avoided", "option_1": "tone", "option_2": "debated", "option_3": "touched", "option_4": "explored"}
{"id": 209, "article": "Luke Jones, 33, is on trial at Swansea Crown Court following the death of Natasha Bradbury, 27, in her Haverfordwest flat on 22 February. The prosecution claim he beat her to death in a jealous rage after finding out she had been with another man. But Mr Jones, a pipe welder from Milford Haven, said \"she jumped at me\" and \"went to headbutt me\". Tuesday's proceedings involved going through dozens of text and phone messages between Mr Jones and Miss Bradbury in the week leading up to the incident. Exchanges saw Miss Bradbury say they were breaking up and Mr Jones saying he still loved her. Giving evidence, Mr Jones said he returned to Miss Bradbury's flat on the Sunday and heard shouting and banging from downstairs. He said she accused him of sleeping with another woman. \"She jumped at me, she lunged at me going for my face. I grabbed her head. She went to headbutt me. I grabbed her by the throat and pushed her back. I kicked her in the body. She went over the coffee table and landed on two wooden cabinets,\" he told the court. He said \"there was blood everywhere\" and, after coming back from the bathroom, \"Natasha never moved\". \"My head was all over the place, I was running around,\" added Mr Jones. He dialled 999 and police and an ambulance arrived. The case continues.", "question": "A man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend in Pembrokeshire told a jury it was she who @placeholder him .", "option_0": "inspired", "option_1": "saved", "option_2": "blew", "option_3": "taught", "option_4": "attacked"}
{"id": 210, "article": "Paul and Debbie Lawton, from the seaside town of Withernsea in East Yorkshire, scooped ¡ê6.9m in Saturday's draw. The couple look after their eldest daughter Tracey who has cerebral palsy. Long-distance lorry driver Mr Lawton, 56, said they planned to buy a large, specially adapted bungalow. \"It will enrich her life so much and that's the most important thing on the agenda,\" said Mr Lawton. \"Then we can look after Nicola and her husband and our wonderful three grandchildren, along with Deborah and her partner, who are expecting their first baby later this year.\" Mr Lawton bought the winning ticket after popping into a shop to get a snack while on a driving job. It was not until Sunday morning after he had helped Tracey get dressed that he got round to checking the numbers, while his wife was at work. He said: \"'One...two...oh, I've matched three numbers,' I thought. Then four, five and six matched too, so I checked them again, then I double-checked the date, and then I think I sat down in the armchair. \"I'm generally quite a calm person so didn't get too excited at this point but instead called Deborah at work and asked her to come home for 10 minutes.\" Mrs Lawton calmly went back to finish her shift at a care home after checking the winning ticket. The couple's other daughters came round in the afternoon and were told about the win, sparking a celebration party.", "question": "A couple who won almost ¡ê 7 m on the National Lottery say they plan to use the money help their three children , including their @placeholder daughter .", "option_0": "drug", "option_1": "disabled", "option_2": "results", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "experiences"}
{"id": 211, "article": "A transcript of the recording was read to a jury in which the woman repeatedly questioned Andre Nethersole until he admitted acting inappropriately. Nethersole, 35, of Radstock Crescent, Broughton, Buckinghamshire, was jailed after a trial at Aylesbury Crown Court. The woman said she would \"recommend\" such moves to others in her situation. \"I would definitely recommend it and keeping a calm head. Going all blazing doesn't always get you the right results\", the mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said. \"Have a recording, you never know if it can be used or not.\" At an earlier hearing, Nethersole was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, inciting her to engage in a sex act, and showing a sexually explicit photo to a second girl, who was also 15. The court was told how Nethersole made a string of sexual remarks to the two girls, including: \"The more I can't have you, the more I want you.\" Jailing him for three years and nine months, Judge Catherine Tulk said: \"You were clearly fully aware of the girls' ages. \"You have shown no victim empathy or remorse - giving no thought to how your behaviour has affected your victims.\" In an impact statement, one of the girls described how she had suffered a \"year of hell\" since the offences, which took place between 17 and 20 May last year. Father-of-one Nethersole owns the Eagles Jerk Restaurant and Grill in the Eaglestone area of Milton Keynes. He has also been given a five-year restraining order, preventing him contacting the victims indirectly or directly.", "question": "A secret mobile phone recording by the mother of a victim has @placeholder jail a paedophile restaurant owner who abused two 15 - year - old girls .", "option_0": "condemned", "option_1": "concluded", "option_2": "claimed", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "avoided"}
{"id": 212, "article": "When Breivik shot Mr Groennestad, the bullet punctured one of his lungs and narrowly missed his spine. On Monday, the student testified in court while the man who tried to kill him sat a few metres away. He spoke to the BBC's Lars Bevanger afterwards. How would you describe the experience? It [the court room] looks so much bigger on TV. That was strange, sitting so close to the prosecuted. And then having all these questions thrown at you by the court. Strange - that's the word I would use. Because you haven't seen him since that day on the island? No, I haven't been paying any attention to the news or been to the courtroom. I have three exams next week at university level, so I have to focus. So I've chosen to focus on school and just take things as they come. Does it matter to you whether the court finds him sane or insane? No, not really. Because I know that if he's found not accountable he'll be sent to psychiatric care for the rest of his life. But if he's found accountable I guess he would be in prison for the rest of his life as well. The extent of the medical care he'll receive is the biggest difference. So for me it doesn't matter, because from what little law I know, I think he'll be locked away for the rest of his life. Some survivors say they don't want to give Breivik any more of their time, how do you feel about him now? In the beginning I had to go to a psychologist once a week; I had physiotherapy three times a week; I had weekly appointments with my doctor and then controls at the hospital. And I spent so much time on getting better. Some nights I was sleep-deprived because I read the news and I read about him, so I've used a lot of energy on this man. and I'm just so happy because I've now done my duty, I've testified, I've done what I can do to get him in jail and now I'm hopefully just done with the whole thing. I know there's going to be a lot of things in the media and so on, but I'm done with my part and I can just go back to be normal. Will you ever go back to Utoeya? Yes, I hope so. But only time will tell. We'll see.", "question": "Lars Groennestad , now a 20 - year - old chemistry student , is one of several witnesses who were @placeholder by Anders Behring Breivik but survived to confront the killer in court .", "option_0": "beaten", "option_1": "attacked", "option_2": "targeted", "option_3": "kidnapped", "option_4": "wounded"}
{"id": 213, "article": "Prof Ferguson, one of Britain's best-known historians, made the comments at a conference in California on Thursday. Mr Keynes was an influential British economist who died in 1946. Prof Ferguson has now apologised \"unreservedly\" for what he called \"stupid\" and \"insensitive\" remarks. He was asked to comment on Keynes's famous observation of \"in the long run we are all dead\". In unscripted remarks during a question and answer session, the high-profile historian and writer said Keynes was indifferent to the long run because he had no children, and that he had no children because he was gay. But in a statement posted on his website, he said it was obvious that people who do not have children also care about future generations.  The historian also insisted he was not homophobic. \"My disagreements with Keynes's economic philosophy have never had anything to do with his sexual orientation,\" he wrote. \"It is simply false to suggest, as I did, that his approach to economic policy was inspired by any aspect of his personal life. As those who know me and my work are well aware, I detest all prejudice, sexual or otherwise.\" In 1926, Keynes married Lydia Lopokova, a Russian ballerina, and Prof Ferguson also said he had forgotten that she had miscarried.", "question": "Harvard @placeholder professor Niall Ferguson has apologised for saying the economist John Maynard Keynes did not care about society 's future because he was gay and had no children .", "option_0": "state", "option_1": "intelligence", "option_2": "members", "option_3": "physics", "option_4": "history"}
{"id": 214, "article": "Thomas landed the 4ft (1.2m) fish on a stretch of the river near his home in Powys. His father, Louis Macdonald-Ames, said the pike's head \"was bigger than Thomas's\". The fish was not weighed but the pair have estimated it could rival the biggest pike ever recorded from the Wye, caught in 1910, which was 37lb. Thomas, from Three Cocks, near Glasbury, said: \"After a while my arms were starting to hurt so I was glad when we got the fish to the bank. It's the biggest fish I have ever caught.\" His father, who works for the Wye & Usk Foundation which looks after the river habitat, said: \"Several times the pike took off across the river and, at one stage, I thought I might have to take over the fishing rod. \"I'm proud to say he toughed it out and it was amazing to see what was on the end of the line when the fish finally came in close. We knew it was big, but not that big.\"", "question": "A 12 - year - old was left @placeholder with surprise after catching a \" monster \" pike in the River Wye .", "option_0": "clinging", "option_1": "reeling", "option_2": "fleeing", "option_3": "awake", "option_4": "credited"}
{"id": 215, "article": "In a statement, the Royal Surrey County Hospital said the merger with Ashford & St Peter's would not offer the best financial stability. In March the merger was put on hold after both trusts spoke of \"significant\" pressures on the NHS. The Royal Surrey board said a review had concluded a merger would not offer the trust the \"greatest opportunity\". The board of Ashford and St Peter's said it had accepted the merger would not now proceed. In a joint statement both trusts said: \"Both organisations are committed to continuing to work together... building on the positive relationships that we have developed over recent years.\"", "question": "The @placeholder merger of two hospitals will not now go ahead , the NHS trusts have announced .", "option_0": "bodies", "option_1": "estranged", "option_2": "planned", "option_3": "growing", "option_4": "question"}
{"id": 216, "article": "London mayor Sadiq Khan has voiced support for the Garden Bridge, which was first proposed in 2012 and is expected to open in 2018. But he also said he will not provide any further public money towards its construction. Building work on the bridge between the South Bank and Temple has yet to begin. The amount of public money being provided by the Department of Transport and City Hall to help finance construction of the bridge already stands ?¡ê60m. However, the mayor now wants to review the financial position of the bridge after ?¡ê3m of additional funding was sought from Transport for London (TfL). The money will be used to help make improvements to, and strengthen, the Tube station at Temple on the north bank of the Thames so the bridge structure can sit on top of the station roof. The additional funding was due to be approved at a TfL finance and policy committee hearing on Friday. The Garden Bridge Trust, which is behind construction of the bridge, said it would ultimately provide the finance for the additional costs to make the improvements to the Tube station. A Garden Bridge Trust spokesperson confirmed it had signed a costs agreement with TfL which included a repayment schedule. They added the first payment on that schedule was made in June. The spokesperson said: \"This requires the trust to meet the costs against an agreed payment schedule which will be funded by the trust's overall project costs. There is no requirement for extra public funds for this work.\" The trust said it was now working on securing planning permission ahead of construction work which is expected to begin in July. During the mayoral election Mr Khan expressed concerns about the financing arrangements for the bridge. A spokesperson for mayor said: \"The previous mayor first approved plans for enabling work to prepare Temple Tube station for the arrival of the Garden Bridge two years ago in the summer of 2014, but final authorisation was only provided in March this year, two months before the mayoral election. \"This enabling work has since been suspended and that was reported to the finance and policy committee last Friday.\" \"Sadiq Khan has been clear that no new public funds should be committed to the Garden Bridge and he has pledged to make the project more open and transparent - standards that were not always met under the previous administration.\"", "question": "Preparatory work on the proposed Garden Bridge across the River Thames has been @placeholder to allow City Hall to review how it is being financed , it has emerged .", "option_0": "unveiled", "option_1": "halted", "option_2": "completed", "option_3": "invited", "option_4": "promised"}
{"id": 217, "article": "More than 150,000 BBC Sport users picked their greatest combined post-war Liverpool-Manchester United XI, and there were obviously some agonising decisions. Seven United players made the team and, as you would expect, there is quality all over the pitch - plus experience of more than 50 English league titles. Former United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel was selected in 75% of teams, making him the most popular player, with ex-Red Devils winger Cristiano Ronaldo the most-picked outfield player, featuring in 67% of teams. George Best, another Old Trafford great - who played for the club from 1963-1974, was the third most-popular pick, selected in a wide range of different positions. Talismanic former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard was fourth - the highest-ranked player from Anfield. No current United or Liverpool players make the team, though three in the XI are still active - Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Gerrard (LA Galaxy) and former Liverpool striker Luis Suarez (Barcelona). Suarez left Liverpool for Barcelona in 2014 after scoring 82 goals in 133 appearances, and he was the most popular choice for one of the two forward positions - appearing in 48% of the total selections. Anfield legend Kenny Dalglish was the second most-popular forward - edging out United's mercurial Frenchman Cantona and Liverpool's great Welsh striker Ian Rush Best was the only member of United's 'Holy Trinity' of Best, Denis Law and Charlton, who helped United to their first European Cup victory in 1968, to make the XI. Ronaldo was one of the most-picked players the in front two, but he was also a very popular choice in midfield so takes his place there. Wayne Rooney is one of four United players to score 200 or more goals for the club, but of the 54 on the shortlist he was only the 39th most selected - making 5% of the selected teams. While users obviously had a very difficult time sorting out the midfield and attack, the defence seems to have been more clear-cut. Alan Hansen, an ex-Liverpool central defender and former BBC pundit, was the most popular choice with 55%. He was part of a formidable defensive partnership with Mark Lawrenson - but there was no place for Lawro, who appeared in 18% of all selections. The rest of the defence came from United - with Gary Neville (52% of choices) at right-back, Denis Irwin (47%) left-back and Rio Ferdinand (44%) claiming the other place in the centre of defence. Ferdinand's nearest rival was former team-mate Nemanja Vidic, a five-time Premier League winner, who appeared in 35% of the teams. It was a close race to make the final XI, with several big names having to settle for a place on the bench. Cantona was the 12th-most selected player, appearing in 42% of teams, followed by Paul Scholes (39% of choices) and Vidic. Jamie Carragher, who made 737 appearances for Liverpool, was in 15th place with 34%, ahead of Charlton with 32% and Jaap Stam with 29%. The final spot on the bench went to David Beckham, who appeared in 28% of teams. Trying to select a combined XI of both sets of players gave plenty of people a headache. Do you think differently? Don't worry - pick your team now. The impossible job? Probably. Use our shortlist and pick who you think would make the greatest combined post-war Liverpool-Manchester United XI.", "question": "There was no @placeholder for Sir Bobby Charlton or Eric Cantona - and Ian Rush and Kevin Keegan did not make the cut either .", "option_0": "news", "option_1": "applause", "option_2": "recipe", "option_3": "chance", "option_4": "room"}
{"id": 218, "article": "Porn industry representatives argued that condoms were a turn-off for viewers and could destroy the industry. They warned such a ruling in favour of condoms could lead to actors also being required to wear safety goggles and dental dams. Performers are currently required to be tested every two weeks for STDs. The vote came after the Aids Healthcare Foundation lobbied California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health's Standards Board (Cal/OSHA) for stricter workplace safety rules in porn. But industry representatives also said making actors wear condoms could push the industry underground, where health risks would be greater. They also said stricter safety provisions could be interpreted as requiring sex workers to ensure their eyes were protected from infection by blood-borne pathogens by wearing goggles like those worn by doctors. Such a requirement would spell the end of many porn film scenes, they said. \"When you criminalise sex work in any way, you make it more dangerous,\" said said porn actress and journalist SiouxsieQ. However, the porn trade association the Free Speech Coalition said it was keen to work with officials to create acceptable safety standards. Condoms are already required to be worn for porn films made in Los Angeles County under rules approved by voters in 2012. Californians will vote on whether to extend that requirement across the state in November.", "question": "California work safety officials have voted against @placeholder porn actors to wear condoms to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases ( STD ) .", "option_0": "forcing", "option_1": "lost", "option_2": "urged", "option_3": "held", "option_4": "proposed"}
{"id": 219, "article": "Train services to London Paddington were disrupted on Wednesday morning after an engine fire near Twyford. According to the RMT, a train guard got passengers safely off the service. Emergency services were called at 08:55 BST to the Great Western Railway train travelling from Paddington to Oxford. The fire was safely put out and no passengers or staff were hurt, but the train line between Reading, Slough and Maidenhead was closed for about an hour. RMT general secretary Mike Cash said: \"If there had been no guard on this train the potential consequences would have been horrendous. \"The fire was put out under the direction of the guard who also safely evacuated the passengers on this busy service.\" An investigation into what caused the fire is under way. The RMT emphasised the importance of train guard's roles in safety of passengers. The union is currently protesting plans announced by Southern Rail to make some services driver-only.", "question": "The \" swift action \" of a train guard in evacuating passengers after an engine fire has been @placeholder by a rail workers union .", "option_0": "reported", "option_1": "released", "option_2": "launched", "option_3": "unveiled", "option_4": "praised"}
{"id": 220, "article": "In 1986 a safety test at a nuclear power plant there went wrong and there was an explosion followed by fires. Many people were killed. The accident left the area unsuitable to live in because of the radiation that leaked into the nearby area. Radiation is impossible to touch, see or smell, but is very harmful. The area around the plant was evacuated and an no-go zone was put into place, so that no-one could come within 30 kilometres of the plant. Now, 30 years on, scientists have been allowed to spend a week inside the exclusion zone taking pictures. Using virtual reality technology, everyone can take look around the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and meet its surprising animal residents. Leah's been to the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester to have a look. Watch the video for more.", "question": "Imagine a city left @placeholder for thirty years . That 's what happened to Chernobyl , in the Eastern European country of Ukraine , after a nuclear disaster .", "option_0": "deserted", "option_1": "centre", "option_2": "ground", "option_3": "searching", "option_4": "scheduled"}
{"id": 221, "article": "The announcement came after a video showing a killing was posted to Facebook on Sunday and remained there for more than two hours. ¡°We know we need to do better,¡± a company executive said. Police are still looking for Steve Stephens, 37, who posted a video of the attack on Robert Godwin, 74, who was picked apparently at random. Later Mr Stephens took to Facebook Live to discuss the killing, saying he had killed 13 people - though police say they are unaware of any other deaths. Facebook has faced considerable criticism due to the length of time the violent video spent published on the network. \"As a result of this terrible series of events, we are reviewing our reporting flows to be sure people can report videos and other material that violates our standards as easily and quickly as possible,¡± wrote Justin Osofsky, Facebook¡¯s vice-president of global operations. \"In this case, we did not receive a report about the first video [which featured the suspect saying he intended to murder], and we only received a report about the second video - containing the shooting - more than an hour and 45 minutes after it was posted. \"We received reports about the third video, containing the man¡¯s live confession, only after it had ended.¡± 11:09AM PDT (19:09 GMT) - first video, of intent to murder, uploaded. Not reported to Facebook. 11:11AM PDT - second video, of shooting, uploaded. 11:22AM PDT - suspect confesses to murder while using Live, is live for 5 minutes. 11:27AM PDT - Live ends, and Live video is first reported shortly after. 12:59PM PDT - video of shooting is first reported. 1:22PM PDT - suspect's account disabled; all videos no longer visible to public. Mr Osofsky pointed out that the video showing the killing was on Facebook for an hour and forty-five minutes before it was flagged by a user. The video, and the user account, was taken down 23 minutes later, according to Facebook¡¯s statement. The company said as well as human moderation, artificial intelligence would be a useful tool in combating the sharing of this kind of material. Facebook's annual developers' conference takes place in San Jose, California, on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Mark Zuckerberg will open the event with a keynote address - though it is not yet known if he will address this controversy. ______ Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC You can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "question": "Facebook has launched a review into how it deals with violent @placeholder on its network .", "option_0": "focus", "option_1": "content", "option_2": "disruption", "option_3": "conduct", "option_4": "light"}
{"id": 222, "article": "The huge sum - a combination of various payments - is detailed in a 429-page document lodged with the US Securities and Investment Commission (SEC). The money includes the value of shares already owned, outstanding share options, a \"golden parachute\" payment, cash payments and medical benefits. Yahoo investors are being asked to vote on the deal this June. The total payments to Ms Mayer are far higher than the company first acknowledged last month when it explained that she would be entitled to the \"golden parachute\" payment for losing her job. Ms Mayer will leave the company when the sale goes through. The deal with Verizon was first announced last year when the struggling company,  agreed to sell its main internet business to Verizon, the huge US telecoms company, for $4.8bn. That figure was later cut to $4.5bn after the company disclosed last autumn that it had been the victim, in 2013 and 2014, of two huge security breaches, the second of which affected the accounts of more than a billion customer accounts. Earlier this month Verizon said it would combine its AOL subsidiary and Yahoo into a new business called Oath.", "question": "Yahoo 's chief executive , Marissa Meyer , will be paid $ 184 m when the sale of her company to Verizon @placeholder this year .", "option_0": "proceeds", "option_1": "traffic", "option_2": "end", "option_3": "completes", "option_4": "change"}
{"id": 223, "article": "Martin came on to jeers with eight minutes left and the Scots' World Cup qualifying hopes hanging by a thread. But an 88th-minute winner from the striker, who is on loan at Fulham, lifted Scotland to within two points of second-placed Slovakia. \"It was a sweet moment for him and the players,\" Strachan said. \"Everybody knows we deserved to win that game tonight. \"Kenny Dalglish used to get booed. Alan Hansen used to get booed. Gary McAllister used to get booed. It is a great club to be involved in, If you can line up with those guys, then fantastic. \"Everyone here understands what he [Martin] brings to a team. Some people can't see it, which is understandable. \"I don't understand cricket too much. But if you don't understand the game, then you have a problem understanding what players are all about.\" Martin started last Wednesday's friendly against Canada but was replaced up front against Slovenia by Leigh Griffiths, who hit the bar and post in the first half before being forced off injured early in the second. Steven Naismith came on for Griffiths, but it was Martin, 28, who fired home a dramatic left-foot winner to raise Scotland spirits before they host group leaders England at Hampden on 10 June. \"I'm not going to tell [the fans] what they should be thinking or how they should be feeling,\" Martin said. \"Hopefully they enjoy the three points tonight and there's a bit more optimism heading into the England game now. \"We always work hard for the manager and for each other and the country. The manager has shown faith in just about every single one of us. \"We knew it was a must-win game and in the circumstances I think it was a very good performance. \"This can be a real turning point for us. We're right back in the mix, a couple of points off second place, and there's no better game next up.\" Strachan acknowledged the first-half performance was \"probably\" the best Scotland have played under him, and described Celtic midfielder Stuart Armstrong's display as \"the best Scotland debut I have ever seen\". \"He did well but there were other guys who were special as well,\" added the head coach. \"We had to have special performances because we played against a very good, physical side, and the stress that goes with it as well. \"The players did everything they were asked to tonight. They pushed themselves to another level there. I was calm enough, thinking 'what will be, will be'. \"I was enjoying their performance - technically, fitness wise and their mental strength. \"The points were the most important thing and the performance and everything else helps as well. \"The players have got a feeling they can go and match quite a few international teams now. \"They detached themselves from the emotion of the game to produce things. \"When you are smaller, as we are, you have to be really brave on the ball when you are up against people five or six inches taller than you. So I was really pleased with that. It was a proud performance from us all.\"", "question": "Scotland boss Gordon Strachan praised substitute Chris Martin after he @placeholder off being booed to score a late match - winner against Slovenia .", "option_0": "fell", "option_1": "shrugged", "option_2": "swept", "option_3": "climbed", "option_4": "called"}
{"id": 224, "article": "Derby fans were left with a sinking feeling despite seeing the end of their goal drought at the iPro Stadium, while an England Under-19 keeps banging them in for Bristol City. They are just two of five things you may have missed from Saturday's EFL action. Remember that kid at school who found football insanely easy? Tammy Abraham was probably one of those people. He scored 74 goals in 98 youth games at different levels for Chelsea and has carried on that form since joining Bristol City on loan. The 18-year-old has taken well to life in the Championship, netting his seventh league goal of the season against Fulham on Saturday, and his 10th in 12 appearances in all competitions since moving to Ashton Gate. His early volley against the Whites helped set the Robins on their way to a 4-0 win at Craven Cottage - and their first league win since beating Aston Villa on 27 August. England Under-19 international Abraham is one of 38 players Chelsea have out on loan and it looks like he will be one to watch this season, as he bids to become a long-term successor to Diego Costa and Michy Batshuayi at Stamford Bridge. If you are a fan of well-drilled free-kick and corner routines, then Queens Park Rangers might be the team for you. The west London side are yet to score from open play in the Championship this season, with all 11 of their goals coming from set-pieces. Centre-back Steven Caulker helped continue that trend on Saturday, heading home Tjaronn Chery's corner to give Rangers a 1-1 draw at home to Birmingham. Even though four of their 11 league goals have come from the penalty spot, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's side give new meaning to the cliche \"dangerous from set-pieces\". Derby County reached the Championship play-offs last season but former Leicester boss Nigel Pearson has not had a great start to life at the iPro Stadium. The Rams are the lowest scorers in the whole of the EFL so far this season, having found the back of the net just three times in their first nine league games. Striker Matej Vydra bagged Derby's first home goal of the Championship campaign to give them the lead against Blackburn, ending a goal drought of more than 425 minutes in the east Midlands. But any joy could not have lasted long, as Rovers equalised within a minute and then Danny Graham scored the winner three minutes later to give the visitors a 2-1 victory. Pearson's side are now 22nd in the table, just a point above bottom side Wigan. Cheltenham manager Gary Johnson said his return to Yeovil Town on Saturday would \"feel like a home game\". The 60-year-old spent seven years in charge of the Glovers over two separate spells, leading the club out of non-league in 2003 and into the Championship for the first time in their history in 2013. Johnson spoke of his hopes of \"a happy return\" to Huish Park but that did not prove to be the case - the Robins were 2-0 down inside 16 minutes and trailed 3-1 at half-time. Cheltenham rallied after the break but eventually lost 4-2, leaving them one point above the League Two relegation zone with seven points from their opening nine games of the season. There were 14 red cards across the three divisions of the EFL on Saturday, but the dismissal of Luton's Danny Hylton must have been the strangest of them all. He was sent off in stoppage time of the Hatters' 3-1 win at home to Doncaster for a second bookable offence. However, Luton's Twitter account suggested referee Andy Haines might have been a bit harsh on the striker, who was dismissed after \"throwing a piece of rubbish\" to the side of the pitch. The League Two club later suggested Hylton got his second yellow for his reaction after sliding into an advertising board in front of the visiting fans at Kenilworth Road. \"I'm disappointed with Danny because he showed a lack of discipline,\" Luton boss Nathan Jones said. \"I won't say too much as I've told him in the dressing room. He's so far in credit that we'll give him that one but we lost him [to suspension] now.\" Exeter's Jordan Moore-Taylor received the quickest red card of the day, in the 24th minute at Stevenage for a pull-back on Tom Pett, but it did not hinder the Grecians as they won 2-0. Meanwhile, Huddersfield winger Rajiv van La Parra picked up two bookings in the space of three minutes - the second for dissent - as he saw red inside 26 minutes at Reading, a match the Terriers lost 1-0 to slip off the top of the Championship. Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "question": "The @placeholder may be drawing in and autumn is coming , but the English Football League continues to provide thrills and spills for players , managers and supporters .", "option_0": "autumn", "option_1": "fall", "option_2": "nights", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "number"}
{"id": 225, "article": "With almost half the votes counted, Mr Macri has about 54% to his centre-left rival Daniel Scioli's 46%. Loud cheers erupted at Mr Macri's campaign headquarters after TV exit polls suggested he had won. A spokesman for Mr Scioli said they would wait for more complete figures to come in before commenting. Mr Macri, the mayor of Buenos Aires, lost to Mr Scioli, who is the governor of Buenos Aires province, in the first round of voting in October by 36.7% to 34.5%. But neither candidate managed to win the vote outright, forcing a run-off - the first in the country's history - and Mr Scioli lost ground to his rival in the month since. If Mr Macri's apparent victory is confirmed, it will be the first time in more than a decade that Argentina's centre-right opposition has wrested the presidency from the centre-left Peronists. Mr Macri, the leader of the Cambiemos (Let's Change) coalition, went into Sunday's vote with a comfortable lead in opinion polls. He campaigned on pledges to bring new investment into the ailing economy, tackle crime and fight corruption. The son of one of Argentina's richest men, he had a long career in business before entering politics. A close ally of current President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Mr Scioli had been expected to win by a greater margin in October.", "question": "Centre - right opposition candidate Mauricio Macri is ahead in the presidential election run-off in Argentina , early @placeholder suggest .", "option_0": "labour", "option_1": "assembly", "option_2": "results", "option_3": "state", "option_4": "group"}
{"id": 226, "article": "The National Crime Agency (NCA) said it will review three inquiries, only one of which led to prosecutions, with the aim of pursuing offenders. It said those who believed their past actions would never catch up with them \"should think again\". The review was requested by South Yorkshire Police's chief constable. The three inquiries to be reviewed were conducted between 2008 and 2011. Five men were prosecuted in 2010 as part of one of the force's investigations, the NCA said. The review is part of phase one of Operation Stovewood, an independent NCA investigation examining criminal allegations of child sexual exploitation in the town. It follows the release of the Jay report in August 2014, which revealed more than 1,400 children were the victims of abuse between 1997 and 2013. Professor Alexis Jay's report said South Yorkshire Police had failed to prioritise the issue. Trevor Pearce, NCA director, said the force had already addressed a number of issues raised by the review team, which made 48 recommendations. \"I am confident that we now have a foundation from which to deliver a set of consistent, victim-focused and co-ordinated investigations.\" He said the investigations aim to \"identify, disrupt and bring to justice those responsible for harming vulnerable individuals in Rotherham within the period covered by the Alexis Jay Report\". Mr Pearce said all relevant South Yorkshire Police investigations would be co-ordinated under Operation Stovewood. However, two current operations into alleged child sexual exploitation would continue to be managed on a day-by-day basis by South Yorkshire Police as they were \"making good progress\". David Crompton, chief constable of South Yorkshire Police, said he had requested the review to ensure \"transparency and openness\" and accepted the recommendations. \"We have dedicated officers working tirelessly to support the victims and bring the offenders to justice and have made a number of arrests as part of these investigations,\" he said.", "question": "Investigations into South Yorkshire Police 's handling of child sexual exploitation allegations in Rotherham are being @placeholder .", "option_0": "sought", "option_1": "urged", "option_2": "conducted", "option_3": "widened", "option_4": "investigated"}
{"id": 227, "article": "The Exiles were 11 points adrift of safety in League Two when Flynn took charge, but will secure their great escape with victory at Rodney Parade. The club have sold all 7,500 tickets for the match and Flynn believes his players can conclude their miraculous recovery. \"I've been calm this week. We were dead and buried when I took over,\" he said. Newport are bidding to retain their Football League status after four seasons in League Two, having waited 25-years to return to League Two after the club went out of business in 1989. A period where they could not even find a home in Newport followed, leading to a spell playing in Gloucester, where County earned their 'Exiles' nickname. Flynn says completing an amazing recovery from relegation would be the perfect reward for Newport's loyal fanbase and insists he is not thinking about the alternative. Newport are two points ahead of rivals Hartlepool and will survive as long as Pools do not win against title-chasing Doncaster Rovers. Media playback is not supported on this device \"Selling over 7000 tickets is unbelievable. I've always said the support at this club is amazing, especially since I've been back at the club,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Sport. \"They've been through the mill over the years, the years in Moreton-on-the-Marsh and reforming and getting back to the Football League after 25-years. \"They've been there through thick and thin and we want to all come together and do them proud on Saturday. \"The game is crucial. The community is coming together, it is huge. Football deserves to be in Newport and losing our status would not be great. \"I think it can be the biggest party in Newport for a long time. \"Considering how many people had written us off. We've made people believe again and we've put smiles on faces. We have surprised people. \"I won't think about the Conference, I am very positive and so are my players.\" Flynn says he will follow the Hartlepool score as events at Victoria Park could influence his tactics. \"I will follow the Hartlepool score on Saturday, because of the permutations, what is happening in that game might influence what we do in terms of substitutions,\" he explained. \"Someone will keep an eye on it for me, it won't be me, I'll be focusing on us. \"But the Hartlepool result could influence my substitutions, for example.\" Flynn, a former Newport player and someone born and bred in the city, is desperate to remain at his hometown club. He agreed to become caretaker boss until the end of the season, but having wiped out an 11-point deficit at the bottom of League Two in just seven games, it would come as a huge surprise if he does not remain in charge. Media playback is not supported on this device \"I will sit down with the board, regardless of the outcome. The club needs stability and of course, regardless of what happens, I would like to stay on,\" he said. \"It's my first shot at management and I am ready to stay, hopefully the board will feel the same. \"I am either going to be the saviour of the club or the person who took us down. But I knew the stakes when I agreed to take over... and I am sure we will stay up on Saturday.\"", "question": "Newport County boss Mike Flynn says Saturday 's crucial game with Notts County will @placeholder the city .", "option_0": "quit", "option_1": "replace", "option_2": "change", "option_3": "unite", "option_4": "represent"}
{"id": 228, "article": "The man stole 11 bags and tubs of washing liquid tablets from a convenience store in Hampton, Peterborough, on Tuesday evening. \"#HopingToMakeACleanGetaway,\" officers, who chased him down on foot, joked on Twitter. The man, in his 30s, was arrested on suspicion of theft from a shop and remains in custody. Officers from Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire road policing unit - who are more used to catching criminals in cars - tweeted a photo of the washing powder stash recovered from the suspect. More news from Cambridgeshire Their Twitter account is awash with amusing laundry-related comments including \"Sorry sir, but those excuses simply won't wash\" and \"Did they come clean in interview?\". Another asked: \"They doing laundry for the local rugby club or something?\"", "question": "A washing powder thief @placeholder in his bid to make a clean getaway when he was caught by police .", "option_0": "worked", "option_1": "stuck", "option_2": "failed", "option_3": "left", "option_4": "drowned"}
{"id": 229, "article": "Denis Hennessy, 41, of Wembley, north-west London, was on licence following the murder of a homeless man in 1992. He wandered the palace gardens for about 10 minutes before his arrest on Wednesday evening. He had been unarmed, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard. Hennessy pleaded guilty and was jailed for four months on Friday. He admitted one count of trespass on a protected site and one count of criminal damage. He had cut his right hand as he climbed over the top of the wall, which is between 8ft to 10ft high, and set the alarm off. Prosecutor Tom Nicholson told the court that he had repeatedly asked, \"Is Ma'am in?\" as he was detained. The Queen was in residence at the time, with the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of York. Hennessy told police he had \"walked through the gardens admiring the view\". Sikander Choudry, defending, said the unemployed stonemason had drunk \"four or five cans of cider\" before the incident. He went to meet a friend in central London, and on his way to Victoria had another drink in a pub before deciding to climb the palace wall, using a nearby tree. Mr Choudry said: \"Mr Hennessy did not have any malicious intent towards the Royal Family - that's not the reason he went to Buckingham Palace.\" Recalling Hennessy's previous conviction for murder, Mr Nicholson told the court that Hennessy had been 17 when he was accosted by a homeless man who had asked for money and knocked food out of his hand. \"Hennessy became angry and attacked him with an iron bar, fracturing his skull into small pieces,\" Mr Nicholson said. Hennessy, who had been sniffing butane gas before the attack, then jumped on the man's head, killing him. He was convicted in 1993 at the Old Bailey and released from prison in 2002. The probation service stopped monitoring him in 2013. He also had a conviction for shoplifting in 2016. Chief magistrate, senior district judge Howard Riddle, jailed Hennessy for four months for trespassing and two months, to run concurrently, for damaging the wires of the alarm system, to the value of ?¡ê2,000. \"Man breaches palace security\" is an all too familiar headline in recent decades. The Queen, when in London, is protected - initially - by a 10ft-high wall, not a ring of steel. The security is tighter, the closer one gets to the head of state. That wall has been climbed by Michael Fagan in the 80s, who wanted to have a chat with the woman he called Elizabeth Regina, and by Jason Hatch more than 20 years later, dressed as Batman while protesting about father's rights. The latest intruder, Denis Hennessy, was apprehended in the gardens and didn't make it to the palace. That fact is regarded as significant by the police and by royal officials who still shiver when they remember how Aaron Barschak, wearing a peach ball gown, gatecrashed Prince William's 21st birthday party at Windsor Castle and kissed the future king on both cheeks. The sentencing of Hennessey will, officials hope, deter others from trying to access the Queen's backyard. There have been several security breaches at Buckingham Palace in the past, including the case of Michael Fagan, who got into the Queen's bedroom in 1982 and spent 10 minutes talking to her before she managed to raise the alarm when he asked for a cigarette. In 2003, Daily Mirror journalist Ryan Parry exposed security flaws by getting a job as a footman at the palace using a false reference. In 2013, a man scaled a fence and was arrested inside the palace. He was found at about 22:20 BST in a room which had been open to the public in the daytime. Last year two men got on to the roof of the Queen's Gallery, adjacent to the palace, and unveiled a banner in a protest over fathers' rights.", "question": "A man who has admitted scaling Buckingham Palace 's wall and trespassing in the @placeholder is a convicted murderer , a court has heard .", "option_0": "grounds", "option_1": "capital", "option_2": "city", "option_3": "middle", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 230, "article": "The 31-year-old editorial director at online US fashion website Highsnobiety is unsurprisingly passionate about clothes. He says his favourite luxury brands are now substantially cheaper in London. \"Like anything from Comme Des Garcons. I got a jacket last time I was there for 40% less than I would have paid here,\" he says. Before June last year, when the UK voted to leave the EU, he rarely went shopping on his regular work trips to the UK. \"The littlest things from a pint at the pub to a short Uber ride were murder on my bank account because of the exchange rate.\" Now that some brands are significantly cheaper, he spends about $350 (¡ê274; 310 euros) each time he comes, but thinks the favourable exchange rate means he saves around $100. \"It's easier for me to splurge and sometimes I do it too much for my own good,\" he confesses. Mr DeLeon isn't the only one indulging. Just over a year on from the EU referendum, the pound is still around 16% lower against the dollar. The weakness has lured over a flock of international tourists hungry for high-end brands at relatively bargain prices. Payments firm WorldPay says non-UK consumers' card spending at department stores rose by a fifth in the first three months of the year, while spending on electrical goods rose 22.7%. US shoppers like Mr DeLeon have been amongst the biggest spenders, splashing out an extra 21.5% on their cards during the same period, it said. \"The extreme currency fluctuations encourages shoppers to buy more,\" says Honor Strachan, principal retail analyst at GlobalData. \"They're getting more for their money.\" But how do companies manage this kind of discrepancy; with precisely the same product priced significantly differently depending on where in the world it is bought? After all a boom in revenues in one market, can seriously dent demand in the markets international shoppers are coming from. Many of the world's most famous brands ¡ª such as Burberry and Apple ¡ª simply raised their UK prices to try and make sure what they sold cost broadly the same across their international markets. But luxury footwear brand Crockett & Jones, which has 12 stores worldwide across locations including London, Paris and New York as well as global wholesale partners, says it has deliberately left prices unchanged. \"The last thing we want to do is abuse our customer confidence and raise prices in the UK. \"We certainly don't increase our prices at a whim to take advantage of said currency fluctuations,\" says James Fox, export sales director at the firm. Mr Fox believes that in the long term it's best to keep pricing simple. \"We strive to have a level playing field as and where we can. \"We offer sterling, euro and dollar price lists, which gives our customers piece of mind that they are buying in their own currency at a level price to the potential competitors within their market.\" He says generally any discrepancies tend to average out across currencies, and that re-pricing is only possible \"once or twice a year\" due to the upheaval it causes for the business overall. So is he concerned that the firm could be losing out financially? \"We are fortunate to be in a position that we have a few very strong 'Brexit proof' markets which underpin the company when the UK is trying its best to screw up international trade,\" says Mr Fox. By selling both through its own stores and through wholesalers the firm's risk is already spread out, he adds. Crockett & Jones is not the only retailer which has kept prices steady. Ray Clacher, executive vice-president at Trinity - owner of premium brands Gieves & Hawkes, Kent & Curwen and Cerruti 1881 - says non-EU tourists using either the US dollar or a currency that trades in line with the dollar, have driven up sales at its London stores. Nonetheless, these sales are still just a small percentage of Trinity's total revenue. \"We certainly have not adjusted our retail prices to reflect the influx of tourism, in fact, quite the opposite as we want to encourage more UK [sales],\" he says. However, he admits this strategy could change if costs continue to rise. \"If inflation continues to rise and sterling continues to struggle against the euro and dollar, we will have no choice but to pass on the cost to our customers - but not at present,\" says Mr Clacher. More from the BBC's series taking an international perspective on trade: The apples that need shading from the sun How the 'better burger' is taking over the world What it takes to get Beyonce on a world tour The country losing out in the breakfast juice battle Why a $1.6bn car plant has been left to decay Read more global trade series here. But it is also important not to be too greedy. Many US retailers that have come to the UK have simply swapped their dollar signs on their US price tags for pounds - betting that British consumers will be willing to pay a premium for their goods. Banana Republic is one such example. After eight years in the UK, it announced last year it would close all eight of its stores. The decision followed six consecutive quarters of falling sales. \"They thought that because they were a big brand, they could demand higher prices. But UK consumers \"are savvier than that,\" says Ms Strachan. Yet for retailers doing a straight currency conversion from their local currency to the country where they are selling their goods also doesn't necessarily work. \"Asos made a big thing about launching local websites with a straight currency conversion and it didn't work - local pricing didn't fit in line with competitors. \"Brands need to look at who else is operating in that space, the wealth of consumers there, and what they're willing to pay, and then price accordingly using localised pricing structures,\" says Ms Strachan. Many firms, particularly larger brands such as Hermes also use currency hedging to protect themselves. This involves working with a bank to buy currency at the current rate to protect themselves against adverse future volatility. In the end, though Ms Strachan says a company's ability to cope with currency volatility comes down to how much people want to buy what they sell. \"If they still want it customers will buy it,\" she says.", "question": "\" I really shop when the pound falls in @placeholder , \" says American Jian DeLeon .", "option_0": "here", "option_1": "line", "option_2": "era", "option_3": "power", "option_4": "value"}
{"id": 231, "article": "PPR boss Francois-Henri Pinault said the acquisition of Brioni \"completes our portfolio of luxury brands\" in the menswear. PPR also owns Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, among others. In 2010, Brioni had sales of 170m euros ($234m, ?¡ê146m) and a workforce of 1,800. PPR shares rose more than 3% on the news. \"We have great ambitions for this fashion house,\" Mr Pinault said, referring to Brioni. \"We will give it access to our expertise and know-how, so that it can write a new page in its history while continuing to preserve its identity.\" Brioni was founded in 1945 and has been worn by most of the actors that play James Bond in the movies until recently. Tom Ford was the designer of Bond's suits in the last film. PPR's main rival is fellow French luxury giant, LVMH.", "question": "Brioni , the Italian suitmaker that made outfits for the James Bond films , has been @placeholder by French luxury goods giant PPR .", "option_0": "bought", "option_1": "boosted", "option_2": "released", "option_3": "approached", "option_4": "invaded"}
{"id": 232, "article": "At least one person was treated in hospital and several were hurt as police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters in Siyazan. The demonstrators were angry at worsening economic conditions sparked by the fall in the price of oil. Azerbaijan's economy is heavily dependent on oil. Nearly half its GDP in 2014 came from the oil sector. Oil prices have slumped by 70% in the past 15 months, down to $31 a barrel on international markets. Azerbaijan's currency, the manat, has also fallen dramatically in value. The interior ministry said the protests were organised by the opposition and religious extremists. The government has ordered a cut in the price of flour in response to the crisis, effective from Friday, according to Reuters news agency. VAT was being waived on wheat imports and the sale of bread and flour, it said. In a further move to prop up the faltering manat, Azerbaijan's central bank has banned the sale of foreign exchange in bureaux de change run by commercial banks, Reuters adds. Azerbaijan's economy, heavily dependent on oil revenue, has been shaken by decreasing oil prices on the world markets. Small businesses have suffered enormously in recent years because of bribes allegedly demanded by officials. Corruption has been a major hurdle for businesses in Azerbaijan, according to the International Monetary Fund. Azerbaijan's local currency, the manat, was almost equal to the euro at the start of last year but was devalued against the dollar in February 2015. In December 2015 the Central Bank unpegged the manat from the dollar, and an immediate price hike followed. This heavily affected low-income families. Many others with large bank loans suffered too. Azerbaijan imports even most of the basic consumer goods and, although some agricultural products are produced locally, raw materials for their production are brought in from abroad. Despite recurrent warnings from international and local analysts about the expected effects of oil dependency, the Azerbaijani government has done very little to improve other industries. In a country where media are under strict control, critical voices are met with force. Discontent was relatively low during the oil boom, but now the volatile currency means that price increases affect almost everyone. And as the range of people who suffer increases, it may prove difficult for the government to appease the wider public.", "question": "Police have detained 55 people after protests over rising @placeholder prices in Azerbaijan .", "option_0": "fuel", "option_1": "food", "option_2": "delays", "option_3": "gas", "option_4": "land"}
{"id": 233, "article": "Europeans are bemused, confused and hungry for information. They listen to the prime minister, who says nothing has changed since the election, that she is carrying out the will of the British people... Yet Berlin, Brussels and Paris hear a cacophony of influential voices in and outside the Cabinet, who appear to be calling for all manner of things - hard Brexit, soft Brexit, an immigration-focused or a trade-led Brexit... In the absence of being officially informed otherwise, the EU is framing its negotiating positions around the Article 50 letter Theresa May sent back in March, triggering the formal Brexit process and pointing to a UK departure from the European Customs Union and Single Market. But Europeans ARE leaving wiggle room for other Brexit scenarios. The reason, they tell me: They fear Theresa May may well be a here today, gone tomorrow kind of prime minister, so they take her words and the words of her chief Brexit negotiator with a pinch of salt. Brussels had hoped for a decisive result in last month's general election. Eurocrats readily admit it was never their business which political party had the upper hand in the UK - that was a domestic issue - but what they did hope for, they told me, was for a strong prime minister to emerge, able to make concessions - some of them possibly painful ones - that the EU thinks will be necessary in order to reach a good Brexit deal. The phrase Brexit means Brexit has now become a bit of a tongue-in-cheek catchphrase in European circles, to use when you have no idea what to say in a particular situation or you don't want to be drawn on the details of any particular subject. Not that EU leaders are laughing about Brexit. There is little Schadenfreude about. I was in Berlin recently, where many politicians are keen anglophiles - but more to the point they realise that if the UK economy nosedives that will have a considerable impact on the rest of Europe too. You actually find quite a lot of sympathy in Germany for Theresa May and the political situation she finds herself in post-election. German politicians are also mourning the loss of the UK from EU decision-making. The two countries were closely aligned when it came to attempts to complete the single market, and make the EU more streamlined and competitive. Now Germany fears more protectionist Mediterranean nations may gain the upper hand. But the UK says it is leaving and there is little appetite in Berlin to make huge concessions. Germany is concerned with the EU's future. Angela Merkel insists life outside the EU cannot be seen to be more attractive than inside. There cannot be having your cake and eating it for the UK - leaving the EU but just keeping the convenient bits - otherwise, she fears, other countries might be tempted to walk out too. There is a wholesale rejection at German government level of the idea that a favourable trade deal will be done with the UK to keep up German car sales. You just don't understand how we Germans think, one high-level contact told me. Europe was Germany's chance of a new beginning, a new respectability after the horrors of the Nazi times - European Unity comes first, before any car sales. European politics trump trade and economics, he said. Of course Angela Merkel would love Brexit not to happen. I haven't met a European leader yet who was happy about Brexit. But Berlin thinks a reversal is unlikely - however much Wolfgang Schauble, the German finance minister, repeats out loud that the door is always open. His finance ministry is preparing for a huge row this autumn over what it sees as financial commitments the UK must honour when it leaves, and what the UK views as an EU exit bill. The EU is factoring in flexibility over the final amount to be paid, but Berlin is unsure the UK government can sell any amount to the British public. There was no talk before the referendum that Brexit would cost the British taxpayer money, one high-level source told me - so how will they react? They were just told leave the hideous EU and everything will be great. It's hard to find an upbeat mainstream European voice when it comes to Brexit; most leading politicians fear everyone will come off worse. The talk of the town right now is rather sartorial in tone. If negotiations are successful - and after a still-to-be-agreed transition period - Eurocrats speak of a tailor-made rather than an off-the-shelf deal with the UK, as in a specially-designed deal rather than a copy of the EU's agreement with Norway, Canada or Turkey for example. European businesses - like UK ones - are being warned of the possibility of a so-called cliff-edge, no-deal scenario. But my talks with leaders across the continent make clear: the Europeans want a deal with the UK. They need a deal, they'll work towards a deal - but, they insist - not at any price.", "question": "Whichever part of Europe I travel to at the moment , I find myself @placeholder with political and business leaders desperate for intel on the UK , so that come the end of the interview I 'm conducting , the tables are turned on me - to the tune of \" Finished ? OK , good . Now can you tell me anything about Brexit and the path the UK is going to take ? \"", "option_0": "faced", "option_1": "deal", "option_2": "associated", "option_3": "meeting", "option_4": "clashed"}
{"id": 234, "article": "The memorial event will be attended by hundreds of firefighters, police officers, paramedics and volunteers in a chapel overlooking the crash site. Emergency workers and community leaders have organised the 22 November service. It will come three months after a jet crashed on to the West Sussex A27 during the Shoreham Air Show. The Right Rev Dr Martin Warner will open the service at Lancing College with a prayer for the victims. He said it would be an important moment for people who were caught up in the \"sudden and tragic events\" of that day. The names of the victims will be read out ahead of a minute's silence at 13:22 GMT - the exact time of the crash. Each family will then light a candle to be placed on the chapel's altar. The relatives affected will also give the readings. Personal reflections of the rescue effort have been written and compiled and will be read out by Sussex Police Chief Constable Giles York, West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service Chief Fire Officer Sean Ruth, and South East Coast Ambulance Service chief executive Paul Sutton. Two days after the crash, Assistant Chief Constable Steve Barry said he had  never before in his career seen anything like the Shoreham crash, in terms of its scale, tragedy and impact on the local community. Friends and relatives gathered for the funeral of retired engineer Graham Mallinson at St Mary's Church, Newick, on Thursday, The keen photographer had been hoping to capture shots of the Vulcan bomber, which was making one of its last appearances at the air show, when the vintage Hawker Hunter jet crashed. He was described as being a \"very dearly loved\" husband, father and brother who would be \"very sorely missed\".", "question": "The families of 11 men who died in the Shoreham air crash will hear the reflections of emergency workers who @placeholder with the disaster at a service .", "option_0": "dealt", "option_1": "lived", "option_2": "met", "option_3": "died", "option_4": "cooperate"}
{"id": 235, "article": "A full meeting of the local authority is due to debate its budget and council tax levels next week. Political groups - including the Labour administration - must submit their proposals by Wednesday evening. Subject to financial checks they should then be published on Friday ahead of next week's meeting. A report to the local authority said it could raise about ¡ê1.9m by increasing the council tax by 3% - which equates to about ¡ê31 a year on a band D property. It also highlighted that the historically low rates in the region meant it was bringing in about ¡ê6m less per year than it would by charging the national average. In addition, it said that consultation with staff and the public had found the majority in favour of a council tax rise. Overall, the council report estimates the authority faces a funding gap of about ¡ê16m in the financial year ahead. An increase in council tax along with previously agreed savings and other measures would mean it had about ¡ê2.7m left to find. Political groups are expected to put forward their suggestions on how to balance the books by 17:00 in order to be debated by full council on 28 February. The Dumfries and Galloway authority will be one of the last in the country to set its budget. The Labour administration has yet to reveal whether it intends to increase council tax in the region. Council leader Ronnie Nicholson has pointed out that the public would see their bills rise anyway due to national increases on higher value properties and water charges. He said they faced \"tough choices\" in setting their budget. \"I would like to assure all our residents in Dumfries and Galloway that no decision will be made lightly, and we will be acting in the best interests of our residents when we set the budget on 28 February,\" he said.", "question": "The @placeholder is set to pass for political groups to table their spending plans for Dumfries and Galloway Council .", "option_0": "aerospace", "option_1": "deadline", "option_2": "moon", "option_3": "race", "option_4": "decision"}
{"id": 236, "article": "Keepers unsuccessfully tried to help 46-year-old Toto to her feet after she fell ill in her pen on Monday. The park said the \"difficult decision\" to euthanise the elephant was made to \"avoid continued stress and suffering\" after an examination by its vets. Toto came to the park in 1997 from Basel Zoo in Switzerland. A statement on the safari park's website said: \"Over the years our elephant team have worked tirelessly improving the welfare standards of our elephants ensuring they receive the best daily care particularly during the later stages of their lives. \"Her keepers are devastated but they all understand that this was the last option and necessary and most humane course of action to take.\" Keeper Ailsa West said the elephant would be \"sorely missed by us all\". She said: \"Toto was a magnificent and beautiful sentient being. \"We all feel privileged to have spent the years that we have with her, watching her grow in confidence in her new environment.\" In 2013, local author Douglas Jackson observed Toto to create a character for two books centred around an elephant keeper and his animal in ancient Rome. Last year, Scottish artist Stephanie McKenzie produced a portrait of Toto as part of a commission to paint some of Blair Drummond's favourite animals.", "question": "An elephant that @placeholder artists and children 's books has been put to sleep after she collapsed at Blair Drummond Safari Park .", "option_0": "inspired", "option_1": "draws", "option_2": "proved", "option_3": "provides", "option_4": "representing"}
{"id": 237, "article": "The Chamber was shot almost entirely in Wales and receives its premiere in Cardiff on Thursday night. It is described as a \"claustrophobic\" thriller set on a stranded submarine off the North Korean coast. Bradfield worked with director Ben Parker to compose the soundtrack. He likened the experience to working with his Manics band-mates. \"I'd been given a few offers before, and they didn't feel quite right. And then Ben made contact, and just reading the script made me feel like doing it. \"Ben, as director, has quite a commanding presence, and I like that. \"I've been in a band with Nicky, Sean and Richey for all of my adult life and they are very specific, and I like it when people have strong ideas. \"So I just thought I'd better stop chickening out on these offers, I've got to do it sooner or later. And I'm just really glad that I did.\" The film follows the crew of a research submarine and a team of special forces who commandeer the vessel to search for an object on the sea floor that is in danger of falling into enemy hands. Production mainly happened at Ffilm Factory 35 at the Sony Technology centre in Pencoed. The Chamber is Parker's directorial debut, and he said securing the right soundtrack would be crucial to its success. \"It can make or break a film, it's incredibly important,\" he said. \"There are some films where music can take a back seat, but the sound design of this film and the music adds to the atmosphere, and to the mood. \"It was another character in that space - there were four main characters, and then the music.\" He added recent missile tests by North Korea made the subject particularly relevant. \"Over the time we've been making and releasing the film, it's quite unnerving that things in that part of the world have been kicking up. The film is almost prescient in its depiction of what's going on in North Korea.\" Produced at the Manics's Faster Studios in Cardiff before they closed last year, Bradfield created the soundtrack with long-time collaborators and producers Dave Eringa and Loz Williams. Bradfield drew inspiration from composers Mica Levi and Penderecki for a score that attempts to draws on the film's claustrophobic setting. He said: \"I completely loved the experience, and loved the challenge as well. I'm not trying to be disingenuous, but it's scary having a new boss. \"Because being in the band, you always feel you've got a boss - whether that's the audience, your band mates, or your own pride, but you feel like there's a boss. And I like that, when somebody says 'no, I want something else', or 'I love that' or 'I want this' or 'I want that'. I love that experience. \"Of course I'd love to do it again. I've got to go full throttle back with the Manics soon, but hopefully I will be back in the film world sooner or later.\"", "question": "Manic Street Preachers front man James Dean Bradfield has @placeholder composing his first film soundtrack to touring with the band .", "option_0": "played", "option_1": "compared", "option_2": "soared", "option_3": "preferred", "option_4": "joined"}
{"id": 238, "article": "Laura Whitford decorated the centre of Royston with colourful nets and bunting to publicise a craft fair on Saturday. The nets have been thrown on to a roof and into trees almost every day since she put them up on Sunday night. However, Mrs Whitford put her story online and said so many people saw it, everyone \"now knows about the fair\". She and her friend Anne Walls crocheted covers for bollards in the centre of town and a large net to cover the Royse Stone - a landmark that used to contain a cross, and which gives the town its name. They put them up, together with crocheted bunting \"under cover of darkness, like all good guerrilla knitters and yarn bombers do\", she said. However, on Monday morning they were gone. Mrs Whitford posted \"missing\" notices on local Facebook group pages. The items mysteriously reappeared that afternoon. On Tuesday, the nets were discovered strewn on the pavement and thrown into trees. They were retrieved and returned to their rightful positions. The following day the stone cover was spotted on the roof of a bank. Staff from a nearby pub brought out a stepladder and retrieved the cover for Mrs Whitford. However, it has happened again, she said. \"They're back in the trees, but frankly that's where they're going to stay until the fair.\" Mrs Whitford added: \"Actually, I'd like to thank the vandals because they really have done me a huge favour, and this whole saga of missing netting has given the fair more publicity than I ever could.\"", "question": "A yarn bomber says vandals who repeatedly removed her woollen @placeholder , throwing it around a Hertfordshire town , have done her \" a big favour \" .", "option_0": "death", "option_1": "artwork", "option_2": "voice", "option_3": "words", "option_4": "luck"}
{"id": 239, "article": "In January 2008, three teenagers Adam Swellings, 19, Stephen Sorton, 17, and Jordan Cunliffe, 16, were jailed for life for the murder. Cunliffe's mother Janet claims that although he was present at the scene he did not take part in the murder. She has told Newsbeat that her son was wrongly jailed. All three were convicted under a law called joint enterprise. His mother is campaigning against it. The law allows for several people to be charged with the same offence, even though they may have played very different roles in the crime. Joint enterprise can apply to all crimes, but recently it has been used as a way to prosecute homicide - especially in cases involving gangs of young men. Figures, obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) using Freedom of Information requests, showed that between 2005 and 2013 there were 4,590 prosecutions for homicide with two or more defendants. Prosecutions for homicides involving two or more defendants meet the Crown Prosecution Service's definition of joint enterprise. Gary Newlove was kicked \"like a football\" by the youths, the court heard during the trial. But Ms Cunliffe told Newsbeat that she doesn't think her son deserves to be in prison. \"Jordan wasn't actually confronted by Mr Newlove, so he didn't hear any argument and he didn't have any argument with Mr Newlove,\" she said. \"From Jordan's point of view, as a visually disabled person, because at the time Jordan was blind, he didn't see the incident and obviously because he didn't have an argument with anyone he didn't hear anything that happened. \"We were pretty confident that he hadn't murdered anyone. The evidence proved that he hadn't murdered anyone and we were pretty confident that we could prove that.\" She also told Newsbeat that she didn't know anything about joint enterprise or what it involved before the case, which saw two other youths found not guilty of Mr Newlove's murder. \"Jordan never denied that he was present at the scene,\" she said. \"He knew he must have been in the location when it happened but he didn't have any involvement - but that doesn't seem to matter when it comes to joint enterprise.\" Janet Cunliffe is campaigning to have the joint enterprise law changed or scrapped completely. \"There are occasions when the law can be used and it can be used appropriately,\" she said. \"My point is if someone hasn't actually murdered anyone, someone hasn't planned the murder and hasn't taken part in it, then how can you be put in prison for murder when you haven't actually done anything?\" Former Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips told the BIJ that the law could cause injustice and that joint enterprise needed reform as it was \"capable of producing injustice, undoubtedly\". But Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders said joint enterprise was a vital prosecuting tool. She said: \"In some cases it's not very clear because of the circumstances of the case exactly who did what, but if we know that everyone was participating in the crime then it helps us to be able to prosecute them, and to put those facts before the court. \"If you're just standing there, we won't prosecute you.\" The wife of Gary Newlove still believes all those prosecuted \"are as guilty as the person doing the act\". The Ministry of Justice says the joint enterprise law has allowed some of the most serious offenders to be brought to justice and there are no plans to change it. Jordan Cunlffe's case is being supported by the writer Jimmy McGovern whose recent drama, Common, was inspired by his case. It's available on iPlayer. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "question": "Garry Newlove was @placeholder in August 2007 after he confronted a group outside his house . He died two days later .", "option_0": "injured", "option_1": "attacked", "option_2": "knocked", "option_3": "thrown", "option_4": "justified"}
{"id": 240, "article": "In the town of El Carmen, we see the funeral cortege of three members of the same family, killed in Saturday's earthquake. The coffins are paraded through town on the back of pick-up trucks with the family walking behind, and hundreds of people from the community supporting them. Five minutes later, a fourth coffin arrives, that of Joselo. By all accounts a huge football fan, Joselo's coffin is draped with the scarf of his local team and the pallbearers are wearing the football strip. It is a sombre moment but the music is lively and the crowd is clapping, determined to mark the event with happiness, not just grief. A few hundred metres down the road, we come across a digger working its way through a mound of rubble. This, we are told, was Joselo's house - or what's left of it. A three-storey building turned to rubble. According to the neighbours, most had got out as soon as the earthquake struck. Joselo was trying to get his car out of the garage when the roof collapsed on top of him. A bloodied pillow and his T-shirt lie tossed in a corner of what now looks like a building site. Dozens of former residents climb on to the rubble and sift through broken stones to recover whatever belongings remain intact. \"I had to make an unexpected trip out of town,\" says Emilio Solorzano. \"Just as well, otherwise I would have been crushed, I'm standing on my bedroom.\" And El Carmen got off lightly. Most of the town survived, just the odd building flattened. An hour down the road, in the town of Pedernales, the community has not been so lucky. Some 80% of the city has been destroyed, according to Jaime Bolivar, who is part of a rescue team heading to Pedernales. Residents of El Carmen have been gathering bottles of clean drinking water, bananas and clothes for Jaime and his colleagues to deliver to those in need. \"It's terrible, it was such a strong earthquake, there are a lot of dead people, corpses are decomposing,\" he tells me. \"We are now getting access to other places where we rescuers are going to begin operations. The good thing is we are receiving help from abroad and that gives us strength.\" But resources are stretched - not all communities have received the help they need - and they're getting increasingly desperate.", "question": "While many families are still searching for loved ones , others are already having to @placeholder theirs .", "option_0": "leave", "option_1": "lose", "option_2": "achieve", "option_3": "save", "option_4": "bury"}
{"id": 241, "article": "It comes as police blamed dissident republicans for a shooting in the city's Bogside area on Tuesday night. A  man shot four times by masked men in Lisfannon Park was treated by locals who \"plugged his bullet wounds with towels\", police said. The 33-year-old was treated for wounds to his legs and abdomen; his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. \"This is just brutality in our community,\" Supt Gordon McCalmont told BBC Radio Foyle. \"There can be no justification for this.\" \"I'm very concerned about these recent developments. \"I'm in no doubt that violent dissident republicans inflicted this attack on our community. \"I accept there are real challenges addressing these gangs but this is an area that we invest in very heavily.\"", "question": "Londonderry police are @placeholder how to respond to attacks by \" criminal gangs tarnishing the image of our city \" .", "option_0": "reviewing", "option_1": "allowing", "option_2": "repeated", "option_3": "showing", "option_4": "growing"}
{"id": 242, "article": "Credit Agricole said 708m euros (?¡ê563m) had been written off. The French bank apologised to investors, saying that it had been \"misled\". Portugal unveiled a plan to rescue BES on Monday after record losses of 3.6bn euros for the first half of the year. Credit Agricole, which has a 14.6% stake BES, said second quarter net income was 705m euros compared with profits last year of 1.3bn euros. \"We can only regret having been misled by the family with which Credit Agricole was trying to create a true partnership to build the biggest private bank in Portugal,\" CA's chief executive Jean-Paul Chifflet said. Mr Chifflet added that Credit Agricole was closely following investigations and audits underway at BES. Credit Agricole reserves the right to take legal action should any issues arise out of the probes, a spokeswoman for the bank said. \"The new management [of BES] has indicated that it would consider taking legal action, and we will take part,\" Mr Chifflet told journalists. Despite CA's problems, the company's shares opened almost 5% higher on Tuesday. Analysts said the bank's profit before tax was higher than expected. Analysis Nigel Cassidy, BBC Europe business reporter With so much unfinished business when it comes to rationalising, refinancing and regulating EU banks, this latest and severe collateral damage to Credit Agricole is a reminder that it's not just known troubled lenders that have to bite the bullet, declare write-downs and clean up their balance sheets. Yet it may be too hasty to see these latest events as a new leg of a European banking crisis that won't quite go away. Dig beneath the surface and it's as much a more straightforward case of thwarted ambition. France's second-largest listed bank by assets has become the victim of its own long-standing plan to become a major banking force in southern Europe. It has already shelled out a fortune extricating itself from what turned out to be unwise investments in Greek and Spanish lenders. In the case of Portugal and Banco Espirito Santo, it wasn't just hit by the business failure at the biggest private bank in Portugal, in which it had made a large investment. Credit Agricole's chief Jean-Paul Chifflet has alleged publically that his bank was misled by the patriarch of the powerful Espirito Santo family, whose interests span hotels and commercial property at home and abroad. Legal action may eventually get to grips with the specifics here, but what's crystal clear is that this is just the latest sign that the \"systemic risks\" banking regulators like to harp on about remain real. Europe still has too many over-ambitious and under-capitalised banks - and by no means all of them are in southern Europe. On Sunday, Portugal revealed 4.9bn-euro rescue plan for BES. Shares in the Portuguese bank have plunged 89% since June, when concerns about the financial health of the company first came to light. Last week BES reported a 3.6bn euro loss, which wiped out its existing capital buffer of nearly 2.1bn euros and cut it to below the minimum level required by banking regulators.", "question": "French bank Credit Agricole said profits almost halved after it wrote off the value of its stake in the troubled Portuguese Banco Espirito Santo ( BES ) to @placeholder .", "option_0": "produce", "option_1": "france", "option_2": "creditors", "option_3": "zero", "option_4": "close"}
{"id": 243, "article": "The ERS said the first-past-the-post system to elect MPs takes no account of how big their majorities are or how many voted for losing candidates. The society said this meant they were \"wasted\" votes and the system was \"fundamentally broken\". The UK government said it had no plans to change the voting system. The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) estimated 1,063,610 votes out of the total of 1,575,814 cast in Wales at the 2017 general election on 8 June were \"wasted\". Campaigners said the votes were made up of 746,269 votes for losing candidates and 317,341 votes in excess of the number needed to elect the winning candidates. It noted that Labour won 70% of seats with under half the vote, while the Tories gained vote share but lost seats. With big Labour majorities at Aberavon, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Cynon Valley and Cardiff Central, campaigners claimed more than 80% of votes in those seats had no impact. The society also claimed nearly a quarter of Welsh voters had been forced to vote tactically on the grounds their preferred party or candidate had no chance of winning the local seat. ERS Cymru director Jess Blair called for a new electoral system which more closely reflected the proportion of votes cast for each party. \"This report reveals a picture of a voting system which is fundamentally broken,\" she said. \"There are a wide range of systems where votes are not thrown on the electoral scrapheap. \"We need to move towards a means of electing our MPs where people's voices are properly heard and where people don't feel forced to hold their nose at the ballot box.\" A spokeswoman for the Cabinet Office, who set electoral rules, said: \"First Past The Post is a voting system that offers a robust method of electing MPs. \"A referendum on changing the voting system for General Elections was held in 2011 and the public voted overwhelmingly in favour of keeping the First Past the Post system.\"", "question": "More than a million votes - two - thirds of the total - had \" no impact \" on the general election @placeholder in Wales , the Electoral Reform Society has claimed .", "option_0": "stage", "option_1": "system", "option_2": "result", "option_3": "rate", "option_4": "estuary"}
{"id": 244, "article": "Luke Varley, from Doncaster, was criticised on a Facebook group dedicated to photographs of people's parking blunders. The 24-year-old said the abuse was \"water off a duck's back\". The sales assistant said he chose to park across two bays to ensure his new car did not get scratched. More on this and other stories from across South Yorkshire Mr Varley's parking was featured within a private Facebook group after a shopper spotted his Vauxhall Astra positioned across two bays. He said: \"I've had a few people tutting and everything - but it's water off a duck's back to me. It doesn't bother me.\" He added: \"It's out of the way, where people who are disabled or have kids wouldn't park anyway. It's always when car parks are fairly quiet - if there weren't enough spaces I would park properly. \"And I'd never park in a disabled bay or a parent and toddler bay, as they're for another use.\" Parking across two spaces has been dubbed \"Clarkson Parking\", after the TV presenter joked about doing it on Twitter. Mr Varley told the Daily Mirror he did it due to the \"amount of clowns who can't park or drive\". Further comments were made on BBC Radio Sheffield's Facebook page after Mr Varley spoke to the station on Thursday. One individual labelled Mr Varley \"a prat\", but others supported his actions in protecting his car. Adam Clarke said: \"Maybe the owner has saved for ten years for that car? Then you get some old people carrier with young kids, who just fling doors open without consideration to the damage they may cause\". A spokesperson for the British Parking Association, which represents parking and traffic management operators, said \"inconsiderate parking\" causes problems for other motorists. It advised that failing to abide by the terms and conditions set out on parking notices could lead to a penalty notice being issued by the car park operator.", "question": "A driver has @placeholder parking his car across two spaces in a supermarket car park to protect it from \" clowns who ca n't drive \" .", "option_0": "defended", "option_1": "exploded", "option_2": "drowned", "option_3": "described", "option_4": "suggested"}
{"id": 245, "article": "The vehicle was found last month in a rural area near Navolato in Sinaloa state, north-west Mexico. Sinaloa Attorney General Marco Antonio Higuera said its plates matched those of a vehicle owned by Adam Coleman. Relatives of the men are believed to be heading to Mexico to help identify the bodies using DNA and dental records. Mr Coleman and his friend Dean Lucas, both 33, were living in Edmonton, Canada. They had driven down to Mexico and took a ferry from Baja California on 20 November, but failed to arrive in the city of Guadalajara the next day. Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Australia was working closely with Mexican authorities. \"Our thoughts are with the families and friends of those two men who have been missing for some time, but I hold very grave concerns for their fate,\" Ms Bishop said. Sinaloa state has been plagued by violence in recent decades, much of it linked to drug cartels battling to control the illegal drugs trade from South America to the United States.", "question": "Mexican authorities say a burnt - out van found with @placeholder bodies inside was registered to one of two Australian surfers missing since mid-November .", "option_0": "staff", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "charred", "option_3": "challenges", "option_4": "beat"}
{"id": 246, "article": "Most of them have lost parents to Ebola. Some, though, have survived the virus, but cannot return to their homes because other villagers still fear they might infect others. It is a brief trip, but there is just enough time for Archbishop Justin Welby to offer a heartfelt prayer to the congregation at St George's Cathedral in Freetown where his visit is warmly welcomed as a sign that the suffering of the people of Sierra Leone - and the over 2,000 who have died of Ebola there - is not forgotten. \"Pray for them,\" he says, as he and his small close-knit team fly back home. \"And give to the charities that support them.\" The archbishop returned to the UK just in time to see the fruits of his earlier work: the nomination of the first woman bishop in the Church of England, the Reverend Libby Lane, as the Bishop of Stockport. It was a fitting end to a year in which the former oil executive demonstrated his very practical and energetic leadership style for a church that has long been divided on many levels. He had persuaded those for and against women bishops to come together to confront their differences with dialogue and to learn to \"disagree well\", leading at last to a vote that amended canon law to allow a bishop to be a man \"or a woman\", the three small words that brought decades of debate to a conclusion. At once very much a man of God yet also a man of the world, the archbishop manages to combine both to put his evangelical faith into action, using his experience of business to push forward issues ranging from ethics in the City to payday lenders and poverty in the UK. He has formed around him a team of expert advisers and cut through Lambeth Palace bureaucracy to ensure he has the people he needs to turn his vision into reality. \"It's a style of leadership nurtured in the business world. He doesn't mess around, and he has a very clear vision of where he wants to go,\" says Ruth Gledhill, contributing editor to Christian Today. \"His leadership has meant that you can feel a brightening and lifting of the atmosphere in church - and you think 'maybe we have got a future'. \"It's now a Church that's confident in itself for the first time in a long time. \"And it has also been incredible to watch. He gets away with talking about Jesus in a world that's so secular, and people listen. \"He's like a rocket that's been put under the Church.\" The archbishop has also managed to change the headlines on the Church of England from a narrative of decline and discord to glowing coverage of an institution whose leadership is deeply engaged with trying to solve the social problems that affect families in the wider world. He turned around the potentially bad news that the Church of England had an indirect stake in Wonga, the payday lender, with a frank admission of embarrassment, a pledge to disinvest and a campaign to help credit unions stop people getting into hopeless debt with payday lenders. That triggered a national debate on the practices of those lenders, and helped lead to reforms such as a cap on extortionate interest rates. He has also shone a spotlight on why so many in a wealthy country, which spends much of its budget on welfare, are now resorting to food banks. He warned that hunger \"stalks large parts\" of Britain, after the all-party parliamentary group report that he funded to examine the causes of and solutions for food poverty in Britain reported back. Even the archbishop's announcement of the creation of St Anselm's Community was highlighted prominently in the Financial Times, which clearly likes a religious leader who speaks the Pink Un's language as well as that of the Bible. In the FT, he outlined his call for future leaders in the City to take part in the year-long programme of prayer, study and service with the poor. They might sometimes find it  \"uncomfortable, demanding, rigorous and tiring\", he said, but he promised it would also be fun. \"At the heart of Christian faith is a sense of enormous joy and of recognition of one's place and call, one's vocation, one's purpose, one's value.\" On St Anselm's website, the Archbishop said Jesus Christ gives the perfect example of how companies should set their aspirations on long-term human flourishing, rather than simply short-term financial gain. Jesus Christ was \"relatively unsuccessful in pure output terms,\" as he put it. \"He had 12 main followers, one betrayed him, 11 ran away. \"If you think of that in terms of a board of directors, it's not invariably successful. \"But in the next 300 years those followers so transformed the world that the greatest world power of the age was changed. Now that's what we call output.\" While he takes his position extremely seriously, the archbishop also possesses a sometimes impish sense of humour. This was heard on his first choice of music on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on Sunday: 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' - because it was the song he would sing to distract anyone else in his family from winning at the card-game Racing Demon. It is a quality he will need in spades over the coming years. For a major battle is now looming for the soul of the Church in England and the wider Anglican Communion over its position on homosexuality. Over the past year, the archbishop has travelled over 149,000 miles visiting the Anglican and Episcopal family of member Churches or 'provinces', demonstrating the importance he places on personal relationships. He has also already made two visits to the Vatican, to another reforming religious leader who has also spoken out against poverty and the scourge of modern slavery. However, the archbishop's key aims of \"mutual flourishing\" and \"learning to live with difference\" may prove harder to square with a communion that in some parts of Africa has agreed with harsh anti-gay laws, while elsewhere, in the US, has seen the appointment of both a gay and and a lesbian bishop. The Church of England is having \"shared conversations\" on sexuality, but those will be hard to translate to some parts of the Communion. That was a subject he touched on, but refused to pre-judge in Desert Island Discs on Sunday. \"The reality is that when I listen to people I know that I'm listening to people for whom not just the issue of sexuality but the whole way in which the church lives and exists and reaches out to people, what it looks like to be a holy church, is something on which they feel passionately and are deeply, deeply, deeply disagreeing. \"And if you love them you listen carefully, and in obedience to the work of the spirit of Christ, we have to seek to love one another.\" Outside the church, this plain-speaking Archbishop has been hailed by many as that rare thing in this secular age: a moral compass at a time of great technological and social change, when trust in politicians and post-war institutions has diminished, but not the need for ethical leadership in a materialistic and uncertain age. He has also won over his interlocutors on interfaith matters during his almost two years in office, according to Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi to the Movement for Reform Judaism. \"He's a pleasure to have as a colleague, and has beautiful intra-faith relationships with the Catholic church, and with interfaith leaders in Britain. \"He is so fantastically practically-minded that you can have great discussions on how to solve certain issues, and he wants to use every millisecond.\" She terms him: \"Super-astute: a problem solver, and a listener. He also has a very religious irreverence, which is a brilliant thing. \"He takes the world and his role extremely seriously, but not himself in it - he has no pomposity at all.\" The rabbi recalls someone asking her to take a photo of the Archbishop at an investiture they both attended, pointing at a bishop resplendent in episcopal purple. She had to tell him that the archbishop was in fact the man sitting to one side, wearing an ordinary shirt and trousers, and keeping out of the spotlight. That, too, may prove harder in the coming year.", "question": "At an orphanage just outside Freetown in Sierra Leone , the Archbishop of Canterbury looks totally at ease as he not only watches , smiling , but takes part as the children sing to @placeholder him .", "option_0": "soothe", "option_1": "greet", "option_2": "replace", "option_3": "join", "option_4": "protect"}
{"id": 247, "article": "Identification of the victims will continue with analysis of the DNA found and debris will carry on being removed. Meanwhile reports said the European Commission took issue with Germany's aviation authority before the crash. Wall Street Journal said it was told to \"remedy long-standing problems\". The newspaper reported that the aviation authority, the Luftfahrtbundesamt (LBA), was told in November to sort out problems including a lack of staff which could have limited its ability to carry out checks on planes and crew. In light of investigators believing co-pilot Andreas Lubitz crashed the plane deliberately, the way airline crew are vetted has come under scrutiny. The European Aviation Safety Agency \"had pointed out several cases of non-conformity,\" spokesman Dominique Fouda told AFP news agency. A European Commission spokesman said: \"All EU member states have findings and this is a normal and regular occurrence. \"It is part of a continuous system of oversight - findings are followed by corrective action, similar to an audit process.\" A spokeswoman for the LBA said the authority had answered several criticisms levelled at it during the audits and those responses were now being assessed by the European Aviation Safety Agency. France's air accident authority has said its investigations will include a study of \"systemic weaknesses\" that could have led to the disaster, including psychological profiling. Lufthansa, the parent company of budget airline Germanwings, has said Lubitz disclosed that he had had severe depression in 2009 while training for his pilot's licence. It has also emerged that he received treatment for suicidal tendencies at one point before getting his pilot's licence. German prosecutors found torn-up sick notes at Lubitz's home, including one covering the day of the crash. He was also found to have researched suicide methods and cockpit security on a tablet computer in the days preceding the disaster. Lufthansa's chief executive Carsten Spohr has said he is \"very very sorry that such a terrible accident could have happened\" and that the airline was utterly unaware of any health issues that could have compromised Lubitz's fitness to fly. The company has put aside $300m (a??280m; ?¡ê200m) to cover possible compensation claims arising from the crash.", "question": "The French authorities say they have ended the search for @placeholder at the site where a Germanwings co-pilot is said to have crashed his aircraft in the French Alps , killing all 150 people on board .", "option_0": "aircraft", "option_1": "evidence", "option_2": "leaving", "option_3": "selection", "option_4": "bodies"}
{"id": 248, "article": "The vehicles had stopped for a break when the landslide, triggered by days of heavy rain, hit a road in Mandi district, in Himachal Pradesh state. The army has joined the search efforts. Five people have been rescued with severe injuries, reports say. Landslides are common in India in the monsoon season from July to September. A stretch of the road, some 200km (124 miles) from state capital Shimla, was completely washed away. Several houses and other vehicles were also destroyed. Officials said the death toll could rise as some people were still missing. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office said on Twitter that he was \"pained by the loss of lives\". The monsoon rains have affected millions of people across at least 20 states in India. In neighbouring Nepal, floods and landslides caused by heavy rains have killed at least 49 people, officials say.", "question": "A massive landslide in northern India has swept two @placeholder buses off a hillside into a deep gorge , killing at least 45 people , officials say .", "option_0": "suspected", "option_1": "bodies", "option_2": "forces", "option_3": "packed", "option_4": "throwing"}
{"id": 249, "article": "The Chinese economy expanded by 6.7% in the first three months of the year, the slowest quarterly growth in seven years. Chinese markets edged lower, with the Shanghai composite down by 0.26% to 3,074.26. In Hong Kong, the benchmark Hang Seng index was also lower by 0.16% at midday to 21,304.21. In South Korea the Kospi index there was down 0.1% at midday to 2,014.55. Over in Japan, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index edged down 0.34% - or 56.68 points - to 16,854.37 at the lunch break. Investors stayed at the sidelines, waiting for full assessment and impact of a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in southern Japan. Australia was the only market in the plus column on Friday. The benchmark S&P ASX 200 was up 0.4% at midday, to 5,144.1. US stocks had closed mostly unchanged on Thursday. US banks reported lower profits, but beat analysts earnings estimates. Bank of America and Wells Fargo both reported a fall in first-quarter profit after they put aside more cash to cover bad loans to energy firms.", "question": "Asian markets are mixed in Friday 's session , with a lot of focus on @placeholder from China .", "option_0": "data", "option_1": "stimulus", "option_2": "import", "option_3": "aggregate", "option_4": "recovery"}
{"id": 250, "article": "Oliver Gobat's body was found in a burnt out car on St Lucia in April. The 38-year-old had been reportedly been set alight after being shot. His parents, Theo and Helen Gobat, are now offering a ?¡ê120,000 reward. Mr Gobat said: \"We are offering a bit more because whoever comes forward will need to leave the island.\" Speaking to BBC Surrey, Mr Gobat said: \"There has been a gradual response, but not a flood, so it's beginning to work.\" Mrs Gobat said: \"Nothing is going to bring him back, but I want to know how it happened and why it happened.\" Mr and Mrs Gobat have set up a Facebook campaign, while MP Dominic Raab has asked the Foreign Office to intervene. Oliver, known as Ollie, was born in St Lucia but grew up in Surrey where he played junior cricket at county level. He and his two older brothers ran a five-star boutique hotel in an exclusive resort in St Lucia.", "question": "The parents of a former Surrey man who was murdered on a Caribbean island have @placeholder a reward offered for information on his death .", "option_0": "received", "option_1": "shared", "option_2": "attacked", "option_3": "criticised", "option_4": "doubled"}
{"id": 251, "article": "Four-year-old Sean Turner, from Wiltshire, died in March 2012 at Bristol's Royal Hospital for Children. A coroner ruled the hospital had not failed Sean but his parents Steve and Yolanda disagreed and tweeted Prof Sir Bruce Keogh to \"sort this out\". Within hours Dr Keogh responded that he would be in contact to \"fix a date\". Sean suffered a brain haemorrhage and cardiac arrest six weeks after he had undergone corrective heart surgery at the Bristol hospital. His parents blamed doctors and nursing staff for transferring their son from intensive care too soon and for missing the signs of his worsening condition. But in a narrative verdict at the inquest last month, coroner Maria Voisin said there were \"lost opportunities\" in Sean's care, but it did not amount to neglect. After Mr Turner, 47, tweeted Sir Bruce, saying: \"Will someone please pick up the reins, stand to post and sort this out?\". Within 24 hours, NHS England's medical director had responded: \"Steve, I will meet all concerned parents. Will contact you on Monday to fix a date convenient to families. This week?\". Mrs Turner said they had been \"gobsmacked\" when they got the response. \"We never expected Sir Bruce to tweet back,\" she said. She added they initially thought it was a \"hoax\". An NHS spokesman confirmed the tweet was genuine and said a meeting would be set up \"at the earliest opportunity\" for Sir Bruce \"to hear them voice their concerns and to understand their concerns\". Although Mrs Turner said it would not be \"practical to meet all concerned parents this week\", she said they would be \"waiting for his call\".", "question": "The NHS 's medical director has agreed to meet the parents of a boy who died after heart surgery after they @placeholder with him on Twitter .", "option_0": "opened", "option_1": "escaped", "option_2": "pleaded", "option_3": "clashed", "option_4": "reacted"}
{"id": 252, "article": "The whale, thought be about 20m (65ft) long, was washed up on Wanson Beach near Bude. It was discovered by Ado Shorland, who was walking his dog. Marine biologists are examining the carcass of the whale.  They believe it could be a fin whale although due to decay that has not been confirmed. Mr Shorland said: \"I found it yesterday morning.  It measures around 20m and the lower jaw has been detached and alone it is about 5m.  It is a very large whale. \"From a distance I thought it to be a large tarp or mesh netting.  When I realised it was a whale I was excited and saddened at the same time. \"I felt humbled to be honest, the sheer size suggests it to be an adult, and alive it would have been such a majestic mammal.\" He also found a malnourished seal pup, which was taken to the Gweek Seal Sanctuary.", "question": "A beach in Cornwall has been @placeholder by police after the carcass of a large whale was found washed up .", "option_0": "unveiled", "option_1": "released", "option_2": "closed", "option_3": "defended", "option_4": "swept"}
{"id": 253, "article": "You've probably even sung it in the shower. If not, where have you been? Frozen's signature ballad has helped the film's soundtrack outsell every other album released in 2014 so far and includes a range of different songs sung by members of the cast. It includes the instrumental score written for the film by composer Christophe Beck as well. So far figures from The Official Charts Company say it's sold 708,000 copies in the UK in 2014. That's more than any artist or compilation album and is nearly 80,000 more copies than Ed Sheeran's latest offering X. In March this year the film overtook Toy Story 3 to become the highest grossing animated movie of all time at the box office. It's number 10 in the list of highest grossing films of any genre (Avatar is number 1 in case you were wondering). Not bad for a film about two sisters and a snowman. Earlier this year Frozen won two Oscars for best animated feature and best original song for 'Let It Go'. The figures put together by The Official Chart Company also show that the Disney movie is top of the DVD and Blu-ray sales list for this year as well. You can listen to the The Official Chart Show with Jameela Jamil on Sunday between 4pm and 7pm on Radio 1. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "question": "At some point this year you 've heard the song Let It Go @placeholder by Idina Menzel .", "option_0": "released", "option_1": "staffed", "option_2": "achieved", "option_3": "boosted", "option_4": "performed"}
{"id": 254, "article": "There should be a \"better regional balance\" in the grants, according to the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport select committee. They said it was easier for arts organisations in London to raise money through sponsorship and philanthropy. Arts Council England said it was increasing funding outside London. The body distributes government money in the form of annual funding to almost 700 venues and other arts organisations. \"We agree that more needs to be done on increasing the proportion of our funding outside the capital,\" Arts Council chief executive Darren Henley said. A spokesperson said 56 percent of the Arts Council's annual government funding will be spent outside London 2017/18. This will rise to 60 percent in 2018/19. The Arts Council also distributes National Lottery money and said 75 percent of its Lottery pot would go outside the capital by 2018. Committee chair Damian Collins MP said there should be \"a greater appreciation of the cultural treasures and creative innovation to be found across the UK, and especially outside of London\". He added: \"Strong local leadership and innovation from regional arts and cultural organisations has produced some remarkable successes, but more needs to be done to avoid further closures of small museums and galleries, as funding from local authorities declines.\" The report also said major national institutions should only get direct government subsidies if they support regional organisations, through lending exhibits, touring and mentoring. In its response to the report, the Local Government Association said councils had \"always been a vital part of this country's cultural landscape, spending over ?¡ê1 billion a year on culture\". Cllr Ian Stephens, chair of the LGA's culture tourism and sport board, said councils were \"working more efficiently... to support cultural experiences and facilities through trusts or social enterprises, shared services [and] maximising income generation\". However, he continued, \"the squeeze on council budgets as a result of the ?¡ê2.6bn social care funding gap by 2020 means councils will have to continue to divert more money from other local services, including cultural services, to try and plug growing social care funding gaps\". Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "Theatres , galleries and other cultural groups @placeholder outside London should get a bigger share of government arts funding , a committee of MPs has said .", "option_0": "measures", "option_1": "scrapped", "option_2": "located", "option_3": "supplies", "option_4": "levels"}
{"id": 255, "article": "The massive bill includes both Republican-backed initiatives and Democratic priorities. The spending bill, passed in combination with a tax plan, easily made it through the House and Senate. President Barack Obama has promised to sign the legislation, which includes spending increases for the National Institutes of Health and the military. Republicans scored victories in the bill, including ending a decades-long ban on exporting US crude oil. \"The bipartisan compromise secures meaningful wins for Republicans and the American people,\" said Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Over the past few years, the budget has become a place of bitter fighting between Democrats and Republicans, becoming a tool to threaten a government shutdown if certain items are not included or excluded. The government shut down for 16 days in 2013 when Congress could not agree on a budget. Passing a budget successfully marks an early victory for the newly elected House speaker. Increased spending in the budget signals an end to Congressional belt-tightening. Members of Congress had said previously approved spending cuts were hurting the US military. Members of the so-called Freedom Caucus had said they would not support the bill because, among other things, it does not deny funding to family planning clinic Planned Parenthood or tighten US screening of Syrian refugees. The spending bill does include changes to the \"visa waiver\" programme that allows for travel without a visa to the US for 38 countries. That includes France and Belgium, where some of the perpetrators of the deadly Paris attacks were from. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had said she was concerned about the tax bill because of \"special interest tax breaks\". Veterans and medical research receive spending boosts in the bill, along with funds for transportation projects and emergency first responders. Two taxes that were meant to help finance President Obama's Affordable Care Act were delayed in the bill. Passing the bill was the last thing on Congress' agenda before heading home for the holidays, adjourning until January.", "question": "US congressional leaders have passed a $ 1.1 trillion ( ? ¡ê 730 billion ) spending bill , @placeholder a government shutdown .", "option_0": "including", "option_1": "avoiding", "option_2": "following", "option_3": "citing", "option_4": "according"}
{"id": 256, "article": "Dr Andrew Goodall said the health service in Wales would instead look to keep making \"steady and sustained improvements across the board\". Last week, his counterpart in England suggested patients could face longer waits for knee and hip operations. But Dr Goodall wants improved waiting times over a range of services. In recent years, the NHS in Wales has been heavily criticised over its waiting times performance. Research by BBC Wales shows Welsh waiting times continue to lag behind England in most key categories for treatment and diagnosis. But NHS Wales chief executive Dr Goodall said \"good progress\" had been achieved on reducing waits, including an 80% fall in diagnostic waiting times over the past couple of years. Meanwhile, in his third annual report, he said NHS Wales was operating in a \"culture of steady and sustained improvement\", despite pressures. The report takes a look back at the challenges and improvements over the past year and said there had been a \"steady decline\" in hospital discharge delays. Dr Goodall said the quality of care patients should expect should be \"seamless\" across Wales. \"It's no secret that the NHS - and this includes NHS Wales - is facing ongoing financial and service pressures. \"Combine this with the good news that more of us are living longer, albeit many with chronic conditions, this shows that we need to fundamentally change the way we do things to meet our needs over the coming years. \"In redesigning the ways in which we deliver better and sustainable services, we must not forget that one size will not fit all when we look, for instance, at how we provide healthcare to very rural areas, and the commitment to provide services in both Welsh and English.\" Among improvements, he highlighted the performance of the ambulance service, as well as 150 new staff being recruited to support mental health services for children and young people. Dr Goodall has also defended the decision of the health secretary not to offer financial bail-outs to four health boards that have overspent significantly. Last week, BBC Wales revealed Betsi Cadwaladr, Hywel Dda, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg and Cardiff and Vale health boards had built up combined deficits of ?¡ê146m - almost three times as much as the previous year. Dr Goodall said health boards had to live within their means given that the Welsh Government had provided \"fair and reasonable\" funding. He added there had been \"some recovery\" in the financial position of overspending health boards recently and he expected \"better performance\" next year. He also said health boards should learn from each other in an effort to have a \"more consistent range of services and standards across Wales\".", "question": "NHS Wales ' boss has rejected the idea that planned surgery waiting times could be allowed to @placeholder as a \" trade off \" for quicker A&E and cancer care .", "option_0": "conclude", "option_1": "come", "option_2": "grow", "option_3": "quit", "option_4": "shrug"}
{"id": 257, "article": "The Road Haulage Association in Scotland said the move could have a \"massive\" cost attached to it. And the Scottish Chambers of Commerce warned the cost to business would be \"huge\" in terms of higher transport costs and reduced productivity. It called for action to mitigate at least some of the disruption. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) also warned that \"employers of all description\" faced serious disruption. Earlier, Transport Minister Derek Mackay said it would take at least three weeks to repair the bridge. It was closed at midnight, following the discovery of structural faults earlier in the week. Mr Mackay said a full travel plan was being prepared, including extra trains and buses and possibly a ferry. Early on Friday morning, 11-mile tailbacks were reported approaching the Kincardine Bridge, the alternative route across the Forth from Fife to Edinburgh. Martin Reid, from the Road Haulage Association in Scotland, said: \"Our members are bearing the brunt of this - there is no doubt about that. \"Every time there is the smallest delay then there is a cost attached to that, and the cost must go to the client or to the haulier. At the minute, with all the delays, there is massive cost attached to this.\" Amazon which has it biggest UK \"fufilment centre\" in Dunfermline said it was confident the bridge closure would not affect deliveries. The firm said in a statement: \"Amazon has a network of ten fulfilment centres in the UK and each of these serve customers across the country. \"We are used to dealing with transport disruptions and put in place contingency measures to ensure we continue to provide the highest levels of service to our customers.\" Garry Clark, from the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, said: \"The closure of the Forth Road Bridge until the New Year and the resultant impact we are witnessing serves to underline the fragility of Scotland's transport network. \"Scotland's bridges are major infrastructure pinch points and whenever these are disrupted due to engineering or road works, the result is often severe. \"This is as true for the likes of the Erskine or Kessock bridges as it is for the Forth Road Bridge. \"These events remind us just how essential the construction of the Queensferry Crossing is to provide resilience in cross-Forth travel. \"The priority now must be to implement a deliverable travel plan to mitigate at least some of the inevitable disruption that is now occurring. \"The cost to business will be huge in terms of higher transport costs, reduced productivity and restricted access to customers.\" The FSB said firms across Scotland and beyond would be \"alarmed\" to hear that the bridge would not reopen until 2016. Scottish policy convener Andy Willox said: \"Not only will this closure impact those that use the bridge to bring their goods or services to market, employers of all description will face serious disruption. \"Businesses will look forward to clear advice regards alternative routes. \"Further, communities and firms facing the worst disruption will look to local and national government to mitigate the impact of the measure. \"While matters of safety should override other concerns, every effort should be made to minimise the impact on the economy.\"", "question": "Scottish business @placeholder have warned that the closure of the Forth Road Bridge until the new year could have a major economic impact .", "option_0": "questions", "option_1": "reserve", "option_2": "officials", "option_3": "organisations", "option_4": "group"}
{"id": 258, "article": "Chinese-born Anastasia Lin, 25, says she did not receive an invitation to attend the event, which meant she could not apply for a visa. But she attempted to travel to Sanya, via Hong Kong, as Canadian tourists are eligible for visas on arrival. Ms Lin has blamed the apparent ban on her human rights campaigning. She has criticised the \"repressions and censorship\" in China and is a practitioner of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement which China deems a cult and has banned. The Miss World tournament is due to happen in the seaside resort of Sanya on 19 December. When Ms Lin first made her claim that she was not sent an invitation to attend, the BBC tried to get in touch with Miss World authorities, but received no response. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail quoted a statement from the Chinese embassy in Ottawa that \"China does not allow any persona non grata to come to China\", in response to a query on Ms Lin's status. \"My denial was unfortunate, but not entirely unexpected. The Chinese government has barred me from the competition for political reasons,\" Ms Lin said in a statement. \"They are trying to punish me for my beliefs and prevent me from speaking out about human rights issues.\" As a child growing up in southern China, Ms Lin tells me she was completely unaware of any human rights abuses in the country. In fact, as a class monitor, she even helped organise propaganda films for her fellow students to watch. But after moving to Canada 12 years ago, her world changed. The beauty queen credits her mother, a former university professor, with giving her a wide range of reading material, including books about the Falun Gong spiritual movement, that eventually led to her embracing activism. She asks me about the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement last year, saying Hong Kong residents were brave in standing up for their rights. With no way of getting into mainland China, she plans to spend some time meeting Hong Kong rights campaigners, before returning to Canada to continue her work. Ms Lin said she was barred from flying after trying to check in at the Dragonair counter at Hong Kong airport. Canadians usually need a visa to enter China, but Ms Lin was trying to enter Sanya on a special landing visa that Sanya, as a tourist destination, grants on arrival to citizens of certain countries, including Canada. In an email seen by the BBC, Ms Lin's travel companion Kacey Cox is asked by airline officials to return with Ms Lin to the counter for a phone interview with a Sanya official. During that conversation she was told she could not enter Sanya. Dragonair, when contacted by the BBC, said it would not confirm any information due to \"privacy\" concerns. Ms Lin moved from China to Canada in 2003 as a teenager. She has performed in films about the abuse of Falun Gong members, and spoken about the subject to a US Congressional committee in July. She also claims her father, who still resides in China, has been harassed by officials because of her activism. Falun Gong, considered a cult by Chinese authorities, first began as a spiritual movement that quickly amassed thousands of followers. After a demonstration by Falun Gong practitioners demanding recognition in 1999, Chinese authorities outlawed it and launched a crackdown. The movement's followers have accused authorities of persecution and often hold protests outside of China to draw attention to their treatment.", "question": "Canada 's Miss World contender has said she was barred from boarding a plane from Hong Kong to the Chinese city @placeholder this year 's pageant .", "option_0": "hosting", "option_1": "show", "option_2": "crowd", "option_3": "hire", "option_4": "surrounding"}
{"id": 259, "article": "The 34-year-old former Swindon, Barnsley and Plymouth forward joined the National League South club in the summer to assist boss Lee Hodges. But with the White Tigers 16th in the table, Fallon has left and the club say they \"wish him well in the future\". Defender Durrell Berry, who was injured against Forest Green in the FA Trophy on 10 December, has also departed. Meanwhile, manager Lee Hodges says he cannot believe how his side were beaten 5-1 at East Thurrock. City, who narrowly lost to National League high-fliers Forest Green in the FA Trophy last week, went a goal up through Andrew Neal before letting in five, including three in three minutes. \"I'm in shock,\" Hodges told BBC Radio Cornwall. \"We dominated the game for 35 minutes and we could have put them out of sight and been two, three or four up.\" Neal's 27th minute opener was cancelled out by Tom Wraight eight minutes later and he gave the home side the lead a minute before half-time. Kane Ferdinand put the home side further ahead on 63 minutes before Wraight completed his hat-trick and Ben Marlow added the fifth. \"We came out in the second half and for 10 minutes we again dominated the game,\" added Hodges. \"It's so frustrating that the lads out there that reached those dizzy heights of those past few games have just let it all slip away in a mad three minutes.\"", "question": "Truro City have cancelled the player - coach @placeholder of New Zealand international Rory Fallon by mutual consent .", "option_0": "selection", "option_1": "registration", "option_2": "level", "option_3": "side", "option_4": "deal"}
{"id": 260, "article": "The suspension order from the Scottish government applies to birds most at risk: all poultry and game bird species, ducks, geese and swans. Gatherings of pigeons, aviary birds and birds of prey can go ahead. The move follows the confirmation of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N8 in Lincolnshire. Similar restrictions have been imposed in England. An avian influenza prevention zone declared across Scotland at the start of December remains in force until 6 January. Rural economy secretary Fergus Ewing said: \"The arrival of H5N8 in the UK highlights how essential it is that bird keepers remain vigilant for signs of disease and comply with the requirements of the Avian Influenza Prevention Zone currently in place. \"I would urge bird keepers to review their biosecurity measures to ensure that they are doing everything they possibly can to protect their flocks.\" Scotland's chief vet Sheila Voas added: \"I strongly advise keepers to discuss their specific arrangements with their private vets, or local Animal Plant and Health Agency office, as they are best placed to provide practical advice for your situation. \"Keepers who are concerned about the health or welfare of their flock should seek veterinary advice immediately. \"Expert advice remains that consumers should not be concerned about eating eggs or poultry and the threat to public health from the virus is very low.\"", "question": "Events where birds are gathered together , such as livestock fairs and auctions , have been @placeholder to control avian influenza .", "option_0": "designed", "option_1": "shown", "option_2": "offered", "option_3": "banned", "option_4": "suggested"}
{"id": 261, "article": "circa 2500 BC - Palau's first inhabitants - thought to have come from present-day eastern Indonesia - settle in the islands. The early Palauans develop complex social systems, practice fishing and farming. English captain Henry Wilson's vessel, 'Antelope', was shipwrecked on one of the islands of Palau in 1783 1783 - English captain Henry Wilson is shipwrecked on a reef and becomes the first Westerner to visit. Wilson and his crew stay for three months and rebuild their vessel with local help. European contacts grow and Britain becomes Palau's main trading partner. 1885 - Spain asserts its claim to the islands. 1899 - Spain sells Palau to Germany, which begins to exploit the islands' resources using native labour. Phosphate is mined and coconut plantations are developed. 1914 - After Germany's defeat in World War I, Japan seizes Palau. The main town, Koror, is developed and becomes the administrative centre for Japan's regional possessions. The Japanese civilian population in Palau peaks at 26,000. 1940-45 - Japan's military fortifications and naval facilities in Palau are targeted in allied attacks during World War II. Some Palauan islands witness fierce fighting between US and Japanese forces. 1947 - Palau becomes a United Nations Trust Territory under US administration. US Marines attack Japanese troops positioned in Palau 1979 - Palau - and the Marshall Islands - opt not to become part of a single, federal Micronesian state. 1981 - Republic of Palau comes into being, following the territory's adoption of a constitution in July 1980. President Haruo Remeliik takes office. 1983-90 - Successive referendums on a proposed Compact of Free Association with the US fail to approve the arrangement, under which Palau would manage its own affairs and the US would retain responsibility for defence. 1985 - President Haruo Remeliik is assassinated in June. Lazarus Salii is elected president in September 1985. 1988 - President Salii dies in an apparent suicide. He is succeeded by President Ngiratkel Etpison. 1992 - President Kuniwo Nakamura is elected, and re-elected in 1996. 1993 - After investigations by US authorities a Palau minister of state and his wife are found guilty of the 1985 murder of President Remeliik. 1993 - Proposed Compact of Free Association with the US gets the green light in a referendum. Requirements for the mandate were changed in a 1992 vote; only a simple majority vote was needed to approve the compact. 1994 - Palau becomes independent under the Contract of Free Association with the US. Palau receives financial and other aid from Washington, and the US retains responsibility for defence and the right to operate military bases. Palau joins the UN. 2000 November - Former vice president Tommy Remengesau wins presidential elections. 2003 August - Palau signs the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. 2004 November - Incumbent President Tommy Remengesau is re-elected. Referendum backs constitutional changes allowing dual citizenship, limiting terms in congress to three and allowing president and vice-president to stand for election as a team. 2006 October - Government institutions begin the move to a new capital, Melekeok. 2008 November - Former ambassador to Taiwan Johnson Toribiong wins presidential election, beating outgoing Vice-President Elias Camsek Chin. 2009 January - President Toribiong inaugurated. 2009 September - Palau creates world's first \"shark sanctuary\", banning all commercial shark fishing in its waters. 2009 October - Six Chinese ethnic Uighurs are freed from US military prison at Guantanamo Bay and sent to Palau for resettlement. 2010 January - US agrees to give Palau additional aid of $250 million, after Palau had rejected an earlier offer of $156 million. President Toribiong denies any linkage to Palau's agreement to host the Guantanamo Uighurs. 2012 November - Parliamentary and presidential elections. Tommy Remengesau is elected president for the third time, having previously served two terms from 2001-9. 2013 November  - Typhoon Haiyan causes damage to a number of islands in Palau, including Kayangel and Babeldaob. 2014 February - President Remengesau announces that Palau plans to ban all commercial fishing from its waters. He says the country's economic potential lies in tourism rather than fishing. 2015 February: The governor of Palau's Peleliu State pledges to cooperate in efforts to recover the wartime remains of Japanese soldiers ahead of a visit in April by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko.", "question": "A chronology of key @placeholder", "option_0": "night", "option_1": "survival", "option_2": "collection", "option_3": "estimates", "option_4": "events"}
{"id": 262, "article": "It could be over in hours - or it could take weeks. That's how unknowable an acute counter-terrorism investigation can be for MI5 and the police. While there is a sense that there has been significant headway in the last 24 hours, we should be careful about reading too much, too soon, into how long it will take Greater Manchester Police and their colleagues to be sure they have dealt with every single possible lead after Monday's events. In recent years, we've got a greater understanding of how the more secretive end of these massive operations play out. At any one time, MI5 is handling in the region of 500 active investigations involving 3,000 \"SOIs\" - \"subjects of interest\" in security world jargon. What kind of resources does MI5 have to throw at those targets? There are around 4,000 people at MI5. Quite obviously, they are not all trained in hiding in the bushes, so it would be fanciful in the extreme to think they are watching all 3,000 SOIs at the same time. What we know about Manchester suspect Manchester attack: The victims And that means they must constantly prioritise and reprioritise. It is a pretty ruthless, and if they make the wrong call, potentially painful process. The 7 July 2005 attack on London was earth-shattering for the security service. During the eventual inquests, it emerged that between MI5 and West Yorkshire Police there had been six potential intelligence strands in which the ringleader had come on to the radar. The service pledged to massively improve its systems. There was a huge reorganisation of itself and counter-terrorism policing to create powerful regional hubs that share intelligence like never before. Since 2013,  18 plots have been thwarted, Whitehall officials say. That's a better strike rate than some of our continental neighbours. But as the workload mounts, as it has done thanks to Syria, so do the chances that something will be missed. Every piece of intelligence that comes into the system - be it from a communications intercept, a public tip-off or another source - must be tested for links to ongoing investigations. And since 2014, we have known how the security service prioritises those investigations thanks to an immensely detailed document published by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Manchester is \"Priority 1\" in the MI5 jargon because there is \"credible and actionable\" intelligence of attack planning. Further down the ladder come: ?Those planning to fight overseas ?Fundraisers, suspects training in the UK, and people involved in false documents ?People of concern who need to be further checked out ?People who were previously a threat with a risk of \"re-engagement\" If security chiefs think there may be a bomb-maker on the loose - as is the case at the moment - they will be throwing everything at it. Analysts, surveillance units and specialist teams - who deploy the bugs or secretly search property - are reassigned to which investigation needs them most. The benefits of such a robotic and systematic way of working are plain to see. But along the way, a proportion of the investigations - and therefore the time of teams - will lead nowhere other than to confirm the intelligence was worthless. Take this scenario: Someone calls in to say that Person X is saying scary things and buying hair bleach - a chemical that can be used to make a bomb. A week later, and after an awful lot of effort, it turns out that Person X is opening a beauty salon and it was a malicious call from an embittered former partner. These are the day-to-day challenges of grading intelligence. Since the Manchester operation began on Monday it has sucked in more and more national counter-terrorism resources. It's taken on an international dimension because of the increasingly important link to Libya. Each property search or seizure of a phone opens even more avenues of investigation for the North West Counter Terrorism Unit and colleagues. Some of those avenues will become, in time, entirely separate investigations. And each of these leads will need to be worked to a conclusion, one way or another. And that brings us round to the big question yet to be fully answered in the Manchester investigation: was there a missed opportunity to apprehend Salman Abedi? We know that the killer had been known in some shape or form to the authorities. Muslim community sources have told the BBC that they called the anti-terrorism hotline about his mindset. And we know from official sources that Abedi had been one of a larger pool of \"former\" SOIs whose risk remained subject to review by MI5 and its partners. Wherever he had started in the prioritisation system, he ended up right at the bottom of the list - someone they might need to review in the future if there was \"credible\" and \"actionable\" intelligence that he was re-engaging in terrorist-related activity. But we don't know why he was downgraded - what investigators turned up and how, in the prioritisation system, he was deemed to be of insufficient interest. Were those calls to the anti-terrorist hotline lacking the detail of credible and actionable intelligence? Did they come before or after he was put to one side? Or was it just partial information? Too little to trigger a new probe when there were too many more pressing demands for attention? The answer to that question is key.", "question": "The investigation into Manchester bomber Salman Abedi 's @placeholder has already branched out in multiple directions , and the whole nature of tracking people before they commit an act of terror is bewilderingly complex .", "option_0": "culture", "option_1": "night", "option_2": "connections", "option_3": "kidnapping", "option_4": "relationship"}
{"id": 263, "article": "The detailed 3D models feature buildings, proposed constructions, hills, trees and weather cycles, all of which can interfere with 5G signals. Researchers will be able to test towers in various locations and instantly see how well they might perform. One analyst said the tool would help networks provide better coverage. Next-generation 5G networks will offer consumers faster connections and increased bandwidth for activities such as video streaming. But Ordnance Survey says the higher frequency signals have a shorter range than current 3G and 4G signals, and are more susceptible to interference from \"even raindrops and leaves\". The planning tool will use Ordnance Survey's mapping data and high-resolution aerial images to produce its 3D models, while weather data will be provided by the Met Office. \"The character of 5G means the location of cell towers is more sensitive - so it will be very important to fully understand the topography of each area,\" said Ben Wood, analyst at CCS Insight. \"The better the tools networks have to help site cell towers correctly, the more likely we'll get high quality coverage from the get-go.\" Ordnance Survey said its maps were so detailed, they even included vegetation cycles to determine how trees might affect 5G coverage during different seasons. Parts of Bournemouth have already been modelled using the experimental tool, which Ordnance Survey hopes will be rolled out across the UK. \"It will be a useful tool for companies deploying 5G networks,\" said Mr Wood. \"But there is no alternative to spending the money to install a lot of cell sites.\"", "question": "Next - generation smartphones could @placeholder signal drop- outs thanks to new data - rich maps being produced by Ordnance Survey .", "option_0": "avoid", "option_1": "suffer", "option_2": "enjoy", "option_3": "produce", "option_4": "replace"}
{"id": 264, "article": "The Scottish champions' 2-0 home defeat by Barcelona, thanks to Lionel Messi's killer double, means they will finish bottom of Group C. \"Getting to this stage is great for us but we want to try and push on as much as we possibly can,\" he said. \"We're disappointed we're not in Europe after Christmas, but we'll be back.\" The midfielder believes Celtic have made progress under Brendan Rodgers since they began their campaign with a 7-0 hammering by the Spanish champions. \"There's been ups and downs but it's just the start of the gaffer's era and we're always improving,\" said Brown. \"We're now looking forward to next season and we need to try and be back in it again. \"We didn't have the best start, but we've kicked on after that with good performances though not the best results. \"That's what we need to try to do every year now, be in the Champions League season after season.\" Brown believes he and his team-mates should take a lot of personal gratification from their five Champions League matches this season despite collecting only two points. \"There's a bit of frustration but there's a lot of pride as well,\" he told BBC Scotland. \"We played against a top team that has won Champions Leagues and a lot of the team have won a lot with Spain as well. \"It was hard. We dug deep and were a little bit unlucky. The penalty was quite soft, but they're top quality players. \"The first goal's just exceptional - it's a great ball, it's great movement and it's a great finish.\" Brown was also keen to defend Moussa Dembele, the club's top scorer who missed a gilt-edged chance to level the match when 1-0 down before Messi's second from the penalty spot killed off the Scottish champions' hopes. \"Moussa's scored some great goals for us and has won us games himself to be honest,\" he added. \"Strikers miss chances and strikers score great goals. \"He's a great player and he's been fantastic all season. What a signing he is for half a million quid.\" Celtic eyes will now turn to attempting to win the first major silverware of the Scottish football season when they take on Aberdeen in Sunday's League Cup final. And the Parkhead captain believes a victory for his side would put down a serious marker. \"Yeah, I think so,\" he said. \"Especially for the gaffer, it would be huge for him being a Celtic fan, coming to the club and getting us playing as well as we can. \"We now need to give something back to him.\"", "question": "Celtic captain Scott Brown insists the team will be back in the Champions League next year after they @placeholder Europe with a game to play .", "option_0": "helped", "option_1": "side", "option_2": "reach", "option_3": "exited", "option_4": "replaced"}
{"id": 265, "article": "The \"glum and embarrassed\" foursome had to be rescued after entering the complex, known as the Box mines, in Hawthorn, Wiltshire. They had entered while playing smash hit smartphone game Pokemon Go, where users search real-life locations for digital creatures. One member called for help when they \"miraculously\" found a phone signal. The caves cover an area of about 72 sq miles (186 sq km) and were \"very intricate with lots of windings and different junctions\", Damien Bence, from Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue said. He said the teenagers, aged about 16 and 17, had managed to find their way to an open-air part of the rock, called the Cathedral and call the fire service. Mr Bence said: \"The fire service doesn't have a statutory duty to enter underground systems, normally we would call on other experts such as mine rescue. \"But in this case there's lots of local experts and guides, and we used one of those. We managed to lower down water and radios so they could communicate with us. \"It's [Pokemon] beyond me. I don't quite understand it, it seems to be a bit of a phenomenon at the moment. \"They were looking for these Pokemon creatures and surprisingly they didn't find any, but it's obviously leading people into dangerous situations, such as this, and things are likely to escalate if people are going to follow the rules of this game.\" He advised anyone thinking about going into the Box mines not to, unless they know exactly what they are doing and have a map and an experienced guide with them. Pokemon Go, which has become a global phenomenon, was launched in the UK on Thursday. A smartphone update of the Nintendo Game Boy classic, it encourages players to catch monsters via a combination of GPS and augmented reality. Its popularity has prompted a series of safety warnings and reports of players finding themselves in dangerous situations.", "question": "A group of teenage boys who entered an underground cave network to search for Pokemon got @placeholder 100 ft below ground .", "option_0": "stuck", "option_1": "affected", "option_2": "motor", "option_3": "aged", "option_4": "pioneering"}
{"id": 266, "article": "Officers mounted a river search and scrambled a helicopter in a bid to find Josh Dinning, from Gateshead, who had not been seen since Monday night. Police were called at 09:15 BST and an initial search found nothing. He was discovered three hours later in a drawer under his bed. He said he had not wanted to go to school. A Northumbria Police spokesman said the force was reviewing the search to find out why the \"hidden compartment\" had not been checked. His mother, Michelle Dinning, a widow and mother of eight, said she had hoped Josh was already at school when she could not find him. But then the school rang to say he had not arrived, so she called the police. \"At that stage it all got very real and I was panicking, thinking the worst could have happened,\" she said. Word of Josh's disappearance spread and dozens of neighbours joined the search, handing out pictures of him which had been printed off by a library. Ms Dinning said: \"I suggested one more look around the house - this time the police lifted the beds. \"I bent down and saw the green of Josh's school shirt and burst into tears.\" Josh said: \"I could hear people looking for me and I thought I had better stay quiet because when they found me I would get shouted and bawled at so I just stayed where I was.\" His brother Scott, 20, said: \"It's hard to believe that while all this was going on he was just curled up under his bed.\"", "question": "A nine - year - old boy who @placeholder a police search when his mother awoke to find him missing was discovered hiding under his bed .", "option_0": "dealt", "option_1": "sparked", "option_2": "scored", "option_3": "robbed", "option_4": "punched"}
{"id": 267, "article": "Argyle edged a cagey first half and almost scored on 43 minutes as Jimmy Spencer's looped effort hit the woodwork after Graham Carey had broken from midfield. The visitors broke the deadlock soon after the restart when David Fox's free-kick evaded everyone apart from Bradley, who diverted the ball into the top corner. Stevenage equalised just seven minutes later as Henry Cowans' low free-kick found Matthew Godden unmarked and his effort went in off Bradley from six yards. Boro - who have now lost three of their last four league games - were only level for four minutes as Bradley glanced in a header from Carey's free-kick. Stevenage had their chances to equalise during five minutes of injury time, with Jack King and Harry McKirdy going close, but Plymouth saw the game out to remain top of the table by five points. Reports supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Stevenage 1, Plymouth Argyle 2. Second Half ends, Stevenage 1, Plymouth Argyle 2. Attempt missed. Michael Tonge (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Attempt saved. Jake Hyde (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. David Goodwillie replaces Jordan Slew. Corner,  Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Jamie Jones. Attempt saved. Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. David Ijaha replaces David Fox. Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) is shown the yellow card. Ben Purrington (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Jake Hyde (Stevenage). Attempt saved. Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Substitution, Stevenage. Michael Tonge replaces Henry Cowans. Attempt missed. James Spencer (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Connor Smith replaces Graham Carey. Kgosi Ntlhe (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle). Fraser Franks (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Fraser Franks (Stevenage). James Spencer (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the right wing. Attempt missed. Harry McKirdy (Stevenage) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a set piece situation. Jack King (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle). Foul by Henry Cowans (Stevenage). Sonny Bradley (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Stevenage. Jake Hyde replaces Tom Pett. Substitution, Stevenage. Harry McKirdy replaces Andrew Fox. Attempt saved. David Fox (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Attempt saved. James Spencer (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Ben Purrington (Plymouth Argyle) is shown the yellow card. Henry Cowans (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Henry Cowans (Stevenage). Ben Purrington (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. Fraser Franks (Stevenage) header from the right side of the box is too high following a corner. Corner,  Stevenage. Conceded by Gary Miller. Andrew Fox (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by David Fox (Plymouth Argyle). Corner,  Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Kgosi Ntlhe. Goal!  Stevenage 1, Plymouth Argyle 2. Sonny Bradley (Plymouth Argyle) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Graham Carey following a set piece situation. Foul by Henry Cowans (Stevenage).", "question": "Leaders Plymouth extended their unbeaten run in League Two to 10 games as Sonny Bradley 's double secured victory at @placeholder Stevenage .", "option_0": "battling", "option_1": "neighbours", "option_2": "points", "option_3": "relegated", "option_4": "promoted"}
{"id": 268, "article": "German shepherd Finn was stabbed in Stevenage on 5 October. His handler PC Dave Wardell was also injured. Alex Goodwin, of Lutterworth, Leicestershire, was \"devastated\" when he read about the attack so contacted Finn and PC Wardell via social media. Cards based on his drawing of Finn sold out within a day. Police officer's son Alex is undergoing chemotherapy for Ewing Sarcoma, a type of bone cancer that affects fewer than 30 children in the UK each year. He faces further \"complex\" surgery at Christmas. He saw the news about Hertfordshire Police dog Finn's injury and continued to follow the story when a petition was started to change the law regarding attacks on police dogs and horses. \"He wanted to know why anyone would hurt a police dog,\" his father PC Jeff Goodwin, a firearms officer with Warwickshire Police, said. Via his father, Alex began tweeting Finn and PC Wardell, exchanging pictures. Then the \"Finn's Law\" group suggested one could be made into a Christmas card to help raise funds for the boy's future treatment and rehabilitation. The initial run sold out in less than a day, raising hundreds for the \"Alexander's Journey\" appeal. \"Alex said he thought Finn was brave and was a hero,\" PC Wardell said. \"But really, it's Alex who is the brave one. He is an inspiration to me.\" It is not known whether more cards will be printed, but Alex's father said: \"I'm in the doghouse with Alex's grandma. \"She couldn't get any of the cards and she's very cross with me.\" Finn's recovery is continuing and his handler hopes he will be able to return to active duty before the end of the  year.", "question": "A police dog stabbed while chasing a @placeholder thief has inspired a charity Christmas card drawn by a nine - year - old boy with cancer .", "option_0": "jewel", "option_1": "suspected", "option_2": "crowded", "option_3": "severed", "option_4": "reward"}
{"id": 269, "article": "The owner of Activia yogurt and Evian bottled water reported sales of 20.1bn euros ($26.8bn; ?¡ê17.3bn) in 2012, up 5.4% from a year earlier. But sales in Europe fell 3% following a \"severe deterioration\" in consumer demand. As a result, Danone has announced a cost-cutting plan. The firm plans to cut about 900 management and administrative positions across 26 European countries. \"2013 will be a year of transition, with vigorous development in business in our growth markets and a drive to strengthen operations in Europe,\" said chairman and chief executive Franck Riboud in a statement. The world's biggest maker of yogurts predicted its profit margins would fall again this year, with a negative trend for demand in Europe and prices of raw materials staying high. Its sales growth in 2012 was at the lower end of its own expectations and behind the 5.9% achieved by its Swiss rival Nestle. The company is heavily exposed to European economies, with about 38% of its sales coming from western Europe. Sales at its Spanish dairy division were particularly weak. The company announced in December that it was preparing a two-year cost-cutting programme to save about 200m euros.", "question": "French food and @placeholder company Danone has said it will cut 900 jobs after weakness in southern European economies hit sales .", "option_0": "drink", "option_1": "drug", "option_2": "run", "option_3": "data", "option_4": "wine"}
{"id": 270, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The FA must now decide whether to charge Moyes over those comments, which came following his team's draw against Burnley in the Premier League. Moyes has expressed his \"deep regret\" for his response after an interview in which he was asked by Sparks if the presence of Sunderland's owner Ellis Short put extra pressure on him. He said \"no\" but, after the interview, added that Sparks \"might get a slap even though you're a woman\" and that she should be \"careful\" next time she visited. The BBC understands that Moyes was also involved in an angry exchange involving another female BBC reporter in December 2012. Moyes, the manager of Everton at the time, is believed to have been unhappy with Jacqui Oatley's questions concerning an on-field incident missed by the referee, involving Marouane Fellaini. The then Everton midfielder headbutted Stoke's Ryan Shawcross and was subsequently banned for three matches by the FA for violent conduct. After asking Moyes on-camera about the matter Oatley then posed two follow-up questions about the incident and the impact of losing Fellaini for a number of games due to a potential ban. Moyes, looking irritated, replied: \"Bad enough asking me about the first one never mind asking me another one. I've not seen the other stuff. \"It's down to the FA. I've answered your question and you've come back with another one.\" The interview then ended but Moyes is understood to have angrily confronted Oatley over her questions off-camera, directing expletive-laden remarks towards her. The exchange between Moyes and Oatley was not sexist in nature and it is believed there was no reference to the reporter's gender. Oatley is believed to have complained to Everton's head of communications, who has since left the club, but allegedly failed to receive a call or letter in response. Last week Moyes expressed his \"deep regret\" for his words to Sparks telling reporters he did not see such behaviour \"as being something which is in my character. It is something which is out of character.\" He also said: \"I think you all know my character, you know who I am.\" A spokesperson for Sunderland declined to comment when contacted. Everton said in a statement: \"We are unaware of any complaint. The club would strongly condemn any behaviour by an employee which is threatening or abusive to anyone doing their job.\" A spokesperson for the BBC said: \"This incident took place five years ago and we're looking into what actions were taken at the time.\"", "question": "Sunderland manager David Moyes has @placeholder the Football Association with his written observations after telling BBC reporter Vicki Sparks last month she might \" get a slap \" .", "option_0": "provided", "option_1": "quit", "option_2": "thanked", "option_3": "joined", "option_4": "shocked"}
{"id": 271, "article": "Administrators from KPMG were called into Ferguson Shipbuilders in Port Glasgow on Friday. Most of the 77-strong workforce were immediately made redundant. Finance Secretary John Swinney told BBC Scotland the \"absolute priority\" was to \"continue the shipyard function at Ferguson's\". KPMG has said Ferguson's went bust due to a lack of orders and mounting cash flow pressure. Mr Swinney, who has set up a taskforce to help affected workers, is to visit the yard on Monday. Speaking to the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme, he said there were a \"lot of discussions under way\" which the administrators were taking forward. And he said \"every effort\" was being made to ensure shipbuilding survived at Ferguson's. Mr Swinney said: \"What I will be doing, and what I have been doing since Friday, is working with our enterprise agencies and with the administrators to try to encourage market interest in taking on ownership of the shipyard and to take it forward as an ongoing shipyard concern.\" He said the Scottish government had in recent years tendered contracts for two CalMac hybrid ferries with Ferguson's. The finance secretary added: \"We intend to continue to have dialogue with any organisation that emerges with Ferguson's about any further orders that may be able to be taken forward.\" Under EU rules, governments must put contracts for commercial ships out to competitive tender. Labour MP Jim Murphy, the shadow international development secretary, called on the Scottish government to \"rule absolutely nothing out\" in their efforts to secure a future for commercial shipbuilding on the Clyde. He said: \"The problem here is longstanding. I was in Islay the other day and sailed back on CalMac's Finlaggan vessel that was built overseas. \"The Loch Seaforth, which is the most recent CalMac vessel, has been partially built in Germany and partially built in Poland. \"The question I think for the Scottish government is how those governments and those economies sustain commercial shipbuilding in a way that, over the past five years in particular, it seems to have slipped away in Scotland.\" KPMG said on Friday that the Ferguson yard had \"experienced significant cash flow pressure in recent months\" and a \"lack of financial strength\" had effectively \"hindered its ability to secure new vessel contracts from its core customer base\". Recent attempts to secure investment into the business have proved unsuccessful, the administrators said. The GMB union has said workers were \"shocked\" by Friday's developments, and called on the Scottish government to intervene.", "question": "The Scottish finance secretary has said he has not given up hope of the last commercial shipyard on the River Clyde being @placeholder .", "option_0": "saved", "option_1": "criticised", "option_2": "questioned", "option_3": "completed", "option_4": "reinstated"}
{"id": 272, "article": "The first detainees arrived at Camp X-Ray 15 years ago in the early months of what was then called the \"War on Terror\". I first visited a few weeks later and watched the men in orange jumpsuits in steel cages in the hot Cuban sun. Guantanamo had been chosen partly because it was not US soil and so avoided coming under regular US law. The camp then had a thrown together feel - the Bush administration was improvising and no-one was sure how long it would last. The next time I visited - two years later - Camp X-Ray had been replaced by the more permanent structure of Camp Delta. Guantanamo was here to stay. Its numbers grew - around 700 at its peak. But on his second day in office eight years ago President Obama promised to close the facility and the pace of transfers increased. On my visit a few weeks ago, I found much of the Camp eerily empty, a lone iguana roaming around the barbed wire. But closing Guantanamo was a promise President Obama could not keep, partly because Congress blocked the transfer of any detainees to the US. Fewer than 60 men are now left. There are 20 currently cleared for release and the Obama administration is trying to transfer some of these out before its term ends. But on 3 January, President-elect Trump made his views clear in a tweet. \"There should be no further releases,\" he wrote. \"These are extremely dangerous people and should not be allowed back on to the battlefield.\" Most of the remaining detainees are held now in Camp Six. The uncertainty hanging over the base was clear as we toured the detention block. We were able to watch and film detainees in the communal areas of their cell block through one-way glass, an unsettling procedure. The detainees are not supposed to know we are there but clearly they realised as one put up a hand-painted sign showing a question mark with a padlock underneath. They followed the election result like everyone else and Col Steve Gabavics, Commander of the Joint Detention Force, told me: \"They were all watching TV - their behaviour was pretty much the same as any other night. \"We didn't notice any significant negative response. No-one came to us angry, no-one protested. They were simply interested to see what was going to happen.\" One difference from my early visits is just how much more controlled - even mundane - the interaction between detainees and guards is now compared to the early days. The attacks of 2001 were still raw and there was a tension and sense of underlying aggression on both sides. Now, the atmosphere is much more controlled. Detainees tap on a window to summon a guard when they have a message to pass and the guard proceeds through a door into a cage-like structure inside the cell-block where they can communicate with a detainee. During our visit in December, officials say that the detainees were \"compliant\". But what does the arrival of President Trump mean? \"You know the detainees have questions - are the transfers going to stop when the new president takes office on 20 January? We don't know, they don't know. Their lawyers may speculate, but no-one knows,\" says Rear Adm Peter Clarke, commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo. He did say - before Donald Trump's latest tweet - that \"some of them may act up\" if they realise they are not going to be transferred. Somewhere else on the base, which sprawls across an otherwise isolated tip of Cuba, is Camp Seven. Its precise location is secret - leading to much speculation from visiting reporters. This is where so-called high value detainees are being held - men like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 11 September attacks who is going through the long slow process of a military commission - a form of trial. Might it be not only that transfers out are stopped, but that current detainees find they have some company? \"We are going to load it up with bad dudes,\" Mr Trump said in the campaign trail in February last year. Camp Five was built to hold detainees but now sits empty. What if President Trump decides he wants to not just stop people leaving but send in new detainees? The maximum capacity of Camp Six is around 175 detainees. Camp Five could hold 80 - it has been part-converted to a new medical facility. That means potentially Guantanamo could accommodate more than 100 extra detainees pretty much immediately. More than that would require construction work. Officials say it is a \"reasonable assumption\" that they would want to segregate new detainees who would be more likely to be members of so-called Islamic State rather than al-Qaeda. \"We are prepared to receive some if that was required in the short term,\" Col Gabavics told us. The Obama administration's push to close Guantanamo also meant there was a reluctance to capture more detainees in counter-terrorism operations around the world, some former officials say. They believe that a policy of \"take no prisoners\" created an incentive to kill rather than capture, with the administration increasing the pace and the geographical spread of drone strikes which - on occasion - might mean useful intelligence gleaned from interrogation or captured material might be lost. Mr Trump has also said that he would consider returning to the practice of waterboarding detainees. Could that take place at Guantanamo? Rear Adm Clarke said he was \"confident\" that there will be no torture at Guantanamo. \"Whatever orders we receive, by the time they come to me from US Southern Command, I am confident those orders will be legal orders that I will be ready to carry out,\" he said. In the 15 years since Guantanamo was opened, the contours of America's war on terror have changed. New enemies have emerged and the question of what to do with those America is fighting - where to put them, how to treat them and even whether to kill or capture them - will now be for a new president to decide.", "question": "These are uncertain times at Guantanamo Bay . Not only for the detainees but also those who guard them . After eight years in which President Obama has tried - and failed - to close the detention facility , what will President Trump mean for its @placeholder ?", "option_0": "future", "option_1": "knowledge", "option_2": "history", "option_3": "closure", "option_4": "hands"}
{"id": 273, "article": "The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said firms simply had to tell investors which social media providers they will use. It comes after the SEC investigated comments made on Facebook last year by the boss of video service Netflix. Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings had commented on the firm's growth. On his personal Facebook page last July, Mr Hastings announced that the company had reached the milestone of its users watching one billion hours of streamed films and TV programmes. The SEC said in its ruling: \"We do not wish to inhibit the content, form or forum of any such disclosure, and we are mindful of placing additional compliance burdens on issuers. \"In fact, we encourage companies to seek out new forms of communication to better connect with shareholders.\" Under the changes to the SEC's Regulation Fair Disclosure rules, firms will have to note on their websites and press releases that they will use social media to make future announcements, to ensure that all shareholders are made aware. \"One set of shareholders should not be able to get a jump on other shareholders just because the company is selectively disclosing important information,\" said George Canellos, acting director of the SEC's enforcement division. \"Most social media are perfectly suitable methods for communicating with investors, but not if the access is restricted or if investors don't know that's where they need to turn to get the latest news.\" Howard Lindzon, the founder of Stockwits, a firm that collates Twitter posts about company shares, welcomed the SEC's announcement. \"The industry is changing, and it was a matter of time before it was going to be regulated,\" he told Reuters.", "question": "US - @placeholder companies can now use Twitter and other social media services to make key announcements , the country 's financial regulator has ruled .", "option_0": "listed", "option_1": "called", "option_2": "registered", "option_3": "backed", "option_4": "owned"}
{"id": 274, "article": "The suspect, reportedly a 13-year-old boy, has been arrested but may not face charges because of his age. The teacher killed was protecting a colleague during the incident at the Instituto Joan Fuster, reports say. Four other people were wounded. Police have not confirmed the weapon used and there is no indication of his motive. The boy was said to have arrived late for a class on Monday morning and wounded a Spanish language teacher and her daughter, who was also a student. Hearing screams, a male teacher covering as a substitute for a colleague entered the classroom and was fatally wounded when the boy attacked him. A police spokesman could not confirm whether he had been fatally wounded by the boy's knife or his makeshift crossbow. The man had only begun working at the school in recent weeks. Students at the school said the crossbow had been fashioned out of wood and ballpoint pens and that the boy had thrown it into a rubbish bin before running off. According to Spanish media, the pupil had spoken of killing all his teachers last week, and had a list of 25 names, but his schoolmates had dismissed his comments as a joke. Spain's ANPE teachers union says it is the first documented case of a pupil killing a teacher in the country. If the attacker is confirmed as a 13-year-old, he would not face charges as the age of criminal responsibility in Spain is 14. The Mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias, tweeted that he was appalled by the incident and has pledged his support for those affected. The four people wounded in the attack, two teachers and two teenagers, were not badly hurt.", "question": "A teacher at a school in the Spanish city of Barcelona has been killed by a pupil armed with a @placeholder - made crossbow and a knife .", "option_0": "home", "option_1": "crowd", "option_2": "sea", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "secret"}
{"id": 275, "article": "French President Francois Hollande expressed \"deep sadness\" at the death of Huguette Dupeu in a statement. Most of the dead in the raid were foreign tourists. Two of the attackers were killed by security forces. A huge march against terrorism is planned for Sunday that will finish outside the Bardo museum. President Hollande is among those expected at the event in the capital Tunis. Lyse Doucet: Tunisia's test of transition Cradle of 'Arab Spring' under threat The museum's planned reopening earlier this week was postponed over security concerns. Schoolchildren and students were allowed in on Friday, with the general public to be readmitted Monday. The attack, claimed by Islamic State (IS), was the deadliest in Tunisia since the uprising which led to the overthrow of long-serving ruler  Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011. Over 20 people have been arrested in connection with the attack, although just two gunmen are thought to have carried out the raid. They are said to have been trained in Libya in an area controlled by IS. The Tunisian Prime Minister, Habib Essid, has admitted \"shortcomings\" in the country's security system and has dismissed six police chiefs over the attack.", "question": "A Frenchwoman injured in the attack on Tunisia 's national museum has died of her wounds , bringing the @placeholder killed in the assault by Islamists to 22 .", "option_0": "public", "option_1": "water", "option_2": "total", "option_3": "hosts", "option_4": "county"}
{"id": 276, "article": "Voters in Bassetlaw District Council take to the polls to elect a third of the north Nottinghamshire authority. Labour currently has an overwhelming majority on the council but admitted its biggest fear is UKIP. The Conservative group is hoping to increase its share and go someway to returning to its only period in power. The Lib Dems have six candidates. Labour has controlled the council for decades apart from two brief periods in the 1970s and then again about eight years ago. The area of Bassetlaw is divided in two by the A1 with the Labour heartland of Worksop to the west and the more Conservative Retford to the east. Despite being in Nottinghamshire economically it looks to its large neighbour in Sheffield, rather than the distant county town of Nottingham. It prides itself on being the birthplace of the United States of America - three of the first four signatories to the Mayflower Compact were from Bassetlaw. Labour's John Mann has been MP for Bassetlaw since 2001. That was towards the end of Tony Blair's leadership when the party was unpopular nationally, even in the former coal-mining heartland of Bassetlaw. The Conservatives enjoyed several years in power but in 2011 the council returned to red and this is the first election where it faces a serious challenge from UKIP. \"Our biggest worry is UKIP,\" councillor Griff Wynne said. \"This is the first time they have entered candidates in every ward. \"They are targeting Labour seats for the first time and they are an unknown quantity.\" Mr Wynne, deputy leader of the council, said the main issue though is to convince people to vote at all. Former leader of the council and the Conservatives Mike Quigley is hoping to win back a seat after he lost two years ago. \"The problem with local politics is that people tend to be driven on what's happening nationally,\" he said. \"We took control when Labour was doing pretty badly nationally and I think that's often how people vote.\" UKIP is hoping to capitalise on the party's popularity nationally and is the only party to field a candidate in every ward, hoping to build support for future European elections. Roger Vernon said: \"We did quite well in the county council elections last year, which isn't bad considering we [the local branch] were only formed in March. \"We are up against a strongly entrenched Labour party, we realise it is a hard race for us to row.\" The Liberal Democrats have not had a councillor in Bassetlaw for more than 10 years. A total of 54 candidates are fighting for 16 seats including two independents.", "question": "A @placeholder - in the wool Labour council is facing UKIP in every ward for the first time in Thursday 's election .", "option_0": "rocket", "option_1": "state", "option_2": "gathering", "option_3": "dyed", "option_4": "group"}
{"id": 277, "article": "The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 1.05% at 17,535.32. The tech-focused Nasdaq was down 0.41% at 4,717.68 while the S&P 500 was down 0.85% at 2,046.61. Overall retail sales were up by 1.3% on the month, the best since March 2015, but individual companies Nordstrom and JC Penney, followed Macy's earlier this week with lower-than-expected sales. Shares in Nordstrom closed down 13.42%  and J C Penney dropped 2.82% on the news that sales were down. US Department stores have lost out as shoppers have spent on more expensive items including electronics, household goods and cars.", "question": "( Close ) : US shares closed down on Friday despite a positive @placeholder of official retail sales figures .", "option_0": "fleet", "option_1": "data", "option_2": "recovery", "option_3": "set", "option_4": "comparison"}
{"id": 278, "article": "Piers Brown, from The Christmas Decorators, which installs festive lights and decorations, credits the 1990 Christmas movie Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin, for the explosion in external lighting. \"Christmas is very deep-set in American culture and as our cultures are becoming more and more alike, it is a tradition which has crossed the Atlantic,\" he said. In Dorset, where he is based, he said residents tended to opt for \"simple, clean, crisp\" lighting. \"People who retreat to the countryside at Christmas want to get away from the bright lights of the city,\" he said. However, if the displays are created for children, he said they tended to be more fun. \"We've had a three metre-high snowman on a garage and reindeers in the shrubbery,\" Mr Brown added. He also said sequencing flashing lights to music was growing in popularity across the country, as technology advanced. Although the firm has decked the homes of celebrities, including Mariah Carey and Coleen Rooney, adorning your home for Christmas does not have to be expensive. \"Less is more - even something as simple as a wreath and garlands around the door,\" Mr Brown said. One group of residents who joined the trend for lighting up their entire street 15 years ago has now pulled the plug, after being \"subjected to an increasing level of criticism\" and red tape. In 2013, police were called after hundreds of people turned up and clogged the streets near Greyhound Close in Hedge End, Hampshire. Eastleigh Borough Council said it also received a number of complaints last year from neighbouring residents and councillors. And so it was lights-out after residents said they were not prepared for taxpayers to foot a traffic management plan bill, including signage and marshals, which \"escalated to a mind-blowing ¡ê19,500\". The display had raised tens of thousands of pounds for children's charities over the years. Elsewhere, a house in Melksham, Wiltshire, has remained in the dark this year after the man who usually adorns it was put off by the media attention this attracted. Alex Goodhind's display started in 1995, and over that time had cost him about ¡ê20,000. In recent years, 180,000 bulbs were used, along with 600m (2,000ft) of cable and 2,000 cable ties. The display was so well-known B&Q used an image of it on an advert, albeit without permission. Meanwhile, Kevin and Wendy Sheldon have admitted to \"cutting back\" and reusing old decorations, including a 90-year-old fairy tree-topper that belonged to their grandmother. However, the brother and sister, from Nottingham, who started their display more than 20 years ago, claim they would \"get told off\" by local residents if they decided to stop the show altogether. \"We've got a glowing Santa, another Santa climbing up a ladder, Santa on a see-saw, Santa in a hot-air balloon - you name it, we've got it,\" said Ms Sheldon. One self-confessed scrooge from Lancashire, who refuses to have a Christmas tree inside his house, has, however, been lighting up the outside for the past 18 years like the Blackpool illuminations - quite literally. \"I bought some some old Blackpool illuminations for the display - big Holland's Pies vans,\" said Ian Clifton. What started out as \"a few strings of lights\" has since turned his home in Lincoln Close into \"an institution\", he added. However, this year Storm Desmond threatened to ruin the show after causing a week-long power blackout. Mr Clifton said he had always had a fairy light \"fascination\", but bizarrely added: \"I don't like Christmas.\" \"There's nowt in the house at all - when I shut the door them lights are outside.\" Despite that, he spends several weeks erecting the display, as well as dealing with \"absolutely miles of cabling\". It costs him an extra ¡ê300 in electricity over Christmas but he says he has raised ¡ê57,000 for charity. Perhaps surprisingly though, over the festive period as a nation we actually use less electricity as a nation, the National Grid said. With factories, shops and offices closed on Christmas Day there is a significant drop compared to a normal winter's day. Also, modern LED lights make illuminating a house less costly. Forecasters, who spend 11 weeks planning our Christmas electricity usage, are predicting a demand of about 35,410 MW - enough to light up 3.5 billion Christmas trees. \"Demand rises steadily as people wake up and begin turning on their ovens to cook their turkeys, and reaches a peak around lunchtime,\" said forecasting manager Jeremy Caplin. As well as past trends his team looks at weather forecasts and television listings. Mr Caplin said the biggest Christmas Day \"pick-up\" - a surge in electricity use - followed an episode of Only Fools and Horses in 1996. This year the team is predicting the last ever Downton Abbey to receive the biggest surge. For the likes of Wendy Sheldon, Christmas planning will start again in the January sales where she'll pick up some bargains for next year's display. \"The kiddies in the street start asking, 'are you putting you're lights up yet?' and I say, 'no, it's only July',\" she said.", "question": "Every year for the past two decades Lee and Paul Brailsford have been adorning their mother 's home with Christmas lights and decorations . However , their 50,000 - light extravaganza seems to be bucking the national trend , with council bureaucracy , electricity bills and even Storm Desmond appearing to have taken the shine off other domestic displays . BBC News shines a light on the @placeholder of festive home illumination .", "option_0": "heart", "option_1": "pace", "option_2": "subject", "option_3": "practice", "option_4": "number"}
{"id": 279, "article": "Back in the early 1990s, when I was on my way to join the first British troops despatched for peace-keeping duties to Bosnia, I stayed overnight at a Vienna hotel. In the lobby, there was a series of 19th Century maps of the Hapsburg Empire. There they were, all of the old names - Bosnia Herzegovina, the Croat lands - names, long consigned to the history books, that were now the currency of nightly news reports, marking out the boundaries of this latest tragedy in the Balkans. Later, standing in Sarajevo's old Turkish market, one had the clear sense of being in a historic border zone; a frontier between Europe and the old Ottoman lands to the east. It was a reminder that for much of the 19th Century, Western diplomacy had been obsessed with what became known as \"the Eastern Question.\" This was the fear as to what might happen as the Ottoman Empire - then seen as \"the sick man of Europe\" - slowly relinquished its grip on its various possessions. Who might step into the breach? One obvious concern was Russia. Britain and France had already fought one campaign to bolster Turkey and limit Russia's influence in the Holy Land - the Crimean War of the 1850s. Do you see a pattern here? Again those familiar names and themes; the Crimea; Russian influence in the Middle East. Times change - but geography doesn't, and strategic interests have as much to do with geography as they do with anything else. Thus, Europe now faces what might be called \"a new Eastern Question\". It is not so much Turkey's weakness that is the problem today; it is maybe more a question of Ankara's over-reach. Turkey has seemingly achieved the impossible. I remember some years ago interviewing the then Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu. Bookish, a former professor, he was the proud architect of Turkey's new foreign policy, one of zero problems with any of its neighbours. Now, Mr Davutoglu is Prime Minister. And in the intervening years, Turkey seems instead to have developed problems with almost all of its neighbours and erstwhile regional partners; be it Syria, Israel, and now, crucially, Russia. Moscow and Ankara find themselves on different sides in the Syrian crisis; Moscow backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, and Turkey in the vanguard of those countries most eager to see his departure. A kind of proxy war has turned hot, with Russia bombing Syrian opposition groups backed by Turkey and encouraging Kurdish forces to press ever closer to the Turkish frontier. Turkey's shooting down of a Russian warplane last November - a plane that on best evidence had only briefly intruded into Turkish airspace - worsened the tensions. More recently, the Russian-backed Syrian offensive on Aleppo has sent new waves of refugees heading for the Turkish border and worsened Ankara's fears about Kurdish success. This \"new Eastern Question\" impinges upon Western Europe in two crucial ways. First, Turkey is a member of Nato. If it gets itself into a spat with the Russians, this could have dramatic consequences for the alliance as a whole. It was noticeable at the tail-end of last year that the Nato allies' very public support for Turkey in the wake of the shooting down of the Russian Sukhoi jet, was tempered, at least in private,  by a good degree of amazement and concern that Turkey had chosen to behave so rashly. But there is another security dimension too, and that relates to the great wave of refugees, asylum seekers, call them what you will, that are battering on Europe's doors. They, of course come not just from Syria. But the crisis there and the terrible dislocation that it has produced is an important driving factor. Turkey is a conduit for some of this population movement, and this means that the EU must measure its relations with Ankara cautiously. The implicit threat is there. If the Europeans do not help Turkey with this problem, then Ankara could simply open the gates and send a reinforced human wave westwards. This could be one reason why western Europe has been largely mute in the face of the Turkish military's onslaught against its own Kurdish areas. And it may also be why Turkey's self-serving involvement in Syria has similarly been so little criticised. Apart from opening some of its air bases to help with the US-led air campaign, Turkey has acted in large part to deal with what it sees as a strategic threat from the Kurds, rather than weighing-in against the so-called Islamic State. Turkey is doing pretty much everything it can to upset Moscow. Just a few days ago, Mr Davutoglu visited the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, to discuss \"strategic cooperation\" between Turkey and Ukraine. But bolder Turkish threats to intervene on the ground in Syria - a step that might put them in direct confrontation with the Russians - seem to be just that, threats, at least for now. Few analysts are giving much hope to the forthcoming \"ceasefire\" in Syria, seemingly brokered by the US and the Russians. The hope must be that at a minimum it may allow an opportunity for aid to reach some embattled areas. But if the fighting does continue; if the Syrian government and its allies continue to gain ground, Turkey may well get to a point where it feels it has to act. The \"new Eastern Question\" may be delayed, but it isn't going to go away.", "question": "History has a strange way of imposing itself upon the @placeholder .", "option_0": "world", "option_1": "future", "option_2": "public", "option_3": "present", "option_4": "organisation"}
{"id": 280, "article": "The Forestry Commission scheme at Latchmore Brook aimed to recreate the meanders of a stream which had been diverted by Victorian engineers. But campaigners claimed the work would cause \"irreparable damage\". The commission said the scheme's sponsor, the New Forest Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) Scheme, had decided not to challenge the planning decision. It said the HLS board had opted instead to focus funding on monitoring the brook, near Hyde, and on other projects within the forest. A spokeswoman said the Forestry Commission was now revising its work programme. She said: \"We will continue to monitor Latchmore Brook, to measure changes during the remaining period of the HLS agreement because it's vital that will build knowledge of the changes at the site and use that to inform future management. \"We understand and respect the decision taken by the HLS Board not to appeal the decision and to focus their future funding on a range of projects that will build on the success of completed conservation and restoration work across the New Forest.\" New Forest National Park Authority refused planning permission for the scheme in November, amid strong local opposition, despite it having the backing of the Environment Agency, Natural England and Historic England. Residents argued the 96,000 tonnes of gravel needed for the restoration would spell \"ecological disaster\" for the area. Following the refusal, the Forestry Commission said the \"threatened area\" now risked \"falling into further decline\".", "question": "Controversial plans to restore @placeholder in the New Forest have been shelved after they were refused by planners .", "option_0": "powers", "option_1": "biodiversity", "option_2": "wetlands", "option_3": "staff", "option_4": "construction"}
{"id": 281, "article": "Northern Ireland international Little was released by Preston North End at the end of last season, having left Ibrox for Deepdale in 2014. \"I'm living in Glasgow and that's where I want to be,\" Little, 27, told BBC Radio Scotland. \"I've made a life decision more than a football decision. I've spoken to a few clubs in the last couple of weeks.\" Former Ibrox youth player Little, who has nine international caps and 117 club appearances, moved south after helping Rangers win successive promotions up to the Scottish Championship. Preston were promoted to England's Championship via the play-offs in Little's first season at North End and loan spells at Blackpool and Accrington Stanley followed but injuries affected his playing chances, with his last appearance coming in January 2016. \"It doesn't feel like it's been that long because I actually have been fit for the majority of that time,\" explained Little, who can also play at right-back. \"Fit [in] training isn't the same as fit [in] games. I need to play games. \"I went into Partick Thistle for about two months [for training] but still had little injuries and never really felt like I was probably ready to play in the Scottish Premiership. Alan Archibald was brilliant with me, a great manager. \"The decision I've made now is to come back here and to probably play part-time. \"There's two part-time clubs in the Scottish Championship and barring two in League One, the rest of the clubs in League One and League Two in Scotland are part-time. \"There's 16 or so games left in the season and I need to play in as many of those as I can to enable me then to look to next season.\"", "question": "Former Rangers forward Andrew Little is targeting a return to Scottish football after @placeholder to Glasgow .", "option_0": "according", "option_1": "struggling", "option_2": "helping", "option_3": "signing", "option_4": "relocating"}
{"id": 282, "article": "The seven include Frank Sweeney, the former chair of the party's constituency council. Mr Sweeney said there had been a breakdown in trust within the SDLP in West Tyrone. In a statement, the SDLP said it had experienced \"tremendous growth\" in the constituency in recent years. It said Mr McCrossan \"and his team in West Tyrone have the full support and confidence of the SDLP\". However, Mr Sweeney said the party leadership had failed to address concerns raised by him and others. \"We've been trying for two years to get the party centrally to intervene and to take action to remedy things,\" he said. \"Nothing has happened and people feel like they can take no more.\" The others who have quit the party are: The latest resignations come a week after three councillors quit the party - two of whom, Patsy Kelly and Josephine Deehan, are standing against their former party in next month's election. On Friday, the party said: \"Josephine Deehan refused to engage in the selection process on the two occasions when the party held selection conventions - first to replace Joe Byrne in the assembly and secondly to stand for election. \"Daniel McCrossan was the only person to put his name forward and was therefore was unanimously selected by more than 100 party members.\" Michaela Boyle, Sinn F¨¦in Allan Bresland, DUP Barry Brown, Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol Thomas Buchanan, DUP Josephine Deehan, Independent Stephen Donnelly, Alliance Party Corey French, Independent Ross Hussey, UUP Patsy Kelly, Independent Roger Lomas, Conservative Declan McAleer, Sinn F¨¦in Laura McAnea, Animal Welfare Party Sorcha McAnespy, Independent Ciaran McClean, Green Party Daniel McCrossan, SDLP Grace McDermott, Sinn F¨¦in Barry McElduff, Sinn F¨¦in Susan-Anne White, Independent", "question": "Seven @placeholder - holders have quit the SDLP in West Tyrone , as the row over Daniel McCrossan 's nomination in the assembly election continues .", "option_0": "seats", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "office", "option_3": "job", "option_4": "clashes"}
{"id": 283, "article": "The exhibition features pictures of the city posted on photo-sharing site Instagram and is the first display of its kind at the Ikon Gallery. Themes include architectural heritage, hidden spaces, urban street art, evolving landscape, art and culture. The More Birmingham Instagram Showcase runs until Sunday. The exhibition celebrates a successful series of 'Instameet' social media events that have taken place throughout 2015. The events captured key milestones, from the opening of the revamped New Street Station to the redevelopment of Paradise Circus, key cultural celebrations such as the Big Hoot and the Birmingham Weekender. The thousands of images produced have generated more than one million hits across social media throughout the year. Emma Gray, director of marketing and communications at Visit Birmingham, said: \"Birmingham's Instameet events have created an online photographic legacy, with thousands of remarkable images generated and shared amongst potential visitors across the world.\" The exhibition comprises a mixture of print and projected photography, complimented by a virtual gallery accessible online.", "question": "Hundreds of social media photos capturing hidden @placeholder of Birmingham have gone on display to celebrate a landmark year in the city .", "option_0": "bodies", "option_1": "sights", "option_2": "effects", "option_3": "parts", "option_4": "pictures"}
{"id": 284, "article": "But other families have not found their \"disappeared\" loved ones and the cash to help them is running out. In 1980 Margaret McKinney received a Christmas card signed with the name of her son, Brian. But she knew Brian was dead. She had known for two years. Brian's nickname was \"Bru\" - Belfast humour, a comment on his tiny stature compared to his namesake, the towering ancient King of Munster, Brian Boru. Brian had a learning disability and, according to his sister Lynda, would have been described as having special needs if assessed today. But that and his happy, youthful enthusiasm were not enough to stop the IRA from walking him to an unmarked grave, forcing him to step into it and shooting him in the back of the head. \"I can see him crying out for me,\" Margaret says. \"The coroner said that, when he was shot, the bullet went right through his wee head and deep into the soil. \"That is how we know he was alive when he was put in the grave.\" \"I think that's what has tortured Mum most of all,\" says Lynda, \"the fact that he knew he was walking to his grave and that his last thoughts will have been for her and for Daddy.\" The Disappeared will be broadcast on Wednesday 13 July at 1100 BST on BBC Radio 4 Catch up on iPlayer Who were the 'Disappeared'? Finding the 'Disappeared' For 17 years, they heard nothing - apart from the fake Christmas card. \"Part of the way the paramilitaries dealt with this was to put out rumours,\" says Sandra Peake, of the victims group Wave (Widows Against Violence). \"They perpetuated a myth that these people were still alive.\" Through Wave, Margaret became a thorn in the side of the IRA, as she campaigned relentlessly for the truth about the \"disappeared\". She took her story to politicians, a prince and eventually a president. During a meeting with Bill Clinton, he promised that he would do his best to find her son. Brian's body was found shortly afterwards. Brian's father died a few years ago but swore that, when his son was recovered from a desolate bog, that he would never return to \"that God-forsaken place\". Margaret however, returns regularly. \"He was harmless, well and truly harmless\" she says. \"I still wonder who it was that did it.\" It might be hard to believe but Margaret considers herself one of the lucky ones. Brian now has a grave in Belfast's Miltown cemetery. But seven other families of the \"disappeared\" are still waiting for their bodies to be found and time is running out. The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains, set up to find their loved ones, looks likely to be wound down. It can only continue as long as there is fresh information for it to go on. According to the Northern Ireland Office which funds it, that phase is coming to an end. Brian McKinney was found because an IRA intermediary spoke to those involved in his disappearance and passed on the details to the commission's investigators. Today the team is led by Geoff Knupfer. He cut his teeth in this line of work searching for the victims of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Finding the victims of the IRA and INLA is no less challenging. \"These locations were chosen with consummate care. \"They're invariably peat bogs -  anonymous wastelands really - and to expect people to come along 30 or 40 years later and say \"x marks the spot\" is going to be a tall order. \"Often these incidents took place at night and in bad weather, and the individuals have never been back since.\" Not only have many of the bodies never been found, the families have never been given any proper explanation as to why their loved ones were abducted in the first place. The allegation that some may have been informers does not stand up for the McKinney family because Brian was targeted after he admitted taking part in the robbery of a bar run by the IRA. But they know as well as anyone that alleged informers were made an example of. They were often tortured, hooded, shot in the head and left at the side of a road as a warning to others. Their relatives were literally \"disappeared\", which suggests their deaths could not have been properly explained to the community from which they came. Margaret does not care why any more. The recovery of her son's body was the most important thing. \"I've changed in my bitterness. I even asked a policeman to give me a gun to shoot the people I suspected. \"He put his arm round me and said 'Mrs McKinney, we know what you're going through, but it's not the right thing.' Does she still suspect those people? \"Yeah, I do, but I honestly don't care any more. I have the grave and the flowers, and there's life there.\" That is a comfort seven families may never get if the money runs out, and the information really has dried up. Anyone with information that could help the work of the commission is asked to get in touch confidentially on 00800-55585500. The Disappeared will be broadcast on Wednesday 13 July at 1100 BST on BBC Radio 4. It will also be available on the BBC iPlayer.", "question": "Margaret McKinney , whose son was murdered and secretly @placeholder by the IRA in the 1970s , considers herself \" lucky \" because his body has been recovered .", "option_0": "driven", "option_1": "dominated", "option_2": "inspired", "option_3": "recruited", "option_4": "buried"}
{"id": 285, "article": "The document drawn up at the peace talks in Havana will give priority to Farc recruits under the age of 15. They will be treated as victims of war and will be pardoned when Colombian law permits it. The accord will extend to all fighters under 18 and the children will be returned to their families if possible. The Farc agreed to help identify the children and organise their departure from their military hideouts. The UN and other agencies are to be invited to oversee the children's reintegration into society. Both sides have not said how many children and adolescents in total still remain in the Farc although the group has said it has 13 soldiers aged under 15 in its ranks. According to the government's child protection agency, around 6,000 children have left armed groups in the last 17 years of which 60% belonged to the Farc. Hoping to sign a peace deal in the coming weeks, the government and Farc agreed to use constitutional means to protect the accord from political interference in the future. Both sides are still negotiating the terms of a permanent ceasefire. They have already signed accords on agrarian reform, the transformation of the Farc into a political party, on justice and the war against drugs and on de-mining and the search for the disappeared.", "question": "The Colombian government says it has agreed a road @placeholder for the release of child soldiers from the ranks of the left - wing Farc rebels .", "option_0": "location", "option_1": "bill", "option_2": "map", "option_3": "meeting", "option_4": "date"}
{"id": 286, "article": "Scientists trained horses, by offering slices of carrot as an incentive, to touch a board with their muzzle to indicate if they wanted to wear a rug. The horses' requests matched the weather, suggesting it wasn't a random choice. A few other animals, including apes and dolphins, appear, like us, to express preferences by pointing at things. Dr Cecilie Mejdell of the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, who led the research, said they wanted to find a way to ask the horse whether or not it liked wearing a blanket. In Nordic countries, it is common for horses to wear a blanket in all weathers. \"I think our study adds to the knowledge on horse cognition - about what horses are able to learn and how they think,\" she told BBC News. \"Horses are often considered to be not very intelligent but this shows that using the right methods they can actually communicate and express their opinions and they can take choices that seem sensible to us even.\" The scientists worked with a horse trainer to teach 23 horses of various breeds how to communicate with humans. Horses requested a blanket in wet, windy and cold weather, but went without when the weather was sunny, say the researchers. This shows the horse was making a choice based on its own motivation, not that of its trainer, they explain. The whole process took place over two weeks with 10 to 15 minutes of training a day. The scientists hope that other researchers will use their method to ask horses more questions. They also think ordinary horse owners will be able to train their horses in this way. Karen McComb, professor of animal behaviour and cognition at the University of Sussex, said the training method would be useful in animal welfare. \"This is a really interesting and innovative study that has conceived a very novel way of getting at what is going on in the mind of the horse,\" she said. While communication with cats and dogs is the subject of much research, other domestic animals have been somewhat ignored. Earlier this year, UK researchers said horses were able to discriminate between happy and angry human facial expressions. The scientists say domestication may have enabled horses to understand human behaviour. The study is published in the journal, Applied Animal Behaviour Science.", "question": "Horses have @placeholder a select group of animals that can communicate by pointing at symbols .", "option_0": "found", "option_1": "backed", "option_2": "identified", "option_3": "released", "option_4": "joined"}
{"id": 287, "article": "The broadcaster has drawn up three options for a new format, but said no decision had yet been taken on which, if any, would be introduced. The BBC said it aimed to deliver \"the very best news\" for Scottish audiences. But the National of Union of Journalists said there had been no consultation with staff. It is understood that BBC Scotland is to make a series of pilot episodes over the next three weeks before a final decision is taken. The so-called Scottish Six has been a long-running controversy within Scottish broadcasting, with previous proposals being ruled out by the BBC's then-director general Mark Thompson in 2006. The proposals are in response to criticism that the BBC's main Six O'Clock News programme often features stories - for example on education and health - that have no relevance to Scottish audiences. The Scottish government has argued that the BBC needs to \"catch up\" with devolution, and to give its Scottish operation greater control of budgets, staffing and decision making. The new programme could provide \"an hour of UK, Scottish and international news\", according to a document drawn up by senior BBC Scotland managers. It would be edited and presented in Scotland, and would aim to \"shape the day's news in a way relevant to Scottish audiences\". The Scottish news hour would also \"use the best of BBC News' talent around the country and the world\", the document states. A team of producers would be based at the BBC's New Broadcasting House headquarters in London to ensure key correspondents around the world were available to the Scottish programme. And about 70 new correspondents, producers and other staff could be recruited to work on the programme. The document outlines three possible formats for the programme. The first of these would see an hour-long programme presented entirely in Scotland, while the second would see a main Scottish presenter accompanied by a London-based journalist who would front a 10-minute roundup of UK and international news. In both options, the document stresses that BBC Scotland would have editorial responsibility for the programme. A third option would retain the current structure of the Six O'Clock News followed by a half-hour Reporting Scotland. But the Six would place greater emphasis on explaining how stories differ in different parts of the UK - for example why junior doctors are on strike in England but not Scotland. And Reporting Scotland would be improved through a \"new, more rigorous editorial brief, a focus on more analytical specialist journalism, and higher production values\". The document said focus groups set up around the country had suggested \"participants want local news and news from Scotland, and there was also a strong interest in a UK perspective on UK and international stories, and in 'big news' happening around the UK\". It also acknowledged that \"support for a Scottish Six was muted\" among those taking part in the focus groups, and that \"BBC Scotland would have to address perceived quality issues first, and any launch would have to be an immediate success from day one\". It said audience research had suggested that some viewers believed Reporting Scotland was of a lower quality than UK-wide news programmes, and that Scottish news was not covered in sufficient depth. But the document stressed that any new hour-long programme would not simply be a longer version of the existing Reporting Scotland. It also said the Audience Council for Scotland had said that more depth and analysis of Scottish news was required, and that the \"Scottish Six is a great opportunity which must not be squandered\". The proposals were discussed by BBC Scotland journalists at an NUJ meeting on Wednesday, with staff expressing concern that they first learned of the plan when details were published in a newspaper on Monday. There was also anger at the document stating BBC Scotland \"has some strong talent but not enough depth of specialism\", and that the \"ideal\" editor of any new programme would have high-level experience of network TV. The NUJ said this implied that many senior Scottish-based journalists would not be considered experienced enough to edit the programme. The union has threatened to put the proposals into dispute unless BBC Scotland director Ken MacQuarrie agrees to a full consultation with staff. BBC Scotland's head of news Gary Smith spoke to staff on Thursday afternoon in an attempt to address the concerns. A BBC Scotland spokesman said: \"We've said very publicly that we are conducting a news review at present and we'll be looking at various different programme formats and carrying out audience research as part of that process. \"We have told our news teams that we will be carrying out some non-broadcast pilots and we'll obviously talk to staff as we proceed with this work and discuss fully any implications on them. \"No decisions on our future output will be taken until that work is concluded, but ultimately our aim is to deliver the very best news for our audiences here in Scotland.\"", "question": "The BBC is to begin trialling a new hour - long news programme that could @placeholder both Reporting Scotland and the Six O'Clock News in Scotland .", "option_0": "match", "option_1": "include", "option_2": "replace", "option_3": "be", "option_4": "threaten"}
{"id": 288, "article": "The group already operates a five star hotel near the Waterfront Hall. It is thought that it is looking for a site for its budget Hampton by Hilton brand. The Hampton brand has been expanding rapidly across the UK and Europe over the last two years. An industry source suggested the group could be involved with a recently filed planning application for Hope Street. A Hilton spokesman said: \"I can confirm that Belfast is a destination which has attracted our interest and we continue to review potential sites to increase our presence in the city. \"We are unable to comment further at this stage.\"", "question": "The Hilton Hotel group has said it is looking at @placeholder sites in Belfast with a view to expansion .", "option_0": "leaving", "option_1": "development", "option_2": "risk", "option_3": "home", "option_4": "three"}
{"id": 289, "article": "Between 2008 and 2012, South Wales Police failed to adequately act on eight reports and three intelligence logs from six people about the former Lostprophets frontman's intentions. Watkins received a 35-year sentence in 2013 for 13 child sex offences. The force accepted the Independent Police Complaints Commission's (IPCC) findings and \"serious concern\" raised. IPCC Commissioner for Wales Jan Williams said the way the reports were handled was subject to conscious or unconscious bias. \"This investigation raised the most disturbing concerns about the way in which reports of Ian Watkins' sickening child abuse were handled between 2008 and 2012,\" she said. \"Watkins' arrest for his depraved activities followed only after an arrest for drugs offences, an added cause for serious concern.\" The IPCC investigation was launched in 2013 following a referral by South Wales Police. It found the force did not examine the mobile phone of Watkins' ex-girlfriend Joanne Mjadzelics in 2009, which had a message revealing his wish to have sex with children, and provided corroboration to other reports. There was no evidence to show there was a lack of police action because of Watkins' celebrity status, however the belief that Ms Mjadzelics lacked credibility led to adequate steps not being taken to progress reports. Several other individuals also came forward, some through Crimestoppers, with disturbing information about Watkins' behaviour, the IPCC found. But it was the drugs arrest which led to further action. Watkins admitted the child sex offences and was told he must serve at least 29 years in prison. \"In my view, all the reports made were subject to a biased response, whether this was conscious or unconscious,\" Ms Williams added. \"Some were conflated with reports made by Ms Mjadzelics and were thus dismissed as lacking credibility. \"All those involved in responding accepted the initial sceptical view of Ms Mjadzelics' reports, demonstrating a lack of open-mindedness and professional curiosity. \"This continued until 'the right type of complainant came along'.\" The report did not detail why police felt Ms Mjadzelics was considered to lack credibility or what the \"right type of complainant\" was. Ms Mjadzelics was cleared in 2015 of child sex abuse image offences. She claimed she had encouraged the singer to send the images in order to expose his criminality. She said the IPCC report \"finally vindicates\" her and \"accepts that from the outset I was telling the truth and trying to bring a serious criminal sexual predator to justice\". Ms Mjadzelics added: \"The IPCC report highlights what I already believed about how South Wales Police treated me and others and whilst I am pleased it is now in the public domain I am seeking legal advice on further action against the police arising from the series of events and my treatment.\" South Wales Police Assistant Chief Constable Jeremy Vaughan said: \"Today's report highlights a number of failings in which information about Watkins was investigated between 2008 and 2012 which the force entirely accepts and regrets. \"South Wales Police failed to listen and properly investigate information about Watkins' offending behaviour, for this we are truly sorry.\" Earlier this year, a detective sergeant was cleared of misconduct over the case and no further action was taken against two detective constables. The IPCC has also previously released findings from investigations into how South Yorkshire Police and Bedfordshire Police handled allegations made to them about Watkins. Wales' Children's Commissioner Sally Holland said: \"It is disturbing to think that such a catalogue of basic errors can take place in Wales in the 21st Century, which led to a four-year delay in bringing Watkins to justice. There can be no defence or excuse.\" NSPCC Cymru said the report's \"damning conclusions should be a wake-up call for all those involved\".", "question": "Police missed a number of @placeholder to bring paedophile Ian Watkins to justice sooner , an investigation has found .", "option_0": "helping", "option_1": "action", "option_2": "chances", "option_3": "steps", "option_4": "plans"}
{"id": 290, "article": "18 May 2015 Last updated at 09:14 BST Horticulturalists from around the world are displaying their designs at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, London. Among the gardens being shown to special guests on Monday is one created for Sentebale. The charity, Sentebale was created by Prince Harry and helps children living in poverty in Lesotho, Africa. The prince said the garden was \"everything that I could have wished for\". He added that parts of the garden \"are exactly like Africa\" and that he \"can't wait\" to show members of his family. Designer Matt Keightley, who created a southern-African theme for the charity, said: \"It is such a privilege being part of the show. \" I'm hoping the Queen will like it - that would be the icing on the cake,\" Matt added.", "question": "Prince Harry has @placeholder this year 's Chelsea Flower Show and the Queen due to visit later .", "option_0": "revealed", "option_1": "cancelled", "option_2": "opened", "option_3": "passed", "option_4": "visited"}
{"id": 291, "article": "Norwegian historian Torgeir Higraff, 42, and a crew of 13 people have just left the Peruvian port of Callao and embarked on one such adventure. He wants to cross the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Easter Island, at the eastern tip of Polynesia - and then back. This Kon-Tiki expedition goes further than two previous trips. The crew will aim to complete a 5,500Nm (10,000km, 6,200-mile) round trip, despite most naval experts saying it is impossible. Especially when you are travelling in two wooden rafts that are each 17m long, 7m wide and 40cm deep (56ft x 23ft x 1ft 4in). On their way to Easter Island, or Rapa-Nui, they will follow the gentle currents and winds of the ocean. But on the way back, \"we will be sailing in rough waters\", says Higraff. The winds at sea can easily reach speeds of 20 metres per second, with waves as high as 10m (30ft), he says. This makes fishing almost impossible, explains Pal Borresen, CEO of the expedition. So they are carrying plenty of dry food. And high hopes. Each raft will carry: When Higraff's fellow Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl, considered one of the great adventurers of the 20th Century, made the first voyage in 1947, it was also against the odds. Almost 70 years ago, nobody thought it possible to travel by raft from Peru to Polynesia. The academic world was particularly dismissive of the suggestion. Ancient Peruvians, they thought, did not have the knowledge to do it. Heyerdahl proved them wrong. In 2006 Higraff led his own expedition, on the Tangaroa raft. At the time, experts said he would not go any faster than Heyerdahl did in 1947 because the rafts were just following winds and currents. Higraff and the Tangaroa broke Heyerdahl's record by 30 days. The rafts are made of balsa wood, a tree species lighter than cork and native to the Americas. Balsa takes about five years to reach its full height of 20m to 25m. For this trip Higraff chose the 44 trees he needed and shipped them from Ecuador - which has 90% of the world's balsa supply - to Callao, where a team of 30 people built the rafts in three weeks. As a historian, Higraff had read the Spanish chroniclers who wrote about the seafaring activities of Inca emperor Tupac Yupanqui (ca. 1440-1490), who is believed to have visited Mangareva and Easter islands in the 15th Century. \"They did have the technology,\" he says. And he believes that regular ties had existed between South America and Polynesia for hundreds of years before the arrival of the Europeans. \"This will be the first time in the modern era that a round trip will be made.\" \"The oceans are changing very fast and nobody is paying attention,\" says Dr Cecilie Mauritzen, an oceanographer who is the expedition's chief scientist. \"This is a chance to give oceans a voice.\" Dr Mauritzen's work on the trip will focus on climate change, pollution from microplastics and the impact of the El Nino weather effect. \"The seas are also becoming more acidic, warmer and getting less oxygen,\" she explains. If oceans take 90% of the extra heat that humans produce, \"they are protecting us for the time being - but for how much longer?\" To help the scientific work, the rafts have been fitted with top-notch transponders, beacons and satellite communications, courtesy of Norwegian technology companies. Of the 14 people making the crossing, only two have sailed in similar rafts before. Many of them have not even sailed at all. \"But each has been carefully chosen for their skills, and we have also taken gender and age into account\", expedition CEO Pal Borresen says. The crew are between 19 and 64 years old. That makes for a very diverse group but not necessarily an experienced one. One of the biggest challenges during a trip like this is how to bind the group and keep spirits up. \"I have to be there for them and make them perform at their best,\" Torgeir Higraff says. He reckons there will be moments of anxiety and fear, but believes he will be able to deal with those. What is less predictable are accidents. There will be a Russian doctor on board. If something worse should happen, the Peruvian and Chilean navies will be following them closely from the coast and a Norwegian rescue centre will keep track via satellite. But aside from these contingencies, Torgeir Higraff is sailing with one thing in mind. To prove to the world that a round trip is possible, on a raft and with 15th Century technology. You can follow the expedition's progress on its website.", "question": "This is a story about @placeholder , science and exploration . But it is also one about a struggle against the odds , just as it was on the first voyage back in 1947 .", "option_0": "life", "option_1": "survival", "option_2": "exploration", "option_3": "phenomenon", "option_4": "culture"}
{"id": 292, "article": "Stephen Gethins, who sits on the Westminster committee, said a long-term solution was needed in the Syrian conflict. The US shot 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles against a Syrian airbase in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack. The UK government has called the action \"an appropriate response\". A Downing Street spokesman said: \"Overnight, the US has taken military action against the Syrian regime, targeting the airfield in Shayrat which was used to launch the chemical weapons attack earlier this week. \"The UK government fully supports the US action, which we believe was an appropriate response to the barbaric chemical weapons attack launched by the Syrian regime, and is intended to deter further attacks.\" Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr Gethins said: \"The Assad regime is beyond the pale. \"Chemical attacks on their own people becomes utterly beyond the pale but I think what you need to do, more than anything else, is bring an end to this conflict.\" The SNP has voted against the UK taking military action against Syria. However, Mr Gethins added: \"If any military action depreciates his ability to conduct chemical actions then, of course, it's a good thing if that can be stopped, but we don't know that yet. \"We've got a situation in Syria where 11.5 million people have been displaced. You've got Turkish troops on the ground, Russian troops on the ground, even some US troops on the ground. \"It's a multi-polar civil war and we badly need a long-term solution, but anything that undermines Assad's ability to conduct chemical warfare of course would be welcomed but we don't know if these military strikes have done that.\" The party's spokesman on foreign affairs, Alex Salmond, added that the airstrikes were \"no substitute for policy\". He said: \"Such strikes should take place only after detailed examination and assessment of the storage facility and the delivery mechanism. \"They should also be part of a collective effort to place the use of chemical weapons and nerve agents beyond the pale of conflict and crucially they should also be part of a considered strategy to bring this ruinous multi-layered Syrian civil war to an end.\" The airstrikes mark the first direct US military action against forces commanded by Syria's president. Labour's only MP in Scotland, Ian Murray, who also sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee, said some action to degrade chemical weapon attacks was \"appropriate\". He said: \"The capability of launching such a chemical attack on the Syrian people, as we've seen this week, can only have come from the Syrian regime. \"This is fundamentally against international law. The UN is paralysed by the self-interest of Russia so some focused action to degrade the Assad regime's ability to launch chemical weapons attacks against innocent civilians, including many children, is appropriate. \"However, the events of the last few days show, more than ever, that a lasting, credible and independent peace process must be properly established with clear goals and staging points. Otherwise, this dreadful situation for the Syrian people will never end.\" The Kremlin, which backs Bashar al-Assad, has condemned the strike. The attack, at 04:40 Syrian time (01:40 GMT), comes just days after dozens of civilians, including many children, died in the suspected nerve gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province. President Trump branded Assad a \"dictator\" who had \"launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians\". The US president said he had acted in America's \"vital national security interest\" to prevent the use of chemical weapons. \"Tonight I call on all civilised nations to join us in seeking to end this slaughter and bloodshed in Syria and also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types,\" he said. President Trump's statement in full The Pentagon said the Russian military, which supports Syrian government forces, had been informed ahead of the US action. In a statement it said missiles fired from Navy destroyers USS Porter and USS Ross had targeted aircraft, aircraft shelters, storage areas, ammunition supply bunkers, air defence systems, and radars at Shayrat airfield in western Homs province. The Pentagon added that the strike was intended \"to deter the regime from using chemical weapons again\". A statement on Syrian state TV said \"American aggression\" had targeted a Syrian military base with \"a number of missiles\". The UN Security Council will hold further talks on Friday as it tries to agree a resolution calling for an investigation into the deaths in Khan Sheikhoun.", "question": "The SNP 's MP on the foreign affairs select committee has called the Assad regime \" beyond the pale \" but @placeholder short of backing US airstrikes .", "option_0": "stop", "option_1": "fallen", "option_2": "rejected", "option_3": "growing", "option_4": "provoked"}
{"id": 293, "article": "Each December, meteors appear to radiate from a point near the star Castor, in the constellation Gemini. In early morning hours, that is located westward and overhead in the northern hemisphere and nearer the horizon in the southern hemisphere. Many sky watchers saw dozens of \"shooting stars\" per hour, made easier to see by darkness provided by the \"new moon\" phase of the lunar cycle. The shower comes about each year as the Earth passes through the path of an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon. The asteroid leaves behind a trail of rocky debris that the Earth ploughs into - debris moving at 35km per second through the atmosphere, burning up in what have been described as spectacular displays. \"The sky was completely clear here,\" reported Ivan Hawick in the Shetland Islands. \"I could see eight meteors in one minute at times. One I saw was burning so bright - it was a lovely blue colour.\" According to the International Meteor Organization, the \"radiant\" - the apparent point from which the meteors seem to come - was visible from sunset in far north of the equator; the constellation rose above the horizon at about midnight local time in the southern hemisphere. The Geminids are less well-known relative to other annual meteoric performances such as the Perseids, in part because December weather often threatens a clear view of the show.", "question": "The annual Geminids meteor shower @placeholder overnight into Friday morning .", "option_0": "called", "option_1": "smashed", "option_2": "repeats", "option_3": "lasting", "option_4": "peaked"}
{"id": 294, "article": "BBC Scotland has learned that Mr Green claims his contract with the Ibrox club entitled him to legal cover during and after his spell in charge. His lawyers have written to Rangers and want a court ruling on the claim. It is understood the fees involved could be in excess of ?¡ê500,000. The court ruling could happen as early as next week. Mr Green and a number of others, including the club's former owner Craig Whyte, were arrested and charged earlier this month. The moves followed an investigation by Police Scotland into off-field events at the club in 2012 and 2013.", "question": "Former Rangers chief executive Charles Green is taking the club to court in a bid to get them to pay his legal fees after he was charged with serious @placeholder crime offences .", "option_0": "organised", "option_1": "including", "option_2": "defending", "option_3": "head", "option_4": "banned"}
{"id": 295, "article": "Police Scotland said they found debris strewn across both carriageways of the A1, south of Grantshouse, after responding to a call at 06:25. The lorry driver and a passenger managed to clear the north-bound side of the road so officers could operate a one-way system. A police spokeswoman said the road fully reopened at 09:00. Lorry driver Garry Godsell said the bags had been strewn across about 200 yards (182m) of the road. He said: \"It happened before I got there. Some of the traffic was threading its way through the north bound side. \"The vehicle involved was in a lay-by and its green curtain had come off.\" Traffic Scotland said the incident happened between the A6112 Grantshouse and the B6437 Auchencrow.", "question": "Dozens of bags of clothes have been cleared from a major road in the Borders after a lorry shed its @placeholder .", "option_0": "banks", "option_1": "load", "option_2": "location", "option_3": "unit", "option_4": "tyres"}
{"id": 296, "article": "The deal that Prime Minister David Cameron negotiated with the EU in February, giving the UK a special status as an EU member, will now be scrapped. The UK won a guarantee that it would not suffer discrimination by being outside the eurozone. That was to safeguard the City of London's authority, as Europe's biggest financial centre. In return, the UK pledged not to block deeper eurozone integration. If the UK manages to negotiate continued access to the EU single market on preferential terms the deal is unlikely to include the non-discrimination safeguards. EU deal: Did PM get what he wanted? Mr Cameron has now said he will stand down by October and pass on to his successor the role of invoking the EU's Article 50 procedure to negotiate the terms of the UK withdrawal. Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which has never been used before, sets a two-year time limit for reaching a deal. Generally seen as a tight deadline, it can be extended only if all 28 member states agree. Once the UK tells the EU that it is withdrawing under Article 50, it \"shall not participate in the discussions of the European Council or Council or in decisions concerning it\", the rule says. So on some issues the UK will be cut out of EU decision-making at the highest level before it actually leaves. The process requires the UK to unpick some 80,000 pages of laws binding the UK to the EU. Some will be kept, because some areas of EU policy are shared with non-EU countries, like Norway and Switzerland. Under this \"divorce settlement\", as some have called it, the UK and EU must agree how to divide assets, resolve EU budget issues and set out the future rights of EU nationals in the UK and vice versa. The settlement requires approval by a majority of EU members, plus the European Parliament and UK Parliament. After the EU referendum result: What happens now? The day after a vote to leave the EU Talks to determine new UK-EU trading arrangements could start during the two-year negotiating period for withdrawal, but not necessarily. If the EU waits until the UK's formal withdrawal, the negotiations might drag on for another five years or more. Pending a deal, the UK will trade with the EU under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. That would mean UK exporters paying new EU import tariffs and facing non-tariff barriers, in the same way that China and the US trade with the EU. UK services - accounting for 80% of the UK economy - would lose their preferential access to the EU single market. Free trade deals that the EU negotiated with 53 countries, including Canada, Singapore and South Korea, will no longer apply to the UK. If the UK wants the benefits of them it will have to renegotiate with those countries. The Remain camp said full access to the EU single market - the world's biggest free trade area with 500 million consumers - was crucial for the UK. But free movement of workers, payments into the EU budget and acceptance of the EU rulebook are conditions for that access. The EU is unlikely to bend on those conditions, because it does not want more members to leave the club. The UK might well sign up to those conditions, but it would not be able to influence EU rules, as it would lack a vote. Many in the Brexit camp see that position - exemplified by Norway - as unacceptable. The UK's main selling point is that it is a big market for EU exports, such as French food and German cars. Would Canada's deal with the EU be a good model for the UK? The UK will stop paying into the EU budget once it formally leaves the bloc. So the UK's current net contribution of about ?¡ê8.5bn (a??11bn; $12.5bn) annually will stay at home. It could be spent partly on the National Health Service, as some in the Brexit camp have suggested, or used to scrap VAT on fuel. But UK farmers will no longer get direct payments from the EU, which were worth about ?¡ê2.4bn in 2015. It is not clear how much of that, if any, the UK government will continue paying. Nor is it clear how much the UK's poorest regions will get in future, now that they no longer qualify for EU regional funding. How much does the EU Budget cost the UK? The UK will try to reduce immigration from the EU, probably with a points-based system like Australia's. It means giving priority to high-skilled workers and blocking entry to low-skilled ones. Many jobseekers from the EU may be told to leave. But first the UK will have to clarify the status of the nearly 2.2 million EU workers living in the UK. The rules for family reunions may get tougher. But any block on freedom of movement is unlikely for at least two years, while the UK is negotiating Brexit. Nearly two million UK nationals also live abroad in EU countries - so any British measures targeting EU workers could trigger retaliation against UK nationals abroad. What the UK can start doing immediately, however, is tighten the rules for migrant benefits. Brexit will undoubtedly boost the fortunes of anti-EU, anti-immigration parties in some other EU countries. It may also inspire Eurosceptics in some other countries to hold their own referendums on EU membership. Brussels would see that as a \"domino\" effect - a nightmare scenario for the European project. EU exit 'could take years to complete'", "question": "The campaign to leave the European Union has won the referendum . It means the UK is now committed to withdrawing from the @placeholder of 28 countries , a process that has come to be known as Brexit . What does this mean for the UK and EU ?", "option_0": "minds", "option_1": "majority", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "process", "option_4": "size"}
{"id": 297, "article": "The victim is understood to have been trying to get to an island when he got into trouble on Thursday evening. Specialist rescue officers led by the fire service later found his body in the water at Lee Valley Park in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. Hertfordshire Police said the teenager was pronounced dead at the scene and there were no suspicious circumstances. More on this and other news from Hertfordshire A friend of the boy, who has not yet been officially named, said: \"He was trying to swim to an island and got into trouble. \"The two boys he was with tried to save him, but there was nothing they could do.\" Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, which led the operation, said the boy's body was found \"after an extensive bankside and water search\". They issued a warning to people thinking about swimming in open water. \"Now that the weather is so warm it's very tempting to cool off with a swim,\" Chief Fire Officer Darryl Keen said. \"However, even the strongest swimmer can get into difficulties and we would advise people to think carefully before swimming in unsupervised areas and look out for signs and advice about the specific dangers at the location where you are swimming.\"", "question": "A 16 - year - old boy has @placeholder after getting into difficulties while swimming in a lake .", "option_0": "fallen", "option_1": "left", "option_2": "quit", "option_3": "vanished", "option_4": "drowned"}
{"id": 298, "article": "Chancellor Philip Hammond said on Thursday there should be \"flexibility to manage the system\" of taxation. But Tory party sources have told the BBC it was not a hint at plans to raise taxes in the Conservative manifesto. The shadow chancellor John McDonnell accused the government of planning \"a tax bombshell\". And the Liberal Democrats suggested Mrs May intended to hit the pockets of the \"white van man\". Before winning the 2015 general election, the Conservatives promised no rises in VAT, national insurance contributions, or income tax. By Iain Watson, BBC News political correspondent The American revolutionary Benjamin Franklin said the two great certainties were tax and death. And certainly commitments to push tax rates up can prove fatal to political campaigns. Philip Hammond criticised the constraints placed on him by his party's previous pledges not to raise income tax or national insurance. But now Conservative insiders are emphasising that does not mean the forthcoming manifesto will automatically abandon this position. The content of the document is yet to be agreed - but the swiftness of the response suggests that headlines in some Conservative supporting newspapers, speculating on tax rises, were far from welcome. On Thursday, Mr Hammond told the BBC's Kamal Ahmed that \"we do need to make sure that Theresa May and her government have a clear mandate to execute our plan\". \"All chancellors would prefer to have more flexibility in how they manage the economy and how they manage the overall tax burden down [rather] than having to have their hands constrained,\" he said. \"But what we put in the manifesto will be decided in the next few days and we will publish that.\" Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the chancellor was facing a ?¡ê2bn gap in his budget following the government's decision  not to carry out an increase in the rate of National Insurance contributions for the self-employed. \"He's recognising he's got problems in the economy, he's got problems in the budgeting that he's done and as a result of that there will be tax rises under a Conservative government if they are re-elected. \"This is quite a tax bombshell.\" Meanwhile, the prime minister said on Friday that the commitment to spending 0.7% of national income on international aid \"will remain\" although it must be spent \"in the most effective way\". It follows speculation she was ready to drop it from the Tory manifesto. But Mrs May declined to guarantee existing spending on state pensions, which ensures a minimum 2.5% annual increase.", "question": "Speculation that the Conservatives are planning tax rises , if they win the general election , have been @placeholder down by party sources .", "option_0": "tracked", "option_1": "played", "option_2": "released", "option_3": "revealed", "option_4": "shut"}
{"id": 299, "article": "The 30-year-old skippered England to a 3-2 Ashes win over Australia this summer, but has not played since the final Test at The Oval in mid-August. England will soon travel to the UAE for a three-match Test series against Pakistan, starting on 13 October. Ian Bell is in Warwickshire's squad but Joe Root will not play for Yorkshire. Root, England's leading run-scorer during their Ashes win, was rested for the limited-overs series against Australia and will not play for Yorkshire against Sussex. But Jonny Bairstow and Adil Rashid, who both appeared in the shorter-form series, are included in the champions' squad. Fast bowler Stuart Broad, meanwhile, is set to make his first Championship appearance for Notts since June in their game against Hampshire. And new-ball partner James Anderson will continue his comeback from a side strain in Lancashire's game at Essex. However, Worcestershire's Moeen Ali and Middlesex's Steven Finn will not play in the Division One match between their respective sides at New Road. The final County Championship fixtures start on Tuesday.", "question": "England captain Alastair Cook has been named in Essex 's 14 - man squad for their final County Championship game of 2015 against already - @placeholder Lancashire .", "option_0": "set", "option_1": "based", "option_2": "joined", "option_3": "disbanded", "option_4": "promoted"}
{"id": 300, "article": "That is according to the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for October from Ulster Bank. It gives an idea of how firms in the private sector are doing in terms of things like job creation, business activity and new orders. This employment growth was driven by a pick up in construction and retail. However in manufacturing, output across the sector was flat and employment fell at the fastest rate since the middle of 2013. This comes after hundreds of job losses were announced at the Michelin tyre factory in Ballymena, County Antrim, last week. Ulster Bank's chief economist, Richard Ramsey, said: \"Manufacturing is exposed to the wider global economic slowdown.\" He added: \"Overall, the Northern Ireland private sector is still experiencing growth, but at a slowing rate, and with contrasting fortunes across the sectors. \"There are a number of headwinds evident, and with an ongoing global slowdown impacting particularly on the manufacturing sector, these are likely to intensify into 2016 and indeed beyond.\"", "question": "Private sector firms in Northern Ireland , @placeholder manufacturers , hired staff last month at a faster rate than at any time over the past five months .", "option_0": "state", "option_1": "leaving", "option_2": "excluding", "option_3": "continuing", "option_4": "air"}
{"id": 301, "article": "The incident happened outside flats in George Court at about 15:15 on Thursday. The victim was taken by ambulance to Hairmyres Hospital but was later moved to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow for treatment. Hospital staff have described his condition as stable. The suspect, who walked off after the attack, was described as being about 6ft tall, of slim build. He was wearing a black tracksuit top with white stripes on the arms, black tracksuit trousers and white training shoes. Det Con Stewart Walton said: \"This was a vicious attack which has left a man with serious injuries to this head. \"We are currently reviewing CCTV footage to help identify the person responsible and inquiries so far have revealed that there were many people in the vicinity at the time this assault took place. \"I urge these people to come forward immediately as they may have information that could assist our inquiry.\"", "question": "A 42 - year - old man suffered serious head injuries after being punched and @placeholder by another man in a \" vicious \" attack in Hamilton .", "option_0": "killed", "option_1": "injuring", "option_2": "disabled", "option_3": "injured", "option_4": "kicked"}
{"id": 302, "article": "The brawl broke out after two groups became involved in an row on a train which was travelling between Glasgow Central and Greenock Central. The incident happened between 09:30 and 09:50 on 17 December. Three of the people involved later got off the train at Greenock Central and the fourth got off at Greenock West. One of the men is described as being white, of a sturdy build and was wearing a pink and white shirt, smart jeans and brown boots. He suffered a laceration to the head. Two other men were both white. One was wearing a blue t-shirt, cream tracksuit and white trainers, whilst the other was wearing a black jacket. A woman was also believed to have been involved. She had shoulder-length hair and was wearing a pink top.", "question": "British Transport Police are attempting to trace four people who were involved in a fight on a train which resulted in one person being @placeholder .", "option_0": "show", "option_1": "revealed", "option_2": "injured", "option_3": "named", "option_4": "attacked"}
{"id": 303, "article": "It will also be a significant challenge for Baroness Ashton as she seeks to build on recent foreign policy successes to broach critical issues ranging from human rights to Tehran's role in regional conflicts including Syria. On Saturday morning Iranian newspapers, of a more reformist leaning, welcomed her mission, hailing it as an achievement of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's new approach. Coverage of her visit, across moderate and hardline media, will underline both the centrality and sensitivity of her role here. Mrs Ashton has been widely credited with playing a key role in negotiating the landmark interim deal between Iran and world powers last November, which requires Tehran to curb its nuclear programme in exchange for limited relief from sanctions. Nuclear issues are certain to come up in her meetings since wide gaps still stand in the way of a long-term agreement meant to come into force in July when the interim accord expires. But the first visit of a senior EU leader since 2008 is primarily a bilateral visit aimed at exploring the potential for a new relationship between Iran and Europe. \"She knows that Iran is about more than the smiling Foreign Minister Javad Zarif with whom she has forged a good working relationship,\" said one Western diplomat. Mrs Ashton will need to muster all her diplomatic skills, including what is often called her \"softly-softly bridge-building\" approach. Her challenge is to chart a new course between Iran's political factions, as well as European states, which also remain divided over how far and fast this relationship can and should go when mistrust still runs deep, on all sides. It is understood she is coming to Iran, mainly to listen. But she is expected to urge one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's main allies to play a more active role in ending a devastating conflict. Iranian and European human rights groups have also been lobbying Mrs Ashton to express concern on issues like Iran's use of the death penalty which led to about 500 hangings last year, mainly for drug offences. Her visit begins on Saturday evening with a meeting with civil society leaders and ends on Monday with a visit to the city of Isfahan, famed for its  stunning Islamic architecture. Sunday will be spent meeting leaders from across the political spectrum including President Rouhani and his most senior foreign policy and security advisers. There is vast potential to strengthen the Iran-Europe axis in areas ranging from aid, education, the environment, anti-piracy efforts and technology. But it can only be tapped if there is real and lasting progress on what is still the central issue for the West - the nuclear file. Western diplomats say much has been achieved but there is still \"a long way to go\" to ease doubts that Iran's nuclear programme is entirely for peaceful purposes. Iranian leaders say suspicion of the West's intentions are also deep-rooted. Mrs Ashton's visit is meant to send a message to Tehran that there is a lot to gain if they stay the course in building a new relationship with the international community. As one Western diplomat put it, it must show it does want \"to play a greater role in the world, not against the world\".", "question": "The difficult and delicate @placeholder of forging a new relationship between Iran and the West takes another step this weekend with the first visit of Europe 's foreign policy chief , Catherine Ashton , to the Islamic Republic .", "option_0": "set", "option_1": "process", "option_2": "business", "option_3": "history", "option_4": "challenge"}
{"id": 304, "article": "Michael Gething, 42, died near the Methodist Church in Totnes. It is believed he died of hypothermia. Mr Gething is thought to have been living in the town for about 18 months. South Hams District Council said it would be assessing whether any premises in Totnes might be suitable for a shelter or hostel. Local undertaker Rupert Callender, who arranged the funeral, said: \"I hope people might put their judgements aside about what life on the streets is like, and what people who live on the streets are like. \"I hope they can see that they are ordinary people who have fallen on hard times.\" Jonathan Taylor, who took part in the funeral proceedings, said: \"There is a sense that this is a really important community event.\" Melissa Worsley, who lives in Totnes, said people such as Mr Gething \"are part of the community and we should look after them\". She added: \"If they can't cope with society they still have the right to be looked after.\" Earlier in the week Graham Walker, who used to be homeless in the area, slept out for 48 hours to raise funds towards Mr Gething's funeral. Mr Walker said: \"He died on the street. I think that, as a community, we should be aware of that fact and acknowledge it, and do something about it.\" South Hams Council said it was saddened by the death of Mr Gething, adding he had been offered advice, assistance and accommodation on several occasions. It added: \"Unfortunately, accommodation is not always available in Totnes and sometimes it may be offered in nearby towns. \"A place was offered to Mr Gething in a supported accommodation unit in Dartmouth, known as St Barnabas, but he did not take up the place.\" The council added that, in the event of severe weather, it had an emergency protocol in place which sought to ensure people living on the streets were offered help and accommodation.", "question": "The coffin of a man who died while sleeping rough on the streets of a Devon town has been @placeholder by local people during his funeral .", "option_0": "named", "option_1": "unveiled", "option_2": "carried", "option_3": "erected", "option_4": "uncovered"}
{"id": 305, "article": "Dr Amit Singh told a Colwyn Bay Town Council meeting that the number of GPs at his Penrhyn Bay surgery had fallen from five to two. Dr Bryn Roberts at Cadwgan Surgery in Old Colwyn said the system was at \"breaking point\". Betsi Cadwaladr health board said it provided guidance and support to all GP practices in north Wales. Dr Roberts's colleague, Dr Dylan Parry, warned that because of pressure and overwork, some GPs were leaving the profession when they were only in their 40s. Figures released in February showed Betsi Cadwaladr health board had a 14% vacancy rate for doctors, joint second highest among Wales' seven health boards. A health board spokesman said it had offered to attend the council meeting, but the town council had preferred to hear directly from doctors. He added: \"Where specific concerns are raised, these are considered with the practices and actions agreed. \"This has included providing support through additional services that will help to alleviate pressures being experienced and support with improvement to premises.\"", "question": "GPs in Conwy county have said their surgeries are @placeholder to the limit due to a shortage of doctors .", "option_0": "losing", "option_1": "finding", "option_2": "stretched", "option_3": "protesting", "option_4": "limited"}
{"id": 306, "article": "At the top of the North Wales UKIP list, and one of the new AMs elected, was Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who is currently a member of the European Parliament. But a vacancy is set to appear after Mr Gill made it clear he wants to stand down from the European role - with suggestions he'll resign after the referendum. And because of the rules that govern MEPs, his replacement could be one of the other UKIP members elected as AMs. And if they do not want to head to Brussels, a by-election could be on the cards. If an MEP resigns, a whole set of regulations kick in to find a replacement. For the European elections, parties submit lists of names. UKIP got one Welsh MEP in May 2014 and so the number one on the list, Mr Gill, was elected. Under the rules, the returning officer for the Wales region - currently the chief executive of Pembrokeshire council - would need to get in touch with the second person on the list and ask if they want to take up the position. If that person cannot or does not want to do it, they can go to number three on the list and offer the position to them. It is similar to what happens in the assembly if a sitting regional AM stands down - the next on the party list gets first refusal on whether they would like to take up the vacant post. UKIP put forward four people for the 2014 European election when Nathan Gill was elected. The first person that the returning officer could go to is James Cole, but he has left the party. That would leave the choice to the third person on the list - Caroline Jones. If she did not want the position, it could then be left to David Rowlands, 2014's UKIP number four. Both were elected as AMs on 6 May. There appear to be no rules stopping an assembly member from being an MEP, but practicalities of travel may make it unrealistic and appear to be part of why Mr Gill has decided he does not want to do it. It is unclear whether either Mr Rowlands or Ms Jones wants the role. If either took it up, and decided to leave the assembly, the process by which regional list AMs are replaced would then come into play. Susan Boucher was next on the list for South Wales East after Mr Rowlands, while Martyn Ford followed Ms Jones in South Wales West. A senior UKIP source said: \"We've got a list of two people - one of those two is going to have to decide whether they would go to Brussels or stay.\" \"I imagine one of those two would take it.\" If the process of trying to fill the vacancy by asking the remaining list candidates if they want the job fails, the UK government could call a by-election for the role. Pembrokeshire council, which handled the European election in 2014, said UKIP only submitted four names for the poll, the maximum parties were allowed to submit. But the senior UKIP source said that, although confident the party might win such a poll, it would not want that expense placed on the public purse.", "question": "One of the big stories of election @placeholder was UKIP 's entry into the Welsh assembly - with the success of seven of the party 's candidates .", "option_0": "night", "option_1": "powers", "option_2": "events", "option_3": "life", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 307, "article": "At least 17 local councils will have these 2,000-plus pupil schools, the Times Educational Supplement found from Freedom of Information requests. The schools are planned for both urban and rural areas, when pupil numbers reach a peak in the next few years. The government said larger schools could produce very good results. Schools minister Nick Gibb told the TES: \"If you look at Shanghai, their schools are very large and they produce some very high standards of education.\" One of Shanghai's top state schools, Shanghai High, has more than 3,000 pupils. But Mr Gibb added: \"The danger of creating schools too large is they may struggle to attract parents.\" The increasing size of England's schools in areas of high population pressure is not a new phenomenon. Last year, there were 8.3 million pupils enrolled in schools - up by 1% on January 2013. What this new data does tell us is how hard that increase, due to a rising birth rate - partly fuelled by past immigration, will hit secondary schools in the next few years. The children who were in the beginning of the primary population bulge, in the early years of this decade, will soon be graduating to secondary school. But the tight financial climate means councils simply do not have the cash to build lots of new smaller schools. And limits to councils' ability to plan and build schools, because of the academy and free school programme, mean many have no choice but to add extra forms of entry to already existing institutions. Some say that larger schools are better because they can offer a broader range of subjects. But others fear children graduating from primary school will feel swamped by the switch to a 2,000-plus pupil institution. He added that expansion must be balanced with whether the schools could be confident they could maintain good behaviour and good academic standards. Last month, it was reported that a 16-form entry school was being planned by Barking and Dagenham Council in east London to cope with a dramatic rise in pupil numbers. The new figures show schools are being planned all over the country, as councils try to find more than 80,000 extra secondary places which they say will be needed in the next four years. The rise in demand comes as a population bulge that sparked a shortage of primary school places is set to move to secondary schools in some areas. Exmouth Community College in Devon is set to be one of the largest schools, with 2,860 students and 15 forms of entry on one campus by 2018. At present it has 2,400 students. Head teacher Tony Alexander said the school had 163 full-time equivalent teachers, two staffrooms and four restaurant areas. Barking and Dagenham - one 16-form entry school planned Devon - one 15-form entry school planned Southampton, Nottinghamshire, Central Bedfordshire, Croydon and Birmingham planning schools with 13 forms of entry or more Warwickshire, Rotherham, East Riding of Yorkshire, Newcastle, Northumberland, Staffordshire and Brighton and Hove are planning schools with 12 forms of entry or more. \"Although there are some disadvantages to being such a large school, the advantages outweigh them,\" he said. \"We are able to provide a broad curriculum that other schools could not afford. And we have a wide range of children with different qualities and different attributes, which can only be good. \"The main disadvantage is that, as a head, I can't know all the children individually.\" Walton High in Milton Keynes is set to expand to 16 forms of entry and 3,000 pupils over two sites. And Bitterne Park School in Southampton plans to have up to 13 forms of entry by September 2017. Head teacher Susan Trigger said the new school building would be \"one of the largest in the country\". Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said school expansion did not tend to affect standards.", "question": "Councils across England are planning a new wave of \" super - size \" secondary schools of between 12 and 16 form @placeholder for each year , a report says .", "option_0": "groups", "option_1": "schools", "option_2": "action", "option_3": "status", "option_4": "rates"}
{"id": 308, "article": "The concerns emerged from the initial findings of a review by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) which began in December. The CMA has now opened a case owing to fears that there could be breaches in consumer law. There are more than 400,000 people in care and nursing homes in the UK. Elderly care proved to be a significant area of debate during the recent election campaign. Some of the other issues raised during the first stage of the inquiry included: \"Some of the most vulnerable people in our society use care homes, often moving to them under extremely difficult circumstances. It is therefore essential they are able to make informed choices, understand how services will be paid for, and be confident they will be fairly treated and able to complain effectively if they have any concerns,\" said the CMA's acting chief executive, Andrea Coscelli. \"Demand for care home places is expected to surge over the next two decades. To make sure the additional capacity this requires is available, it needs to be built in good time. At present, short-term funding pressures and uncertainty mean that the sector is not attracting investment. We will be focusing on finding ways to deal with these, and other concerns identified.\" Citizens Advice chief executive Gillian Guy said: \"Older people and their families are suffering unnecessary distress and financial pressure due to gaps in consumer protection in the care home market. \"The CMA is right to look at consumer protections and should seek to strengthen these where existing rules are not providing the right cover, including the notice period for fee increases and protections for people's deposits.\"", "question": "Care homes may be charging families for extended periods after a resident has @placeholder as well as large upfront fees , a competition inquiry has revealed .", "option_0": "moved", "option_1": "posed", "option_2": "arrived", "option_3": "died", "option_4": "revealed"}
{"id": 309, "article": "That's because it's World Book Day and kids (and adults) are dressing up as their favourite characters. And, if you've been on Twitter, you'll realise that it's the UK's top trend #WorldBookDay. So let's take a look at how your favourite authors are celebrating World Book Day on social media. It's not surprising that the most followed children's author on Twitter is JK Rowling - especially when she posts messages of dogs in wizard costumes. This World Book Day she's been sharing some of her favourite images of kids dressing up as Harry Potter characters - including a mini-Hagrid. Not content with celebrating World Book Day from the comfort of his sofa, David Walliams is flying across the country as part of #WalliamsWhirlwind. So far he's been to schools in Buckinghamshire and Bristol. He's got a solid fan base who have been putting in some pretty good efforts when it comes to dressing up as characters he has devised. Neil Gaiman has been retweeting some of them, including a Doctor Who based on the cover of the volume Gaiman wrote. 1 - JK Rowling: @jk_rowling - 4.29m followers 2 - John Green: @johngreen - 4.28m followers 3 - Neil Gaiman: @neilhimself - 2.18m followers 4 - David Walliams: @davidwalliams - 1.4m followers 5 - Michael Rosen: @MichaelRosenYes  - 62,000 followers 6 - Anthony Horowitz: @AnthonyHorowitz - 40,600 followers 7 - Oliver Jeffers: - @OliverJeffers - 25,300 followers 8 - Malorie Blackman: @malorieblackman - 18,000 followers 9 - Eoin Colfer: @eoincolfer - 17,700 followers 10 - RJ Palacio: @RJPalacio - 10,800 followers Source: Twitter, based on the top 100 bestselling children's authors according to The Sunday Times When she spoke to Newsbeat about World Book Day, she shared some pretty inspirational thoughts about why books matter. She's also promoting Teen Fest, which takes place on Thursday and features lots of top authors talking to fans on social media. You might be forgiven for thinking that, because of the name - World Book Day - it's celebrated across the globe. But actually authors in the other parts of the world mark it in April. We've included John Green here because he is, after all, massive on Twitter - and he really loves his fans. Hmmmm, so the poet and broadcaster hasn't perhaps made the best effort with his own costume for World Book Day. But we'll let him off, because what it lacks in creativity, it makes up for in authenticity. For all you Oompa Loompas and Little Mermaids out there - it's absolutely fine if these are your costumes of choice. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "question": "Today is the one day in the year when it 's not ( that ) weird to see Dennis the Menace @placeholder shopping with Where 's Wally and the Gruffalo .", "option_0": "food", "option_1": "change", "option_2": "at", "option_3": "come", "option_4": "team"}
{"id": 310, "article": "Greybull Capital has bought the airline from the Mantegazza family which has owned it since the 1960s. More than 90% of unionised staff voted to accept the changes. Two-thirds of the redundancies will be voluntary. The fleet will be reduced from 42 aircraft to 34, and long-haul and charter flying will end by April. The network will specialise in Monarch's scheduled short-haul European leisure routes. Jim McAuslan, general secretary of the British Airline Pilots' Association, said: \"Monarch's continuing presence in the marketplace is good for customers so this new investment is welcome.\" He added it was \"in no small part due to the painful sacrifices made by pilots and other staff, who have accepted redundancies and a substantial cut in pay and conditions to help secure jobs.\" Speaking on behalf of the family, Fabio Mantegazza said: \"We are very proud to have created one of the most loved aviation brands in the UK over the last 46 years. \"We think that now is an appropriate time to allow new shareholders to take Monarch into the future with secure financial backing and clear strategic goals.\"", "question": "Staff at Monarch airlines have agreed to 700 redundancies and pay cuts of up to 30 % as part of a @placeholder to save the Luton - based company .", "option_0": "deal", "option_1": "decision", "option_2": "bid", "option_3": "proposal", "option_4": "deadline"}
{"id": 311, "article": "Georgia Williams was strangled in a sexually motivated attack by Jamie Reynolds in Shropshire last May. He was cautioned by West Mercia Police after trying to strangle another teenage girl in 2008, but not charged. Georgia's mother Lynette called on the watchdog to mount a full investigation. She said she believed her daughter could still be alive if police had been more thorough during their earlier dealings with Reynolds. The IPCC said it felt the public interest was best served by West Mercia Police investigating the complaint. If the family had concerns with the outcome, an appeal could then be made to the IPCC, it said. The force referred its handling of previous incidents involving Reynolds, 23, to the IPCC in January \"with the strong recommendation that an investigation be carried out\". But this month the IPCC - which can mount its own investigation, order an internal case or call on a different police force to investigate - referred the complaint back for it to be handled internally. Reynolds, branded a \"sexual deviant\" by a judge, lured Georgia back to his home in Wellington, Shropshire, before he committed her \"carefully planned\" murder. In December, a court was told at the time of his arrest, he had 16,800 images and 72 videos of extreme pornography on his computer. Ordering Reynolds to spend the rest of his life in jail, Mr Justice Wilkie said he accepted a psychiatric assessment of him that found he \"had the potential to progressing to become a serial killer\". Mrs Williams, whose husband Steven is a detective with West Mercia Police, said officers should have realised Reynolds was dangerous after he attacked his first victim. She said: \"In 2008, Reynolds mirrored an attack basically that he committed on Georgia in that, he lured a girl round on the pretext of helping him out with a project and then there was a violent attack where he attempted to strangle her. \"Thankfully, she managed to escape, but it has traumatised her and it has totally changed her life.\" Both Georgia's family and Reynolds's earlier victim lodged complaints with West Mercia Police over its \"poor\" handling of the incident, Mrs Williams said. She said: \"As parents, we feel that had it been investigated properly, we wouldn't be in this situation. \"I did get very angry with the police because I felt that if they had dealt with it properly in 2008 everyone would have known about his past, they would have known what he was like with girls. \"Obviously, I wouldn't have let Georgia anywhere near him. \"The young girl that was attacked has put in a complaint as she feels she wasn't dealt with properly at that time and ever since - she was interviewed initially, then that was it she had no other contact with the police. \"His [Reynolds] stepdad did actually go up with more evidence, some photographic evidence that he had found on his computer, and that was presented to the police and that was never acted upon.\" The photos were of two girls with nooses superimposed around their necks and a photograph depicting pornographic scenes of a man raping, strangling and killing a girl, she said. Mrs Williams said photos of Georgia's older sister Scarlett were also found on his hard drives. Mrs Williams said: \"I want the police to change how they view these attacks, I want police officers investigated properly, which is why I want the IPCC to do it, not another force.\" IPCC commissioner Derrick Campbell said he had given the complaint \"careful consideration\". \"I have decided that the public interest is best served by West Mercia Police demonstrating that they are capable of conducting an open, fair and transparent investigation into this matter,\" Mr Campbell said. If the force's investigation identified any misconduct \"one would expect suitable action to be taken,\" he added. \"Following a local investigation the complainants will, if dissatisfied with the investigation, have a right of appeal to the IPCC and if necessary the IPCC will be able to direct further investigation,\" Mr Campbell said. West Mercia Police said it was deciding how best to proceed with its own investigation. \"We take the concerns around these previous incidents very seriously and following the outcome of our referral to the IPCC we are reviewing their recommendation and how this investigation will progress,\" a spokesman said. A separate independent review is also being conducted into various agencies' involvement with Reynolds before the murder.", "question": "The mother of a murdered teenager has @placeholder an Independent Police Complaints Commission ( IPCC ) decision not to investigate police contact with her killer .", "option_0": "launched", "option_1": "criticised", "option_2": "taken", "option_3": "obtained", "option_4": "died"}
{"id": 312, "article": "Jane Wedlake, 54, suffered severe brain injuries after falling on to a hallway at the block of flats where she lived in November 2014. She never regained consciousness and died in hospital 12 days later. Cardiff Coroner's Court heard there were no warning signs in the St Mary Street property and residents could access the fourth floor atrium. Jury members heard the whole building \"shook\" as she fell. Ms Wedlake's partner Greg Capron said she may have been on the roof to retrieve washing that had fallen on to a glass roof. He said losing his partner was \"the worst thing that has ever happened in my life\" and said he was left \"totally traumatised\". Despite having keys to an access window, the inquest heard tenants were not supposed to enter the roof space of the flats owned by Cardiff Community Housing Association. Officials said contractors only were supposed to use it. Since Ms Wedlake's death, the window has been boarded up and large warning signs erected. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.", "question": "A Welsh Assembly tea lady 's death after @placeholder 30 ft ( 9 m ) from a rooftop was an accident , an inquest jury has ruled .", "option_0": "receiving", "option_1": "flying", "option_2": "plunging", "option_3": "hanging", "option_4": "causing"}
{"id": 313, "article": "The Pakistan and Afghan Taliban movements, al-Qaeda and less well-known militant outfits such as the Haqqani Network used the area to hold hostages, train militants, store weapons and deploy suicide bombers to attack targets in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Today the militants have gone. Virtually the whole of North Waziristan is in Pakistani army hands. The army believes the defeat of the militants was one of the most successful anti-jihadist campaigns the world has yet seen. In two years of fighting the army lost 872 men and believes it killed over 2,000 militants. \"Before 2014 North Waziristan was a hub of terrorist activities,\" said General Hassan Azhar Hayat, who commands 30,000 men in North Waziristan. After the army moved in \"those who resisted were fought in these areasa€| the complete agency was cleared\". But many militants managed to escape, slipping across the border to eastern Afghanistan to fight another day. Many are now operating there with impunity, some helping the Afghan Taliban in its battle against the government in Kabul while others attack targets in Pakistan. The latest group to establish itself in the area is Islamic State, although the degree of control exercised by Iraq-based Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi over his supporters in Afghanistan is unclear. When the jihadists fled North Waziristan they left behind the apparatus that had helped keep their movement in power. Pakistani army officers today jokingly refer to one village, that was home to many senior militant commanders, as the Taliban's Pentagon, and they describe another where militants were trained as the Taliban Sandhurst. As they moved across North Waziristan, the army found prisons, a media centre hidden under a mosque, bomb-proof tunnels and a huge roadside bomb factory. With hundreds of bags of fertiliser and large blue plastic vats filled with foaming chemicals, the facility turned out thousands of bombs that were used all over Pakistan and Afghanistan. The closure of the roadside bomb factory, and others like it, has made a difference. Last year there were 441 violent jihadist attacks in Pakistan. That compares with 2,586 attacks in 2009. Across North Waziristan as a whole the army found 310 tons of explosives and more than two million rounds of ammunition. For many years, when it was accused of offering sanctuaries to the Afghan Taliban, Islamabad used to argue that it was unable to prevent militants moving into Afghanistan to launch attacks. It was impossible, Islamabad said, to control such a long, remote and porous border over which villagers with relatives in both countries moved freely. But now it is faced with the mirror situation - Afghan-based militants carrying out attacks in Pakistan and the army trying to control the border.  The army says more than 1,000 forts have been built and sophisticated American radar equipment installed to monitor cross border movements. The situation at the border is complicated by the fact that, while Pakistan considers it to be a legitimate international border, Afghanistan has never accepted it as such. The battle for North Waziristan - like those for Mosul and Aleppo - has left widespread destruction. Many homes have been reduced to rubble. There are whole villages where no building has a roof on it. \"When we came back we faced the problem of no electricity and water,\" said Saifur Rahman, who spent several months living in the nearby town of Bannu during the worst of the fighting between the army and the militants. But he had been determined to return. \"This is our land. We love it and I don't care if the facilities aren't there. I will still come back.\" The army is now building infrastructure to tempt people to return. As well as new roads, there are brand new schools with facilities that rival anything on offer elsewhere in Pakistan. One of the recently constructed and very well equipped schools just outside Miranshah is currently completely empty but has places for 1,000 children when the families decide to return. Jihadist violence is not over in Pakistan. The state is not moving against some of the militant groups that concentrate their activities in Kashmir, Afghanistan and India. And Afghan-based militants from the Pakistani Taliban and other groups remain a potent force. A recent attack on a Sufi shrine in the province of Sindh killed over 80 people. Police in Karachi say they believe the attack was organised by Afghan-based militants. But for all their latent power, the militants in North Waziristan have been repulsed from their stronghold and the tribesmen are gradually returning to resume lives disrupted by conflict.", "question": "For over a decade the inaccessible and mountainous tribal area of North Waziristan was home to a swirling @placeholder of violent jihadists .", "option_0": "array", "option_1": "assessment", "option_2": "fraction", "option_3": "parts", "option_4": "piece"}
{"id": 314, "article": "A family member of one of the students, Alexander Mora, confirmed that the remains identified were his. The relative said the family had received the information from a team of forensic experts. The students were allegedly seized by local police in the town of Iguala in September and given to a criminal gang. Prosecutors say the gang killed them and burned their bodies at a rubbish dump near the town of Cocula before scattered their ashes in a river. The students' disappearance has triggered widespread protests across Mexico against corruption and violence. Another demonstration was held on Saturday in Mexico City at which parents of students spoke about the identification. \"If [the government] thinks that, because one of our boys' DNA was identified, we will sit and cry, we want to tell them that they're wrong,\" Felipe de la Cruz, father of a missing student, told the crowd. \"We will keep fighting until we find the other 42.\" The unrest has seen President Enrique Pena Nieto's popularity rating drop to its lowest point since he took office two years ago. In response, he has submitted a package of reforms to Congress that include replacing all 1,800 municipal police forces with state-level units. The students had travelled from a teacher training college in Ayotzinapa to Iguala to protest against what they said were discriminatory employment practices for teachers which favour urban students over rural ones. Police opened fire on the students, who were in buses travelling back from Iguala to their college. Three of them were killed and three more people in nearby vehicles also died. A busload of the students tried to flee but were chased by municipal officers who then took them to the local police station. Some of the officers, who have since been arrested, told investigators they then handed the students over to a drug gang called Guerreros Unidos (United Warriors). Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda were arrested in the beginning of November in Mexico City. Mexican officials accused Mr Abarca of ordering police to confront the students to prevent them from disrupting a public speech given by his wife. More than 70 other people have been arrested in connection with the disappearances.", "question": "At least one of 43 Mexican students who went missing in Guerrero state has been identified from @placeholder remains , an official says .", "option_0": "suspected", "option_1": "protecting", "option_2": "traffic", "option_3": "forest", "option_4": "charred"}
{"id": 315, "article": "The chancellor is expected to pledge almost ?¡ê7bn to make housebuilding a priority. The news boosted all firms in the sector, with shares in Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon and Barratt Developments all up by more than 5%. By late morning, the FTSE 100 was up 59.42 points at 6,336.65. \"Shares in housebuilders have burst out of the starting blocks in early trading this morning, following the news that George Osborne is set to unveil a huge housebuilding programme,\" said Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown. \"These companies stand to be prime beneficiaries of the government's plans to address the housing crisis.\" Mining giant Anglo American was the biggest faller on the index, dropping 7.4% after HSBC cut its rating on the shares to \"reduce\" from \"hold\". Shares in Shire slipped 3% following a report that the drugmaker is planning to make a new bid for US biotech firm Baxalta. In the FTSE 250, shares in Thomas Cook jumped nearly 9% after the travel company reported its first annual pre-tax profit for five years. The company also said bookings in the new financial year had got \"off to a good start\" with \"encouraging trading\" for both winter 2015-16 and summer 2016. On the currency markets, the pound slipped 0.1% against the dollar to $1.5067, but rose 0.35% against the euro to a??1.4222.", "question": "Shares in housebuilders drove the FTSE 100 higher on the news that the government is to @placeholder new money to build more homes .", "option_0": "need", "option_1": "extend", "option_2": "make", "option_3": "receive", "option_4": "announce"}
{"id": 316, "article": "One witness described \"screaming women looking for their children\" while another said it felt like \"being on a ship passing through a storm\". Many of those killed were in Accumoli, close to the epicentre, and in Amatrice, which was largely reduced to rubble by the magnitude 6.2 earthquake which struck the centre of the country. I am from Leonessa, which is about 12km [7.5 miles] from one of the worst affected areas, Accumoli. This morning, I was awoken by the earthquake, which was very strong. I got in my car and drove to Accumoli to see if I could help, as I knew it would be very bad. I arrived in Accumoli, and it was a very shocking scene. All the houses had collapsed. I saw dead bodies lying in the street, and there were injured people walking around with blood on their legs and the rest of their bodies. There were screaming women looking for their husbands and children. There were neighbours coming down on to the street trying to help. Rescue teams arrived very quickly by helicopter and told me and others trying to help to stand back. They told us to come back with blankets and supplies, which I am doing. I might give blood this afternoon if needed. The whole situation was very confusing and distressing. I am a freelance photographer from Monteleone Sabino in Rieti. Early this morning, after the earthquake struck, I drove for about two hours and reached Amatrice at 0500. I immediately found myself confronted by dramatic scenes. The town is completely devastated. There is no electricity and no phones are working. It looked like there had been a bombing. Around 95% of the houses had collapsed. I spoke with 10 people who looked completely shocked. Most of them had lost someone. There are so many destroyed houses that I'm afraid they won't find many survivors. I'm staying with my husband and two small children in a hillside campsite north of Norcia. About 03:30, the cabin we're staying in started shaking. It was very disorientating and scary being woken in pitch darkness by the ground violently shaking and people screaming. We thought we were sliding down the hillside to begin with. I've never seen so many people wandering around a campsite in the early hours. My children are quite shaken up, but we're safe here thankfully, although we keep feeling aftershocks. My heart goes out to those who are just a few kilometres down the road. We are going to venture out and see if we can give blood, as there is an appeal for people to do so. My husband and I have experienced an earthquake in Bali and aftershocks across Asia before, but this was the worst by far that we've experienced. I am currently living in Campello sul Clitunno, a small village about a 30-minute drive from the epicentre. After the first strong quake, at 03:30, the Earth beneath me felt as if it was in constant movement for at least another hour. I ran outside out of fear the house could collapse. My elderly grandmother was in a different part of the building but is immobile so could not get out, and I was very worried about her. When I could, I went back in to get her out. The ground felt as if it was a ship that was crossing rough waters or passing through a storm. The house is OK, but lots of things are broken. There were lots of aftershocks and another small quake at around 05:00. Things in the house were shaking and swinging all the time. I was sitting in front of the TV at 03:30. I'd felt tremors before and wasn't too concerned at first. Then the TV fell of the wall. The cupboards started opening and bits of the ceiling were coming down. I ran into my sister's bedroom. She was being very slow so I lifted her out of bed. I woke up my mother and we got out of the house fast. When we got outside, we saw the back wall of the kitchen had fallen down and the foundations under my sister's bedroom had given way. We got into the car to try and get away but the road was blocked by a house that had collapsed. We had to drive back towards our house and stop in a field. We spent all morning there until they cleared the roads. We were due to go back to the UK, where we're from, on Thursday anyway, but we've decided to leave today. Additional reporting by Thomas Fabbri, Zak Brophy and Patrick Evans.", "question": "Survivors of a powerful earthquake in Italy have described the @placeholder of the moment it struck , wiping out towns and leaving dozens of people dead .", "option_0": "freedom", "option_1": "lives", "option_2": "end", "option_3": "horror", "option_4": "circumstances"}
{"id": 317, "article": "The Lions had picked up just two points from four games since their 6-0 cup defeat by Spurs, but they got back on track with a victory that leaves them three points behind sixth-placed Southend. Scunthorpe, meanwhile, remain in fifth, but are just now just four points clear of the Lions after seeing their winless away run extend to seven matches. Shaun Williams put the hosts ahead when converted an early penalty after Shaun Hutchinson was brought down by Paddy Madden in the second minute. Millwall should have doubled their lead in 31st minute, Steve Morison finding Jed Wallace at the back post, but the winger's effort went high and wide. Ivan Toney's half-volley from 25 yards was smartly tipped over the bar by Tom King as Scunthorpe looked for way back into the game after the restart, before Wallace missed another good chance when he blazed over from 12 yards with the goal at his mercy. However, Millwall got a deserved two-goal lead in 57th minute when Shane Ferguson tapped in Wallace's cross from close range. Aiden O'Brien then got himself on the scoresheet after 68 minutes with a lovely finish, flicking Tony Craig's teasing ball beyond Joe Anyon to put the game to bed. Matt Crooks pulled a goal back when he nodded in a free-kick in the third minute of added time, but it was no more than a consolation. Match report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Millwall 3, Scunthorpe United 1. Second Half ends, Millwall 3, Scunthorpe United 1. Goal!  Millwall 3, Scunthorpe United 1. Matt Crooks (Scunthorpe United) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Foul by Fred Onyedinma (Millwall). Craig Davies (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the right wing. David Worrall (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by David Worrall (Millwall). Hakeeb Adelakun (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the right wing. Attempt missed. Ben Thompson (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Levi Sutton (Scunthorpe United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Levi Sutton (Scunthorpe United). Corner,  Millwall. Conceded by Josh Morris. Attempt missed. Matt Crooks (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Substitution, Millwall. Callum Butcher replaces Aiden O'Brien. Mahlon Romeo (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Matt Crooks (Scunthorpe United). Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Craig Davies (Scunthorpe United). Substitution, Millwall. Fred Onyedinma replaces Shane Ferguson. Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Hakeeb Adelakun replaces Ivan Toney. Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Craig Davies replaces Paddy Madden. Substitution, Millwall. David Worrall replaces Jed Wallace. Attempt saved. Conor Townsend (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Attempt blocked. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Foul by Aiden O'Brien (Millwall). Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Goal!  Millwall 3, Scunthorpe United 0. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Tony Craig. Attempt saved. Stephen Dawson (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Steve Morison (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall). Murray Wallace (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the right wing. Attempt missed. Matt Crooks (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Foul by Aiden O'Brien (Millwall). Conor Townsend (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the right wing. Goal!  Millwall 2, Scunthorpe United 0. Shane Ferguson (Millwall) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jed Wallace. Attempt missed. Murray Wallace (Scunthorpe United) header from very close range misses to the left. Corner,  Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Shaun Hutchinson. Ivan Toney (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Jed Wallace (Millwall).", "question": "Millwall kept themselves in play - off contention with a convincing win over fellow promotion hopefuls Scunthorpe , their first win since @placeholder out of the FA Cup.", "option_0": "evidence", "option_1": "moving", "option_2": "crashing", "option_3": "played", "option_4": "ruled"}
{"id": 318, "article": "Domestic stability has not translated into economic prosperity for Tanzanians, however. Many of its people live below the World Bank poverty line, although the country has had some success in wooing donors and investors. Tanzania is home to two renowned tourism destinations - Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro, and wildlife-rich national parks such as the Serengeti - but has become a target for poachers. Conservationists have warned that the entire elephant population could die out by the end of the decade if they continue to be killed for their ivory at the current rate. Population 47.6 million Area 945,087 sq km (364,900 sq miles) Major languages English, Swahili Major religions Christianity, Islam Life expectancy 58 years (men), 60 years (women) Currency Tanzanian shilling President: John Magufuli Nicknamed \"The Bulldozer\" for his energetic road-building drive and reputation for honesty as minister, President John Magufuli stood on promises to boost economic performance and, like the opposition, fight corruption. But he was expected to face stiff resistance on the last count from civil servants from within his own Chama Cha Mapinduzi party, which has run Tanzania since independence. His other major election pledges - to tackle youth unemployment and establish free primary and secondary education - will to a large degree depend on cautious management of resources. Mr Magufuli also faces rising political discontent on the island of Zanzibar, where local elections had to be scrapped over vote-rigging allegations shortly before he took office. Laws encourage self-censorship while threats and attacks against journalists hinder critical reporting, according to US-based Freedom House. That has not stopped the country's media scene from developing: once small and largely state-controlled, the media industry has grown rapidly following the advent of the multi-party era in the mid-1990s. Television was a latecomer, with state TV launched only in 2001. Some key dates in Tanzania's history: 1498 - Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama visits Tanzanian coast. Portugal succeeds in controlling most of the East African coast, until it is ousted from Zanzibar in 1699 by Omani Arabs. 1884 - German Colonisation Society begins to acquire territory, ushering in an era of German control over mainland Tanzania, while Britain enjoys a protectorate over Zanzibar. 1916 - British, Belgian and South African troops occupy German East Africa. Three years later, the League of Nations gives Britain a mandate over Tanganyika - today's mainland Tanzania. 1961 - Tanganyika becomes independent with Julius Nyerere as prime minister; Zanzibar gains independence in 1963. 1978 - Ugandans temporarily occupy a piece of Tanzanian territory and, in 1979, Tanzanian forces invade Uganda, occupying the capital, Kampala, and help to oust President Idi Amin. 1992 - Constitution amended to allow multi-party politics. 1998 - Al-Qaeda Islamist terror group bombs US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. 2001 - At least 31 people are killed and another 100 arrested in Zanzibar in protests against the government's banning of opposition rallies calling for fresh elections. Later the same year, tens of thousands of opposition supporters march through the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, in the first major joint demonstration by opposition parties in decades. 2012 - The Statoil and Exxon Mobil oil exploration companies make major discovery of gas reserves off the coast of Tanzania.", "question": "Tanzania has been @placeholder the internal strife that has blighted many African states .", "option_0": "named", "option_1": "welcomed", "option_2": "spared", "option_3": "dubbed", "option_4": "declared"}
{"id": 319, "article": "Patrick McLoughlin's suggestion comes after Met Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe called for offenders to get six points on their licence. The increased sanctions would mean a driver could get banned if they got caught twice in three years. A government spokesman said it was \"considering a number of options\". It has been illegal to use a mobile phone while driving since December 2003. As it stands offenders get three points on their licence and an initial ¡ê100 fine, which could increase to a ¡ê1,000 fine should the case go to court. Mr McLoughlin's suggestion was made during a lunchtime briefing with journalists on Tuesday. The Daily Mail reported that he said: \"We've got to change this. I want to alert people to what they are doing. \"The person who is using their phone doesn't realise the damage or the danger that they could be in, so it ends up ruining different people's lives.\" Figures released by the Department for Transport show that in 2012 there were 17 fatal accidents involving mobile phones and a further 67 \"serious accidents\". Home Office figures show that in 2012 in England and Wales more than 92,500 fixed penalty notices were issued for using a handheld mobile phone while driving, which is a fall of 32% on 2011 when more than 123,000 notices were issued. Julie Townsend, deputy chief executive of road safety charity Brake, said she would welcome the proposal should it ever become legislation. She said: \"We hope the government will implement it. Brake has long campaigned for tougher penalties for mobile phone use at the wheel because of the suffering we see the bereaved and injured victims of road crashes put through as the result of such a senseless and unnecessary risk.\" A Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Using a mobile phone while driving is extremely dangerous which is why we are considering a number of options to deter drivers.\" In August 2013 the department increased the initial fine drivers received for getting caught using their phone from ¡ê60 to ¡ê100. Shadow transport secretary Mary Creagh said: \"Sadly under this government we have seen the first increase in motorway deaths in nearly a decade. \"Using your phone while driving is illegal and Labour will be pressing the government to take firm action to prevent these avoidable deaths.\" Last week research by the motoring group the RAC suggested that a fifth of motorists did not know it was illegal to check social media websites on a phone while driving.", "question": "The penalty for using a mobile phone while driving could be @placeholder from the current three points , the transport secretary has suggested .", "option_0": "eliminated", "option_1": "saved", "option_2": "barred", "option_3": "expelled", "option_4": "doubled"}
{"id": 320, "article": "The city-state transformed itself from a British colonial outpost into the country with the third highest average income in the world within a matter of decades. Engineer Lecturer Expat Millionaire Cleaner More from Singapore Direct Not only that, it has become an international financial centre attracting expatriates from across the globe. Foreign workers make up 40% of Singapore's labour market. Exporting consumer electronics has been the driver of growth for Asia since the 1960s, including for Singapore, which has also made the most of one of its few natural advantages, a deep water sea port. For Working Lives, the BBC's Linda Yueh has been meeting people around the island. Wang Han, a young Singaporean design engineer, is the type of highly skilled worker that leads international companies to set up plants in such an expensive country. She works on the innovative digital motor that powers hand dryers and vacuum cleaners for UK company Dyson. The motor is made in Singapore, but the products using it are assembled in Malaysia and sold around the world. That international outlook and the government's promotion of skilled workers also attracts foreigners to Singapore. Frazer Macdonald Hay came to teach young Singaporeans how to integrate design into engineering. He heads a 10-year programme between the Glasgow School of Art and Singapore's Institute of Technology. Chris Gill was attracted by the government's promotion of the financial sector, and a safe, clean environment to bring up his young family. He is the general manager of a global insurance company's Singapore branch. Property developer Satinder Garcha, who according to one survey is Singapore's 46th richest person, plays polo each afternoon in the middle of the city, giving him a rather enviable work-life balance. But it's not just the rich who have a good standard of living. Office cleaner Liew Siew Giok works all day on her feet but goes home to a meal cooked by her Burmese maid. She lives with her extended family, who pay for the domestic help and her flat. The influx of foreigners has created social tensions and the rapid growth of the financial sector has raised some concerns about the future. However, what is clear is that Singapore has grown by being at the leading edge of know-how, giving not just the rich, but most people, a good quality of life.", "question": "Singapore has achieved what only a handful of countries have - joining the so - called First World from the @placeholder world .", "option_0": "sea", "option_1": "third", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "developing", "option_4": "culture"}
{"id": 321, "article": "Today the Liberal Democrats set out their proposals to treble paternity leave. They believe it is good for families and good for businesses. And they took Nick Clegg to a soft play area in Scotland to ensure nice pictures to go along with the story. However, when the Liberal Democrat leader was interviewed, paternity was one of the last subjects he was asked about. Door knocking Instead the first question centred on Nick Clegg's own parliamentary seat. A poll by the Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft has suggested that the Liberal Democrats are currently trailing behind Labour in Sheffield Hallam, and that Mr Clegg could be in danger of losing his place in the Commons. He was quick to fire back saying he was sure he would retain his seat. \"I am confident but not complacent that I am going to win,\" Mr Clegg insisted. \"And I will be out knocking doors this weekend.\" It is a reminder that this is not one election - hundreds are being held across the UK and every constituency matters. Particularly when it is your own. Both Nick Clegg and the UKIP leader Nigel Farage know they face battles to get elected. But both also have a responsibility to be seen supporting their party's candidates and drumming up support more widely around the country. In the case of Nick Clegg he has been very busy, travelling to key areas in England, Scotland and Wales in the first few days alone. It is all part of the Lib Dems' plan for their big yellow battle bus to clock up a lot of miles between now and polling day. The campaign team wants Mr Clegg to be the most \"visible and accessible\" of the party leaders. He is viewed as a key asset as they try to improve their wider poll ratings. In the last election he made a particular mark in the televised leaders' debates - cast your mind back if you can to a time when they talked about 'Cleggmania'. As he prepares to face the cameras again Nick Clegg is working out a strategy for the studios. 'Watchable spectacle' At this election there will be seven leaders involved in the next debate rather than three. And in his own words the Lib Dem leader is not the \"new kid on the block\". \"I hope it will be a watchable spectacle,\" he says.  \"Although seven politicians talking over each other might not be.\" If Nick Clegg is right in his view that newcomers tend to do best there will be plenty of other leaders vying for the spotlight. The deputy prime minister may be best presenting himself as an established and now experienced political figure, a calm presence in the centre of the pack. But with so many on the stage it will be much harder for any one leader to stand out. Election campaigns are tricky things for any party to plan. What are the top issues for each political party at the 2015 general election? Policy guide: Where the parties stand", "question": "Weeks of opportunities to sell your @placeholder but you are always at the mercy of the news agenda .", "option_0": "events", "option_1": "questions", "option_2": "disabled", "option_3": "message", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 322, "article": "But which one failed to keep a solitary clean sheet in qualifying? Who made the most passes? And who climbed almost 100 places in the Fifa world rankings? Belgium scored 24 goals as they finished top of Group B but only four of them were scored by strikers - with Christian Benteke, Divock Origi, Michy Batshuayi and Laurent Depoitre all finding the net once. Chelsea's Eden Hazard and Manchester City's Kevin de Bruyne both scored five goals. World champions Germany finished top of Group D - and midfielder Toni Kroos made 315 more passes than any other player during qualifying. Spain's 36-match unbeaten run in World Cup or Euro qualifiers was ended by Slovakia in October 2014. However, Vicente del Bosque's team won their remaining eight games and set a national record of eight consecutive clean sheets in competitive matches. Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo could become the first player to score at four different European Championships if he finds the back of the net in France - and he also has Michel Platini's goals record in sight. Austria were ranked at an all-time low of 105th in the world after their only other appearance at the European Championship, the one they co-hosted with Switzerland in 2008. They rose as high as 10th following an unbeaten qualifying campaign. England are the only European team to have won the World Cup but not the European Championship. They qualified for Euro 2016 with a 100% record - only the sixth nation to ever win every European Championship qualifier in a campaign. They will have the youngest squad in France - with an average age of 25 years and 308 days. Italy's 4-0 defeat by Spain at Euro 2012 is the biggest losing margin in the final of a European Championship or World Cup. Switzerland have finished bottom of their group in each of their three previous Euros, winning only one of nine matches. As the host nation, France did not need to qualify for Euro 2016. Instead they played home and away friendly matches against the five teams in qualifying Group I as part of a Uefa initiative to better prepare host nations for tournaments. Based on those results, France would have topped the group. Turkey have improved every time they have competed at the European Championship: group stage in 1996, quarter-finals in 2000, semi-finals in 2008. Prior to beating Slovenia to book their place in France, Ukraine had lost all five play-off ties they had played - four for the World Cup and one for the Euros. First-choice goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly is hoping to become the first 40-year-old to appear in the European Championship, surpassing Lothar Matthaus as the tournament's oldest player. Shay Given - 19 days Kiraly's junior - could beat him to the landmark, however, with the Republic of Ireland playing first. Romania have played 13 matches at European Championship finals. Their only victory came courtesy of a last-minute penalty to beat England in 2000 and advance to the quarter-finals. Slovakia midfielder Vladimir Weiss, who started his career at Manchester City and is now a winger for Al-Gharafa in the Qatar Stars League, made six assists in qualifying - the joint highest. Northern Ireland became the first nation seeded fifth to finish top of a European Championship group. And they go into the tournament in excellent form. They are on the longest unbeaten run of any side participating at Euro 2016 - 12 games. Gareth Bale scored 64% of Wales' 11 goals in qualifying - the highest proportion by a player from the teams that qualified for France. Euro 2016 is their fourth successive appearance in the finals, and fifth in their six attempts since the country seceded from Yugoslavia. They reached the quarter-finals on debut in 1996 and again in 2008. Poland scored 33 goals in qualifying, more than any other team, while Robert Lewandowski top scored with with 13 goals, two more than Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic. And a bonus stat, because how could we leave this out? Midfielder Slawomir Peszko, once of Wolves, has four kidneys. He was diagnosed with having duplex kidneys during a medical on joining Cologne in 2011. The condition affects one in every 5.5 million people. Russia, who play England in their opening Euro 2016 fixture, are the only finalists who did not score a header in qualifying. They were credited with scoring 21 goals in qualifying but actually only scored 18. They were handed a 3-0 win at Montenegro after that match was abandoned because of crowd trouble with the game scoreless. The Czechs were the only Euro 2016 finalists who failed to keep a clean sheet in qualifying. The Republic of Ireland will have the oldest squad at Euro 2016 - with an average age of 29 years and 297 days. Three of their players have won over 100 caps - Robbie Keane (143), Shay Given (134) and John O'Shea (111). Given would become the first 40-year-old to play at a European Championship if he faces Sweden in their opener - otherwise Hungary's Gabor Kiraly is likely to take that landmark a day later. Iceland will be competing at the Euros for the first time this summer. With a population of 330,000, they're the smallest country to qualify for a European Championship or World Cup. It would be fair to say Sweden were reliant on Zlatan Ibrahimovic during qualifying. He scored 11 of Sweden's 19 goals - Erkan Zengin was next on the scoring charts with three. Albania had 28 shots on target in qualifying - fewer than any side who made it to Euro 2016, and only one fewer than Gibraltar, who finished pointless with a goal difference of -54 at the bottom of Group D. Fifa rankings correct as of 2 June.", "question": "There are 24 teams at the @placeholder Euro 2016 , which starts with host nation France taking on Romania in Paris on 10 June .", "option_0": "home", "option_1": "level", "option_2": "hands", "option_3": "table", "option_4": "expanded"}
{"id": 323, "article": "More than three million people of Turkish origin live in Germany. It is estimated that 1.4 million of them are eligible to vote in Turkish elections. In effect, the diaspora is Turkey's fourth largest electoral district. A month before a referendum on Turkey's constitution, there's a louder Turkish voice resonating in the heart of Germany. President Recep Tayip Erdogan wants to change the way Turkey is governed, abolish the post of prime minister and significantly extend his own powers. Polls suggest the referendum result will be tight. He needs the support of Germany's Turks. Though, as the singers pause and the players lay their fat-bellied Turkish guitars on the floor, few here tell us they'll dance to his tune. \"Actually there is huge opposition to the Erdogan regime in the Turkish community here,\" says Filliz, \"but there's nearly no coverage in the media about it. So Germans think that every Turkish person is an Erdogan supporter - which is simply not the case.\" But there is also significant support for him among the diaspora. Between 50% and 60% of German Turks who voted in elections over the last four years supported Mr Erdogan and his party. And there were cheers for his foreign minister on the campaign trail in Hamburg on Tuesday. Mr Erdogan has dispatched several of his cabinet to Germany, and a furious diplomatic row ignited after German authorities cancelled a number of planned rallies citing security or technical reasons. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, for example, spoke from the Turkish consulate in Hamburg after the city authorities closed his original venue after saying that the fire alarm system wasn't working. A furious Mr Erdogan likened Germany's actions to those of the Nazis, provoking outrage at the highest level in Berlin. On Thursday morning, Angela Merkel's indignation was still palpable as she addressed the German parliament. \"Comparisons with Nazi Germany,\" she said \"always lead to misery, to the trivialisation of crimes against humanity committed by National Socialism. We will not tolerate this under any circumstances.\" The comparisons, she said, must stop. But the diplomatic row shows little sign of abating. A sleek convoy of black cars drove through a grey Berlin morning on Wednesday: crisis talks between foreign ministers that yielded little result. Despite pressure from Berlin, a journalist from the German newspaper Die Welt is still in a Turkish jail - the German government has failed as yet to secure consular access to Deniz Yucel - and Ankara insists it will continue to campaign on German soil. Germany should allow that to happen, says Bekir Yilmaz, the president of the Turkish community in Berlin. Mr Erdogan was wrong, he says, to invoke the Nazi past. However, he insists: \"People should have the right to campaign freely here. Then voters can decide what's right or wrong. Germans have to accept that.\" Commentators point out that, for President Erdogan, provoking a row with Germany is simply a calculated election technique - positioning himself against the West and thereby securing votes from right-wingers at home. \"Of course he benefits from the controversy,\" says Ralph Ghadbhan, who has studied the Turkish diaspora for decades. \"It's his intention. He sees Germany as a colony and he proved that when he said recently if the German government stops him from campaigning here then they will be confronted with an uprising.\" The relationship between Ankara and Berlin is often stormy. There were furious exchanges last year after German comic Jans Bohmermann insulted Mr Erdogan with a satirical poem. And there were protests after the German parliament officially declared the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War One a genocide. But this has strained diplomatic relations to the limit, and there is much at stake. It is perhaps telling that this time neither Mr Erdogan or Mrs Merkel has raised the subject of the migrant deal between the EU and Turkey, which the German chancellor largely orchestrated. Under the deal, Turkey holds back migrants in return for billions of euros. The deal was controversial, some say not that effective. But arguably it is one of the ties that continue to bind the two sides together - just. The singers in the Turkish choir worry about the impact of the row on their own community here, and on how Germany perceives them. Old music, new divisions. And still that bitter tone persists. Germany, Ankara warned last night, must decide whether it is a friend or a foe. A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "question": "Under the strip lights of a clinical community hall in Berlin , a man 's fingers slide across a zither and , eyes fixed to their @placeholder music , the Turkish choir begins to sing old songs of love and heartbreak .", "option_0": "favorite", "option_1": "sheet", "option_2": "ancient", "option_3": "batteries", "option_4": "latest"}
{"id": 324, "article": "Nicole Sedgebeer, 22, from Milton Keynes, was shown to a 24-hour cafe by a man called Mark after failing to catch the train at Euston station. She said she was \"close to tears\" when he took her to safety and back to the station the next day. Her fundraising page has attracted more than 1,000 donations. Ms Sedgebeer was left outside the station in central London at about 03:00 GMT on 4 March, with no phone battery and hours until her next train. She said she was feeling \"very vulnerable\" when she was approached by Mark, who took her to an all-night cafe and promised to return to walk her back to Euston. Though she doubted his word, he returned at 05:00 GMT to escort her to the station. \"Not only did he turn up, but he had to get a bus to come get me,\" she said. \"Mark you are one special man.\" Ms Sedgebeer set up a crowdfunding page to raise ¡ê1,000 to thank him but received more than 1,000 donations. She is now working with charities on how the money can be used to \"get [Mark] on his feet\" and described her experience with him as the \"most eye-opening event of my life\".", "question": "A woman who was @placeholder by a homeless man when she missed the last train home has raised more than ¡ê 13,000 to say thank you .", "option_0": "targeted", "option_1": "crushed", "option_2": "stabbed", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "killed"}
{"id": 325, "article": "Play was stopped for about three minutes in the second half after home fans aimed racist abuse at Napoli's Senegal defender Kalidou Koulibaly. Referee Massimiliano Irrati opted to play on after consulting with players, coaches and officials. Two first-half goals from Gonzalo Higuain and Jose Callejon ensured Napoli remain ahead of Juventus. \"I would not have stopped the match,\" said Lazio manager Stefano Pioli. \"It was chanting from the minority, but I don't think they were racist.\" In 2013, AC Milan players Kevin-Prince Boateng and Mario Balotelli were the victims of offensive chanting in two separate matches. Elsewhere on Wednesday, Juventus secured their 13th consecutive league win with a 1-0 home victory over Genoa. Juan Cuadrado scored the only goal of the game. Match ends, Lazio 0, Napoli 2. Second Half ends, Lazio 0, Napoli 2. Foul by David L¨®pez (Napoli). Marco Parolo (Lazio) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. Filip Djordjevic (Lazio) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Keita (Lazio) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Dries Mertens (Napoli) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Keita (Lazio). Attempt saved. Jos¨¦ Callej¨®n (Napoli) right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the right wing is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Manolo Gabbiadini. Jorginho (Napoli) is shown the yellow card. Christian Maggio (Napoli) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Senad Lulic (Lazio). Manolo Gabbiadini (Napoli) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Mauricio (Lazio). Substitution, Napoli. Nathaniel Chalobah replaces Marek Hamsik. Offside, Lazio. Stefano Mauri tries a through ball, but Mauricio is caught offside. Corner,  Lazio. Conceded by Ra¨²l Albiol. Attempt blocked. Wesley Hoedt (Lazio) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Filip Djordjevic with a headed pass. Substitution, Lazio. Filip Djordjevic replaces Felipe Anderson. Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli). Keita (Lazio) wins a free kick on the right wing. Offside, Napoli. Jorginho tries a through ball, but Manolo Gabbiadini is caught offside. Foul by Christian Maggio (Napoli). Felipe Anderson (Lazio) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli). Keita (Lazio) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner,  Napoli. Conceded by Ogenyi Onazi. Attempt blocked. David L¨®pez (Napoli) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Maggio. Foul by Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli). Stefano Mauri (Lazio) wins a free kick on the right wing. Attempt missed. Dries Mertens (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jos¨¦ Callej¨®n. Corner,  Lazio. Conceded by Jos¨¦ Callej¨®n. Corner,  Lazio. Conceded by Ra¨²l Albiol. Foul by David L¨®pez (Napoli). Senad Lulic (Lazio) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt missed. Mauricio (Lazio) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Felipe Anderson with a cross following a corner. Corner,  Lazio. Conceded by Ra¨²l Albiol. Attempt missed. Dries Mertens (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick. Mauricio (Lazio) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.", "question": "Napoli remain two points clear at the top of Serie A after beating Lazio in a game @placeholder due to racist chanting .", "option_0": "spot", "option_1": "gripping", "option_2": "finish", "option_3": "ending", "option_4": "suspended"}
{"id": 326, "article": "The case was removed from the Grand Union Canal near Delamere Terrace in Little Venice, with police called at about 14:30 BST on Sunday. Officers said it was too early to say how long it had been in the water. No arrests have been made and a post-mortem examination is due to take place later. Detectives are trying to identify the woman. Police have been speaking to nearby houseboat residents to try to establish a sequence of events in the area on Friday and Saturday. Natasha Widowson, 23, who lives on a boat near where the body was found, said: \"We heard the body was found by some walkers passing by. \"Police told us there had been an accident and no-one was allowed to go past the bridge.\" A Met Police spokesman said detectives from homicide and major crime command are investigating.", "question": "The body of a woman has been found in a suitcase @placeholder from a west London canal .", "option_0": "originating", "option_1": "crash", "option_2": "stream", "option_3": "falling", "option_4": "recovered"}
{"id": 327, "article": "Scientists studying chimpanzees in Guinea have seen evidence of long-term and recurrent ingestion of ethanol by apes. The 17-year study recorded chimps using leaves to drink fermented palm sap. Some drank enough alcohol to produce \"visible signs of inebriation\". The study - published in the journal Royal Society Open Science - revealed their tipple of choice is naturally fermented palm wine, produced by raffia palm trees. In the Bossou area of Guinea, where this research took place, some local people harvest \"palm wine\" from the trees - tapping them at the crown, and gathering the sap in plastic containers, which they collect in the mornings and evenings. Researchers working in the area had already witnessed chimpanzees climbing the trees - often in groups - and drinking the naturally fermented palm sap. The chimps used drinking tools called leaf sponges - handfuls of leaves that they chew and crush into absorbent sponges, dip into the liquid and suck out the contents. To work out the extent of the animals' indulging, the scientists measured the alcohol content of the wine in the containers and filmed the chimps' \"drinking sessions\". The research team, led by Dr Kimberley Hockings from Oxford Brookes University and the Centre for Research in Anthropology in Portugal, worked out that the sap was about 3% alcohol by volume. \"Some individuals were estimated to have consumed about 85ml of alcohol,\" she said, \"the equivalent to 8.5 UK units [approximately equal to a bottle of wine]\". \"[They] displayed behavioural signs of inebriation, including falling asleep shortly after drinking. \"On another occasion after drinking palm wine, one adult male chimpanzee seemed particularly restless. \"While other chimpanzees were making and settling into their night nests, he spent an additional hour moving from tree to tree in an agitated manner. Again pure speculation, but it's certainly something we would like to collect further data on in the future,\" the researcher told BBC News. Alcohol can be toxic, and although there have been unconfirmed anecdotes of non-human primates consuming it in the wild, this is the first time that researchers have recorded and measured voluntary alcohol consumption in any wild ape. In addition, chimpanzees' apparent taste for a tipple adds to an evolutionary story about humans' common predilection for alcohol. Another recent study by Matthew Carrigan, from Santa Fe College in the US, showed that humans and African apes shared a genetic mutation that enabled them to effectively metabolise ethanol. Prof Richard Byrne, an evolutionary biologist from the University of St Andrews, commented that the evolutionary origin of that gene could be that it \"opened access to good energy sources - all that simple sugar - that were accidentally 'protected' by noxious alcohol\". \"And presumably, whatever its  evolutionary origin, it is that adaptation which makes me able to enjoy a good malt,\" he added. Dr Catherine Hobaiter, from St Andrews University, said: \"It would be fascinating to investigate the [behaviour] in more detail: do chimps compete over access to the alcohol? Or do those who drank enough to show 'behavioural signs of inebriation' have a bit of a slow day in the shade the next morning?\" Dr Hobaiter added: \"Even after 60 years of studying [chimpanzees], they are constantly surprising us.\" Follow Victoria on Twitter", "question": "They have shown an understanding of @placeholder and a sense of fairness , and now humans ' closest primate cousins have even been found to share a taste for alcohol .", "option_0": "love", "option_1": "water", "option_2": "language", "option_3": "fish", "option_4": "kindness"}
{"id": 328, "article": "The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) had been facing cuts of ¡ê42m, around a third of its budget. But Jane Hutt told AMs ¡ê31m of them will be cancelled. HEFCW will now have to find ¡ê11m worth of savings. She also set out plans to use ¡ê2.5m from reserves to help soften the blow of cuts to three rural councils. Ms Hutt said she would allow HEFCW - which funds Welsh universities - to keep ¡ê21.1m which was due to be diverted to tuition fee subsidies, and would give it an extra ¡ê10m to support part-time courses and research. In statement, HEFCW responded: \"A cut of 32% to HEFCW's budget would have had a real impact on universities' ability to meet Welsh government priorities. \"We are delighted that the contribution of Welsh universities to the economy and society of Wales has been acknowledged.\" Universities Wales chair Prof Colin Riordan praised ministers for the \"understanding\" he said they had shown for universities' concerns after the draft budget was published in December. \"Whilst the funding outlook for 2016/17 remains unprecedentedly tough, we are now more confident that Welsh universities will be able to manage in the short term until future challenges can be faced,\" he said. The assembly voted on Tuesday to approve the 2016/17 budget, which includes an extra ¡ê278m for the NHS. With Labour in favour and the Tories and Plaid Cymru voting against, the Liberal Democrats abstained, allowing the budget to pass. There was an outcry from opposition parties when plans to cut council budgets by an average of 2% were announced in December, with rural authorities facing the biggest cuts. The Liberal Democrats claimed credit for securing some recompense for the three biggest losers. Ms Hutt told AMs: \"Where we've considered that evidence is compelling we have made some adjustments to our spending plans to support our priorities. \"We are confident that our plans are the right plans to invest in the future of Wales - a clear way forward supporting jobs growth and the services that mean the most  to the people of Wales.\" The budget is the result of a two-year deal between Labour and the Liberal Democrats after extra money was allocated to pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. Conservative Shadow Finance Minister Nick Ramsay accused ministers of announcing \"piecemeal rises\" to health and education spending. \"This budget is more an attempt to make up for past underfunding than a genuine investment in our vital services,\" he said. Plaid Cymru criticised ministers for being \"committed to spending their entire borrowing capacity\" on a planned M4 relief road around Newport. Finance spokesman Alun Ffred Jones said: \"We will not support a budget, or a government, which we see as failing to meet the needs of all the regions of our country.\" Liberal Democrat Peter Black claimed the budget had been \"significantly improved\" by his party. Examples included \"extra money for poorer pupils, the money which we've brought into cheaper transport for 16-18-year-olds, the extra apprenticeships and the additional capital funding we've had delivered around Wales\", he said.", "question": "Most of the cuts that were planned for higher education have been @placeholder , the finance minister has announced , as the Welsh budget was passed .", "option_0": "implemented", "option_1": "reversed", "option_2": "approved", "option_3": "announced", "option_4": "postponed"}
{"id": 329, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The new laws state players can be punished for making contact with an opponent's head even if the tackle starts below the shoulders. World Rugby said the laws aimed to \"ensure the head is a no-go area\". \"People should be allowed to go to work without being expected to be hit in the head,\" Jones told BBC Radio Wales. \"The game is hard enough as it is. We can't allow the laws to allow players to hit high accidentally and for people to say 'oh, that's just rugby'. It's not. \"I think it's going to be rough for a while but I think in time people will change their behaviour because the sanctions are so harsh, if you don't tackle low you're going to be really seriously penalised.\" Media playback is not supported on this device The laws, which came into effect on 3 January, state that players can receive at least a yellow card for a high tackle that makes contact with the head of an opponent while a penalty will be awarded if head contact is accidental. Ospreys head coach Steve Tandy said the new laws were making referees' lives difficult. after fly-half Sam Davies was sin-binned in their Pro12 win against Connacht on Saturday. Meanwhile, Scarlets controversially beat Ulster when Sean Reidy was yellow carded for a high tackle at the try-line on Aled Davies and referee Marius Mitrea awarded the Welsh side a penalty try and just two minutes later, Scarlets second row Jake Ball was also sent to the sin bin for a high tackle. In the English Premiership, Saracens prop Richard Barrington and centre Brad Barritt were cited after their part in a dangerous tackle that knocked out Exeter lock Geoff Parling in their 13-13 draw on Saturday. Barrington was sent off for the tackle under the new interpretation of the laws. Jones believes that there has been a shift in the way that players tackle in the last 20 years, along with the introduction of professionalism into the sport. \"It comes down to a cultural change in the game. Since professionalism and the influence of rugby league coaches and the way offload and contact area has dominated rugby now, the tackle has risen in terms of its height,\" Jones continued. \"Perhaps the influence of the southern hemisphere and the Polynesian countries tend to tackle a bit higher in the past. Everyone's doing it now. \"There's an inherent danger in doing that. If you get it wrong by 10 centimetres then instead of getting them in the chest you can hit them in the head or face. That's got to stop.\"", "question": "Former Wales captain Dr Gwyn Jones says there could be a rough @placeholder while players transition to new rules to stop high tackles .", "option_0": "showing", "option_1": "period", "option_2": "break", "option_3": "change", "option_4": "game"}
{"id": 330, "article": "The 27-year-old former QPR and Hull man scored 25 goals in 48 appearances for League Two Orient last season. \"Both clubs are talking and it's in the hands of the financial directors at Orient and my chairman,\" said Brown. \"It's a case of watch this space. I'm hopeful that I'll improve the squad, not just in that area but in others.\" Southend lost 3-1  to Gillingham in their first game of the season on on Saturday, having taken the lead early on through Stephen McLaughlin. Brown told BBC Essex: \"I think we're still probably three players short and I've been working hard to get players in. \"I had a meeting with the chairman on Sunday morning, which is not a typical one, but is down to the fact that the second-half performance was so alarmingly poor.\"", "question": "Southend United manager Phil Brown has confirmed the Shrimpers are in talks with Leyton Orient over the @placeholder of forward Jay Simpson .", "option_0": "services", "option_1": "process", "option_2": "future", "option_3": "region", "option_4": "signing"}
{"id": 331, "article": "Theresa Villiers said there were \"risks on both sides of this debate\" but the \"safer option\" was to leave. Ms Villiers said the UK could then \"negotiate a new deal based on free trade and co-operation\". So far, she is one of five full members of the cabinet in favour of leaving the EU, with 16 supporting staying. Others who have joined the Leave campaign are Michael Gove, Chris Grayling, Iain Duncan Smith and John Whittingdale. EU Referendum: Where Conservative MPs stand Gove: Britain 'freer, fairer and better off outside the EU' Mr Cameron has warned that leaving the European Union would be a \"leap in the dark\", as he urged voters to back his reform deal. The PM said: \"Those who want to leave Europe cannot tell you if British businesses would be able to access Europe's free trade single market, or if working people's jobs are safe, or how much prices would rise. \"All they're offering is a risk at a time of uncertainty - a leap in the dark.\" Ms Villiers, who was an MEP for six years, said she did not think the EU system was \"capable of changing in a way that would be the right option for us\". She said: \"In the decades ahead we face a European project that is ever more determined to integrate, to take more powers and we could be outvoted many times over the years to come. \"So there is no stable status quo for us to cling to. \"Even with this deal [negotiated with EU leaders by David Cameron] we will still be subject to the Court of European Justice who may still do its best to unpick the deal that's been agreed.\" Ms Villiers said she was \"profoundly optimistic\" about the UK, which she said could \"flourish outside the EU\". She said Mr Cameron had won \"important concessions\" in Brussels. \"But the reality is a really radical way to change our relationship is to vote to leave and then negotiate a deal based on the trade and co-operation that people thought we were signing up to when we joined the European Union. \"It's long overdue that people have a right to decide on this, David Cameron is delivering that.\" Ms Villiers said there had been \"a sense of history\" at Saturday's cabinet meeting at which ministers discussed which way they would vote in the referendum in June. \"It was quite emotional. It was also very measured, very objective, very sincere,\" she said. \"There was a determination that we wanted it to be a high-quality debate so people can make an informed choice, and to work courteously with each other even if we find ourselves on different sides.\" She said it was \"very difficult to be on a different side\" to Mr Cameron but she didn't believe the divisions in the cabinet would lead to civil war in the Conservative Party. \"Ultimately, [it is] the arguments about what is good for our future, what will generate the best prosperity, what will make us most secure that will determine how people vote in the referendum - not how each cabinet member will vote.\" The Republic of Ireland's main opposition party criticised Ms Villiers' decision, saying it was \"wrong for Northern Ireland\" and \"deeply worrying\". Fianna Fail spokesman on foreign affairs Brendan Smith said:  \"Secretary Villiers is entitled to her own views on this matter and that must be fully respected. \"However, I believe it is clear that a Brexit would be bad for Northern Ireland and bad for Irish-British relations.\"", "question": "The Northern Ireland Secretary says she will vote to leave the EU \" to take back control over our country and making our laws and @placeholder our borders \" .", "option_0": "balance", "option_1": "planned", "option_2": "controlling", "option_3": "building", "option_4": "branded"}
{"id": 332, "article": "The first Writers Lab will accept submissions between 1 May and 1 June, with the eight winning writers announced on 1 August. They will then be mentored by the likes of Boyhood producer Caroline Kaplan and Legally Blonde writer Kirsten Smith. The news was announced at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The prize-winners will be invited to a weekend retreat in upstate New York this September. The New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT), which will help run the scheme, said Streep had made a \"significant\" financial contribution. Collective IRIS, which also champions women in film, will organise the retreat. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents and scripts must be written in the English language. Streep has been a long-time advocate for equality. She was seen cheering on Patricia Arquette during her Oscars acceptance speech earlier this year, in which she demanded wage equality and equal rights for women in the US. The actress is also playing Emmeline Pankhurst, who founded the Women's Social and Political Union in the UK, in the upcoming film Suffragette. The film is due to be released in October.", "question": "Hollywood actress Meryl Streep is championing female authors by funding a screenwriters @placeholder programme for women over 40 in the US .", "option_0": "series", "option_1": "development", "option_2": "regeneration", "option_3": "workshop", "option_4": "literacy"}
{"id": 333, "article": "The town, which will mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death next month, was selected through a public vote. Residents can now nominate landmarks, including the playwright's birthplace, to fill the spaces on the board. Special playing pieces could include a swan and a Shakespeare bust, the game's makers said. Updates on this story and others in Coventry and Warwickshire Winning Moves UK said the town had \"an abundance of great landmarks from all things Shakespeare like the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare's Birthplace, Ann Hathaway's Cottage and the new statue\". \"Of course the town has lots of other splendours and delights from the Holy Trinity Church, the picturesque racecourse and the River Avon,\" it added. Councillor Mike Gittus, chairman of Stratford-on-Avon District Council, said it was \"wonderful news\" in Shakespeare's anniversary year. Other UK cities to get a Monopoly board include Lincoln, Wolverhampton and Oxford. Makers have also based the game in Sydney and Las Vegas. The Stratford-upon-Avon version is due to go on sale in October.", "question": "A version of Monopoly based on Shakespeare 's @placeholder of Stratford - upon - Avon is to be created , makers say .", "option_0": "banks", "option_1": "island", "option_2": "number", "option_3": "home", "option_4": "future"}
{"id": 334, "article": "The record-breaking fantasy drama would leave a strong legacy for the local TV industry, said NI Screen CEO Richard Williams. Game of Thrones will end after its eighth season in 2018, US broadcaster HBO confirmed on Saturday. The multi-award winning series is largely filmed in Northern Ireland. Its seventh series is currently in production, with additional filming in Iceland and Spain. Made up of seven episodes instead of the usual 10, series seven is expected to air next summer, ahead of the final season in 2018. NI Screen had always known Game of Thrones would come to an end, Mr Williams told the BBC. \"By the time Game of Thrones leaves Northern Ireland, it will have been on the ground here for 10 years,\" he added. \"That's a very long time in our game.\" The set is at Belfast's Titanic studios and there are also a number of exterior locations across the country. NI Screen has invested ¡ê13.75m of public money in the first six seasons of the programme. It says that investment has returned ¡ê146m to the local economy, in terms of services and tourism. \"Belfast Harbour are in the process of building studios on the North Foreshore, extending the capacity beyond Game of Thrones,\" said Mr Williams. \"When it leaves, it leaves all of the knowledge, it leaves all of the support companies. \"There have been post-production companies, casting, extras companies, catering companies, and lighting and construction. \"They are all here, and there's not a significant buyer in Los Angeles that doesn't know that Game of Thrones was made here. \"They know that capacity is going to come to the market, and they will be interested.\" Government-backed NI Screen is the lead agency responsible for film and TV production in Northern Ireland. Last year, Game of Thrones won a record 12 Emmy Awards for a series in a single year. The series, based on novels written by George R R Martin, has picked up 23 nominations - another record - ahead of this year's annual ceremony to be held in September.", "question": "The TV industry in Northern Ireland has been planning for the end of Game of Thrones \" for years \" , according to the @placeholder of NI Screen .", "option_0": "editor", "option_1": "head", "option_2": "number", "option_3": "amount", "option_4": "office"}
{"id": 335, "article": "The Chelsea loanee, 21, scored the winner against Stoke on Saturday to secure a first Premier League away win of the season for Eddie Howe's side. Chances have been limited for the Netherlands Under-21 international, who made his first league start at Stoke. \"It's been frustrating, but a lot of people have helped me get through it,\" he told BBC Radio Solent. Ake, who moved to the south coast on a season-long loan in June, made 20 league starts for Watford last season while on loan at Vicarage Road. He had hoped to establish himself as a defensive midfielder but now admits he is happy to take any available opportunity to play. \"I can't complain playing at centre back,\" Ake added. \"If you play, you play.\" \"I'm delighted to be able to come in and score straight away. I just need to stay focused and be ready for the next game against Arsenal. \"Hopefully, I can keep improving in training and do the things the manager wants me to do.\"", "question": "Nathan Ake hopes a first goal for loan club Bournemouth will be the @placeholder to kick - start his time with the club .", "option_0": "last", "option_1": "end", "option_2": "catalyst", "option_3": "best", "option_4": "chance"}
{"id": 336, "article": "Gunmen laid the decapitated bodies out on a sheet in a central square in full view of horrified pedestrians. On the sheet was a written message from the Gulf drugs cartel to a rival gang. Beheadings have become a feature of the violent struggle between Mexican drugs gangs fighting for control of smuggling routes into the US. More than 34,600 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon began deploying the army to fight the cartels. Much of the violence has been concentrated in northern states along the US border. Nuevo Laredo is in Tamaulipas state, which has been the focus of a bloody turf war between the Gulf cartel and the Zetas gang. Attacks on the security forces have also become frequent in the state. Earlier this month Nuevo Laredo's police chief Manuel Farfan - a former army officer - was shot dead along with two of his bodyguards. Last June, a candidate for the governor of Tamaulipas, Rodolfo Torre Cantu, was killed on the campaign trail in an attack blamed on drug gangs. And in August, the bodies of 72 Central and South American migrants were found inside a ranch in the state, after they allegedly refused to pay an extortion fee to the gangs.", "question": "Four bodies with their heads @placeholder have been dumped in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo , close to the border with the US , police say .", "option_0": "homes", "option_1": "severed", "option_2": "shaved", "option_3": "uncovered", "option_4": "crowds"}
{"id": 337, "article": "Denton County Sheriff Tracy Murphree's controversial post urged Americans to \"pay attention\" to the Islamic jihadists who \"want to kill you\". His comments came after a suicide bomber killed 22 people and injured 64 at an Ariana Grande concert in the UK. His remarks quickly drew both praise and outrage online. \"I stand behind it,\" Mr Murphree told a local NBC news affiliate on Tuesday. \"We need to be realistic about the world we live in.\" Mr Murphree wrote on Monday after the attack: \"This is what happens when you disarm your citizens. When you open your borders without the proper vetting. \"When you allow political correctness to dictate how you respond to an enemy that wants to kill you. \"The left tells us we must submit and accept these radical beliefs and bend over backwards to make sure we don't hurt anybody's feelings.\" \"The left wants to cater to the very group that would kill every group they claim to support. Folks this is an enemy hell bent on killing you,\" he continued. He later wrote: \"You better wake up America. While you are distracted by the media and the crying of the left, Islamic Jihadist are among us and want to kill you.\" His comments came after a suicide bomber killed 22 people, including children, and wounded 64 others outside an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. The viral post quickly attracted hundreds of responses, with some thanking him for \"speaking truth\" and others accusing him of fear-mongering. Some users also criticised Mr Murphree for using a terrorist attack to promote gun rights. The local Council for Islamic Relations (CAIR) chapter called the post an \"Islamaphobic rant\". But Mr Murphree pushed back. \"A lot of folks want to make it a race issue,\" he told NBC5. \"And to me, it's not a race issue. It's a public safety issue.\" The sheriff's controversial post was not his first. Last April, while running for office, Mr Murphree was criticised for posting about North Carolina's transgender \"bathroom bill\". The law banned transgender people from using toilets in accordance with their chosen gender. Mr Murphree suggested he would assault any man who entered the same toilet as his daughter, sparking backlash among the transgender community. He later told the local ABC affiliate WFAA the post \"was a mistake\".", "question": "A Texas sheriff who railed against \" political correctness \" in a Facebook post following the Manchester , England , bombing has @placeholder his comments .", "option_0": "claimed", "option_1": "resigned", "option_2": "confirmed", "option_3": "defended", "option_4": "extended"}
{"id": 338, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device A winner must be declared on the night - as an ice hockey rink needs to be laid at midnight for a match at the same Hallenstadion venue the following day. But what else do you need to know? BBC Radio 5 live's sports news correspondent Richard Conway explains. Media playback is not supported on this device Fifa's 209 nations will gather in Zurich for what is billed as an \"extraordinary congress\". It was called after Sepp Blatter dramatically announced last June that he would step aside after 18 years as Fifa president. The 79-year-old Swiss said he was \"laying down his mandate\", which has led to some concern he may not have actually resigned. However, Fifa officials are confident he will not make an awkward re-appearance - not least because he has been banned from football for eight years over a \"disloyal payment\" of ¡ê1.3m to suspended Uefa president Michel Platini. Both men deny wrongdoing and are appealing against their bans. Blatter also has no accreditation to get into the conference hall on the outskirts of Zurich where the congress is being held. There are two big issues to settle. First, the FA representatives have to agree to a package of reforms designed to eliminate the problems that have plunged Fifa into crisis in recent months and restore its reputation. Then, if and when that is formalised, they have to appoint a new president. Media playback is not supported on this device Given the hype and spin around the election the reforms have been slightly forgotten about - but they are vitally important to the organisation's future. One Fifa insider believes it would be a \"disaster\" if measures to clean up the governing body fail. Specifically, Fifa wants members to agree to term limits for top officials along with disclosure of their salaries. Responsibility for everyday business decisions will be removed from the \"political\" representatives of national associations. The \"executive committee\" will be disbanded. In its place will come a new 36-member Fifa council, which will include a minimum of six women, to set global strategy. The day-to-day running of Fifa will pass to a new \"general secretariat\" - equivalent to a corporate executive board - and the secretary general, effectively the CEO, will be a powerful position. The checks and balances will be carried out by a series of committees, the most important of which will be the fully independent audit and compliance committee. Fifa wants the regional confederations and national associations to mirror their efforts over time and they will place immediate new demands on them, such as annual audits. Media playback is not supported on this device You would think so given Fifa's recent history. However, officials aren't taking any chances. The proposals need 75% approval to be passed. Acting president Issa Hayatou has been very active in spreading the message about the need to adopt the raft of proposals. Hayatou was censured by the International Olympic Committee for his part in the ISL scandal - where the sports marketing company paid $100m (¡ê66.2m) to officials, including former Fifa president Joao Havelange and ex-Fifa executive Ricardo Teixeira, in return for lucrative television and marketing rights throughout the 1990s. Additionally, he has been accused of taking a $1.5m (¡ê1.1m) bribe from Qatar to vote in favour of their bid to host the 2022 World Cup. Both he and Qatar categorically deny any wrongdoing. So it is of interest that Hayatou has been at the forefront of the reform efforts. Hayatou has an unassailable reputation (although not in Europe) amongst large sections of the 209 Fifa nations, despite his alleged wrongdoing. His voice carries weight amongst the \"family\" and the vote should therefore be carried without any issues. Fifa is still in a perilous position with ongoing American and Swiss investigations into the activities of current and former officials. As it stands, the organisation is considered a \"victim\" by the US Department of Justice. But that could change. If the DoJ believes Fifa is not reforming or is carrying on as usual then it could be charged under US racketeering laws designed initially to tackle organised crime. Passing the reforms are therefore vital if Fifa is to continue operating and not be shut down. Yes. This is where it gets complicated. The DoJ and the Swiss authorities are very interested in how the Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022 World Cups were awarded and if any wrongdoing took place. If Fifa were to be shut down it could render the contracts for both those tournaments null and void. Geopolitically that could cause huge friction, especially given the delicate military situation in Syria at the moment. In addition, the US is a big ally of Qatar and has a strategic air base there. Given all of this, many question whether there is the political will from President Barack Obama's administration to carry out the ultimate threat. One insider said recently he believes there is pressure on Loretta Lynch, the US Attorney General, not to act in this regard. Far from it. In December, when the US made its second wave of arrests, it issued a superseding indictment. There are 24 unnamed co-conspirators within the document, including high ranking Fifa officials and members of national FAs. Some may be cooperating with the US already, others not. At some stage the US will have to act and a grand jury has been sitting in the US to consider ongoing matters. In addition, the Swiss investigation into the 2018 and 2022 bidding process is ongoing. That enquiry has widened and has resulted in Blatter being criminally investigated. Big question. No one knows right now. If they do take action, the effect that has on the election will depend largely on who is targeted and where. The US is believed to be diverting its attention away from America and more towards Europe, Asia and Africa. It is hard to see the mechanism by which the election could be stopped - but this is Fifa, so let's not rule anything in or out just yet. Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain is still the front runner according to many observers. He has the backing of his own Asian confederation and Africa, though the continents do not vote as a bloc and the ballot is held in secret. However, such political backing from two of the biggest confederations should not be underestimated. The national associations do not want to back the loser either¡­ even though the vote is secret. There may be big swings in the vote between the rounds. Fifa presidency: Meet Sepp Blatter's five possible successors What about GianniInfantino? Media playback is not supported on this device The Uefa general secretary Infantino has, according to the 45-year-old Swiss' camp, made gains in recent weeks. They believe he is the man to beat. Well, yes¡­ but this is the same PR team behind Prince Ali bin al-Hussein's failed election attempt last May. Back then they made very different noises in the build-up, briefing that 40-year-old Jordanian Prince Ali was unlikely to win but would give Blatter a bloody nose. So their bullish confidence with Infantino should not be underestimated. Infantino has strong support in Europe, South America and significant backing in the potentially crucial Caribbean. They also think they will get half the votes in Africa. If that proves true then it's game over. He wins. \"If\" is the key word though. Media playback is not supported on this device Prince Ali lost the support of Europe for this election when Platini announced he was standing. He failed to make gains after the 60-year-old former France captain was banned and Infantino stepped into his shoes. A safe prediction for Prince Ali would be that he has between 20 and 30 pledges of support. That means he simply cannot win - but he could be a significant player in deciding the eventual victor if he drops out and asks his supporters to back a rival candidate. Frenchman Jerome Champagne will stay on to the bitter end but is highly unlikely to get more than 10 votes. South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale's efforts have been something of a mystery and he has been criticised for running a lacklustre campaign. He went on a joint visit to Robben Island, where he was a political prisoner, with Infantino on Monday. Despite that he says he will not quit. He seems to be playing a longer game - perhaps with his eye on a new Fifa if the current organisation is ever abolished. There are 207 eligible voters, with Kuwait and Indonesia currently barred from taking part. That may change on Friday and the total number of voters will be announced before the ballot. In the first round, the winner needs two-thirds of the available votes. If no candidate achieves that then a simple majority (105 in a 209-nation contest) is all that is required to win. If there is still no winner then a third round will take place and the candidate with the fewest votes in round two would drop out at this point. The candidates will each have 15 minutes to address Friday's congress, which is due to start at about 12:00 GMT. In theory, the first round of voting should start at approximately 13:30 GMT. Fifa estimates each round of voting will take one hour and 40 minutes. A safer bet is two hours, judging by previous elections. So the earliest a winner is likely to be declared is about 17:30 GMT¡­ let's see.", "question": "Football 's crisis-hit world governing body Fifa will meet in Zurich on Friday and elect a new leader to try to take the @placeholder organisation forward into a new era .", "option_0": "breathed", "option_1": "damaged", "option_2": "balance", "option_3": "populated", "option_4": "process"}
{"id": 339, "article": "The Jim Clark Museum already has planning permission for the site in Duns in the Scottish Borders. It has ¡ê1.3m pledged towards the ¡ê1.6m required to secure the project. The latest backer of its crowdfunding appeal is former World Rally champion Louise Aitken-Walker, who lives in Duns. Scottish Borders Council has pledged ¡ê620,000 towards the museum celebrating the achievements of two-time Formula One world champion Jim Clark, with a similar sum coming from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Planning permission has been given, subject to the work starting in the next three years. It is hoped the development could be completed by 2018 - the 50th anniversary of Clark's death at Hockenheim in Germany, aged just 32. The driver was born in Kilmany in Fife, but raised in the Borders, and was crowned Formula One world champion in 1963 and 1965. He won a total of 25 grand prix races.", "question": "The backers of a museum honouring one of Scotland 's greatest @placeholder sport heroes have said they need another ¡ê 300,000 by 21 April .", "option_0": "messages", "option_1": "sport", "option_2": "motor", "option_3": "health", "option_4": "scottish"}
{"id": 340, "article": "RWE Innogy wants to build 32 turbines in Clocaenog Forest near Llyn Brenig in Denbighshire. The 'late' technical challenge to the legal hearing was raised only after the judge spent two days listening to arguments at Mold Law Courts. Resident Michael Williams and 10 other people are looking at their options. A RWE Innogy spokesman said: \"The project will create an opportunity for significant community, environmental and energy benefits. \"Clocaenog Forest Wind Farm could support an injection of up to ?¡ê40m into Wales' supply chain during construction alone. \"We are aware that a legal challenge against a decision by the Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change to grant planning permission, was dismissed by The High Court. \"However, we understand that a request to appeal that decision has since been submitted.\" The judge had reserved judgment when he received a letter from lawyers representing the energy company claiming that Mr Williams had put his claim in too late. The campaigner said he has now been told that the date has been amended but the judge in the case has refused to reveal what his ruling would have been. The legal action was launched after the UK energy secretary approved the turbines last September.", "question": "Campaigners opposing a wind farm in a north Wales forest have @placeholder to fight on after being told their judicial review bid was put in a day too late .", "option_0": "chosen", "option_1": "refused", "option_2": "forced", "option_3": "vowed", "option_4": "spoken"}
{"id": 341, "article": "Hundreds of cars became stranded following heavy rain at Festival No.6 in Portmeirion in September. Gwynedd council said 53 members of staff were called out to work at a Porthmadog leisure centre over two nights where 200 people took refuge. A claim for ¡ê7,948.18 has been accepted by the festival, it said. A spokeswoman for the local authority said: \"It is expected that the overall cost to Gwynedd council will be ¡ê0. \"A ¡ê7,948.18 insurance claim has been submitted by the festival organisers which covers all costs incurred by Gwynedd council, including staff and infrastructure.\" The local authority is now waiting on payment. In response, a festival spokeswoman said: \"The overall costs incurred by Gwynedd council will be paid directly by the festival. \"Payment is due to be made before the end of January.\" In November, the festival's organiser said it would move the park and ride and reduce capacity to prevent future problems. The new locations for the park and ride will be announced in early 2017.", "question": "A Gwynedd festival is paying out nearly ¡ê 8,000 to reimburse a council which helped out after the @placeholder 's car park flooded .", "option_0": "centre", "option_1": "city", "option_2": "county", "option_3": "force", "option_4": "event"}
{"id": 342, "article": "The ex-first minister suggested seeking \"consensus\" from political parties that could allow the payments to be set up in the absence of devolved government. The Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry recommended a state apology and compensation for victims. But the collapse of Stormont in January meant the process was put on hold. Writing in the Irish News, Mr Robinson said the abuse of victims in children's residential homes was an \"appalling and vile chapter\" in Northern Ireland's history which had been \"swept under the carpet for too long\". \"Having been the helpless victims of sexual exploitation and ill-treatment , they have lived lives as the victims of society's denial, disinterest or apathy and now they have become the victims of political stalemate.\" The former DUP leader added he believed there would not be \"much contention\" among Stormont parties if Secretary of State James Brokenshire were to act on the HIA Inquiry's recommendations \"immediately\". When he was first minister, Mr Robinson helped to set up the inquiry, along with the late deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness. Led by Sir Anthony Hart, it examined allegations of abuse in 22 homes and other residential institutions between 1922 to 1995. The inquiry concluded there was widespread abuse and mistreatment of young residents in the institutions run by churches, charities and the state. Mr Robinson said he had hoped \"immediate apologies and compensation would follow\" and he criticised \"the lack of urgency\" in paying compensation. \"The victims of institutional abuse have waited an inordinately long and unacceptable time for the truth to be revealed, recognised and a measure of reparation to be made,\" he said. He added that he and Mr McGuinness met victims of abuse on \"several occasions\". \"Compensation was not top of their agenda, but Martin and I recognised that there had to be a financial aspect to any just outcome of this appalling and vile chapter. \"Both Martin and I were deeply affected by their stories. There is nothing 'historic' about this abuse. The victims live it every day. \"The victims wanted the opportunity to tell their stories and needed an apology for the suffering they had endured,\" he said. Sir Anthony  recommended compensation, a memorial and a public apology to abuse survivors. He said a tax-free lump sum payment should be made to all survivors, including in homes and institutions that were not covered by the inquiry. Mr Robinson called on Mr Brokenshire to meet political parties on the issue \"and assess whether at least on this outstanding matter there is sufficient consensus to proceed in all or part with the implementation\". \"Justice and humanity demands action,\" he added. Mr Robinson's comments come after the death of victim of abuse, Billy McConville, whose mother Jean McConville was murdered by the IRA in 1972. After the abduction of the single mother of 10, Mr McConville was taken in care. He told the HIA Inquiry he was abused by some De La Salle Brothers and physically abused by a lay teacher in Rubane House in County Down. His funeral is due to take place on Wednesday at St Paul's Church in west Belfast.", "question": "Peter Robinson has called for immediate action to compensate abuse victims after payments recommended by a inquiry were @placeholder by Stormont 's collapse .", "option_0": "rocked", "option_1": "attacked", "option_2": "knocked", "option_3": "delayed", "option_4": "held"}
{"id": 343, "article": "Party leaders are addressing the chamber ahead of the vote. Some MPs tried to disrupt the session as it got under way. Several thousand rival protesters are gathered outside the Congress building. Ms Rousseff, 68, denies the charge and accuses opponents of mounting a \"coup\". A two-thirds majority - 342 out of 513 votes - is needed to send the motion to the upper house, the Senate, which will consider the allegations of unlawful activity against her. If the Senate finds her guilty, she can be removed from office permanently. She has two opportunities to appeal during the whole process. Impeachment vote: Live updates Voting is due to start after statements from MPs and party leaders - the whole session, which is expected to last several hours, is being broadcast live on television as well as on large screens in city centres. Defending Ms Rousseff, Afonso Florence, of her governing Workers' Party, urged MPs to have a \"democratic conscience\", and attacked her opponents who are facing their own charges of corruption. Pro-impeachment MP, Antonio Imbassahy of the PSDB party, told lawmakers to \"choose the country that we want from now on\", and said Brazil needed \"moral reconstruction.\" Hundreds of thousands of protesters were gathering in cities across the country as the session got under way. A 2m (6.5ft) high wall, stretching 1km (0.6 miles), has been built along the esplanade in front of Congress to separate the rival supporters, with TV screens on either side. Brazil's three main newspapers predict a narrow vote in favour of impeaching Ms Rousseff. The president has vigorously denied any wrongdoing, and on Saturday wrote in one newspaper her opponents \"want to convict an innocent woman and save the corrupt\". The BBC's Wyre Davis in Brazil says Ms Rousseff is an unpopular leader in a country facing a severe economic crisis. She is accused of juggling the accounts to make her government's economic performance appear better than it was, ahead of her election campaign two years ago - charges she vigorously denies. But her supporters say many of the congressmen who are sitting in judgement have been accused of far more serious crimes. If she is impeached, Vice-President Michel Temer would take over as interim president, but he is also facing impeachment proceedings over the same allegations as Ms Rousseff. Ms Rousseff accused him this week of being one of the ringleaders of the \"coup\" attempt against her. She has also indicated lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha - who would be second in line to replace her - is among those trying to oust her. He is being investigated over allegations of taking multi-million-dollar bribes. Next in line to replace her is Renan Calheiros, head of the Senate. But he, too, is under investigation in connection with a massive corruption scandal at state-oil company Petrobras. All three are from the PMDB - the largest party in the coalition, which abandoned Ms Rousseff in recent weeks to support the impeachment. They deny the allegations against them. 513 members of the lower house of Congress 342 votes needed to move process to the Senate 41 senators out of 81 must vote in favour to begin impeachment trial 180 days she could be suspended for during the hearings Lower house vote: An impeachment vote is due in the lower house on Sunday. A two-thirds majority is required for it to go forward to the Senate. Senate vote on trial: If Ms Rousseff case is sent to the Senate, a simple majority is enough to suspend her for up to 180 days while she is put on trial. Vice-President Michel Temer would step in during this period. Impeachment vote: For Ms Rousseff to be removed from office permanently, two-thirds of the Senate would have to vote in favour. Mr Temer would remain president for an interim period should this happen.", "question": "Brazil 's lower house of Congress is preparing to vote on whether to impeach President Dilma Rousseff over charges of manipulating government accounts for political @placeholder .", "option_0": "activities", "option_1": "ends", "option_2": "gains", "option_3": "reasons", "option_4": "information"}
{"id": 344, "article": "The 20-year-old victim suffered head injuries during a fight on the petrol station forecourt at Cobham services on the M25 on Monday. The man, from Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, died in hospital two days later. Surrey Police said he was assaulted by two men. Det Ch Insp Jo Hayes said officers were still searching for a second suspect. She urged him to contact the force, along with any witnesses who saw what happened. Police were called to the service station to reports of a fight between two groups of people, who it is believed knew each other. The two assailants were seen leaving the scene in a white van that was later found abandoned in Chessington. Det Ch Insp Hayes, who described the assault as \"horrifying\", said there were reports of people filming on mobile phones during the altercation, and immediately afterwards. She said it was \"imperative\" police get hold of the footage. Det Ch Insp Hayes also said police wanted to speak to the drivers of vehicles that were on the forecourt during the fight.", "question": "A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder over a \" horrifying @placeholder \" at a busy motorway service station .", "option_0": "explosion", "option_1": "event", "option_2": "period", "option_3": "attack", "option_4": "drugs"}
{"id": 345, "article": "The information covers individuals who declined an honour from 1950 to 1999 and have since died. It identifies 287 instances [PDF list], including 89 rejected MBEs, 89 OBEs, 61 CBEs and 27 knighthoods. For some people such honours and the official recognition they represent can be a high point of their lives, but clearly for others they have been unwanted, whether for reasons of principle or otherwise. This official data confirms much that has been reported previously, for example that a serial refuser was the painter L S Lowry, who over a period of 21 years dismissed the offer of an OBE, a CBE, a knighthood, and twice becoming a Companion of Honour. The list also confirms that those who have rejected knighthoods include the actor Robert Morley, the writer Aldous Huxley and the physicist Paul Dirac, while those who dismissed lesser honours include the author Roald Dahl, the painter Francis Bacon and the biologist Francis Crick. Some who accepted one honour previously or later refused another, such as the film director Sir Alfred Hitchcock who had earlier turned down a CBE before he was knighted. The list also discloses some apparently new information, however. The author and publisher Leonard Woolf declined to be made a Companion of Honour in 1966, the journalist and editor of the New Statesman Kingsley Martin turned down a knighthood in 1965, and the critic and academic F R Leavis rejected a CBE in 1966. As far as I know, these facts (among others in the list) are previously unreported, although I am not an expert on their biographies and could be wrong. The list also identifies many more obscure figures who for whatever reason did not want to accept the honours on offer. The Cabinet Office has been keen to preserve the secrecy which has traditionally surrounded the honours system and at first refused to reveal the list in response to a BBC freedom of information request. The BBC then complained to the Information Commissioner who ruled that it was in the public interest to disclose the information for honours rejected before 2000. The Commissioner argued that disclosing more recent rejections was more likely to undermine the integrity of the honours system and that 2000 was a reasonable if arbitrary cut off point. The data does not cover living individuals since that may constitute personal information protected by the Data Protection Act. And to avoid doubt it is restricted to people where, according to the Cabinet Office, \"it is immediately apparent as a matter of fact that a relevant individual is dead\". This means that the individuals listed are only a limited proportion of all those who have declined honours. It does nevertheless show that over the decades there have been many individuals who have not wanted to accept a form of recognition which the British state wanted to bestow on them. What we don't know, however, are their various motives.", "question": "The Cabinet Office has been @placeholder by the Information Commissioner to release an official version of what could be called an alternative honours list - names of people who rejected honours .", "option_0": "condemned", "option_1": "defended", "option_2": "forced", "option_3": "rejected", "option_4": "instructed"}
{"id": 346, "article": "Twenty-two of the birds arrived in the UK a year ago from Poland after breaking their wings in the accident. After regaining enough strength to undergo operations, three were able to take flight again this week. Shorelands Wildlife Gardens, Norfolk, hopes it will be able to reintroduce the species to England. Ben Potterton, Shorelands' owner, said: \"For a bird to hit a power line, fall to the ground, have all that trauma and veterinary care and then fly again is miraculous. \"They're soaring around as we would expect them to do.\" Mr Potterton said it was hoped the wounded birds could breed in captivity, and any chicks introduced to the wild.", "question": "A group of @placeholder storks , which were never expected to fly again after hitting power lines , have made a \" miraculous \" recovery .", "option_0": "infected", "option_1": "recycled", "option_2": "rescued", "option_3": "school", "option_4": "showing"}
{"id": 347, "article": "Cory Allen scored a hat-trick as Wales opened a 28-9 half-time lead. But the centre may miss the rest of the World Cup with full-back Liam Williams and props Paul James and Samson Lee among other injury worries. Uruguay fly-half Felipe Berchesi impressed and kicked Los Teros into an early 6-0 lead, before Wales responded. However, six days before facing England at Twickenham, Warren Gatland's team were not convincing, despite completely dominating the forward exchanges. Relive Wales' win as it happened. Wales lacked composure behind the scrum, while Uruguay were dogged and courageous opponents who refused to capitulate even after Wales reached the 40-point mark on the hour. Wales eventually made their forward dominance pay, with two tries for scrum-half Gareth Davies and one each for Lee, Justin Tipuric and Hallam Amos. With Jonathan Davies, Rhys Webb and Leigh Halfpenny already out of the tournament, the last thing Wales needed was more injury trouble. So the sight of full-back Williams limping off with a thigh injury after 35 minutes on his return after foot surgery was a major worry for Gatland, who said it was too early to tell how serious the full-back's injury was. Gatland also described Allen's hamstring injury as \"significant\", and he said props Lee and James have calf injuries. Gatland faces a decision over which prop to replace and there is also concern over fellow prop Aaron Jarvis, who has a rib problem. There was some good news for Wales with flanker Dan Lydiate passing his concussion protocol. With fly-half Berchesi a lively playmaker and their defence determined to cut down anything in a red shirt, Uruguay started with purpose and were 6-0 up in nine minutes. Wales hit back with their pack dominating and Lee touching down from a driving line-out. It was a recipe which troubled the South Americans all afternoon, though the Welsh backs play was less impressive. But it was Allen who profited most, taking advantage of Rhys Priestland's chip to score the first of his three tries. His third, on the stroke of half-time, was the pick with Tipuric and Amos combining superbly as Wales claimed their bonus point. Wales' driving line-out was their main weapon, but this was not a vintage display. Uruguay's mix of full-time Europe-based professionals and home-grown part-timers deserved their lap of honour and the warm applause. England's pack is unlikely to be as accommodating at Twickenham on Saturday. Wales coach Warren Gatland: \"Hopefully some of those players will recover over the next couple of days. The next day we're back in training is Wednesday to get ready for Saturday. \"The number of turnovers was a bit disappointing. We had 24 turnovers. Respecting the ball and keeping the ball in hand is a big thing. \"I was pleased up front. We stuck to the task and I was pretty happy with some of the performances. \"Tipuric was outstanding again. Jake Ball had a really strong game for us and the front five stuck to their task as well.\" Wales captain Sam Warburton: \"They were going to be extremely passionate. It was just weathering that storm in the first 10 minutes, being accurate and being as patient as we could. \"I'm a little bit disappointed we didn't look after the ball well enough so there's a lot we can improve on. \"But the main thing was winning and getting a bonus point and we managed to do that. \"The most important thing in this group is picking up your bonus points. \"It's unlikely to come to a [match] points decision.\" Wales: Liam Williams (Scarlets); Alex Cuthbert (Cardiff Blues), Cory Allen (Cardiff Blues), Scott Williams (Scarlets), Hallam Amos (Newport Gwent Dragons); Rhys Priestland (Bath Rugby), Gareth Davies (Scarlets); Paul James (Ospreys), Scott Baldwin (Ospreys), Samson Lee (Scarlets), Jake Ball (Scarlets), Luke Charteris (Racing 92), Sam Warburton (capt, Cardiff Blues), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), James King (Ospreys). Replacements: Owens for Baldwin (62), Jarvis for James (31), Francis for Lee (40), Day for Charteris (46), Lydiate for Warburton (58), Moriarty for King (46), Lloyd Williams for Allen (54), Morgan for Liam Williams (35). Uruguay: Gaston Mieres; Santiago Gibernau, Joaquin Prada, Andres Vilaseca, Rodrigo Silva; Felipe Berchesi, Agustin Ormaechea; Alejo Corral, Carlos Arboleya, Mario Sagario, Santiago Vilaseca (capt), Jorge Zerbino, Juan Manuel Gaminara, Alejandro Nieto, Matias Beer. Replacements: Kessler for Sarazola (77), Duran for Sagario (71), Sanguinetti for Corral (77), Lamanna for Zerbino (61), Alonso for Vilaseca (74), De Freitas for Beer (58), Duran for Ormaechea (74), Bulanti for Prada (74).", "question": "Wales claimed a bonus point as they opened their World Cup campaign with a stuttering eight - try win over @placeholder Uruguay at the Millennium Stadium .", "option_0": "practice", "option_1": "neighbours", "option_2": "crowd", "option_3": "battling", "option_4": "race"}
{"id": 348, "article": "Stephen Vaughan admitted perverting the course of justice by giving Timmy Donovan, 30, his Mercedes in which he fled to Germany. PC Doyle was killed while off duty on a Christmas night out in Liverpool in December 2014. Vaughan, 31, was sentenced to 15 months at Liverpool Crown Court. Donovan and Andrew Taylor, 29, both of Huyton, were jailed for PC Doyle's manslaughter in September 2015. Vaughan, of Tower Way, Woolton, started his football career at Liverpool as a reserve and went on to play for Chester City. He is now a boxing promoter.", "question": "A former Liverpool reserve player who @placeholder one of the killers of Merseyside police officer Neil Doyle has been jailed .", "option_0": "used", "option_1": "targeted", "option_2": "portrayed", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "inspired"}
{"id": 349, "article": "For example, the shooting in the head of Malala Yousafzai - an advocate for girls' education -  in 2012; the Taliban murder of 132 schoolchildren in an attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2014; and the abduction by Boko Haram of some 200 Nigerian schoolgirls in the same year. Behind the headlines, the outlook, in terms of educational opportunities for children in some of the poorest parts of the world, appears to be worsening, in spite of international efforts to reverse the trend. Norway's capital, Oslo, played host this week to an education and development conference, led by the Norwegian Prime Minister, Erna Solberg. On the agenda was the issue of what to do about the education of children, particularly girls, worldwide. Malala, now a Nobel Peace Prize winner for her campaigning on education, attended, as did former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Malala, writing in the Daily Telegraph, quoted a figure of 60 million girls worldwide being denied an education. In the Guardian newspaper, Mr Brown described the challenge as nothing less than \"the civil rights struggle of our time\". New figures from Unesco appear to back up that argument, revealing that the global number of children and young adolescents not enrolled in school has been rising in recent years. In the school year ending in 2013, some 124 million children between the ages of six and 15 either dropped out of school or did not enrol in the first place. That was up on the figure of 122 million in 2011. The majority of those children who have never enrolled are girls, so that means some 62 million girls are out of school worldwide. The global number of out-of-school children of primary school age is also rising. It now stands at 59 million. Of those, 30 million live in sub-Saharan Africa and 10 million in South and West Asia. Girls' primary school completion rates are below 50% in most poor countries, according to Unesco. Other statistics pertaining to the situation of girls - and the impact on their life chances - are just as troubling. According to Unicef, every year 15 million girls are forced or coerced into marriage, and one in every three girls in the developing world is married by the age of 18. Many of those who have studied the issue believe that women and girls face particular obstacles that keep them out of education, including violence, early pregnancy, discrimination, and the costs of going to school. Wars, big and small, are also taking their toll. Some 30 million children are believed to have been displaced worldwide as a result of the growing conflict and chaos in different parts of the globe. Figures are hard to pinpoint but according to the UNHCR, the number of refugees has risen to 59 million in 2014, an increase of more than eight million in just one year. That was largely due to the conflict in Syria, which saw an average of 42,500 people become refugees every day last year. The majority of Syrian children lack basic necessities and are unable to go to school. As of December 2013, of the 4.8 million school-age Syrian children, some two million inside the country were out of school, as were half a million Syrian refugee children in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. It is hard to believe that as recently as 2000, Syria had achieved universal primary enrolment. According to Unesco, Syria is not the only country with a large number of out-of-school children and adolescents. At least one million children were denied the right to education in each of the following countries: India, Indonesia, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Sudan, Sudan and the United Republic of Tanzania. To pick out just one country in that list - Pakistan - there has been some progress in literacy rates but the situation for young girls, particularly in rural communities, remains a huge challenge. The paragraphs below in the latest Unesco report sum up the scale of the challenge worldwide. \"Despite [some] gains [in literacy rates], 781 million adults still could not read or write - two-thirds of them (496 million) were women. In more than a dozen countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than half of all adults had basic literacy skills,\" says the report. It goes on: \"Among youths, 126 million were illiterate, of which 77 million were female. Even though the size of the global illiterate population is shrinking, the female proportion has remained virtually steady at 63% to 64%.\" Study after study appears to suggest that education helps girls increase their potential wages with each extra year, and the financial independence gained helps them take control of their lives. The participants at the conference in Oslo recognised the scale of the challenge. But it is not obvious that just agreeing on aims and goals is enough to bring about much change.", "question": "Occasionally @placeholder break through that give a graphic sense of the enormous educational struggle faced by children , particularly girls , in many parts of the world .", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "letters", "option_2": "pictures", "option_3": "lines", "option_4": "stories"}
{"id": 350, "article": "He he took a drink of the city's filtered water to \"show it was safe\". The visit was prompted by a letter the president received from eight-year-old resident Amariyanna Copeny. A change in water supplier in 2014 sparked the crisis, with nearly 100,000 people exposed to high levels of lead, sparking an outcry. Mr Obama declared a state of emergency for the city in January and ordered federal aid for the crisis. \"Filtered water is safe, and it works,\" he said during a discussion with officials in Flint. \"Working with the state and the city, filters are now available for everyone in the city.\" More than 40% of Flint residents are impoverished and more than half are black. Residents must use faucet filters or bottled water as a result of the crisis. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has been criticised for his handling of it and two state employees in the environmental department have been charged with misleading the US government about the problem. And a Flint employee is being charged with altering water test results. Mr Snyder was booed by the crowd at a high school where Mr Obama is due to deliver remarks later. \"Let me begin by saying I understand why you are angry and frustrated. I want to come here today to apologise,\" he said. Protesters gathering near the school are chanting \"Flint lives matter\", arguing that state officials' response to the water situation was not enough. The Michigan Senate approved $128m (?¡ê88m) in aid for Flint on Wednesday. Some of that money will go towards replacing lead pipes connecting water to customers.", "question": "President Barack Obama has @placeholder a glass of filtered water on a visit to the Michigan city of Flint , which has been wracked by a public health crisis .", "option_0": "declared", "option_1": "condemned", "option_2": "released", "option_3": "unveiled", "option_4": "sipped"}
{"id": 351, "article": "The fire service was alerted at 12:50 and the airport terminal remained open while crews tackled the blaze on the car park's first-floor. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service sent four engines to the scene to assist crews based at the airport. An airport spokesman said the incident was not causing any disruption to flights. A fire service spokeswoman said: \"On arrival, crews found three cars on fire producing large volumes of smoke. \"Four firefighters in breathing apparatus were able to bring the fire under control with a high-pressure jet hose. \"Fire services remain at the airport and are making sure the fire is completely extinguished before they leave. Officers from the SFRS fire investigation unit are also at the scene.\" An airport spokesman said: \"I can confirm that the fire in our multi-storey car park has been dealt with. \"We are currently investigating the cause. We thank passengers for their patience and co-operation as we handled the situation.\"", "question": "Fire crews were @placeholder to Edinburgh Airport after three cars caught fire in the multi-storey car park .", "option_0": "evacuated", "option_1": "called", "option_2": "treated", "option_3": "diverted", "option_4": "forced"}
{"id": 352, "article": "Opposition leaders blamed the shooting of Luis Manuel Diaz on the ruling Socialist Party. The party has denied the allegation. President Nicolas Maduro has said the opposition is trying to discredit his government. Luis Manuel Diaz was killed by a man who approached the stage after a rally in the town of Altagracia de Orituco. central Guarico state. Lilian Tintori, the wife of jailed opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez, addressed opposition supporters alongside Mr Diaz shortly before the shooting. But officials say Mr Diaz was a well-known criminal caught in a gang dispute. Opposition politicians say their candidates have been attacked on numerous occasions in the past weeks. Miguel Pizarro, an opposition politician running for re-election in Caracas, said he was confronted by armed men who shot into the air in the neighbourhood of Petare on Sunday. Miranda state governor Henrique Capriles said he was attacked by a group of masked men in the town of Yare earlier this month. Correspondents say the killing of Mr Diaz has increased concerns about volatility in the run-up to the election for a new National Assembly.", "question": "Venezuela has arrested three people @placeholder of the murder of a regional opposition leader at a campaign rally last week ahead of parliamentary elections next Sunday .", "option_0": "suspected", "option_1": "notice", "option_2": "wake", "option_3": "including", "option_4": "held"}
{"id": 353, "article": "It happened in an alleyway off Cromwell Street on Thursday at about 19:00 GMT. Gloucestershire Police said the three people who attacked the man, who lives in sheltered housing, demanded money then stole his cigarettes. A 36-year-old local man arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm has been bailed until 9 June. Det Con Aimee Batt said: \"This was a savage attack on a vulnerable man who suffered very nasty injuries. \"We're carrying out extensive inquiries, that includes forensic and CCTV work, but in the meantime we're really eager to hear from people who may have seen something suspicious or know anything about the assault.\"", "question": "A man has received serious facial injuries including a broken eye socket and @placeholder jaw during an attack by three people in Gloucester .", "option_0": "targeted", "option_1": "fractured", "option_2": "threatened", "option_3": "sports", "option_4": "confronted"}
{"id": 354, "article": "The Confederate battle flag has been removed from Alabama's state capitol and Mississippi officials have urged the state flag have the emblem removed. The backlash against the flag was sparked by a mass shooting at a black church in South Carolina last week. Nine worshippers were killed and the suspected gunman has appeared in photos holding the flag. Police believe the slaughter at a bible study group week was racially motivated. The New York Times reported that the US Department of Justice \"will likely file federal hate crime charges\" against Dylann Roof. His embracing of the flag, which was the Civil War battle flag of the southern states, has prompted politicians to shift positions on this once revered emblem of southern identity. Four Confederate flags were taken down from a Civil War monument outside the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after  Governor Robert Bentley said he did not want the flag to be a \"distraction\". Meanwhile, debate has been revived in Mississippi over the presence of a smaller version of the rebel flag within the current state flag. Mississippi's House Speaker has called for the state flag to be changed and Senator Roger Wicker has said it should be in a museum. \"I have not viewed Mississippi's current state flag as offensive,\" Mr Wicker said, but many of his fellow citizens \"feel differently\" and \"our state flag increasingly portrays a false impression of our state to others\". The debate over Confederate imagery in the Mississippi flag is exposing a generational divide in the state's Republican Party - and even within one of its most prominent families. Former Governor Haley Barbour said the Confederate flag has nothing to do with the shootings in Charleston. \"It is part of history, just like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, who were all slave owners,\" he said. \"Are we now going to change the name of the Washington Monument, too?\" His nephew, state Republican official Henry Barbour, countered: \"How can we keep things the same? The flag didn't cause Charleston, but it represents hatred to many, especially our black brothers/sisters.\" Fourteen years ago, state voters overwhelming chose to keep their flag as it has been for over 100 years. If that's going to change now, it could be due in part to a generation that's well removed from the civil rights battles of the past. Other developments around the south include: Opposition to the flag in southern political circles has been mirrored in the commercial world, with major retailers like Amazon and Walmart removing products with the design. Confederate groups argue they should not be connected with Roof's actions. \"First it's the flags, then the monuments, then the streets' names, then the holidays,\" said Kelly Barrow, commander in chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. \"I feel like it's open season on anything Confederate.\" The Confederate battle flag became a potent symbol for the southern states fighting the Civil War as they sought to break away from the union. It is seen by some as an icon of slavery and racism while others say the banner symbolises their heritage and history. The battle flag's resurgence in the US South occurred in the mid-20th century, during the civil rights movement. Why do people still fly the Confederate flag?", "question": "Anger at the presence of Confederate symbols on public @placeholder in the US south is growing .", "option_0": "soil", "option_1": "sentiment", "option_2": "streets", "option_3": "property", "option_4": "grounds"}
{"id": 355, "article": "Sky withdrew the Colombian, 28, from competition in April over the results of out-of-competition blood tests. But the UCI, the sport's governing body, said that after examination by independent experts \"there was no basis to proceed further\". Henao was also withdrawn by Sky in March 2014 for three months over their monitoring of his biological passport. Henao's 2016 tests were carried out at altitude and Sky commissioned an independent 10-week research programme to find out if the fact he was born at 2,125m above altitude had any bearing on his blood values. The results revealed nothing to raise suspicion of any wrongdoing by Henao. Team Sky's Chris Froome begins the defence of his Tour de France title on 2 July.", "question": "Team Sky 's Sergio Henao has been cleared to return to racing following analysis of his biological @placeholder .", "option_0": "conduct", "option_1": "circumstances", "option_2": "show", "option_3": "heritage", "option_4": "data"}
{"id": 356, "article": "According to new data, up to 57% of all Amazonian trees may already fit the criteria of being globally threatened. If confirmed, the estimates would raise the number of threatened plant species on Earth by almost a quarter. Forest cover in the Amazon has been shrinking for decades, but little is known about the impact on individual plant species. The trees at risk include iconic species like the Brazil nut tree, food crops such as cacao, the source of chocolate, as well as rare trees that are almost unknown to science. The research, published in the journal, Science Advances, compared data from almost 1,500 forest plots with maps of current and predicted forest loss to estimate how many tree species have been lost and how many are likely to disappear by the middle of the century. It found that the Amazon  - the world's most diverse forest - could be home to more than 15,000 tree species. Of these, between 36% and 57% are likely to qualify as being globally threatened under the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species criteria. Prof Carlos Peres from the University of East Anglia's School of Environmental Sciences in Norwich is one of 158 researchers from 21 countries who worked on the study. He said there was a big gap in knowledge about all the plants and animals in the Amazon, from trees and ferns to bats and birds. \"Our research estimates that more than half of all species may face extinction,\" he said. \"Fortunately protected areas and indigenous territories now cover over half of the Amazon basin, and likely contain sizeable populations of most threatened species. \" He said parks and reserves - which face \"a barrage of threats - from dam construction and mining to wildfires and droughts\" - will prevent extinction of threatened species only if they are properly managed. \"In a sense this is a call for more effort into the 'last chance saloon' to discover this diversity before it goes inevitably extinct,\" said Prof Peres. William Laurance from James Cook University in Australia, who also contributed to the study, added: \"Either we stand up and protect these critical parks and indigenous reserves, or deforestation will erode them until we see large-scale extinctions.\" The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is regarded as the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species. Follow Helen on Twitter", "question": "More than half of all tree species in the Amazon face extinction , @placeholder international scientists .", "option_0": "according", "option_1": "warn", "option_2": "increasing", "option_3": "state", "option_4": "writes"}
{"id": 357, "article": "The interconnectivity of social media means it is a perfect hunting ground for illegal activity, and increasingly people are realising that their \"friend\" many not actually be their friend. Cybercrime on social networks can be broken down into three categories: The first category is the most widespread. \"The problem with social media is that people have an inherent trust,\" explains Mark James, security specialist with IT security firm ESET. \"And that is what is being tapped into by those cybercriminals.\" \"People still believe that you have to click on something and download a file to be infected,\" he says. \"This really isn't the case anymore. There are things like drive-by-downloads, infected adverts and things like that. It's very easy to be compromised on your machines.\" In many cases the initial malware is just a gateway into the system. It doesn't do any real harm, yet. But once a back door is established to the infected computer, that access may then be put up for sale. A package of data offering, of access to thousands of infected computers, will be snapped up by another criminal for use in a variety of ways. With access to the computers received, criminals may then install software which, say, hijacks the victim's online banking, or reads usernames and passwords. One of the most profitable scams is installing ransomware, malicious software that encrypts the data on a victim's computer and then asks for payment before restoring the system to its original state. Social media is also an ideal hunting ground for anyone who has a clear target to attack, be it an individual or a company. If you want to see who works in which company and in which position, or who they are friends with professionally and privately, this information can often be easily picked up on social media. Any attack on a specific individual will be much easier if the target has made a lot of private information publicly available on their profiles. If the target is a corporation, it is easy to single out an individual or a group of employees, and then target their machines in a focused attack. And once one machine in a network is affected, getting access to the entire structure is not difficult. \"There's such a big crossover between your personal social media accounts and the impact you can cause within a corporate environment,\" warns Michael Sentonas, vice president of technology strategy at cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. \"Most organisations allow their users to connect to Facebook, to Instagram, to Twitter and other platforms and that's where an attack - even if it was targeted at a home user - can have a significant impact on the workplace.\" \"Our only effective protection is a multilayered approach,\" Mr James of ESET explains. \"There's no single protection anymore, there's no magic bullet or single piece of software that's going to protect us.\" While security software is important, it's only a first step. It is a cat and mouse game where the bad guys produce the malware and the good guys try to produce the means to stop it. Traditional anti-virus software is \"signature-based\", comparing whatever it encounters to a database of signatures. If it's a match, it's a virus. But that means the \"good guys\" are always one step behind the attackers. \"From a business perspective, my advice is to challenge that normal thinking and look for technologies that rely less on signatures but rather on technologies like machine learning, that look for patterns of behaviour in order to detect an attack,\" advises Mr Sentonas. Such software looks for suspect behaviour. Any suspicious event will be treated as potential threat, even if there's no matching signature. It's an approach that security experts hope will put them one step ahead of the attackers. Mr James says: \"In a corporate structure, it's important to make people understand that they themselves are an important part of the security structure. \"We are not going to stop the end user from clicking on a video or following a particular link. But if we can protect them for 80-90% of what they do, then hopefully with their education and common sense, we'll get that to a 98-99% success rate,\" he says. Social media, though, is not just an arena where criminals can steal information. It is also used for trading compromised data. \"Anybody is just two clicks away from finding compromised financial data in social media,\" says Gabriel Guzman, head of cyber intelligence at RSA, the security division of tech firm EMC. \"Information is easily accessible - and a massive amount of criminals are in fact doing this out of their own real profiles.\" On Facebook, for example, a quick search for certain credit card details will within minutes take you to people offering stolen information. Social networks provide the perfect infrastructure to contact like-minded individuals, say experts. \"Most social networks have no identity verification process and policing them is very hard,\" explains Bryce Boland, chief technology officer for Asia Pacific of FireEye. Setting up a fake profile to avoid detection takes a matter of minutes, and social media sites have the inherent interest in keeping access simple. After all, they want to attract as many users as possible. Most social networks try to be rigorously vigilant against such activity. But the inherently open nature of these sites means that the battle between disclosure and security may be only just beginning. Follow Technology of Business editor @matthew_wall on Twitter Click here for more Technology of Business features", "question": "Do you ever hesitate to click on a post shared by a friend on Facebook ? Not because it 's a boring picture of their dinner , but because you 're suspicious it might not actually have been @placeholder by them ?", "option_0": "criticised", "option_1": "approved", "option_2": "posted", "option_3": "released", "option_4": "raised"}
{"id": 358, "article": "\"We are deeply concerned by the decision of the Egyptian Armed Forces to remove President Morsi and suspend the Egyptian constitution. \"I now call on the Egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible through an inclusive and transparent process, and to avoid any arbitrary arrests of President Morsi and his supporters. \"Given today's developments, I have also directed the relevant departments and agencies to review the implications under US law for our assistance to the Government of Egypt. \"The voices of all those who have protested peacefully must be heard - including those who welcomed today's developments and those who have supported President Morsi.\" President Barack Obama \"We never support in countries the intervention by the military, but what needs to happen now in Egypt is for democracy to flourish and for a genuine democratic transition to take place. \"All parties need to be involved in that, and that's what Britain and our allies will be saying very clearly to the Egyptians.\" Prime Minister David Cameron \"I want to call upon all parties involved not to use any violence. There is no question that despite Egypt's variety of opinions human rights apply to all its citizens. \"The country's problems can only be solved if Egypt enters a political process as quickly as possible and democratic and rule of law will be established as soon as possible.\" Chancellor Angela Merkel \"The democratic process has stopped and must return. What is happening in Egypt is obviously a fail. It's not only people who gathered but also a president who was toppled after democratic election. So the challenge, now, is to do everything in order to start the process again. \"What really matters is to organise irreproachable elections as soon as possible, as the army took the responsibility of toppling the president and asked the constitutional court president to fulfil this function.\" President Francois Hollande \"We consider it important for all political forces in Egypt to exercise restraint... to consider the broad national interests of their actions, and to prove that they strive to solve the brewing political and socio-economic problems in a democratic framework, without violence, and accounting for the interests of all social groups and religious confessions.\" Foreign ministry statement \"At this moment of continued high tension and uncertainty in the country, the secretary-general reiterates his appeals for calm, non-violence, dialogue and restraint. \"An inclusive approach is essential to addressing the needs and concerns of all Egyptians. Preservation of fundamental rights, including freedom of speech and assembly remain of vital importance. \"In their protests many Egyptians have voiced deep frustrations and legitimate concerns. \"At the same time, military interference in the affairs of any state is of concern. Therefore it will be crucial to quickly reinforce civilian rule in accordance with principles of democracy.\" Secretary General Ban Ki-moon The AU is likely to suspend Egypt from all its activities, according to Reuters. \"Suffice it to say that the AU has a very clear position on coups d'etat. Secondly, it did have an elected government elected through a due democratic process so what is happening currently in Egypt is indeed a matter of grave concern, not just to us in Africa but should be a matter of grave concern to any true believer of a democratic process.\" Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta \"I urge all sides to rapidly return to the democratic process, including the holding of free and fair presidential and parliamentary elections and the approval of a constitution, to be done in a fully inclusive manner, so as to permit the country to resume and complete its democratic transition. \"I hope that the new administration will be fully inclusive and reiterate the importance of ensuring full respect for fundamental rights, freedoms and the rule of law, and will hold the authorities to account for this. \"I strongly condemn all violent acts, offer my condolences to the families of the victims, and urge the security forces to do everything in their power to protect the lives and well-being of Egyptian citizens. I call on all sides to exercise maximum restraint.\" Foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton \"It is unacceptable for a government, which has come to power through democratic elections, to be toppled through illicit means and, even more, a military coup.\" Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu \"What is happening in Egypt is the fall of so-called political Islam. This is the fate of anyone in the world who tries to use religion for political or factional interests.\" President Bashar al-Assad \"Certainly the resistant nation of Egypt will protect its independence and greatness from foreign and enemy opportunism during the difficult conditions that follow. \"With respect for the political origins of its (Egypt's) discerning, civilised and historic people, the Islamic Republic emphasises the need to fulfil their legitimate demands and is hopeful that... developments will provide an atmosphere to meet their needs.\" Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi, quoted by Fars news agency. \"In the name of the Palestinian people and its leaders, I am honoured to congratulate you (Mr Mansour) on assuming the leadership of the Arab Republic of Egypt in this transitory phase in its history.\" President Mahmoud Abbas, in a statement published by  the official WAFA news agency. \"Ennahda rejects what happened and believes legitimacy is represented by President Mohammed Morsi, and no one else.\" Ennahda, Tunisia's ruling Islamist party \"In the name of the people of Saudi Arabia and on my behalf, we congratulate your leadership of Egypt in this critical period of its history. \"We pray for God to help you bear the responsibility laid upon you to achieve the ambitions of our brotherly people of Egypt.\" King Abdullah \"His Highness Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan, the Foreign Minister of the UAE, expressed his full confidence that the great people of Egypt are able to cross these difficult moments that Egypt is going through. \"Sheikh Abdullah said that the great Egyptian army was able to prove again that they are the fence of Egypt and that they are the protector and strong shield that guarantee Egypt will remain a state of institutions and law.\" \"Qatar will continue to respect the will of Egypt and its people across the spectrum,\" Foreign ministry official quoted by Al Jazeera King Abdullah II congratulated Adly Mansour. In a cable sent to the interim president, the king stressed his absolute keenness to continue to work to enhance the bilateral ties in various fields in the common interest of both peoples. \"Jordan supports the will and choice of the great Egyptian people,\" he said. \"The [Hamas] movement does not interfere in Egyptian affairs [and has] no comment on the Egyptian army's decision to isolate President Morsi.\"", "question": "World leaders @placeholder to the dramatic events in Egypt following the army 's overthrow of the first democratically elected president , Mohammed Morsi , after days of anti-government unrest .", "option_0": "shadow", "option_1": "according", "option_2": "respond", "option_3": "surged", "option_4": "referred"}
{"id": 359, "article": "Manchester County Court said Ryanair could not cut the time a passenger has in which to claim from six years to two by adding a clause to its small print. The ruling sets a precedent for delayed EU passengers on all airlines. Ryanair said the six-year rule was \"unnecessary and unreasonable\" and that it would appeal against the decision. The Supreme Court ruled last year that delayed passengers in England and Wales have six years to claim, but Ryanair says passengers who book with it accept their terms and conditions, and therefore the claim limit is two years. But at Manchester County Court, Judge Platts ruled Ryanair could not use a clause in its small print to impose a limit. Ryanair disputes the suggestion from some lawyers that it could be exposed to hundreds of millions of pounds worth of compensation claims from customers who suffered delays. The airline says that even if its appeal against the Manchester County Court ruling is unsuccessful, its maximum potential liability is €5m (¡ê3.6m). The low figure is the result of the fact that, according to Ryanair, more than 90% of passengers affected by delays make a valid claim within two years. That means that very few would need to submit one between two and six years after the event, even if they realised that they had the option. Nevertheless, Ryanair and other airlines are deeply unhappy about the EU-wide system triggering payouts which can be way in excess of the cost of the ticket. The consumer group, Which?, said airlines should hold their hands up and pay compensation where it is due. Lawyers say the ruling stands to affect millions of air passengers, because if Ryanair had won, all airlines may have been able to impose a two-year time limit on all existing and future flight delay claims. Passengers can claim between ¡ê180 and ¡ê440 for a delay of at least three hours, depending on the length of the wait and the distance to be travelled. The Independent's travel editor, Simon Calder, said airlines were \"absolutely furious\" with the ruling. He added: \"They say it's tough running an airline. Things occasionally go wrong, but to give people - as they put it - free money seems totally disproportionate.\" Legal firm Bott & Company, based in Wilmslow, Cheshire, which represented the two passengers who brought the case against Ryanair. It says the ruling could potentially total up to ¡ê610m of past claims for Ryanair - although the airline disputes this assessment. The firm's Kevin Clarke said: \"We're delighted that the court has dismissed yet another argument put forward by the airlines to restrict passenger rights. \"We fully expect the airlines to continue to fight these cases but we are prepared to hold them to account in each and every instance where the law says compensation is payable, and with the courts continuing to find on behalf of consumers we've real cause to be optimistic that passengers will receive the compensation they are entitled to.\" Ryanair said in a statement: \"We note this ruling which reverses lower court orders that a two-year time limit for claims is reasonable. \"Since we believe a six-year time limit for submitting such claims is both unnecessary and unreasonable, we have instructed our lawyers to immediately appeal this ruling.\" Jenny Fletcher has a claim in progress for compensation from Ryanair after her flight from Granada in Spain to Stansted Airport was delayed, and then transferred to depart from Malaga instead. She said: \"It's fantastic news. I'm so pleased that this has finally got approval. Groups of people have had their holidays completely ruined, and now there's finally a bit of hope for us.\" Ryanair has told the BBC it would not comment on Ms Fletcher's case, as it is still going through the courts.", "question": "Ryanair has @placeholder a test case over flight delays , which could affect compensation claims being made by millions of passengers .", "option_0": "deployed", "option_1": "become", "option_2": "backed", "option_3": "lost", "option_4": "criticised"}
{"id": 360, "article": "Daniel Lee Kelly, 37, from Grove Park, south London, admitted using the drone to send a psychoactive substance and tobacco into HMP Swaleside. At Maidstone Crown Court he was sentenced to 14 months for two counts of sending prohibited items into the Eastchurch prison. It is thought to be the first UK conviction of its type, according to Kent Police. Kelly was arrested on 25 April after a vehicle was spotted by police in Leysdown with the lights on. A person then ran to the car and it sped off, police said. A drone, which had been sprayed black and had black tape placed over its lights, was found in the boot. Det Con Mark Silk, said: \"Kelly's offending was serious. Psychoactive substances and tobacco have an inflated value in prison and this can lead to offences being committed within. This places both inmates and prison staff at risk.\" Recent research by the Press Association found smuggling involving drones had risen from no incidents in 2013 to 33 in 2015. Ingrid Edwards, 25, from Charlton, was cleared of the same charges.", "question": "A man has been jailed for using a drone to send @placeholder items into a prison .", "option_0": "throwing", "option_1": "helping", "option_2": "carrying", "option_3": "crashing", "option_4": "banned"}
{"id": 361, "article": "The route between Harwich, Essex and Esbjerg in Denmark, run by DFDS Seaways, has been in operation for nearly 140 years. The company said the route \"has been struggling for a long time\" and would not be able to take on costs associated with a new environmental law. The final ferry is to sail on Sunday. Chief executive of DFDS Seaways, Niel Smedegaard, said: \"The route is of particular historical significance to DFDS so it's a very sad day for us all. \"Our regrets go to our many passengers who must now see the last passenger ferry route between the UK and Scandinavia close.\" How popular are ferries? ?Last year, 20.5 million people used ferries to travel abroad from the UK - the first year on year increase since 2010 ?One of the most popular routes, between Dover and Calais, has had car ferries running since the 1930s ?The number of passengers travelling from ports on the East Coast fell last year for the third consecutive year, to 2.2 million ?A number of passenger routes linking Norway and Newcastle ceased running in 2008 ?Ferries between Harwich and Hamburg in Germany were stopped in 2002 ?Stena Line runs a ferry from Harwich to the Hook of Holland. The line has seen an increase in passenger numbers in recent years From 1 January 2015, a European Union directive aimed at reducing sulphur dioxide emissions from ships will come into force. DFDS said this would have resulted in a ¡ê2m a year increase in the cost of the Harwich to Esbjerg ferry route. Mr Smedegaard said the company had not been able to reduce costs enough to enable the route to bear the extra charges. In June last year, the Sirena Seaways vessel running the Harwich-Esbjerg route hit the quay while docking and started to let in water. There were 489 passengers on board, but no-one was trapped or injured. The crash caused severe damage to the quay and holed the ferry in several places, some below the waterline. An investigation found one of the ship's back-up systems was keeping an engine running at 63% power when it was approaching the dock. This prevented tugs from moving the vessel so passengers could disembark safely. At the time, DFDS said changes were made to stop such an accident happening again.", "question": "The UK 's only ferry link to Scandinavia is to close for good , marking the \" the end of an era \" , it s @placeholder says .", "option_0": "body", "option_1": "society", "option_2": "sounds", "option_3": "operator", "option_4": "groups"}
{"id": 362, "article": "The special, called The Return of Doctor Mysterio, will be shown on BBC One on Christmas Day. It sees The Doctor working together with a superhero called Doctor Mysterio to save New York from a deadly alien threat. The dynamic duo will be joined on their quest by an investigative journalist, played by actress Charity Wakefield. The mysterious Doctor Mysterio will be played by actor Justin Chatwin, and the episode will be written by Steven Moffat. Writer Steven Moffat said: \"I've always loved superheroes and this Christmas Doctor Who dives into that world. My favourite superhero is Clark Kent. Not Superman, Clark Kent.\" Matt Lucas, who said he would return to Doctor Who earlier this year, will also appear in this episode.", "question": "This year 's Christmas special episode of Doctor Who , will see the Doctor @placeholder up with a superhero .", "option_0": "tie", "option_1": "teaming", "option_2": "set", "option_3": "popped", "option_4": "speed"}
{"id": 363, "article": "It was necessary to confiscate Yuichi Sugimoto's passport in order to protect his life, the authorities said. The 59-year-old photographer, who had planned to enter Syria on 27 February, described the move as a threat to the freedom of press. Two Japanese hostages were killed by Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria in January. However, Mr Sugimoto told reporters that he had no intention to visit areas controlled by IS. It is said to be the first time the Japanese government has taken such a step. The foreign ministry says it is in accordance with a provision in the country's passport law, that allows a confiscation in order to protect the passport holder's life. Mr Sugimoto, who has covered conflict zones in Iraq and Syria before, insists he has always taken precautions and retreated when in danger. \"What happens to my freedom to travel and freedom of the press?\" he told the Japanese paper Asahi Shimbun. He said he was planning to travel to Turkey before entering Syria with a former soldier who had previously worked for Kenji Goto, a fellow journalist who was taken hostage, and killed in Syria last month. A second Japanese citizen, Haruna Yukawa, was also kidnapped and killed by IS militants. After the handling of the hostage crisis, approval ratings for the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have gone up, recent polls show. Two separate surveys conducted by the Yomiuri newspaper and Japan's news agency Kyodo indicate that up to 60% of people approve of the way the government dealt with the crisis. A similar percentage also said Japan's support to countries affected IS should continue to be non-military. In January, Mr Abe promised $200m (?¡ê130m) in non-military aid for countries fighting Islamic State. Officials said that much of the $200m fund would be focused on helping refugees displaced from Syria and Iraq.", "question": "Japan 's authorities have @placeholder the passport of a journalist planning to travel to Syria , local media say .", "option_0": "defended", "option_1": "welcomed", "option_2": "criticised", "option_3": "seized", "option_4": "urged"}
{"id": 364, "article": "The driver and passenger of the 570S, which sell for around ¡ê143,000, escaped with minor injuries following the crash at Heywood, near Trowbridge, Wiltshire. The fire service was called to Westbury Road just before 06:30 BST on Sunday. Crews found the occupants had made it out of the burning sports car, which was stuck beneath a collapsed wall. Images taken by Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue show small fragments of the car's distinctive orange paintwork are still visible. It is not known what speed the McLaren had been travelling at prior to the crash. Damien Bence, from the fire service, said it was \"absolutely amazing\" the car's occupants walked away from the scene. \"Prior to hitting the building it snapped an electric pole in half, and forced the top half of the pole through the window of the house,\" he said. \"We were confronted with a live electrical cable which was strewn across the highway so crews had to negotiate their way through part of a wood in order to get to the incident.\" The 563hp super sports car has twin-turbo 3.8-litre V8 engine and can accelerate from 0-62mph (100km/h) in just 3.2 seconds. Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning", "question": "A McLaren supercar was reduced to a @placeholder , burned - out wreck after it struck a building and burst into flames .", "option_0": "grind", "option_1": "cave", "option_2": "twisted", "option_3": "blackened", "option_4": "smoking"}
{"id": 365, "article": "Powerhouse Fitness, which has nine stores across the UK, was acquired by Germany-based Sport-Tiedje Group for an undisclosed sum. Sport-Tiedje currently runs 30 home fitness equipment stores in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark. The company said it would retain the Powerhouse brand name and staff. Powerhouse Fitness, which is the trading name of Laidir Leisure Ltd, was founded by David Webster in 1980 and opened its first store in Glasgow in 1987. It now has outlets in London, Glasgow, Nottingham, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Leeds. In the financial year to June, the company had a turnover of ?¡ê22m. Sport-Tiedje chief executive Christian Grau said: \"Our company philosophy is to offer our customers the best product for them with the best service and at the best price-performance ratio and we will continue to do this in the UK.\"", "question": "A Glasgow - based fitness equipment supplier has been @placeholder by one of Europe 's biggest specialist retailers .", "option_0": "bought", "option_1": "unveiled", "option_2": "criticised", "option_3": "backed", "option_4": "named"}
{"id": 366, "article": "Paul Wilcox, originally from Warwickshire, sustained severe injuries on his right leg at the popular tourist destination in New South Wales. A swimmer brought him in to the beach but he was pronounced dead. Beaches in the area have been closed for 24 hours and people have been warned to stay out of the water. Mr Wilcox, a British information technology specialist, had been living in Australia for more than 10 years. \"At 10:45 police and paramedics were called to Main Beach after reports of a shark attack,\" New South Wales police said in their initial statement. \"He was in the water when he was bitten.  He was seen floating in shallow water, close to the shore line, and dragged onto the beach. An ambulance was called and he was pronounced dead a short time later,\" the statement said. Police said Mr Wilcox's wife was watching from the shore, ABC reported. Witness Mark Hickey said he tried to help. \"I saw what looked like seaweed but it was blood in the water,\" he said. \"I didn't know it was a person but when I realised, I ran out and waded to the bank and grabbed him and did CPR but it was too late.\" He told local media he saw a \"six or seven foot\" shark in the water. Rescue organisation Surf Lifesaving Australia said the beach was not supervised at the time of the attack as it had occurred a week before seasonal duties. \"At the council's request, lifeguards will be on duty for at least the next 24 hours ensuring the water remains clear,\" it said in a statement. Sources: Tarong.org.au, Australian media reports There have been several shark attacks off Australia's beaches in recent years. In April, a woman was killed as she swam off Tathra beach, also in New South Wales. The Western Australia government, meanwhile, has ordered a cull of sharks, following at least six fatal attacks off the state's beaches in three years. Baited hooks have been installed off Perth's popular beaches. Any shark more than three metres long - which could include Great White, Tiger and Bull sharks - will be shot. The controversial move prompted thousands of people to take part in protests against the culls.", "question": "A 50 - year - old British man has been killed in a shark attack off a beach in Byron Bay , the most easterly point on the Australian @placeholder , officials say .", "option_0": "region", "option_1": "peninsula", "option_2": "state", "option_3": "mainland", "option_4": "coast"}
{"id": 367, "article": "Blake Donnellan was serving part of a 15-year sentence at HMP Sudbury in Derbyshire for conspiracy to supply class A drugs. The 31-year-old was released on temporary licence from the open prison on Christmas Day but failed to return. He was arrested by Greater Manchester Police on Wednesday. Donnellan was jailed in 2011 for his part in a drugs operation which saw 30 people convicted. Drugs with an estimated street value of ?¡ê1m and nearly ?¡ê100,000 in cash were seized by police Devon and Cornwall Police in 2009 and 2010. The haul included 11,000 ecstasy tablets, 14kg (31lbs) of cocaine, 330g (12oz) of heroin, 2kg (4lbs) of amphetamine and 11kg (24lbs) of BZP (Benzylpiperazine). The Crown Prosecution Service said Donnellan was the \"mover and shaker\" in the network and the link between the drugs coming down from Manchester to the Plymouth area and onwards to Cornwall.", "question": "A man once described as the linchpin of a massive drug dealing network has been @placeholder after absconding from prison .", "option_0": "recovered", "option_1": "stolen", "option_2": "saved", "option_3": "recaptured", "option_4": "sacked"}
{"id": 368, "article": "This at least is my mantra when attempting to interpret data I've requested through legislation - be it from local authorities, health boards or the police. It's all too easy to look at a data set, tot up the numbers, and jump to a conclusion. The practice of data journalism - more than anything - requires not only a double-checking of your arithmetic but, above all, context. The Scottish Conservatives research on the number of headteacher vacancies in the country's schools is a case in point. They say: \"Many Scottish primary schools are struggling to recruit heads.\" But, what is meant by \"many\"? Well, let's take a closer look. The Conservatives' figures reveal 51 primary schools in Scotland are without a headteacher. Granted, while this situation is far from ideal, bear in mind there are 2,056 primary schools in Scotland. So, does 2.5% of Scotland's primary schools count as \"many\"? Let's dig a little deeper. The Conservatives include statistics from the local authorities of Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire where the 16 leaderless primary schools account for nearly one third of the national total. Aberdeen City Council is listed as having the most head teacher vacancies (10) which, when divided by the number of primary schools in the area, equates to 21% of primary schools. That's a fifth of schools, which is not an insubstantial number. And what about Aberdeenshire, which has the second largest number of vacancies with six? Well, when divided by the number of primary schools in the area (150), that equates to just 4% of schools. By contrast, let's look at East Dunbartonshire Council where there's just four vacancies. However, with only 39 primary schools, that actually equates to a higher vacancy rate of 10% - more than double the figure for Aberdeenshire. This shows us that you can't simply look at the raw numbers, the picture changes when you provide context. There are also a number of other factors to bear in mind when looking at these figures. Whenever I submit FOIs (freedom of information requests) I'm conscious of asking for data that will clearly illustrate trends over a considerable time period. That could be 10 years in the case of a recent BBC Scotland story on school clothing grants or two years in the case of a piece on taxi driver-related complaints. This is to ensure I'm getting a fair and representative picture of a potential issue. The June 2015 figures from the Scottish Conservatives, however, are a snapshot in time. There are always peaks and troughs one must account for and highlight. This can be seen in historical teacher vacancies between 2002 and 2010. Furthermore, we don't know how many of these June vacancies have since been filled, or whether candidates are currently being interviewed for positions. However, in fairness to anyone doing data research, often getting 10 years' worth of detailed information can be challenging, with many public bodies often refusing to give you it because of the financial and time costs involved. It's also worth highlighting from these figures that 15 of Scotland's 32 local authorities - that's 47% or nearly half of councils - don't have any vacancies for primary headteachers. Finally, a BBC article, which the Conservatives themselves link to in their media release, goes a little way to explaining why there are headteacher vacancies. The piece highlighted a 2009 Scottish government survey asking why only 8% of teachers aspired to become heads. It stated that factors which put teachers off included \"the application and interview process, lack of support, and 'negative perceptions' of the job\". Regardless of what party runs government would reasons, such as these, always exist? I guess political parties are in the business of convincing the electorate that their approach will make things better. To conclude, there's a pressing need for clarity and context when reporting on data. And ultimately, if that need is fulfilled, then it should better direct the political debate.", "question": "With the great @placeholder of the Freedom of Information Act , comes great responsibility .", "option_0": "health", "option_1": "expansion", "option_2": "power", "option_3": "nature", "option_4": "secrets"}
{"id": 369, "article": "Headline writers predicting Greece's departure from the euro have been made to look foolish as yet another meeting is scheduled. But Europe's leaders have now called time on the endless circle of negotiations. The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said: \"I have to say it loud and clear. The final deadline ends this week.\" So Greece has five days to strike a deal and win more bailout funds. If it fails, then Europe's leaders have sketched out what they call the \"black scenario\": bankruptcy and the insolvency of the Greek banking system. In Greece there is no fudging as to what is at stake. The headlines in Wednesday's papers read \"Euro or Drachma on Sunday\" and \"Deal or Grexit\". So what must Greece do? Firstly, it has to deliver detailed reform plans by Thursday. Those plans must include a formal application for a bailout under the ESM, the European Stability Mechanism. That will then be assessed by the European Central Bank (ECB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Commission. The application will then go to eurozone finance ministers on Saturday and from there to a full European summit on Sunday. At that meeting, Europe's leaders will take the final decision as to whether Greece qualifies for another bailout programme, or whether they will take a step which will hugely damage the reputation of the eurozone. \"I have no doubt,\" said Donald Tusk, \"that this is maybe the most critical moment in our history, the EU and the eurozone.\" Failure would be a scar on the legacy of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and would be a damning judgement on the whole policy of austerity. If the meeting believes Greece has done enough, then there will be short-term bridge financing and the ECB will continue with emergency funding of Greek banks. Almost certainly a way would be found for Greece to make a large payment to the ECB on 20 July. But all of this will be linked to Greece meeting certain benchmarks. Alexis Tsipras left Tuesday's summit smiling. He believes he will get a deal to keep Greece in the euro. But the next few days will test his leadership. He will have to set out his reform plan and the extent to which he is prepared to accept budget cuts as was demanded in the earlier EU/IMF plan which has now expired. The second problem is that in recent weeks and months, the Greek economy has deteriorated. It is now in freefall. There is no panic buying, but shoppers are stocking up on basics like pastas, noodles and baby food. Chicken farms are struggling to pay for more chicken feed. Some pharmacists are reporting shortages. There are questions for how long the gas company will be able to afford paying for energy imports. There are large numbers of tourists in Greece but some future bookings have been cancelled. The normal daily flow of business has been seriously disrupted. As a result of this, Greece will be asked to commit to more economic reforms than before. The third challenge is getting a deal through the Greek parliament. One Greek paper on Wednesday had the headline: \"They want an unconditional surrender\". But Mr Tsipras has come out of his referendum victory with increased authority and should be able to get parliament to back him. To do that, he needs to be able to offer the Greek people a way out of this crisis. Most importantly, there will have to be some commitment to talks on re-structuring Greek debt, although Mrs Merkel has made clear it is out of the question that Greece's debts of a??320bn will be written off. There will have to be a third bailout and an offer of investments to boost growth. Those three elements would probably be enough to persuade a majority of the doubters in Mr Tsipras' party. There are at least three - but at the heart of each of them is what will happen to Greek banks and to the emergency cash funding provided by the European Central Bank (ECB). More from Gavin: Greece gambles future Where do other eurozone nations stand? Will Greece leave the euro? Over the next few days - once again - different crowds will demonstrate for and against staying in the euro. The ECB will continue with its tight level of emergency funding so that the ATM machines can provide a trickle of funds and a banking collapse can be avoided. Failure on Sunday - almost certainly - would lead to the ECB turning off support and Greece would be on its own. Already some European leaders have spoken of sending humanitarian missions to Greece but, however necessary, it would be a humiliating day for the European project. It is still possible that the next few days will strain the fragile consensus reached by Europe's leaders. Beneath the surface there are differences between France, Italy and Spain on the one hand and Germany, the Netherlands, Lithuania and other northern countries on the other. For Mrs Merkel, there is one principle that she will defend at all cost, that in the eurozone solidarity comes with conditions which have to be met. The countdown has started to avoiding the \"black scenario\".", "question": "The Greek road is littered with @placeholder deadlines . Moments of truth have come and gone .", "option_0": "looming", "option_1": "planned", "option_2": "struggling", "option_3": "discarded", "option_4": "defining"}
{"id": 370, "article": "The businessman headed to Clacton-on-Sea after he admitted he knew \"nothing\" about the Essex town. But following his visit, he said he would be backing local party councillor Jeff Bray. Mr Banks initially planned to take on current MP Douglas Carswell, before he announced he would not be standing. The multimillionaire businessman said: \"I have no intention of standing in the way of hard-working activists who are the soul of the party. \"Therefore, after visiting Clacton, I believe it would be wrong of me to stand against Jeff in the forthcoming hustings.\" Mr Banks previously said he only knew Clacton from a \"fabulous day out\" during the referendum campaign, and as one of the strongest supporting areas for Euro-scepticism. He said he has agreed to give the local UKIP party financial assistance to fight the election. His arrival in the constituency follows the announcement by knife crime campaigner Caroline Shearer that she intends to stand as an independent there. Her son, Jay Whiston, was 17 years old when he was murdered by Edward Redman in Colchester in 2012.", "question": "Former UKIP donor Arron Banks has said he will not stand for the Clacton @placeholder in the general election after a fact - finding mission to the town .", "option_0": "seat", "option_1": "district", "option_2": "side", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "network"}
{"id": 371, "article": "Pools, who were relegated from the English Football League last season, lost their opening game at home to Dover on Saturday but started well at Moss Rose, with Cassidy and Jack Munns both firing inches wide. Macclesfield hit back, with Danny Whitaker's volleyed effort superbly tipped away by goalkeeper Scott Loach. The home side took the lead in the 38th minute when Elliott Durrell's ball into the box was headed home by Whitaker. There was a let-off for Hartlepool at the start of the second half when a mistake from defender Scott Harrison set Tyrone Marsh clear but he shot straight at Loach. Pools levelled after 58 minutes when Cassidy nodded in a cross from Ryan Donaldson and came closest to winning it when the striker's flicked header was saved. Match report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Macclesfield Town 1, Hartlepool United 1. Second Half ends, Macclesfield Town 1, Hartlepool United 1. Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Koby Arthur replaces Elliott Durrell. Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Scott Wilson replaces Scott Burgess. Substitution, Hartlepool United. Blair Adams replaces Jack Munns. Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Kieran Kennedy replaces George Pilkington. Goal!  Macclesfield Town 1, Hartlepool United 1. Jake Cassidy (Hartlepool United). Second Half begins Macclesfield Town 1, Hartlepool United 0. First Half ends, Macclesfield Town 1, Hartlepool United 0. Jack Munns (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card. Goal!  Macclesfield Town 1, Hartlepool United 0. Danny Whitaker (Macclesfield Town). Tyrone Marsh (Macclesfield Town) is shown the yellow card. Liam Donnelly (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.", "question": "Jake Cassidy 's second - half equaliser earned Hartlepool their first @placeholder in the Vanarama National League as they drew against Macclesfield .", "option_0": "status", "option_1": "point", "option_2": "appearance", "option_3": "title", "option_4": "game"}
{"id": 372, "article": "But less than 17% of biographies on Wikipedia and less than 10% of entries in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography (DWB) are about women. On Thursday, some of Wales' most influential women will take part in a 12-hour edit-a-thon in a bid to close the gender gap. Marion Loffler of the DWB said many were \"hidden away\" in men's entries. The global edit-a-thon, a joint project between the BBC and Wikipedia, will see people from all over the world creating profiles for their heroines to mark the end of this year's Women 100 campaign. As it happened:Women take over Wikipedia While Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world, only about 15% of its editors are women, and less than 17% of biographies are of women, according to the site. John Lubbock, media spokesman for Wikipedia UK, said the lack of female profiles reflected the division in wider society. \"We rely on society to put reliable facts in, and a lot of those facts dating back about 60 or 70 years ago would have been produced for and about men,\" he said. \"We look more western, more white, more male: we really want to create a world where these divisions are much less obvious.\" Nine Welsh women from business, television, politics and sport will add and create new profiles for the women who have inspired them at an event at BBC Wales' HQ in Llandaff. Co-founder of the Hang Fire Smokehouse, Cardiff, Shauna Guinn, will edit the profile of singer Cerys Matthews, while one of the stars of the 2013 Great British Bake Off, Beca Lyne-Pirkis, from Penylan in Cardiff, will edit composer Grace Williams' profile. Assistant editor of the DWB Marion Loffler said the national archive \"urgently\" needed articles on hundreds of women. While progress has been made, less than 10% of biographies on the site are about women - at least 200 women are missing. \"Some entries written early on, like that on Betsi Cadwaladr, are very much of their time and urgently need thorough revision,\" she said. \"Other women, such as the pioneering industrialist and feminist novelist Amy Dillwyn, are not there at all. \"Some, such as the influential cultural patron Lady Augusta Hall (Lady Llanover) are hidden away in their husbands' or fathers' entries,\" she said. Wales' first black head teacher, Mrs Campbell led Mount Stuart Primary in Butetown, Cardiff, for almost 30 years. The great grandmother was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to education and community life. On Thursday, BBC Wales' Felicity Evans will create her profile on Wikipedia. The first Welsh woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, Tori James battled -40C temperatures and crippling illness to make history. In 2007, the then 25-year-old from Pembrokeshire also became the youngest woman from the UK to reach the 29,030ft (8,850m) Himalayan summit. Ms James was also a member of the Pink Lady Polecats - the first team of women to complete the Polar challenge, a 360-mile (579km) race to the North Pole. But when you search for her name in Wikipedia, it asks \"did you mean: Toni James?\". Cpt Winterbourne, from Cardiff, is the Army's highest ranking transgender officer. In charge of 100 soldiers, she decided to transition while serving in Afghanistan and started the process in 2013. To help others like her, Hannah became an ambassador for LGB&T Sport Cymru. The BBC Wales picture editor wrote and presented two Before I Kick the Bucket documentaries about living with cancer. The 40-year-old, from Cardiff, died from breast cancer in September, seven years after she was first diagnosed. In the months before she died, Ms Kincaid - who defied the doctors telling her she would never see her 40th birthday - wrote a letter to her cancer, telling the disease she would not go down without a fight. The international hockey player, from Penarth, become the first LGBT Sport Cymru ambassador in 2014 and is on Welsh Cycling's board of directors. The Swansea Spartans player told BBC Wales News young women should never be afraid to be their true selves. \"Never accept being told you cannot achieve something - most importantly always try to be kind,\" she said. Every year BBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world, creating documentaries, features and interviews about their lives. On Thursday, anyone can take part in the edit-a-thon event from their computer at home or at work - watch the video below to understand how. But we want to hear your stories about the Welsh women who inspire you. Send your suggestions for the women you think should be added to Wikipedia by tweeting @BBCwalesnews and the hashtag #100WomenWiki.", "question": "Wales boasts record - breaking women who have inspired @placeholder and shaped the face of history .", "option_0": "generations", "option_1": "history", "option_2": "shock", "option_3": "colour", "option_4": "us"}
{"id": 373, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Gerrard, playing his first game since announcing he would depart in the summer to play in the United States, illustrated the hole he will leave behind. Liverpool's captain, who will celebrate his 35th birthday on FA Cup final day on 30 May, headed them in front, then came to their aid, as he has done so often, when they slumped into trouble. Media playback is not supported on this device Adebayo Akinfenwa's equaliser revived memories of the original Wimbledon's FA Cup final win against Liverpool at Wembley in 1988 - until Gerrard stepped in to restore order with a superb trademark free-kick just after the hour. It helped to steady Liverpool, whose defence had looked horribly vulnerable under pressure from Neal Ardley's side, who are 12th in League Two. Irrespective of the outcome, this FA Cup night was a credit to the rebirth of AFC Wimbledon, who started life in the Combined Counties League in 2002 and went through five promotions before returning to the Football League in 2011. But AFC Wimbledon - like so many teams before them since Gerrard made his Liverpool debut in 1998 - discovered that this is the player who can be relied upon to help the Reds through moments of adversity. This was another example as he took his Liverpool tally to 182 goals in 696 appearances for the club. Gerrard took the applause of the visiting fans, waiting to acclaim him following news of his impending departure, before the game and was able to calm their early nerves with a goal after Sean Rigg had almost given AFC Wimbledon a shock lead with a shot across the face of goal. \"How many times have we said Steven Gerrard has dragged Liverpool by the scruff of the neck? Without a doubt, he was man of the match. He gives Liverpool more the further forward you push him. He knows where to go and what positions to take up.\" Gerrard timed his arrival in the area perfectly in the 12th minute to meet Javier Manquillo's cross and direct a low header beyond keeper James Shea into the bottom corner. Liverpool then enjoyed a period of relative control but, as has happened so often this season, they were undone by the vulnerability of their defence and the uncertainty of goalkeeper Simon Mignolet. The Belgian did well to turn over from 10 yards as Rigg threatened again, but the weakness in Liverpool's rearguard was exposed when a long kick from Shea found its way through to the feet of Matt Tubbs, who pulled a poor finish across the face of goal. AFC Wimbledon's confidence and threat was growing and it resulted in an equaliser nine minutes before the break. Mignolet missed George Francomb's corner, Mamadou Sakho bundled the ball onto his own bar and Akinfenwa was the first to react to poke in from six yards. Gerrard came to Liverpool's rescue in the opening moments of the second half when he cleared off the line from Adam Barrett as AFC Wimbledon picked up where they had left off. And when Liverpool needed inspiration at the other end, Gerrard provided it with a free-kick curled beyond the reach of the despairing Shea. Gerrard was denied a hat-trick by a stoppage-time goalline clearance from Callum Kennedy as Liverpool secured a home tie against Bolton Wanderers in the fourth round. AFC Wimbledon manager Neal Ardley: \"In the first 25 minutes we looked nervous. They took me too literally about our shape but when we grew in the game and in confidence we caused them problems. \"In the first half, we had all of the best chances, but they have some good players on the counter-attack and in the last 20 minutes we ran out of legs and they had a lot of chances. \"I've told the players they have done the club proud but also they should kick themselves because we are in the business of winning and not being good losers.\" Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It was a very tough game. Congratulations to AFC Wimbledon - they made it very difficult. \"We started well, controlling the game, but then we lost our shap and we presented them chances by giving the ball away. \"We adapted at half-time but we still had to defend all the way through to the end. \"The physicality always puts you under pressure - they have good delivery. The ball came into the box consistently and of course that can be a threat. You'll never be overly comfortable in those situations. \"I've got to give a lot of testament to my players - they showed a lot of character. In the second half, we should have had two or three more goals. Match ends, AFC Wimbledon 1, Liverpool 2. Second Half ends, AFC Wimbledon 1, Liverpool 2. Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Jake Goodman. Attempt blocked. Steven Gerrard (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Balotelli. Attempt saved. Mario Balotelli (Liverpool) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Emre Can. Corner,  AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Simon Mignolet. Attempt saved. Adebayo Azeez (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Matt Tubbs with a through ball. Foul by Mario Balotelli (Liverpool). Jake Goodman (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. Emre Can (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jordan Henderson. Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Callum Kennedy. Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Barry Fuller. Mamadou Sakho (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (AFC Wimbledon). Substitution, Liverpool. Kolo Tour¨¦ replaces Lazar Markovic. Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Harry Pell replaces Sammy Moore. Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Frankie Sutherland replaces George Francomb. Attempt saved. Lazar Markovic (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Philippe Coutinho. Corner,  AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Martin Skrtel. Attempt blocked. Adebayo Azeez (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Foul by Jordan Henderson (Liverpool). Sammy Moore (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt blocked. Mario Balotelli (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Philippe Coutinho. Attempt saved. Steven Gerrard (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jos¨¦ Enrique. Attempt saved. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Steven Gerrard. Lucas Leiva (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (AFC Wimbledon). Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Adebayo Azeez replaces Sean Rigg. Substitution, Liverpool. Mario Balotelli replaces Rickie Lambert. Foul by Emre Can (Liverpool). Matt Tubbs (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt blocked. Martin Skrtel (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Henderson with a cross. Corner,  Liverpool. Conceded by Adam Barrett. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool). Matt Tubbs (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt saved. Jos¨¦ Enrique (Liverpool) with an attempt from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Rickie Lambert with a cross. Offside, Liverpool. Philippe Coutinho tries a through ball, but Rickie Lambert is caught offside. Attempt missed. Steven Gerrard (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick. Substitution, Liverpool. Jos¨¦ Enrique replaces Javier Manquillo.", "question": "Steven Gerrard demonstrated the @placeholder and leadership Liverpool will miss when he leaves Anfield as he inspired them to an FA Cup third - round victory at AFC Wimbledon .", "option_0": "spine", "option_1": "dedication", "option_2": "quality", "option_3": "mood", "option_4": "determination"}
{"id": 374, "article": "The Crown Prosecution Service said 1,892 cases were dropped at court due to the \"significant ill-health, elderliness or youth\" of a defendant. Another 439 cases were abandoned before the suspect was charged. The CPS said the number of cases dropped for these reasons accounted for 0.3% of all prosecutions in 2014. Such prosecutions dropped at court were 1,714 in 2013 and 1,402 in 2012. Those dropped before charge were 354 in 2013 and 128 in 2012. Between January and March this year, 516 were dropped at court and 132 before charge. The charity Victim Support said it was important that the decision not to prosecute was explained to victims. Chief executive Mark Castle said: \"Victims often fear that they will not be believed, so it can be many years before they come forward. \"It is critical that victims have the reasons behind a decision not to prosecute properly explained to them so that they understand that it does not mean they have not been believed.\" The figures - released after a Freedom of Information Act request by the Press Association - did not specify the nature of the suspected offence. The CPS said the decision to prosecute was made if there was both sufficient evidence and it was in the public interest. A spokeswoman said: \"The Code for Crown Prosecutors recognises that the more serious the offence, the more likely it is that a prosecution is required, and the age or ill-health of a defendant will be taken into account when deciding whether to prosecute.\" In the case of former Labour MP Lord Janner, who has dementia, the CPS decided not to pursue historical child sex abuse claims against him. The decision was overturned following a review, and a fitness to plead hearing is due to take place on 7 December. Lord Janner denies the allegations.", "question": "More than 2,000 suspected criminals avoided prosecution in England and Wales last year because of their ill - health or age , figures have @placeholder .", "option_0": "emerged", "option_1": "announced", "option_2": "fallen", "option_3": "shown", "option_4": "claimed"}
{"id": 375, "article": "In December, four local teams boycotted games in protest over unpaid wages. \"The situation is a result of bad management, and a lack of control and accountability in the management of clubs and football institutions,\" said Gabon's footballers' union (ANFPG). The ANFPG hopes the Nations Cup can improve local players' conditions. The union says many first and second division players are still owed substantial salaries from last year. In December, world governing body Fifa intervened to ensure that Mangasport - league champions in 2014 and 2015 - paid a former player, Ivorian Mariano Beugre, his outstanding wages. \"We can confirm that the Dispute Resolution Chamber judge dealt with a dispute opposing the player Mariano Beugre to the club Mangasport,\" a Fifa spokesperson told BBC Sport. \"According to the relevant decision, the club is ordered to pay to the player the amount of ($28,000).\" Gabon will stage the Nations Cup, which runs from 14 January until 5 February, for the second time in five years, having co-hosted with Equatorial Guinea in 2012. \"We believe this Nations Cup must allow us to have a collective awareness and take stock of our football since the last Nations Cup in 2012,\" Remy Ebanega, president of the ANFPG, told BBC Sport. \"[We need] to put in place general rules for the best practice. \"Our football is deteriorating every day of every year simply because its leaders have not yet understood that the main player is the footballer. Without a footballer, there is no club, no league, even less a federation. \"Everything is done in an anarchic way, with the sole interest of a handful of people, and no reflection on the short, medium and long term objectives of our football.\" In a survey published by global players' union FIFPro in November, 96% of players in Gabon reported payment delays. On 29 December, players from Stade Mandji - title-winners in 2009 - and Adouma FC refused to play matches in protest (with their opponents awarded technical 3-0 victories as a result). Two teams in the second division also went on strike. One of the Stade Mandji players, defender Franck Perrin Obambou, has been included in Gabon squad for the Nations Cup, which the hosts open on Saturday against Guinea-Bissau in Libreville. Only two other domestic players have made the squad, with both Yves Bitseki Moto and Cedric Ondo Biyoghe on the books of league leaders Mounana. Some of the continent's finest footballers are set to play on Gabon's pitches this month, including recently-crowned Confederation of African Football's African Footballer of the Year Riyad Mahrez of Algeria and Senegal's Sadio Mane, Africa's most expensive footballer. All eyes will also be on Gabon's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, the free-scoring striker with Germany's Borussia Dortmund and an ANFPG vice-president as well. But Africa's flagship sporting event has been beset by problems, with opposition members of parliament calling for the public to boycott matches in protest at the country's political and economic problems. Some fans have responded by posting images of ripped-up matchday tickets on social media. While Gabon hosts some of the richest African footballers for the month-long tournament, local players will continue their fight to be paid. The league, which is suspended for the duration of the Nations Cup, is set to return on 18 February. No club from Gabon has ever won a major continental football title, while the national team has never surpassed the quarter-final stage of a Nations Cup. The BBC contacted organisers of the Gabonese league who have yet to comment.", "question": "Just days before Gabon hosts the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations , the @placeholder of league football in the country has been described as \" anarchic \" .", "option_0": "popularity", "option_1": "nature", "option_2": "highlight", "option_3": "state", "option_4": "proportion"}
{"id": 376, "article": "The S-400 Triumph missile systems were earmarked for troops in Crimea last month, Russian media said at the time. Moscow also announced exercises in Crimea next week to simulate an attack by weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Russia, which annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, said this week it had foiled a Ukrainian sabotage mission. It accused the Ukrainian government in Kiev of trying to send saboteurs into Crimea and reported the deaths of a soldier and a secret police officer in an operation to foil the alleged plot. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow might be forced to cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine if the crisis worsened. Denying the accusations, Ukraine placed its troops on alert along its de facto border with Crimea, and along its front line with Russian-backed rebels holding parts of Donetsk and Luhansk in the east. A column of Ukrainian tanks could be seen rolling towards Crimea on Friday. A statement by Russia's Southern Military District, which incorporates Crimea, said the missiles had been received by an air defence regiment in Crimea. According to the statement, quoted by Russian news agencies, the missiles were successfully tested on the Kapustin Yar test range in southern Russia. Russia's Interfax news agency says the missiles are designed to hit airborne targets at a range of up to 400km (249 miles) and ballistic missiles at a range of up to 60km, flying at speeds of up to 4.8km per second. The missiles are being installed in Crimea to protect Russia's Hmeimim air base in Syria among other things, it adds. Last November, Russia deployed S-400s at Hmeimim, after Turkey downed a Russian Su-24 bomber. The Russian defence ministry announced (in Russian) exercises in Crimea and the Volgograd region for 16-19 August to simulate the effect of an enemy attack using WMD. Radioactive, biological and chemical defence troops will be deployed in the manoeuvres, which will involve the use of Solntsepyok rocket systems in Volgograd, as well as an artificial smoke screen to block any surveillance. Separately, the ministry said (in Russian) it would be sending an additional 40 aircraft to the Southern Military District this year. Ukraine's envoy to the UN asked Russia on Thursday to prove its allegations, and said some 40,000 Russian troops were massed on the Crimea-Ukraine border. His Russian counterpart told the UN Security Council of Moscow's \"concern and outrage\" at the alleged incursions. Russian state TV broadcast an apparent confession by a man named as Yevhen Panov, saying he was part of a Ukrainian defence ministry force sent into Crimea \"to carry out acts of sabotage\". He said the group also included officers of Ukraine's military intelligence. Reports in Ukraine say Mr Panov is a former volunteer fighter who has more recently been associated with a charitable organisation called Heroes of Ukraine. Crimea was annexed by Russia after a majority of its mostly ethnic Russian population voted to secede in an unrecognised referendum on self-determination, held under military occupation. The annexation was relatively bloodless, in sharp contrast to the ferocious fighting which followed in Donetsk and Luhansk.", "question": "The Russian military has announced the delivery of new air defence missiles to Crimea , in a move @placeholder before the latest tension with Ukraine .", "option_0": "taken", "option_1": "erupted", "option_2": "scheduled", "option_3": "well", "option_4": "summit"}
{"id": 377, "article": "The objects include pottery and pieces looted from ancient Peruvian graves dating back from before the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th Century. They were found during four separate investigations over several years by US the customs service. A spokesman said the objects belonged to the people of Peru, and were part of the country's rich heritage. Investigators say a middleman in Peru bought some of the pre-Columbian items from local farmers in Peru who robbed burial sites. They were then shipped by post to a smuggler in the US. Since 2007 the US authorities have returned 7,150 items to 27 countries including France, China, Poland and Iraq.", "question": "The US has returned about 20 ancient @placeholder - some more than 1,800 years old - to Peru.", "option_0": "secrets", "option_1": "artefacts", "option_2": "messages", "option_3": "tombs", "option_4": "air"}
{"id": 378, "article": "In April, the Daily Mail claimed that just ¡ê14,115 out of ¡ê1.7m donated to the Didier Drogba Foundation had gone to help causes in Africa. The Charity Commission launched an investigation into the case, and says that is now \"coming to a close\". Ex-Chelsea striker Drogba, 38, said the story was \"false and defamatory\". He previously said in a statement: \"There is no fraud, no corruption, no mismanagement and no lies.\" The Mail said it \"stands by every word of this important story\" and had not alleged corruption or fraud. The Didier Drogba Foundation was set up in the Ivory Coast in 2007 and registered in the UK as a separate entity in 2009 to allow Drogba to raise funds while in England playing for Chelsea. In the article, the Mail claimed that ¡ê439,321 was spent putting on \"lavish\" fundraising parties attended by celebrities, and more than ¡ê1m \"languished\" in bank accounts. But Drogba said he had spent his own sponsorship earnings first and planned to use UK fundraising money for future projects. In his statement, he listed the accomplishments of his foundation, including building a mobile clinic, investing in orphanages, and funding the purchase of school bags, books and a dialysis machine. The Commission said in April it would set out to assess \"concerns about the administration of the charity and the oversight provided by trustees, all of whom appear to live abroad, as well as allegations that the charity has provided misleading information to donors and the public. \"Further, the charity has raised and accumulated significant sums of money that have not yet been spent and further information is required over the plans to spend those funds.\" The investigation is still ongoing, but the Commission said a case report will be published due to the high-profile nature of the charity. Take part in our new Premier League Predictor game, which allows you to create leagues with friends. Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "question": "A report into the \" serious regulatory concerns \" surrounding a charity @placeholder by Didier Drogba is due to be released by the Charity Commission within a month .", "option_0": "run", "option_1": "breached", "option_2": "respected", "option_3": "led", "option_4": "written"}
{"id": 379, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Rather than join the 10th British club of a nomadic career after leaving Gateshead, the 25-year-old midfielder headed for India to join champions Bengaluru FC in the I-League. \"India was somewhere I'd never even thought of going on holiday, let alone to play football,\" Walker told BBC Inside Out. \"The things I was being offered to stay in the United Kingdom, I thought, it's time to try something new.\" Culturally, the move to India has given him a new perspective. As his Bangalore-based team's 'marquee' signing for 2014-15, Walker is a player to be respected and an ambassador for the growing league - featuring on billboards to promote football to a cricket-mad population. \"It's different, sights you see on the road and the street,\" the Tynesider continued. \"You might find a few cats on the streets in England but here you see a load of cows just roaming the streets. \"The fans are that fanatical, you're known. It makes you more professional because you're an idol to them.\" If Walker was unsure of the lifestyle he would encounter, his on-the-field experiences were even more of a surprise. However, he had heard good things from former Boro academy team-mate John Johnson who was already with Bengaluru, and was also reunited with another man he used to play with in manager Ashley Westwood. \"The football is a lot better than what I imagined,\" Walker said. \"I didn't know anything about Indian football until John came out here. \"Since I've been here there's some real talent, we've got some good young Indian players and the Indian captain.\" The I-League - not to be confused with the high-profile Indian Super League tournament which started last year  - was set up in 2007 and features 11 teams. Walker's team are fifth in the league and had an average attendance last season of 7,038 - a far cry from Gateshead's 886. For the lad from Killingworth in Newcastle to find himself in India at all is something of a surprise, given his early promise. After making the grade with Middlesbrough, to the extent that he made his Premier League debut at the age of 17, Walker says he found not being involved tough to take as a hungry young player. \"I wanted to play week in, week out in the Premier League at 17,\" he said. \"I'd find myself knocking on managers' doors at 17 or 18 asking why I wasn't playing. I look back and to be honest I cringe at myself.\" Current England Under-21 manager Gareth Southgate was team-mate and then manager of Walker during his Boro career. \"He was a really good professional from a really young age, with a great attitude to the game and he captained England at youth level for a couple of years,\" Southgate said. \"You always wonder whether to give youngsters their debut and we did - he did really well. \"It's a new opportunity and a great life experience for him.\" Walker is not the only player out of contract to consider the switch to new climes. \"It's become more of a thing because it is tough at home,\" team-mate Johnson said. \"When you take a step abroad you can see it's exciting and different, it's a definitely a thing that will become more and more popular with English players.\" In addition to Walker and Johnson, ex-Bristol Rovers striker Daryl Duffy, former Rochdale winger Leo Bertos and Romuald Boco - who made more than 100 league appearances for Accrington Stanley - are other known names in this growing entity. For some it is the experience, for others the attraction is purely financial. \"I'm out here for a year and only here to save enough money to be able to buy our house - we bought a house in the summer,\" said Curtis Osano, whose professional career in England took in Luton, Reading and Rushden & Diamonds. \"There's no way I'd have stayed in England for 10 years grafting and trying to get as much money as I can, borrowing money from wherever to put money down on a house with the way the climate is in the UK.\" The only downside for Walker is the distance between him and his partner, not to mention a two-year-old daughter. Yet the rewards are great and he would consider bringing his family over to India if he is successful during his spell at Bengaluru. \"I don't have any regrets about coming, not at all,\" he said. \"It's incredibly hard missing my daughter and I miss her everyday but at the end of the day I've got to work and this is my job. \"My career was going nowhere back home. I got an opportunity here and I'm going to grab it with both hands.\"", "question": "When former England Under - 20 captain Josh Walker found himself without a club last summer , a move to a place where \" a load of cows just roam the streets \" @placeholder him more than any other .", "option_0": "sold", "option_1": "surrounding", "option_2": "intrigued", "option_3": "hurt", "option_4": "surprised"}
{"id": 380, "article": "A total of 228 people have put themselves at the mercy of the voters, and will battle it out for 90 seats split across 18 constituencies. Many eyes will be on the number of female candidates put forward by the parties, and a total of 70 are set to stand, which marks a 4% rise on last year's proportion. There were 276 candidates running in the 2016 assembly poll, which was a significant increase on the 218 who stood in the 2011 election. But directly contrasting those numbers with the figures this year would be like comparing apples and oranges, for a number of factors. Firstly, the cut in the number of assembly seats from 108 to 90 in this election will have had an effect on the amount of candidates the parties feel it is worthwhile to stand. And the short notice at which the election was called means parties have had much less time to organise and raise funding than they would for a poll during the typical five-year election cycle. That will have been a particular challenge for smaller parties and independents, and five parties that stood last time round will be absent from this year's ballot papers. The reasons mentioned will go some way to explaining why each of the larger parties have cut their overall numbers of candidates. The Democratic Unionist Party drops by six to 38 and Sinn F??in goes from 39 to 34. The Ulster Unionists opt for nine fewer runners with 24, the Social Democratic and Labour Party cuts three to run 21 candidates and the Alliance Party has a reduction of two to 21. But looking at the figures a different way, each of those parties has actually increased their proportion of candidates to seats by about a couple of percent. The Green Party continues to run a candidate in every constituency. The UK Independence Party sees the largest fall in candidate numbers, with just a single name on the papers this year after running 13 in 2016. The Progressive Unionist Party drops from six to three this year, while the Citizens Independent Social Thought Alliance, which ran last year as Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol, drops one candidate and now runs four. But People Before Profit are looking to capitalise on their success last year, and have expanded their number from three to seven, while the Traditional Unionist Voice, the Conservative Party, the Workers Party and the Cross Community Labour Alternative all increase their offerings by one, to 14, 13, five and four respectively. Rounding off the list are the 22 independents, one fewer than last year's number. You can find a full breakdown of candidates by constituency at the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland website. Theresa May has said she \"fervently\" hopes that agreement will be reached between the political parties after the election to form an executive. The prime minister also said the government would do \"whatever is necessary\" to implement recommendations from the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry report will be acted on. She was responding to a question from Ulster Unionist MP Tom Elliott in the House of Commons, who asked if the report's recommendations would be implemented if an executive is put together. Mrs May said she would ensure the findings of the HIA report \"are taken into account and acted upon\". \"I don't want to see the benefits that have come of progress being undone,\" she added. Not sure yet who'll get your first preference vote? The BBC is looking for you. The Leaders' Debate will feature the five main political parties later this month, and you could be in the audience. Noel Thompson will chair the event, which will be broadcast on 28 February, just a couple of days before voters go to the polls. To apply to be there, drop an email to leadersdebate@bbc.co.uk. BBC News NI's Campaign Catch-up will keep you across the Northern Ireland Assembly election trail with a daily dose of the main stories, the minor ones and the lighter moments in the run up to polling day on Thursday 2 March. Hear more on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster at 07:40 GMT and on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra at 17:40 GMT each weekday.", "question": "If your name is n't in , you wo n't have a chance to win , because nominations for candidates for the assembly election @placeholder at 13:00 on Wednesday .", "option_0": "arriving", "option_1": "closed", "option_2": "begins", "option_3": "geared", "option_4": "gathering"}
{"id": 381, "article": "The boy, named Daniel, sent the stretchy man toy back to Whitelee Windfarm visitor centre along with a letter explaining the mix-up. Scottish Power, which runs the facility on Eaglesham Moor in East Renfrewshire, now wants Daniel to get in touch. The firm said it wanted to send him a \"gesture of thanks\" for his honesty. The letter said: \"Dear sir/madam, I was in the shop and picked up the enclosed thinking that my mum had paid for it. Unfortunately, she had not so I am returning the item.\" Whitelee Windfarm visitor centre manager, Ian Parkinson, said: \"We're often contacted by people wishing to find out more about the UK's biggest windfarm, but it's not often we receive mail like this. \"I'd certainly like to praise this very honest young boy for admitting his mistake, and for his sincerity in his actions. \"It's certainly heart-warming to think that someone would go to such lengths to return an item of very small value to us.\" Mr Parkinson added: \"Unfortunately we don't have Daniel's return address to send him back our own gesture of thanks, but I do hope he gets touch or visits us again with his mum.\"", "question": "One of Scotland 's largest energy firms is hoping to @placeholder a boy who returned a 10 p gift shop souvenir by post after realising his mum had not paid for it .", "option_0": "secure", "option_1": "enter", "option_2": "earn", "option_3": "build", "option_4": "trace"}
{"id": 382, "article": "Terms with the Welsh striker, 26, have been agreed and the deal is close to being finalised despite a backlash, including a 60,000-strong petition. However, there are still legal issues to overcome which could cause a delay. A board member told the BBC they were \"minded\" to sign Evans but said the Professional Footballers' Association was a key driver in the move. Owner Simon Corney said on Wednesday that the club, who are 14th in League One, were 80% likely to sign the striker. The former Manchester City and Sheffield United player was jailed in April 2012 for raping a woman and was released from prison in October after serving half of a five-year sentence. Guardian sports writer David Conn: \"There's been no decency shown to her after the event. You can still say 'I maintain my innocence of the crime, while apologising for what I did which I don't dispute,' and show some decency and empathy for this woman. \"When I saw that Evans' supporters' website, and understood the way the victim has continued to be treated, that was a tipping point for me to make me feel that he has not done enough to show himself as someone who should have that second chance. I don't think he's ready yet.\" Former England international Danny Mills: \"The dressing room is unlike any other place on the planet. Rightly, or wrongly, morally right or morally wrong, the dressing room is a sanctum of protection. Things will be said. There might be press cuttings quite possibly put on his locker, or where he gets changed.\" \"Trouble is with football, it becomes very, very selfish at times and if Ched Evans goes into that dressing room and starts to play good football and starts to score the odd goal then, rightly or wrongly, whatever you think should happen, those players will forget about everything off the pitch if he's doing the business on the pitch.\" Guy Mowbray, BBC commentator: \"What does it do to members of the squad who think, 'If you're that desperate to get that sort of player in, with everything that it brings, then thanks very much. You can't rate me very highly can you?'.\" Former Sunderland striker Kevin Phillips: \"The interesting thing for me is that Oldham are struggling, they need a centre forward, and it'll be quite interesting to see how the supporters react when he scores his first goal. \"I'm pretty sure there's going to be many in that crowd saying they won't turn up, but I'm sure they will at some point, and it'll be interesting to see whether they celebrate if he scores a goal. \"It's quite unique being on that football pitch because you put everything to the back of your mind. If he scores a goal, I'm pretty sure the players at that time will celebrate. They need a goalscorer.\" Mills: \"To play devil's advocate for a moment, he's committed a crime, he's served his sentence in prison - supposedly - therefore he should have been rehabilitated, therefore he comes back into it. Should he not be allowed to do his job of work? Conn: \"You have the right to work in theory, but you don't have a right to walk back into your chosen profession. No employer, no football club has a duty to employ him.\" Chief sports writer for the Daily Mirror, Oliver Holt: \"The last thing I want to be is to be seen as some sort of champion of Ched Evans... but I believe in a society where once criminals have served their sentence they deserve the chance to rehabilitate. \"I just think we're on dangerous ground when we start making slightly random judgements about which criminals we allow back to work, and which criminals we don't.\" Mowbray: \"I am very, very surprised that they're going down this route. With everything that's gone before it, I can't believe that they're that desperate that they would take this signing with all the baggage and the problems that will come with it. \"There are financial implications, with sponsorship deals being lost, there might even be implications with policing costs, with the extra security needed. \"I struggle to see it really ending positively for the club, or indeed the player, because if they're going to all this trouble, there's immense pressure on him as well.\" Mills, Phillips, Mowbray, Conn and Holt were speaking on BBC Radio 5 live.", "question": "Oldham Athletic are hoping to @placeholder the signing of convicted rapist Ched Evans on Thursday .", "option_0": "complete", "option_1": "see", "option_2": "change", "option_3": "get", "option_4": "revive"}
{"id": 383, "article": "Trucks are lined up along the edge of the road. In the middle, a group of people are stretched out on rugs placed on the road, under a canopy. Some of the older men are pulling on a hookah. They have been here for the past several days, not allowing any traffic through. They are protesters from the Jat community who are demanding quotas in government jobs and educational institutes. Groups of aggressive young men patrol the road, armed with sticks. Pedestrians are let through but nothing else. \"I need to get through - it's the first day of my new job at the next town, but they've turned me back,\"  one frustrated young man tells me as he heads away on his motorcycle. The protesters watch us warily, as we film some of the barricades. \"The media's been unfair to us,\" a couple of them mutter as they come closer. \"You're only saying we're troublemakers when we are gathered peacefully here.\" As I attempt to speak on camera, one man covers the lens with his hand. \"Speak to us first, hear us out, only then will we let you do your job,\" he says. \"We've been here all these days but none of the politicians have come to meet us,\" says one protester, Sukhram Dhankar. \"The police have been needlessly provocative. They've used force. So many of us have been injured.\" Even as he finishes speaking, a group of armed riot police turn up. As their officer calls out orders, they swiftly begin removing the trucks to clear the road. The canopy is dismantled and the people asked to leave, but no one does. The protesters simply sit down on the ground and begin chanting slogans as the police look on. Within minutes, some men deflate the tyres of a few of the trucks still left in place to prevent them from being moved. The police decide to retreat. The canopy is swiftly put back up and more trucks are moved in to block the road as the protesters cheer. \"We are not going to move,\" says one of them who refuses to tell me his name. News that the government has offered concessions cuts little ice. \"We don't trust them. Let's get something in writing. Let them spell it out,\" he says. We are on the edge of Delhi. Much of the area around us was farmland about a decade ago. Now you can see tall buildings in some places, others are under construction. \"We are farmers,\" Sukhram Dhankar says. \"But there is no land left for us to farm. It's taken over by developers.  So we need government jobs.\"", "question": "It is 8 am on the Bahadurgarh border on the west of Delhi . At this time , this busy road should be choked with traffic , but it is completely @placeholder .", "option_0": "humour", "option_1": "deserted", "option_2": "open", "option_3": "blocked", "option_4": "evidence"}
{"id": 384, "article": "Members of the Glentoran Board are set to meet with the H&W Welders boss as early as Monday night to discuss the vacancy at the East Belfast club. Smyth does not currently possess the necessary Uefa Pro Licence but an arrangement could be put in place until he achieves the coaching requirement. Patterson was sacked on Saturday after watching his side beat Carrick Rangers. Among the other contenders for the position are Pat McGibbon, who was edged out by Patterson for the job in 2012. The former Manchester United and Northern Ireland defender holds a Uefa Pro Licence and played for the Glens for two seasons, winning an Irish League title medal in 2005. The 42-year-old was manager of Newry City for 16 months before stepping down from the post in July 2012. McGibbon was appointed first-team coach by Dungannon Swifts three months later. He was interviewed for the Glentoran manager's job before Patterson was appointed but the ex-Cliftonville manager got the nod to take over from Scott Young. Another of the club's former defenders, Paul Leeman, has also been linked with the job, but, like Smyth, he does not currently possess the requisite licence. Smyth's Welders knocked Glentoran out of the County Antrim Shield after a penalty shootout last month.", "question": "Former Glentoran defender Gary Smyth @placeholder the contenders to succeed Eddie Patterson as manager of the Oval side .", "option_0": "expects", "option_1": "forced", "option_2": "heads", "option_3": "change", "option_4": "quit"}
{"id": 385, "article": "The first Christmas card was commercially produced by Sir Henry Cole in 1843 but it was not until the 1870s, and the introduction of the halfpenny stamp, that sending cards was affordable for almost everyone. Victorians then leapt upon the idea with alacrity. It was usual in the 19th Century for friends and relations to exchange letters at Christmas time, according to the Library of Birmingham, which has a collection of Victorian scrapbooks containing Christmas cards. They would tell of the year's events and their wishes for the coming year. As Stephanie Boydell, curator of special collections at Manchester Metropolitan University explains, the cards were \"cheap and cheerful, leading to a real fad\" of sending greetings in such a way. \"There was a huge amount of material, publishers would produce loads and loads. Popular images were reused and reprinted as Christmas cards, even if they weren't particularly festive,\" Ms Boydell said. The cards were not only overwhelmingly secular, but some were grimly non-festive. Rosy-faced children gathered round a decorated tree might be seen on a card - but so might a dead robin or a turnip wearing a hat. Food features a lot - not just in family feasts and traditional spreads. One card shows a group of rats, nattily dressed, sharpening knives and settling down to a nice meal of roast cat. A sinister Christmas pudding leaps out of a pot to startle a cook with a woman's body and a bird's head. So why were such odd things depicted? \"They're only odd to our eyes,\" Ms Boydell says. \"The Victorians had a different idea to what Christmas was about - not particularly Christian, but a time of good humour. You may find a mouse riding a lobster strange - I find it funny. It's horses for courses.\" Of course, there were also cards more like the ones we post today - with frosty scenes, Father Christmas and family get-togethers. \"For all the more unusual ones, there were probably 1,001 entirely Christmassy ones. It's just the unusual ones which stand out.\" And stand out they certainly do. Merry Christmas - and don't have nightmares.", "question": "Murderous frogs , children @placeholder in teapots and a mouse riding a lobster are generally not images seen today on Christmas cards . But in Victorian times it was all par for the course . BBC News takes a look at some of the more unusual cards of Christmas past .", "option_0": "singing", "option_1": "swimming", "option_2": "talking", "option_3": "boiled", "option_4": "school"}
{"id": 386, "article": "The striker scored from a rebound after Yoel had saved his initial effort and then turned home James Rodriguez's free-kick to double Real's lead. Benzema set up the third with a cross which Rodriguez slid home over Yoel. Marco Asensio scored a fourth after Rodriguez's effort hit the post before a late Ruben Pena consolation. Real briefly went top of the table, but Barcelona's 5-0 win over Celta Vigo later on Saturday restored their one-point lead. Match ends, Eibar 1, Real Madrid 4. Second Half ends, Eibar 1, Real Madrid 4. Attempt missed. Rub¨¦n Pe?a (Eibar) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Cristian Rivera. Foul by Mariano (Real Madrid). Mauro Dos Santos (Eibar) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner,  Real Madrid. Conceded by Anaitz Arbilla. Substitution, Eibar. Takashi Inui replaces Pedro Le¨®n. Attempt missed. Sergi Enrich (Eibar) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Lucas V¨¢zquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Anaitz Arbilla (Eibar). Attempt blocked. Rub¨¦n Pe?a (Eibar) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Foul by Mateo Kovacic (Real Madrid). Dani Garc¨ªa (Eibar) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Offside, Real Madrid. Mariano tries a through ball, but Lucas V¨¢zquez is caught offside. Corner,  Eibar. Conceded by Nacho. Dangerous play by Mateo Kovacic (Real Madrid). Gonzalo Escalante (Eibar) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Offside, Real Madrid. Marco Asensio tries a through ball, but Mariano is caught offside. Substitution, Real Madrid. Isco replaces James Rodr¨ªguez. Offside, Real Madrid. Nacho tries a through ball, but Mariano is caught offside. Offside, Real Madrid. James Rodr¨ªguez tries a through ball, but Mariano is caught offside. Attempt missed. Mariano (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by James Rodr¨ªguez with a cross following a set piece situation. Nacho (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Ander Capa (Eibar). Goal!  Eibar 1, Real Madrid 4. Rub¨¦n Pe?a (Eibar) with an attempt from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Pedro Le¨®n with a cross. Substitution, Real Madrid. Mateo Kovacic replaces Luka Modric. Foul by Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid). Sergi Enrich (Eibar) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt missed. Pedro Le¨®n (Eibar) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Ander Capa. Attempt blocked. Mauro Dos Santos (Eibar) right footed shot from very close range is blocked. Offside, Eibar. Mauro Dos Santos tries a through ball, but Gonzalo Escalante is caught offside. Attempt saved. Sergi Enrich (Eibar) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pedro Le¨®n with a cross. Corner,  Eibar. Conceded by Luka Modric. Offside, Real Madrid. Pepe tries a through ball, but Mariano is caught offside. James Rodr¨ªguez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Rub¨¦n Pe?a (Eibar). Substitution, Real Madrid. Mariano replaces Karim Benzema. Substitution, Eibar. Cristian Rivera replaces Adri¨¢n Gonz¨¢lez. Nacho (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Nacho (Real Madrid).", "question": "Karim Benzema scored twice as Real Madrid overcame the absence of @placeholder Cristiano Ronaldo and suspended Gareth Bale to beat Eibar .", "option_0": "captain", "option_1": "losing", "option_2": "injured", "option_3": "form", "option_4": "scored"}
{"id": 387, "article": "Lewis, 28, spent last term on loan at Fulham from Cardiff City and has signed a two-year contract at Pittodrie, while Morris, 26, has agreed a one-year deal. Alexander, 38, moves to Pittodrie after leaving Hearts and will compete with Lewis for the number one jersey. Lewis told Aberdeen's website the club's upcoming Europa League qualifiers \"were a massive attraction\". \"Hopefully we can get through the first few rounds and get as far as we can,\" added the Englishman. Capped five times by England's Under-21 side, Lewis was twice an unused substitute for the senior side while playing his club football at Peterborough United. On-loan Liverpool goalkeeper Danny Ward was Aberdeen's first-choice keeper for the first half of last season but he was recalled to Anfield in January. Adam Collin, on loan from Rotherham United, Scott Brown and Aaron Lennox also featured in goal for Derek McInnes' side as the Dons finished the season as Scottish Premiership runners-up. \"A lot of goalkeepers when they get into their late 20s and 30s become better players so hopefully I can do the same,\" Lewis said. Morris spent two seasons at Dundee United after a switch from Dunfermline Athletic. He made 15 appearances last season as United were relegated, with his campaign interrupted by injury. He can operate in central defence or at right-back and has played up to Under-21 level for Republic of Ireland. \"What an opportunity it is for me,\" said Morris. \"I am really looking forward to the European games starting later this month. \"I got a call from my agent to say the manager had been in touch. As soon as I heard that, I had my mind set on coming up here. \"It is obviously a huge club with a very good squad and they showed that when they pushed Celtic all the way last season.\" Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "question": "Goalkeepers Joe Lewis and Neil Alexander and defender Callum Morris have @placeholder Aberdeen .", "option_0": "agreed", "option_1": "joined", "option_2": "supported", "option_3": "completed", "option_4": "managed"}
{"id": 388, "article": "They are looking for a way of asserting the sovereignty and authority of parliament over the EU in a way that convinces voters - and Boris Johnson - that Britain's relationship with the continent is changing. But they need to do this without claiming that UK law has primacy over EU law, something that would be tantamount to leaving the EU. As you might imagine, this is not proving an easy piece of constitutional carpentry. Clever minds in Whitehall are looking at two potential options, both of which would involve parliament giving greater authority to the Supreme Court to question rulings coming from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg. One option would involve the Supreme Court assessing decisions by the ECJ and considering whether they breach the fundamental principles of Britain's constitutional norms that have been laid down over the centuries in various Acts of Parliament and common law. This would follow a similar path to the German constitutional court which can assess whether ECJ decisions challenge Germany's constitution. The problem with this option, of course, is that Britain does not have a single, codified constitution and so legal comparisons would be complex to say the least. And there is also the small problem that placing British constitutional traditions ahead of EU law would effectively leave the UK in breach of the many treaties it has signed over the years as a member of the European Union. If you don't sign up to the club rules, you can't be a member of the club. So a second option is being considered that some see as being perhaps more feasible. This would again involve parliament beefing up the authority of the Supreme Court to question rulings coming from the European Court of Justice. But - and here's the clever part - the Supreme Court would do this only in exceptional circumstances if it thought the judges in Luxembourg were breaching not UK law, but EU law. Crucially, the Supreme Court would not be questioning the supremacy of EU law. It would simply be ensuring that the UK obeyed the EU treaties which it had signed up to, rather than how those treaties were being interpreted by judges in Luxembourg. Now this might sound mad, or at the very least counter-intuitive. But national courts like the UK Supreme Court have already questioned what some see as the \"judicial activism\" of the European Court of Justice. Some courts think that the ECJ has on occasion exceeded its jurisdiction and made judgements that are not based on EU treaties. In a case last year, the Supreme Court was asked to decide whether Home Secretary Theresa May was legally able to deprive a Vietnamese man of his UK citizenship because he was considered by the security services to be a threat to national security. The European Court of Justice has in various judgements challenged such decisions because it believes that EU citizenship is dependent on national citizenship and therefore it has a right to poke its nose in decisions like this. But the Supreme Court questioned this judicial activism which it considered was not based on any EU treaty text. In a judgement on the so-called Pham case, on 25 March 2015, the judges said in, paragraph 90: \"A domestic court faces a particular dilemma if, in the face of the clear language of a Treaty and of associated declarations and decisions, such as those mentioned in paras 86-89, the Court of Justice reaches a decision which oversteps jurisdictional limits which Member States have clearly set at the European Treaty level and which are reflected domestically in their constitutional arrangements. But, unless the Court of Justice has had conferred upon it under domestic law unlimited as well as unappealable power to determine and expand the scope of European law, irrespective of what the Member States clearly agreed, a domestic court must ultimately decide for itself what is consistent with its own domestic constitutional arrangements, including in the case of the 1972 Act what jurisdictional limits exist under the European Treaties and upon the competence conferred on European institutions including the Court of Justice.\" Now that might read as a lot of rather wordy legalese but it is in fact the highest court of the land very gently and very politely telling its counterpart in Luxembourg to go stick. This led the legal expert, Professor Derrick Wyatt QC, to conclude in a lecture on November 2015 that: \"There is no doubt that some of the case-law of the Court of Justice has been regarded by the supreme courts of Member States as exceeding the jurisdiction conferred upon it, and in so doing encroaching in an unauthorised way upon the national legal systems. UK judges have expressed concerns of precisely this kind. In my mind they have been right to do so.\" He added: \"Leaving the protection of the UK constitution to UK judges is not necessarily at odds with the UK government considering whether something further might be done in support of the role of the national judiciary. That \"something further\" might include providing statutory recognition of the limits of EU law supremacy under the European Communities Act. It is understandable that the prime minister might think that the present is an appropriate time for review of the UK constitutional position.\" And Professor Wyatt is not alone. Anthony Speaight QC, who served on the government's Commission on a UK Bill of Rights, gave evidence to MPs on the All Party Group on the Rule of Law this month and he told them in a written submission: \"It would do no violence to UK legal principles, and arguably would be to perfect and enhance them, if Parliament were to amend (section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972) to clarify that the domestic courts are not to enforce EU instruments and decisions if they find them to be outside EU competences, and that ECJ decisions as to whether acts are within or without competence are to be no more than persuasive authority.\" Mr Speaight accepted that such a power would be \"a nuclear weapon\" that the Supreme Court would be reluctant to use. But he concluded: \"It might be judged that the theoretical existence of the review in the hands of a court with so high an international reputation as the UK Supreme Court would act as a salutary warning to EU institutions to respect the limits of competence and subsidiarity.\" Now this option, of beefing up the powers of the Supreme Court, is not without its problems. Some lawyers argue that there is no distinction between EU treaties and how the ECJ interprets those treaties. The former attorney general Dominic Grieve told BBC Radio 4's The World at One his week that the attempt was pointless because ultimately the ECJ has the final say. Some MPs think that judge-led law is just as bad coming from the UK Supreme Court as it is from the European Court. And politically there is no guarantee that a rarely-used constitutional long-stop would be enough to persuade London Mayor Boris Johnson to vote to remain in the EU. But, right now, it appears to be the only game in town and it is the one the government is playing.", "question": "Governments rarely perform @placeholder but they do try to square circles . And that is what David Cameron 's ministers are attempting right now with Britain 's constitution .", "option_0": "pledge", "option_1": "believes", "option_2": "miracles", "option_3": "secret", "option_4": "powers"}
{"id": 389, "article": "Sophie Lindley, who uses stabilisers, was cycling on Trent Road, Grantham with dad Dale, when they were stopped. Police accepted while cycling on pavements was illegal, officers should use discretion with young children. One cycling charity pointed out being under 10, Sophie is too young to be able to break the law. Mr Lindley said they regularly let Sophie cycle to school. \"We stopped to look at some ducks when the officer pulled over and said she had to get off,\" he said. \"He said 'The law is the law' and she was not allowed to ride on the path. \"He said 'If I catch you put her on her bike further up the road I will turn around and confiscate the bike'. \"I couldn't believe it. It's daft.\" Sophie's mum Emma Stephenson said she understood it was illegal to ride on the pavement. \"But, it is ridiculous to think a four-year-old is not allowed,\" she said. \"The most unbelievable thing is they were going to confiscate the bike.\" Lincolnshire Police apologised and said: \"Safety is our priority and cycling on the pavement is illegal. \"However, common sense obviously prevails and in the case of young children officers should use their discretion and offer the most appropriate advice for the circumstances.\" Roger Geffen, of national charity Cyclists' Touring Club, said the officer was \"unfair\" and \"wrong\". \"The police officer has forgotten that children under the age of 10 are below the criminal age of responsibility so they can't break laws and can technically ride on the pavement,\" he said. \"Everyone lets their children ride on the pavement. It is perfectly normal and not criminal.\"", "question": "Parents of a four - year - old girl were @placeholder when a police officer threatened to confiscate her bike because she was cycling on a pavement .", "option_0": "injured", "option_1": "attacked", "option_2": "baffled", "option_3": "held", "option_4": "denied"}
{"id": 390, "article": "Mr Farron, along with his leadership rival Norman Lamb, was one of only eight MPs left standing after May's election, which saw the party's dreams of remaining in government dashed and its presence in the Commons dramatically diminished. In the wake of Nick Clegg's resignation, the 45-year old father of four and MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale was immediately installed as the bookies' favourite to succeed him. The fact that he did not serve alongside the Conservatives in the coalition government and could present himself as a \"clean skin\" was always likely to appeal to members still trying to come to terms with one of the worst setbacks in the party's history. Mr Farron maintains that he \"did not make the cut\" when Mr Clegg dished out ministerial positions in 2010. Instead, he became party president, positioning himself as a critical friend of the coalition and building up his power base within the party. Although he endorsed the government's austerity measures, including controversial spending cuts and benefit restrictions, he frequently took aim at his coalition partners, describing them at one point as \"toxic\". Who is Tim Farron? Crucially, he voted against plans to raise the cap on university tuition fees to ?¡ê9,000 in January 2011, a U-turn which became a defining moment for the Lib Dems and one from which they struggled to recover. Mr Farron is popular with activists for his tub-thumping party conference speeches and easy-going manner, but he has not always been regarded with similar affection by party elders. After suggesting the Lib Dems deserved only two out of 10 for its performance in government, he was rebuked by, among others, former leader Lord Ashdown, while former deputy leader Vince Cable very publicly questioned his judgement. Mr Farron always insisted he had been referring to the party's handling of coalition relations and the wider politics involved rather than its achievements in power but it was taken by some as evidence of disloyalty and future ambition. After joining the Liberal Party at the age of 16, Mr Farron - who was born and educated in Lancashire - was active in student politics at Newcastle University, becoming the first Lib Dem to head the university's Union Society. After graduating with a politics degree in 1992 - a year in which he also stood for Parliament - he worked in higher education for Lancaster University and St Martin's College in Ambleside for over a decade before entering Parliament in 2005 at the fourth attempt. He has put his experience of grassroots, pavement politics - learnt from years serving on Lancashire County Council, South Ribble Borough Council and South Lakeland District Council - to good effect, building the parliamentary majority in his Cumbrian seat from less than 300 in 2005 to nearly 9,000 in the 2015 general election. A keen Blackburn Rovers supporter, Mr Farron was a once a goalkeeper in a local team. His other passions include music. In an interview with the BBC in 2008, he named his three heroes as former Clash singer Joe Strummer, former Liberal leader Jo Grimond and the novelist, academic, and theologian CS Lewis, best known as the author of the Chronicles of Narnia but also a prolific writer of meditations on Christianity. During the two month leadership campaign, Mr Farron has spoken openly about his faith, telling the Guardian that he had sought advice from God before deciding whether to put his name forward. He has insisted there is no dichotomy between his political and spiritual beliefs, a position he was forced to address after it emerged that some members of Mr Lamb's campaign had conducted private polling of party members about issues related to Mr Farron's faith. Speaking on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show last month, he said the row went to the heart of the often unspoken issue of whether it is \"compatible for anybody to lead a Liberal Party and be a Christian\". Mr Farron, who was baptised at 21 and rededicated himself to God at 30, accepts some in his party regard his faith as a weakness, wryly observing that \"in the US, everyone has to invent a faith to get elected\" but in the UK \"you're not allowed to have one\". He has taken flak for abstaining in a Commons vote on same-sex marriage last year, although he supported the landmark bill legalising gay marriage at all its crucial stages, and for recently describing a woman's decision to terminate a pregnancy as a \"tragedy\", although again he has clearly supported the right to choose and the current abortion law as it stands. Before winning the leadership election - with 56% of votes cast - Mr Farron vowed to reconnect the leadership with party members and champion stances that have become unfashionable elsewhere in Westminster, such as stressing the benefits of immigration and membership of the European Union. The party may have a mountain to climb if it is ever to get back to power but Mr Farron has signalled that he will not be content with wallowing in opposition, saying that \"if you want to change the world, then you have to come first\".", "question": "Popular with Liberal Democrat activists for nearly a decade , Tim Farron has long been regarded as a potential future party leader , although his @placeholder at the top job may have come a little bit earlier than he expected .", "option_0": "tilt", "option_1": "position", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "attempt", "option_4": "peak"}
{"id": 391, "article": "The move follows a monitoring programme by Caerphilly council of 7,000 randomly-selected homes which found only 38% were recycling. Over the next few weeks, council officials will go to 80,000 homes in a bid to increase that figure. The authority said 7,000 tonnes of food waste was not being recycled. Councillor Nigel George, cabinet member for community and leisure services, said: \"If every household participated in recycling food waste, the council could save nearly ?¡ê200,000 a year which could go towards protecting other frontline services.\" The Welsh Government has set targets which require councils to recycle at least 64% of all waste collected by 2019-20 and 70% by 2024-25. Failure to do so could lead to significant fines of up to ?¡ê1m being imposed on councils.", "question": "Every home in Caerphilly county will be @placeholder as part of a new campaign to get more people recycling their food waste .", "option_0": "renovated", "option_1": "trained", "option_2": "destroyed", "option_3": "shifted", "option_4": "visited"}
{"id": 392, "article": "Crowds of people chanting and setting fire to bins gathered in Gwilliam Court, in Monkton, Pembrokeshire, at about 21:30 BST on Tuesday. Police were called and took two people from a property before the disturbance ended six hours later. On Wednesday, about 100 protesters gathered outside a council office. The crowd outside the office in Argyle Street, Pembroke Dock, were shouting and chanting about the situation in Monkton, with some saying they were not leaving until they had answers. Dyfed-Powys Police said officers were present and \"engaging with the community about their concerns\". It comes after the overnight protest on the housing estate. Police issued members of the 100-strong crowd with dispersal orders and the incident ended at about 03:00 BST on Wednesday. Nobody was arrested or injured. Dyfed-Powys Police said it received additional help from South Wales Police and Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Team. Officers remained at Gwilliam Court on Wednesday and extra patrols are being carried out in the area to reassure people. Pearl Llewellyn, a local councillor, said she would contact the housing office. \"They'll be made aware of it,\" she said. A Dyfed-Powys Police spokeswoman confirmed the force was \"liaising with Pembrokeshire County Council housing officers, and the concerns voiced by the community during the incident will be raised with them\". Pembrokeshire council said it was aware of the incident on the council estate. \"Housing officers from Pembrokeshire County Council attended the scene at the request of police,\" a spokesman said.", "question": "Angry protesters staged a six - hour demonstration through the @placeholder after concerns a convicted criminal was living in their community .", "option_0": "country", "option_1": "city", "option_2": "traffic", "option_3": "night", "option_4": "region"}
{"id": 393, "article": "Stephen Probert, 40, and Vicky Banks, 31, both from Caerphilly county, were on the run for two years before the BBC TV appeal helped police to catch them. They posed as a couple hoping to buy a new car before stealing over 25 high-value vehicles. They and other gang members have been sentenced at Newport Crown Court. Cars, including an Audi A3 and a Volkswagen Golf, both worth ¡ê10,000, were stolen around Britain between June 2013 and October 2014. Four of Probert's criminal gang were arrested, but ringleader Probert and Banks, both from Blackwood, went on the run. Tip-offs from the public helped officers apprehend the couple, who were living in Cyprus and travelling back to Wales. Probert pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal motor vehicles and was jailed for one years and eight months. Banks was given an eight-month jail sentence, suspended for two years. Probert was already serving 16 years for conspiracy to steal motor cars and and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Judge David Wynn Morgan called him \"a devious and manipulative criminal\". Gang members Keri Davies, 31, of Risca, and Anthony Woodington, 40, of Maerdy, were jailed for eight months. Neil Roberts, 33, of Trebanog, and Kelly Stephens, 32, from Risca, were each given a one year community order. Samantha Wright, 28, of Mountain Ash, was bailed for a pre-sentence hearing.", "question": "A couple involved in a gang which stole ¡ê 250,000 in cars have been convicted after an appeal to track them down was @placeholder on TV 's Crimewatch programme .", "option_0": "spotted", "option_1": "featured", "option_2": "called", "option_3": "made", "option_4": "evacuated"}
{"id": 394, "article": "The 30-year-old Wolverhampton-born defender has rejoined the National League's bottom club on a contract until the end of the season. Lowe was a free agent after being released by League Two strugglers York City on 9 December. \"Being bottom of the league doesn't scare me at all,\" he said. \"For me, the season starts now. I am not worried about what's happened in the first half. We have to concentrate on this second half, start picking up points and see where we can get.\" Lowe first joined the Harriers from his hometown club Wolves in August 2008. He scored three goals in 52 appearances before leaving to join Hereford United, followed by a move to Cheltenham Town, where he was reunited with former Harriers boss Mark Yates. After four seasons there, he joined York from Cheltenham in January 2014 after an initial loan spell. Harriers sit bottom of the National League, 13 points adrift of safety, with 20 games of the season left. Because of successive postponements, they have not played since 28 December. During that time head coach Dave Hockaday has departed and the team is now in the hands of chief executive Colin Gordon. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "question": "Kidderminster Harriers have boosted their hopes of @placeholder the drop from the National League by bringing Keith Lowe back to Aggborough .", "option_0": "delaying", "option_1": "escaping", "option_2": "signing", "option_3": "attacking", "option_4": "completing"}
{"id": 395, "article": "Lauri Love, of Stradishall, Suffolk, said he would appeal against the order signed by Home Secretary Amber Rudd. The 31-year-old, who has Asperger's syndrome, is accused of hacking into the FBI, the US central bank and Nasa. He said he had not seen any of the evidence against him, which he said was an \"aberration of justice\". For more on this story and other Suffolk news Mr Love was first arrested at his Suffolk home in 2013. He said Ms Rudd's \"hands were tied\" in signing the extradition order, but fears he will not be given a fair trial in America. He said \"like anyone else arrested in the UK\", he wants a fair trial in this country. He said: \"If no evidence has to be shown and somebody can be taken away from their country, to a country where they have never lived, and potentially face 99 years or the rest of their life in prison, that's something that should trouble us. \"The government and the court should try to prevent this situation.\" Mr Love, who has had depression and periods of acute depression, said it was \"likely\" he could \"lose the capacity to avoid the temptation\" to end his life if he were to be tried in the US. \"This is not paranoia, I've been paying attention to the US justice system for years and sadly people don't get a trial, sadly people are treated inhumanly and people die in prison,\" he said. Mr Love has 14 days to appeal against the decision. If accepted, there would be a hearing next year.", "question": "An autistic man facing claims he hacked US government computer systems has @placeholder a ruling to extradite him .", "option_0": "offered", "option_1": "requested", "option_2": "prompted", "option_3": "refused", "option_4": "criticised"}
{"id": 396, "article": "Media playback is unsupported on your device 2 July 2015 Last updated at 17:41 BST Born in London, raised in Zimbabwe and educated in the United States, she has caught the attention of fashion enthusiasts around the world. She has worked with pop star Beyonce and is currently the senior designer for hip-hop artist Nicki Minaj's fashion collection. The designer is now in the UK, as the main attraction at the Zimbabwe Fashion Week in Birmingham which opens on Saturday, 4 July. She spoke to the BBC's Farayi Mungazi, who first asked her about the inspiration behind her clothing line.", "question": "New York - based Farai Simoyi is one of the rising stars of the catwalk with her self - @placeholder clothing line .", "option_0": "featuring", "option_1": "titled", "option_2": "wearing", "option_3": "attracted", "option_4": "raising"}
{"id": 397, "article": "Several emails they claim to have cracked are linked to Vladislav Surkov, one of the architects of Russia's current political system. He is also a key Kremlin figure in Moscow's intervention in Ukraine. The self-styled \"hactivists\" claim they have no link to the Ukrainian state or security services but refuse to say how they hacked into Mr Surkov's inboxes. In amongst the thousands of emails, a proportion of which the BBC has been given access to, are small details. Taken together they support the notion that Russia controls the separatist authorities in eastern Ukraine, who have been fighting a war with Kiev since the spring of 2014. Read more on Russia and Ukraine Moscow has consistently distanced itself from the separatist militias, describing the conflict as a \"civil war\". There are documents which, it is claimed, are budgets for the breakaway pro-Russian \"republics\" in eastern Ukraine. There is an alleged plan for Moscow to provide fuel to the separatist-held regions to deal with shortages. And there is a list of separatist politicians, which was apparently sent to Mr Surkov's office. The implication is that Russia has a say in who governs separatist-held eastern Ukraine. Attached to one an email, allegedly sent by the separatist leader Denis Pushilin in January of this year, is a map of Ukraine carved up into three regions. The eastern part is marked as \"Novorossiya\" (New Russia). The central region is labelled \"Malorossiya\" (Lesser Russia). In the words of Eliot Higgins, a British journalist and founder of the website Bellingcat, there is \"nothing in there which is individually hugely dramatic\".  He characterises much of the information leaked so far as \"day-to-day boring business\". However, Mr Higgins believes that, taken as a whole, the emails are significant. \"We haven't seen a hack of this type before, showing so much direct linkage between the Kremlin and separatists on the ground.\" Taken with previous evidence that the Russian military has been involved in the war in eastern Ukraine and supplied weapons to the separatists, Moscow's actions in Ukraine are, according to Eliot Higgins, \"at this point completely undeniable\". Other emails suggest that Russia was interested in fostering discontent and organising and paying for protests in Ukraine's second biggest city Kharkiv, which lies close to the Russian border. Analysts argue that the sheer volume of mundane material contained in the emails adds to the hack's authenticity. A more colourful confirmation of the emails' credibility comes from an invitation sent to Mr Surkov in 2014, to a party at which singer Robbie Williams performed. Robbie Williams was photographed singing at the event in Moscow, which according to the email was paid for by the owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich. For Ruslan Deynychenko, from the Ukrainian website Stopfake.org, the number of documents and the number of events and people mentioned make it \"hard to imagine\" that is has been faked. \"It is beyond reasonable doubt that the emails come from Mr Surkov's office,\" said Mr Deynychenko. He thinks \"there are too many documents, and too many events and people mentioned\" for it to be a fake. The emails leaked so far relate to two inboxes: prm_surkova@gov.ru and pochta_mg@mail.ru. The hackers say they have run checks on information in the second inbox and established that it belongs to one of Mr Surkov's staff. The inboxes contain thousands of mundane emails, from people such as IT office workers. The emails have the relevant coding and details of the servers they were routed through, which would be incredibly difficult to fake. In response to the initial leak of emails last week, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by the Russian news agency Tass as saying Vladislav Surkov does not use email. At a briefing with journalists he said that Mr Surkov, whom he has known for 10 years, \"is always being said to have said or done somethinga€| often it is not true.\" But the revelations are not expected to stop after this second leak of emails, linked to Mr Surkov, a secretive but powerful man in Moscow, sometimes referred to as President Putin's \"grey cardinal\". The BBC understands the emails of two other top Kremlin officials have allegedly also been hacked and that the content of those is still to be published. When we asked the Ukrainian hackers whether their actions were ethical, one of them laughed. \"Is it ethical to kill people with guns and tanks?\" he replied. \"I guess nota€| so hacking is more ethical than killing people.\" The Russian government denies all the allegations contained in the emails and made in this article.", "question": "Two Ukrainians have given details of emails they @placeholder to hack belonging to top Russian officials at the Kremlin .", "option_0": "planned", "option_1": "rely", "option_2": "messages", "option_3": "amounts", "option_4": "helped"}
{"id": 398, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Beneath the gloss provided by Eden Hazard, Diego Costa and N'Golo Kante, there is an unheralded efficiency to this Chelsea side. BBC Sport takes a look at the players who have had a quiet impact on a title-winning season, and the unexpected areas that have sealed the championship for the Blues. All statistics are correct as of 22:00 BST on 12 May, with Chelsea having played 36 games. Once you have taken a look, consider how many of this current crop of Chelsea players would make it into the squad that won the club's first Premier League title in 2004-05. Use our team selector below to find out. Pick your best XI from Chelsea's Premier League winners in 2004-05 and 2016-17. Cesar Azpilicueta has proven his adaptability this season, moving from right-back to a position in a central-defensive three. One thing has not changed though - his reliability. The Spain defender is one of only three outfield players to have featured in every minute of every Premier League game this season - clocking up 3,240 minutes. His defensive colleague Gary Cahill has only missed six minutes of action, giving boss Antonio Conte a dependable duo at the back. When it comes to minutes played, Cesc Fabregas is way, way down the pecking order. The former Arsenal midfielder, who has said he could have left Stamford Bridge in the summer, has started only 12 league games this term, but his impact has been substantial. Only three players have provided more than his 11 assists in the top-flight campaign - Manchester City's Kevin de Bruyne leads the way with 15, while Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea) and Christian Eriksen (Spurs) have 12. That trio have played much more football than Fabregas, so it is no surprise that the averages show the Spaniard far outshines his rivals, with an assist every 111 minutes he has been on the pitch. And having seen his reaction when he was told he might lose one of his assists - which Opta later gave him back - we think he'll be pretty pleased. You know where you stand with Gary Cahill - block it, head it, get rid of it. Right? Wrong. The England centre-half fancies himself as a bit of a ball player, it seems. Of all the Premier League defenders to have played at least 20 games this term, only Manchester City's John Stones has a better passing accuracy. Not only has Cahill been composed in front of his own goal, he has been deadly at the other end too. The same can be said for Marcos Alonso who, until joining Chelsea in the summer, was best known in England for spells with Bolton and Sunderland. The pair have six goals each this season - the only defender with more is Liverpool's James Milner, and all seven of his were from the penalty spot. So while Costa has been grabbing the headlines for being on target 20 times, maybe his defensive team-mates deserve a bit of recognition. Though Alonso has scored those six goals, it is the wing-back on the opposite flank who has been the more adventurous this season. No Chelsea player has seen their career revitalised so sharply under Conte than Victor Moses. The Nigeria international, previously recognised as a forward in four unspectacular years at Stamford Bridge, has flourished as a right wing-back. The 26-year-old has had 99 touches in the opposition area this season, more than any other Blues defender. In fact, the only defender to have had more touches in the opposition box this term is Michail Antonio (122), who plays in a similar role for West Ham. The old adage of not scoring if you do not shoot has been very apt for Chelsea this season. Their tally of 12 goals scored from outside the box is a league high, with Liverpool closest on 11. And Spain international Pedro, who leads the way for the Blues, has found the net three times from long distance. Costa, Fabregas and Alonso have each pitched in with two. It must be tough playing alongside the best defensive midfielder in the world. Kante is considered the king of Hoovering up, the emperor of the track back and the don of mid-pitch duels. Nemanja Matic gives his partner-in-midfield-hustling a run for his money, though, particularly when it comes to discipline. Matic has been shown yellow cards to Kante's nine, and given away 33 free-kicks to 52. And when it comes to recoveries [the number of times a player has picked up a loose ball], he is only 22 behind Kante's tally of 263.", "question": "Chelsea 's run to the Premier League title may not have had the same @placeholder as Leicester 's unlikely success last season , but there is still something to celebrate for the way they have gone about it .", "option_0": "effect", "option_1": "momentum", "option_2": "potential", "option_3": "romance", "option_4": "record"}
{"id": 399, "article": "Simon Murray drove his 17th goal of the season to put United ahead. The Bairns regained their composure and Joe McKee crossed for James Craigen to perfectly time a scissor-kick finish. Blair Spittal restored the Tangerines' lead but Falkirk equalised again when McKee found the top corner with a wonderful 30-yard free-kick. The sides will meet again at the Falkirk Stadium on Friday and the eventual winner will face Hamilton Academical or Inverness Caledonian Thistle - whichever side finishes second bottom in the top flight - in the final. Both sides experienced spells of dominance, with Falkirk edging it before the break. Bairns boss Peter Houston - who led United to Scottish Cup glory almost seven years ago to the day - did have to watch his former employers take the lead, though. Tangerines forward Thomas Mikkelsen got the better of Luca Gasparotto to flick on Cammy Bell's long kick and Murray raced on to the ball and rifled it confidently across goal into the far left corner. The Dundee-born striker has been prolific for his home city club in these play-offs - that being his third goal in as many games after netting in both legs of the quarter-final against Greenock Morton. But the visitors responded. Craigen was primed and ready to make the most of McKee's delicious delivery, connecting acrobatically to send the ball into Bell's net. Craigen, Lee Miller and Nathan Austin all went close for the Bairns before half-time, yet it was the home side who nudged themselves in front again at the start of the second period. Like Murray, who turned creator, Spittal netted to make it three goals for him in the three play-off matches. The former Queen's Park midfielder produced an accurate, if unexpected, low finish into the far corner from the right edge of the box. The game would swing again, however, and it was another strike of tremendous quality for both the Falkirk fans and Houston on the touchline to enjoy. Most thought McKee would send his set piece from wide on the left into the box, but the former Morton man hammered the ball into the top left corner past a despairing Bell. Miller's replacement John Baird thought he had added a third for the Bairns with a really nicely directed header from Craigen's cross, but referee Bobby Madden disallowed after the flag was raised by his assistant. And, in stoppage time, Bairns goalkeeper Robbie Thomson clawed away Mikkelsen's looping header to ensure it ended all square. Dundee United manager Ray McKinnon: \"I enjoyed the game. It was an interesting game. \"They've come out and given everything, they've taken the lead twice, there's a desire to win the game so I'm very pleased and the game's still sitting in the balance going into Friday. \"We can certainly go down there and win and we'll go down there with a really positive mentality and we can't wait for the game. \"We'd obviously have liked to have taken a win down there, an advantage. I'm sure it'll be an open game.\" Falkirk manager Peter Houston: \"It was a terrific game. Both teams had a go. We showed great character. We changed our system and the system worked for us. \"I thought for 10 minutes of the first half, we lost it but I think the rest of the game, we more or less dominated. \"We look forward to Friday night. We know it's going to be a difficult game - winner take all - but we're more than confident that we can make the final of the play-off again. \"What we have to cut out is silly goals.\" Match ends, Dundee United 2, Falkirk 2. Second Half ends, Dundee United 2, Falkirk 2. Corner,  Falkirk. Conceded by Willo Flood. Attempt blocked. Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Attempt saved. Thomas Mikkelsen (Dundee United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Attempt missed. Thomas Mikkelsen (Dundee United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Foul by Thomas Mikkelsen (Dundee United). Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the left wing. Mark Durnan (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by John Baird (Falkirk). Substitution, Dundee United. Paul Dixon replaces Jamie Robson. Substitution, Falkirk. Robert McHugh replaces Nathan Austin. Substitution, Falkirk. Tom Taiwo replaces Craig Sibbald. Attempt saved. John Baird (Falkirk) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Nathan Austin (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by William Edjenguele (Dundee United). Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Sean Dillon (Dundee United) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Craig Sibbald (Falkirk). Attempt saved. Charlie Telfer (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Attempt missed. Tony Andreu (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick. Blair Spittal (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Craig Sibbald (Falkirk). Substitution, Falkirk. John Baird replaces Lee Miller. Substitution, Dundee United. Charlie Telfer replaces Wato Kuate. Goal!  Dundee United 2, Falkirk 2. Joe McKee (Falkirk) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner. Foul by Mark Durnan (Dundee United). Nathan Austin (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner,  Dundee United. Conceded by Aaron Muirhead. Attempt blocked. William Edjenguele (Dundee United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Corner,  Dundee United. Conceded by Peter Grant. Willo Flood (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by James Craigen (Falkirk). Goal!  Dundee United 2, Falkirk 1. Blair Spittal (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Simon Murray. Corner,  Falkirk. Conceded by Jamie Robson. Foul by Willo Flood (Dundee United). Lee Miller (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt saved. Willo Flood (Dundee United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Corner,  Falkirk. Conceded by Wato Kuate. Corner,  Falkirk. Conceded by Willo Flood.", "question": "Dundee United and Falkirk @placeholder four brilliant goals in an enthralling Premiership play - off semi-final first leg at Tannadice .", "option_0": "neighbouring", "option_1": "causing", "option_2": "ensured", "option_3": "shared", "option_4": "level"}
{"id": 400, "article": "Glen Evans was left with a broken nose and his bride Georgina was punched at Fanhams Hall Hotel in Hertfordshire, St Albans Crown Court heard. Lee Doyle, 37, of Houghton Regis denied punching the groom. He and Gary Hutson, 46, of Luton, both charged with affray, were guests at another wedding. Both deny affray on 10 August 2014. The court heard an argument broke out when Mr Doyle and Mr Hutson asked Mr and Mrs Evans and their friends to move away from a fireplace. The newly married couple and their group were having drinks at the hotel following their own reception at another hotel. Mr Evans said the two men and the other groom confronted him, saying the area was reserved, although his party had been put there by bar staff. He said the two men hit him, and he was kicked and punched by others who joined in the attack. Mrs Evans was then also punched, leaving her with bruising to the head. However, Mr Doyle told the court he was trying to defuse the situation, which he described as \"volatile\". He admitted pushing Mr Evans and \"grappling\" with him as he thought he was going to attack Mr Hutson. Mr Doyle described Mr Evans as \"irate and aggressive\" but denied hitting him. Earlier this week Mr Evans denied allegations that he had thrown the first punch and had been \"aggressive\". The trial continues.", "question": "A man accused of punching a groom when two wedding parties @placeholder at a hotel has denied hitting anyone but admitted \" grappling \" on the floor .", "option_0": "exploded", "option_1": "clashed", "option_2": "died", "option_3": "stayed", "option_4": "stuck"}
{"id": 401, "article": "He said some shows now neglect traditional storytelling for the sake of \"gratuitous\" use of CGI graphics. The 84-year-old, who was a fixture on Jackanory from the 1960s to '90s, said: \"You can't help but notice how children's TV has changed\". Cribbins is returning to the genre in the new Cbeebies show Old Jack's Boat. He said the series, which starts on Monday, has \"a very nice balance\" between traditional storytelling and animation. But of other children's programmes, he said: \"It's all very fast and noisy now I think. \"You think of the gentleness of Jackanory, somebody would walk onto the set, sit down and say 'hello I'm going to tell you about Ratty and Mole and the Wind in the Willows' and off you went. \"Nice and gentle, and the only thing you saw, apart from the guy or lady talking to you, was a few captions and illustrations, which were stills. That was how it used to be. Pure, simple storytelling. \"Now there seems to be - sometimes, not always - a tendency to use every single opportunity to put in CGI and animation and a lot of it is, I think, gratuitous when the story is actually doing the work for you. \"I think we've got a very nice balance with Old Jack's Boat of story and little bits and pieces [of animation] as well.\" Old Jack's Boat was co-written by former Doctor Who scribe Russell T Davies and features ex-Doctor Who actress Freema Agyeman. Cribbins is also known for playing Wilfred Mott in Doctor Who as well as for roles in Coronation Street, Last of the Summer Wine and Worzel Gummidge. He holds the record for the most Jackanory appearances - 111 in total - and played station porter Albert Perks in classic 1970 film The Railway Children.", "question": "Actor Bernard Cribbins , who provided the @placeholder of 1970s TV favourites The Wombles , has said modern children 's TV has become too \" fast and noisy \" .", "option_0": "demise", "option_1": "role", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "sale", "option_4": "voices"}
{"id": 402, "article": "Amnesty International supporters are zipped into some of the bags in the first few rows, alongside a banner saying #DontLetThemDrown. Bags are lined up in rows in front of the East Sussex resort's Big Wheel close to the pier. The protest comes ahead of an EU leaders' meeting over the crisis. David Cameron will attend the summit in Brussels, which will discuss a response to the growing problem. Amnesty UK director Kate Allen said: \"Until now, the UK government's response has been shameful but finally they have been woken up to the need to act. \"EU governments must now urgently turn their rhetoric into action to stop more people drowning on their way to Europe.\"", "question": "Two hundred @placeholder bags have been placed on Brighton beach in a protest to highlight the UK 's response to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean .", "option_0": "sleeping", "option_1": "people", "option_2": "garbage", "option_3": "travel", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 403, "article": "More than 150 world leaders have converged to launch the two-week talks, known as COP21. The last major meeting in 2009 ended in failure. But French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who is chairing the meeting, said a deal was within reach. Most of the discussions are expected to centre on an agreement to limit global warming to 2C (3.6F). Assessments of the more than 180 national plans that have been submitted by countries suggest that if they were implemented the world would see a rise of nearer to 3C. Peruvian Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar Vidal declared this year's meeting open on Monday. Strong action on carbon emissions is essential for multiple reasons, said Mr Vidal, who hosted last year's UN climate conference in Lima. Mr Vidal said a deal would show the world that countries can work together to fight global warming as well as terrorism. COP21 live: The latest updates from Paris. Christiana Figueres, the head of the UN's climate change negotiations, addressed delegates at the start of the summit. \"Never before has a responsibility so great been in the hands of so few,\" she said. \"The world is looking to you. The world is counting on you.\" COP 21 - the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties - will see more than 190 nations gather in Paris to discuss a possible new global agreement on climate change, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the threat of dangerous warming due to human activities. COP21 live: The latest updates from Paris Explained: What is climate change? In video: Why does the Paris conference matter? Analysis: From BBC environment correspondent Matt McGrath More: BBC News special report The talks are taking place amid tight security, two weeks after attacks in Paris claimed by the so-called Islamic State (IS) group. Negotiators from 195 countries will try to reach a deal at the meeting. This year, world leaders are attending the start of the two-week meeting to give impetus to the talks. Some 150 heads of state, including US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, have arrived at the summit. Major points of contention include: Among those attending the talks is the broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough.  He said he was not confident that the Paris talks would produce a deal to tackle the \"hideous problem\" of climate change. \"We know the consequences of a rise of temperature, what it will do for the oceans, for example,\" he told the BBC. \"Increasing temperature of the oceans will cause havoc amongst the fish stocks and similarly increasing the temperature of the Earth is causing the spread of deserts. \"The problems of a rise in temperatures are huge; it has to be avoided at all costs.\" The Prince of Wales said that humanity faces no greater threat than climate change, as he issued a call for immediate action to tackle rising temperatures. Charles told the summit: \"Rarely in human history have so many people around the world placed their trust in so few. \"Your deliberations over the next two weeks will decide the fate not only of those alive today, but also of generations yet unborn.\"", "question": "High - level climate talks have begun in Paris , aimed at @placeholder a long - term deal to reduce global carbon emissions .", "option_0": "risk", "option_1": "humiliating", "option_2": "letting", "option_3": "signing", "option_4": "finding"}
{"id": 404, "article": "Branagh used a similar visual style in his big-budget 1994 film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in which he also starred as the overambitious scientist. That film performed poorly at the US box office and marked a period in the relative wilderness for the hitherto golden boy of British theatre and film. The experience may also explain Branagh's return to form as a first-league Hollywood director 21 years later, with his live-action Cinderella now a major box office hit. He was always on sure ground with critically acclaimed cinematic treatments of classic Shakespeare and more recently opera such as The Magic Flute (2006). Transferring that depth to mass-market family entertainment has been key to his breakthrough, starting with Thor in 2011. Branagh went out to LA to pitch to direct Thor, the Marvel film that transformed the fortunes of the comic-book-based studio. Not an obvious choice, he convinced them to let him inject Shakespearean grandeur and acting into Thor's Norse mythological world. Like an Elizabethan actor-manager he draws on an evolving \"company\" of great and diverse stage actors (Anthony Hopkins as Odin in Thor, Derek Jacobi as the ageing King and Nonso Alozie in Cinderella) prepared to put in deep preparation. Branagh's awards Twenty-nine wins and 56 nominations, including: Richard Madden, who plays Prince Charming, said he was made to read Machiavelli's Renaissance text on statecraft, The Prince. Perhaps most importantly, Branagh emphasises brilliant, damaged villains who win legions of adoring fans. He has compared Tom Hiddleston's Loki in the Thor films with Cate Blanchett's femme-fatale stepmother. Branagh is clearly a master, not the slave, of the computer-generated imagery (CGI) effects demanded of both superheroes and Cinderella's impressive transformations. It is a lesson learnt perhaps from the CGI-mad disaster of Wild, Wild West (1999), in which he played the scenery-chewing villain. Crucially, Branagh is hungry for mainstream success, making a straight action film Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) to prove it. As he told The Scotsman recently: \"I wanted the chance to do something in a form where more people would see it.\" Cinderella, shot on real film stock, looks sumptuous, but Branagh has had to defend it against accusations from some critics that the movie is too old-fashioned and does not do enough to challenge the passive endurance of abuse in the traditional story. At the Berlin Festival premiere of the film he said Cinderella has \"a strength of character that is sort of a form of non-violent resistance\". Disagreement with Disney over the darker version conceived by the original signed director Mark Romanek is reported to be the reason the American left the project in 2013. Disney's Maleficent (2014), a live-action retelling of the 1959 Sleeping Beauty from the wicked fairy's point of view, suggested a desire to play with darkness, though many critics felt it fell short of its promise. However, Maleficent did well with audiences and, in the light of Cinderella's similar success, Branagh's upbeat approach appears to be the template for the live-action remake projects ahead. Cinderella on the big screen The Jungle Book, starring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and Idris Elba, is scheduled for release in 2016. Like Lily James in Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast will star another Downton Abbey alumnus, Dan Stevens (Matthew Crawley) as the Beast alongside Emma Watson as Belle. By strange coincidence, there is a Frankenstein connection for its director, Bill Condon, who made his Hollywood directorial debut with his own screenplay of Gods and Monsters about the celebrated 1931 Frankenstein horror film. Tim Burton, best known for his own love of the Gothic, is back with Disney for Dumbo after Alice In Wonderland (2010), which - even more than Maleficient - defied poor reviews to be a huge box-office hit. Disney now owns both Marvel and the Star Wars franchises and appears to be committed to a major strategy of remaking its back catalogue of animated classics for a modern family audience, and building on the worldwide success of its new animated princesses in Frozen. Rival Universal studios is thought to be going back to its own classic catalogue for remakes. It has had mixed success with dark fairytale reboots. Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) fared much better than Hansel and Gretel: Witchhunters (2013) or Jack The Giant Slayer (2013). Universal turns out to have been ahead of the game though, with its remake of The Mummy (1999). Now it is thought that Dracula and Frankenstein may well be brought back to life. In a way, it is all thanks to Branagh, who has proved that with courage as a superpower and a little Disney magic anyone can be transformed into Hollywood royalty.", "question": "If you know the films of Sir Kenneth Branagh there is something familiar about Cinderella 's ballroom dance scene , when the Prince swirls her round in a glow of colour and light , all @placeholder in bold , sweeping camera movements .", "option_0": "culminating", "option_1": "emerged", "option_2": "arranged", "option_3": "happening", "option_4": "captured"}
{"id": 405, "article": "If such a rich lunch gets stuck in your gnashers, you'll be pleased to know there are plenty of Methodists on hand to remove your teeth. And if by this point you've had enough of the bus, fly home in style on a wide-boiled aircraft. But whatever you do, please remember that when you land at the airport, eating the carpet is strictly prohibited. No, I haven't gone mad. These are all real-world examples of howlers by auto-translation software. Joking aside, poor translations can have big implications for firms who run the risk of offending customers and losing business, or at least looking very amateurish. Yet we keep being promised that machine learning and natural language processing will soon make flawless, near-instantaneous translation a reality. So how long will businesses have to wait? In January, Skype rolled out its real-time translation software, which allows voice-to-voice translation in seven languages. But even this hi-tech development was not without its teething problems, randomly turning Mandarin words into obscenities on one occasion. The glitch was spotted by photographer Tom Carter who was in China shooting a Skype commercial and had been using it to speak to people in Mandarin. When he said: \"It's nice to talk to you\" to a local scout in Yangshuo, Skype translated it into a very offensive stream of swear words. The issue was blamed on how the Great Firewall - China's way of censoring the web - had interrupted the Skype conversation. Translation programs, such as Google Translate, have traditionally been built around phrase-based statistical machine translation. This works by analysing a back catalogue of texts that have already been translated - such as academic papers and glossaries. It analyses them in parallel in both their original and target languages, then uses statistical probabilities to select the most appropriate translation. Its effectiveness depends greatly on the quality of the original language samples and it's prone to mistakes, often sounding clunky and mechanical. For this reason, Alan Packer, director of engineering language technology at Facebook, said recently that statistical machine translation was reaching \"the end of its natural life\". Instead, translation tech is now moving towards artificial neural networks. These are structured similarly to the human brain and use complex algorithms to select and use the appropriate translation. But rather than just translate the words, a neural network can learn metaphors and the meaning behind the language, allowing it to select a translation that means the same thing to a different culture, rather than a direct literal translation which may in some cases cause offence. Facebook, which carries out up to two billion translations a day in 40 languages, plans to roll out such a system later this year. Search giant Google, too - which now offers 103 languages covering 99% of the online population - is also reported to be working on switching its translation service over to neural networks. But it has not said publicly how soon it plans to make that transition. But before you think auto-translation is on the verge of perfection, think again. Professor Philipp Koehn, a computer scientist and expert in translation technology at the University of Edinburgh, tells the BBC there is still some way to go. \"There are very hard problems with semantics and knowledge representation that have to be solved first, and that we are not close to solving,\" he says. \"The main challenges are when there is less explicit information in the source language than what is needed for generating proper target language.\" For example, Chinese doesn't have the equivalent use of plurals, verb tenses, or pronouns as in English, which makes exact translation very difficult, he says. And English doesn't use gendered nouns, which makes things tricky when translating into languages that do, such as French, Italian and German. Until these challenges are overcome, mistranslations are likely to continue, whether that's Chinese bus routes changing Sichuan Normal University Campus Station to The University Jackie Chan Campus Station, or restaurant owners calling their establishments \"Translate Server Error\". Although translation technology may be improving rapidly, the cost of failure is potentially huge, so many businesses are unwilling to put their faith in it entirely. Clem Chambers is chief executive of ADVFN, a global stocks and shares information website that covers over 70 stock exchanges around the globe. He says: \"For us, when it comes to creating geographic and language-targeted websites, nothing beats having native speakers who actually have a thorough understanding of the financial markets. \"Translation tech has come a long way and can provide good literal translations, but what we need is something that really speaks the language of the local end user, with all the subtleties and colloquialisms specific to their country.\" In other words, translation tech has its uses, but rely on it entirely at your peril. Follow Technology of Business editor @matthew_wall on Twitter Click here for more Technology of Business features", "question": "Imagine a far @placeholder land where you can catch a ride from the Jackie Chan bus stop to a restaurant called Translate Server Error , and enjoy a hearty feast of children sandwiches and wife cake all washed down with some evil water .", "option_0": "space", "option_1": "designed", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "flung", "option_4": "fish"}
{"id": 406, "article": "Some journalists say they dislike conducting vox pop interviews. Myself, I love them. They are frequently a salutary reminder of what really matters to voters and, more significantly, what does not. I have carried out vox pops in umpteen locations across Scotland, with varying success. I still bear the scars of trying to ask folk in Stornoway about religion - and folk in Thurso about nuclear energy. But, more often than not, the experience is highly positive. It was thus during the referendum, in particular. I recall an occasion in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street when one kind lady opted to drum up trade for me by inviting pedestrians to stop and listen. I had a similar experience in the City Square in the great and noble city of Dundee. They formed a polite queue to offer their views on the telly. The referendum, of course, energised politics like never before and, possibly, since. However, in the Edinburgh Beer Factory, I found more than a touch of that energy had returned to the debate. The topic? Tax. There was drollery, naturally. What tax measure did they favour in a brewery? Complete abolition of the tax on beer, of course. But there was thoroughly engaged argument too. They had thought, seriously and in detail, about the sundry offers on tax. I encountered talk, avid talk, about the possible penny increase on all rates, proposed by Labour and the Liberal Democrats. I heard reflected back to me the argument that folk in Scotland should not pay more at all than folk in England: that position courtesy of the Conservatives. I heard discussion of the SNP position, the reversal of the Chancellor's effective cut for higher earners, achieved by altering the threshold for Scotland. And of the Labour plan to increase the very top rate from 45p to 50p. There was a complete absence of zealotry. A delightful lack of minds firmly made up. These were big decisions, to be taken carefully. Production only started at this small craft brewery last summer. They are all keenly aware that their success rests with the state of their market, mainly Scotland initially, with ambitions elsewhere. That means the state of the economy really counts. That means tax and spending really matter. The choices to be taken at this election are critically important. See the main articles on this site for details of the poll. But I was struck by two characteristics among my informal brewery focus group. They wanted product, discernible product. That view was expressed more than once - and tended to draw nods of assent. Eight questions on tax, council tax and welfare (plus mean score) All figures are mean scores based on answers provided between one and 10. One means the policy should never be put in place, and 10 means that it is very important and should be put in place quickly.", "question": "So there I was , touring a brewery . Ok , ok , stop sniggering at the back . And , before you ask , I was n't there to @placeholder anything - other than some reaction to our opinion poll on priorities for the Scottish election .", "option_0": "ponder", "option_1": "witness", "option_2": "produce", "option_3": "organise", "option_4": "hear"}
{"id": 407, "article": "The government's target is one million new homes by 2020; the argument being that more supply will bring down prices. But the head of one of the UK's largest housebuilders, Berkeley Homes, says the target may be missed. Radical change will be required to raise the current new-build rate above 170,000 per year, says Rob Perrins. When I asked him if the target would be hit, his answer was emphatic. \"The answer is no, and surprisingly the answer is not due to planning,\" he said. \"There have been some very good reforms in planning over the past few years. [However] there are three reasons why they will not hit the target. \"Firstly, there is not enough land ready for development. \"Secondly, the UK has the highest property taxation in the world. And it acts as a disincentive to build and [for people to] move. \"And thirdly, I don't believe it is a top three political issue. And there is nothing more important for those under 30 than resolving the housing crisis,\" Mr Perrins added. He said the government should take the issue as seriously as funding the National Health Service. I interviewed Mr Perrins on the Kidbrooke estate in south-east London, where Berkeley Homes is building 4,500 new homes - 1,500 of which will be cheaper \"affordable\" homes. The Kidbrooke estate is Britain's housing crisis in microcosm. In the 1960s, the area was called the Ferrier Estate, a depressing jungle of pre-cast concrete that had fallen into disrepair. In the 1990s, the local council, Greenwich - which Mr Perrins describes as one of the best when it comes to backing housing development - starting planning to redevelop the site. It took 10 years to achieve a \"development agreement\" for the area, signed in 2007. There are 800 \"conditions\" attached to the planning permission, from the type of building materials used, to the type of energy supply needed, to the type of facilities - such as a new school and health centre - that will be provided. All might be very necessary, but all slow down the system. The final houses will not be completed until 2030 - more than 30 years after the council first earmarked the area for redevelopment. Building homes in the UK is a glacial business. \"The real issue in my view is getting land ready for development,\" Mr Perrins said. \"It is also about infrastructure. It's about electricity. It's about gas. It's about adjoining land permissions. It's about all the infrastructure issues around getting land ready, and there are an awful lot of those.\" There are, of course, many other reasons put forward for the chronic shortage of new homes in the UK. One is that housebuilders deliberately constrain supply to keep prices - and their profits - high. The government is considering bringing in financial sanctions for housebuilders that do not develop land quickly enough. That policy proposal could be fleshed out in a housing White Paper to be published before Christmas. Mr Perrins dismissed this criticism of housebuilders, saying that companies like his were ready to build. \"We take huge risks getting sites like this [Kidbrooke] ready for development,\" he said. \"It's hugely complicated and we take those risks over a number of years. \"It also requires an awful lot of capital. Sites like this require over ?¡ê200m of capital to bring them forward,\" he pointed out. Returns need to be good to keep shareholders - which include many people's pension funds - satisfied. \"You mustn't bring in policies that are a disincentive to bringing house [building] forward,\" Mr Perrins said about any government action on fining companies that do not build new homes quickly enough. \"The government owns 40% of the land in the UK; they have enough of their own land to solve the housing crisis,\" he added. With Number 10 and the Treasury both saying that new housebuilding is a priority, the government department responsible for delivering on housing policy - communities and local government - is under scrutiny. The housing minister, Gavin Barwell, told me he \"didn't agree\" the one million new homes target by 2020 would definitely be missed. \"I certainly accept that at the current rate we are not going to hit it, so we need to raise our game,\" he said. \"But I think if you look in both our own past and if you look to some of our near neighbours, it is possible to build the number of homes we need in this country and it is my job, working with my boss Sajid Javid [the Communities and Local Government Secretary] to make sure we do it,\" the minister added. \"How?\" is the question governments have been asked for decades, ever since the 1960s and 1970s when house building was a public and private affair, with 100,000 council houses a year adding to the number built by private developers. \"I think if there was a simple answer to that question, someone would have solved the problem already,\" Mr Barwell said. \"I think there is a combination of things. In some parts of the country we are not releasing enough land into the system. \"Then often people get planning permission, but it takes too long to turn that into a home - you can't live in a planning permission. \"We're too slow to get spades in the ground when we've got planning permission. \"I think we are too dependent on a small number of large housebuilders, so we need to broaden the range of the people who are doing the building. \"And then we need to make sure we've got enough people in the country who have got the skills to work in the industry,\" he said. Mrs May has been careful to avoid too many targets in her short time as prime minister. But she knows the \"one million new homes by 2020\" will be one for which voters can and will hold her accountable. Expect a flurry of government activity - on simplifying planning rules and promoting local authority building - by the end of the year.", "question": "Theresa May put affordable housing at the heart of her \" @placeholder \" to voters when she became prime minister .", "option_0": "series", "option_1": "relief", "option_2": "offer", "option_3": "message", "option_4": "promise"}
{"id": 408, "article": "The 37-year-old Scot will replace ex-club captain Alex Rae, who leaves the role at the end of the season. Tunnah played as a hooker in Scotland before retiring in 2010, after serving a five-month suspension for failing a drugs test. \"It will be great to be working at a fully professional club where there's a real aspiration to succeed,\" he said. Tunnah has coached in Australia since he stopped playing, spending some time working with ex-Australia flanker Jim Williams at National Rugby Championship side Greater Sydney Rams. Reds head coach Harvey Biljon added: \"He has a big task ahead given our reputation for having a strong pack in recent seasons, but that's a challenge he's excited about and I see him rising to. \"With a number of departures in May he has the opportunity to mould a new pack.\" Rae, meanwhile, has agreed a playing contract with Bedford Blues for next season. For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "question": "Jersey Reds have appointed Australia - @placeholder Neil Tunnah as their new assistant coach for next season .", "option_0": "described", "option_1": "based", "option_2": "backed", "option_3": "chasing", "option_4": "nominated"}
{"id": 409, "article": "The sketchbook, created around 1907 when Spencer was a teenager, includes drawings of the landscape around his home town of Cookham, Berkshire. It also images of mermaids, witches and characters from fairy tales. The previously unpublished book will feature in the Hepworth Wakefield's summer exhibition of Spencer's work. Stanley Spencer: Of Angels and Dirt runs from 24 June to 15 October and coincides with the 125th anniversary of the English artist's birth. Eleanor Clayton, curator at the Hepworth Wakefield, said she had come across the sketchbook while researching the exhibition at the Spencer family home in London. She said the \"detailed depictions of local flora and fauna\" and its insights into the young artist's \"eccentric imagination\" made for a \"fascinating\" exhibit. John Spencer, Stanley Spencer's grandson, said it was \"a privilege\" to work with the gallery on \"this celebration of his life and art\".", "question": "An unpublished sketchbook @placeholder the earliest known drawings by artist Stanley Spencer and a short story is to go on display in West Yorkshire .", "option_0": "reached", "option_1": "claimed", "option_2": "containing", "option_3": "retained", "option_4": "awarded"}
{"id": 410, "article": "The ruling follows last month's move by the government to suspend all activities of the Wefaq National Islamic Society. Funds will be transferred to Bahrain's government, al-Arabiya TV said. Wefaq has helped lead pro-democracy protests in the country since 2011. That February, demonstrators took to the streets to demand greater political rights and an end to discrimination against the Shia majority. The following month, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa brought in troops from neighbouring Sunni-led Gulf states to restore order and crush dissent. The unrest left at least 30 civilians and five policemen dead. Opposition activists say dozens of people have been killed in ongoing clashes between protesters and security forces, while bomb attacks blamed on Iran-backed militants have killed a number of police officers. Last month the justice ministry said it had filed a request with a court to suspend Wefaq to \"safeguard the security of the kingdom\" . The government also stripped the kingdom's most prominent Shia cleric, Sheikh Isa Qassim, of his citizenship, accusing him of using his position to \"serve foreign interests\" and promote \"sectarianism and violence\". Wefaq is Bahrain's largest legally recognised opposition political society, it says it advocates non-violent activism. Last month, an appeal court more than doubled the prison sentence of Wefaq's secretary-general from four years to nine, overturning a trial court's decision to acquit Sheikh Salman of advocating the overthrow of the government by force. Human Rights Watch said there was strong evidence that his trial was unfair and that two of the charges on which he was convicted violated his right to freedom of expression.", "question": "A court in Bahrain has ordered the Sunni Muslim - ruled country 's leading Shia opposition group @placeholder and its assets seized , reports say .", "option_0": "dissolved", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "detained", "option_3": "reached", "option_4": "killed"}
{"id": 411, "article": "The Reverend Michael Pfleger told mourners it was \"a new low for Chicago\" and that the city \"has to face itself\". Police believe members of a rival gang lured Tyshawn away from a park near his grandmother's home and shot him. Officers have called the crime \"unfathomable\" and are offering rewards for anyone with leads on the suspects. His small red casket arrived at St Sabina's Church on Chicago's South Side, where the city's mayor, Rahm Emanuel was among those paying their respects. Police say Tyshawn's death can be attributed to two gangs fighting and retaliating against one another for months. The Faith Community of St Sabina has raised at least $54,000 (?¡ê35,000) in reward money. Tyshawn's father Pierre Stokes told ABC7 in Chicago his son's death had nothing to do with gang affiliations and is frustrated the police are focusing on him. \"I don't want to harm nobody, I just want to see justice for my son by seeing the person who did it - whoever did it - locked up. That's all I ever want,\" he told ABC7.", "question": "Funeral services have been held in Chicago for nine - year - old Tyshawn Lee , who police say was @placeholder for his father 's gang affiliations .", "option_0": "executed", "option_1": "released", "option_2": "blamed", "option_3": "arrested", "option_4": "sacked"}
{"id": 412, "article": "The art deco building had a ¡ê4.2m refurbishment in 2013, reopening with a cinema, cafe and gallery. But the cinema closed in March, while the pavilion closed three days a week, prompting campaigns for them to reopen. Prof Tony Hazell, of Penarth Arts and Crafts Ltd (PACL), which runs it, said the pavilion had not been run in a sustainable way. He said his team had opened on \"full throttle\" in December 2013, running the landmark building on the Victorian pier seven days a week, 12 hours a day, 362 days a year. \"It probably wouldn't be sustainable on a commercial basis, let alone a charity one,\" he added. Mr Hazell said the decision to close the cinema - the only one on a pier in the UK - was taken after figures from previous years showed it did not attract as many visitors in the summer months. In addition, the cafe was closed on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays because it was not making enough money to cover costs. But after reviewing the business and receiving ¡ê126,000 in lottery money, he said the pavilion and its cafe would reopen either five or six days a week from the middle of the summer. It will probably remain closed every Monday. He also said the cinema would welcome visitors again from September \"if not before\". \"We are now looking for new ideas about how to raise more revenue,\" he said. \"At the end of the day, this building is run as a charity and people don't really donate as much to a building as they might to an animal charity. \"We only have a small team of paid staff and we rely a lot on volunteers. But, yes, we will survive.\" However, campaigner Andrew Jones, 52, who started a petition to reopen the cinema - signed so far by more than 1,700 people - said he did not have faith in PACL. \"There has been a complete wall of silence in Penarth from PACL,\" said Mr Jones, who lives in Penarth. \"The cinema shut down very suddenly, with just a notice put on their website, which not many people saw,\" he added. \"I certainly don't believe cinema attendances fell that much in the summer.\" Vale of Glamorgan council, which runs the pier and leased the pavilion to PACL for 125 years on a peppercorn rate, said it had \"provided significant amounts of both financial and professional\" support to the charity. It gave ¡ê800,000 towards the renovations - in addition to money from the Heritage Lottery Fun - and a ¡ê100,000 grant in its first year of trading to help support the group. \"Since this grant came to an end professional support has been provided by the council to help PACL improve their approach to business planning and financial management,\" a spokesman added. \"Having supported them to such an extent the council is keen to see the organisation flourish and to continue to provide facilities that we know are greatly valued by the local community.\" Penarth Pier opened in 1895 and was voted pier of the year in 2014 by in a poll by the National Piers Society (NPS).", "question": "Fears over the future of the @placeholder Penarth Pier Pavilion are unfounded , the charity running it has said .", "option_0": "renovated", "option_1": "table", "option_2": "ground", "option_3": "proposed", "option_4": "words"}
{"id": 413, "article": "But the day after the Scottish fighter died, having sustained severe bleeding and swelling to his brain in a British title eliminator on Thursday, boxing gyms would have been full across the country. \"Tragic news about Mike Towell,\" they would have said, before savagely assaulting a heavy bag. On Saturday, professional boxing shows took place in Buxton, Manchester, Stoke, London and the former Yorkshire pit village of Denaby Main. In Glasgow, where Towell's final prize fight took place, 22 men climbed between the ropes at the Bellahouston Leisure Centre. Some won, some lost, some had their senses scrambled. But none was there against his will. Abolitionists argue that such people should be saved from themselves. And if you were to build a utopia, boxing would surely not be a part of it. But anyone who reads the newspapers or watches the news will know that utopia is not imminent. And, anyway, how utopian is restricting a person's choice? I didn't know Towell but I have met many men like him. The typical boxer is diffident, far removed from the lazy stereotype of the snarling bully. But the typical boxer - or at least the typical boxer who has tasted success in the ring - will also speak of an addictive, sometimes pathological, need to fight. This need isn't necessarily financial. Carl Froch, one of the most determined boxers Britain has ever produced, studied sports science at Loughborough University. Welshman Nathan Cleverly, who became a two-time world champion on Saturday, has a degree in maths. They were never the desperate street urchins or would-be criminals of so much boxing fiction. Had they so desired, Froch could have been a physio and Cleverly a high-school teacher. However, it is true that boxing has diverted many aimless souls down a path towards self-improvement and dignity. The best grassroots boxing trainers don't just know their way around a ring, they are social workers, fathers and mothers. Perhaps if there were more wholesome alternatives for kids in our more deprived areas - such as swimming pools, tennis courts and velodromes - boxing's lure would be weaker. But even if there were, there would still be plenty of kids drawn to the baser thrill of testing their courage in combat. But what of those who revel in the sight of two men or women punching each other in the head? And what does it say about us that when boxing is at its most compelling, it is also at its most dangerous, when we know exactly how dangerous it can be? Michael Watson, who was punched into a coma by Chris Eubank Sr in 1991 and suffered life-changing injuries as a result, summed it up like this: \"It's what people love to see. It's human nature. No different to seeing dogs fight.\" An abolitionist might suggest that those watching the Towell fight would, in a civilised world, have been accessories to manslaughter. And the thought that a man was battered half to death while the audience laughed and drank Champagne is, at the least, discomfiting. Furthermore, the oft-repeated argument that more people die or suffer serious injuries while racing cars or motorbikes or riding horses is naive. In all of these sports death or serious injury is, for the most part, entirely accidental. The argument that death or serious injury is entirely accidental in boxing, whose participants set out to rattle each other's brains, is far more difficult to sustain. Which is not to apportion any blame to Towell's last opponent, Welshman Dale Evans. Towell, like Evans, knew the risks when he stepped into that ring. And Towell, like Evans, needed to be there. But when men like Towell die because of boxing, the sport becomes difficult to defend. Perhaps it means boxing people are uncivilised, which is something we just have to live with. No amount of medical provision can stop the sport of boxing from being a threat to life. But in a tolerant society, which is what we profess to have built in this country, any thought of abolition should be resisted. Watson still loved boxing enough to be ringside when Nigel Benn fought Gerald McClellan in 1995. That night, McClellan suffered permanent brain damage and was also left blind, confined to a wheelchair and requiring round-the-clock care. And Watson still loved boxing afterwards, because he knew better than almost anyone that boxing gives back more to society than it takes. Talk to former boxers and they will complain of headaches, numb jaws, arthritic fingers and unreliable memories. And in the next sentence they will tell you that they might have not have discovered that path towards self-improvement and dignity had they not found boxing at the crossroads. Ask a fighter the question: \"Where would you be if you hadn't found boxing?\" And don't be surprised if the answer is: \"Dead or in prison.\" Quite often, boxing fiction is rooted in cold, hard facts. For many young people, boxing allows them to be somebody in society, rather than lead an inconsequential life of desperation. And for many young people, the idea of slowly dying behind a desk is as nonsensical as risking life in the ring. In 1980, Johnny Owen died from his injuries after challenging for the world bantamweight title. Reflecting on his compatriot's passing, Welsh boxing great Eddie Thomas said: \"It broke my heart to see Johnny lying in his coffin and made me feel that boxing isn't worth the candle. But there is something mysterious that keeps drawing you back.\" In truth, there is nothing mysterious about it. Some people like to box and other people like to watch them box. If heaven exists and it is just how Mike Towell imagined it, he is probably boxing right now.", "question": "You might think the fact that Mike Towell 's @placeholder battle took place on an operating table rather than in a ring would cause even boxing 's most ardent supporters to question its legitimacy as a sport , perhaps even its existence .", "option_0": "pioneering", "option_1": "defining", "option_2": "name", "option_3": "hand", "option_4": "position"}
{"id": 414, "article": "Drugs smuggler Terrence Earle was spotted in Amsterdam as the crew filmed the new Fugitives series on BBC One. Earle and his brother Michael, from Merseyside, had tried to smuggle ?¡ê500,000 of drugs into south Wales before going on the run in 2015. They were jailed for three years in July 2016 at Cardiff Crown Court. Detectives with the Welsh Regional Organised Crime Unit first received a tip-off about a shipment of cannabis resin leaving Merseyside for south Wales in early 2015. A lorry carrying 179kg of the drug was stopped on the A449 dual carriageway near Newport and the driver was arrested. Inquiries suggested the Earle brothers were responsible for organising the shipment on behalf of drug gangs in the north west of England and south Wales. As part of their investigation, detectives went to Liverpool in August 2015 and carried out a series of dawn raids. Det Insp Julian Bull, of the Regional Organised Crime Unit, said: \"There was only going to be one outcome for me and that was success. Unfortunatelya€| my worst dreams came true. They'd gone on the run.\" He turned to the public for help and in November 2015 an appeal was made on the BBC's Crimewatch programme. He said: \"We had a number of calls. One call in particular pointed us to the fact that the Earle brothers may well be overseas, in particular in Holland.\" A year after the drugs bust, a BBC crew was filming in Amsterdam with Dutch police for the Fugitives series. A Dutch police lieutenant who was being filmed told the programme: \"While we give the interview, three men pass the camera and one of our crew, one of the police officers, thought he recognised somebody who is wanted by the British police. \"We break the interview and we follow that guy.\" Officers approached a car containing the men and suspicions were raised as one of them was not carrying identification. Checks then confirmed that he was in fact Terrence Earle. Michael Earle, the youngest brother, was thought to be in Spain and three months later was in custody, having tried to travel through Madrid airport. \"It's the old adage within my world that we only have to be lucky once, they have to be lucky all the time, and it's true when it comes to both Terrence and Michael Earle,\" added DI Bull. \"They probably felt they were untouchable but unfortunately for them they weren't.\"", "question": "One of Wales ' most wanted criminals was @placeholder after he blundered into BBC cameras filming in the Netherlands .", "option_0": "released", "option_1": "burned", "option_2": "dropped", "option_3": "launched", "option_4": "caught"}
{"id": 415, "article": "In May 2005, he left his job as a tourist guide in Vietnam and was one month into a new life with his British girlfriend in London. It was the end of a long period of travel - he had visited Latin America, Africa, Australia, Cambodia and Vietnam, the country his parents had fled to escape the Communists - after he left his bank job in New York in 2001. It was during the final 18 months, when he worked as a tour guide for Intrepid Travel in Cambodia and Vietnam, that he met and fell in love with English colleague Rosie Cowan. She had returned to London in January 2005 to work for Intrepid Travel, and Mr Matsushita had promised to follow her. When he arrived, months later, they found a place to live together in Islington, London, and travelled to Holland and Spain together before Mr Matsushita started a new job in IT recruitment. In a statement read out at the inquest five years after his death, his father, David Matsushita, said: \"Rosie has told me that, on the morning of 7 July, the fourth day of his new job, Minh put on his suit and tie, told her he loved her and left for work [on the Piccadilly Line].\" He said the last time he had seen his son was on 31 May 2005, when Mr Matsushita had stopped in New York to see family and friends and celebrate his 37th birthday on his way to London. \"We dropped him off at the airport, gave him a big hug and a kiss and wished him luck finding a job in London. \"He was nervous as he had not seen Rosie for nearly three months after visiting her in London in early March. After reaching London this time, he sent us an e-mail which read as follows: \"'So Rosie met me at the airport and things could not be better. As soon as she saw my lovely big head and crazy hair, she just melted in my arms and all is good',\" he told the inquest. When Mr Matsushita was reported missing, David and Mr Matsushita's mother, Muoi, and his childhood friend David Golovner, flew to London and searched hospitals for him. But police confirmed his death from identification found at the scene. Mr Matsushita's biological father was a South Vietnamese soldier who died during the Vietnam War. His mother, also Vietnamese, then met US aid worker David Matsushita, who adopted the boy and moved to New York after the war. A funeral and cremation service for Mr Matsushita was held in London on 20 July 2005, with a further memorial service in New York on 30 July 2005. In lieu of flowers, his parents and Rosie requested people made donations to the Intrepid foundation: Indochina Children's Fund for Mike - a charity set up in his honour to support needy children in Cambodia and Vietnam. Intrepid Travel has pledged to match all donations and pay administrative costs. Mr Golovner said his friend always showed a keen interest in bringing people of different cultures together. And his work as a tour guide emphasised this, as he took Western travellers to local orphanages. Mr Golovner said: \"He had a huge passion for life. As a friend, he was my brother. As a person, he was a resident of the world. He had the ability to see the wonder in everything.\" David Matsushita said: \"Minh is much missed by everyone who knew him, but he had a positive attitude and would not wish us to grieve.\"", "question": "Vietnamese - born and New York - @placeholder , Mike Matsushita had only recently moved to London because of love .", "option_0": "printed", "option_1": "point", "option_2": "weight", "option_3": "raised", "option_4": "bred"}
{"id": 416, "article": "Lilias Adie, a poor woman who confessed to being a witch and having sex with the devil, died in prison before she could be tried, sentenced and burned. So they buried her deep in the sticky, sopping wet mud of the foreshore - between the high tide and low tide mark - and they put a heavy flat stone over her. But why? In previous cases, people wanted rid of dead witches as cheaply as possible - dumping them naked in pits at the foot of the gallows. Why go to such bother to bury Lilias? One possibility is that Lilias killed herself. Right up to the 19th Century suicide victims were buried this way on the shore, outside consecrated ground. This seems strange and barbaric to us now, but it was believed that suicide was a terrible crime against God, inspired by the devil. Worse, it was believed people who died in this way were in danger of becoming revenants - corpses of bad people who had died a bad death, who then came back from the grave to torment the living. This has a strange and terrible relevance to witchcraft. Demonologists believed that such walking corpses were real and possessed by the devil, who animated them to do things like have sex with witches. Lilias herself had confessed publicly to having sex with the devil. All her friends and neighbours would have believed this was done by the devil putting on such a decaying corpse, just taken from its grave, to copulate with her. Folk belief said that certain bodies were much more likely to do this - executed people, suicides, witches. So now you see the problem, whichever way you look it Lilias is either (a) a suicide or (b) a witch, and even worse (c) possibly both. She was not only given the burial common for suicides but the large stone was placed over her, another folk remedy for revenants, to weigh them down so they can't get up and come back. After they buried her, the good folk of Torryburn must have breathed a contented sigh of relief like scientists entombing nuclear waste. They had made Lilias safe for the centuries, or so they believed. Unfortunately they hadn't made Lilias safe from them. By the 19th Century beliefs had changed, and some enterprising locals dug up Lilias to sell bits of her to the local antiquarians. Their biggest prize, her skull, went to St Andrews University Museum where it was photographed more than 100 years ago. You can still see the photographs today in National Library of Scotland - showing that poor Lilias, who was probably in her 70s when she died, had extremely prominent buck teeth. But sometime in the 20th Century the skull went missing and all inquiries to trace it have so far failed. So what's left on that lonely beach? Our programme went to take a look for the stone - armed with 19th Century descriptions of the area that mentioned \"the great stone doorstep that lies over the rifled grave of Lilly Eadie\", and a rock with \"the remains of an iron ring\". In the small group of rocks near the railway bridge, we found a seaweed-covered stone which fitted the doorstep description. Fife archaeologist Douglas Speirs, who examined and cleaned it, confirmed the slab was not natural to the beach but quarried and deliberately placed there. It had in its middle a small dimple which might have been mistaken as the socket for an iron ring. This, we think, is Lillias's stone, but is there anything left of Lilias there? Speirs pointed out that 19th Century curiosity-seekers were unlikely to have lifted the entire body. In the days when \"reading someone's bumps on the head\" was thought to be science, the skull was the thing. Maybe a few other bits were taken too, but it's unlikely that the whole body went. And if parts of her are left, the preservation in the area is excellent, she is unlikely to have rotted away. Without archaeological investigation, no-one can know for sure, but it's likely that this is the only known witch's grave of its type in Scotland and that parts of Lilias are still in there. The Walking Dead is on BBC Radio Scotland at 13:30 on Wednesday 29 October.", "question": "Back in 1704 , in Torryburn on the south @placeholder Fife coast , they had a problem disposing of toxic material - it was what you might call a toxic witch problem .", "option_0": "coast", "option_1": "west", "option_2": "capital", "option_3": "floor", "option_4": "island"}
{"id": 417, "article": "The Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) at the University of St Andrews will conduct the three-year study. Marine scientists will attach telemetry tags harmlessly to the fur at the back of the heads of a number of seals. The scientists said the tags were lightweight and would drop off when the seals moulted. The marine tags, which work in a similar way to smartphones, will use technology to send vital information from the seal when it surfaces or beaches directly back to SMRU for analysis. The technology, provided by Vodafone, is the same as that which is found in new cars, heart monitors and smart meters. Data will be gathered on a seals' location, dive behaviour and its oceanic environment. The study by SMRU is being carried out at the request of the Scottish government and Scottish Natural Heritage which have concerns for the future survival of harbour seals in areas of Scotland. Harbour seals - one of two seal species in the UK - have declined in numbers by up to 90% in some areas in and around the north and east coast of Scotland, including Orkney, since 2000. Professor John Baxter, marine principal adviser at Scottish Natural Heritage said: \"This exciting, collaborative study is vital to help us to better understand the drivers of population change in Scottish harbour seals, and to evaluate the potential conservation and management options open to us.\" SMRU's deputy director Dr Bernie McConnell said: \"Over the last 15 years, many of the harbour seal populations in the Northern Isles and on the north and east coasts of Scotland have been declining. \"Marine data collected during this project on Orkney will help to assess the causes, management and mitigation options in relation to the harbour seals decline and to prioritise future research directions.\"", "question": "Orkney seals are to @placeholder mobile smartphone technology as part of a study into population decline in the area .", "option_0": "study", "option_1": "improve", "option_2": "receive", "option_3": "introduce", "option_4": "stay"}
{"id": 418, "article": "That's what it's like to have a specific language impairment in your own language, says Gina Conti-Ramsden, professor of child language and learning from the University of Manchester. \"These children aren't mute. They can talk - but it's a hidden disability,\" she says. \"They can't understand what is said all the time and they find it difficult to put words together, and to express themselves.\" Most children with SLIs have quite severe language problems and can spend at least 50% of their education in specialist language units, staffed by specialist teachers and speech therapists, rather than mainstream schools. The aim is to enable them to go back into mainstream primary or secondary school, and that they can achieve a level of language which allows them to function in society, get a job and lead a normal life as an adult. Prof Conti-Ramsden's current research project is concerned with finding out what happens to such children as adults. Ross Watson, 25, forms part of her study - the largest of its kind in the UK. He spent most of his primary education in a speech and language unit, returning to mainstream education in Year 6. He remembers it as a tough time in his life. \"They didn't help much to begin with. There was a lot of mickey-taking from the other kids. And I got frustrated and upset because I couldn't do things. \"I didn't understand why they made me do music lessons when it would have been better to do extra English instead.\" In the end, Ross got nine GCSEs, impressing himself and his teachers with a C in French and a D in English. But he is honest about how his language impairment has affected him. He has always found it hard to put sentences together, he finds himself getting edgy in new situations and uncomfortable when he has to communicate with people, particularly face to face. \"Talking on the phone is easier in some ways because I can't see facial expressions, which makes it worse to communicate because I'm always wondering what they're thinking.\" He says he can't work out when people are being sarcastic, which has led to lots of awkward situations in the past - and he suffers from short-term memory loss. \"I'm still forgetful. I forget to call people back a lot. I have to write it down to remember. And I still find reading hard. I have to use a highlighter pen. \"And in a group situation I don't say things first. I don't like to say anything too early in case I've misunderstood something.\" However, Ross has come a long way since he was a \"very quiet boy in the classroom\" who had trouble finding his voice. He went on to do a course in mechanical engineering at college and now works as a quality inspector of machine parts. In between he spent six years on an apprenticeship at a major defence company. But not everyone is as lucky as him. Afasic, the charity which supports children and parents with speech, language and communication needs, says 6% of children starting school have some degree of speech or language difficulty. Around one in 500 are thought to have a serious long-term problem. Picking it up early is important, says Alison Huneke, helpline manager at Afasic. \"There's more time to address it if it's picked up at this stage and then the child has less experience of failing and losing ground. \"But some schools are good at recognising these problems and some aren't.\" In fairness, she says it isn't always easy to recognise a specific language impairment. While in some children it will be obvious, others may need a speech and language assessment first - and it is possible it could be misdiagnosed. As we grow up language is fundamental to virtually everything we do, says Prof Conti-Ramsden, and problems with it can be linked to issues which develop later in life, like anxiety and depression. The worst-case scenario is that children with specific language impairments become young offenders, since around half of this group of people are thought to have language problems. Although young people with SLIs look normal, they can suffer from loneliness, struggle to form close friendships and grow up dependent on their parents. Employment is also hard to secure. But as an adult it is also possible to focus on the things you enjoy and are good at, much more so than at school. There are lots of things that Ross still doesn't find easy, such as writing reports, talking on the phone, detecting sarcasm and speaking to his boss, but he believes he acquired an inner strength from his early years of intensive speech and language therapy. This, he says, makes him quietly confident that he has the skills to compete with the brightest and best in society.", "question": "Imagine listening to a foreign language you are not familiar with all day . It would be tiring and confusing . You would miss important @placeholder and you 'd have to work very hard to understand what people were saying .", "option_0": "sound", "option_1": "food", "option_2": "conversations", "option_3": "information", "option_4": "forces"}
{"id": 419, "article": "So if tracing the cost of your bank account is as complex as strands of spaghetti, are other countries any better at untangling the mess? Are their banking charges lower - or at least clearer - and are consumers happier? The Competition and Markets Authority has announced an extension of its inquiry into the current account market. The competition watchdog said that more time was needed for the industry and consumer groups to consider its new proposals on softening the impact of overdraft charges on bank customers. Suggestions include a \"monthly maximum charge\", an upper limit on combined interest, daily charges and unpaid item fees. This would not be a regulated cap but set by individual banks. There would be expanded use of grace periods, to allow customers time to top up their account and avoid overdraft fees. Imminent overdraft alerts would be provided as a standard service. Warnings would be sent out by text, email and within apps to tell people that they are about to incur overdraft charges. Under the proposals, banks would not be able to include arranged overdrafts in the amount of \"available funds\" which they tell customers they can use. A final decision will be made in August. The plans were immediately criticised by consumer group Which?. It said prompts were not enough, and that tougher rules should be set. \"The regulator should use this further extension of their inquiry to bring forward stronger solutions to tackle unfair charges and ensure banks are held to account for how they treat their customers,\" said Which? executive director, Richard Lloyd. So, do other countries do banking any better than us Brits? Along with a cafe serving pastis - and a boulangerie, of course - every small town in France has at least one bank. But unlike the UK's free-if-in-credit model, in France you will pay to use a bank, whether you are in credit or not. You will pay a monthly fee to have a current account; you will pay to have a debit or credit card; and you will pay to use a cash-point if it is outside your local region, or if you are using another bank. Credit Agricole, one of France's largest providers of current accounts, publishes no less than twelve pages of its charges, not counting overdraft rates. While such charges may look pricey to British eyes, they may actually offer much better value - depending on your spending habits. \"When you look at France, the fees for a missed payment, the fee for sending you a letter, and the overdraft fees are far, far, far lower than in the UK,\" says Gareth Lodge, an analyst with the US consultancy firm Celent. But whether you get better value in France varies according to what sort of customer you are. \"If you don't use a card particularly, if you've got very few bills, it probably works out more expensive in France than in the UK,\" says Lodge. \"If you are using an overdraft a lot more, then that might balance out.\" But consumer groups in France are just as frustrated about bank charges as their equivalents in the UK. The fees may look more transparent, but the campaign group CLVC wants greater accountability. For example, it argues that transaction fees should accurately reflect the actual cost of processing, say, an ATM payment. CLVC has also calculated that the average cost of the most basic account in France, including a debit card, is around ¡ê50 a year. In a 2016 survey, it said that just 57% of those questioned would recommend their bank to someone else - although overall 72% were happy with their provider. The number of people switching accounts in the UK continues to fall, much to the disappointment of the government and regulators. So are they any better at switching abroad? For its long-running study on bank accounts, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) looked at the example of the Netherlands, a market they said was comparable to the UK. On average, it found that Dutch consumers pay an average of ¡ê53 a year for their accounts. Yet, against expectation, that doesn't make them any keener to switch. In a survey local regulators found that 73% of bank customers had never switched at all. The same could be true in many other countries too. \"I have no proof, but my guess from understanding how the US market works, and how the Dutch and Spanish markets work, is that there's far less switching in other countries,\" says Gareth Lodge. \"Particularly in the USA and Spain, it's very much your local branch. You stick with it, and you go where your parents went.\" However, others suggest that competition is much more lively in France. \"In the French market, there's significantly higher switching,\" says John Lyons, the retail and commercial banking leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). But that, he says, is because most of the mainstream banks have developed better value internet brands. \"Those digital-only subsidiaries tend not to charge as much as the standard banks. So what you see is a migration from the traditional banks to the internet-only accounts.\" British banks, take note. Why consumers get a raw deal from internet banking If you thought banking sounded expensive in Europe, it can be even pricier in the US. Most banks charge a monthly fee of up to ¡ê10, unless you have a healthy balance sitting in your account. The Bank of America, for example, charges just under ¡ê100 a year, unless you maintain a positive balance of ¡ê1,028, or you pay in at least ¡ê171 every month. Some in the US banking industry are therefore amazed by the UK's free-if-in-credit model. \"When Americans hear about the UK market, they think it must be ultra-competitive - which is the opposite of what the CMA thinks,\" says Lodge. But most US banks operate at a state level. If you try to cash a cheque \"out of state\", for example, you're likely to be met with a shake of the head. And backward though it may seem to Europeans, most Americans are still paid by cheque. In fact, no less than two-thirds of all the cheques written in the world are written in the USA. \"It's a different model,\" says John Lyons. \"They have far more regional banks, which are locally-orientated. Generally they are behind.\" So which country offers the best value to consumers? One piece of research into this was done in 2006 by the consultancy Oxera. Not only is it relatively historic, but it was also commissioned by the British Bankers' Association, an organisation always keen to talk up the value provided by UK banks. But some analysts believe it still provides useful information. In all five categories - students, young professionals, low-income families, median-income families and pensioners - the UK came in the top three for value as far as current accounts are concerned. Australia, Canada and Italy provided the worst value. But experts agree that the UK model is only a good deal in comparison to other countries if you stay in credit. \"If you get free banking, and you utilise it mainly for free transactions, I think you get exceptional value,\" says John Lyons. \"If you're part of the segment that relies on other products that banks use to cross-subsidise those costs, you could argue you're not getting good value.\" As long as you don't think \"free\" banking is actually free, the deal for prudent consumers in the UK may not be quite so bad, after all.", "question": "In this @placeholder , we have heard how free banking in the UK has been labelled \" a misleading con-trick \" , how customers bewildered by the range of accounts on offer refuse to switch , and how UK consumers get a raw deal should they choose to bank on the internet .", "option_0": "series", "option_1": "interview", "option_2": "ground", "option_3": "countries", "option_4": "aftermath"}
{"id": 420, "article": "The work and pensions secretary said he would like to see a trial scheme in Manchester rolled out nationwide after it was given \"very strong feedback\". The Trussell Trust, which operates food banks, says the facilities were used more than one million times in 2014-15. It welcomed closer co-operation but said talks were needed over the feasibility of the job adviser idea. Speaking at a meeting of the Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee, Mr Duncan Smith said: \"I am trialling at the moment a job adviser situating themselves in the food bank for the time that the food bank is open and we are already getting very strong feedback about that.\" If the trial was successful and other food banks are willing, he said he would like to roll it out across the UK. Robert Devereux, the most senior civil servant in the Department for Work and Pensions, told the MPs staff were in the food bank one day a week with phonelines available at other times. Claimants are given advice on how to receive welfare payments as well as finding work, he said. The advisers involved in the trial had found that food bank users tended to be more interested in where they might find work than in simply resolving issues with their benefits, he added. As a result, the advisers were teaming up with local job clubs to point people towards vacancies. Frank Field, the Labour MP who chairs the committee, called it a \"good reform\" and said he believed the sooner it could be rolled out the better. But Labour's welfare spokesman Owen Smith said it showed the \"grim reality\" that emergency food aid had become an established part of the welfare system. \"Under the Tories, food bank use has risen exponentially,\" he said. \"This is in no small part due to the secretary of state's incompetent and callous running of the DWP. \"It is of course important that people are able to better access advice and support from DWP staff. However, the fact that Iain Duncan Smith is so relaxed about extreme food poverty that he has allowed it to become an accepted element of the national planning for the DWP is deeply worrying.\" And the UK Independence Party accused the government of \"lifting\" the policy from its election manifesto, in which it pledged to send 800 advisers into food banks to help users with employment, legal, financial and health matters. \"Just funding DWP advisers in job centres won't tackle these kind of underlying problems that prevent people working,\" said Suzanne Evans, who co-ordinated the manifesto. \"Ideally, I'd prefer to see Iain Duncan Smith fully roll out UKIP's policy and appoint independent advisers who can tackle food bank users' problems at a number of levels. That will lead to better outcomes for them, their families, and for us all.\" The Trussell Trust said it applauded efforts to get food banks and Job Centres to work together. \"We welcome the government's interest in exploring new ways that the DWP might help people at food banks who have hit crisis as a result of problems with welfare delivery,\" it said. \"But we would also suggest that there first needs to be a dialogue between the DWP and The Trussell Trust network about the possible challenges and opportunities that hosting DWP advisers in foodbanks could afford. \"The Trussell Trust has had positive discussions with some MPs about whether piloting DWP advisers in their local food banks could be beneficial, but we have not yet had the opportunity for dialogue with Iain Duncan Smith or DWP advisers about the feasibility of rolling out this idea.\"", "question": "Job advisers are @placeholder to be placed in food banks across the country , Iain Duncan Smith has told MPs.", "option_0": "guaranteed", "option_1": "claiming", "option_2": "set", "option_3": "estimated", "option_4": "poised"}
{"id": 421, "article": "Part of the University of Chester, the first courses are expected to start at University Centre Shrewsbury in September 2015. The plans have been backed by Shropshire Council, and its Guildhall, in Frankwell, has been identified as the main site for teaching. Proposals for the building will go before full council for approval next week. The local authority said part of the Guildhall was already empty and it could be made available from 1 January. It said any council staff, including customer services, would move to other buildings. The former reference library on Castle Gates has also been identified for use as the university's library. Rowley's House in the town is already being used as a base for the University of Chester and the first post graduate students are due to move in over the next few weeks. The council said Frankwell and Abbey Foregate car parks had been ruled out as immediate options for new student accommodation, partly due to the risk of flooding. Instead, accommodation will be handled by a private contractor until long-term plans are made. The undergraduate curriculum is going through the final stages of authorisation, while Shropshire council said the name University Centre Shrewsbury had been agreed after discussions with the government. Initially catering for 400 students, council leader Keith Barrow said it was expected to ultimately increase to 2,000 and could provide about ¡ê60m a year for the local economy. The council said it hoped the university would ultimately become self-governing and independent of the University of Chester.", "question": "A @placeholder has been put forward for a new university in Shrewsbury .", "option_0": "bid", "option_1": "coal", "option_2": "scheme", "option_3": "location", "option_4": "deal"}
{"id": 422, "article": "The 26-year-old, understood to be from Scotland, was found dead in the village of  Kuttanen in Finland on Saturday. Lapland Police said her 36-year-old Czech boyfriend fled on a dog sled and a manhunt was launched involving snow scooters and a helicopter. The man was found a few hours later in the wilderness, in temperatures of -30C, and taken to hospital. After treatment he was taken into police custody on suspicion of killing the woman. The couple were seasonal workers in the area which is very close to the border with Sweden. The woman, who has not been named, was employed by Santa Safari, which works with Oxford-based tour operator Transun Travel to organise Christmas-themed excursions in Lapland. A spokesperson for Santa Safari said: \"We are deeply saddened to confirm that a member of the Santa Safari team was discovered dead on the 3rd December. \"We are all in shock from this tragic news and our thoughts go out to her family. \"Our team is working closely with the Finnish Police and relevant authorities to support the investigation that is now under way. \"It goes without saying that we will do everything we can to support the family and our staff at this incredibly difficult time.\" A Police Scotland spokesman said: \"Police Scotland have been contacted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office regarding the death of a British national in Finland and will continue to assist them as required.\" A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said: \"We are supporting the family of a British national who died in Finland on 3 December.\" Travel operator Transun posted a message on its Facebook page saying that some of its tours could be disrupted as a result of the Finnish police investigation. It said: \"We are deeply saddened to confirm that a member of staff working for our overseas supplier Santa Safari was discovered dead on the 3rd December. \"The thoughts of everyone at Transun go out to the family, friends and the Santa Safari team. We will do everything we can to support them at this difficult time.\"", "question": "A British woman working for a Santa Safari tour company has been @placeholder to death in Lapland .", "option_0": "sentenced", "option_1": "forced", "option_2": "held", "option_3": "put", "option_4": "stabbed"}
{"id": 423, "article": "Or maybe it's part and parcel of a deliberately creative ambiguity fostered by both London and Dublin in which the spectator is invited to read whatever he or she wants into a President and a Queen standing, heads bowed, before the undeniably impressive Children of Lir statue at Dublin's Garden of Remembrance. At a briefing given by the Foreign Secretary William Hague and the Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore, Channel Four's Gary Gibbon invited the politicians to share the interpretation that the joint appearance at the Garden was \"a moment of contrition\". However the ministers weren't going there - it was \"a hugely significant event\", full of \"huge symbolism\" and an \"important statement about our history and our future\". But \"contrition\"? Well that would be in the eye of the beholder. I asked the Foreign Secretary if it would be appropriate for the Queen to apologise for past British misdeeds in Ireland when she addresses guests at tomorrow night's state banquet. Mr Hague responded that Britain and Ireland weren't \"glossing over the past\". This visit was about recognising the events of the past and showing how both states were moving together into the future. \"That's the way to treat it rather than talking about apologies\", Mr Hague concluded. So - if that's anything to go by - expect a carefully crafted speech but something which stops short of a direct apology. Mr Hague also avoided any promises on issues like revealing official records on the Dublin Monaghan bombings. It's something he says he's prepared to discuss, but he cited legal difficulties and constraints under the European Convention on Human Rights. Both governments are much keener to talk about the future - the potential for further trade between partners who already do business worth one billion Euros a week. Eamon Gilmore went so far as to suggest that the visit will put not just the history of the troubles in the past, but show Ireland was moving on from its  \"recent economic history\" and rebuilding its reputation. Nice thought, although it's maybe a bit optimistic to talk about the crash as history just yet. Both governments will be pleased that the Gardai were able to contain the inevitable protests - and that the visit has made the requisite visual impact. In the sweep of British and Irish history, it is \"hugely symbolic\", it does underline the progress that has been made in Northern Ireland and the shared hopes for a brighter future. Read more into it at your peril.", "question": "\" Hugely symbolic \" . Probably the two most over used words to describe the Queen 's visit to the Irish Republic . I confess I myself have used the \" s \" word , and am struggling to find an alternative . Perhaps my struggle is evidence I lack the purple @placeholder gene .", "option_0": "culture", "option_1": "prose", "option_2": "war", "option_3": "health", "option_4": "community"}
{"id": 424, "article": "Media reports identified the woman as 60-year-old Katherine Jane Wilson, also known as Kerry. Ms Wilson is the director of the NGO Zardozi, which helps poor women start their own businesses . Armed men in military-style uniforms took her from Zardozi's Jalalabad office, reports said. It is not known who is responsible or whether a ransom has been sought for her release. Ms Wilson's father Brian Wilson told the Australian Broadcasting Corp he was extremely worried about his daughter, who had been working in the region for 20 years. \"I presume she's a hostage, and that they'll do their best to keep her alive and not harm her, simply because they want to have something or other in return and it's not very good having a dead hostage,\" Mr Wilson said. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said the government was working with Afghan authorities to locate Ms Wilson, but would not confirm any further details. Jalalabad is close to the border with Pakistan, in a region where militant groups are known to operate. In 2015 two German aid workers in Afghanistan with the development organisation GIZ were kidnapped in separate incidents. Both were eventually freed.", "question": "An Australian aid worker has been abducted in the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan 's @placeholder .", "option_0": "condition", "option_1": "east", "option_2": "region", "option_3": "capital", "option_4": "constituency"}
{"id": 425, "article": "\"Rodrigo was nurturing the dream of being a professional footballer. He had been born with a real talent and everyone in his family and his community knew that he was really good at football.\" The teenage boy described by outreach worker Antonio Carlos da Silva could be any of Brazil's football-mad youngsters. But Rodrigo Kelton had not just stood out in training sessions. At only 14, he had already overcome great odds to make it to that age alive. Rodrigo was one of the thousands of children born into hardship in the north-eastern state of Ceara, where according to official figures more than 133,000 people live on less than 70 reais ($30; ?¡ê18.50) a month. Born into deep poverty and drug addiction, Rodrigo was driven by severe social problems into a perilous existence on the streets of the state capital, Fortaleza. But according to Mr Silva, the outreach worker who first met Rodrigo living on the streets and persuaded him to move into a shelter in 2009, he was on the brink of turning his life around. \"He was hoping to turn professional, so that he could help his mother get treatment for her drug addiction and buy her a house,\" Mr Silva recalls. Part of what helped him was being part of the Brazilian team competing in the Street Child World Cup, a global tournament that puts the spotlight on issues affecting street children. The tournament currently under way in Rio is the second such event to be held uniting teams of street children from 19 countries, four years after the inaugural competition in Durban. Bernardo Rosemeyer is the founder of O Pequeno Nazareno, a non-governmental organisation which runs the shelter into which Rodrigo moved aged nine. He says the prospect of competing in the Street Child World Cup instilled discipline in Rodrigo's life. \"He had stopped taking drugs and was going to school as part of the conditions to play in the tournament,\" Mr Rosemeyer explains. \"Being in the team was a light in his life. He was even getting on better with his mother who came to all the training sessions.\" But what happened to Team Brazil's best striker shortly before he was due to take part in the Cup reflects the bitter reality of children at the bottom of Brazil's society. In February, Rodrigo decided to move back to the favela, or shanty town, where his family lived. He liked a girl there and dismissed warnings by social workers about the risks of returning to the dangerous neighbourhood. As he left his home on the day of his 14th birthday with his older brother Raphael, the brothers were shot at by members of a drug gang in retaliation for an alleged robbery several years before. Rodrigo was killed and Raphael only survived because the gun had jammed. The news hit his team mates hard. \"I told the players about his death when we all met up to take the bus to the training session,\" recalls Mr Silva. \"At first, they did not believe me and thought I was lying. Then they all began to cry and to think about their strategies for survival in the communities where they live.\" At Rodrigo's funeral, it was his team mates who carried his coffin. On the day before their first match, they gathered in a small chapel to remember the teenager who could not make the journey with them from the streets of Fortaleza to Rio to represent their country. Goalkeeper Pedro Levi, a 15-year-old who also lived on the streets of Fortaleza before moving into a shelter, says Rodrigo has left a gaping hole in the team: \"He was a great player. The best thing about him was his leadership, he would bring the whole team together. Pedro says the team is determined to bring the trophy home \"for Rodrigo\". Before their first match against Egypt, the players observed a minute's silence in Rodrigo's honour. Team mate Diego Rocha, 14, held a portrait of Rodrigo as Rio's Archbishop, Dom Orani Tempesta, and a former captain of Brazil's national team, Gilberto Silva, watched. Rodrigo's team went on to beat Egypt 4-0. But their victory felt bittersweet. \"We dedicate this match to the memory of Rodrigo,\" Diego said. The team is determined that Rodrigo will not be forgotten and plan to keep displaying his portrait as they progress through the tournament to Sunday's final. But the reality for Brazil's 23,000 street children is anything but rosy. Gang and drug violence remain endemic in poor communities. In Rodrigo's home state of Ceara alone, there were 4,462 murders in 2013. Murders of street children routinely go unpunished and there has been no investigation into Rodrigo's death. Team mate Vinicius Marcos, 14, knows any of the 300 children believed to live on the streets of Fortaleza could easily run the same fate as Rodrigo. So his hope for his former team mate is a simple one: \"I hope God has him in a good place.\"", "question": "The brutal killing of a promising teenage street footballer has concentrated @placeholder in Brazil ahead of the World Cup this summer .", "option_0": "hearts", "option_1": "flowers", "option_2": "control", "option_3": "events", "option_4": "minds"}
{"id": 426, "article": "\"He's ahead - and his score is way ahead of my pace,\" said Nicklaus, almost five months older than McIlroy when he won his first major in 1962. \"I think this kid's going to have a great career - I don't think there's any question about it.\" Compatriot Graeme McDowell added: \"He's potentially the next Tiger Woods.\" Some of the sport's biggest names have been paying tribute to the brightest youngster on the circuit. \"It was obviously an unbelievable performance. I thought he played just fantastic golf. It is so great to see a nice young man play well, to do well. \"We are all aware that he has been there before, but he showed that he learned from his mistakes, and he showed that he knew how to play the last two days with a big lead. Not only did Rory know how to play with a big lead, he played it confidently, played it smartly, and he never put himself in position to be in trouble. \"He's humble when he needs to be humble and confident when he needs to be confident. I like his moxie - he's cocksure and I like that. You've got to have that. \"He obviously had a couple of disappointments at the Masters and last year's Open [McIlroy started 63-80 at St Andrews and finished with an 80 at Augusta], but I didn't think that was going to happen again and it hasn't.\" \"I first heard about him when he shot that 61 at my home course in Portrush. \"You hear rumours about people and good players come and go, but this kid was something a bit special. \"It's great to see him out there fulfilling his potential. He's been like an accident waiting to happen. McIlroy's Masters meltdown might have gone down in history, but the coronation at Congressional could become the stuff of legend Read more of Rob's blog \"He's been groomed to be a superstar and he'll handle it very well. It's not a monkey off his back, it's a gorilla. He could go on and do some big things. \"He's probably the best driver of the ball I've ever seen. We nicknamed him the 'BMW' because he is the 'ultimate driving machine'. \"Nothing this kid does ever surprises me. He's the best player I've ever seen. \"I didn't have a chance to play with Tiger when he was in his real pomp, but this guy is the best I've ever seen, simple as that. \"He's great for golf. He's a breath of fresh air for the game and perhaps we're ready for golf's next superstar and maybe Rory is it.\" \"If you are going to talk about someone challenging Jack's record there's your man. \"Winning majors at 22 with his talent - he would have 20 more years, so probably 100 more majors in him where he could be competitive. \"It would give him a great chance. \"Rory has proved in playing the majors so far that he is comfortable making the scores.\" \"You can tell that Rory has had this type of talent in him for some time now, and to see him putting it together is pretty neat to see.\" \"As I've said before, I think he has probably the most talent I've ever seen from a golfer. \"It's lovely to watch him play, he has such a fluid motion and he hits it far.\" \"Rory has always had the potential to play at this level. He's done a lot of work this year on his body. \"We look at the swing a bit more often now to make sure the good swings are in place more often. \"He's developing a level of consistency now that we haven't seen before.\" \"The way he's playing out there, it's almost Tiger-esque. To have the lead that he has in the US Open is pretty ridiculous and at such a young age. \"Obviously the next generation is starting to kick up now and he's the guy that's leading it.\" \"He's got a lot of talent and he's only 22. He's got the world in front of him really. \"His game looks flawless. His swing looks great. I think it looks just as good as when Tiger was in his prime and swinging at it at his best. You just don't see any flaws. \"I think fundamentally he's as good as we've seen ever in my era, take Tiger Woods out of it. \"When Tiger was going well, that's as good as I've ever seen. I think Rory is in that same boat. \"His swing is mechanically sound, and he's got a great short game and he putts it well, and he's long. So he's got all the tools. So it's pretty impressive.\" \"Rory has more talent in his pinky than I have in my whole body.\" \"He's about 27 in golf years. He's very polished on experience. \"I don't think we've seen a rookie come out with his composure and be ready to play on our Tour right away like he is.\" \"What he's been doing is really something unbelievable. He's probably got one of the nicest swings in the world, if not the nicest. \"It's been fantastic to watch what he's been doing in this tournament. In my opinion, right now he's playing at a different level to the rest. So for sure he is an inspiration. I admire him a lot.\"", "question": "Golfing legend Jack Nicklaus @placeholder those hailing Rory McIlroy after the 22 - year - old re-wrote the record books in winning the US Open by eight shots .", "option_0": "joined", "option_1": "number", "option_2": "beat", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "dominated"}
{"id": 427, "article": "Nivolumab was one of the drugs labelled a \"milestone\" therapy at a major cancer conference last month. It has been approved for lung cancer through the UK's Early Access to Medicines Scheme and has been given an EU license for melanoma. The drug has been shown to stop skin and lung cancers from progressing, in clinical trials. The immune system is a powerful defence against infection. However, there are many \"brakes\" built in to stop the system attacking its own tissues. Cancer - which is a corrupted version of healthy tissue - can take advantage of these brakes to evade assault from the immune system. Nivolumab takes the brakes off. One trial of nivolumab, alongside an already approved medicine ipilimumab, stopped melanoma advancing for nearly a year in 58% of patients. A separate trial in lung cancer showed the drug more than doubled survival times in some patients. The treatment has now been allowed in the UK for both skin and lung cancers. Gill Nuttall, from Melanoma UK, said: \"There has been an alarming rise in the number of cases of melanoma in the UK over recent years. \"Today's news is therefore very welcome as it provides more options for patients and the potential of better, longer survival.\"", "question": "A @placeholder cancer drug that harnesses the power of the immune system has been approved for use in the UK .", "option_0": "pioneering", "option_1": "breast", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "suspected"}
{"id": 428, "article": "The Pope said the gangsters were effectively \"excommunicated\" - or banished - in the eyes of the Church. Earlier, the Pope visited the jailed father of a three-year-old boy who had been killed in an apparent mob hit over an unpaid drug debt. The Pope has repeatedly spoken out against organised crime and corruption. His latest condemnation, delivered before a crowd of tens of thousands, described the 'Ndrangheta as the \"adoration of evil and contempt of the common good\". \"Those who in their lives follow this path of evil, as mafiosi do, are not in communion with God,\" the Reuters news agency quoted him as saying. \"They are excommunicated.\" The 'Ndrangheta is a network of clans in the \"toe\" of Italy that dominates the country's cocaine trade. It is one of the most powerful mafia organisations in Italy, along with the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and the Neapolitan Camorra. Earlier on Saturday, the Pope visited a prison to meet the jailed relatives of \"Coco\" Campolongo, a three-year-old boy who was killed along with his grandfather in an execution-style shooting in Calabria. \"It must never again happen that a child suffers in this way,\" the Pope said. The Pope also met hundreds of other inmates at Castrovillari prison, many of whom are serving time for mafia-related crimes. The AFP news agency reports that many of the prisoners wept as the Pope greeted them.", "question": "Pope Francis has condemned the mafia 's \" adoration of evil \" at a @placeholder in Calabria , the southern Italian base of the ' Ndrangheta crime syndicate .", "option_0": "mass", "option_1": "monastery", "option_2": "school", "option_3": "district", "option_4": "square"}
{"id": 429, "article": "Prince William placed the wreath at the police memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. A hand-written note attached to the floral tribute read: \"For PC Keith Palmer and all those who have served our community so valiantly; your legacy is our way of life. William.\" He was at the site to officially open its ?¡ê15.7m new Remembrance Centre. See more stories from across Stoke and Staffordshire here Prince William is a patron of the National Memorial Arboretum Appeal, which funded the construction of the centre, which opened in October 2016. During his visit he met with veterans, volunteers and school pupils and also unveiled a commemorative plaque. He also visited the centre's Landscapes of Life exhibition, which includes interactive activities and an audio guide for use around many of the site's memorials. In the programme for the event, he wrote: \"This is a place for special memories, many of them sad, but hopefully, many of them happy too. \"We all have an important job to do in keeping these memories alive for future generations and this new Remembrance Centre will play a significant role in that duty.\" The 150-acre (61 hectare) site contains more than 330 memorials dedicated to all the armed forces, emergency services and civilians.", "question": "The Duke of Cambridge has paid tribute to London @placeholder victim PC Keith Palmer by laying a wreath in his honour .", "option_0": "murder", "option_1": "attack", "option_2": "ground", "option_3": "control", "option_4": "prison"}
{"id": 430, "article": "The latest analysis from the Scottish ITEM Club - economists who independently apply the Treasury's economic model - point to the downsides. Last week, we heard from Scottish Engineering, the sector's trade body, a downbeat message that falling orders from the offshore sector are being felt far beyond the north-east, reaching into firms in the central belt. The latest analysis from the chief economist at the Scottish government suggests that the impact of the price fall may be neutral. That is, offshore oil and gas is suffering a loss of profitability, with less investment and fewer jobs: but businesses, drivers and householders who buy fuel rather than produce the stuff are enjoying lower prices, which look to them a bit like a tax cut. One question is which has the bigger impact. Another remaining question is whether the impacts will be felt at different times. In St Andrews House, Gary Gillespie is in agreement with recent forecasts of around 2.3% growth in the Scottish economy. The Scottish ITEM Club is slightly lower, at 2.2%, up by 0.2% points since its end-2014 forecast. The difference is hardly worth quibbling over. But what's striking is that puts Scotland significantly behind the growth rate expected by EY's ITEM Club for the UK as a whole, at 2.8%. The analysis goes further than that, suggesting Scotland is on schedule to lag the growth rate in the rest of the UK for a few years to come. Scotland and the UK have in common uncertainty around the eurozone and European Union membership. The EU referendum could also put pressure on sterling, by putting the trade deficit into starker relief, suggests the EY publication. Growth won't be helped by a sharp tightening in government spending. The Scottish economy and the wider UK benefit from very low interest rates. Inflation is now around zero and staying low over the next year, while real wages rise. So what makes Scotland different? Offshore oil and gas is an obvious candidate. Even if some think it has a neutral effect, the impact on the rest of the UK isn't weighted with the same downsides, proportionately. The wider economy ought to feel a positive effect. Immigration is helping fuel growth in parts of England, but it's less of a boost to Scotland. And when measured per head, to take account of higher population growth south of the border, recent growth in Scotland can be made to look better. The finance sector has been flat, stellar whisky exports figures have come down to earth, and despite the best efforts of the transport sector (for which, read Falkirk bus builders among a few others), manufacturing is not performing that well. Construction, which motored at a cracking 13% growth rate last year, is expected to fall back, though it still has the benefit of big public projects, from the Forth Replacement Crossing to Aberdeen's ring road and the M8 upgrade through Lanarkshire. Surveys of business confidence have been getting a bit gloomier in recent months, and retail spend is lagging well behind the rest of the country. That could be canny, instead of fuelling private debt even further, but shoppers are failing to do their patriotic duty to the economy in the short term. The employment picture looks healthy, given the scale of the recent downturn and the high jobless rates elsewhere in Europe. New jobs are being created, but nothing like as fast as in England. The net growth has been almost entirely in female employment over last year. That's been welcomed. But it suggests something's going wrong for men, without it being clear precisely what that is. As often noted, the quality of jobs remains a problem - zero hours, temporary, part-time, skills underused and many wanting to work more hours than they can get. And the ITEM Club returns to concerns that some sectors face skill shortages, which could push up pay for some without it being backed by higher productivity. All that said, it forecasts 25,000 more jobs this year, and 15,000 to 20,000 per year in the medium term. That's while the working age population shrinks by 10,000 per year (and the number drawing pensions increases). Overall, that means job opportunities for those who wish to keep working past 65. Scotland's population is on track to hit 5.4m in 2017, but as immigration is much stronger into England, the Scottish share of the UK total will slide from its present 8.2%. All this can be expected to have political implications. The case for Scottish independence has followed a twin-track argument that historic growth has been held back by being part of the union, yet this century, growth has matched the UK - suggesting that Scotland is strong enough to thrive without the union. If Scotland is returning to relatively weaker growth, the 56 SNP MPs at Westminster and the Scottish government may choose to tweak the latter argument towards the preceding complaint that Scotland's economy is faltering. They will surely prefer to argue that's down to Westminster rule and George Osborne's spending plans than for any of the blame to fall on Nicola Sturgeon's administration. But it could also put further pressure on them to choose which of the economic levers they're soon getting, and others they want, could and will be used to address these shortcomings.", "question": "Nearly a year since the oil price @placeholder to fall and five months since it bottomed out , the benchmark barrel of Brent Crude remains volatile and we 're still not clear what impact it will have on the Scottish economy .", "option_0": "threatened", "option_1": "delivered", "option_2": "slipped", "option_3": "starts", "option_4": "began"}
{"id": 431, "article": "United have at least claimed the Capital One Cup and could reach the Champions League by winning the Europa League, with a semi-final against Celta Vigo to come. But Man City manager Guardiola has suffered the first trophy-less season of his managerial career after the FA Cup semi-final defeat by Arsenal. Both managers will be expected to fight for the Premier League title next season - so what areas must they address? Goalkeeper conundrum Guardiola's big decision on arrival was to send England goalkeeper Joe Hart packing to Torino on loan and sign Claudio Bravo from Barcelona in a ¡ê17.5m deal - a move that cannot be described as a success. In Guardiola's defence, 34-year-old Bravo had a fine reputation at Barcelona and had been impressive in helping Chile to win the Copa America as captain on home soil in 2015. Bravo, however, has looked uncertain, had spells out of the side and has not looked like the answer to City's goalkeeping dilemma. It was almost ironic that he sustained a calf injury against United as he confidently claimed a cross in a manner rarely seen this season. He has not even been convincing with the ball at his feet, something that was almost regarded as his unique selling point when replacing Hart. Willy Caballero is 35, and with no likelihood of Hart reviving his Manchester City career, Guardiola must decide whether to maintain faith in Bravo, very much his man and signing, or accept this move has failed and move on. Guardiola would be gambling if he sticks with Bravo, a goalkeeper who earned an unwanted reputation for not making saves. He may need to cast his net elsewhere as few teams win titles with an average goalkeeper. Age is Man City's defensive barrier Manchester City were reportedly linked with Tottenham's England right-back Kyle Walker before Thursday's derby and have also been mentioned in connection with his team-mate, left-back Danny Rose. The chances of signing both are highly unlikely but these positions look certain to be two areas of interest for Guardiola in the summer. City have talented defenders in those positions who have all been fine servants - but who are all much nearer the end of their careers than the beginning. Pablo Zabaleta has been a magnificent player for City but is now 32. Bacary Sagna is 34 while Gael Clichy and Aleksandar Kolarov are both 31. This is an area in urgent need of young blood and renewal. John Stones has had a tough introduction since his ¡ê47.5m move from Everton but has the quality to be a top-class City central defender for years to come. And the current return to form and fitness of inspirational captain Vincent Kompany - outstanding against Manchester United - is a welcome bonus. The 31-year-old can save City money in the markets should he stay fit, but the form of Nicolas Otamendi means Guardiola is likely to be looking for central defensive reinforcements. Former England forward Chris Waddle watched the Manchester derby as a BBC Sport pundit and said: \"It is easy to see what the biggest thing is that needs to change for City to get closer to winning the title. Their defence. \"That starts with the goalkeeper. Whether Pep Guardiola likes Bravo or not, I don't think he is the top-class keeper you need to win the league and neither is Caballero. \"I know he wants someone there who can use the ball with his feet and play the way he wants, but he also has to be able to stop the ball from going in the net because they concede too many goals. \"He also needs three defenders - a centre-back and two full-backs.\" Guardiola's team must get ruthless Manchester City - for a team of such enviable attacking riches - often suffer from a frustrating failure to make superiority count. It was seen, albeit with large slices of bad luck, in the FA Cup semi-final loss to Arsenal at Wembley and also against Manchester United, when they could not break through despite camping out in their half for almost the entire second period. In the league, City dominated at home to Spurs but drew 2-2 in January, and earlier in April they failed to build on dominance and an early Leroy Sane goal in a 2-2 draw at the Gunners. Guardiola must believe that with the likes of Sergio Aguero, with 30 goals in all competitions, and the creativity of Kevin de Bruyne, Sane, Raheem Sterling and the emerging brilliance of Gabriel Jesus to call on, this problem will eventually solve itself. David Silva is still an outstanding player and City will hope Ilkay Gundogan can build on his fine start once he recovers from a serious knee injury. The talent is there but Guardiola will know City simply cannot be as generous next season as they have been in this campaign. Keep De Gea or replace with world class? It's that time again - when United goalkeeper David de Gea is linked with a return to his native Spain with Real Madrid. De Gea's proposed ¡ê29m move to Real broke down in August 2015 but now the rumour mill is awash with talk it could be revived, although United would not even pick up the phone at the price agreed first time around. At 26, De Gea is not even at his peak with years of quality and improvement to come. He is already in the elite group of the world's best keepers. United will demand twice as much as that initial fee if any potential move is to get off the ground. United's preference would be to keep De Gea, who has maintained a superb level of consistency after he became accustomed to the demands of United and the Premier League following his ¡ê18.9m move from Atletico Madrid in June 2011. If he does leave, though, his importance means United can only move at the top end of the market for a replacement. Sergio Romero is a fine deputy but the Argentine is just that - a deputy. United could return to Atletico for 24-year-old Slovenian Jan Oblak, but being as though they are already linked with striker Antoine Griezmann, Atletico manager Diego Simeone is unlikely to want two prize assets presented to Old Trafford. United target Antoine Griezmann has scored 82 goals in 154 appearances for Atletico Madrid, hitting 25 or more each season. Another Slovenian, Inter Milan's 32-year-old Samir Handanovic, has a good reputation while AC Milan's brilliant 18-year-old Gianluigi Donnarumma is regarded as the world's best young keeper and is reportedly involved in contract negotiations with his club. United's preference will surely be to keep De Gea - but if he goes there must be a high-end replacement. Ditch the draws to find success One statistic stands out when it comes to analysing Manchester United's failure to mount a title challenge - 13 draws from 33 league games. United's run of 24 unbeaten league games stretching back to October should have them in the title mix with Chelsea and Spurs, but a lack of wins has sabotaged those ambitions. And nine of those have come at Old Trafford, with the likes of Stoke City, Burnley, West Ham United, Hull City, Bournemouth and West Bromwich Albion all leaving \"The Theatre Of Dreams\" unbeaten. The margins are fine and many of those games could and should have been wins, but Mourinho must find a way to cure a serious problem. Sprinkle stardust on Old Trafford Zlatan Ibrahimovic, at 35, has proved a magnificent, charismatic addition on a free transfer with 28 goals following his move from Paris St-Germain. Sadly, there must be doubts over his future after sustaining a serious knee injury in the Europa League quarter-final win against Anderlecht. Wayne Rooney, an unused substitute at Manchester City, is also surely coming to the end of his 251-goal Manchester United career at the end of the season. He is 31 and his time at United, stretching back to 2004, looks done. Mourinho has attacking resources in the exciting Marcus Rashford and Antony Martial, as well as goal threat from the likes of Henrikh Mkhitaryan. But he needs another a game-changing superstar to add gold dust and goals to raise United's level - and maybe stop those damaging draws. One man stands out as a potential target - 26-year-old Griezmann. The France striker would cost a fee in the region of the ¡ê89m it required to bring Paul Pogba from Juventus, and there must be questions about whether the he would even entertain a move to United if they were not in the Champions League next season. 'Let Manchester United off the leash' Is the fact United have drawn so many games a sign that Jose Mourinho applies the handbrake to his players? Waddle thinks so and told BBC Sport after the derby: \"There is a reason they have drawn too many games. Next season, Mourinho has got to know when to be a little bit more attack-minded against certain teams. \"It is against the lesser sides that United have struggled, and that is where Mourinho needs to change. He has got to have more players in his team who can open doors and score goals. \"He might argue that his side dominate possession every time they play at Old Trafford without getting the rewards. \"Mourinho is great at organising his teams against the top sides but he has to let them off the leash more if he wants to get results. Creativity is the hardest thing to bring to a team. \"The way he sets up, his wide men are not luxury players - he wants them up and down that flank and it is hard work for a winger to do that all game, making 70, 80 yard runs all the time.\" City and United are locked in a battle for places in the league's top four - but managers of the pedigree of Guardiola and Mourinho must deliver more.", "question": "Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho were brought to Etihad Stadium and Old Trafford this season to claim major titles - and the attritional goalless draw in Thursday 's Manchester derby leaves their hopes of Champions League qualification via league placing still in the @placeholder .", "option_0": "region", "option_1": "country", "option_2": "balance", "option_3": "future", "option_4": "rankings"}
{"id": 432, "article": "The index, the UK's leading measure of share prices, has been rising steadily since the middle December. It marks the eighth successive record high. The latest boost came from a 1% drop for the pound against the dollar. A weaker pound boosts the profits of the many multinational companies listed on the FTSE 100 when their foreign earnings are converted into pounds. The pound's sharp fall was provoked by comments on Brexit made on Sunday by the Prime Minister, Theresa May. She rejected the idea that the UK could \"keep bits of membership\" of the EU, raising the prospect of a so-called \"hard Brexit\". That sent the pound down against a broad range of currencies. The pound fell more than a cent, or 1%, against the dollar to $1.2170, and also dropped nearly 2% against the euro to €1.15. \"The pound has dipped to its lowest level since October on Monday after Prime Minister May said on Sunday that we couldn't keep bits of the EU, fuelling fears of hard Brexit,\" said Kathleen Brooks, research director at City Index. \"On Monday she said that she doesn't accept the terms 'hard' and 'soft' Brexit, and declined that her comments yesterday were a change of stance. This back-pedalling has done nothing to reverse the decline in the pound,\" she said. The biggest risers were Glencore, Randgold, BAT, Imperial Brands and Sage group. Bovis Homes shares were up 1.4% after the firm announced that its chief executive, David Ritchie, was to step down. Last month, the company warned that building delays in the run-up to Christmas would hit profits. Among individual shares, William Hill shares fell 1.6% after it warned profits would be at the low end of expectations. It said a run of \"customer-friendly\" results at the back end of last year in football and horse racing had cut profits by about ¡ê20m. As a result, operating profits for 2016 were about ¡ê260m, compared with previous guidance of ¡ê260m-¡ê280m.", "question": "Share prices in London rose to a new record high point , with the FTSE 100 index closing 28 @placeholder up at 7,238 .", "option_0": "points", "option_1": "years", "option_2": "set", "option_3": "months", "option_4": "times"}
{"id": 433, "article": "The two-month-old birds at Loch Arkaig in Lochaber are believed to be a male and a female. Woodland Trust Scotland has come up with the naming competition as part of its efforts to raise funds to buy Loch Arkaig Pine Forest. Forestry Commission Scotland is selling the woodland. Parts of the forest still bear the scars of a fire that broke out during commando training in World War Two. Scorched tree trunks still stand in the woods that in war-time formed part of a large area near Fort William used for secret training of Allied commandos. Woodland Trust Scotland is working with the group Arkaig Community Forest on the bid to purchase the woodland. The wood includes areas of ancient Caledonian forest, which provides habitat for birds such as Scottish crossbill.", "question": "Members of the public have been invited to suggest names for two @placeholder eagle chicks that have hatched in a west Highland pine forest .", "option_0": "goods", "option_1": "black", "option_2": "vehicles", "option_3": "sea", "option_4": "information"}
{"id": 434, "article": "This is a man who betrayed not a scintilla of doubt after his team lost to Lincoln Red Imps around this time last year, so anybody expecting any kind of reservation from him about the second leg in Trondheim next week is in for a seriously long wait. In the wake of the goalless draw - which could so easily have been 1-0 or 2-0 to Rosenborg had they taken some of their better chances - Rodgers spoke about Celtic's capacity for scoring away goals in Europe while adding that 0-0 in the first leg is as good a result for the home team as it is for the away team. Rodgers was unperturbed. He praised his side, gave off a vibe of total authority and exited. Celtic's goal-scoring record away from home on his watch? They've scored in four of their seven games on the road in Europe. His take on the 0-0 being a good result? Going back to 2014-15, there have been 70 ties in the Europa League and Champions League, including qualifiers, that have begun with the home side drawing 0-0. In 36 of the 70 ties, the home team that drew 0-0 in the first leg were knocked out. That's not far off 50-50 and that, in turn, is not far off Celtic's chances of progressing. Maybe experience gives them a slight edge on Wednesday, but it's only slight and it will only exist at all presuming Leigh Griffiths is fit to play, which remains a big presumption. It was obvious from the opening minutes at Celtic Park that Rodgers' team were struggling to find a way of playing without a natural striker, Moussa Dembele being injured and Griffiths being both suspended and injured. Rodgers thought he could get by with Tom Rogic as a de facto striker, pointing out that the Australian had played that way for half an hour against Partick Thistle towards the end of last season. He declared Rogic \"brilliant\" in that role, but that wasn't Champions League stuff, that was a no-pressure 5-0 stroll when the team was confident and could do no wrong. Celtic can have a howitzer attack on their best days. Against Rosenborg, it was pop gun. Rogic tried his best, but he was uncomfortable, neither a striker nor the fine midfielder we know he can be. He was trapped in no-man's land for most of the night. Scott Sinclair took a brief turn in the second half, but he was ill at ease as well. Rosenborg suffocated Celtic, playing with great discipline and high concentration levels. They made very few mistakes in defence. Celtic's first shot on target came in the 77th minute. That tells you much about their lack of threat. It was unusual to see them so harmless in front of goal. Rodgers says he's hopeful that Griffiths will be fit. It's a different ball game if he is. It's reasonable to ask, though, why Celtic allowed a situation to develop whereby they had no striker available for a Champions League qualifier, a competition that is the beginning, the end and the in between of their dreams. For a club with Celtic's ambition - not just of group stage but last 16 - is it sensible to have just two out-and-out goal-scorers in their squad, one of whom, Dembele, missed the last six games of Celtic's invincible domestic season through injury? They can't read the future, but losing Dembele for the final month of their record-breaking campaign might have served as a reminder that they're thin up top and, perhaps, a back-up man might not be a bad way to go. Rodgers was asked about it on the eve of the Rosenborg game and his answer was interesting. \"If you have two highly-strung strikers who are fighting for a position and then you add a third one to the mix, it can actually work against you,\" he said. \"Some will say you can't have too many good players, but you can. It can give you a problem. It's just unfortunate that two get injured, so we'll see.\" You can understand Rodgers' point. He's only going to start one striker in any given game, so how is he supposed to keep three happy if there's only room for one in his team? The last thing he needs is a player moping and upsetting the mood because he's not getting game-time. Celtic have lofty goals though. They want to progress in Europe. They want to improve against the big shots of the Champions League. That's murderously difficult on their budget and the task doesn't get any easier when they leave themselves so shallow in such a critical area of the pitch. Not a lot gets past Rodgers. He's a shrewd man. He would surely have weighed up the possibility of injury or suspension leaving him short in attack, but he reckoned he had enough to get by. He had goals throughout the team. He had players, like Rogic, who could adapt. Or he thought he had. In the six games that Dembele missed at the end of last season, it wasn't just Griffiths who delivered goals - he scored four - or, indeed, Patrick Roberts - who also scored four but who's no longer at Celtic. Callum McGregor, Stuart Armstrong and Dedryck Boyata got three each, Rogic two, Mikael Lustig one, as did Sinclair, who'd scored 24 before that. Celtic knocked in 21 goals in those six games. Did that kind of dominance make them believe that they'd be OK even if the worst-case scenario unfolded and their main strikers were laid low? If it was a gamble then it backfired on Wednesday. Rodgers problem-solved numerous times last season. After the humbling by the Red Imps, he fixed it. When Celtic got annihilated by Barcelona, their response in Europe was a thrilling home draw with Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, a team that had played 10 games to that point, winning all 10. Another lesson was learned against Borussia Monchengladbach. Beaten comfortably by the Germans at Celtic Park, Rodgers' sorted his team out and got a deserved 1-1 away from home. This is another big challenge, a pivotal, potentially season-defining point, despite the fact that we'll be barely into August by the time it arrives. Nobody among the Celtic support will doubt Rodgers as he tries to plot his way through a delicate tie, but they'll be praying for Griffiths' return nonetheless.", "question": "The one thing you were n't going to get from Brendan Rodgers in the aftermath of Celtic 's disappointing performance against Rosenborg in the Champions League qualifier was @placeholder .", "option_0": "show", "option_1": "uncertainty", "option_2": "table", "option_3": "defeated", "option_4": "hope"}
{"id": 435, "article": "Simon Clark, 58, from Kinloss, undertook the challenge in aid of the Ecologia Youth Trust charity. So far his run has raised more than ?¡ê21,000 for the cause. Mr Clark usually managed about 17 miles per day, depending on the demands of his architectural work which he did from a laptop. He returned to Kinloss on 5 July - the date of his 58th birthday. Mr Clark is to give details of his run, the people who offered him shelter and others he met in two public talks he is to give in the Findhorn Foundation's community centre later on Friday and in Kinloss Church on Saturday evening.", "question": "A runner from Moray has completed a 5,173 - mile ( 8,325 km ) run around Britain 's @placeholder coastline that he began in March last year .", "option_0": "drugs", "option_1": "show", "option_2": "family", "option_3": "health", "option_4": "mainland"}
{"id": 436, "article": "Watford saluted the club's \"greatest manager of all time\" before their home Premier League match against Middlesbrough at Vicarage Road. Chants of \"there's only one Graham Taylor\" rang out during a minute's applause in his memory. His achievements were also applauded before English Football League games. Media playback is not supported on this device Taylor took Watford from the Fourth Division to a second-placed finish in the top flight in five seasons. He also guided the club to the only FA Cup final of their history - a 2-0 defeat against Everton in 1984 - and European football, as well as enjoying spells with Lincoln City, Aston Villa and Wolves. Taylor became England boss in 1990 but resigned in 1993 after the team failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup, and later became a respected pundit for BBC Sport. Former England striker Ian Wright on Match of the Day: \"I was forever grateful to him for giving me my first cap. We didn't always see eye to eye on certain things but he was a gentleman.\" Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown on Football Focus: \"Graham Taylor rescued Aston Villa and probably my career too. The first day he wandered in, with a difficult chairman, he said he had chosen to come to the club. He had a clear vision and told us how we were going to function. \"I learnt a lot under him. He got Villa back into the First Division. Eleven players came in and 11 went out. The celebrations when we went up after beating Swindon will live long in the memory. \"He has left his mark and was a great man to work under.\" Watford captain Troy Deeney: \"Today was more about Graham Taylor and not the result. You could see how emotional everyone was and it showed how much people care about him. \"There are no words that I can use to sum up how great a man he was and we just wish his family all the best at this difficult time.\" Media playback is not supported on this device Former England defender Danny Mills on BBC Radio 5 live: \"I worked alongside Graham Taylor for 5 live a fair bit and I don't remember him ever being grumpy. \"No matter what, even if something hadn't gone his way, he still had that impish smile. A lovely man. \"He got vicious, vitriolic stick from parts of the media as England manager but he came out still being able to laugh at himself. That's the measure of the man.\" Former Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson on Football Focus: \"My time with him was mainly at tournaments, and you'd meet players that had played for him, and every single one absolutely loved him. He was normal, and in the mad world of football, normal is good.\" Media playback is not supported on this device Match of the Day commentator John Motson: \"He single-handedly put Watford on the football map, taking them from the Fourth Division to runners-up in the old First Division.\" Media playback is not supported on this device", "question": "Tributes have been paid at football matches across the @placeholder to former England manager Graham Taylor after his death on Thursday at the age of 72 .", "option_0": "world", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "globe", "option_3": "country", "option_4": "bench"}
{"id": 437, "article": "The 53-year-old had just locked up HQ Prime Meats, in Smethwick, in the West Midlands, when the men appeared and beat him in the street. They tried to make him reopen the premises before taking some jewellery from him and escaping in an Audi A3. The victim suffered a badly broken leg which required emergency surgery, West Midlands Police said. He remains in a severe but stable condition in hospital following the attack in Fawdry Street on 8 January. The suspects fled towards Cranford Way, the spokesman added. Anyone with information is urged to call police.", "question": "Three men armed with golf clubs and a metal pole attacked and @placeholder a man as he left work .", "option_0": "threw", "option_1": "robbed", "option_2": "grabbed", "option_3": "struck", "option_4": "murdering"}
{"id": 438, "article": "Pain is etched across her face, her body is stiff as she slowly eases herself into a seat. The Belfast woman appears to be in agony and a lot older than her years. \"I have come out partially disabled. I went in able bodied and I have come out in crutches. I am mentally wrecked; I don't know what is going to happen down the line,\" she said. \"I don't know what the diagnosis is, I don't know what the prognosis is, but I do know that if the pain keeps continuing on like this I am going to end up in a wheelchair.\" After a routine smear test, Susan was advised that she had a prolapse. This explained why she leaked urine every day. A vaginal prolapse is a condition in which structures, such as the uterus, rectum, bladder, urethra, small bowel or the vagina, itself may begin to prolapse, or fall out of their normal positions. Susan says she dreaded going out shopping and seeking the nearest public toilet when out and about became routine. \"Everyday life was impossible. At times standing became unbearable, running and playing with my daughter impossible,\" she said According to Susan, while a consultant advised having an implant, she was never informed of the potential problems. \"I was never advised, for instance, that it was actual mesh. I wasn't given any leaflets to say of the side effects or anything like that. \"I did ask questions, I did ask about the side effects and was there anything I needed to worry about and I was told there wasn't.\" Susan's problems emerged almost immediately after the procedure. In fact she left hospital in tremendous pain and said during the past 12 months she has been passed round several specialists. She said part of the problem is convincing people that there is something wrong. The 51-year-old said she has been told by specialists not to be frightened of her pain and to try to live and work through it. As a result she is taking various medications that make her physically sick. \"The pain changes day to day. It (the mesh) can cut into your groin where it is like barbed wire gripping you. I have had pain right down my legs. My hip often gives way when I am walking,\" she said Susan said she wants the mesh removed. Sitting close by is 58-year-old Yvonne McIntosh. She had vaginal mesh inserted four years ago to try and fix incontinence. While it was a success at the start, she said it now feels like it is starting to unravel inside her body. \"I have been having excruciating pain. I have felt something within me is coming out and would have to go into the bathroom to push it up,\" she said. \"My husband could also feel it when we were being intimate - he said he could feel something sharp.\" A mother of three, Yvonne said it feels like it is making its way out of her body and coming through her groin. Even while talking to me she is shifting in her seat in constant discomfort. \"Every day I am in absolute agony because this is an alien thing that I know is inside me. It feels sharp and is sticking into me when I walk. \"It's not meant to be there - I know there is something wrong.\" Yvonne also is seeking help to have it removed but, like other women who have spoken to the BBC, her local health trust says it cannot help her and she has been forced to turn to a private doctor in London instead. \"I have told my consultant how bad it is and she says she can't remove it at all. She can snip it but she is not qualified to remove it, that it is not her field. She mentioned that she could send me to a woman in London instead,\" she said.", "question": "Susan McLarnon @placeholder on crutches to tell her story .", "option_0": "ice", "option_1": "blamed", "option_2": "wrote", "option_3": "arrives", "option_4": "descended"}
{"id": 439, "article": "Owners of Scarthin Books, in Cromford, Derbyshire, were told in 2015 that \"emergency work\" was needed to preserve the 150-year-old building. It prompted a crowdfunding campaign which led to ¡ê12,000 being raised by people all over the world. Manager David Booker said the shop had a 20% sales increase after the appeal. For years staff at Scarthin Books, named one of the best in the world by The Guardian in 2008, were quizzed by customers about how the structure survived under the weight of so many books. The notion was laughed off until spring 2015, when they were told by a structural engineer that there was a serious risk the building could fall down unless urgent repairs were made. Thousands of pounds were raised within days of an appeal and enough was left to make further external repairs and conduct a restructuring of the shop. \"The response was amazing,\" said Mr Booker. \"It was a catalyst for the resurgence of the bookshop... sales increased by 20% which is phenomenal for independent bookshop. \"There is just a real buzz and sense of excitement about the shop.\" Four steel columns were installed, replacing temporary builder's \"acrow props\" which had previously been used, to help support the weight of about 100,000 books over four floors. The extra money was used to add new shelving and repair the building's gable end.", "question": "An @placeholder bookshop that was in danger of collapsing under the weight of its own books has experienced a huge revival , it s manager has said .", "option_0": "abandoned", "option_1": "engineer", "option_2": "improvised", "option_3": "air", "option_4": "acclaimed"}
{"id": 440, "article": "\"We will not forget Garissa.\" This statement summarises the mood in Kenya three weeks after the attack on Garissa University College in the north-east of the country, which killed 148 people. Ever since the country's first major terror attack - the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi - Kenyans have stoically absorbed the impact of each assault with a three-step reaction: Shock, anger, and then a shrug. First there is shock at the audacity of the attackers. Then there is anger that the attack was not prevented or at least responded to speedily by the security forces. And finally there is a shrug of the shoulders and all is forgotten - until terror strikes again. However, the attack on Garissa has changed everything. Joseph Warungu: One cleric said that although the Christian faith teaches them to turn the other cheek when attacked, \"we've now run out of cheeks\" There is an active campaign to ensure that Garissa is not forgotten and actually marks a turning point. The church in Kenya is fighting back. Since the attack, Sunday sermons have adopted a message of defiance. On the radio a few days ago, I heard one prominent bishop tell his congregation to stand strong in the face of attacks by the militant Islamists. The bishop explained how he had been contacted by a Canadian journalist who wanted his reaction to news that a number of Kenyan Christians are now opting to learn the shahada, which is the Muslim proclamation of faith, just in case they are caught up in an attack. His response and advice to his followers was simple: \"Stand by your faith.\" During a recent memorial service for the victims of the Garissa University attack, which was broadcast live on radio, one religious leader after another said the same thing: \"Enough is enough\". One cleric said that although the Christian faith teaches them to turn the other cheek when attacked, \"we've now run out of cheeks.\" The church in Kenya wants to redefine the war on terror. It is not just an attack on innocent people. It is not a military combat. It is not a political fight. It is spiritual warfare. Kenyans' reaction is different now because the Garissa attack was different. In killing the youth, the militants wanted to kill Kenya's future by destroying the parents of tomorrow. It was also aimed at disrupting the country's socio-economic growth and stability by attacking the future professionals. And in deliberately isolating Christians it aimed to force a religious divide. The Kenyan church has therefore collectively gone on its knees to seek divine intervention. And it is pushing political leaders to take a stand. The country is sailing in unchartered waters and everyone is desperate for a solution to prevent another Garissa. Kenya is a multi-faith nation. Muslims, who comprise 11% of the population, sit side-by-side with Christians. Hindus, Sikhs and many other faiths also have space at the table. It would therefore be political suicide for any leader to attempt any kind of campaign that divides people on religious grounds. And with just two years to the next general election, the timing is awkward. Indeed one goal of the militants is to incite religious hatred. But in neighbouring Somalia, the majority of those who die at their hands are Muslims. The Kenyan security crisis is therefore complex and defies cosmetic solutions. At a military and administrative level, President Uhuru Kenyatta has taken a stand. He has pledged to keep Kenyan military boots on Somalia soil. He has also appointed a new man, with hopefully new ideas, to lead the Kenya Defence Forces. At citizen level, Kenyans entering public buildings including schools, offices and churches continue to dutifully submit themselves to routine security checks at the entrance. On the spiritual front, Muslim religious leaders have closed ranks with their Christian counterparts to display a united and determined face against terror. But terrorism has a welcome home in other realms. The youth with open minds and idle hands who see no hope and no future in a country of massive inequalities and high unemployment will continue to be easy candidates for recruitment. Terrorism also has a great appetite for corruption. It thrives in corrupt systems that conveniently look the other way as the ingredients of terror are prepared for deployment. A country where many leaders and policy-makers believe in a manifesto of \"my stomach shall prevail\" will always be vulnerable. So, will there be another Garissa? Sadly, yes. Garissa university campus 1. Militants enter the university grounds, two guards are shot dead 2. Shooting begins within the campus 3. Students attacked in their classrooms while preparing for exams 4. Gunmen believed isolated in the female dormitories 5. Some students make an escape through the fence Kenya failings drive al-Shabab recruitment Who are the victims? Survivors 'were too scared to scream' Why is al-Shabab targeting Kenya?", "question": "In our series of letters from Africa , Joseph Warungu senses a new wind @placeholder across Kenya following the attack by Somalia - based al - Shabab militants on Garissa university earlier this month .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "strike", "option_2": "tunnel", "option_3": "closed", "option_4": "blowing"}
{"id": 441, "article": "Mr Nixon joined the billionaire list after selling the last of his shares for the price comparison website. The Channel Islands have five billionaires, with the Barclay brothers still the wealthiest. Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay are valued at ¡ê7bn, which has risen by ¡ê500m. The 81-year-old brothers last year sold their stake in a group of luxury London hotels. They are based in Monaco, and own the island of Brecqhou near to Sark, as well as owning the Ritz in London. Sir David and Sir Frederick have closed their Sark hotels for the foreseeable future but continue to maintain interests in the islands. They also own the Telegraph Media Group, which made ¡ê54m profit last year. Retail magnates Sir Philip and Lady Green, in second place, appear in the Channel Island list because their Taveta business, which owns Arcadia, is based in Jersey. The couple's wealth is down ¡ê280m to ¡ê3.22bn. There are two other Channel Island billionaires whose wealth has increased over the past year. Specsavers founders, Douglas and Dame Mary Perkins, who are based in Guernsey, saw their fortune go up by ¡ê100m. Guernsey-based Steve Lansdown, whose wealth comes from financial services, has seen his wealth rise by ¡ê107m to ¡ê1.4bn. 1. Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay (Brecqhou) - ¡ê7bn 2. Sir Philip and Lady Green (Jersey) - ¡ê3.22bn 3. Douglas and Dame Mary Perkins and family (Guernsey) - ¡ê1.55bn 4. Steve Lansdown (Guernsey) - ¡ê1.4bn 5. Simon Nixon (Jersey) - ¡ê1.026bn 6. Douw Steyn and family (Guernsey) - ¡ê700m 7. The Clarke family (Jersey) - ¡ê500m 8. Tony Buckingham (Jersey) - ¡ê425m 9. Graham Tuckwell (Jersey) - ¡ê273m 10. Guy and Julia Hands (Guernsey) - ¡ê260m 11. James Vernon (Jersey) - ¡ê250m 12. David Crossland and family (Jersey) - ¡ê200m 13. Derek Coates (Guernsey) - ¡ê190m 14. Ronnie Frost (Guernsey) - ¡ê160m 15. Gordon Crawford (Jersey) - ¡ê122m 16 = Brian de Zille and family (Jersey) - ¡ê120m 16 = Con Folkes and family (Jersey) - ¡ê120m 18 = Roger Baines and family (Guernsey) - ¡ê110m 18 = Nigel Jagger and family (Jersey) - ¡ê110m", "question": "The Jersey resident and co-founder of Moneysupermarket.com , Simon Nixon , has become a billionaire @placeholder to the Sunday Times Rich List .", "option_0": "clue", "option_1": "according", "option_2": "added", "option_3": "message", "option_4": "deal"}
{"id": 442, "article": "Sadie Hartley, 60, was stunned with a cattle prod and stabbed at her house on Sunny Bank Road in Helmshore, Rossendale, on 14 January. Sarah Williams, 35, and Katrina Walsh, 56, both from Chester, deny murdering the mother-of-two. A series of text messages were found on Ms Williams' phone after she was arrested. They showed secret exchanges with Ms Hartley's long-term partner, ex-fireman Ian Johnston, 57, with whom she was having an affair, Preston Crown Court heard. In one, she wrote: \"I went to bed thinking about you.\" In another to a friend, she said: \"Fireman is just totally awesome...I'm hook line and sinker.\" She added: \"It's too early to have this conversation, being the little psycho that I am I want to push it along very quickly.\" Later texts showed Mr Johnston agonising over the affair. He wrote: \"I was not looking for or expecting you to appear.\" In another, he said: \"Sarah, please get that I can't have you here at this time. This is too difficult. Sorry.\" Mr Johnston told Ms Williams how Sadie has been \"kind and caring\" and he would not just \"blow her out\", before adding: \"I do like you but this is way too heavy.\" Later Williams sent a \"spiteful\" letter to Ms Hartley revealing the affair but it failed to break up the couple, the court heard. It is alleged the defendants then went on to execute their plan. Jurors were told Walsh used Tarot Cards with Williams during the time they planned the \"perfect murder\". In voluminous diaries penned by Walsh she wrote of her co-accused: \"She's got to learn that some men say they will leave their comfortable other half even when they never intend to do no such thing.\" The trial continues.", "question": "A woman accused of murdering her love rival @placeholder herself a \" little psycho \" in text messages , a court has heard .", "option_0": "called", "option_1": "reached", "option_2": "proposed", "option_3": "school", "option_4": "is"}
{"id": 443, "article": "Norwich City, Derby County and Wigan Athletic have parted company with Alex Neil, Steve McClaren and Warren Joyce respectively in the past week. McCarthy was appointed in November 2012, and his side are currently seven points above the relegation zone. \"We've been competitive every season up until this one,\" he said. \"We haven't spent Aston Villa money. We haven't spent Norwich money. We haven't spent vast sums of money.\" McCarthy added to BBC Radio Suffolk that the fact he is still in post confirmed that \"for four years I've done a really good job here\" - but that \"this year it has been tough\". Last season the Tractor Boys finished seventh in the table, five points adrift of the play-off places. Defender Christophe Berra has said that the current table suggests the team are in a relegation battle. \"Seven points isn't that big a gap. Two or three wins would ease it, but it is getting tough,\" he said. Berra suggested the club's predicament could be down to a lack of spending. \"We've not made the most investments,\" he said. \"Teams in and around us have maybe done a little bit more.\" Midfielder Luke Hyam, meanwhile, has been ruled out for another six weeks after rupturing ankle ligaments in training. Hyam, 25, has yet to play for the first team this season after previously undergoing surgery on a damaged nerve in his leg.", "question": "Ipswich Town 's Mick McCarthy says he has not joined the string of managers @placeholder by Championship clubs because he has \" done a really good job \" .", "option_0": "chosen", "option_1": "sacked", "option_2": "wanted", "option_3": "action", "option_4": "recruited"}
{"id": 444, "article": "Hernanes and Simone Zaza scored the goals as Juventus extended their club record for successive home clean sheets to 10. They were crowned champions for the fifth season in a row on Monday when Napoli, their closest challengers, lost to Roma. And their players celebrated with fans after maintaining their stunning form. Hernanes' first-half strike and Simone Zaza's late header helped Massimiliano Allegri's men brush aside relegation-threatened Carpi. They can complete a double by beating AC Milan in the Italian cup final on 21 May. \"I am happy with the win,\" Allegri said. \"It was a good one to get because the crowd was smaller than usual, after the celebrations and such. \"It pleased me that we did not concede a goal. Now we are thinking about the last two games and then the Coppa Italia final, which we are all looking forward to.\"", "question": "Juventus celebrated the Serie A title in @placeholder with a 10th successive league win .", "option_0": "reply", "option_1": "style", "option_2": "conjunction", "option_3": "history", "option_4": "place"}
{"id": 445, "article": "It is part of a crack-down by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on misleading promotions and obstacles to claiming winnings. Many readers have got in touch with the BBC about their experiences using betting websites. Here are some of their stories: Matt told us that when he was playing live casino roulette, he deposited ¡ê10 and then a pop-up appeared on screen offering him a further ¡ê10 as a matched bonus, which he accepted. Under the rules of the game he now had a ¡ê20 bonus but no cash. He won ¡ê300 but when he wanted to stop playing his balance showed up as empty. His bonus fund, meanwhile, had ¡ê300 in it, but he was not allowed to withdraw that. He rang the company which told him that accepting the bonus \"locked my initial deposit in with my bonus ¡ê10\". Under the firm's wagering requirements the ¡ê20 bonus funds had to be staked 50 times - or ¡ê1,000 - before he could withdraw any winnings. On that occasion he won ¡ê280 but that was the only time in about five years of online betting that he had won anything when wagering requirements were in place. Robert wrote: \"I've repeatedly won large amounts of cash only to be stalled when trying to withdraw. Often the site claims it needs to run a verification process which takes days to complete and requires photos of the method of deposit and proof of address. \"These aren't performed prior to depositing. Other sites deliberately take days to transfer cash and allow you to cancel the transaction at any time. \"I now only gamble on specific sites that can be trusted to withdraw cash quickly.\" Robert also said he would not now take any of the welcome offers because of the wagering requirements. However, he pointed out, some sites automatically apply the promotions and then punters have to contact the firms to get them removed. Daniel got a ¡ê20 bonus when he bet ¡ê10. He won ¡ê790 but the online site refused to let him withdraw the winnings because it said he had not met the wagering requirements attached to promotion. The firm then \"banned my account, nothing I could do about it\", he wrote. \"Unscrupulous online betting sites have created a bad name for the business. Claire Fleming from Realbookies.com said: \"We would urge online betting customers to do their due diligence before using sites - read the terms and conditions, check out the 'about us' sections to find out how the business works and look up testimonials of others who have used the site. \"This way people who want the convenience of online betting can be sure they are using a well-established and trusted site.\"", "question": "UK regulators are taking enforcement action against unnamed online gambling firms which they suspect of breaking consumer @placeholder .", "option_0": "title", "option_1": "shows", "option_2": "law", "option_3": "status", "option_4": "lifetime"}
{"id": 446, "article": "K Prithika Yashini, who was born male but underwent gender reassignment surgery, applied to become a police sub-inspector in the southern state. But the state police board did not recognise a third gender, leading her to pursue a legal case against it. A court in Chennai (Madras) has now ruled in her favour. \"I'm excited,\" Prithika was quoted as saying by India's NDTV network. \"It's a new beginning for the entire transgender community.\" A ruling by two judges in Chennai's high court said: \"The social impact of such recruitment cannot be lost sight of, as it would give strength to the case of transgenders. \"Yashini must reach the finish line, and not be stopped and disqualified in the middle.\" India's supreme court recognised transgender people as a third gender last April, five years after the electoral commission added the category to ballot forms. The ruling meant the government had to provide transgender people with quotas in jobs and education in line with other minorities, as well as key amenities. There are an estimated two million transgender people in India. While the Times of India reports that Tamil Nadu police already have three transgender constables on their books, reports in other Indian media said Prithika will become the first officer in the country. Prithika was born Pradeep Kumar and left her parents' home before completing a computer studies course and undergoing surgery. She had wanted to be a police officer since being a child, Indian media said. The court also ruled that the result of a police physical test, which Prithika failed after being a second late in a 100-metre dash, was not valid.", "question": "The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is to hire the country 's first transgender police officer after a court cleared hurdles that @placeholder one applicant .", "option_0": "faced", "option_1": "rejected", "option_2": "identified", "option_3": "organised", "option_4": "caught"}
{"id": 447, "article": "Ian Stewart, 56, denies murdering Helen Bailey and dumping her body in order to inherit her fortune. He said one of the men attacked him on the day the Electra Brown writer vanished and warned he would not \"see Helen again\" if he spoke to police. Mr Stewart claimed the men had hounded the writer over past business dealings. Ms Bailey was last seen on 11 April and reported missing by Mr Stewart on 15 April 2016. She was found beneath the garage at her home, together with that of her dachshund Boris, on 15 July. The 56-year-old is accused of sedating and murdering his partner before dumping her body in a foul cesspit beneath their garage. He told his trial at St Albans Crown Court that he lied to Ms Bailey's friends, family and the police about her whereabouts out of fear for her life. Two men, whom he knew only as Nick and Joe, were said to have been old business associates of her first husband, John Sinfield. Stewart claimed he was attacked by the tattooed thug called Nick on his doorstep last spring. He told the court: \"As I opened the door, he pushed me back into the hall and he must have tripped me at some point. \"He said: 'Helen is with us, she is helping us solve a problem, don't tell anyone'. \"He said: 'Sorry, we have taken Helen and Boris with us', he said 'we will be back we will see you Friday, if anyone asks tell them she's gone Broadstairs (Kent), don't tell anyone in any way'. \"He then said: 'If you tell anyone you won't see Helen again'.\" Mr Stewart continued: \"I was still on the floor, I was winded and my eyes were watering and he then hit me again and said: 'Do you understand?' and I nodded. \"He then quoted my telephone number at me and asked if that was correct and I just nodded. \"I was shocked and confused, it was so odd,\" he added. The defendant claimed Joe had visited the house earlier and demanded if Ms Bailey knew about his old business dealings, before saying, in hushed tones: \"Just think about this.\" Mr Stewart, of Baldock Road, Royston, Hertfordshire, denies murder, preventing a lawful burial, fraud, and three counts of perverting the course of justice. The trial continues.", "question": "The fiance of a children 's author has told a murder trial she was @placeholder by two men who warned him not to go to the police .", "option_0": "snatched", "option_1": "criticised", "option_2": "persuaded", "option_3": "confronted", "option_4": "targeted"}
{"id": 448, "article": "He broke through at Ajax and so began his career directly following the same path as sibling Wesley but the older brother has won the Champions League and played in the World Cup final while Rodney is now trying to rebuild his career at Tannadice. When asked at his first press conference as a Dundee United player if he liked comparisons with the player who is six years his elder and has performed consistently at elite level, Rodney Sneijder simply responded: \"No.\" Exasperation is understandable, since the family background has been both a help and a hindrance to his development. While playing for RKC Waalwijk, Rodney Sneijder was at a training camp in Turkey at the same time as rumours were linking his brother with a move from Inter Milan to Galatasaray. Locals kept turning up and asking him about his brother, including female fans urging him to plead with his brother to make the move. That kind of frantic, incessant exposure and interest has been something Rodney Sneijder has had to learn to cope with. The brothers both play in midfield, they are clever, technically sound players and are extremely close. It would be in keeping with the affection and support between them if Wesley visited Tannadice to see Dundee United play on occasion, and Rodney is often seen in the stands at Galatasaray watching his brother while sitting with his sister-in-law. Yet the legacy is in many ways impossible to live up to, since Wesley Sneijder is among that small group of players who could operate with brilliant individualism and influence at the very pinnacle of the game. Many in Dutch football consider Rodney Sneijder a talented midfielder, only less gifted than his brother and so far lacking the mental strength, spirit and work-rate to succeed in the Eredivisie. At the outset of his career, many fans and observers were intrigued to see how the latest member of the family would perform (the eldest of the three Sneijder brothers, Jeffrey, also started out at Ajax but his career was hindered by injury). Rodney Sneijder was skilful, but just not to the same level as Wesley. At times in his career, there have also been doubts about his work off the ball, his defensive instincts and his ability to deal with set-backs or being left out of the starting line-up. \"Ajax had a lot of talents and he did not make the difference,\" said Voetbal International journalist Stef de Bont. \"The two of them are really close and they look similar. But on the field there's a big difference. \"Wesley is world class, Rodney is more average. He never said it out loud, but it had a big impact on his career. \"In his time at Ajax and FC Utrecht [on loan], at first it was a help. He was a Sneijder, he had to be good so he got a contract. Later, when he didn't make it, there was the comparison.\" Rodney Sneijder is only 24, but his career has been sporadic in terms of first-team football, with only 74 appearances in the past four years. In 2013, he moved to Almere City, a club in the second tier of Dutch football, although his spells on loan at FC Utrecht - 23 games and three goals in 2011-12 - and his first season following a permanent move to RKC Waalwijk - 22 appearances and two goals in 2012-13 - were productive. Erwin Koeman was the manager who took Sneijder to RKC Waalwijk, but despite starting brightly, the midfielder drifted out of the teamp and was never able to recover his previous status. The move to United, then, is a form of career rehabilitation and Sneijder impressed enough as a trialist to persuade Tannadice manager Jackie McNamara to sign the player following recommendation from the player's agent, Pierre van Hooijdonk, a former Celtic team-mate of McNamara's. The move could work for both parties, since Van Hooijdonk was behind Nadir Ciftci's move to Dundee United, where the striker impressed enough to earn his move to Celtic this summer. Sneijder has enough potential to be a productive signing but will need to show the mental strength to succeed in a football environment where spirit and assertiveness are commonplace. The comparisons with Wesley Sneijder are inevitable but also worthless. Rodney Sneijder is making his own way in the game, and now needs to show that he can apply his talent and assert himself to forge his own career. Moving away from the Netherlands to a club that will provide a platform for him to become a key player is an opportunity he needs to be ready to take.", "question": "Rodney Sneijder has never been able to escape the @placeholder of his brother .", "option_0": "impact", "option_1": "size", "option_2": "top", "option_3": "shadow", "option_4": "criticism"}
{"id": 449, "article": "Two important announcements on health and education from Labour and the Conservatives caught my eye. Firstly, both parties propose more money for health. Labour's bigger pledge seems to cut against the party's attempts to present a more fiscally disciplined face. At first sight, it is curious for the Tories, too. Why protect the NHS? The Conservatives already have a strategy that will entail a further round of 8 to 9% cuts in departmental spending, on top of existing plans, by 2018-19 - if they don't raise taxes. Sparing health from the spending reductions inflicts all the pain on other departments, which will make those deep cuts harder to implement. But neither has much choice, given their commitment to the NHS as it stands. Even in the short term, NHS spending will rise, whatever they say. In fact the big question right now is whether the Department for Health will crash through its spending limits this year. After years of broadly static funding, a tight situation for the health service is being exacerbated by a bigger rise in demand for health services than is normal. So more money for health is a politically valuable campaigning point for both parties. But, in truth, they will have felt they really had few options. Secondly, both parties are talking a big game on apprenticeships - training programmes for people in work. The Tories say they want to increase their number, delivering \"three million apprenticeships\" over the next parliament - an average of 600,000 a year. That is big. About 510,000 people started an apprenticeship in 2012-13. That itself is a massive rise on 2009-10, when only 278,000 people began one. The recent huge surge in apprenticeship starts came, in large part, as the government shut down other subsidised training routes. So lots of people who would have gone through schemes like the now defunct Train to Gain count as \"apprentices\" instead. But, now, that easy growth is over. And as the rules around what is expected of apprentices and who may offer them have been toughened, growth has been spluttering. The number of apprentices has actually dropped from a high in 2011-12. So, I suspect, reaching that three million target will require more effort, extra funding and new policy. New participating employers and employees need to be found. The extra ones will be harder to deliver than the existing ones. Labour's plan on apprentices is longer-term - to have the number of under-25 apprentices in England rise to equal the number of young people going to university by 2025. How many is that? Undergraduate starts for young people in 2010-11, the last year for which we have clear, useful data, were at about 320,000. Looking at global trends, I would plan on the assumption that it will be quite a bit higher in a decade's time. So it's a big rise from the current 279,900 under-25 apprenticeships. But Labour also wants all of those apprenticeships to be advanced programmes. Of those under-25 apprentices, only about 100,000 are at that level now. So it is a big undertaking. That will all be expensive, and require employers to play ball as the state demands more training. In recent years, youth apprentices have also proved the hardest number to get to rise. Labour says they can pay for it by refocusing \"some of the existing spending on low-level apprenticeships currently being done by people in their 40s, 50s and 60s\". That would almost certainly mean overall apprenticeship numbers would drop. The biggest fallers would probably be the worst quality provision, too. So that might be good. But it is hard to call. Some of those programmes get valuable - if basic - training to hard-to-reach people who missed out in their youth. I have, of course, missed a party out that made great hay out of statements on the NHS in the past week. So what to make of UKIP's domestic policies? Well, it is a bit early to start. A lot is still nascent. \"Wait for the manifesto,\" I was told a lot when asking for detail and costing. Much of their policy work is starting from scratch. Furthermore, I asked activists, spokespeople and MEPs about the red lines they would draw in any post-election negotiation with another party. Europe was the only sacred cow, immigration was close behind, and \"tax cuts\" were a distant third place. Health and education were not on the list. So - assuming that UKIP do not win an outright majority - a lot of the domestic policy issues they talk about outside those core areas is a strange sort of hypothetical. That's why two UKIP MEPs cheerfully told me the party uses domestic policy to signal to us what sort of people they are, not to tell us what they would actually do. They announce policy so you hear: \"UKIP are pro-NHS and anti-establishment\". Still, they have fleshed out areas that really matter. For example, Steven Woolfe MEP, UKIP's immigration spokesman, told me they would take a lot of students - though not all - out of their target to reduce net immigration to under 50,000 people a year. Voters think UKIP are as hard as nails on migrants. So, if they say they think lots of foreign students are a good thing and aren't what people mean when they talk about migration, they take it. This position helps Labour, because they too don't want students inside the target. In fact, only the Conservatives remain committed to keeping students within their immigration target. And so, on policy, even as they laid into Labour at their conference, UKIP offered them a little covering fire.", "question": "How have the first few party conferences shaped our @placeholder of what domestic politics might look like after 2015 ?", "option_0": "signs", "option_1": "nature", "option_2": "millions", "option_3": "knowledge", "option_4": "vision"}
{"id": 450, "article": "Operation Stack was implemented on Tuesday with lorries waiting to cross the Channel queuing on the carriageway. Industrial action by MyFerryLink workers saw blockades at Calais port and the Channel Tunnel in Coquelles. Thousands of migrants in France took advantage of the action and tried to board Kent-bound lorries. On Wednesday police found 350 migrants hiding in vehicles at the French port in the wake of the chaos. Later in the day, 10 people were found in the back of a lorry in Folkestone. A Kent Police spokesman said: \"They were all fine and taken by police to Dover Immigration Centre and are now under their care.\" Another seven suspected migrants were arrested after climbing out of lorries at a service area on the M1 in Bedfordshire. David Cameron described the scenes at the French port as \"totally unacceptable\". The Prime Minister said Britain was considering the possibility of sending more UK officers and sniffer dog teams to Calais, and more fences were being installed at the port as well as around the entrance to the Channel Tunnel. The Foreign Office has warned travellers to keep their car doors locked in slow-moving traffic heading back to the UK.", "question": "An emergency measure which closed parts of the M20 in Kent has been lifted 36 hours after it was @placeholder following disruption at the port of Calais .", "option_0": "introduced", "option_1": "injured", "option_2": "reopened", "option_3": "repaired", "option_4": "revealed"}
{"id": 451, "article": "Neil Fears, from Belper in Derbyshire, was reported missing by his fellow divers on Tuesday after he failed to surface. The 51-year-old's body was recovered near the wreck of the SS Stanfield, near La Manga, about three hours later. It is not yet known why the experienced diver failed to surface. His daughter Cerys said: \"He was always there if I needed him for whatever situation, he'd do anything to look after his family.\" Mr Fears was a director of IT firm Davidson Richards in Derby. \"He was very hardworking and could be very determined,\" his daughter added. \"My boyfriend said he was strong and ambitious, but he was also very kind and caring, generous and very clever.\" Mr Fears had been diving with three others and was paired up with one of them. A spokesperson for the Guardia Civil in Murcia said the paired diver had \"turned to his partner and realised he wasn't there\". The divers had been using equipment which regulated oxygen supply and pressure, depending on the user's depth under water. This meant they had to return to the surface regularly, but Mr Fears failed to do so as planned.", "question": "The daughter of a British diver who died while @placeholder a World War One shipwreck off the coast of Spain has paid tribute to her \" caring \" father .", "option_0": "fleeing", "option_1": "injuring", "option_2": "carrying", "option_3": "exploring", "option_4": "throwing"}
{"id": 452, "article": "The deaths of three members of the national guard in an explosion reignited a debate over what some see as the potentially damaging influence of the country's far-right parties and volunteer militias fighting in the country's east. More than 140 others were wounded in the blast, apparently caused by a grenade, during a demonstration against plans to give more autonomy to the country's Russian-supported separatist regions. Those who died were all in their twenties - the youngest was just 20. President Petro Poroshenko denounced the attack as \"an anti-Ukrainian action\" and demanded \"all organisers, all representatives of political forces... must carry full responsibility.\" It also raised concerns over what appears to be an increasing infiltration of weapons from the warzone into the rest of the country. These are the first politically-related fatalities in the capital since the country's pro-European revolution in February last year, in which more than 100 people died. Authorities have blamed the explosion on Ihor Humenyuk, a fighter in the Sich volunteer battalion. Sich falls under the control of the interior ministry, but maintains strong connections to the far-right Freedom Party, which was one of the rally's main organisers. Freedom Party activists - including its leader Oleh Tyahnybok - were at the epicentre of the clashes with the police. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said ultra-nationalists were \"worse\" than Russian-backed separatists in the east, because they were \"trying to open another front\" in the country \"under the guise of patriotism\". So far, 16 people have been arrested for suspected involvement in the incident, including Mr Humenyuk. A number of others, like Mr Tyahnybok, were to be questioned. Mr Humenyuk has denied throwing a grenade. Freedom Party members likewise reject any responsibility, and accuse the government of orchestrating a witch hunt against them. They say Mr Humenyuk is not associated with them - even though he was featured on one of their recent campaign posters. But the explosion come weeks after another armed incident involving a volunteer militia with ties to the extreme right - a shoot-out between members of the Right Sector battalion and local police in south-western Ukraine. Both incidents have shone a light on the link between groups with extreme politics, and those with access to weapons. There are dozens of volunteer groups, providing vital support to operations in the east. Of these, about 11 have ties to political parties or organisations, of which at least seven have some sort of connection to the far-right fringe. Although the militias have been nominally integrated into government structures, many wonder how much control Kiev actually exercises. And although the majority of these groups' fighters appear free of radical right sentiments, ultra-nationalists - often visible by their tattoos and t-shirts - definitely figure among their numbers. This is a feature on both sides of the frontline in the east, with the Russian-backed militants attracting what appears to be a large contingent of nationalist extremists. However, the heads of the pro-Kiev battalions, like that of Sich itself, say they are not political, or have no intention of using force. \"We do not plan to march on Kiev with our automatics,\" Sich battalion commander Olexander Pisarenko told the BBC Ukrainian Service. As for the ultra-nationalists, few believe that they pose an electoral threat. Freedom and Right Sector up until now have been marginal political forces. Indeed, the violence at parliament could be an attempt to compensate for a lack of support among the population. However, the political landscape could begin to shift with the arrival with colder weather. The economy is deteriorating, painful reforms such as a rise in utility tariffs are set to kick in this autumn, and issues such as granting increased powers to the breakaway regions, which some see as a capitulation to Moscow, have struck a very emotional nerve. It should be emphasised that the chance of an armed insurrection is a highly distant prospect right now. But, even if the battalions keep out of the political fray, there is still the issue of the individual fighters. Anger among them is rising. Many accuse the government of criminal mishandling of the conflict, which have led to the deaths of untold numbers on the battlefield. In contrast to their commanders, some fighters do speak of coming to Kiev en masse, if necessary. One in a YouTube video spoke, in Ukrainian, of staging terrorist acts. Previous attempts to rein in extremist elements have in some cases stalled. Right Sector, for example, is still relatively free of government control, despite the fact that it openly confronted law enforcement authorities. But with the deaths of the three national guardsmen - so young, and at what was supposed to be a peaceful demo so far from the front lines - attitudes in Ukrainian society may be changing, and people could demand action from the government. The Freedom Party (Svoboda in Ukrainian), despite its low electoral numbers, is still viewed by many as a patriotic organisation, and was a central player in the revolution last year. Now, some question its contribution. \"There are few people in Ukraine who work for Putin so selflessly as Ukrainian nationalists from the party 'Svoboda',\" Oleg Shankovskyi, an editor at the Ukrainska Pravda website, wrote on Facebook. At the very least, there is the alarming fact that guns - and explosives - seem to be very easily obtained, and can be used to further any political, financial or criminal interest. Or they could simply fall into the hands of some angry, disaffected individual - as the person who threw the grenade at the parliament protest may have been.", "question": "The centre of Kiev became a scene of @placeholder and broken bodies last week - as though the conflict in Ukraine 's east suddenly had been transported to the capital .", "option_0": "carnage", "option_1": "blood", "option_2": "sunshine", "option_3": "gunfire", "option_4": "ice"}
{"id": 453, "article": "The 26-year-old, a free transfer signing from Woking last summer, made 40 appearances as Rovers finished third in League Two to go up automatically. \"Last season the spirit around the place was the best I've experienced,\" Clarke told the club website. \"League One will be a step up for everyone, I can't wait to get started.\" The length of Clarke's new deal has not been revealed. He joins goalkeeper Steve Mildenhall, defender Daniel Leadbitter and striker Billy Bodin who had already agreed new contracts at the Memorial Stadium.", "question": "Defender James Clarke has become the latest member of Bristol Rovers ' @placeholder - winning squad to agree a new contract with the club .", "option_0": "award", "option_1": "terms", "option_2": "promotion", "option_3": "centre", "option_4": "cup"}
{"id": 454, "article": "Capita - which assesses claimants for the government - confirmed the nurse was dismissed two weeks ago. The Facebook posts were found by Sarah Goldstein, 24, who had been turned down for personal independence payments (PIPs) by the nurse. Husband Jay Goldstein said he was glad \"the right thing\" had been done. Mrs Goldstein, who has fibromyalgia, Raynaud's phenomenon, and suffers with chronic anxiety, migraines and depression, claimed Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and first applied for PIPs in October 2014. Mr Goldstein said she had been assessed last year but turned down for PIPs because it was felt she was \"making everything up\". Mrs Goldstein reapplied for PIPs at the end of 2015 and was assessed at her home in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, in March by the nurse. But the couple's suspicions were aroused when they found they had been turned down by the nurse on the basis of a number of \"falsehoods\" in an accompanying report, which has been seen by the BBC. These included claims that Mrs Goldstein had given birth to 13-month-old daughter AJ naturally. In fact, Mrs Goldstein had a Caesarean and said she was never asked about the birth. Mrs Goldstein saw the nurse's name on the report and looked her up on social media \"to make sure everything was above board\" and discovered the posts. One, written in July 2014, appears to attack a claimant who had lost two legs as a child and had appeared on a programme about benefits. The post said he should \"get a job fitting carpets\" and that she \"would like to catapult the scrounger back to...[where] he came from\". It is believed the nurse started working for Capita a few months before the July post. In a statement, a spokeswoman for the outsourcing firm said: \"We can confirm that the individual in question no longer works for Capita.\" Mr Goldstein, 25, said his wife has had a new assessment and is awaiting the result. \"We are glad that Capita has done the right thing and sacked the nurse,\" he said. \"We feel a tiny bit of justice has been done.\"", "question": "A disability benefits assessor who was suspended after allegedly posting abusive comments about @placeholder claimants on Facebook has been sacked .", "option_0": "disabled", "option_1": "perched", "option_2": "deal", "option_3": "messages", "option_4": "spending"}
{"id": 455, "article": "About 25 people battled driving rain for the Santa Splash event, organised by the Canal and River Trust along the Leeds Liverpool Canal. It marked the end of the first year of a project which aims to map a 150-mile stretch of canal from east to west. A similar event is being staged in Burscough, Lancashire, on Sunday. The Coast to Coast trail, which has been funded by a ?¡ê1.3m charity grant, will stretch between Liverpool on the west and Goole on the east coast. The Santa Splash canoeists tackled a two-mile stretch of the canal for the fun event. Project manager Greg Brookes said: \"I want to say a big thank you to everyone who joined a tremendous effort to bring some festive cheer to the canal.\"", "question": "Canoeists @placeholder as Father Christmas took to the canal to celebrate a project linking some of Britain 's waterways .", "option_0": "gathered", "option_1": "dressed", "option_2": "known", "option_3": "regarded", "option_4": "scored"}
{"id": 456, "article": "The British astrophysicist amassed two million followers within hours of launching his account on Tuesday. His first message was a greeting to his \"friends in China\" posted in both English and Chinese. Some Weibo users were comparing the experience of interacting with Prof Hawking online to making contact with the universe. Hawking backs interstellar travel project Hawking: Humans at risk of lethal 'own goal' A brief history of Stephen Hawking More than 230 million people use Sina Weibo, China's biggest social media platform, every month. A growing number of international figures who have joined Weibo in recent years to connect to a Chinese audience. Prof Hawking's second post, on Wednesday, described the interstellar project Breakthrough Starshot which he is backing, saying it was \"exciting to be involved in such an ambitious project\". Both posts were quickly flooded with excited comments expressing admiration and awe. One wrote: \"I'm writing this comment, even though you probably won't read it and understand it, so that it will at least flash on your phone for a second... This fragile connection is like using my fingers to gently touch the universe.\" \"Since I was a child I would always cite you in my school essays, you are an example for all of us!\" said one commenter, while another wrote: \"OMG, you have pulled up the average IQ of all the users on Weibo.\" Others urged fellow netizens to be on their best behaviour around him. \"I hope there won't be any idiots who ask the professor brainless questions, please do not take him as a joke, and do not shame us Chinese people,\" said a commenter. Still others peppered him with questions on the existence of aliens and quantum physics. Prof Hawking has enjoyed a substantial following in China, with a Xinhua article on his last visit in 2006 noting he has \"a cult status among Chinese youngsters much like that of Tom Cruise\". \"The appeal of Hawking largely comes from his ability to be a great thinker despite his physical challenges,\" it said.", "question": "Chinese netizens have given a warm welcome to Prof Stephen Hawking after he joined microblog @placeholder Sina Weibo .", "option_0": "drugs", "option_1": "following", "option_2": "network", "option_3": "groups", "option_4": "brain"}
{"id": 457, "article": "A National College of Teaching and Leadership panel found Marc Richardson, 34, guilty of unacceptable professional conduct. The panel heard CCTV footage showed the pair emerging from beneath a stage at Tottington High School, Bury, where he was head of drama. The married teacher had been previously warned about his behaviour. In 2012, he sent \"inappropriate communications\" to another student, whom he said was \"too attractive to teach\" and asked her to keep quiet. He was given a final written warning by the school in January 2013. Richardson, who did not attend the hearing, admitted being alone with a student in a room under the stage outside teaching hours in 2014. He resigned, was arrested and released without charge. The panel heard he sent messages to the girl, engaging in sexual conversations. Her mother said she had \"niggling feelings\" about the teacher when her daughter asked about the contraceptive pill. Another witness said her friend told her she had \"done everything\" with her boyfriend, who she admitted was Richardson. Mark Tweedle, panel chairman, said: \"The panel considered it is plain that sexual conversations took place between Pupil B and Mr Richardson, and they contained explicit references to sexual acts between them.\" He said Richardson's conduct fell \"significantly short of the standards expected of the profession.\" A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said of the arrest in 2014: \"A 32-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of sexual activity with a child and the sexual grooming of a child. \"A full investigation was conducted by the Greater Manchester Police public protection investigation unit and the man was released without charge.\"", "question": "A teacher who had an inappropriate relationship with a 14 - year - old student could face being @placeholder off .", "option_0": "held", "option_1": "bitten", "option_2": "thrown", "option_3": "struck", "option_4": "killed"}
{"id": 458, "article": "But such habits can build into controlling behaviours, which leave you in fear every time you open your wallet. Financial abuse, as it is called, can involve your partner spending your jointly-earned money, taking out loans in your name, making you pay the utility bills, or scrutinising every penny you spend. Worse, it can be the fore-runner of even more serious emotional, or physical, abuse. While the vast majority of victims are women, men too can be vulnerable, particularly if they have disabilities. New laws are on their way to try to stop coercive behaviour, including in financial matters, but no one yet knows how effective they will be. So how bad can financial abuse get, and can you detect it at an early stage? Many people have to budget carefully, but Jane (not her real name and age) became the victim of obsessive financial control. She says her former husband - and his mother too - would inspect the fridge to find out whether the milk had been bought in Waitrose, rather than Lidl. \"I would find myself in the shop, thinking this liquid hand soap is 70p in Sainsbury's, but I can get some for 40p in Superdrug - but Superdrug is down the road. The logical thing was to buy the one in Sainsbury's, but I knew my husband and mother-in-law would pull me up.\" All financial decisions - from holidays to furniture - were taken by her husband. \"He chose my car. On one occasion, as we were driving away from my parents' house, he shouted out of the window: 'She got to choose the colour.' It was very derogatory.\" When her husband began to withdraw large sums of money from their joint account to spend on motor bikes, she tried to warn the bank. Eventually her husband used up all their savings, and was declared bankrupt.  Jane inherited the debts, and over ?¡ê4,000 of arrears on the mortgage. She now lives with her five year-old daughter in her parents' house. Due to her poor credit rating, she will not be able to get a mortgage - or rent a private flat - for at least six years. A recent report for the TUC and the charity Women's Aid  - called Unequal Trapped and Controlled - found that financial abuse was often the first sign of further emotional or domestic abuse. The authors of that report, Marilyn Howard and Amy Skipp, say the ten most frequent signs to look out for are a partner who: Under the Serious Crime Act - which has received royal assent, and which will be implemented later this year - coercive and controlling behaviour between partners will become illegal for the first time. Section 76 of the Act allows for a maximum prison sentence of five years, where someone's behaviour causes alarm or serious distress to their partner. This can include financial abuse. As a result, the Police will be given training in how to spot instances of coercive control. Polly Neate, the chief executive of Women's Aid, believes the law will encourage victims to come forward. \"We know of many cases where women have not come forward about controlling coercive abuse - including financial abuse - because they feel the Police won't take any action unless they've been physically assaulted. We're hoping this new law will change that,\" she says. But there is widespread concern about another development - the roll-out of Universal Credit (UC). The benefit is paid monthly on a household basis. The TUC report warns that UC will make it easier for one partner to control the finances. Even though the DWP has promised to make split payments where necessary, Polly Neate thinks many victims will still acquiesce. \"Universal Credit, as currently planned, is another tool for people who want to financially abuse their partner,\" she claims. Money Advice Service 0300 500 5000 National Domestic Violence Helpline 0808 2000 247 For Jane - as for many couples - having a joint account was a particular difficulty. She wasn't able to stop her husband taking exactly what he wanted from it. The banks say that generally they are not able to intervene in such disputes. HSBC, for example, will only put restrictions on a joint account if it has advice from the Police to do so. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Lloyds and NatWest will block an account if they are formally notified that there is a marital dispute. However the banking industry says it is open to change on the issue. \"We would be happy to consider what more might be done to help in this difficult and complex area,\" said a spokesperson for the British Bankers Association (BBA). In the meantime Nationwide suggests that people may like to consider joint accounts for paying bills, but individual accounts for their salaries. On savings accounts, it is also possible to require both parties to sign before money can be withdrawn. Further advice comes from psychologist Corinne Sweet, the author of \"Stop Fighting about Money\". Speaking on behalf of the Money Advice Service, which offers help on a financial abuse,  she says couples should learn to talk about money freely. \"Being open about money is sexy, because it grows intimacy. It grows trust. It grows a feeling of closeness,\" she says.", "question": "It can start innocently enough : Perhaps your partner asks to see a receipt for the supermarket shop , or explains that he or she opened your bank @placeholder by mistake .", "option_0": "vault", "option_1": "safe", "option_2": "comments", "option_3": "branch", "option_4": "statement"}
{"id": 459, "article": "Nominated for the Brits critics' choice award and the BBC Sound of 2016, the singer has a knack for achingly beautiful ballads that tug at the heartstrings. Songs like Let It Out and Say It Again have earned her more than 50 million streams on Spotify - and top 10 singles around the world (although not at home, thanks to the current state of the UK singles chart). Born Sophie Frances Cooke in Berkshire, she was an aspiring violinist when her teacher sent her to see a film composer for career advice. On a whim, she played him a pop song she'd written for fun - and moved him to tears. \"It was a bit awkward,\" she recalls. \"I was like, 'Are you ok?' and he said, 'Yeah. But you need to do that. You have to do that for the rest of your life.\" She took his advice - choosing to attend the pop-focussed Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts instead of her original choice, the Birmingham Conservatoire. By the time she reached her third year of studies, she'd already been signed by a record label and moved to London. Her debut album, Things I've Never Said, comes out this week. A warm and wistful collection of perfectly-crafted piano pop, it has already won the singer comparisons to Adele and Carole King. Meanwhile, her single Grow has been selected to soundtrack a new campaign by Refuge, the charity supporting female victims of domestic violence. The 23-year-old sat down to tell the BBC about that video; the perks of fame; and what it's like to get school lessons from Paul McCartney. Hello Frances... Or should I call you Sophie? I'm Sophie to my family and friends - but I once thought, \"If I'm going to be an artist, my name's got to look good on a piece of paper\". Sophie is very curly, it looks very young, whereas Frances is a lot more angular. So it just kind of stuck. But then up until the age of 16, everyone called me Cookie. So anything goes. It's been three years since your first single - you must be relieved the album is finally out? I'm so excited. It's definitely been a while. I wrote some of these songs when I was 18 or 19, and so they've literally been with me for five years. It's unusual for people to stay fond of the songs they wrote in their teens. Actually, at the time, I didn't think much of them! But they made it through all the label cuts and slashes. They stood the test of time. What are the oldest ones on there? I wrote Drifting and Sublime in my room at LIPA - the performing arts school up in Liverpool. That's the one that Paul McCartney founded, right? Did he ever show up? A couple of times. He'd come in to do little Q&As. He was really nice, if you saw him walking past, you could just say \"hi\" and he was always really sweet. What's the best advice you got from him? He said that when he and John [Lennon] were writing, they didn't have anything to record what they were doing¡­ Whereas now, if I'm writing in a session, I've got my phone there recording everything. And so if I forget something I can go back and find it. But he said, \"We didn't have that luxury. So if we forgot something, it wasn't good enough and we didn't use it.\" I was like, \"Oh my God, that's so true.\" Because if you've written something and 10 minutes later you don't remember it, then it's not good enough. Do you stick to that advice even now? No, because my memory's terrible! One of the first songs you released was Grow... and that's now being used in a very powerful video for Refuge. It's amazing. It's about a woman called Melanie Clark, who had a terrible time, a really abusive partner, and she managed to get out of it by seeking help from Refuge. They've animated her story. It's basically about her feeling invisible until one woman, who represents Refuge, notices her for the first time. It's a campaign to encourage victims of domestic abuse to seek help. We want people to realise they are not alone. The original song isn't about domestic abuse at all. Were you surprised by how well the words and the images complement each other? It's weird how the lyrics make so much sense alongside the story. I just hope it will resonate with people all over the world. It's an amazing animation and everyone's done it for free. Would it be fair to say you've always wanted to play music? Absolutely. My best friend's parents were professional violinists. When I was about eight, I went round to her house, picked one up and fell in love with it. Then her dad taught me all the way up 'til I was about 16 or 17. What grade did you get? Eight. I absolutely loved it. What was your exam piece? I did a kind of a gypsy piece called Csardas. It's so fast - and it speeds up towards the end, as well. And then I started the piano when I was 10  - but I only got to grade six.  I couldn't be bothered to do scales any more. Do you remember your first stage performance? I was three, dressed as an ice cream in a production of The Hungry Caterpillar at the Royal Festival Hall! And then throughout school, I was always on stage, playing violin or piano. And I played in the Berkshire Youth Orchestra. You sound like a high achiever. Were you good academically, too? I was quite lucky at school. I had this little charm - I could not do my homework and somehow get away with it. Everyone knew I worked so hard at music. I was doing stuff after school every day, so the teachers were quite lenient. And then you went to LIPA... Actually, I didn't get in the first time. They put me on their foundation course, which cost like 10 grand or something. My parents, bless them, scrambled together every penny we had and I worked at Waitrose trying to get money to go. How did you get signed? I put a song called Coming Up For Air on SoundCloud in early 2014. It was quite calculated - because at the time London Grammar were really big, so I thought, \"OK, I'm going to write something like that, so all the blogs listen and pick up on it\". Eventually, a few started writing about it and then Tom Robinson from 6 Music played it which was really cool. After that, we ended up having a meeting with [boutique record label] Kitsun¨¦, and released a single. Don't Worry About Me was a big breakthrough for you. How did that come about? One of my friends was quite ill - and I wrote the song to say, \"look after yourself and I'll be here for you\". I wrote it really quickly. I was just getting off the bus on Kilburn High Road when I came up with the phrase, \"I'll feel the fear for you, I'll cry the tears for you, don't worry about me.\" I ran home thinking, \"I need to get to a piano quickly, I don't want to lose this.\" It's a very emotional performance. I think because I wrote it so quickly. I was thinking about my friend and the lyrics just came out. Don't Worry About Me has been played nine million times on Spotify. How do you wrap your head around that? I don't really. I always said that if I won the lottery, I'd be more excited by ¡ê100,000 than I would with ¡ê1m because I can't understand a million pounds. I've never seen that. I can't quantify it. Whereas a hundred grand, I can think, \"ah, that's a really nice car\". It's a weird period for music at the moment¡­ You can have all those plays, and millions of people know your song, but it hasn't troubled the charts in the UK. It's a really weird time. In Belgium, Don't Worry About Me was in the top 20 for 10 weeks and that's mainly because in Belgium the singer-songwriter world is their Radio 1. In Australia, it hung around the chart for ages. In the UK, I've just come out at a really funny time. There's a weird limbo. But I'm so proud of my album. I know it's not going to sell 20 million copies but that's OK. I want to be an artist that's going to be around for 20 or 30 years. In a strange way, you're famous to the people who know you and nobody else. It's actually lovely because I can walk down the street and not be bothered. Apart from in John Lewis once, where the manager recognised me while I was buying a sofa. He was like, \"Excuse me, can I ask you a question?\" and I thought, \"Oh no, my card's been rejected\" but he was like, \"Can I get a picture with you?\" And I think he paid for my sofa because I took out finance and I haven't paid a penny yet. That's a proper celebrity discount! Totally. 100% off! Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "Beware of Frances : She 's on a one - woman mission to force all the @placeholder in your body out through your tear ducts .", "option_0": "water", "option_1": "muscles", "option_2": "energy", "option_3": "knot", "option_4": "show"}
{"id": 460, "article": "The original manuscript no longer survives and its disappearance has been shrouded in mystery. The Bront? Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire, is inviting visitors to copy out a sentence of the novel to create a handwritten book. Museum organisers hope it will be ready in time to be displayed next year. Read more about this and other stories from across Yorkshire The museum has commissioned artist Clare Twomey to create thousands of pencils for the project. Jenna Holmes, arts officer at the Bront? Parsonage Museum, said: \"The lost manuscript of Wuthering Heights is one of the great Bront? mysteries. \"It's a simple but very powerful work, which we think will strike a chord with visitors to the museum this year.\" Ann Dinsdale, the museum's principal curator, kick started the project with the artist by writing the opening sentence from the novel. Emily Bront? was born on 30 July 1818. She and her sisters Charlotte and Anne lived with their brother and father at the Parsonage during the first half of the 19th Century and their home was turned into a museum in 1928 housing a large collection of artefacts and documents associated with the Bront? family and their work. The sisters wrote a number of English literature classics, including Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey.", "question": "Visitors are being invited to recreate a long - lost manuscript of Emily Bront? 's 1847 classic Wuthering Heights to @placeholder 200 years since her birth .", "option_0": "replace", "option_1": "close", "option_2": "promote", "option_3": "mark", "option_4": "celebrate"}
{"id": 461, "article": "A record number of foreign boats have entered this year, including five from Asia, along with others from Germany, Russia, the United States and New Zealand. Britain's sole representative is Richard Stain, a former businessman from Cheshire, who bought the yacht Samskara specifically to race from Sydney to Hobart. He has never competed in the famous blue-water blockbuster, telling the BBC he is keen to avoid a stomach-churning ride. \"I do suffer a little bit from seasickness, so I'm just hoping that I'm not going to be seasick because I know what it's like. If you get it bad it can just knock you out,\" he says. Mr Stain's crew includes a Dutchman, an Australian and a Welsh lobster fisherman, who is the navigator. At race HQ at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in upmarket Darling Point, Mr Stain clambers down a narrow companionway, where below deck Samskara seems surprisingly spacious and comfortable. But he says it can be a hellish place to be. \"This could be absolutely horrible down here,\" he explains. \"If it is heavy weather and the boat is leaning over at 45 degrees this could be pretty awful. You'll be hanging on wherever you can.\" There have been hair-raising moments even before the fleet gathers for the start in Sydney, an occasion that has become one of the greatest spectacles in Australian sport. One of the favourites, the super maxi Scallywag, had a nail-biting near-miss during a warm-up event when it somehow managed to avoid colliding with a small spectator ferry and another vessel. Disaster was only averted by the deft hands of the skipper David Witt, who guided the 30m craft through the tightly grouped obstacles to safety. \"The maritime boat, we thought, would have moved and didn't, and left us with little choice but to thread the needle,\" says Seng Huang Lee, a Malaysian-born businessman who is based in Hong Kong. \"Not many skippers in the world can do that and David's one of them and I'm glad to have him on the team.\" Earlier this year Mr Lee bought the yacht Ragamuffin, and renamed it Scallywag. There are a record-breaking five Asian boats in this year's line-up, and Mr Lee believes sailing is rapidly growing in popularity. \"I think it is definitely taking off,\" he says. \"It will take a bit of time but it is a very nascent sport. You can see the growing interest, especially out in China and South East Asia, and hopefully a team like Scallywag could create more interest and awareness in the sport.\" Last year Ark 323 became mainland China's first entry in this famous Australian competition that began in 1945.  Its race, however, was short-lived after it was forced to retire with damage to its hull. But the all-Chinese crew is back and determined to cross the finishing line in the Tasmanian state capital. \"This is the most famous ocean race in the world and when we set up this club we have been thinking about participating in this race,\" says Kevin Zhou, the chief executive of the Shanghai-based Noahs Sailing Club, who will be aboard Ark 323. Like the sea, this has been a year of highs and lows for Shane Phillips, from the Tribal Warrior Association that helps teach Indigenous people to sail. An Aboriginal crew had been practising onboard the yacht Kayle, which is owned by Sailors With Disabilities. It struck a large rock ledge in Sydney Harbour and could not be repaired in time for the starter's klaxon on 26 December. But Mr Phillips and his colleagues will be on another yacht heading to Hobart as part of a training exercise for next year's competition, and although not officially part of the main event, they have steeled themselves for what lies ahead. \"We're expecting the worst. We're thinking best to prepare ourselves for the worst-case scenario and be safety conscious,\" he says. \"There are going to be times when we're going to be out of our depth. We are probably the equivalent of the Jamaican bobsled team.\" No Aboriginal crew has ever competed in the dash to the Apple Isle. When the 91 boats leave Sydney they will face a journey into the unknown. Conditions down eastern Australia and across Bass Strait, which separates Tasmania from the mainland, can be brutal and unpredictable. In 1998, six sailors died when a wild storm battered the fleet. Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has predicted that \"fresh to strong north-easterly winds\" will give the yachts a flying start on Boxing Day, which could give the powerful super maxis every chance of beating the current race record of one day, 18 hours and 23 minutes.", "question": "Waves of adrenalin , bone - aching exhaustion and the ever - present @placeholder of calamity . These are the key ingredients to one of the world 's great ocean classics - the Sydney to Hobart yacht race , a 630 nautical mile ( 1 ,166 km ) dash down eastern Australia that starts on Boxing Day .", "option_0": "risk", "option_1": "millions", "option_2": "waves", "option_3": "proportion", "option_4": "generation"}
{"id": 462, "article": "The Northumbria Police officer has been found guilty of two charges of rape and three indecent assaults involving vulnerable women he met on duty. The 42-year-old, from Glasgow, was also convicted of six counts of misconduct in public office. He was cleared of nine counts of misconduct in public office, three of indecent assault and three of rape. The woman was involved in one of the misconduct in public office charges for which Mitchell was found guilty. She first came into contact with the officer in 2003 when a friend she was with was arrested for shoplifting. The woman was a drug addict and had non-prescribed diazepam which she said Mitchell had given back to her when she was released. They then exchanged numbers. She said he had rubbed her leg and tried to kiss her in an interview room at Newcastle's Pilgrim Street police station and asked if he could take her out before he drove her home. \"I was shocked at first. But at the time I didn't really think about anything like that because at the time I was an addict and I was just going along with anything just to get the tablets back,\" she said. \"And he also said he could get them for me off people who he took them off in the street and he would help us out giving us money and stuff.\" She said she had not had a sexual relationship with Mitchell but it had been difficult to keep him away. The woman met him about seven times, which she said she knew she should not have done but did so for the sake of getting drugs and money from him. The Pc's victim said he would call at night and ask her to go to a hotel with him, but she would only meet him during the day and started ignoring his calls. After a while he stopped giving her tablets. She said: \"I think it was disgusting. He totally abused his authority and took advantage of vulnerable people.\" But she said she had not reported what was happening. \"I just thought, who would believe someone who had a criminal record, someone who was on drugs over a police officer?\" When she was contacted by detectives investigating an officer she said she immediately knew who it was Speaking after the verdict, she said: \"I feel relieved and just glad and happy that he is going to get punished for what he has done. \"I am happy for all the officers involved for all the hard work they have put into the case. I wouldn't have really been able to do it if it wasn't for them.\" She said she was now settling into a new home, was hoping to start a family and had put drugs behind her.", "question": "One of the vulnerable women @placeholder by Pc Stephen Mitchell has told of her disgust at his sexual crimes .", "option_0": "inflicted", "option_1": "rescued", "option_2": "targeted", "option_3": "operated", "option_4": "raped"}
{"id": 463, "article": "The military-contracted civilian aircraft was ambushed after it went down in Faryab province, near the border with Turkmenistan, reports say. Moldova said three of its nationals were on board. One is reported dead. A spokesman for the US military mission in Afghanistan said they were not aware of any Americans on the aircraft. A Taliban spokesman said 15 hostages in total had been taken. \"If the army doesn't stop [its rescue attempts] we will execute them,\" Damullah Wakil told AFP news agency. Moldova's interior minister said two Moldovan pilots and a flight engineer were on the helicopter. One of them was killed along with two Afghan soldiers, reports say. There has been heavy fighting in Faryab province in recent months, including an attack on the capital, Maimana, in October. Elsewhere in Afghanistan on Tuesday, six civilians were killed in two explosions in the capital, Kabul, according an Interior Ministry spokesperson. A senior tax office official was also killed by Taliban militants in Ghazni province, said local officials.", "question": "At least 13 soldiers have been @placeholder by the Taliban after a helicopter crash landed in Afghanistan , killing three of those on board .", "option_0": "saved", "option_1": "caused", "option_2": "closed", "option_3": "captured", "option_4": "named"}
{"id": 464, "article": "The giant homage to the late communist leader was paid for by local businessmen, who spent nearly 3 million yuan ($460,000; ?¡ê313,000), reports say. Some villagers also contributed money to the project said The People's Daily. The giant sits in farmland in Tongxu county, Henan Province. The province was the centre of a famine in the 1950s resulting from Mao's policies. Millions of people died in the famine triggered by the campaign, known as the Great Leap Forward. Some have criticised the statue online, for the perceived waste and what they see as the statue's insensitive location. But many others have leapt to its defence. Despite being responsible for so many deaths, Mao Zedong is revered by many in China, not least by President Xi Jinping, who praises him as a \"great figure\". President Xi has also attempted to centralise power in China's presidency, and has used Mao's legacy to build support, while admitting the former leader made \"mistakes\".", "question": "A 37 m - high ( 120 ft ) gold - @placeholder statue of Chairman Mao has been built in China 's countryside .", "option_0": "featuring", "option_1": "sharing", "option_2": "painted", "option_3": "driven", "option_4": "bronze"}
{"id": 465, "article": "Too many over-65s end up in accident and emergency unnecessarily, says the NHS Confederation's Commission on Improving Urgent Care for Older People. The group said this was because of a lack of help when they fell ill. It called for radical steps, including providing urgent care at home and getting doctors to carry out \"ward rounds\" in care homes. The commission's report said older people were \"poorly served\" and \"all too often forced to go to A&E\". And once in hospital, they faced longer stays and losing some of their independence. The report said older people needed more help navigating the complexities of the health and care system. It pointed to an Age UK scheme in Cornwall, where the frailest people had co-ordinators helping organise their care. It also said GPs could identify and work with patients most at risk of hospital admission. The report also highlighted a scheme in north-east London, where hospital and ambulance staff were working together to provide emergency care in people's homes. Nurses and paramedics assess and treat older people who have fallen but not suffered a fracture. Equipment, such as walking frames, can be arranged. And from April to July last year, seven in 10 of the patients seen had stayed at home. Another project highlighted was in Hertfordshire, where GPs visited care home residents on a regular basis, with rapid response teams on call to attend to residents who needed urgent help. Source: Commission on Improving Urgent Care for Older People Dr Mark Newbold, who chairs the commission, said: \"Older people do need to access A&E at times, and the best hospitals tailor their service to meet their needs. \"But all too often, older people are forced to go to A&E because the alternative services that would help them be cared for at home are not available at the time they need them.\" A spokeswoman for the Department of Health in England said the government was fully supportive of the ideas put forward. She pointed out a pot of money known as the Better Care Fund - amounting to ?¡ê5.3bn this year - had been set aside to fund schemes largely focused on keeping people out of hospital. The vision of improving care for older people was \"being realised\", she added. Meanwhile, the Local Government Association has called for more to be done to tackle loneliness, now a \"major public health concern\". Councillor Izzi Seccombe said it was increasingly being reported as an issue among older people referred to councils for care. She said the solution lay in supporting befriending schemes and those that tackled social isolation, many of which were run by the voluntary sector. \"The impact of loneliness can be devastating,\" she added.", "question": "Older people in need of urgent help are being @placeholder by the NHS , a group of English and Welsh health leaders say .", "option_0": "questioned", "option_1": "criticised", "option_2": "sought", "option_3": "handled", "option_4": "failed"}
{"id": 466, "article": "In a statement, the Defence Ministry said the report lacked \"technical proof\" when it used IP addresses to link hacking to a military unit. The report identified a Shanghai high-rise used by the military as the likely home of a hackers to whom it attributed multiple attacks on US companies. The US says it has repeatedly raised concerns with China about cyber theft. The Chinese ministry statement, posted on its website, said that many hacking attacks were carried out using hijacked IP addresses. By Jonathan MarcusBBC Diplomatic Correspondent The scale of the Chinese hacking alleged by the computer security firm Mandiant is striking. Until now the bulk of this hacking has been a digital version of old-fashioned industrial espionage - stealing designs and company secrets. But there is a more sinister side to this activity as well. Chinese hackers are alleged to have a growing interest in gaining access to key parts of the US infrastructure - gas lines, power grids and waterworks. President Barack Obama himself warned during his recent State of the Union address that the nature of the cyber threat was changing. Gaining access to critical systems is the key. Once inside the digital perimeter - especially if the intrusion is not identified, there is the possibility of causing real physical damage to the infrastructure that the computers control. There was no clear definition of what constituted a hacking attack, it went on, and as it was a cross-border, deceptive business, it was hard to pin down where attacks originated. It suggested that the \"everyday gathering\" of online information was being wrongly characterised as spying. The detailed report, released on Tuesday by US-based computer security company Mandiant, looked at hundreds of data breaches, most of which it attributed to what it termed \"Advanced Persistent Threat\" actors. The details it had uncovered, it said, showed that these groups were based primarily in China and that the Beijing government was aware of them. The most prolific of these actors was APT1, Mandiant said, describing it as \"one of the most prolific cyber espionage groups in terms of the sheer quantity of information stolen\". The firm said it had traced the hacking activities of APT1 to a Shanghai building. Unit 61398 of the People's Liberation Army \"is also located in precisely the same area\" and the actors had similar \"missions, capabilities and resources\", it added. APT1, it said, was staffed by hundreds of proficient English speakers. It had hacked into 141 companies across 20 industries, stealing information including blueprints, business plans, pricing documents, user credentials, emails and contact lists. Spokesman Jay Carney said the White House was \"aware\" of the Mandiant report and its contents. While not commenting directly, he described cyber espionage as a \"very important challenge\". \"We have repeatedly raised our concerns at the highest levels about cyber-theft with senior Chinese officials including in the military and we will continue to do so,\" he said. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, meanwhile, said that the issue came up \"in virtually every meeting we have with Chinese officials\". \"We consider this kind of activity a threat not only to our national security but also to our economic interests and [we are] laying out our concerns specifically so that we can see if there's a path forward,\" she said. China has long been suspected of a role in cyber hacking. But the issue has become more high-profile in recent months following widely reported hacks into media outlets including the New York Times - in that case apparently linked to a report by the paper on the wealth of relatives of outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao. The Chinese Defence Ministry statement pointed out that China was also a victim of hacking attacks. A Global Times editorial accused the US and its major allies of hyping up a China hacking \"threat\". \"China should refute the allegations of US company Mandiant with authoritative reports from its technology sector,\" it said. \"As a long-term counter-measure, China needs to encourage those institutions and individuals who have been subject to cyber-attacks from US IP addresses to stand up and tell the world what happened to them.\"", "question": "China 's military says a report linking it to prolific hacking of US targets is @placeholder .", "option_0": "resolved", "option_1": "flawed", "option_2": "restored", "option_3": "uncovered", "option_4": "continuing"}
{"id": 467, "article": "\"Traitor\". \"Too much make-up\". \"Dressed as a woman but a hawkish man\". These are some of the comments that have been flung in what has become one of the most negative campaigns of recent years in Japan. Twenty-one people will be running for Tokyo's top job in Sunday's election and former defence and environment minister Yuriko Koike is currently considered to be in the lead. She would become Tokyo's first female governor if elected. But unusually, Ms Koike's party - the ruling Liberal Democrat Party (LDP) - has chosen not to back her, in favour of Hiroya Masuda, a former governor of the Iwate prefecture between 1995 and 2007, who isn't a party member. The influential local LDP leadership, which is furious with Ms Koike's decision to announce her candidacy without consulting it, has even warned members they risk being ousted if they endorse anyone but Mr Masuda. Ms Koike's lead in the polls has annoyed LDP grandees, with former Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, the father of the local LDP federation chairman, telling voters: \"We cannot leave Tokyo to a woman with too much make-up.\" Her supporters were disgusted by what they called a sexist remark, but after decades in Japan's male-dominated political theatre, Ms Koike laughed it off: \"I am used to it.\" Harsh comments have also come from other female politicians, however, with former Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima saying that she wouldn't support Ms Koike simply because she was a woman. \"It's meaningless when she is dressed as a woman but inside is a hawkish man,\" she said. This comment drew criticism - it was seen to be insensitive as Ms Koike had her ovaries removed in 1998 because of fibroids. For journalist Shuntaro Torigoe - running as the joint candidate for several opposition parties - it has not been his gender but his age and health that have been publicly scrutinised. He is 76 and a cancer survivor. While also among the front-runners, his critics say his scrawled handwriting and at times rambling and contradictory speeches are proof he is too old and frail to lead. Some, including doctors, have even asked if he might have dementia. Mr Torigoe has said he is fit to govern and is simply being discriminated against because of his successful battle against the disease. He also faced one of the strongest insults possible in Japan, when Mr Ishihara called him a traitor to the country. This was because Mr Torigoe previously questioned whether it would be worth protecting the uninhabited Senkaku islands - also claimed by China, which calls them the Diaoyu - if they were attacked. Mr Ishihara, who had initiated the national purchase of the islands while governor in 2012, was infuriated by the suggestion. What appears to be affecting Mr Torigoe's popularity most, however, is an accusation that he made an inappropriate approach to women. Mr Torigoe is suing two tabloid magazines for libel, but his decision not to hold a press conference about the accusation, as well as his last-minute cancellation to appear on a debate programme, has led to criticism that he is contradicting his lifelong pursuit of a free press. As they go to the polls on Sunday, one of the main concerns in the minds of Tokyoites is the ballooning budget for the 2020 Olympics, which have been hit by other problems including allegations of corruption and plagiarism of original logo designs. Another major issue which the candidates are urged to seriously tackle is the lack of childcare, which would allow mothers to go back to work. But above all, transparency is crucial in many voters' minds after two past governors, Naoki Inose and Yoichi Masuzoe, resigned over money scandals. Whoever gets elected on Sunday will serve a four-year term and could be re-elected - but it is unclear if the next election will take place before, during or after the city's second Olympic Games in 2020. What voters want is stability and to avoid a revolving door at City Hall.", "question": "Tokyo is preparing to vote for its next governor , one of the biggest jobs in Japan , which this term comes with the @placeholder pressure of overseeing the 2020 Olympics preparations . But as Mariko Oi reports , the election campaign has been marred by insult - slinging and allegations of sexism .", "option_0": "increasing", "option_1": "neighbouring", "option_2": "prolonged", "option_3": "added", "option_4": "pioneering"}
{"id": 468, "article": "Miriam Rodr¨ªguez Mart¨ªnez was shot in her home in the town of San Fernando in Tamaulipas state. She was known for successfully investigating the kidnap and murder of her daughter by a local drug cartel, the Zetas. The information she gave the police ensured the gang members were jailed. But in March one of them escaped and her colleagues said she started to receive threats. She was killed on Mexico's mother's day, 10 May. Her colleagues said she had asked for police protection but was ignored. State prosecutor Irving Barrios told a news conference that security needs had been met and police officers made rounds three times a day. Her family disputes this. The Mexican human rights commission issued a statement saying it deplored her murder and called for a full investigation. Mrs Rodr¨ªguez founded the local group for families who were victims of violence after her daughter, Karen Alejandra, was kidnapped in 2012. She had managed to find her daughter's body in a clandestine grave and put her murderers in jail. She also foiled an attempted kidnapping by the Zetas of her husband, when she chased the gang in her car, at the same time notifying the army who then managed to arrest them. According to one of her fellow campaigners, Mrs Rodr¨ªguez felt she could not sit back after her daughter's killers were caught. \"She told us that she was incomplete, that although she had found her daughter, nothing would ever return to normal for her,\" Graciela P¨¦rez told the BBC. Ms P¨¦rez, who also has a missing daughter, described the murdered activist as someone \"with a very strong, caring and cheerful character\". The group she established was part of a wider trend which mushroomed after the October 2014 disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa in the southwestern state of Guerrero. Frustrated by a lack of government help, groups of families began their own searches for people who had disappeared in their areas, taking courses in forensic anthropology, archaeology, law, buying caving equipment and becoming experts in identifying graves and bones. There are now at least 13 of these groups across the country. The administration of former President Felipe Calder¨®n (2006-2012) militarised the Mexican security forces to fight the drug cartels. In 10 years, the so-called war on drugs he launched left tens of thousands of murder victims with numbers varying widely between civic institutions and government figures. The  International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) issued its annual survey of armed conflict on Tuesday, saying that 23,000 people had died in Mexico in armed conflict in 2016 The Mexican government has questioned these figures.", "question": "A Mexican businesswoman who @placeholder a group of 600 families searching for their disappeared relatives has been killed .", "option_0": "signed", "option_1": "headed", "option_2": "rocked", "option_3": "suffered", "option_4": "held"}
{"id": 469, "article": "The Audit Commission report said 31 trusts posted a deficit - more than one in 10 of the hospital, mental health and community trusts in the NHS. The figure is up from 13 the year before. However, overall the health service posted a ?¡ê2bn surplus - about 2% of its budget. The development comes amid an unprecedented savings drive. The health service has been told to save ?¡ê20bn by 2015 - the equivalent of 4% a year. This has never been done before in the history of the health service. Prof John Appleby, chief economist at the King's Fund, said: \"It seems like the squeeze is tipping trusts over into deficit. The chances are this will get worse in the coming years.\" The Audit Commission report revealed \"stark differences\" in health finances around the country with the majority of the deficits focused in London and the south-east. The trust with the highest deficit was South London Healthcare, which posted a ?¡ê65.1m deficit. It has been put into administration because of its long-standing problems. Andy McKeon, of the Audit Commission, said: \"While nationally the NHS appears to be managing well financially and preparing itself for the changes and challenges ahead, a number of PCTs and trusts are facing severe financial problems. \"The Department of Health and other relevant national authorities need to focus their attention on the minority of organisations whose financial position is deteriorating.\" A Department of Health spokesman acknowledged there were pressures in the health service, but said services were still being maintained. \"The NHS is delivering great results for patients. Waiting times have been kept low, infections have been reduced, there are more doctors, more diagnostic tests and more planned operations.\"", "question": "The number of NHS trusts in debt in England has more than doubled in a year - although overall the health service @placeholder 2011 - 12 in surplus .", "option_0": "following", "option_1": "stalled", "option_2": "finished", "option_3": "spends", "option_4": "neighbouring"}
{"id": 470, "article": "The Guardian alleges a payment of about ¡ê1m was paid into the account during the race to host the 2020 Games. In March, French prosecutors investigating corruption in athletics widened their scope to include the bidding and voting processes for the hosting of the 2016 and 2020 Olympics. The British newspaper says French police are believed to be studying the allegation. In a statement, the IOC said it had been \"in contact with the French magistrates in charge of the investigation on the IAAF [athletics' world governing body] case, and with Wada [World Anti-Doping Agency], since its start\". It added: \"The IOC's chief ethics and compliance officer will continue to be in contact with all interested parties to clarify any alleged improper conduct. The IOC will not comment any further on the elements of the investigations at this stage.\" The Tokyo bid first came under scrutiny in January when the second part of a Wada commission report into corruption included a footnote detailing a conversation between another of Lamine Diack's sons, Khalil, and Turkish officials heading up the Istanbul bid team. A transcript of the conversation cited in the report suggested a \"sponsorship\" payment of between $4m and $5m (¡ê2.8m and ¡ê3.4m) had been made by the Japanese bid team \"either to the Diamond League or IAAF\". The footnote claims the Istanbul bid \"lost Lamine Diack's support because they did not pay\". Wada's independent commission said it did not investigate the claims \"for it was not within our remit\". A Tokyo 2020 spokeswoman described the note in Wada's report as \"beyond our understanding\", adding that \"Tokyo's bid was about Japan's commitment to address issues around the integrity of sport\". Lamine Diack, the former president of the IAAF, is already being investigated by French authorities. He was arrested last year on corruption and money laundering charges, over allegations he took payments for deferring sanctions against Russian drugs cheats. His son Papa Massata, who was employed by his father as a marketing consultant for the IAAF, is also under investigation, and a warrant for his arrest has been issued by Interpol. Diack Jr has been banned for life by the IAAF but told the BBC in December he and his father were innocent of the claims against them. The IOC overhauled its rules - and regained trust in the integrity of its bidding process - since the 1999 Salt Lake City bribery scandal exposed systematic corruption. In February, Wada commission chief Dick Pound said he was \"fairly certain\" the IOC was free of organised corruption, but just a month later the French prosecutors opened their investigation into the bidding processes for 2016 and 2020.", "question": "The International Olympic Committee has @placeholder to comment on claims that the successful Tokyo Olympic bid team made a \" seven - figure payment \" to an account linked to the son of former world athletics chief Lamine Diack .", "option_0": "agreed", "option_1": "continued", "option_2": "refused", "option_3": "returned", "option_4": "invited"}
{"id": 471, "article": "At the moment, they pay 90% of the amount due if the home was occupied. However, Scottish Borders Council is now considering using powers which would allow them to charge twice the standard level. It has been estimated it could generate an extra ?¡ê900,000 although that figure might fall as homes are occupied. The levy would not apply to homes which are unoccupied because they are being renovated unless they then lie empty for two years or more. New build properties would also be exempt from the measure if they are being genuinely marketed for sale or let at a realistic price. The charge would also not be applied to holiday properties. A report to councillors has recommended that the new measure be brought in from 1 April. It stressed that the driving force behind the measure was not to raise money but to encourage owners of long-term empty dwellings to bring them back into use.", "question": "Owners of homes in the Borders which have lain empty for a long @placeholder could see their council tax charges more than doubled .", "option_0": "period", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "serving", "option_3": "deal", "option_4": "distances"}
{"id": 472, "article": "He and another male combatant were targeted as they rode in a vehicle in a remote area of Pakistan close to the Afghan border, the officials said. The Pentagon has confirmed it targeted Mansour in strikes but said they were still assessing the results. Mansour assumed the leadership in July 2015, replacing Taliban founder and spiritual head Mullah Mohammad Omar. The operation took place near the town of Ahmad Wal at around 15:00 (10:00 GMT) on Saturday and was authorised by President Barack Obama. Both Pakistan and Afghanistan were informed about the strike shortly after it took place, the White House said. \"We are still assessing the results of the strike and will provide more information as it becomes available,\" said Pentagon spokesperson Peter Cook. An unnamed Taliban commander told the Reuters news agency: \"We heard about these baseless reports but this not first time. Just wanted to share with you my own information that Mullah Mansour has not been killed.\" The death of Mullah Akhtar Mansour, if confirmed, would be a big blow for the Taliban. He was gradually tightening his grip on the movement by bringing into his fold other leading Taliban members, including a son and a brother of his predecessor Mullah Mohammed Omar, and by launching large scale attacks on Afghan security forces. Under his leadership, the Taliban managed to capture an important city last year for the first time in 15 years. Mansour also managed to silence the splinter Taliban group under Mullah Muhammad Rasool, which challenged his leadership, and is credited by his followers for containing so-called Islamic State in Taliban areas. A vacuum created by his death would once again trigger a leadership struggle. False rumours have often surrounded Taliban leaders. Omar died in 2013 but this was only confirmed by the Taliban two years later, while Mansour was reported to have been killed in a gun battle last year, something dismissed by the Afghan government. Mansour's appointment as Taliban chief was disputed, with a rival group selecting their own leader. The Pentagon's statement said Mansour was actively involved with planning attacks \"presenting a threat to Afghan civilians and security forces, our personnel, and Coalition partners\". The Taliban have made gains since international troops withdrew from an active fighting role in 2014. Nato forces are increasingly being deployed in battle zones to support Afghan forces fighting the Taliban. Profile: Mullah Akhtar Mansour", "question": "Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has probably been killed in a US @placeholder strike , US officials say .", "option_0": "constituency", "option_1": "home", "option_2": "state", "option_3": "heart", "option_4": "air"}
{"id": 473, "article": "The service is expected to be introduced by the end of this year. Barra Youth Council had been campaigning for wi-fi on the ferries and has been running a petition on the Scottish Parliament's website. Western Isles SNP MSP Alasdair Allan and MP Angus MacNeil have welcomed CalMac's decision. The youth council's petition asks MSPs to urge the Scottish government to ensure wi-fi is available on the Caledonian MacBrayne ferries. The petition was due to close at 16:00. Outer Hebrides Community Planning Partnership had backed the call. Partnership chairman Angus Campbell said it was good to see young islanders getting involved in the democratic process.", "question": "Ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne will make wi - fi available on all its sailings between the Western Isles and the @placeholder , it has been announced .", "option_0": "bahamas", "option_1": "caribbean", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "future", "option_4": "mainland"}
{"id": 474, "article": "Gemili, 23, finished fourth in the 200m at Rio 2016, just three thousandths of a second away from a bronze medal. However Jamaica-based duo Zharnel Hughes and Miguel Francis are among fierce competition for the two spots on offer at July's British team trials. \"Making that team - you'll know you are among the world's best,\" said Gemili. \"It is going to be really difficult. The depth is great and everyone is going to have to be in good shape for the trials because nothing is given.\" Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, the second-fastest Briton of all time over 200m after a run of 19.95 seconds in May 2016, Olympic semi-finalist Danny Talbot and promising 21-year-old Reece Prescod are some of the other contenders for a place in the British team. Media playback is not supported on this device Francis had previously run for Antigua and Barbuda, but opted to switch to Britain in April. The 22-year-old is eligible for Britain as he was born in Montserrat, an Overseas Territory without its own Olympic team. \"For me it was slightly strange,\" said Gemili of Francis' decision. \"I don't really know his personal reasons for changing, but if anything it is more difficult to make the team in Britain than it is in Antigua. \"It is cool. It makes it more competitive. I'm excited to meet him and get to know him. He will be a great addition to the British sprinters.\" Gemili switched from coach Steve Fudge to the Netherlands-based training group led by American Rana Reider after last year's Olympics. The rivalry between the two training camps became unfriendly in 2014, with reports of physical and verbal confrontations, but Gemili insists Britain's top sprinters get on better now. \"Everyone is close and gets on and when someone runs fast, you are genuinely happy that people are being successful. It make you raise your own performance and run even faster,\" he added. As well as competition from his compatriots, Gemili hopes the power of his own mind will help him find the fractions of the second necessary to win his first major championships medal at senior level. The morning after finishing fourth in Rio, Gemili spoke to psychiatrist Dr Steve Peters, who is famed for his work with the likes of Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins and snooker great Ronnie O'Sullivan. Gemili recalled: \"He really hit me with it. \"'I don't know what you were expecting,' he said. 'There is no guarantee of a medal. It is OK to be disappointed, but if you don't want to feel like this, go and do something else. This is what sport is like.'\" Gemili concludes: \"I know that next time it comes around I don't want to be that close again.\"", "question": "Adam Gemili says Britain 's sprint @placeholder means just getting in the team would make him a strong medal contender at August 's World Championships .", "option_0": "dominance", "option_1": "skills", "option_2": "strength", "option_3": "record", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 475, "article": "A new board, backed by ¡ê15m lottery-winning supporter Paul Bristow, took control of the club in the summer of 2007, with a new manager and a new squad. The Gulls had endured a chaotic final League season, with five men occupying the dugout from the January 2006 until their eventual demise in May 2007. But promotion followed two years later and, despite Bristow  his wife Thea took on the legacy. However, after an appearance in the  and  12 months later, it seemed history was beginning to repeat itself. In January 2013 then-manager  which was later The Gulls brought in the experienced Alan Knill to  after weeks of uncertainty had seen Torquay go from mid-table security to relegation fodder. Knill kept the club up, and days after the final game was  after Thea Bristow, who had become chairman earlier in the season, sacked Ling for a This season Knill oversaw just five wins in his 25 league games in charge before  and While Bristow is still chairman, there is  as there was when her family's numbers first came up. So where did it all go wrong? The manager who led the Gulls back the Football League, Paul Buckle, former defender Guy Branston, whose last Torquay game was the 2011 League Two play-off final, and life-long supporter Steve Breed give BBC Sport their theories: This season Torquay have had 14 different players join on loan, while three free agents arrived well after the season had begun. \"The people you bring to the club are important and they have to know what entails playing for Torquay,\" said Buckle. Media playback is not supported on this device \"I used to say that if I got the right vibe, that they were really on board with this, then I'd go with it, if not I'm not interested. \"I wouldn't allow anyone to come to the club unless I was really sure they were right.\" And Branston believes there are not enough players in the current side with the correct mentality. \"It's important that the lads have got to be here for the right reasons,\" he said. \"I know a lot of Alan Knill's lads were brought in on good contracts and he brought in a lot of loan players, but I think for a club like Torquay, you've got to make sure you've got the right players. Signing them from the pre-season onwards is big for a club like Torquay. \"Plus you've got to be looking to produce your own players that have the right mentality for what the club stands for and what it's all about. \"It's having that togetherness as a group, and if you're constantly bringing in loan players it disrupts that core.\" \"I didn't think it was significant at the time,\" said Breed. \"But in hindsight it clearly was, because we were doing OK up until when Martin went off sick. \"With Alan Knill coming in at the back end of that season, he said he saved us, and ultimately he picked the team that kept us in the League, but only in that last game. \"I think it was a major problem when Martin went off and maybe not a lot of thought had gone into moving Martin and bringing in Knill at the time. \"Martin's said he'd have liked to have come back and perhaps that wouldn't have been a bad idea in hindsight.\" But Branston, who left Torquay in the summer that Ling took over, says the managerial change was justified: \"Unfortunately for Ling he lost his job because the team wasn't winning football matches. \"Yes his illness took over and we now know more about it, but they were still losing football matches. \"The players shouldn't be affected by what's going on off the pitch, they should deal with it and carry on that mentality that Martin Ling had carried over from Paul Buckle.\" Torquay's top scorer is winger Jordan Chappell with five goals, the last of which was scored on 26 October. Joint-second are centre-backs Aaron Downes and Krystian Pearce, with four apiece. The club has used 13 different recognised strikers, either on loan or as permanent signings, with the best return being just three goals. \"I think people will quickly say Torquay's biggest problem was not scoring enough goals, but I think you have to look deeper,\" said Branston. \"You have to look at the mentality of the players that have been brought in, the ethos of the club. \"The team have had a lot of 1-0 defeats, which shows to me that you can't score goals and you can't see out games. \"The mentality of a player has to be that if the forwards aren't doing it, then the defenders should be doing it.\" But Breed disagrees and says Knill's decision to sign players like Karl Hawley and loanee Callum Ball just before the start of the season had a big effect. \"Our recruitment last summer was poor under Alan Knill, he recruited players on two-year contracts that have done nothing for us. \"Hawley and Ball came in a couple of days before the first league game and straight away started the opening game against Wimbledon and just didn't do it for us. \"The situation was allowed to continue until we got a forward in like John Marquis, who did OK for us. \"But Elliot Benyon simply hasn't scored enough goals and they have had the chances, they have had the supply line.\" \"It is difficult, but it'll be made easier that Luton are out of it now,\" says Buckle, who as well as guiding Torquay to promotion from the Conference, also managed Luton last season. \"You don't want too many clubs in there on big money who are trying to buy their way out, so to speak. \"But I don't think it's as strong as it has been and I'm hopeful that they can recreate what we did and get back. \"Torquay are a Football League club, we've proved that, but we've got to get the right people in. Chris Hargreaves knows that.\" Branston feels it is important that the club can get rid of the players who do not want to be at the club, and bring in experienced winners. \"You have to change quickly. As soon as the pre-season starts you wipe the slate clean, you get out the core element of the problem, whatever that may be. \"You bring people in who've won the Conference and played in the Conference who have the right mentality to take clubs forward and you breed players off that. \"You produce you own players who have got the ethos of Torquay United in their veins from when they're 15, 16 or 17 years-old. Where are those players? Why haven't we seen those players for three or four years?\" But Breed is not so sure: \"When we went down last time, that summer we recruited Paul Buckle, we had a new manager, we had almost a complete new team and we had a new board of directors. \"There was a real feel-good factor, we played Grays Athletic in our first home game and there were 4,500 people here and everything seemed really new. \"Now we're going down again and the manager we've got here I feel is struggling very badly, there's no new board of directors and finances are an issue. \"You lose a lot of money coming down. \"I'll be very surprised if Torquay ever become a League club again. I hope I'm wrong and I don't wish to be defeatist, but unless an investor comes in and buys the club or invests heavily, Torquay are going to be a Conference and below side from now on.\"", "question": "When Torquay won the Conference Premier play - off final in 2009 , few at Plainmoor thought they would @placeholder back out of the Football League just five years later .", "option_0": "be", "option_1": "lose", "option_2": "sink", "option_3": "hold", "option_4": "head"}
{"id": 476, "article": "On Tuesday evening a window was smashed when a piece of concrete was thrown at their house. Police are treating the attack as a hate crime. The family have been living in Moneymore for two years and say they have been the targets of 13 separate incidents of harassment. The Polish couple, who do not speak much English, have five children aged from 12 years to five months. Their 12-year-old daughter who has grown up in Northern Ireland spoke for the family. \"People have been damaging our car and last night someone damaged our window,\" she said. \"We want to be moved, we are very scared for the younger children. \"The police can't really do anything because they don't know who is doing it. \"We don't want to leave Northern Ireland though, we are happy here.\" SDLP councillor Christine McFlynn said the attacks on the family had been happening since June. \"It is completely unacceptable that a family should be putting up with this. \"Last night a stone was thrown through the window of the house where there were two adults and two very small children. \"The family are very frightened. I totally condemn what has happened.\"", "question": "A Polish couple and their five children living in County Londonderry say they are being harassed out of their home because of their @placeholder .", "option_0": "nationality", "option_1": "abuse", "option_2": "religion", "option_3": "condition", "option_4": "activities"}
{"id": 477, "article": "Archibald's side were outplayed in the opening 45 minutes of their visit to Celtic Park last month before earning a 1-1 draw. \"In the first half, they nearly blew us away, we couldn't touch them,\" Archibald said. \"We touched on that with the lads. We can't afford to start that way.\" Celtic scored three goals in the opening 11 minutes at Pittodrie last Friday night as Brendan Rodgers' side continued their quest to end the domestic season unbeaten. The Premiership champions have won two of the sides' three meetings this season and they have dropped only six points in their last nine Premiership games. They have also won all of their post-split matches. \"You saw the way they blew Aberdeen away in the first 15 minutes on Friday night,\" Archibald said. \"They are sometimes better away from home, they are a bit more dynamic and go for the jugular, so we need to make sure we start well and are well in the game. \"We know now that we have got a point from them and we can hopefully exploit some of their negatives. There are not many, but hopefully we can do that. \"We did well to get a point that night. You need to tick every box, you need eight or nine guys playing at the top end of their game, your goalkeeper to produce good saves and take your chances and we did that.\" Thistle have yet to win a game since the split, losing to Rangers and St Johnstone and drawing 2-2 with Hearts at Tynecastle. Archibald, who was linked with the managerial vacancy at Swindon Town, is still targeting a win for his side from their top-six finish. \"It would be a massive three points,\" Archibald said. \"We just want to sign off with three points in one or two of our last games. \"We have got in the top six and not won a game and that has been hugely frustrating, so it is more about our pride.\" Thistle would capture the headlines should they end the champions' season-long domestic unbeaten run. \"We are not really interested in stopping Celtic in terms of that,\" added Archbald. \"It is more about three points and give our fans something to cheer about for the end of the season.\"", "question": "Partick Thistle manager Alan Archibald has urged his players to be wary of Celtic 's threat from the opening @placeholder at Firhill .", "option_0": "conditions", "option_1": "whistle", "option_2": "race", "option_3": "goal", "option_4": "stand"}
{"id": 478, "article": "Fredrik Sejersted said the government should still be prepared for Breivik, who gave a Nazi salute on entering the courtroom, to do the unthinkable. The state is appealing against a ruling that some of Breivik's treatment in prison amounted to \"inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment\". Breivik killed 77 people in July 2011. He murdered 69 people at a summer camp for young centre-left political activists on the island of Utoeya after, earlier in the day, setting off a car bomb in the capital Oslo, killing eight people. The 37-year-old has been kept in solitary confinement since he was sentenced, in 2012, to 21 years in prison - but he has argued that being kept away from other prisoners for 22-23 hours a day breaches his human rights. Breivik's lawyer Oystein Storrvik has said the killer is \"mentally vulnerable\" because of his prison conditions. In April 2016, a Norwegian court upheld part of his claim, although it dismissed his argument that his right to respect for private and family life was violated by restrictions on contact with other right-wing extremists. On Tuesday, the Norwegian government - which was also ordered to pay Breivik's legal costs of 330,000 kroner ($38,500; ?¡ê31,600) - began the process of appealing against the court's ruling. The government argued that his three-cell complex, where he can play video games, watch TV and exercise, is better than the conditions of most other prisoners to compensate for being kept in solitary confinement. \"The core of the state's view is very simple, there are no human rights violations,\" said Mr Sejersted, the prosecutor, said. He told the court that Breivik \"has not broken down, he has not expressed remorse, he is proud of what he has done. \"If anything, according to documentation, he is even more convinced in his extreme far-right beliefs.\" \"It's very difficult to know how dangerous Breivik is today and it's even more difficult to know how dangerous he will be tomorrow, or in a year, or in 10 years,\" Mr Sejersted also told the court. \"But what is absolutely certain is that in the years leading up to July 22, 2011, he was the most dangerous man in Norway.\" To prove his point, Mr Sejersted added that his mother had noticed nothing different about him in the days leading up to the murders. The hearing is set to last six days, and Breivik has agreed not to perform a Nazi salute again after Judge Oystein Hermansen described the gesture as \"offensive to the dignity of the court\" and \"disturbing\". This is not the first time the mass killer has performed the salute in court. He is scheduled to address the court on Thursday, with a verdict due in February.", "question": "Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is more radical than ever , prosecutors warned as the right - wing extremist @placeholder in court .", "option_0": "judge", "option_1": "appeared", "option_2": "held", "option_3": "resumed", "option_4": "lies"}
{"id": 479, "article": "Ivan da Silva Martins played a small part as a gang member in the film. He is now 34 and is thought to control drug trafficking in the Vidigal favela. The film was released in Brazil in 2002, exposing to the rest of the world the bitter reality of crime, violence and poverty in Rio's favelas. Mr Martins was one of many boys and teenagers recruited from the city's poorest quarters to work as actors in the film. He is now believed to be feared by the Vidigal community where police says he is known as Ivan the Terrible. City of God director Fernando Meirelles said he had gradually lost contact with all the young actors, but told O Globo newspaper that he was \"saddened by the news\". The film begins in the early 1960s and follows the life of a young boy who becomes a drug lord in Cidade de Deus (City of God), a favela in the outskirts of Rio. It became a surprise blockbuster and received four Oscar nominations. Fifteen years later, violence is again on the rise in Brazil, particularly in Rio de Janeiro. The policeman shot dead on Sunday, Sgt Hudson Araujo, was the 91st officer killed this year in the state of Rio. Brazil is now going through the worst recession in its history. The finances of many states, including Rio, have collapsed and there is no prospect of a solution for Brazil's serious political crisis. The families of police officers say their loved ones are paying a heavy price for trying to fight crime without the resources and equipment required.", "question": "Police in Brazil say one of the child actors from the @placeholder film City of God is a suspect in Sunday 's killing of an officer in one of Rio de Janeiro 's shantytowns , or favelas .", "option_0": "bends", "option_1": "ground", "option_2": "serving", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "acclaimed"}
{"id": 480, "article": "In a statement, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons (OPCW) said the declaration was submitted three days ahead of schedule. OPCW inspectors are also due to complete visiting the last four of 23 weapons sites declared by Syria. The OPCW's mission was set up following outrage at a chemical weapons attack near the Syrian capital in August. Sixty inspectors have been in Syria since 1 October. The OPCW, which is based in The Hague, said on Friday that its  team in Syria had visited 19 of the 23 sites disclosed by Syria. Chemical stockpile How to destroy chemical arsenal Q&A: Disarmament deal 21 August attack: What we know Under the UN resolution which set up the mission, Syria's chemical weapons production equipment must be destroyed by 1 November and stockpiles must be disposed of by mid-2014. The organisation's work in Syria marks the first time the international chemical weapons watchdog - which won this year's Nobel Peace Prize - has been asked to oversee the destruction of a weapons armoury during a conflict. More than 100,000 people have been killed in the fighting that has ravaged Syria for two-and-a-half years, according to the UN. More than two million people have fled Syria and some 4.5 million have been forced from their homes within the country. Casualty figures vary for the chemical weapons attack on the Ghouta agricultural belt around Syria's capital, Damascus, on 21 August. It was estimated to have killed hundreds of people. The United States and other Western powers blamed the attack on President Bashar al-Assad's forces. But Mr Assad accuses Syrian rebels of being behind it.", "question": "Syria has handed in a plan for the destruction of its chemical weapons to the watchdog monitoring the @placeholder .", "option_0": "world", "option_1": "country", "option_2": "process", "option_3": "ground", "option_4": "region"}
{"id": 481, "article": "Addressing Labour activists in Fife, he said poverty levels were set to eclipse those last seen in the early 1990s. He acknowledged the challenge facing Labour but said \"no Tory prime minister should ever be given a free hand\". Mrs May has urged lifelong Labour voters who feel \"deserted\" by Jeremy Corbyn to put their trust in her. In his biggest intervention to date in the election campaign, Mr Brown attacked the record of the Conservatives and the SNP in power and said a Labour government was needed more than ever. Earlier on Saturday, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson warned of a \"Margaret Thatcher-style landslide\" for the Conservatives if his party fails to turn around current poll numbers. Labour had a \"mountain to climb\" to catch up with the Tories before 8 June's vote, he conceded in an interview with the Guardian. Mr Corbyn said both he and Mr Watson were \"working flat out to get Labour elected\" on 8 June. Asked whether senior party figures were already admitting defeat, he replied: \"Not at all.\" He added: \"I am out round the whole country, the party is out round the country putting out the message we are for the many, not the few.\" Mr Brown - campaigning in his former constituency, which Labour lost to the SNP in 2015 - defended the legacy of the Labour governments of which he was a key figure and suggested they were under threat from the government's squeeze on welfare spending allied to the rising cost of living. Citing figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Joseph Rowntree Trust, he claimed the number of people deemed to be living in poverty had risen last year to levels last seen in the early 1990s and that the numbers were set to rise sharply by 2022. \"Mrs May says she wants to unite the country but she will create a country that is more divided economically and more socially polarised than at any time in the last 50 years,\" he said. \"We have got to get MPs to Parliament to fight a war against poverty and stop this war against the poor.\" The prime minister, he suggested, wanted to turn the election into a \"one-issue\" campaign on Brexit and marginalise important subjects such as the future of the NHS, education and levels of inequality. \"She wants you to strengthen her hand with Europe but won't tell you what that hand is. What she wants is a free hand. \"She wants carte blanche to do whatever you want. No prime minister should ever be given a blank cheque. No Conservative prime minister should ever be given a free hand.\" In his interview, Mr Watson asked for voters to consider that \"a lot of local MPs are running on a good track record\" when people head to the polling stations next month. Speaking on a tour of marginal seats in Wales, Mr Watson said Labour had \"terrifically exciting\" proposals in its manifesto - a draft of which was leaked earlier this week - but he was concerned about how far behind Labour were. \"If we get to 8 June and [Theresa May] still commands the lead in the polls that she had at the start of the election, she will command a Margaret Thatcher-style majority,\" said Mr Watson, referring to the Tories' 144- and 101-seat victories in 1983 and 1987 respectively. Appealing for voters' backing, he added: \"A Conservative government with a 100 majority... it will be very hard for them to be held to account in the House of Commons. \"It means there won't be the usual checks and balances of democracy. All those things go out of the window.\" On Friday, Mrs May travelled to Tyne and Wear to appeal to an area that traditionally voted Labour. \"Proud and patriotic working-class people in towns and cities across Britain have not deserted the Labour Party - Jeremy Corbyn has deserted them,\" she said. \"We respect that parents and grandparents taught their children and grandchildren that Labour was a party that shared their values and stood up for their community. \"But across the country today, traditional Labour supporters are increasingly looking at what Jeremy Corbyn believes in and are appalled.\"", "question": "Theresa May is \" waging a war against the poor \" and @placeholder leaving the country more divided than at any time in 50 years , former PM Gordon Brown has said .", "option_0": "risks", "option_1": "blowing", "option_2": "are", "option_3": "culture", "option_4": "thus"}
{"id": 482, "article": "Sudip Sarker worked as a consultant colorectal surgeon at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. A police inquiry into Mr Sarker's actions began in 2013 after concerns were raised about the number of patients who died while under his care. He was excluded from working at Worcestershire Royal Hospital and Redditch's Alexandra Hospital in 2012. At the same hearing, conditions were placed on his registration by the General Medical Council. Worcestershire Acute Hospital NHS Trust's acting chief executive Chris Tidman said: \"I do hope that the dismissal provides assurance that the trust will take whatever action is necessary so as to protect patient safety. \"In the meantime, Mr Sarker continues to be investigated by both the police and the General Medical Council.\" A telephone helpline and dedicated email address were established in 2013 for people to discuss any concerns.", "question": "A cancer surgeon investigated over the deaths of a number of his patients has been @placeholder .", "option_0": "claimed", "option_1": "reported", "option_2": "held", "option_3": "sacked", "option_4": "implicated"}
{"id": 483, "article": "A minute's silence was held before the home game in the Championship against Ipswich Town. A special programme filled with people's memories has been sold. The tragedy at the FA Cup sixth round was the worst loss of life at an English football ground before the 1980s. On Wednesday, the anniversary date, a pitch-side service will take place at 15:00 GMT with a special book of remembrance dedicated listing the dead and placed on display in the Macron Stadium's reception. Flags will be flying at half-mast all week. On Saturday, when the team play Preston North End at home, players will wear a special third shirt emblazoned with 33 names of the dead. Money raised from the sale of 1,000 of these replica shirts will be presented to a young person's charity. Some estimates claim 85,000 people were at the match between Bolton Wanderers and Stoke City in a  ground which should have held at least 20,000 fewer fans. Bolton played their last game in 1997 at Burnden Park, which was demolished in 1999. A memorial was unveiled by the late Nat Lofthouse  in 2000 at the Asda store built on the site.", "question": "Bolton Wanderers players and fans have paid tribute to 33 people who @placeholder at the club 's former Burnden Park stadium 70 years ago .", "option_0": "worked", "option_1": "lived", "option_2": "stranded", "option_3": "stay", "option_4": "perished"}
{"id": 484, "article": "Global Wireless Solutions polled 2,000 mobile-phone users and found 40% had blackspots at home, with most problems reported in Liverpool and Cardiff. However telecoms analyst Matthew Howett says the situation is going to improve. He told the BBC: \"This should get better as operators are using different frequencies to provide coverage.\" He added: \"I don't think the results of the survey are hugely surprising as it is the sort of common problem most of us have experience of - whether at home or increasingly in the office. \"But EE and Three offer something which lets you use your own existing broadband connection and equipment to make and receive calls and text messages although it might not currently work with every device. \"For a long time, Vodafone and others have offered a product called a 'signal booster' which is a piece of hardware you connect to your home broadband to make the above possible and that would support a wider range of devices. \"The advantage of the new solution from EE and Three is that you don't need that bit of kit.\" The survey revealed that the most likely blackspot in people's homes was in the kitchen and that Georgian houses or those built in the 2000s are the hardest in which to get a signal. Sixty per cent of respondents in Liverpool reported having problems making and receiving calls on their mobiles at home with 54% of people in Cardiff and 53% in Bristol also suffering. Paul Carter, chief executive officer of GWS, said: \"The UK is no longer a fixed-line nation. When we're at home, we don't just receive calls on our mobiles, we make them too. The best phone is the one you've got on you - not the one sitting in its dock out in the hallway.\" However, the frustrations could soon be at an end, according to Mr Howett. O2 has committed to a regulatory requirement of providing indoor 4G coverage to 98% of the population by 2017 and he added: \"I would be surprised if this problem lasts beyond then.\"", "question": "Nearly half of people living in Britain have problems making and receiving mobile calls at home , according to a survey by a @placeholder testing company .", "option_0": "software", "option_1": "network", "option_2": "trade", "option_3": "national", "option_4": "sports"}
{"id": 485, "article": "Participants in the poll were shown six options to replace the current flag and favoured one dubbed \"Southern Horizon\". Western Sydney University's Benjamin Jones said New Zealand's flag referendum inspired the study. He said both the Southern Horizon flag and New Zealand's winning design retained elements of the existing flags, but removed the Union Jack. The poll comes amid renewed debate over whether Australia should be a republic. \"Several Australian politicians have stated their support for an Australian republic,\" Mr Jones. \"But certainly no prominent politician is tying their reputation to changing the flag.\" All but one of of Australia's state and territory leaders signed a document in support of dropping the Queen as head of state. Critics said republicans were yet to propose a viable alternative to Australia's current system of constitutional monarchy.", "question": "Almost 64 % of Australians @placeholder in a new poll want the nation 's flag changed .", "option_0": "forces", "option_1": "surveyed", "option_2": "involved", "option_3": "results", "option_4": "were"}
{"id": 486, "article": "Mr Mundell visited Peterhead fish market and spoke to fishermen and processors. He told them that the UK government would do everything possible to protect the interests of the industry during Brexit talks. Mr Mundell will later visit Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce. Bertie Armstrong, chief executive of the Scottish Fishermen's Federation, said: \"I'm glad the secretary of state has chosen to visit Peterhead to hear for himself the opinions of individual fishermen and processors on the fantastic sea of opportunity that Brexit presents for this industry, which is so important to our coastal communities. \"The general election delivered a powerful message from those communities to both the UK and Scottish governments that we have to get out of the CFP (Common Fisheries Policy). \"It's clear that the message is being received by politicians and we now need them to deliver in the forthcoming Brexit negotiations on the restoration of control of our seas so that we can manage this sustainable natural resource in a practicable manner for the future.\" Mr Mundell was reappointed as secretary of state for Scotland on Sunday. He had been the lone Scottish Conservative MP, but now has 12 colleagues in the Commons following the general election.", "question": "Scottish Secretary David Mundell has @placeholder fishing industry workers in Peterhead - his first public engagement since being reappointed .", "option_0": "fallen", "option_1": "met", "option_2": "denied", "option_3": "criticised", "option_4": "backed"}
{"id": 487, "article": "Eight-year-old Harapan, born in Cincinnati, was the last Sumatran rhino in the Western hemisphere. Conservationists hope he will mate with females in a rhino sanctuary. The Sumatran rhino has been threatened by rampant deforestation and poaching. Researchers believe there are fewer than 100 left in the wild. Harapan, whose name means hope, travelled more than 16,000km (9,941 miles) over land, air and sea to reach the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary at the Way Kambas National Park. His sister, Suci, also lived with him in Cincinnati Zoo but died from an illness last year. Harapan's trip marked the end of a programme by his zoo to breed rhinos in captivity. Sumatrans are the smallest of the rhino species and the only Asian rhino with two horns. They are prized by poachers as their horns are used in traditional Chinese medicine. The rhinos natural habitat in the forest of Sumatra is being devastated illegal logging and forest fires by farmers clearing land for palm oil and pulp plantations.", "question": "A critically endangered male Sumatran rhino born in a US zoo has been @placeholder to Indonesia to mate , as part of efforts to save his species .", "option_0": "paid", "option_1": "added", "option_2": "flown", "option_3": "ordered", "option_4": "returned"}
{"id": 488, "article": "Bosses at Cleveland Potash in Boulby said it faced problems with falling global prices and finding new areas to mine safely. Redcar MP Anna Turley said the news was \"unwelcome\" and \"disappointing\". Parent firm ICL axed 220 jobs and 140 contractors in November. It employs about 1,100 people and makes potash for agricultural fertilisers. The company blamed the news on a \"reduction in the level of economically-feasible reserves\". However, it said it was committed to retaining the mine and wants to extend planning permission for mining in the North York Moors and focus on producing a more profitable fertiliser, Polysulphate. Peter Smith, executive vice president of ICL, said: \"We understand that this will cause concerns for employees, their families and the wider community and we are committed to keeping the numbers affected as low as reasonably possible. \"No decisions will be finalised until consultation with the trade union has been completed.\" Tim Bush, from Unite the union, said: \"When we had the first round of redundancies in November we actually said this was a hammer blow for the East Cleveland economy which is obviously under pressure at the moment. \"This is going to further compound these issues, with both the people who work there and the supply chain.\" Ms Turley said: \"This is disappointing news and my immediate thoughts are with the workforce and their families affected by this announcement. \"Whilst ICL have been clear that reductions to the workforce would be made by 2018 when supplies of their traditional potash fertiliser stock are expected to completely run out, it is nevertheless unwelcome news for the local economy.\" A man died at the mine in June after a sudden release of gas while working underground. Seven miners were inured in an underground fire in April.", "question": "A further 140 jobs are set to be @placeholder at one of Europe 's deepest potash mines .", "option_0": "sold", "option_1": "made", "option_2": "lost", "option_3": "built", "option_4": "introduced"}
{"id": 489, "article": "The move follows criticism he received for his behaviour in a news conference. In it, Hamilton posted images of himself and a fellow driver on Snapchat with bunny faces and gave minimal answers. He said it was intended as \"a super light-hearted thing\" and what was written was \"more disrespectful\". As a result, he said: \"Unfortunately the decision I will take unfortunately affects those who have been super-supportive, so that is why I am saying it with the utmost respect. \"But I don't really plan on sitting here many more times for these kind of things. So my apologies and I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your weekend.\" He then walked out of the news conference. His remarks came in his usual news conference in the Mercedes area in the paddock at the Japanese Grand Prix after qualifying. The world champion qualified second for Sunday's race behind team-mate Nico Rosberg, who has a 23-point advantage in the championship with fives races to go and 125 points still available. Hamilton said: \"I'm not here to answer your questions, I've decided. With the utmost respect, there are many of you here who are super-supportive of me and they hopefully know I know who they are. \"There are others unfortunately that often taken advantage of certain things. The other day was a super light-hearted thing, and if I was disrespectful to any of you guys, or if you felt I was disrespectful, it was honestly not the intention. It was just a little bit of fun. Media playback is not supported on this device \"But what was more disrespectful was what was then written worldwide.\" Hamilton did not specify which particular articles he was offended by, and Mercedes said they did not know. The team did not know Hamilton was planning to make his statement. In the official race preview news conference on Thursday, he had referred journalists who asked some questions about his remarks following his engine failure while leading the previous race in Malaysia to comments he had published on his social network outlets. And he criticised the format of the news conference, in which six drivers are brought together to answer questions ahead of a race. Media playback is not supported on this device Asked what he was doing on his phone, before the Snapchat images of himself and Carlos Sainz were widely disseminated, he said: \"It's quite funny, just some snaps of us drivers, it's quite funny. That's about it. \"Hey man, we've been doing this a long long time and it's the same each time so got to keep adding new things to it.\" Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "question": "Lewis Hamilton says he is going to minimise his @placeholder at news conferences over what he says is a lack of respect from the media .", "option_0": "future", "option_1": "actions", "option_2": "appearances", "option_3": "congregation", "option_4": "comments"}
{"id": 490, "article": "As blue lights flashed, I watched the ambulance team at work. But there was no hope. The corpse lay motionless on the pebbles. This was no scene of crime, however, but a reconstruction for our BBC Four programme about authors in East Anglia. In fact your chances of finding a body on this coastline are about the same as Norwich winning the Premiership (sorry Canaries fans). This region has one of the lowest crime rates in the country yet boasts an astonishing preponderance of crime writers. I'm not sure what the collective noun should be - a dagger, a poison pen? Anyway some of the best-known authors have lived and worked here. Just think of PD James, Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L Sayers, Margery Allingham, Dick Francis and Nicci French. So why has this landscape inspired so many macabre mysteries? Accompanied by a team from BBC East, I travelled across Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire in order to find out. One of my favourite places is Dunwich on the Suffolk coast. I've often braved the elements and pebbles to swim here. Eight hundred years ago it was the capital of East Anglia and an international port; at its height rivalling 14th Century London. But violent storms and erosion have swept it all away. Local legend has it that you can hear the bells from churches under the sea on a windy night. Sometimes the drowned graveyards yield up bones onto the beach, a macabre idea that rather appealed to PD James. In fact, I met members of a local reading group who told me about an old man who used a skull as a football when he was a boy. No wonder her fictional character Adam Dalgliesh thrived in this landscape where sky and sea merge to create an aura of mystery. As I discovered, crime writers see the world in a rather different way, wearing the reverse of rose-tinted glasses. Henry Sutton teaches creative writing at the University of East Anglia and is himself a successful crime writer. We met on sand dunes on the outskirts of Great Yarmouth. Sutton told me: \"This is an area which has been designated outstanding natural beauty, so to me the most dramatic thing I can do with that is to put in right at the centre of that, perhaps over there a badly-mutilated naked corpse.\" He agreed with me that there's a bond between this flat windswept coastline and Scandinavian noir. \"You know just a short way across the North Sea they are kindred crime spirits. There's no doubt about that. This to me feels Henning Mankell, feels like The Bridge, or even The Killing. There is a real closeness, a kindred sense of crime space.\" Part of the charm of East Anglia are the remote communities you find which feel untouched by modern life. Dorothy L Sayers was inspired by the isolation of the Fens for one of my favourite books, The Nine Tailors. Featuring her aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey, this novel is set in a remote village in the landscape that was reclaimed from the sea 500 years ago. That created a battle with nature which continues today. That sense of impending doom, the chaining of natural forces, gives a literal undercurrent to Sayers' writing. We journeyed from the 1930s - in a vintage car - to cutting-edge modern crime fiction written by the husband and wife team Nicci French. They're responsible for more than 20 bestsellers. I was gripped by their story which is set on an island, a fictionalised version of Mersea Island off the Essex coast which they infuse with a sense of menace as in this extract. \"I used to love Sandling island at night: the silence, the slap and murmur of water, the smell of salt and mud, the chime of halliards and the forlorn cry of birds. Now it terrified me.\" If your mental picture of East Anglia conjures up brightly painted beach huts at Southwold or charming flint-built churches, you just need to turn to the region's famous crime writers to send a shiver down your spine. The Books that Made Britain, featuring Martha Kearney, was broadcast on BBC Four and is now available on BBC iPlayer Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "I stood on the windswept , desolate beach and then @placeholder my head below the blue and white police tape .", "option_0": "capturing", "option_1": "visited", "option_2": "poked", "option_3": "dipped", "option_4": "flag"}
{"id": 491, "article": "Fifteen points from the boot of the impressive Berrick Barnes and a first-half try from Nick Cummins secured victory for the Wallabies, transformed from the shambles of last week. Seven days ago Robbie Deans' men were hammered 33-6 by France, but they were clinical where England were not and resolute in defence when the home side did threaten. A controversial try from Manu Tuilagi and three penalties from Toby Flood had given England a 14-11 half-time lead. But despite controlling possession and territory in the last quarter, they failed to register a single point in the second period, three times opting to turn down kickable penalties as they searched for a second try. It means Lancaster's men have now won just one of their last five matches and with South Africa and world champions New Zealand to come in the next fortnight, they face a tough fight to turn that run around. (provided by Opta) There was little of the set-piece domination that many had predicted, and when they did have the ball England lacked both precision and a cutting edge. Flood's second-minute penalty had given them an early lead, although the Wallabies dictated the early possession and territory as a clever line-out almost sent hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau away. Open-side Michael Hooper then made a scything outside break to set up a series of drives that led to Barnes clipping over a drop-goal for 3-3. It was a scrappy opening quarter, Flood and Barnes exchanging penalties after the television match official (TMO) decided against awarding Ben Alexander a try as he burrowed into a heap of English defenders. The visitors' unheralded pack was more than holding its own, only for Alexander to go off his feet as England struggled to make yards in enemy territory and gift Flood the chance to stroke over his third penalty. Scrum-half Nick Phipps, stand-in for the more celebrated Will Genia, then made an audacious break after being fed by Barnes from an English clearing kick. Spotting Tom Palmer in the defensive line, he zipped round the second-row and found Cummins haring up on his outside, the right-winger diving over in the corner to put the Wallabies 11-9 up. England were struggling for fluency, but quick thinking from Danny Care and a generous TMO brought them back into the game as half-time approached. Care took a quick tap, Tom Johnson and Brad Barritt took the ball on and Tuilagi thundered through two desperate defenders to reach out for the line when grounded. If it was impossible to judge with the naked eye whether the centre put ball to paint, so there were doubts about the legality of Phipps' pass moments earlier. England's supporters, relieved to be ahead 14-11 at the interval, celebrated regardless. The lead was short-lived, Barnes popping over another penalty as Australia once again came out with greater pace and purpose. Barnes was starting to pull the strings. Another dinked kick through set up possession deep in the England 22; although Cummins was denied another try-scoring opportunity by a poor pass, the penalty was coming and Barnes took it. With Joe Marler struggling at the scrum, Mako Vunipola came off the bench with Joe Launchbury and Tom Wood, but the Wallabies continued to menace. Ben Tapui accelerated through on the left but put his pass behind the onrushing Cummins; seconds later Barnes extended the lead to six points with his fourth penalty as England infringed at the breakdown. Finally it triggered a response. Launchbury rose to take a Flood garryown and England launched drive after drive; Tuilagi ignored an overlap on his right, Chris Ashton was held up short. England set up camp five metres out, twice kicking penalties into touch as they sought the five points, and when Thomas Waldrom span and reached from another maul they thought they had it - only for the TMO to correctly rule that the number eight had lost control of the ball under immense duress. Adam Ashley-Cooper won a key turnover as Tuilagi battered down the left and then Flood was called for a forward pass as he looked to set Ashton away, two knock-ons costing further opportunities, but at last those openings were coming. Australia coach Robbie Deans gambled by replacing the excellent loose-head Benn Robinson with James Slipper and Barnes fell just shy with another penalty from distance as the tension triggered errors. With 13 minutes left England opted to run an emminently kickable penalty and, roared on by a capacity crowd of 81,000, drove to inches from the line only to be turned over by Wycliff Palu and then penalised. It felt like a critical passage. Fine Wallaby defence somehow kept repeated home surges at bay; replacement scrum-half Ben Youngs struggled with his handling and decision-making as the seconds ticked away. The die was cast. England's purple-shirted toilers could make no further inroads, and when Tuilagi spilled their final opportunity out wide the much-criticised Deans was able to celebrate a precious win. TEAM LINE-UPS England: Goode; Ashton, Tuilagi, Barritt, Sharples; Flood, Care; Marler, T Youngs, Cole, Palmer, Parling, Johnson, Robshaw, Waldrom. Replacements: Farrell for Barritt (73), Brown for Sharples (60), B Youngs for Care (60), Vunipola for Marler (49), Paice for T. Youngs (73), Launchbury for Palmer (53), Wood for Johnson (49). Not Used: Wilson. Australia: Barnes; Cummins, Ashley-Cooper, Tapuai, Ioane; Beale, Phipps; Robinson, Polota-Nau, Alexander, Timani, Sharpe, Dennis, Hooper, Palu. Replacements: Mitchell for Ioane (69), Slipper for Robinson (60), Moore for Polota-Nau (40), Kepu for Alexander (70), Gill for Dennis (55). Not Used: Samo, Sheehan, Harris. Att: 81,361 Ref: Romain Poite (France).", "question": "England 's rebuilding process under Stuart Lancaster suffered a significant setback as Australia 's under - fire side held on for a narrow but @placeholder win .", "option_0": "deserved", "option_1": "finish", "option_2": "proved", "option_3": "beat", "option_4": "secured"}
{"id": 492, "article": "The government and the doctors' union have agreed to continue negotiating until Wednesday. The talks, hosted by conciliation service Acas, which started on Monday are seen as the last chance for the two sides to agree a deal. They were set up following a series of strikes and included the first-ever full walk-out by doctors. It comes after the government announced in February it would be imposing the contract from this summer after previous talks failed. Discussions first started in 2012, but broke down in 2014, before Acas hosted talks at the turn of this year. The main focus of this week's talks have been on Saturday pay, although the British Medical Association (BMA) team has also been raising other issues, including funding the government's seven-day NHS policy. If these talks fail, the government has indicated it will push ahead with the imposition of the contract. Hospitals are due to start sending out contracts for positions from the end of this month. These will be for those medics graduating from medical school, but over the course of the next 12 months much of the rest of the 55,000-strong workforce will be moved on to the new terms and conditions. Ministers have argued the new contract, which makes it cheaper to rota junior doctors at weekends, is needed to improve care. Acas chair Sir Brendan Barber said the talks had been conducted in a \"constructive and positive atmosphere\" and some real progress had been made. \"This is a strictly time limited extension and represents a final opportunity to find an agreement as the basis for the resolution of this difficult dispute.\" He said neither the BMA or government would be making any statement. When it entered the talks, the government agreed to put imposition of the contract on hold, while the doctors' union suspended its threat of further industrial action. Under the terms of the new contract, basic pay is to be increased by 13.5% on average, but other elements of the pay package are to be curbed, including what constitutes unsociable hours. Day hours on a Saturday will be paid at a normal rate, while extra premiums that are being offered for the rest of the weekend are lower than what is currently paid. As a result of the dispute between the government and the BMA, there were four strikes by junior doctors in England affecting routine - but not urgent care - between January and early April. At the end of April there were two one-day strikes affecting all forms of care, including emergencies - the first such action in the history of the NHS. Read more from Nick Follow Nick on Twitter", "question": "Last ditch talks to reach a deal on the junior doctors contract in England are being @placeholder into next week .", "option_0": "pushed", "option_1": "investigated", "option_2": "sought", "option_3": "held", "option_4": "extended"}
{"id": 493, "article": "Before scandal struck, the three corporations concerned - BP, Enron, and Volkswagen respectively - were all judged to be among the world's top companies for their corporate social responsibility (CSR) work. As a result of corporate scandals like these, the credibility of CSR - firms giving something back voluntarily to local communities - has taken a beating. Critics dismiss it as a way of glossing over corporate malfeasance - a mere PR tick-boxing exercise. But now technology is forcing companies to up their game and interact with communities more directly and effectively. Platforms such as Kritical Mass have certainly given a fillip to the idea of crowd-supported philanthropy, attracting individuals and corporate sponsors to its projects, whether that's saving vultures in Kenya or bringing solar power to rural communities in west Africa. Sponsors can offer funding, volunteers, expertise or marketing. So rather than imposing corporate ideas of \"do-gooding\" on communities in a patronising manner, firms can simply respond to demand. HelpfulPeeps has pushed its volunteering platform into more than 40 countries worldwide, connecting people who want to share their time, knowledge and skills with each other for free. In the UK, online platform Neighbourly connects community projects and charities with companies and people willing to volunteer their resources. For example, Starbucks has pledged 2,500 days of volunteering and has so far backed 70 community projects. Neighbourly founder Nick Davies says there's value to be had from encouraging staff to volunteer. First, people who volunteer are happier at work; second, there's a commercial case for it: \"It's quite easy to prove that businesses that do the right thing also do well.\" Mr Davies believes that we have entered an era of internet transparency in which consumers are starting to flex their muscles and expect companies to do the right thing - not just be seen to do the right thing. Judging by the strong public appetite for supporting good causes and campaigning against injustice on sites such as Change.org, Avaaz.org, JustGiving and GoFundMe, his assessment appears to be correct. And LinkedIn says millions of members have signalled on their profiles that they want to serve on a non-profit board or use their skills to volunteer. Aware of this groundswell of good will, Mr Davies founded Neighbourly 18 months ago as way of helping companies engage with consumers locally. One of the platform's projects involves helping retailer Marks & Spencer redistribute surplus food to those who need it most. By tackling the issue at a local level, Neighbourly has already connected 100 Marks & Spencer stores and plans to have the retailer's entire network active by the end of 2016, says Mr Davies. \"We've already connected 40 tonnes of food or 56,000 meals already,\" he says. \"By the end of the year we could absolutely have redistributed a million meals through the use of technology just with Marks & Spencer.\" Technology is also being used to advance women's rights in the developing world with initiatives like Samasource. This not-for-profit organisation gives computer-based data projects to women in areas where traditional gender roles may prevent them from pursuing careers. Since 2008, Samasource has trained and employed more than 30,000 women through data projects with companies such as Getty Images, DropBox, Microsoft and TripAdvisor in countries including Haiti, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and India. Tech companies in particular are offering expertise and skills to good causes as way of making a tangible difference. For example, in January, Microsoft announced that through its new organisation, Microsoft Philanthropies, it will donate $1bn-worth (?¡ê700m) of cloud computing resources to serve non-profits and university researchers over the next three years. Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith said: \"We're committed to helping non-profit groups and universities use cloud computing to address fundamental human challenges.\" And data analytics specialist Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) has offered its data-crunching skills to help the Capital Area Food Bank charity distribute food more efficiently to hungry people around the Washington DC area. APT used data to develop a \"hunger heat map\" to help CAFB target resources and plan for future demand better. In another project, APT helped The Cara Program - a Chicago-based charity providing training and job placements to people affected by homelessness or poverty - evaluate what made its students more employable. APT boss Anthony Bruce says: \"In these 'data dives' APT employees use their analytic skills to distil actionable insights from the data that the charity collects. These insights are empowering charities to identify efficiently which of their strategies are most effective at fulfilling their respective missions.\" Stephanie Draper, deputy chief executive at Forum for the Future, believes sustainable business practices have already replaced CSR. \"Companies need to view [sustainability] as a core business issue - something that drives the business context,\" she says. The UN's 2015 Sustainable Development Goals initiative has been successful in getting businesses to think about solving social problems, she believes. For example, the Toilet Board Coalition is a global business-led coalition backed by Unilever that aims to tackle the world's sanitation issues through profitable, market-based initiatives that harness the latest technological innovations. And Launch, an open platform jointly founded by Nasa, Nike, the US Agency for International Development, and the US Department of State aims to provide support for start-ups and \"inspire innovation\". In the age of internet transparency, it seems corporates no longer have anywhere to hide - a spot of CSR whitewashing is not going to cut it anymore. Technology is helping to bridge the gap between the haves and the have-nots. Follow Technology of Business editor @matthew_wall on Twitter.", "question": "Cute baby animals covered in oil washing up on @placeholder ; pensioners thrown into poverty ; \" dieselgate \" . What do all three have in common ?", "option_0": "beaches", "option_1": "hold", "option_2": "soil", "option_3": "roofs", "option_4": "street"}
{"id": 494, "article": "The claim comes after extra fundraising powers for councils were outlined in last week's government Spending Review. But the LGA said councils would still face a combined shortfall of ¡ê6.8bn by the end of the Parliament. The government said council tax was expected to be lower in real terms in 2020 than a decade earlier. In the Spending Review, Chancellor George Osborne said local authorities responsible for adult social care would be allowed to increase council tax by 2% above existing limits. By adding in the maximum new levies allowable without a referendum, the LGA estimated that Band D bills could cost an average of just under ¡ê200 more over the next five years. It said this would not be enough, particularly as budgets continued to face new pressures such as those caused by an aging population. Any shortfall might have to be made up by further increases to costs such as car parking charges, it added. One senior councillor said councils were now also facing \"a reckless gamble\" of having to use cash reserves to fund services. A Department for Communities and Local Government spokesman said: \"In reality councils will have almost ¡ê200bn to spend on local services over the lifetime of this Parliament, a cash terms increase and a reduction of just 1.7% in real terms each year. \"The Spending Review offers a ¡ê3.5bn package for adult social care to ensure councils can support their older and most vulnerable residents, while at the same time council tax is expected to be less in 2019-20 in real terms than it was in 2010-11. \"With councils accounting for a quarter of all public spending it's right they continue to play their part in paying off the deficit.\"", "question": "Council tax bills in England could cost an average of ¡ê 200 more for band D @placeholder by 2020 , the Local Government Association has warned .", "option_0": "services", "option_1": "routes", "option_2": "properties", "option_3": "standards", "option_4": "bills"}
{"id": 495, "article": "It had been thought the back would miss up to a year after he was injured playing for New South Wales Waratahs. But a scan has revealed he has torn his patellar tendon clean off his kneecap, and will now be out for \"four to six months\", the Waratahs said. The versatile 27-year-old Australia back will have an operation on Monday. Beale, who has won 60 Australia caps, sustained the injury less than a day after it was announced he was joining Wasps in a deal that is understood will make him the highest-paid player in the Premiership. He was hurt as he challenged for a high ball in the first minute of the Waratahs' Super Rugby victory over the Bulls on Saturday. It had been feared he had ruptured the tendon, but scans revealed it was torn off entirely. \"The result is the best possible prognosis given the tendon remains intact, requiring less invasive surgery, and that the injury is isolated with no other damage to the knee,\" said the Waratahs on Sunday. The patella tendon connects the knee cap (patella) to the shinbone (tibia).", "question": "New Wasps @placeholder Kurtley Beale will miss the start of next season but his knee injury is not expected to keep him out for as long as first feared .", "option_0": "signing", "option_1": "based", "option_2": "side", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "prop"}
{"id": 496, "article": "Human traffickers are the key link that European officials wish to target. But they are taking on complex criminal networks that do not recognise borders and which experts liken to \"multinational corporations\". Libya's coastguard officials believe that traffickers are increasingly working with Italian organised crime. Giampaolo Muscemi spent two years travelling with traffickers across the world as he co-wrote the ebook Confessions of a People Smuggler. He met one Egyptian smuggler who has developed a huge network in Libya over 15 years running boats to Italy. The smuggler insisted that was in his interest to provide safe passage. His message, Mr Muscemi told the BBC, was: \"I don't want my clients to die, because my work is based upon my reputation. At the beginning of my career I was searching for clients, now that I am a big smuggler people come to me because of my reputation for safety.\" Business is clearly booming. A record 35,000 migrants have already travelled to Europe this year. Mr Muscemi estimates that Mediterranean trafficking is worth between 300-600m Euros a year, and this is encouraging amateurs to take over. \"In Libya, the clients are too many, they don't have any choice but to put their lives in the hands of the smugglers,\" he said. \"So the smugglers can decrease the quality of the service. They don't have to preserve their reputation. It's just a matter of markets, if there is demand you can do whatever you want.\" Since the 1980s Libya has attracted economic migrants from across Africa, but their role has now changed. Europe's border agency Frontex says that many of the original migrants have now become \"recruiters, liaising between the Libyan-controlled criminal gangs and would-be migrants\". Once in the country, migrants are often forced to hand over their money and passports, leaving them at the mercy of the traffickers. Ali from The Gambia was forced to board an unsafe boat. \"The Libyan man lied to us,\" he told the BBC. \"He said it was a big boat. We all paid 1,000 dinar (?¡ê488, $728). When we got to the boat, he forced us to enter with a gun, if you don't enter he will shoot you, so you must enter.\" Libyan authorities rarely stop traffickers, with Tripoli's coastguard admitting to the BBC they cannot handle the volume of boats and they will only interfere if a boat runs into trouble. Much of Libya is beyond government control and it is believed that local militias are often active partners with the smugglers. The Italian newspaper La Repubblica has published what it says is an Italian police recording of a Tripoli-based smuggler's phone calls. Eritrean Mered Medhanie claimed to have sent 8,000 migrants on Italy-bound vessels, in a conversation with another smuggler intercepted by police. \"I always let too many on board, but it is them [the migrants] who want to leave as soon as possible,\" he reportedly said. Mr Mescumi says one common misconception is to think of the smugglers as boat pilots or fishermen. \"They are businessmen,\" he says. \"They are clever. Think of a smuggler as someone who never sleeps and spends 24 hours a day thinking about how to break into Europe. They read newspapers, study European laws, study what Frontex are doing - they will probably even read this piece.\" He believes that the desperation of migrants allied with the profits that smugglers stand to make means it has become an intractable problem. \"One smuggler we met in an Italian prison told us: 'You will never stop us. You can't stop migrants.' \"When governments shut routes the business just becomes richer, because the journey is longer and more dangerous. You can't stop it, you just have to manage it.\"", "question": "European countries are scrambling to stop record numbers of migrants @placeholder in the Mediterranean Sea , but who are the men sending them on perilous journeys ?", "option_0": "drowning", "option_1": "living", "option_2": "trapped", "option_3": "staff", "option_4": "names"}
{"id": 497, "article": "Her body was found in a residential building in the central city of Xi'an. The lift had been turned off by two maintenance workers on 30 January. The body was found when other workers arrived on 1 March. Police are treating the death as involuntary manslaughter. Several people have been arrested. One local report said scratches were found inside the lift, one of two inside the building. It is believed the woman was 43 years old and lived by herself in the building, the statement by Gaoling's government said. Her family did not visit her often, it said. The workers had been called to fix a fault with the elevator and had shouted to see if anyone was inside. Their failure to check properly amounted to \"gross negligence\", government officials said. The work on the broken lift was delayed partly because of the new year holidays.", "question": "A woman 's body was found inside a lift in China a month after it was improperly @placeholder off , a regional government statement said .", "option_0": "lifted", "option_1": "called", "option_2": "switched", "option_3": "kicked", "option_4": "sealed"}
{"id": 498, "article": "Medical professionals were quick to point out that the condition can be remedied quickly. But what is walking - or atypical - pneumonia and how serious a setback is it for US Democratic presidential candidate? Pneumonia is an infection of one or both lungs and is usually caused by bacteria. As the body attempts to fight the infection, the airways become inflamed and fill up with fluid. The disease is most dangerous among the young and the elderly. Walking pneumonia is a non-medical term used to describe a mild form of pneumonia, which is often the result of an inhalation of bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae or Mycoplasma pneumoniae. The symptoms of the infection can vary in severity. Walking pneumonia is so mild that it can often be mistaken for a cold. Sufferers, although unwell, may feel healthy enough to continue to work. It rarely requires hospitalisation and can be cured in as little as a week. In fact, Mrs Clinton said after emerging on Sunday from her daughter's home in New York: \"I'm feeling great. It's a beautiful day in New York.\" The condition causes coughing and sneezing and can result in fever-like symptoms, a high temperature, headaches and difficulty breathing - which can lead to dizziness and exhaustion. It also causes dehydration. Anyone can contract pneumonia, which affects millions of people each year. Those who have respiratory health conditions such as lung disease or asthma are at risk of more severe manifestations of the illness. The disease is contagious and spread through close contact, transmitted through sneezing or coughing. However the contagious period usually lasts less than 10 days. As a presidential candidate, Mrs Clinton was at high risk of infection, according to Dr William Schaffner, an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. \"Candidates are constantly out in enclosed spaces, face to face with myriads of people,'' he said. \"It's an ideal opportunity for the transmission of a respiratory virus.\" In contrast to the more serious form of the condition, walking pneumonia can usually be treated effectively with a prescription of antibiotics taken at home with rest and by drinking plenty of fluids. Mrs Clinton's doctor said in a statement that she had been prescribed antibiotics and advised to rest and modify her schedule.", "question": "Hillary Clinton was suffering from \" walking pneumonia \" when she @placeholder and lost her balance as she left the 9/11 memorial ceremony on Sunday , it has been revealed .", "option_0": "describes", "option_1": "crashed", "option_2": "buckled", "option_3": "tripped", "option_4": "collapsed"}
{"id": 499, "article": "By the time he endeared himself to television audiences in the BBC's All Creatures Great and Small, he had already carved out a reputation as one of Britain's most versatile actors. While his earlier career gave him a firm grounding in the theatre his best known roles were in front of the camera - particularly in television, a medium he obviously enjoyed. He became something of a specialist in the role of Sir Winston Churchill, playing the great man on half a dozen occasions as well as being in demand to reproduce the wartime leader's voice. Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy was born in Cheltenham on 29 October 1925. The youngest of a large family, he was a self-professed \"odd child\". His father was the headmaster of Cheltenham College and Hardy himself went to Rugby School before going up to Magdalen College, Oxford to read English. It was while at Oxford that he struck up an enduring friendship with a fellow student, Richard Burton and both men found their studies interrupted when they were called up and posted to an RAF station in Norfolk. Unlike Burton, Hardy returned to Oxford after his war service and gained a BA (Hons) in English as well as having enjoyed the opportunity to study under two of Oxford's most eminent names, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. He had always been fascinated by Hollywood films and had determined to become an actor, joining the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1949. He was once asked what was needed to be successful in such a competitive profession. \"A certain amount of talent, luck, a spine of steel, a ruthlessness of mind that does not jib at murder and patience,\" he replied. He was much in demand as a stage actor during the 1950s mainly playing Shakespearean roles, although he did make his first foray into cinema in 1958 playing a naval officer in the Glenn Ford film Torpedo Run. He turned down Sir Peter Hall's offer of a contract with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960, complaining that it was for middle-of-the-roadish parts. \"I stormed at him one day and I behaved extremely badly,\" he said. He was reunited with his friend Richard Burton in the 1965 film, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, where he played the role of Dick Carlton. A year later he was given his first continuing role as the ruthless businessman Alex Stewart in the BBC production, The Troubleshooters, a drama based on a fictitious oil company called Mogul. In 1978, Hardy took the part of the irascible but good-natured Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small, the long-running BBC series based on James Herriot's best-selling books. As the senior vet of the small Yorkshire Dales practice, Robert Hardy became one of the best-known faces on British television. Full of animals, nostalgia and rural scenery, the show became a massive hit, attracting audiences of up to 20 million. The original run ended in 1978 but the series was revived 10 years later after the BBC obtained permission to write new storylines, having exhausted the original James Herriot books. But the new scripts failed to meet with Hardy's approval and he rewrote large parts of his dialogue. \"All they did was make Siegfried explode and be bad-tempered. I kept changing things.\" Hardy cornered the market in the role of blustering aristocrat, often dressed in tweed. He appeared in The Far Pavilions, The Cleopatras, Bramwell and Middlemarch, and on the big screen in The Shooting Party and Sense and Sensibility. He explained: \"When you've lived a goodish span as I have, it's a case of roaming round the attic and borrowing a few characters.\" Despite this range, Robert Hardy's own volatility and ability to express his wrath were channelled most successfully into his many portrayals of Britain's most revered premier. He played Winston Churchill many times, even once in French on stage in Paris, but most memorably in the 1981 mini-series The Wilderness Years. Hardy said himself of his complete immersion into the character, \"My family complained loudly about my behaviour while I was playing him.\" He was married twice and had three children. Awarded a CBE in 1981 for his services to acting, Hardy was also a keen student of military history and supported the project to raise the Mary Rose. In 1995, he gave up his long-time home in Oxfordshire, to become laird of a Scottish mansion, a 13th Century miniature castle situated near Edinburgh, complete with a walled garden and 50-foot tower. The actor had visited the place as a child and sworn always to return, following in the footsteps of a previous visitor, Sir Walter Scott, one of Hardy's personal heroes. In later years he suffered from cancer of the colon, but recovered to resume as busy a career as ever, including film work. Although he failed to make the lasting impact on Hollywood enjoyed by some British actors, his face became known the world over when he appeared as the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, in several of the Harry Potter films. He was dropped from the role after the studio balked at paying a ?¡ê1 million life insurance premium which was demanded because of his advancing age. Off screen he became something of an authority on the English longbow, his interest having been stimulated when, as a child, he found two of the weapons in the family attic . He wrote two books on the history of the weapon as well as presenting a BBC documentary on the subject. Hardy's on-screen temper was matched by a famously short fuse away from the camera and he admitted that, as an actor, he belonged to a set of \"difficult people\". He once reflected: \"The ego may be essential for survival in the wilderness of acting, but it's something that requires a great deal of control if you're going to make a success of life.\"", "question": "With his instantly recognisable voice and British bulldog @placeholder , Robert Hardy enjoyed a distinguished acting career which spanned eight decades .", "option_0": "conditions", "option_1": "manner", "option_2": "lost", "option_3": "complexion", "option_4": "eyes"}
{"id": 500, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The striker's amazing improvisation saw him acrobatically volley Joe Hart's headed clearance in from 30 yards, as Sweden won 4-2. England captain Steven Gerrard, winning his 100th cap, said it was  \"probably the best goal\" he had seen live. \"I don't know if you will see another like it in your life,\" said Hamren. Stoke goalkeeper Asmir Begovic: Take a bow #ZlatanIbrahimovic! Unbelievable tekkers! Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand: Zlatan just silenced any doubters he had...ruthless tonight Wigan defender Emmerson Boyce: Ibrahimovic what a goal, I'm still replaying it, #UnbelievableTekkers Former Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba: He might be arrogant but Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a problem to any team he play against. Marseille midfielder Joey Barton: If only the English FA could have given Ibrahimovic a cap or a run out before those pesky Swedes nabbed him... Tottenham winger Aaron Lennon: Buzzing for Caulks and Huddz, also congratulations to Stevie G on 100 caps #legend, but what a performance by #Ibrahimovic Huddersfield striker James Vaughan: OH MY GOSH #Zlatan #Unreal \"Sometimes, when he's doing these things, in training or in matches, you don't think it's possible. Because it's not possible to do that - the fourth goal, for example.\" Ibrahimovic's spellbinding final effort combined unfathomable imagination and expert technique to stun the Friends Arena crowd in stoppage time. The 6ft 5ins forward has split opinion throughout his career, with many on mainland Europe hailing a genius who has been the driving force behind title successes for clubs Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona and AC Milan, while British sources sometimes cite an enigmatic figure who rarely performs on the biggest stage. Speaking after his four-goal exploits in Solna, Ibrahimovic commented on his reputation by saying: \"That's the way it is with the English. If you score against them you're a good player, if you don't score against them you're not a good player. \"I remember Lionel Messi before the 2009 Champions League final for Barcelona. Then he scored against Manchester United and suddenly he was the best player in the world. Maybe now they'll say something like that about me. \"Hart was a long way out and I was just trying to get it into the goal. I was on the ground when it was on the way in. \"I saw a defender sliding in to try to get rid of it and I wanted to scream 'No' but the ball went in.\" An example of Ibrahimovic's trademark confidence came in the build-up to the friendly. When asked to grade his international career while on the cusp of receiving his 100th cap, Gerrard responded: \"Six or seven.\" In contrast, when posed with the same question on Wednesday night, Ibrahimovic replied without hesitation: \"Ten.\" England manager Roy Hodgson was quick to praise Ibrahimovic's invention on BBC Radio 5 live: \"The fourth goal was the crowning glory. \"It's a wonderful goal to see on a football field, though I would rather have seen it against someone else.\" Gerrard believes the goal eclipses that of Wayne Rooney's for Manchester United against Manchester City last season. The England striker's stunning overhead kick, which gave United a 2-1 win, was voted the best goal in the history of the Premier League. \"I think the best goal I have seen before that is Wayne Rooney's (against Manchester City),\" said Gerrard. Media playback is not supported on this device \"Everyone knows how special that was but this one tonight - an overhead kick from 25 yards [sic] when the ball is six feet in the air - only certain players can do that.\" Former England manager and BBC Radio 5 live pundit Graham Taylor insisted the Swede's superb volley was one that will live long in the memory. He said: \"That is one of the best goals I have ever seen. What a fantastic goal, it has made this game one we will never forget. \"Ibrahimovic scores exceptional goals. It was an exceptionally gifted, talented goal.\" England debutant Leon Osman said: \"Ibrahimovic just seemed to have five minutes of dominance and then the wonder goal at the end. \"It is certainly the best goal I have seen live, in its presence. To do what he did, the imagination of it alone and to get as high as he did for a big guy was unbelievable, and it found the back of the net. It was a terrific goal and the best I have seen.\" Taylor's colleague Pat Nevin said: \"His fourth goal was beyond perfection, it was magical. His technique was off the scale.\"", "question": "Sweden coach Erik Hamren compared Zlatan Ibrahimovic 's stunning overhead kick for his fourth goal against England to \" watching a @placeholder game \" .", "option_0": "video", "option_1": "change", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "class", "option_4": "name"}
{"id": 501, "article": "The Army is due to leave the barracks in 2013, when training facilities will be moved elsewhere. The exhibition is being held by Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) as part of public consultation, Surrey Heath council said. Proposals for the 117-hectare site include housing, open space, access roads, a primary school and some shops. Opponents of the plan have questioned whether the infrastructure is adequate to cope with an influx of hundreds of new residents. Surrey Heath council said this consultation was being carried out by DIO, which is responsible for Ministry of Defence (MoD) property, but the local authority would run its own consultation after a formal planning application was submitted. The site is being released by the MoD following a national review of training that was prompted by the deaths of four soldiers in unclear circumstances at the Surrey army base. Privates Sean Benton, Cheryl James, Geoff Gray and James Collinson all died from gunshot wounds between 1995 and 2002. A coroner recorded a verdict of suicide for Pte Benton, but the inquests into the other three returned open verdicts. The exhibition was taking place on Wednesday at Deepcut Village Hall.", "question": "Plans to build 1,200 homes on the site of Deepcut Barracks in Surrey have gone on @placeholder .", "option_0": "display", "option_1": "progress", "option_2": "island", "option_3": "trial", "option_4": "sale"}
{"id": 502, "article": "The man threatened staff with a handgun at the Co-op store in Pelsall, West Midlands, at 06.20 BST. He stole a large quantity of coins before struggling with the weight of the haul as he fled, West Midlands Police said. Police declined to say how much cash was taken in the raid. Read more stories from Birmingham and the Black Country Det Con Neil Cunnington said: \"We would like to hear from anyone who was in the area of Co-op this morning and saw a man dressed in dark clothing, carrying a holdall. \"He appears to have been struggling to carry the bag as he took a large quantity of coins and we have reports of him staggering due to the weight. \"No-one was hurt during the robbery and the shop has been examined for forensic evidence.\"", "question": "An armed robber who stashed a huge haul of coins in a holdall was @placeholder \" struggling and staggering \" as he tried to escape with the weighty load .", "option_0": "dubbed", "option_1": "spotted", "option_2": "shown", "option_3": "labelled", "option_4": "described"}
{"id": 503, "article": "Parent View, launching later, offers a 12-question survey covering issues such as bullying and behaviour. \"Parents know how valuable the insight of other mums and dads can be when making choices about schools,\" said Ofsted chair, Baroness Morgan. But teachers' union leader Christine Blower has warned that such anonymous reviews are \"open to abuse\". Ofsted wants to give parents a stronger voice - and this online questionnaire is intended to allow parents to share their views on their children's schools. Responses will be published on the website - and they will be saved at the end of the school year to allow annual comparisons. The intention is that parents will use the Parent View website to give first-hand opinions to other parents who are choosing where to send their own children. When the proposal was announced earlier this year there had been concerns about malicious comments being left on the website. But there will not be any place for free text, instead parents will be asked to choose from a set of replies. The statements are similar to those currently asked to parents during an Ofsted inspection. These responses will range from \"strongly agree\" to \"strongly disagree\". Parents will have to give an email address to register to use the website, but they will be able to leave their comments without identifying themselves to the school. The questions set out in Parent View are intended to give an evaluation of the academic progress and well-being of pupils at the school. They will ask parents about their opinions of how well children are taught and also whether children feel happy and safe. It also asks parents whether they would recommend the school to other parents. Ofsted says it will monitor the results of the surveys and will be part of the information gathered about whether a school needs to be inspected. \"Whilst parents' views alone cannot trigger an inspection, they will provide a vital piece of the jigsaw,\" said Baroness Morgan. But teachers have been uncertain about the value of the website - and wary that it could be used unfairly by parents with a grudge. Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: \"It's not clear why parents, who may have quite legitimate questions to which they seek answers, would choose the route of a questionnaire to express their concerns, or otherwise, about a school. \"Apart from the obvious question as to what useful purpose the questionnaire will serve, this is a system which is open to abuse. \"Schools could easily be targeted by parents unfairly, or even in anger, which could result in a false impression being given of the school.\"", "question": "Education watchdog Ofsted is launching a website @placeholder parents to give their views of schools in England .", "option_0": "race", "option_1": "deal", "option_2": "power", "option_3": "force", "option_4": "inviting"}
{"id": 504, "article": "Centre-back Jack Hobbs has returned to training, with manager Mark Warburton needing to decide if he persists with a three-man defensive line-up. Blackburn are likely to remain without defenders Charlie Mulgrew and Darragh Lenihan (both ankle), who are not fit. As Rovers bid to end a run of three straight losses and seven games without a win, striker Danny Graham (hip) will be assessed after picking up a knock. BBC Radio Lancashire's Andy Bayes \"By Tuesday morning, Blackburn Rovers' destiny will be clearer than ever. An inept display last time out against Barnsley has left them playing catch-up. Four points to make up from five games remaining games is a tall order. \"Tony Mowbray's task hasn't been made easier by injuries, with the likes of Mulgrew, Lenihan, Greer, Evans and Graham all missing matches. \"Ever-present goalkeeper Jason Steele has also picked up an injury, that could open the door for David Raya to play his first Championship match in 20 months. \"Six changes were made for the last match. I expect plenty more for the visit to the City Ground.\"", "question": "Nottingham Forest have defender Danny Fox available after @placeholder .", "option_0": "training", "option_1": "school", "option_2": "suspension", "option_3": "deals", "option_4": "criticism"}
{"id": 505, "article": "Loosely translated, the Dracoraptor part means \"dragon thief\"; hanigani honours Rob and Nick Hanigan - the two fossil-hunting brothers who found it. In a new analysis, scientists say the specimen is possibly the oldest known Jurassic dinosaur from the UK. It also marks a key moment in dinosaur evolution, they tell PLoS One journal. Dr Dave Martill from Portsmouth University and colleagues say some 40% of the animal was preserved, including its skull, claws, teeth and foot bones. Forty percent is a lot in fossil terms and has allowed most of the animal to be reconstructed because of the symmetry that exists in the body. The team says very precise dating was made possible in this case because the remains were sandwiched between well-documented fossils of ammonites (extinct molluscs) and conodonts (a tiny eel-like creature). This age - of 201.3 million years (plus or minus 200,000 years) - puts Dracoraptor hanigani right at the base of the Jurassic Period, just after the Triassic. The boundary marks a mass extinction event when at least half the species on Earth (including conodonts) are thought to have gone extinct - perhaps because of an asteroid strike or massive volcanism, or a combination of both. Whatever the cause, the disruption is recognised to have opened the door to dinosaurs to assume dominance. This makes the Welsh discovery particularly interesting. \"It's right at that point in the diversification of dinosaurs where so-called therapod dinosaurs  - the meat-eating ones - became what are called neotherapods. It's from this moment onwards that they go on to become all the forms we know, like T. rex, Velociraptor and even birds,\" explained team-member Steven Vidovic. \"The reason we know the age of the dinosaurs - what we call the Mesozoic Era - is because of this Triassic-Jurassic extinction event. \"But we actually understand very little about that early phase of the Jurassic. It's not until the Middle Jurassic that we get all the diversity and forms that you know from children's books. \"So, everyone's been hunting for these really early Jurassic specimens, going to exotic places in Africa, North and Central America, and then a couple of brothers stumble across something on a beach near Cardiff.\" Dr Martill added: \"We invited Rob and Nick to name this beautiful little dinosaur and they suggested Dracoraptor after 'draco' meaning 'dragon', the national symbol of Wales, and 'raptor' meaning 'thief' or 'plunderer'. \"The draco part of the name seemed fitting because the fossils were found in Wales and will be displayed in Wales, reflecting the red dragon of the Welsh flag. Dracoraptor was a meat-eating dinosaur that would have used its small needle-sharp teeth with steak-knife serrations to pinch bits of meat here and there, hence the part of its name meaning thief. \"Although the Hanigan brothers chose the generic name, we also wanted to credit them, which is why the full name of the species is in fact Dracoraptor hanigani.\" A fascinating aspect of this dinosaur is the context of its burial: the animal was encased in marine rocks, meaning its body was somehow transported out to sea before settling into sediments. \"Two-hundred-million-years ago, the UK was a series of islands,\" said Mr Vidovic. \"When it sank, it must have sunk pretty quickly because it's so complete. What we do see is that when it got to the bottom, sea urchins crawled all over it, a bit like you get with a whale carcass now. And we've actually got some of those (fossilised) sea urchins. It's they who jumbled the bones up and made them into such a wonderful puzzle.\" The Hanigan brothers have donated the dinosaur to Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum of Wales. The PLoS One paper has authors from the museum, and Portsmouth and Manchester universities. Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "question": "A 201 - million - year - old dinosaur that fell out of a @placeholder face at Penarth in South Wales in 2014 has been formally named as Dracoraptor hanigani .", "option_0": "mountain", "option_1": "life", "option_2": "cliff", "option_3": "cave", "option_4": "heart"}
{"id": 506, "article": "On Sunday at 03:50 local time (07:50GMT), a group of 20 people in military uniforms attacked Fort Paramacay military base in the city of Valencia, in Carabobo state. They stole weapons and recorded a video of themselves. In it, a man who identifies himself as Captain Juan Caguaripano says that their action is \"not a coup d'etat\". \"This is a civic and military action to re-establish constitutional order,\" he says. \"But more than that, it is to save the country from total destruction.\" Venezuelan President Nicol??s Maduro said that for three hours there was fighting within the military base and that two of the attackers were killed and one injured. Information Minister Ernesto Villegas tweeted a picture of seven men whom he said had been arrested. The 10 remaining attackers escaped and are being sought by the security forces. Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino called it \"a terrorist paramilitary-type attack\", which according to him was \"immediately repelled\". He also said that those who carried out the attack were \"civilian delinquents, dressed in military garb\" and a lieutenant who had deserted months earlier. According to Gen Padrino, those detained confessed to having been \"hired by activists from the extreme right with foreign connections\". To the government and its supporters, this attack will be seen as proof that \"the black hand of imperialism\", as foreign minister Jorge Arreaza described it in a tweet, is trying to overthrow the government. President Maduro regularly blames foreign powers in general, and the US and neighbouring Colombia in particular, for everything from Venezuela's dire economic situation to the shortages of staple goods. Mr Arreaza also linked \"the terrorist actions of the right\" to what he said were attempts to isolate Venezuela internationally. Venezuela has come under intense international pressure in recent weeks for going ahead with a controversial constituent assembly. Linking this attack to foreign powers will boost President Maduro's power to dismiss international criticism as meddling. For the opposition, news of the attack was a sign that there is internal dissent within the armed forces. Leading opposition leaders have repeatedly called on the armed forces to join the protests against President Maduro but the army's top brass has so far staunchly defended the government. Seeing a video of uniformed men speaking of a \"legitimate rebellion\" raised the opposition's hopes that members of the rank and file were ready to switch sides. There were also rumours of the \"rebellion\" spreading to other army bases but there has so far been no independent confirmation of that. Among Venezuelans in general, who have lived through a number of attempted and successful military coups, news of the attack caused confusion and worry. While the \"quick response\" of the military was praised by President Maduro, 10 of the attackers remain on the run after raiding the arms depot. People claiming to have links to Captain Caguaripano took to social media to say that the operation had been a success and that a large amount of weapons had been taken and that the support of other military units had been secured. Venezuela's chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega was sacked on Saturday. It was one of the first decisions taken by the constituent assembly, sworn in the day before. Ms Ortega has been a thorn in the side of the government since the end of March, when she openly criticised the Supreme Court for its ruling stripping the opposition-controlled National Assembly of its powers. She has also denounced the constituent assembly as unconstitutional and publicly contradicted versions given by government officials about how protester Juan Pablo Pernalete was killed. The fact that the decision to remove her from office was unanimous suggests that the members of the constituent assembly are closely aligned with the government. It also suggests that the new assembly sees its duties as much more far reaching than just rewriting the constitution. Allies of President Maduro had said in the days before that Ms Ortega would not be in her post much longer. Opposition leaders fear that the fact that the constituent assembly acted so quickly to sack Ms Ortega means they will also vote in favour of other measures government officials have threatened, such as lifting legislators' immunity from prosecution. Ms Ortega, however, has refused to recognise the decision by the constituent assembly, which she says is illegal, and insists she continues to be Venezuela's chief prosecutor. There is likely to be a stand-off between Ms Ortega and the newly-named chief prosecutor Tarek William Saab. Meanwhile, influential politicians allied with the government have called for her to stand trial and the Supreme Court is currently weighing up whether there are grounds to charge her for allegedly \"violating public ethics\". When the constituent assembly first met on Saturday, the influential deputy leader of the governing socialist party, Diosdado Cabello, suggested it should meet for two years rather than six months as originally planned. To rapturous applause, his proposal to modify the rules extending the period that the assembly will meet was accepted. The constituent assembly has more powers than any other body in Venezuela. While a constituent assembly is normally created to rewrite an existing constitution or draft a new one, this assembly has already shown that it sees its powers as being much wider, such as sacking the chief prosecutor. The constituent assembly and its president, Delcy Rodriguez, will therefore play a key role in Venezuelan politics. It is already meeting in the legislative palace and critics fear it wants to replace the existing legislative branch, which also meets in the same building. As the opposition did not field any candidates, the constituent assembly is dominated by government loyalists who showed their allegiance by waving pictures of former President Hugo Ch??vez at their inauguration. While international leaders have said that they will not recognise the new assembly, its president does not seem bothered by the criticism from abroad, swearing to \"defend the homeland from the imperial aggression and the fascist right wing\".", "question": "Venezuela has been in crisis for months , with almost daily anti-government protests sweeping through the country . But @placeholder have been moving even faster since a controversial constituent assembly was sworn in on 4 August . Here , we take a look back at what has happened since and what it may mean .", "option_0": "people", "option_1": "forces", "option_2": "events", "option_3": "questions", "option_4": "members"}
{"id": 507, "article": "Harris Wofford, 90, wrote an opinion article in the New York Times voicing strong support for same-sex marriage. He said he felt lucky to live at a time when marriage had been \"strengthened\" in this way. Mr Wofford said his life was \"a story of two great loves\" - with his wife Clare, who died of leukaemia in 1996,  and with Matthew Charlton, 40. He wrote: \" I don't categorise myself based on the gender of those I love. I had a half-century of marriage with a wonderful woman, and now am lucky for a second time to have found happiness.\" In June 2015, the US Supreme Court struck down same-sex marriage bans in individual states, making gay and lesbian marriages legal across the country. Clare was a strong influence through Mr Wofford's political career. The couple had three children together. Mr Wofford, a Democrat, represented Pennsylvania in the US Senate between 1991 and 1995. He started his political life at the age of 18 by founding the Student Federalists, an organisation that promoted world federal government. He went on to become instrumental in the civil rights movement and joined the presidential campaign of John F Kennedy. Later, he worked with Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Five years after his wife's death, Mr Wofford met Mr Charlton. Mr Wofford wrote: \"Seeking to change something as deeply ingrained in law and public opinion as the definition of marriage seemed impossible. \"I was wrong, and should not have been so pessimistic. \"I had seen firsthand - working and walking with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - that when the time was right, major change for civil rights came to pass in a single creative decade. \"At age 90, I am lucky to be in an era where the Supreme Court has strengthened what President Obama calls 'the dignity of marriage' by recognising that matrimony is not based on anyone's sexual nature, choices or dreams. \"It is based on love.\"", "question": "A former US senator will get @placeholder this week - to someone of a different sex from his first spouse .", "option_0": "remarried", "option_1": "paid", "option_2": "spent", "option_3": "encouraged", "option_4": "solved"}
{"id": 508, "article": "Marler, who also avoided any action after being charged with striking Rob Evans, apologised after making the comment in England's win over Wales. Lee, from the Traveller community, said he accepted the comment as \"banter\". \"We are surprised by the decision of the Six Nations disciplinary hearing,\" a WRU statement read. \"We stand by our belief that that there is no place for the use of racist language in sport. \"Clearly this incident has raised broader issues for the game of rugby which require follow up and which we are undertaking directly with Six Nations.\" Marler has been named on the bench for England's final match of the Six Nations against France in Paris on Saturday. Six Nations Rugby said in a statement it was \"aware of the seriousness of Mr Marler's comment and does not in anyway condone what was said\" but accepted it was said \"in the heat of the moment\". It added that Marler \"deeply regretted what he had said\", had \"immediately and unprompted apologised to Mr Lee\" and noted that England head coach Eddie Jones \"had reprimanded Mr Marler and reminded him of his responsibilities as an international rugby player\". Campaigners from the Traveller community - and figures inside the sport - had been critical of Marler for making the comment and called for a ban. There was also criticism aimed at Jones and Wales head coach Warren Gatland for their responses to the incident. Gatland subsequently apologised for describing it as \"banter\". Wales' defence coach Shaun Edwards said: \"Well I can't speak for myself, but I speak for the organisation (WRU). \"We don't condone any sort of discrimination whether it be race, religion or sexuality etc. \"As an organisation we probably slightly disagree with it but a decision has been made. Move on.\" Asked about the incident where Marler appeared to strike Wales prop Evans with his elbow, Edwards replied: \"I didn't think it was that bad.\"", "question": "The Welsh Rugby Union says it is \" surprised \" England prop Joe Marler @placeholder punishment for his \" Gypsy boy \" comment to Wales prop Samson Lee .", "option_0": "offers", "option_1": "blaming", "option_2": "escaped", "option_3": "owed", "option_4": "praised"}
{"id": 509, "article": "That's about as far as it's safe for an obvious foreigner to go. Isis (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) is keeping a low profile and ruling Mosul, Iraq's second city, with a relatively light hand at the moment.  It is sharing control with an array of other rebel forces - dissident Sunni tribes, disgruntled former army officers, adherents of Saddam Hussein's old Baath Party, and others. But Isis is Isis, and it has a proven track record of abducting foreigners - most recently, 49 Turkish citizens from the consulate in Mosul, who are the focus of intense negotiations to obtain their freedom. But for those of Mosul's two million or so inhabitants who didn't flee as the rebels moved in - and for the few who have come back since - life has ironically in some ways improved, at least for the moment. Residents say the many checkpoints, blast-walls and barriers which hampered movement round the city when government forces were there, have been taken down, making moving around much easier. Also gone are the frequent bomb attacks and shootings - not surprising perhaps, since the rebels behind them are now in charge. The flow of traffic going in and out of the city on the main road indicated that, superficially at least, things are back to normal. More vehicles seemed to be heading in to Mosul than coming out, and those that were coming out certainly weren't crammed with desperate refugees. \"We're just off for a family visit,\" said one man at the wheel of a car full of smiling women and children. \"Apart from services, things are fine. It's safe. But people are worried, they don't know what will become of Mosul,\" he added. \"They're frightened that the army may try to fight its way back in. We're afraid of shelling, and bombardment from the air.\" Most of those coming out of the city complained about severe shortages of water, electricity and petrol. Supplies of the latter have shot up to seven or eight times the price in nearby Iraqi Kurdistan. Women said they were not being obliged to wear the veil, although many were doing so. All said that Isis was not bothering them. But Isis militants are reported to have destroyed some of the symbols of the city's rich cultural heritage. Statues to the 19th-Century composer and musician Othman al-Mosuli and the Abbasid-era poet Abu Tammam are said to have been smashed, and the tomb of Ibn al-Athir, a 12th-Century historian who travelled with Saladin, has been razed. The tomb of the prophet Noah has apparently survived so far, despite government predictions that it would be destroyed. Has the leopard changed its spots, or is Isis just biding its time, deferring for the moment to other rebel groups it may end up clashing with, and pragmatically courting public support to make it more difficult for it to be isolated and uprooted? \"Unlike the old al-Qaeda in Iraq under [Abu Musab] al-Zarqawi, who went after the local population, these guys are posing as the protectors of the people against a tyrannical Shia regime in Baghdad,\" said a senior Kurdish politician. \"They're handling it much better, and that makes them more dangerous. It will be harder to turn the tribes against them.\" When the provincial capital of Raqqa in Syria fell to Isis and other rebel groups last year, militant rule was at first relatively moderate. But later, Isis fought with the other factions and drove them out, including the official al-Qaeda franchise, the Nusra Front. Isis then imposed its own extremely harsh brand of Islamic rule, banning music, imposing strict dress code on women, implementing severe punishments such as beheadings and amputations, and destroying churches and monuments of any kind, which it regards as idolatry. No wonder that beneath the surface, many people in Mosul are anxious about their future. The current calm may not last for long. And it's hard to envisage almost any future scenario that does not involve further turmoil.", "question": "As the main road from the east passes into the outskirts of Mosul , you can see shimmering in the heat - haze a black banner hanging over the first checkpoint manned by fighters from Isis a few hundred metres away from the front - line @placeholder held by the Kurdish peshmerga forces .", "option_0": "outpost", "option_1": "fortress", "option_2": "positions", "option_3": "network", "option_4": "maternity"}
{"id": 510, "article": "Animal rights activists argued all proceeds from the picture, taken in 2011, should benefit the monkey. But a court in San Francisco disagreed, ruling copyright protection could not be applied to the monkey. Snapper David Slater, of Mathern, said he believed he was \"the first person in history to be sued by an animal\". The case was brought by the campaign group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) which claimed Naruto, a crested macaque from Indonesia, should be the author and owner. Yet Mr Slater, 50, said the monkey in his photograph was a female called Ella. The monkey took the photograph after Mr Slater set up the camera and purposefully left it alone so it would approach and play with it. He described the case as a \"long saga\" which he was \"relieved to get out of the way\". \"They [PETA] are more about money and publicity than animals. They have wasted people's donations on pursuing this case,\" he said. \"At least it's got people thinking about the monkey, its situation, animal rights and how intelligent these animals are.\" A spokeswoman from PETA said despite the \"setback\", the case was \"a vital step toward fundamental rights for non-human animals for their own sake\".", "question": "A Monmouthshire wildlife photographer involved in a copyright row over a monkey selfie was \" relieved \" after a court ruled in his @placeholder .", "option_0": "mouth", "option_1": "favour", "option_2": "post", "option_3": "future", "option_4": "honor"}
{"id": 511, "article": "The club said they had reviewed videos of the incident, which allegedly took place in Tuesday's 3-2 loss to Orient. A Plymouth statement said: \"We regard any physical or oral assault against our ball boys, or any representative of Argyle, to be utterly unacceptable.\" A Leyton Orient spokesman told BBC Sport they are aware of the incident. Plymouth's statement added the ball boy was \"shocked\" but is \"otherwise OK\". Following Tuesday's League Two defeat, Argyle manager Derek Adams criticised referee Chris Sarginson for not sending off 27-year-old Kelly for a separate incident. \"The referee didn't have a good night. I'm really unsure how Leyton Orient had 11 players on the park,\" Adams told BBC Radio Devon. \"Kelly should have been sent off for his tackle on [Antoni] Sarcevic. [Nicky] Hunt should have been sent off as well, how he stayed on the park I'll never know. \"The referee didn't have his best night.\"", "question": "Plymouth have reported Leyton Orient captain Liam Kelly to the Football Association , claiming one of their ball boys was \" @placeholder to the ground \" .", "option_0": "burned", "option_1": "chained", "option_2": "committed", "option_3": "progressed", "option_4": "shoved"}
{"id": 512, "article": "Mr Letwin was putting in an appearance before the Commons public administration committee which left MPs a little baffled. He said he believed that the charity was \"grossly\" mismanaged, misstated its statistics and needed a leadership clearout. Yet he did not think he made any errors in disbursing ¡ê7.3m of public funds to Kids Company since April. This led him into rather odd territory. For example, Bernard Jenkin, the chair, was incredulous when Mr Letwin said that he always believed \"a distinct gap between the claims for the numbers going on in public and what was really happening\". He thought that the charity was not helping as many people it was claiming. But, Mr Letwin explained, those published figures were not the basis on which the charity was supported by the government. His argument was, at times, also rather peculiar. For example, Mr Letwin attempted to knock back the idea that he was in thrall to Camila Batmanghelidjh, its chief executive. He revealed the details of how he handled what would prove to be Kids Company's last request for more money from the government - a request that came in mid-May from Alan Yentob, its chair of trustees and the BBC's creative director. The request came just six weeks after receiving what was supposed to be a final grant of ¡ê4.265m. He told MPs: \"I was sitting in a car in my constituency on the carphone. I took the call from Alan [Yentob] which my office had arranged... He said: 'If you don't give us some extra money now, we will go bust almost immediately.' I said, as I say, 'So be it'. I had made it clear that the ¡ê4.265m was the last such grant and I didn't find it hard to make that objective assessment.\" But it was not \"So be it\" to the closure. A few weeks later, Mr Letwin overruled officials to order a further payment of ¡ê3m to the charity. When pressed on this point, Mr Letwin said that he only did this on the condition that the charity changed its management and closed some of its services, so he was being tough. Not so. Other charities do not get impromptu ¡ê3m bailouts. Mr Letwin was also pressed on the question of why the charity was given the money when the Cabinet Office was in possession of what someone in the department called a \"gobsmacking\" interim report, written by PWC. This contained details of bizarre spending - it showed one client was being paid almost ¡ê1,000 a week. The minister knew the charity spent more than ¡ê50,000 funding someone described as the child of an Iranian diplomat, including their PhD study. He knew that two young people who have a relative working for a charity received support worth more than ¡ê130,000. His answer was that he could only cut off Kids Company if a Charity Commission statutory inquiry were launched. It is not clear why. Mr Letwin's argument was, at root, that he thought Kids Company did excellent work despite shambolic management. So, he argued, the core of what it did needed to preserved, even if the management did not. But he did not give a good explanation of why he thought it was so valuable. For example, when pressed on why he was convinced Kids Company deserved such generosity, Mr Letwin said he had visited it in 2001 to 2003 - more than a decade ago. He also brought up work by Methods Consulting, research which had been conducted at the behest of the Department for Education to assess the charity. But Methods' work seems to have been weak. As the NAO wrote, the \"scope of its work did not include looking at the quality of the charity's services\".  Methods only measured the volume of work - and it got whacky results. For example, the charity was set a target of 1,347 \"interventions\" in?2013 to 14. According to the NAO, they delivered?30,217. This does not suggest a well-calibrated measure. Mr Letwin's view about its safeguarding practice was also debatable. He was wrong to claim Kids Company was not unusual, for a charity of its size, in not being inspected, regulated or overseen by either Ofsted or a local authority. And Mr Letwin's retort that the staff had been vetted for prior criminal convictions is to miss the point. As Newsnight and BuzzFeed News reported, there are serious questions about whether it was effective at keeping young people safe. So how to judge Mr Letwin's performance? The select committee will report in the New Year. The minister did not win them over. He rather confirmed the sense that Kids Company was a well connected charity which threatened ministers with the consequences of its own closure - and Mr Letwin could not make a convincing, positive case for the funding he gave it. Still, he did manage one thing. The hearing was about him, not his boss, the Prime Minister. Tim Loughton, a former children's minister, told the committee earlier that David Cameron was \"mesmerised\" by Ms Batmanghelidjh. If that was - as expected - the end of the public administration committee's process, the Prime Minister may have got away with not being dragged into this row.", "question": "The minister who overruled civil service objections to pay a ¡ê 3 m grant to the now - shut charity Kids Company just days before it @placeholder has said that he does not regret his decision . Oliver Letwin says the charity might well have been an \" abundant success \" , but for the fact that it folded suddenly in early August amid a police investigation .", "option_0": "launched", "option_1": "force", "option_2": "collapsed", "option_3": "evidence", "option_4": "team"}
{"id": 513, "article": "The West Bromwich-based Black Country Ale Tairsters began visiting pubs listed on a map, issued by Wolverhampton brewer Banks's, in 1984. But on Friday, they arrived at the Knot and Plough in Stafford where they were given free drinks. The group's co-founder Peter Hill said ?¡ê24,000 has been raised for charity since their epic tour began. He has asked landlords at each pub for a ?¡ê1 donation. More updates on this story and other in Birmingham and the Black Country \"I am the Samuel Pepys of my day. On every pub crawl everything is documented - from the beers in the pub to the decor,\" he said. The Tairsters - Black Country dialect for tasters - initially planned to tour just 300 inns listed on the brewer's map, but turned their focus to the 12 Midlands counties in 1991, followed by a seven-year tour of Wales in 2006. Mr Hill, who has drunk 46,632 pints during the tour, said the milestone was \"a bit emotional\" after losing his father in 2014. \"Last May when we'd done 19,000 I took my lump sum out of my pension to get to 20,000 and I have spent the bloody lot. \"Today is a bit emotional to be honest because it was my dad's ambition to get to 20,000 and it would have been his birthday tomorrow,\" said Mr Hill, A spokesman for Marston's, which runs the pub, praised the group. \"Pete and his friends' journey is a brilliant achievement. \"The fact he's raised thousands for good causes while having a great time is a tribute to him and the Great British pub.\"", "question": "A team of charity pub-crawlers has @placeholder its 20,000th ale house after three decades of touring pubs .", "option_0": "closed", "option_1": "called", "option_2": "reopened", "option_3": "raised", "option_4": "reached"}
{"id": 514, "article": "The sixth edition of the Big Burns Supper runs until 29 January. Lulu will help kick off proceedings at the Easterbrook Hall on Friday night with Nicola Benedetti, King Creosote and many other acts to follow. A Burns Night Carnival is also planned for Sunday which will see thousands of people take to the streets. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Charlie Landsborough, Seth Lakeman and Hackney Colliery Band are other acts involved this year. Eddi Reader, Sean Hughes, the Peatbog Faeries, Emily Smith, Paul Foot and Dervish are also taking part. The festival sees the return of the Le Haggis cabaret show which is now in its fourth edition. Earlier this year, the festival announced a venue switch to the Crichton site with the end of the use of the Spiegeltent in Dumfries town centre. Organisers have said the programme will hopefully offer \"something for everybody\".", "question": "A 10 - day festival of music , theatre and comedy @placeholder the world 's biggest Burns Night celebration is getting under way in Dumfries .", "option_0": "retained", "option_1": "praising", "option_2": "dubbed", "option_3": "surrounding", "option_4": "became"}
{"id": 515, "article": "Rupert Soames tweeted on the matter after the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) raised concerns about ScotRail's ban on guns. BASC said the ban threatened Scotland's field sports tourism. ScotRail's ban, which affects lawfully-owned guns, came after a firearm was left unattended on a train this year. Mr Soames, chief executive at Serco, tweeted: \"Worried about Scotrail Fireams ban? Relax @CalSleeper welcomes responsible customers with licensed firearms. #bestwaytotravelnorth.\" The Caledonian Sleeper provides services between London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Aberdeen and Fort William. Among BASC's concerns was a \"negative impact\" on the Glorious Twelfth. Traditionally, the first day of the grouse shooting season is 12 August. ScotRail said the decision to introduce the ban was made for safety reasons after a licensed firearm was left unattended on one of its trains earlier this year.", "question": "A boss at the company that operates the Caledonian Sleeper has issued a @placeholder that licensed firearms can be transported on that train service .", "option_0": "message", "option_1": "clue", "option_2": "license", "option_3": "disruption", "option_4": "bid"}
{"id": 516, "article": "With the EU Referendum stubbornly stuck at neck-and-neck for weeks before we went to the polls stand-offs between TV crews and party organisers demanding to \"check the shot\" before their politician steps off the battle bus became an everyday occurrence. Even with that level of scrutiny it did not always go to plan. Take the prime minister's visit to drum up support for the Remain campaign among first-time voters in West Yorkshire. On paper it was foolproof: a photo opportunity in a school library discussing the issues with sixth formers followed by an interview with me in a nearby empty classroom. It almost became the stuff of dreams for the front cover picture editors of \"Private Eye\" because of two simple words that were really not part of the spin doctor's script. The first word was on a wall behind the spot in the classroom where my camera crew had set up to record my interview. It was festooned with umpteen big and colourful cardboard cut-outs of words intended to improve the vocabulary of young minds. Seconds before David Cameron walked in I spotted there was a notice pinned to the wall which would have been right alongside his right ear. It said: \"The word of the week is - Specious\". Any 11-year-old who had been paying attention in the previous English language lesson would know that Mr Cameron was in grave danger of being labelled  with a word that means \"superficially plausible\". Afterwards I explained this to the school principal and she let me into the secret of the other word that might have turned the entire visit into farce. \"We had to move the table in the library where the sixth formers were due to sit with the prime minister. We noticed that it was in the section where there were three big signs behind him describing what sort of books were on the shelves.\" The signs said \"fiction, fiction and fiction\". At times this Referendum campaign deteriorated into one of the bitterest election slanging matches I have ever covered. Yet there was still room for the odd chuckle. Nigel Farage provided most of them. From the top deck of his vintage open-topped battle bus he was supposed to be addressing assembled South Yorkshire activists with a pep talk. But he couldn't resist giving an unscripted photo opportunity to the assembled camera crews by waving his arms around to conduct the campaign theme music  - \"The Great Escape\"- when it started blaring out from the loud speaker system. The opening words for my BBC Look North script that night just about wrote themselves: \"Nobody conducts an election campaign like Nigel Farage\". The battle buses themselves created a few more unintended smiles. UKIP campaign organisers allowed so many camera crews to follow Mr Farage on board before it headed off for a meet-the-people session at Chapeltown near Sheffield that it grounded as it tried to drive out of the gates of the cricket club where we had all met up before the event. The noisy crunching sound and the startled look of the driver were all captured on camera and broadcast several times that night. When Boris Johnson came bounding down the steps of his bright red bus to address the assembled crowds in York nobody noticed it had parked on double yellow lines... except one of the local traffic wardens. But the battle bus blushes were all forgotten a couple of weeks later as the results of the counts came into the Yorkshire Regional counting centre at Leeds Arena. After all, Nigel and Boris finished up having the last laugh.", "question": "When political managers and spin doctors are fighting one of the tightest elections in living memory they will often go to the point of absurdity to ensure television pictures tell the @placeholder they want .", "option_0": "power", "option_1": "outcome", "option_2": "message", "option_3": "region", "option_4": "county"}
{"id": 517, "article": "NHS England guidelines say that 85% of patients should wait a maximum of 62 days to begin their first treatment following referral from their GP. But figures show this slipped to 84.4% from January to March this year. Charities Cancer Research UK and Macmillan Cancer Support both said it was a worrying sign. The target for treating people diagnosed with cancer within 62 days fell from 85.8% during the previous quarter to 84.4% in the first three months of 2014. Mike Hobday, director of policy and research at Macmillan Cancer Support, said the number of trusts missing this target had doubled over the last year. \"This is a clear warning sign that the NHS is under huge strain. \"The UK already has some of the worst cancer survival rates in Europe. \"More patients are now facing delays, which means more patients are facing anxiety for longer and more lives are being put at risk. \"We're very worried that the coordination of cancer care is getting worse and that cancer is being overlooked in the new NHS.\" He said cancer patients were set to increase from two million to three million by 2020. Sarah Woolnough, executive director of policy and information at Cancer Research UK, said some patients were being failed. \"The breach of the '62 day target' is very concerning, particularly as four in 10 of those who aren't treated within two months are having to wait three months or more. \"These targets exist to encourage swift diagnosis of cancer and access to treatment, which is vital to improve survival rates. \"Patients want confidence that suspected cancer is taken seriously and prioritised by the NHS. We hope urgent action will be taken to ensure this breach is a one off.\" Sean Duffy, national clinical director for cancer for NHS England, said work must be done to make sure standards are met. \"It is vital cancer patients are diagnosed and treated quickly so they have the best possible chance of recovery,\" he said. \"Latest figures show nationally the NHS has met and exceeded seven out of eight cancer waiting time standards. But there is variation in meeting the challenging standards, and national performance against one of the targets has dipped.\" He said clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) were working with local providers in areas where the standard is not being met to ensure patients are treated quickly. Other figures released by NHS England on cancer waiting times showed the number of people seen by a specialist within two weeks of an urgent GP referral for suspected cancer also dropped from 95.6% to 95%. For people urgently referred for breast symptoms, where cancer is not suspected, 93.9% are being seen within two weeks, compared to 95.5% previously. The target is 93%. In total, 60,425 patients with breast symptoms where cancer was not initially suspected were seen in the first three months of this year after being urgently referred.", "question": "A key government target for treating people diagnosed with suspected cancer has been breached for the first time since it was @placeholder in 2009 .", "option_0": "introduced", "option_1": "discovered", "option_2": "posted", "option_3": "published", "option_4": "reported"}
{"id": 518, "article": "Researchers are concerned about the climate change potential of these wispy, man-made clouds. But a new study suggests that making changes to existing flight routes could curb their warming impact. Avoiding a major contrail on a flight to New York from London would only add 22km to the journey, experts say. Contrails are formed when planes fly through very cold, moist air and the exhausts from their engines condense into a visible vapour. These can be very large in size: they can be up to 150km in length and can last up to 24 hours. Scientists have been arguing about the climate impact of contrails for many years, as the clouds that they form impact both cooling and warming. Contrails reflect sunlight back into space and cool the Earth but they also trap infrared energy in the atmosphere, adding to warming. Researchers believe that the warming effect is more significant than the cooling. Now scientists at the University of Reading have tried to work out how this impact could be reduced by altering the flight paths of long and short haul aircraft. Previous work has suggested that planes could fly at lower altitudes to limit the trails, but this means burning significantly more fuel and adding to CO2 emissions. Is jet travel becoming the dirtiest way to cross the planet? The Reading study attempted to see if the benefits of curbing contrails would outweigh the extra fuel burned if flights were re-routed at the optimum flying altitude. \"You think that you have to do some really huge distance to avoid these contrails,\" lead author Dr Emma Irvine told BBC News. \"But because of the way the Earth curves you can actually have quite small extra distances added onto the flight to avoid some really large contrails.\" The researchers found that short haul aircraft are more fuel efficient and can add up to 10 times the length of the contrail to their journeys and still reduce overall warming potential. So if a flight from the UK to Spain is predicted to create a 20km long contrail, as long as the plane flew less than 200km extra to avoid it, the overall warming impact would be reduced. For large planes on longer routes, this reduces to three times the contrail length. But longer routes over oceans and unpopulated areas, offer more flexibility to minimally alter flight paths. The researchers found that large contrails could be avoided on flights between London and New York by adding just an extra 22km to the route. \"The key things you need to know are the temperature of the air and how moist it is, these are things we forecast at the moment, so the information is already in there,\" said Dr Irvine. \"Whether the forecasts are accurate enough to do this is another question.\" On average, 7% of the total distance flown by aircraft is in the type of air where long lasting contrails form. But at present, calculations on the impact of aviation on global warming don't include them. The European Union has attempted to include flights in its emissions trading scheme with limited success. Long haul flights originating or arriving in the EU will be subject to carbon restrictions from 2017. But the Reading team say that these efforts will still miss out on a significant source of warming from aviation. \"The mitigation targets currently adopted by governments all around the world do not yet address the important non-CO2 climate impacts of aviation, such as contrails, which may cause a climate impact as large, or even larger, than the climate impact of aviation CO2 emissions,\" said Dr Irvine. \"We believe it is important for scientists to assess the overall impact of aviation and the robustness of any proposed mitigation measures in order to inform policy decisions. Our work is one step along this road.\" The research has been published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Follow Matt on Twitter @mattmcgrathbbc.", "question": "Large condensation trails in the sky caused by aircraft could be @placeholder by re-routing flight paths , say scientists .", "option_0": "seen", "option_1": "identified", "option_2": "accompanied", "option_3": "eliminated", "option_4": "transformed"}
{"id": 519, "article": "But while there might be a tendency to keep it simple and straightforward, the following list is enough to leave any keyboard wobbling with fear. Twenty-five of the most common passwords from the 3.3 million leaked online last year have been revealed by SplashData. The password management firm has been compiling the annual list since 2011. For the second year running 123456 and password were top of the pile. We've taken a look at the list and if you're worried then maybe it's time to use song lyrics to stay safe online. No, really! Common passwords are much easier to guess and that makes users vulnerable to having accounts like email and online banking hacked. New additions to this year's list include: baseball, dragon, football, mustang, access, master, michael, superman, batman and 696969. Other number-related passwords on the list are: 12345, 12345678, 1234567890, 1234, 1234567, 111111, 123123. Most of the passwords stolen and revealed in 2014 came from users in North America and Western Europe. Experts recommend avoiding favourite sports, birthdays and keyboard patterns when thinking up a new password. Shadow, monkey and phrases: letmein and trustno1 also made the list. Good advice, that last one. And if you're still in any doubt - our technology reporter Jonathan Blake has this advice. \"Don't use words, use phrases, like the first letter of each word,\" he says. \"And change it regularly.\" Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "question": "\" Oh damn ! I 've forgotten it ... again . \" It 's a common phrase of many people when trying to @placeholder their password .", "option_0": "choose", "option_1": "quit", "option_2": "enter", "option_3": "improve", "option_4": "get"}
{"id": 520, "article": "Cleveland Police has already apologised to the officers, two journalists and a solicitor whose phones were accessed while investigating leaks to the media. A United Kingdom Investigatory Power tribunal ruled the force's actions were not proportionate. The tribunal said the invasion of privacy was \"serious and distressing\" Cleveland Police accessed phone records of the officers and Northern Echo journalists for four months in 2012 under Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) legislation. The force claimed it was concerned information was being illegally leaked to the media. Former officers Mark Dias and Steve Matthews claim they were targeted after challenging misconduct by fellow officers. The tribunal said there was no evidence they had acted criminally. The officers were awarded compensation on the basis the force's actions affected their \"future careers and reputations\". Although the breach of the journalists' and solicitor's phones was a \"serious matter\", the tribunal said compensation to them was not necessary as their careers were not at risk. The tribunal also said it was unable to rule on Mr Dias's complaints about the force's treatment of Asian officers but did say Chief Constable Iain Spittall has a \"serious issue to resolve\" which could have \"profound consequences for the force\". A statement from Cleveland Police said: \"A large amount of work is underway to ensure that such activity as occurred in 2012 doesn't happen again and that lessons are learned. \"This work includes the ongoing review of professional standards and an external review of RIPA authorisations relating to professional standards and spanning the last six years.\"", "question": "Two former police officers whose phones were illegally @placeholder by their own force have been awarded ¡ê 3,000 compensation .", "option_0": "criticised", "option_1": "monitored", "option_2": "barred", "option_3": "abused", "option_4": "attacked"}
{"id": 521, "article": "In her BBC Wales Sport column, world triathlon champion Non Stanford discusses her progress following injury, Helen Jenkins's comeback and reveals what music she listens to when running. She reveals the injury means she has given up on defending her world title, but Stanford is now focused on the Commonwealth Games, where she will represent Wales alongside former double world champion Jenkins. Jenkins has returned to the World Series following a year out with injury and finished third and second in the opening two races of the season in Auckland and Cape Town respectively. However, another former World champion, Leanda Cave, revealed she had not been picked for the Commonwealth Games with Stanford saying she understood her frustration at missing out. Things are moving in the right direction and I'm up and about on two feet and on two wheels so I'm a very happy person right now. Now, when I look back, it seem like the time's gone quite quickly. I'm used to doing so much training so in those first couple of weeks where I literally couldn't do anything, physically I felt terrible. I felt like I'd put on about two stone. I obviously didn't but you just feel like you have no control over your body and you feel lethargic. But I kept myself as busy as possible. I have loads of friends and family that visited me and kept me company. I'm back running so that's great progress. At one point, I was really worried and it feels like you're never going to get back, but back running for an hour is really fantastic. I felt on top of the world. I'm really hoping to be back racing for the Europeans, which is in mid-June. I train with a lot of the girls that race and waving them off from my doorstep as they fly off to New Zealand, South Africa and lately Japan has probably been the toughest bit. I haven't watched one of the races on TV - I've been out on my bike every single time. When I've been out on the bike I've been consciously pushing really hard because I know they're all racing hard. This year the ITU decided that they would increase the number of races you had to do for the series. Last year it was four plus the grand final - this year it's five plus the grand final which is a big ask, especially in Commonwealth year when 80% of the field are going to have to race Commonwealths as well. It was an interesting decision and I know there's a lot of reasons why they've done it. But for me it does mean that I've had to give up any ambition I had of defending my world title, which was tough and took me quite a few weeks to come to terms with. I've had to give up on that one but there's always the Commonwealth Games and that was always the main focus of the year. If I won the Commonwealth Games, that would make up for everything. I was fortunate to do some training with her over the winter and we knew she was in great shape and things were looking great for her. It's tough to come back from being out for a year. Those first few races I know she was really nervous and apprehensive and we were like 'You'll be fine, don't worry'. It is hard after injury and Helen had such a tough time with it and we were all so pleased she's back. I think the whole triathlon community, even people from all over the world, were so delighted to see Helen back on the podium and back racing, because she's just a fantastic athlete. Helen for world champion this year? Definitely, we want to keep it in Wales don't we! My parents have always been incredibly supportive. Bank of mum and dad have helped a lot over the years. Initially I definitely needed the bank of mum starting out. It's probably only the last year that I was able to stand on my own two feet and provide for myself. I'm really fortunate that I've had the support of UK Sport and British Triathlon over the last few years as well which helps. I think with a lot of Olympic and elite sports it's only really the top people that can support themselves and make a living out of it. There's a lot of athletes below who are struggling to make ends meet and literally race to put food on the table and then make it to the next race in order to win some more money. It's really tough and being from Britain we are very fortunate that we're well looked after and there is support out there. Some of the other athletes from around the world do struggle. When I'm running I love it when Fleetwood Mac comes on the shuffle. I was brought up with it on in the house when I was younger and it's stayed with me. I love the older music, the golden oldies. I think that's my parents' influence, growing up listening to Mike and the Mechanics, Sting and The Police and The Beatles. That's what's on my iPod. I don't know whether I should admit that! *Non Stanford was talking to Radio Wales Sport's Steffan Garrero.", "question": "The 25 - year - old has resumed training after being sidelined with a foot injury in March and is confident it will not hinder her @placeholder for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July .", "option_0": "status", "option_1": "future", "option_2": "preparations", "option_3": "selection", "option_4": "fitness"}
{"id": 522, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device At the age of 14, with a taste of what could be in store, future reigning Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic champion Adam Peaty was pretty sure the swimmer's life was not for him. \"I remember it was a Sunday evening and we used to do a double session on Sundays so it was a full training day,\" breaststroke specialist Peaty told BBC Sport from his new training base in Loughborough. \"I was in the gym doing 3,000 reps of everything, burpees and press ups until I was goosed. \"I got into the car and said to my mum: 'I don't want to do this any more, I want to quit'. She said just keep going until the end of the next week and so on each week.\" A mother's wisdom involving some cleverly-timed mind games kept the teenage Peaty sweet enough to see the hard work begin to pay off. But the 22-year-old is clear in his mind that his long-serving coach Mel Marshall - now the National Lead Centre Coach at Loughborough - takes considerable credit for his incredible transformation from a kid \"whose times weren't the best\" to the world's best. Marshall's appointment as head coach at the City of Derby Swimming Club in November 2008 was the start of an incredible journey for both of them. \"It was insane when I first started,\" explained Peaty. \"I was making up for time I had lost, I was racing kids who had been racing for ages, who had that experience and fitness on me. \"But as soon as I started to get the ball rolling with Mel, that was when it popped and everything kind of blew up.\" In swimming terms, only taking the sport completely seriously at the age of 14 meant he had some catching up to do. Many top-level swimmers have been sampling the delights of six or seven sessions per week and ungodly alarm calls since before they have reached double digits. \"I speak to a lot of kids and parents and they are throwing their kids into 4am training at eight, nine and 10 years old,\" said Peaty. \"It's weird because, for me, I think I have been successful because I haven't had that grilling from a young age.\" It is no wonder that swimming is seen as a very young person's sport and that it is commonplace for retirement to come in the mid-20s. Double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington finished in 2013 at the age of 23, while one of the world's best sprinters Fran Halsall called time on a glittering career at the age of 26 in January. \"Some of the best athletes in the world are the late starters,\" said Uttoxeter-born Peaty. \"Maybe they have more energy because they haven't been doing it for so long. \"As soon as I left school, I wanted to do it professionally and here I am. \"I am enjoying it a lot more from 16 or 17, whereas kids who have done it from a young age - sometimes, not always - are burning out at 16 or 17 and want to do other things like hang out with their mates, go to the cinema and at 18 go to the pub.\" The rare possibility of a few drinks at the pub was part of the post-Rio partying process. An entire month off was as needed as it was welcomed. And Peaty is feeling the benefit. \"We needed that emotional and physical break so we can repair everything,\" he explained. \"You can have a bit of downtime and enjoy having a little bit of a normal life. We don't drink and eat bad food when we are training. To go and party and celebrate the proper way was so needed.\" Another significant change has been Peaty's relocation, which has seen him move house from the Derby area to be within 10 minutes of his Loughborough training base. The improved facilities and cutting down on travelling has been a big help. \"My times are really good for this time of year. It's looking good to say the least,\" he said. \"My performance has gone up again, which is great to hear at the start of another four-year cycle. I personally think I have got stronger. I am lifting more in the gym and am swimming faster for longer.\" Marshall concurs. \"In the water he is certainly not holding back,\" said his coach of nine and a half years. \"I am seeing him do things recently that he has never done before. It's very exciting. \"I want to really harness things that are special. We have got a history and have been through a lot together so I want to keep those elements, but I also want us to grow as a relationship. Marshall says Peaty has embraced his celebrity and success but remains grounded and humble. But there are differences. \"He drives a really nice car now,\" she said. \"He has changed but for the better; he copes with the media really well, he gives back to the community, he gets involved in charity challenges, he's a good role model and always has time for everybody. \"In terms of those things you are looking for from an Olympic champion, he really exercises those on a regular basis.\" Media playback is not supported on this device There seems little risk of complacency from either Marshall or Peaty. \"Mel is always the first one to ground you,\" said Peaty. \"Even if you think you will have a little bit of a walk, she says: 'Oi you, get in the pool and do this'. That is the way I like it. That is the way to have to work if you want to be professional. \"I want to get into the pool every single day and not care about what I have done in the past. I want to look to the future and this is how I get a better future. That is the way I see it.\" The chance and desire to defend his many titles means Peaty has more than enough goals to focus on during the next four-year Olympic cycle. \"It's weird because it's starting again,\" he said. \"It's my second time around. \"I'm getting older and I'm becoming one of the more experienced ones in the group. I'm not that kid who was trying to take on the world and be everything at the same time. \"Now I'm wiser and a bit more experienced. I know where to put my energy and I know where to put my emotions - and hopefully it will come out with more wins.\" Peaty says pressure is something that \"pushes him\", rather than holding him back. \"I never ever feel pressure,\" he said. \"I think that was why I could go into my first Olympics, race and get a world record and I could go into an Olympic final and not really treat it as an Olympic final - except from the last 50 where I was possessed. \"You have to open your mind up to that positivity and fill your mind with the positive thoughts. \"And the positive thought this time is I am the Olympic champion, world champion, European champion and Commonwealth champion. \"I have the world record and that is probably what the competitors are thinking about, so it's their thing to worry about and mine to gain confidence from.\"", "question": "There is no escaping 5 am starts , lung - crushing 50 m sprint sets , relentless double training sessions designed to push the @placeholder to the limit and the added bonus of punishing gym routines .", "option_0": "resources", "option_1": "process", "option_2": "chance", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "athletes"}
{"id": 523, "article": "The game was launched by a Japanese company back in 1996, and it grew to be one of the most successful video games of all time. The series started as a black and white game on a hand held device called a gameboy, but led to dozens of sequels and spin-offs, as well as films and TV shows, and masses of merchandise. We want to know why you think Pokemon is so successful, and how it compares to your other favourite games. Your comments I prefer Minecraft. Lola, New Zealand Pokemon is my favourite game ever, next to the Professor Layton series. I have played almost all the games and I hope they bring out a new one soon. Lucy, England I've never been a fan of Pokemon, I'm more for Treyarch and Activision games. Harry, London, England Pokemon has stayed so popular because it has strategy so you need to think. That's why it's so popular even today. Sean, Cornwall, England I prefer older games like Mario Kart WII and Mario and Sonic at The London 2012 Olympic Games. Jessica, London, England My favourite video game is Pokemon and Pikachu. I have no idea why Pokemon has stayed popular for a long time, however I do like the newer games. Anees Pokemon always has and always will be my favourite video game! Lucy, Maidenhead, England Pokemon is my fav game with sonic the hedgehog and Pokemon is my fav because I used to collect Pokemon cards since I was 3 and I'm just 8 so that means that I still collect Pokemon cards for 5 years!!!!! Patrick, Cornwall, England I prefer newer games and cute games. Amy, Bedfordshire, England Pokemon is a great game. It is great and I am not surprised it is still up e???e???e??? Elli, Ireland This chat page is now closed. Thank you for your comments.", "question": "The Pokemon video game franchise turned 20 on Saturday , with gamers @placeholder two decades of monster - catching .", "option_0": "featuring", "option_1": "attacking", "option_2": "claiming", "option_3": "celebrating", "option_4": "praising"}
{"id": 524, "article": "The full story of the most acrimonious row between doctors and government in modern times and the first ever walkout affecting all care by medics in the history of the NHS will no doubt be told when the dust has settled. Early drafts, however, are already being pieced together. Right now the dispute is not technically over as junior doctor members of the British Medical Association are considering the outline deal on pay and working conditions hammered out with the government. The revised contract will be published soon and it will be closely scrutinised. The ballot closes at the end of June with the result due in the first week of July. The result is not a foregone conclusion. Both sides are keeping their heads down to avoid inflaming the mood as doctors make their decision on the contract. But that has not stopped the leak of social media correspondence amongst leading members of the BMA revealing sensitive internal discussions as the row with ministers intensified. Published in detail in Health Service Journal (HSJ), the leaked exchanges with more than 1,000 private messages suggest the BMA was considering a hard line strategy which would lead to a prolonged dispute. Using the social media messaging service What's App, the executive of the BMA junior doctors' committee discussed privately their approach from late last year. Leaks of the material published in HSJ include comments reportedly from Dr Johann Malawana, chairman of the junior doctors' committee, including the idea of using IA (industrial action) as \"a genuine tool once againa€| in a series of negotiations that are interspersed with IA\". Dr Malawana's remarks refer to a plan for \"five weeks of headlines about juniors strikes through January and February\" and \"a strategy that tied the DH ( Department  of Health) up in knots for the next 16-18 months\". He made clear that this was not formal BMA policy, but the exchanges suggest it echoed the thinking of the committee executive. On another occasion he says: \"The best solution may actually [be] to draw this right out. Into the Europe debate and leadership debate. Punctuated IA for a prolonged period and force them to impose against our support.\" These private exchanges appear to be at odds with the BMA's publicly stated position at the time of being willing to continue talks in search of a solution and urging the government to stay at the negotiating table. The idea of \"forcing\" ministers to impose the contract will certainly raise eyebrows at Westminster among those who have criticised the BMA for organising the series of strikes which lead to tens of thousands of postponed operations. HSJ has not published every private message it obtained, so it's not possible to get a full flavour of the range of opinion across the junior doctors' committee. But the BMA has not denied that the exchanges are genuine. A spokesperson said: \"These conversations go back over six months and reflect the anger and frustration felt by junior doctors across the country due to the government's refusal to listen to their concerns. \"Private discussions should not be mistaken for the agreed strategy of the BMA junior doctors' committee, which was communicated publicly.\" The statement goes on to argue that what really matters was not what happened in private a few months ago, but the fact that a negotiated settlement was eventually reached. We may never know the source of the leak. The string of messages could have been passed to HSJ with the tacit blessing of the junior doctors' committee to show they were prepared to stand up to the government and fight for as long as it took to get an acceptable settlement. There have been mutterings in some quarters that the leadership compromised too much to reach the final deal. The story is not finished. The final page could come with the junior doctor ballot result in July. But that has not prevented more detail being added to earlier chapters in this intriguing tale.", "question": "One day a history of the junior doctors ' dispute in England will be @placeholder .", "option_0": "implemented", "option_1": "launched", "option_2": "written", "option_3": "revealed", "option_4": "delayed"}
{"id": 525, "article": "Two Nigerian guards were killed in the attack, said Katsina state police commissioner Abdullahi Magaji. French President Francois Hollande said his government would do everything it could to find the unnamed engineer. Katsina has been relatively unscathed by recent violence in northern Nigeria carried out by Islamist militants. As the unknown group fled, they attacked a police station, Mr Magaji said. He told AFP news agency he did not think the Boko Haram militant group, which is based in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, was behind the kidnapping. The kidnapped man worked for a French company on a wind power project in the town of Rimi, about 25km (15 miles) from Katsina city, AFP reports. Two security guards were shot dead in the attack, while a police officer was wounded, the police commissioner said. Earlier this year, a kidnapped German engineer was killed by his captors during a failed rescue bid. The BBC's Will Ross in Nigeria says it is thought the group holding him had links to al-Qaeda's North African wing, which is active in neighbouring Niger, and Mali. A British and an Italian hostage were also killed this year during a similar attempt to free them by British and Nigerian forces. There has been a spate of recent kidnappings in southern Nigeria, where the motive is usually a ransom.", "question": "A group of 30 gunmen have used dynamite to force their way into a well - guarded compound in northern Nigeria and @placeholder a French engineer , police say .", "option_0": "following", "option_1": "seize", "option_2": "organised", "option_3": "threatening", "option_4": "suffered"}
{"id": 526, "article": "Euan Sutherland, already a non-executive director at the firm for two years, has been announced as new CEO. Mr Dunkerton said the decision was due to the \"increasing complexity of the business\" and it was \"the right time to bring someone in of Euan's calibre\". Mr Sutherland quit his job as boss of the Co-Operative Group in March. He has previously worked at B&Q, Dixons and Coca-Cola. Mr Dunkerton will now have the role of Founder and Product and Brand Director. Superdry products are sold in over 100 countries via 135 UK stores, concessions and online. The business was set up by Mr Dunkerton 30 years ago from a market stall in Cheltenham.", "question": "The founder of Superdry , Julian Dunkerton , has stepped aside as CEO at SuperGroup to focus on the brand 's @placeholder and its product range .", "option_0": "history", "option_1": "image", "option_2": "life", "option_3": "event", "option_4": "freedom"}
{"id": 527, "article": "17 April 2016 Last updated at 13:57 BST The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or Beam for short, began connecting to the station's Tranquillity module at 10.30am (UK time) on Saturday. It took about four hours for Nasa astronauts to complete the installation. It looks like a giant pillow and, when its fully inflated at the end of May, it will be large enough to hold a car. Astronauts will test the module, which is designed by Nasa and Bigelow Aerospace, for two years to see how it holds up in space.", "question": "The first inflatable space @placeholder has been attached to the International Space Station .", "option_0": "home", "option_1": "pod", "option_2": "history", "option_3": "shuttle", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 528, "article": "The mother had intended for her son to look like his idol, AFL player Nic Naitanui, for his school's book week. But her Facebook post caused a huge outcry from those who saw it as racist. In a statement, the player said the boy's attempt to emulate his hero \"hurts my heart\". The Australian Football League player, who plays for West Coast Eagles, said children were \"unaware of the painful significance\" of blackface. Mr Naitanui, who is of Fijian heritage, said on Twitter that he didn't believe the mother had \"any intention to cause harm\". But he said she should \"reflect and choose an alternate method next time\". \"It's a shame racism coexists in an environment where our children should be nurtured not tortured because they are unaware of the painful historical significance blackface has had previously.\" The Western Australian mother had originally made her post on the Facebook page of popular blogger Constance Hall. The woman, who is not being named by the media to protect her child, said her son regarded Mr Naitanui as his idol and he wanted to dress up as him for Book Week. She said she was worried about \"politically correct extremists\" but decided to dress him up as he wanted anyway, in an AFL strip, dreadlock wig and with body paint. \"He is pastey white and if I just sent him in a wig and footy gear, no one would tell who he was. \"So I grew a set of balls and painted my boy brown. After being told by everyone not to do it, my son won the parade!\" The post, which has since been deleted, went viral amid widespread debate online. The mother later posted on her Facebook page that she had been \"called every single name under the sun, had my words twisted into other people's negative interpretations\". But she also said she had received messages of support from \"amazing women all over the world\". Mrs Hall later said she had also received a backlash, including death threats, for hosting the photo on her page. In an emotional post, she said she had \"never received so much abuse\" in her life, and that some was from the woman's family. \"I didn't think I was shaming her at all, I clearly stated that I don't believe she is racist at all, she has a beautiful son with a great hero. I just don't think we should paint our kids in blackface if it offends and hurts people. \" In an earlier post justifying her decision to delete the mother's post, she had said blackface was \"hurtful to our indigenous brothers and sisters\". The incident has also sparked furious debate on social media, between people who saw it as racist and people who thought it a child's innocent tribute. \"How is blackface still happening in 2016?\" a Twitter user said. \"Dear white people. Please stop trying to defend #Blackface you're making us all look bad,\" said another. Briggs, a prominent Indigenous Australian rapper, said on Twitter: \"Colour is not a costume.\" \"All these white dudes telling me I'm 'making it an issue', I hope so. It's your privilege to ignore this stuff - it's my burden call it out.\" Briggs also added on his official Facebook page: \"It's not the kids fault his mother couldn't pass on better judgement.\" \"Dressing up as Nic Naitanui isn't blackface,\" said one person. \"The kid wasn't trying to mock Naitanui.\" Others also asked how dressing as an AFL player was relevant for Book Week, where children are supposed to dress as their favourite fictional characters. \"Can the 'not' racist mother tell us what Book Nic Nat came from?\", another chipped in. Later on Friday, Naitanui tweeted: \"At the end of the day I genuinely admire the kid for looking up to me. Would love to meet the little champion reader.\" Earlier this year another AFL player, Adam Goodes, an Indigenous Australian, took time off after he was plagued by booing whilst on the field. At the time, then Senator Nova Peris - the first Indigenous Australian woman elected to parliament - said the animosity aimed at Goodes was obvious. \"Racism... is alive and well and happening everyday and I know that because I live every day as an Aboriginal person\", she said.", "question": "An Australian footballer has called for better education about @placeholder , after a mother painted her son 's skin brown as a tribute to him , drawing widespread criticism .", "option_0": "jesus", "option_1": "race", "option_2": "life", "option_3": "action", "option_4": "islam"}
{"id": 529, "article": "Some 3.3% of 16 to 24-year-olds - about 242,000 people - identified as LGB in 2015, up from 2.8% in 2014. The rise was mainly due to more people identifying as bisexual, the Office for National Statistics said, up from 1.3% in 2014 to 1.8% last year. Rights charity Stonewall said that may in part be a result of more LGB role models in the public eye. It named model and actress Cara Delevigne, boxer Nicola Adams and singer Miley Cyrus among high-profile people to come out as bisexual in recent years. The ONS's sexual identity data comes from its Annual Population Survey. Sexual identity is one part of the concept of \"sexual orientation\", which does not necessarily reflect sexual attraction or sexual behaviour, the ONS said. It currently does not measure sexual attraction or sexual behaviour. Other findings showed: Lana Peswani, 24, first had feelings towards women when she was a young child but says she didn't know at the time what they meant. She was bullied in her all-girls secondary school by students who called her a lesbian. However, it was when she was 17 that she heard the term pansexual for the first time and realised it applied to her. Pansexuality is a term used to describe those who can feel an attraction to anyone, regardless of their sex or gender. Miss Peswani, who lives in London, has had relationships with men and women, and said: \"I feel my attraction to people is quite fluid. \"I fancy guys, girls and trans people, and I find androgyny attractive. It's more about the person and the energy they give.\" She added: \"I think the younger generation are a lot more open. They are aware of things like trans issues. \"At my school people weren't aware of trans issues at all.\" A spokeswoman for Stonewall welcomed the figures and said there were now more LGB role models in the media and more open discussions in society about bisexuality. She said: \"We would hope that individuals who had previously felt pressured to conceal their bi identity now feel safer and more empowered to be open about how they identify. \"It's a shame the data doesn't account for those who identify outside of the binaries of lesbian, gay and bi, however. \"We know that many LGBT people prefer not to label their sexual orientation in such a way, and so their input in this research is lost.\" Some 320,000 are polled each year for the Annual Population Survey, from which individual reports are published throughout the year.", "question": "The @placeholder of UK young people who identify as lesbian , gay or bisexual has increased , figures show .", "option_0": "freedom", "option_1": "population", "option_2": "sale", "option_3": "proportion", "option_4": "head"}
{"id": 530, "article": "Prince's pre-tax income from 1 October 2015 to 1 October 2016 is estimated at $25m (¡ê20.5m) by the business magazine, putting him fifth in the list. Bowie, meanwhile, is ranked at 11th for an estimated income of $10.5m (¡ê8.5m). Both, however, are dwarfed by pop star Michael Jackson, who tops the list once again with a record-breaking estimated income of $825m (¡ê672.8m). The figure, said Forbes, was \"the most any celebrity has ever earned in a single year\" - a result of his half of a music publishing catalogue being sold for $750m (¡ê611m). Jackson held a 50% stake in Sony ATV Music Publishing - famous for its library of Beatles tunes - as part of a business partnership that began in 1995. Peanuts creator Charles M Schulz climbs one place on last year's list to second place with estimated 2015-2016 earnings of $48m (¡ê39m). US golfer Arnold Palmer, who died last month aged 87, enters the chart at three with estimated earnings of $40m (¡ê32.6m). Bowie died of cancer in January at the age of 69, while Prince was found dead on 21 April at the age of 57. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "David Bowie and Prince are new entries in the latest list of top - earning dead celebrities to be @placeholder by Forbes .", "option_0": "tackled", "option_1": "targeted", "option_2": "greeted", "option_3": "compiled", "option_4": "investigated"}
{"id": 531, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The Nigerian took advantage of a blunder by Dons keeper Adam Collin to give Robbie Neilson's side a third win this year against Derek McInnes' team. Collin spilled Alim Ozturk's free-kick on a night when there were precious few clear-cut chances for either team. The setback means Aberdeen cannot match last season's points tally of 75. Amazingly both these teams will be in action in just seven weeks' time when the Europa League qualifiers get underway, nearly a fortnight before the European Championship final in France. In the early exchanges it seemed like the Hearts players' minds were already on their short summer break with a real lethargy about their play. There were no such problems for Aberdeen as they played with pace and an aggression McInnes felt they lacked when losing at Tynecastle in the Scottish Cup and Premiership earlier this year. Niall McGinn and Jonny Hayes stretched the visitors in wide areas but the Dons struggled to capitalise with midfielder Kenny McLean forced to play up front while Adam Rooney and Simon Church sat out injured. The Dons hogged the majority of possession and flashed a few inviting balls across the face of the penalty area but failed to create much in the way of clear scoring chances. Media playback is not supported on this device McGinn did try his best with a free-kick from a central position but it dipped too late to test Hearts' young goalkeeper Jack Hamilton. It actually took Robbie Neilson's side fully 34 minutes to pose the first problem for the Dons defence when they finally strung some passes together in an attacking area. The ball eventually broke back to Prince Buaben, who bent a 25-yard drive towards the left-hand post and Collin was forced into a full-length dive to push the effort to safety. But the goalkeeper was badly at fault when he allowed Ozturk's free-kick to squirm into Dauda's path for the only goal of the game. And Aberdeen - runners-up in the Premiership for a second year running - could not recover against third-placed Hearts.", "question": "Abiola Dauda 's fifth goal of the season was enough to give Hearts victory and send Aberdeen @placeholder to only a second home defeat of the campaign .", "option_0": "poised", "option_1": "crashing", "option_2": "display", "option_3": "close", "option_4": "order"}
{"id": 532, "article": "They teach that IS has nothing to do with true Islam, labelling it the \"devil's army\". But IS is actively recruiting across the North Caucasus. It is estimated that as many as 500 people have now joined its ranks from Chechnya alone. Sayeed Mazhaev fought in Syria with a group that later swore allegiance to IS. Now back home in the Chechen capital Grozny, he says he was first contacted online by an old friend. Gradually he and others talked Sayeed into joining them. \"The idea became so appealing that nothing else interested me. It was like I was under hypnosis, my feelings were so strong,\" he remembers. \"They persuaded me that going to Syria was the whole meaning of life; that there is no other path than to die for the rise of my religion and for those who are oppressed.\" Sent videos of apparent atrocities and urged repeatedly to do his \"Muslim duty\", 22-year-old Sayeed eventually buckled. Now free after eight months in a Chechen prison, Sayeed is still wearing an electronic tag. Fifty-two people have left to fight for IS in Syria from his neighbourhood of Grozny alone. It is the latest phase in the Islamist insurgency that emerged after Chechnya's brutal war for independence from Russia. At the local police station, the deputy police chief scrolls through a computer database of those who have gone. Magomed Magomadov admits that the authorities did not worry too much when the exodus of extremists began a couple of years ago. \"We thought they'd just get killed,\" he says, so his officers simply noted the names. But as the number has risen, Russia has become concerned that battle-hardened extremists will bring their fight back home. It was President Vladimir Putin's key justification for launching air strikes in Syria three months ago. Critics see that as camouflage for a global power game, as Russia props up its ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. But efforts to tackle the IS threat at home have also intensified. \"Now we tell people that even if they buy a ticket and set off, we can charge them with joining an illegal armed organisation,\" Magomed Magomadov explains. \"We warn them not to even think of it, because they'll go to prison.\" The vast majority he has encountered were lured to Syria through what he calls a \"wrong understanding\" of Islam. IS recruiters \"mess up their heads\", the policeman says. Those caught can be subjected to public shaming ceremonies. In one recent incident, Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, was shown on television berating a group of men said to have been recruiting for IS. They stand, heads bowed, then their own relatives are called to join in. Russian students targeted as recruits by Islamic State Syria conflict: Number of foreign fighters 'doubled in 16 months' What is 'Islamic State'? \"It's good they're at least trying to use soft power,\" acknowledges Grigory Shvedov, of internet news agency Caucasus Knot. But human rights groups accuse Chechen security forces of abusive methods too, including targeting family members of suspected extremists in a form of collective punishment. \"Chechnya is very well known for being brutal. That's one reason why, in Chechnya specifically, the amount of people happy to join IS is growing,\" Mr Shvedov adds. But spotting the warning signs of radicalisation can be difficult. In the living room of her small, immaculate flat, Lida Bachaeva explains that she thought her sons had gone to Europe to look for work. Then one day Mansur called from Syria to tell her that his brother, Timur, had been killed. He was 24. \"If I'd known where they were going I'd have grabbed them, told the police, done anything to stop them. But what can I do now?\" Lida says. Like many Chechen mothers she had protected her children through two wars in the republic. \"We thought everything was settled again, then suddenly there was Syria. And now I have lost my sons,\" she cries. Religious leaders have been touring schools and colleges and producing leaflets to convince young Chechens that fighting in Syria is no path to paradise. \"But those who don't accept our message don't say so and we don't have an X-ray to see into their souls,\" says deputy mufti Usman Osmaev, inside Grozny's vast central mosque. \"IS has good psychologists. They know how to approach young people who feel that no-one has time for them,\" he adds. \"The young person sees whoever's behind the computer screen as a friend.\" Sayeed Mazhaev counts himself lucky to have escaped. He says he realised his mistake after seeing civilians executed in Syria. He fled when he was injured and sent to Turkey for treatment, and now works with officials urging other Chechens not to be seduced. \"Just because I was lucky enough to get away, others shouldn't think that they can go to Syria - take a look, then come home,\" Sayeed warns. \"Because they won't be able to. Definitely not now.\" It is a battle for minds and Chechnya is once again on the front line.", "question": "Religious leaders in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya have a new message to preach these days , about the @placeholder of so - called Islamic State ( IS ) .", "option_0": "future", "option_1": "establishment", "option_2": "shadow", "option_3": "death", "option_4": "dangers"}
{"id": 533, "article": "He said: \"This role is very much a team game and [my wife] Valerie has played a huge part in it, as a result of my honour she becomes Lady Ridgway and I think that is only right and just.\" They are coming to the end of their five years in Jersey. Four other islanders were appointed MBE. Among them is Dr Lee Durrell, of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation trust, who has been recognised for her conservation work. She said: \"The way I look at it, it is certainly not for myself. \"It is for the work that I do with Durrell, so really it is for Durrell and all the people that work here and all the animals we are trying to save.\" Senator Paul Routier is appointed MBE for services to the community and to those with learning difficulties. Senator Routier said: \"If I have been able to support people with learning difficulties during that time and to achieve their potential in their lives then it has been all worthwhile. \"A lot has been achieved during that time and I am very proud of it.\" Michael Wilkins, the Judicial Greffier, is appointed MBE for services to the judicial system in Jersey, in particular for his work and co-operation in international bankruptcy matters. Nick Manning, the director of music for the Band of the Island of Jersey, is appointed MBE for services to the band and the community as a whole. He has been in the band nearly 40 years and took over as conductor in 1994. Mr Manning said: \"It was something totally unexpected and I am overwhelmed and so honoured to receive it.\"", "question": "Jersey 's Lieutenant Governor , Lieutenant - General Andrew Ridgway , has been @placeholder in the Queen 's Birthday Honours list .", "option_0": "launched", "option_1": "unveiled", "option_2": "commemorated", "option_3": "included", "option_4": "knighted"}
{"id": 534, "article": "Steve Sutherland, 49, from Aberdeen, had been working on the Noble Lloyd Noble, in the Mariner Field, about 90 miles (150km) east of Shetland. The alarm was raised on Tuesday night after a search of the rig. Relatives issued a statement saying Mr Sutherland was a \"much-loved and well-respected father, grandfather, partner, son, brother and uncle\". They added: \"Steve was born in Aberdeen and grew up in Northfield. \"He is well-known among the junior football league in Aberdeen, having played for clubs like Glentanar FC, East End and Parkvale. He also coached at Lewis United and is a massive Aberdeen FC fan. \"Steve is popular, easy to get on with and well-liked by all those who know him. He is missed by everyone.\" Mr Sutherland's employers said in a statement: \"Our immediate thoughts are with the family and friends of our much-valued colleague at this extremely difficult time. \"Our employees are always our first priority and we are working with the relevant authorities to support them in any way we can.\"", "question": "A man who @placeholder a major North Sea search after going missing from a drilling rig has been named .", "option_0": "made", "option_1": "sparked", "option_2": "downloaded", "option_3": "survived", "option_4": "enjoyed"}
{"id": 535, "article": "About 150 miners were in the Xiaojiawan coal mine in Sichuan province when a gas explosion occurred on Wednesday. Fifty of the survivors are suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning and another seven are reported to be in critical condition. The mine owners have been detained pending an investigation. Accidents are frequent in China's mining industry, which is criticised for poor safety standards. Official figures show that 1,973 people died in coal mining accidents in the country last year. China's central government has introduced measures aimed at improving standards, but these directives are often ignored at local level.", "question": "The number of dead in China 's worst mine accident in recent years has risen to 43 , with three men still @placeholder underground , state media say .", "option_0": "carrying", "option_1": "trapped", "option_2": "working", "option_3": "following", "option_4": "threatening"}
{"id": 536, "article": "The information came to light during a meeting chaired by the county police and crime commissioner (PCC). Chief Constable Suzette Davenport told the PCC during the discussion the policing of last year's cull had been \"difficult\" and \"challenging\". The force's Operation Themis took place between September and December 2013. Monday's scrutiny meeting was not directly open to the public, but it was streamed online for people to follow. During the discussions, Assistant Chief Constable Richard Berry told PCC Martin Surl the government had approached the force about using Airwave radios, but it refused due to operational independence. The radios used by the cull operators were purchased by the company carrying out the cull, Mr Berry said. The revelation follows the conviction of David McIntosh, who crashed a van loaded with badger carcasses into a bus stop in Gloucester, when a radio he had been using to monitor police messages fell under his foot pedals. During the meeting, it was also revealed 150 police stop and searches took place over 89 days, leading to seven arrests. Ms Davenport said: \"It's unprecedented in policing that we've had to police protest at night with people with firearms. \"That's never ever been done before in British policing, so we were setting new ground.\" Ms Davenport said the force had learned lessons which would be used should the second year of the pilot cull go ahead this summer. \"It's been difficult for the communities of Gloucestershire, difficult for our staff, and difficult because of some of the allegations that have been made - about what we have done, should have done, could have done and didn't do. \"[It was] a challenging environment, challenging times. With the range of pressures on the constabulary, not least the budget cuts... there will be more challenges as we go forward this year.\" Mr Surl said the cost of the operation had been ?¡ê2.3m. He said he had been told the money would be paid back to the force by the Home Office by June. A second year of culling is due to take place in Gloucestershire and Somerset later this year.", "question": "Gloucestershire Police refused a Home Office @placeholder to supply radios to operators during last year 's pilot badger cull , it has emerged .", "option_0": "response", "option_1": "request", "option_2": "contract", "option_3": "licence", "option_4": "force"}
{"id": 537, "article": "Bath and North East Somerset Council (Banes) said their preferred location was \"Site B\" on the west side of Mill Lane at Bathampton Meadows. Protester Christine Boyd, from the Bathampton Meadows Alliance, said she was \"pretty upset\" at the decision and said it was a \"terrible, tragic loss\". The site, which is subject to planning, has spaces for 800 vehicles. Banes said it would have to make \"satisfactory arrangements for the purchase of the site and agreement from Highways England on access\". It added there had been a \"long-established need\" for a new park-and-ride on the east side of the city. It will be Bath's fourth park-and-ride site - there are already facilities in Newbridge, Lansdown and Odd Down.", "question": "Hundreds of people have @placeholder as a greenbelt site for a fourth park - and - ride in Bath was chosen by councillors .", "option_0": "emerged", "option_1": "protested", "option_2": "revealed", "option_3": "described", "option_4": "attended"}
{"id": 538, "article": "It begins with a question - where is the next generation of curry chefs going to come from - and ends in with another - would leaving the EU save your local Indian from closing? Currently two or three curry restaurants are shutting every week. Now, you may think you know the answer to where Indian chefs come from. If so think again. For decades your \"Indian\" - whether a chicken tikka masala or late night vindaloo - was almost certainly cooked by a chef from Bangladesh or, perhaps, someone whose father was. Not any more though. The voices you hear in a growing number of kitchens above the noise of the chopping and the sizzling are the voices of East Europeans - in particular Romanians. The reason is that tougher immigration rules mean it simply costs too much for most restaurants to bring new chefs over here. White thug poster aimed at ethnic minority voters Polls reveal divided nation Ethnic minorities could be key, says UKIP A decade or so ago a curry chef would earn around ?¡ê15,000 a year. Now, a restaurant has to pay almost double that as well as jumping a series of complex bureaucratic hurdles to persuade the Home Office to allow them to bring in a chef from abroad. \"Abroad\" means, of course, not from outside the UK but outside the EU. Pasha Khandakar, the president of the Bangladesh Caterers Association, told me that this was an \"immigration double standard\". \"We've been told by British ministers to import European Union people,\" he said, pointing to a \"language problem, a culture problem and a smell problem.\" He contends that Eastern European workers dislike the smell of curries. \"We have to give chance for everyone in this world who's fit for these jobs - not for their colour, not for their geographical identity.\" \"Why should it be easier and cheaper to hire a Romanian to work in a curry house than a Bangladeshi?\" many British Asians ask. Why, indeed, should it be so easy for Eastern Europeans to bring their families to live with them when it is now so much harder than it once was for the families of British people with Commonwealth roots to do the same? It is the widespread feeling that immigration rules now discriminate against them and their families which Brexit campaigners have sought to tap into. Indeed, the employment minister and prominent Leave campaigner, Priti Patel, has claimed that a vote to quit the EU is the only way to save the curry industry. That depends on a very big assumption. That following Brexit the British public would become so relaxed about immigration that politicians felt able to relax the immigration rules that stop low paid and low skilled workers coming here from elsewhere. At Le Raj in Epsom - an upmarket restaurant in Surrey which is a favourite of Chris Tarrant and Heston Blumenthal - that's not how they see things. The head chef here is a Bangladeshi. Recently he's had to brush up on his language skills - to learn not English but Romanian. His kitchen is manned now by people who had never smelt a curry never mind cooked one before coming to work under his tutelage. The boss of the Raj, Jeffrey Ali, is as frustrated as anyone in his industry with the current immigration rules but he tells me that he simply does not believe any politician will want \"to touch relaxing the rules with a 10 foot pole\". \"If immigration were to be brought down, even by half, there would still be no onus from any politician to say, 'Ok now because we have less people coming from the EU, let's bring in more people from the Commonwealth,'\" said Mr Ali, who plans to vote Remain in the referendum. Not least when unemployment is high amongst the British Bangladeshi community whose children choose, he argues, to claim benefit rather than to take the relatively low pay and long hours that their parents once worked as waiters or chefs. Brexit, he believes, offers a false dawn for an industry that needs to do more to raise its status and to train the next generation of chefs. Jeffrey Ali is helping to sponsor a new academy down the road to teach cooking to young British born people in the hope that one day he will not be forced to choose between immigrants he cannot afford and those who know as much about curry as he knows about Romanian cuisine. Immigration is the main reason people who plan to Vote Leave give for their choice. What's clear, though, is that even if we do vote to quit the EU on the 23rd June the debate about how much immigration we need and want and can afford as a country will stay firmly on the menu alongside  the question - who will cook and serve my Indian in the future?", "question": "A pinch of cardamom , a little coriander and a smattering of cinnamon - all ingredients not just in a great British curry but in a political row that 's been @placeholder up in the kitchens of Indian restaurants up and down the country .", "option_0": "cooked", "option_1": "bubbling", "option_2": "woke", "option_3": "drawn", "option_4": "set"}
{"id": 539, "article": "Bedfordshire police believe Tabussum Winning killed her Luton flatmate Adim Baba with a hammer before dumping him in a wheelie bin and killing herself. But while an inquest concluded Mr Baba, 49, was unlawfully killed, an open verdict was returned by coroner Ian Pears in Mrs Winning's case. Mr Pears said he could not be sure she disposed of Mr Baba's body alone. Mrs Winning, 34, was found hanged inside Mr Baba's Essex Close flat, in October 2016. But it was more than a week before a neighbour found Mr Baba's body stuffed in the wheelie bin outside his flat. The inquest at Ampthill Coroner's Court heard Mrs Winning, who rented a room in Mr Baba's home, had a \"complex life\". Originally from Pakistan, Mrs Winning had had a \"marriage of convenience\" with husband Brian, before having a baby by Yasin Nasir 17 days before her death, the court was told. The inquest heard her baby was born by Caesarean section and, as a result of the procedure, she would have struggled to lift Mr Baba's body into the wheelie bin. Mr Pears said he could not be sure she acted alone and was not fully satisfied Mrs Winning's death was suicide. He said he would be writing to police asking why it did not pick up on the death of Mr Baba until a week after Mrs Winning's body was discovered. After the hearing, Bedfordshire police said in a statement: \"Following detailed enquiries we concluded that Tabussum Winning had murdered Adim Baba and disposed of his body, before committing suicide. \"While we believe that no other people were involved in either death, we will be reviewing our evidence in light of the coroner's ruling and comments.\" Detectives initially arrested a man in connection with the deaths but he was released and told he faced no further action. The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating how the initial inquiry was handled by Bedfordshire police. In response to that ongoing probe, the force said: \"While it is unfortunate that Mr Baba's body was not discovered until the following week, the reality is that by the time Tabussum Winning's body was found, Mr Baba was already dead. \"An earlier discovery would sadly not have made any difference to the tragic outcome of this case.\"", "question": "Police are to review a suspected murder - suicide case after a coroner @placeholder doubts the killer acted alone .", "option_0": "caught", "option_1": "ruled", "option_2": "still", "option_3": "crashed", "option_4": "voiced"}
{"id": 540, "article": "Barry Gardiner said he would ask the Audit Office to investigate revelations by the BBC Spotlight programme about Invest NI's Belfast headquarters. The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) was a way for the government to get buildings now and pay later. But many contracts have been criticised as they turned out to be too expensive. Invest Northern Ireland is a business development agency which aims to promote economic growth by providing government support to firms. It signed a PFI contract for its new headquarters in Belfast in 2005. After the property crash, it became a very bad deal. Spotlight's research indicates that Invest NI's rent in 2012 was at least double the market rate and set a record for Belfast which still stands. Invest NI has said that these are not valid comparisons, given the long-term nature of the projects. Labour MP Mr Gardiner, who was Northern Ireland's direct rule enterprise minister when the 2005 contract was signed, said he will ask the Audit Office to investigate. Tuesday's programme also reveals details of Invest NI's current multi-million pound debt to the controversial US investment fund, Cerberus. Spotlight will be broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland at 22: 40 BST on Tuesday, 20 June.", "question": "A Shadow Cabinet @placeholder and former Northern Ireland minister has called for an investigation into Invest NI 's Private Finance Initiative contract .", "option_0": "official", "option_1": "health", "option_2": "member", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "leader"}
{"id": 541, "article": "The technical issues meant students were left waiting for news about potential offers, putting some at risk of losing offers at other universities. A spokesperson for the university said it had been making personal calls to try to resolve individual situations. It apologised on Twitter to those \"experiencing delays getting through\". The tweet said: \"Do keep trying our hotline and you will get through.\" Universities can give students a place whether they have achieved the correct grades or not. Students tweeted their annoyance at the situation, with one writing: \"Appears you've still not made decisions and now you've gone until Monday? How is this fair?\" The university said it had been dealing with an \"unprecedented number of calls\" but had called students \"once a decision had been made\". Students can only enter the clearing system when they have been officially refused a place at the universities they originally chose. On Friday, the University and College Admissions Service said 6,910 students had been matched with places through clearing. This leaves 154,850 students still looking for a university place.", "question": "The University of Bristol has admitted it had problems with its telephone system which left some students not knowing if they had @placeholder a place .", "option_0": "lost", "option_1": "sparked", "option_2": "secured", "option_3": "posted", "option_4": "died"}
{"id": 542, "article": "Lee James, 24, killed Bijan Ebrahimi and set fire to his body in the Brislington area of Bristol in July. Mr Justice Simon ordered that James must serve a minimum of 18 years in prison. Bristol Crown Court heard Mr Ebrahimi, who was an Iranian national and in his 40s, died from head injuries. Stephen Norley, 25, who had admitted assisting an offender, was given a four-year jail term. He helped James drag Mr Ebrahimi's body from the scene of the attack and obtained white spirit to burn the body. His remains were found 100m from his maisonette in Capgrave Crescent. Mr Ebrahimi was murdered on 14 July, three days after he was arrested by police following complaints that he had been taking pictures of children near his home. Officers examined his camera, videos and computer but found nothing suspicious and he was released without charge. The night before the killing Mr Ebrahimi recorded video of James holding a beer can and shouting at him after realising he was being filmed. Jurors were shown the video. In sentencing the pair, who both lived near the victim, the judge described the murder as \"deeply shocking\". He said it was \"a vigilante crime\" and \"an act of murderous injustice\", adding that claims that Mr Ebrahimi was a paedophile were baseless. Speaking after the sentencing, Mr Ebrahimi's sister, Manisha Moores, said: \"The next question to be answered is whether Bijan's death could have been avoided if he received the proper protection he deserved from the authorities. \"Lessons must be learned before other vulnerable lives are lost.\" Prosecutor Andrew Langdon QC said neighbours witnessed the doorstep confrontation between James and Mr Ebrahimi. He said: \"Lee James was shouting at Mr Ebrahimi, telling him in abusive terms to stop taking pictures, to give him the camera, to delete the photographs. \"Mr James himself told one of the witnesses that Mr Ebrahimi had taken pictures of him with a can of beer in his hand. \"Mr Powell remembers Mr James saying 'I am going to burn his house down'. \"At one point Mr James entered Mr Ebrahimi's home uninvited and remonstrated with him and threatened him.\" The court heard that during the fatal attack James repeatedly stamped on Mr Ebrahimi's head, shouting \"have some of that\". Mr Langdon said that after murdering Mr Ebrahimi and burning his body, James told his girlfriend: \"We sorted him out. We took care of things.\" James, also of Capgrave Crescent, told police he had kicked Mr Ebrahimi \"like a football... I had so much anger in me\". The court heard Mr Ebrahimi, who moved to the UK in 2001, made several calls to police in the 48 hours before his murder, but \"those calls were not responded to\". Avon and Somerset Chief Constable Nick Gargan issued an apology after the tragedy, saying: \"Mr Ebrahimi was someone who deserved the protection of all of us and we are very sorry about what happened to him.\" The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has interviewed six police officers and six civilian staff as part of their investigation into police contact prior to Mr Ebrahimi's death. Three constables have been questioned over potential misconduct in public office. An inspector, sergeant, constable, control room supervisor, dispatcher and four call handlers have been interviewed for gross misconduct. The inspector is no longer subject to the investigation. Mr Gargan said: \"On the day of Mr Ebrahimi's murder, we knew enough about the police response to convince us that we should make an immediate referral to the IPCC. \"We still await their report and therefore it is not appropriate for me to say more about that police response. It's important that we don't affect that external scrutiny by expressing a public opinion. \"It could also be the case that criminal proceedings follow and if so a jury needs to reach its verdict based on evidence in the courtroom, not our opinion today. \"Nevertheless... it is clear that there was a collective failure on the part of statutory agencies and others to protect Mr Ebrahimi. \"We need to have some frank and candid local discussions with our partners and our communities about what we collectively can do to stop this happening again. \"Senior people in our own organisation have already put in place urgent actions to improve the way we respond to the vulnerable, handle reports of anti-social behaviour and identify repeat callers and victims and we will continue to talk to partners to improve the way we work together to protect the public.\" Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens said: \"The tragic murder of Mr Ebrahimi has shocked and saddened me and I have critical questions for the police and other agencies about the events leading up to Mr Ebrahimi's death. \"While I am not going to draw any conclusions before the IPCC investigation and any other reviews are complete I am determined to look publicly at what could or should have been done differently.\" The IPCC report and a report by the Safer Bristol Partnership are expected to be completed and made public early next year.", "question": "A man has been jailed for life after admitting he murdered his @placeholder neighbour who had been wrongly branded a paedophile .", "option_0": "own", "option_1": "school", "option_2": "disabled", "option_3": "name", "option_4": "post"}
{"id": 543, "article": "A mother was in the B&M store at Aberdeen's Kittybrewster retail park with her child when the incident happened on Saturday afternoon. She sought staff help for the 14-month-old and between them the baby's hands were loosened from the trolley. It was found that other trolleys had been targeted at the front of the shop. Store manager Dave Farquharson said an investigation had been launched to track down the culprits, including reviewing CCTV footage. He said: \"I really don't understand the mindset of individuals who would have thought it would have been a prank.\"", "question": "An investigation has been launched after a baby 's hands got stuck on a shop trolley which had been @placeholder with fast - setting glue .", "option_0": "reunited", "option_1": "lodged", "option_2": "fitted", "option_3": "diagnosed", "option_4": "smeared"}
{"id": 544, "article": "Substitute Dobbie found the net with a neat finish from close range after the visitors failed to clear a cross. Earlier, keeper Eldin Jakupovic denied Bolton captain Darren Pratley from six yards and debutant Brian Lenihan blocked Zach Clough's follow-up effort. Hull hit the woodwork twice through Robert Snodgrass and Chuba Akpom, who also sent a first-half header wide. Snodgrass clipped the bar with a free-kick before half-time, while Akpom thundered an effort against the frame of the goal from 12 yards shortly before Dobbie's winner on 65 minutes. A Hull win would have given them a six-point advantage over fifth-placed Derby, but their defeat means even beating Rotherham on the final day of the regular season may not be enough to secure a home second leg in the play-offs. Bolton, despite achieving only their fifth league victory of a disappointing campaign, are guaranteed to finish bottom of the table but they will not end the season with the lowest-ever points tally in the second tier. That unwanted record is shared by Stockport (2001-02) and Blackpool (2014-15), who both accumulated only 26 points - four fewer than Bolton's total of 30. Bolton interim manager Jimmy Phillips: \"We all know it has been a wretched season, but what was most pleasing was the unity between the players on the pitch and the people in the stands. \"We were into the 92nd minute and Hull were throwing everything at us and the fans were willing us to see the game out and that bodes well for the future. \"It will send everyone home with hope for the future which is key. We came up against a good team and made it as difficult as we could for them to play against us.\" Hull manager Steve Bruce: \"Too often we throw in a performance like that. That's why we are in the position we are. \"We didn't do the basics well enough to win the game. We were so slow in possession and so slow without it. \"At times it was like a friendly and we played like it was a friendly. All of them played within themselves.\" Match ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Hull City 0. Second Half ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Hull City 0. Attempt blocked. Isaac Hayden (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire. Corner,  Hull City. Conceded by David Wheater. Corner,  Hull City. Conceded by Rob Holding. Corner,  Hull City. Conceded by Derik. Foul by Robert Snodgrass (Hull City). Lawrie Wilson (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt blocked. Mohamed Diam¨¦ (Hull City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sam Clucas. Corner,  Hull City. Conceded by Lawrie Wilson. Substitution, Hull City. Ryan Taylor replaces Tom Huddlestone. Attempt missed. Sone Aluko (Hull City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Brian Lenihan. Tom Huddlestone (Hull City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Tom Huddlestone (Hull City). Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Tom Huddlestone (Hull City). Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt saved. Mark Davies (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Stephen Dobbie. Foul by Brian Lenihan (Hull City). Stephen Dobbie (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing. Substitution, Hull City. Sone Aluko replaces Shaun Maloney. Substitution, Hull City. Mohamed Diam¨¦ replaces Chuba Akpom. Foul by Chuba Akpom (Hull City). David Wheater (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) header from the left side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Ahmed Elmohamady. Foul by Chuba Akpom (Hull City). Tyler Garrett (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Sam Clucas (Hull City) is shown the yellow card. Attempt missed. Stephen Dobbie (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Mark Davies. Foul by Harry Maguire (Hull City). George Newell (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Goal!  Bolton Wanderers 1, Hull City 0. Stephen Dobbie (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lawrie Wilson with a cross. Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. George Newell replaces Emile Heskey. Hand ball by Chuba Akpom (Hull City). Chuba Akpom (Hull City) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Isaac Hayden. Foul by Harry Maguire (Hull City). Mark Davies (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing. Attempt saved. Tom Huddlestone (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Corner,  Hull City. Conceded by Tyler Garrett. Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Stephen Dobbie replaces Zach Clough.", "question": "Stephen Dobbie 's goal ensured @placeholder Bolton ended a 14 - match winless run with victory over play - off - bound Hull .", "option_0": "home", "option_1": "relegated", "option_2": "secured", "option_3": "denied", "option_4": "ensured"}
{"id": 545, "article": "The man barged in after the victim, who is in her 60s, opened the door of her house in East Didsbury, on 20 May. She reported the attack on Wednesday. Greater Manchester Police said it was thought that the man regularly visits the area. He was described as black, in his 40s, and about 5ft 10ins (1.8m) tall with a broad build and short black hair. He had \"dark pigmentation near his side burns and a distorted knuckle on the fourth finger of his right hand, which pushes the knuckle towards his little finger\", police said. Police have appealed for anyone with any information to come contact them.", "question": "A woman was raped in her own home after @placeholder the door to a stranger , police have said .", "option_0": "witnessing", "option_1": "admitting", "option_2": "answering", "option_3": "crashing", "option_4": "locking"}
{"id": 546, "article": "Religious groups including units run by the Catholic church and the Mormon church are exempt to the new policy. The change, which was ratified 45-12 by the executive board, takes effect immediately and end years of criticism that the Boy Scouts discriminated against gay people. In 2013, the Boy Scouts began allowing openly gay boys to become scouts. \"For far too long this issue has divided and distracted us,\" said the BSA's president, former Defence Secretary Robert Gates. \"Now it's time to unite behind our shared belief in the extraordinary power of Scouting to be a force for good.\" Earlier this year, Mr Gates told the group's national meeting that the ban on gay adults needed to end, saying it was no longer sustainable and would make the group susceptible to lawsuits. Major corporations had also suspended charitable donations to the Scouts because of the policy. The selection of Mr Gates as president in 2014 was seen as an opportunity to revisit the policy since he helped end the \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy that barred openly gay people from serving in the US military.", "question": "The Boy Scouts of America have voted to lift its ban on gay people serving as adult leaders in the @placeholder .", "option_0": "country", "option_1": "program", "option_2": "balance", "option_3": "organisation", "option_4": "wake"}
{"id": 547, "article": "To look at, pre-exposure prophylaxis (Prep for short) is a small, blue pill - but it's caused a big controversy. The drug is not currently available on the NHS - and an NHS England decision to that effect has caused a well-documented outcry from charities and campaigners alike. However, about 500 homosexual men in England - who form part of a trial called Proud - have been taking it for years while experts monitor its effects. Harry Dodd is one of those men. He was invited to take part in the trial after doctors identified him as a \"high risk\" sexually active gay man. However, as he explains, the requirements for being judged as such were, in his words, \"surprisingly low\". \"They asked me if I'd had sex without a condom within the last three months, I said 'yes' and then they asked me if I was likely to have sex in next three months and again I said 'yes' - and that's all it takes to be 'high risk',\" he said. And so, in 2013, Harry started taking Prep and he has remained HIV negative ever since, despite having unprotected sex. Taking Prep protects cells in the body, which are then able to stop the HIV virus from multiplying - should they be exposed. Critics of Prep claim that allowing the drug to be freely available on the NHS would promote promiscuity and leave people more vulnerable to other sexually-transmitted infections. But Harry - who in the past has had near misses with HIV - vehemently disagrees with this view. The 25-year-old says the drug has allowed him to grow in confidence and he goes further, believing it could bring the gay community closer together and stop discrimination against those who are HIV positive. \"People need to understand the visceral fear HIV invokes,\" he explains. \"I remember when I was younger going for an HIV test and at the time I was living in a tower block. The thought fleetingly crossed my mind 'well at least I can chuck myself off the balcony if it's the wrong result'. \"I've seen the panic on the face of previous boyfriends when they are awaiting their results - it's a huge fear and it affects everything you do. \"To be able to have sex without having that fear hanging over you all the time is huge.\" Taking Prep means the chances of contracting HIV, even if you sleep with someone who is HIV positive, are greatly reduced. There are more than 100,000 people living with HIV in the UK and, statistically, gay men are the most at-risk group. The average HIV prevalence in the UK is 2.3 per 1,000 population. However for gay men the rate jumps to 48.7 per 1,000. Black African women are the second most at-risk group with a prevalence rate of 43.7 per 1,000. Latest figures show there were 6,151 new diagnoses made in 2014, up from 6,032 the previous year, according to Public Health England. And in London, one in eight gay men has HIV. Harry, who works for a town planning consultancy in London, can recall a time when he believes he came perilously close to getting HIV. \"On Christmas Eve 2012, I was getting off the train in Liverpool to visit my family. \"The night before I'd slept with someone I'd been seeing, he was someone I trusted. \"But for the first time we didn't use a condom. As I approached the station he messaged me asking about my status. \"I informed him I was negative and in response he said I should go to A&E - he was positive and recently diagnosed. \"I kept it to myself, filled with overwhelming anxiety, fear and shame. How could I tell my friends and family the truth? It would disappoint them. \"That situation filled me with mixed emotions... anger both at myself for not insisting on using protection and at him that he hadn't told me before the event, but also relief and thanks that he had told me at all. \"I was confused over whether to blame, empathise or comfort him. Emotions that tore our friendship apart, tore me apart and continue to tear communities apart.\" Harry swiftly took himself to A&E, where he was given drugs to treat exposure to HIV and fortunately tested negative for the virus subsequently. But the threat for gay and bisexual men is very real and the results from the Proud trial - in which Harry is a participant - are promising. The trial took about 500 \"high risk\" gay men and split them into two groups. The first group took Prep straight away, while the second acted as a control group and waited for 12 months before taking the drug. In that control group, 20 people contracted HIV during those 12 months. But in the immediate Prep group only three people contracted HIV and in each case the reason for contracting the virus can be explained. One person was found to already have HIV before the trial started and the other two people both stopped taking the drug for a considerable amount of time. The early results were so significant that Prep was given to all participants before the end of the 12-month period on ethical grounds. \"The results from the trial are proof that this drug is working,\" says Mitzy Gafos, who is a social scientist working in the clinical trials unit at University College London. However, she also said that early indications from the trial's relatively small sample size show those taking the drug were more inclined to have different sexual partners, although the incidence rate of sexual infections was not increasing. But despite these results, the route to getting Prep available on the NHS has also been fraught with controversy. In the 18 months up until March, NHS England had been following a process to decide whether the drug should be available to people at high risk of HIV, on the NHS. But in March there was uproar from charities and campaigners when NHS England said it was abandoning this process and HIV prevention was not its responsibility. After initially saying it would \"consider\" its position in May it confirmed it would not be commissioning Prep, arguing that it does not have the legal power to do so. The charity the National Aids Trust launched a judicial review against NHS England's decision, and the court found in the charity's favour. Harry believes everyone should have access to Prep - which costs around ?¡ê450 a month to buy privately. The Proud trial is also drawing to a close in the coming months and the men who are on it, who have been used to taking the drug for three years, now face the prospect of having to buy it privately from other sources - chiefly pharmaceutical companies in India. Harry says taking Prep has still not become socially acceptable. \"Too many people seem to think it will encourage a hedonistic lifestyle, but for me this is about saving lives,\" he says. \"People reacted with cynicism when the contraceptive pill for women was first introduced. \"Taking Prep has helped me to trust again, have relationships and build bridges and that shouldn't be taken away.\" His view is also one shared by leading health officials. Jim McManus and Dominic Harrison, both directors of public health, recently wrote a joint piece in the British Medical Journal calling for Prep to be made available to all. They described NHS England's decision not to, as \"an incoherent national approach to HIV prevention\". NHS England has said it will provide ?¡ê2m over the next two years to research how Prep \"could be commissioned in the most clinically and cost effective way\".", "question": "An HIV - preventative drug has been the subject of a legal battle over which @placeholder should pay for it . As campaigners win their High Court case against the NHS , one man tells how taking the medication has changed his life .", "option_0": "experience", "option_1": "safety", "option_2": "patients", "option_3": "organisation", "option_4": "person"}
{"id": 548, "article": "Gwynedd council claimed the pilot project in Bangor was the first of its kind in Wales. Lollipop man Arwel Owen said he has already ended up on the bonnet of a car outside Ysgol Garnedd primary school. \"It's getting worse - there are a lot more cars and they are getting faster,\" he said. Gwynedd council said the move was a joint project with police and would help provide evidence if motorists near the school in the busy Penrhosgarnedd area of the city were driving poorly. \"The vast majority of motorists respect the important work the school crossing patrol do helping pupils to walk to school and home at the end of the day,\" said cabinet member Dafydd Meurig. \"But in some circumstances, there may be the occasional motorist who isn't thinking and ignoring the school crossing patrol when they stepped out into the road to assist children.\" The road outside the school is one of the busiest routes into the city and close to the main hospital. Head teacher Llion Williams said there had been concerns about drivers \"for some time\". \"We welcome the new camera being able to record any case of drivers ignoring the highway code,\" he said. Lollipop man Mr Owen said the body camera had already helped slow vehicles down. \"It's very dangerous here,\" he told BBC Wales' Newyddion 9. \"I've been really close to cars and I've had to hold on to children to stop them going, because the car isn't stopping. \"I've been on the bonnet of a car once... others have hit my coat.\" Insp Dave Cust from North Wales Police's road traffic unit added: \"Those who are willing to risk their lives and those of others are not welcome on our roads. \"If people know that there is a much higher chance of being prosecuted and risk losing their license, then they might think twice about these offences.\"", "question": "A crossing patrol officer in Gwynedd has been @placeholder with a body camera in a bid to cut down bad driving outside a school .", "option_0": "injured", "option_1": "caught", "option_2": "diagnosed", "option_3": "marked", "option_4": "issued"}
{"id": 549, "article": "The 35-year-old, who retired from international cricket last year after more than 400 appearances in all formats, featured six times for Middlesex in the competition in 2016. McCullum averaged 33 for the county last season, with a highest score of 87, and will return in July. \"It was an easy decision to return to the home of cricket,\" he said. Before retiring in February, McCullum played 101 Tests, 260 one-day internationals and 71 T20 games for the Kiwis, scoring more than 14,000 runs in the process. He also hit 398 sixes for New Zealand in all forms of the game - 107 in Tests, 200 in ODIs and 91 in T20 - and 1,552 fours \"Brendon had a hugely positive influence on the club in 2016 and I'm sure he will have a similar impact this summer,\" said director of cricket Angus Fraser. \"With Brendon on board and the other exciting players we have, watching Middlesex play T20 cricket in 2017 should be an exciting and enjoyable experience.\"", "question": "Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum is to rejoin Middlesex for nine 2017 T20 Blast @placeholder matches .", "option_0": "training", "option_1": "deals", "option_2": "county", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "drugs"}
{"id": 550, "article": "Apple shares climbed 6.5% after the tech giant's latest results beat expectations, despite seeing a dip in iPhone sales. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index climbed 29.76 points to 5139.81. The Dow Jones fell 1.58 points to 18472.17, while the broader S&P 500 slipped 2.6 to 2166.58. Investors were not expecting the Fed to alter interest rates, but markets were looking for clues as to the timing of any rate moves in the future. The Fed said household spending was \"growing strongly\" and the unemployment rate had decreased for the last two months, but inflation was still below its target rate. Coca-Cola was the big loser on the Dow, falling 3.3%. The company cut its sales forecast for the year and said it was taking steps to address declining demand for its soft drinks. Twitter shares plunged 14.5% after the company reported a $107m loss on Tuesday. Aerospace company Boeing saw its share price rise 0.8%. Despite reporting its first loss since 2009, the company beat revenue expectations.", "question": "( Close ) : US stock markets were little moved after the Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged , but strong results from Apple @placeholder lift the Nasdaq .", "option_0": "still", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "levels", "option_3": "carrying", "option_4": "helped"}
{"id": 551, "article": "The election takes place at the party conference in Armagh this weekend. On Thursday night, BBC NI's The View revealed that Mrs Hume was supporting the younger candidate. However, SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell said he had led a \"major turnaround\" of the party over the last four years and remained very confident he would win. \"I said four years ago we need change and I have been implementing that change,\" Dr McDonnell told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme. \"You need a combination of youth and experience and I have been bringing in fresh blood.\" He said 40% of SDLP councillors elected in the 2014 Local Government Elections were new political candidates. \"That was a major turnaround - a major achievement - nearly half of our people turned over and quite simply, the bigger achievement was 40% of our councillors are now female. That was up from 22%,\" Dr McDonnell added. The 66-year-old said he had been \"energised\" by the leadership contest and felt \"very positive\" about the vote, which begins at 16:00 GMT on Friday. \"It has given me an extra opportunity to liaise and dialogue, something I'm very good at, networking with the grassroots members across the country,\" he added. However, his leadership style has been criticised in recent months by a number of high-profile SDLP figures, including former party leader Mark Durkan and ex-deputy leaders Seamus Mallon and Brid Rodgers. Mrs Hume told Friday's Irish News that she and her husband would be voting for change at the head of the party, however the paper said she \"chose not to elaborate on her decision\". Mr Eastwood told Good Morning Ulster that the SDLP had \"a couple of very bad elections\" under Dr McDonnell's leadership and that it was time for a change. \"I have [the support of] people like Seamus Mallon, Mark Durkan and now Pat Hume,\" the Foyle MLA said. \"When you have people like that, the party membership knows and trusts their judgement and I think they should trust their judgement again.\" At 32, Mr Eastwood would be the youngest person to lead the SDLP, if he is elected on Saturday evening. But he said he had a  \"long track record\" working for the party, and this weekend's annual party conference would be the 18th one that he has attended. He also dismissed criticism of the timing of his leadership challenge. \"I think if I was putting personal ambition first, I would have waited until after the election but my fear was that I would be leading a smaller party after that,\" he said. \"I think it would have been reckless not to do it, I think we need to listen to what the public are saying. I don't think SDLP canvassers want to do another election without listening to what people are telling them.\" Voting begins at 16:00 on Friday. The result of the contest is expected at about 17:00 GMT on Saturday.", "question": "Pat Hume , the wife of former SDLP leader John Hume , has @placeholder Colum Eastwood in his challenge to Alasdair McDonnell for the party leadership .", "option_0": "renewed", "option_1": "backed", "option_2": "defeated", "option_3": "assisted", "option_4": "revealed"}
{"id": 552, "article": "The patients suffer from a rare illness that means their windpipes can collapse and prevent air getting in. The device was rapidly customised for each individual. And unlike most 3D implants, it was made of material that changed shape as the children grew. The research appears in Science Translational Medicine. Due to the small number of children involved in the study it does not prove it will work in every case. But it does show the splints could be a promising option for a condition that has no cure, researchers from CS Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan say. One in 2,000 children have tracheobronchomalacia - a weakening and collapse of the windpipe (trachea) that would normally allow air to travel to the lungs. Those with the most severe form have a poor chance of surviving. But if they can get to the the age of three, their windpipes have often strengthened enough to allow them to breathe well. Kaiba Gionfriddo had the procedure when he was just three months old. He was in a critical condition, needing intensive care because his body was not getting the oxygen it needed. So doctors sought emergency approval to use the device as a a last resort. Lead researcher Dr Glenn Green described it as a ground-breaking case. Kaiba is now \"an active, healthy three-year old in preschool with a bright future\", researchers said. Almost three years later the splint shows signs of melting away as planned. And doctors say his windpipe appears strong enough for him to breathe without its support. April Gionfriddo, Kaiba's mum, said: \"The first time he was hospitalised, doctors told us he may not make it out. \"It was scary knowing he was the first child to ever have this procedure, but it was our only choice and it saved his life.\" The team have now carried out the surgery on two other children. Both are doing well and are back at home, though one continues to need a machine to help his breathing, because of problems the splint could not address. Dr Patrick Finlay, of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, described it as an advanced piece of engineering. He said: \"The problem represents some formidable difficulties. \"You have to construct something that can cope with growth and coughing and sneezing. \"And they seem to have done this - it is very exciting.\" He said the splint could be thought of as similar to a section of vacuum cleaner pipe that had been split in the middle. It is customised to match the exact anatomy of each patient and made of a bio-absorbable material. Doctors sew it in place on the outside of the windpipe as an incomplete ring. The aim is for it to provide support without constricting growth. Prof Paolo De Coppi of Great Ormond Street Hospital described this as a very attractive way of doing the procedure. He said: \"Other options can include internally placed stents - but these can cause bleeding and other complications. \"It is very encouraging news to see at three years that it appears safe and effective in this child.\" US researchers have filed a patent on the device and are now embarking on a larger trial.", "question": "Three babies have been saved from a life - threatening condition by using 3 D @placeholder windpipe splints to help them breathe , a pilot study reveals .", "option_0": "printed", "option_1": "mass", "option_2": "toe", "option_3": "inspired", "option_4": "containing"}
{"id": 553, "article": "But for women behind the camera, it takes a lot more to get noticed. Female nominations for technical work are rare - blink and you can miss them. From the outside, it looks like a man's world - but is that how it feels? Three women - two of them 2016 Oscar winners - tell us what it's really like. Oscars 2017: Full coverage \"I loved film growing up - I watched a lot of horror and I loved prosthetics, so my natural thought was to get into that,\" says Sara Bennett, who won an Oscar for her work on 2015 sci-fi drama Ex Machina. The film brought to life the female robot Ava, played by Alicia Vikander, whose body had humanoid features but with a transparent skull, limbs and torso. As the first female VFX supervisor to win an Oscar, Sara broke new ground at 2016's ceremony. It was only the third time in 89 years that a woman had been nominated for visual effects. The last winner? Suzanne Benson for Aliens - back in 1987. Despite being such rarity, Sara says she's never felt outnumbered. \"Until last year's Oscar nomination, I'd never really thought about it being male-dominated,\" she says. \"The hard time for me was learning the craft and moving up, as opposed to dealing with men in my industry.\" She grins. \"Being a woman probably went in my favour, to be honest.\" Sara, whose back catalogue includes Sherlock, The Martian and the first four Harry Potter films, says she loves the variety her work gives her. Her passion for her work is infectious, and she says it was \"amazing\" winning the Oscar - she couldn't quite believe it when her name was read out. But she also mixes it up by managing a team, mentoring young women and leading children's workshops. Having trained in prosthetics and make-up, she became a runner during the 1990s, working as a general assistant on film sets before switching to VFX. As a compositor, she learned how to combine several visual elements into a believable on-screen image, gaining her first credit in 1998 for Babe, Pig in the City. Although aspiring VFX specialists can now learn through YouTube tutorials, software and courses, Sara's adamant that the best experience is found in the workplace. \"Until you're working flat out and your eyes are bleeding at four in the morning, that horrible feeling - that's when you really learn about the job,\" she laughs, talking about the pressures of working to tight deadlines. Three years ago she set up London and Cardiff-based visual effects company Milk with four male colleagues, after their section in another VFX studio, The Mill, was closed down. Sara now sees more women moving through the ranks, and says with delight: \"When I was younger it was about 80/20 men to women in VFX, but now it's closer to 60/40.\" But even if more women want creative positions in the film industry, they're not at the top table just yet. Research from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film says women made up just 17% of \"behind-the-scenes employment\" on the top 100, 250 and 500 films of 2016. The study, The Celluloid Ceiling, states this is a drop of two percentage points on 2015, putting the figures on a par with 1998. These statistics, combined with this year's all-male VFX Oscar nominations, make those rare female wins look even more stark. So when's this going to change? Sara says it will take a while. \"There's so many women doing VFX. Maybe they're not doing the big A-List films, but they're out there doing it all.\" Fie Tholander, 31, has been inspired by Sara, working for her as a VFX compositor at Milk. \"I've always been drawn to magic, to fairy tale stories,\" she says, citing David Bowie fantasy drama Labyrinth (1986) as an inspiration. She's single-mindedly pursued her career since she was 15 and is now creating aliens for the upcoming Doctor Who series. She also worked on the brains in jars with eyeballs which featured in last year's Christmas special. As a Danish high school student, she already knew she wanted to work in VFX, studying art at Animation Workshop before heading for London, with an internship at The Mill. It was there that she met Sara, who became her mentor. \"Having Sara as a role model makes women realise they can actually do it,\" she says. \"VFX is portrayed as a technical thing, which isn't always the case. I'm not a technical person, I'm more creative.\" Fie thinks women need to be more assertive: \"I think women in general hold back, we're afraid to ask, and men are a bit more bold with their careers.\" Has she ever hit a glass, even a celluloid, ceiling? Nope. \"Sexism isn't something I've come across. If I want something I have to ask for it - no one will give it to me.\" But Fie does think the industry's progressing, with more women applying to work in her profession. She's also convinced that the film world is changing. \"With all the movies coming out, we're getting female role models who aren't princesses, which is great.\" Recent films such as Arrival have seen Amy Adams star as an expert linguist communicating with aliens, while Star Wars movie Rogue One has Felicity Jones as its lead. But it's not just VFX and sci-fi where women are breaking through. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, 37, made history last year as Pakistan's only double Oscar winner. She won her second best documentary Oscar for A Girl in the River - The Price of Forgiveness, about honour killings in Pakistan. Her first, in 2012, was for Saving Face, about a plastic surgeon treating those scarred by acid attacks. Starting out as a print journalist in Pakistan, Sharmeen decided aged 21 to switch to documentaries, so she could tell her stories visually. She pitched her first film proposal to about 80 global organisations. \"I was pretty much turned down by everyone,\" she says. \"But I've always believed that if a door doesn't open for you, it's because you haven't knocked hard enough.\" Undeterred, she asked the New York Times, who'd just set up a TV unit. They agreed to fund her first film, about Afghan refugee children on the streets of Pakistan. Her career went upwards from there - she's also won two Emmys (in 2010 and 2013) and the Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Crescent of Distinction), Pakistan's second-highest civilian award. For Sharmeen, her Oscar wins made a huge difference. \"It amplifies your voice and the voices of all of those people you are making a film about. \"After A Girl in the River, there was legislation about honour killing installed in Parliament in Pakistan. The win at the Oscars gave it the final push it needed to get it passed.\" She deliberately multi-tasks by producing and directing because \"it allows me the freedom to tell the type of stories I want to tell\". \"I've always said that making a film is like having a baby. You have a long period of time where something is inside of you, and when you send it out into the world, you want the world to appreciate it.\" Well aware of the high numbers of men working in the film industry, she says she's at an advantage in her field. \"Whereas Hollywood will tell you fewer women are getting the opportunities to be directors or play key roles in film, in documentary work, women in greater numbers are coming up behind the camera, winning Academy Awards.\" And for her, being a female filmmaker is an \"asset\". \"I've been able to get into places where a man would seldom be able to get into,\" she says. \"If I was a man perhaps I wouldn't be standing here today. I'm looked upon as less of a threat because I'm a woman.\" Sharmeen is keen to see more young women working in film, and tells them: \"You always need to believe in yourself. You need to go out and kick open those doors and you should never take no for an answer. Anything is possible. \"Chase your dreams and you never know, you may find yourself up on stage telling the stories you want to tell - and getting an accolade for it.\" Sara's words of advice are all about being resilient. She adds: \"If you get knocked back just get back up again - keep trying, make sure you enjoy it, put a big smile on your face - don't give up.\" Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "Oscars season is all about the stars : who said what , which gowns @placeholder the red carpet , and of course , who won .", "option_0": "pioneered", "option_1": "celebrates", "option_2": "produced", "option_3": "rocked", "option_4": "made"}
{"id": 554, "article": "City fans have been involved in regular protests against club owners Sisu. They reached a big live TV audience with mass whistling in the home defeat by Sheffield United in December. But supporters spokesman Jan Mokrzycki has warned that the whistling may be doing \"more harm than good\". Mokrzycki, from the Sky Blue Trust, added: \"Whilst to most fair-minded observers the cause of the Bolton equalising goal was simple defender error, some elements are blaming a whistle for causing momentary confusion in City's ranks. \"This form of protest is now doing more harm than good to the protest movement which we are fully behind and the Trust is calling on all supporters to cease the use of whistles at games. \"The Trust continues to fully support the efforts of The Jimmy Hill Way Alliance to rid our club of owners Sisu, fully backs manager Russell Slade and the team and calls for all supporters to unite together behind both the protests and the team - but without the whistles.\" Coventry City fans' frustration with their owners has steadily increased since the London-based hedge fund managers first took over the club in 2007. But protests have become more frequent and varied this season, all to the loud backdrop chants of \"We Want Sisu Out\" at every game.", "question": "Coventry City fans have been asked to stop whistling protests at games in the wake of claims that a crowd whistle @placeholder Bolton 's late equaliser in Monday 's 2 - 2 draw at the Ricoh Arena .", "option_0": "head", "option_1": "following", "option_2": "prevented", "option_3": "added", "option_4": "triggered"}
{"id": 555, "article": "UN agencies and their partners hope to replenish desperately needed supplies of food, water, medicine and fuel. Ships bearing aid have docked at a Red Sea port and planes are standing by. The ceasefire has broadly held since it began on Tuesday night, although intermittent clashes were reported across the country on Wednesday. The Saudi-led coalition has said the pause in its seven-week-old air campaign is conditional on the rebels reciprocating and not exploiting it for military advantage. Residents said there were clashes in the southern city of Aden, the nearby provinces of Daleh, Shabwa, Lahj and Abyan, as well as the third city of Taiz, after the ceasefire started at 23:00 (20:00 GMT) on Tuesday, but that they ended soon after midnight. \"Sanaa had a quiet night as the noise of bombs and anti-aircraft fire that had terrified everyone came to a halt,\" a resident of the capital, Tawfiq Abdul Wahhab, told the AFP news agency. Later on Wednesday, the US state department said it had received reports of some clashes and anti-aircraft fire, but that it understood that the ceasefire had \"broadly held\". The UN's emergency relief co-ordinator Valerie Amos called on all parties to the conflict to respect the \"vital pause in hostilities\", which she said would provide \"respite for civilians\". 12,000,000 people are food insecure 300,000 displaced from their homes 1,500 civilians killed since Saudi-led air campaign against Houthi rebel movement began on 26 March 6,200 civilians injured, with many lacking access to basic medical care There are currently 12 million people without access to sufficient food, clean water, fuel or basic medical care. As many as 300,000 have fled their homes. Two cargo ships chartered by the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) are docked at the rebel-controlled Red Sea port of Hudaydah. Other supplies are ready to be brought in and planes are standing by to help evacuate the wounded. The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) said it was sending medical and surgical supplies for 700 patients by boat to Aden, which has seen some of the fiercest fighting. Medical supplies and water would be distributed to other provinces in the south if the situation allowed, it added. However, the charity Oxfam has warned that five days is \"not enough time to move supplies into and around the country, particularly with fuel supplies dangerously low\". Saudi Arabia's King Salman has meanwhile doubled the money pledged by the kingdom for the aid effort to $530m (?¡ê340m). Baroness Amos requested that aid be routed through existing UN and international humanitarian organisation channels and stressed: \"It is essential that humanitarian assistance is not politicised.\" Her warning came as Iran's foreign ministry insisted it would not allow Saudi-led naval forces to inspect an aid ship bound for Hudaydah under military escort. The US has urged Iran to redirect the ship - said to be carrying 2,500 tonnes of food, medicine, tents and blankets - to Djibouti, where the UN has set up a hub. Saudi Arabia has accused Iran of providing military assistance to the Houthis, a charge it denies. In the days leading up to the ceasefire, the coalition stepped up its air strikes in an apparent attempt to inflict as much damage as possible on the Houthis and allied security personnel loyal to the ousted former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. The UN says at least 828 civilians have been killed and 1,511 injured since the start of the coalition air campaign on 26 March to restore exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi. The six days from 4 to 10 May were the deadliest, with at least 182 civilians reported killed.", "question": "Humanitarian organisations are taking advantage of a five - day truce to get aid into Yemen after weeks of Saudi - led air strikes @placeholder Houthi rebels .", "option_0": "targeting", "option_1": "entered", "option_2": "suggests", "option_3": "state", "option_4": "backed"}
{"id": 556, "article": "I was crest-fallen when my iPad 2 fell on to a hard floor and the screen smashed so one day I tweeted idly asking whether I could fix it myself. There it would have ended, except one of my followers tweeted me a link to a screen replacement kit for ?¡ê15 - much less than the ?¡ê200 I was quoted at the Apple Store. I clicked, bought the replacement screen then realised I had committed to a mission to fix my own iPad. So I visited iFixit.com - a crowdsourced website packed with tutorials on how to fix equipment. The guide to how to fix an iPad 2 looked well laid out, but complicated and intricate. It was rated \"very difficult\". But I was determined that that wouldn't deter me. I'd spent ?¡ê15 after all.  Further research revealed tales of broken glass and an almost certain guarantee of breaking something. Not exactly encouraging. My next port of call was the Restart Project - a group of volunteers who give amateurs advice on how to extend the life of their gadgets. Since last year, the movement has expanded to more than 40 countries, and they now offer \"lunch hour\" clinics in the workplace as well as holding evening and weekend parties. They offer advice on how to fix broken kit - and attendees accept the obvious risks involved in DIY repair. Before we continue, some warnings: if you think you're covered by a warranty you'll probably want to take your broken gadgets back to where you bought them. And the damage can be more personal - there is potential for electric shocks and bleeding fingers from broken glass. I wasn't put off - after all, my iPad is ancient, so I popped into one of their London events. I didn't fancy doing a job like this unsupervised, plus they'd agreed to lend me a heat gun, which is like an industrial-strength hairdryer. I used the heat gun to soften the adhesive that sticks the device together. Once the glue softened, I used plastic and metal implements called spudgers to prise my much-loved gadget open. The first incision was terrifying. Francis, a \"restarter\", kept an eye on me to make sure I didn't hurt myself. I wore safety glasses, and used sticky tape to collect tiny broken glass fragments. But important preparation such as reading guides, watching videos and memorising the steps in advance could not prepare me for the horrible reality of gouging out my kit. It was a taxing combination of brutal heavy-handedness and a delicate, dexterous light touch. Tablet repair is not a task I would encourage anyone to try without careful consideration and a healthy disrespect for the warranty. Janet Gunter, co-founder of the Restart Project, wants more companies to think about people's ability to repair their own devices. \"Stuff is getting more difficult to open and we're seeing that in the events that we're hosting. We're going to reach a point where it's going to be hard to help people fix things in a three-hour period. \"People always beat up on Apple but the point is everything is becoming sleeker, smaller, more sealed together and more difficult to open.\" I was determined - and finally removed the screen after three hours of prodding, poking, prying, scraping and applying heat. Everyone cheered. After removing the glass I undid four little screws and gently lifted the screen to reach the touchscreen connector behind it. I pulled out data cables, and prepared to do it all again - this time backwards. My tablet rebooted and connected to the web successfully. I had avoided the most common mistake - breaking the wifi/bluetooth antenna stuck to the glass next to the home button. But it was only a partial victory. During the removal of the glass, I'd severed the connection to one of the antennas at the top of the device. I couldn't consider it a complete repair, and was a little despondent. Alex Perjescu's company Lovefone repairs phones and tablets. He was at the event and was impressed that I'd even attempt a tablet screen repair, let alone try to replace the GPS antenna myself. He found me a replacement antenna and we arranged to meet at the next Restart party. The quest for a fully repaired tablet was back on! Alex told me it was normal to break something on the first fix. \"The instructions you find online are great - but also [you need to know] those little tricks to get it right from the first try. And make sure you're confident with the instructions you've found.\" Alex's professional tools were much more precise than the ones I'd bought online. I got right down to the logic board, removing the camera assembly, unpeeling tiny bits of tape, unscrewing tiny screws. An excruciating exercise indeed - but seven hours later I had finally done it - taking five hours longer than a competent professional. I was too tired to cheer, but immeasurably happy - and I am still happy as I'm writing this article on my self-refurbished device. The Restart Project aims to empower people to fix stuff themselves - and I certainly felt exhilarated after such a difficult repair. For me, after opening an iPad, nothing feels impenetrable. But crucially I was prepared to break my kit in order to understand it - and I'd advise anyone to think this way if they are considering DIY repair. Because sometimes it's not the winning - it's the taking apart that counts. Find out more on BBC Click this weekend or on iPlayer", "question": "Considering our reliance on smartphones and tablets , and their susceptibility to being @placeholder , it 's surprising there has n't been more of an outcry over why they are so difficult to fix .", "option_0": "rescued", "option_1": "injured", "option_2": "cracked", "option_3": "ignored", "option_4": "marked"}
{"id": 557, "article": "Numbers have gone from around 155,000 in 1985 to 97,000 in 2015 according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The iconic animal has declined because of habitat loss, poaching and civil unrest in many parts of Africa. Some populations are growing, mainly in southern parts of the continent. Until now, the conservation status of giraffes was considered of \"least concern\" by the IUCN. However in their latest global Red List of threatened species, the ungainly animal is now said to be \"vulnerable\", meaning that over three generations, the population has declined by more that 30%. According to Dr Julian Fennessy, who co-chairs the IUCN giraffe specialist group, the creatures are undergoing a \"silent extinction\". \"If you go on a safari, giraffes are everywhere,\" he told BBC News. \"While there have been great concern about elephants and rhinos, giraffes have gone under the radar but, unfortunately, their numbers have been plummeting, and this is something that we were a little shocked about, that they have declined by so much in so little time.\" The rapid growth of human populations has seen the expansion of farming and other forms of development that has resulted in the fragmentation of the giraffe's range in many parts of Africa.  But civil unrest in parts of the continent has also taken its toll. \"In these war torn areas, in northern Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia in the border area with South Sudan, essentially the giraffes are war fodder, a large animal, extremely curious that can feed a lot of people,\" said Dr Fennessy. A study in recent months suggested that the giraffe was actually four different species but for this update of  the Redlist, the IUCN have stuck with the traditional definition of one species with nine subspecies. Of these, five have had falling populations, one has remained stable while three have grown. Different outcomes seem to be highly dependent on location. \"The species in southern Africa, those numbers are increasing by two to three times over the last three decades,\" said Dr Fennessy. \"But when you come up through East Africa, those numbers have plummeted some by up to 95% of the population in the case of the Nubian giraffe, in the last three decades alone.\" While researchers believe that some local populations may not survive, there is optimism that that the long term future of these tall creatures can be secured. The success in keeping giraffe numbers high in Southern Africa has much to do with the management of game parks for tourists say experts, who believe that the extra attention that the IUCN listing will now attract will benefit the species. \"South Africa is a good example of how you can manage wildlife, there is a lot of moving of animals between different conservation areas, it is a very different scenario than in most of the rest of Africa.\" said Chris Ransom from the Zoological Society of London. \"I think giraffes can survive, with the right conservation efforts, and we can ensure that the animals do live in the wild. There  are a lot of cases of success in conservation. The giraffes could be one.\" The latest edition of the IUCN Red List now contains over 85,000 species in total with more than 24,000 threatened with extinction. Over 700 newly recognised bird species have been added, with 11% of them on the edge of survival. One bird, the Antioquia wren has been listed as \"endangered\" as more than half of its habitat in Colombia could be wiped out by proposed dam. Invasive species on islands are also seen as a threat for many birds including the Pagan reed-warbler and the Laysan honeycreeper. The publication also includes the first assessment of crops including wild oats, barley, mango and other wild relative plants. \"Many species are slipping away before we can even describe them,\" says IUCN Director General Inger Andersen. \"This IUCN Red List update shows that the scale of the global extinction crisis may be even greater than we thought.\" Follow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook", "question": "A dramatic drop in giraffe populations over the past 30 years has seen the world 's tallest @placeholder mammal classified as vulnerable to extinction .", "option_0": "decline", "option_1": "era", "option_2": "gathering", "option_3": "maternity", "option_4": "land"}
{"id": 558, "article": "The band performed during Friday night's Children In Need, the first time as a seven piece since 2002. During their career, the group had 11 UK top ten hits, including three number ones. Speaking about the 2015 tour, Rachel Stevens said: \"We went through so much together there will always be that bond there. Even though it had been such a long time, coming back together felt really natural.\" Of their comeback performance, Bradley told Newsbeat: \"It was amazing. You couldn't ask for a better response from the fans.\" Whilst there was a lot of positive reaction, there had been some criticism directed at Jo O'Meara's singing. But Jo explained that it came down to nerves. Jo said: \"A lot of people were picking out my vocals saying they weren't all that good which, I've got to say, I completely agree with!\" \"It's because I was so nervous. More nervous than I've ever been. It's like someone had thrown sand in my mouth. I was shaking from head to toe. Next time I'll do a better job.\" The full tour dates are: Thursday, May 7 - Birmingham LG Arena Friday, May 8 - Manchester Arena Saturday, May 9 - Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena Monday, May 11 - Bournemouth IC Tuesday, May 12 - Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena Wednesday, May 13 - Liverpool, Echo Arena Friday, May 15 - Nottingham, Capital FM Arena Saturday, May 16 - London, The O2 Tuesday, May 19 - Leeds, First Direct Arena Wednesday, May 20 - Glasgow, The SSE Hydro Tickets go on sale on Thursday November 20 at 9am.", "question": "It 's probably no surprise but S Club 7 are going back on tour and have @placeholder a series of arena gigs .", "option_0": "announced", "option_1": "booked", "option_2": "sparked", "option_3": "taken", "option_4": "shared"}
{"id": 559, "article": "The cascade - or weeping window - section will be shown at St George's Hall in Liverpool and Woodhorn Museum, Northumberland. Yorkshire Sculpture Park will host the arch segment, also known as the wave. The installation, which marked 100 years since the start of World War One, drew more than five million visitors. Culture Secretary John Whittingdale said: \"This is art at its most powerful and it is only right that everyone should have the chance to see them.\" The installation included 888,246 ceramic poppies, with each representing each death in the British and Colonial forces between 1914 and 1918. It was created by Derbyshire artist Paul Cummins and theatre designer Tom Piper, and was named Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red after a line written by a soldier who died in Belgium. A total of ¡ê9m was raised for six military service charities after most of the poppies, which were handmade in Derby, were sold to members of the public for ¡ê25 each. Wave and the Weeping Window, which together have more than 10,000 ceramic poppies, were bought for the nation last year by the charities Backstage Trust and the Clore Duffield Foundation. Other locations can bid next year to host the ceramic poppies in 2017 and 2018, before they are permanently homed at the Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester. Wave: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, September 2015 - January 2016 Weeping Window Woodhorn Museum, Northumberland, September - October 2015 St George's Hall, Liverpool, November 2015 - January 2016 Source: 14-18 Now World War One Centenary", "question": "Thousands of ceramic poppies used in the Tower of London installation are to go on display across the north of England , it has been @placeholder .", "option_0": "unveiled", "option_1": "announced", "option_2": "claimed", "option_3": "released", "option_4": "warned"}
{"id": 560, "article": "The Great Western Railway carriage was placed on a site near Helston in Cornwall in 1930 by Elizabeth Richards, who lived there until she died in 1966. Master carpenter Charles Allen restored the carriage, from 1882, and built a bungalow around it with help from his son-in-law Jim Higgins. The estate agent in charge of the sale said the construction was \"unique\". The antique carriage houses two bedrooms and a bathroom with a kitchen, lounge, sun room and reception hall reminiscent of a railway station platform in the rest of the bungalow. Mr Higgins said Waverly was a five-door third-class carriage that had kept many of its original features. He said the carriage had been \"in a right state\" when Mr Allen took on the project. Philip Care, the estate agent handling the sale, said the property, near Ashton, appeared to be a normal bungalow from the outside. \"I've never seen anything like it,\" he said. \"The quality of it is just phenomenal and you can spend hours looking at the details.\" Mr Care said the bungalow was a \"railway enthusiast's dream\". The bungalow will be sold at a public auction in August.", "question": "A bungalow constructed around a @placeholder 19th Century railway carriage is going on the market .", "option_0": "beach", "option_1": "refurbished", "option_2": "drug", "option_3": "message", "option_4": "suspected"}
{"id": 561, "article": "Just 84 of the 277 academies rated as inadequate between 2010 and 2015, had been found new academy sponsors, the Commons Education Committee heard. Ian Mearns MP also said the oversight of failing academies was \"not working\". The government says failing academies face swifter action than struggling schools linked to local authorities. Regional school commissioner for East Midlands and the Humber Janet Bexon Smith told the committee: \"Re-brokerage does sometimes take time, and that is about finding the right match. \"We have got to persuade another trust to take on a school that has already been brokered once [converted to academy status]. \"And we often find they will look at it, they have to do their due diligence, and say, 'It is too broken, we would not be able to take it on,'\" she said. Another school commissioner, Rebecca Clark, who oversees the academies programme in the South West, told the committee the need to get new potential academy sponsors on board was a \"very real priority\" for her and her colleagues. \"Five to 10 to 15 years from now, we should have a system where we can catch schools before they go into decline,\" she said. But Mr Mearns replied: \"The children in the schools we are talking about have not got five, 10, 15 years, they need the school that they are in improved around them now, and they need someone overseeing improvement and doing it very quickly.\" And there was an \"inherent flaw\" in the system - there were not enough academy sponsors available to take over struggling academies. \"We are moving towards a system where all schools are academies, and it is not working now,\" he added. But Ms Bexon Smith said re-brokerage was disruptive and the \"last resort\". Other interventions could be tried first, such as changing the existing academy leadership and intensive support, she said. The committee also heard the Department for Education was soon to pilot a scheme that would allow regional school commissioners to halt the expansion of multi-academy trusts that failed pass a set series of checks. It is due to be rolled out across England in early 2017.", "question": "Failing academies are not being @placeholder to improve fast enough in England by the government officials overseeing them , a committee of MPs has heard .", "option_0": "offered", "option_1": "helped", "option_2": "paid", "option_3": "encouraged", "option_4": "forced"}
{"id": 562, "article": "The 33-year-old Portugal defender has 18 months left to run on his current deal, which he signed in October 2015. Southampton's director of football Les Reed says the player has had the chance to sign an improved deal, but Fonte has now asked to leave the club. \"He's had several opportunities to improve the contract situation. He's reserved his right not to do that,\" Reed told BBC Radio Solent. \"He's made it very clear he would like to explore the opportunities for a transfer. \"That's where we are at the moment, Jose wants to leave the club. He's formally asked for a transfer.\" Reed went on to confirm the club have not yet received any formal bid for the player, who joined Saints from Crystal Palace in January 2010, and has made 288 appearances. Fonte was linked with a move to Manchester United in the summer after helping his country win Euro 2016, and he wrote on Instagram last month: \"Just to set the record straight I did not reject a new contract. In fact, I have been informed by Southampton that they are not offering me a new contract.\" However, Reed insists new terms have been offered to the former Benfica player: \"What was offered to Jose was, in my view, quite significant off the back of the contract he signed in October 2015. \"Six months later we were prepared to improve that contract and extend it. He has turned down the opportunity to increase his salary, and he's turned down the opportunity to get another permanent year on his contract.\"", "question": "Southampton club captain Jose Fonte has @placeholder in a transfer request .", "option_0": "resulted", "option_1": "appeared", "option_2": "arrived", "option_3": "revealed", "option_4": "handed"}
{"id": 563, "article": "Some will also be asking about the Midlands question. It was an issue that surfaced at the Labour conference in Manchester. The worry is .....are the East and West Midlands in danger of being by-passed in any post-Scottish referendum devolution settlement? The alarm bells have been ringing. One reason is George Osborne's enthusiasm to create a \"northern powerhouse\". Northern powerhouse? That's the increasing economic and political clout of northern cities linking up with Manchester to have their voice heard at Westminster and the treasury. In his mini-budget later this year, the chancellor is expected to announce a ?¡ê15bn investment in science and manufacturing knowhow for the North. That's big money. But council leaders from the Midlands increasingly feel too many London-based government, business and cultural organisations are being encouraged to look to our friends in the North. Is the Midlands in danger of being leapfrogged? They say the BBC's shift to Salford is an example. \"London and the South East will always grow as an economy and there's this growing perception of the northern powerhouse economy,\" said Councillor Anne Western, leader of Derbyshire County Council. \"If we are not careful, the Midlands is the bit in between that everyone forgets, and I'm not prepared to allow that.\" Ms Western was one of the platform speakers at a fringe meeting at the Labour conference to consider a response to the northern challenge. Sir Albert Bore, the leader of Birmingham City Council, was also a key speaker. Improved transport links between the East and West Midlands are on the shopping list of investment projects that the Midlands - East and West - are now seeking. There's a feeling among Midlands political leaders that the combined voice of the northern cities - Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds and Newcastle - has been quicker off the mark and sharper in presenting its case to government. Investing in better rail services and connections is one of the northern powerhouse ideas that has also caught the ear of ministers. \"Just look at the rail service between Nottingham and Birmingham,\" said Sir Albert. \"It's appalling. It's quicker to get from Birmingham to London by train than to Nottingham and it's half the distance.\" A sign of a new joint approach is Midlands Connect, a lobbying group that's bringing together council leaders from both the East and West Midlands. Sir Albert said: \"It's about trying to ensure the same message is out there for the Midlands as a whole.\" Midlands Connect is already pitching a strong message of a dynamic region: 20 universities, an economy worth ?¡ê178bn and a population of 10m, expected to grow by 10% over the next 20 years. \"The roads and railways that connect our two regions - the East and West Midlands - are simply inadequate,\" said Lillian Greenwood, Labour's rail minister and the MP for Nottingham South. Will HS2 and its high speed rail link to the Midlands from London boost the economic clout of the region? Lillian Greenwood said: \"Both Birmingham and Nottingham already have relatively good connections down to London, but really poor transport links with each other. That needs addressing.\" Anne Western says HS2 may end up being part of the problem for the Midlands. \"HS2 is about improving connections between London and the North, and it's a long term project,\" she said. \"We've got to work on what can be improved to transport links locally in the short term.\" David Cameron may use his conference speech in Birmingham to outline some of his thinking on devolving powers beyond the slogan: \"English Votes for English laws.\" In any debate on England's evolving and devolving north-south future, council leaders from the Midlands - East and West - are determined to be heard and are joining forces to turn up the volume.", "question": "As the Conservatives gather in Birmingham for their annual conference , it wo n't just be the English question that 'll be on their @placeholder .", "option_0": "membership", "option_1": "beaches", "option_2": "experience", "option_3": "minds", "option_4": "breath"}
{"id": 564, "article": "At least 39 people were killed inside the Weiguan Jinlong (Golden Dragon) apartment complex in Tainan. About 320 people have been rescued but more than 100 people may still be under the debris. It was one of the few buildings to suffer serious damage, sparking questions about its construction. With hopes fading of finding more survivors, rescuers are now using heavy equipment to knock down parts of the toppled structure. Hundreds of soldiers are involved in the rescue effort, helped by high-tech equipment, sniffer dogs and cranes. On Tuesday, distraught relatives frequently interrupted Mayor William Lai as he gave a briefing on the progress of the search, after the passing of the 72-hour so-called \"golden window\" for finding survivors. An investigation has been launched into whether the construction of the Weiguan Jinlong building contributed to its collapse. The shallow 6.4-magnitude quake was powerful but few other buildings were damaged, thanks to strict building standards on the earthquake-prone island.", "question": "The developer of a building which collapsed in the earthquake that hit Taiwan on Saturday has been @placeholder , local media report .", "option_0": "found", "option_1": "arrested", "option_2": "recaptured", "option_3": "named", "option_4": "identified"}
{"id": 565, "article": "King, who won his first career ranking event at last week's Northern Ireland Open, trailed fellow Englishman Sam Craigie 3-1 at the break. But that turned to 4-1 when he returned to the arena having left his cue in the tournament office. \"It's just one for the silly book,\" said King, 42. \"I have now done two things in three days that I have never done in the rest of my career - winning a ranking tournament and forgetting my cue.\" Romford-born King said he was having trouble with a sponsor logo on his cue and went with referee Jan Verhaas to replace it in the tournament office. \"I was in a daze, had my cup of tea, had my banana and left my cue in there,\" said King. \"Then I came out to the arena and thought 'oh my god, where's my cue'! \"If I'd said to Sam 'can I borrow your cue to break off' and then said I was going to the toilet, I wonder if I wouldn't have been punished?\" King could still win the ¡ê5,000 prize money for the tournament's highest break, having scored a superb 141 in the frame immediately after he was penalised. He added: \"It has been a bad day but it has been a really good week - the best week of my life when you talk about snooker. It's not all doom and gloom.\"", "question": "Mark King suffered a shock 6 - 2 first - round defeat at the UK Championship in York after he forgot his cue after the @placeholder and was docked a frame .", "option_0": "accident", "option_1": "event", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "round", "option_4": "interval"}
{"id": 566, "article": "The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the move \"counter-productive\" to peace talks while the EU said the plan should be \"reversed\". The announcement comes days after Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called for full UN membership for a Palestinian state. The new houses are to be constructed at Gilo, in East Jerusalem. Almost 500,000 Jews live in settlements on occupied territory. The settlements are illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this. 'Provocative' US-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are deadlocked over the issue of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Mrs Clinton said Israel's move would damage attempts to resume direct negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. \"We have long urged both sides to avoid any kind of action which could undermine trust, including, and perhaps most particularly, in Jerusalem, any action that could be viewed as provocative by either side,\" she said. The European Union's Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton told the EU parliament that she heard \"with deep regret\" that Israeli settlement plans were continuing. \"This plan should be reversed. Settlement activity threatens the viability of an agreed two-state solution and runs contrary to the Israeli-stated commitment to resume negotiations.\" She said she would raise the issue with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when she next met him. \"He should stop announcing them and, more importantly, stop building them,\" she said, adding that it was wrong to get people to live in a place from which they may have to move from after any negotiated settlement is achieved. British Foreign Secretary William Hague too urged Israel to revoke its decision. \"Settlement expansion is illegal under international law, corrodes trust and undermines the basic principle of land for peace,\" he said in a statement. The plan for construction in Gilo includes the construction of small housing units, public buildings, a school and an industrial zone, according to the Ynet news website. \"It's a nice gift for Rosh Hashanah [Jewish New Year],\" Yair Gabay, a member of the Jerusalem planning committee, told Ynet. The authorities have now approved the building of almost 3,000 homes in Gilo over the past two years. The chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the decision represented a rejection of a proposal by the Quartet of Mid East negotiators - the US, the EU, Russia and the UN - for new talks between the Palestinians and Israelis, expected to be made officially on Friday. \"With this, Israel is responding to the Quartet's statement with 1,100 'NOs',\" he said. On Monday, a divided UN Security Council met behind closed doors for its first discussion of last week's Palestinian application for full state membership of the UN. The request needs the support of nine of the 15 members of the council, but the US has said it will veto the bid. Israel built the settlement at Gilo on land it captured in 1967. It later annexed the area to the Jerusalem municipality in a move not recognised by the international community. Israel says it does not consider areas within the Jerusalem municipality to be settlements. Gilo lies across a narrow valley from the Palestinian village of Beit Jala. It became a target for militants during the second Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation in 2000. Meanwhile, the UN rapporteurs on housing, water, sanitation and food rights said there had been a \"dramatic increase\" in the demolitions this year. \"The impact and discriminatory nature of these demolitions and evictions is completely unacceptable,\" they said in a statement. \"These actions by the Israeli authorities violate human rights and humanitarian law and must end immediately.\"", "question": "Western @placeholder have expressed dismay at Israeli plans to build 1,100 more homes on the edge of Jerusalem .", "option_0": "communities", "option_1": "powers", "option_2": "bodies", "option_3": "forces", "option_4": "observers"}
{"id": 567, "article": "Halsey said on Twitter that he had \"seen an incident and been told to say I haven't seen it\". He spoke out after Manchester City's Sergio Aguero received a retrospective three-game ban for violent conduct. However, the Professional Game Match Officials Limited said: \"There is no pressure to include or omit anything.\" The body's statement continued: \"Match officials submit their reports, including critical incidents, directly to the FA. \"Match officials ensure that their reports are a full and accurate description of the incident.\" Halsey, who retired in 2013, also pointed out these were issues he had previously mentioned in his autobiography three years ago. He later added: \"To be fair to the FA... it's not them, it comes from within the PGMOL.\" Formed in 2001, the PGMOL was established when referees turned professional and aims to improve standards across the Premier League, Football League and FA competitions in England as well as training and development. Had the incident that saw Aguero banned by a Football Association panel for elbowing West Ham's Winston Reid been witnessed by a match official, including referee Andre Marriner, the retrospective punishment would not have been possible. Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville said Halsey's claims were \"too big\" to avoid a full investigation.", "question": "Former referee Mark Halsey 's claims that he was told to lie after a game have been denied by the body which @placeholder match officials .", "option_0": "sparked", "option_1": "lost", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "oversees", "option_4": "table"}
{"id": 568, "article": "Perhaps more than anywhere else in the UK, this area has a track record of electing representatives who don't have a big party machine behind them. Lady Sylvia Hermon was the only independent MP elected to parliament in 2010. She's defending a huge majority - more than 14,000. She says the good things about being an independent include \"always being unanimous\". Lady Hermon points to the Commons vote against the government's plans for military action in Syria as an important part of her last term. \"I had made up my mind that I was not going to vote in favour of British involvement in Syria,\" she said. \"When we came to the major motion that was brought forward by the coalition government, I voted against, and was absolutely thrilled to be one of the 13 MPs who made a difference that night.\" With the polls predicting a hung parliament, and the possibility of more knife-edge votes, she says she would not prop up a Conservative government if it is supported by UKIP. But she says that as a unionist, she also would not prop up a Labour administration if a deal is done with the SNP. So Lady Hermon says she would take each vote as it comes. In Groomsport, another successful independent politician is marking his quarter century as an elected representative. Councillor Alan Chambers owns a shop in the village. He thinks the main advantage of not being in a party is being able to make up his own mind about topics. \"I can think of nothing worse than being told how to vote when you don't want to vote that way,\" he says. \"You also don't need to worry about being tainted by a headline about what a party colleague has said or done. I only need to worry about myself.\" So how do politicians keep ahead when they don't have party spin doctors, policy officers or political broadcasts? The editor of the County Down Spectator, Paul Flowers, says that dealing with constituency problems is very important for representatives in the area - whether they are independent or in a party. \"Our politicians are very active in dealing with what you might think is the little stuff - dogs, drains, things like that. It may not be the big reason why they all wanted to go into politics in the first place, but it gets them elected the next time round.\" In the Dail (Irish parliament), independents - and minor parties - have become a significant force. There are currently 28 TDs designated as such. Politicians like Mick Wallace, Claire Daly, and Luke \"Ming\" Flanagan (now an MEP) have high profiles and have made a major impact. Some of the left-wing TDs see their independence as enabling them to pursue a form of politics which is more ideologically pure. They have benefited from the decline in support for mainstream parties. But at Westminster, independent MPs are thin on the ground. There have been little more than a dozen elected since the Second World War. The former BBC broadcaster Martin Bell was one of the best known. The \"man in the white suit\" served as MP for Tatton from 1997 to 2001. He defeated the then Conservative Neil Hamilton after Mr Hamilton was involved in a cash-for questions scandal. There are five independents standing for election in Northern Ireland on 7 May. So with disillusionment in UK politics in general showing no sign of going away, will more independents be tempted to add their names to ballot papers over the next few years? Rick Wilford, emeritus professor of Politics at Queen's University, says that may be the case - but only if the first-past-the-post electoral system for Westminster elections is replaced by PR, to give independents a better chance of getting seats. He says you may get more candidates who \"like Victor Meldrew, say 'I don't believe it, what these politicians are doing - I'm going to have a go myself.' But that, I think is contingent on a change in the electoral system.\" It's impossible to generalise about independent politicians - after all, individualism and independence go hand-in-hand. But if there's one thing independents seem to have in common, it's that they relish being their own person. The full list of candidates standing in North Down: Steven Agnew, Green Party; Mark Brotherston, Conservative; William Cudworth,  TUV (Traditional Unionist Voice); Glenn Donnelly, Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol; Alex Easton, DUP; Sylvia Hermon,  Independent; Jonny Lavery, UKIP; Therese McCartney, Sinn F??in; Andrew Muir, Alliance Party and Tom Woolley, SDLP.", "question": "If you want to analyse the @placeholder of independent politicians , North Down is the place to be .", "option_0": "decline", "option_1": "status", "option_2": "life", "option_3": "death", "option_4": "phenomenon"}
{"id": 569, "article": "The Crues face a testing away trip to third-placed Coleraine on Saturday as they aim to protect a seven-point lead. \"If you are going to try and win a title, you have to go and win games. We are only thinking of collecting the three points,\" said Baxter. \"There is no point going there, sitting back and accepting pressure.\" The Crues boss believes the outstanding recent form of the Bannsiders has made them \"the big surprise package\" of the campaign, but concedes that their progress does not come as a total surprise to him. \"I always knew Coleraine were developing something very strong - they have very good young players in their team with a lot of quality. \"They have really come to the fore in the last two months and hats off to Oran (Kearney) because he has worked tirelessly behind the scenes. \"He's a good manager and it will be a big test for us.\" Kearney's charges have hit form at just the right time and are now unbeaten in 13 matches in all competitions. \"This is the business end of the season and it's full of big games. Crusaders had another emphatic win over Ballinamallard so we have a tough task ahead of us,\" observed the Coleraine manager. Meanwhile Ballymena United boss David Jeffrey expects Cliftonville to pose a major threat to their ambition to get back to winning ways after picking up just one point from two home fixtures in the last week. \"It's going to be difficult at Solitude. They are a class act and are coming off the back of a few disappointing results. They will want to make amends on Saturday,\" argued the Sky Blues' boss. Linfield will be out to keep up their pursuit of Crusaders at the top when they travel to Ferney Park to take on Ballinamallard United. David Healy's outfit are on an impressive run of form, winning 11 and drawing one on of their last 12 outings. \"We are going to be playing the second best team in the country and they gave us a lesson the last time we played them at Windsor Park,\" said Mallards manager Gavin Dykes. \"Having said that, when we're at it, we can give anyone a game at Ferney Park.\" Dungannon boss Rodney McAree has seen his side drop to eighth spot after Glentoran's 1-0 win over Carrick Rangers on Friday night as the Swifts head to Shamrock Park to face basement club Portadown. \"We don't want to finish any lower than seventh and we have to fight tooth and nail to try and achieve that,\" said McAree. Glenavon manager Gary Hamilton is expected to make wholesale changes to his starting line-up for the Premiership game at Ards, with the Irish Cup semi-final against Coleraine a week later in mind.", "question": "Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter has urged his players to keep @placeholder wins in every game as they close in on a third consecutive Premiership title .", "option_0": "side", "option_1": "beat", "option_2": "scoring", "option_3": "title", "option_4": "chasing"}
{"id": 570, "article": "Saturday's 1-0 defeat by Southampton left Swansea 16th, three points above the Premier League relegation zone. They face second-placed Tottenham at White Hart Lane on 28 February and play Arsenal, currently in third, at Emirates Stadium on 5 March. \"There is no reason why we can't go there and get something,\" said Cork. Swansea have never beaten Spurs in the Premier League, but enjoyed a home and away double against the Gunners last season. \"Spurs and Arsenal are games where we are not really expected to get anything,\" Cork told BBC Radio Wales. \"You saw at the weekend, Sunderland beat Manchester United. \"I know we are down at the bottom, but we can go there and no one is expecting us to win. \"We managed to do it twice against Arsenal last year and it would be good to do it against Tottenham because we haven't really managed to get a result against them.\" Aston Villa are seven points adrift at the bottom of the table, but only five points separates Bournemouth in 15th and Sunderland in 19th with 12 games of the season remaining. \"There is no need to panic yet,\" said Cork. \"We play teams around us and I think we will be fine. \"But it could go to the wire. A few of the teams down the bottom got good results this week, but we had good form in the previous month.\"", "question": "Midfielder Jack Cork says there will be \" no pressure \" on @placeholder Swansea when they make successive trips to title - chasing Tottenham and Arsenal .", "option_0": "hold", "option_1": "rebuilding", "option_2": "struggling", "option_3": "securing", "option_4": "form"}
{"id": 571, "article": "Graham Booker, 68, flew at retired policeman Richard Hadley like \"a mad bull\" during the assault in Sidmouth, Devon, last October, magistrates heard. It happened after Booker saw Mr Hadley in an alleyway between Sidmouth Methodist Church and his home. Booker was convicted of assault after a trial at Exeter Magistrates' Court. The court heard how Mr Hadley had been using a wrench to remove some nuts from a metal gate in the alleyway, when Booker came out of the church's fire exit. Mr Hadley said Booker raced towards him, shoved him to the ground and kicked him. He said: \"I went sprawling on the floor. My nose hit the ground. It was streaming blood. I lost a tooth. I must have been knocked out for a few seconds. Booker was standing over me and kicked me.\" The victim, who owns the Hair Studio next to the church, said he had the right to use the alleyway to access the rear of the property, which the church disputes. Mr Hadley said he had had used the alleyway for 30 years and it was the only way into his \"landlocked\" property. In court he branded the church an \"absolute disgrace\". Booker, of Windsor Mead, Sidmouth, claimed he did not kick Mr Hadley but was kicking away the wrench and said he had acted in self defence. He was released on bail and will be sentenced at a later date. A spokesman for Sidmouth Methodist Church said: \"We are deeply saddened by the situation and hope that all those concerned can soon put this unfortunate matter behind them and move forward in reconciling relationships within the community.\"", "question": "A church steward attacked an 85 - year - old @placeholder in a row over a disputed alleyway , knocking him to ground and leaving him with a missing tooth .", "option_0": "woman", "option_1": "neighbour", "option_2": "couple", "option_3": "olds", "option_4": "spot"}
{"id": 572, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The undefeated American arrived and was barely visible, entering amid a large entourage before being largely hidden on stage by a media scrum. Conor McGregor, his UFC champion challenger, then arrived and made a beeline for an Irish flag in the crowd before performing an impromptu lap of fans, as media and security gave chase. Once on stage, the 29-year-old Irishman said he would be \"calm and cold\" when he met the former five-weight boxing world champion on Saturday. \"He needs to be put to sleep,\" said McGregor. \"He will wake up a better man. I am going to do that for him.\" BBC 5 live sports correspondent Richard Conway This was hype and showmanship taken to a whole new level. When Conor McGregor finally walked on, he did so as the self-styled people's champion, strutting around the open plaza as if he owned it. Like a presidential candidate on the eve of polling day, he shook hands and high-fived as many supporters as he could reach. Dressed in a purple suit, he told his expectant audience he would knock Mayweather unconscious on Saturday night, which elicited a huge cheer. As he tried to depart I managed to ask him if he really is, as he claims, going to shock the world on Saturday night. Nodding, he turned to the crowd and said \"for these fans, I love these fans\". McGregor's legend continues to grow. It increasingly feels like he stands to win big in the long term, no matter what happens in the ring this weekend. About 1,000 media from around the world have been accredited for Saturday's bout, many of them to be housed away from the venue at a media tent a short walk from the T-Mobile Arena. Outside the arena, a large security presence tried to keep the 'Grand Arrivals' ceremony cordial on Tuesday afternoon. Undercard fighters, including Wales' Nathan Cleverly, posed for head-to-head pictures without problems, until Mayweather entered. McGregor was due on stage first but with both men late for the event, his rival stepped up, leaving the Dublin fighter to follow when he arrived. But those who had waited in temperatures of over 40C on a street adjacent to Las Vegas' famous strip showed their frustration when photographers and reporters surrounded 40-year-old Mayweather, blocking any sight of the former five-division world champion. Cries of \"we want Conor\" broke out from American fans, while added security was placed at the front of the stage, with media warned not to rush forward when McGregor arrived. When he did, flanked by his own entourage, they brushed shoulders with the departing Mayweather group, prompting brief panic among the security detail. McGregor exchanged heated words with one member of the Mayweather group and later rowed with ex-sparring partner Paulie Malignaggi. \"Over the course of the next week, Vegas is Ireland,\" said McGregor, after eventually making it to the stage. \"We run Las Vegas. We are here to take over this whole city.\" Organisers say the bout - which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 live - is the most accessible in boxing history, with fans able to watch through social platforms. They estimate around a billion people will watch worldwide. It is expected the bout could generate over $600m and go close to becoming the richest in boxing history. Victory for Mayweather, who has come out of retirement for the fight, would take his record to 50 wins from 50 bouts and surpass the late Rocky Marciano's flawless 49-fight record.", "question": "The opening event of a week of build - up to potentially the most lucrative fight in boxing history @placeholder chaotic scenes in Las Vegas , with Floyd Mayweather booed by unhappy fans .", "option_0": "following", "option_1": "was", "option_2": "title", "option_3": "spanning", "option_4": "produced"}
{"id": 573, "article": "The diver, a man aged 45 believed to be on holiday with his family, died in the English Channel at East Portholland, St Austell, at about 17:00 BST on Tuesday. Police said a 12-year-old girl was taken to Derriford Hospital by ambulance. Her condition is not thought to be serious. Officers are informing the victim's next of kin. More on the scuba diving incident, and other stories from Cornwall Supt Ian Drummond Smith said: \"The family involved were from outside the area and are believed to have been holidaying in Cornwall. \"This appears to be a tragic scuba diving accident and our thoughts are with the man's relatives and friends at this time.\"", "question": "A scuba diver has @placeholder and a 12 - year - old girl has been injured in the sea off Cornwall .", "option_0": "admitted", "option_1": "drowned", "option_2": "spoken", "option_3": "erupted", "option_4": "collapsed"}
{"id": 574, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Low also revealed he told Gotze to show the world he was better than Lionel Messi minutes before the substitute came on to score the winner. Media playback is not supported on this device Victory gave Germany a fourth World Cup title and first for 24 years. Gotze, 22, said: \"It is an unbelievable feeling. You score that goal and you don't really know what's happening.\" Gotze, who began the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Germany's starting line-up, came on as an 88th-minute substitute for Miroslav Klose in Sunday's final. With seven minutes of extra time remaining, the Bayern Munich midfielder volleyed home with his left foot after controlling Andre Schurrle's left-wing cross on his chest. \"He is the wonder who can play in numerous positions, he is the decider who can come on and make a difference,\" said Low. \"That is what he did.\" Gotze, who joined Bayern in a ¡ê31.5m deal from Borussia Dortmund last summer, added: \"It's indescribable. The dream has become a reality. It is absolutely sensational.\" Media playback is not supported on this device Despite being on the losing side in the final, Messi was named as the tournament's best player. Coach Alejandro Sabella said the award was \"very deserved\", adding: \"He played a great World Cup to get us where he did.\" Germany counterpart Low, meanwhile, said victory in Brazil was the result of a 10-year project. Germany were knocked out at the group stage of Euro 2004 without winning a game but have since reached three semi-finals and two finals at five major championships. Before Sunday they had not won a tournament since tasting success in the 1996 European Championships in England. \"We've made constant progress and believed in the project,\" said the 54-year-old Low, who became coach in 2006 after stepping up from his role as assistant to Jurgen Klinsmann. \"If any group deserves it, it's this team.\" Manuel Neuer, who won the Golden Glove award for the best goalkeeper in the tournament, hailed an \"unbelievable\" moment as the national side lifted the trophy. \"The team has done superbly, not only the players, but also the team behind the team,\" he said. Captain Philipp Lahm added: \"Whether we have the best individual players or whatever does not matter, you have to have the best team. At the end, you stand there as world champions - an unbelievable feeling.\" Chelsea forward Schurrle added: \"This is the best moment of my life. I had to cry because I was so overcome. I couldn't stop it. It was always a dream to be a world champion.\" Centre-back Mats Hummels admitted the players were beginning to think about a penalty shootout before Gotze's goal. \"I am still completely trapped in another world, physically too exhausted to be able to rejoice euphorically, but that will come,\" he said. \"You can only be world champions when you act as a team. We wanted to make that clear to everyone the whole time.\" A record 34.65m Germans watched the World Cup final, according to viewing figures released on Monday. The match, broadcast on ARD public television, beat the previous record of 32.57m who had watched the 7-1 semi-final win over Brazil. For the best of BBC Sport's in-depth content and analysis, go to our features and video page.", "question": "Germany coach Joachim Low hailed Mario Gotze as the \" @placeholder boy \" after his extra-time strike sealed a 1 - 0 win over Argentina in Sunday 's World Cup final .", "option_0": "defining", "option_1": "whipping", "option_2": "shame", "option_3": "poster", "option_4": "miracle"}
{"id": 575, "article": "The process saw children - largely of south Asian and African or Caribbean descent - being \"bussed\" out of their local areas to go to school. Eleven Local Area Authorities (LEAs) decided there should be no more than 30% of immigrants at any one school. It meant once that quota was reached, children were taken elsewhere. The process, which became known as \"bussing\", is now at the heart of a project in Bradford where Shabina Aslam is trying to trace children who, like herself, were sent to school away from where they lived. She moved to Bradford, West Yorkshire, from Kenya when she was seven years old. She remembers how the buses were marked so the children knew which one to get on. \"We were all told to look for signs, like a yellow sun, black football, or a red diamond,\" she said. \"So you'd wait for your red diamond bus, you'd get on it, you'd get to school and suddenly it was the 'Paki bus'.\" She said the practice made her and the others who were bussed feel more segregated, instead of integrated. Raj Samra, who was a 1960s child bussed in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, said there was a key flaw in the plan which stopped pupils integrating properly. \"We were in an annexe of the main school, so we weren't mixing,\" he said. \"Had we been in another school mixing with all the other children, then the project would have worked.\" It was a plan conceived at a time when large numbers of Asian and Afro-Caribbean families were heading to the UK. Many of them could not speak English and the LEAs came up with this as a solution. The councils that adopted a bussing policy were: Blackburn, Bradford, Bristol, Ealing (Southall), Halifax, Hounslow, Huddersfield, Leicester, Luton, Walsall and West Bromwich. Speaking in 1979, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council's director of education Frederick Adams said: \"The idea is to put the children from overseas in a situation where they have to mix, and if as is the case in this city, about 75% of them are non-English speaking when they arrive, this means they are going to have to communicate, they will hear English spoken, they have got to.\" By then, Bradford was sending out 24 buses a day, but in Ealing, west London, campaigners had challenged bussing in court claiming it fell foul of the new race relations legislation. Brenda Thomson was a teacher in Bradford when bussing was the norm. She said it was done \"with the very best of intentions\". \"It was assumed that the children would learn English better in a naturally English-speaking environment,\" she said. \"Which is OK if you speak to your mates in the classroom, but if you don't it doesn't help very much does it?\" Mohammed Ajeeb organised a petition to get bussing stopped in the late 1970s, saying the practice was racially motivated. \"In March 1979 a petition was presented to the then chair of the education committee signed by 1,600 parents that demanded the end of bussing. \"It was one-way traffic. Only children from the inner-city areas, the black children, were being bussed into the middle-class areas.\" In 1980 Bradford became the last place in the UK to phase out bussing for good. Mrs Aslam believes that although some had positive experiences of bussing and said they enjoyed school, it made her and many others feel more isolated. \"We'd walk in late in a group and we'd always have to leave early. The bus monitor used to come round and say 'can we have all the immigrants please?' and all the black children would stand up,\" she said. \"I didn't really have any friends in the classroom, nobody ever spoke to me. \"I was always looking at the others thinking: 'how do I become like them?'\"", "question": "In 1960s and 70s Britain , immigrant ethnic minority children were @placeholder across schools in the hope that it would help them integrate .", "option_0": "brought", "option_1": "blown", "option_2": "denied", "option_3": "held", "option_4": "dispersed"}
{"id": 576, "article": "An independent panel of government advisers says health professionals should take every opportunity to discuss diet, exercise, smoking and drinking habits. Ministers have backed the proposal from the NHS Future Forum to \"make every contact count\". But the Royal College of GPs says the move could drive some patients away. The recommendation is part of a series of papers from the panel of independent experts. Their first report last year outlined changes to the Health and Social Care Bill. They are now setting out their conclusions on four other areas - public health, information, improving links between services and education and training. The paper on public health states that everyone has a responsibility for their own health, but it also contends that the NHS is responsible for helping people to improve their health and well-being. It goes on to argue that healthcare professionals should use every contact to do this, whatever their area of expertise or the initial purpose of the discussion. The report points out that each day in England GPs and practice nurses see over 800,000 people, dentists see over 250,000 NHS patients, and 1.6 million people visit a pharmacy. \"There are millions of opportunities every day for the NHS to help to improve people's health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities, but to take this opportunity it needs a different view of how to use its contacts with the public.\" In particular, the report emphasises the importance of the four main lifestyle risk factors - diet, physical activity, alcohol and tobacco. For example, it suggests that collecting medication from a pharmacy is a chance to offer help on cutting down on alcohol, or that a routine dental check-up could be used to discuss smoking. The paper says to emphasise the importance of this responsibility, the government should seek to include it in the NHS Constitution. The coalition government has accepted the forum's recommendations. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said: \"The NHS Future Forum has again provided invaluable feedback and advice on what the NHS needs to do to improve results and put the NHS truly on the side of patients.\" However Dr Clare Gerada, of the Royal College of GPs, says raising lifestyle risks routinely with patients, even if they are unrelated to their illness, could be counter-productive. \"We already look for opportunities to offer advice, but the idea that every consultation will have to address these four concerns may deter patients from coming in the first place. The discussion must be based on the patient's agenda, and we should prise open these other issues only if it feels appropriate.\" Dr John Ashton, the director of public health in Cumbria, also criticised the initiative. \"The general point of making every contact count is a good idea, and has been the basis of what GPs have been trained to do for thirty years.  But the problem is they're making it the centrepiece of public health, whereas it is the wider conditions that actually shape health and behaviour, including taxation, education and improving self-esteem.\" But Professor Lindsey Davies, the president of the Faculty of Public Health, backed the plan. \"We don't want healthcare professionals to be telling off ill people. Professionals do need to think holistically about the needs of the person in front of them and taking appropriate opportunities to help them get healthier - and stay that way.\"", "question": "NHS staff in England must @placeholder their roles to ensure they promote good health under plans being published .", "option_0": "restrict", "option_1": "enjoy", "option_2": "exercise", "option_3": "adapt", "option_4": "clarify"}
{"id": 577, "article": "Punch Taverns wanted to turn The Corn Exchange in Crickhowell, into a shop, with a retail giant interested - the town has only one national retailer. But the idea has been withdrawn following fierce opposition, though Punch Taverns said the plans could be reintroduced later. A businessman has offered to set up a \"community investment club\". About 12 people put their names forward to join the consortium and the Corn Exchange Action Group has appealed for more investors to come forward. More than 3,500 people signed a petition and 2,560 letters of objection were written to prevent the supermarket taking over the building. Boots chemist is the only national chain in the town. All other businesses are family run and independent. Punch Taverns said in a statement the decision to withdraw the plans followed discussions about alternative uses for the building, which it said it hoped would succeed. But it said the plans could be reintroduced if the talks failed.", "question": "A Powys pub at the centre of a row over plans to turn it into a supermarket could be @placeholder by a community group .", "option_0": "built", "option_1": "tackled", "option_2": "boosted", "option_3": "bought", "option_4": "seen"}
{"id": 578, "article": "Shortly after opening the Dow Jones was down 9.14 points at 17,669.09, while the S&P 500 edged up 0.81 to 2,056.96. The tech-focused Nasdaq rose 16.99 points to 4,880.35. Janet Yellen is due to speak later in San Francisco on monetary policy, and her comments will be scrutinised for clues as to when rates might rise. Earlier this month, the Fed modified its stance on interest rates, and analysts expect the central bank to start raising rates later this year. Among individual stocks, shares in cruise operator Carnival rose 5.5% after it reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit. The company posted a net profit of $49m for the quarter to 28 February, compared with a loss of $20m a year earlier.", "question": "( Open ) : Stocks on Wall Street opened @placeholder with investors expected to remain cautious ahead of a speech by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen .", "option_0": "deal", "option_1": "reacted", "option_2": "struggled", "option_3": "continued", "option_4": "mixed"}
{"id": 579, "article": "Jo Yurky, founder of Fair Funding For All Schools, said pupils had gone without text books and teachers battled on without photocopiers. She warned of the scale of funding cuts in some of England schools. The government says school funding has been protected. The mother and former parliamentary ombudsman, speaking at the union's annual conference in Cardiff, described how schools were \"asking parents for regular payments to plug the funding shortfall - schools with ¡ê100,000, ¡ê200,000, ¡ê300,000 deficits begging parents for help\". \"One school near me raised over ¡ê80,000 from its parent community - but it isn't enough,\" said Ms Yurky, who set up the parents' group to campaign over school funding. \"In one secondary school near me, the children were taught for the first two weeks of January with their coats and hats on because they've had to become a bit more careful about when they'll turn the heating on - to save money. \"That school can't afford to buy the text books the pupils need, but they also can't afford to photocopy them because that budget's been cut too. \"A primary school nearby had to cut a teaching post, a teaching assistant post, its music club and its science club - to save money.\" Now a childminder in Haringey in north London, Ms Yurky said: \"If you look at the Department for Education's website, they tell schools how to make efficiencies. \"And so some schools, in trying to make efficiencies, they don't turn the heating on so much. \"It's not on over the school holidays, over Christmas, the children come back and the school's freezing. \"It's a school where they don't have funds to buy textbooks, they can't photocopy textbooks, they ask parents for money. \"Who would want their child to be in that classroom? Nobody. How does it help the child to learn? It doesn't. \"This is the state of things because there is a significant financial problem with our schools. \"The reason we are angry about it is because the government does not accept there is a problem.\" Ms Yurky said another school, a grammar in north London, sent begging letters to ask for charitable donations. \"It's money they use to balance the books,\" she said. \"That school has also cut a history post, half an English post, and four subjects from its A-levels.\" She said: \"Of course parents want to support their schools, but there aren't many of us who have much money to spend at the moment. \"But we also think why is there a problem with money? The government says funding is protected. We would rather the government talked to the schools and sorted out the problem.\" The Department for Education says that school budgets are being protected and that funding is at a record level. \"We recognise that schools are facing cost pressures, and we will continue to provide support to help them use their funding in the most cost effective ways, so that every pound of the investment we make in education has the greatest impact - and every child has the opportunity to go as far as their talents will take them,\" said an education department spokeswoman.", "question": "Pupils had to keep their coats and hats on at a school facing a cash squeeze as the @placeholder tried to save money on heating , the National Union of Teachers ' conference was told .", "option_0": "teacher", "option_1": "ground", "option_2": "power", "option_3": "head", "option_4": "race"}
{"id": 580, "article": "Richard Barklie, from Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland, is one of four Chelsea fans facing a football banning order over a confrontation filmed ahead of a Champions League game in February. Footage of the alleged incident showed several fans chanting: \"We're racist and that's the way we like it.\" Mr Barklie, 50, denies any wrongdoing. He told Stratford Magistrates' Court he pushed Souleymane Sylla because there was no room in the train carriage, adding: \"Mr Sylla, and it's my view, was the only one using aggression\". When asked by his defence barrister, Nick Scott, if \"there was any issue in relation to the colour of his skin\", Mr Barklie replied \"none whatsoever\". Mr Barklie served as an officer with the Royal Ulster Constabulary and as a director with the World Human Rights Forum. In addition to Mr Barklie, of Victoria Street in Carrickfergus, three others are challenging the ban: Jordan Munday, 20, of Ellenborough Road, Sidcup, south-east London; Josh Parsons, 20, of Woodhouse Place, Dorking, Surrey; and William Simpson, 26, of Hengrove Crescent in Ashford, Surrey. The court heard Mr Munday, who is also accused of being involved in the incident, said there was enough space for him to force himself through the carriage and see the aftermath. However he claimed he did not see the incident and had not been chanting \"John Terry is a racist and that's the way we like it, ooh ooh ooh\". Adam Clemens, representing the Met Police, said: \"At the end of the ooh ooh ooh your mouth was moving and it closes at the end.\" Mr Munday told the court: \"There was movement - I was breathing. I have to breathe.\" Both Mr Munday and Mr Barklie were in a group of about 150 Chelsea fans walking through Paris on their way to the match. Video footage appeared to show Mr Munday \"fronting up\" to a black man and shoving him twice, but Mr Munday claimed he had been stalked by the man and felt threatened. A fifth man, Dean Callis, 32, of Liverpool Road in Islington, north London, earlier received a five year banning order for his role in Paris and other incidents involving violence. The case continues.", "question": "A former policeman has admitted pushing a black man off a Paris Metro train but said the man @placeholder the altercation , a court has heard .", "option_0": "started", "option_1": "wearing", "option_2": "overlooking", "option_3": "survived", "option_4": "spotted"}
{"id": 581, "article": "Certainly, the prime minister did not want to find herself in the position of having to ask MPs for permission to start our divorce from the European Union. Today's verdict from the justices doesn't take away from the reality that having to go to Parliament before triggering Article 50 is a political inconvenience Theresa May very much wanted to avoid. Nor does it change the sentiment among opposition MPs, some of whom are determined to try to amend whatever legislation the government puts forward to include guarantees of this or that, to try to force a vote on staying in the single market, or to push for final binding votes on the process when negotiations are complete. However, the sighs of relief are real in Whitehall this morning for two reasons. The justices held back from insisting that the devolved administrations would have a vote or a say on the process. That was, as described by a member of Team May, the \"nightmare scenario\". The Scottish National Party has said it would not try to veto Brexit, but there is no question that having a vote on Article 50 in the Holyrood Parliament could have been politically troublesome for the government. After the judgement it seems like an unexploded bomb. And second, the Supreme Court also held back from telling the government explicitly what it has to do next. The judgement is clear that it was not for the courts but for politicians to decide how to proceed next. That means, possibly as early as tomorrow, ministers will put forward what is expected to be an extremely short piece of legislation in the hope of getting MPs to approve it, perhaps within a fortnight. Nightmare number two for the government would have been explicit instructions from the court about the kind of legislation they had to introduce. That wouldn't just have made ministers' lives very difficult when they want, above all else, to produce something that gives their opponents minimal room for manoeuvre. But it would have raised spiky questions about the power of the courts versus our politicians and parliaments - a fight few had the appetite to have.", "question": "\" Phew \" , a government minister @placeholder after this morning 's court ruling .", "option_0": "announced", "option_1": "warned", "option_2": "criticised", "option_3": "says", "option_4": "exhaled"}
{"id": 582, "article": "Sudesh Rani was shopping in the Home Counties two years ago when she experienced such discrimination first hand. The 42-year-old from Bedford identifies herself as Ravidassia - a group regarded by some as at the lower end of the caste system. She says she was in a supermarket when two women began verbally abusing her. \"They started calling me a low caste chamar (a derogatory term used to describe an individual belonging to a low caste), a dirty bitch. \"At that time, I got a bit frightened, I thought 'no, no this can't be happening.'\" She said the women, who had seen her at a wedding previously, followed her and her nine-year-old son to her car. \"There were two of them and one of them was going to hit me, I thought they were going to really rip me apart. \"My son kept asking - 'mummy - what is a dirty chamar? Is that a swear word?'\" Ms Rani says the police did not know how to handle her complaint, because they had no idea about caste. Campaigners say cases like this highlight why caste legislation is needed in the UK. In 2010, conversations began in the House of Lords about making caste discrimination illegal. A clause proposed for the Equality Act is currently awaiting the result of a public consultation. However, many Hindu organisations are against legislation. Why? The caste system is thought to be an ancient Indian social hierarchy and a defining feature of Hinduism. It is described as a hierarchy of four varnas - or caste categories - found in Hindu scriptures, with brahmins (priests and teachers) at the top, followed by kshatriyas (rulers and soldiers), vaishyas (merchants and traders) and the shudras (labourers and artisans). Beneath them all are the dalits - so-called \"untouchables\" - who are completely excluded from society. However, there is controversy over the extent to which caste is a feature of Hindu religion. Some academics have claimed the caste system was introduced in its current guise during colonial rule in an attempt by the British authorities to classify and better understand the Indian society they were governing. They assert that Indians have started behaving as if part of a caste hierarchy as a result of being taught to. Legislating on caste is complex business, not least as many Hindus do not accept caste is an integral feature of the Hindu religion. As a result, there are many who would prefer the issue remain under the radar. Satish Sharma, chair of the National Council of Hindu Temples, is firmly against the proposed legislation. While he believes there is no justification for caste-based discrimination, he believes the caste system has nothing to do with his religion and that any new law will present the issue as a Hindu problem. He, along with a number of Hindus, maintains that the caste system as it exists now has more to do with the centuries of British colonial rule than ancient religion. \"This is not something that is part and parcel of our beliefs and ideologies,\" he says. \"Our scriptures and our recent history up until a few hundred years ago didn't have this caste system in there. This is being directed at us, this has been put around our necks. \"Without even thinking about what it means, you automatically now gain the reaction 'dirty Hindus', that we're terrible and have savage ideals, that's what's automatically invoked whenever you mention caste. It's not part of our culture and we don't want it introduced.\" Mr Sharma is concerned about what he says is a lack of evidence for caste discrimination in the UK. He believes there is a \"Hinduphobic\" agenda behind those pushing for caste legislation that is leading to Hindus being unfairly discriminated against. \"There has been this assumption that Hindus are casteist and I have recently heard what I think is an outrageously prejudicial term, where groups who are not dalits are now being referred to as 'caste supremacists'.\" But groups that represent victims of caste discrimination say they are not interested in the origins of the caste system, but instead want a new law to protect people. \"The Hindus - they need to actually do some soul searching on this and be honest with themselves and try and confront this thing,\" says Satpal Muman, from CasteWatch UK. Nevertheless, he believes Hindus that claim the caste system does not originate in their faith have to confront their past. \"I do not understand why the Hindus want to oppose this call for equality. The only thing I can surmise from it is that they don't believe in equality. They want to perpetuate inequality so I really don't understand their mindset on this. \"Why the Hindus feel so victimised is beyond my imagination. They have to see the truth for what it is, you have to call a spade a spade. If you are unable to face the historical truth then you will never be able to resolve this issue.\" Campaigners calling for caste discrimination legislation estimate there are up to half a million dalits in the UK who could be at risk of caste prejudice. However, caste is not included in the census and there are no precise figures available. Another issue complicating attempts at legislation is the fact many British Indians are unable to identify exactly where they fit in the fourfold hierarchy. The experience of Dina Bhudia, a 42-year-old British Hindu, is typical of many. She recalls learning about the caste system in religious education classes at school but is unable to reconcile it with her personal experience of her religion. \"I've never learnt about the caste hierarchy from any priest or temple,\" she says. \"They are not sitting there saying, 'right, us brahmins are here and you kshatriyas are there.' \"Technically I'm at the bottom of the pyramid. My granddad was a farmer, my dad was a bus driver, I'm a financial adviser - where do I fit in?\" For Ms Rani though, facing abuse because of her caste is something she still finds difficult to come to terms with. \"I was shocked and upset [after being abused], my son didn't sleep for days, nor did I. \"I've grown up here, I'm well educated, why should we have to suffer? We are just the same as everybody else.\" You can hear the full documentary, The Caste Divide, on BBC iPlayer.", "question": "India 's caste system is thought to be among the world 's oldest surviving forms of social stratification . However , some British Asians say they still experience discrimination due to their caste . So , why are so many Hindu @placeholder in the UK opposed to this being made illegal ?", "option_0": "immigrants", "option_1": "groups", "option_2": "women", "option_3": "levels", "option_4": "bodies"}
{"id": 583, "article": "The machine was first used to crack messages sent by Hitler and his generals on 5 February 1944. The celebration will bring together some of the machine's creators and operators at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC). The machine's code-cracking prowess will be demonstrated on the day using the museum's rebuilt Colossus. Now widely recognised as the first electronic computer, Colossus was kept a secret for 30 years because of the sensitive work it did during World War Two to crack German codes. The work of the Colossus machines to decipher messages scrambled using the Lorenz enciphering machine that passed between the Wehrmacht's commanders is widely thought to have shortened the war and saved countless lives. Colossus was created by Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers, and his first prototype was built out of parts from telephone exchanges including 1,600 valves. Later versions used even more valves and by the end of the war 10 of the machines were in use in the UK. The celebrations will bring together some of the women who kept the different machines running as well as some of the engineers who built and maintained them. During wartime, about 550 people worked in the Bletchley Park unit that ran Colossus. Also attending will be some of the children of the machine's creators and operators. Most of the machines were broken up and the plans destroyed after the war in an attempt to keep the work secret and to conceal the fact Britain was still using two of the machines to read Soviet messages. \"The achievements of those who worked at Bletchley Park are humbling,\" said Tim Reynolds, chair of TNMOC. \"This day is in honour of all the men and women who worked on breaking the Lorenz cipher.\"", "question": "The 70th anniversary of the @placeholder Colossus computer is being celebrated at Bletchley Park .", "option_0": "pioneering", "option_1": "project", "option_2": "side", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "crowd"}
{"id": 584, "article": "The relic was destroyed 2,000 years ago in a settlement known as Calleva in Silchester that is being excavated by University of Reading archaeologists. A fragment, inscribed with the letters \"AT\", was found in 1891. A corresponding piece, with says \"BA\", was found 10m (33ft) away in 2013. They partly form \"Atrebates\", the name of a French tribe. Its people are thought to have founded the settlement, now the site of an archaeological dig in modern-day Hampshire. Prof Mike Fulford, from the university's archaeology department, said: \"Archaeology never ceases to amaze. \"Matching pieces which were discovered over 100 years apart to a 2,000 year old object is incredibly rare. \"The 2013 piece is special in its own right - evidence of very early destruction of a monumental building in the mid or mid-to-late 1st Century AD in Britain is exceptional - but little did we know about what was about to come to light. \"We now know what the bottom line of the sign reads - however the top line remains a mystery. \"It's a tantalising thought that this might link to Nero himself who is known to have commissioned major building projects in Silchester.\" It is thought the marble slab may have commemorated the construction of an important building. Archaeologists have also speculated the sign may have been smashed during Boudica's rebellion against the Roman Empire. After its excavation, Dr Roger Tomlin, a Roman inscriptions expert, confirmed the pieces were from the same object. The lettering and the dimensions of the slab matched, he concluded. Paul Gittings, lead member for culture at Reading Borough Council, said: \"I'm delighted by the fortunate pairing of these 2,000-year-old fragments.\"", "question": "Two pieces of a marble Roman sign have been @placeholder after being discovered more than 100 years apart .", "option_0": "injured", "option_1": "recovered", "option_2": "charged", "option_3": "released", "option_4": "reunited"}
{"id": 585, "article": "Special Report: The Technology of Business Taj Mahal comes to your living room Sochi 2014: Hi-tech Winter Games DIY apps and the rise of 'citizen developers' Virtual games bring pinball to new audiences China hopes to dispel 'copy others' reputation It shows that there's still a place in the ?¡ê40bn video games industry for independent makers, or indies, working alone. And it's easier than you may think to build your own game that could potentially become a global hit, thanks to a growing number of marketplaces for off-the-peg games templates. It turns out you don't even have to know how to write a single line of code to make a living selling mobile games on sites like Apple's App Store or Google's Play Android store. Code marketplaces, like Binpress, Apptopia, Chupamobile and CodeCanyon, are offering game templates for a few hundred pounds. These templates provide the program code required for a basic game, which buyers then flesh out by adding their own graphics, music and overall theme to make an app which is ready to be sold. These types of games are usually offered as free apps, generating money through advertising included in the game. Even the code to display the ads, which are provided by online advertising networks, is included in the game template, so the buyer needs only add an account number with each network to start earning money. \"What you are buying with a template is a simple game mechanic - something like pressing on the screen to shoot something, or swiping the screen to slice,\" says Jonathan Kay, one of the founders of US-based code marketplace Apptopia. \"That forms the basis of your app.\" Buyers of a \"swipe to slice\" template could then create a fruit-slicing game similar to the popular Fruit Ninja app, or something with a different theme, like slicing the heads off leaping zombies, he says. \"If you have some design skills, then the only programming experience you need is knowing how to drop the graphics you create into the code.\" \"There are definitely still opportunities for independent developers in the mobile market because the barriers to entry are much lower,\" says Richard Wilson, chief executive of Tiga, the UK games industry association. \"People are not prevented from developing their own mobile games in the way that they are prevented from developing for games consoles,\" he adds. Games for Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox consoles can cost tens of millions of pounds to make and involve teams of 300 or more developers. Templates enable entrepreneurs to create \"copycat apps\" that cash in on the latest app trends. Currently there is a plethora of Flappy Bird-like templates with names like Flappy Penguin,  Flappy Crocodile and Flappy Fish, all explicitly offering similar \"tap to flap\" mechanics. Since so many games are similar, good graphic design can make all the difference between success and failure, Kay believes. \"There is definitely a correlation between good design and how long people use an app - 40% to 50% of apps get deleted within 45 seconds of being downloaded,\" he says. \"But good design buys your app extra time when it can earn advertising revenue.\" Another key to an app's success, Mr Kay believes, is the ease with which it can be found in online app stores. \"App store optimisation - choosing the right game title, keywords and so on - is incredibly important,\" he says. Translating these keywords into other languages is also crucial, he adds. \"If someone in Korea feels like shooting some flying pigs and you have a shooting flying pigs app but haven't translated your keywords into Korean then they are simply not going to find it.\" There's a more fundamental reason why so many apps are derivatives of each other: the short shelf-life of most mobile games makes it hard to create original games profitably, according to Jaime Enriquez, founder of games company, Inode Entertainment. \"When I started I developed a bunch of games from scratch, and that cost me about $10,000 per game. But the economics just didn't work,\" he says. \"Now I buy a game template for $500, change the theme and maybe add a feature or two, and end up with a game that could generate $10,000.\" As well as enabling Mr Enriquez to create games at a far lower cost, templates allow him to get them to market quickly, often in a matter of days - important when popular themes can change by the week. And with Google and Apple app stores both taking 30% of revenues, high download volumes are essential if indie mobile developers are to make money. \"If you understand the trends, that's probably 80% of what you need to succeed,\" he argues. \"The other 20% is buying the right template.\" So what's trending right now in the mobile app world? Mr Enriquez says that apart from Flappy Bird clones, popular themes include winter sports, pixel art and cute-looking animal characters. \"If you bought the right template and produced a game with a cute, ski-ing flappy kitten with 1980s-style graphics, it would probably do rather well,\" he concludes.", "question": "Flappy Bird , the mobile - phone game that was making as much as $ 50,000 ( ? ¡ê 30,000 ) a day for its developer before he @placeholder it from online stores , took one man just two or three days to write .", "option_0": "saved", "option_1": "transformed", "option_2": "pulled", "option_3": "bought", "option_4": "enjoyed"}
{"id": 586, "article": "In mathematical terms it means that he has ridden more winners than any other jockey this season. In the context of horse racing, and sport in general, it is a triumph of commitment and perseverance which may never be rivalled. Johnson has been trying to win it since the 1990s. It is his curse, and his blessing, that his career coincided with Sir Anthony (AP) McCoy. For 20 years in succession McCoy was champion. Throughout that time, almost every year, the man who finished behind him in second place was Richard Johnson. I met up with Richard Johnson in Somerset at the yard of trainer Philip Hobbs - their relationship has been an important part of the jockey's career. At 7.30 on an April morning Johnson was helping to school a group of the yard's horses, taking them over hurdles and fences on a field high above the Bristol Channel. In racing this might be termed 'work' but for Johnson, even at 38 years of age, he insists it is still pleasure. \"This is all I've ever wanted to do so it's not a job. Unfortunately I'm going to have to get a job one day when I have to stop doing it, but genuinely you love doing it. I think the 'job' is the driving round, the long days, but riding the horses is the fun bit,\" he said. Media playback is not supported on this device \"But for me being champion jockey was the thing I've always wanted to do since I was a child growing up. So I suppose actually to reach that goal is always what I wanted to do and there's a lot of satisfaction. \"When AP McCoy retired at the end of last year I sort of thought, well I should be able to have a good chance at it. But there was a pressure. If I don't become champion jockey now maybe I'll not achieve what I wanted to. But the season's been absolutely amazing. My agent Dave Roberts works tirelessly to keep me busy and sends me round the country on a daily basis to hopefully achieve what I have.\" Roberts was McCoy's agent too and in simple terms Johnson has picked up rides this year which may have previously gone to McCoy. It's helped him dominate the Jockeys' Championship. In the history of jump racing McCoy is the only man to have ridden more than 4,000 winners. But only one other jockey has gone past 3,000 winners, and that's Johnson. When McCoy was riding in his first championship winning season in 1995, Johnson was in his first year as a conditional, or apprentice, jockey. For two decades they were in each other's company on almost a daily basis. The relationship was simultaneously bitter rivalry and deep appreciation. Johnson said: \"I used to tell him regularly, you'd get to Christmas, I'd say to AP, 'just go on holiday for a couple of months, give me a bit more of a chance!' With our sport you can win the Gold Cup or the Grand National one day and unfortunately half an hour later you can be sat on your bum nursing an injury. You never know what's going to happen. \"We work with each other on a daily basis so after the race you're concerned that everyone came back in one piece and you can all have another go in half an hours' time.\" \"I'm sure in my twenties I got very frustrated with AP, I felt however hard I tried or however great a week I had he'd always have a better one. I'm sure I got frustrated, not really with him but just that it didn't seem to matter how hard I tried. I didn't seem to be able to bridge the gap. \"But as you get older you become a little more realistic and you know you've just got to give 100% and hopefully you'll get your chance. This year it's a shame AP isn't still riding because it would be great to beat him but it doesn't take the shine off it for me, for me this is always what I've wanted to do.\" There is a new trophy for this year's champion jockey. The trophy was fashioned by Asprey's jewellers but the design was selected by McCoy. Furthermore, the man who placed it in Johnson's hands was none other than McCoy himself. \"I couldn't be happier about who I'm presenting it to,\" said the retired champion. \"He is someone who made me achieve what I achieved for so long and I think it's thoroughly deserved for his great work and his hard work and dedication for the last 20 odd years. I think it shows perseverance can always come good in the end.\" The experience of competing for so long against McCoy has shaped Johnson's approach to the sport. He feels the presence of his great rival even though he's retired. \"We were both probably greedy and wanted as many winners as each other and I think we probably pushed each other to do the best we could,\" added Johnson. \"I think even though he's retired, in my mind I'm still convinced I've got to give it everything every day of the week to make sure you get what you're looking for.\" Even though jump racing is split into seasons it is basically never-ending. The new campaign starts the week after the old one ends and there's the Punchestown Festival in Ireland between. Johnson anticipates a grand total of two days off. But there is, he claims, no prospect of his enthusiasm wavering. Just the opposite in fact. \"I'm lucky in the fact that I'm probably a little bit smaller than AP was, I don't struggle quite as much with my weight so that's definitely a bonus for me and I'm a few years younger. I'm loving doing what I'm doing,\" he said. \"This is where I've always wanted to be so I'm not going to suddenly decide to give up now. The support I've had obviously off Philip Hobbs and his owners has been fantastic. But, again, there's been lots of other trainers I ride for, there's too many trainers to even mention. \"I'm not sure if people just feel sorry for the old man, but look, going to every race meeting whether it's a Monday at Catterick or Plumpton or Cheltenham or Aintree, the support I've had from everyone in racing, but also the general public, has just been fantastic. I must admit I'm slightly overwhelmed by the whole thing. I can't get over the support and it's given me the best year of my life.\" Jockeys often speak of the all-consuming nature of their sport, the excitement and engagement of racing which is irreplaceable. With that in mind I ask Johnson, with a smile, if he thinks there is a chance that McCoy might make a comeback. He answers with humour, typically, intact. \"I hope not. He was looking quite healthy at the Grand National meeting so I'm hoping he's put too much weight on now and he'll stay where he is.\"", "question": "On Saturday at Sandown , Richard Johnson @placeholder the trophy confirming that he is jump racing 's champion jockey .", "option_0": "deal", "option_1": "wins", "option_2": "dubbed", "option_3": "lifted", "option_4": "shows"}
{"id": 587, "article": "It comes shortly after the 120th anniversary of Jane Haining's birth in Dunscore in June 1897. Magda Birraux attended the Scottish Mission boarding school in Budapest, Hungary between 1933 and 1939. Ms Haining was arrested by the Nazis while looking after Jewish girls at the school and died in Auschwitz in 1944. Ms Birraux said: \"She was wonderful and looked after all of us very well, morning and night. \"She was even-tempered, tall, strict but fair and always set a good example. \"Miss Haining had a very good sense of justice and always treated the pupils (Jews and Christians) equally.\" Ms Birraux, the daughter of small business owners, enrolled as a boarder when she was 12. She said the matron was a highly competent financial manager who arranged weekend excursions for \"her\" girls for \"no extra charge\". Ms Birraux, a Hungarian-Christian, said: \"No girl was ever dismissed on account of her parents being unable to afford fees. \"Miss Haining kept uniforms which girls had outgrown and gave them to less well-off parents.\" The former pupil, who now lives in Lausanne, Switzerland and attends the Scots Kirk, said the boarding house was run independently from the school, which had 12 teachers. \"The pupils were taught secretarial skills, English, German and Hungarian,\" she recalled. \"We went skating in the winter, to gymnastics lessons, museums and to the cinema to watch films starring Deanna Durbin, Shirley Temple and Judy Garland. \"Miss Haining took us for long walks in the woods and to tearooms for tea and cookies. \"She paid for everything.\" Ms Birraux said Jewish children in Budapest were discriminated against from 1933 but the matron, who started working at the school in 1932, made sure that the girls in her charge \"were not affected\". \"She loved these girls very much and was like a second mother to them,\" she added. \"Many of them were separated from their parents and so Miss Haining wanted to give them all the love that she could.\" Ms Birraux recalled that boarders rose at 06:30 and had to bathe in cold water to save the school money. \"Lessons began at 8am and the first one was Biblical Knowledge,\" she said. \"Miss Haining always said grace before each meal. \"And when we had lunch at 12.30pm, she would examine our hands and nails before we ate to ensure they were clean.\" The Church of Scotland advised missionaries to return home from Europe during World War Two. But Ms Haining repeatedly refused and wrote: \"If these children need me in days of sunshine, how much more do they need me in days of darkness\". Ms Birraux said she remembered the day she heard a minister at the school arguing with Ms Haining over her determination to stay in Budapest. \"We had a minister called Mr Knight (Rev George AF Knight) and he lived in the house with his wife and child before the war broke out,\" she recalled. \"He told Miss Haining that he was joining the Army as a chaplain and asked her to give up her job, leave everything to the school governess, and return to Scotland with him. \"We overheard that because our dormitory was beside Miss Haining's office and rooms. \"He talked very loudly and was angry that Miss Haining appeared not to understand that soon the war would break out. \"He told her 'you are in danger, you are an alien'. \"But she said: 'I have to stay here because the governess would not be able to manage'.\" Ms Haining did not allow newspapers in the boarding house to protect pupils from the horrors of the outside world. She cried with the girls when she sewed yellow stars, bearing the word Jude, onto their school uniforms. Hungary was an ally of Germany during the early years of World War Two but relations soured and the Nazis occupied the country in 1944. Ms Birraux surmised that the Hungarian authorities left Ms Haining and the other teachers at the Scottish Mission School in peace until that year because many of the girls' fathers were members of the ruling political party. The matron managed to keep the children safe for four years of hardship. Clothing with yellow stars attached was never worn in the school. It is said that she went to a market at 05:00 most days to buy food for the girls and cut up her leather luggage to make soles for their worn out shoes. Ms Haining was eventually betrayed and reported to the Nazis by the cook's son-in-law whom she caught eating scarce food intended for the girls. Ms Birraux said: \"She sacrificed her own life to protect the girls because if she left and returned to Scotland she would have been safe.\" The missionary from Dumfriesshire is the only Scot to be officially honoured at the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel for giving her life to help protect Jews during the Holocaust.", "question": "A 96 - year - old former pupil of a Scots missionary who died in Auschwitz has @placeholder her memories of her \" second mother \" .", "option_0": "shared", "option_1": "lost", "option_2": "destroyed", "option_3": "described", "option_4": "fulfilled"}
{"id": 588, "article": "Southampton City Council has proposed scrapping subsidies for the X12 and W1 bus services, and admitted it could lead to \"increased social isolation\". The plan is part of a public consultation on how the council can make ¡ê39m worth of budget cuts. Age UK Southampton also said the move could hit the elderly. Phil Williams, the charity's health and wellbeing officer, said: \"We recognise how much pressure the council is under to further reduce its budget. I am sure they are carefully considering the proposal. \"Any removal of bus subsidies may have an adverse effect on elderly people to get out and socialise. The bus services are extremely highly valued by the people we work with.\" A report in to the plans, which would see support reduced from ¡ê218,000 to ¡ê122,000, said the bus services were \"generally used by elderly and disabled people\". The report, authored by the council's public transport department, said: \"With the withdrawal of services, access to supermarkets will be reduced and residents may have limited access to low cost food. \"It may also result in increased social isolation.\" The use of shared taxis or community car schemes is to be investigated as an alternative. In a separate proposal three cameras could be installed above bus lanes, fining motorists ¡ê60, or ¡ê30 if it is paid early, if they use the lane unlawfully.", "question": "Elderly people could become more @placeholder as bus subsidies are cut in a bid to save ¡ê 100,000 , according to a council and campaigners .", "option_0": "resigned", "option_1": "title", "option_2": "isolated", "option_3": "homes", "option_4": "dressed"}
{"id": 589, "article": "Police said at least 20 fighters from the Maute group had turned up at the Lanao del Sur jail in the southern city of Marawi, but no shots had been fired. A military source told the BBC they believed the men had been allowed to escape. The militants were held last week after being caught with homemade mortars. At least 15 other inmates - who faced murder and drugs charges - also walked free, but it is not clear whether this was agreed. The Maute group has carried out several bombings and kidnappings in the southern Mindanao region. The Philippines has faced Muslim separatist movements for decades in Mindanao, which has a significant Muslim population  - the Philippines is mainly Catholic. The Maute group carries the black flag and insignia of IS, and has attacked army troops, beheaded a soldier and beheaded two local workers earlier this year. The militants kidnapped the two workers and made them wear orange shirts similar to those worn by IS beheading victims before they were killed. Several armed groups in the Philippines have pledged allegiance to IS, although the country's military says there is no evidence of active co-operation with foreign militants.", "question": "Eight suspected militants linked to so - called Islamic State ( IS ) have been freed from jail in the Philippines in an apparently \" @placeholder raid \" .", "option_0": "demo", "option_1": "staged", "option_2": "drugs", "option_3": "batch", "option_4": "boarded"}
{"id": 590, "article": "Figures show a \"spike\" in reports of the model, recently the subject of a recall, catching alight, LFB said. Although other car firms may record more fires over a 12-month period, the upsurge in Zafira-related calls was \"more worrying\", it said. Vauxhall said affected cars were made between 2005 and 2007, and faults would have come to light in subsequent years. More on this story and other news from London The brigade found no more than 10 Zafira fires a year between 2009 and 2012, but 24 in 2013 alone. There were 28 incidents last year, and 21 between January and November 2015, according to the figures. 73 fires in London since 2013 (excluding arson) 21 2015 (to 16 November) 28 2014 24 2013 10 2012 Earlier this year Vauxhall found the root cause of the problem was the improper repair of the heater fan resistor's thermal fuse, which protects the system. The firm is writing to 220,000 Zafira B owners, instructing them to have their car's heating and ventilation system inspected by a local dealer. Sue Freemantle, 37, from Ivybridge in Devon, who escaped from her vehicle with three children before it burst into flames, said the figures were \"shocking\". She said: \"My fear is somebody leaves their child in the car to go and pay for their petrol and all of a sudden something starts then. Our worst fear is that a child dies.\" Denis Chick, from Vauxhall, said the problem was \"not a design fault, but a maintenance issue\" and related to attempting to repair a broken fuse rather than replace it. He said: \"Between 2013 and now there are more of these models available, which has increased the number of vehicles coming into this problem.\"", "question": "Callouts to fires @placeholder Vauxhall Zafira B cars have doubled since 2012 , London Fire Brigade ( LFB ) has said .", "option_0": "people", "option_1": "wearing", "option_2": "number", "option_3": "supplies", "option_4": "involving"}
{"id": 591, "article": "It comes after two drivers for Uber won a tribunal case in which they argued they were workers not contractors. If the couriers win, it could encourage thousands of those working in the so-called gig economy to seek to unionise and receive rights such as paid leave. Deliveroo said it was committed to providing \"great opportunities\". The company, which provides a delivery service on behalf of thousands of restaurants across the country, classes its riders as self-employed \"independent contractors\". This means they have no workers' rights such as paid holiday and the right to the minimum wage. Billy Shannon, a rider who works for Deliveroo in Camden, north London, said riders receive ?¡ê3.75 per delivery. He added: \"We don't get an hourly fee, so that means at times when there aren't that many deliveries and it is not that busy, we can be waiting for up to an hour for a delivery without getting paid a penny.\" The BBC has seen a letter from the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), on behalf of riders in north London, asking Deliveroo for recognition for the union to bargain on behalf of the group. Collective bargaining laws in the UK apply to those classed as workers and employees, but not independent contractors. IWGB general secretary Dr Jason Moyer-Lee said it was seeking a collective bargaining agreement to allow the union to negotiate pay and terms and conditions with Deliveroo managers. He added: \"If Deliveroo ignores or rejects our request, then we will take them to tribunal and ask for a declaration that Deliveroo must engage in collective bargaining with us. \"To do this the tribunal will also have to decide that the Deliveroo drivers are workers and not independent contractors, which means they will also be entitled to paid holiday, minimum wage, and all the other rights associated with this employment status.\" In October, two drivers for Uber, the company behind a taxi-hailing app, won a case at a London employment tribunal which gave them the right to be classed as workers rather than self-employed independent contractors. The ruling said: \"The notion that Uber in London is a mosaic of 30,000 small businesses linked by a common 'platform' is to our mind faintly ridiculous.\" The action being taken by IWGB is another, and potentially faster, way of achieving worker status for riders than a full employment tribunal. If it succeeds it could benefit the 8,000 riders working with Deliveroo in the UK. Dr Moyer-Lee said the legal action being taken by IWGB was challenging the basis of the so-called gig economy. \"Gig economy employers like Uber and Deliveroo claim their workers don't work for them but are rather independent contractors running their own businesses,\" he added. \"We say they do work for them and as such should be entitled to paid holidays, minimum wage, and collective bargaining rights.\" They way people work is changing and the Uber and Deliveroo model does suit some who want to work flexible hours, but there are concerns. Shadow business secretary Clive Lewis MP said: \"If Deliveroo and Uber want to bring forward these new technological platforms, then they have to ask themselves is their business model sustainable if they have to exploit their workers to be able to make themselves viable.\" In a statement, Deliveroo told the BBC that it was \"committed to providing great opportunities for UK riders, with the flexible work riders value, and a payment model which is fair, rewarding and better matches riders' time with customers' orders.\" Meanwhile, Uber has said it will appeal against the London tribunal ruling that it had acted unlawfully. The Department for Business said it had launched a review of working practices. The inquiry by Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) will look at job security, pay and workers' rights. A spokesman said: \"The government is committed to building an economy that works for all. We want to ensure our employment rules are up to date to reflect new ways of working.\"", "question": "A group of @placeholder takeaway couriers working for Deliveroo are taking legal steps in the UK to gain union recognition and workers ' rights .", "option_0": "food", "option_1": "british", "option_2": "female", "option_3": "freelance", "option_4": "groups"}
{"id": 592, "article": "Reading played the last 10 minutes with 10 men after Paul McShane saw red for a dangerous tackle on Kevin McDonald. After a goalless first half, Reading took the lead when Jordan Obita drilled in off the inside of the post. Tom Cairney headed Fulham's leveller from close in after Ali Al-Habsi failed to hold on to Scott Malone's drive. Ryan Fredericks went close to a stoppage-time winner for Fulham but his shot across goal went just wide after a run down the right. The two sides will meet again in the return leg at the Madejski Stadium on Tuesday. With the first leg drawn, both sides stretched their impressive unbeaten runs which secured their respective places in the play-offs. Reading will hope a home record of just two league defeats all season will prove a good omen in Berkshire in the return leg, while Fulham will hope to avenge a 1-0 defeat back in January. In a tempestuous and rowdy affair in west London, referee Stuart Attwell had a task on his hands to keep a lid on emotions both on and off the pitch. Reading's goal was perhaps a touch fortunate when an apparent foul by McShane on Stefan Johansen went unpunished and Obita was on hand to finish as the space opened up for the visitors. As well as McShane's red card, four yellow cards were produced as the sides, who finished sixth and third respectively in the regular season, looked to gain the ascendancy. Despite the at times overly physical challenges, Attwell showed his composure to ensure McShane's reckless challenge was the only significant punishment for either side. Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic: \"We cannot be completely satisfied with what happens in the game. But I was expecting a tough game and I believed in ourselves to win the game, but the result is what it is. \"Everything is set up for the return on Tuesday and it's open. \"The red card is very clear and I believe it's very clear. It looked a clear free-kick for their goal as there was a touch with the hand too but it's a physical and very complicated game and sometimes referees can make mistakes. \"But we must be ready, we must be better for what's going to come on Tuesday. \"We showed we weren't scared after their goal, they didn't give us a lot of space but we found more in the second half. We had many chances but we weren't clinical enough. We must be strong and believe in ourselves for the return leg.\" Reading manager Jaap Stam: \"We can still win a game without Paul McShane, he's been very important to us throughout the season but we have options and we're very confident that we can still do well. \"I'm not going to say who does or doesn't have the advantage for the second leg. We know what we can do and what we can bring as a side and you've seen that today. \"Home advantage doesn't guarantee you a win, you still have to work very hard and give everything for it. \"These games aren't just about ability and quality, it's about your mind and dealing with the stress and playing with your heart. A lot of things are different in these games than they are in the league.\" On Paul McShane's red card: \"I've seen it back and he hits the player, he's trying to reach the ball and the player has got a touch in there to just nick it in front of him, which is why he's late to the ball. \"We had to deal with it and we knew it was going to be hard, but we defended well and ended the game level. \"Everything is still open and anything can still happen on Tuesday.\" Match ends, Fulham 1, Reading 1. Second Half ends, Fulham 1, Reading 1. Corner,  Fulham. Conceded by Chris Gunter. Attempt blocked. Scott Malone (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Neeskens Kebano. Attempt missed. Floyd Ayit¨¦ (Fulham) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Tom Cairney. Corner,  Reading. Conceded by Tim Ream. Attempt missed. Yann Kermorgant (Reading) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Tyler Blackett with a cross. Foul by Scott Malone (Fulham). Yann Kermorgant (Reading) wins a free kick on the right wing. Substitution, Fulham. Cyriac replaces Sone Aluko. Attempt missed. Kevin McDonald (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Scott Malone. Substitution, Reading. Tiago Ilori replaces Joseph Mendes. Paul McShane (Reading) is shown the red card. Kevin McDonald (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Paul McShane (Reading). Sone Aluko (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Liam Moore (Reading). Offside, Fulham. Tom Cairney tries a through ball, but Neeskens Kebano is caught offside. Substitution, Reading. Joey van den Berg replaces John Swift. Foul by Stefan Johansen (Fulham). John Swift (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner,  Fulham. Conceded by Liam Moore. Foul by Scott Malone (Fulham). Chris Gunter (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Reading. Joseph Mendes replaces Lewis Grabban. Offside, Fulham. Sone Aluko tries a through ball, but Floyd Ayit¨¦ is caught offside. Attempt blocked. Sone Aluko (Fulham) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Attempt blocked. Stefan Johansen (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin McDonald. Goal!  Fulham 1, Reading 1. Tom Cairney (Fulham) header from very close range to the centre of the goal. Corner,  Fulham. Conceded by John Swift. Attempt missed. Yann Kermorgant (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Lewis Grabban with a headed pass. Substitution, Fulham. Neeskens Kebano replaces Chris Martin. Tomas Kalas (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Lewis Grabban (Reading). Attempt saved. Stefan Johansen (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Scott Malone. Kevin McDonald (Fulham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Kevin McDonald (Fulham). John Swift (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Scott Malone (Fulham) is shown the yellow card. Goal!  Fulham 0, Reading 1. Jordan Obita (Reading) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Paul McShane.", "question": "Fulham and Reading could not be @placeholder as their Championship play - off semi-final first leg finished all square in a fiery encounter .", "option_0": "praised", "option_1": "separated", "option_2": "sacked", "option_3": "relegated", "option_4": "eliminated"}
{"id": 593, "article": "Welcome not to a high-end hotel, but to the Financial Spa. It is, in fact, a branch of the North Shore Credit Union in Vancouver, Canada. There are displays of local artists' work and among the aromatherapy candles, you can discuss loans and insurance in what the credit union describes as a \"cosy, semi-private lounge\" with soft music playing in the background. It is all a far cry from the stereotype of a branch of a UK bank, with its long queues, poorly staffed counters and freezing cold draughts from the overused entrance. Is this boutique, sofa-clad destination modelled in Vancouver the bank branch of the future? Or, as the Co-op pulls out of a deal to buy more than 600 branches from Lloyds, is there any point in banks having a shop-front at all? The UK's major banks, running a ¡ê9bn current-account market, have a branch network numbering about 10,000. Source: British Bankers' Association They appear to have changed little over the years, with a line of counters and a deposit and withdrawal machine tucked into the wall. New entrants to the UK market have tried to jazz up the look of branches, convinced they remain key to the demands of customers. For example, Metro Bank is selling itself with a branch network that is open every day except Easter Monday, New Year's Day and Christmas Day, and the doors are not locked until late. The branding even goes so far as to call their premises \"stores\", not branches. \"Through our stores we are able to provide traditional banking services and build personal relationships, and as a community bank our ethos is entirely focused on offering amazing customer service,\" says chief executive Craig Donaldson. In Vancouver, they are targeting better-off members of the community. Chris Catliff, chief executive of the North Shore Credit Union, says that while their deposits have grown since the Financial Spa makeover, the membership numbers have stalled. These affluent customers are likely to be using their laptops, tablet computers and mobile phones for their banking needs too. Mr Catliff sees the future of retail financial services as one of \"bricks and clicks\" - with online banking just as important as a branch network. \"Increasingly, banking will no longer be about where you go, but what you do online. As a result, branch investment will decline over time. Having a strong, emotional, physical brand is a leg up for online branding,\" he says. The bank branch of the future may see the digital world come into the branches, rather than replace them. The Bank of America recently announced plans to introduce video cash machines at branches in Boston, followed by the rest of the US later in the year. Post Office to offer current accountLining up a queuing strategy The machine will include a screen so customers can talk to a member of staff by video link. In effect, it will be a conference call to a call centre, and will be available later in the day, when counter staff have gone home. Technology such as this may dilute the importance of face-to-face banking and, according to banking expert Peter Hahn, of Cass Business School, remove the need for traditional branches altogether. \"First the telephone and now the internet allows us to pay our bills and choose our investments from almost anywhere. There can be no doubt that face-to-face contact at the bank branch has been in steep decline for ages,\" he says. \"It is time to question why we have bank branches at all. Sceptics might say that banks want to keep us coming to branches so that they can sell us something we don't need - and we're much less likely to buy unnecessary stuff from banks on the internet.\" He accepts that there is still demand for branches, for those who need to cash a cheque, sign for a mortgage or discuss their savings options face to face. Those communities without any branches often feel left out. Yet he still seems far from convinced about the idea of the modern branch. \"In my case, slicker, brighter, safer and more informative branches would be a nice thing to have, but I am not sure they would draw me in beyond curiosity nor would I want to pay for them,\" he says. \"I have already left a bank when it told me their in-branch deposits had a higher interest rate than their online offering. My view of this was, 'Hey, not only do they want me to waste my time going to the branch, but they are also going to try and sell me something - no thanks.'\" A report by brand consultancy Bancography says there is a long-term future for branches, but they will need to change and adapt with modern technology to remain profitable. It says cash machines, online banking and mobile banking have not replaced the branch, but have just given consumers more choice. Branches are increasingly popular with customers as their financial lives become more complex with age. Cashless kiosks could concentrate on basic services, such as opening accounts, and there may even be the possibility of banks linking up with workplaces to allow people to complete transactions from their desks. \"Branches still matter, because consumers say they do. The role of the branch is changing, but the fundamental consumer preference for it endures,\" the report says. The collapse of the deal that would have seen the Co-op buy more than 600 branches from Lloyds has prompted more debate about competition in High Street banking in the UK. But even if the banking names on the High Street do not change, their branches may start to look a little less uniform and a little more imaginative. And, you never know, they might eventually be the place to go for a nice coffee and a comfy seat.", "question": "After being met by a concierge as you step through the door , you can help yourself to a cappuccino and a hot towel , and dispatch the children to the Kids ' Zone while you @placeholder by the granite rock garden fountain .", "option_0": "remain", "option_1": "wait", "option_2": "sailed", "option_3": "pause", "option_4": "relax"}
{"id": 594, "article": "It's after a group of workers won their legal challenge for overtime to be included in their holiday pay. Business leaders say it could cost companies billions of pounds. They claim some will be forced to close, meaning jobs will be lost. The government was also worried about changing the current rules. But there could still be an appeal, meaning a final decision might be years away. So with lots of uncertainty around the ruling, employment lawyer Nickie Elenor answers some of the big questions... If you regularly get overtime as part of your pay, you might have a claim. But it's thought the extra work will need to be so regular it's become a normal part of your salary. Exactly how regular that is is still unclear though. And if the overtime's voluntary, we still don't know if you'll benefit. Look at your average weekly pay over the three months before a week's leave. We think that's how much you'd be entitled to for your first four weeks holiday every tax year. If you get more than four weeks leave, you'll only receive basic pay for the rest of it, because companies don't have to give you that much time off. That's a tricky one. Because this case is still going through the courts, it might take some time to become established law. Or the idea might get chucked out altogether. Until then, you could try writing to your employer to tell them that you know this is a rule that you believe is going to become law, therefore you believe they should pay and provide them with your calculation. Good Luck! We've never heard of this happening, but that's not to say it doesn't happen. Another tricky one. At the moment it looks like you won't be able to claim back more than three months from an underpayment, but watch this spacea€| It is always a good idea to keep records of your pay and your pay slips. If this does become law there may be rules about how you claim the money but for the moment put your request in writing with your calculations. Money. At the moment. Possibly, but only if you have to make an employment tribunal claim to recover any money owed to you. This will be a controversial law. Some business leaders say there are already too many costs to do with employing people and that this added cost will prevent some organisations from growing and employing more people. However, there have been these sort of complaints for years now and the planet (and business) is still turning. You will be able to make a claim at the employment tribunal under the Working Time Regulations 1998. This is part of the big debate at the moment but if it becomes law, employers must think about this cost when they work out their annual budgets for payroll. In theory this shouldn't happen. The case is moving on to the Court of Appeal so employers have time to either fall in with what might become established law now or alternatively make plans now. The government's setting up a taskforce to look at the impact that this will have on business if it does become law. So there may be many changes yet to come. But even this is causing a row because it's said to be too much on the side of the employer, without enough representation from employee groups. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "question": "If like this guy , you regularly find yourself being paid for extra time in work , you could be in line for even more cash in @placeholder .", "option_0": "form", "option_1": "college", "option_2": "school", "option_3": "touch", "option_4": "future"}
{"id": 595, "article": "The ambitious pledge to end FGM comes from a UK summit dedicated to the topic, hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron. So what is FGM, and why is it still being carried out on millions of women and girls around the world? Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes any procedure that alters or injures the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. In its most severe form, after removing the sensitive clitoris, the genitals are cut and stitched closed so that the woman cannot have or enjoy sex. A tiny piece of wood or reed is inserted to leave a small opening for the necessary flow of urine, and monthly blood when she comes of age (most FGM is carried out on infants or young girls before they reach puberty). When she is ready to have sex and a baby, she is \"unstitched\" - and then sewn back up again after to keep her what is described by proponents as \"hygienic, chaste and faithful\". In societies where FGM is commonplace, a woman can bring shame on herself and her family if she does not comply. Some see it as a religious necessity - though no scriptures explicitly prescribe it. ?Clitoridectomy - partial or total removal of the clitoris ?Excision - removal of the clitoris and inner labia (lips), with or without the outer labia ?Infibulation - cutting, removing and sewing up the genitalia ?Any other type of intentional damage to the female genitalia (burning, scraping et cetera) Most often, the procedure is carried out by traditional circumcisers or preachers, using crude, accessible tools, such as thorns and thread, broken glass or razor blades, and without anaesthetic. The pain is part of the centuries-old ritual - to prove that the woman is strong and can endure it. Corrosive substances may also be inserted into the vagina to scar, tighten and narrow it. But about a fifth of all FGM is now performed by healthcare workers in hospital settings - bespoke clinics that use scalpels and antiseptics - and the trend towards medicalisation is increasing, says the World Health Organization. This is partly to counter the argument that FGM is unsafe. A big risk with FGM is dangerous bleeding and infection. By doing it in a clinic, these risks can be minimised. Another compelling reason is money. Doctors and midwives in poor countries can boost their salary by selling their services. Efua Dorkenoo, senior FGM advisor at Equality Now, who has been campaigning for decades to put an end to FGM, said: \"In Egypt, around 70% of FGM is done by medical doctors. In Kenya and Nigeria, local midwives are cutting. \"The medical professionals, they think that if it can't be stopped it's best to do it in the medical setting. And some are doing it for money.\" And it's not just something that's done outside of the West. There have been numerous reports of the practice documented in the UK, even though it is illegal. While it is hard to get a handle on the true scale, figures suggest at least 4,000 women and girls have been treated for FGM in London's hospitals since 2009. As yet, there have been no convictions for these crimes. And it's something that's been going on quietly for decades, says Ms Dorkenoo. Unicef estimates that more than 130 million girls and women alive in the world today have undergone FGM, mostly for cultural, religious and social reasons, although support for FGM is falling. There are no health benefits, but many risks associated with FGM even when it is done in a hygienic setting. An obvious one is severe pain - both physical and psychological. Victims recall fighting to get free as they were held down and their legs forcibly spread for the cutting. Isa, who was cut when she was six, recalls: \"I can still remember the shouting. I can still remember the blood coming through. I can still remember the pain.\" She's since had surgery and, as a trained midwife, helps other women who have undergone FGM. Surgery may reverse some of the damage, but it cannot restore sensitive tissue that has been removed. Nor can it repair emotional scars. Janet Fyle, who is the Royal College of Midwives' lead advisor on FGM, says: \"Some women have flashbacks similar to soldiers who have been in battle. \"If they were kidnapped on their way to collect water or someone held them down, its a trauma to them psychologically and its very difficult to deal with those scars.\" She hopes that FGM will become a thing of the past. \"I have hopes that we will end it in a generation. At least here in the UK. \"The younger girls are more aware of it. We need to educate and empower them.\" But she says FGM is deeply embedded in many cultures - and that could take a long time to change. Efua Dorkenoo agrees: \"In the most bizarre way, women have become the perpetrators and practisers of this and keep the tradition going. If you speak to women, they may say they want it because it's linked to them being accepted by society. It's at the core of controlling a woman's sexuality. \"Because it's to do with sexuality, it's still very taboo to talk about.\" Mother-of-three Asseta was cut when she was seven years old. In Burkina Faso, where Asseta lives, more than 75% of girls and women have been cut. Asseta says: \"I was told there were some eggs to eat - so me and my friends rushed over. But when we got there, there was blood all over the floor from other girls. It was very difficult - being cut is an event I will never forget. \"Deciding not to get my daughters cut was a tough decision to make. \"Going against tradition can be difficult. First you need to convince yourself that the decision you're making is the best one - you need to know the facts in order to do that. \"I hope my daughter will have a better life, better health because of my decision. And I hope she will do the same for her daughters and avoid cutting.\" Asseta's daughter, 13-year-old Fatmata, says: \"I had heard about FGM and I've seen it happen - a friend of mine was cut when she was 12 years old. Seeing it happen made me feel scared. I don't want to be cut, and I'm happy knowing my parents aren't going to make me do it.\" In many places where FGM is done, there is no law against it, or if there is, it's not implemented. And politicians have been afraid to push too far, says Efua Dorkenoo, who has herself received death threats for speaking out against FGM. There was a UN resolution in 2012 to ban FGM worldwide. \"Now is the time for the international community to make this happen,\" says Ms Dorkenoo.", "question": "The world could put a stop to female genital mutilation ( FGM ) within a generation , international leaders and campaigners say . ( This report contains graphic descriptions of the practices @placeholder ) .", "option_0": "culture", "option_1": "questions", "option_2": "speaks", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "involved"}
{"id": 596, "article": "About 10,000 people attended the first Latitude Festival, and much of the time the crowds in the tents away from the main stage were sparse. But thankfully Melvin Benn, who came up with the idea for the festival, had a long-term vision for Latitude and the resources to build on the \"genteel\" first year. The first Latitude at Henham Park, near Southwold, had the mixture of music, arts and comedy on which the festival still prides itself - but the main difference was the main stage, known as the Obelisk Arena, was in a tent. This was due to be the case in 2007, but strong winds \"ripped it apart\" ahead of the festival, so it was taken down and the stage has been open-air ever since. By 2008, Latitude had become one of the key names on the summer festival calendar, with Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros and Interpol the headliners. But it was Joanna Newsom who was the stand-out artist for many festival-goers. The American harpist was named a fourth headliner and opened the main stage on the Sunday - a slot so successful that it was offered the following year to Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke. A resurgent Tom Jones made a special appearance on the Thursday night of 2010's Latitude. Jones' set in the woods was so popular that the area had to be closed off and a large number of fans  turned away. As a result he made a second unscheduled appearance on the main stage on Sunday in the lunchtime \"special guest\" slot. Local-boy-made-good Ed Sheeran was on the bill in 2010, performing in the small poetry tent. A year later, however, he was on the main stage, having enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame. Two months after that appearance Sheeran released his debut album + on a major label, and has since become a genuine worldwide superstar, recently selling out three nights at Wembley Stadium. Classical musicians including violinist Nigel Kennedy and pianist Lang Lang have appeared as part of a programme that has also included theatre, poetry, literary readings and interviews and the biggest names in British comedy. Latitude has continued to add new elements to the festival, whether a sit-down restaurant, yoga or whirlpool baths. This year, for the first time, festival-goers will have the chance to swim in Henham Park's lake. Henham Park's manager Hektor Rous will be raising a pint of his Hektor's Pure bitter to the next 10 years.", "question": "In July 2006 headliners Snow Patrol , Mogwai and Antony and the Johnsons arrived in Suffolk to perform in a @placeholder that until then was best known for its annual steam rally .", "option_0": "arena", "option_1": "sign", "option_2": "honour", "option_3": "city", "option_4": "field"}
{"id": 597, "article": "The sites affected seemed to belong primarily to small businesses. On Friday, Indonesia summoned Australia's ambassador amid reports that its Jakarta embassy was used as part of a US-led spying network. The reports were based on a US National Security Agency document leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The allegations caused anger in Indonesia, which is a key ally and trading partner of Australia. The Australian government has declined to comment on the reports, saying it does not comment on intelligence matters. Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa told reporters on Monday: \"Enough is enough\". \"While [the US and Australia] are not able to confirm or deny past activities, at least they should be able, and I'm making a public expectation here, I think they should be able to say henceforth they are not going to do it anymore,\" he said. \"In the absence of assurances that such [spying] activities never took place, then of course we must assume that such activities are taking place, and draw our own conclusion in terms of their view of Indonesia as a partner,\" he added. Anonymous Indonesia posted a list on Twitter of more than 100 Australian websites it said it had hacked. Sites affected including a bouncy castle company and a dry cleaner. Affected websites were replaced with the message: \"Stop spying on Indonesia\", and an image of a Guy Fawkes silhouette on the Indonesia and Australian flags. Members of the online group wear Guy Fawkes masks when demonstrating in public or in online videos. The spying allegations were originally published by German newspaper Der Spiegel. The newspaper described a signals intelligence programme called Stateroom which intercepted radio, telecommunications and internet traffic using equipment in US, British, Australian and Canadian diplomatic missions. Diplomatic posts involved included those in Jakarta, Bangkok, Hanoi, Beijing and Kuala Lumpur, amongst others, the Sydney Morning Herald reported late last week. The reports are the latest in a series of documents leaked by ex-US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has been granted temporary asylum in Russia and is wanted in the US in connection with the unauthorised disclosures. The US is facing growing anger over reports it spied on its allies abroad. However, correspondents say that in reality most governments conduct surveillance or espionage operations against other countries whose activities matter to them.", "question": "A hacking group calling itself Anonymous Indonesia claims to have @placeholder over 170 Australian sites , following reports of Australian spying .", "option_0": "erupted", "option_1": "attacked", "option_2": "discovered", "option_3": "clashed", "option_4": "risen"}
{"id": 598, "article": "Jacqui Beale, 48, from Derbyshire, suffered broken ribs and a punctured lung, and was left needing stitches to her face when she was attacked while walking her dog. She and another victim, from West Yorkshire, are taking legal action. The National Farmers' Union (NFU) said walkers \"must be most aware of the issues\" in the countryside. Ms Beale said she thought she was going to die when she was attacked by eight cows in May. The dog groomer, from Wirksworth, added: \"I was bashed about by about eight cows. I remember being tossed from one to another and thinking I wasn't going to survive. \"All I could hear was snorting and breathing, it was terrifying.\" Ms Beale, whose dog was on a lead at the time of the attack in May, managed to get herself to safety and now wants to warn others. Source: National Farmers' Union Grandfather-of-five Mike Pace, from Huddersfield, was trampled while walking along a public footpath with his wife Gill on holiday in Abersoch in Gwynedd, Wales, in August. The 55-year-old said: \"This black bullock that had been staring looking menacing charged me and threw me up in the air and then the other cattle just started trampling me. \"While on the floor I had a conversation with myself thinking I was going to die. I told myself I'd had a good life.\" Mrs Pace escaped unharmed, but her husband spent more than a month in hospital and still needs crutches to walk. Sally Gray, a personal injury specialist at Slater and Gordon, is representing a number of people who have been injured by cattle. \"When it comes to public liability and the risk owed to the public, farmers have been advised not to put calves and their mothers in fields that are open to the public together,\" she added. A spokesperson for the NFU said: \"The countryside is a working environment where animals graze so it's important that people are mindful of this. \"Spring and summer are when we love to enjoy the countryside, so it is this time of year when walkers must be most aware of the issues.\"", "question": "Victims of cow attacks are warning walkers of the @placeholder of cattle kept in fields with their calves .", "option_0": "death", "option_1": "outbreak", "option_2": "island", "option_3": "number", "option_4": "dangers"}
{"id": 599, "article": "The items were discovered in Galloway in 2014 by a metal detectorist. Dumfries and Galloway Council wants to see them given a permanent home in Kirkcudbright. It is in talks with National Museums Scotland (NMS) about a joint bid to secure the hoard and now plans to lobby MSPs to bring the treasure to the area. Councillors were given an update on the situation at a meeting this week. The local authority has already put ?¡ê100,000 towards securing the hoard but it has been estimated total costs could be up to ?¡ê1m. The final decision on where the artefacts end up lies with the Treasure Trove Panel. The council said there remained \"ambiguity\" about how a partnership agreement with NMS might work. Talks are ongoing about how much of the hoard might appear in the new gallery being built in Kirkcudbright at any one time. Responsibility for transporting the treasure between locations is also still under discussion. Communities committee chairman Tom McAughtrie said the council would do everything it could to keep the treasure in the region. \"We've always maintained that the hoard was found in Galloway, so it should remain in Galloway,\" he said. \"A partnership agreement would allow this to happen, but we're still in negotiations with our colleagues from NMS to reach a deal that's of utmost benefit to our council, and to the people of Kirkcudbright. \"This hoard will bring in thousands of visitors each year to the region, so it is vital we do all we can to secure some sort of hold on the hoard.\" He said they were now set to start a lobbying campaign to try to secure the hoard. A further update on the position is expected before the council in March.", "question": "A council is stepping up its efforts to ensure a major Viking treasure hoard is @placeholder in a new art gallery in southern Scotland .", "option_0": "arriving", "option_1": "set", "option_2": "dumped", "option_3": "displayed", "option_4": "experiencing"}
{"id": 600, "article": "Both parties are aiming to open their first KFC restaurant there in 2015. US-based Yum! says the move reflects the firm's \"global strategy of expansion in emerging markets\". KFC sees Myanmar as \"an important emerging Asian economy with a population of 50 million people\". Those comments were made by KFC's chief executive Micky Pant in a statement. Yoma Strategic Holdings is an investment holding company based in Singapore, with various business interests in Myanmar that span across several industries, including real estate, agriculture and tourism. Serge Pun, Yoma's executive chairman, pointed out that chicken was a staple protein in Myanmar. Mr Pun added: \"Bringing KFC to Myanmar is an important step to achieving Yoma Strategic's goal in being a key player in the country's food and beverage sector.\" Yoma also said the company was \"keen to tap into Myanmar's growing consumer class that is forecast to grow from 2.5 million today to 19 million in 2030, potentially tripling consumer spending\". KFC's chicken-based menu ranks among the fastest growing brand for Yum! whose other restaurants in the group include Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Yum! Brands earns about $13bn (?¡ê8bn) in annual revenues. Earlier this year, KFC tapped into another emerging market and opened its first store in Bolivia in July. The parent company Yum! has said that it plans to invest $10bn with franchise partners in emerging markets, in order to have more than 20,000 KFC restaurants operating in those markets by 2020. According to company figures, there are currently some 14,000 KFC restaurants in emerging markets, including China and India. It's hard to walk a block in central Bangkok without coming across a Starbucks or McDonald's. In Yangon, the opposite is true. Small teashops still clutter the pavement, selling sweet tea, coffee and Burmese snacks for patrons to nibble on as they read the papers. That's not to say there hasn't been change. Large malls are being built and Asian franchises in particular are setting up. There's now a Freshness Burger (Japan) next to the glittering Schwedagon, a Manhattan Fish Market (Singapore) on the Strand and fast-food chains Lotteria (S Korea) and Marrybrown (Malaysia). This deal is between KFC's holding company Yum! Brands and a man some call Myanmar's \"Mr Clean\". The white-haired Serge Pun heads a sprawling conglomerate that includes property interests and an airline.", "question": "KFC 's parent company , Yum ! Brands , has teamed up with Singapore - @placeholder Yoma Strategic Holdings to bring the franchise to Myanmar , also known as Burma .", "option_0": "funded", "option_1": "editing", "option_2": "exposing", "option_3": "listed", "option_4": "tipped"}
{"id": 601, "article": "Salford were docked six points in April for salary-cap rule breaches, costing them a top-eight place in Super League. Silverwood, 40, officiated in the Super League for 15 years and took charge of the 2013 Rugby League World Cup final. \"Richard will be working with the players to try and improve their discipline,\" said owner Marwan Koukash. \"We have been conceding far too many penalties recently. The penalty count at Leeds last week was 14-6 and you can't win games from that position. \"He will be reviewing every game and helping the players understand where they went wrong. He started this week and will be with us for the long term.\" Meanwhile, Salford have released Feleti Mateo from the remainder of his contract so that he can return to Australia for family reasons. Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "question": "Salford Red Devils have appointed @placeholder referee Richard Silverwood to improve team discipline and plan to recruit their own salary - cap manager .", "option_0": "signed", "option_1": "helped", "option_2": "attacking", "option_3": "joined", "option_4": "retired"}
{"id": 602, "article": "Sudha made her name bashing out trance-like rhythms with electronic band Faithless and with other artists including Dido, Kylie Minogue and The Spice Girls. But now she has decided to adapt her percussive skills to create what she believes is the world's first energy-generating musical instrument. Proudly she describes the moment that triggered her new career as a social entrepreneur. \"It came to me at a gig in 2009,\" she says. \"The crowd stamped their feet so hard in time to the music that they created an earthquake measured on the Richter scale.\" This seismic event at the Forest National Stadium in Belgium prompted Sudha to wonder whether so much raw human power could be harvested and used. The technology is simple. As you shake it, a magnet moves backwards and forwards through a coil to generate power and this power is stored in an in-built battery. You then have the option to press a button at the back providing either light, or the option to plug in your phone for a small recharge. \"It's a simple, musical way to help power off-grid Africans and Indians. I've used it in concerts already, and we're encouraging other musicians to do the same,\" says Sudha. She is developing Spark through her own social enterprise, and she's teaming up with other renewable energy companies and groups to try to coordinate more off-grid solutions for energy-deprived parts of India and Africa. It's important, she says, in poor countries where hundreds of millions of people have no reliable access to power or artificial light, with serious consequences for their source of income and education. The entire African continent, despite its huge oil, gas and renewable reserves, still generates less electrical power than Spain. \"No region has more abundant or less utilised renewable energy potential\", says Caroline Kende-Robb, of the Africa Progress Panel, an advocacy group promoting African development. She says decentralised power generation can open up new possibilities for reaching populations currently bypassed by national grids. There are already a range of similar small-scale companies and charities offering small-scale renewable solutions for local power generation across Africa, where there remains a massive energy deficit. Take PEG Ghana, for example. PEG is private company offering hire purchase contracts to individuals and businesses, so that locals can buy small solar panels.  At a cost of about 60 cents (40p) a day, a purchaser can buy this kit in just a year or so. Nate Heller, the company's chief operating officer, says demand in Accra where he works is expanding rapidly. \"About 40% of our customers are not even off-grid. [But] the power-cuts here are so frequent and so bad, they need auxiliary power just to get by\". Other solutions include wind and even small-scale water turbines. Micro-hydro power has been embraced by a number of companies and charities especially in the more mountainous regions of east and southern Africa, and south-east Asia, where there is more reliable access to falling water. Dipti Vaghela is the Indian representative of the Hydro Empowerment Network. She says that small, decentralised systems can earn revenue for a village, bringing it out of poverty and at the same time generating renewable energy for a wider population in the region. However, critics point out that companies aimed at bridging this gap have tended to be small-scale. So far Sudha Kheterpal, for example, has made only about 1,000 of her Sparks, hardly enough it could be argued to light a Christmas tree, let alone launch an energy revolution. Neither this technology nor the other small scale solutions on offer are capable of generating energy on the scale needed to power even a fridge, stove or a basic computer. Critics say that until more substantial investors can see the profits to be made in their mass-production and roll-out, these off-grid solutions are unlikely to reach a large population or do much to resolve power problems. For Sudha Kheterpal, though, it's mostly about raising awareness for now, and generating the infrastructure required to deliver all the renewable power that poor communities require. She's also open to a wider range of ideas around ways local people could harness this technology to generate more power. \"During our Kickstarter campaign, one man suggested we could harness hundreds of Sparks around the necks of cows, to be generating power through the day,\" she says. \"There are many ways we scale this up. The important is to make a maximum impact.\"", "question": "The British musician and drummer Sudha Kheterpal is proudly cradling her new creation . Called a Spark , it 's the size and colour of a @placeholder mango and when shaken gently , it makes a noise a bit like a maraca .", "option_0": "suspected", "option_1": "growing", "option_2": "dilapidated", "option_3": "peeled", "option_4": "pioneering"}
{"id": 603, "article": "It says the forthcoming election and accompanying political uncertainty will hold business back from investing. Growth will also be constrained by worries about the eurozone and the Ukraine conflict, EY Item Club says. The 2.4% figure undershoots forecasts issued by the Bank of England, the CBI and the International Monetary Fund. Last week, the Bank's chief economist, Andrew Haldane, said he was downbeat over the UK economy because of weaker global growth, low wage growth and financial and political risks. He said interest rates should remain low to avoid long-term economic stagnation. Peter Spencer, EY Item Club's chief economic adviser, said: \"The forecast for GDP growth is still relatively good. What has changed is the global risks surrounding the forecast and the headwinds facing investment by firms. \"The UK's export outlook continues to look dreadful. The glimpse of economic rebalancing that we saw in the early part of this year has turned out to be a false dawn. \"Looming political uncertainty risks denting corporate confidence - the question now is how will these risks play out? I expect caution to become the order of the day.\" He also said the Bank of England was unlikely to rush to raise borrowing costs in the face of falling commodity prices and low wage growth. The report predicted inflation would remain low. It is currently at a five-year low of 1.2% and is likely to average 1.3% in 2015, EY Item Club said. The Bank of England's most recent forecasts predict GDP growth of 3.5% this year and 3% next, while the IMF says it will be 3.2% followed by 2.7% and the CBI 3% and then 2.7%.", "question": "The UK economy will grow by 2.4 % in 2015 , well below the 3.1 % growth expected this year , forecasting @placeholder EY Item Club has said .", "option_0": "unit", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "data", "option_3": "leaving", "option_4": "environment"}
{"id": 604, "article": "The field, known as biomimicry or biomimetics, has already given us well-known practical applications, such as cats' eyes for the road and Velcro for our fastenings. But more recent examples include superstrong mini-robots and prototype surgical needles. Evolution has had hundreds millions of years to perfect its designs, whereas engineering has only been around for a nano-second, relatively speaking. But studying nature's mechanics is helping us produce ever better man-made materials and structures. Nacre, also known as mother of pearl, is found in the inner layer of the shells of molluscs such as mussels. Along with cat skin and cow udders, it has \"auxetic\" properties, make it good at absorbing impacts. \"Auxetic material is a material where when you pull it, it actually gets fatter rather than thinner,\" Prof Andy Alderson, principle research fellow at Sheffield Hallam University, explained to the BBC earlier this year. He has a new PhD programme exploring the use of auxetic material in sports protection wear such as shin pads and cricket helmets - and it may have a medical application, too. \"It could lead to new materials for artificial inter-vertebral discs for the relief of chronic back pain,\" he said. Man-made auxetics now include honeycombs and foams, fibres and fabrics, as well as carbon fibre-reinforced composite materials. US space agency Nasa has been learning a few tricks by observing the gecko. Tiny hairs on their feet allow these small lizards to grip and climb walls - and they don't lose their stickiness over time. The harder they press their feet the stickier they become. Aaron Parness and colleagues at the the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena have developed a material containing minute synthetic hairs that stick to a surface when a force is applied to make the hairs bend. Prototype objects have been developed which might in future be able to act as anchors on board the International Space Station - but the technology may also be able to be used on its exterior, by repair or inspection robots. Using the same principle, researchers at Stanford University in the US have developed tiny robots that can drag more than 2,000 times their own weight. A team led by Prof Sangbae Kim have built a robotic \"cheetah\" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This summer they revealed that their robotic cheetah can now run at up to 13mph (21km/h) and can also jump over obstacles by itself. \"The general goal of our lab is to understand the locomotion aspect of animals,\" said Prof Kim in an explaining video on the MIT website. \"We are focusing on four-legged animals, to understand how they efficiently run in the field in nature so we can take the inspiration and use it in the engineering world.\" The team hopes this research may lead to a completely new form of transport, making the car obsolete. Dr Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena from Imperial College has spent the last six years developing Sting (Soft Tissue Intervention and Neurosurgical Guide), a prototype needle that could be used during delicate brain surgery. Sting was rather appropriately inspired by the humble female wood wasp, which uses a bendable, needle-like ovipositor to bore into wood and then lay her eggs. The computer-operated needle is made of tiny interlocked polymer shafts that move together, minimising damage to surrounding areas, and which make the needle good at travelling along curves. Dr Rodriguez y Baena heard about the wasp's ovipositor during dinner with Oxford University zoologist Prof Julian Vincent, who has spent his entire career studying biomimetics. \"You would not know the design started off with a wood wasp - and that is a strength,\" says Prof Vincent. \"It shows you how unlikely some of the biomimetics stuff can be.\" The bumps on a humpback whale's fin aid its agility in the water - an effect discovered, appropriately enough, by Dr Frank Fish (yes, we know whales are mammals). He called it the \"tubercle effect\" and founded a company called the Whalepower Corporation, to improve the efficiency of fans, turbines, compressors and pumps. Shark skin is covered in tiny ridged scales known as dermal denticles that optimise water flow, reduce drag and enable the predatory fish to swim faster. Inspired by this observation, Speedo developed it Fastskin swimwear range which aimed to replicate this effect and streamline swimmers' bodies. The firm claimed that the new suits \"revolutionised the swimming world\". But scientists have failed to find any significant performance-related benefits that could be linked directly to the properties of the swimwear itself, and the aerospace industry has also struggled to replicate significant improvements. \"Aerospace people found the amount of fuel saved [during experiments with plastic grooves on wings] wasn't really worth it,\" says Prof Vincent. \"Plus it made the aircraft more difficult to wash.\" Replicating nature's sophistication is still proving difficult in many cases, however. \"People have been trying to make spider silk for 3,000 years and we still haven't done it,\" says Prof Vincent. \"The nearest we've got so far is Kevlar which is used on the sails of boats.\" Kevlar is an incredibly strong, but very light, polymer that is widely used - perhaps most famously in protective clothing. It was accidently discovered by chemist Stephanie Kwolek in the 1960s. \"It was the nasty gunge in the bottom of a test tube,\" says Prof Vincent. \"Most people looked at it and threw it away.\" But high temperatures are required to make Kevlar because of the high-energy bonds between its molecules that make it so tough. When it comes to the clever spider, \"we can do the chemistry but we can't do the spinning,\" says Prof Vincent. Follow Technology of Business editor @matthew_wall on Twitter", "question": "Whale fins and cow udders , wasp appendages and gecko feet - just some of the natural @placeholder that have inspired technological innovation over the years .", "option_0": "phenomena", "option_1": "names", "option_2": "ideas", "option_3": "wreckage", "option_4": "countries"}
{"id": 605, "article": "The young girl was injured by the drug patrol dog in Belmarsh Prison, Woolwich, on 31 March. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said the incident had been reported to police and the dog withdrawn from service. In 2015, the MoJ said there were more than 530 dogs deployed in prisons in England and Wales. The Mirror reported the attack had taken place during a routine drugs test and the girl needed to undergo plastic surgery because of her injuries. The MoJ said it could not release more details because of \"purdah\" rules in the run up to the general election.", "question": "A toddler was @placeholder by a sniffer dog while she was visiting a relative in a high security jail in east London , it has emerged .", "option_0": "distracted", "option_1": "bitten", "option_2": "targeted", "option_3": "backed", "option_4": "crushed"}
{"id": 606, "article": "The plan for a unity government was part of a peace deal in August to end the civil war which began in 2013 when President Salva Kiir accused his then-deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup. The two sides blame each other for violating the terms of the agreement. Thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced since 2013. President Kiir, who said he had \"reservations\" about the August peace deal, appointed 28 new governors for the new provinces, just as rebel delegates arrived in the capital Juba, to begin work on the new government. Read more The former president of Botswana and head of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, Festus Mogae, told Al Jazeera the move was one of the many barriers to peace. \"One important one that has occurred, unfortunate in its timing, is the creation of 28 states because it's inconsistent with what is envisaged in the [peace] agreement and, therefore, it is not acceptable,\" Mr Mogae said. The United Nations released a report this week, accusing both President Kiir's forces and Mr Machar's rebels of mutual killings, including \"hundreds of extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances, gang-rapes, sexual slavery, forced abortion, [and] massive child soldier recruitment\". Peter Schumann, former director of the UN Mission in Southern Sudan told All Africa he would have been surprised if the transitional government had been established. \"Both parties have different agendas and do not follow their agreements,\" Mr Schumann said. \"There is no peaceful solution, because both parties are trying to control territory and oil resources.\"", "question": "South Sudan has missed a key @placeholder to create a transitional government , after the president increased the number of provinces from 10 to 28 .", "option_0": "deadline", "option_1": "law", "option_2": "contest", "option_3": "force", "option_4": "gathering"}
{"id": 607, "article": "The zone required bird keepers to put in place enhanced bio-security measures before letting their birds outside, in order to reduce the risk of disease. It was set up after highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N8 was confirmed in Lincolnshire. The ban on shows and gatherings of poultry, waterfowl and game birds will remain in force until 15 May. On that date, a new general licence will come into force. Avian influenza is an infectious virus carried by wild birds from the continent, with a single case discovered in Scotland. Earlier this month, free range egg producers in Scotland began the process of allowing their hens back outside. The birds had been shut indoors since high-risk zones were designated in parts of England in response to the recent bird flu outbreak. Under the Scottish government's rules, flocks were permitted to be kept outside as long as heightened bio-security measures were in place. But north and south of the border, the industry decided to house the birds to keep all producers on a level playing field. It resulted in free range egg-boxes being re-labelled to say the contents were produced from birds kept in barns. Rural Economy secretary Fergus Ewing said: \"This will be welcome news for many keepers who have opted to keep their birds indoors to protect them from a seasonally increased risk from highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N8. \"This decision has been made following the recent veterinary risk assessment concluding that the risk of avian influenza incursion to poultry and captive birds in Scotland had decreased to low. \"This has been a testing time for all of us, and I would like to thank all bird keepers in Scotland for their co-operation and vigilance. \"Your positive and committed response has helped us reach this point.\" Scotland's chief veterinary officer, Sheila Voas, said: \"It is a relief to see that the risk of HPAI H5N8 in Scotland has reduced, but this does not mean we should be complacent; the risk of avian influenza has not disappeared. \"It is essential that bird keepers maintain effective bio-security year-round, not just when a prevention zone is in place. \"All bird keepers should consider maintaining excellent bio-security practices like washing boots and equipment with approved disinfectant, implementing effective rodent control, minimizing unnecessary visitors and reducing their flock's contact with wild birds.\" NFU Scotland welcomed the lifting of the prevention zone. Poultry policy and animal health and welfare policy manager Penny Middleton said: \"This has been a testing time for the Scottish poultry industry and their response and cooperation in the face of such heightened risk is to be applauded. \"Obviously whilst the risk has reduced it has not disappeared completely and keepers need to stay focused on bio-security, maintaining measures to minimise contact between the flock and wild birds and to minimise any spread of potential infection. \"The level of threat this winter has been unprecedented but could be the start of a recurring pattern. \"There is work needed to be done this summer to assess how we handle such situations in the future and for keepers to consider carefully their contingency plans and resilience to face similar situations in the future.\"", "question": "An avian influenza prevention zone which was @placeholder across Scotland at the start of December has been lifted .", "option_0": "closed", "option_1": "abandoned", "option_2": "rocked", "option_3": "spotted", "option_4": "declared"}
{"id": 608, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The first top-level case of \"technological fraud\" came to light after a bike was seized at the Cyclo-cross World Championships on Saturday. Belgium's Femke Van den Driessche, who was riding it, said she knew nothing about the device and that the bike belonged to someone else. But the International Cycling Union (UCI) is investigating and the bike manufacturer is threatening legal action against Van den Driessche. Cycling has a long and chequered history of cheating, with those seeking to gain an illegal advantage traditionally using drugs. There are numerous examples of blood dopers, with the most notorious being Lance Armstrong. The American was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after being accused of the \"most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen\". Now, just when it looked like cycling was cleaning up its act, a new threat has emerged: doped cycles. Nothing has been proven yet but there have been plenty of rumours, not to mention allegations, against some of the world's top riders. Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara was accused of \"mechanical doping\" in 2010 after an Italian film released on YouTube claimed to show how the Olympic time trial champion used a battery-powered motor. In 2014, the UCI investigated allegations that Canada's Ryder Hesjedal used a motorised bike after video footage seemed to show the rider's wheel moving by itself following a crash at the Vuelta a Espana. Cancellara and Hesjedal denied the allegations, calling them \"stupid\" or \"ridiculous\". Former Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has also been forced to deny allegations of using a motor-powered bike. Motorised bikes are available to the public and designed to encourage people to take up cycling, although it costs thousands of pounds to buy a basic model. Riders still have to pedal them, but they can also get assistance from a battery-powered engine. \"It isn't a scooter, you need to work hard yourself,\" says Harry Gibbings, chief executive of Typhoon, a company that builds these kind of bikes. \"You have to cycle and then you push a button. The silent motor is engaged and, to the person on the bike, it feels like someone is giving them a push.\" The motor can produce up to 250 watts of power and gives motorised assistance up to a speed of 25km an hour. Former Olympic cyclist Rob Hayles believes the advantage of using a motorised bike is huge, especially during hill climbs. \"If you are averaging say 350 watts for a 200km race and if you can generate an extra 50 watts, then that is a big percentage,\" he says. \"It would be the equivalent of attacking off the front and going solo but feeling like you are on the wheel, slip-streaming. \"To get that advantage without actually being behind anyone is enormous. It is a bigger advantage than doping. With doping, your body still has to do the work.\" A report in cyclo-cross magazine Grit.cx said UCI officials were seen using a tablet-like device to check for mechanisms inside the frame of Van den Driessche's bike. Apparently, the device used electromagnetic-based technology to help detect the secret motor. Once officials decided closer inspection was needed, they removed the seat post to find wires poking out. The UCI says it has been taking the issue of technological fraud \"extremely seriously\" for many years, adding it had recently been trialling new methods of detection. It also says it is using industry \"intelligence\" and random testing to try to catch cheats, revealing it carried out 100 tests at the Cyclo-cross World Championships. Two-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has urged the UCI to start checking bikes more regularly after hearing \"rumours\" of hidden motors. \"Maybe,\" says Hayles, a cycling commentator for BBC Radio 5 live. \"Cheating is cheating. But if doping is already over stepping the mark, then this is like kicking the door in. \"People are always looking for advantage - look at the lengths that people went to with doping - but this is more of an advantage than any drugs could give you.\" BBC cycling reporter Matt Slater adds: \"While the degrees of cheating might change, the essential act of trying to get one over on your rivals has not,. \"That much is hard-wired into the part of the cyclist that has not changed at all in a century: the brain. \"So some cyclists are cheats, just as some accountants, bankers and cooks are cheats. The human being is a flawed machine.\"", "question": "First it was doping , now it 's tiny motors hidden inside the frame that could threaten cycling 's @placeholder ...", "option_0": "birth", "option_1": "control", "option_2": "credibility", "option_3": "power", "option_4": "stability"}
{"id": 609, "article": "The new owner of the Ayrshire resort spoke about his plans as he arrived by private jet in Aberdeen - en route to his other Scottish course at Menie. The American businessman said he would not be making any changes to Turnberry without the approval of golf's governing body, The Royal And Ancient. Mr Trump purchased Turnberry from Dubai-based Leisurecorp last month. The course will continue to be managed by Starwood Hotels & Resorts. He said he had paid \"a lot of money\" for the complex but would not disclose the amount. Mr Trump told the BBC he had \"no plans\" to buy any more golf courses in Scotland. He described his Menie course, on the Aberdeenshire coast, as \"his baby\" and said he would never give up the fight to halt an offshore windfarm being built in sight of it.", "question": "US @placeholder tycoon Donald Trump has said he plans to \" tweak \" the Turnberry golf course and not redesign it .", "option_0": "media", "option_1": "drugs", "option_2": "prop", "option_3": "entertainment", "option_4": "property"}
{"id": 610, "article": "The effort began with a conversation between two young researchers in late February, days after shocking footage emerged of Islamic State militants tearing down and smashing artworks in the Mosul Museum in northern Iraq. Chance Coughenour and Matthew Vincent are PhD students working for the Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage (ITN-DCH), an EU-funded project set up to apply new technology to cultural heritage issues. \"We were talking about the destruction and [Chance] suggested that we crowd-source the reconstruction of these images, using photogrammetry and images from the public,\" Mr Vincent told the BBC's Science in Action programme. Photogrammetry is a popular technique in modern cultural heritage projects. It uses software to turn multiple 2D photographs of a single object into 3D images. \"It's an incredibly useful technology that can create 3D models just using photos from a normal digital camera,\" explained Mr Vincent. He and his colleague realised that if they could find enough photos of the destroyed artworks, they could salvage them in cyberspace. So they set up Project Mosul. People who have visited now-destroyed sites - beginning with the Mosul Museum - can submit their photographs. Then volunteers log on to help sort the images, and those with the know-how get stuck into the job of rebuilding the artefacts. The project has received more than 700 photos so far, including 543 showing artefacts from Mosul. A gallery on the homepage displays 15 3D reconstructions, completed by nine volunteers. \"We have others who are anxious to learn how to do photogrammetry and to help out,\" said Mr Vincent, adding that his main hold-up at the moment is finding the time to manage and develop the platform. The nine volunteers have used their choice of software to construct the replicas, and then uploaded them via the 3D sharing platform Sketchfab. The obvious favourite in the gallery so far is a lion from the Mosul Museum. When the statue itself was still standing, it was clearly also a popular subject for visitors to photograph. Some 16 photos of the lion were received, which allows for quite a detailed reconstruction. \"The more photographs you have, the more potential you have to create more 3D points and have a denser cloud,\" said Mr Vincent. Because more images make for better models, the project has even made available some pictures from the original ransacking footage, because they may help with the reconstruction process. The final results don't quite match what scientists could achieve if they had scanned the artefacts with specialist equipment, but they are an impressive piece of crowd-sourced digital rescue work. \"These models don't have the same scientific value as if we were able to do this with calibrated cameras, laser scans, etc. But the 3D models still have the value of the visualisation - being able to see what the artefact was like. \"We can recreate the experience of being in the museum, in cyberspace.\" And that experience brings unique insights. Mr Vincent gives the example of the imposing lion statue, which has a design that can only be fully appreciated in three dimensions. \"If you look at that lion's relief, you'll notice that it has five legs. From the side, it has four legs in motion; if you look at it from the front, it's as if the lion is standing still. \"That's part of the art history of Assyrian art. Likewise, if you look closely at the side of the lion's relief you can still see the cuneiform script.\" Sadly, we will never know exactly how precise these digital copies are - because the originals are gone. \"We don't have all the parameters that we need... to be able to tell you how accurate those models are,\" Mr Vincent said. Prof Roger Matthews of Reading University, UK, described the work as \"a terrific project\", noting that a similar effort was made after the National Museum of Iraq was looted during the 2003 invasion. \"Obviously it would be much better not to have to do this, but it's great that this sort of thing is being done - that people are finding the funding, and the public participation to make it possible,\" Prof Matthews told BBC News. He added that it was important to see the Mosul artefacts as part of a larger picture of precious - and threatened - heritage in the region. \"Obviously they ransacked Mosul Museum, destroying many statues and other objects. But they've also blown up the Palace of Ashurnasipal II at Nimrud, which was the source of many of the objects in that museum.\" The destruction and looting of active archaeological sites like Nimrud was particularly sad, Prof Matthews, said. \"A site like Nimrud has upstanding buildings that were excavated, but there were also large areas never excavated and which are being illegally looted and interfered with. We just don't know what is being taken from these sites.\" Last week, there were fears that IS would destroy the ancient city of Palmyra. For the moment, this threat appears to have receded, but Mr Vincent and his colleagues in many academic disciplines are fearful of further losses from the physical record of human history. Looking beyond Project Mosul, Mr Vincent is anxious that other digital preservation efforts should be undertaken more deliberately and proactively. Once a digital record has been created, it would even be possible to physically re-create precious items using 3D printing, he suggested. This could prove useful in building replicas not only of destroyed or lost artefacts, but also things that are too fragile to be put on public display - as was the case for the remarkable Chauvet cave paintings, now rebuilt above ground in France. \"3D printing is really proving to be one of the most valuable assets for heritage that we have today. It's a way to bring them back to life and have a tactile experience with them, even if we can't guarantee that they're exactly as the original would have been,\" Mr Vincent said. \"Whether it is because of conflict or natural disaster, our heritage is such a delicate and valuable resource, the only way that we can really preserve it is to take the steps to make those digital surrogates, so that we can protect the physical reality of that heritage as well.\" Follow Jonathan on Twitter", "question": "Priceless historical artefacts have been lost recently , to violence in Iraq and earthquakes in Nepal . But \" cyber-archaeologists \" are working with volunteers to put you just a few clicks away from seeing these @placeholder - in colourful , three - dimensional detail .", "option_0": "life", "option_1": "treasures", "option_2": "zones", "option_3": "state", "option_4": "group"}
{"id": 611, "article": "Vets treating the shar pei, found in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, said they had never seen a dog abandoned in such a poor condition before. She is thought to have been used as a \"breeding machine\" for puppy farmers. RSPCA inspector Rachel Smith said: \"Her nails had curled around three times before embedding in her pads.\" The emaciated dog - now called Glynis - was found lame and bleeding in Rye Road on 26 May. \"This poor dog was extremely skinny, had an eye infection, unbelievably overgrown nails and a life-threatening infection in her uterus called pyometra,\" said Ms Smith. It is believed the animal, thought to be about 10 years old, was kept in a small crate and neglected for years resulting in a number of conditions including painfully narrowed ear canals and inward folding eyelids. Ms Smith said: \"I suspect this poor shar pei had been used as a breeding machine - a commodity for an unscrupulous puppy farmer. \"When she couldn't give them what they wanted anymore, she was cast aside and dumped to fend for herself.\" Glynis' paws have been so badly damaged by her overgrown nails she may still need to have a toe amputated. She is currently being cared for by the Rescue Remedies charity, which hopes to find her a new home.", "question": "The owners of a neglected dog , dumped with a life - threatening infection and nails so long that it could not walk , are being @placeholder by the RSPCA .", "option_0": "heard", "option_1": "sought", "option_2": "explored", "option_3": "funded", "option_4": "distributed"}
{"id": 612, "article": "A thick and acrid plume of smoke drifted up from behind one of the nearby high buildings and the crowd started to realise it was another bomb blast in their city. We heard a sporadic crack of gunfire and then the sound of sirens - as ambulances headed to the scene through the city's congested streets. The huge suicide car bomb had been just the start of the attack. Al-Shabab fighters had used it to breach the front entrance of the Ambassador Hotel and had rushed in, opening fire. It's a fortified residence used by high-profile Somalis and members of parliament - two British-Somali MPs were killed along with around a dozen other people. Many others were injured. It came as a real shock to Maryan Hassan, a British-born lawyer who we were interviewing on the roof terrace when the car bomb went off and the gunfire started. It's just the second big explosion she's experienced since moving to Mogadishu permanently in January. \"It's the same story as everyone else - I came to make a difference,\" she said, talking about the high number of Somalis, like her, returning from the diaspora from places such as Britain, Canada and America. \"My parents were married in London and my brothers and I were all born and raised in the UK, but I grew up constantly knowing I was Somali,\" she said. \"My parents were definitely at the core of why I'm so passionate about Somalia.\" With two degrees in law, and a specialism in arbitration, Maryan has already has become the prime minister's legal adviser, but the al-Shabab attack nearby while we talked was a clear reminder of the risks. \"I don't think anyone comes back to Mogadishu and says it's going to be an easy ride,\" she said. \"You're obviously having to come back to a society that you were not raised in, so socially there's a lot more obstacles to overcome as opposed to security.\" The security forces had been preparing for an attack. As UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond arrived the fighting at the hotel was still going on. The Somali president and prime minister came to meet him at the heavily-fortified airport rather than at their office in the city. But politics is more promising than security. This year's elections are far from fully democratic, but will be a big step towards rebuilding a new, federal state after 25 years of civil war - as long as they happen. Britain spends ¡ê200m ($289m) a year in Somalia on development and security. The foreign secretary explained why. \"We're committed, we've been here for a long time, we have seen some very solid progress,\" Mr Hammond said. \"What's happening here now is making Somalia safer, but it's also making Britain safer. \"It's addressing our security concerns, it's addressing our migration concerns and having a stable and secure Somalia is good for Britain as well as Somalia.\" We spent time with the Somali police force and their African Union mentors just as they set up a roadblock and searched cars for explosives. \"The essence of stop-and-search is for us to prevent anything untoward,\" said Supt Eze Therophiles, a Nigerian police commander. \"In the recent past there have been incidents of vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attacks - that is the trend now,\" he said, referring to car bombs like the one which would go off on those same streets a few hours later. It was just down the hill from parliament. The local commander told us there had been previous assassination attempts on MPs and so they had to protect the building every time it was in session. \"There is not so much risk these days, although the enemy al-Shabab have attacked us several times and we have pushed them back,\" said Lt Jimale Ahmed Ali from the Somali National Police. \"We are very much ready and well armed¡­ we have enough guns here, so we are not afraid.\" It's optimism and confidence that things are going to get better, but while Somalia has come a long way in the last few years it's still a very dangerous place. Al-Shabab may have been driven out of Mogadishu and most of the urban areas across Somalia, but they still hold sway in much of the countryside and have switched to insurgent-style attacks. With elections due in a few months, and Ramadan approaching - a time when al-Shabaab traditionally ramps up its car bombs and suicide attacks - the city is on high alert. But still the militants get through. The attack on the Ambassador Hotel killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more. Investigators are still establishing how many gunmen there were, and why after the attack appeared to be over the fighting erupted again and continued until morning. And there's an even bigger challenge facing security services across the country. The African Union's Assistance Mission in Somalia (Amisom) is under pressure. Its 22,000 troops from Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda are struggling to switch from the conventional warfare of driving al-Shabab out of towns and villages to coping with countering a violent insurgency. The Somali army and police are a crucial part of bringing security to fill the vacuum after the militants left, as al-Shabab often brought basic, if brutal, justice, law and order. But it's hard to establish trusted national institutions after 25 years of war and in a society still so driven by clan rivalries that the limited elections are still being run along clan lines. There will not be \"one person - one vote\" this year, but the 275 MPs will be elected by fewer than 14,000 people - caucuses picked by elders and divided up favouring the four biggest clans. Full representation is the target for the 2020 elections, and while not ideal, the formation of a federal state - with power devolved to the newly emerging states - is a slow and complicated process. \"Somalia is emerging from one of the most violent civil wars¡­ and it's still facing a potent insurgency from al-Shabab,\" said Michael Keating, the UN's Special Representative in Somalia. \"What it's trying to do is both contain that insurgency and put in place a state - difficult enough after a civil war, but particularly difficult as Somalia is a clan-based society. \"If your baseline is 10 or 20 years ago they have made extraordinary progress. The fact there is a president, four regional states - perhaps a fifth one formed this year - is a tremendous achievement.\" Most of those involved in the process expect the elections, scheduled for August, to be postponed by a couple of months - but they are hopeful. Somaliland in the north-west has already declared its independence, although it is not internationally recognised; Puntland in the north-east has a well established state structure; and other emerging regional power centres are forming. The whole federal nation-building project, driven by political rivalries, is on the line if elections fail to take Somalia on the next step towards stability and democracy.", "question": "The cool new rooftop pizza joint was @placeholder with the hip kids snapping selfies and watching the sun set over Mogadishu when the deep crunch of an explosion made everyone jump .", "option_0": "associated", "option_1": "buzzing", "option_2": "clashed", "option_3": "rocked", "option_4": "busy"}
{"id": 613, "article": "The site of the former Lafarge cement works in Eastgate had been earmarked for the multi-million pound scheme. Durham County Council was set to buy the land for ?¡ê1, and, with regional development agency One North East, spend ?¡ê1.5m to kick-start development. With the agency now abolished, the plan has been put on hold. The council said it was still working with Lafarge on the future of the site. The planned eco-village would have used hot water pumped from underneath the Weardale hills to heat homes, a hotel, and a recreated Roman spa. There were hopes it would have have created up to 250 jobs. Lafarge, which still owns the site, said in a statement: \"We remain committed to the outline plans for a renewable energy village at Eastgate. \"However the majority of our work has taken place during the severe economic conditions that the UK has been facing over recent years, and so far we are not able to give a more detailed update on those plans.\" Durham County Council said in a statement: \"We are still working with Lafarge on the future of the land.\"", "question": "Plans for an eco-village and thermal spa in County Durham have @placeholder .", "option_0": "stalled", "option_1": "appeared", "option_2": "revealed", "option_3": "warned", "option_4": "intensified"}
{"id": 614, "article": "Berlin had been genuinely shocked when David Cameron and senior Conservatives had spoken of imposing \"emergency brakes\", \"caps\" or quotas on the numbers of EU migrants moving to Britain. Such restrictions would have completely undermined the principle of freedom of movement in the German view. Angela Merkel feared that British plans contained risks for the European project and she was determined to stop them. Two weeks ago the former Prime Minister Sir John Major came to Berlin to make a speech about Britain and Europe. In it he said: \"I do recognise - reluctantly - that our small island simply cannot absorb the present and projected numbers at the current speed: it is not physically or politically possible without huge public disquiet.\" Afterwards during questions, Sir John underlined his point by saying that at the very heart of the problem was \"numbers, numbers, numbers\". Listening to him was one of Angela Merkel's closest aides. Over dinner he explained the German red line - they would reject any plan that was seen to weaken freedom of movement. The Chancellery wanted that message passed to Downing Street. So began a search for a policy which might dissuade some EU migrants from coming to Britain without impinging on their right to move anywhere in the EU. Downing Street believed the key lay in reducing incentives to move to the UK. The answer, in their view, lay in restricting benefits for those who had recently begun working in the UK. For the first four years they would be unable to receive tax credits or child benefits, or be considered for social housing. Without such benefits, it was argued, some migrants might be deterred from coming to the UK because the money they earned would not be much greater than back in their home country. The German chancellor was briefed in detail by David Cameron yesterday. Her response is said to have been \"warm\". The Cameron plan involved \"rule changes\" certainly, but it did not challenge the core principles of the EU as contained in the treaties. In the writing of the plan there had been wide consultation between London and Berlin. One official said you could \"see the German influence\" on the speech. The German Chancellery later on Friday put out a statement pointing out that David Cameron \"has acknowledged in his speech\"  the importance of free movement as a central pillar of the European Union and the Common Market. The German government \"is prepared to work closely with Great Britain....to address all the problems\". The British saw this as a positive reaction. Some allies of Angela Merkel, however, were expressing concern at EU migrants being denied benefits received by others for a period of four years. One German MP said he felt it was discriminatory and there were bound to be legal challenges. Downing Street, too, expects legal problems, which is why today David Cameron said \"these changes, taken together, will require some treaty changes\". The idea of treaty change divides the German establishment. One MP said to me today: \"Re-negotiating the treaties is an illusion.\" But others like German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble believe treaty change will be necessary to enforce discipline within the eurozone. In the end there are degrees of treaty change. It should also be pointed out that many German MPs share some of the British concerns. This year Germany has taken in nearly 400,000 migrants and refugees, more than any other EU country. Already the mayors of 24 towns have expressed concern at the pressures on local resources in dealing with migrants. So some German MPs agree that there needs to be some flexibility in interpreting freedom of movement. There was today a frequently asked question among politicians in Berlin. Is this the centre-piece of any future British re-negotiation? If Germany backs a compromise, would that be enough for David Cameron to say to the British people that he had won a major concession or would there be a long list of further requests? Almost certainly the list of  priorities  will be refined. The prime minister said his demands were not \"outlandish\" or \"unreasonable\", \"...and they deserve to be heard\". Nobody doubts the negotiations will be difficult but Berlin looks prepared to hear David Cameron out, without any firm commitments.", "question": "David Cameron was speaking to different audiences today . Of course there was the British @placeholder and his own restive backbenchers but he was also addressing the Europeans and in particular the Germans .", "option_0": "government", "option_1": "parliament", "option_2": "force", "option_3": "delegation", "option_4": "electorate"}
{"id": 615, "article": "One member of online discussion forum Reddit claimed to have paid $1,250 (?¡ê949) to secure an early copy on an online auction website. He has since published a series of videos showcasing in-game footage. The game's creator Sean Murray has asked fans to avoid reading spoilers posted by those with early copies. \"We've spent years filling No Man's Sky with surprises. You've spent years waiting. Please don't spoil it for yourself,\" Mr Murray wrote on Twitter. \"Take a break from reading about it and picking vids apart. You can experience it for yourself so soon.\" Following the leak, some fans have suggested that the game can be completed in around 30 hours - despite the developer's claims that it could take \"hundreds\" of hours to finish. Players begin the game at the edge of a universe that is said to be populated with 18.4 quintillion planets. The goal is to reach the centre of the cosmos - and what lies there has remained a closely guarded secret. One Reddit poster called Daymeeuhn suggested players could fast track their way to the core. \"Contrary to what a lot of people think, I have done a lot of what the game has to offer. I actually intentionally took time out of my warp jumping... to break up the monotony of it,\" he said. \"This does not mean I have done all of the major events, however. I am still yet to swim to the bottom of a big ocean. I am still yet to destroy a space station. I definitely still have stuff to do.\" In a recent interview with gaming news website Gamespot, Mr Murray said that the journey to the centre of the universe would take \"hundreds of hours\", even if players did nothing else. \"People feel really insignificant, and that's how we want them to feel. We want them to feel vulnerable. We want them to feel like a tiny part of this universe,\" he said. \"But, actually, as you upgrade your ship and upgrade your suit and your weapons and stuff, you can travel much further, much easier and you can take shortcuts as well. Suddenly that galactic map seems less daunting, but it's still a really significant challenge. It's hundreds of hours of gameplay.\" No Man's Sky is due to be released worldwide on 12 August.", "question": "A copy of the highly anticipated space exploration game No Man 's Sky has reportedly been @placeholder online two weeks ahead of its official release .", "option_0": "mocked", "option_1": "published", "option_2": "sold", "option_3": "criticised", "option_4": "launched"}
{"id": 616, "article": "It's their way of explaining his unsteadiness on his feet, his co-ordination problems and the fact that he sometimes asks the same question over and over again. Sam is a smiley, sociable boy who goes to school and has one-to-one teaching support - but his life will become progressively more difficult. \"In a year he may not be able to talk and a year after that he may not be able to walk,\" his mother Miriam says. Sam's parents Will and Miriam, who live in Leeds, were told the devastating news that their first-born had a rare, inherited disease called Niemann-Pick type C when he was four months old. They were also told he was unlikely to live past the age of two. \"It was absolutely horrific. I couldn't say the words without falling apart.\" Awful though the diagnosis was, Miriam says many families wait for years and years for a diagnosis - some up to 20 years or more - and this creates its own problems. Because the disease is the result of two copies of a faulty gene being passed on to a child, any subsequent children have a one in four chance of getting the disease. Also, it means people can live for years without treatment or access to any support. Now a campaign led by the International Niemann-Pick Disease Alliance (INPDA) wants to change all that. Think Again. Think NP-C aims to cut diagnosis times by helping doctors unfamiliar with the disease to recognise its key signs and symptoms. Speeding up diagnosis, it says, will help patients and their families manage a particularly horrible disease which can cause a number of wide-ranging symptoms - from progressive physical problems to psychiatric issues and learning difficulties akin to dementia. And this is precisely what makes it so difficult to diagnose. The symptoms can also develop at any time from childhood through to adulthood and vary in severity in each individual. Symptoms of Niemann-Pick type C can include: Jim Green, president of INPDA, says there are bound to be more people out there with undiagnosed Niemann-Pick type C. \"Perhaps the biggest cohort are adults, because it's a non-specific condition. \"We've tried to highlight the three key symptoms and we encourage doctors to ask themselves if it could be NP-C.\" He explains that there are lots of ways that sufferers and their families can be supported. And although there is no cure for the disease, drugs are available to help stabilise symptoms and delay the progression of the disease. Both of Jim Green's sons were diagnosed with Niemann-Pick type C after around three years of tests. His younger son died at 18, and his elder son is now 38 and \"doing extremely well\", he says, despite the relentlessly progressive nature of the disease. Not being able to predict how the disease is going to progress is one of the more terrifying aspects of the condition, he admits. Children who develop neurological symptoms in early childhood are thought to have a more aggressive form of the disease and may not survive to adolescence. Others can stay free of symptoms for many years. Sam's mum Miriam says one of the most obvious symptoms is an abnormality in eye movements, which affects virtually everyone with the disease. \"Sam's eyes don't move around like everyone else's when he's walking about. And if I am talk to him, he can't flick his eyes up to look at me.\" This is something called vertical supranuclear gaze palsy which is relatively simple to detect. At present, it is thought that one in 120,000 people have the disease, but it could be closer to one in 40,000, Miriam says. \"There are definitely more people out there than we know about.\" The advantages of picking up these people are numerous. Patients and families can be supported, and researchers can also find out more about the disease. The trials of three drugs which could be used to treat Niemann-Pick are in the pipeline and could make a difference to many lives. And the more people with this rare disease who can be enrolled in trials, the more useful the results will be.", "question": "Seven - year - old Sam Evans ' siblings know he is different . Four - year - old twins Jack and Ellie proudly tell people he has a \" wobbly @placeholder \" .", "option_0": "experience", "option_1": "voice", "option_2": "message", "option_3": "nonsense", "option_4": "brain"}
{"id": 617, "article": "The Americans, who were not identified, left the country together with Yemenis hurt in a recent funeral bombing, US Secretary of State John Kerry said. The US thanked Oman for mediating and acknowledged the \"humanitarian gesture\" from the rebels. Yemen has been devastated by a war between government forces and those allied to the Houthi rebel movement. More than 6,800 people have been killed since March 2015, the majority in air strikes by a Saudi-led multinational coalition that backs the president against the Houthi rebels. Speaking in Switzerland after multilateral talks on Syria, Mr Kerry welcomed the development. \"This is something we've been working on for the last days,\" he said. The two Americans were flown to Oman alongside an unspecified number of people injured in the 8 October attack on a funeral hall in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. At least 140 people were killed, most of them civilians. The Saudi-led coalition said it had carried out the attack based on \"bad information\". Meanwhile, a US Navy destroyer in the Red Sea may have been targeted by multiple surface-to-surface missiles fired from Houthi-controlled territory, US officials said. The USS Mason took countermeasures and was not hit, they added. If confirmed, it would be the third such incident in recent days. On Thursday, the US military launched cruise missiles against three coastal radar sites in territory controlled by the rebels in response to two previous failed missile firings against the Mason.", "question": "Two US citizens held by Houthi rebels in Yemen have been @placeholder and flown to neighbouring Oman , the US says .", "option_0": "released", "option_1": "paid", "option_2": "urged", "option_3": "rescued", "option_4": "removed"}
{"id": 618, "article": "It feels a long way from Berlin. And inside the quayside smokehouse, as she carefully threads sprats on to long metal skewers, fish factory worker Ines tells me she feels forgotten by Angela Merkel's government. \"They just look after the big cities,\" she says. \"But these small communities up here - no. Nothing is being done for us. Nothing gets through to us.\" It can be hard to make a good living here, especially in the winter. The workers in the smokehouse worry about unemployment. This is not a rich community and they feel it's time for political change. Fertile ground then for Germany's right wing, anti-Islam party Alternative for Germany (AfD). A regular poll for the national broadcaster suggests it would take 15% of the vote if the general election was held tomorrow. The party may well complicate coalition building come the autumn. Angela Merkel's CDU party still leads those polls at 37%, but her junior coalition partner, the SPD, is at 20% Roland delivers another load of slippery, silvery fish to the smokehouse. He pushes his woolly cap off and tells me AfD will be getting his vote. \"The other parties avoid the real problems,\" he explains. \"Merkel just sticks to her views, even though she sees what she's got us into - like the terror attacks. If she hadn't brought those people into the country,\" he insists, \"the victims of the Berlin Christmas markets would still be alive.\" Freest is in the northern state of Mecklenburg Vorpommern. It is also home to Mrs Merkel's constituency. Last year AfD beat her Conservatives into third place in the regional election and now, they want to compound that humiliation by putting up a candidate - Leif-Erik Holm - directly against her. Mr Holm, a smartly-dressed former radio presenter who believes a large proportion of Europe's Muslims hold radical views and want to establish a global caliphate, is, in reality, unlikely to take the chancellor's seat. But it's not impossible. \"We have a big problem with radical Islam and we need to talk about it,\" he tells me. \"It's been taboo in Germany. The AfD broke that taboo and thank heavens people now talk about their fears. Just look at who's carrying out terror attacks in Europe, they're all extreme Islamists.\" It is AfD's vociferous anti-Islam, anti-migrant position which, critics argue, is key to its success. Certainly, support for what originally began as an anti-euro party surged during the latter part of the refugee crisis, as party leaders began to campaign against Mrs Merkel's asylum policy. But Mr Holm rejects the notion that AfD is a one issue party, seeking political gain by whipping up fear of Muslim immigrants. \"During the regional election hustings we spoke with people in small towns and villages and realised fear was the most prominent theme. We don't create fear, we talk about it - the everyday fear that people have of terrorism, of uncontrolled mass immigration. \"That's what we work with as politicians. We make politics for the people.\" AfD's anti-EU rhetoric is also growing louder as it seeks to emulate the success of the giants of Europe's far right. It recently hosted a rally of the right in the German city of Koblenz, sharing a stage - and a platform - with the French presidential candidate Marine le Pen and Geert Wilders, whose Freedom Party leads the polls ahead of the Dutch general election. Both Ms Le Pen and Mr Wilders have pledged referendums on EU membership. AfD's manifesto now promises to pull Germany out if significant structural reforms are not implemented. During the rally (from which the mainstream German broadcasters and press were banned) its leader Frauke Petry likened the EU to Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union and joined Ms Le Pen and Mr Wilders in their calls for a revolution in Europe. This was a show of solidarity, a display of unity from Europe's right. Emboldened by Brexit and Donald Trump's victory, the leaders are keen to focus on the threefold message which unites them; a visceral dislike of Islam, a loathing of Mrs Merkel's refugee policy and that contempt for the EU. And they believe 2017 will be their year. It's hard to say whether they create, reflect or exploit social division, but an interesting recent German survey gave a fascinating glimpse into what might motivate AfD supporters. The poll found, for example, that despite last year's terror attack in Berlin, 73% of those polled felt safe in Germany. But when the researchers asked AfD supporters, they found that only 34% felt secure. Similarly, when asked whether life is better or worse than 50 years ago, 17% of Germans said it is worse, but this figure rises to 40% among AfD supporters. In 2017, Europe's real election battles will take place in communities like Freest, where people feel forgotten by their national governments and left behind by establishment parties. If Europe's leaders want to halt the rise of the right, they must reconnect with those voters and regain their trust. Because in this windblown harbour on the German coast, those who feel left out in the cold are warming to what Europe's right already refer to (prematurely perhaps) as the \"patriotic spring\". This article is part of the 100 Days season, presented by Katty Kay and Christian Fraser, Monday - Thursday at 19:00 GMT on BBC News Channel, BBC Four and BBC World News.", "question": "Germany 's Baltic coastline can be a bleak place out of season . In the small fishing village of Freest , boats creak idly against their moorings . A lone fisherman , stark in his yellow overalls , stands on deck , scraping the scales from yesterday 's @placeholder .", "option_0": "perspective", "option_1": "wreck", "option_2": "catch", "option_3": "history", "option_4": "bureaucracy"}
{"id": 619, "article": "The Serbian FA was fined 80,000 euros (¡ê65,000) following violence and racist abuse during Serbia's under-21 game against England in October. \"I will take up the discussion with the president of Uefa,\" said Blatter, talking at a news conference in Tokyo. \"But I don't know if he has influence on his disciplinary committee.\" Platini is reported to be considering an appeal to the disciplinary committee of his own confederation over the severity of the punishment, which also decreed Serbia must play their next competitive under-21 game behind closed doors. Observers have drawn a negative contrast with the 100,000 euros (¡ê80,000) fine Denmark's Nicklas Bendtner received after revealing a sponsor's logo on his underwear during a Euro 2012 game. Blatter declined to answer BBC Sport's question as to whether he believed Uefa's fine was too lenient but added: \"I'm sure that we can pick up with Uefa [about] the level of governance that there should be in all football - not just with Uefa but all other confederations and national associations. \"There should be very strong, harsh punishment when it comes to discrimination and racism.\" The Football Association has strongly condemned the level of the punishment stating it \"does not believe the sanction sends a strong enough message\". Elaborating on his belief that Fifa has set a strong example when confronted with cases of racism Blatter said: \"Racism and discrimination comes not from football, it comes from our society. \"It is a question of solidarity and a question of education, and you cannot educate everybody, to be fair. \"It's so easy to say football is discipline, respect and fair play. It's easy to say but not so easy to apply.\" England's Thomas Ince and Steven Caulker were banned over incidents that took place during England Under-21s' win in October. Four Serbian players were banned, while two of their coaches are suspended for two years. Uefa will send both football associations its full written reasons for its decision and they will then have three days to decide whether to appeal.", "question": "Fifa president Sepp Blatter says he plans to discuss the punishment @placeholder to the Serbian FA with his Uefa counterpart Michel Platini .", "option_0": "written", "option_1": "issue", "option_2": "relating", "option_3": "handed", "option_4": "returning"}
{"id": 620, "article": "Banks Renewables said it has amended its proposals for Knockendurrick community wind farm in response to feedback during a consultation process. In its original plans, the developer wanted to build seven 132m high turbines at the site near Twynholm. Under revised proposals due to be submitted to Dumfries and Galloway Council, six towers will be reduced to 115m in height. The seventh will be 100m high. Banks Renewables has also agreed to alter the position of the turbines on the site. They will sit to the east of the site, further away from the National Scenic Area. The changes mean the output of the proposed wind farm will decrease from 23.8MW to 14MW. Colin Anderson, development director at Banks Renewables, said: \"A wind farm application such as the one at Knockendurrick is very much an ongoing process. \"As always, as part of our development with care approach, we've listened to local people and statutory consultees and I believe we have come up with a more balanced proposal that importantly gives the communities the chance to secure an even greater stake in the project.'' \"Knockendurrick community wind farm remains a unique project that can deliver a wide range of benefits for communities and businesses in the local area.\" The local community has also been offered the opportunity to buy up to 10% equity in the project - an increase from the original 5% offered as part of the initial planning application.", "question": "Plans for a wind farm in Dumfries and Galloway have been @placeholder back .", "option_0": "held", "option_1": "switched", "option_2": "endorsed", "option_3": "scaled", "option_4": "drawn"}
{"id": 621, "article": "Fr Arthur O'Reilly, was 13 and on a break from exams when he got his chance. The U-boats were moored on the banks of the River Foyle in Londonderry after their crews surrendered at the end of World War Two, 70 years ago this weekend. The German submariners were taken to an army camp in County Down and the people of Derry had a chance to explore the submarines. Fr O'Reilly scrambled through narrow compartments of the U-boat past signs bearing the warning \"Achtung!\" As he looked through the periscope, he was amazed at how clearly he could see people on the docks. A British naval officer showed him around the vessel. \"He allowed me to look through the periscope and I could see people walking on the quay. You could identify people, I was amazed at the technology, you could see people's features,\" he said. He said the U-boat was small and quite confined. \"I wondered how did they fit 30 personnel into the small space? \"They shared the bunks (between shifts), there was a shelf between each compartment, with signs saying Achtung! \"The shelf was to prevent flooding, you had to step over it, there were these apertures from one section to the next. \"I saw the torpedo bays, they were deactivated at that time, I saw the navigation instruments - it was very exciting for a schoolboy to see all these things that you had read about in the papers and heard on the radio.\" Fr O'Reilly said: \"It was very sad that there was such loss of life. It was a tragic consequence of the war and the belligerence between nations. \"It was a great feeling that the war was over and that there would be no more destruction or loss of life, at least that was a consolation.\" Derry was once one of the command centres, close to the Atlantic's Western Approaches where so-called \"wolf-packs\" of the stealthy underwater machines had wrought such damage on British shipping. The city is marking the anniversary of the German surrender with a festival of film and old memorabilia. Among the artefacts are a set of dark green binoculars captured from a submarine, photographs of German sailors, an accordion and pictures of the submarines tied up in the city. It was on 14 May 1945 that the first of the U-boats made their way up the Foyle to the port of Lisahally where they were formally ordered to surrender by Admiral Sir Max Horton, commander-in-chief, Western Approaches. Margaret Edwards, from Derry and Strabane District Council's museums service, said: \"For Sir Max Horton to come here to accept that surrender put Derry on the map as a place that had to be remembered for the role it played.\" Muriel Nevin, 91, was stationed on the outskirts of the city and working for the Women's Royal Naval Service. She said  the city was a special place where the warm welcome made the base a second home for visiting troops from England, Canada and the US. She was Liverpool-born and joined the Wrens during the Battle of Britain, lying about her age to get in. \"I quickly came over to Northern Ireland and was posted with the A36 and A37 Fleet Air Squadron in Maydown. The atmosphere was great. Everybody helped everybody, no matter who you were,\" she said. \"I remember the dances and all the lovely music. There were, of course, sad moments when you heard of people being killed and ships going down, but you had a job to do and you did it.\"", "question": "A @placeholder priest has described how he peered through the periscope of a surrendered German U - boat as he was given an exclusive tour days after Hitler 's Atlantic fleet berthed for the last time .", "option_0": "french", "option_1": "date", "option_2": "man", "option_3": "retired", "option_4": "suspected"}
{"id": 622, "article": "Karen Hodgkinson was hit by a full beer can thrown by one of the \"feral gang\" outside her home in Mold, Flintshire. Seven teenagers, aged 13 to 19, admitted violent disorder and one of them, a 17-year-old who threw the can, admitted wounding. They were detained for periods ranging from six months to 12 months while the 13-year-old got a rehabilitation order at Mold Crown Court on Monday. Mrs Hodgkinson needed a metal plate inserting during surgery to repair her fractured eye socket, but lost the sight in her left eye following the attack on Halloween. Judge Geraint Walters said the gang turned up at her home, some wearing Halloween masks, in a move orchestrated by a gang of feral youths \"who believe that they are beyond the reach of the law.\" The Hodgkinsons were subjected to abuse before they were punched and the can was thrown. \"No decent people in any town centre should ever have to witness that kind of Wild West scene in which each of you played your part,\" said Mr Walters. The judge also made a five-year restraining order, banning them from approaching the victims or entering Elm Drive in Mold. Prosecutor David Mainstone said the family had been plagued by anti-social behaviour by youths who congregated outside the parade of shops opposite their home. He alleged the seven defendants were part of a group which had been making their lives a misery, subjecting them to verbal abuse, violence and damaging their property. Simon Killeen, for Rogers, said he was a family man who had acted out of character. Andrew Green for the 16-year-old said he was a follower rather than a leader. Philip Clemo, for Gentile, said he had not thrown any missiles or punches. The court heard the 13-year-old had shown \"genuine remorse\" while Dodd had not thrown anything. Mr Green, for the boy who threw the can, said he had clearly not intended such an injury and had shown remorse. The other 17-year-old wanted to stop using cannabis and cut down on how much alcohol he drank, the court heard.", "question": "Six teenagers have been @placeholder up after a woman was blinded in one eye .", "option_0": "rounded", "option_1": "locked", "option_2": "blown", "option_3": "woken", "option_4": "declared"}
{"id": 623, "article": "Greenwich, in south-east London, and Bristol will each host a project of their own, while Coventry and Milton Keynes will share a third. The decision was announced by the quango Innovate UK, after George Osborne's Autumn Statement. The chancellor also announced an additional ?¡ê9m in funding for the work, adding to the ?¡ê10m that had been announced in July. The businesses involved will add further funds. Bristol will host the Venturer consortium, which aims to investigate whether driverless cars can reduce congestion and make roads safer. Its members include the insurance group Axa, and much of its focus will be on the public's reaction to the tech as well as the legal and insurance implications of its introduction. Greenwich is set to run the Gateway scheme. This will be led by the Transport Research Laboratory consultancy and also involves General Motors, and the AA and RAC motoring associations. It plans to carry out tests of automated passenger shuttle vehicles as well as autonomous valet parking for adapted cars. In addition, a self-drive car simulator will make use of a photorealistic 3D model of the area to study how people react to sharing the driving of a vehicle with its computer. \"The combination of TRL's independent expertise; robust, reliable testing protocols and driving simulation facilities alongside the diverse and high calibre qualities of our consortium means we can safely demonstrate automated vehicles to build acceptance and trust in this revolutionary technology,\" said the firm's chief executive Rob Wallis. Milton Keynes and Coventry will host the UK Autodrive programme. This involves Ford, Jaguar Land Rover and the engineering consultancy Arup among others, and will test both self-drive cars on the road as well as self-driving pods designed for pedestrianised areas. Part of this group's work will be to develop the technologies that will need to be built into roads and the surrounding infrastructure to aid vehicle navigation. \"Our plan with the practical demonstration phases is to start testing with single vehicles on closed roads, and to build up to a point where all road users, as well as legislators, the police and insurance companies, are confident about how driverless pods and fully and partially autonomous cars can operate safely on UK roads,\" said Tim Armitage from Arup. The tests will last from between 18 to 36 months and begin on 1 January.", "question": "The four English locations picked to test driverless cars have been @placeholder .", "option_0": "revealed", "option_1": "released", "option_2": "approved", "option_3": "named", "option_4": "launched"}
{"id": 624, "article": "The six titles include Jonathan Bate's Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life and Robert Macfarlane's Landmarks. A variety of genres, from journalism, philosophy and biography to memoir and science, feature in the shortlist. The ¡ê20,000 prize, described by organisers as the UK's most prestigious of its type, was won last year by Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk. Macdonald was a special guest at the shortlist announcement by judges Sumit Paul-Choudhury and Rana Mitter at the London's Royal Festival Hall. Her memoir, recounting how the death of her father prompted her to train a goshawk, went on to become a number one bestseller and to win last year's 2014 Costa Book of the Year Award. The award is said to illustrate how non-fiction can explore the \"diverse facets of human existence in different ways\". This year's shortlist was chosen by a panel chaired by Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist Anne Applebaum, with editor of Intelligent Life Emma Duncan, editor of New Scientist Sumit Paul-Choudhury, director of China Centre at Oxford University Professor Rana Mitter and head of Film 4 Tessa Ross. Applebaum said: \"We didn't quite come to blows, but the shortlist meeting was truly contentious; it's hard to imagine how five people sitting in a room on a weekday morning could have disagreed more strongly.\" Toby Mundy, executive director of the Samuel Johnson Prize, said: \"After a fiercely argued judges meeting, we now have a shortlist of terrific range and quality, proving that non-fiction publishing in this country is in rude health.\" The winner will be announced on 2 November.", "question": "The shortlist for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction @placeholder has been announced .", "option_0": "goods", "option_1": "writing", "option_2": "history", "option_3": "activity", "option_4": "culture"}
{"id": 625, "article": "Greeks are getting their information about the referendum via the Interior Ministry, which set up a specific website giving all the details of the proposal from the European partners and a photo of the ballot. It also says where military personnel will go to vote, and what is being organised for special groups of voters such as prison inmates and the disabled. It will be the first referendum held since 1974, when people voted for what kind of political system they wanted as Greece changed from a monarchy to a republic. The polarisation seen in Greek city squares in the past few days is not yet blatant in the press. Most papers are sticking to neutral reporting without speculating on who will win the vote or what it means. On TV channels, however, pundits are debating whether a \"No\" vote would mean an immediate unilateral declaration of suspension of payments and an exit from the eurozone, and whether a \"Yes\" vote would protect Greek citizens' European identity and heritage. Some outlets are saying the referendum may not happen at all, and are reporting politicians questioning its constitutionality. The starting gun for campaigning has been fired, however, and the \"Yes\" campaign was scheduled to hold a press conference on Wednesday. Meanwhile, groups including the Athens Bar Association, the mayors of Athens and Thessaloniki, and the Archbishop of Athens have all come out for the \"Yes\" side. An op-ed in the popular centre-left daily To Vima wants the government to \"cancel the referendum now\". Written by the former Finance Minister, Nikos Christodoulakis, it says that \"holding it can only blow up the political and economic future of the country... If the referendum goes ahead no matter what, only a resounding 'Yes' can keep the country in the eurozone and minimize the cost of this adventure.\" More than one commentator fears that the referendum might set off deep divisions in the country, regardless of the result. To Vima's editorial says: \"If Mr Tsipras and the government want to preserve the last shred of dignity and seriousness they have left, they must cancel the referendum Sunday now,\" adding that they have trapped the Greek people into an \"obsolete and divisive dilemma\". And a writer in the conservative daily Kathimerini seems to come to the same conclusion. \"The country is heading to a new tragedy and to the continuity of the impasse we're experiencing for the past five years. The crisis, political uncertainty and instability will continue with the same tension, if not more, whether there's a yes or a no majority,\" writes Antonis Manitakis. With an estimated 108,000 new voters who have come of age since the January elections, the outcome is far from certain. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world.  You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "question": "There is no doubt in the Greek press that Sunday 's referendum will be held in an organised fashion along the lines of the 25 January election , despite the fact that there will be less than a week to pull it together . But there is a deeper sense of unease about the rifts it could highlight in @placeholder .", "option_0": "europe", "option_1": "power", "option_2": "control", "option_3": "society", "option_4": "politics"}
{"id": 626, "article": "Kent Police are set to prioritise fresh produce hit by problems in Calais, following weeks of disruption by migrant activity and French strikes. Scottish ministers said it would help protect Scotland's seafood exporters. They have been looking at ways to help Scottish firms hit by the ongoing migrant crisis in France. Earlier this week, it said the seafood industry was in need of urgent help, following talks with Scottish exporters. The Scottish government said the move by Kent Police followed representations by ministers. Scottish Food Secretary Richard Lochhead said: \"The Scottish government has repeatedly called for action from the outset of this disruption, and so I welcome this move to prioritise key consignments - including fresh produce - through the Channel Tunnel and Port of Dover. \"At last we are seeing common sense prevail and a recognition of the impact on food exporters. \"Agreement of this protocol to prioritise a quick-to-market route is real progress and we will, of course, monitor its introduction and effectiveness.\" He added: \"While it is by no means a solution to the wider and on-going complex situation in Calais, it will be welcomed by Scottish seafood exporters who have seen orders plummet by up to 80% in some categories in recent weeks.\" \"With seafood exports worth five times as much in Scotland as the UK as a whole, we have been determined to find a way forward. \"With no end in sight to the situation at Calais, we will continue to look at options around alternative routes which could be used by hauliers.\"", "question": "The Scottish government has welcomed plans to pilot a \" quick - to - market \" route for @placeholder hit by delays at the Channel Tunnel .", "option_0": "vehicles", "option_1": "projects", "option_2": "causing", "option_3": "rule", "option_4": "cities"}
{"id": 627, "article": "A ring, a complete Roman pot and a soldier's boot sole were found near the south-west corner of Arbeia Roman Fort as part of a community project. The team, which was excavating the site as part of the WallQuest project, also unearthed a 7m (23ft) wide defensive ditch close to the fort's wall. Project manager Nick Hodgson said the finds provide \"priceless information\". The Arbeia pot, which is patterned with scales, is believed to have been made near Peterborough in the 3rd Century AD. Mr Hodgson said it would have been a \"prized part\" of a Roman dinner service until it broke and was thrown into a ditch as \"rubbish\" in about AD 250.", "question": "Ancient Roman @placeholder have been unearthed by volunteers carrying out a dig at a Roman fort in South Shields .", "option_0": "pictures", "option_1": "weapons", "option_2": "artefacts", "option_3": "bones", "option_4": "couple"}
{"id": 628, "article": "A Premier League season that has become predictable only by its unpredictability delivered new twists as the three closest members of the chasing pack lost to leave the Foxes three points clear. Spurs missed the chance to go top by losing at West Ham United, Arsenal suffered arguably the most calamitous reverse of all at home to Swansea City, while Manchester City were comfortably beaten at Liverpool. With 10 matches remaining, who wants to claim the top prize in the best and craziest Premier League season of all? 5 live Football Daily podcast: Does anybody want to win the title? All of the top four will have a romantic tale to tell if they win the title - but a Leicester triumph would be the greatest story in Premier League history and one of the greatest in British sporting history. And are they receiving a helping hand from destiny as they attempt to complete the journey from Premier League escape artists to champions in the space of 12 months? Leicester were struggling to break down Norwich City on Saturday as they attempted to rebound from only their third league defeat of the season - until bit-part player Leonardo Ulloa's 89th-minute winner. It was followed by the initial disappointment of the 2-2 draw with West Brom - only to see their pursuers fall around their feet to leave Foxes boss Claudio Ranieri last man standing, and smiling, on Wednesday. Media playback is not supported on this device On a day when the Premier League's elite clubs were linked with a European breakaway league, the homespun and unfashionable Foxes bucked the trend again, with every neutral without a title interest willing them on in these last 10 games. Go back 12 months and what do we have? Leicester City rooted to the foot of the table after losing 2-0 at Manchester City - where they won so brilliantly this season - and after their 28th game, a goalless draw at home to Hull City, they were seven points adrift of safety on only 19. This team built on a budget, with the defensive backbone of Robert Huth and Wes Morgan, have defied every piece of logic. N'Golo Kante has been the bargain of the season at ¡ê6.5m, while the transformation in \"the pinnacle of the iceberg\" - as Ranieri calls potent strikeforce Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy - has been nothing short of stunning. At this stage last season, Vardy had scored just one Premier League goal and had four assists - fast forward a year and the amount of assists is the same, but the goals tally is 19. Mahrez had two goals and three assists this time last year. The improvement has been spectacular - now he has 14 goals and 11 assists. With a little help from the fates, and their stumbling rivals, Leicester City could yet write the most remarkable chapter in Premier League history. Media playback is not supported on this device The last time Spurs headed the top flight in March was in 1964 - and they must wait to repeat that feat after missing the chance to overhaul Leicester with defeat at the Boleyn Ground. They did not win a game in March 1964, and 19 days into the month they were knocked off the perch when eventual champions Liverpool beat Bolton Wanderers 2-0 at Anfield to replace them on goal difference. 'The Mersey Sound' was top of the charts when Spurs hit those lofty heights - Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas at number one with 'Little Children'. Golden couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor had just got married for the first time on 15 March. They even had another crack at marrying each other in the 70s, but Spurs still could not land a title. Spurs finished fourth in 1963-64, despite the great marksman Jimmy Greaves scoring 35 goals in 41 league games. Legendary manager Bill Nicholson was rebuilding after the Double-winning side of 1961 - but no-one at White Hart Lane would have believed they would still be without another title 55 years later, not helped by losing at home to Everton, Manchester United and Liverpool in that key month of March 1964. Media playback is not supported on this device It would please many traditionalists to see Spurs reclaim the title after so long, but there will be further tests of nerve ahead before this great old club can contemplate that new glory. Harry Kane is now the main striker with 16 league goals, but he had a rare off night as Spurs were outplayed by West Ham, Michail Antonio's goal full reward for Slaven Bilic's side. Spurs looked jaded from their recent FA Cup, Premier League and Europa League exertions, but they need to recover before Saturday lunchtime's north London derby against Arsenal at White Hart Lane. Manager Mauricio Pochettino demands much of his players physically, but they have youth on their side with the youngest average age for a starting XI across the Premier League this season at 24 years 294 days. And they are only second behind Bournemouth with kilometres in their legs this term. The Cherries have run 3,273km while their Tottenham counterparts have clocked up 3,245.4km. Spurs also have the highest number of sprints this season with 15,074. It may account for the lacklustre showing at West Ham - but they will have to be prepared to run the extra mile to end that long wait. For many of football's purists, the perfect farewell to Arsene Wenger at Arsenal would be to add one more title to his honours board. The Frenchman has won three Premier Leagues, the last with 'The Invincibles', who went 38 league games unbeaten in 2003-04. Wenger could then walk away fulfilled after years of frustration. After the week from his nightmares, there must now be the growing possibility the 66-year-old may have to consider his position after another title failure. In many respects, this was the season Arsenal have been waiting for - the season when the flaws of their rivals might just cover up the Gunners' own problems, that have always surfaced at the title pressure points. Champions Chelsea imploded under Jose Mourinho, Manchester City have stumbled to a succession of poor results while Manchester United have barely been in the reckoning. And yet Arsenal's home defeat by Swansea City, coming after the Champions League loss to Barcelona and being beaten 3-2 by a youthful and injury-hit Manchester United leaves them six points behind Leicester and at their low point of the season. Arsenal have no great track of late-season surges to give their fans cause for optimism. In the past 13 seasons, their points-per-game tally has dropped off seven times after 5 March - the crucial part of the campaign. It is a trend Wenger must hope can be reversed for his own sake as well as Arsenal's. Wenger still has the FA Cup to aim for - which would complete a hat-trick of successes in that competition - but this has arguably been his best chance to take the title since 2004, and Arsenal's nerve has failed them once more. There has been an undercurrent of criticism about Wenger's inability to mount a title challenge. If he misses out this season, when all of the Gunners' main rivals have been flawed, it may be one failure to much for the man who has put his imprint on Arsenal since September 1996. Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini has the Capital One Cup in his locker this season after Sunday's shootout win over Liverpool, but will the dignified Chilean add another before he is replaced by Pep Guardiola in the summer? Many inside and outside Etihad Stadium would be happy for 'This Charming Man' - taken from the song by The Smiths for a banner brandished by City fans - to round off a successful spell at the club with his second Premier League. It looks ever more unlikely after a poor performance in the 3-0 loss at Liverpool left them 10 points off the top and now, almost inconceivably, level on points with arch-rivals Manchester United and much-lampooned manager Louis van Gaal, though the Red Devils have played a game more. City simply lose their edge too often, such as in home defeats by Leicester and Spurs. Those wanting to be champions rarely get away with losing eight games, twice as many as Pochettino's side and five more than the Foxes. Their lethargy is reflected in the statistic that reveals they have run less than any other side in the Premier League - 2,901.1km. It is not a deal breaker, but perhaps reflects a lack of physical intensity. And only West Brom have a squad with a higher average age. City's is 28 years 236 days - the Baggies' exactly a year older. The pace may need to be increased if City are to do what they have done twice in recent seasons and mount a late surge to win the title. Media playback is not supported on this device Suddenly an orderly queue is forming to threaten the top four. It may be stretching credibility to breaking point but imagine a scenario where Guardiola arrives at a Manchester City side getting ready to compete in the Europa League? Manchester United are suddenly a serious threat to the top four, despite the speculation Van Gaal is marking time until the end of the season and Jose Mourinho's arrival. And what about West Ham? Developing at a rate of knots under Bilic, roared on by Hammers fans loving the last days of the Boleyn Ground and inspired by the brilliant Dimitri Payet, they are now only one point behind City and United after beating Spurs. Where will it all end? No-one can even guess.", "question": "Leicester City were left convinced it was a case of two points lost when they drew with West Bromwich Albion on Tuesday , but 24 hours later they were @placeholder one point gained .", "option_0": "packed", "option_1": "celebrating", "option_2": "relegated", "option_3": "denied", "option_4": "beaten"}
{"id": 629, "article": "The hosts were on course for the second highest chase in women's Twenty20 internationals before rain intervened. Sarah Taylor (66) top-scored in England's 156-6 but Dane van Niekerk hit 63 as South Africa reached 145-3 when the match was called off. England, who had never lost a T20 to South Africa before this match, dropped Van Nierkerk on 6 and 22. Van Nierkerk's 63 came off 43 balls, hitting seven fours and two sixes, as she put on 68 with captain Mignon du Preez. That partnership took South Africa to 98-1, but Du Preez scored 47 not out and Marizanne Kapp 21 to take South Africa home. England will rue their missed chances in the South Africa innings when a sloppy fielding performance saw them drop a number of catches, leak runs and miss run-out chances. Taylor scored 66 from 52 balls for England, with eight fours, her second half-century of the series after her unbeaten 74 in England's win in Paarl. Taylor had partnerships of 63 with Heather Knight (29) and 61 with captain Charlotte Edwards (34) but England struggled to kick on in the latter overs. Despite late hitting from Danielle Wyatt, who scored 17 not out, England lost two wickets to run-outs in the final over in which they scored just four runs. England captain Charlotte Edwards: \"I thought we batted well and that should have been enough. We were undone by a brilliant innings by Van Niekerk and dropped catches cost us. \"We let ourselves down a little bit, but Dane really took the attack to us. We must take our chances.\" South Africa captain Mignon Du Preez: \"We knew that we had the firepower in the line-up, even though we had to go at eight an over. The momentum is with us so we're looking forward to a very competitive game at the Wanderers.\" Dane van Niekerk: \"I enjoyed myself at the top of the order. I did things differently than yesterday and it came up. I'm hitting the ball well.\" Former England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent: \"England bowled poorly and dropped catches and weren't up to standard. If they play at their best they will be fine because they have talented players such as Sarah Taylor, but they need to work on their game for the World Twenty20.\" Both sides travel to the Wanderers for Sunday's series decider which gets underway at 8:00 GMT. Sunday's match is both teams' last before the World Twenty20 in India which starts on 15 March, with England beginning their campaign against Bangladesh in Bangalore on 17 March.", "question": "South Africa beat England by 17 runs on the Duckworth - Lewis method to @placeholder the Twenty20 series with one game to go .", "option_0": "finish", "option_1": "revive", "option_2": "enter", "option_3": "level", "option_4": "promote"}
{"id": 630, "article": "For many Indians, \"sitting down\" with their family for a meal is one of the most important activities of the day. As a country we firmly believe that the family that eats together stays together, and meal time is a strong source of family bonding, talking and sharing. An Indian meal in fact, is always meant to be shared. Everyone eats a bit of everything. This is the first article in a BBC series India on a Plate, on the diversity and vibrancy of Indian food. And we tend to get all nostalgic and fuzzy about food. Manu Chandra, one of India's leading chef entrepreneurs, claims without a doubt that the cornerstone of his decision to work in the food industry stemmed from growing up in a joint family and their general celebratory attitude towards food. His memories of \"trips to the 'subzi mandi' (vegetable market) for seasonal fresh produce that defined daily menus, aunts sitting and peeling peas while watching TV with us, and karela (bitter gourd) being stuffed with a melange of spices and wrapped lovingly with thin thread before being pan seared and then unwrapped with painstaking patience to be eaten\", inspire his food creations. Every community in India has its own recipes, spices and cooking techniques. Or regions and states have the same general dish - but with their own unique twist. So the baniya (trader) community (to which I belong) in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh cooks very differently to the baniyas of Rajasthan. For years India has struggled to translate this finicky food fastidiousness to restaurants. Until very recently, fine dining was confined to the hallowed portals of glitzy five star restaurants, while for everyone else, eating out largely meant street food, dhabas (highway eateries) or cliched restaurants which dished out ubiquitous black lentils and butter chicken. For those of us who grew up in small towns, social eating only took place at weddings and other celebrations. But food is not just limited to feasting. Indians stay focused on food even when fasting. Two major fasting periods in our community were Krishna Janashatmi, celebrating the birth of Lord Krishna, and Navratri, a nine day period that worships the Goddess Durga. For the first festival, as children, even we joyously \"fasted\" with our elders as delicious fried treats - apparently made from certain ingredients that are permissible to eat even while you fast - were dished out all day. Even here \"permissible\" ingredients would differ from household to household, which meant that all in all, the fasting would end up becoming one long party which ended at night with some more amazing food for the entire family to sit down to. Indians also use food as a beautiful way of honouring the dead and celebrating life. When someone dies, it is tradition for a family to invite friends and neighbours on the 13th day for a meal comprising the favourite foods of the deceased. This meal, I was told, is meant to signify that the family should now stop mourning and go back to normal life. But for a country that is so fixated on food we also can be pretty ill-informed about our fellow countrymen's eating habits. As someone from north India, I firmly believed every \"south Indian\" was vegetarian and ate only idli, vadas and dosas (rice pancakes and fritters). When I shifted to the southern city of Bangalore years ago, I was shocked to discover that every region and every community from the four southern states had very diverse cuisines, robust with meats, including pork and beef. Similarly, my new friends considered all north Indian food to be \"Punjabi\" (the state of Punjab having given the universally popular Dal-Naan-Chicken Tikka Masala to the world) and were equally baffled with my cooking. Circa 2016 and we have come a long way. Regional cuisine and local flavours are crossing state boundaries and India's food scene is booming. Young chefs are innovating fabulously and after having found faithful followers in India are now taking their cuisines overseas. From mum's kitchens to restaurant kitchens across the country, food is India's biggest obsession - quirky though some of our tastes may be. Be it Desi (Indian) Chinese, the most popular foreign cuisine in the country, the British Raj influenced \"continental\", or Mughali food - an entire concept birthed in the kitchens of the royal Mughal Emperors, we have been influenced by many cooking styles over the ages. Yet, we are Indians and we like our food, our way. And not necessarily in small plates. Ritu Agarwal is a lifestyle journalist with over 20 years of experience with mainstream media houses", "question": "Food and family are possibly India 's two biggest obsessions . The two define our identity and our @placeholder to the point of both ridicule and delight , writes Ritu Agarwal .", "option_0": "destiny", "option_1": "behavior", "option_2": "relations", "option_3": "love", "option_4": "personality"}
{"id": 631, "article": "Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are preparing to embark on human trials after promising results in rabbits. Their drug reached brain cells and reduced muscle and movement problems. The Stroke Association said it was the \"first significant research\" suggesting that the compound could aid stroke patients. Turmeric has been used for centuries as part of traditional Indian Ayurvedic medicine, and many laboratory studies suggest one of its components, curcumin, might have various beneficial properties. However, curcumin cannot pass the \"blood brain barrier\" which protects the brain from potentially toxic molecules. The US researchers, who reported their results to a stroke conference, modified curcumin to come up with a new version, CNB-001, which could pass the blood brain barrier. The laboratory tests  on rabbits suggested it might be effective up to three hours after a stroke in humans - about the same time window available for current \"clot-busting\" drugs. Chain reaction Dr Paul Lapchak, who led the study, said that the drug appeared to have an effect on \"several critical mechanisms\" which might keep brain cells alive after a stroke. Although strokes kill brain cells by depriving them of oxygenated blood, this triggers a chain reaction which can widen the damaged area - and increase the level of disability suffered by the patient. Dr Lapchak said that CNB-001 appeared to repair four \"signalling pathways\" which are known to help fuel the runaway destruction of brain cells. However, even though human trials are being planned, any new treatment could still be some time away. Dr Sharlin Ahmed, from The Stroke Association, said that turmeric was known to have health benefits. She said: \"There is a great need for new treatments which can protect brain cells after a stroke and improve recovery.\" \"This is the first significant research to show that turmeric could be beneficial to stroke patients by encouraging new cells to grow and preventing cell death after a stroke. \"The results look promising, however it is still very early days and human trials need to be undertaken.\"", "question": "A drug derived from the curry spice turmeric may be able to help the @placeholder repair some of the damage caused in the immediate aftermath of a stroke .", "option_0": "brain", "option_1": "person", "option_2": "country", "option_3": "liver", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 632, "article": "In the week which saw previous boss Russell Slade sacked, the seventh departure from The Valley since March 2014, Charlton started on the front-foot as Jason Pearce's header hit the bar early on. The Addicks took the lead in the 30th minute through a superb Josh Magennis header, with the Northern Ireland international finding the far corner from Morgan Fox's cross. Charlton - with caretaker boss Kevin Nugent overseeing proceedings - doubled their advantage a minute before half-time, as Fox's pass found Nicky Ajose who slotted the ball past Jak Alnwick in the Port Vale goal. The visitors, as expected, came out after the break searching for a goal back but Nathan Smith's flicked effort that evaded Declan Rudd's goal was the closest Bruno Ribeiro's side came to scoring. The win was only Charlton's fifth in League One this campaign and sees them rise to 14th in the table, while Port Vale remain without a win on the road since early October. Report supplied by Press Association. Match ends, Charlton Athletic 2, Port Vale 0. Second Half ends, Charlton Athletic 2, Port Vale 0. Attempt missed. Jordan Botaka (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Ezri Konsa Ngoyo replaces Ademola Lookman. Attempt missed. Nathan Smith (Port Vale) right footed shot from very close range is close, but misses to the left following a corner. Corner,  Port Vale. Conceded by Jason Pearce. Attempt blocked. Paulo Tavares (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Attempt missed. Martin Paterson (Port Vale) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Hand ball by Kjell Knops (Port Vale). Foul by Jason Pearce (Charlton Athletic). Martin Paterson (Port Vale) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic). Remie Streete (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt saved. Martin Paterson (Port Vale) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Anton Forrester (Port Vale). Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Martin Paterson (Port Vale). Substitution, Port Vale. Anton Forrester replaces Sam Kelly. Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Brandon Hanlan replaces Josh Magennis. Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Martin Paterson (Port Vale). Foul by Jason Pearce (Charlton Athletic). Martin Paterson (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Ryan Taylor (Port Vale). Attempt blocked. Alex Jones (Port Vale) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Foul by Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic). Martin Paterson (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Nicky Ajose (Charlton Athletic). Ryan Taylor (Port Vale) wins a free kick on the left wing. Corner,  Port Vale. Conceded by Morgan Fox. Substitution, Port Vale. Quentin Pereira replaces Jerome Thomas because of an injury. Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Jordan Botaka replaces Johnnie Jackson. Attempt blocked. Sam Kelly (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Delay in match Jerome Thomas (Port Vale) because of an injury. Foul by Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic). Alex Jones (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt missed. Sam Kelly (Port Vale) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Corner,  Port Vale. Conceded by Jason Pearce.", "question": "Managerless Charlton secured their third @placeholder league victory in as many matches with a 2 - 0 win over play - off chasing Port Vale .", "option_0": "activity", "option_1": "title", "option_2": "ambitions", "option_3": "league", "option_4": "home"}
{"id": 633, "article": "However, intriguingly, there was rather more peace in the Holyrood committee room than one might have anticipated. The advance billing was primarily of conflict. The BBC, it was said, was failing to serve Scotland. Not enough output made it to the network. Licence fee payers north of the Border got a raw deal. Plus continuing disquiet, emanating from the SNP in particular, about news coverage. To be clear, there was exceptionally close questioning directed at the BBC bosses - the Director General Tony Hall, the Managing Director for Finance Anne Bulford, and the Director Scotland Ken MacQuarrie. In that regard, the committee convener Stewart Maxwell was to the fore - but was ably supported by members such as Chic Brodie, Mary Scanlon and Liam McArthur. ¡ê323m Licence fee generated in Scotland ¡ê123m - Scottish-only output spend ¡ê82m - Scottish-made network output ¡ê132.5m - UK programmes and services available to Scotland In particular, the SNP's Gordon MacDonald - a former management accountant - plainly relished a return to his old profession, pursuing his financial inquiries with thoroughly admirable diligence, reminiscent of an indefatigable terrier. George Adam even contrived to work in a reference to his beloved Paisley. Steven Moffat - he of Dr Who and Sherlock - is apparently a Buddy (and, who knows, a buddy.) Mr Adam followed this up with sharp questioning about money and power. But still the overall tone was business-like rather than overtly adversarial. It seemed to me that the committee scented the prospect of a negotiated settlement which could be distinctly to Scotland's advantage. That impression has not lessened from subsequent conversations. That tone persisted in the evidence session with the Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop. She stressed she was not seeking a fight. She wanted a deal - which would bring investment and jobs to Scotland. Things, she suggested, were moving in that direction. To the detail. Sundry MSPs parsed these numbers. What were those top-up costs? How were they justified? Why was investment per head still greater in Wales and Northern Ireland than in Scotland? In particular, those network programmes made in Scotland. How did they qualify to be Scottish? Were many of them not just \"lift and shift\" - that is, programmes envisioned elsewhere but transferred to Scotland? The argument flowed back and forth. It was argued forcibly that programmes with a Scottish base contribute to jobs and development here. However, Tony Hall acknowledged that it was now time to move to a new phase: with further power in Scotland allied to programmes which offered a more sustained and authentic portrait of Scotland. Further, the Director General confirmed a review of news, due to report in the Spring - which might include such familiar concepts as a Scottish Six, a TV programme encompassing Scottish, UK and global news. Ken MacQuarrie was questioned about earlier ideas such as new Scottish TV and radio channels. Those, he said, had never formed part of a formal plan.  They were notions around during the earliest stages of preparing for the Charter Review, itself due to be completed by the end of this year. Tony Hall suggested the focus now - particularly in the light of the relatively constrained licence fee settlement - might more usefully be upon programmes, rather than delivery mechanisms. On governance, he said that he favoured a unitary board for the BBC with a distinctive Scottish presence. In essence, his argument was for an enhanced BBC Scotland offer within a renewed BBC. To be clear, once more, there remains deep scepticism among the MSPs. Across parties but particularly in SNP ranks. This has by no means, by no means, been entirely assuaged. But they heard the BBC executives, led by Tony Hall, seeking to address their concerns, moving to acknowledge issues surrounding funding, commissioning and decision-making. So where now? I believe those three elements - funding, commissioning and decision-making - will form the core of the committee report. I believe further that the committee members will seek to sound a positive note, amid the scepticism, urging the BBC to act in a fashion which could generate investment and jobs for Scotland. I believe, further, that the committee report next month - unanimous if that can be achieved - might then form the subject for a full Parliamentary debate, applying pressure to the BBC to deliver.", "question": "In all , the latest Holyrood hearing about the future of the BBC lasted nearly three hours . Around half the full @placeholder of the new serial , War and Peace , on BBC One . But with roughly the same degree of complexity .", "option_0": "hour", "option_1": "list", "option_2": "duration", "option_3": "meetings", "option_4": "era"}
{"id": 634, "article": "Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu said it would be repealed on Sunday. \"I do not want to divide Romania. It can't be divided in two,\" Mr Grindeanu said in a televised statement. Tens of thousands of flag-waving protesters in central Bucharest cheered his announcement, which came after five consecutive days of demonstrations. The protests in the eastern European country against the decree have been the largest since the fall of communism in 1989. Mr Grindeanu said he \"heard and saw many opinions\", including from \"the voice of the street\". He said that parliament will now debate a new corruption law. He added Justice Minister Florin Iordache would take responsibility for the poor communication and confusion around the controversial measure which would have allowed many officials convicted of corruption to leave prison. The decree was meant to come into force at midnight on 10 February. It would have decriminalised abuse of power offences when sums of less than a??44,000 (?¡ê38,000; $47,500) are involved. One immediate beneficiary would have been Liviu Dragnea, who leads the ruling PSD party and faces charges of defrauding the state of a??24,000. The leftist government only returned to power in December after protests forced its last leader from power in October 2015. The EU had warned Romania against undoing its progress against corruption. The government passed the decree on Tuesday, immediately sparking protests, which involved an estimated 300,000 people on Wednesday evening. It said the changes were needed to reduce prison overcrowding and align certain laws with the constitution. But critics saw it as a way for the PSD to absolve officials convicted or accused of corruption. \"The damage it will do, if it comes into force, can never be repaired,\" Laura Kovesi, chief prosecutor of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate had told the BBC. One of the demonstrators, Cristian Busuioc, explained why he had come out on the streets with his 11-year-old son. \"I want to explain to him ... what democracy means, and the way the ones who govern must create laws for the people and not against them or in their own interest,\" he told the Associated Press.", "question": "The Romanian government says it will @placeholder a controversial decree that would have decriminalised some corruption offences .", "option_0": "deliver", "option_1": "withdraw", "option_2": "publish", "option_3": "introduce", "option_4": "investigate"}
{"id": 635, "article": "It is often said that rugby union is a complicated game, but rarely down in New Zealand. When Agustin Pichot, former Pumas scrum-half and principal architect of Argentina's rise, asked Sir Graham Henry how his country might become more successful in 2012, the All Blacks' World Cup-winning coach replied: \"You have to score more tries.\" To Henry, it really was that simple. And so, first under Santiago Phelan and then under his successor Daniel Hourcade, Argentina ripped up a philosophy and started again. Out went dour, 10-man rugby, in came a 15-man game that tapped into the Latin temperament. \"This rugby that we are trying to play, that's since we entered the Rugby Championship,\" says Pumas scrum-half Martin Landajo, whose side have been playing in the southern hemisphere Rugby Championship since 2012. \"Football in Argentina is like that. But four years ago, Argentina didn't play rugby like that. So we changed it. Us Argentinians, we're Latins, we like to be happy all the time, it's in our roots, and hopefully that shows in our rugby now.\" Happy is as happy does and against Argentina, Ireland were steamrollered by exuberance. And it was wonderful to watch. Making a mockery of the old adage \"you have to earn the right to go wide\", Argentina looked for width at every opportunity, fizzing the ball from the breakdown at pace, keeping the ball alive and demonstrating finishing so clinical it belonged in an operating theatre. Argentina's pack, every bit as imposing as in the ugly old days, provided the foundations but it was fly-half Nicolas Sanchez, playing right up on the gain-line and thus creating precious space outside him, who was the chief architect. The early tries by Matias Moroni and the prolific Juan Imhoff took the breath away, but it was Joaquin Tuculet's decisive strike with 12 minutes remaining that highlighted the difference between rugby in the two hemispheres. Despite being wrapped up in a ball of green, full-back Tuculet somehow managed to stretch an arm out and touch down in the corner. Delivering skills under intense pressure, that's what success in any elite sport comes down to. Argentina are proof that the only way you can improve at anything is by testing yourself against superior opposition. And the same applies whether you're playing pool or darts down the pub or rugby union at international level. It took until 2014 for Argentina to record their first win in the Rugby Championship, against Australia in Mendoza, but they followed that up with a first ever victory over South Africa in Durban this year. Buoyed, the Pumas gave defending champions New Zealand a real scare in their World Cup opener, were the highest scorers in the pool stages and topped the lists for offloads, metres gained, clean breaks and defenders beaten. Had Argentina not been flatly rejected by the Six Nations in 2007, things might have been very different. Like France, Argentina might have been lumbering and conservative; like Wales, they might have been too one-dimensional; like England, they might have still been trying to discover who and what they are. Instead, Argentina learned from the best teams in the world that success in international rugby stems from having an all-round game, from executing skills at pace and seeking space rather than confrontation. Argentina will only get more consistent. From 2016, they will have a franchise in Super Rugby, meaning that no longer will their best players be scattered to the winds and controlled by European clubs. Instead, they will be mixing it with the best in a club competition some northern hemisphere fans dismiss as \"powder-puff\" rugby. On the evidence of this World Cup, the players it produces are tough enough. Ask anyone who's been run over by Julian Savea. Spare a thought for the Irish. There must have been 50,000 crammed into the Millennium Stadium, cheering ear-splittingly for a side racked by suspensions and injury. It was difficult to remember a noise like it. But all the noise in the world won't make your team think clearer when the chips are down. \"Their combination of power and pace made it very difficult,\" said forlorn Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt. \"And they certainly have some players with great footwork.\" Added flanker Chris Henry: \"It felt like every time you got the ball, you got the chop. I don't think we've played against a team that gets off the line and chops so hard.\" There you have it, from those who have had this this new Argentine recipe rammed down their throats: the Pumas are a team of power and pace who chop as hard as anyone in the world. And like all the best recipes, it comes from the heart.", "question": "Stuart Lancaster take note - that was culture . Ambition , elan , ruthlessness and joy combined . Not @placeholder of headmasterly principles , but unlocked from the heart . Lancaster had four years , Argentina created a new culture in three - and , as they demonstrated against Ireland in Cardiff , their one works .", "option_0": "borne", "option_1": "chances", "option_2": "emerge", "option_3": "made", "option_4": "layers"}
{"id": 636, "article": "On board one of the tanks was Pham Xuan Do, who is seen in the picture above proudly wearing his uniform from the time. The picture was taken during a project led by Raul Roman, co-founder of UBELONG, and Lonnie Schlein, a former New York Times photojournalist who took a party of 14 people to Vietnam in May, with the aim of capturing the stories of those who fought for the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) or Viet Cong. Do served in the NVA as a lieutenant captain from 1965 to 1975. He said he misses some of the excitement of war, but now that time has passed feels \"forgiveness\". The projects aim is to see the war from the perspective of North Vietnamese veterans, and to mark 20 years since the then US President Bill Clinton normalised diplomatic relations between the two countries, on 11 July 1995. \"It's really important work because the world needs to be reminded that the dark shadow of the Vietnam War still looms large in this country,\" says Mr Roman. \"This work is really special also because it's an international civic initiative by ordinary citizens, a sort of peace mission designed to bring people together.\" The group conducted more than two dozen in-depth interviews with veterans, travelling to Hanoi and rural locations bombed during the war. Many of these areas were subjected to use of the toxic chemical Agent Orange, a defoliant sprayed over jungle areas to destroy enemy cover. Vietnam says several million people have been affected by Agent Orange, including 150,000 children with severe birth defects. Here are a selection of the stories they uncovered. Le Ba Bon, 63, was from a family of rice farmers and withdrew from school in 1972 to join the North Vietnamese Army. He said: \"Starting life after the war was terrifying to me. With my injuries, I could not continue my education or find a job. But I have let go of my hurt and pain. It's time to look into the future and begin cooperating.\" (Photograph by Joey Rosa) Pham An Thic (left) served in an artillery unit from 1965 to 1977 and was the only son in his family who survived the war. His mother, Dau (right), now almost blind, remembers receiving the letters from the government announcing that her other four sons had been killed. \"I didn't know how they had died,\" she said. \"I didn't know what they were doing when they died. I just knew that they were gone. Losing a child is the greatest sadness.\" Thic's wife (centre) waited for him for 12 years. \"I did not know if he was dead or if he was alive,\" she said. \"All I could do was to take care of my children and work hard so I could feed them. \"I wasn't special. I was one of thousands of Vietnamese wives and mothers who had to survive without their husbands during the war.\" She recalls the day her husband returned. She was working in the rice fields when one of their neighbours gave her the news. \"I ran all the way home,\" she said. \"I was so happy to see him after so long.\" (Photograph by Raul Roman) Tran Thi Thon served in the North Vietnamese army from 1965 to 1975, delivering supplies from the North to the South. \"The day I remember most vividly was the day we found a downed American pilot.,\" she said. \"I saw that he had lost his shoe, so I took my shoe off and strapped it on his foot. \"Then, I took my handkerchief out and wiped the blood off his face. \"I felt very sympathetic because he was just another human and he didn't want to be in this war just like I didn't. \"The pilot then told my crew to hide, as a rescue helicopter was on its way and they would shoot us. \"But the helicopter never came and the pilot was captured by our soldiers.\" While making her deliveries, she saw a yellow liquid covering the jungle. It felt cool to the touch, so she and her teammates picked leaves and rubbed the substance on their skin to refresh themselves. It was Agent Orange. Now, the skin on her arms, legs, and stomach is covered in scars. She underwent several operations to repair the damage. But the worst consequence of the exposure were the birth defects of her son, who died of lung cancer at the age of 35, and her daughter, who is physically and mentally disabled. (Photograph by Lonnie Schlein) Luong Ngoc Lam was photographed at Friendship Village, a shelter for veterans and children affected by Agent Orange. He served as a field soldier for the NVA from 1966 to 1975. His proudest moment was participating in the taking of Saigon. \"When the war ended, I had not seen my wife in 10 years,\" he said. \"I returned home to learn that she had held 10 funerals during that period, including one for my younger brother. \"Coming home to learn that he had been killed was devastating.\" (Photograph by Joey Rosa) Luong Duc Pho was a driver, transporting soldiers in his jeep as well as rebuilding and clearing roads to facilitate the transportation of weapons and food. Pho waited 15 years to recover the body of his brother killed in the war. \"The young generation doesn't know anything about the hardships of war,\" he said. \"They have never been through this. They don't know what being hungry means. \"It is important that they learn more to understand what we endured and why we did it.\" (Photograph by Raul Roman) Tran Van Van and his wife, Pham Thi Sang, are pictured at their home in Binh Giang. Van served in the North Vietnamese Army from 1965 to 1972 and was stationed on the border of Cambodia on the Ho Chi Minh trail, tasked with protecting the road from bombers. \"We were bombed so often, and so many people died on the battlefield,\" he said. \"The badly injured were taken to the aid station, but I buried my dead friends on the battlefield. I miss them greatly.\" He was eventually discharged after being injured in a bombing.  He often relives that event in his nightmares. While Van was fighting, his wife worked as a rice farmer in order for the family to survive. \"We were very poor and always hungry because there wasn't enough rice for me and my babies,\" she said. \"One of the hardest moments of my life was when I had to go into the fields after my baby was born, but I had no choice. \"I didn't want to tell Van so I wrote him letters of encouragement to stay and fight in the war. Our country was more important.\" During the seven years in the army, Van only saw his family once, for a 10-day span in 1968. During that time he and his wife conceived a child, Tran Van Tin, now 46, who was born with severe health problems which is believed to be due to Van's exposure to Agent Orange. (Photograph by John DeSanto) Vu Thanh Lan fought with the Viet Cong in Quang Nam and Quang Ngai for more than a decade. \"I don't allow my grandchildren to ask about the war because I don't want to poison their views of the United States and the world,\" he said. (Photograph by John DeSanto) Nguyen Van Vuong  started as a soldier in the North Vietnamese Army in 1966 and ended his service in 1971 after contracting malaria. In the battle of Quang Tri, during the Tet Offensive in 1968, his unit of 100 men was devastated. He was one of 20 who survived. Later, he lost most of his hearing during a bombing raid.  Returning home after the war was not easy. \"My village was destroyed and government assistance couldn't support me,\" he said. \"My dream was to start a family, but it was not to be.\"  (Photograph by Lonnie Schlein) Tran Van Thinh joined up aged 19 and ended his service with a high rank and multiple medals of honour. In the battle of Quang Tri in 1968 he was hit by a bomb that blew off part of his left arm and shattered his right leg. Married for 30 years with one son and two grandchildren, he lost two brothers in the war. \"I was very young. All I knew at that time was that I had to fight the Americans to reunify my country,\" he said. \"My most disturbing memory was killing two American soldiers.\" (Photograph by Joey Rosa) All photographs ? UBELONG. Other pieces that might be of interest include: How photographs told the story of the Vietnam War Searching for the truth about my mother Photographs by US Rifleman Charlie Haughey who served in Vietnam from March 1968 to May the following year Guide to the Vietnam War Mai Nam, a photographer with the North Vietnamese Army For those in the UK Storyville: Last Days of Vietnam can be seen on BBC 4 at 22:00 on Monday 13 July 2015.", "question": "The conflict in Vietnam ended 40 years ago , with chaotic scenes in Saigon , now Ho Chi Minh City , as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on the heart of @placeholder , its tanks ploughing through the gates of the South Vietnamese presidential palace on 30 April 1975 .", "option_0": "power", "option_1": "swirl", "option_2": "tension", "option_3": "events", "option_4": "life"}
{"id": 637, "article": "Storm Abigail will mainly impact Scotland but parts of the north and west coast of Ireland are being hit with heavy rain and strong winds. The storm is bringing colder air, so after a recent mild spell Friday is likely to be quite chilly. Abigail will move away,  but ex-hurricane Kate will hit on Saturday bringing wet, windy weather. Driving conditions are being affected by the storm conditions, and in the Republic of Ireland flights at Dublin airport have been disrupted due to the strong winds. Passengers on one flight from Rome to Dublin were kept on a holding pattern above the airport before being diverted to Shannon airport in the west of the country. One couple, George and Gwen, said: \"It's caused a bit of disruption because we're from Kilkenny and can't get to our car. \"But we're quite philosophical. It's a lot worse for those on connecting flights who don't know what's happening.\" Karen Griffin and her family from Boston in the United States were planning to stop in Dublin on their way home from a holiday in Italy. She said a lack of communication had been a problem for them. \"We were on the runway for quite some time and then told buses would take us to Dublin,\" she said. \"There's still no buses and we've been waiting over an hour. \"We had hoped to sightsee in Dublin but now we think we'll just head straight to the pub.\"", "question": "The first storm to be officially @placeholder by the Met Office is bringing gusts in excess of 60 mph to Northern Ireland .", "option_0": "named", "option_1": "investigated", "option_2": "inspired", "option_3": "introduced", "option_4": "launched"}
{"id": 638, "article": "Independent consultant Mycle Schneider is a lead author of the annual World Nuclear Status report. He said the Hinkley Point C project's difficulties would affect Wylfa Newydd's ability to attract investors. But Horizon Nuclear Power said it was very confident the new power station would be delivered successfully. Speaking to BBC Radio Cymru's Post Cyntaf programme, Mr Schneider, who has advised both the French and German governments on nuclear policy, said: \"The Hinkley Point project is in great difficulties and you could argue that the uncertainties are even larger in the case of Wylfa Newydd.\" The Anglesey plant, he said, would need \"very clear and very large subsidies to get off the ground\". Horizon is in talks with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) on issues such as the strike price, which will be key to attracting additional finance. Richard Foxhall of Horizon Nuclear Power told BBC Wales other investors would need to be brought on board to deliver Wylfa Newydd and that talks were ongoing. \"What is important is that the right conditions for investment are made and part of that is discussions with the government,\" he said. \"But we're very, very confident that we can reach a successful conclusion to those negotiations and make sure the conditions are there to attract investment.\" The chairman of Horizon's parent company Hitachi has warned it may walk away from the project if a viable deal cannot be reached. The UK government wants low-cost nuclear power. Ieuan Williams, leader of Anglesey council said it was \"very important the project goes ahead\" to help secure the UK's future electricity supply as well as jobs in the area. \"Nuclear projects are very complex, costly and take a long time to build.  But I do believe that energy policy in the UK favours nuclear,\" he added. \"So I think it is very unlikely that we will not see Wylfa Newydd being built.\" 2017 Horizon to submit planning application 2018 Site to be prepared for construction 2020 First concrete to be laid 2025 Plant to start generating electricity There have been questions about the viability of the ?¡ê24bn Hinkley Point C nuclear project in Somerset. Horizon said it was in \"no way dependent\" on the success or otherwise of Hinkley. It pointed to the fact the reactors planned for Wylfa Newydd are a different design to those which have caused long delays and spiralling costs for its rival EDF. Although the advanced boiling water reactors are yet to be licensed in the UK, Horizon said they have been tried and tested in Japan and delivered on budget and on time. But others argue Hinkley's fate is bound to have an impact on the other nuclear plants the UK has in the pipeline.", "question": "Plans to build a new nuclear power plant on Anglesey have a \" slim to @placeholder \" chance of going ahead , an industry expert has claimed .", "option_0": "increase", "option_1": "stop", "option_2": "do", "option_3": "zero", "option_4": "hold"}
{"id": 639, "article": "Foster and Partners will design a building at Central Square with a new bus station, shops, up to 200,000 sq ft (18,581 sq m) of offices and a 200-bed hotel. The council aims to get 50% of people in the city using public transport. The firm is also responsible for designing the new BBC Wales headquarters at the square. The bus station will be designed around an enclosed public concourse, with a large waiting area. There will also be walkways giving access to the adjacent railway station, a bicycle hub, shops and restaurants. It will close in August, with buses redirected until it reopens in December 2017. Detailed plans will be submitted to councillors at the end of 2015.", "question": "Plans for a transport hub in Cardiff have been revealed as the council @placeholder its preferred architect .", "option_0": "expanded", "option_1": "completes", "option_2": "found", "option_3": "transforming", "option_4": "announces"}
{"id": 640, "article": "Why does the Scottish National Party and its former leader matter? Because, if the general election polls are right, in six weeks time the SNP could hold the balance of power in the House of Commons. If neither Labour nor the Conservatives win a majority, one of them would need votes from smaller parties to govern - and the pollsters suggest the SNP could be the biggest of those smaller parties, perhaps with about 50 MPs. This week Mr Salmond, who hopes to be among that number, launched a thousand newspaper columns written by observers apparently astonished and horrified at his statements of the obvious. Shock! SNP MPs would not vote for a Tory Queen's Speech, said Mr Salmond. Did anyone think they would? Horror! They would try to influence a Labour chancellor's budget. Did anyone think they wouldn't? Mr Salmond's appearance on the Andrew Marr show was described by Conservative defence minister Anna Soubry as \"one of the scariest\" she had heard for a very long time. \"The audacity is astonishing,\" she told the man himself as they cosied up on the studio sofa, adding waspishly: \"There was a wonderful debate in Scotland. You lost it.\" Ms Soubry was echoing sentiments which have abounded for weeks now. Reheating the most incendiary phrase in British politics Allan Massie in the Mail on Sunday foresaw the River Thames foaming with blood. \"The English bulldog has woken from a long sleep, and is beginning to snarl,\" he warned. For Max Hastings, in the Daily Mail: \"A historic tragedy beckons for the UK... the backlash in the south will prove bitter indeed.\" So who benefits from all this? As it happens, the rhetoric might suit both the SNP and the Tories, at least in the short-term, in their battles against a mutual enemy: Labour. North of the border the SNP are trying to portray themselves as the party that stands up for Scotland and its interests against the pitiless Tories. To the south, the Tories want to present themselves as the defenders of England and its interests against the socialist hordes, kilted or otherwise. This clash of two nationalisms is disheartening for the significant chunk of Scotland which viewed last year's debate about independence as distracting and divisive rather than energising and exciting. In particular it's bad news for the Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson who took to the pages of the London Evening Standard to say so. \"The SNP is not Scotland and Scotland is not the SNP,\" she warned, describing nationalist tactics as \"cheap, dirty politics\" designed to \"stoke division\" and \"annoy the rest of the country into pushing Scotland towards the exit\". Unfortunately for her, Tory strategists in London appear to have chosen to throw fuel on to the fire, taking the opportunity to paint the Labour leader Ed Miliband as weak and the SNP as power-crazed. Mr Salmond, said a Tory party spokesman, was plotting to \"sabotage the democratic will of the British people in order to make Ed Miliband prime minister\". Robin McAlpine, director of the Common Weal think tank, part of the wider independence movement but not affiliated to the SNP, says such outrage is absurd. He says: \"If England as a nation wants to be an electoral unit of their own then they have to have a campaign of independence. If England wants to be independent of Britain, then start leafleting, start marching, and have your campaign.\" The Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy is scathing about the approach of both his rivals. \"Alex Salmond loves the sound of his own voice,\" he says. \"It's only surprising the Tories are giving him a megaphone to amplify that voice.\" \"The fact is that the Tories can't win in Scotland so they need someone else to defeat the Labour Party for them.\" Mr Murphy insists voters north of the border will see through this attempt to \"divide and rule\". For her part, the leader of the SNP, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, denies that she has sent Mr Salmond southwards to stir up dissent. Nor, she says, is he doing so off his own bat. \"That is not the objective of the SNP in this election,\" she insists. \"We're not there to prod anybody or get a rise out of anybody. \"We're there to seek to stand up for Scotland to get better policies coming out of the House of Commons.\" To satisfy its burgeoning membership - now said to be above 100,000 - the SNP will need those policies to be radical, says Mr McAlpine. Otherwise \"they're going to shed those members,\" he says. This move to the left has \"already started,\" Mr McAlpine argues, with an economic document from the Scottish government giving \"greater economic equality the same weight as economic growth\". It is \"a big step,\" he says. Mr McAlpine also defends Mr Salmond against the charge of provoking the English. \"I don't think he's driving a wedge between Scotland and England,\" he says. \"He's driving a wedge between the politics Scotland believes in, a progressive social-democratic politics, and a politics that he doesn't believe in, the vicious anti-immigrant, anti-welfare politics which seems to be quite strong in the south of England.\" Whether that is the case, and whatever the motivations of both the SNP and the Conservatives, there are big risks ahead. If the Tories get it wrong they could put the union they support in peril. The SNP faces the opposite problem. In particular, three potential scenarios could be tricky for the party: None of these options looks particularly attractive for the nationalists, especially when you consider that the SNP is still tainted in the eyes of some Scots for voting 36 years ago today against the Labour Prime Minister Jim Callaghan in a confidence motion. Mr Callaghan lost by one vote and the era of Margaret Thatcher followed, to the horror of many people in Scotland. Now, Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon clearly think they could cause a lot of mischief before a crunch point like this was reached, amending bills here and there and squeezing out concessions. In the meantime Ms Sturgeon's message can be summed up as: you wanted us to stay in the union, so now we want to have a say in it. The trouble is everybody knows that staying in the union is not the SNP's principal aim. Why would stable and secure governance of the United Kingdom be a priority for a party which doesn't believe the UK should even exist? Any politician thinking of quaffing champagne at this stage cannot know whether they will end up raising a toast or weeping into their glass.", "question": "Pink champagne in @placeholder , Alex Salmond has been enjoying himself recently , doing what seems to come naturally ; winding up Westminster .", "option_0": "health", "option_1": "hand", "option_2": "decline", "option_3": "london", "option_4": "short"}
{"id": 641, "article": "Driver Louise Small, 33 said she was threatened by Fergus Beeley in a Sainsbury's car park off the M27 near Hedge End in Hampshire on Saturday. Her 50-year-old mother, 14-year-old son Joshua and partner Simon Gale, 33 were also in the car. It followed a two-car crash involving the family's Mazda at about 11:30 BST. Police said no arrests had been made. No-one was injured in the collision. During the heated exchange Mr Beeley told the family he was \"trying to stop a death on the roads\". He said he was placing the family under a citizens arrest and added: \"I do want you dead. \"In fact I want you dead right now. Get back in your car before you die.\" Mr Beeley, whose car was not involved in the crash on the M27, said he had intervened \"because people nearly lost their lives on the motorway\". Ms Small said she believed the other driver involved in the crash was Mr Beeley's wife who was travelling in a separate car. Ms Small said: \"He opened the passenger side door and he just flipped - he was just so crazy - he just ranted at my mum. \"I stayed in the car in case he tried to grab my son.\" The family from Salisbury had been travelling to Portsmouth for a day out, but abandoned their plans after the heated exchange. Mr Beeley, who has worked on Sir David Attenborough's The Life of Birds, Planet Earth - The Future, and BBC Natural World, has been contacted by BBC News for a response. He has not worked with the BBC for 10 years and is not a BBC employee. Hampshire Constabulary said the non-injury crash had involved a Mazda 3, a Peugeot 107 and a Skoda Octavia. A spokeswoman said nobody had been arrested but an allegation of common assault was subsequently made by a 33-year-old man from Southampton and a 54-year-old from Gloucestershire. Advice was given to both parties and they were told the two assaults would be recorded and filed.", "question": "A man has been filmed screaming at a family that he wants them \" dead \" in an apparent @placeholder of road rage .", "option_0": "act", "option_1": "event", "option_2": "case", "option_3": "series", "option_4": "state"}
{"id": 642, "article": "They were the unlikely couple who inadvertently spawned the era of the super-coach. Like Murray, Lendl knew exactly how it felt to lose your first four Grand Slam finals. He never said an enormous amount during training sessions but, through honesty and experience, helped Murray convert his extraordinary ability and drive into Grand Slam titles. Many coaching relationships last significantly less than two and a quarter years - Maria Sharapova and Jimmy Connors chalked up one match together - but the timing of this announcement is not at all ideal. Dani Vallverdu: Venezuelan is currently part of Murray's coaching staff Darren Cahill: Worked with Murray on the Adidas development programme Roger Rasheed: doing a great job with Grigor Dimitrov Bob Brett: former coach of Boris Becker and Goran Ivanisevic Mats Wilander: Former grand slam winner Like Murray, Lendl won his first two Grand Slam titles in his mid-20s but then unearthed the secret of winning six more in the following five years. His input would have been invaluable to Murray as he adapts to life as a Wimbledon champion and tries to play his way through a mediocre spell of form since September's back surgery. Lendl's desire is to play more and coach less: too little for the amount of time Murray feels he requires. The eight-time Grand Slam champion will always be a supportive voice - as former coaches Mark Petchey and Miles Maclagan have also been - but will not be on hand to guide Murray through a potentially tricky year. Murray told me he had \"no real explanation\" for the way he played when he lost to Milos Raonic in the fourth round in Indian Wells last week. He hinted at a lack of confidence and even bemusement that - despite being match fit - he is unable to rediscover the form of last summer. His world ranking of six may also start to trouble him soon because as the defending champion in Miami this week, it's likely to fall before it starts to rise. John McEnroe's tally of seven Grand Slam titles puts him among the all-time greats. He won them all by the age of 25 and admits he then found it hard to find the next gear. When we chatted in Indian Wells last weekend, he explained what Murray might now be going through. \"[It's tough] to win Wimbledon, the Olympics and the [US] Open in one year basically, and then be able to put that aside and say, all right, now I've got to train even harder because all of a sudden people are going to say 'why can't he win eight Grand Slams?' \"He's got two now so therefore he should win one or two a year and he'd better do it, or else it's considered unacceptable. \"And he just hasn't been able in my mind to get out of that. I wouldn't call it a funk, but just sort of finding that inspiration again.\" So who does Murray turn to for help? To Dani Vallverdu, first of all. The Venezuelan has a low-profile but hugely important role in Murray's team. He is, to all intents and purposes, a full-time travelling coach and a very close friend from their time together at the Sanchez-Casal Academy in Barcelona. Vallverdu - with some assistance from Alex Corretja and Darren Cahill - was effectively running the show for the 18 months between Miles Maclagan's departure and Lendl's arrival, and his presence allows Murray time to consider his options carefully. He is not someone who will be panicked into a hasty and possibly unwise decision, and some on the tour believe that at Murray's age he doesn't need any further additions to his squad. I think he would benefit from another voice at this pivotal stage of his career: someone not too close to him, yet able to inspire him to greater heights. Murray once remarked that, early in their relationship, he used to try to impress Lendl in the way you would a new girlfriend, and his results and on-court demeanour were noticeably better when the Czech was present. Any future coach also should be able to share Murray's sense of humour, and most crucially to understand the very exclusive world he inhabits. That would not have to be another former Grand Slam champion, although of the few who have not been snapped up, Mats Wilander would be an excellent choice. Murray has spoken highly in the past of Darren Cahill, who he worked with as part of the Adidas development programme, Roger Rasheed (who now looks to be doing a great job with Grigor Dimitrov) and Bob Brett, the former coach of Boris Becker and Goran Ivanisevic. An appointment is not urgent, but Murray is well aware that life at the top of professional sport can be brutally short.", "question": "Andy Murray struck gold when he asked Ivan Lendl to be his coach , and it 's unfortunate they are going their separate ways when there is so much more to be @placeholder .", "option_0": "gained", "option_1": "claimed", "option_2": "mined", "option_3": "accomplished", "option_4": "rediscovered"}
{"id": 643, "article": "Haribo claimed the Lindt version was a violation of its \"Gold Bear\" logo. Germany's Federal Court of Justice ruled Lindt's bear was neither a violation of Haribo's trademark or an imitation of its fruit gum sweets. Haribo has been making gummy bear sweets since the 1960s. Lindt introduced its chocolate teddy in 2011. Haribo took its rival to court in 2012, arguing the products were too similar and it would cause confusion among consumers. A German court initially ruled in favour of the German manufacturer but an appeal court later threw out the verdict. Lindt argued that its gold bear was styled on its Easter bunnies, which are wrapped in gold foil with a ribbon and small bell around their necks. The bunnies were first produced in 1952. The federal court said in a statement (in German) on Wednesday that Lindt's product could be described using a number of terms such as \"teddy\" or \"chocolate bear\" and not just using the term \"gold bear\". It said it wanted to avoid the danger of \"product design monopolisation\" in the area of three-dimensional goods. In a statement, Lindt welcomed the ruling and said it would \"continue to delight all Lindt chocolate lovers with the Lindt Teddy\". Last week, the European Court of Justice rejected Nestle's request to trademark the shape of it four-fingered KitKat bar in the UK.", "question": "Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli has defeated a legal challenge from rival confectioner Haribo , which @placeholder to stop it making its gold chocolate bears .", "option_0": "sought", "option_1": "helped", "option_2": "failed", "option_3": "appears", "option_4": "fail"}
{"id": 644, "article": "The star made the comments at a Women in Film awards ceremony on Wednesday. Actress Shari Belafonte called out from the audience Spielberg had directed the 1985 film The Color Purple, starring Whoopi Goldberg. But after another audience member yelled it was wrong, Banks believed she was still correct. \"I messed up,\" Banks said in a tweet. The Hunger Games star was awarded an excellence in film prize at the ceremony and used her acceptance speech to highlight gender equality in Hollywood. \"We can't do it by ourselves... It's our responsibility to bring the men along,\" she said. 'I'm wrong' \"I went to Indiana Jones and Jaws and every movie Steven Spielberg ever made, and by the way, he's never made a movie with a female lead. Sorry, Steven. I don't mean to call your ass out, but it's true.\" After Belafonte reminded Banks of Oscar-nominated movie The Color Purple, the actress initially corrected herself. \"OK... I'm wrong. Ummma€| he directed?\" she queried. Another guest mistakenly called out no, so Banks concluded: \"Oh, so I'm right still,\" and moved on. The error was much talked about in both social and general media - especially as The Color Purple focuses on the issues African American women faced in early 20th Century. The Color Purple Banks posted a lengthy apology on Twitter on Thursday, saying she \"framed [her] comments about [Spielberg's] films inaccurately\". \"I want to be clear from the start that I take full responsibility for what I said and I'm sorry,\" she wrote. \"When I made the comments, I was thinking of recent films Steven directed, it was not my intention to dismiss the importance of the iconic #TheColorPurple. \"I made things worse by giving the impression that I was dismissing Shari Belafonte when she attempted to correct me. I spoke with Shari backstage and she was kind enough to forgive me. \"Those who have the privilege and honour of directing and producing films should be held to account for our mistakes, whether it's about diversity or inaccurate statements. I'm very sorry.\" Since Banks's error, others have pointed out that while she was wrong in her claim about Spielberg, the director has only helmed three films out of his 30 which feature a female lead. In addition to The Color Purple, he also directed Goldie Hawn in The Sugarland Express (1974) and his most recent film, The BFG, featured 12-year-old Ruby Barnhill in the lead. His next film, The Papers, also stars Meryl Streep in the main role as the first US female newspaper publisher. Banks is next set to direct a rebooted film version of Charlie's Angels. As well as appearing in the Pitch Perfect series of films, she directed the second and served as a producer on all three. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "Actress Elizabeth Banks has apologised to Steven Spielberg after she wrongly \" called him out \" in @placeholder for never directing a film with a female lead .", "option_0": "reply", "option_1": "action", "option_2": "pause", "option_3": "public", "option_4": "name"}
{"id": 645, "article": "The finds in the Grotta del Cavallo, Apulia, and Kents Cavern, Devon, have been confirmed as the earliest known remains of Homo sapiens in Europe. Careful dating suggests they are more than 41,000 years old, and perhaps as much as 45,000 years old in the case of the Italian \"baby teeth\". The details are in the journal Nature. The results fit with stone tool discoveries that had suggested modern people were in Europe more than 40,000 years ago. Now, scientists have the direct physical remains of Homo sapiens to prove it. It confirms also that modern people overlapped in Europe with their evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, for an extended period. These humans went extinct shortly afterwards, and the latest discoveries will raise once again the questions over Homo sapiens' possible role in their relatives' demise. \"What's significant about this work is that it increases the overlap and contemporaneity with Neanderthals,\" explained Dr Tom Higham, from Oxford University, who led the study on the British specimen found at Kents Cavern, Torquay. \"We estimate that probably three to five thousand years of time is the amount of the overlap between moderns and Neanderthals in this part of the world,\" he told the BBC Science in Action programme. The new results indicate, too, that modern humans swept across Europe via a number of different routes, as they populated the world after leaving Africa some 60,000 years ago. Both the teeth and the jaw fragment have been known about for decades. In the case of the jaw from Kents Cavern, this was first identified in 1927. The two Italian baby teeth were found in the Grotta del Cavallo in southern Italy in 1964. Scientists have long pondered the specimens' age and origin. Many thought they were more likely to be Neanderthal remains. It is only with the application of the very latest analytical techniques that the specimens' true status can be established. Because of their concerns about modern contamination in the jaw, Higham and colleagues went back to animal fossils found above and below the object in the Torquay cave and re-dated those with greater precision. This produced a likely age for the human remains of between 41,500 and 44,200 years ago. The team also re-examined the shape of the jaw's three teeth, including their internal structure, to remove doubts that the jaw could be Neanderthal. \"We've done a new reconstruction, and we've actually found that one of the teeth was in the wrong place. That's for starters,\" said co-author Prof Chris Stringer, from London's Natural History Museum. \"But we've also done a really detailed comparison, right down to the shape of the roots and internal pulp cavities.  We've gone to microscopic details to show this really is a modern human. You would never find a Neanderthal fossil that had this many modern human features.\" Likewise for the Italian baby teeth, Dr Stefano Benazzi and colleagues performed a morphological analysis, comparing the features of their specimens with a wide database of Homo sapiens and Neanderthal remains.  Again, this approach indicated the Grotta del Cavallo specimens were from a modern person. The Benazzi team also resorted to advanced radio-carbon dating technology to reassess the age.  This was applied to ornamental shell beads found in the same layer as the teeth. \"The new dating shows that the teeth must be between 43,000 and 45,000 years ago,\" said Dr Benazzi from the University of Vienna, Austria. \"That makes them the oldest European modern-human currently known,\" he told BBC News. The re-assessments have further importance because palaeoanthropologists can now put modern humans in the caves at the same time as the stone and bone tool technologies discovered there. There has been some doubt over who created the so-called Aurignacian artefacts at Kents Cavern and the slightly older Uluzzian technologies at Grotta del Cavallo.  It could have been Neanderthals, but there is now an obvious association in time with Homo sapiens. No-one really knows why Neanderthals went extinct or what part - if any - modern humans played in their disappearance. Scientists say it is not necessarily the case that there was conflict between the two groups; it could just have been that Homo sapiens was better equipped to deal with the harsh challenges of the time. \"I think it's still very much an open question because climate is also a part of the story,\" commented Prof Stringer. \"The fact is that while these populations were overlapping, the climate of Europe was very unstable.  Populations were expanding and shrinking and being pushed around by very rapid changes in environment. \"I think it's going to be a combination of factors, with both Neanderthals and modern humans being stressed but the moderns being perhaps a bit better adapted to the changes and being able to get through them. The Neanderthals on the other hand weren't, and they went extinct.\" Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk", "question": "Two baby teeth and a jaw fragment @placeholder in Italy and the UK have something revealing to say about how modern humans conquered the globe .", "option_0": "war", "option_1": "originated", "option_2": "groups", "option_3": "unearthed", "option_4": "tuned"}
{"id": 646, "article": "Ch Supt Lee Bruckshaw was accused of trying to intervene in the case of a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) sergeant accused of shoplifting. He eventually received \"management advice\" after a charge of perverting the course of justice was dropped. GMP said its inquiry \"took too long\". In an email to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Mr Bruckshaw said the colleague accused, but subsequently cleared, of shoplifting in September 2014 had a terminally ill child. The resulting disciplinary action - carried out by GMP but managed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) - was initially for gross misconduct. The chief superintendent, who denied trying to influence the CPS's decision, eventually received \"management advice\" - the lowest form of sanction. \"I stand by what I did,\" Mr Bruckshaw, a police officer for 31 years,  told the BBC. \"My barrister said a lot of judges would commend me for doing what I did because, as we saw a month later, he was acquitted of these offences.\" Mr Bruckshaw questioned whether it was appropriate that the officer investigating him had a \"previous grievance\" after being removed by him from CID. The chief superintendent said he raised this point in May 2015 with then Deputy Chief Constable Ian Hopkins, who \"didn't see it as a problem\". Mr Hopkins succeeded Sir Peter Fahy as chief constable in September 2015. \"Appointing the investigating officer was a decision by GMP and supported by the IPCC,\" a GMP spokesman told the BBC. When asked if police should be \"absolutely squeaky clean\", Mr Bruckshaw replied: \"I agree that if an allegation is made an officer should be investigated and I do not have any problem with that.\" But he said the investigation should have ended in May 2015 \"when I had answered every single question\" and added: \"Why didn't it stop there, instead of dragging my name through the mud?\" Mr Bruckshaw, who said he now wants to retire from the force, said the overall estimated cost of the process, including the investigations, wages and legal fees, was about ¡ê500,000 - a figure not disputed by GMP. He said this was a \"waste of public money\". In a statement, GMP said it \"accepts this investigation was not carried out in the effective manner that we always aspire to and that it took too long to reach the eventual conclusion. \"We are always working to ensure we can take learning from situations when things do not go as well as we would want and as such a full review will take place. We will be asking the Superintendents Association for its support with this work. \"Any recommendations identified will be acted on to ensure that future cases are managed in an effective manner.\" The BBC asked for responses from Mr Hopkins and the officer who investigated Mr Bruckshaw, but no further statement was issued.", "question": "A senior police officer has @placeholder his own force and chief constable following a 15 - month , ¡ê 500,000 probe into claims he perverted the course of justice .", "option_0": "criticised", "option_1": "killed", "option_2": "described", "option_3": "established", "option_4": "admitted"}
{"id": 647, "article": "Twelve weeks of work has begun at Bournemouth's Horseshoe Common - a so-called \"shared space scheme\". The authority said it was not clear whether the problem was a result of the materials but it would be reusing the blocks in an area of lighter traffic. It said the scheme, aimed at improving safety, had otherwise been successful. The council initially said a 40% increase in the number of buses using the road since the ¡ê1.04m scheme was implemented had contributed to its decline. However, it later issued a joint statement with operator Yellow Buses, saying there had been \"confusion surrounding the number of bus vehicles\", there had been no increase in services and the authority did not blame the bus company. A council statement said: \"Regardless of the number of buses, we can see that the road surface has deteriorated much quicker than expected and needs to be rectified... we do not yet know if it is a result of the materials, the workmanship or the specification.\"", "question": "A council is spending ¡ê 121,000 re-laying a block - paved road surface three years after it was @placeholder because it is deteriorating quicker than expected .", "option_0": "revealed", "option_1": "spotted", "option_2": "deemed", "option_3": "criticised", "option_4": "completed"}
{"id": 648, "article": "William and Kate are entering a once-isolated land. Tourists could only visit from the 1970s; TV was introduced in the 1990s; and this former absolute monarchy became a constitutional one with an elected government in 2008. Bhutan is a Buddhist country with an emphasis on gross national happiness rather than its gross domestic product. However, the country's prime minister has acknowledged that this much-lauded concept can be overused, and can mask the kingdom's problems with debt, unemployment and poverty. For two days the Cambridges will be guests of a young king and queen that are held in high regard by its subjects. They'll learn how Bhutan - which once revelled in its remoteness - is now facing the challenge of how to retain its Buddhist traditions while also embracing the modern world.", "question": "The descent into Paro by @placeholder , which has to navigate a mountainside , is not for the faint - hearted .", "option_0": "culture", "option_1": "plane", "option_2": "bus", "option_3": "unions", "option_4": "turbulence"}
{"id": 649, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The Liverpudlian won bronze at the 2012 World Championships before reaching the quarter-finals at the London Olympics. The 30-year-old, who hopes to move into coaching, told BBC Sport: \"I don't think I've got the hunger and dedication to achieve any more. \"My mind is wandering to other things, and there's younger people coming through that want it a bit more.\" Jonas took up boxing in 2005 to lose weight and rose through the amateur ranks before competing for Britain alongside gold medallist Nicola Adams and Savannah Marshall at London 2012. She was favourite to win gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games but lost to Australia's Shelley Watts in her opening fight after injuring her foot. Jonas described not winning a medal at her home Olympics as the biggest regret of her career but said fighting there was her \"wildest dream come true\". She added: \"London 2012 will never be matched, it was surreal. I remember saying to my mum when I was four and watching the Olympics on the TV: 'Mum, mum, I'm gonna be there.' \"It took me 24 years but I still achieved it.\" Jonas is an ambassador for women's boxing, which has seen a 56% rise in the number of people taking up the sport in England since the 2012 Games. And she welcomed the \"phenomenal\" changes she has witnessed. Media playback is not supported on this device Jonas said: \"The women's England Boxing Elite Finals will be held as the same event as the men's - that's big progression. \"The number of rounds you have to compete in at tournaments to become champion has increased. When I first started, I was boxing twice to become champion and now you're boxing four or five times. \"You've got the seniors, the youths, the juniors, and that wasn't there before. If you wanted to box, you had to box whoever.\" Jonas is also proud of Britain's development into a force in international women's boxing. She said: \"Britain has surpassed other countries that have been doing it longer than us. \"We used to go to tournaments and we'd be lucky to reach the second round. Now we're coming away with medals.\" \"The was an air of ease about Natasha when I spoke to her at her home boxing club, the famous Rotunda ABC in Liverpool. She seemed happy with her decision and excited for the next chapter in her life. \"She described boxing as 'extremely tough' and spoke with honesty about not having the motivation to carry on, particularly with the foot injury she picked up at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. \"Natasha is a pioneer in the sport and an inspiration to many.\"", "question": "Natasha Jonas , the first woman to box for Great Britain at the Olympic Games , has @placeholder 16 months before Rio 2016 .", "option_0": "retired", "option_1": "risen", "option_2": "qualified", "option_3": "announced", "option_4": "beaten"}
{"id": 650, "article": "Sian Blake, 43, Zachary, eight, and four-year-old Amon were found buried in the garden of their London home on 5 January. Arthur Simpson-Kent, 49, has pleaded guilty to the killings and is being sentenced at the Old Bailey. The court heard he killed them in December and later fled to Ghana. The cannabis dealer faces whole life sentences for killing Ms Blake, who had motor neurone disease, and their children. The court heard that Ms Blake's illness and her \"unhealthy\" relationship led her to consider selling their home and moving back in with her family. She had spoken to her mother, Lindell Blake, about the four of them moving in with her but her mother said Simpson Kent could not come, which Ms Blake \"appeared to accept\". Mark Heywood QC, prosecuting, said: \"The evidence suggests, and this much is not disputed, that, on the night of December 14, 2015, the defendant killed each of them in turn with heavy, deliberate, repeated blows with a blunt instrument not since recovered, and then by cutting and stabbing them with a bladed weapon in a way that ensured their deaths. \"He then covered his crimes by moving, wrapping and burying each of them, cleaning and partially painting his home.\" In the days following her death, family tried to contact Ms Blake and received texts from her mobile phone saying she had gone away, the court was told. Mr Heywood said: \"The defendant, using her [Ms Blake's] phone, was sending the messages.\" He said that, as police launched a missing persons investigation into Ms Blake and her children, Simpson-Kent booked a flight from Glasgow to Accra. In a message to a friend, he said: \"I can't go into details about what I have done but I only have 2 choices. Go to Ghana one way or Die (sic).\" He was later tracked down by police and arrested on a beach in his native Ghana, before being extradited back to the UK. When interviewed by detectives in Accra, he claimed there had been a murder-suicide pact between him and Ms Blake because of her illness - but nothing was written down. Ms Blake played Frankie Pierre in 56 episodes of EastEnders between 1996 and 1997. Jim Sturman QC, acting for Simpson-Kent, told the court the couple had previously discussed \"ending it all\" because of her illness. But he added: \"There was no agreement to kill in this way and it was against this backdrop that the guilty pleas were entered. \"It is not suggested that the killings were a mercy killing.  It is our case that Simpson-Kent snapped under the pressure of the disease, the way it was killing Sian and the inevitability of it all.\" He said the defendant was \"not a man prone to violence\", adding: \"What happened on that night was a truly extraordinary and out-of-character murder.\" The sentencing hearing continues.", "question": "A former EastEnders actress and her two sons were murdered by her partner as she @placeholder to leave with the children , a court has heard .", "option_0": "planned", "option_1": "refused", "option_2": "walked", "option_3": "fled", "option_4": "continues"}
{"id": 651, "article": "It is one secret scientists at the National Botanic Garden of Wales and Aberystwyth University are trying to unlock. Butterflies see a broader spectrum of light than humans and the team wants to know how it affects how they cope in captivity. The garden hopes it may help make those in its butterfly house \"happier\". \"How we can see the world around us is very different from how a butterfly sees it. The butterfly world, in some ways, is actually more complicated than ours,\" said Dr Natasha de Vere, head of science at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. \"It's really important. If they're finding a mate, if they're finding their food plants, they've got to be able to see those and they have got to be able to see those with the light levels that they would normally be used to.\" The garden, near Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, opened its butterfly house in June last year. At any one time, it has about 300 butterflies of 20 different species. Dr de Vere said the research could help them improve conditions for the insects during winter, when there is less light than in their natural habitats. Depending on the results, the garden could, for instance, install specially-designed lights to mimic the conditions best suited to the insects. \"They should definitely be happier, because first of all it should be easier to find a mate and the same for food plants,\" she added. She said it could also help to shed light on how different conditions affect butterflies in the wild, assisting with regeneration work after a forest has been cleared and when it comes to releasing captive butterflies into the wild. Zoologist Dr Roger Santer, of Aberystwyth University, said there is still a lot to be learned about how butterfly species perceive colour. Human colour perceptions are based on three kinds of cone photoreceptor cells in the eye which respond to light - blue, green and red, he explained. This means colours for humans are made up of different amounts of blue, green and red, which is why TV and computer screens use them to represent different shades for our eyes. But butterflies have more types of photoreceptors with different sensitivities, spanning from UV wavelengths to red wavelengths, meaning they have \"different colour perceptions than we do\". This allows them to spot certain UV \"signposts\" which exist in the natural world on plants and on members of the same species, including some markings on their wings and on flowers. Dr Santer said the team will be running behavioural experiments on different varieties of butterfly. This could see them picking between differently-coloured stimuli - for example, flowers of varying hues containing sugar rewards - in conditions with UV light and without. \"It might be the butterflies are able to adjust in a glass house or it might be they are unable to,\" he added.", "question": "They are one of nature 's great @placeholder of colour - but how does light and colour affect butterfly behaviour ?", "option_0": "secrets", "option_1": "sources", "option_2": "version", "option_3": "varieties", "option_4": "sight"}
{"id": 652, "article": "Mark Munro, 31, and James Robertson, 27, are accused of killing Russell Robertson by pushing him over railings at Bainsford Bridge, Falkirk. It is alleged that they repeatedly punched Mr Robertson on the hands and prised his fingers from the bridge railings in May last year. Both men deny the charges. Kevin Gibney, who works at the nearby Warehouse nightclub in Falkirk, told prosecutor Alan Cameron: \"When I was a bit away, I first thought it was toy fighting.\" He said he slowed down as he drove across the bridge because he was \"nosey\". Mr Gibney said: \"I saw two guys hitting into one guy. That's one of the reasons I got out the car. \"One of them was punching him about the head and shoulders.\" Mr Gibney said he stopped his car on the bridge about 10 to 15ft away from the incident. He said: \"The young man was standing with his feet on a concrete platform and he was holding on to the railings. \"I saw one of the guys was prising the guy's fingers off on one hand and the other guy was punching the other hand. \"One minute he was there and the next he was gone. The two gentlemen ran across the road.\" Mr Gibney said he looked into the canal and searched the embankment but did not find anyone. Mr Gibney identified the two men as Mr Munro and Mr Robertson. The jury was shown CCTV footage taken in the car park at the Warehouse two minutes before Russsell Robertson disappeared at the bridge. Mr Gibney and two bouncers are seen to be approached by Mr Robertson, who speaks with them before leaving. Defence QC Derek Ogg, representing Mr Munro, said: \"How can you, a security manager who is stone cold sober, who knows a man, and sees him two minutes before he disappears off a bridge not mention this to the police?\" Mr Gibney replied: \"I can't recall having any conversation.\" The trial at the High Court in Glasgow before Lady Carmichael continues.", "question": "A nightclub security manager has told a murder trial that he saw a man disappear off a bridge after being @placeholder by two men .", "option_0": "robbed", "option_1": "assaulted", "option_2": "beaten", "option_3": "struck", "option_4": "crushed"}
{"id": 653, "article": "The 24-year-old South African wing scored Dragons' only try against the Italian team, who had conceded eight against Ospreys a week earlier. \"A win's a win and any fan base should be happy with that,\" said Howard. \"We would like the supporters just to support us and not scrutinise everything we do.\" Dragons face a much tougher test in their next Pro12 game when Munster visit Rodney Parade on Saturday, 17 September. Howard, who joined the Welsh region from Northampton in the summer, spent three months with the Irish province in the 2014-15 season, making his debut at Rodney Parade. He said the win over Zebre was more important than the quality of the performance. \"I understand that people have their opinions but at the end of the day it was four points - that's what we needed, that's what we were going for however it came about,\" he added. Media playback is not supported on this device \"Every team makes mistakes and it's our responsibility to put it right and we're going to do that the best we can but we need the support instead of the scrutiny. \"It brings a lot of negativity. \"You want positive energy from the crowd. It spurs you on and makes you do better - makes you want to drive over the line and score that try, but when they're doing that it's a sapping kind of thing. \"We're going to need the support (against Munster) because you feel like you're under pressure not only from the other team but from the crowd for all your decisions.\" Dragons finished third from bottom in the 2015-16 season - with only Zebre and fellow-Italian side Benetton Treviso below them. Coach Kingsley Jones conceded the performance against Zebre was unimpressive - coming a week after a 29-8 defeat by Ulster.", "question": "Pat Howard has called on Newport Gwent Dragons fans to get behind the team @placeholder their negative reaction to the scrappy 11 - 6 win over Zebre .", "option_0": "table", "option_1": "clinched", "option_2": "following", "option_3": "securing", "option_4": "losing"}
{"id": 654, "article": "Rhona McKinlay said 84-year-old William was left \"utterly humiliated\" for hours at the Latimer Grange home with a circle drawn around his chair. The ex-prison officer said she had seen inmates treated better than her father. Home owner Anthony Lampitt was contacted by the BBC, but a solicitor and PR firm responded on his behalf. A spokesman for the home said it took \"all allegations very seriously\" and was \"confident we provide a good standard of care\". Northamptonshire County Council and Northamptonshire Police are investigating. Mrs McKinlay said her father also suffered bruising, flea bites and was not fed properly by carers at the home in Burton Latimer. She recorded all her concerns in a diary, in which she wrote: \"Dad saturated in urine, sitting in chair, wet to his knees and up his back. \"Anthony Lampitt drew a chalk ring around my Dad and made him sit back down. He was utterly humiliated.\" One former care worker, who did want to be named, told the BBC it had been her job to return Mr McKinlay to the chair. A chalk circle had been drawn around the furniture to alert others it had been soiled and required cleaning, which is common practice in homes. She said: \"Mr Lampitt said to put him back there 'as he is not going to urinate everywhere else'. \"He wanted to keep him there. That made me feel guilty. I felt like crying.\" Mrs McKinlay said matters reached a head when Mr Lampitt said her father was being put on a new drug. She said she denied him permission to do so, but was shocked to find he had told carers to administer the medication anyway. The home's spokesman said it was legally required to follow the advice given by GPs and community psychiatric nurses and it had a robust medicines management policy. Mrs McKinlay said on another occasion she found a large bruise on her father's stomach, but staff could not explain how it happened. \"The weight was falling off my dad. At one point he was covered in flea bites. They had to have the place fumigated,\" she said. \"They couldn't be bothered feeding him. He couldn't see the food put in front of him and doesn't have the mental capacity to eat properly himself. \"It was terrible.\" The carer said if there was a shortage of meals on a specific day food \"would not [be given] to residents with dementia as they would not remember\". Another member of staff, who also wanted to remain anonymous, alleged residents were left for months without being bathed. \"One time we took [William's] top off and he had 16 flea bites because there was a cat in the home,\" she said. The care home said pets were allowed on the premises to provide a \"home-away-from-home care experience\" but pro-active flea treatment was undertaken. They added there had been times the home had been \"unable to meet\" Mr McKinlay's care needs. \"Our home is not equipped to support individuals suffering from advanced sight and hearing loss, as well as challenging aggressive behaviours.\" Mrs McKinlay said her father had been crying when she visited and had since moved to a different care home. \"The guilt was killing me,\" she said. \"Sometimes now my dad says, 'please don't make me go back to the bad place'.\" The council said prior to the launch of its investigation into Mrs McKinlay's concerns, it had suspended new admissions to Latimer Grange after a routine contract monitoring visit. The home said it was working with the authority on a number of actions and the \"health, welfare and safety\" of residents was \"our primary focus.\" A council spokesman said it was aware of the issues raised by Mr McKinlay's family about the quality of care at the home. \"We are working closely with the private care home provider and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to investigate those concerns,\" they added. In light of Mrs McKinlay's concerns, the CQC inspected the care home in February but found standards were good. A CQC spokeswoman said it had shared details of the complaint with the home and the authority and all \"had been subject to safeguarding alerts\". She added: \"We are continuing to monitor this service.\" Mr Lampitt previously owned two other care homes, the Da-Mar Residential Care Home in Northampton and Clifton Residential Home in Rushden. Both were wound-up due to financial problems and had been told they required improvement following inspections.", "question": "A deaf - blind dementia sufferer was made to sit in a chair @placeholder with his own urine by a care home manager , his daughter has claimed .", "option_0": "decorated", "option_1": "treat", "option_2": "soaked", "option_3": "loaded", "option_4": "equipped"}
{"id": 655, "article": "Ann Beynon said other measures, such as sponsorship and teaching women entering business how to deal with discrimination, are also important. The latest figures show almost 24% of board positions in the leading British companies are held by women - up from 12.5% in 2011. She said: \"It's getting better, but there's a long way to go.\" The European Union has been pushing for legislation to force firms to have at least 40% of their boards made up of women. Ms Beynon said everybody has the \"the responsibility to make sure that woman are not disadvantaged\" but added that quotas can be a \"negative force\". \"I think you need a whole shelf of different solutions,\" she added. These include managers sponsoring women to help their careers and preparing them for the discrimination they can face in workplaces, in order to make them \"more prepared to fight those battles\". Ms Beynon leaves BT this week after 17 years and has dismissed rumours she plans to stand for a seat in May's Assembly elections. Instead, she said she plans to stay in the private sector to help grow the Welsh economy.", "question": "Quotas for the number of women in boardrooms should not be @placeholder out , the director of BT in Wales has said .", "option_0": "broken", "option_1": "worked", "option_2": "ruled", "option_3": "sold", "option_4": "phased"}
{"id": 656, "article": "The 2014 winner Pineau De Re was among those to miss the cut for the famous Aintree race. Lower-rated horses are balloted out, with The Romford Pele occupying the number 40 slot. There were no withdrawals in Thursday's final declaration stage. Four reserves are on standby should any runner pull out before 13:00 BST on Friday. Download your sweepstake kit here Pinstickers' guide Many Clouds is 7-1 favourite ahead of 10-1 chance The Last Samuri and 12-1 shot Silviniaco Conti. Coverage of the race, over 30 fences and nearly four-and-a-half miles, is expected to be followed by 600 million people worldwide. Organisers have put back the time of the race by an hour to 17:15 BST in an effort to further increase the audience. The National is a handicap chase, with each runner allotted a different weight to carry by the official handicapper Phil Smith. Some trainers are faced with the tricky task of trying to ensure their contenders perform well enough to get a rating which guarantees a run, without landing a big weight that hampers their chances. Pineau De Re is now in the twilight of his career, at the age of 13, and his rating has dropped. No horse of that age has won the National since Sergeant Murphy in 1923. The British Horseracing Authority has indicated it is open to reviewing the entry system ahead of next year's National. Top weight Many Clouds will seek to become the first horse since the legendary triple victor Red Rum in the 1970s to win back-to-back runnings. Victory would see jockey Leighton Aspell, who also triumphed aboard Pineau De Re two years ago, become the first rider to win three years running. Media playback is not supported on this device Officials believe modifications to the fences, and other alterations, introduced three years ago have helped improve safety. Since the changes, there have been no fatal injuries in the National itself, although two horses died in other races at the three-day meeting last year.", "question": "Last year 's winner Many Clouds heads Saturday 's Grand National @placeholder after the 40 - runner line - up was confirmed .", "option_0": "field", "option_1": "title", "option_2": "controls", "option_3": "heritage", "option_4": "mood"}
{"id": 657, "article": "Skipper Niamh Briggs and Sene Naoupu are the only backs to be retained, with Briggs switching to centre in Dublin. Mary Healy and Ulster's Nikki Caughey form a new half-back pairing, while Kim Flood, Liz Burke and Alison Miller are also drafted into the backs. Lindsay Peat, Elaine Anthony and Ciara Cooney are called up to the forwards. The backs changes see Elise O'Byrne-White, Aine Donnelly, Mairead Coyne, Nora Stapleton and Larissa Muldoon losing their starting roles. Forwards Ruth O'Reilly, Claire Molloy and Paula Fitzpatrick drop to the replacements, while Sophie Spence switches from lock to number eight. Full-back Flood and wing Burke will win their first caps and scrum-half Healy will make her first Six Nations start. Up front, prop Peat earns her first Ireland start and Elaine Anthony will make her Six Nations debut when she partners Marie-Louise Reilly in the second row. Claire McLaughlin, an unused substitute against England back in November, will be hoping to win her first cap from the bench. After winning their opening game against Wales, Ireland slipped to defeats against France and England. Tierney said: \"We have been strong in passages of our play but mistakes proved to be costly. \"We've made a number of changes this week and this is to allow players the opportunity to show us what they can do.\" Italy lost their opener 39-0 against France but a 33-24 defeat by England was followed by a 22-7 win over Scotland. Ireland: Kim Flood; Liz Burke, Niamh Briggs, Sene Naoupu, Alison Miller; Nikki Caughey, Mary Healy; Lindsay Peat, Cliodhna Moloney, Ailis Egan; Elaine Anthony, Marie-Louise Reilly; Ciara Cooney, Ciara Griffin, Sophie Spence. Replacements: Zoe Grattage, Ruth O'Reilly, Fiona Reidy, Claire Molloy, Paula Fitzpatrick, Larissa Muldoon, Nora Stapleton, Claire McLaughlin.", "question": "Ireland women 's coach Tom Tierney has @placeholder to the defeat by England by making eight changes for Sunday 's Six Nations game against Italy .", "option_0": "added", "option_1": "apologized", "option_2": "slipped", "option_3": "progressed", "option_4": "reacted"}
{"id": 658, "article": "South Wales Police recorded the highest number of incidents while the biggest rise was seen in Dyfed-Powys where the number jumped by 52%. The data for July to September 2016 was compiled by the Press Association. Police say their own monitoring suggests incidents have levelled out after the summer's spike. Both the South Wales and Dyfed-Powys forces saw their highest quarterly figure since comparable records began in April 2012. The figures, following the referendum on 23 June, are for all forces in England and Wales and cover five core crimes which are deemed to be racially or religiously aggravated, ranging from assaults through to criminal damage. Only four forces - all in England - reported a decrease on the previous three months. Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton, the National Police Chiefs' Council's lead for hate crime, said: \"We know that national and global events have the potential to trigger short-terms rises in hate crime and we saw this following the EU referendum last year. \"Police forces took a robust approach to these crimes and reporting returned to previously seen levels. \"These numbers are still far too high. We have increased the central reporting and monitoring functions to enable us to recognise spikes earlier. This will be used to assess any threats that may arise and inform local police activity.\"", "question": "All police forces in Wales saw hate crime rise in the first full three months following the EU referendum , new @placeholder has shown .", "option_0": "analysis", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "force", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "statistics"}
{"id": 659, "article": "An aerial was attached to the back of eight turtles by scientists using satellite technology to monitor the species' habits. The project found one travelled from the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to the coast of Somalia in east Africa. It is believed to be the furthest green sea turtle migration recorded. The Swansea scientists, collaborating with colleagues in Australia and the Seychelles, were investigating the effectiveness of marine protected areas which have been set up by governments around the world over the last decade to improve conservation and protect species and biodiversity from damage and disturbance. Published in the latest issue of Conservation Biology, the research team found The study focused on the green sea turtles which breed on the Chagos Islands in the Chagos Archipelago which became a protected area in 2010, according to Prof Graeme Hays from the College of Science at Swansea University. \"The message from this research is that networks of small protected areas need to be developed alongside larger ones so species which migrate over long distances can stay in safe zones for as much time as possible,\" he said. GREEN SEA TURTLE FACTS Source: National Geographic Nicole Esteban, a Swansea University researcher who has worked on the project, said: \"Green sea turtles are an iconic species and their welfare tells us a lot about the health of our oceans. \"They forage in seagrass meadows which are being depleted because of pollution and other man-made causes. \"Our study helps determine the location of these important habitats, and also highlights the need to protect seagrass meadows, and make a network of small marine protected areas (MPAs).\" Last year, the Welsh government withdrew plans for 10 marine conservation zones in favour of exploring changes to 125 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) that cover 36% of Welsh seas.", "question": "A green sea turtle migrated a @placeholder 3,979 km ( 2,472 miles ) in a year , according to Swansea University researchers .", "option_0": "combined", "option_1": "twisted", "option_2": "staggering", "option_3": "bucket", "option_4": "beach"}
{"id": 660, "article": "Richard Scott, the 10th Duke of Buccleuch, gave evidence at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, where he is challenging a ?¡ê4.25m legal action. Marshall Ronald claims the duke owes him the sum for recovering the artwork. Madonna of the Yardwinder was taken from the duke's family home, Drumlanrig Castle, near Thornhill, in 2003. The Leonardo Da Vinci painting was recovered in 2007 after Mr Ronald, of Upholland, Lancashire, sent a message to an undercover officer stating: \"The Lady is coming home\". Three years later the former lawyer was cleared of conspiring to extort money for its return at the High Court in Edinburgh. Mr Ronald claims in the civil action that the duke provided a letter of authority confirming that the officer, known as John Craig, acted as his agent in the recovery of the painting and was authorised to conduct negotiations. He contends that the ?¡ê4.25m was the amount agreed to be paid to him for his role in securing the return of the masterpiece and that the agreement was made by Craig acting on behalf of the Duke. The duke maintained in the action that Craig had no actual authority to enter any agreement or negotiate on his behalf. It is said the letter of authority was requested by the police as part of their undercover operation and was designed to support John Craig's undercover persona. Giving evidence in court, the duke said he first became aware of an undercover operation mounted by the police in 2006. He said he was informed that a man by the name of Brown had convinced the police that he had seen the painting and possibly had access to it. He said he was asked by an officer to have a phone conversation with him which he did. \"I knew I had to act out a role,\" he said. He added: \"I was an actor in a process which they were devising and creating.\" The judge, Lord Brailsford, reserved his decision in the case.", "question": "A Scottish aristocrat has told a court that he became \" an actor \" in an undercover police operation to secure the return of a @placeholder masterpiece .", "option_0": "sex", "option_1": "stolen", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "couple", "option_4": "drug"}
{"id": 661, "article": "He told Fox News that the Democratic Party was using the row over his remarks to deflect from bigger issues. His remarks on Wednesday were regarding 30,000 emails Mrs Clinton did not hand over as part of an inquiry into a private email server. Russia has accused the candidates of stirring up anti-Russian sentiment. \"Of course I'm being sarcastic,\" Mr Trump told Fox News. His campaign has maintained pressure on Mrs Clinton over an FBI investigation into her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. During the investigation, Mrs Clinton did not hand over 30,000 emails as they contained private details. On Wednesday, Mr Trump told a news conference: \"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you'll be rewarded mightily by our press.\" He later wrote on Twitter that if anyone had the emails, they should hand them over to the FBI. Jake Sullivan, Mrs Clinton's senior policy adviser, reacted angrily to Mr Trump's remarks. \"This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue,\" he said on Wednesday. The row came as Russia was accused of hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for Mr Trump's benefit. Both Russia and Mr Trump denied the allegation. Those emails were leaked to the Wikileaks organisation and published last Friday. In his interview with Fox, Mr Trump said: \"The real problem is what was said on those emails from the Democratic National Committee. \"What they said on those emails is a disgrace and they're just trying to deflect from that.\" The emails showed DNC officials, who are supposed to remain neutral, had favoured Mrs Clinton and derided her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders. President Barack Obama has refused to rule out Russian involvement in the leak, adding: \"What we do know is that the Russians hack our systems. Not just government systems, but private systems.\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the hacking allegations were a \"vivid example of the use of anti-Russian sentiment for electoral purposes in the United States\". \"It is so absurd it borders on total stupidity,\" he said. \"As regards these (DNC email) batches, that is not our headache. We never poke our noses into others' affairs and we really don't like it when people try to poke their nose into ours.\" He added: \"The Americans needs to get to the bottom of what these emails are themselves and find out what it's all about.\"", "question": "US presidential hopeful Donald Trump says he was being sarcastic when he @placeholder to invite Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton 's missing emails .", "option_0": "believed", "option_1": "encouraged", "option_2": "threatened", "option_3": "appeared", "option_4": "wanted"}
{"id": 662, "article": "Across Ghana, the irreversible effects of child malnutrition can be seen among thousands of children affected during their critical first 1,000 days of life. This is the time in a child's life that will determine their health as adults, their ability to learn in school and to perform in future jobs. A group of photographers and researchers organised by Ubelong went to Ghana to uncover the complex stories behind this problem. Nana has been the chief of the farming community of Bentum for 35 years, although two years ago he sold most of the farming land in the area to a developer. As a result, most local villagers lost their livelihoods, and now struggle to feed their families. The signs previously used to identify farm boundaries lie discarded by the road. \"I am very proud to be the chief,\" he says. \"It's not easy. No-one will take my land. I know my people in Bentum cannot farm anymore. \"But whatever you do for food, is on you.\" While at home with her mother, Kate tells the story of how one of her daughters died aged two. Ever since her husband died, a decade ago, she has struggled to find work and take care of her four children. They are malnourished and often get sick as they eat only banku, a Ghanaian dish of fermented corn and cassava dough. \"God took my two-year old daughter. She was not feeling well, so I put her to bed. Later that evening, there was a bad storm,\" she says. \"The sky was loud and angry. I heard an explosion in the clouds. When I went to check on my baby, she was dead. I believe the thunder killed my baby.\" Hannah stands surrounded by the yellow buckets of rainwater she collected the night before. She never attended school, and started working at a very early age as a fishmonger. She is married to a fisherman who is often away for weeks. \"My kitchen is empty. I have no food,\" she says. \"My children don't even eat the little food I give them. I don't know about malnutrition. I just pray my children become great people\". Rebecca's children receive over-the-counter medical remedies from the local shop, instead of professional healthcare at the hospital. Like many women in the village, Rebecca doesn't receive much support from the father of her children. She feels she has nowhere to turn. \"Women don't support each other here, it's not something we do.\" Beatrice and Joy are in charge of the childcare and malnutrition unit at the Kasoa Clinic. A few community nurses cover an area with more than 30,000 people, and Beatrice estimates only about 20% of the malnourished children are brought to this clinic. \"Women with malnourished children have problems that they cannot openly discuss with friends or family. There is a stigma associated with having a malnourished child,\" she says. \"So, we mostly identify malnutrition cases by talking to neighbours. Our most important job is to provide a safe environment to counsel them about their children, so that they don't feel embarrassed about bringing them here. \"But our effort is just a drop in the ocean.\" Christy stands with her youngest daughter besides the farm where she used to work in Bentum, a community plagued by poverty and child malnutrition. When the village chief, Nana Agya Kwao, sold all the farming land in the community, it meant she could no longer work. \"No-one here can access their farms. I was able to feed my four children before, but there is no food anymore and no jobs in this village,\" she says. \"I struggle to earn a quarter of what I made before.\" Mary holds a bottle of glucose that a nurse gave her at the clinic, to combat the malnutrition symptoms of her newborn baby. She could not breastfeed her son, who was very small at birth. Despite giving glucose to her baby, he died six weeks later, at just two months old. Local tradition mandates that when a baby dies of malnutrition, the baby is taken away. Mary and her husband were not allowed to attend their son's funeral.", "question": "This project was organised and @placeholder by Ubelong , a social venture based in Washington DC .", "option_0": "promoted", "option_1": "shared", "option_2": "surrounded", "option_3": "produced", "option_4": "beaten"}
{"id": 663, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The challenger was game but his fellow American, defending his WBC and WBA welterweight titles, was simply too difficult to hit at the MGM Grand. Mayweather, 38, was awarded the verdict 120-108, 118-110 and 117-111. Mayweather was adamant it was his last fight, but having equalled Rocky Marciano's career record of 49-0, he might decide to have one more. \"My career is over, that's official,\" said five-weight world champion Mayweather, widely regarded as the greatest fighter of his generation. \"You've got to know when to hang them up. I'm close to 40 now. There's nothing left to prove in the sport of boxing. Now I just want to spend time with my family. \"I am leaving the sport with all my faculties, I'm still sharp and smart. I've accomplished everything in this sport, there's nothing else to accomplish.\" The 32-year-old Berto is a two-time welterweight world champion and came into the fight having lost only three of his 33 professional bouts. But those three defeats came in his previous six contests and pretty much nobody gave him a chance against Mayweather, who was engaging in his 26th world title fight and whose unbeaten streak goes back to 1996. The pattern for the fight, as with so many of Mayweather's previous fights, was set in the opening round, the champion establishing his lightning jab and repeatedly making Berto miss. Mayweather went on the back foot in the second but Berto was chasing shadows, before the champion came out punching in the third, catching his rival cold with a snapping left hook. After the first nine minutes of action Berto had barely laid a glove on Mayweather, and Mayweather made the challenger's knees sag with a flashing overhand right with a minute left in the fourth. Berto continued to venture forward in the fifth but even when he managed to manoeuvre Mayweather onto the ropes, he was unable to land with any meaningful blows. Berto might have done enough to win the sixth and certainly won the seventh, during which he landed with a clubbing left hook. Mayweather was happy to coast through the eighth, winning it on the back foot while drawing boos from the crowd as he mugged on the ropes. A fight broke out towards the end of the ninth, with both men trading blows on the bell, and the rivals were broken apart and warned for trading words in the 10th. Mayweather looked like he might open up in the 11th, landing with a cute uppercut, but he was showboating again towards the end of the round. And the fact there were boos ringing around the arena as the final round was drawing to a close rather summed up Mayweather's career - to many he is a genius, but he leaves many more boxing fans cold. Mayweather made $34m (¡ê22m) for his latest outing but few expect him to fulfil his promise to retire. MGM's new arena opens next April and a rematch against Manny Pacquiao, whom Mayweather beat in May in the richest fight in history, or against the winner of Miguel Cotto-Saul Alvarez might prove too tempting to turn down. Speaking in a 45-minute post-fight news conference, Mayweather said: \"I had a game plan from the very beginning. I always knew what I wanted to do - be outspoken, be one of a kind. To be in the sport for 19 years and to be world champion for 18 years, I've had a remarkable career. \"It's all about that IQ. I'm 10 steps ahead of any fighter, I take whatever is your best attribute and take that away from you, make you do what you don't want to do. \"Every champion - Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Larry Holmes, the list goes on and on - they opened up the doors and paved the way for where I am today and I'm appreciative. \"But now the young fighters say, 'We want to be like Mayweather'. It's not cool to take punishment in the ring. I'm not perfect but I strived to be a perfectionist.\"", "question": "Floyd Mayweather made it 49 straight wins with a wide @placeholder victory over Andre Berto in Las Vegas .", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "open", "option_2": "sex", "option_3": "couple", "option_4": "points"}
{"id": 664, "article": "The Civil Aviation Authority said such planes would be \"limited to flypasts\", and all Hawker Hunter jets have been temporarily grounded. At least 11 people died after a Hawker Hunter crashed into traffic on the A27 in West Sussex on Saturday. Sussex Police have named another victim as Maurice Abrahams of Brighton. Mr Abrahams' family released a tribute to the 76-year-old chauffeur, who was a former soldier and police officer. \"Maurice is a well-respected and loved father and husband,\" the statement said. \"He enjoyed his work chauffeuring his beloved Daimler car and he enjoyed gardening.\" Meanwhile, the plane wreckage has been removed by crane and no further victims have been found, Sussex Police said. Assistant Chief Constable Steve Barry added: \"However, until we have fully completed the search of what is an extensive scene, I must caution that there is still the possibility that we may discover evidence of further victims...\" Police have also said that more than 200 people have called in to report concerns for missing relatives or friends since the incident. A spokesman for the CAA said the flying restrictions would remain in place until further notice, and it would be conducting \"additional risk assessments on all forthcoming civil air displays\". Since the restrictions were announced a host of air shows have been forced to alter their schedules. The regulator stressed that individual display pilots were only granted approval to fly \"following a thorough test of their abilities\". Andrew Hill, the pilot of the crashed jet, has been put in medically-induced coma after being pulled from the wreckage. The 51-year-old from Sandon, near Buntingford in Hertfordshire, suffered multiple injuries and is in a critical condition. Mr Hill was set to fly the plane at the Battle of Britain 75th anniversary show in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, the Imperial War Museum (IWM) said. A spokeswoman for the museum said the event would still take place on 19 and 20 September, but it would be \"revised\" following the tragedy. Similarly, Dartmouth Royal Regatta in Devon - which features an air display - will go ahead from Thursday but the routine of a Strikemaster jet has been restricted. Shoreham air crash: The victims Meanwhile, the Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA), which organises Shoreham Airshow, has defended the event's safety record. \"The team at Shoreham have many years of experience in running air shows throughout the UK and all aircraft have to be certificated and all pilots authorised by the CAA before they are allowed to undertake display routines at any air show,\" a spokesman said. West Sussex coroner Penny Schofield warned that work to identify the victims would be a \"slow and painstaking operation\" as she appealed for the public's \"patience and understanding\". She said it may take \"several weeks\" before all investigations were completed. \"The fire was so intense and the scale of the damage so vast, it means that we must very carefully remove the remains in a way that will lead to a formal identification,\" she added. The A27 will need major repairs as a result of the impact of the crash, and is expected to be shut for several days. Books of condolence have been opened and the flag is flying at half-mast at County Hall in Chichester. Two of the victims were amateur footballers and the Football League has announced that a minute's silence will be observed prior to all Capital One Cup Round 2 matches on Tuesday and Wednesday as a mark of respect to all those who died. Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has offered his condolences to those who have died. He said: \"The government is offering its full support to both the Civil Aviation Authority and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch to ensure everything possible is being done to find out what happened and ensure air displays take place safely and follow the highest standards.\" Saturday's crash is the second incident at the Shoreham Airshow, one of the premier air shows in the UK, in recent years. In September 2007 James Bond stuntman Brian Brown, 49, died when he crashed a World War Two Hurricane after carrying out an unplanned barrel roll at a re-enactment of the Battle of Britain.", "question": "Vintage jets will not be allowed to perform \" high - energy aerobatics \" over @placeholder at air shows after the Shoreham crash , regulators have said .", "option_0": "disorder", "option_1": "land", "option_2": "hours", "option_3": "change", "option_4": "remarks"}
{"id": 665, "article": "Whatever the reason, since time immemorial many have feared Fridays and thirteens. But why did the two fears come together to create a superstition with a life of its own, marked throughout the English-speaking world? Not for any mystical reasons, it seems. \"From the astrological point of view there is no need to be concerned about Friday 13th ,\" says Robert Currey of Equinox Astrology. Dates and days of the week used to be closely related to planetary movements and phases of the moon in a system dating back to the Babylonians, he says, but that's not the case any more. Sonia Ducie is a numerology consultant who believes strongly in the innate energy of numbers - 13 is \"all to do with transformation and change\" she says, and she counts Friday as the fifth day, associated with movement. \"You can see how with those two numbers together, it could be very restless,\" she says, but adds: \"It's down to us; the energy's neutral.\" Why did the combined superstition arise, then? In 1907 a book called Friday, the Thirteenth was published, by a stock promoter called Thomas Lawson. It was the inspiration for the Friday 13th mythology which culminated in the lurid film and TV franchises starting in the 1980s. Lawson's book is a dark fable of Wall Street whose central character ruthlessly engineers booms and busts in the market to work revenge on his enemies, leaving misery and ruin in his wake. In it he takes advantage of the jitters which the date Friday 13th could be relied on to produce in the market traders. \"Every man on the floor and in the Street as well has his eye on it. Friday, the 13th, would break the best bull market ever under way,\" one character says. So in 1907 fear of that date was already an established superstition. A quarter century before, it was not. The Thirteen Club, a gathering of jolly gents determined to defy all superstitions, first met on 13 September 1881 (a Wednesday) though it was formally organised on Friday, 13 January 1882. They met on the 13th of the month, sat 13 to a table, broke mirrors and spilled salt with exuberance and walked in to dinner under crossed ladders. The club's annual reports carefully noted how many of its members had died, and how many of these passed away within a year of attending a club dinner. It was founded by Captain William Fowler - of whom it was said that everyone associated him with \"good fellowship, a big heart, and simple, unostentatious charity\" - at his Knickerbocker Cottage restaurant on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue. As club marshal he \"always gallantly and fearlessly led to the banqueting hall,\" reported the club's \"chief ruler\" Daniel Wolff. The New York Times reported that at the first meeting the 13th diner was late, and Fowler dragooned one of the waiters to make up the unlucky number: \"Despite his howls he wasa€| just being shoved through the ladders when the missing guest arrived.\" The first target of the club was the fear that if 13 people dined together one would soon die. But a second superstition soon followed. In April 1882 it adopted a resolution deploring the fact that Friday had \"for many centuries past, been considered an unlucky day... on unreasonable grounds\" and the club sent a call to the President, state governors and judges to stop picking on Friday as \"hanging day\" and hold executions on other days too. But of a joint Friday 13th superstition there is no sign at the club's foundation. It appeared some time between 1882 and the publication of Lawson's book in 1907. Could that be the club's own fault? It took every opportunity of bringing its two prime targets together to ridicule them, the Los Angeles Herald reported in 1895: \"Whenever, during the past 13 years Friday has fallen on the 13th of the month this peculiar organisation has never failed to hold a special meeting for rejoicing.\" The club prided itself that it had put superstition in the spotlight. Its fame was great: the original 13 members had grown to hundreds by the turn of the century and similar clubs were founded in cities across the States. London's Thirteen Club had been founded by 1894, when a music hall song about it appeared. \"Two of these vulgar superstitions you have combated resolutely and without flinching,\" club scribe Charles Sotheran wrote to the New York members in 1883, \"namely the belief in 13 being an unlucky number, and Friday an unlucky day. You have created a popular sentiment in favour of them both.\" Sotheran must have meant \"made Fridays and 13 less unpopular\", but his sentence is ambiguous and it could just as well have meant \"made the superstitions popular\".  So was it this interpretation which established the superstition in public opinion? The Thirteen Club's doctrine was \"that superstition should be assailed and combated and driven off the earth\". If instead it generated one of the most widespread and persistent superstitions of all, that was an unlucky accident indeed.", "question": "There are three Friday the Thirteenths this year , and if that worries us , we might have to blame a @placeholder who were the sworn enemies of all superstition .", "option_0": "man", "option_1": "date", "option_2": "people", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "generation"}
{"id": 666, "article": "David Kittos, 48, from Guildford, UK, woke up to find an image he had posted to Flickr in January 2010 had become embroiled in a political controversy. \"This was not done with my permission, I don't support his politics and I would never take his money to use it,\" Mr Kittos told the BBC. \"In 1974, when I was six-years old, I was a refugee from the Turkish occupation of Cyprus so I would never approve the use of this image against refugees.\" In his tweet, the son of the Republican presidential candidate uses Mr Kittos' image with the accompanying text: \"If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful?'' \"That's our Syrian refugee problem.\" He adds: \"This image says it all. Let's end the politically correct agenda that doesn't put America first.\" Wrigley, the company that owns Skittles, stepped in to the furore by responding: \"Skittles are candy. Refugees are people. We don't feel it is an appropriate analogy\". David Kittos, who does not follow Twitter, was alerted to the use of the image by friends. A keen photographer, he told the BBC he originally took the picture in his home studio: \"I was just experimenting with something called off-camera flash. \"This was six years ago when there were no Syrian refugees at the time and it was never done with the intention of spreading a political message. \"I have never put this image up for sale. This was not done with my permission, I don't support Trump's politics and I would never take his money to use it.\" Mr Kittos' personal history means he is particularly dismayed by his image being used in a debate around accepting refugees. \"I am now a British citizen but I am Greek-Cypriot by birth and in 1974 I was a refugee because of the Turkish occupation. \"I was six years old. We lived in the area of Cyprus that is now under Turkish military control. We had to leave everything behind overnight. Our property and our possessions.\" Mr Kittos is unsure whether he will take action over the use of his image by the Trump campaign. \"I would like the Trump campaign to delete the image, but they are probably not interested in what I have to say,\" he said. \"I was thinking about getting lawyers involved but I don't know if I have the patience. \"This isn't about the money for me. They could have just bought a cheap image from a micro stock library. This is pure greed from them. I don't think they care about my feelings. They should not be stealing an image full stop.\" Patrick Evans, BBC's UGC and Social News team Meet a family of Syrian refugees who are adjusting to a new life in Canada.", "question": "Donald Trump Jr 's tweet comparing Skittles to refugees has caused a furore on social media . In a new @placeholder , the man who took the photo of the Skittles has revealed himself to be a former refugee .", "option_0": "field", "option_1": "generation", "option_2": "development", "option_3": "life", "option_4": "light"}
{"id": 667, "article": "Fans have taken to the winger, 20, who has made nine appearances following his move from Aston Villa in August. However, only five have been starts and he played just nine minutes as a sub against Southampton on Sunday. \"With him on the pitch, after 20 seconds Southampton had a chance,\" Karanka told BBC Tees. \"That's the sort of thing that people don't see.\" Karanka added: \"I have to check every single thing, I know he had an impact, but Adama's game can't be a highlight of 40 seconds, it's got to be 90 minutes.\" The Spanish forward, born to Malian parents, began his career at Barcelona and made four first-team appearances before his ¡ê7m switch to Villa Park in August 2015. Boro, who have scored a division-lowest 13 goals in 15 games, are waiting on the return of versatile forward Gaston Ramirez and striker Alvaro Negredo from injury. Whether either feature on Wednesday against Liverpool, or are potentially rested until the visit of Swansea on Saturday, is a quandary for Karanka. \"It's a balance, to try not to take risks but to put the best players on the pitch,\" the Spaniard added. \"I can't reserve a player for Saturday thinking that they're not ready to play on Wednesday, because this is an important game for us. \"I will try to put out the best 11 [for Liverpool] thinking they're the best for that game, not thinking about risk of playing on Saturday.\"", "question": "Middlesbrough head coach Aitor Karanka says his approach to selecting winger Adama Traore is @placeholder .", "option_0": "struggling", "option_1": "revealed", "option_2": "justified", "option_3": "retiring", "option_4": "expected"}
{"id": 668, "article": "He did not have any visitors on Friday after doctors advised him to rest, but his family are said to have been in contact by phone. The 91-year-old Duke of Edinburgh was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on Wednesday from Balmoral. The Queen left Balmoral for a few hours on Friday, the first time she has been seen in public for a couple of days. She drove herself out of the gates of the estate in a Range Rover, returning later in a convoy that included the Earl and Countess of Wessex. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed an RAF helicopter was scrambled to take the duke to hospital on Wednesday, but its efforts to land near a road were thwarted by fog. A spokesman said it was eventually decided it would be quicker to complete the 50-mile journey by road. It is the duke's third hospital stay in nine months. He spent four days in hospital over Christmas, following an operation to clear a blocked heart artery. And after attending events to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in June, Prince Philip was admitted to hospital for five nights, missing several days of festivities after sustaining the original bladder infection.", "question": "Prince Philip has remained in hospital as he continues to @placeholder treatment for a bladder infection .", "option_0": "join", "option_1": "replace", "option_2": "promote", "option_3": "sign", "option_4": "receive"}
{"id": 669, "article": "Asylum seekers in Middlesbrough told The Times eggs and stones had been thrown at their houses because the doors made them easy to identify. The immigration minister said he was \"deeply concerned\" about the issue. G4S said there was no policy to house asylum seekers behind red doors but its subcontractor would be repainting them. The Times visited 168 houses in Middlesbrough owned by Jomast, a sub contractor for the global security firm G4S, and found 155 had red doors. Is Middlesbrough the UK's Germany? BBC correspondent Andy Moore said it was thought the door colour may have been a convenient way for the company to identify its properties. Former local councillor Suzanne Fletcher told the BBC's Today programme she had raised the issue with G4S as far back as 2012 but was told the company would not ask Jomast to repaint the doors. She went on to submit evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Public Accounts Committee and National Audit Office. She said: \"Over four years ago when I was working with groups of asylum seekers, they were worried it marked them out and were worried about attacks.\" The charity Refugee Council said it \"has long held concerns about the quality and security of asylum accommodation\". It added: \"The government must not tolerate its contractors taking a lax attitude towards housing these vulnerable people. Such an approach is clearly jeopardising their safety.\" G4S said Jomast had no policy to house asylum seekers behind red doors but accepted the majority of doors, both for private and asylum accommodation, were painted red. Immigration minister James Brokenshire said he had commissioned an urgent Home Office audit of asylum seeker housing in the North East. He said: \"I expect the highest standards from our contractors. If we find any evidence of discrimination against asylum seekers it will be dealt with immediately as any such behaviour will not be tolerated.\" G4S said in a statement: \"Although we have received no complaints or requests on this issue from asylum seekers we house, in light of the concerns raised Jomast has agreed to address the issue by repainting front doors in the area so that there is no predominant colour. \"Our asylum accommodation is inspected frequently by the Home Office and has been found to meet the required standards.\"", "question": "The front doors of houses used by asylum seekers are to be repainted , after claims they were @placeholder because nearly all of the doors were red .", "option_0": "suspended", "option_1": "targeted", "option_2": "raised", "option_3": "deemed", "option_4": "blue"}
{"id": 670, "article": "The number of holidaymakers coming to the UK rose by 21.1% - although the number of business visitors declined. Overall there were a record 8.3 million visits in the quarter, a rise of nearly 10% on the same period in 2016. The visitors spent ¡ê4.4bn while in the country, also a record amount. But at the same time the fall in the value of the pound did not discourage Britons from travelling overseas. UK residents made 14.1 million trips abroad over the three months, a rise of 8.1% on 2016. The decline in sterling makes it cheaper for foreign visitors to come to the UK, but more expensive for Britons going the other way. The number of American visitors was particularly significant. Their numbers were up by 16%, while their spending grew 29% to ¡ê604m. There were a record 54,000 visits from Chinese nationals, who spent a record ¡ê91m, and there was strong growth in the number of Australian and French visitors too. Wales appears to have been one of the most popular destinations, with the number of overnight visits increasing by 28%. But the \"visitor balance of payments\" remains tilted against the UK. While visitors spent ¡ê4.4bn in Britain over the quarter, Britons spent nearly twice as much - ¡ê8.6bn - on trips abroad. a figure that has risen by 11.7% over the past year.", "question": "The @placeholder of sterling was behind a surge in the number of tourists visiting the UK in the first three months of 2017 , according to the Office for National Statistics ( ONS ) .", "option_0": "town", "option_1": "weakness", "option_2": "state", "option_3": "closure", "option_4": "amount"}
{"id": 671, "article": "The 2015 summer transfer window was as dramatic as any. BBC Sport takes a look at some of the stories of the summer - and retells them in road signs. Follow the escape lane previously used by Otamendi, Pedro, Ramos and pick another club. Manchester United is not your summer destination. The Reds were unsuccessful in a number of transfer bids this summer. Fans of New York FC must be hoping the club's decision to sign Frank Lampard and Andrea Pirlo does not backfire. The former joined from Chelsea, aged 37, while Pirlo, 36, was signed from Juventus. 'Get out of the way Manchester United, Chelsea are coming through. The Reds may rue allowing Chelsea to overtake them in the pursuit of Barcelona forward Pedro. Aston Villa fans probably weren't best pleased by Fabian Delph's U-turn over his decision to turn down Manchester City and stay at Villa Park. The England midfielder declared his loyalty to the Midlands club before changing his mind and moving to the Etihad. Watford have made 15 summer signings and Notts County have made 19, so there may be a queue to get in the first team. Several clubs - including West Brom, Southampton and Everton - held firm to fend off significant interest in players. Beware falling out with your club, it could come back to haunt you. Saido Berahino has suggested he might not play for West Brom again under chairman Jeremy Peace, after the Baggies turned down a fourth bid for him from Tottenham. Could be a boring few months for Saido then... Everton fans will be breathing a sigh of relief now the transfer window has closed as the Toffees held their nerve to keep Chelsea away from England defender John Stones. (Submitted by Tom Arnold) Manchester United vice executive chairman Ed Woodward at the steering wheel of Manchester United's transfer window. (Jack Haywood) Manchester United assure Real Madrid they sent the documents for David De Gea to the appropriate place. (Jon Murray) The saga of Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea. (Sam Cavanagh)", "question": "David De Gea 's Real Madrid move @placeholder , Saido Berahino staying at West Brom and Manchester United losing out on the signature of Chelsea to Pedro .", "option_0": "failed", "option_1": "collapsing", "option_2": "deepened", "option_3": "record", "option_4": "words"}
{"id": 672, "article": "Manager Lee Clark signed 17 players during the summer, 13 from clubs in Redcar-born Jones' English homeland. The 22-year-old joined Kilmarnock after being released by Middlesbrough, where his girlfriend has remained. \"It's hard being away from your family, but you just have to look to the next game,\" said the midfielder. \"It's been easier with everyone in the same boat. There are not many lads who were here last year.\" Several players live in the same apartment building close to Rugby Park, with Jones sharing with Jonathan Burn, the defender on loan from Middlesbrough but presently sidelined through injury. Kilmarnock have three more outings in a seven-game run of fixtures during December - against St Johnstone on Friday, Hearts on 27 December and Partick Thistle on New Year's Eve - before Jones can experience for the first time a January winter break. The Premiership sides do not return to action until the Scottish Cup fourth round on 21 January. \"We have had no time to get home because of all the games, but you have to live with it and it's not the worst job in the world at the end of the day,\" said Jones, who has made 21 appearances so far. \"We're always dead close to each another and we all just chill out together. \"I was sharing an apartment with Jonny Burn, but he's gone back to Boro and I'm by myself. \"I am looking forward to the rest and spending some time with my family, but I'm just concentrating on the football.\" Jones, who failed to make a first-team appearance with Boro, had loan spells with Hartlepool United and Cambridge United before joining Kilmarnock and is delighted to be featuring regularly in the starting line-up. \"At the start, I was in and out of the team, but I've been in now for about 10 games, so I am really enjoying playing every week,\" he said. \"It is a lot easier to settle when you are playing all the time because you are focused on the next game. \"I needed first-team football. I am 22 now, so that's the best thing and I am getting it.\" Jones believes that working under Clark has improved him as a footballer already. \"Off the ball, the gaffer has helped me massively,\" he explained. \"I think, before, I just never used to concentrate off the ball. \"Saturday, I didn't have my best game on the ball, but I worked really hard off it. That is where I have improved in the last few months.\"", "question": "Jordan Jones thinks the united @placeholder of Kilmarnock will help create a sense of togetherness during a hectic festive period away from their families .", "option_0": "level", "option_1": "nations", "option_2": "list", "option_3": "centre", "option_4": "number"}
{"id": 673, "article": "Keenan Quansah, Kealan Steenson, Liam Wakefield and Jason Mooney will depart. Marcus Carver, Ross Etheridge, Liam Goulding, Max Hazeldine, Shay McCartan, Brayden Shaw have been offered deals. Anthony Barry, Rommy Boco, Scott Brown, Adam Buxton, Tom Davies, Terry Gornell, Mark Hughes, Piero Mingoia, Andy Procter and Dean Winnard have also been given new contracts to consider. Josh Windass and Matt Crooks had already agreed to join Scottish side Rangers. Seamus Conneely, Billy Kee, Sean McConville, Matty Pearson, Ross Sykes and Nathan Webb are already contracted for next season.", "question": "Accrington Stanley have offered new terms to 16 out - of - contract players and have @placeholder four of their squad .", "option_0": "extended", "option_1": "released", "option_2": "named", "option_3": "taken", "option_4": "opened"}
{"id": 674, "article": "The Great Scottish Run on 1-2 October includes a 10K, a half marathon and Super Saturday - a family fun day. Running motivation: Keen hill walker John Mulgrew almost lost his life while out climbing in Kintail in the north west of Scotland in 2009. A few errors led to a wrong route and a fall, and the 69-year-old was left unconscious. He always kept in touch with his family when he was out walking and they raised the alarm when they couldn't reach him. When John was discovered by mountain rescue teams he had been unconscious for seven hours, his temperature had dropped to a dangerous level and he was in a critical condition. Although suffering hypothermia, the only other injury John suffered was a broken bone at the bottom of his back. Now fully recovered, John is running a half marathon to raise funds for one of the organisations which saved his life. John says: \"SARDA (Search and Rescue Dogs Association) was one of the teams that saved my life. I simply wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the rescue dogs and the brilliant work of all the mountain rescue teams. \"I want to do as much as I can to raise funds and awareness for them.\" Running for: The Search and Rescue Dog Association Scotland Running motivation: Kirsten Koh, 36, thought she'd never walk again after a cycling accident. Five years ago the keen triathlete was training in her native country Singapore with her partner Orla Gilmore when she was hit by a lorry. She was dragged underneath its chassis and broke her pelvis, both femurs, and several other bones. She spent three months in hospital and a further seven months in a wheelchair. As her body gradually got stronger she kept challenging herself to swim longer and cycle further. Her first 'race' after her accident was the Singapore Sundown Marathon in 2012, which took her 10? hours to walk. Despite now walking with a limp and dealing with ongoing pain, Kirsten says she is pretty fit and healthy. She now works to help injured athletes and people who have faced life-threatening illnesses. She says: \"I have come back strong and I am grateful for that. \"Because of my experience, I have a different perspective on life and death and now I want to give something back.\" Running motivation: When former army officer John Owens had his first stroke he was in his early 20s and he thought it was a hangover. But when he was 38 he suffered his second stroke. A blood clot had become lodged in his brain, and further tests confirmed it was as a result of a hole in his heart, which he had been born with. John was left with a brain injury, which can make processing information more difficult. He also faces the possibility of further strokes. At his lowest point, he was walking on crutches, and thought he'd never walk properly again. After being discharged from the army, he also had to adjust back into civilian life. Now 42, he enjoys running, which has helped him get out of the house and make new friends. John says:  \"I needed to find something to get me motivated and keep me going, because you could easily find yourself getting secluded in your own house. \"Nothing is stopping me from doing what I want to do. My problems have been identified and I have strategies to cope. \"But having a positive mental attitude definitely helps. What's happened has happened, I don't mope about it, I just want to get out there.\" Running for: Chest, Heart & Stroke Running motivation: At his heaviest, Robert Fleming weighed just over 20 stone. After the death of his gran when he was 18, he became the full-time carer for his mum, who has learning disabilities. Robert, who also has learning disabilities, found himself battling depression. He stayed indoors, ate badly, played on his computer through the night, and slept most of the day. However, something clicked after the death of his dog - a collie called Max - and he decided things needed to change. In 2013, he rehomed seven-year-old black labrador Tiki. He met other dog walkers, made friends and started to love his life. Then, after being inspired by runners at the London marathon, he started running. He now trains with Forfar Road Runners and ran his first marathon earlier this year. Over the past three years, Robert has lost 9st. He still has bad days due to depression and he gets support from mental health charity Penumbra. He says: \"I keep all my old photos and when I look at them I think - where's that person? \"It's like I have a new life, and if I have had a bad day I look at them and think I've come too far to go back there. \"I've managed to sort my life out and getting Tiki was a huge part of that. I'd be lost without him.\" Running for: Mental health charity Penumbra", "question": "Meet four of the inspiring people who will be lining up in Glasgow 's George Square to take part in Scotland 's biggest running @placeholder .", "option_0": "night", "option_1": "event", "option_2": "show", "option_3": "contest", "option_4": "marathon"}
{"id": 675, "article": "Alan was the Syrian three-year-old whose photograph - lying dead on a beach - focused world attention on the refugee crisis in September 2015. Mufawaka Alabash and Asem Alfrhad, both Syrian nationals, are being tried in Bodrum, the same Turkish seaside city where his body was washed up. Mr Alabash and Mr Alfrhad face up to 35 years in prison each if found guilty. They are charged with human smuggling and with causing the deaths of five people \"through deliberate negligence\". Both said they were innocent of the charges at the hearing on Thursday, which, the BBC understands, has already finished. Their next hearing will be in early March and the men will remain in custody until then. Alan's five-year-old brother Galib and his mother Rihan also drowned when the boat they were on sank during an attempted crossing to the Greek island of Kos. The father of the family, Abdullah, survived. He is currently thought to be living outside Turkey. The story of Alan Kurdi's family Why Alan Kurdi's picture cut through", "question": "Two @placeholder people - smugglers are on trial in connection with the death of Alan Kurdi and four other people .", "option_0": "people", "option_1": "clashes", "option_2": "suspected", "option_3": "schools", "option_4": "serving"}
{"id": 676, "article": "Among the massed ranks, a portrait of his late father held out in front of him, was President Vladimir Putin. This surprise appearance amid crowds in Moscow honouring ordinary people who served in World War Two seems to be part of a change of image for the Russian president - portraying him more as a down-to-Earth man of the people, rather than the all-action hero TV viewers have become used to seeing. For over 30 seconds, TV commentators made no reference to his surprise appearance. But then anchor Vladimir Solovyev supplied the meaning of what was undoubtedly a carefully choreographed media event. \"There were no loud announcements and no commotion. Why?\" said Mr Solovyev. \"Because this is an amazing event at which politics moves into the background. It is a day when all are equal.\" Brand Putin still in fashion In pictures: Russian WW2 Victory Day Not everything went completely smoothly. As the president paused for a short interview surrounded by his security entourage, an old man button-holed him to ask about the benefits he was due as someone affected by the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl. The cameras quickly moved away. But Solovyev continued in the same lyrical vein. \"Victory Day - everyone is equal. People just come up to the president of the Russian Federation and talk to him.\" The message of the people's president was reinforced in other parts of the media. \"Putin acted like an ordinary man,\" proclaimed a headline on the popular news website Gazeta.ru. Commentator Aleksey Malashenko described it as a political masterstroke. \"I would not be surprised if at that moment the president's rating had reached 100%. Yes, it was populism, but sincere populism,\" he blogged on the Ekho Moskvy radio station website. Putin as man of the people was also one of the key themes of Prezident, a 150-minute film recently shown on official channel Rossiya 1 to mark the 15th anniversary of the beginning of his rule in 2000. The film dwelt on the Russian leader's humble origins and his attachment to his late parents. \"He comes from a working family in the suburbs, just like millions of others, millions of his compatriots, same as me, same as you,\" popular singer Nikolay Rastorguyev said over footage of Putin discussing people's problems in the street. In the film, President Putin himself stressed that he was not from an \"elite background\". \"This connection with the people and sense of closeness to them, to ordinary people, are hugely important and a great help to me in my work,\" he said. Prezident also featured an episode from 2006 in which Putin visited a coffee shop in Dresden and stood in the corner with his coffee and cake, apparently unnoticed by other customers. The sequence was shown without commentary as if its only purpose was to reinforce the idea of Putin as the \"ordinary man\". This portrayal of Putin is in marked contrast to the image of the derring-do hero of the TV stunts for which he has become famous - the bare-chested hunting expeditions, the dive for Greek wine vats in the Black Sea and saving journalists by shooting a Siberian tiger with a tranquilizer, to name but a few. But it has been some time since Russian TV viewers were treated to Putin in full-blown action-man mode and is a far cry from the image given by a film aired three years ago to mark his 60th birthday. That NTV film showed the president working late at night, alone in his office, breakfasting on health foods and swimming and exercising in his private gym, watched over by his beloved black labrador Koni. Media academic Anna Kachkayeva believes it portrayed a person who \"for a long time has been living in the special dimension of power and has, of course, lost touch with reality\". The wish to show President Putin as an \"ordinary man\" may be related to the political imperatives of Russia's current economic difficulties. But there may also be a more personal element. At the end of \"Prezident\", Vladimir Solovyev asks Mr Putin what he has had to give up as leader of his country. The president sighs deeply, frowns and answers: \"A normal, everyday life.\" One journalist, Oleg Kashin, suggested the film may have been less about propaganda than psychotherapy. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "question": "As viewers watched Russian @placeholder TV coverage of Victory Day on 9 May , their eyes will have been drawn to one face in particular among the crowds carrying photographs of family members who took part in the struggle against Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945 .", "option_0": "public", "option_1": "shadow", "option_2": "state", "option_3": "traces", "option_4": "television"}
{"id": 677, "article": "Terry Bradbury, 75, played alongside Jimmy Greaves and Terry Venables in the late 1950s. Mr Bradbury, who also made appearances for Southend United, Leyton Orient and Wrexham, won ¡ê5,517,016 in Saturday's National Lottery draw. He and his wife Eleanor said they planned to buy a family villa in Spain. The pair, who live in Buxton, Derbyshire, told reporters they would use the winnings to provide security for their four sons and nine grandchildren. Mrs Bradbury, also known as Ann, said: \"The villa will be a place where our family can always go to for holidays. \"It is wonderful to think that none of our children will have a mortgage or any stress for the rest of their lives. \"This win provides our family with security and this is what pleases Terry and myself more than anything.\" The couple, who used to run a pub in Tideswell, Derbyshire, said they bought their lucky dip ticket from a WH Smith in Buxton. Mr Bradbury told reporters the most he earned during his professional football career was ¡ê25 each week, getting a ¡ê4 win bonus and ¡ê2 for a draw. \"I was getting about ¡ê20 for playing football but a tradesman was only getting ¡ê8 to ¡ê10, so it's all relative,\" he said. He said Jimmy Greaves was \"the greatest goal machine I ever saw\" but \"ruthless\" Dave Mackay was the hardest player he came up against. Asked about modern players, he said: \"Good luck to them. You can't blame the sportsmen. If someone offered you another ¡ê1,000 a week you would go.\" Mr Bradbury said: \"I had a good time at Chelsea, enjoyed every minute - all through my playing career. This is just the icing on the cake for Ann and I.\"", "question": "A former Chelsea midfielder - who made ¡ê 25 a week as a professional footballer in the 1950s - has @placeholder a ¡ê 5.5 m Lotto jackpot .", "option_0": "awarded", "option_1": "backed", "option_2": "scooped", "option_3": "secured", "option_4": "amassed"}
{"id": 678, "article": "Scottish Borders Council (SBC) has been successful in a first stage bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the project in Duns. Development funding of more than ¡ê50,000 has been awarded to help work up a full bid for about ¡ê645,000. The council has already committed almost ¡ê620,000 to the scheme. Community fundraising aims to bring in a minimum of ¡ê300,000 towards the project. It would see the existing Jim Clark Room in Duns expanded and enhanced to allow cars and trophies to be put on display. A total project cost of about ¡ê1.65m has been attached to the scheme. It is hoped the development could be completed by 2018 - the 50th anniversary of Clark's death at Hockenheim in Germany, aged just 32. The driver was born in Kilmany in Fife, but raised in the Borders, and was crowned Formula One world champion in 1963 and 1965. He won a total of 25 grand prix races.", "question": "Plans for a museum celebrating the achievements of two - time Formula One world champion Jim Clark have @placeholder another funding landmark .", "option_0": "opened", "option_1": "reached", "option_2": "revealed", "option_3": "begun", "option_4": "created"}
{"id": 679, "article": "Mr Hamill, a 25-year-old Catholic, was beaten to death by a loyalist mob in Portadown, County Armagh, in 1997. The public inquiry's finding's will not be released until three prosecutions in connection with the case have concluded. The government said the report had been placed in a secure location. Last month, NI Secretary of State, Owen Paterson, announced the report delay. The inquiry began its public hearings in January 2009 and held closing submissions in December 2009. It heard evidence in person from 174 witnesses and witness statements from a further 37 witnesses. Mr Hamill, a father-of-three, suffered serious head injuries and died 11 days after the attack.", "question": "The public inquiry panel examining how the police @placeholder the sectarian killing of Robert Hamill have completed their report .", "option_0": "handled", "option_1": "affect", "option_2": "surrounding", "option_3": "showing", "option_4": "reported"}
{"id": 680, "article": "It is May 1917 and the early hours of a new day at the western front in France. Heavy German machine-gun fire is being trained on advancing soldiers of the East Yorkshire Regiment who are pinned down sheltering from the bullets.  Two attacks by the troops have been already been repulsed. A lone figure stands up and races towards a wood containing the machine-gun emplacement, he silences the gun by blowing it up and is then seen to fall. BBC Local Radio stories of a global conflict The footballers caught out by war's outbreak How the English munitionettes claimed victory Discover how WW1 changed your world With the firing lifted a number of the attacking soldiers do get into the enemy-held strongpoint in the wood but are eventually pushed back, finishing the day back in the trenches they set out from. The attack cost the East Yorkshire Regiment more than 800 men, including 12 officers and 215 men who were killed. One of those casualties was the man who dashed forward to silence the machine-gun, temporary Second Lt John Harrison - posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery that day. John 'Jack' Harrison had been a star rugby league player for his home town team Hull FC before he joined the carnage of World War One. A teacher, he had played his first game for the club in September 1912 and was a winger in the team that won the club's first Challenge Cup in 1913-14, scoring a try in the final. He scored 52 tries in that pre-war season, a club record that still stands, and crossed for 106 tries in his 116 matches before his last game for Hull FC on Boxing Day, 1916. Within days he left for the trenches of France with fellow Hull Pals of the East Yorkshire Regiment. Bill Dalton, Hull FC historian, has studied what happened on the fateful May morning, in Oppy Wood, close to Arras. He said: \"Various battalions were under great pressure. Jack Harrison led the troops to within a few hundred yards of the German position. \"Under heavy attack from one particular machine gun battery they couldn't advance any further so Jack ordered his troops to take cover. \"He had to negotiate through three lines of barbed wire but he took it upon himself to dash out with a single Mills bomb across no-man's land and succeeded in depositing that bomb with the German battery and blew it up. \"The machine gun didn't fire again but Jack was observed by his troops to fall face down and was never seen again.\" Harrison's body was never found. He is commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's memorial in Arras. Mr Dalton said: \"You would like to think when he was dashing across that battleground... his rugby skills would have come into play.\" Johnny Whiteley, 83, played more than 400 games for Hull FC from 1950 and said Harrison would come to mind at times when he captained the team. T/ 2nd Lieutenant John Harrison, MC \"This gallant officer... made a dash at the machine gun, hoping to knock out the gun and so save the lives of many of his company. His self-sacrifice and absolute disregard of danger was an inspiring example to all. \" \"He was part of Hull FC folklore, someone we all looked up to,\" he said. \"Jack Harrison got out of a trench and led men, to his death.  We were not going to die playing rugby league but he was an inspiration. \"He will be long-remembered for the courage he showed.\" In 2003, a service took place to unveil a memorial to Harrison at the city's KC stadium, present home of Hull FC. The Reverend Alan Bagshaw, chair of the Jack Harrison Memorial Trust and the club's former chaplain, said: \"He was one of Hull's true heroes in the First World War winning both the Military Cross and posthumously the Victoria Cross.\" Special battalions for groups of local men who had enlisted together. They meant the men fought alongside friends, neighbours and work colleagues. Harrison enlisted in the Hull Pals. Harrison is also remembered with a charitable trust that bears his name and a silver medal is awarded annually in his honour, to a young person who has overcome adversity through sport. Harrison's widow Lillian was presented with his Victoria Cross by King George V at Buckingham Palace in 1918. A small oak, ash and willow wood on the outskirts of Hull has been re-named Oppy Wood in honour of the hundreds of Hull men who died in that action in France.", "question": "World War One took professional Hull FC rugby league star and teacher Jack Harrison to the battlefield , where he found bravery under fire to become an inspiration to @placeholder anew in the East Yorkshire city .", "option_0": "beat", "option_1": "generations", "option_2": "join", "option_3": "act", "option_4": "build"}
{"id": 681, "article": "The 20-year-old winger has agreed a five-and-a-half year deal but will be loaned back to Palace until the summer. Zaha said: \"I am delighted to be joining Manchester United. However, my focus for the next five months will be solely at Crystal Palace.\" United will pay ¡ê10m up front, with an extra ¡ê5m in additional fees. The two clubs confirmed they had reached an agreement on Friday morning, with Palace also announcing they expect the move to be finalised next week. The skilful wide-man has already agreed personal terms with the Premier League leaders and will now undergo a medical in Manchester. \"We like to sign players with potential,\" manager Sir Alex Ferguson said. \"We develop players and that's been proven many times. Hopefully the boy enjoys it here.\" Media playback is not supported on this device Zaha joined Palace as a 12-year-old, and could be in line to win his second England cap against Brazil in February. He has excelled since making his debut for the Selhurst Park outfit in March 2010, scoring 15 goals in 124 appearances and being named the Football League Young Player of the Year last season. \"I have been at Palace for more than 10 years, I will always love the club and I want to help get them back to the Premier League, particularly for the fans who have always been so good to me,\" Zaha added. Media playback is not supported on this device Palace are currently fourth in the Championship table, two points behind Leicester who fill the last automatic promotion place. Co-chairman Steve Parish had always insisted Zaha would not leave the club on a permanent basis in January and he expressed his delight with the terms that will see the attacker continue to play a pivotal role in their bid to reach the top flight. He said: \"I feel this is a great deal for the club and the player. It was essential to Wilf and ourselves that he stayed at Palace for the remainder of this season to help the club with its main aim of promotion to the Premier League.\"", "question": "Wilfried Zaha says he is delighted at his summer move to Manchester United but insists his \" focus \" @placeholder on winning promotion with Crystal Palace .", "option_0": "sign", "option_1": "form", "option_2": "impact", "option_3": "level", "option_4": "remains"}
{"id": 682, "article": "Ms Yellen signalled that the Fed was likely to raise rates in March, a move which markets have increasingly been expecting. The Dow Jones closed up just 0.01%, or 2.74 points to 21,005.71. The S&P 500 index inched up 1.20 points to 2,383.12, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 9.53 points to 5,870.75. Ms Yellen told an audience in Chicago: ''Looking ahead, we continue to expect the evolution of the economy to warrant further gradual increases in the target range for the federal funds rate.'' The New York indexes shrugged off the Federal Open Market Committee chair's commentary. \"At some point, maybe later in the year or next year, the market may not look at a rate hike as a positive thing,\" said Tom Cahill of Ventura Wealth Management. \"But right now, the market is willing to see this as an indication that economic growth is accelerating.\" Meanwhile, shares in Snap, the owner of Snapchat, continued to climb after surging 40% on Thursday on its market debut. The social media company's shares closed up a further 10.66% to $27.09.", "question": "Stocks on Wall Street closed flat on Friday as investors digested a @placeholder by US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen .", "option_0": "rise", "option_1": "resource", "option_2": "halt", "option_3": "paper", "option_4": "speech"}
{"id": 683, "article": "At this week's European Council, David Cameron will call for \"greater co-operation\" and a halt to the traffic in \"guns from the western Balkans\". Mr Cameron will also propose a \"new EU-wide ban on all high-powered semi-automatic weapons\". The EU's response to the Paris attacks will be discussed at the meeting, which begins on Thursday in Brussels. Number 10 said that alongside a ban, measures would include greater sharing of ballistics data, a plan to improve intelligence about firearms in the western Balkans, action to take firearms out of circulation and a \"clear implementation\" plan for all member states. Mr Cameron said the \"horrific terrorist atrocities\" in Paris showed the scale of the threat facing Europe. \"A terrorist threat in one country is a danger to all of us, so I believe there is more we must do together to tackle the terrorist threat posed by Daesh,\" Mr Cameron said. \"We need to ensure that terrorists do not have the weapons with which they can wreak such tragedy.\" Mr Cameron will also call for greater efforts to undermine online radicalisation and the ideology of so-called Islamic State, referred to by the government as Daesh. Nils Duquet, a researcher at the Flemish Peace Institute in Brussels, said in an article for the BBC that in several recent attacks, including in Paris, there was a connection between the guns used and Belgium. He said an increase of heavy firearms on the illegal market in Belgium was mainly linked to smuggling from the Balkans. Hundreds of thousands of military weapons stayed in the hands of citizens after the Balkan wars of the 1990s, he said. A semi-automatic firearm is self-loading, firing a single round each time its trigger is pulled. A total of 130 people died and hundreds were wounded in the 13 November Paris attacks, when gunmen and suicide bombers attacked a concert hall, a stadium, restaurants and bars almost simultaneously.", "question": "The EU should crack down on the illegal gun trade , the prime minister will @placeholder in the wake of the Paris attacks .", "option_0": "host", "option_1": "urge", "option_2": "decide", "option_3": "arrive", "option_4": "open"}
{"id": 684, "article": "He side-stepped the question - choosing instead to say that it was up to voters to decide. So, should we take what he has said today with a massive pinch of pre-election salt? The answer, I believe, is no. Love him or loathe him, the former prime minister has said what he thinks today - nothing more, nothing less - on both his successor as Labour leader and what is one of the critical issues facing the country at this election. It's no secret that Blair is no fan of his successor. Why would he be? Ed's rationale for standing against his brother was because David Miliband did not represent the break with New Labour that he believed was needed. So, whether on the deficit, public spending control, reform of the public services - let alone matters of peace and war - there is a gulf between them. No wonder they chose not to appear together to give journalists the chance to remind them of all they've said about each other. But - and it is an important but - the former prime minister knows that Ed Miliband came under sustained pressure to match the Tory promise of an EU referendum. He was told \"you can't afford to oppose giving people a say, you'll never face down the pressure from the press, a referendum's inevitable\" and more besides. Even some pro-Europeans joined in arguing that this was a chance to close the gaping wound that had been open for decades by settling Britain's place in the EU once and for all. Tony Blair had come under precisely the same pressure more than a decade ago when he was in Number 10. The issue then was on whether there should be a referendum on a proposed new EU constitution. He executed a humiliating U-turn on the issue, saying \"no\" for months before finally conceding defeat and declaring \"let the battle commence\". All the more reason, he believes, for admiring his successor's resolve not to follow suit and for being contemptuous of David Cameron who has. Of course, the Conservatives will tell you all of this makes their point precisely - that Labour is still led by people who will not make a stand in Brussels, won't deliver reform and won't give you the right to decide directly at the ballot box on this country's future. Whoever's view you share, there's no denying that putting into question the UK's central economic relationship is one of the biggest decisions this country will take for decades. If David Cameron remains prime minister it will dominate his next period in office and define his place in history. What's more, there is a real and clear choice between the parties which are promising you a vote come what may and those, like Labour and the Liberal Democrats, who say you'll only get one if there is a further transfer of powers to Brussels. So, today you don't need a degree in statistical analysis or those nice chaps from the Institute of Fiscal Studies to understand something very, very simple. On 7 May this issue alone means the country faces a very significant choice because the two men who want to be your prime minister have themselves made two very different choices about how to handle calls for an EU referendum. And isn't that, ladies and gentlemen, one of the things voters say they want?", "question": "Not so long ago I @placeholder Tony Blair to say that Ed Miliband was a strong leader .", "option_0": "admits", "option_1": "called", "option_2": "invited", "option_3": "wanted", "option_4": "heard"}
{"id": 685, "article": "The move involves three oil exploration companies, Falkland Oil and Gas (FOGL), Edison International and Noble Energy. They will continue their operations in other parts of the region, but need \"disciplined capital management in the current oil price environment\". The price of Brent Crude has almost halved in the last year. The announcement also follows Argentina's ramping up of political pressure on the companies last week. The disputed sovereignty of the Falklands makes drilling there controversial. FOGL initially planned to explore five oil wells in the region in 2015. Oil explorers globally have scaled back drilling work to control costs amidst the steep decline in oil prices. Shares in FOGL opened 4.3% higher as investors saw the news as positive.", "question": "Oil drillers in the Falklands have shelved plans to drill a second well in the @placeholder and east of the region , following the steep drop in oil prices .", "option_0": "south", "option_1": "wake", "option_2": "region", "option_3": "neck", "option_4": "future"}
{"id": 686, "article": "Work to raise Drayton Road, the main road into Muchelney, was due to have been finished at the end of last month. Bad weather now means it will not be completed until mid February, a Somerset County Council spokesman said. Last winter large parts of the Levels were deluged with flooding, leaving villagers cut off for two months and a trunk road closed for several weeks. A 547 yard-stretch (500m) of Drayton Road is being raised by more than 3.9 ft (120 cm) at its lowest point. A council spokesman said: \"We have been saying since the beginning of November that the Muchelney road raising was likely to run into the New Year. \"As things stand, we are hoping to be able to complete the works in February. However, as they have been from the beginning, all scheduled completion times will be subject to factors such as the weather.\"", "question": "A scheme to prevent a community on the Somerset Levels from being cut off by flooding has been @placeholder .", "option_0": "released", "option_1": "announced", "option_2": "identified", "option_3": "approved", "option_4": "delayed"}
{"id": 687, "article": "Parents raised a near 4,000-name petition calling on the council to save the service which provides music lessons in schools and runs ensembles. The new Denbighshire Music Co-Operative will teach over 2,200 pupils each week from September, said the council. The not-for-profit organisation has also protected the jobs of 34 teachers. \"We have offered a long term loan of the council's musical instruments to the new co-operative, which means that our children and young people can continue to use their instruments,\" said Councillor Eryl Williams, the council cabinet's lead member for education.", "question": "A school music service has been taken over by a new @placeholder after it was threatened with closure due to cash cuts by Denbighshire council .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "operator", "option_2": "information", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "public"}
{"id": 688, "article": "The local council is to relinquish its shares in the company that owns and manages the 96-year-old  stadium. Those shares will be transferred to the club, with the council recovering its original ¡ê100,000 outlay. The council became one of three shareholders in the company when it was set up in 1991 to safeguard the stadium, which is also used by Rochdale Hornets rugby league club. The Rugby League Facilities Trust were also involved in that deal, but the League One club now owns 100% of shares in the stadium company. Rochdale Hornets have signed a new long-term lease to continue playing at Spotland as part of the new agreement. Loans of ¡ê529,000 the stadium company has with the council will be repaid over a period of nine years. \"It has been our desire for the last 10 years to secure a deal to regain ownership of Spotland,\" said Dale chairman Chris Dunphy. \"The board has worked tirelessly during that time to bring our vision to fruition and today is a proud day in the club's history.\"", "question": "Rochdale have secured full ownership of their Spotland @placeholder .", "option_0": "intake", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "region", "option_3": "ground", "option_4": "company"}
{"id": 689, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The sport was told last month it would receive no money for Rio 2016 - a cut of ¡ê8.5m from the London 2012 cycle. NBA All-Star Deng, 27, wrote: \"I refuse to sit back and let that legacy be completely demolished for basketball.\" Source: BBC Sport All sports affected have a chance to present their case for a reversal to funding body UK Sport on Wednesday. Deng - who was born in Sudan but became a British citizen seven years ago after going to school in Croydon, south London - was the star name in the Team GB side that was knocked out in the group stage at London 2012. The women's Team GB outfit also exited the competition at the bottom of their group. The small forward has excelled since joining the Chicago Bulls in 2004 and will play in his second successive All-Star Game - a representative match featuring the best players in the NBA - on 17 February. In December, UK Sport announced a record ¡ê347m worth of funding for Rio 2016, 11% up on London 2012, but basketball, handball, table tennis and wrestling lost all support. Those disciplines missed out due to the organisation's \"no compromise\" approach to focus on sports with genuine future medal prospects rather than the more general approach adopted for the home Games. \"I, along with other people involved in the game, have put too much in and care too greatly to let this happen,\" Deng added. Media playback is not supported on this device \"The sport of basketball is a pathway, a pathway that teaches so many valuable lessons on and off the court, how are we supposed to motivate these kids to carry along their journey when there's now nothing at the end. No Team GB, no Olympic dream, no goal.\" The original decision about the level of funding was made after each Olympic discipline supplied UK Sport with a detailed plan evidencing their business case for investment which was allied to their potential to gain podium places in future events. Basketball - along with the other sports unhappy with the 2013-17 allocation that followed - have been invited to London on 30 January to make an \"informal representation\" to the full UK Sport board. Each representation will involve a 10-15 minute presentation followed by a discussion about each argument's merit, with a decision to follow on Friday. If the sports are still unhappy, they will have 20 working days from that date to make a formal appeal. Aside from that process, British Basketball is also considering lodging a formal appeal to the Sport Dispute Resolution Panel. An adjournment debate in Parliament on 'Funding for Basketball' will also take place on Monday night.", "question": "Britain 's top basketball player , Luol Deng , has written a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron demanding that the sport 's funding is @placeholder .", "option_0": "restored", "option_1": "revealed", "option_2": "resolved", "option_3": "humour", "option_4": "calculated"}
{"id": 690, "article": "The BBC One comedy reached 9.69 million viewers, up from a live Christmas Day audience of 7.61 million. Call the Midwife was the second most popular show, attracting 9.4 million. Viewing figures were generally down on last year, with nearly two million fewer people watching the number one rated show than last year. Irish-based sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys, starring Brendan O'Carroll, also topped the Christmas Day ratings last year, but the number of viewers dropped from the 11.5 million it attracted then. The Queen's Christmas Message, the most watched programme live, fell to 7th position with a total of 8.04 million viewers. BBC One had six of the top 10 most watched programmes while ITV had four - the channels shared the Queen's Christmas Broadcast at 15:00 GMT, which was also aired on Sky News and Sky One. The Queen used her broadcast to highlight the importance of reconciliation between people, speaking of the impact of the Scottish independence referendum, and recalling the moment German and British soldiers put down their weapons and met on Christmas Day in 1914. Strictly Come Dancing's Christmas special, which saw gymnast Louis Smith scoop the champion title for a second time, attracted 8.98 million viewers, putting it in third position. Sitcom Miranda, which drew to a close on 1 January in a two-part special, was in fourth position with 8.65 million viewers and an audience share of 30.6%. BBC drama Doctor Who was in 6th position with 8.28 million viewers, a decline on the 11.1 million viewers last year, when former Doctor Matt Smith was seen regenerating into Peter Capaldi. ITV's highest rating Christmas Day show was for Coronation Street with 6.65 million viewers tuning in. ITV's figures do not include ITV+1.", "question": "Mrs Brown 's Boys was the most -watched Christmas Day show , according to @placeholder data that includes catch - up viewings .", "option_0": "ensure", "option_1": "control", "option_2": "beat", "option_3": "consolidated", "option_4": "replace"}
{"id": 691, "article": "Burnley Empire Theatre defaulted to the care of the Duchy of Lancaster as an \"owner of last resort\" after the ownership could not be established. Last used as a bingo hall in 1995, the Cow Lane venue was recently named the fifth most at risk theatre in the UK. Campaigners who want to restore the building to its former glory said the decision was a blow to their plans. Sophie Gibson from the Burnley Empire Theatre Trust (BETT), said: \"This news came as something of a surprise and a disappointment. \"The viability study, which the council contributed to as well, is currently taking place and the results are due very shortly. \"If, as we hope, the verdict is a positive one we can then move on to stage two, the architectural planning phase for the project, when we also begin applying for funding. \"All of this could have been for nothing if it is auctioned off before we are able to get that far.\" The Duchy of Lancaster, said it had been left with \"no alternative\" but to put it to bidders after offering it free of charge to both Burnley Council and the Theatre Trust - an offer that \"remains open\". A spokesman added: \"The Duchy remains hopeful that the building will remain in local ownership.\" BETT said it could not yet afford the legal costs that would be incurred to take on the building. The four-storey building, designed by  G. B. Rawcliffe, opened in 1894 as a music hall, before being converted to a cinema in 1938. It is to be auctioned in Manchester on 16 October.", "question": "A @placeholder Grade - II listed theatre , which has stood empty for over 20 years , is to be sold at auction .", "option_0": "dilapidated", "option_1": "mixed", "option_2": "crowd", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "restored"}
{"id": 692, "article": "In the blinding artificial light, she homes in on a monster-sized flapjack and devours it, washing it down with a glass of water before returning to bed. Two hours later and the alarm is full of vim again. The double Olympic champion, ignoring the devil on her shoulder begging for rest, glances in the direction of her trainers. It wasn't like this when the 46-year-old was training for Olympic gold. There were no brutal long-distance runs on country lanes at hours when only milkmen are truly alert. It is the day she will run 18 miles for the first time in her life. She stretches, puts on a woolly hat - her must-have accessory on every run - and charges out on a morning cold enough to freeze breath. Media playback is not supported on this device The humdrum pounding of tarmac over a daunting distance plays with her mind. Manipulative voices become louder with every mile; one telling her to stop, to give in, the other demanding she ignores the pain. It is torture. She is constantly checking the clock, counting down the miles. One hour becomes two, on and on she goes. Holmes, the first British woman to win two Olympic gold medals at the same Games, is not a marathon runner. Even when she was in her athletic prime, her body would often cave in; stress fractures, ruptured Achilles, chronic fatigue. They would lead to self harm, to suicidal thoughts. More than a decade on and her mind is better equipped to deal with failure, but the body is still not coping with punishing training routines. She hobbles home, wincing as she puts one foot in front of the other. Eighteen miles on the clock, but her hips ache, her nerves are inflamed. It feels like ants are crawling all over her body. Holmes knows she will have to go to the hospital again for spinal injections to release the tension. The doctor will order her not to run for another seven days. \"I wish I'd done this training under the radar, but I've opened my mouth now. I can't not do it,\" she says, three weeks after her crippling 18-mile run, a hint of seriousness hidden in the laughter. \"I didn't think about how training for the London Marathon would affect my body. I expected it to be hard, I expected it to hurt somewhere, but the body is in shock. \"I've always had problems with my lower back, but it's more intense now because of the way I'm running. I run on my toes, it's a lopey stride, and the way my hips are twisted allowed me to do what I did. Now I'm doing longer stuff it's changing me biomechanically - it's changing the way my body is reacting to running. \"Because I'm feeling pain everywhere, my stride is shortening and I'm having a lot of bad hip pains. \"I haven't the mentality I had when I was an elite athlete. There's been no training plan. Refuelling? I'm rubbish at that. When I did the 18-miler I woke myself up to eat and then went back to sleep just so I had a bit of fuel. \"When I come back from a run I know I should have an ice bath, but when the alternative is a hot bubble bath I think 'sod that'.\" Some friends, Holmes admits, are \"laughing their heads off\" at her antipathy towards three months of miserable training. When it comes to marathon running, this two-time Commonwealth champion, the 2004 BBC Sports Personality of the Year, is almost like the rest of us. \"They're saying 'you're a mess, you're too old,'\" says a chuckling Holmes. And then there's mum, Pam, non-competitive and unable to fathom why her daughter has chosen to drag her body around the streets of London for 26.2 miles. \"'Why are you putting yourself through that?'\" says Holmes, wagging her finger, mimicking her mum. \"I just tell her: 'Mother, a challenge is a challenge!'\" Despite the motherly concern, Holmes' mum is one of the reasons why the Dame will be among thousands of runners raising money for charity this Sunday because, last year, her mum was diagnosed with myeloma, a cancer of the blood. \"She's now in remission, but it's an incurable cancer,\" Holmes explains. She is trying to raise ¡ê250,000 for five charities - Mind, Dame Kelly Holmes Trust, Hospice in the Weald, MyelomaUK and The Pickering Cancer Centre - and there is a personal story to each. Media playback is not supported on this device It is no surprise to hear the former soldier describe herself as the sort of person who pushes herself to the limit. How else could two Olympic gold medals be won the year after grappling with depression? In 2003, the former soldier sank to the lowest of lows because of injury, locking herself in a bathroom and slashing her left arm with a pair of scissors. \"One cut for every day I was injured.\" It was, she would admit, the worst period of her life. She describes her life as a \"journey and a half\", one which went from rock bottom to historic peak when, in six glorious days, she twice crossed the finishing line at the Olympic Stadium in Athens ahead of her rivals; arms aloft, goggle-eyed incredulity at becoming the 800m and 1500m Olympic champion. The first Briton for 84 years to achieve the Olympic middle-distance double. \"I've missed not having a personal, physical challenge because that's what makes me me,\" says Holmes, going on to add that raising money for charity is what has sustained her motivation these past few months. \"I have to have challenges, go through the trauma of doing it. That's what I fight for. \"I want to do one big charity push now and take some time out. I need something that's just for me. Everything's been for other people in the past few years. I need time and I don't give myself time.\" Choose which celebrity you'd like help from in the new Couch to 5K programme, designed for people who have done little or no running. Is Holmes concerned she might not complete Sunday's terrifying assignment? A stupid question. There is no doubt. After all, Holmes was twice told to retire by doctors before the Sydney Olympics in 2000. \"I will finish it,\" she says, eyes widening. \"When I was an athlete I knew my sport inside out. I knew what I needed to do to be good. If I went to an event I'd pretty much know the outcome whereas with this I don't know what's going to happen, but I'll finish the race. \"I'm hoping I just run round but if I end up having to walk for whatever reason then I'm going to have to deal with that. \"When I'm going down The Mall, I'll be sprinting like Usain Bolt and I'll be so proud of myself.\" You can follow the full coverage of the 2016 London Marathon on the BBC and we will be featuring more inspirational stories from you in our live text commentary on Sunday. Get involved: Send us your London Marathon stories and messages by using the hashtag #GetInspired on social media", "question": "The alarm chirps , annoyingly energetic at such an unwelcome hour . It 's 5 am . Dame Kelly Holmes , eyes acclimatising to the darkness , mind @placeholder to being abruptly stirred , bumbles out of bed to the kitchen .", "option_0": "resigned", "option_1": "adjusting", "option_2": "blind", "option_3": "closed", "option_4": "designed"}
{"id": 693, "article": "Media playback is unsupported on your device 15 October 2014 Last updated at 13:18 BST The steppe eagle flew 45 times over the Brecon Beacons wearing a miniature rucksack packed with scientific instruments. The experiment showed that by collapsing his wings in heavy wind, Cossack can fly in conditions that would have grounded an aircraft. Scientists say birds such as vultures and kites may use the same technique. During each \"wing tuck\" Cossack's wings are, for a split-second, folded beneath his body so that he is effectively falling. This occurs up to three times a minute in some conditions. Study leader Professor Graham Taylor, from Oxford University's Department of Zoology, said: \"Soaring flight may appear effortless but it isn't a free ride...it also puts an enormous strain on its flight muscles.\" He compared the technique to suspension on a car stopping a disturbing ride. The 75g (3 oz) \"black box\", which does not interfere with flying, tracks his position and records acceleration, rotation rate and airspeed. Prof Taylor believes the lessons learned from Cossack could be useful to human aviation. \"This kind of technique could potentially be used to keep micro air vehicles aloft even in very windy conditions,\" he said.", "question": "An eagle @placeholder Cossack has been fitted with a \" black box \" to reveal his secret weapon against turbulence .", "option_0": "company", "option_1": "body", "option_2": "engineer", "option_3": "acclaimed", "option_4": "called"}
{"id": 694, "article": "Thanks for all the good wishes you've been sending. I thought I'd use this column to answer a few of your questions. Q) When you are all not talking about tennis (or football) what does team GB discuss at the dinner table? (@AndiMillman) We're discussing my snooker victory over Ken Skupski on Tuesday night - we talked about that quite a lot. It wasn't comprehensive at all - I had to pot the brown, blue, pink and black in a row to get the win. It was a decent break. I've probably done better than that, my best is around mid-20s, but Tuesday's would have been up there. I think it was the highest break of the night to win. It was a bit lucky, to be fair. Q) Who's the biggest prankster in the changing room and what's the best prank you've seen? (@MoWilson18) We don't really play pranks, it's really just everyone constantly dishing out stick to each other. Shane Annun, our physio, takes a lot of it actually. Q) Would winning the Davis Cup with Team GB mean more to you than winning a Grand Slam? (Linda Farnhill) I think it would be different. The enjoyment you get out of winning as part of a team I would say is greater than on your own. When we win Davis Cup matches it's nicer celebrating with everyone and having a big team around. It would be comparable but completely different to a Slam. Media playback is not supported on this device A Slam also happens in the space of a couple of weeks, whereas the Davis Cup - this year has been over the course of nine or 10 months but it has actually been a much longer road, like five or six years. Q) Given the tour is so worldwide, is there a difficult aspect to playing away from home? (Aidan Williams) It makes a difference but playing in front of a home crowd can help or also hinder in an individual sport. Some players don't enjoy it - they can lift you when you're down but you can also put a lot of pressure on yourself to perform. When you play away from home, the crowd is against you but it does feel like there's a little bit less pressure. The expectation tends to be with the home team. Q) Do you like having a coach/captain on the court during games and would you like to see that introduced on tour? (Greg Edwards) I guess it's nice - it's different. I don't see it as being a negative in any way. The thing with the on-court coaching on the rest of the tour is I don't think it really works. Some players are at a huge disadvantage depending on the language they speak, because if you speak a language that the commentators and others don't understand then the whole tour and locker room don't know what the coach is telling you at the side. If you speak English or Spanish then everyone does, and I don't think that's so fair. Q) Would you ever consider being Great Britain's Davis Cup captain in the future? (William Smith) I've never really thought about it, to be honest. I don't think it would happen immediately after I stop playing because I would want to do other stuff first, but maybe when I'm quite a bit older. It's obviously completely different to what I do now. Obviously I would have  the experience of playing in the matches, so would have a good understanding of how the players are feeling and what they're going through. But you have to be able to communicate well with different people; you have to be able to manage a team, which I think is what Leon Smith has done extremely well. He doesn't have the experience of having played in the matches but his management of the team has been excellent I think. So there are different ways of doing the job, and whether I'd be good at it, I don't know. Q) Will you play the Davis Cup again next year? Please do! (Nicola Jade) The plan is to play the first tie against Japan in March, and then it will be difficult. If we win, the tie after Wimbledon but before the Olympics is not easy timing. Both the Davis Cup and the Olympics events are important, both are for your country, but it's better to prepare properly for one rather than a little bit for both. I would rather prepare as best I can for one and give it my best shot. I'll definitely be playing the tie against Japan, that's for sure, and then after that we'll have to see what happens with my schedule. Media playback is not supported on this device", "question": "We @placeholder in Ghent on Monday before the Davis Cup final and so far everything has been great , if a bit cold ! The court is good , the town is nice and , most importantly , I won at snooker .", "option_0": "shares", "option_1": "won", "option_2": "met", "option_3": "arrived", "option_4": "are"}
{"id": 695, "article": "On Wednesday the UN's food relief agency said the government set prices too high and  malnutrition was rising. But an official at Pakistan's food ministry told the BBC farmers would simply switch to more lucrative crops if wheat prices went down. Devastating floods across Pakistan in 2010 damaged acres of arable land. Although crop yields in 2011 are projected to be healthy, prices are too high for an impoverished population, the director of the UN's World Food Programme told journalists on the sidelines of humanitarian meetings in Geneva on Wednesday. \"The crop outlook is not bad but the food security situation remains difficult because prices remain so high,\" Wolfgang Herbinger said. Malnutrition levels in the southern province of Sindh had reached 21% to 23%, according to the WFP. \"That is well above African standards. The emergency standard is 15%,\" Mr Herbinger said. But lowering prices would do little to help the situation, an official at the food and agriculture ministry, who wished to remain unnamed, said. He also warned that much of the crop would end up in the hands of smugglers. \"Low farm-gate prices lead to lower acreage of wheat crop as farmers switch to other crops and it works as an incentive for smugglers seeking international prices in the neighbourhood. \"It is nearly impossible to stop smuggling across the Afghan border, which is extremely porous,\" he said. So if prices are lowered, the official said, the risk is that they would eventually rise to even higher than the level they are currently set at. In the 1990s and between 2007 and 2009 there were severe wheat shortages across Pakistan, leading to extremely high prices. Pakistani officials also say that malnutrition in Sindh province is not a new phenomenon and is unrelated to the food supply. \"Government statistics show that food consumption has not gone down despite the doubling of food prices since 2007-08,\" Kaisar Bengali, advisor to Sindh's chief minister said. A lack of public hygiene facilities and safe drinking water were more important factors in child nutrition, he said. \"These are neglected areas, and there has been hardly any development in the public health sector here in decades,\" Mr Bengali said.", "question": "Lowering wheat prices would create food shortages in Pakistan and encourage smuggling , officials say , @placeholder to criticism from the UN .", "option_0": "adding", "option_1": "designed", "option_2": "responding", "option_3": "lead", "option_4": "forced"}
{"id": 696, "article": "The singer was shooting a video for his first solo single, Sign Of The Times. Mitchell Partridge, who runs the firm Skye Ghillie, was taking clients fishing at the Storr Lochs when scenes for the music video were shot. Wednesday's stunt in north east Skye saw Styles dangling from a helicopter while being filmed from another. In April last year, Kanye West visited Skye to make a music video. The US musician's trip prompted a pun-filled tweet from Police Scotland and tongue in cheek report in a local newspaper. Sign Of The Times is Styles' first material since One Direction declared a hiatus in January 2016.", "question": "A stunt involving One Direction 's Harry Styles dangling from a helicopter on Skye has been @placeholder by a local photographer .", "option_0": "struck", "option_1": "held", "option_2": "captured", "option_3": "honoured", "option_4": "released"}
{"id": 697, "article": "In the heat of the EU upset following Britain's June vote to leave, it probably seemed very sensible to get the other 27 EU countries round a table - after a cooling-off period - to discuss the \"what next\". It could visibly demonstrate that, despite Brexit, the EU project was very much alive and kicking. But the day of that planned meeting has now dawned, and unity of purpose couldn't be a more distant prospect. At EU summits, leaders traditionally pose for what's known as the \"family photo\". But, as is the reality behind most family snaps, these 27 kids are variously bickering, sulking and winding each other up, while Jean Claude Juncker, the helicopter mum, and Donald Tusk, the more laissez-faire dad, fall out over parenting techniques. Yet these are difficult times in the EU with its Brexit, migrant and monetary woes. \"An existential crisis\" said European Commission President Juncker this week. \"Turbulent times marked by crisis and conflict,\" said European Council President Tusk, the host of today's summit. That the meeting takes place in Bratislava is an irony that cannot be ignored. Slovakia was loudly accused of betraying the very notion of EU solidarity after it objected to (and took legal action against) the EU migrant quota scheme to \"share the burden\" of last year's migrant crisis more equally amongst European partners. Slovakia is also a member of the Visegrad group made up of four central and eastern European countries. That group has been vocal in its constant criticism of EU policies, and demands powers be taken away from Brussels and given back to national parliaments. The Visegrads have announced they'll unveil a reform plan for Europe at this Bratislava summit - though their critics mutter that they are as divided amongst themselves as they are disconnected from Brussels. But EU squabbles aren't solely East-West focused, as we saw at the recent meeting in Athens of the so-called Club Med group of southern Europe. The Mediterranean seethes with resentment at perceived injustices in Eurozone regulations and at German austerity edicts. Meanwhile, Angela Merkel's crown as Queen of Europe has slumped. Her role in last year's migrant crisis - when she declared all Syrians welcome and asylum seekers poured into Germany and across the continent - damaged her standing at home and the rest of Europe. She no longer has the same power to chivvy or bully other EU countries to follow her lead. So while Mr Juncker now desperately calls for better defence projects and job-creating schemes in an attempt to demonstrate the bloc's value to the European public, Donald Tusk has woken up and smelled the pungent coffee notes wafting across the continent. He's seen the increasing influence of nationalist-minded Eurosceptic parties that challenge elites - bankers, traditional politicians and yes, Brussels bureaucrats - all of whom are perceived to be self-serving at the expense of growing sections of society. He knows now is not the time for grand pan-European announcements. Today's meeting on the future of the EU must be \"brutally honest\", he said. In fact, the 27 EU leaders will probably row behind closed doors and then produce platitudes for the public: pledges on migration and security that Europeans won't believe and their governments will struggle to honour. Because it's not just the EU that's fighting for survival. The leaders of many of its member states are running scared from the populists. They fear for their political lives - and EU projects and visions are not vote winners. So will this Bratislava meeting be the \"turning point\" Donald Tusk billed it to be, nudging the EU on a path back to stability and credibility? Unlikely. It's far more likely, in true Brussels style, that the can will be kicked further down the road and the EU will muddle on. For now.", "question": "It 's essentially a high - level public relations exercise that @placeholder falling humiliatingly flat .", "option_0": "allows", "option_1": "starts", "option_2": "means", "option_3": "grounded", "option_4": "risks"}
{"id": 698, "article": "The walled city or Shahjahanabad, as old Delhi was earlier known, was built by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan. Few yards away from its historic 17th Century Mughal mosque and within a stone's throw of an old cloth market stands the famous Lala Chunnamal's haveli (mansion). Many such palaces and mansions were built in this city, which was the power centre of the Mughal rule in India, but only a handful of them have survived. The Delhi government's planned work to restore 554 crumbling mansions in the area is yet to begin. But the owners of Lala Chunnamal's haveli take pride in keeping it in a reasonably good condition without any government support. It was built in 1848, nearly a decade before the sepoy mutiny of 1857. Anil Pershad, one of the current owners of the mansion, explains why his haveli is considered grand. \"It covers an area of one acre, there are 128 rooms which could house 30 family members, excluding the servants. But now most of the family members have locked up their share of the mansion and shifted to other localities in the city,\" he says. The once grand facade of the building is now crowded and lined with many shops selling clothes, hardware and spices. But once you step inside the haveli, it's a different world. Two flights of a narrow stairwell open in front of a heavily decorated mirror hung on top of the doorway, which leads to a beautiful courtyard that looks like a structure straight out of a period film. The drawing room is spread over an area of 700 sqft (65 sqm) and its walls are 18ft high. The room has three wooden chimneys and the ceilings are decorated with handmade chandeliers. Huge Belgian mirrors positioned at an angle on the sturdy walls catch the reflection of the breathtakingly beautiful chandeliers, ancient fans suspended from the high ceiling and finely-crafted glass lamps from Europe. Mr Pershad says that his family is the 10th generation of Lala Chunnamal's descendants. Chunnamal was a wealthy man. He used to lend money to the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar II and was also a supplier of shawls, silks and brocades to the royal household, Mr Pershad says. He even had great trading relations with India's British rulers. \"We actually owned half of old Delhi but now this [mansion] is the only ancestral property that remains with us,\" says Mr Pershad. He adds that the haveli's old-world charm has attracted many famous people in the past. \"India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi used to visit the haveli for dinners,\" he says \"Actress Kate Winslet has also visited the haveli. Even today, Bollywood actors and director often come to see the place as a possible shoot location.\" The mansion has been listed as a heritage property by the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, an organisation that works towards conservation of unprotected architectural heritage and sites in India. But Mr Pershad says nobody has come forward to  help him with the upkeep or preservation of the building. \"I do what I can to take care of the mansion and the rooms which are in use with my own money,\" he says. Maintaining this building is tough, but he has no plans of leaving the area. \"I can't imagine living in any other part of Delhi where living quarters are so cramped. I wake up in this house where my forefathers have lived and have witnessed so many important twists and turns of history,\" he adds. \"Even my grandchildren refuse to move out of this old mansion.\"", "question": "Old Delhi draws thousands of tourists every year because of its old - world charm , street @placeholder and heritage buildings . Anasuya Basu visits one such building to explain what makes it special and how the owners are trying to save it from crumbling . Pictures by Mansi Thapliyal .", "option_0": "news", "option_1": "nature", "option_2": "schools", "option_3": "tensions", "option_4": "food"}
{"id": 699, "article": "\"They have a fantastic squad and a financial conveyer belt coming from their European exploits, which they have earned,\" said Shiels. \"They have huge advantages over us and we are the underdogs but that doesn't stop us from thinking we can win. \"We have lost our last two against them but we must believe we can win.\" The last of those two defeats for the Candystripes came in a 3-1 reverse in the Premier Division at the same venue just a few weeks ago. \"They were better than us that night and they will be buoyant after that, so we have had a lot of preparation to do this week. \"They also know how to play on their pitch and it's difficult for teams going there, but we will regard it as a huge challenge. \"Players should not need motivation for an FAI Cup semi-final, given the reward for the winners, so we will go there and try to create the impossible.\" Derry, who reached the last four stage by beating Wexford Youths in the quarter-finals, have appeared in 10 finals to date, winning five of them. League of Ireland champions and leaders Dundalk enjoyed a 1-0 win over Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv in the group stages of the Europa League on Thursday night. St Patrick's Athletic host Cork City in the other semi-final on Sunday.", "question": "Derry City manager Kenny Shiels says the \" @placeholder are stacked in Dundalk 's favour \" ahead of Sunday 's FAI Cup semi-final between the sides at Oriel Park .", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "cards", "option_2": "names", "option_3": "strengths", "option_4": "votes"}
{"id": 700, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Lisa Knights, BBC Sport \"Anything goes under the water and players compete to gain whatever advantage they can. For Team GB, the women should fight for the bronze medal. They are led by Sam Leighton, who sets a great example to her team. For the men, Craig Figes's side have been given an incredibly hard draw for the group stage with heavyweights Serbia and Hungary in there with them. London 2012 will be the swansong for Hungary's Tamas Kasas, who is looking to end his Olympic career with a fourth successive gold medal. Brenda Villa is tiny by water polo standards but she'll be hoping to inspire the United States' women to success.\" For Great Britain, there has been nothing to cheer since winning four of the first five Olympic tournaments and the country has not even qualified since 1956. Host nation status means both men and women will have teams at London, although medals are unlikely to be on the cards. Hungary are the sport's most successful Olympic team with 15 medals, including nine golds, and have won the last three men's titles. However, they are yet to win a medal in the women's event, which was introduced at the 2000 Games in Sydney. Russia (previously the Soviet Union), Serbia (previously Yugoslavia), Italy and the USA have also performed consistently well down the years. Water polo combines the shooting skills of handball, the ball-handling skills of basketball or netball, and the speed and stamina of swimming. Players can swim up three miles at a high tempo in the course of a match. This means you can burn approximately 465 calories during a game, making it an excellent way to lose body fat. As it is a team game, water polo is an excellent way to develop communication skills and learn to work effectively with other people. Clubs also offer a variety of social events beyond simply playing the sport. Water polo works many of the muscle groups in the body. The leg muscles are in constant motion as players keep themselves afloat, while the ball-throwing action strengthens arm muscles. The effort of intensive swimming combined with fighting for possession helps boost cardiovascular fitness and lower blood pressure. For those looking to take part, there are more than 300 water polo clubs in the United Kingdom. People in England, Wales and Scotland can visit the British Swimming team sports page for details of where you can play. The Swim Ulster websites contains information for where people in Northern Ireland can find their nearest club. Get your performance under pressure analysed in just 20 minutes by four-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson Start the experiment Further details about training schemes and events can be found on the Amateur Swimming Association,Scottish Swimming and Swim Wales websites. Water polo clubs provide balls, nets, referees and coaches to members. For beginners, all you will need is a swimming suit or swimming trunks, and a swimming cap. Many clubs offer mini water polo sessions for children aged eight to 11. This activity teaches the fundamentals of aquatics and the sport as a whole. British Swimming is working with the BBC to get the UK into the pool in a celebration of swimming events called the Big Splash. A wide range of activities, including competitive races, swimming lessons and aqua aerobics, are being put on in swimming pools throughout the country. Sign up to British Swimming's mailing list to be sent details of the latest events and use their pool finder to find out where you can get started. More on the British Swimming website 'Join In Local Sport' aims to get as many people as possible to turn up and take part in activities at their local sports facilities on 18/19 August, 2012 - the first weekend between the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The aim of the initiative is for every sports club and community group in the UK to put on a special event in a bid to encourage more people to get involved as members, supporters or volunteers. More than 4,000 local sports clubs will be opening their doors to host events and show people just how they can get involved. As well as tips on playing sport there will be information on coaching, supporting and how to help out. Find an event near you. More on the London 2012 website Each nation has a 13-man squad, with seven allowed in the pool at any one time. The number of substitutions are unlimited. Matches consist of four periods, each of them eight minutes long. A team has just 30 seconds to attempt to score before the ball is returned to the opposition. Hungary came from 7-5 down to beat Serbia 8-7 in the Athens 2004 final, with Gergely Kiss scoring the winning goal Whenever the referee whistles, the clock and play both stop. At the start of each period, players line up on their goal line and the ball is released from a special float in the centre of the pool. Only the goalkeeper can touch or hold the ball with both hands, but a goal can be scored by any part of the body apart from the clenched fist. Players are not allowed to touch the sides or the bottom of the pool during play. In each group stage match, two points are awarded for a win, one for a draw and none for a defeat. If, at the end of a knockout match, the score is tied, two further three-minute periods will be played. A penalty shoot-out of five penalties per team will take place if no winner emerges. If the match still remains tied, a sudden-death shoot-out will take place. More on the Team GB website Both the Team GB men's and women's sides will have their work cut out against the powerhouses of world water polo. The women, already through to the quarter-finals as the group stage is used to determine who plays who in the last eight, will struggle to go further. The men will do well to reach the quarter-finals, with four teams set to bow out after their group games. Serbia are men's World League, World Cup and European champions, but Italy beat them in the final of the World Championships last year. Croatia and Montenegro are also strong, while Hungary are looking for a fourth straight gold. The women's event is wide open, with USA, Italy, Greece and China among the contenders for the title. So called because in its earliest days players rode on floating barrels that resembled mock horses, and swung at the ball with mallet-like sticks, water polo was developed in Europe and the United States as two differing sports. The modern form of the game is based on the European version and made its Olympic debut at the Paris Games in 1900 when Great Britain won gold. Wedgies - where players pull up an opponent's swimming costume to cause eye-watering discomfort - are so commonplace in the women's game that some teams, including the Spanish, have taken to giving themselves wedgies before matches in order to prevent them during play Their superiority over Belgium in the final was such that they limited the amount of shots they took to spare their opponents' embarrassment. The early version of the sport bore a key difference to the one we now know - swimming was not necessary. Instead, those first Olympic medals were contested in pools only deep enough for a spot of advanced wading. As a result many of the players could not actually swim. During the 1920s though, games were switched to larger, deeper pools. Swimming became a prerequisite and the sport advanced from little more than a holiday pastime to a skilled and physically demanding sport. It was not included in 1904 but has appeared at each subsequent edition of the Games, with the women's event introduced in 2000. More on the IOC website", "question": "Water polo is fast , furious and easy to understand , with players needing to combine skill and @placeholder with endurance .", "option_0": "communicating", "option_1": "ability", "option_2": "accuracy", "option_3": "discipline", "option_4": "strength"}
{"id": 701, "article": "Wales have lost all three of the games they have played in their current second strip of grey and charcoal hoops with a green detail - including both of their defeats in Euro 2016. And although it may seem unlikely that a group of professional footballers would allow themselves to be unnerved by such a quirk, Wales do appear to be spooked by their unlucky away kit. The Euro semi-finalists might have to don the unwanted shirt again on Thursday for their World Cup qualifier away against Austria, whose red home strip clashes with Wales' usual colour. \"I am not sure if they [Austria] will play in red or white, but I can tell you no-one wants to wear our grey kit. I will be happy if I never see that kit again,\" says Coleman. \"The red kit is the kit that we will always want to play in, we love being in the red. \"In years gone by I would have said to you that players do not care what kit they wear, but they do.\" Coleman smiles at this point, but his admission is a startling one. Welsh football is at an all-time high following the national team's run to a first major tournament semi-final in France earlier this year. Yet there is a brittle apprehension among the players about swapping their familiar red shirts for the unlucky grey. Wales lost their first game in the shirt - a 1-0 friendly defeat in Ukraine in March - and they were beaten by England when they wore it for the first time at Euro 2016. Russia allowed them to wear red for their pivotal final group game, which Wales won handsomely, and they stayed in their home kit for the knockout victories over Northern Ireland and Belgium. However, semi-final opponents Portugal decided Coleman's men would wear grey for their encounter - and the curse struck again. \"Portugal made us wear the away kit in the semi-final in the Euros, even though they were in their own away kit,\" Coleman adds. \"Russia thankfully allowed us to wear red when we beat them, but they could have made us wear grey.\" With Wales likely to wear grey again in Austria, the game in Vienna could provide the chance to end their away kit hoodoo. It may seem a trivial matter, but Coleman thinks Austria might try to exploit a potential Welsh weakness. \"If you are Austrian it is something you would look at, if you know the opposition prefer playing in a certain colour,\" he says. \"The players will talk about it, the Austrians will know about it, they should know about it. \"If we have to wear it we have to deal with it, but ideally we will be in red.\"", "question": "The lime green piping of Wales ' grey away kit bears more than a passing resemblance to kryptonite - and the shirt seems to have as detrimental an effect on Chris Coleman 's side as the fictional @placeholder does on Superman .", "option_0": "jersey", "option_1": "whistle", "option_2": "table", "option_3": "substance", "option_4": "beat"}
{"id": 702, "article": "Britain First did not get permission to use royal emblems on T-shirts and hoodies. Organisations wanting to feature certain royal symbols have to contact the Royal Household. Britain First failed to do so. Now the Cabinet Office has intervened, ordering the party not to use the crown. The Royal Household has issued guidance showing three \"conventional representations\" of the Royal Crown that must not be used without permission. But it says there is nothing to stop the use of other crown designs that do not resemble the Royal Crown. The Cabinet Office - the government's link to the Royal Household - said it had written to Britain First, whose campaign slogan is Taking Our Country Back. Asked what would happen if the party did not comply, a Cabinet Office spokesman refused to say what the next steps would be. The Advertising Standards Authority has also ruled that the party should remove images of the Crown from its website. It followed a complaint from an \"internet user\". In a statement, the ASA said:  \"We understood from the Cabinet Office that the Lord Chamberlain's Office, responsible for authorising official use of the Royal Crown and Scottish Arms, had not granted permission for Britain First to use the royal emblems on their merchandising. \"The design on the clothing was clearly visible on the website pages and in the ad on Facebook and, because we had seen no evidence to show that Britain First was entitled to use the emblems, we considered that the images of the Royal Crown and Scottish Arms had been used without prior permission and therefore breach the Code.\" The ASA wrote to Britain First about the issue but did not get a response. Britain First leader Paul Golding told the BBC he was ignoring the ASA's ruling, describing the organisation as a \"toothless, powerless quango\". Mr Golding said he had not received a letter from the Cabinet Office. He insisted that the crown used by Britain First was not a royal crown which meant permission was not required. In its \"mission statement\", Britain First says: \"Our policies are pro-British, our approach is no-nonsense and our principles are not open to compromise. \"We love our people, our nation, our heritage and culture and will defend them at all times and no matter what odds we face.\" A photo of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh is featured next to the statement. The party stood at this year's European elections, gaining 1.02% of the vote in Scotland and 0.9% in Wales - in the only two constituencies where it fielded candidates.", "question": "A breakaway group from the British National Party has been ordered to remove images of the Royal Crown from @placeholder material and merchandise .", "option_0": "body", "option_1": "activity", "option_2": "developing", "option_3": "its", "option_4": "publicity"}
{"id": 703, "article": "Super League side Cas are understood to want ¡ê500,000 in compensation after the 23-year-old quit to join Sale. He was contracted at the Tigers until 2018, but moved to the Premiership team in December on a three-year deal. Solomona scored 42 tries in 2016 and has added nine tries in eight games since his cross-code switch. BBC Sport understands an out-of-court settlement for the former Samoa rugby league international could now be decided between the clubs. His form since his move to Sale has prompted suggestions that the New Zealand-born wing could play for England when he becomes eligible. Prominent sports lawyer David Seligman suggested the legal battle over the contract could affect both rugby codes, in a way the Bosman ruling affected football.", "question": "Castleford 's court case against Sale winger Denny Solomona , his @placeholder Andy Clarke and the Sharks at the High Court will be adjourned .", "option_0": "side", "option_1": "agent", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "head", "option_4": "showing"}
{"id": 704, "article": "O'Hare led a remarkable Scottish 1-2-3-4 at the World Championships team trials, qualifying along with Edinburgh AC team-mate Josh Kerr. The 26-year-old is enthused by younger rivals coming through as he strives to stay ahead. \"Once they do well, that drives me on to work harder and train smarter,\" he told BBC Scotland. Jake Wightman, also of Edinburgh AC, and Neil Gourlay from Giffnock North AC came in behind O'Hare and Kerr in Birmingham on Sunday. And O'Hare, a European bronze medallist in 2014, admits he has has lost sleep over the coming generation of Scottish runners. \"The day after Josh ran his 1500m qualifying time I had a 5K and I woke up a three o'clock in the morning and stupidly looked at the results,\" said O'Hare. \"I couldn't get back to sleep. \"I was excited for him but also excited by the prospect of having to fight even more people for a spot on the team.\" Having clinched his spot in London in August, O'Hare believes a mixture of the Scottish psyche and American collegiate system is behind the rise. \"The depth of 1500m running in Britain is incredible at the moment,\" he said. \"If you compare it to something like football, for the four best players in Britain to be Scottish has never happened and, arguably, never will. \"Scottish people, in general, have a chip on their shoulder. In terms of competing against the rest of Britain, we work extra hard to make sure the small Scots get their piece of the pie. \"In junior championships, the English dominate. In international schools and stuff like that, the English win most of the team prizes. That puts our guard up.\" O'Hare, Kerr and Gourlay all left Scotland as teenagers to continue their athletic careers in America. \"It's a fantastic system to develop not just ability but racing prowess,\" said O'Hare, who will be running in Sunday's London Anniversary Games. \"We saw that at the weekend with first second and fourth all coming through the NCAA [National Collegiate Athletic Association]. \"But we had a platform to succeed and we must thank Scottish Athletics for that.\"", "question": "British 1500 m champion Chris O' Hare says the success of fellow Scots is a @placeholder for his good form .", "option_0": "reward", "option_1": "doubt", "option_2": "race", "option_3": "future", "option_4": "catalyst"}
{"id": 705, "article": "Those assertions were outlined in a report from the Tech City UK quango and innovation charity Nesta a little while back, which highlighted how many of the innovation-focused enterprises had benefited from clustering together. To mark the BBC's Tech Talent week, we've revisited the study and focused on the areas where there are at least 7,000 digital tech jobs. What's striking is that at first glance, the numbers seem to confirm that London's cluster is well ahead of any other - and indeed the capital hosts several of tech's better-known names. But once you combine the data with official population statistics, another picture emerges. Based on a calculation of how many tech jobs there are per head of the local population, Cambridge, Reading and Bracknell, and Oxford and Abingdon take the lead. It's no coincidence that all three have universities with strong reputations for science, engineering and computing. Southampton and Manchester also do well. And Ipswich is another standout, thanks to the fact that many firms there have congregated around the headquarters of BT Research - the telecoms firm's R&D division. The figures should still be treated with caution: Tech City UK may have been generous in the way it defined some of the jobs as being tech-related. And it's also notable how few of the firms in the list below are the kind of household names you would associate with Silicon Valley. Digital tech jobs: 328,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: four Specialisms: Financial tech, social networks, digital media Foreign-owned firms: Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft Locally headquartered: Shazam, Transferwise, Deliveroo, Citymapper Digital tech jobs: 52,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: 10 Specialisms: App development, digital marketing, digital entertainment Foreign-owned firms: Google, Priceline Locally headquartered: Apadmi, The Lad Bible, PushDoctor, UKFast Digital tech jobs: 40,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: 14 Specialisms: Cybersecurity, business software, data analytics Foreign-owned firms: Nvidia, Microsoft, Symantec, Wipro Locally headquartered: Altitude Angel, Cloud Direct, Fantoo Digital tech jobs: 37,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: six Specialisms: Education tech, semiconductors, video games Foreign-owned firms: Amazon, HP, Oracle, Unity Locally headquartered: Opposable Games, Tribal Group, Xmos Digital tech jobs: 36,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: three Specialisms: Business software, Online gambling Foreign-owned firms: N/A Locally headquartered: Majestic, Yumzee, Intouch Games Digital tech jobs: 26,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: four Specialisms: Cloud computing, e-commerce, financial tech Foreign-owned firms: Cloudwick Technology, FanDuel Locally headquartered: Iomart, M Squared Lasers, SwarmOnline Digital tech jobs: 25,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: 13 Specialisms: Cybersecurity, cloud computing, video games, health tech Foreign-owned firms: Proofpoint, Tripadvisor, Zynga Locally headquartered: Rebellion, Sophos, Oxford Instruments Digital tech jobs: 25,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: 10 Specialisms: Hardware, e-commerce, data analytics Foreign-owned firms: Artificial Solutions, Pivotal Software Locally headquartered: Symetrica, nquiringminds, SPI Lasers Digital tech jobs: 24,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: three Specialisms: App development, e-commerce, video games Foreign-owned firms: Rockstar Games Locally headquartered: Double Eleven, Sky Bet, Instantcart Digital tech jobs: 22,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: three Specialisms: Financial tech, analytics, video games Foreign-owned firms: Ubisoft, Epic Games, CCP Games Locally headquartered: Sage, Orchard Systems, ZeroLight Digital tech jobs: 21,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: four Specialisms: Financial tech, health tech, e-commerce Foreign-owned firms: Amazon, Rockstar, FanDuel, Toshiba Locally headquartered: Axios Systems, Craneware, Skyscanner Digital tech jobs: 21,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: six Specialisms: Business software, app development, financial tech Foreign-owned firms: IBM, West Corp Locally headquartered: Signature Digital, Jadu, Boop.js Digital tech jobs: 20,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: four Specialisms: App development, video games Foreign-owned firms: ConcertCare Locally headquartered: Lucid Games, Firesprite, LivingLens Digital tech jobs: 19,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: three Specialisms: Financial tech, business software development, medical tech Foreign-owned firms: Alert Logic Locally headquartered: Confused.com, Energist Medical Group, Dezrez Digital tech jobs: 19,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: 15 Specialisms: Artificial intelligence, internet-of-things, data analytics Foreign-owned firms: ARM, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Spotify, Thales Locally headquartered: Darktrace, Frontier Developments, Featurespace Digital tech jobs: 16,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: six Specialisms: Video games, app development, data analytics Foreign-owned firms: American Express Locally headquartered: BossAlien, Brandwatch, West Pier Studio Digital tech jobs: 14,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: two Specialisms: Hardware, business software development, e-commerce Foreign-owned firms: Wandisco, Ultimate Drone, NXP Locally headquartered: Desq, Sumo Digital, Xactium Digital tech jobs: 14,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: four Specialisms: App development, telecommunications, video games Foreign-owned firms: Wanda Group Locally headquartered: Amuzo, Oak Innovation, Redweb Digital tech jobs: 11,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: seven Specialisms: E-commerce, education tech Foreign-owned companies: N/A Locally headquartered: Crowdcube, Dashboard, Sparx Digital tech jobs: 10,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: seven Specialisms: E-commerce, digital advertising, app development Foreign-owned firms: Intel, Huawei, Ericsson Locally headquartered: BT Research, Coderus, Kcom Digital tech jobs: 8,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: two Specialisms: Business software development, cybersecurity Foreign-owned firms: Oracle, Philips, SpotX Locally headquartered: Neueda, Kainos, RepKnight Digital tech jobs: 7,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: four Specialisms: Cybersecurity, app development Foreign-owned firms: Blackberry, Lockheed Martin, Yamazaki Mazak Locally headquartered: Deep-Secure, D-Risq, Titania", "question": "There are more than 1.5 million \" digital tech \" jobs in the UK , and the @placeholder is said to be growing faster in terms of turnover and productivity than the wider economy .", "option_0": "world", "option_1": "country", "option_2": "economy", "option_3": "fallout", "option_4": "sector"}
{"id": 706, "article": "The rail and bus operator cut its full-year earnings forecast as it said passengers had cut back on trips to big cities since last month's attacks. The company also said there had been \"softer than expected revenue\" for several of its regional UK bus businesses. Shares in Stagecoach closed down 14.4% to 304.7p in response. However, the fall in the share price was also due to other factors mentioned in the statement released with its half-year results, said Nomura analyst James Hollins. \"The combination of a cautious outlook, withdrawal from the East Anglia rail bidding process and clear indication from management that exceptional shareholder returns should not be expected near-term are likely to drive market concerns,\" he said. Chief executive Martin Griffiths admitted that \"challenges remain in our sector in the short-term\". Stagecoach said that discretionary travel had been worst hit, with fewer journeys to London on its South West train network outside usual commuter times. There were also fewer journeys between Oxford and the capital on its regular coach service. Finance director Ross Paterson said passenger journeys had started to return to more normal levels. \"We are certainly seeing it recovering, the growth rates, particularly over the last week - they're starting to pick up again,\" he said. Stagecoach runs East Midlands Trains and operates the East Coast and West Coast rail franchises in partnership with Virgin. The company also has bus operations in cities including London, Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester, Sheffield and Cambridge as well as Megabus long-distance coaches in North America, Europe and the UK. Lower motoring costs in the US and Canada had reduced demand for Megabus inter-city services, Stagecoach said, prompting a review of its operations there. For the six months to 31 October, revenue rose ¡ê430m to ¡ê1.97bn, with pre-tax profit up ¡ê12.9m to ¡ê121.5m. The interim dividend was raised by 9.4% to 3.5p.", "question": "Stagecoach has blamed the Paris terror attacks for a slowdown in revenue growth at the transport @placeholder .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "unit", "option_2": "mainland", "option_3": "ground", "option_4": "hub"}
{"id": 707, "article": "Broadband suppliers will now have to show upfront and monthly costs, without separating out line rental prices, according to the changes brought in by the Advertising Standards Authority. The rules were originally due to be implemented in May, but firms asked for more time to comply with the changes. The ASA said customers were now much less likely to be misled. \"The effect should be a real positive difference in how consumers understand and engage with ads for broadband services,\" said ASA chief executive Guy Parker. The move comes after research by the ASA, conducted with regulator Ofcom last year, found that most users could not correctly calculate bills based on the information given in a selection of broadband ads. People were \"likely to be confused and misled\" by price claims in the adverts, the ASA found. Geoff Roberts, from Northampton, told the BBC that he found broadband adverts \"completely misleading\". \"What was advertised up front - when you really went into it - was nothing like what they were offering. The monthly amount was not clear.\" He was paying nearly ?¡ê45 for his phone and broadband, but reduced that amount to ?¡ê26.50 when he switched to another provider. To comply with the new rules, broadband providers will now have to: Digital and Culture Minister Matt Hancock welcomed the ASA's move. \"Making broadband providers show all-inclusive, upfront prices in their advertisements means consumers will be much better placed to make an informed choice when deciding on a service,\" he added. Technology expert Chris Green told BBC Radio 5 live: \"It's going to level the playing field, and make pricing more transparent. \"But mostly it's about providing a lot more clarity to customers.\" However, there will be no change to the rules on the way providers are allowed to advertise the broadband speeds on offer. \"If a broadband company advertises a particular speed, actually only up to 10% of people need to get that speed, which a lot of people would say is quite misleading,\" said Steve Nowottny from Moneysavingexpert. One reason for that rule is that different customers will experience different speeds, according to how far they live from the telephone exchange.", "question": "New rules @placeholder broadband firms to be clearer in adverts on the costs of their contracts have come into effect .", "option_0": "suggests", "option_1": "launched", "option_2": "introduced", "option_3": "forcing", "option_4": "prompted"}
{"id": 708, "article": "The fighters have achieved significant victories against the Sunni extremists of the so-called Islamic State (IS), driving them from a swathe of territory south-west of Mosul. They claim to have cleared more than 2,000 sq km (772 sq miles). This is now the terrain of the Popular Mobilisation Units (PMUs). It's a coalition of mostly Shia paramilitaries, backed by Iran. We were taken to see one of their most recent gains: a rough dirt and gravel road linking Mosul to Raqqa, the self-declared IS capital across the border in Syria. It was a crucial artery for IS, with two-way traffic of fighters and weapons. \"That used to be a very heavy logistics road so they can export car bombs from Syria,\" said the PMU spokesman, Ammar al-Musawi, standing by the roadside. \"There were three routes and we took all of them. There is no way out. Right now I can say that loud and clear Mosul is surrounded 100%.\" While PMU forces have completed the encirclement of Mosul, the Shia-led Iraqi government has promised they won't enter the mainly Sunni city. Some there say they fear the paramilitaries more than extremists of IS. Shia militias have been accused of serious abuses in previous operations against IS, including war crimes. As trucks full of fighters passed, heading for the frontline, Mr al-Musawi gave his response. \"Let me put it that way: we are army, and we are not angels,\" he told me. \"I mean, let's talk about big armies in the world, the great armies in the world. Let's talk about US army, what happened in Abu Ghraib. So if there is someone who did a mistake, he will go to the judge.\" That may not reassure human rights groups like Amnesty International, who are worried about a repeat of the past. \"The immediate concern is definitely a recurrence of what happened before in Fallujah,\" said Razaw Salihy, Iraq campaigner at Amnesty International. Amnesty says that during operations to retake the city in May and June, Shia militias detained 1,300 men and boys from a Sunni tribe. \"More than 600 are still missing,\" said Ms Salihy. \"Witnesses spoke of incidents of torture, beatings and death.\" Critics are also worried about legislation, recently passed by the Iraqi parliament, fully legalising the PMU as part of the armed forces. It is now an authorised but separate military corps. \"We are concerned that the law is vague,\" said Ms Salihy. \"They will be under the prime minister but not the ministry of defence. How will they be answerable? What oversight will there be?\" Iraq's Western allies - who also have their concerns about the Shia paramilitaries - will be watching carefully to see where they direct their firepower as they continue their advance. In the weak sunlight of a winter morning, we witnessed them closing in on the mostly Sunni village of Tal Faris. They said it was empty of all but IS fighters. Convoys of military vehicles approached from two directions, enveloped in clouds of desert dust. IS fighters were quick to respond. By noon, four suicide bombers in improvised armoured vehicles came speeding from the village. A pair of Iraqi army helicopters swooped in, targeting them from above. On the high ground overlooking the battlefield PMU commander Gen Ali al-Hamdani choreographed the attack shouting orders into a walkie-talkie. \"Use the cannons and rockets,\" he said. \"Pound this area. They are there and I don't want any of them to escape. Hurry. Let's burn the village.\" He told his men to keep their distance. \"Do a circle, one kilometre back,\" he ordered. \"Please don't go closer. Watch from left and right because we are in an open field. You are heroes.\" By early afternoon some had paid with their lives. The PMU refused to disclose how many. As air strikes rained down on IS positions, there were cries of  \"Labaik Ya Hussein\" from his fighters - a phrase used in times of battle, invoking the memory of the revered Shia Imam Hussein ibn Ali. As to whether they will ultimately enter Mosul, Gen al-Hamdani said they would follow orders. \"We have our leadership and they will tell us that. We have a commander and our commander will go to the prime minister.\" He was dismissive of allegations of abuses by Shia paramilitary units, and of respected international human rights groups. \"I was in intelligence,\" he said. \"I know what these people were doing here. They pretended to be helping Iraqis but they were transferring information to Daesh (IS).\" \"Anyone who is against the PMU is supporting Daesh.\"", "question": "In hues of red , green , and gold , the flags are hard to miss . When Iraq 's powerful Shia militias take control of an area , they plant their banners liberally , like seeds in the soil . In a country blighted by sectarian bloodshed , some think it 's a poisonous @placeholder .", "option_0": "scheme", "option_1": "deal", "option_2": "gas", "option_3": "crop", "option_4": "plant"}
{"id": 709, "article": "Mohammed Ali Abboud is on trial for murdering Agnieszka Szefler at the home they used to share in Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, in January. The jury were shown video footage of Mr Abboud telling detectives Ms Szefler \"fell\" with the knife in her hand. The 57-year-old denies all the charges against him. The High Court in Edinburgh heard Mr Abboud told officers that Ms Szefler's temper changed just before she had her period and that she often threw household items at him during this time. He said the 27-year-old teacher sustained serious injuries during the struggle on 23 January. He said: \"She fell. She had the knife in her hand.\" The video footage of the police interview was shown on the fourth day of proceedings against Mr Abboud, who also denies a charge of attempting to defeat the ends of justice by covering up his role in his former partner's death. In the footage, a detective told Mr Abboud that he did not believe his claims that he did not murder Ms Szefler. The policeman then asked the accused to admit that he murdered her. But Mr Abboud said the pair got into a struggle and he was trying to stop her from causing any of them serious injury. He said: \"I was trying to stop her. It got out of hand.\" Mr Abboud's lawyers have lodged a special defence of self defence. The trial, before judge Lord Uist, continues.", "question": "A man accused of stabbing his ex-partner to death told police she came at him with a knife and they @placeholder to struggle , a court has heard .", "option_0": "speak", "option_1": "started", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "refused", "option_4": "linked"}
{"id": 710, "article": "And it's important to remember that behind all the statistics about hundreds of thousands of grades are personal stories of hopes and fears. But it's also an annual ritual to use A-level results as a way of taking stock of the education system. This year it will be hard to throw accusations of \"grade inflation\" or slipping standards because the results are almost exactly the same as last year. \"Stability\", this year's watchword from exam board chiefs, is not exactly going to set pulses racing. But it will be what exam regulators intended, promoting reassurance and continuity rather than volatility and turbulence for the \"gold standard\" qualification. Head teachers, including those in independent schools, have often been vociferous in their doubts about the reliability of marking and the exam system. And they have also complained about how an exam system which now promotes stability in results is reconciled with pressures on schools to keep getting higher grades, or else be accused of \"coasting\". But this year could also be something of a calm before the storm. The results announced this week are for exams taken under the old system of A-levels. The plans for tougher, non-modular exams and the decoupling of A and AS-levels, announced by former education secretary Michael Gove, have still to be introduced. In many ways these results have been the closing act of the old exam system. In a couple of years, when the redesigned A-levels are being taken for the first time, outcomes could be less predictable. And when results seem so similar it's easy to miss the big underlying patterns. The number of school leavers heading to university continues to rise relentlessly. Regardless of government, economic cycles, fees and exam results, year after year, decade after decade, more young people sign up for undergraduate courses. There will be more people starting university this autumn than were getting five good GCSEs a couple of decades ago. It's a major social change. In 1980, about 68,000 people were getting undergraduate degrees, by 2000 that had risen to 243,000. On Thursday morning, even before clearing had begun and second choices had been weighed up, there were 409,000 places confirmed. The removal of a limit on university numbers introduced this year is budgeted on the assumption that there is not much extra demand left in the system, perhaps another 30,000 or so. But this has been a remarkably resilient, aspirational, upward curve. It's also worth noting that despite the irresistible rise in young full-time students, the number of part-time and mature students has never really recovered from the hike in tuition fees, despite repeated warnings about the skills gap and the need for re-training. The gender divide is another pattern that seems to deepen. Last year saw the widest gap, with 58,000 more women getting university places than men. And the first admissions figures from this year show an even wider gap than at the same stage last year. The headline UK figure for top A* and A grades fell marginally this year to 25.9%. But in the south east of England the proportion was 38.8% and in London it was 36.2%. In Wales, the figure is 23.1% and in Northern Ireland 29.3%. This year's A-level figures show maths, English and biology to be the most popular subjects, with maths having steadily increased in recent years. But there is an even longer-term trend in the decline of French. When the gender divide and national differences overlap, it means that in Wales there were only 128 boys taking A-level French this year. The changes about to be introduced for A-levels in England will also accelerate devolution within the exam system. England, Wales and Northern Ireland might continue to call their exams A-levels, but they are going to be increasingly different. How long will the grades be published together as though they were equivalents? But for the students and their families getting results there will be more immediate concerns with celebrations and commiserations.", "question": "A - level results have arrived , @placeholder good news and disappointment .", "option_0": "writes", "option_1": "according", "option_2": "following", "option_3": "causing", "option_4": "distributing"}
{"id": 711, "article": "On Tuesday, former nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer was charged with eight counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of eight patients under her care. Police alleged that seven of the deceased were given a fatal dose of a drug. They offered no motive for the killings. They say Ms Wettlaufer's victims were between the ages 75 and 96 and were killed between 2007 and 2014. Samuel Lamb, 89, who was friends with one of the alleged victims, is still processing the news. \"I can't understand myself how it's coming out now, after nine years,\" Mr Lamb told the BBC on Wednesday. \"I don't know how they found out about what she did, what they say she did.\" His friend, Maurice \"Moe\" Granat, who died in 2007, could have been one of the first alleged victims. Mr Lamb recalled Granat, a car mechanic by trade, as a \"happy-go-lucky\" man who loved to roll his own cigarettes, play solitaire, and was always ready to help friends. The victims, five women and three men, were all residents of either Caressant Care in Woodstock or Meadow Park in London, Ontario. According to sources who spoke to the CBC and the Globe and Mail, police were tipped off by someone employed at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Ms Wettlaufer was reportedly seeking treatment at the Toronto rehabilitation centre. Sean O'Malley, a spokesman for the CAMH, said the facility was governed by confidentiality rules and had no comment. Ms Wettlaufer's lawyers did not respond to media requests. Police began their investigation into Ms Wettlaufer on 29 September 2016. On 30 September she resigned from the College of Nurses of Ontario. One year earlier, in a Facebook post dated 28 September 2015, Ms Wettlaufer spoke about her difficulties with alcoholism. \"My own voice called to me in the darkness. Others hands lifted me when I chose the light. One year ago today I woke up not dead. 365 days clean and sober,\" she wrote. Police have identified the victims as: The news that one of their own may have been involved in murder brought back painful memories for some in the town of Woodstock, which has a population of under 40,000 and serves as a regional hub for the surrounding Oxford County. In 2009, eight-year-old Woodstock resident Tori Stafford was abducted, raped and murdered by two other members of the town. From the time she went missing through the ensuring murder trial, the community was gripped by a sense of loss, not just for the little girl's life but for the town's own innocence, said former resident Martha Emonts. \"We're no longer exempt from what's going on in the rest of the world,\" she said. Tori's killers, Michael Thomas Rafferty and Terri-Lynne McClintic, were convicted in 2012 of first-degree murder. Just a day before news of Ms Wettlaufer's charges broke, a judge struck down Rafferty's request for appeal. Now that Ms Wettlaufer has been charged, it is hard not to shake the sense of deja vu, Ms Emonts said. On television, the news broadcast footage of the Caressant Care facility parking lot. That same lot appeared on surveillance footage played during Rafferty's 2012 trial. Seeing the parking lot on television again \"made the hair on my arms stand up\", Ms Emonts said. The nursing home is a prominent employer in the town, she says, and nearly everyone knows someone who has worked there or had a family member who has stayed there. The case has raised questions about oversight in the province's nursing homes. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said on Wednesday she was open to an independent review of long-term care facilities in the province. Cheryl Mahyr, a spokeswoman with Ontario's Office of the Chief Coroner, said all deaths in long-term care homes are reported to the coroner's office but are only investigated under certain circumstances. Those include \"deaths that are sudden, unexpected and due to unnatural causes. Those are typically deaths that would be investigated by a coroner,\" Ms Mahyr said. A review committee also looks annually at deaths in the province's nursing homes that have raised concerns. Jane Meadus, a lawyer with the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly, said it is too soon to say whether more oversight could have prevented the deaths related to Ms Wettlaufer's case. But she said her organisation would like to see more post-mortem examinations performed on patients who die in the province's long-term care homes or, at a minimum, that there be a more thorough review of the deaths. \"You can't just assume what's in a (medical) chart is faultless,\" she said. The Caressant Care home in Woodstock and Meadow Park home in London both say they are co-operating fully with the police investigation. Ms Wettlaufer is back in court on 2 November.", "question": "A string of alleged murders of elderly nursing home residents has left a Canadian town in southwestern Ontario @placeholder with old wounds .", "option_0": "met", "option_1": "struggling", "option_2": "marked", "option_3": "clashes", "option_4": "ties"}
{"id": 712, "article": "The former general called for major political reforms. But the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that disunity among the opposition meant the turnout was low. Mr Fonseka unsuccessfully stood against President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a presidential election two years ago. But he lost after a vitriolic campaign and was imprisoned shortly afterwards. Mr Fonseka's lawyer said in May that the terms of his release prevented him from running for office for seven years. But that has not stopped the former general - credited with playing a leading role in defeating Tamil Tiger rebels in the country's civil war that ended in 2009 - from re-entering politics. He and his supporters have pledged to fight constitutional changes which have made President Rajapaksa one of the world's most powerful presidents. They also strongly criticised what they said was the breakdown of the rule of law and the undermining of democracy in Sri Lanka. Our correspondent says that although nearly 1,000 people including many Buddhist monks attended the rally and stayed despite a heavy downpour, the turnout was much lower than Mr Fonseka would have wished. The former general is at loggerheads with Ranil Wickremesinghe, the leader of the main opposition party, who ordered his colleagues not to attend the rally. Many of those who did go to it were strongly critical of Mr Wickremasinghe's move, accusing him of creating divisions and sectarianism within the opposition. But it appears that the president has shrewdly succeeded in using the release of his great rival to fragment the opposition, our correspondent says, and the president - still popular with the Sinhalese majority - seems more powerful than ever.", "question": "Leading Sri Lankan opposition figure Sarath Fonseka has @placeholder his first big political gathering since serving two years in jail after losing a presidential election .", "option_0": "held", "option_1": "struck", "option_2": "claimed", "option_3": "led", "option_4": "announced"}
{"id": 713, "article": "Bellevue FC aims to give foreign nationals access to competitive sport, as well as the chance to make friends from other countries. The team features players from Poland, Romania, Albania, Portugal, Syria, Eritrea, Sudan, and some from Wales. As well as those studying or working in Wales, the team has also welcomed refugees who have fled their homes. They include 21-year-old Yacub Amin, from Syria, who said: \"I left Syria and came to the UK because of the horrendous troubles in Syria. \"It was really bad. Every day people were killed... we would be in their position if we hadn't left.\" He described the team as a \"colourful family\", adding: \"Football is one of the things that brings people together.\" Another player, Tamam Lencho, who was tortured during conflict in Ethiopia, said he would have been killed if he had not fled the country. His journey to the UK took him through Sudan, Libya and Europe. He said the new club had a \"very nice team\", adding: \"We play together and we share our problems as well.\" Co-founder Delwyn Derrick said Wrexham had a Portuguese-only team, a Kurdish team and other nationalities but none that brought different countries together. He added: \"I find it hard to believe no-one has done it before.\" The team has been accepted into the North East Wales Football League and hopes to attract sponsors and funding.", "question": "A new football team has been launched in Wrexham for players from black and ethnic minority @placeholder .", "option_0": "countries", "option_1": "groups", "option_2": "conditions", "option_3": "teams", "option_4": "standards"}
{"id": 714, "article": "It's a decision that's easy to understand: The offer of a dream job. A chance to run one of the world's most important museums - a job that will be easier to marry with family life and young children. And in his resignation letter, Tristram Hunt says he couldn't turn the V&A down. He also says his departure from politics should not be interpreted as a desire to rock the boat. However, it's a move that says a lot about the current condition of the Labour party. Labour's Tristram Hunt quits to head V&A Tristram Hunt would once have been called a Blairite. A thinker and historian who was close to Peter Mandelson and friends, long before he entered Parliament. Mr Hunt must have hoped for great things from his political career. He was made shadow education secretary by Ed Milband and thought about standing for the leadership when Mr Milband quit. He had pride and affection for his potteries' constituency but in Westminster cut a rather different figure from most. Academic, wry and detached. A book-writer not a ladder-climber. And in Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, Tristram Hunt's political centrism is alien. Days after the EU referendum Mr Hunt wrote a fierce piece for the Guardian saying Jeremy Corbyn's leadership was a \"self-indulgent\" experiment that had to end if the party was going to keep its traditional working class voters. His resignation follows that of Jamie Reed last month - another Labour MP who had been critical of the party's shift to the left - and it leaves Mr Corbyn facing another difficult by-election that UKIP will be fighting to win. I don't think Jeremy Corbyn will mind in the slightest that Tristram Hunt has gone. But Mr Corbyn's critics in Parliament face a dilemma: to follow Tristram Hunt out of politics or to stay and fight for a party they believe is in deep trouble.", "question": "Former shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has announced he will resign as MP for Stoke - on - Trent Central , to become director of the V&A Museum in London , triggering another by-election in a Labour @placeholder .", "option_0": "history", "option_1": "event", "option_2": "landslide", "option_3": "seat", "option_4": "speech"}
{"id": 715, "article": "North Wales Police is coordinating the search in Snowdonia with the Coastguard and other agencies. UK Coastguard duty commander Mark Rodaway said seven mountain rescue teams and a dog unit were involved in the search with visibility \"improving\". The privately-owned helicopter vanished while over Caernarfon Bay en route to Dublin from Luton. Radar contact with the red Twin Squirrel helicopter was lost on Wednesday afternoon and initial searches followed the intended flight plan of the aircraft over the Irish Sea. Supt Gareth Evans of North Wales Police said \"All available police, mountain rescue and other civilian resources are currently being utilised and we are grateful for the assistance and cooperation of the public as well as our MRT volunteers who are searching very difficult and challenging terrain.\" Supt Evans said family members of those on board had been contacted by police, but their names have not been released. Mountain rescue teams and an ambulance are currently at site next to Trawsfynydd lake in Gwynedd and police have closed a road, but it has not been confirmed if this is related to the search. Mr Rodaway said: \"These aircraft normally carry beacons that we can track by satellite - they're activated by salt water - we've not seen any of that and also mobile phone data has aided our inquiries in shifting inland.\" Helicopter searches between north Wales and the shore of Dublin on Wednesday were scuppered by low lying cloud, which reduced visibility. However, Mr Rodaway told the Jason Mohammad Programme at 10:50 BST \"things have improved\", after visibility had been as low as just 10ft (3m) in places. \"We are now able to commit more aircraft into this live search operation,\" he added. A Mayday broadcast has been issued to all vessels passing through the Irish Sea to contact the Coastguard if they see anything. The Eurocopter AS55 Ecureuil 2 (Twin Squirrel), made by Airbus, has a cruising speed of 140mph (225km/h) and a range of nearly 440 miles (700km). Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning", "question": "A @placeholder search is under way to try to find a helicopter carrying five people which went missing over north Wales .", "option_0": "land", "option_1": "sports", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "disabled"}
{"id": 716, "article": "From 1952 to 1963, Britain detonated bombs at Maralinga and Emu Field in South Australia, and the Montebello Islands off Western Australia. Although the sites were remote, many Aboriginal people were forced to move. Those who remained were exposed to high levels of radiation, which was later linked to significant health problems. They will now be eligible for a war veterans' Gold Card, which covers most medical costs, Veterans' Affairs Minister Dan Tehan said. \"The measure will provide Gold Cards to indigenous people present at or near Maralinga, Emu Field or the Montebello Islands at the time of the British nuclear tests in the 1950s or 1960s,\" he said. It follows a royal commission - Australia's highest form of inquiry - in the 1980s, and decades of campaigning by survivors and advocates. The nuclear tests were conducted with support from the Australian government. The new healthcare subsidy will form part of a A$133m ( ?¡ê76m, $98m) investment in Australia's federal budget, which will be unveiled on Tuesday.", "question": "Indigenous Australians who were exposed to radiation from British nuclear tests will receive @placeholder healthcare , the Australian government has announced .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "devastated", "option_2": "team", "option_3": "force", "option_4": "upgraded"}
{"id": 717, "article": "De Kock, 23, slipped and twisted his knee while at home on Wednesday. Vilas was set to play a domestic match in Port Elizabeth, but flew to Johannesburg on Thursday morning. Cricinfo reported Vilas boarded a 100-minute flight at 08:40, with the 30-year-old arriving at the Wanderers 45 minutes after play began. South Africa won the toss and batted first, meaning Vilas' absence was not felt. However, De Kock's injury denied the Proteas, who are 1-0 down in the four-match series, the opportunity to rejig their batting line-up. De Kock may have been promoted to open the batting, allowing batsman JP Duminy to bat at number seven and bowl some off-spin. Without De Kock, Stiaan van Zyl continues to open, Vilas will bat at seven and the home side have only the part-time spin of Dean Elgar to complement a four-man pace attack. Follow live text and Test Match Special commentary from the third Test. Neil Manthorp on Test Match Special \"De Kock's injury happened yesterday afternoon. He was hoping to run it off but he woke up just after midnight and the knee was very swollen, so he didn't inform team management until this morning.\" News of South Africa's predicament led to a discussion on BBC Sport's live text commentary of occasions when you have been 'caught on the hop'. Mark Horner, via email:  \"Back in the early nineties, our team was playing away at a new club to the league. Two cars got lost and we only had six players at the due time. The opposition refused to wait and were about to claim the win. \"My wife, who had come as a spectator and who was eight months' pregnant, waddled onto the field and said 'play'. At that time, she was the only woman registered to play in that league and it meant we had the minimum seven players. The opposition were stunned... and so were we. \"The game started... our other players turned up half an hour into the game... and we won! Wife was the toast of the club.\" Andrew and Will Odell, via email: \"I was playing in the same team as my brother. The opposition batted first and then it was our turn to bat. I was opening the innings and my brother was number 11. \"Obviously he thought he had plenty of time to go to the toilet. However, when he returned to the match he was not only horrified that we were all out for 11, but also that he had been timed out.\"", "question": "An injury to Quinton de Kock on the eve of the third Test against England saw South Africa start the match without replacement Dane Vilas at the @placeholder .", "option_0": "ground", "option_1": "odds", "option_2": "hands", "option_3": "end", "option_4": "break"}
{"id": 718, "article": "The bronze sculpture, named Earthly Messenger, will be unveiled later this year in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. It will be installed under the arches in Market Square, referenced by Bowie in the song Five Years. The work features a likeness of Bowie in 2002 looking down at Ziggy, alongside of some of his other looks. LIVE: Updates on this story and other Buckinghamshire news Funds for the statue, designed by sculptor Andrew Sinclair, have been raised through a ?¡ê100,000 crowdfunding appeal, plus grants. When completed, speakers mounted above the life size artwork will play one of 2,000 tracks every hour. Some changes are expected to the design before the finished product is officially unveiled in March. Bowie unveiled two albums and his Stardust persona during gigs at the Friars venue in the early 1970s. He played a gig there in September 1971 where he gave the town the world debut of his album Hunky Dory. Four months later he played the venue again where the majority of the set was made up of songs which featured on the Ziggy Stardust album.", "question": "A model of a David Bowie statue planned for the town where his Ziggy Stardust persona was first @placeholder has been revealed .", "option_0": "formed", "option_1": "drawn", "option_2": "unveiled", "option_3": "introduced", "option_4": "performed"}
{"id": 719, "article": "The unnamed man was sought by German police after the murder of his girlfriend in Bavaria. Authorities did not know when she died, but one of the man's tattoos gives her name, Lisa, and date of death - 27 October 2016. The man was held in Lloret de Mar, in Catalonia, with their 18-month-old son, who was in good health. The woman's body was found by her mother last week. She was found in a block of flats in the town of Freyung, close to the Czech border. An initial autopsy showed that the woman had died some three weeks before she was found. Spain's federal police force said her mobile phone was taken by the killer with the intention of using her social media accounts, thus misleading investigators. The man, named in Germany as Dominik R, was traced to Spain after he was found to have withdrawn money there. A European arrest warrant was then issued. Spanish police say they believe he was heading to north Africa. A statement by Spain's federal police said the new tattoo \"may be interpreted as the date of death\". The suspect is now awaiting extradition to Germany.", "question": "Police in Spain who arrested a murder suspect may have been handed a large @placeholder through one of his tattoos .", "option_0": "clue", "option_1": "message", "option_2": "hit", "option_3": "chunk", "option_4": "attack"}
{"id": 720, "article": "Crown said in October 18 staff had been held after a police operation believed to target its marketing activities. Among them were three Australians, including Jason O'Connor, a senior executive in charge of attracting Chinese high-rollers. Casino gambling, and promoting gambling abroad, are illegal in mainland China. The cases have been referred to Shanghai's Baoshan District Court, the company said in a brief statement made to the Australian Stock Exchange. The Australian newspaper reported that the court has set a hearing date for 26 June. Crown Resorts, controlled by Australian billionaire James Packer, said that with the matter now before the court it would not be making further comment.", "question": "Casino operator Crown Resorts says its employees who were @placeholder in China last year have been formally charged with illegally promoting gambling .", "option_0": "detained", "option_1": "beaten", "option_2": "knocked", "option_3": "killed", "option_4": "stranded"}
{"id": 721, "article": "Afia, a Western lowland gorilla, was left fighting for her life after being born by emergency caesarean and had to be cared for by Bristol Zoo staff. Her reintroduction to the gorillas began in October when Afia started bonding with her surrogate mother Romina. Her birth mother Kera was too ill to look after Afia, the zoo said. Lynsey Bugg, curator of mammals, said the zoo's ultimate aim was to reunite Alfie with her gorilla family. \"We all feel immensely proud and relieved to now see her where she belongs,\" she said. When Afia was born the zoo said it was \"touch-and-go\" whether her birth mother Kera would survive. Vet Rowena Killick said Kera was quite slow to recover from general anaesthesia and \"it soon became clear she was still very unwell\". She said: \"She was treated intensively for severe anaemia in the weeks that followed and finally completed all her treatment eight and a half months later. She was not well enough to care for Afia due to this illness.\" Romina, one of the older females in the troupe, had been identified as the surrogate mother for the baby and training had taken place before the introduction so that she would return Afia to keepers for bottle feeding several times a day. Afia will still require milk feeds from her keepers until she is about four years old although the zoo said it had tried to keep \"human imprinting\" to an absolute minimum.", "question": "A hand - @placeholder baby gorilla which was born 10 months ago has moved in with a surrogate mother .", "option_0": "painted", "option_1": "reared", "option_2": "ravaged", "option_3": "ridden", "option_4": "holding"}
{"id": 722, "article": "Kier Hardie had just been elected leader of the fledgling Labour Party when 107-year-old Hetty Bower was born. She has spent a lifetime campaigning for peace and improved standards of living for working people. Although frail, and with failing eyesight and hearing, she spoke with a clarity and force undimmed by age. \"I have lived for a very long time and I have a very good memory,\" she told the meeting, which had been organised by the Daily Mirror to highlight the human stories behind austerity. \"I've lived through two world wars and I have spent most of my adult life working for peace on our planet. \"I don't think human beings are civilised while we still waste time and money killing each other, when we should be sitting at a table discussing how to improve the lives of ordinary people.\" Mrs Bower, who recently took part in a march against the closure of a hospital near her North London home, shared a platform with Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey among others. But although she needed a little prompting to get on to the subject of deprivation, she was far from overawed by the occasion. She said she did not need to tell us \"what poverty can do to people\". \"You have eyes and ears that can hear and see. Neither of mine function properly now but I remember sufficiently to know just what it was like to see poverty and deprivation and the word 'welfare' was totally unknown. \"So we have progressed, but I'm now wondering what's going to happen to our welfare state and that is what I have to campaign about in the short time still left to me - peace on our planet and improvement of living conditions.\" \"I can remember hearing a mother discuss whether she could pay for the visit of a doctor or whether it's got to go on food for the family. I can remember women singing in the street for pennies generous people threw at their feet. Those days must never return.\" A veteran of left-wing campaigns from the General Strike in the 1920s to the anti-Iraq war protests of 2003, Mrs Bower also shared her recollections of the \"battle of Cable Street,\" in the 1930s, when fascists were prevented from marching through Jewish areas of East London. \"Hatred of other human beings will have to be totally eliminated throughout our land and that is what I, in the short time left to me, am still campaigning for - peace,\" she said to a standing ovation from Labour delegates. Mrs Bower, who was in Brighton with her family, then headed off to meet Ed Miliband, the 12th man to lead the Labour Party since she joined it at the age of 17 (Ramsay Macdonald was the first). \"I don't know what she'll make of him,\" confided her daughter to BBC News.", "question": "One of Britain 's oldest women stole the show at a Labour Party fringe meeting , with an impassioned @placeholder against government cuts .", "option_0": "trust", "option_1": "speech", "option_2": "clash", "option_3": "deal", "option_4": "head"}
{"id": 723, "article": "Billy's older brother Joe, 25, has become England's main man in the international set-up in all formats for the past couple of years, playing a vital role in both the Ashes glory of 2015 and the run to the World Twenty20 Cup final earlier this month. But Billy, who plays for Nottinghamshire, appears to be showing signs he has some of his brother's quality too, hitting his maiden first-class century for Leeds Bradford MCCU in their drawn match against Sussex. Root junior scored 133 from 214 balls in the three-day game, with one six and 11 fours. There's still some way to go catch up with his big brother. Media playback is not supported on this device Root has amassed 3,406 runs in 72 Test innings for England, at an average of 54.93. He has a best of 200 not out and has hit nine centuries and 39 half centuries. In one-day internationals, he has scored eight centuries and 12 half centuries in 64 innings at a strike rate of 84.46 per 100 balls - his total of 2,572 runs have come at an average of 44.34. He is yet to score a century in T20 cricket, but has scored 594 from 18 innings, at an average of 39.60, with a highest score of 90 not out. Crucially, he scores at a strike rate of 138.78.", "question": "Living in the sizeable @placeholder of the \" most complete batsman \" England has ever produced ca n't be easy , but 23 - year - old Billy Root seems to making a good fist of it .", "option_0": "name", "option_1": "shadow", "option_2": "world", "option_3": "corner", "option_4": "role"}
{"id": 724, "article": "Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary said abuse of authority for sexual gain was now the \"most serious\" form of corruption facing police in England and Wales. The watchdog's figures were gathered over two years to the end of March. The National Police Chiefs' Council described the problem as a \"disease\". It acknowledged that more needed to be done to \"root it out and inoculate policing for the future\". Chief Constable Stephen Watson, the NPCC's lead for counter-corruption, said: \"It is the most serious form of corruption and it can never be justified or condoned.\" 436 reported allegations of abuse of authority for sexual gain 306 police officers accused 28 Police Community Support Officers and police staff also accused 40% of allegations involved victims of crime HMIC said its police \"legitimacy\" inspection was positive overall, with high satisfaction among victims at how they were treated. The watchdog was asked to investigate the extent of the problem earlier this year, by the then Home Secretary Theresa May. It found that 306 officers, 20 PCSOs and eight police staff were involved in 436 reported allegations. The data also showed all but one constabulary had received at least one allegation, and that almost 40% of accusations involved victims of domestic abuse. Other people who were allegedly exploited were thought to include arrested suspects and people with drug or alcohol problems. The report also found: HM Inspector Mike Cunningham, who led the review, said the problem of sexual exploitation could be \"more serious\" than the reported numbers and forces needed to become \"far more proactive in rooting out\" such corruption. Mr Cunningham told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Make no mistake about it, the sexual exploitation of vulnerable women is corruption. It is using authority for personal gain, which is a definition of corruption. \"It is the most serious corruption problem in the sense that it is the ultimate betrayal of trust, where the guardian becomes the abuser. That is what we are seeing in these cases, and we're seeing too many. \"The allegations that we collected across the country are not closed allegations, they're not confirmed or finalised allegations but nevertheless they are allegations.\" Police officers convicted of sex crimes include: Mr Cunningham said people such as former Northumbria officer Stephen Mitchell, who is serving two life sentences for serious sexual offences including rape, were clearly predators. Others, he said, were opportunistic and found themselves in circumstances where they could abuse their power and authority. Det Supt Ray Marley, of the College of Policing, said the report \"highlighted a number of unacceptable cases which have a significant impact on the victims and public confidence\". Home Secretary Amber Rudd described the report as \"shocking\". \"It undermines justice and public confidence and there is no place in the police for anyone guilty of this sort of abuse,\" she said. She said she had met the College of Policing and the NPCC to discuss action needed to tackle the problem. \"The vast majority of police officers do their jobs with integrity and I know they will share my determination to ensure the most vulnerable in our society are given the protection they deserve,\" she said. In the wake of the report, IPCC chairwoman Dame Anne Owers has written to chief constables in England and Wales urging them to ensure that all cases involving abuse of authority for sexual gain are referred to the commission. The report assessed whether officers were seen by the public consistently to behave fairly, ethically and within the law. Two forces - Derbyshire and Kent - were graded as outstanding, 36 as good, and five - Cleveland, Dyfed-Powys, Gloucestershire, North Wales and South Yorkshire - as requiring improvement. No forces were graded as inadequate. There are a total of 200,000 police officers and staff in England and Wales.", "question": "More than 300 police officers have been accused of using their @placeholder to sexually exploit people , including victims of crime , a report has said .", "option_0": "secret", "option_1": "statements", "option_2": "bodies", "option_3": "response", "option_4": "position"}
{"id": 725, "article": "The Knutsford event, which ends on Sunday, is in its 17th year, having been created to complement other flower shows, such as Chelsea and Hampton Court, in the south of England. Founded in 1804 by John Wedgwood, the son of ceramics magnate Josiah Wedgwood, the RHS now organises three flower shows and owns four gardens across the UK. Apart from its setting within the grounds of a nearly 300-year-old mansion on the National Trust's award-winning Tatton Park estate, what else sets the Tatton show apart? Sue Biggs, director general of the RHS, said it was \"the show for true gardeners who love their plants; that is what really characterises Tatton.\" The awards are handed out before the public are allowed in. The gardens are split into four categories this year: Water Garden, Show Garden, Back-to-Back Garden and Year of Light Garden. Tucked away in the long floral marquee is Eagle Sweet Peas, from Stafford, and its large display of sweet peas. The marquee is a collision of colours and smells, and Derek Heathcote's blooms catch the eye. \"Tatton is our shop window to the seed buyers,\" said Mr Heathcote, as a steady stream of people came to look. Elsewhere in the marquee, plenty of exhibitors could be seen waving handheld chip-and-pin terminals in the air to get a signal for each purchase. A family business, Eagle Sweet Peas has been running for 28 years, but tasted disappointment at Tatton Park by winning a silver-gilt medal. It felt like a far cry from the gold it came home with from Chelsea earlier this year, Mr Heathcote said. Malcolm Dixon, of Hooksgreen Herbs in Stone, Staffordshire, was a bit more upbeat than his counterpart, and said his silver-gilt was \"always a good one to get\". The flower show is not entirely about the plants, though. Goods on sale at other stalls include footwear, ladders, conservatories and lawnmowers. 80,000 People expected to visit this year 479 Exhibitors taking part 36,483  Cups of coffee drunk on average each year at the show 13,886 Glasses of Pimms drunk on average every year Wood sculptor Michael McManus, 55, said he set up shop at Tatton for the second year in a row because the revenue boost was too good to miss. \"I'd say business at Tatton is 50% above the other shows I do,\" he said. There are also educational attractions for children. Reaseheath College, of Nantwich, Cheshire, offered them the chance to experiment with Venus flytraps. It also won the Floristry College of the Year award at the show. RHS Tatton Flower Show manager, Kris Hulewicz, said setting up the event was almost a non-stop job, taking an entire year. \"We have about 70 floral marquee exhibitors and they need to know which events they're attending the following year, so they can grow on their plants and sell them,\" he said. Selections are made for the show gardens in the December before Tatton starts in July, and designers can spend at least a week building their gardens in the run-up to the show opening. South Cheshire gardener Barry Grain explained: \"We've probably spent eight days building the garden. \"The thing with producing the show gardens is that it is the attention to detail that makes the difference.\" It was overcast on Wednesday, helping to hide the planes coming and going from nearby Manchester Airport, although they could still be heard occasionally. The weather was a mixture of cloud, spots of sun and patchy rain, and that is set to continue for the duration of the 2015 show. Lucinda Costello, senior shows development manager at the RHS, was not dismayed, however. \"This is perfect flower show weather,\" she said. \"It is not too hot for our visitors; it is just warm enough for an ice cream, and it keeps the plants looking spot-on.\" The weather certainly did not appear to have dampened spirits. Nicola Carr, 53, from Widnes, has been coming to the Tatton Park show for the last seven years. She was looking for some inspiration on how to decorate her patio. \"I have a little trough on my new patio that I need to fill with flowers,\" she said. \"It is so friendly here and you can get expert knowledge. Because of that, I keep coming back.\" Alan Graham, chairman of the Hatch End Horticulture Society in London, agreed. \"It is much less formal than the Chelsea flower show and much friendlier,\" he said.", "question": "Across five July days thousands of pork rolls are @placeholder and thousands more glasses of Pimm 's quaffed on a Cheshire estate . Up to 80,000 people are expected to attend the Royal Horticultural Society 's ( RHS ) Tatton Park Flower Show .", "option_0": "centre", "option_1": "scoffed", "option_2": "served", "option_3": "baked", "option_4": "roasted"}
{"id": 726, "article": "In a community nutrition centre in a suburb of Antsirabe - one of the main towns in the central highlands region of Madagascar - two little girls, just under three-and-a-half years old, have come for a check-up. When Jiana and Rova stand near each other the difference between the two is shocking. Rova is a full head shorter than Jiana. She weighs just 60% of Jiana's weight and looks so much more fragile. The staff at the centre suspect Rova could be suffering from chronic malnutrition. Like many developing countries, Madagascar has a problem with this form of malnutrition. Almost half of children under five are affected. The central highlands region, however, presents a particular paradox when it comes to chronic malnutrition. The area has fertile soils and produces masses of food. Poverty and sanitation indicators are not the worst in the country and the healthcare infrastructure is relatively good. Yet the central highlands - the area of Madagascar which includes the capital Antananarivo - have the highest rates of child chronic malnutrition in the country. How this can be is a question that experts like Simeon Nanama, head of nutrition at the UN children's agency Unicef in Madagascar, are urgently trying to answer. \"We are here facing a dilemma that we all want to understand,\" Mr Nanama said. \"In some of these regions 60% of the kids are affected.\" Chronic malnutrition is different to acute malnutrition. A child suffers acute malnutrition when there is a severe lack of food. Children with acute malnutrition are very thin and sometimes have swollen abdomens and limbs. The outward signs of chronic malnutrition are not as easy to spot and this type of malnutrition is mainly caused by a lack of essential nutrients. Children with chronic malnutrition are of course smaller and thinner than other children the same age, but otherwise they can look quite healthy. The tragic thing about chronic malnutrition is that it has long-term effects on children's brain development. Miora Randriamamonjy, Jiana's mother, knows children who have suffered from chronic malnutrition at a young age will not do as well at school and will not be as productive as adults, even if their living conditions improve later in life. Her eyes well up with tears when she talks about how powerless she feels about the situation. She says she only has just enough resources to look after her own children. \"It's so sad and I can't do anything about it. They are just kids,\" she said. Mr Nanama wants to understand more, so he can put money into the areas that would make the most impact. But at the moment he says they need to continue investigating. He's hoping a report due soon will shed some light on the issue. In the meantime, there are all sorts of theories about what could be the main factors behind the high rates of chronic malnutrition in the central highlands. They range from the type of meals families prepare, and lack of childcare, to the fact that so much food produced in the region is transported to the capital, Antananarivo, for sale there. One theory that I heard from a few different people during my visit to the area was that too many people farm land owned by others, rather than having the resources to work their own plots. Vololona Ranaivoson is the community nutrition agent for the village of Ambalapaiso about 20km (12 miles) outside Antsirabe. \"People don't have the money to buy the things they need to farm themselves and the things they need to live at the same time,\" she said. On top of this, she said there the problem of access to farmland. If this is the reason some children are shorter than others, then eradicating stumped growth will not be simple.", "question": "People in Madagascar are @placeholder why some children are n't getting enough nutrients - so are shorter than their peers - in an area where there is plenty of food .", "option_0": "puzzled", "option_1": "searching", "option_2": "preparing", "option_3": "enjoying", "option_4": "asking"}
{"id": 727, "article": "The Glovers chairman owns a 46.5% share in the club, with a further 45.5% owned by Norman Hayward and the remainder belonging to individual supporters. Fry, who has faced pressure to step down from supporters, has been a director at the club since 1993. Meanwhile, the head of a proposed supporters' trust has said they would be interested in purchasing the club. \"On one level we'd like 100% control so the supporters ran the football club,\" Brendon Owen told BBC Somerset. \"But in all honesty we haven't got that sort of money at the present time because we haven't got our trust up and running, we haven't got the funds coming in yet. \"If we had three serious investors get together they perhaps would include us as a fourth partner, so we would have a quarter share of the club, and in doing so the supporters would then have a very strong voice in how Yeovil Town ran.\" Yeovil are currently 23rd in League Two, two points adrift of safety.", "question": "Yeovil Town co-owner John Fry would listen to a serious @placeholder for the League Two side , BBC Somerset reports .", "option_0": "offer", "option_1": "challenge", "option_2": "race", "option_3": "article", "option_4": "level"}
{"id": 728, "article": "France remembered that lesson on Tuesday as it celebrated Bastille Day - the anniversary of the storming of that notorious Paris prison 226 years ago, marking the start of a revolution against the elite. And alongside celebration of France's historic past is a widespread sense of pride that its president, Francois Hollande, helped secure a Greek deal with its eurozone creditors. Greece has a fondness for its own revolutionary history: its struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th Century lasted more than a decade. It was a sentiment that former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt played on when he address his Greek counterpart in the European Parliament last week. \"Do you want to be remembered as an electoral accident?\" he asked Alexis Tsipras, \"Or a revolutionary reformer?\" President Hollande probably can't remember the last time he was called a revolutionary. But his role at the heart of those dark and stormy crisis talks was clear. Photographs from the discussions show Mr Hollande and Germany's Angela Merkel huddled with Mr Tsipras, their faces a barometer of the tense triangular deadlock they were grappling with. With the German chancellor beholden to rising anger at home over Greek debt, and with a German plan for a \"Grexit\" - or Greek departure from the eurozone - already circulating among representatives, it was the French president who seemingly smoothed the waters and found a compromise. And after living through the worst opinion poll ratings of any modern French leader, he'll probably be content with the labels currently being bestowed on him by members of his Socialist Party. There have been hymns of praise for his \"political skill\" and \"tenacity\".  Many credit him with single-handedly keeping Greece in the eurozone. \"There are times when very few people hold in their hands a piece of history. Today Francois Hollande is one of them,\" the former Housing Minister, Cecile Duflot, was quoted as saying on Sunday night. But then, as French journal Le Point points out, perhaps Mr Hollande's own party had forgotten just how good a negotiator he is. His role in the Socialist Party, until he won the presidency, had been one of diplomat and technocrat - a skilled bringer-together of the fractious Socialist factions. These are skills he was derided for as leader, but which allow him to shine in tight corners like the one the European Union found itself in last weekend. That there was political mileage for Mr Hollande in refusing to give up on Greece is clear, as his critics on both the far left and the right point out. His party is ideologically sympathetic to Greece's left-wing Syriza, brought to power on a protest vote against budget cuts. And, of course, France has itself sometimes played fast and loose with EU rules on fiscal discipline itself. But just as important in this battle may have been the display of France's weight in Europe. German power - both economic and political - is a reality, but Berlin's vision is frequently different to the view here in Paris, and keeping the balance at the heart of the EU has not always been easy for the French leadership. The leader of France's far-left bloc, Jean-Luc Melenchon, spoke of his sadness at the result of Sunday's talks, with a reference to the \"brutality and omnipotence of the German government\". For now the critical voices ranged against Mr Hollande are relatively few, but will that change if France is forced to help bankroll Greece in the coming weeks? Athens needs immediate help to avoid a banking collapse, while negotiations begin on a third bailout agreement. And EU finance ministers have been looking at where a bridging loan might come from. The European Commission wants to use joint EU money, although the UK has ruled that out and other non-eurozone governments also have concerns. Talk of bilateral loans from individual eurozone countries is resurfacing again, although French sources have denied that is an option. However, President Hollande should enjoy the celebrations now, because the price of keeping Greece in the euro may still prove higher than anyone wants to imagine.", "question": "If there 's one thing the French Revolution @placeholder Europe , it is that a heavy - handed approach to an impoverished nation can be dangerous .", "option_0": "taught", "option_1": "persist", "option_2": "word", "option_3": "costs", "option_4": "age"}
{"id": 729, "article": "Two of the four candidates leading in the polls occupy the political extremes - the far-right Marine Le Pen and hard-left Jean-Luc M¨¦lenchon. The victory of either would place a question mark over France's continued membership of the EU in its present form. Were it to leave, could the EU survive the exit of one of its founding fathers? And Thursday's fatal assault on a policeman by a Paris gunman - just the latest in a spate of attacks that has plagued the country - has only heightened the febrile atmosphere. After the Brexit vote in the UK and election of US President Donald Trump, could France be the next nation to deal a blow to politics as usual? The unpopular President Fran?ois Hollande, a Socialist, is not seeking a second term - the first French president to opt out in modern history. There are 11 candidates and the race is wide open. None looks likely to win more than 50% in the first round of voting on 23 April, so a run-off on 7 May seems assured. French politics has historically been dominated by parties of the left and centre-right, but this model could be shattered this time around. The Socialist candidate, Beno?t Hamon, is seen as out of the running. His conservative rival, Republicans' candidate Fran?ois Fillon, has had to battle to stay in the race after he was plunged into a judicial inquiry over \"fake jobs\". If you believe the opinion polls there are two front-runners, far-right National Front leader Ms Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron. Ms Le Pen took over the leadership of the FN from her father in 2011 and has worked hard to \"detoxify\" the party from its extreme past. Mr Macron, a 39-year-old ex-investment banker, was economy minister under President Hollande but resigned in 2016 to fight for the presidency as head of his En Marche! (On the move) party. Not only has he never been an MP - he has never stood for election. The early favourite was Mr Fillon, but his hopes were dented by allegations that he paid his wife public money for work she did not do. He is now under formal investigation, blaming a political conspiracy, but he is not out of the race and his team is still confident of making the second round. A surprise package in the election is far-left stalwart Mr M¨¦lenchon, whose witty charisma has attracted new supporters. A 65-year-old former Socialist minister who left the party in 2008, he now leads La France Insoumise (Unbowed France) and has used hologram technology to address separate rallies simultaneously. French election 2017: Who are the candidates? One of the overriding issues facing French voters is unemployment, which stands at almost 10% and is the eighth highest among the 28 EU member states. One in four under-25s is unemployed. The French economy has made a slow recovery from the 2008 financial crisis and all the leading candidates say deep changes are needed. Economic challenges facing next president The International Monetary Fund estimates that it will be hard to get unemployment down much below 8.5%, and highlights France's \"deep-rooted structural rigidities\". It's also high on the agenda, with the voting taking place three days after the Paris shooting and five days after two men were detained in Marseille on suspicion of plotting an attack. More than 230 people have died in terror attacks since January 2015 and France remains under a state of emergency. Officials fear more of the hundreds of young French Muslims who have travelled to Syria and Iraq may return to commit new atrocities. As French voters cast their ballots at 67,000 polling stations across the land, 50,000 police will try to ensure they are safe, and further elite units are on alert. Many predict attacks linked to Islamists will give a boost to the chances of the right, and particularly Ms Le Pen, who has vowed to suspend all legal immigration and give jobs, welfare, housing and school provision to French nationals before foreigners. In fact, intelligence services work on the assumption the attackers are deliberately pursuing a Le Pen victory, says the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris - because that could tip the country into chaos. Far-left candidate Jean-Luc M¨¦lenchon kicked off his campaign by appearing at rallies in Lyon and Paris and creating a social media buzz. He and Ms Le Pen are the masters of social media - she has 1.38 million followers on Twitter, he has 300,000 YouTube subscribers. The phenomenon of fake news has also made an appearance, with an Algerian news organisation picking up a spoof story that Ms Le Pen planned to build a wall around France and make Algeria pay for it. That's what an investigating judge is hoping to find out. Satirical weekly Le Canard Enchain¨¦ says his wife Penelope was paid €831,400 (¡ê710,000; $900,000) for work as a parliamentary assistant that she did not carry out. One report suggested she did not even have a parliamentary pass or a work email. She is also said to have pocketed €100,000 for writing just a handful of articles for a literary review owned by a billionaire friend of the family. Mr Fillon insists everything was above board and says the investigation against him is a \"political assassination\" designed to deny French voters the choice of a centre-right candidate. Ms Le Pen is fighting to appeal to the centre and left of French politics after working to move the party away from the image of her father, who has been repeatedly convicted for hate speech and describing the Holocaust as a \"detail of history\". But she still has a far-right platform. She wants to allocate public services to French citizens ahead of foreigners and has vowed to suspend all legal immigration. The FN also has close ties with other European parties such as Austria's far-right Freedom Party that mainstream right-wing parties want nothing to do with.", "question": "The world is watching to see if France becomes the next major country to challenge liberal @placeholder and the political establishment .", "option_0": "governments", "option_1": "conditions", "option_2": "values", "option_3": "points", "option_4": "behaviour"}
{"id": 730, "article": "Jennifer Smyth was a promising young athlete but a fall during training in September 2013 changed her life forever. At the age of 17, Ms Smyth was left with a broken neck and became quadriplegic as a consequence. The Eglinton teenager has since made significant progress with her injury and hopes one day to walk again. She attended a rehabilitation centre in America over the summer. Using bionic leg devices and a pacer, Jennifer was able to walk a few lengths of the gym. \"Effectively she took her first steps in America,\" her mother Pamela told BBC Radio Foyle. \"The last few years have seen a great focus on faith and determination and I have incredible admiration for her strength of character and her refusal to allow this injury to beat her. \"We're very, very proud of her. I couldn't be more proud,\" she said. Jennifer started studying 3D design at the University of Birmingham in September and she hopes it will give her the tools to help people with similar injuries in the future. \"I want to get back to normality again, do most things that other people can do,\" she said. \"With my course I want to go on and design prosthetics and exoskeletons to help other people in my situation with the physical aspect of things, continue rehab and get back up on my feet, so hopefully that will happen.\"", "question": "A paralysed gymnast from County Londonderry has @placeholder ' to help others ' by making prosthetics .", "option_0": "learned", "option_1": "vowed", "option_2": "prompted", "option_3": "admitted", "option_4": "revealed"}
{"id": 731, "article": "Once, there was rarely a better way for wealthy gents to subtly boast about their riches than to proclaim their status via their neckwear. Although not a common method now, having been replaced by showy watches and designer labels, in the late 19th Century it was all the rage for the well-connected and well-to-do to slip on the \"gentleman's accessory of grandeur\" - an ascot tie - to demonstrate their affluence. Firstly, though, is an ascot different from a cravat? An ascot - also known as a \"day cravat\" is the form of cravat we're familiar with today. It's a neckband with wide pointed wings, folded over, and fastened with a stickpin. The ends are typically tucked inside the collar of a shirt and although it's a bit fiddly, there are plenty of tips on how to tie one. Traditionally made from pale grey patterned silk, the ascot is now more commonly seen in bright - some might say lurid - colours. Named after the racing gala Royal Ascot, it would be easy to assume the royal enclosure is overflowing with male throats clad in silk. But the ties, they are a-changin' and since 2012, the event's dress code stipulates: \"Gentlemen are kindly reminded that it is a requirement to wear either black or grey morning dress which must include a waistcoat and tie (no cravats)\". According to the Academia Cravatica - a Croatian organisation dedicated to the preservation of the cravat, a cravat is merely \"a scarf or piece of fabric worn around the neck\". Why are the Croatians bothered? Because that's where cravats come from. Croat soldiers serving under the French army during the reign of Louis XIII wore military kit which included picturesque scarves distinctively knotted at the neck. Enlisted soldiers were likely to have a coarse cloth, while officers might swaddle their necks in fine linens and silks. The fashion spread through France and Regency dandy \"Beau\" Brummell - made it popular with the English. Thus the cravat became a way of displaying both sartorial elegance and wealth. By the time Victoria came to the throne they were well-established staples for the suave. The increase in influence of the industrial businessmen towards the end of the Victorian era saw middle-class men eschewing stiff neckwear and adopting a less formal form of tie. Off they went to watch the horses at Royal Ascot with their loose necktie. It became quite the thing to wear at the meeting and eventually \"ascot\" became its name. According to the Gentleman's Gazette, - motto \"helping you look dapper and dandy\" - this kind of neckwear was accessible even to the middle classes, while also allowing upper-class gentlemen to express their wealth in details, such as expensive tiepins. The further a man had climbed the social scale, the quieter and more subtle his neckwear was, whereas the lower he was placed, the brighter and more varied his neckwear became, according to the gazette. Throughout the years, fashions changed in how the tie appeared perhaps coincided with the mod and psychedelic movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Perhaps the golden years of the ascot were best portrayed by the likes of the Duke of Windsor, Pablo Picasso and David Niven, but these were sadly superseded by Terry Thomas-alike Brits abroad, lecherous men at parties and drama teachers wearing them with heavy irony. And of course, Alan Partridge. So what's a chap to do if he can't wear his ascot to Ascot? There's a bit of a resurgence. According to fashion journalist Julian Bennett, \"the ascot tie, which was a symbol of wealth during the 19th Century is still heavily used in everyday fashion today and can still be seen on the catwalks from top designers around the world\". If you've got just a minute, you might take a leaf from Nicholas Parsons' sartorial stylebook. He describes himself as \"a dedicated wearer of the cravat\". And according to the Cravat Club (yes, there is one), gentlemen should try \"experimenting with their ascot, such as tucking it into a polo shirt\". \"Why not wear it on the outside of the shirt paired with a tailored suit, waistcoat or fitted jacket?\", the club asks. Why not indeed?", "question": "As Royal Ascot comes to a close and the finery and frippery of the royal enclosure is packed away , one item of clothing will not have to be replaced in the wardrobe - because it is banned . Ascot ties - once the neckwear of choice - are not allowed to be worn at Ascot . What 's the @placeholder of their rise and fall ?", "option_0": "dream", "option_1": "point", "option_2": "story", "option_3": "timing", "option_4": "time"}
{"id": 732, "article": "Some 2,000 miners had gathered at a stadium near the mine, about 60 miles (100km) north-west of Johannesburg. Strikes have already halted production at several gold and platinum mines in the resource-rich country. South African President Jacob Zuma said that the disruption had cost the industry $548m (?¡ê337m) in lost output. Speaking before a conference of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) he said that this year's strikes had taken nearly $388m from the national treasury. Last week, the government warned it would act \"swiftly\" against the incitement and threats of violence crippling the mines. After arguing with police at the stadium, Mr Malema was escorted away by a special police protection unit. According to the Associated Press, two armoured police vehicles drove alongside Mr Malema's vehicle and a police helicopter hovered above until he reached a two-lane highway. He has called for a nationwide strike after earlier saying the mines should be made \"ungovernable\". Some have accused Mr Malema, who was expelled from the African National Congress (ANC) earlier this year, of political opportunism amid seething anger over last month's deaths at Marikana mine. Forty-four people died at the Lonmin-owned platinum mine in mid-August, among them 34 miners shot in a single day by police. A commission of inquiry is looking into events at that mine, but observers say the issue is tapping into disquiet over the ruling ANC's links to big business and alleged neglect of the working classes that have made up its historical support base. Sidumo Dlamini, the president of South Africa's trade union movement, said again on Monday that growing inequality was to blame for the recent killings and continuing unrest in the country's mining industry. The London-registered Lonmin firm announced on Monday that is was halting construction of a new mine shaft, putting 1,200 people out of work. Mr Malema, the former head of the ANC Youth League, is also under investigation for alleged corruption - which he denies. But he is continuing to make waves in South Africa - articulating the anger of many following last month's killings, says BBC Africa correspondent Andrew Harding. His fiery rhetoric is hugely popular, especially given the relative silence from other quarters, our correspondent says.", "question": "Firebrand politician Julius Malema has been @placeholder by police from addressing striking workers at South Africa 's Marikana mine .", "option_0": "arrested", "option_1": "backed", "option_2": "seized", "option_3": "barred", "option_4": "approved"}
{"id": 733, "article": "The prince will spend 15 days touring seven island nations as the Queen's representative. The governor general of Antigua welcomed him with a reception at the newly restored Clarence House. The prince re-opened the building - designed for King William IV when governor general in the 18th Century. He also read out a message from the Queen in which she recalled her \"fond memories\" of visiting Antigua on three occasions between 1966 and 1985, The prince also congratulated the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on their 69th wedding anniversary. Earlier he made an unscheduled stop at Nelson's Dockyard, a Unesco World Heritage Site where Admiral Lord Nelson was based for four years in the 1780s. Later, Harry is to join West Indian cricket legends Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Andy Roberts and Sir Curtly Ambrose at a sporting event near Antigua's capital St John's. A Kensington Palace source said the tour would have a \"formal feel\" but there would be \"plenty of fun\". Its build-up has been overshadowed after it emerged the prince was dating US actress Meghan Markle. Earlier this month Prince Harry, 32, hit out at the media for subjecting Ms Markle to a \"wave of abuse and harassment\", issuing a rare but strongly worded statement. Who is Meghan Markle? The palace source added that Prince Harry had been \"looking forward to the tour for many months\" and was \"honoured\" at being asked to represent the Queen. \"While this tour will necessarily have a more formal feel, he's pleased that he'll have plenty of opportunities to meet people from all walks of life. There should be plenty of fun along the way.\"", "question": "Blazing @placeholder and a red carpet lined with potted palms greeted Prince Harry as he arrived in Antigua on a Caribbean tour billed as formal but fun .", "option_0": "sunshine", "option_1": "members", "option_2": "teams", "option_3": "food", "option_4": "candles"}
{"id": 734, "article": "South Cambridgeshire District Council's decision in 2014 to approve a new ground for Cambridge City FC had been the subject of a judicial review. The 3,000-capacity stadium can now be built on green belt land in Sawston, just south of Cambridge. Club chairman Kevin Satchell said he was \"delighted\" and the club could now move forward with its plans. The Southern Premier Division side sold off its Milton Road ground for development and is currently sharing a ground with St Ives Town FC. The judicial review was lodged in 2015 after the planning committee approved the proposal despite officers recommending its refusal. The council said the judge did not find it had breached \"any common law duty to give reasons for granting the permission when it went against officer recommendation to refuse it\". Lynda Harford, chairman of South Cambridgeshire District Council's planning committee, said: \"The original planning application was considered on its merits following active local public consultation and debate.\" Mr Satchell said: \"Hopefully we will soon be moving into a new home that we can all be proud of.\" Because the development is on green belt, the approval of the Department for Communities and Local Government had to be sought and was obtained. The plans include a floodlit grass pitch, full-sized training pitch and 500 spaces.", "question": "Plans to build a new stadium for a city football team are set to go ahead after they were @placeholder by a High Court judge .", "option_0": "targeted", "option_1": "backed", "option_2": "killed", "option_3": "knocked", "option_4": "dismissed"}
{"id": 735, "article": "The 25-year-old, who moves to rugby union side Bath later this month, was injured in an early clash with fellow Englishman James Graham. But he stayed on to help the Rabbitohs to a first NRL title in 43 years. He also became the first non-Australian to win the Clive Churchill medal for the man of the match. \"It feels like I cracked my eye socket in the first attack, but I just played on adrenalin after that and my team-mates talked me through it,\" said Burgess. \"I'm sure it will hurt tomorrow, but I would do it all over again. It is a feeling you can't replicate and I am thankful to play in this position.\" Burgess's 22-year-old twin brothers George, who scored a second-half try, and Thomas also played key parts in the game watched by a record crowd of 83,833 at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney. Rabbitohs owner and film star Russell Crowe played a key role in Burgess's move from Bradford Bulls in 2010 and the Yorkshireman has been a huge success since joining the NRL. In August 2013, Sam, Thomas and George, as well as older brother Luke, who missed out on a place in the Grand Final squad, became the first set of four siblings to play for an Australian top-flight side in the same game for more than a century. Sam has signed a three-year contract with Bath and has been touted for a place in the England squad for the 2015 World Cup. The success at South Sydney for coach Michael Maguire comes after he led Wigan to the Super League title in 2010. South Sydney: Inglis, Johnston, Walker, Auva'a, Tuqiri, Keary, Reynolds, G Burgess, Koroisau, Tyrrell, Te'o, Sutton, S Burgess. Interchange: Clark, Turner, McQueen, T Burgess Canterbury: Perrett, Thompson, J Morris,  Lafai, Brown, Reynolds, Hodkinson, Tolman, Mbye, Graham, Jackson, Williams, Eastwood. Interchange: Tim Browne, Dale Finucane, David Klemmer, Frank Pritchard", "question": "Sam Burgess shrugged off a @placeholder broken cheekbone to guide South Sydney Rabbitohs to victory over Canterbury Bulldogs in the NRL Grand Final .", "option_0": "record", "option_1": "suspected", "option_2": "form", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "second"}
{"id": 736, "article": "South African firm Famous Brands signed a ¡ê120m deal to buy the chain from Nando's owner, Capricorn Ventures. Gourmet Burger Kitchen, founded in 2001, was a \"pioneer of the premium burger revolution\", Famous Brands said. The company says that it wants to open 10 to 15 more burger restaurants a year in the UK. The mass-market burger giants, McDonalds and Burger King, first opened in the UK in the 1970s. While those brands have continued to expand, by the end of the 1990s a new fashion for more expensive burgers had arrived, again from the US. Upmarket burger brands in the UK now include Byron, Shake Shack and Five Guys, as well as an increasing number of independents. According to analysts Mintel, the premium burger market now accounts for sales worth more than ¡ê3bn a year. Famous Brands plans to double Gourmet Burger Kitchen's 75 UK stores in the next five years and said Brexit uncertainty would not affect its plans. Consumers still want food that is quick and convenient, but are willing to pay for better ingredients, said Famous Brands' Kevin Hedderwick. \"The fast-casual premium environment is pretty recession-proof,\" he said. The price difference between upmarket and fast-food burger shops is quite striking. Whereas a typical McDonald's quarter-pounder with cheese will set you back less than ¡ê3, a Gourmet Burger Kitchen 4oz classic cheeseburger is more than ¡ê6. But Gourmet Burger Kitchen also sells more unusual fare, including buffalo burgers and Persian lamb. Food fashions in the UK range from the super-health-conscious to the indulgent. And at the indulgent end of the scale, consumers are focusing on the quality of the ingredients and being able to personalise the menu, by selecting different options. \"Consumers see freshly made burgers as the biggest marker of a gourmet burger venue, something that sets them apart, as this is not traditionally offered by fast food venues,\" said Kiti Soininen, head of UK food and drink research at Mintel. \"Customisation is also a top expectation for gourmet offerings, in line with a more general demand for knowing what goes into one's food and the trend for personalisation.\"", "question": "Wimpy owner Famous Brands has @placeholder UK chain Gourmet Burger Kitchen , as the fashion for upmarket burgers in the UK shows no signs of slowing down .", "option_0": "joined", "option_1": "helped", "option_2": "swallowed", "option_3": "replaced", "option_4": "added"}
{"id": 737, "article": "Santhosh Rajan was found not guilty after the judge at Birmingham Crown ordered the jury to reach the verdict. Mr Rajan had been accused of killing Iris Teale, who died 16 days after breaking her leg at Aston Court Nursing Home in Little Aston, in October 2011. Mr Rajan, of Walsall, said: \"I have maintained my innocence throughout the course of this lengthy investigation.\" The 39 year old said there were \"no winners in this case\" and expressed his \"great sympathy for the terrible ordeal Mrs Teale's family continue to suffer\". The court had heard Mrs Teale's care plan meant she should have only been moved by two people using a hoist. She sustained her leg fracture after the limb was subjected to a twisting motion on 8 October 2011, which \"contributed to the death in a significant way\", the jury was told. At the start of the trial, jurors were told Mr Rajan claimed Mrs Teale was already injured when he entered her room at about 22:10 GMT, and he did not know how she had sustained her fracture. She died in hospital on 24 October.", "question": "A care home nurse accused of manslaughter over the death of a 91 - year - old woman has been @placeholder .", "option_0": "cleared", "option_1": "raped", "option_2": "found", "option_3": "implicated", "option_4": "detained"}
{"id": 738, "article": "A moth called the Tomato Leaf Miner, or Tuta Absoluta, has ravaged 80% of tomato farms, Commissioner of Agriculture Daniel Manzo Maigar said. He said 200 farmers together lost at least 1bn naira ($5.1m; ?¡ê3.5m) over the past month. The price of a basket of tomatoes has increased from $1.20 less than three months ago to more than $40 today. Africa Live: BBC news updates In Nigeria, officials declare a state of emergency to indicate they are taking drastic action to deal with a problem, the BBC's Muhammad Kabir Muhammad says. In this case the state sent government agricultural officials to Kenya to meet experts on the Tomato Leaf Miner to learn how to deal with the pest. Kaduna is in the north of the country, where according to the UN most tomato production takes place, A tomato paste manufacturing business in northern Kano state owned by Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, suspended production earlier in the month due to the lack of tomatoes, reports Forbes. Tomatoes are a basic part of most Nigerians' diets and the word tomato has trended on Twitter as people discuss the rising price. One of the memes being shared is a tongue-in-cheek look at Nigerian pain over discovering the annual festival in Spain where people throw tomatoes at each other.", "question": "A state of emergency has been declared in the tomato @placeholder in Kaduna state , northern Nigeria , local media report .", "option_0": "capital", "option_1": "region", "option_2": "state", "option_3": "factory", "option_4": "sector"}
{"id": 739, "article": "In a statement, the Farc says \"incidents which led to the distancing between the groups\" have been overcome. The development comes as Farc leaders resume peace negotiations with the Colombian government in Cuba. They are discussing how Farc could enter politics if a deal is reached to end five decades of conflict. According to the Farc statement, the meeting with the ELN (National Liberation Army) at an undisclosed location discussed the need to \"work for the unity of all political and social forces\" involved in changing the country. The two groups have clashed in the past but have recently joined forces in armed operations against government targets in Colombia. The ELN - Colombia's second largest group - is not part of the peace talks in Cuba. But its leaders have made clear they would like to participate. Talks between the Colombian government and the Farc resumed in Havana on Monday on the second key issue on the peace agenda: how to bring the rebel group into the political process after a future peace deal. Q&A: Colombia peace talks They reached an agreement on land reform late in May. Farc leaders want general elections be put back a year, to 2015, to allow for a constituent assembly to draw up Colombia's political future. But the government has warned it will only discuss the previously agreed agenda. \"The political participation discussion is only over these issues. This is what the government is ready to discuss and nothing else,\" Colombia's chief negotiator, Humberto de la Calle said. Landmark peace negotiations have been going on in Cuba for more than six months. The Farc is thought to have some 8,000 fighters, down from about 16,000 in 2001, while the government says the ELN has fewer than 1,500 men. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed since the conflict began in the 1960s, with some three million more internally displaced by the fighting.", "question": "Colombia 's largest armed rebel groups , the Farc and ELN , have met \" to @placeholder \" their \" unification process \" .", "option_0": "address", "option_1": "restore", "option_2": "defend", "option_3": "strengthen", "option_4": "discuss"}
{"id": 740, "article": "The former financial ombudsman, Walter Merricks, had claimed that 46 million consumers had been overcharged by Mastercard over a 16-year period. But the court ruled that the case could not proceed through a collective - or class - action. The ruling was welcomed by Mastercard, which said the claims were completely unsuitable. The tribunal found that even if a loss had been suffered, and could be estimated across the whole class, there was no way any individual could receive compensation equal to the loss that he or she had actually suffered. The case was filed in September 2016, and followed a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling against the level of so-called interchange fees - the amounts that retailers have to pay on debit and credit cards. It related to the fees charged by Mastercard between 1992 and 2008. \"We welcome the Competition Appeal Tribunal's judgment refusing certification for the proposed collective action,\" said a spokesperson for Mastercard. \"As set out in Mastercard's arguments to date, we believe that the claims were completely unsuitable to be brought under the collective actions regime.\" Interchange fees have since been capped by the European Union.", "question": "A ¡ê 14 bn class action lawsuit against Mastercard has been @placeholder out by the Competition Appeals Tribunal .", "option_0": "sorted", "option_1": "thrown", "option_2": "broken", "option_3": "laid", "option_4": "handed"}
{"id": 741, "article": "An overtime win over Fife Flyers on Saturday was followed by a penalty-shots victory over Belfast Giants as the Stars went the distance and claimed all points available. And after edging past title challengers Belfast, who clawed a 4-1 deficit to 4-4 to take the game into overtime, LeFebvre was understandably delighted. \"It's a huge four-point weekend and that's three wins in a row for us now after getting past the hell of a hockey team in Belfast,\" a jubilant LeFebvre said. \"We knew it was going to be a full 60-minute game against them, but full credit to our guys.  We found a way to win in overtime against Fife and we did it in a shootout against Belfast. \"It's two big wins and four points in a weekend and while Belfast put us under pressure late on, I'll look at that and any other negatives, when get back to work on Tuesday.  I just want to enjoy this.\" Stars travelled to Fife Flyers looking for a top-eight spot and ended up going the distance with their Kirkcaldy rivals before taking both points in a 4-3 overtime win. Felix Poulin's first was an equaliser from Justin Fox, before the Fife man added a second, which was then cancelled out by Vinny Scarsella as the teams were tied at 2-2 after the first period. Joey Sides fired Stars in front in the second and the leveller from Brendan Brooks sent the game into overtime, where Poulin struck to clinch the two points. Stars hosted Belfast Giants on Sunday, a team in the thick of the Elite League title race and did it again, taking victory in penalty shots after a 4-4 draw. Mikael Lidhammar and Kevin Bruijsten put the Stars two up, with Jim Vandermeer pulling one back for the Giants before Bruijsten adding his second shortly after. The night got better for the home team when Scarsella fired home a penalty shot to make it 4-1, but Giants' Derrick Walser clawed one back shorthanded in the final minute of the second. The visitors got to within one of their hosts in the first minute of the third as Blair Riley scored with Belfast's second shorthanded goal to make it a nervy final period. Riley struck again with a couple of minutes to go to tie the game at 4-4, with Dundee hanging on as the game moved into overtime then penalty shots, where Lidhammar was the only success. Fife went to Edinburgh Capitals on Sunday and got back to winning ways as they completed a three point weekend to move to fifth in the Elite League table after winning 4-3. Matt Sisca and Justin Fox put them two up before Ian Schultz pulled one back for Edinburgh.  Chase Schaber added a third, but Yevgeni Fyodorov pulled Caps to within one again. Carlo Finucci's late finish effectively sealed the points, although a late one from Fyodorov for his second made the scoreline most respectable for the Caps. The Capitals had two points in the bag from the weekend after visiting Braehead Clan on Saturday night, winning 3-2 as they looked to start clawing their way into the play-off reckoning. Mason Wilgosh opened the scoring for the Caps, but Corey Cowick was on hand to poke home the equaliser for Braehead. A bullet shot from Michal Dobron restored Edinburgh's lead, only for Matt Beca to restore parity for the home side.  However Yevgeni Fyodorov's winner in the second period proved enough. Clan made their way to Manchester Storm on Sunday and it turned into a weekend to forget for Ryan Finnerty's men, who lost 6-3 after an early collapse in the third period. Matt Beca and Scott Pitt put Braehead two up before Darian Dzuirzynski pulled one by the end of the first. Storm blitzed their visitors in the third with a hat-trick from Jack Prince and two from Matt Bissonnette and although Mike Hammond got one back for the Clan, the game was lost. Saturday Braehead Clan 2-3 Edinburgh Capitals Fife Flyers 3-4 (OT) Dundee Stars Sunday Dundee Stars 5-4 (OT) Belfast Giants Edinburgh Capitals 3-4 Fife Flyers Manchester Storm 6-3 Braehead Clan", "question": "Dundee Stars head coach Marc LeFebvre @placeholder his team after picking up four Elite League points this weekend , but will worry about negatives later on .", "option_0": "sank", "option_1": "marked", "option_2": "scored", "option_3": "deserves", "option_4": "hailed"}
{"id": 742, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The Uefa secretary general succeeds fellow Swiss Sepp Blatter, polling 115 votes, 27 more than closest rival Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, at Friday's election. Blatter quit in May amid allegations that led to a six-year ban from football, which he is contesting. \"I said today we have to build bridges, not build walls,\" said the 45-year-old. \"Football can certainly do that. I want to focus on football,\" he added. The resignation of Blatter, who denies any wrongdoing, prompted the extraordinary congress at Fifa, which has been engulfed by claims of widespread corruption since summer 2015. Media playback is not supported on this device Infantino is a lawyer from Brig in the Valais region of Switzerland, less than six miles from Blatter's hometown of Visp. \"Today it was an election, but not a war,\" he said. \"It was a competition, but not a fight. It was a sporting contest. An election you win, you lose and then life goes on. \"Now we turn the page, we start to work, we work good together and I show the whole world I'm not a candidate of Europe or wherever. I'm a candidate of football and football is universal. \"This is what we'll start to do now in Fifa to work with everyone for the development of football and not to do politics, to speak about divisions, to speak about barriers.\" The first round of voting failed to determine an outright winner, though Infantino led with 88, three more than pre-vote favourite Sheikh Salman. A simple majority of more than 50% - 104 of 207 available votes - was sufficient for victory in round two. To help the new president tackle the crisis at Fifa, key reforms were passed to help make it a more transparent and accountable organisation.", "question": "Gianni Infantino wants to @placeholder football after becoming president of world football 's governing body Fifa .", "option_0": "achieve", "option_1": "reunite", "option_2": "head", "option_3": "beat", "option_4": "replace"}
{"id": 743, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Europe's  over a stupefied United States team in golden Sunday sunshine at Medinah was many things - a nerve-mangling epic, an unprecedented comeback and a criminal collapse, golfing larceny on the grandest scale. It was also, in a year when the extraordinary became commonplace, perhaps the most remarkable afternoon of all. We have heard much of Seve Ballesteros all week, seen his image everywhere and listened as his name was evoked to inspire and illuminate. Media playback is not supported on this device Even by Seve's standards of escapology, this was surely impossible. Trailing 10-4 at one stage on Saturday, unable to cope with either course or crowds, the European team were plugged in a bunker behind a tree on another fairway. Europe's biggest final-day comeback before this had been from a mere two points down in 1995. So comprehensively had they  over the  that even the overnight 10-6 seemed nothing more than a valiant yet futile rally that would do little but soften the blow of inevitable defeat. So how did it happen? How did the day that at one point had them 25-1 for the win end with Luke Donald spraying champagne all over a cavorting army of overseas support, with captain Jose Maria Olazabal blubbing tears of joy, with the \"U-S-As\" overwhelmed by \"oles\" and Ian Poulter conducting it all with half-cut glee? It began as it surely had to - with Olazabal's first few singles selections all taking the lead early, silencing the boisterous home galleries for the first time and applying pressure to their rivals. It then continued as it had not before - with European putts dropping like the autumn leaves all around, with American efforts skidding past and stopping short. For the first time, mixed in with the cigar smoke and smell of beer and barbecue drifting across the course, there was something else: doubt, and then escalating anxiety. It was a magnificent performance from the whole European team and I have never seen a more exciting end to a Ryder Cup - and I've seen plenty. Read more Then, at the death, it ended only one way - with Olazabal's men standing tall while American captain Davis Love's much-vaunted home-boys crumbled and broke. Five matches reached the 18th green. A US player won just one of them. From one down with two to go, Justin Rose drained a pair of monstrous putts to beat Phil Mickelson. Poulter got his nose in front for the first time on 17 and birdied the last to see off Webb Simpson. Rory McIlroy birdied 14 and 15 to tame the charging Keegan Bradley, and Sergio Garcia survived those final two holes in one under as Jim Furyk bogeyed both. European heroes were not hard to find, even if the first was somewhat unexpected. Had it not been for the Illinois state trooper who  at the team hotel and used his sirens to usher him through the streets to Medinah with 10 minutes to spare, the 23-year-old would have conceded the first hole and quite possibly several more. For Poulter, who has not won a tournament since May 2011 and was here only by gift of a captain's pick, this was his greatest hour. Four points from four matches leaves the beef from the bone. Endlessly energised, angrily indomitable, he became the standard around which his comrades could muster. In overturning Mickelson when all seemed lost, Rose provided the pivotal moment. When he sank that long, curving 30-footer on 17, European fans started to believe. When he held his nerve to do the same on 18, they knew it was on. Tucked away in the ranks, Paul Lawrie dished out a mauling. His only previous outing in the Ryder Cup saw him on the wrong end of the other great comeback in the competition's storied history, the US onslaught at Brookline. Thirteen years on, his 5&3 thrashing of Brandt Snedeker - a week ago the winner of the ¡ê6m Fed-Ex Cup - was the most agreeable revenge. Media playback is not supported on this device And what of the man who ended it all? Martin Kaymer has been woefully out of form all summer. He was dropped for three of the first four sessions, if not a liability than a fault-line to be carefully concealed. Twenty-one years after his compatriot Bernhard Langer missed a six-footer at Kiawah to retain the trophy, the second German to play in the competition rolled home one from almost identical length to lay those ghosts to rest. We should have known that we could trust a German to deliver in a shoot-out. \"Olazabal came up to me on the 16th and told me we needed my point to win the Ryder Cup,\" he said afterwards. \"I loved that feeling. Loved it.\" For all that Europe's 12 good men won this, the US's tossed it away on the Illinois winds. No-one who has never stood on a green with the world watching on should use the word \"choke\". But the stony, downcast faces of Love's team afterwards told their own tale: this was in our grasp, and we somehow let it slip. To win just three matches from 12, on home soil, on a course set up specifically for their skills and 40,000 baying boozers roaring them on, is the sort of return that haunts a man until his fading hours. Furyk folded as his putts on 17 and 18 stayed afloat. The next man through went from Stricker to stricken in the space of one butchered approach. Behind them both, Tiger Woods - winless from his four matches, grey-faced and silent - looked a bit-player alone on the biggest stage. For their captain Love it was a horrible end to a week when he had done almost everything right. About his only misjudged move was predicting, live on television midway through Sunday afternoon, that Jason Dufner would be the man to hole the winning putt. Could he do anything about his players' disintegration? No. There are many things a Ryder Cup captain can do, but hit straight irons and hole clutch putts he cannot. For his opposite number Olazabal it was everything he had hoped: a validation of his decision to stack his big hitters up early in the singles order, a fitting tribute to his old pal Seve, an avenging of the Brookline defeat to which he had the front-row seat. On Saturday night, just as Seve had throughout his career, he talked only of belief. You can do this, he told his players. You will do this. For the Ryder Cup itself, the 39th edition has been another remarkable chapter in a story that so seldom disappoints. You might argue that it is becoming one-sided; Europe has won the last two, five of the last six and seven of the last nine. But today, as in each of those, there was theatre like few other sporting events can provide. So that was our summer of 2012. An Englishman won the Tour de France. A Scot won the US Open. In between, Britons won gold after gold at a home Olympics and won even more in the Paralympics that followed. Watching these Europeans celebrate at the end of it - Poulter swirling a union flag over his head, Nicolas Colsaerts sparking up consecutive cigarettes, McIlroy staggering under the weight of a champagne bottle the size of his legs, all of it under a perfect blue sky, songs ringing out across the lawns - there could only be happiness at its final passing.", "question": "And so , after a sporting summer that has defied belief , the final @placeholder came to pass .", "option_0": "miracle", "option_1": "body", "option_2": "supply", "option_3": "step", "option_4": "race"}
{"id": 744, "article": "The businessman, who owns Sky News and The Sun, wrote: \"AUST gets wake-call with Sydney terror. \"Only Daily Telegraph caught the bloody outcome at 2.00 am. Congrats.\" He was labelled \"heartless\" and \"insensitive\" by Twitter users. Two people and the gunman died after commandoes stormed the cafe. One was 38-year-old barrister and mother-of-three Katrina Dawson. The other was Tori Johnson, the 34-year-old manager of the Lindt cafe. The hostage-taker has been identified as Man Haron Monis. Who is Rupert Murdoch? Many people expressed disbelief at Rupert Murdoch's tweet. Responding to his post, comedian Adam Hills tweeted: \"I'm sorry is this real?\" Harry Shearer, who voices (among others) the character for Mr Burns in The Simpsons, also tweeted about the post, suggesting that being woken up by a siege was nothing to boast about. Actor Stephen Hunter, who plays Bombur in The Hobbit, replied to Rupert Murdoch too. There's been no response from Rupert Murdoch since he tweeted on Monday. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "question": "Rupert Murdoch has been @placeholder after tweeting congratulations to his newspaper , the Australian Daily Telegraph , for being awake to cover the \" bloody outcome \" of the Sydney siege .", "option_0": "postponed", "option_1": "launched", "option_2": "honoured", "option_3": "praised", "option_4": "criticised"}
{"id": 745, "article": "Alastair Bremner said the pictures were taken at the marriage of his sister Kathleen to Pete Maloney. Romanian Alex Galmeanu discovered the images on undeveloped film inside a camera he bought online. Mr Galmeanu thought the wedding had taken place in Scotland, but the venue has now been identified as the Burleigh Court Hotel in Gloucestershire. Mr Bremner said his mother and father, Betty and Alex, were originally from Scotland but moved to Gloucestershire, where the children grew up. His sister, known as Kathy, now lives in Cheltenham. Pete Maloney emigrated to Australia. Alastair said the car in one of the pictures is his father's Austin Maxi. He thinks it was bought near Dollar in Clackmannanshire, where his parents lived before moving south. The car eventually covered 280,000 miles without a change of gearbox. Mr Bremner identified other people in the pictures including his sister Morag, Pete Maloney's parents, and an aunt and uncle, Grace and Bob Thomas. One mystery remains. Mr Bremner does not know who took the pictures. Mr Bremner said the wedding did not turn out to be a happy ever after event. He said: \"My sister lives in Cheltenham at the moment. \"She married Pete but their wedding didn't last that long unfortunately. \"Pete now lives in Australia.\" Alastair's brother John said the two images which do not feature the wedding may be of most use in tracking down whoever took the photographs. He told the BBC: \"Obviously this is a friend who attended the wedding. \"I can name everyone there apart from the last two photographs. \"That must be his family. It looks like he's taken a picture of his garden and it looks like he's got some grandchildren there.\" The general manager of the Burleigh Court Hotel, Christine Read, had earlier partially solved the mystery when she confirmed the group shot was \"definitely\" taken on the hotel's back terrace. The hotel, near Stroud, has changed owners three times since 1979. Ms Read, who joined the hotel staff in 1980, told BBC Scotland she knew it was her hotel \"without a shadow of a doubt\". \"As soon as I saw the first picture with the trees I knew. And then the second photo has the lodge at the end of our drive,\" she said. Professional fashion photographer Mr Galmeanu, who discovered the images last week, had posted them online in the hope of returning the originals to the couple or a relative. Writing on his blog, Mr Galmeanu said he found the film inside a Balda Baldix camera he bought from an online seller near Birmingham. Speaking to the BBC after the Bremner family had come forward, he said he was delighted to be able to find the pictures and make contact with those involved in the wedding. Mr Galmeanu added: \"This is a once in a lifetime opportunity here. \"I'm very happy to do that. \"It's a story I will tell to my grandchild - if that's possible.\" Do you have more information about the photographs? Email us at newsonlinescotland@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "A family has contacted the BBC to say they are the @placeholder of a series of mystery wedding photographs .", "option_0": "top", "option_1": "author", "option_2": "fate", "option_3": "subjects", "option_4": "signs"}
{"id": 746, "article": "Scores of people fell ill with a sickness bug after the party at Splashes in Rainham, a report said. Medway Council said it had had to lower the amount of chlorine in the water for the dye to work, but within guidelines. Public Health England (PHE) said in a report the bug was likely to be linked to the lower chlorine levels. It said chlorine checks that day at the pool had failed. Live: More on this story and other news from Kent A PHE spokeswoman said: \"Our investigation revealed failures in pool maintenance procedures on the day of the outbreak, in relation to monitoring and recording of chlorine levels.\" Medway councillor Howard Doe said: \"We have worked closely with Public Health England to look into how customers could have become ill after visiting Splashes. I would like to say again on behalf of the council that we are sorry to those who felt unwell after enjoying the pool party.\" The council said it would no longer use dye in its pools, as a precaution. The report said it was not possible to say how many people became ill, but 93 people responded to a questionnaire and 68 people met the outbreak definition. It said the outbreak had a \"moderately high attack rate\". Investigators said it was not possible to work out how or where the norovirus was introduced or spread. But they said people who put their head in or swallowed the water were at higher risk and the outbreak ended \"abruptly\" after the chlorine returned to normal which suggested it was \"linked to reduced chlorine levels\" on 28 October. Recommendations included that the council should take remedial actions, review risk assessments over dye use, consider additional training and look at improving customers' \"low compliance\" over showering before and after swimming.", "question": "A council says it will no longer use dye in its swimming pools after turning the water \" @placeholder red \" for a Halloween party led to a norovirus outbreak .", "option_0": "cherry", "option_1": "blood", "option_2": "language", "option_3": "flaming", "option_4": "ruby"}
{"id": 747, "article": "Remember that group hug? When SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood and Green Party leader Natalie Bennett got together at the end of one of the general election TV debates, leaving poor Ed Miliband flapping about on the sidelines. That felt, to some, like a moment when things were changing for women in British politics. The impressive performance of female politicians, such as Andrea Leadsom and Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson in the EU referendum TV debates, felt like another. Now, with Mrs Leadsom and Theresa May battling it out for the Tory leadership we are on the verge of getting our second female prime minister, 26 years after Margaret Thatcher left Downing Street. On the global stage, America could be about to get its first female president, in Hillary Clinton, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel continues to dominate European politics. Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster is the first woman to be First Minister in Northern Ireland and Ms Sturgeon continues to dominate things at Holyrood. Labour might even get a female leader for the first time in its history, if Angela Eagle decides to launch a challenge against Jeremy Corbyn. And if UKIP elects one of its high-profile spokeswomen, such as Diane James or Suzanne Evans, to replace Nigel Farage, and the Greens opt for another female leader we could be in a situation where the majority of Britain's political leaders are women, for the first time ever. But have things really changed for women in British politics - or is it all just a historical accident? Many Conservative MPs love the idea that they are going to get a second female leader. What pleases them more than anything is that Labour, for all its hand-wringing about gender equality, and its women-only shortlists, has never managed to have one. The Conservatives, in their practical, common-sense way have simply got on with it, they say. Tim Montgomerie, Times journalist and former Tory insider, argued on the BBC's Newsnight that the fact that the party does not have a quota system, and women have to compete on equal terms with men for seats and influence, has created better, tougher politicians. Critics argue that party has arrived at an all-women shortlist to choose its next leader almost by accident, after the public schoolboy power games of the alpha males in the contest, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, ended in predictable disaster. Which is a victory, of sorts, for female level-headedness and common sense. In fact, there have been efforts going on behind the scenes for years in the Conservative Party, to mentor talented women and get them into winnable seats, through organisations like Conservative Women and Women2Win. David Cameron - who has taken his share of stick for having a \"problem\" with putting women in top cabinet jobs - has overseen a huge increase in female Tory MPs, from an admittedly low base. Ten years ago there were just 17 female Tory MPs, now there are 68. Margaret Thatcher, who made history in 1979 by becoming Britain's first female prime minister, liked to surround herself with powerful, charismatic men. Some have called it the Queen Bee syndrome - the tendency of women in positions of authority to be more critical of subordinates who are also women. She was once asked why she did not have more women in her cabinet. Because they are all so useless, she is reported to have said. But there is no doubt that a generation of Conservative women, from cabinet members right down to members of the tiniest parish council, have looked to Thatcher as a role model. More importantly, the party itself, once the very bastion of male privilege and entitlement, is entirely comfortable with the idea of a woman at the helm. Imagine the endless, tedious questions about whether the party and the country was \"ready\" for a female leader, that would have attended the run-off between Leadsom and May, had Thatcher not been there first. She went through all of that in her leadership contest in 1975, so they don't have to. Left-wing critics may claim she did little to advance the cause of gender equality in British society during her 11 years in power but Thatcher did break down barriers for women in politics, whether she had intended to or not. It is a profound source of embarrassment to Labour that they have never had a female leader. Harriet Harman and Margaret Beckett have both kept the seat warm between permanent male leaders, but there has never been a Labour Thatcher. The macho culture of the old, industrial trade unions has been blamed by some for a lingering, subliminal sexism at the top of the party. Others say the rise of \"identity politics\" - treating women as a special interest group rather than as individuals - has had the opposite effect to the one intended. Listening to Old Labour figures muttering about the \"sisterhood\" would lend weight to that argument. Miranda Green, a former senior Lib Dem aide, told the BBC's Daily Politics that Labour women tended to dismiss Conservative women such as Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom because they \"don't fit their idea of a feminist,\" when they should be celebrating them. But, she added, Labour has at least put the structures in place to get more women into positions where they can challenge for ultimate power. Tony Blair's controversial adoption of all-women shortlists, resulted in the biggest single influx of women MPs into Parliament in its history, permanently changing the character of the place. And Labour can, at least, console itself, that Ms Green's party, the Liberal Democrats, probably have the worst record of female representation in Parliament of any of the major parties. It is easy to see the recent rise of women in British politics as a watershed moment - but we should not get ahead of ourselves. Women are still massively under-represented in politics, and the barriers preventing them from reaching the top, in public life and business as much as in politics, are arguably just as high as they have ever been. They are just in a different place. Strong women are labelled shrill and pushy. The media focuses on their personal grooming and fashion sense in a way that would never happen to their male counterparts. And despite all the warm words from male leaders the formal, and informal, party structures can still militate against women getting to the top. But none of that need worry Theresa May or Andrea Leadsom, who have made it through the obstacle course - and can now dream of walking through the doors of Number 10 in early September on their own terms.", "question": "With Britain @placeholder to get its second woman prime minister , has the boys ' club that has dominated British politics for centuries finally had its day ?", "option_0": "aiming", "option_1": "according", "option_2": "set", "option_3": "managed", "option_4": "designed"}
{"id": 748, "article": "That isn't an assertion about today's politics. It was the verdict of the US Central Intelligence Agency on Labour back in 1985, in a memo for the agency's director on the early phase of Neil Kinnock's leadership. This memo is one of millions of the CIA's historical records which have just been made available online. Previously researchers had to actually visit the US National Archives in Maryland in order to access this database of declassified documents. The records reveal the deep level of concern inside the CIA about the strength of the Left within Labour in the early 1980s, a political force which the agency regarded as anti-American. A report written in the run-up to the 1983 general election states that \"a Labor majority government would represent the greatest threat to US interests\". The agency was particularly worried by Labour's then policy of opposition to nuclear weapons, which included cancelling plans for the Trident submarine programme. This report was especially scathing about leading figures on the traditionally pro-nuclear Labour right who had compromised with this stance. It said that \"most disheartening from the viewpoint of US interests\" was the position of the party's deputy leader, Denis Healey. It reported that he still had ambitions to lead the party and as a result \"he apparently has decided to appease the left by attacking US arms control policy, denouncing Trident, and denying he ever supported the NATO INF [Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces] program\". The report added that the growing power of the Left meant that \"even moderates like Healey have been forced to ape anti-American rhetoric\". Entitled \"The British Labor Party: Caught between Ideology and Reality\", the document is a detailed account of the balance of power between left and right in the party and trade unions, as seen by the CIA. It also records that leading Labour politicians had told US officials they did not take all of the party's policy programme seriously. The CIA was also concerned by what it saw as Europe's large centre-left and socialist parties (including Labour) being too sympathetic to the Soviet Union. One 1982 report concluded \"We have long contended that Moscow's most effective allies in Western Europe are not the Communist Parties, but self-styled Social Democrats who have betrayed the original tenets of social democracy.\" Another newly accessible document is a record of a 1981 meeting between delegations led by the US Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Margaret Thatcher, who was on a prime ministerial visit to Washington. The meeting discussed the controversial American plans for an Enhanced Radiation Weapon (ERW), more commonly known as the \"neutron bomb\", a weapon which was said to be able to kill very large numbers of people while leaving buildings standing. Also present at the meeting was Mrs Thatcher's Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, who told the Americans that \"it is considered unsporting in Europe for a weapon to kill people only\". The database contains just two references to the current Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn. One noted his support in 1986 for an El Salvadoran trade union federation, Fenastras, which was linked to Marxist guerrillas during the country's civil war, while the Americans backed the military government. This is just a small immediate selection from millions of pages covering a wide range of American and international issues which reveal the CIA's analyses and preoccupations in the past. Records relating to more recent events have not yet been declassified. The CIA's decision to make all these documents searchable and accessible followed a legal case brought by MuckRock, a US organisation that promotes access to public records.", "question": "The Labour Party is \" in the @placeholder of urban leftists given to ideological extremes with only fringe appeal \" .", "option_0": "aftermath", "option_1": "name", "option_2": "hands", "option_3": "iteration", "option_4": "law"}
{"id": 749, "article": "Michael Abiona, 34, was greeted with posters reading \"Local Houses 4 Local People\" at Glenluce Drive, east Belfast, on Tuesday. Mr Abiona who has been living in Northern Ireland since 2010 said four women and a man were outside the house. They asked how he had managed to get the house and whether he was disabled. Now, he said, he will not move into the Housing Executive property at Garnerville because the mother of his son is frightened and will not allow their child to visit the house. Mr Abiona said he had reported what happened to the police. Mr Abiona is active in race relations in Northern Ireland and  serves in key roles in the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities and  the Nigerian Association. Anti-racist rallies have been held across Northern Ireland in recent weeks following a spate of racist attacks. It also follows a public apology by First Minister Peter Robinson after he said he would not trust Muslims involved in violence or devotees of Sharia law, but would trust Muslims \"to go to the shops\" for him. He claimed he was misinterpreted, and apologised to Islamic leaders in Belfast. He had been speaking in support of Belfast pastor James McConnell who described Islam as \"heathen\" and \"satanic\". He also apologised for his comments.", "question": "A man from Nigeria has said he is afraid to move into his new Belfast home after he @placeholder to find five people with banners on the doorstep .", "option_0": "used", "option_1": "managed", "option_2": "signed", "option_3": "arrived", "option_4": "fled"}
{"id": 750, "article": "House prices here have jumped by almost 60% in the last five years, while apartments have risen by 44%, according to figures from corelogic.com.au. There are many reasons why, among them record low interest rates, generous tax breaks for investors and foreign buyers. With a young family to support, Claude Robinson, 46, whose wage is above the national average, says house prices are \"out of control, astronomical\". As each month passes, he sees his chances of buying a home in Sydney receding as prices continue to spiral. \"It is a difficult market to get into for someone like me,\" he tells the BBC at his rented flat in the suburb of Campsie. \"I earn a decent wage of about A$85,000 (US$65,000; ¡ê50,000) a year but to try and support my family, pay my rent and get a 10% deposit is just an impossibility. \"The old Australian dream of owning a home is not a reality any more.\" Now a coalition of charities in New South Wales wants to team up with first-time buyers who otherwise would be locked out of the market. The aim of a shared ownership scheme is to help people earning between A$70,000-100,000 a year, including teachers and police officers, who don't qualify for council or social housing but can't afford to buy on their own. \"It is really fulfilling what I think is a dream for most of us, which is to own a home,\" says Wendy Hayhurst, the chief executive of the New South Wales Federation of Housing Associations. She says the initiative would be a practical way to address an affordability crisis. \"You will take out a mortgage for your share and the community housing provider will pay the rest of a mortgage on that property, and at some point if your income goes up you can buy another slice of that property. \"So as your life changes as you become richer, you can eventually own the whole house - it is a leg-up.\" Similar schemes run in Britain, along with others in Western and South Australia. One idea would be for charities in New South Wales to build or buy a block of flats, where the rent from tenants would subsidise those in the shared ownership partnership programme. Claude Robinson sees it as his only realistic chance of reaching the first rung on the property ladder in a red hot market. \"I think over the last 10 years I've heard two or three times: 'Oh, it'll burst, it'll burst, but it hasn't; it just keeps going up. It is a liveable city, it is a beautiful city but it comes at a huge cost financially.\" On the other side of Sydney's glittering harbour in upmarket Seaforth, a crowd of potential buyers and sticky-beak, or inquisitive, neighbours is gathering for that great Australian tradition - the onsite auction. It's backyard theatre where property ambitions are realised, or dashed. Up for sale is a rundown four-bedroom cottage that is in need of a renovator's careful touch. Set beside parkland on more than 600 sq m, the property first sold for A$23,000 in the early 1970s. How times have changed. Cajoled by the sleek patter of the auctioneer, the assembled bidders slowly begin to show their hands. A young migrant couple from Russia, Vita and Nikolai, make the first bid of A$1.3m. They would offer no more and end up disappointed. \"It is hard, especially for young families to buy a house nowadays,\" says Vita. \"It is quite demoralising at the moment.\" The hammer eventually came down with the price in excess of A$1.7m. \"It is a huge boom. Interest rate cuts have a lot to do with it but Sydney is a very desirable place to live. It is becoming more and more expensive,\" explains real estate agent Trent Brewer. I ask him if he sympathises with first-home buyers in a city like Sydney? \"My heart goes out to them, it really does,\" he says. \"The median house price in Seaforth is A$2.1m. For a first-home buyer to get into somewhere like Seaforth it is virtually impossible without the assistance of family members.\" Not everyone, though, is daunted by trying to scale this real estate Everest, and one prospective buyer at the Seaforth auction told me that prices were not insurmountable. \"I think the media is really hyping it up a lot at the moment, so I don't think it is too much of a problem. As long as you've got good jobs (and) reasonable incomes you should be able to cover mortgages. \"It's more just a matter of getting in and actually finding the right place before other people do.\" In Sydney, the median house price over the three months ending in July was A$880,000, and A$670,000 for apartments. Few expect those figures to fall anytime soon, although a building frenzy could leave Australia's most populous city with a glut of flats that could put downward pressure on prices. But for many Australians the property dream is slipping away. Research from the University of Melbourne predicts that fewer than half of Australian adults will own a home by next year, down from the often-quoted figure of around two-thirds.", "question": "Perhaps buying a house in Sydney , Australia 's most expensive city , should be an Olympic event . It takes stamina , meticulous planning and very deep @placeholder .", "option_0": "groups", "option_1": "pockets", "option_2": "commitment", "option_3": "tables", "option_4": "matters"}
{"id": 751, "article": "Yet, as he selects his cabinet, observers are already pointing out that he is putting together the richest administration in US history. So far, his choices include a billionaire investor, a woman who married into a retail dynasty and a multi-millionaire banker. Democrats have been quick to the attack. \"Donald Trump's administration: of, by and for the millionaires and billionaires,\" tweeted Bernie Sanders, a Vermont senator who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination. Mr Trump, of course, brings immense wealth to his new role. The property tycoon's worth is estimated at $3.7bn (¡ê3bn) by Forbes magazine, with more than 500 businesses in his empire. But he might not be the richest member of his team. His nominee for education secretary, Betsy Devos, is the daughter-in-law of Richard DeVos, who founded the Amway retail giant. Forbes puts their family wealth at $5.1bn. Next up is Wilbur Ross, the president-elect's pick for commerce secretary. Forbes puts the wealth of Mr Ross, who headed Rothschild Inc's bankruptcy practice before starting an investment firm, at $2.5bn. Mr Ross's deputy will be Todd Ricketts, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team and the son of Joe Ricketts, a businessman who has an estimated wealth of $1.75bn. In any other company, Mr Trump's choice for treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, might have been expected to be the richest person in the room. After 17 years at Goldman Sachs, he founded a hedge fund and later bought a bank that became known for seizing the homes of borrowers who fell behind on mortgage payments. Reports put his wealth at over $40m. Elaine Chao, who will take on the transport secretary role and is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is the daughter of a shipping magnate. Ben Carson, frontrunner for the housing portfolio, and Tom Price, who will head health and human services, are also reported to be multi-millionaires. Mr Trump's moneyed line-up has not gone unnoticed. Last month, the Politico news website speculated that the combined wealth of the cabinet could top $35bn - though this depended on the inclusion of oil mogul Harold Hamm as energy secretary and includes a claim by Mr Trump that his wealth exceeds $10bn. Quartz subsequently pointed out that the $35bn figure exceeded the annual Gross Domestic Product of Bolivia. The Democrats also have some high earners. The Obama cabinet contains one person who could challenge Team Trump in the wealth stakes - Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune. Forbes puts her wealth at $2.4bn. Current Secretary of State John Kerry is reported to be worth about $200m and several other Obama cabinet members are estimated to be in the $1m-$10m range. However, it was Mr Trump's insistence that he would \"drain the swamp\" in Washington and represent working-class Americans that won him support in blue-collar areas around the country. Will choosing such a wealthy cabinet alienate his voters? A spokesman for Mr Trump said that his appointments were not inconsistent with his campaign pledges. \"You want some people that are insiders and understand the system and some outsiders that are creative thinkers, out-of-the-box thinkers and disruptors,\" Anthony Scaramucci, of Trump's transition committee, told Reuters news agency. The Democrats disagree - particularly in the case of Steven Mnuchin, who Democrat Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren called \"just another Wall Street insider\". \"That is not the type of change that Donald Trump promised to bring to Washington - that is hypocrisy at its worst,\" they said in a joint statement. \"This pick makes clear that Donald Trump wants to cater to the same Wall Street executives that have hurt working families time and again.\"", "question": "US President - elect Donald Trump took a populist tone on the campaign trail , pledging to stand for a beleaguered working class @placeholder by the elite .", "option_0": "followed", "option_1": "abandoned", "option_2": "sparked", "option_3": "funded", "option_4": "backed"}
{"id": 752, "article": "Brighton and Hove City Council has set up a cross-party panel to look into the issue of the \"party houses\". There are about 300 in the city, with concerns about the problems they cause most evident in the Queen's Park area. Chair of the panel Geoffrey Bowden said: \"We don't want to be killjoys... but there are responsibilities.\" The councillor said the properties were houses \"which sit cheek by jowl with families which live there all the time\". \"There are some really superb operators, and they do certainly take care \"We need to bottom-out whether these are businesses or not, because if they are businesses then they should be paying business rates, and they should be paying for commercial waste to be taken away,\" Mr Bowden said. The panel plans to gather evidence from as many people as possible, including the owners of \"party houses\", before reporting back to the full council. Mr Bowden said:  \"People having a decadent weekend is one thing, but if you live next door and have to get up for work in the morning you might take a more hardline approach.\"", "question": "Houses let out to @placeholder for stag and hen weekends are to be the subject of a council investigation amid complaints about noise and anti-social behaviour .", "option_0": "groups", "option_1": "demand", "option_2": "close", "option_3": "date", "option_4": "look"}
{"id": 753, "article": "The victim, 55, had taken a man, who introduced himself as Lewi, for a test drive after posting an advert for his Audi RS4 on the online forum. The pair met on Mallow Road in Hedge End at around 18:.30 GMT on Sunday 11 January. When they got out of the car, the suspect pushed the victim to the ground, took the keys and drove off. The suspect is described as aged between 28 and 30-years-old. He was Asian in appearance, 5ft 7ins tall, with short black hair. He had pock marks on the left-hand side of his face and was wearing blue jeans and a dark, lightweight, waterproof jacket. The victim suffered minor injuries. Det Con Maryann Attard-Charrett said the car registration number was YK51 BBF. \"Have you spotted it or been offered it for sale, possibly at below its market value price?\" she said.", "question": "A man who advertised a car on Gumtree was @placeholder by the prospective buyer , who then drove off in the vehicle .", "option_0": "identified", "option_1": "driven", "option_2": "assaulted", "option_3": "followed", "option_4": "beaten"}
{"id": 754, "article": "Bana Alabed disappeared from the social network on Sunday as a government offensive was launched on rebel-held areas in eastern Aleppo. However, a new tweet from her mother on Monday suggested there was still grave danger and that there was \"nowhere to go\". The account, which details life in the war, has more than 160,000 followers. Many have expressed concern about her safety. A BBC source says both she and her mother, Fatemah, who often tweets on her behalf, are in an undisclosed location. However, a new tweet from Fatemah on Monday read: \"Under attack. Nowhere to go, every minute feels like death. Pray for us. Goodbye - Fatemah #Aleppo\". Author JK Rowling was among those who used Twitter to call for information about Bana's whereabouts on Sunday. Ms Rowling sent Bana an entire set of Harry Potter eBooks after the young girl posted that she liked to read \"to forget the war\". In a conversation with the BBC in October, Fatemah said her daughter wanted \"the world to hear our voice\". The family, which includes Bana's two younger brothers, were believed to live in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, which has come under heavy bombardment from the army in recent weeks.", "question": "A seven - year - old girl whose tweets from a @placeholder Syrian city drew worldwide attention is safe , the BBC has learned .", "option_0": "growing", "option_1": "suspected", "option_2": "called", "option_3": "besieged", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 755, "article": "The survey, carried out ahead of the Holyrood election, suggested support for raising the very top rate of tax. But there was also apparent backing for keeping Scottish tax rates in line with England. The Ipsos MORI survey interviewed 1,002 people between 18 and 29 March. Respondents were asked to rank a range of policy ideas. A score of one meant the policy was poor and should not be implemented. A score of 10 meant: great idea, do it tomorrow. Respondents could choose any number between one and 10, generating an average score for the policy. Here, in the first of two pieces, we look at the issues of..... These are topics which have been to the fore in the election campaign so far. Responses tend to cluster in the middle - with few ideas attracting dominant support and few being dismissed entirely. There is, however, apparent support for the Labour idea that the top rate of income tax for those earning more than ¡ê150,000 a year should be increased from 45p to 50p. That attracts a net score of 7.3. That ranking is perhaps no surprise. There are very few people in Scotland earning that level of salary. It is perhaps a human characteristic to support the notion that somebody else should pay more tax. 332,000 Approximate total for the UK 17,000 Approximate total for Scotland Further, the idea of increasing the top rate, advanced by Labour's Kezia Dugdale, has also been backed in principle by Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader. Ms Sturgeon has resisted the plan in practice on the grounds that well-heeled residents might alter their tax plans to avoid the extra levy - either by changing their base or by shifting from income to dividends which will continue to be taxed at the lower Westminster level. Labour has stressed that HMRC has plans in place to counter such avoidance. Ms Sturgeon cites advice from her officials to the effect that Scotland could lose net revenue if only 7% of top earners contrived to change their circumstances. The SNP leader says she would be willing to contemplate such a tax increase in future if she could be convinced that Scotland would not lose out. It seems likely that Labour will continue to pursue her over this topic. Further, on tax, our survey suggests a net score of 6.5 for the idea that the rate of income tax for people in Scotland should be kept at the same level as for people in England. That is the Conservative approach - although one might also note that, with modifications, the SNP also currently intend to leave rates alone. The key difference is that the SNP also favour cancelling an effective tax cut for higher earners announced by the Chancellor. 372,000 Approximate total number 10% Working population ¡ê190m Value of 40p tax cut plan 14,000 Workers removed if cut adopted in Scotland It is perhaps worth noting that support for the status quo on tax rates slightly outpolls backing for the Labour and Liberal Democrat idea that all rates of income tax should be increased by 1p in the pound, with the money primarily diverted to education. But the difference is marginal and, again, the rankings are mostly grouped in the middle. It seems there is, as yet, no clear verdict among the Scottish people on tax. That is perhaps understandable. These are new powers - and hence new politics. Plus there is a very fundamental choice to be made, particularly with regard to the standard rate. The Conservatives argue that it is wrong, from first principles, for people in Scotland to pay more than in England. Labour and the Liberal Democrats argue that it is right to ask people to pay more tax in order to protect public services, with the emphasis upon education. The SNP say that increasing the standard rate is wrong in that it amounts to asking the low-paid to shoulder the burden of \"Tory cuts\". Then there is a further debate about the impact upon the lowest-paid. Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats say they would protect those earning less than ¡ê20,000 from paying more in tax than they do at present. That is, primarily, because the overall starting rate for income tax is due to increase under Treasury plans. (LibDems claim the credit for this tendency, dating back to their period in coalition. Lib Dems also suggest they might introduce a zero rate to entrench further the support for the low paid.) Rivals have criticised Labour in particular, noting that they formerly talked of a rebate administered via councils to help the low-paid. Labour say this was only for the first year, before fully enhanced powers took effect, and has been overtaken. The SNP say an increase in the standard rate is still wrong. They say, at the very minimum, it cancels out for Scotland any benefit for the low-paid from the UK increase in the starting rate for tax. They say they can raise cash for services - a cumulative ¡ê2bn over a parliamentary lifetime - from cancelling the effective tax cut for higher earners set out by the Chancellor, together with their council tax proposals. With regard to higher rate tax, the SNP have now set out details involving a CPI inflation rate increase in the threshold for the 40p rate - which would thus be lower than under the Chancellor's plans, meaning that people in Scotland on that upper rate would pay more than in England. The details of that SNP package only emerged after we had formulated our questions for the survey. However, we did ask in very general terms about the idea of pegging the threshold for the higher rate of tax at the current level, even if people in the rest of the UK only started paying the 40p rate on higher incomes. That attracted a net score of 5.3, close to the midway point on our scale. Ms Sturgeon argues that the detailed SNP package is gaining support as it becomes evident that it obliges higher rate taxpayers to stump up more than in England while protecting low and middle earners. Her rivals dissent, on various grounds. It seems certain that the political parties - all the political parties - will have to continue to evangelise their tax plans in detail in order to build support. Turning now to council tax, there was a mean score of 6.2 for the idea that those living in more expensive homes should contribute more. That outpolled the notion of increasing all rates of council tax by up to 3%, with the money devoted to schools. That policy ranked 5.1 Again, though, these are figures broadly in the middle. Once more, the parties will require to explain their distinctive approaches. Tax is rarely popular with individuals - unless others are paying. Finally, welfare. There was 7.3 support for the idea that the level of free childcare should be broadly doubled for three and four year olds. That is an SNP policy although other parties also have offers on childcare. The idea of increasing the cash support for those who care for people with disabilities was ranked 6.4. Eight questions on tax, council tax and welfare (plus mean score) All figures are mean scores based on answers provided between one and 10. One means the policy should never be put in place, and 10 means that it is very important and should be put in place quickly.", "question": "Scotland remains divided in @placeholder to taxation , according to a new poll for BBC Scotland .", "option_0": "tribute", "option_1": "bid", "option_2": "attitudes", "option_3": "form", "option_4": "ability"}
{"id": 756, "article": "If Monday's bombing was an attempt to interrupt the lifestyles of proud Mancunians then it has failed, say figures from the city's vibrant entertainment scene. Manchester's two time-honoured traditions of gigs and sporting events are continuing, with a renewed sense of defiance. The Great Manchester Run - Europe's largest 10km event - will go ahead on Sunday. Football rivalries have been put to one side, with fans coming together to wish Manchester United well after the Red Devils' Europa League triumph. Indie rock band The Charlatans have planned a day of musical entertainment in the city's Oldham Street on Friday, just a five-minute walk away from the scene of the blast. And Rugby League club Salford Red Devils are offering fans free entry to their game at AJ Bell Stadium on Friday. Several other gigs have gone ahead in the meantime. One Tuesday, the day after the attack, a Simple Minds concert went ahead in the city after the band said cancelling their show would have felt \"cowardly\". The same night, former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr made a surprise appearance with Broken Social Scene at the Albert Hall. Dave Haslam, a writer and former DJ at the Hacienda, said music could be part of a \"great healing process\". \"As a DJ for 35 years I've seen dance floors in front of me packed with people from all ages, backgrounds, ethnic groups and sexualities, united under the glitter ball\" he said. \"That is really what life in Manchester is like. That is who we are.\" Mr Haslam, who has arranged a fundraising event for victims of the attack, said Manchester people \"measure out their lives in musical events\". \"That's true whether it's young kids going to Manchester Arena or students coming to the city to go to obscure Northern Quarter venues, or older people, who still go to gigs,\" he said. \"Music is seen as something that brings us together.\" The point was underlined in the city on Thursday, when crowds broke out into a rendition of Oasis's hit Don't Look Back in Anger after observing a minute's silence. Manchester music historian Paul Wild said there was a grim irony in the fact that Monday's attack targeted a concert. \"It's an unpleasant thought to think that this will be in the city's history for ever more,\" he said. \"This city is so strong in its musical heritage. It's been very touching to see the response.\" Mr Wild drew attention to similar scenes of unity after the Paris attacks of November 2015. Co-ordinated attacks on a concert at the Bataclan theatre, restaurants, cafes and the Stade de France football stadium left 130 people dead. Heavy metal band Eagles of Death Metal later returned to the Bataclan for a performance in memory of the victims. Mr Wild said: \"I can imagine that we might see something like that in Manchester. \"I think we could see a huge musical event planned in the months ahead. Perhaps an event back at the Arena.\" In sport, Manchester United dedicated the team's cup final win over Dutch side Ajax to the victims of the bombing. The club and Manchester City later announced they had jointly pledged ?¡ê1m to an emergency fund set up to support survivors and their families. Wednesday night's match in Stockholm was described as \"a release\" by United fan and football writer Andy Mitten. Mr Mitten, who edits the fanzine United We Stand, said: \"Stories were starting to seep through at the match about friends of friends affected by the attack. Lots of people know people who died or had been seriously injured. \"It almost allowed people to forget about it for a while and relegate it from their minds for a few hours. \"But as Jose Mourinho said, you would swap everything for just one life.\" David Hart, one of the organisers behind the Great Manchester Run, said there had been an \"overwhelming desire\" for the event to go ahead. \"The final decision rested with Greater Manchester Police and the council, but now it's our job to deliver,\" he said. \"The clamour for the run to happen was just absolutely phenomenal. I've never seen anything like it.\" Mr Hart said there would be three separate minutes of silence held at the various start points for the run. Psychologist Dr Tom Fawcett said it was human nature or, as he phrases it, \"human spirit\" for people to unite after traumatic events. The specialist in mental resilience said: \"You see it throughout history. During the Second World War, after the London bombings and the attacks on the Twin Towers. \"In New York particularly, it was incredible how that city was transformed. \"Individually, it's very difficult for people to deal with trauma. We don't have the coping skills. But collective strength is stronger. You see it in football, with siege mentality. \"This time it's a whole city that's been ripped apart, and a whole country that's been emotionally scarred. \"Ultimately this atrocity will make Manchester a stronger city. But it's a terrible price to pay.\"", "question": "The Manchester attack may have tested the city 's @placeholder , but people are finding light in the darkness through it s twin loves of music and sport .", "option_0": "peninsula", "option_1": "resolve", "option_2": "economy", "option_3": "capital", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 757, "article": "And it struck a chord - after decades of power shortages, Lebanon was to be plugged in again. But the slogan didn't live up to its promises and instead of more lights on, Lebanon has recently plunged even deeper into darkness. And that's just one of the many problems plaguing the country and shutting the system down, making \"LebanOFF\" more than just an amusing slogan. The most recent service disruption has to do with rubbish collection. The main landfill site that used to take rubbish from the capital has closed after exceeding its capacity, and no alternative was sought or found to avoid the disaster. It prompted a civil society group to adopt the motto \"You Stink\", addressed to politicians. But none of these problem is new or surprising. They are the manifestation of a system in crisis. Since the end of the 15-year civil war in 1990, little attention has been given to investment in infrastructure. The country was in ruins and so were basic services. Other than in central Beirut, which was handed over to a private estate company, very few projects were implemented to improve the quality of services nationwide. While consecutive governments didn't appear to care about long-term planning and projects, people relied on private and unofficial service providers. A parallel system emerged and the state never stepped in to live up to its responsibilities and address basic problems in a sustainable way. And it isn't only about incompetence on the level of the day-to-day running of the country. The chronic problems have deeper roots. A few basic facts are enough to show the level of dysfunction within the country. Lebanon has been without a president for more than 450 days. The 27th parliamentary session to elect a president in August was as ill-fated as the previous 26. Lebanon is caught in deep political divisions mirroring the regional fault lines. The MPs who are deeply allied to one player or another in the region, have been unable to decide on a president, a mainly ceremonial role, reserved for a Christian in a sectarian power-sharing system. As the presidential elections stall, so does the parliament's work. The MPs have extended their own terms twice, dismissing calls for elections and legitimate representation. They have been unable to agree on whether to continue legislating before voting for a president. The result is paralysis in parliament for over a year. What remains is a lame government. Session after session, the cabinet meets to discuss whether its decisions should be adopted by consensus or simple majority in the absence of a president who has the right to preside over the cabinet sessions. The circle of institutional paralysis is thus complete. \"This constitutional situation is practically the worst since the independence of Lebanon,\" says Mario Abou Zeid, a scholar from the Carnegie Center. The paralysis has cost Lebanon, a heavily indebted country, a lot, including international aid and grants worth $1bn (?¡ê635m). Recently the crisis has been spreading to other key positions in the country. The mandate of the current commander-in-chief, another Christian position, was due to expire in September. After months of government squabbling over the appointment of a new commander, divisions couldn't be bridged. The minister of defence decided unilaterally to extend the term of the current commander. In practice, it's a delay of the crisis, a one-year break before the same problem re-emerges. As a senior journalist put it: \"The extension is a sign of general failure. No-one won. It's the government that lost the most.\" What he meant was that to resort to extending terms rather than appointing new leaders is one of the signs of the inability of the political class to overcome its differences and go on with managing state affairs even at a bare minimum. Nevertheless, the extension infuriated a main political group, the Christian Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), who called for protests against the minister's decision. The response of a minister from a rival party was dismissive. \"Neither our rivals nor ourselves are able at the moment to mobilise our bases. People are just fed up with all of us. They worry about the garbage on the streets, their salaries and other daily issues. They also know deep down that the main decisions are made outside the cabinet and even outside the country.\" Resignation or evasion of responsibility? Whatever the case, many people seem to have developed a sort of apathy towards the rampant corruption and the incompetence of the political elite. Since the beginning of the conflict in Syria, the outside world looked at neighbouring Lebanon as a country at risk of catching fire from the war next door. Despite being hit hard by several security breaches thought to be linked to the situation in Syria, and a direct confrontation with Syrian opposition groups in a border town last August, Lebanon remains relatively stable. It's the political situation inside the country that seems at the moment to be the most alarming.", "question": "\" Leban OFF , LebanON \" was a catchy and successful @placeholder campaign launched by the Ministry of Energy in 2010 to hail a new age for electricity provision in the country .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "heart", "option_2": "marketing", "option_3": "ballet", "option_4": "media"}
{"id": 758, "article": "The dump, which is thought to cover at least half an acre and is several feet thick, is on private land near Owthorpe Road, Cotgrave. Fire crews have been called to the site several times, most recently at the weekend. Nottinghamshire County Council said an Enforcement Notice to clear the site by 1 September had been served. According to people living nearby, much of the waste had been stored in large plastic bundles but these had been opened when fires started. Jonathan Smith, from the council, confirmed they had served the notice in April. He said: \"This activity has been done without planning permission and without the prior knowledge of the county council. \"An enforcement notice requiring the removal of all waste from the site and restoration to its former condition has been served on the landowners and other parties who we believe have an interest in the site.\" If this is not obeyed the council can clear the land and recover costs and the landowner could face court action. Tessa Bunby posted on a Cotgrave Facebook page: \"I'm sure there is a process to these things but the [local authority] being aware since April is mind-boggling\". Resident Drew Willie said: \"You only have to look at it, it is disgusting and it is going to cost a fortune to clean it up. \"There is probably a lot of hazardous waste, the kids are going to come up here and set fire to it again and the fire brigade will have to come and put it out. \"And it is just a waste of resources, all from somebody being irresponsible and dumping stuff here they shouldn't.\"", "question": "A @placeholder to clear a \" disgusting \" field of rubbish in Nottinghamshire is close to expiring .", "option_0": "drive", "option_1": "proposals", "option_2": "deadline", "option_3": "decision", "option_4": "job"}
{"id": 759, "article": "MPs rejected a bid by Labour's Chris Leslie to force the government to consult Parliament on the deal struck with the EU before it is finalised. It came after ministers pledged that a \"meaningful\" vote would be offered. Labour and some Tories had pushed for MPs to have a decisive say on the final terms, but the 326 to 293 vote means the bill remains unchanged. MPs are still debating other elements of the draft legislation, which will authorise the prime minister to formally begin Brexit negotiations under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. Theresa May has already promised Parliament will get a say on the final deal, but critics, including some Conservatives, said they wanted more than the \"take it or leave it\" vote being offered. Any possibility of a Conservative rebellion appeared to be halted by comments from Brexit Minister David Jones. Mr Jones said MPs would get a say on the final draft Brexit agreement before it was voted upon by the European Parliament. \"This will be a meaningful vote,\" he told MPs. \"It will be the choice of leaving the EU with a negotiated deal or not.\" However, some MPs questioned whether any concessions had in fact been offered. Asked what would happen if Parliament rejected the Brexit deal or if there was no agreement with the EU to vote upon, Mr Jones said that in each scenario the UK would still leave the EU but \"fall back on other arrangements\". This would effectively see the UK default to World Trade Organization trade rules, involving potential tariffs on exports and imports. Opponents of Brexit have said this would cause real damage to British business, but supporters say the UK can live with the consequences if necessary as the UK would then be free to negotiate its own trade arrangements. Mr Jones said the government wanted to avoid a situation in which ministers were  sent back to the negotiating table to hammer out a better deal. This, he said, would be hard given the two-year limit for talks and would also be \"the surest way of undermining our negotiating position and delivering a worse deal\". Former chancellor Ken Clarke - the only Tory to vote against kickstarting the Brexit process last week - said Parliament should have the opportunity to shape the final deal, while former SNP leader Alex Salmond said MPs should have a genuine choice without the \"Sword of Damocles\" hanging over them. Labour's Chuka Umunna said the choice facing MPs was \"unacceptable\", Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg described it as a \"symbolic handout\" while Green Party leader Caroline Lucas said MPs were being \"duped\". But Labour's font bench claimed the move as a \"significant victory\" in response to its repeated demands for a \"meaningful\" vote at the end of the two-year negotiation process. The party withdrew its proposed amendment before Mr Leslie's was defeated. MPs, who overwhelmingly backed the European Union Bill last Wednesday, are currently in the middle of three further days of more detailed debate, with the Commons looking at amendments proposed by MPs. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who backed the Remain side in last year's EU referendum, has ordered his MPs to support the government's bill, whether his party's amendments are accepted or not. If passed by Parliament - with the House of Lords due to scrutinise it after the Commons - the bill would allow Prime Minister Theresa May to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, getting divorce talks with the EU under way. Mr Corbyn argues that it would be undemocratic to ignore the will of the people, as expressed in last June's EU referendum. Shadow business secretary Clive Lewis has vowed to oppose the bill unless Labour amendments are passed in the Commons. Frontbench members of parties are generally expected to resign from their post if they ignore a three-line whip.", "question": "The government has seen off an attempt to add @placeholder to its Brexit bill as a Conservative rebellion was avoided .", "option_0": "opposition", "option_1": "conditions", "option_2": "fuel", "option_3": "changes", "option_4": "pledge"}
{"id": 760, "article": "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been on tour in Germany with a very specific purpose:  to reassure the country that Brexit doesn't mean the break-up of a beautiful relationship. Prince William, after speaking a few words in German, told guests at a British embassy garden party: \"This relationship between UK and Germany really matters, it will continue despite Britain's recent decision to leave the European Union. I am confident we will remain the firmest of friends.\" But since the British election, German politicians are more troubled than ever about Brexit. The German council for foreign relation's director, Daniela Schwarzer, told me: \"Policymakers in Berlin are surprised and worried at the degree of confusion in London, the lack of clarity as to the strategy the UK wants to follow. \"There is a lot surprise about how the negotiations are being handled and the somewhat incoherent messages which come out of London.\" Of course, Germany is just one country in the European Union -  but it is first among equals, its chancellor by far the most senior politician, with a new and determined ally in President Macron, who's refreshed the Franco-German alliance. Even before Brexit became a reality, there's been an argument, almost an assumption, that German industry would put pressure on German politicians to argue for a good deal for the UK, access to the European market without having to abide by the rules. So far, Mrs Merkel has been adamant: no cherry picking. Will German industry push her to change her mind? I visited the Trumpf company in Stuttgart, a concern with a turnover of 3bn euros (?¡ê2.7bn) a year that makes sheet metal, laser cutters and machine tools. It employs 4,000 people in Germany and another 8,000 globally: in the USA, China, Japan, South Korea - and Luton, Southampton and Rugby. The company's Heidi Maier tells me orders from the UK are up, because people have got used to the idea of Brexit. \"Despite political insecurities and decisions we don't like and we don't back, our business is doing very well,\" she says. We stand in front of the True Punch 5000. The machine is swift and certain, precise and elegant, all the qualities that make Germans so proud of their engineering prowess. The exact opposite of these qualities - slowness and uncertainty - is what worries German industry about Brexit. I ask Ms Maier what they want Mrs Merkel to push for. \"What would help is decisions, and fast decisions,\" she says. \"As soon as we know the new rules, we can go ahead. We are actually preparing for tariffs, which is the implication [of what the British government is saying], which would worsen our business. The goods we produce in Great Britain would become more expensive due to the tariffs, and we don't know how our customers would react to that.\" Most German businesses tend to lobby government through powerful trade associations. And one industry has more horsepower than any other. Germany's glittering car industry is an industrial giant with immense political clout and a 400bn euro turnover, employing 800,000 people. And the relationship with the UK is very important. One in seven cars exported from Germany goes to the UK, its single biggest market. Ever since Brexit was a speck on the horizon, enthusiasts for leaving have argued the mighty German auto industry wouldn't allow politicians to punish Britain, a point I put to Matthias Wissman, the president of the VDA, the German automotive industry association. \"What we want is to keep the European Union of the 27 together,\" he says. \"That is the first priority. Second priority is to have a trade area with the UK with no tariff barriers, no non-tariff barriers. That is possible if the UK understands what the preconditions are. \"We want a good deal for Britain, but the best deal for Britain would be to stay in the customs union. Anything else would be worse for both sides, the best thing would be to stay in the internal market like Norway.\" He accused pro-Brexiteers of making \"totally unrealistic\" promises. \"I see a lot which is astonishing for a friend of Great Britain. I miss the traditional British pragmatism. We would like to have it in the future, but I see more and more ideological points of view which make pragmatism very difficult and unfortunately in both parties, Conservative and Labour.\" When I put to him Liam Fox's view that a trade deal with the EU could be \"one of the easiest in human history\", he laughs and says it would take years and years but \"time is running out\". \"You need a transition period. And if you want an easy solution, stay in the customs union and the internal market. \"A transition period would also be very pragmatic. We hope that on the British side that gets deeper and deeper into the intellectual capabilities of those who decide.\" This is not just the view of one man, or one industry. There seems to be a consensus among the industrial powerbrokers. Klaus Deutsch of the federation of Germany industry, the BDI, makes it clear they did not want Brexit in the first place and would like the UK to stay in the single market and observe all the rules. But that's not the government's intention, so what follows? \"We would favour a comprehensive agreement. But the most important thing is legal certainty in the period from A to B.  If you don't have a transition period of many years, then there will be a huge disruption to all sorts of businesses. \"The concern of business is unless you get a clear cut and legally safe agreement, you can't sell pharmaceuticals, or cars or what have you, across the Channel, you have to stop business, divest, change business models.\" He makes it clear only the British government can decide what it wants, but what about the idea they'll push Mrs Merkel to soften her approach? \"That's completely unlikely,\" Mr Deutsch says. \"The importance of the European Union for German corporates is even higher than the importance of a bilateral relationship with the United Kingdom. So, the priority of safeguardinga€| the unity of the European Union is much more important than one economic relationship. There are a lot of illusions, it won't happen.\" Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend programme, Owen Paterson, the former cabinet minister, who recently visited Germany, told me he had felt a \"sense of denial\" in the country over Brexit. \"It is hugely in everyone's interest that we maintain reciprocal free trade and as we have absolute conformity of standards, everyone should get their head round that,\" he told me. \"Whereas [the Germans] are still thinking entirely in terms of remaining in the current institutions and that's clearly what we are not going to do. \"We're not going to stay in the single market. We are not going to stay in the customs union. We're certainly not going to stay under the remit of the European Court of Justice. I found that that was something they had not really got their heads round.\" And my overriding impression of the view of the big beasts of Germany industry? Frustration that they don't know where the British government wants to head and a strong sense that any outcome will be worse than what exists. But also a total rejection of the idea that the economic relationship with the UK outweighs the German interest in European unity.", "question": "It must be serious . They 've @placeholder the Royals .", "option_0": "enter", "option_1": "interact", "option_2": "deployed", "option_3": "threaten", "option_4": "attacked"}
{"id": 761, "article": "For 19 years the Pococks have lived off the electricity grid, on a croft at Cougie in Glen Affric in the Highlands. They are fiercely proud of where they live and about being self sufficient. The family grows its own food - they have two dairy cows, pigs, sheep, geese, ducks and hens. Mum Sasha, 36, runs a pony trekking business while her 42-year-old husband, Iain, supplements the household income by gathering and selling scrap metal. The couple's four children - Sarah, Ryan, Ewan and Douglas - help with the running of the croft and pitch in looking after the livestock and the trekking business's 19 horses. The effort to heat and light the crofthouse, however, dominates family life. The croft is not connected to the National Grid and the family gets its electricity from a generator and a small wind turbine. But when diesel levels are low and the wind does not blow, the TV and domestic appliances are out of action and the children have to do their homework by candlelight and head torches. With a lack of power comes great responsibility. Iain carries out regular maintenance to the diesel generator and wind turbine, while the children spend a cold and wet Saturday gathering firewood. Tonnes of timber are needed to keep the house warm in winter. Iain's mother, Val, also lives on the croft. She and her family moved from Cardiff to Cougie in 1962 seeking an alternative to city life. Sixty percent of her pension goes on paying for fuel. The Pococks say they cannot get grants to install a larger turbine or solar panels because the funding requires surplus power to be exported to the Grid. Ironically, the croft is close to a massive multi-million pound electricity project. Energy giant SSE is upgrading the 137-mile (220km) Beauly to Denny transmission circuit. The 400,000-volt line will triple the capacity of the existing system, and eventually transmit vast amounts of energy from planned renewable power schemes in the Highlands to central Scotland. Six hundred new towers are being built - a reduction of 200 on the existing number. However, some towers are taller and reach heights of 65m (213ft). Opponents to the upgrade have complained that the new towers will spoil mountain landscapes. The project is expected to be completed in 2014 at an estimated cost of ¡ê600m. Sasha says the upgraded line is a blot on the landscape and, in return for having to live with it, her family should get some help getting mains electricity. \"We live here in a croft at the end of the glen in the middle of nowhere, and we love it,\" she says. \"We chose to live here. It's a great place to raise a family.\" But while she and her family thrive in the glen's wild, wide open spaces, Sasha is desperate for a reliable source of power. Seeing work being done to the Beauly-Denny line only fuels her quest for it. Tending to a ewe and her young lambs on a hillside overlooking the croft, Sasha's eldest child Sarah admits some people frown at her family's lifestyle. She said: \"One of my friends goes to me: 'Oi, you don't look like a hillbilly, but you live like one'. And I go 'yeah, I suppose you could say that, but we're not quite though'.\" For Sarah there is a big distraction from the family's electric dreams. She has left school for university and swapped Glen Affric's quiet dark nights for the bright lights of Edinburgh. Power to the Pococks; A year in the life of a crofting family is a Timeline Films production. It will be shown on Thursday on BBC Two Scotland from 21:00.", "question": "In the shadow of a power line @placeholder a ¡ê 600 m revamp is a family of six with no connection to the National Grid . A BBC documentary recorded a year in their lives .", "option_0": "undergoing", "option_1": "hosting", "option_2": "celebrating", "option_3": "hosted", "option_4": "reached"}
{"id": 762, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Four round-robin games involving the Scottish men and women's rinks will be shown, along with the semi-finals and finals of both competitions. Skip Eve Muirhead - the 2013 world champion and 2014 Olympic bronze medallist - is looking to improve on last year's silver medal. And Tom Brewster leads the men's team. Brewster is joined by Glen Muirhead, Ross Paterson and Hammy McMillan, while the women's rink will be completed by Anna Sloan, Vicki Adams and Lauren Gray. Sweden are defending the men's title at Braehead Arena, while Muirhead's team lost out to Russia in last year's final. The top eight nations in each competition will qualify for their respective World Championships next year, with the women's event in Beijing between 18-26 March and the men in Edmonton, Canada, from 1-9 April. \"We know there will be huge interest in the fortunes of both Scottish teams so we're delighted to show many of the leading matches,\" said BBC Scotland Sport's Grigor Stirling. \"As it's being played on home soil we know there will be a terrific atmosphere at Braehead and it should make for exciting viewing.\"", "question": "The BBC Sport website is to stream @placeholder action from the European Curling Championships , which get under way in Glasgow on Saturday .", "option_0": "shape", "option_1": "signing", "option_2": "retire", "option_3": "selected", "option_4": "separating"}
{"id": 763, "article": "Drinkhall lost 4-1 to European number one Dimitrij Ovtcharov, with team-mates Liam Pitchford and Sam Walker having been eliminated a round earlier. Walker and David McBeath made it to the last 16 of the doubles in Germany. However, their challenge was ended by a 4-2 defeat by Taipei duo Chien-An Chen and Cheng-Ting Liao. \"I don't think we even played our best and there's a lot more to work on and improve. It's promising times for us as a pair,\" said Walker. Drinkhall and Pitchford went out in the last 64 of the doubles following a 4-2 loss to India's Sharath Kamal Achanta and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran. \"Overall, I'd have like to have done better but in both the singles and doubles I got to where my seeding was, so it wasn't good or bad,\" said Drinkhall. No women's squad went to Germany as the top two players - Kelly Sibley and Tin-Tin Ho - were unavailable.", "question": "Paul Drinkhall was @placeholder in the last 64 of the men 's singles as England 's final remaining player was knocked out of the 2017 World Championships .", "option_0": "beaten", "option_1": "dropped", "option_2": "unveiled", "option_3": "drawn", "option_4": "spotted"}
{"id": 764, "article": "Jack Morrisson was reported missing on Friday, leading to searches of the water in Sutton at Hone, near Dartford. His body was found on Saturday. His death is not being treated as suspicious, a Kent Police spokesman said. His family said: \"Jack, you were like a beautiful angel that we were sent. We have been so lucky to have you.\" Jack played football for Volenti Football Academy, but his one true love was fishing, his family said. In a statement, Jack's family said: \"You were like our little golden boy, your life was so charmed and everything you wanted seemed to come to you. \"You have brought so much joy to us and we feel so blessed to have had you.\"", "question": "A 16 - year - old boy whose body was found in a fishing @placeholder has been described by his family as their \" golden boy \" .", "option_0": "head", "option_1": "school", "option_2": "net", "option_3": "lake", "option_4": "woodland"}
{"id": 765, "article": "Three other members of the family are suspected to have recently died from the virus. The cases were reported in the southern region of Nzerekore, where the outbreak began in December 2013. The Ebola outbreak killed more than 11,300 people - mostly in Guinea and its neighbours Sierra Leone and Liberia. The new cases were reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) hours after it declared the latest Ebola flare-up to be over in Sierra Leone. The WHO has warned that sporadic cases of Ebola are likely to re-emerge as the virus can linger on in body fluids of some survivors. Analysis: Tulip Mazumdar, BBC global health correspondent This is yet another blow in the long lingering fight against Ebola. But it is not unexpected. Guinea was in fact the only one of the three worst affected countries that hadn't had a re-emergence of the virus after the outbreak was officially declared over there on 29 December 2015. Both Sierra Leone and Liberia have reported little clusters of new cases after declaring the outbreaks over. But they've been dealt with quickly. A risk of new flare-ups remains because Ebola can persist in body fluids of some survivors for months after they recover. A very small number of new cases have been linked to sexual transmission. The world is in new territory here - scientists are still learning as the worst Ebola outbreak in history continues to unfold. More than 17,000 Ebola survivors are dealing with a wide range of complications and social stigma. Some scientists say there's a risk the virus may become an ever-present disease in West African society. 11,315 Deaths - probable, confirmed and suspected (Includes one in the US and six in Mali) 4,809 Liberia 3,955 Sierra Leone 2,536 Guinea 8 Nigeria", "question": "Two new Ebola cases have been confirmed in Guinea , almost three months after it @placeholder the end of the outbreak .", "option_0": "announced", "option_1": "emerged", "option_2": "reached", "option_3": "became", "option_4": "celebrated"}
{"id": 766, "article": "Hanad Mohamed, 23, is due to appear in court on Friday on a murder charge. He is accused of killing Anthony Smith, 21, seen posing with Mr Ford in a photo reported to have been provided to news media by the people who have the video. Mr Ford has denied the video exists, accusing the media of stoking a scandal that has roiled city politics. Journalists from the Toronto Star and US website Gawker say they have seen - but not obtained - a video that appeared to show Mr Ford smoking the drug. In a photograph they say was provided to them by the people who showed them the video, Mr Ford can be seen posing with his arm around Smith. Mr Mohamed was arrested on Wednesday in Alberta and is charged with murder. In April, 23-year-old Nisar Hashimi turned himself in over the killing and also faces a murder charge. The video has not been released publicly and has not been verified. Gawker used a crowd-funding campaign to raise $200,000 (?¡ê140,000) to buy the video, but the website said it lost contact with the people in possession of the footage. Mr Ford has said he does not smoke crack cocaine and is not an addict. \"I cannot comment on a video that I've never seen or that does not exist,\" he said last week. The mayor has come under mounting pressure to resolve the issue as city councillors have called openly for him to step aside or seek help. Two departures from the Toronto mayor's office on Thursday joined a stream of defections and sackings in recent days. Brian Johnston, a policy adviser, told Canadian media he had resigned. Kia Nejatian, the mayor's executive assistant, has also left. Earlier in May, Mr Ford sacked his chief of staff Mark Towhey. His office has denied reports that it ordered emails and phone records to be destroyed after other city hall aides were fired or quit in recent days.", "question": "A second man has been arrested in the death of a man linked to a video @placeholder to show Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine .", "option_0": "bid", "option_1": "set", "option_2": "purported", "option_3": "failed", "option_4": "relating"}
{"id": 767, "article": "Caroline Starmer, 28, of Leicester, will face a charge of intent to pervert the course of public justice. She claimed the security guard told her she must stop breastfeeding and forcibly removed the baby from her at Primark's Leicester store on 13 July. She is due to appear at Leicester Magistrates' Court on 24 August. Ms Starmer had posted her allegations on a \"Free to Feed\" Facebook page. She was also interviewed by a news agency and the allegations appeared in numerous national newspapers and on news websites. Police have told people not to post anything online that might prejudice the court proceedings. \"Criminal proceedings have now commenced and the defendant has the right to a fair trial,\" a statement said. \"It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings.\"", "question": "A mother who claimed a security guard @placeholder her while removing her breastfeeding baby from her in Primark has been summoned to appear at court .", "option_0": "recognized", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "dragged", "option_3": "assaulted", "option_4": "murdering"}
{"id": 768, "article": "Lawyers for singer Katy Perry contacted Fernando Sosa, who had sold the design via an online directory of blueprints. Left Shark became a viral hit after appearing to forget its steps during a routine with the 30-year-old artist. 3D-printing is becoming an increasing headache for companies trying to protect their intellectual property. Falling costs of 3D printers, coupled with a growing community of model designers, means many small products can be made to a relatively high quality. In a letter, the lawyers said Perry had not consented to the use of the shark, which was being sold through Shapeways.com. \"Your unauthorised display and sale of this product infringes our client's exclusive rights,\" read the letter, posted on Instagram by Mr Sosa. Mr Sosa was selling the design for $24.99 (?¡ê16). After the item was removed by Shapeways, Mr Sosa submitted the design to a different site, Thingiverse, and offered it free-of-charge. On the site, Mr Sosa wrote: \"Apparently sharks, palm trees and beach balls are all now copyrighted... anyways I'm making this available to everyone. \"Now you can 3D print your very own Left Shark. Just make sure you download this file ASAP since just in case it's taken down.\" Intellectual property lawyer Dai Davis told the BBC he expects disputes like this to become more common, and that industry must adapt to facilitate demand. \"In the same way copyright is difficult to protect in music because of the way the internet has allowed piracy sites, in the same way you already have lots of sites popping up which will increasingly allow unlawful copies of design rights [for objects].\" He suggested that companies would perhaps be wiser to offer their own official 3D-printed designs, rather than putting effort into removing designs by others. The man inside one the shark costumes, professional dancer Scott Myrick, said of the performance: \"The visibility was terrible. I ran into a palm tree but the camera missed it.\" Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC", "question": "A website has been @placeholder to remove a design for a 3D - printed model of the \" Left Shark \" dancer from the Super Bowl half - time show .", "option_0": "refused", "option_1": "reported", "option_2": "criticised", "option_3": "launched", "option_4": "ordered"}
{"id": 769, "article": "\"What actually came out in court is not the truth,\" her father Barry Steenkamp told Australia's Channel Seven TV. There is uncertainty over Pistorius' early release from prison, due last week, after South Africa's justice minister blocked the move. The Paralympic star was jailed for five years in 2014 for culpable homicide, a charge equivalent to manslaughter. The Olympic athlete admits shooting dead Ms Steenkamp, but insists he mistook her for an intruder. But this was dismissed by Mr Steenkamp: \"He got angry, she went off to the toilet, locked herself inside, and then him pulling out the gun and shooting.\" \"Why didn't he just let her walk away?\" her mother June Steenkamp said, reiterating the family's belief that Pistorius killed Ms Steenkamp deliberately. What next for Oscar Pistorius? Oscar Pistorius - in 60 seconds The making and unmaking of Oscar Pistorius Justice Minister Michael Masutha last week said that the decision to free the athlete after serving 10 months of his five-year sentence had been taken prematurely. He has now suspended the decision and sent it back to the parole board for review, a process which could take months, legal sources have told the BBC. Under South African law, Pistorius is eligible for release under \"correctional supervision\", having served a sixth of his sentence. Prosecutors have lodged an appeal, calling for the athlete's conviction to be converted to murder, which carries a minimum sentence of 15 years. During sentencing, Judge Thokozile Masipa said the state had failed to prove Pistorius' intent to kill when he fired. Pistorius was born without the fibulas in both of his legs, and had surgery to amputate both below the knee while still a baby. He went on to become one of South Africa's best-known sports stars, and was the first amputee sprinter to compete against able-bodied athletes, at the 2012 London Olympics.", "question": "The parents of Reeva Steenkamp have for the first time @placeholder the verdict in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial .", "option_0": "surrounding", "option_1": "leaving", "option_2": "seen", "option_3": "announced", "option_4": "criticised"}
{"id": 770, "article": "4 February 2015 Last updated at 18:09 GMT Parts of Hokkaido in Japan were covered in snow as deep as 1.8 metres high after a massive winter storm hit the area. In a small place called Rausu Town some people's houses were completely submerged in snow and could not leave their homes for days. Some of Japan's soldiers have been to help clear the snow from houses and roads in the worst affected areas. Around 200 schools have closed in the area, and 100 train services have stopped. No-one has been seriously hurt because of the bad weather, and roads are beginning to re-open again.", "question": "In the @placeholder of Japan , people have received a record amount of snow over the last few days .", "option_0": "wake", "option_1": "east", "option_2": "north", "option_3": "number", "option_4": "south"}
{"id": 771, "article": "But it knows that it lost a lot last night. Some of its best known and most effective MPs. And most of their political momentum. It's almost impossible for the party to now argue that the people of Scotland want another Scottish referendum when 60% of the electorate voted for parties which have vowed to block another vote on independence. A very sombre-looking Nicola Sturgeon said last night she and the party would now need to reflect on what this result means for indyref2. But you don't have to think very long or very hard to realise it now looks very unlikely to happen. Inside the SNP members will also now have to consider whether their call for another referendum back in March was a tactical blunder. Even though they did not know at the time that there would be a general election. Deputy First Minster John Swinney has said this morning: \"We will take time and care to reflect on the outcome of this result. But we have to acknowledge that the question of a second independence referendum was a significant motivator of votes against the SNP in this election, and we have to be attentive to that point.\" Scottish Tories are much more buoyant than their Conservative colleagues down south. Ruth Davidson looked delighted as she watched her party unseat the SNP's former leader Alex Salmond and their Westminster leader Angus Robertson. Ms Davidson immediately declared that the idea of an independence referendum was \"dead\". Sorry, your browser cannot display this content. Enter a postcode or seat name The 12 seats the Scottish Tories won make a big difference to the overall UK result. Without them Theresa May would not be considering staying on as PM. And the Scottish party's resurgence means people are already talking about Ruth Davidson as a future UK PM herself. One of the big surprises of the night in Scotland was the comeback of the Scottish Labour Party. Not only did it win seven seats - up from the one single seat they won in 2015 - it also made significant dents in SNP majorities all over the country as the Corbyn surge swept across the border. Ironic given how opposed the leadership of the Scottish Labour Party is towards Mr Corbyn. The Lib Dems are also very happy to take four seats, including ousting John Nicolson who was one of the SNP's strongest media performers. This result could have been even worse for the SNP. Where it did cling on it was often by a single fingernail. It won North East Fife by just two votes, Perth and North Perthshire by 21 and Glasgow South West by 60. In the heat of the night some SNP sources started briefing against Nicola Sturgeon and her husband who is chief executive of the SNP and mastermind of its campaign. Her position as SNP leader is safe for now. But her party and her reputation have been damaged. What remains to be seen is how much influence the SNP's 35 MPs can wield in Westminster. A hung parliament means the third largest parliamentary group may be diminished but could still be very important.", "question": "The official line from the SNP is that it won this election . It has the largest number of seats in Scotland - more than all the other parties @placeholder together . That , they say , has always been the definition of victory .", "option_0": "rate", "option_1": "grouped", "option_2": "get", "option_3": "added", "option_4": "coming"}
{"id": 772, "article": "Today's Scottish Conservative manifesto is no different, blending its offer on UK powers - as set out in the UK launch yesterday - with longer-term devolved ambitions, for example on education and housing. But there is always room in politics for targeting the other lot.  That is particularly true in this strategic election - where parties are, for example, projecting or denouncing coalition options. The Scottish Tory launch featured two conjoined elements where the party talked explicitly about matters concerning their rivals - beyond the customary rhetoric of decrying them as useless, damaging and inept. Firstly, the Tories in Scotland want to \"bring the SNP down to size\", to curb their ambitions to hold a further referendum on independence.  Secondly, they want to borrow Labour votes in Scotland to help achieve that ambition. Ruth Davidson characterised Labour as being engaged in \"civil war\".  It might not last, she courteously added.  Labour might \"find its way back\".  But, for now, she argued that Labour was spent as an anti-SNP force in Scotland. In essence, she urged tactical voting by Labour supporters switching to the Tories in seats where that could make a difference.  For the avoidance of doubt, Labour does not share the Tory analysis nor their prescription. But how about that issue of an independence referendum?  The Conservatives have cited two criteria before indyref2 would be feasible. One, after the completion of Brexit.  The prime minister, David Mundell, Ms Davidson, everyone else in blue, stresses that is not just the conclusion of talks:  it would involve the implementation of Brexit. Incidentally, the PM did not envisage a direct role for the first minister in said negotiations.  That would be for the UK government which she hopes to continue to lead.  She would consult the Scottish government - but the bargaining with the EU would be conducted by the departing member state. And that meant the UK, led by either her or Jeremy Corbyn. But back to the question of indyref2.  If it has to await the conclusion of Brexit, how long would that take?  Two years negotiations?  Maybe longer, if the EU 27 agree?  How long for implementation?  One year?  More?  Much more? The participants at today's launch decline to say. And the second criterion?  That is evidence of consent, evidence of a desire by the Scottish people to be asked about independence once more. But how, the wicked media asked at the launch, is that to be measured?  Opinion polls?  The outcome of the current election in Scotland? Further, I asked that question again when I interviewed the PM in East Lothian.  The answer on each occasion was a variant upon \"not now\". I understand.  I get the concept.  Again for strategic reasons, the Tories do not want absolutely to rule out a referendum, to say a blunt never.  When the plan was first disclosed, David Mundell was at pains to suggest that a plebiscite might, perhaps, be feasible, in the future. In practice, though, they hope that it might become never.  That their Unionist pitch might thrive.  That more and more voters in Scotland might be cajoled to turn away from the cause of independence.  That the issue, in short, by dint of electoral campaigning, might not arise.", "question": "An election manifesto is designed to allow a party to set out what it would do if @placeholder governmental power or , as a very minimum , Parliamentary influence .", "option_0": "granted", "option_1": "encourage", "option_2": "exercising", "option_3": "rate", "option_4": "losing"}
{"id": 773, "article": "The Irrawaddy river slips past fields of yellowing rice at a leisurely pace, reflecting the slower speed of life in the villages of the delta. The unprecedented changes that have taken place since the military relaxed its hold on power five years ago are most visible in the commercial capital, Yangon. The lives of those who make their living from the land have not seen such transformations - the opening of Myanmar's economy has less meaning for them. Hinthada is an archetypal agricultural trading town; a stopping point for the Irrawaddy river boats making their way from Yangon to Mandalay, and a commercial hub for the rice trade. It lies just at the point where the Irrawaddy spreads out into the vast delta, far enough from the coast to have been only slightly affected by the devastation of Cyclone Nargis in 2008, although it still suffers seasonal flooding. But this year the little town has taken on outsize importance, because of the political prominence of one of its native sons, U Htay Oo. He is a former general and confidante of one-time military ruler Than Shwe, and now the de facto leader of the ruling party, the USDP, following a dramatic purge in August of Shwe Mann, a powerful and ambitious man once talked of as a possible presidential candidate. Mr Htay Oo is a much more low-key personality, little-known outside Myanmar until this year. But as the most senior USDP leader, along with President Thein Sein, he needs to hold on to his parliamentary seat in this week's election for his party to uphold its claim to be the natural party of government. In the 2010 election he won a landslide, with more than 80% of the vote. But that was before Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) agreed to take part; in the Irrawaddy delta the USDP faced no real competition. This time U Htay Oo has a fight on his hands. The distinctive red flag of the NLD, with its gold peacock and white star, is visible everywhere on the road to Hinthada. In town you see even more of them, along with life-sized portraits of \"The Lady\". There are two such portraits of Ms Suu Kyi flanking Myint Thein's clothing shop. Inside young brides-to-be awkwardly peruse lace blouses and matching longyis to wear at their weddings. Myint Thein, his wife and staff were proudly wearing NLD colours. He recites a list of grievances against the local government, from land grabs - a prevalent problem in a country where all private land ownership was once banned by the military regime - to monopolisation of rice milling and trading by well-connected \"cronies\". \"They are offering us fake change\", he says of the ruling party's reform programme. \"Here in the rural areas we can see that the progress they talk about is fake - people are facing real poverty and limited job opportunities.\" A walk through the town centre talking to shop owners revealed only one who was willing to state that he would vote for the USDP. We stopped by a metal workshop run by a local Muslim family. Their biggest concern was a planned rally later in the week by the hard-line Buddhist-nationalist movement, Ma Ba Tha, which is campaigning for restrictions on Muslim life. Pressure from Ma Ba Tha has resulted in both main parties fielding not a single Muslim candidate, although Muslims make up at least 5% of the population. Asked which party he would back, U Maung Maung Win told us he would vote NLD, because, he said, \"he trusted Daw Suu\". Nobody spoke about the NLD candidate and some did not know who he was -  a local teacher called Khin Maung Yee, who was an anti-military activist even back in his student days in the 1970s.  No-one mentioned NLD policies, which have been kept vague. As elsewhere in Myanmar, in Hinthada the party is campaigning on a single issue; electing Aung San Suu Kyi. Their simple message, of hope and change, has very few details. Later in the day, at an NLD rally, supporters arrived from surrounding villages piled onto chugging, steaming agricultural trucks, cheering wildly, then disgorging to join the dancing and singing. The air fizzled with unbridled optimism. They could be in for a disappointment. Down at the USDP headquarters party officials preparing for a visit to the countryside for their boss the next day were unperturbed by the NLD festivities. \"They are like crows\", observed one functionary, \"always making noise\". \"We are like pigeons. We try not to disturb or excite the people.\" Mr Htay Oo spent the morning driving out to what for him may be richer pastures; two small villages on the outskirts where he delivered the same speech to a sleepy crowd dressed in identical green party t-shirts. He had a few digs at \"The Lady\", telling his audience not to be taken in by pretty actresses. But his main message was to warn farmers not to risk the progress of recent years with a bet on an untried party - that only a party with power and money, which can guarantee stability and unity, can promise development. \"It's true the NLD is well known\", he told me. \"But people should vote USDP because all the candidates for the party have a good track record in developing the country.\" As if to underscore the point, he made a generous donation to one village to help them fund a Buddhist celebration. In the warm afterglow of his visit, the villagers were understandably inclined to say they would support his party. The warning about not risking what they had gained, little though that is in most villages, also seemed to have resonated with communities which have nothing to fall back on when things go wrong, and were recently in need of government help during the monsoon floods. On the road back to Hinthada we saw more farmers harvesting the rice, some with small tractors but many in the backbreaking traditional way, with small hand-held scythes. Myint Tin and her husband told us they were paid around $4 for each long day of seasonal work in the fields. They do not own land themselves. Asked about the election, Myint Tin was shy at first, and did not appear to have an opinion. Then, without prompting, she said she would vote for the NLD, saying she believes only \"Daw Suu\" would really help the poor. With no recent history of free voting, and no real polling, it is difficult to guess which way the people of Hinthada will go; there are a few other parties visible in the area, but it is essentially a two-horse race. Will people who have experienced decades of being told what to do by their military overlords take a chance on the untested NLD, or will they stick with what they know? Videos filmed and produced by Daniel Bull", "question": "This is the story of Hinthada , a sleepy market town in Myanmar 's watery heartland that has become an unlikely political battleground . The BBC 's Jonathan Head follows one man who simply has to win here to retain @placeholder , through a landscape that has seen little change .", "option_0": "secret", "option_1": "credibility", "option_2": "generations", "option_3": "sound", "option_4": "evidence"}
{"id": 774, "article": "Italian Cavasin became the eighth man to take on the manager's role since president, and fellow countryman, Francesco Becchetti took over the East London club in July 2014. But he could not arrest a worrying sequence that has seen Orient win just once in eight matches in League Two. Defender Burgess stole up unmarked to powerfully head home a corner from Carl Baker on 57 minutes to settle the contest. The opening half was a period of half-chances, although Pompey did have the ball in the net when Conor Chaplin's first-time flick into the net was ruled out for offside. The visitors were given an excellent opportunity to break the deadlock when O's keeper Alex Cisak attempted to send a short pass to a defender, but only succeeded in picking out Chaplin. The Orient shot-stopper saved his blushes by saving the striker's effort. Orient felt they should have had a penalty when Paul McCallum went to ground after 12 minutes but referee Christopher Sarginson waved away their frantic appeals. Having fallen behind, Orient were unable to break down a well-organised Portsmouth side who almost doubled their lead when O's full-back Nicky Hunt headed a cross against his own post before the ball was scrambled clear. Reports supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Leyton Orient 0, Portsmouth 1. Second Half ends, Leyton Orient 0, Portsmouth 1. Attempt missed. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Yvan Erichot (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Milan Lalkovic (Portsmouth). Attempt blocked. Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Attempt blocked. Tom Parkes (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Attempt blocked. Tom Parkes (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Corner,  Leyton Orient. Conceded by Christian Burgess. Substitution, Leyton Orient. Ollie Palmer replaces Ulrich N'Nomo. Substitution, Portsmouth. Milan Lalkovic replaces Kyle Bennett. Attempt missed. Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the left. Corner,  Portsmouth. Conceded by Tom Parkes. Attempt blocked. Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Attempt missed. Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Corner,  Portsmouth. Conceded by Callum Kennedy. Attempt blocked. Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Attempt missed. Curtis Main (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Christian Burgess (Portsmouth). Foul by Alan Dunne (Leyton Orient). Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Portsmouth. Curtis Main replaces Conor Chaplin. Substitution, Portsmouth. Danny Rose replaces Amine Linganzi. Foul by Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient). Amine Linganzi (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Jens Janse (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Amine Linganzi (Portsmouth). Foul by Jens Janse (Leyton Orient). Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the left wing. Goal!  Leyton Orient 0, Portsmouth 1. Christian Burgess (Portsmouth) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Corner,  Portsmouth. Conceded by Sandro Semedo. Attempt saved. Alan Dunne (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Attempt blocked. Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Ulrich N'Nomo (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Amine Linganzi (Portsmouth). Ulrich N'Nomo (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth). Second Half begins Leyton Orient 0, Portsmouth 0. Substitution, Leyton Orient. Alan Dunne replaces Paul McCallum.", "question": "New Leyton Orient manager Alberto Cavasin saw his side beaten by a Christian Burgess goal as Portsmouth took the @placeholder at Brisbane Road .", "option_0": "title", "option_1": "crowd", "option_2": "mood", "option_3": "victory", "option_4": "points"}
{"id": 775, "article": "The claim: Speaking in Swindon, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"Half a million children are now being taught in super-size classes of over 36.\" Reality Check verdict:  This is incorrect. Actually about 42,000 pupils are in classes of 36 or more - about 1% of children. Mr Corbyn appears to be confusing statistics.  It is right, as the earlier Labour press release said, to say about half a million pupils in state-funded primary schools in England are in classes of between 31 and 35. Jeremy Corbyn said in a speech in Swindon on Friday: \"Half a million children are now being taught in super-size classes of over 36.\" This is at odds with what his party's press release said, which was that half a million children in state-funded primary schools are in classes between 31 and 35 pupils. That's about 12% of primary school pupils. That figure is confirmed by government figures from the school census (see tables 6a and 6b), which also says that about 42,000 pupils are in classes of 36 pupils or more, which is about 1% of primary school pupils. Government rules say no infant school child should be taught in a class size greater than 30 - that's children in Key Stage 1 who are aged five to seven. That rule can be waived in exceptional circumstances - usually if twins or siblings are admitted to the school, or a child in care has to be given a place. The official school census for 2016 shows that more than half of Key Stage 1 classes with one teacher have either 29 or 30 pupils in them. Of the infant classes with more than 30 pupils, roughly 95% have 31 or 32 pupils. Classes with more than 32 children in them are uncommon. Rules on classes sizes do not apply to children in Key Stage 2, which is ages seven to 11. Between 2006 and 2016, the average Key Stage 1 class grew from 25.6 to 27.4 but at Key Stage 2, where there is no cap on numbers, it has remained stable at around 27 pupils in a class on average. While numbers of pupils in oversized classes has increased, the number of primary school aged children has increased by about half a million over that period. Since 2010, the proportion of children in classes of 31 to 35 pupils has risen from 10.6% to 11.9%. Read more from Reality Check Follow us on Twitter", "question": "Labour claims that pupils in England 's primary schools \" are @placeholder like sardines \" in classrooms .", "option_0": "packed", "option_1": "entitled", "option_2": "dressed", "option_3": "growing", "option_4": "experiencing"}
{"id": 776, "article": "Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has suggested holding an informal summit in the capital, Bratislava, in September, to give leaders of the remaining EU countries a chance to consider the future of the union. A \"post-Brexit crisis summit\", the news website euraktiv.sk calls it, saying that its theme will be \"Whither the EU?\" and will aim to articulate \"a new vision\" for the bloc as it prepares for the UK's departure. It recalls that Mr Fico told the European Council meeting in Brussels earlier this week that anyone who believes that after Brexit \"we can just offer the European public more of the same is making a big mistake\". According to Euraktiv.sk, if the summit takes place, it will be the first EU summit to be held outside Brussels since 2010 and the tone could be set by Central and Eastern European countries that joined the bloc in 2004. Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak has already taken part in post-Brexit talks with his counterparts from the Visegrad 4 group (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary) which were held in the Czech capital, Prague, on Monday. The meeting was also attended by the French and German foreign ministers. The day after the Prague meeting, Mr Lajcak visited London for talks with his British opposite number Philip Hammond. Slovak daily Pravda points out that Mr Lajcak was the first EU minister to visit London after the Brexit vote. According to the paper, Mr Lajcak believes that Slovakia's experience in handling a \"divorce\" - it became an independent state in 1993 after having been part of Czechoslovakia - might now stand it in good stead. However, Slovak media are in no doubt about the scale of the task facing the country. \"The presidency is beginning to haunt Fico,\" news website aktualne.sk declares. The Slovak presidency will be \"all about Brexit,\" Michaela Terenzani predicts in the English-language Slovak Spectator. And the junior partner in Slovakia's coalition government, the mixed Slovak-Hungarian Most-Hid (Bridge) party, posted a statement on its Facebook page saying that \"Britain's decision completely changes the Slovak presidency, it becomes the number one issuea€| It is extremely important that Slovakia rises to the challenge of this presidency, for never before has a presiding country faced such a tough task\". BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring  on Twitter and Facebook.", "question": "As Slovakia prepares to assume the @placeholder presidency of the EU on 1 July , Slovak media looks at the challenges the country faces in tackling the fallout from Brexit .", "option_0": "full", "option_1": "rotating", "option_2": "head", "option_3": "planned", "option_4": "size"}
{"id": 777, "article": "When Andrew O'Neill, 25 and formerly of Skelmersdale in Lancashire, arrived in Wigan town centre on 19 April to \"meet\" 14-year-old \"Alex\" he was instead attacked and filmed by a group of men. O'Neill admitted attempting to meet a girl under 16 and was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court to 12 months. A man arrested on suspicion of assault and blackmail was bailed last month. The 25-year-old is due to answer to police bail in June. An earlier hearing at Wigan Magistrates' Court heard O'Neill had booked a hotel room. He lost two teeth after being attacked when confronted. O'Neill managed to escape and report what happened to police, who arrested and charged him with attempting to meet a girl under 16 following grooming.", "question": "A man who was tricked into thinking he had @placeholder a sexual encounter with an under-age girl has been jailed .", "option_0": "suffered", "option_1": "sparked", "option_2": "posted", "option_3": "made", "option_4": "arranged"}
{"id": 778, "article": "Jamie Wisbey was also carrying a locking saw knife, a mask, latex gloves and a wig when he was spotted near the South Inch park in Perth. The Plymouth fisherman claimed he had been using Bear Grylls-style survival skills during the night. A jury at Perth Sheriff Court found him guilty of having the weapons. Wisbey's arrest sparked a high-level investigation after he was discovered with a bag containing \"worrying\" material including links to Libya and a Turkish phrasebook. Jailing him for two years and three months, Sheriff Lindsay Foulis said: \"As far as the jury was concerned you had them as weapons. What also had a sinister aspect was the wig, balaclava and gloves you had. \"I also consider it is appropriate to protect the public from serious harm upon your release and I will make a supervised release order for 12 months.\" Wisbey had been seen in the bushes near the park on 1 June by a couple who had gone to feed the ducks because they were unable to sleep. The fisherman claimed he had missed his train on the way to join a scallop boat in Buckie and had been using the Bear Grylls survival skills. He told the trial: \"I knew I was coming to Scotland so I was watching Bear Grylls and was interested in camping and things like that. I had cat gut for fishing and cotton wool for tinder and things like that. \"I didn't really know the wig was in the stuff in my bag. It was given to me by one of the family as a joke.\" He had told police during an interview that the wig was to keep his head warm. Wisbey told the jury he had acted in a \"sly and sneaky\" manner by trying to hide the bag containing the crossbow and arrows and other items. He admitted he planned to use the balaclava as a mask and said: \"I thought it would be handy. It's Scotland. It's warm where I come from, but it's freezing here.\" Fiscal depute Gavin Letford said: \"Did Bear Grylls give you the advice to take on a fishing boat a wig, a crossbow and a mask? Were all of these items taken together not for the purpose of going on a fishing boat, but for some other purpose you were not wanting the police or court to find out about?\" Wisbey also had 11 bottles of methadone in the name of Monique Phoenix in his bag. Wisbey was found guilty of having a crossbow and arrows, a locking saw blade and methadone in the South Inch park and the railway station in Perth on 1 June. When Wisbey first appeared on petition, the court had to be hastily convened in the back of a G4S prisoner escort van over fears he had a contagious skin condition akin to scabies.", "question": "A man who was seen @placeholder in bushes near a playpark with a crossbow and arrows has been jailed for more than two years .", "option_0": "injured", "option_1": "playing", "option_2": "stabbed", "option_3": "lurking", "option_4": "trapped"}
{"id": 779, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device \"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?\" He recites the words to give him strength, words that make him think of his mother, Roxana, his father, Humberto, and three siblings in Costa Rica. Family is the second pillar in his life. God is the first. If Psalm 27 has given Campbell the conviction to play without fear, whoever the opposition, that fearlessness has also become a feature of the way Costa Rica have played in this World Cup. The Central Americans have already upset the odds by topping a group containing three former World Cup winners in England, Italy and Uruguay - and it has been Campbell who has provided the stand-out performances, notably in the 3-1 win over Uruguay. Media playback is not supported on this device But for all the plaudits the 22-year-old has received in Brazil, he remains something of an unknown quantity to fans of his parent club. It was back in 2011 that a teenage Campbell signed for Arsenal from Costa Rican side Deportivo Saprissa - but he has still to play a game for them. Having been denied a work permit when he first joined the Premier League side, Campbell was loaned to Lorient in France and Real Betis in Spain before a spell at Olympiakos in Greece. In fact, his only appearance in England to date came for the Greek side last season, when he took on Manchester United in a Champions League last-16 tie in March. Three weeks earlier, he had announced himself with a 25-yard strike in the first leg. But Arsenal fans may grow more familiar with him soon - on the strength of his performances for Costa Rica, he has now been granted the right to work in the UK. Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rica's assistant manager, says the young striker is desperate to play for the Gunners, where he has two years remaining on his contract. \"Joel really wants to go back to Arsenal and play,\" the former Derby, West Ham and Manchester City striker said. \"I told him that the only way to do that was by performing well on the pitch at this World Cup. He has done well, but he can perform even better. Arsene Wenger is watching him.\" Indeed he is. The Arsenal manager has already said he wants Campbell at pre-season training, having been impressed by his direct running and willingness to shoot on sight against Uruguay. So what can Gunners fans expect if Campbell lines up at Emirates Stadium next season? There is a steel behind the raw talent that marks Campbell out as a force to be reckoned with. He was born in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, but his family is from the English-speaking area of Limon, which explains the Scottish surname. The third of four children, he grew up surrounded by football, fighting to be noticed. As a youngster, he would juggle empty cans on the street. On one such occasion he was spotted by then Costa Rica manager Ricardo La Volpe. The national side were playing friendlies close by and, while his friends bought tickets to go to the games, Campbell told them all he wanted to go, but as a player. A few weeks later, La Volpe called him up to the Costa Rica national team. \"Who is Messi? Who is Neymar?\" the manager said at the time. \"Gentlemen of the press - I present to you: Campbell. I discovered him playing with cans.\" Those who have worked with him talk about his dedication in training, his work ethic, his desire to get better and better. They also talk of a confident, calm young man - a winner. Campbell bought 100 packets of World Cup stickers trying to find one of himself. None of the 500 was of him. \"I've always said you have to think about winning,\" his father Humberto said. \"I've always said that success goes hand in hand with sacrifice. We get him to set goals.\" His immediate goal is to take Costa Rica to further success at this World Cup, \"We always believed we could do this,\" Campbell said. \"Football is not decided by the shirt you are wearing. With work and effort, you can win against anyone. We are very satisfied, very happy with what we have achieved but we will keep working to do more.\" His life is changing on and off the field. He celebrated his goal against Uruguay was by tucking the ball up his shirt, a nod to Maria Fernanda Cascante, his pregnant girlfriend. \"I dedicated my goal to my family, my girlfriend and our child. Was it the most important goal of my life? I hope that is still to come,\" he said. \"This is unforgettable. We are part of history. Nobody would have put a dollar on this team qualifying but there you go. It can change football in Costa Rica. \"These are the best days of my career.\" So far. Better days may yet lie ahead.", "question": "As Costa Rica 's players tie their laces and the team 's coaches shout final instructions before Sunday 's World Cup last - 16 tie with Greece , Arsenal striker Joel Campbell will @placeholder , take a breath and begin whispering to himself .", "option_0": "pause", "option_1": "rise", "option_2": "announce", "option_3": "contest", "option_4": "appear"}
{"id": 780, "article": "Omaree Lindsay, 19, of Cecil Road, Croydon, rode into Co-Op in Streatham Road, Mitcham, on 6 September. He appeared at Croydon Magistrates' Court on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to a number of offences. He was sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid work for offences including theft, failing to comply with a court order and driving a vehicle on the pavement. District Judge Adrian Turned also ordered Lindsay to pay ?¡ê150 in costs. The court order Lindsay had failed to comply with was an order to complete unpaid for work in the community issued on 28 of August for a driving offence.", "question": "A teenager who used a \" hoverboard \" to @placeholder a supermarket and steal a crate of Lucozade , has been spared jail .", "option_0": "hit", "option_1": "answer", "option_2": "halt", "option_3": "undergo", "option_4": "enter"}
{"id": 781, "article": "At precisely the moment Mr Trump was giving his victory speech, Chinese TV channels were running extensive coverage of a space mission and President Xi even chose US results day to talk to China's astronauts by satellite link. It was hard to escape the sense that this was his version of the John F Kennedy \"we choose to go to the Moon\" moment, a message to remind his public that whatever is going on elsewhere in the world, the narrative of rising Chinese might is on course. In private, President Xi is probably celebrating a win in the US too. As I and many others have noted before, the American election race has been a gift to the Chinese Communist Party. In a giant one-party state which enjoys no public discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of its own system, the United States has often been the unspoken benchmark of all that is most materially, culturally and politically advanced. It's no accident that President Xi's China dream slogan echoes the American dream. For a rising superpower, the United States is the nation to beat. Over recent years, Chinese commentators have often said that American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq damaged Chinese faith that the US could be trusted to lead on the world's geopolitics, and that the 2008 financial crisis damaged Chinese faith that the US could be trusted to lead on the global economy. Now a bitter and scandal-ridden presidential race has damaged Chinese confidence that Americans can be trusted to run themselves. Although the Chinese government has been careful to avoid direct comment on the candidates or the campaign, its tightly-controlled media have given full play to the rancour and division of the race. The president-elect has repeatedly echoed Beijing's argument that the American system is rigged in favour of moneyed elites. And Chinese media have discussed at length the experience and meritocratic advance of public servants in their own one-party pyramid as a comment on shallow demagogues in electoral democracies. For a nation which within living memory has suffered civil war and the terrors of the fanatical Cultural Revolution, the bitterness of the US campaign has tarnished any fairytale that American democracy once represented. But on the president-elect himself, the public view is mixed. Many Chinese admire Mr Trump as a businessman, a straight talker and an outsider. If in four years from now, he has \"made America great again\", then the political system which produced him will regain some credibility. But if the team behind \"the China Dream\" are making the Chinese public rich, sending rockets to Mars and dominating Asia, then 9 November 2016 may mark the moment when China left the American Dream behind forever. And in the meantime, the Chinese government has to come to terms with a US president who has no track record, no known team and no concrete China policy. We'll get along great with China, said Mr Trump on the campaign trail. But he also said: \"They come in, they take our jobs, they make a fortune. We are living through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world.\" And occasionally he also seemed to find a middle way. \"I have done great deals in China. China is wonderful. I'm not angry at China. I'm angry at our people for allowing them to get away with this... China is wonderful, but they are getting away with murder.\" As part of Mr Trump's promise to \"Make America Great Again\" he's often said the US must \"win\" in its economic relations with China. But over the past four decades, the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party  have learned to take US campaign promises with a pinch of salt. They've watched many American presidents come and go, making fierce threats against China on the campaign trail, and then quietly returning to a policy of engagement after their first few months in office. At a time when China's economic growth is faltering, access to US markets remains vital and protectionism from an incoming Trump administration would alarm Beijing. But its trade negotiators have had many months to game every possible Trump move on tariffs, market access or exchange rates. And Beijing will have logged that many of the long-time Asia experts in the Republican Party have already ruled out working for a Trump presidency. When it comes to fighting Mr Trump's economic game, Beijing will be ready for him. It may also calculate that trade is a game in which it can afford to give Mr Trump some wins in exchange for its own coveted wins in the great game of geopolitics in Asia. This is where Mr Trump represents opportunity for China. On the campaign trail, the president-elect sounded much cooler on US commitments in Asia than his rival. He was fiercely hostile to the economic dimension of the Obama administration's effort to pivot to Asia. And even in the military dimension, Mr Trump has said that longstanding US allies like Japan and South Korea should pay more to maintain a US military presence. Critics in the region warn that any increase in US isolationism or protectionism, or any grand bargain with Beijing, will make Taiwan and the South China Sea vulnerable, and diminish American leadership in Asia at a time when states like the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand are all calculating where their strategic interests lie. China's geostrategists will now hope that a Trump presidency plays into their ambitious plans to diminish American power and remake the map of Asia. They may well be right.", "question": "He may have won at @placeholder , but on the level where great nations contend , President - elect Trump 's campaign slogan \" Make America Great Again \" now goes head to head with China 's favourite catchphrases , the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the China dream .", "option_0": "least", "option_1": "times", "option_2": "heart", "option_3": "home", "option_4": "convention"}
{"id": 782, "article": "Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness met David Cameron on Friday. There is no confirmation on the content of the talks, but it is understood they are likely to have covered financial matters related to the talks process. NI Secretary Theresa Villiers says she believes a deal is possible next week. Sinn F¨¦in leader Gerry Adams has predicted that the talks at Stormont will conclude soon. The round-table talks between Northern Ireland's political parties are aimed at finding a resolution to the crisis at Stormont. The political row was triggered by a police assessment that IRA members were involved in the murder of former IRA man Kevin McGuigan Sr last month. Police said the IRA still existed, but added that it was not engaged in terrorism. Sinn F¨¦in said the IRA has \"left the stage\". The talks are also focussing on the issue of welfare reform. The Northern Ireland parties had agreed on a welfare reform deal in December but Sinn F¨¦in withdrew its support in March.", "question": "The first and deputy first ministers have held a private meeting with the prime minister in London , Downing Street @placeholder have confirmed .", "option_0": "sources", "option_1": "health", "option_2": "membership", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "region"}
{"id": 783, "article": "Maureen Watt made the pledge as MSPs unanimously backed the general principles of the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Bill on Thursday. The bill was brought forward in response to the scandal at the Mortonhall crematorium in Edinburgh. Staff at the crematorium had secretly buried the ashes of babies for decades. The parents of the infants had been told there were no ashes left when young babies were cremated. Concerns were later raised about other crematoriums across Scotland. The new legislation follows on from the recommendations of Lord Bonomy's Infant Cremation Commission. Ms Watt set out plans to bring forward a series of amendments in response to calls from Holyrood's Health and Sport Committee to strengthen its provisions. Committee convener Duncan McNeil said MSPs had heard moving evidence of the \"long-lasting and devastating\" impact of the ashes scandal. He said: \"The bereaved parents who shared their views with the committee sent a very clear message - this bill must ensure that the poor practice of the past should never happen again.\" Ms Watt said the bill would make \"valuable and much needed\" improvements to burial and cremation laws which were more than 100-years-old. She said there were a number of problems with the current system, including an overly-complicated process that can be \"difficult to understand at the best of times, let alone when dealing with the loss of a loved one.\" Ms Watt added: \"There can also be a lack of clear information given to the person who is making the funeral arrangements. \"Lord Bonomy's Infant Cremation Commission identified all too clearly the potential impact of these problems. \"The steps taken in this bill will help ensure that such failings can never occur again.\" The minister confirmed amendments to ensure that women experiencing a pregnancy loss were put at the centre of decision-making over any remains, to improve the process following a post 24-week termination and to strengthen what crematoriums and funeral director could do with ashes. Labour MSP Jenny Marra said: \"What happened with infant ashes in Scotland should never be allowed to happen again and we must ensure that women are at the centre of decisions at a very, very difficult time.\" Conservative MSP Nanette Milne added: \"The bill goes some way towards ensuring that past bad practice will not recur although I think it will need to be refined as it goes through the next stages of the parliamentary process.\" Holyrood's Local Government and Regeneration Committee, which looked at aspects of the bill relating to burials, complained that it \"lacks ambition\" and called for the introduction of licensing for funeral directors. Ms Watt said: \"At the moment there is not enough evidence about the industry as a whole to say with certainty that licensing is required or what form a licensing scheme would take.\" She said the inspectors appointed under the bill would review the industry and make recommendations about the need for licensing.", "question": "New legislation on cremations will ensure that Scotland 's baby ashes scandal will never be @placeholder , the public health minister has said .", "option_0": "repeated", "option_1": "investigated", "option_2": "uncovered", "option_3": "scrapped", "option_4": "implemented"}
{"id": 784, "article": "Two officers attended the spat between Dennis Johnson and Richard Williams, 49, at Wells Farm in Cradley, Herefordshire, before summoning backup. The pair had disagreed about where the flock should graze. Details of the saga emerged in a civil court ruling over a boundary dispute. Judge David Grant heard how Mr Williams, now 52, claimed that Mr Johnson, now 91, had wrongly released sheep onto his land, on the Malvern Hills, early one morning. The pair began a quarrel, and Mr Williams' wife Swarni called the police. Both the men were arrested, although neither were charged. Mr Johnson had denied harassing either Mr Williams or his wife and had told Judge Grant: \"I am 90 years old, and Mr Williams is probably half my age and about twice my size.\" Judge Grant, who analysed the dispute, said \"none of the three persons present behaved in a violent or aggressive manner\". The judge agreed with Mr Johnson that he had not been harassing the Williamses, but said there had been instances where Mr Johnson had been a \"nuisance\", and fined him ?¡ê500.", "question": "Four fast - response @placeholder and 10 police officers were called to a squabble about sheep between an 88 - year - old farmer and his neighbour , a judge has heard .", "option_0": "news", "option_1": "vehicles", "option_2": "staff", "option_3": "schools", "option_4": "messages"}
{"id": 785, "article": "There are no members of the government or the Taliban on either negotiating team, just their representatives - and this makes some analysts sceptical. The government team is made up of  veteran journalists Rahimullah Yusufzai and Irfan Siddiqui, former ambassador Rustam Shah Mohmand and a retired major from the ISI intelligence service, Mohammad Amir. The Taliban team comprises the chief of an influential madrassa Maulana Sami ul-Haq, the chief cleric of Islamabad's Red Mosque, Maulana Abdul Aziz and religious party Jamaat-e-Islami leader Prof Ibrahim Khan. These teams had been tasked with simply charting a \"roadmap\" for talks but many believe the teams do not have the full trust of their respective backers - the government and the Taliban. It's very unclear what they are actually going to talk about: a \"roadmap\" for talks may simply be a timetable for setting out desirable goals such as a ceasefire. Media outlets have deployed a series of tortuous phrases to try to summarise what is at stake in these meetings. But the first task is for the two teams to learn to trust each other. The government excusing itself from talks on the very first day does not bode well. That may reflect the fact that the Taliban committee was drawn up at the last minute. Indeed a prominent Islamic leader withdrew from the team the day before talks were to start. Others point out that simply meeting would be an achievement in itself. Some analysts believe the government is simply buying time and that they are actually waiting for July 2014 when US forces withdraw from Afghanistan, creating a scenario whereby Pakistani militants could spill over the border to fight in Afghanistan. The government has always denied seeking to influence the balance of power and militancy in Afghanistan. But it has nevertheless been under intense pressure after a spate of bloody Taliban attacks within Pakistan, particularly after Nawaz Sharif last year campaigned on a platform of talking to the militants. Some say this feels like an attempt to soothe public opinion in the wake of that bloodshed. For the Taliban side, sources in the tribal areas say that these talks are also a way of buying time and postponing any possible military intervention in their region. After the death of  former leader Hakimullah Mehsud in a US drone strike last autumn, the Taliban feel under pressure to consolidate support in the Mohmand tribal agency - an area he had influence over. With his death it risks slipping out of the Taliban sphere. Talks would not have got this far without the Taliban shura (organising committee) agreeing to the process. But that masks profound divisions within the movement. Even before the death of Hakimullah Mehsud there was unease within the ranks of this loose collective of militants about the possibility of talks. The Mehsud clan, which has traditionally been at the helm of the Pakistani Taliban,  has two factions.  Hakimullah Mehsud, despite protestations that he was ready to receive a government delegation, is widely believed to have been against talks and simply wanted to continue fighting. The other group - represented by Sajna Mehsud -  is thought to be open to talks. The Pakistani Taliban's new leader Mullah Fazlullah  is currently believed to be in Afghanistan and he has adhered to what the Taliban shura agreed to, but many believe he is personally opposed to talks. Then there are the other groups linked to the Taliban who also feel they have a stake in the matter. The militants in the Mohmand tribal area - led by Omar Khalid Khorasani who is currently in Afghanistan - are also resolutely against the talks. However, the Taliban based in Punjab province are all for talking to the government. So the group representing the Taliban in Islamabad could be forgiven for not knowing which bit of the Taliban they speak for. Even if this preliminary team manages to set a timetable for preliminary talks, many believe little can be achieved because of incompatible goals. The government's first condition will be a ceasefire. However, with such a divided Taliban it is not clear who would agree to this in such a disparate movement. Taliban negotiators have previously demanded the release of Taliban detainees. It is likely they will also demand the withdrawal of the Pakistani army and paramilitaries from the tribal areas, including the Swat valley. Both of these will be difficult for the government to accept. But far more difficult - indeed impossible - is the Taliban demand to impose Sharia (Islamic law) throughout Pakistan. Previous peace deals with the Pakistani Taliban have all failed. There have been three major sets of peace talks over the last decade. In 2004 militant leader Nek Mohammed reached the Shakai agreement. It came after an ineffective military operation in Waziristan. Almost immediately after the agreement was signed, he reneged on his commitments. The Sarorogha peace deal in 2005 with Nek Mohammed's successor Baitullah Mehsud was aimed at reducing conflict between the army and the Taliban.  In fact confrontations increased in the following months. The 2008 Swat agreement between the provincial government and militants was aimed at ending  violence in the region. Within days violence increased and the Taliban effectively took control of the Swat valley before they were finally driven out in a military operation the following year.", "question": "Preliminary talks between Taliban and Pakistani government representatives had not even begun , when the government delegation excused itself . Many believe the talks process is unlikely to lead to any lasting peace or even serious negotiations . The BBC @placeholder why .", "option_0": "understands", "option_1": "revealed", "option_2": "leaves", "option_3": "explores", "option_4": "reveal"}
{"id": 786, "article": "Samia Shahid, 28, from Bradford, died in Pakistan in July. Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel is accused of her murder while her father Chaudhry Muhammad Shahid is being held as an accessory to murder. A judge has adjourned the case until 29 October after Ms Shahid's second husband requested the case be moved. Read more about this story and others from across Leeds and West Yorkshire Syed Mukhtar Kazim has lodged a petition with the High Court in Lahore asking for the case to be moved to the city from Jhelum. He claims in his petition that his life has been threatened if he visits Jhelum. Lawyers for Mr Shakeel and Mr Shahid have previously claimed there is no evidence to support charges against their clients. Ms Shahid, a beautician, married Mr Kazim in Leeds in 2014 and the couple then moved to Dubai. Mr Kazim has claimed his wife, who died whilst visiting relatives in Pakistan, was killed because her family disapproved of their marriage. Initially, it was claimed she had died of a heart attack but a post-mortem examination confirmed she had been strangled.", "question": "A decision on charging the father and first husband of a woman believed to have been a victim of a so - called \" honour killing \" has been @placeholder .", "option_0": "granted", "option_1": "delayed", "option_2": "announced", "option_3": "claimed", "option_4": "launched"}
{"id": 787, "article": "Its associations with DJ sets and a young, festival-going crowd are rather less well established. But a new enclosure at this year's Royal Ascot will seek to attract a new generation of racegoers by offering a \"party atmosphere\" and a \"more vibrant feel\". The Village Enclosure will provide a range of attractions, including eateries, bars, social areas and DJs. The \"popular formality of dress code\" of the Queen Anne enclosure - the suits, the fascinators - will remain, but with a festival touch, say organisers. \"Best racing, best party, is the aspiration,\" said Nick Smith, Ascot's director of racing and communications. \"But very much within the parameters of what makes Royal Ascot special and genuinely unique.\" Organisers expect there to be a \"natural synergy\" towards the younger demographic, although they want \"repeat visitors and happy visitors\" rather than large numbers. \"We specifically want to encourage people with racing interest alongside those to whom the party atmosphere will appeal - hopefully one and the same in many cases,\" added Smith. This year's Royal Ascot runs from Tuesday, 20 June to Saturday, 24 June.", "question": "It 's one of the highlights of the British racing and social calendar , renowned for its royal @placeholder and formal attire .", "option_0": "connections", "option_1": "wedding", "option_2": "home", "option_3": "title", "option_4": "happening"}
{"id": 788, "article": "Kenyans are enthralled by the new central bank governor. And it is not because they are wondering what he is going to do about the Kenyan shilling weakening against other currencies. Patrick Njoroge seems to be from a different planet altogether. His \"refusal to take his turn to eat is surprising\" says business columnist Otieno Otieno in the Daily Nation. While Victor Nyakachunga writes in the Standard \"many were challenged\" by him opting for the simple life. Kenyans are used to senior government officials leading lavish lifestyles. It is an issue which has provoked protest, not least when parliamentarians awarded themselves a pay rise of 319,000 shillings ($3,200; ?¡ê2,100) a month, less than two months after being sworn in in 2013. Mr Njoroge's predecessors in the central bank lived in the luxurious Muthaiga Estate in Nairobi. They drove Range Rovers or Mercedes Benz accompanied by security cars. The house is famous for its beautiful gardens which are used to host parties. It is near the residences of the US and UK foreign envoys and Kenya's former President Mwai Kibaki. Mr Njoroge has dismissed these perks, preferring to live in a communal house in Nairobi's Loresho estate. He went to live with his fellow members of an organisation of the Roman Catholic church called Opus Dei. The organisation, which means \"work of God\" in Latin, teaches that ordinary life is a path to sanctity. It is widely credited with developing his humble stance. The Opus Dei website says members aim at \"humility, justice, integrity, and solidarity\" and to work \"hard and well, honestly and fairly\". \"In God's eyes, what matters is the love people put into their work, not its success in terms of money or fame,\" it adds. When he was being vetted by MPs for the governor position, he surprised the committee by revealing he didn't own any property in Kenya. That is despite commanding a presumably large salary in his previous job as an advisor to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Deputy Managing Director. \"I don't have a single asset here in Kenya,\" he said. \"It doesn't mean that this how it will be forever. I subscribe to being very deliberate about that. This is my economic model and maybe years after retirement, I would want to invest in other things,\" he said. But it is not the only element of the banker's private life which has caused a stir. He is also single. MPs were so intrigued by Mr Njoroge's marital status that he was asked about it during the vetting process - a move BBC Trending reports was mocked online. The MPs gave him a rare offer. When they found out he was single they requested to get him a wife. \"I am single by choice - it's not because there's a problem or shortage,\" he replied. His character has attracted offers of marriage and admiration on Twitter. \"And then, that new #CBKGovernor just made me re evaluate my life goals..man is so humble and content.\" tweeted an inspired Anthony Mbugua. His colleagues are equally taken by him. \"Totally devoid of ego and instinctively averse to self-advertisement,\" is how a senior treasury official and long-serving central banker described him. Kenyans hope his austere nature means he will keep their luxury-loving politicians in check and safeguard their economic future.", "question": "Kenya 's new central bank governor rejected the grand house that comes with his prestigious job . The BBC 's Abdinoor Maalim writes this is a rare move which has created a lot of interest in the single 54 - year - old , who is a member of the Catholic @placeholder Opus Dei.", "option_0": "community", "option_1": "charity", "option_2": "team", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "crowd"}
{"id": 789, "article": "Henderson, outstanding in recent games, is replaced by Devin Toner at lock while Keith Earls stays at centre as Payne recovers from a bruised foot. Rob Kearney returns at full-back in place of Simon Zebo with Cian Healy preferred to Jack McGrath at prop. France make two changes with Louis Picamoles and Noa Nakaitaci recalled. Number eight Picamoles replaces Bernard le Roux in the back row for the Pool D decider in one of two changes from the 41-18 win over Canada. Coach Philippe Saint-Andre's other change sees Fijian-born wing Nakaitaci taking over from Remy Grosso. Both France and Ireland have won their opening three games in Pool D and the losers of Sunday's match are likely to face New Zealand in the quarter-finals. Henderson's demotion to the replacements is a big call by Ireland coach Joe Schmidt, with the New Zealander believing that six foot 11 inch Toner is needed to disrupt the effectiveness of the France line-out. Yet Henderson's energetic work around the field has probably been the most impressive feature of Ireland's World Cup so far. The Ulsterman was man of the match in last weekend's narrow win over Italy and is certain to come on during the Millennium Stadium contest. Schmidt said the decision to recall Toner had been \"a really tight call\". \"Dev has been a big-match player for us and gives us a little bit more line-out capability,\" added the Ireland coach. \"We (also) do believe that at the back end of the game, Iain will add value.\" Payne trained fully on Wednesday after missing the Italy game but swelling on his injured foot following that session sealed his fate. With Earls remaining at centre, Tommy Bowe and Dave Kearney retain the wing spots as fit-again Rob Kearney returns at full-back in place of Simon Zebo. Healy is named at loosehead prop after his Leinster team-mate McGrath started in the front row role against Italy. Lions forward Healy started Ireland's second World Cup match against Romania after making his return to action following neck surgery as a replacement in the opening win over Canada. In the France selection, Picamoles' return sees Damien Chouly switching to flanker with experienced skipper Thierry Dusautoir completing a strong back row. France have talked this week of targeting Ireland pivot Johnny Sexton and skipper Dusautoir and number eight Picamoles will be central to that aim. Toulon's powerful centre Mathieu Bastareaud is also likely to be part of France's tactics to disrupt fly-half Sexton. Ireland: Rob Kearney; Tommy Bowe, Keith Earls, Robbie Henshaw, Dave Kearney; Johnny Sexton, Conor Murray; Cian Healy, Rory Best, Mike Ross; Devin Toner, Paul O'Connell; Peter O'Mahony, Sean O'Brien, Jamie Heasip. Replacements: Richardt Strauss, Jack McGrath, Nathan White, Iain Henderson, Chris Henry, Eoin Reddan, Ian Madigan, Luke Fitzgerald. France: Scott Spedding; Noa Nakaitaci, Mathieu Bastareaud, Wesley Fofana, Brice Dulin; Frederic Michalak, Sebastien Tillous-Borde; Eddy Ben Arous, Guilhem Guirado, Rabah Slimani; Pascal Pape, Yoann Maestri; Thierry Dusautior (capt), Damien Chouly, Louis Picamoles. Replacements: Benjamin Kayser, Vincent Debaty, Nicolas Mas, Alexandre Flanquart, Bernard Le Roux, Morgan Parra, Remi Tales, Alexandre Dumoulin", "question": "Iain Henderson is a shock absentee from the Ireland starting XV for Sunday 's World Cup game against France while Jared Payne is not @placeholder after injury .", "option_0": "injured", "option_1": "risked", "option_2": "replaced", "option_3": "effect", "option_4": "show"}
{"id": 790, "article": "1MDB is at the centre of a global corruption investigation. The local units of Standard Chartered and UBS, Southeast Asia's biggest lender DBS and Falcon Bank were all found to have \"lapses and weaknesses in anti-money laundering controls\". Standard Chartered, DBS and UBS said they were cooperating with authorities. Falcon Bank was not immediately available for comment. Malaysia 'to co-operate' with 1MDB probe The US v The Wolf of Wall Street The case that's riveted Malaysia Singapore prosecutors have also seized $177m (?¡ê134m) in assets linked to 1MDB, half of which belong to a Malaysian financier facing many of the fraud allegations. The US government said on Wednesday that $3.5bn was \"misappropriated\" from 1MDB and that \"the Malaysian people were defrauded on an enormous scale\". US prosecutors are now looking to seize $1bn in assets linked to 1MDB, which includes plush properties in New York and Los Angeles and a private jet. Mr Najib and 1MDB have consistently denied any wrongdoing. Singapore is one of several global authorities investigating alleged fraud at 1MDB, which was set up by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in 2009. The country's financial regulator said in a statement on Thursday investigations into 1MDB began in March 2015. \"They revealed extensive layering of transactions and subterfuge aimed at disguising the nature of certain activities and fund flows,\" the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said. \"In some instances, shell or unauthorised companies domiciled in various jurisdictions were used to conceal the true beneficiaries of the funds.\" \"Standard Chartered takes financial crime compliance very seriously,\" a spokesperson told the BBC. \"We have strengthened our anti-money laundering controls and processes and will continue to play an active role in the fight against financial crime.\" \"Egregious financial crime is highly sophisticated and intentionally designed to evade systems and controls,\" a DBS spokesperson said. \"We take our anti-money laundering obligations seriously\". UBS also said it was constantly enhancing its anti-money laundering processes. \"In this case, UBS self-reported the suspicious transactions and is working closely with regulators to address this matter,\" a spokesperson for the bank told the BBC. Singapore is trying to maintain its reputation as a corruption-free international finance and banking hub and is taking a stern stance towards any illicit fund flows. Swiss bank BSI was kicked out of the city in May for \"serious breaches\" of Singapore's anti-money laundering rules in its business dealings with 1MDB. Switzerland has since launched a criminal investigation into the private bank. Certain financial institutions were \"used as conduits\" for a \"complex international web of transactions,\" MAS said on Thursday. A local money changer and remittance agent that had \"weak management oversight\" is also facing potential penalties. Out of the four banks identified, MAS said Falcon Private Bank had \"substantial breaches\" of its anti-money laundering laws, including a failure to report suspicious transactions. However, MAS said the oversight and management of certain key client relationships were done out of the bank's head office in Switzerland.", "question": "Singapore plans to take \" firm regulatory actions \" against four major banks over their dealings with scandal - ridden Malaysian @placeholder fund 1 MDB .", "option_0": "state", "option_1": "trust", "option_2": "affect", "option_3": "public", "option_4": "hedge"}
{"id": 791, "article": "With both a referendum on EU membership and a broad set of elections UK-wide, 2016 is a huge year for democracy. As such, it is more important than ever that young people step up to be involved in discussions about what direction we should take. BBC Generation 2016 is focused on elections in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, to the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Welsh Assembly, and the Scottish Parliament. All three institutions go back to legislation passed in 1998: the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, the Government of Wales Act, and the Scotland Act. Many 18-year-olds voting for the first time in an election in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland were born in that year, and have lived almost entirely under devolved government. BBC Referendum Generation running concurrently, is a broad ranging group of young people, from the whole of the UK and across Europe, who we have brought together to discuss the UK's place in the European Union. We have voices drawn from a range of diverse backgrounds and communities. They'll appear across a range of BBC output, discussing the issues above, or talking more broadly about life as a young person today. The BBC Generations team is delighted to be able to bring these young voices to the heart of UK debate. Join the conversation with @bbcgen2016 and find out more at bbc.co.uk/generation2016.", "question": "The BBC 's Generation projects are designed to ensure the voices of younger people are heard in BBC programmes and content around elections and political @placeholder .", "option_0": "events", "option_1": "stability", "option_2": "debates", "option_3": "parties", "option_4": "constituencies"}
{"id": 792, "article": "Konika Dhar said she was \"clinging\" to the hope her brother Siddhartha was not the masked man in the footage, in which five people were shown being killed. But, speaking to MPs at Westminster, she said her family did not know who to turn to when he left for Syria in 2014. They fear he was brainwashed, Ms Dhar told the home affairs committee. Her appearance before the committee came as the government launched a new website for schools and parents as part of a renewed drive against extremism. Mr Dhar, who is in his early 30s and from Walthamstow, east London, is also known as Abu Rumaysah. He left the UK while on bail following his arrest for encouraging terrorism. In the video footage posted online earlier this month, a masked man holding a gun mocks Prime Minister David Cameron. She said she had not had official verification that the figure in the video was her brother. \"I am still holding to the firm belief what I am seeing is not him,\" she said. She said she would not \"give up\" on her brother and still wanted him to come home. \"I want him home because I'm determined for him to return to the person I remember,\" she added. Ms Dhar described the brother she grew up with as \"fun-loving, laid-back, easy-going, very friendly\". Conservative MP Nus Ghani said that if Ms Dhar's brother was involved with the Islamic State group he was \"probably engaged in slaving, beheading and raping\". The MP for Wealden struggled to control her emotions as she described an interview in the media with a victim of Islamic State militants. \"One of the women states 'one of the saddest things I remember is this little girl, 12 years old, and they raped her without mercy',\" she said. \"These are the activities your brother has engaged in - do you still think he's a good man?\" Ms Dhar replied: \"I think this is quite a sort of sensitive topic to talk about. My opinion will always be biased because he's my brother. \"I don't want to believe he is who he is today.\" Asked by the committee chairman, Keith Vaz, whether she felt support or counselling should be made available to families of relatives who had travelled to Syria to fight with Islamic State militants, Ms Dhar said it would be of help. And she said it would have \"absolutely\" been a good idea if there had been organisations to speak to at the time her brother was turning to extremism. \"I think this is one thing that needs to be addressed, because for me personally it was very difficult to know who to turn to,\" she said. \"It's important for other families to know what are the appropriate steps one needs to take in order to get their loved one back, who is the right person to contact.\" Ms Dhar told MPs her family were \"in the dark\" over how her brother became radicalised. Her brother, who was raised in a Hindu family, converted to Islam as a teenager but there was, Ms Dhar added, a \"long transition period\" before he adopted his extreme views. She said there were \"signs that someone ought to have picked up on\" but no-one could have predicted her brother, who grew up playing basketball and supporting Arsenal football club, would have joined IS. She described him as \"keeping his private life private\" and said she did not attend his wedding. Ms Dhar said she had made many attempts to contact her brother but only had \"two responses\" since he has been in Syria.", "question": "The sister of the Briton @placeholder of fronting a recent Islamic State group video says more support is needed for relatives worried about radicalisation .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "section", "option_2": "list", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "suspected"}
{"id": 793, "article": "Meadow Walker, 16, tweeted that she wanted to start the Paul Walker Foundation to \"share a piece of my father with the world\". The foundation's mission statement is \"Do Good\", reflecting his passions for the ocean, for helping people and animals and \"spontaneous goodwill\". Walker died in a car crash in 2013. The US actor and star of the hugely successful Fast and Furious action films franchise was killed by impact and a fire in the crash in California. Walker, who was 40 when he died, was a passenger in the Porsche that a friend was driving when it hit a pole and burst into flames. The foundation is aimed at \"empowering future generations by providing grants, scholarship opportunities and spontaneous acts of goodwill\". Meadow Walker wrote on Instagram: \"I can't think of a better way to celebrate my father.\" Walker was also known for making documentaries about sharks with the National Geographic Channel, having studied marine biology before becoming an actor. His death prompted a huge outpouring of tributes from fans and people who had worked with him, including his Fast and Furious co-star Vin Diesel, who went on to name his daughter Pauline in honour of his friend. The posthumous release of his film Furious 7 took $384 million (?¡ê257 million) at the global box office in its opening weekend.", "question": "The daughter of the late Fast and Furious films actor Paul Walker has @placeholder a foundation in his memory to mark his birthday .", "option_0": "played", "option_1": "escaped", "option_2": "captured", "option_3": "attended", "option_4": "launched"}
{"id": 794, "article": "The 47-year-old Australian spent three years as coach of the NRL side before leaving in 2015. He replaces compatriot Rohan Smith, who left the club on Tuesday by mutual consent. The old Bradford Bulls were liquidated at the start of the month and the new club will start the Championship season with a 12-point deduction. Joint-owner Graham Lowe said: \"He won't be bringing loads of people from Australia. He wants to work with people here and the community. \"I am so pleased we have reached terms with him. He is a football man and is a players' coach. \"He will make young players thrive. He is uncompromising and has always had the leadership skills required.\" The new team, captained by Leon Pryce, will play their first game in a friendly against Huddersfield Giants on Sunday. And despite a number of departures, they have 26 players signed up for the forthcoming season. They start their league campaign against Hull KR on Sunday, 5 February. BBC rugby league correspondent Dave Woods Toovey won 18 Australia caps, a tally artificially boosted by the fact he played for the ARL-loyal Manly at the time of the Super League war, but he was a class act. As a player and coach he's been a one club man so far. His appointment appears to be out of the blue as he has no working knowledge of the English game, especially at Championship level. But the link is Bulls' new co-owner Graham Lowe, another former Manly coach and legend. And he could prove to be just the man for the job after all the financial chaos that the previous Bradford club went through... he's a qualified chartered accountant.", "question": "Former Manly Sea Eagles coach Geoff Toovey has been appointed as the new coach of the @placeholder Bradford Bulls .", "option_0": "company", "option_1": "reformed", "option_2": "pair", "option_3": "number", "option_4": "side"}
{"id": 795, "article": "Umpires Nick Cook and Neil Bainton inspected the ground several times before finally calling the game off early in the afternoon at 14:15 BST. Leicestershire, who have now lost two matches in a row to the weather, are still looking for their first win. Worcestershire move up to second in the North Group after taking one point. \"It's desperately frustrating,\" Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester. \"At one stage, we thought we might some sort of game, maybe a 20-over match but that last huge downpour sadly put paid to that.\" \"We've had two wash-outs in a row,\" said Leicestershire's elite performance director Andrew McDonald: \"It is one of those uncontrollable thing. We are playing an outdoor sport and when it rains, you can't play.\"", "question": "Worcestershire 's One - Day Cup group game against Leicestershire at New Road was abandoned without a ball @placeholder after heavy rain left the outfield saturated .", "option_0": "spot", "option_1": "display", "option_2": "record", "option_3": "bowled", "option_4": "title"}
{"id": 796, "article": "In the absence of a local premiere, a group of extras from Dracula Untold have organised their own red carpet charity screening and gala night. The black tie event, with a fundraising auction, is sold out and proceeds will go to cancer and arthritis charities. Bobby Marno, who played a soldier, said he and other extras decided they would get together when the film reached cinemas. \"The idea just grew and grew and now it is a gala event, raising money for worthy charities,\" he said. Vlad (Dracula) is played by Welsh actor Luke Evans, who has appeared in the Hobbit. His main enemy, Mehmed, is played by Dominic Cooper. The production had its main base in an east Belfast factory. Other filming locations around Northern Ireland included the Giant's Causeway, Mount Stewart, Divis and Black Mountains, Roe Valley country park in County Londonderry, and Killynether Woods and Scrabo in County Down. An investment of ?¡ê1.6m from Northern Ireland Screen is expected to bring a return of ?¡ê13.5m to the local economy. NI Screen chief executive Richard Williams said he was excited to see the end result as Dracula Untold arrived in cinemas. \"It is a wonderful showcase for Northern Ireland and it was a real coup for us to have the movie made here,\" he said. The first-time feature film director is Gary Shore from Dublin, who began his career making commercials.", "question": "A @placeholder film made in Northern Ireland goes on general release on Friday .", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "horror", "option_2": "single", "option_3": "feature", "option_4": "home"}
{"id": 797, "article": "Once-capped Fijian  Nacewa's two first-half scores helped the hosts to a 20-10 half-time lead. Scrum-half Sarel Pretorius went over for Dragons and Jason Tovey kicked the rest of their points. Leinster scored last quarter tries by Gary Ringrose and Cathal Marsh while Nacewa and Fergus McFadden kicked 17 points between them. The Irish province earned their second win in three starts in the process, leaving the visitors with one win from the first three rounds. Dragons' offered stubborn resistance throughout, typified by wing Ashton Hewitt's 40-metre pursuit of Ringrose that ended with a try-saving tackle at the corner. But Leinster proved too strong despite missing a glut of stars on Irish World Cup duty. Lyn Jones' Dragons have been less affected by World Cup calls with only number eight Taulupe Faletau, centre Tyler Morgan and now-injured wing Hallam Amos absent. Fly-half Cathal Marsh ably directed the home side's efforts behind a pack that exercised greater control as the game wore on. McFadden and Tovey exchanged early penalties, the former sending over a second before Dragons scrum-half Pretorius went over for the first try. Tovey converted but Dragons were soon trailing as Nacewa went over twice in nine minutes with McFadden converting the first and Nacewa the second. McFadden and Tovey added penalties before Ringrose raced clear. Marsh added his name to the try-scorers to secure the bonus point with McFadden converting both second-half tries. Leinster: Isa Nacewa (capt); Garry Ringrose, Ben Te'o, Noel Reid, Fergus McFadden; Cathal Marsh, Isaac Boss; Michael Bent, Aaron Dundon, Marty Moore; Ross Molony, Mike McCarthy; Dominic Ryan, Josh van der Flier, Jack Conan. Replacements: James Tracy, Peter Dooley, Jamie Hagan, Rhys Ruddock, Dan Leavy, Luke McGrath, Ross Byrne, Cian Kelleher. Newport Gwent Dragons: Carl Meyer; Ashton Hewitt, Ross Wardle, Adam Warren, Tom Prydie; Jason Tovey, Sarel Pretorius; Boris Stankovich, Hugh Gustafson, Brok Harris; Nick Crosswell, Rynard Landman; James Thomas, James Benjamin, Ed Jackson. Replacements: Elliot Dee, Phil Price, Shaun Knight, Matthew Screech, Nic Cudd, Luc Jones, Angus O'Brien, Aled Brew. Referee: Ian Davies (WRU) Assistant Referees: Eddie Hogan-O'Connell, Shane Kierana (both IRFU) Citing Commissioner: John Cole (IRFU) TMO: Jude Quinn (IRFU)", "question": "Isa Nacewa @placeholder twice as Leinster battled to a bonus - point Pro12 win over Newport Gwent Dragons in Dublin .", "option_0": "eased", "option_1": "attacked", "option_2": "continued", "option_3": "crossed", "option_4": "recorded"}
{"id": 798, "article": "The Thai police have ruled out any links to international terrorism. They also dismissed the likelihood that it was the separatist insurgent groups which have been fighting the Thai armed forces in the three Malay-Muslim provinces on the Thai-Malaysian border for the past 12 years. Government spokesmen have instead described these attacks as \"domestic sabotage\", and hinted that the most likely perpetrators are those who lost out in the referendum last Sunday. That vote approved a new constitution which entrenches long-term military influence in Thai politics, and was opposed by the party of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, and her so-called \"red-shirt\" supporters. The clear hint from the military is that this is where they will direct their investigation. But while there were small armed groups on the fringe of the red-shirt movement which carried out sporadic attacks in the turmoil leading up to the 2014 coup, they have done nothing since then, and the military has kept a close watch on them. Such co-ordinated attacks in a region where the red shirts have almost no presence would appear to be beyond them. But they cannot be ruled out. By contrast the style of the attacks - twin bombings, catching those who gather to look at the first blast - are very typical of the insurgents, loosely led by the separatist Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) movement in the three southernmost provinces. So are the arson attacks we are also now hearing about, last night. Even the Thai police chief, Gen Chakthip Chaijinda, has now acknowledged a possible link to the deep south. If this turns out to be the case, it would mark a significant escalation of the BRN's operations. The southern insurgency has continued for 12 years and killed more than 6,000 people, but has rarely spread outside the three Malay-Muslim provinces, and almost never targeted Thailand's many tourist hotspots. Targeting a royal town, Hua Hin, the favoured retreat of the royal family, and on a day when many Thais are celebrating Queen Sirikit's 84th birthday, is also significant. Whoever carried out these attacks, they surely intended to send a message, shaking public confidence in the military's ability to maintain peace and order.", "question": "Eleven small bombs , detonated at popular tourist spots , in @placeholder spread across southern Thailand . Who would carry out such an attack , and why ?", "option_0": "clashes", "option_1": "finding", "option_2": "locations", "option_3": "secret", "option_4": "words"}
{"id": 799, "article": "The family-owned firm, formally known as AP Moller-Maersk, will focus on its transport and logistics business. The energy division is to shrink its global reach and focus more on the North Sea, where it has expertise. That division has around 800 employees based in Aberdeen, working both on and offshore. The company employs 88,000 people and operates across 130 countries, with turnover of more than $40bn (?¡ê31bn). Work will continue on existing energy projects, including some of the biggest projects in the UK offshore sector. But the company signalled that new investment commitments may be low, particularly in tankers and drilling. Maersk Oil has been operating in the UK central North Sea sector for 11 years, and is a partner in some of the biggest developments during that time, including the Golden Eagle. From a small country perspective, Maersk looks like a giant. So it is uncomfortable for Denmark that the giant has been weakened in both legs. Shipping has been hit by sharp reductions in rates for containers - a notoriously volatile market. That is partly due to a downturn in trade, and also to the extra tonnage added to the world container fleet. Hanjin Shipping, the seventh-biggest in container transport and based in South Korea, recently filed for bankruptcy. It is struggling to find the finance to offload cargo from its ships, worth several billion pounds. Maersk's energy business faces problems which are at least as deep as shipping, due to the fall in the price of oil. The company's strategic review speaks of finding \"solutions\" including joint ventures, mergers or spinning off companies for separate listing. The vagueness of the plan makes it look like an intention to exit as much of that sector as possible, and shipping is clearly the priority. The North Sea presence may be one part of the energy division that is retained, as the technology involved is an area of expertise. That's unless a buyer can be found. Breaking up the 112-year-old conglomerate is a reversal of the strategy under which Maersk Line grew to have a fleet of 590 ships, plus 500 smaller service ships. It was guided by its chairman Maersk McKinney Moller, who remained active in the company until his death four years ago, aged 98. It is operator of the Culzean gas field development, which is one of the biggest in UK waters for 25 years. It is expected to meet 5% of Britain's gas demand after it comes on-stream, scheduled for 2019. Its other production is from Denmark, Qatar, Kazakhstan, the US Gulf of Mexico and Algeria. Exploration and development activities are also under way in Angola, Kenya, Ethiopia, Greenland, Brazil, Kurdistan, and the huge Johan Sverdrup field being developed in the Norwegian North Sea. Michael Pram Rasmussen, the chairman, said in a statement: \"Separating our transport and logistics businesses and our oil and oil related businesses...will enable both to focus on their respective markets. Both face very different underlying fundamentals and competitive environments.\" The oil, drilling, offshore services and tanker divisions face moves towards joint ventures, sales and stock market floats over the next two years. Profits in that division have recently come in well below expectations. The company's strategy states: \"Maersk Oil will adjust its current strategy to focus its portfolio in fewer geographies to gain scale in basins, particularly in the North Sea, where it can leverage its strong capabilities within subsurface modelling, well technology and efficient operations. Maersk Oil will aim to strengthen its portfolio through acquisitions or mergers. \"Further, Maersk Oil will mature existing key development projects, while keeping exploration activities and expenses at a low level. While the strategic focus will be reflected in a disciplined capital allocation, investments in strategic projects already sanctioned or under development will continue as planned. \"Maersk Drilling, Maersk Supply Services, and Maersk Tankers will continue to optimise their market position and operation with the existing fleet and order book. Additional investments in the group's offshore service businesses and Maersk Tankers will be limited.\" Denmark's Sydbank estimated the value of the logistics business at, very roughly, ?¡ê23bn. Its central estimate for the energy division was close to ?¡ê13bn.", "question": "Maersk , the Copenhagen - based shipping giant , is to be split up with its energy @placeholder directed more towards the North Sea .", "option_0": "masses", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "allocation", "option_3": "interests", "option_4": "fleet"}
{"id": 800, "article": "Maternity services were previously led by consultant obstetricians. However, the hospital has no facilities for on-site specialist neonatal paediatric support or adult intensive care. NHS Highland has said that the majority of births at the hospital can be handled by midwives only. Pregnancies involving complications are handled at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. Internal and external reviews of services at Wick support the need for the planned changes, the health board has said. Five newborn babies have died at the hospital since 2010. An external review and report suggested that at least two were \"potentially avoidable\". CMUs provide care to pregnant women in other parts of NHS Highland's area. Campaign group Caithness Health Action Team (Chat) has raised concerns about women having to travel 100 miles (160.9km) from Caithness to Inverness to have their babies.", "question": "A new midwife - led community maternity unit ( CMU ) has been @placeholder at Caithness General in Wick .", "option_0": "spared", "option_1": "detained", "option_2": "fired", "option_3": "introduced", "option_4": "unveiled"}
{"id": 801, "article": "The comments were made by a retired director of the former Western Health and Social Services Trust. The inquiry is examining claims of abuse at 13 homes and training centres in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1995. The witness said he visited Termonbacca Catholic Boys Home in Londonderry as a social worker in the 1970s. Two months into the inquiry, two homes are still being examined, St Joseph's, Termonbacca and Nazareth House, both in Derry. Since the inquiry opened, most of the evidence has been from former residents, with stories of sexual, mental and physical abuse. The retired health board official, who is giving evidence under an anonymity agreement, said Termonbacca was a very large home with up to 60 children. Commenting on his observations of the home during visits as a social worker in the 1970s, he said: \"I found the atmosphere to be caring and welcoming.\"", "question": "A boys ' home being examined for claims of abuse @placeholder a \" warm and caring \" environment , the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry has heard .", "option_0": "suffered", "option_1": "including", "option_2": "wielding", "option_3": "following", "option_4": "provided"}
{"id": 802, "article": "Dozens more towns and villages are due to be connected by 2016, as many firms say they are still missing out. The Welsh government says it is on target to see fast internet available for 96% of premises under its ¡ê425m Superfast Cymru venture with BT. In June 2014 superfast broadband was available in 58% of premises in Wales, compared to 78% across the UK. Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology Julie James said: \"By the time the Superfast Cymru programme is completed in spring 2016, Wales will be one of the most highly connected countries in Europe.\" Ann Beynon, BT Director for Wales, said: \"This is big news for Wales as people will now know when work will start for every single telephone exchange in Wales. \"It's probably the biggest engineering programme Wales has seen in the last ten years with the potential to improve the lives of individuals, families and businesses across Wales.\" Broadband makes a major difference for businesses particularly those in rural areas. It can mean more sales for some and helps farmers provide the information they need to file with government departments. But many businesses say they are not benefiting from faster speeds. Critics argue that converting telephone exchanges does not mean every firm will get faster broadband, as cabling from the exchanges to the premises will not necessarily support it. Just under half of the spend - ¡ê205m - is coming from the Welsh and UK governments and European funds, with BT providing the rest. Superfast Cymru is listing exactly where and when exchange work will take place. However, homes and businesses will still need to sign up with an internet service provider once the optical fibre network has reached their neighbourhood. Communications regulator Ofcom reported in August that while Wales was catching up in the rollout of superfast broadband, the number of people signing up for it still lagged behind the rest of the UK. Meanwhile, the Wales Audit Office is reviewing whether the project is delivering effective value for money.", "question": "Work @placeholder every telephone exchange in Wales for superfast broadband will begin by September 2015 .", "option_0": "based", "option_1": "reported", "option_2": "pace", "option_3": "upgrading", "option_4": "shares"}
{"id": 803, "article": "The fire at Siteserv on the Vale Business Park in Llandow has been contained but continues to burn. It is the second fire in less than a month after another Siteserv building nearby was accidentally destroyed. South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the demolition was needed to access and douse burning waste. A statement said the operation was \"challenging and complex\" and had been prolonged by the nature and volume of the burning material in the building, by the strength of the building structure, challenging site conditions and the need to protect the environment. It added: \"Steady progress is being made and South Wales Fire and Rescue Service, Natural Resources Wales and the recycling company which owns the site, Siteserv, are working closely together to ensure that the fire is extinguished as rapidly as the constraints allow.\" Health authorities say the risk to public health associated with the fire is low. At one point nearly 90 firefighters were at the scene when the fire broke out on 26 November. Investigations into the cause of the blaze are continuing.", "question": "Fire crews who have been @placeholder a huge blaze at a Vale of Glamorgan industrial estate which has burned for 10 days have demolished the building .", "option_0": "investigating", "option_1": "expecting", "option_2": "battling", "option_3": "granted", "option_4": "named"}
{"id": 804, "article": "But, imagine a classroom being shaken by a sound louder than a rock concert; a sound as loud as a thunderclap or a chainsaw. Welcome to the classroom of Annalisa Flanagan - the owner of the world's loudest shout. The Belfast primary school teacher bellowed her way into the world record books in 1994 with a thunderous bellow of the word (what else?) 'quiet!'. The shout clocked up an earth-shattering 121.7 decibels, setting a world record and potentially damaging the hearing of anyone within earshot. Despite her record standing for 22 years, no-one has yet been able to out-shout her -  a fact that recently re-emerged when her Richter-scale rippling exploits featured on the hit BBC TV programme QI. Corey Taylor, lead singer of renowned heavy metal outfit Slipknot was on the show - and even he was blown away. \"Our shows top out at 109 (decibels) and those are quite loud,\" he said. \"So 121 is stupid.\" Fortunately, even though Annalisa has this sonic secret weapon to unleash on her pupils at Finaghy Primary School, she insists it is one she never uses. \"I'm really not a shouter,\" she laughed. \"I'd much rather bribe the kids with sweets than shout. I want them to love me! \"Also, after the first couple of weeks of teaching you can't be shouting all year. I'm hoarse all the time as it is.\" Her pupils back her up too, and appear to be sincere when they say Ms Flanagan mostly keeps her hidden talent for hollering outside the classroom. In fact, her skill is completely unrelated to teaching and purely a coincidence. Indeed, the gift is one that probably would have stayed hidden, if it were not for a streak of competitiveness. \"In 1992, I was at a church summer camp. There were about 500 people attending and they held a record breaking day,\" she recalled. \"Now, normally I'm quite a competitive person. They had this shouting competition, but to be honest, I thought it was a bit embarrassing so I stayed out of it. \"But, then one of the kids told me my twin sister was winning. So I thought, if she is good then I'll be good too.\" The competition was taking place in world record conditions, meaning whatever was recorded was eligible to smash the old record of 119 decibels. \"My sister got 119.1 and I got 119.4 - so she held the record for a little while, and then it was me.\" Two years later, Annalisa was invited to defend her title at an event in Belfast. \"I got 121.7 decibels - and it has stood ever since.\" Annalisa said she was amazed that her almost-accidental record has endured for 22 years. Even though she admitted that she would be considered on the loud side, the teacher said she had no particular technique. \"I just open my mouth and let rip,\" she said. \"I was on a TV programme and they took me to the Harley Street Clinic, where a lot of singers would go to get their vocals checked. \"In the end, the expert's conclusion was that I was so competitive when I set the record, so determined to beat my sister, that it spurred me on.\" However, it is an ability that has diminished slightly over the years particularly after her tonsils were removed. \"I don't like being measured as much any more, because I'm nervous I won't really get to be as loud,\" she said. \"I can get to around 115 but I haven't come near 120 in a while. It's difficult to match the record. I'm not sure if I'm holding back a little bit. Also it hurts my head when I'm on full power.\" Meanwhile, the children she teaches remain suitably impressed by their record-breaking teacher. \"It's quite sweet actually,\" Annalisa said. \"Sometimes I see past pupils who are in their 20s walking past the school gates. They would go: 'Alright Miss, still the world record holder?' \"It's just mad that it (the record) has stuck this long.\"", "question": "Silence is golden is a classroom mantra @placeholder the world over .", "option_0": "contest", "option_1": "celebrating", "option_2": "repeated", "option_3": "consult", "option_4": "probing"}
{"id": 805, "article": "Scans of 21 people showed the brain was more attracted to food if breakfast was missed so people had more food at lunch. Scientists said it made losing weight challenging as missing meals made calorific food even more appealing. Nutrition experts say breakfast is known to take the edge off appetite. However, researchers were curious about what happened inside the brain to alter the food people choose to eat. Twenty one people, who were all normal weight, were shown pictures of calorie packed foods while they were positioned in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine at Imperial College London. On one day they were given no breakfast before the scans and on a different day they were fed a large, 730 calorie, breakfast an hour and a half before. The researchers said skipping breakfast created a \"bias\" in the brain in favour of high calorie foods. The results, presented at the Neuroscience 2012 conference, showed the brain changed how it responded to pictures of high calorie foods, but not low calorie foods, when breakfast was skipped. They showed part of the brain thought to be involved in \"food appeal\", the orbitofrontal cortex, became more active on an empty stomach. When the researchers offered the participants lunch at the end of the study, people ate a fifth more calories if breakfast was missed. Dr Tony Goldstone, from Imperial College London, said: \"Through both the participants' MRI results and observations of how much they ate at lunch, we found ample evidence that fasting made people hungrier, and increased the appeal of high calorie foods and the amount people ate. \"One reason it is so difficult to lose weight is because the appeal of high calorie food goes up.\" Dr Catherine Hankey, a senior lecturer in nutrition at the University of Glasgow, said research had shown that breakfast \"takes the edge off appetite\" and that the latest study was an \"interesting\" insight. She said breakfast was linked to stable blood sugar levels, which \"keeps you on the straight and narrow\". Future studies will investigate how obesity affects the same system in the brain.", "question": "Brain scans show that skipping breakfast makes fatty , high calorie foods @placeholder far more attractive later in the day , according to researchers .", "option_0": "helped", "option_1": "appear", "option_2": "enjoyed", "option_3": "lost", "option_4": "suggests"}
{"id": 806, "article": "OxfordDictionaries.com issues quarterly updates on current definitions of English words. Other new entries include Grexit, Brexit, hangry, beer and wine o'clock and NBD - meaning \"no big deal\". Oxford Dictionaries said the addition of multiple slang words showed \"creative\" use of language. New words and phrases are added to the website once editors have enough independent evidence to be confident of their widespread currency in English. However, they do not gain an entry into the Oxford English Dictionary unless there is a demonstration of continued historical use. According to Oxford Dictionary's language monitoring service, hangry has seen its usage increase since 2012, with a spike in April 2014 connected to an American study about low glucose levels making people cross. Manspreading - when a man sits with his legs wide apart on public transport encroaching on other seats Bants - short for banter NBD - abbreviation of no big deal Hangry - adjective used to show feelings of anger or irritability as a result of hunger Grexit and Brexit - the potential departure of the UK and Greece from the EU Awesomesauce - to describe something as excellent Weak sauce - anything of a poor or disappointing standard Bruh - describing a male friend Pocket dial - to accidentally call someone while your phone is in a pocket Mkay - the informal pronunciation of OK Fiona McPherson, senior editor of Oxford Dictionaries, said the addition of multiple slang words did not represent a dumbing down of English. She said: \"There's always been new slang words. I just think we are more aware of them because of the ways in which we consume and live our lives now. \"We are bombarded with more and more avenues where those sort of words are used and we just think that there are more of them. I don't necessarily think that's the case.\"", "question": "The @placeholder of \" manspreading \" , or sitting with legs wide apart on public transport , is among 1,000 new words to enter the online Oxford dictionary .", "option_0": "head", "option_1": "meaning", "option_2": "world", "option_3": "heart", "option_4": "act"}
{"id": 807, "article": "Think soccer. Think last year's European Championship. Then tiny little Iceland were the heroes of the competition - and not just because of their wonderful fans. This team of part-timers played way above their ranking, there was solidarity, singleness of purpose, real determination. And think of England. Absurdly well paid and pampered players, whose showcase is the Premier League, the wealthiest in the world - and they were just a bunch of inked and primped individuals who seemed to have no team spirit. Dire. Just dire. And so to the G20. It is not lousy like the England team were - I mean nothing could be as bad as that. But it is less than the sum of its parts. What of the joint communiqu?? (that will have been toiled over by bureaucratic draftsmen for days to find a bland enough form of words that all the leaders can sign up to) will be remembered in six months' time? What ringing declaration will change lives? What plan of action will we look back on and think \"turning point\"? No, I suspect this G20 will be remembered for two things. The first, the appalling violence on the streets of Hamburg from a sizeable group of protestors who seemed hellbent on burning and looting (there was something surreal on Friday night, drinking a beer in the 20th floor bar of our hotel and watching the fires and the police on the street below - as if it was a rioting son et lumi?¡§re spectacle put on for our entertainment). And second - the first meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump. I suspect if you asked Mr Trump what was most memorable for him, he too would say the Putin meeting - but also his day in Warsaw, when thousands of Poles chanted his name and \"U-S-A\". Remember the crowd does for him what a battery station does for a Tesla car. His speech on the challenges facing the West was well crafted with an argument to make. And he just sounded - well - more committed to the idea of the \"West\" than he did when he was last in Europe at the Nato summit and the G7. His definition of what constitutes Western values may not have been to everyone's tastes - but he also committed the US to Article 5 of Nato, with its pledge that an attack on one is an attack against all. And for those countries who are part of the Alliance and abut Russia, they'll have been reassured by that. Which brings us to the meeting with the Russian leader. I've read analysis since suggesting that it was a big victory for Trump; and some arguing that Mr Putin came out of top. But that is to view the encounter as a zero sum game. Maybe both men emerged feeling they had won. Putin was treated seriously, wasn't lectured on human rights and democracy (his regular complaint about what it was like dealing with Barack Obama), and the meeting went on for nearly two hours more than its allotted time. Why does that matter? Because the Russian leader will feel he was treated as an equal to the US president with major things to discuss. Mr Trump will feel he has put the \"Russia controversy\" behind him. He raised it with Mr Putin, right, let's move on. But that might be wishful thinking. Particularly after the Russians disclosed that the American president accepted the assurances of Mr Putin that Moscow hadn't interfered in last November's election. The White House has not challenged that. And that leaves a very simple and astonishing point. Given the choice between accepting what his intelligence agencies have told him, and what Vladimir Putin has told him to be true, he's gone with the Russian. And that might not play well in Washington, where there are myriad inquiries going on into the Trump campaign's links to Russia - and a Republican Party, who by and large given the same choice over who to believe, will go for the nation's intelligence professionals. Donald J Trump might want a reset in the relationship with Russia, but there are political constraints on him in Washington. And then there are the decisions of the G20 itself. On two of the big ticket items - trade and climate change - it was really the G19 plus America. Mr Trump was intransigent in the face of appeals by other nations to recommit to the Paris climate change agreement. And there are real fears among European leaders that the president could unleash a trade war, over his insistence that America is being ripped off. So if you're marking Mr Trump's card on how he got on, it really depends on where you stand on those issues. And as for the G20, it's hard to be more than the sum of its parts, when the biggest and most economically powerful member of the orchestra is humming a different tune.", "question": "We 'll get to the G20 in a moment . But let 's start with organisational psychology . There are some groups or teams that are greater than the sum of their parts , and there are others - that for all the talent and @placeholder they may have individually - are less .", "option_0": "skills", "option_1": "power", "option_2": "bodies", "option_3": "peace", "option_4": "integrity"}
{"id": 808, "article": "The Orfordness lighthouse, in Suffolk, is 10m (32ft) from the sea after the gap halved over the past four years. Nicholas Gold, of the Orfordness Lighthouse Trust, said a ?¡ê10,000 appeal had been set up for urgent repairs. Storms forecast for this week pose a \"real risk\" of causing \"significant damage\" to the lighthouse, he said. The trust said strong winds and high tides had eroded the shore around the Grade II-listed building, built in 1792. \"If the work is not carried out in the next few weeks, the lighthouse will, in all likelihood, not be standing in a year's time,\" said Mr Gold. \"It's perilously close to falling in the sea.\" The appeal hopes to raise cash to shore up the beach with bags of shingle. The lighthouse was purchased by Mr Gold in 2013 from Trinity House, the country's general lighthouse authority. The trust has spent ?¡ê20,000 bolstering the sea defences over the past two years. But it said a long-term solution was necessary involving building a steel wall around the around the front of the lighthouse and its outbuildings - at a cost of about ?¡ê190,000. The beach around the lighthouse is owned by the trust and is on a nature reserve owned by the National Trust.", "question": "A lighthouse is \" perilously close \" to falling into the sea after being @placeholder by coastal erosion , a charity trust has warned .", "option_0": "exposed", "option_1": "inspired", "option_2": "attacked", "option_3": "caused", "option_4": "affected"}
{"id": 809, "article": "When the year began, it looked as though we would soon have just three giant players slugging it out in the mobile market. BT's merger with EE, and Three's takeover of O2 would leave them battling Vodafone for supremacy. But while the first merger went ahead, the second was blocked by the European Commission. That ruling came with the full backing of Ofcom, which had warned that a reduction from four to three operators would be harmful to consumers. Three - owned by Hong Kong's Hutchison - had spent 18 months planning for a future in which it would be the biggest noise in the UK market. On Tuesday morning, still seething about the ruling, it has warned that the result has been to create exactly the conditions that Ofcom feared. Its chief executive, Dave Dyson, told me that prices are now going up and competition is on the wane. He said it was because two players now had the lion's share when it came to spectrum, the electromagnetic waves Mr Dyson described as the \"lifeblood\" of any mobile operator. He points to figures indicating that: \"If you've got one or two players in the market that dominate spectrum,\" he said, \"then there is always a fear that innovation is slower because you don't have people pushing each other.\" Despite the fact that Three has just published some pretty healthy earnings for the first half of the year, he said it could not challenge BT unless it got hold of more spectrum. And that is where he wanted action from Ofcom. In a much-delayed auction, the regulator is preparing to sell off a healthy chunk of spectrum that has been freed up by the Ministry of Defence. It will provide plenty of capacity for the high-speed data services that are now at the centre of every mobile operator's offering. But Three's chief executive wanted Ofcom to set the rules to level the playing field in the UK mobile market. Mr Dyson called for a cap on the total amount of spectrum that any one company could hold - and wanted that set at 30%. Unless BT/EE sold some of its existing spectrum, that would mean it would not even be able to bid in the forthcoming auction - and Vodafone would be limited in what it could buy. Mr Dyson said both the big players had plenty of unused spectrum and did not really need any more but were likely to indulge in what strategic bidding. \"If they were to bid on this spectrum, it would most likely be a mechanism to stop ourselves and O2 strengthening our position, which would effectively be anti-competitive,\" he said. Now, this piece of sabre-rattling is obviously designed to put pressure on Ofcom, which is expected to launch a consultation on the rules for the auction in the coming weeks. Sources at BT point out that Three could have bought more spectrum in the last auction but chose not to. Furthermore, the competition authorities had assessed BT and EE's spectrum holdings before letting that merger through and found nothing to worry them. But for Ofcom, there are now some tricky decisions to be made. To impose the kind of curbs that Mr Dyson is demanding would be tantamount to saying the regulator got it wrong when it backed the merger between BT and EE but lobbied Brussels to block Three's takeover of O2. But equally, having come under fire for not requiring BT to sell off the Openreach broadband division, Ofcom will not want to be accused of allowing a new monopoly to grow unchecked. You might have thought the battle over the shape of the UK's mobile market was over - but it looks like it has just moved on to a new phase. Good news  for corporate lawyers and lobbyists, who will get plenty of work as the rules of the complex game that is a spectrum auction are decided.", "question": "BT is already in the firing line over its dominant position in the broadband market , with pressure on the regulator , Ofcom , to be tougher in policing it . Now , there is a call for the telecoms giant 's wings to be @placeholder in its new role - as the UK 's most powerful mobile operator .", "option_0": "record", "option_1": "built", "option_2": "published", "option_3": "clipped", "option_4": "reinstated"}
{"id": 810, "article": "The visit will determine whether twice bailed-out Greece will get its latest instalment of cash. Representatives from the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank will take stock of how effective tough austerity measures have been. Fresh strikes are planned by public sector workers in response. Sunday's talks will decide on the continued conditions for Greece's financial aid, and a 1bn euro (?¡ê844m) instalment which Greece expected to get in October. The EU is calling for the liquidation of Greece's defence industry, a further reduction in civil servant posts, and the health of the key privatisation programme. The main public sector union Adedy said that it would carry out a two day strike on Tuesday and Wednesday, while other unions are following suit. \"We will continue our struggle against the destructive policies of the government and the troika,\" Adedy said in a statement. This latest round of protests against austerity comes days after the Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said his country's economy is heading \"slowly towards recovery\" after it saw growth in the second quarter of the year. Mr Stournaras said available evidence suggested Greece will see quarter-on-quarter growth for the first time since its economic crisis began. Greece also reported slightly improved jobless figures for the summer period, as tourism saw a modest boost compared to the year before.", "question": "The so - called troika of lenders has @placeholder to Athens for its latest audit of the Greek economy .", "option_0": "returned", "option_1": "warned", "option_2": "turned", "option_3": "agreed", "option_4": "voted"}
{"id": 811, "article": "These are the words of Norman Shanks, who used to run security at Britain's biggest airports. He was in charge at Heathrow during the Lockerbie bombing. At the time, he says they moved security checks to outside the terminal, thinking it would be safer. But, he says, they soon realised that they were just moving the problem outside. \"If anything it was less safe, because we had large groups of passengers bunched together on pavements, which made them vulnerable\". Essentially, anywhere you get people gathering in large numbers is a target no matter how many police you have around. So how to stop attacks on airports? Mr Shanks says the best ways are intelligence, in other words, knowing about it in advance, face recognition systems that can use CCTV to pick out suspects, and teaching staff how to identify odd behaviour. For example, he says the main thing he noticed about the Brussels airport attackers was that they weren't carrying hand luggage. \"No one travels like that these days, quite the opposite.\" For him, that would have raised alarm bells. Airport security has become much tighter in recent years. We've all noticed the shoe checks and liquid limits, both of which came about after planned attacks that were foiled, one involving a bomb in a shoe and the other, liquid explosives. Scanners are better too. But Norman Shanks says that security checks on workers should still be tighter at some airports around the world. \"I'm still concerned about the insider threat,\" he says, \"weaknesses with staff smuggling things on board,\" although workers across Europe are security-checked. Even our airplane food is sealed before it reaches the airport. If the seals are broken, it's not allowed in. I ask Mr Shanks if he feels that attackers are moving away from the actual aircraft, hijackings, bombings and towards the airports instead. \"I don't think so, it's just another opportunity.\" he says. \"We still had the Metrojet bombing.\" It's widely believed a Metrojet airliner travelling from Egypt to Russia last year was brought down by an improvised bomb. But in some ways, he thinks that the Turkey attack was nothing to do with flying. \"I don't actually see this as an attack on aviation. They have just picked a place where people gather together, a soft target. It could be a shopping mall next time, or a railway station\".", "question": "\" What has changed in recent years is the suicide @placeholder . That 's difficult to counter , if people are willing to blow themselves up \" .", "option_0": "element", "option_1": "force", "option_2": "team", "option_3": "problem", "option_4": "bombing"}
{"id": 812, "article": "Axa, Calpers, Scor and AMP Capital have already sold or are selling their tobacco investments. The companies launched their appeal on the annual World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). Along with 50 other firms with investments totalling $3.8tn, they have pledged \"to openly support the tobacco control measures being taken by governments around the world\". The statement reads: \"We in the investment community are becoming increasingly aware of the important role we can play in helping to address the health and societal impacts of tobacco. \"We strive within our own scope of action to support the ambition of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in line with our commitment to the positive role finance can play in sustainable development more broadly.\" Last year, when Axa announced it was selling its tobacco investments, its chief executive Thomas Buberl told the BBC: \"The business case is positive. It makes no sense for us to continue our investments within the tobacco industry. The human cost of tobacco is tragic - its economic cost is huge.\" WNTD is one of eight official global public health campaigns marked by the WHO. Its Tobacco Fact Sheet explains: \"Tobacco kills more than seven million people each year. More than six million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use, while around 890,000 are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke. \"Nearly 80% of the world's more than one billion smokers live in low and middle-income countries.\" In the developing world, tobacco markets are still growing, largely through ignorance of the dangers.  A 2009 survey in China revealed that only 38% of smokers knew that smoking caused coronary heart disease and only 27% knew that it caused strokes. WNTD is the only one of the WHO's health campaigns that pits itself against a specific industry. The tobacco business remains a formidable adversary.  It has been one of the best investments of the last decade, indeed possibly of the post-Second World War era. The shares in companies listed in the Bloomberg tobacco producers index have risen 351% since 2009, compared with just over 101% for the MSCI global index. Despite the growing aversion of the big investors, many believe there is more growth to come. Dan Caplinger, of the financial services company The Motley Fool, wrote in January: \"As a new year begins, there are reasons to believe that 2017 could be a great year to invest in tobacco stocks.\" He goes on to explain that mergers and a move into non-traditional tobacco products, such as e-cigarettes and \"heat-not-burn\" tobacco products, could boost share prices further. The success of the industry is all the more remarkable, bearing in mind the forces ranged against Big Tobacco. These include multinational agencies, lobby groups, governments and the global medical establishment, as well as the stark fact, as formulated by the WHO, that \"tobacco kills up to half of its users\". The regulations are getting tighter, specifically in the way companies can advertise tobacco products. Even so, only 29 countries, representing just 12% of the world's population, have completely banned all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. For instance, the European Union's Tobacco Products Directive forced tobacco companies to cover 65% of their packets with health warnings and clamped down on e-cigarette advertising. Companies such as Philip Morris International and British American Tobacco have fought back, complaining that they are being unlawfully deprived of the right to display their brands. But last month, they lost a High Court challenge in the UK against new plain packaging rules. These mean all cigarette packets must now look the same, with the same green colour, font, size, case and alignment of text on boxes. The move by investors against tobacco is part of a wider trend in so-called ethical investing, which seems to be gathering pace. The US-based Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment estimates that there has been 33% growth in what it calls sustainable, responsible and impact investing (SRI) over the past two years, and a 14-fold increase since 1995. Its 2016 report says: \"SRI investing continues to expand - now accounting for more than one out of every $5 under professional management in the United States.\" The report is only talking about US-domiciled assets, but that's still $8.72tn. Of that, $1.97tn is invested with specific instructions to avoid tobacco and alcohol.", "question": "Four international investment groups have called on investors to @placeholder the tobacco industry .", "option_0": "reduce", "option_1": "quit", "option_2": "fund", "option_3": "control", "option_4": "join"}
{"id": 813, "article": "It now expects the economy to expand by 5.3% this year, down from its earlier projection of 6.4% growth. The new growth outlook is in line with the projections of the central bank and many other economists. The council also warned that keeping the fiscal deficit within the budget target of 4.8% of gross domestic product (GDP) \"could be a challenge\". In its latest economic outlook, the council said that the fiscal deficit during the first four months of the current financial year had already reached 62.8% of the budgetary provision for the full year. India's growth has been hurt by a range of factors in recent months. including a slowdown in key sectors such as mining and manufacturing. At the same time, a lack of crucial reforms has seen foreign investors become sceptical of entering the country. The situation has become worse in recent months as many investors have pulled out from the country. A slowdown in India's growth, coupled with a recovery in developed markets such as the US - which has made India a less attractive investment option - has prompted them to look for other options. The prospect of the US withdrawing a key stimulus programme sooner than expected and a possible rise in interest rates in the US have also played a role in the pull-out. This has hurt India's currency, which has dipped as much 20% against the US dollar since May this year. That has made imports more expensive, hurting India's economy even more, not least because of its already high current account deficit. A current account deficit happens when the country's import bill is bigger than its earnings from exports. A widening deficit puts strain on the nation's foreign exchange reserves. In its report, the council said the sharp decline in the currency had not only hurt efforts to bring the deficit under control, but was a hurdle in kick-starting growth. \"The currency problems have momentarily interrupted the process of revival of growth,\" it said. It added that the currency situation needed to be \"stabilised as soon as possible\".", "question": "The Indian prime minister 's economic advisory council has @placeholder the growth outlook for the current financial year .", "option_0": "lowered", "option_1": "published", "option_2": "entered", "option_3": "approved", "option_4": "announced"}
{"id": 814, "article": "Southend Hospital in Essex said the fire service had been called after the leak on the third floor of its Cardigan Wing just before midday. The hospital has been closed to patients and visitors as it \"is currently not safe\", the hospital said. Patients have been moved to other areas of the site while the leak is assessed by fire crews, the statement continued. More updates on this story and others in Essex Essex Fire and Rescue Service said two crews and a hazardous material team had been sent to the hospital. Work is ongoing to stop the leak and crews are monitoring carbon dioxide levels on all floors, the service said. Ambulances are being diverted to other hospitals in the region while the leak is dealt with.", "question": "A hospital has been closed and patients @placeholder following a \" large \" leak of diesel in its maternity unit .", "option_0": "die", "option_1": "notice", "option_2": "killed", "option_3": "evacuated", "option_4": "showing"}
{"id": 815, "article": "Those assertions were outlined in a report from the Tech City UK quango and innovation charity Nesta a little while back, which highlighted how many of the innovation-focused enterprises had benefited from clustering together. To mark the BBC's Tech Talent week, we've revisited the study and focused on the areas where there are at least 7,000 digital tech jobs. What's striking is that at first glance, the numbers seem to confirm that London's cluster is well ahead of any other - and indeed the capital hosts several of tech's better-known names. But once you combine the data with official population statistics, another picture emerges. Based on a calculation of how many tech jobs there are per head of the local population, Cambridge, Reading and Bracknell, and Oxford and Abingdon take the lead. It's no coincidence that all three have universities with strong reputations for science, engineering and computing. Southampton and Manchester also do well. And Ipswich is another standout, thanks to the fact that many firms there have congregated around the headquarters of BT Research - the telecoms firm's R&D division. The figures should still be treated with caution: Tech City UK may have been generous in the way it defined some of the jobs as being tech-related. And it's also notable how few of the firms in the list below are the kind of household names you would associate with Silicon Valley. Digital tech jobs: 328,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: four Specialisms: Financial tech, social networks, digital media Foreign-owned firms: Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft Locally headquartered: Shazam, Transferwise, Deliveroo, Citymapper Digital tech jobs: 52,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: 10 Specialisms: App development, digital marketing, digital entertainment Foreign-owned firms: Google, Priceline Locally headquartered: Apadmi, The Lad Bible, PushDoctor, UKFast Digital tech jobs: 40,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: 14 Specialisms: Cybersecurity, business software, data analytics Foreign-owned firms: Nvidia, Microsoft, Symantec, Wipro Locally headquartered: Altitude Angel, Cloud Direct, Fantoo Digital tech jobs: 37,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: six Specialisms: Education tech, semiconductors, video games Foreign-owned firms: Amazon, HP, Oracle, Unity Locally headquartered: Opposable Games, Tribal Group, Xmos Digital tech jobs: 36,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: three Specialisms: Business software, Online gambling Foreign-owned firms: N/A Locally headquartered: Majestic, Yumzee, Intouch Games Digital tech jobs: 26,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: four Specialisms: Cloud computing, e-commerce, financial tech Foreign-owned firms: Cloudwick Technology, FanDuel Locally headquartered: Iomart, M Squared Lasers, SwarmOnline Digital tech jobs: 25,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: 13 Specialisms: Cybersecurity, cloud computing, video games, health tech Foreign-owned firms: Proofpoint, Tripadvisor, Zynga Locally headquartered: Rebellion, Sophos, Oxford Instruments Digital tech jobs: 25,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: 10 Specialisms: Hardware, e-commerce, data analytics Foreign-owned firms: Artificial Solutions, Pivotal Software Locally headquartered: Symetrica, nquiringminds, SPI Lasers Digital tech jobs: 24,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: three Specialisms: App development, e-commerce, video games Foreign-owned firms: Rockstar Games Locally headquartered: Double Eleven, Sky Bet, Instantcart Digital tech jobs: 22,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: three Specialisms: Financial tech, analytics, video games Foreign-owned firms: Ubisoft, Epic Games, CCP Games Locally headquartered: Sage, Orchard Systems, ZeroLight Digital tech jobs: 21,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: four Specialisms: Financial tech, health tech, e-commerce Foreign-owned firms: Amazon, Rockstar, FanDuel, Toshiba Locally headquartered: Axios Systems, Craneware, Skyscanner Digital tech jobs: 21,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: six Specialisms: Business software, app development, financial tech Foreign-owned firms: IBM, West Corp Locally headquartered: Signature Digital, Jadu, Boop.js Digital tech jobs: 20,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: four Specialisms: App development, video games Foreign-owned firms: ConcertCare Locally headquartered: Lucid Games, Firesprite, LivingLens Digital tech jobs: 19,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: three Specialisms: Financial tech, business software development, medical tech Foreign-owned firms: Alert Logic Locally headquartered: Confused.com, Energist Medical Group, Dezrez Digital tech jobs: 19,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: 15 Specialisms: Artificial intelligence, internet-of-things, data analytics Foreign-owned firms: ARM, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Spotify, Thales Locally headquartered: Darktrace, Frontier Developments, Featurespace Digital tech jobs: 16,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: six Specialisms: Video games, app development, data analytics Foreign-owned firms: American Express Locally headquartered: BossAlien, Brandwatch, West Pier Studio Digital tech jobs: 14,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: two Specialisms: Hardware, business software development, e-commerce Foreign-owned firms: Wandisco, Ultimate Drone, NXP Locally headquartered: Desq, Sumo Digital, Xactium Digital tech jobs: 14,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: four Specialisms: App development, telecommunications, video games Foreign-owned firms: Wanda Group Locally headquartered: Amuzo, Oak Innovation, Redweb Digital tech jobs: 11,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: seven Specialisms: E-commerce, education tech Foreign-owned companies: N/A Locally headquartered: Crowdcube, Dashboard, Sparx Digital tech jobs: 10,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: seven Specialisms: E-commerce, digital advertising, app development Foreign-owned firms: Intel, Huawei, Ericsson Locally headquartered: BT Research, Coderus, Kcom Digital tech jobs: 8,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: two Specialisms: Business software development, cybersecurity Foreign-owned firms: Oracle, Philips, SpotX Locally headquartered: Neueda, Kainos, RepKnight Digital tech jobs: 7,000 Tech jobs per 100 residents: four Specialisms: Cybersecurity, app development Foreign-owned firms: Blackberry, Lockheed Martin, Yamazaki Mazak Locally headquartered: Deep-Secure, D-Risq, Titania", "question": "There are more than 1.5 million \" digital tech \" jobs in the UK , and the sector is said to be growing faster in terms of turnover and productivity than the wider @placeholder .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "economy", "option_2": "places", "option_3": "outbreak", "option_4": "process"}
{"id": 816, "article": "Kevin Ewing, 31, hid more than 5,000 items of mail between 2009 and 2014. He told Perth Sheriff Court he was finding it difficult to cope. Ewing, from Perth, was caught after Royal Mail set up surveillance to monitor him. Sheriff Lindsay Foulis sentenced Ewing to carry out 300 hours' unpaid work. He said: \"It might be fair to say a significant number of these items might have ended up in the recycling anyway. It all falls within the category of what the public might call junk mail. \"You pled guilty at the first opportunity, you have co-operated and - to a lesser degree - taking into account the actual character of the items you failed to deliver I am persuaded to deal with it by the direct alternative to custody.\" Among the items Ewing failed to deliver were 2,915 packages destined for one street. He also admitted delaying 1,150 unaddressed door-to-door postal packets in 2013, which were recovered from a delivery frame and a car. Ewing told the court he was struggling to deal with the pressure of work and his personal life. He said: \"I was finding it difficult to concentrate or cope with the demands of work and general daily life. I can genuinely say that when I did not deliver mail I had every intention of delivering it next day. \"Before I realised, things had become too bad to resolve and I felt unable to confide in anyone about what had happened. I took it upon myself to try and dispose of the mail I had not delivered. \"I realise how serious these charges are and I feel deeply ashamed of my actions. I feel sorry for the stress and anxieties I have caused for members of the public who have not received items of their post.\"", "question": "A postman who @placeholder thousands of letters over a four year period has avoided prison after a sheriff said the material was junk mail .", "option_0": "dumped", "option_1": "wrote", "option_2": "delivered", "option_3": "lost", "option_4": "receives"}
{"id": 817, "article": "However, only a fraction of those affected may receive compensation. Legal filings indicated that 250,000 people had lost some ?¡ê130m in benefits. The Court of Appeal suggested the Department for Work and Pensions would owe a mere 1% of that amount, ?¡ê1.3m, to just 2,500 people. The complex judgment on Friday was originally prompted by a challenge from Cait Reilly, a geology graduate from Birmingham. She had argued that requiring her to work at Poundland for no pay constituted a breach of her human rights. The government - to counter such claims - had retrospectively altered the law to validate the docking of benefits. Today, the Court of Appeal ruled that even under that new revised law, the docking of benefits could be incompatible with the European Convention of Human Rights. The Court's ruling represented a defeat for the government. Padraig Hughes, of Public Interest Lawyers, the group that brought Ms Reilly's case, said: \"It is yet a further example of the reckless approach this Government continues to take towards the constitution and the rule of law.\" The Court of Appeal judges did nevertheless acknowledge that government ministers can change laws to affect cases retrospectively. And the judges decided that the only rights infringed upon where those of people that had already claimed the benefits docking was unfair. This narrowing of the claimants explains why only a tiny fraction of people will be eligible for a payout. \"We are considering the judgment\", a DWP spokesman said. \"It is only right that jobseekers do all they can to find work while claiming benefits.\" It is not clear yet whether either side will make a further appeal.", "question": "The government has lost the latest round of an extended legal battle involving the docking of benefits for jobseekers who @placeholder to participate in unpaid back - to - work schemes .", "option_0": "plotted", "option_1": "linked", "option_2": "continue", "option_3": "defected", "option_4": "refused"}
{"id": 818, "article": "He revealed a video of one of the company's dog-like robots, SpotMini, delivering parcels to employees' homes. Its Atlas robot was also shown lifting and carrying packages. And SpotMini later put on a show of cuteness to win over the Ted audience. It demonstrated its ability to negotiate obstacles, walk forwards, backwards and sideways and hop on two legs, and, at the end of its demonstration, rolled over as if to have its stomach tickled. Boston Dynamics has become synonymous with developing dexterous but terrifying robots, the skills of which are shown off via a series of YouTube videos. Some have suggested the company's image is at odds with that of parent company Alphabet - which owns Google - and there have been persistent rumours about it wanting to distance itself from its robotic wing. Noel Sharkey, a robotics expert from Sheffield University, believes it needs a change of direction. \"They were mainly funded by the military in the past, but Google does not want that,\" he said. \"Also, their Big Dog robot was too noisy for the military because of its petrol engine, and so they made an electric version that was not very good and the military cancelled their contract.\" But he remains a fan of the technology. \"Their Atlas robot is now quite incredible - it can open doors, which is impressive, believe it or not, and maintain a fixed goal even when interrupted,\" he said. \"But their new robot, Handle, is just not like anything before it - stunning.\" At a previous conference, Prof Raibert described Handle as \"nightmare-inducing\". And it was later dubbed \"Terminator on a hoverboard\". This time, Prof Raibert appeared to want to show a more empathetic side to his robots. Showing a video of Handle jumping on to a table, he told the Ted audience: \"It likes to put on a show.\" And during SpotMini's demonstration, he said: \"It is a little bit of a show-off\". Later, as SpotMini wandered among the Ted crowd, Prof Raibert was clearly pleased it was going down well. \"People like to pet it,\" he said. The YouTube videos received many \"likes\" as well as criticisms, Prof Raibert said, and Boston Dynamics was determined to find new ways to appeal to the public - showing robots slipping on banana peel, for instance. He said the company's experiments with robots delivering parcels were \"70% there\", but added it was harder for the robots to negotiate the small spaces in homes than the rough outside terrain they were more associated with. Boston Dynamics has a long history of viral videos showing off its robots. Some of its best known include:", "question": "Boston Dynamics founder Prof Marc Raibert came to the Ted ( Technology , Entertainment and Design ) conference with a new @placeholder about his military - funded robots - they could find ways in to homes and on to the streets .", "option_0": "meaning", "option_1": "requirement", "option_2": "theme", "option_3": "belt", "option_4": "message"}
{"id": 819, "article": "They won four of their first five encounters in Dublin but subsequently lost the next three games and have have not beaten them in 25 years. BBC Wales Sport looks back at the previous meetings between the two countries in the Republic's fair city. Wales and Ireland had first met in an international in February 1882 at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham, with the home side securing and emphatic 7-1 win. Following the partition of Ireland in 1920 and the creation of the Irish Free State two years later, a Dublin-based organisation calling itself the Football Association of the Irish Free State split from the Belfast-based IFA in 1921 and began organising its own league and national football team. Fifa renamed the team from Ireland to Republic of Ireland in 1953 and seven years later they hosted Wales in a friendly at Dublin's Dalymount Park, home of Bohemian FC. Wingers Cliff Jones and Terry Medwin, who would be part of Tottenham Hotspur's League and FA Cup double winning side later that season, were the architects of Wales' win. Jones scored twice and Phil Woosnam, who later became Commissioner of the North American Soccer League, netted the winner while Fionan Fagan got the Republic's goals including a penalty. Tony Grealish gave the home side the lead in the first senior international to be played at Tolka Park but Wales replied through goals from Paul Price and debutant Terry Boyle to lead at the interval. Captain Terry Yorath, who later managed Wales, sealed the victory three minutes from time, scoring his second and what would be his final international goal. Jack Charlton's appointment as Republic of Ireland manager heralded the start of an unprecedented era for the national side which included qualifying for the 1988 European Championships and the 1990 and 1994 World Cup finals. But Charlton's first game in charge, which saw John Aldridge and Ray Houghton win first caps, ended in a friendly defeat against Wales at Lansdowne Road in March 1986. Mike England's side, having missed out on qualifying for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, secured victory courtesy of a first half headed goal by Liverpool's Juventus bound striker Ian Rush from David Phillips' corner. Wales' win came at a cost however as goalkeeper Neville Southall suffered a serious ankle injury after falling awkwardly. Charlton's side avenged their defeat of four years earlier with a pre Italia 90 friendly win at Lansdowne Road against an injury-hit Wales side managed by Terry Yorath. Middlesbrough's Scotland-born striker Bernie Slaven made his Ireland debut and scored what would be his only international goal to secure the Republic of Ireland's first-ever win over Wales. Slaven scored from close range after Neville Southall had saved Everton team-mate and Wales-born Kevin Sheedy's penalty. The Royal Dublin Showgrounds is home to the annual Dublin Horse Show and is also where Leinster Rugby have played their games since 2005. Back in 1992 it seemed an unlikely venue to host senior international football for the first time, with its wooden stand and neat hedges along the touchline. Mark Pembridge's first international goal secured victory for Wales, who have not beaten the Republic since. Wales were back in Dublin a year later as they warmed up for a crucial World Cup qualifier against Belgium in Cardiff the following month. With Lansdowne Road unavailable due to the Five Nations Championship, Tolka Park staged its second senior international with Wales the opposition once again. Mark Hughes gave the visitors an early lead but two goals in last 15 minutes from Kevin Sheedy and Tommy Coyne secured the Republic's second win over Wales. Wales were the Republic of Ireland's opposition in the historic first football match to be played at Dublin's Croke Park, home to the Gaelic Athletic Association and the first ever qualifying game between the nations. GAA members had voted to allow international football and rugby union to be staged at the historic ground during the redevelopment of Lansdowne Road. Katherine Jenkins sang the Welsh national anthem 'Hen Wlad fy Nhadau' ahead of a Euro 2008 qualifier played in front of over 72,000 but which failed to live up to the pre-match expectations. It was rather apt that it was Stephen Ireland who scored the only goal of the game to beat a Welsh side which included Ryan Giggs, Craig Bellamy and a 17-year-old Gareth Bale. Gary Speed's first game as Wales manager was the first match of the Nations Cup tournament, which also featured Scotland and Northern Ireland. Wales' first visit to the newly redeveloped Aviva Stadium ended in a disappointing defeat. Second half goals from Darren Gibson, Damien Duff and Kevin Fahey secured victory for Giovanni Trapattoni's side, who secured the Nations Cup later that season. Barely 20,000 saw the first game and amid disappointing attendances - less than 600 saw Wales' game against Northern Ireland - and the tournament did not return for a second edition.", "question": "Wales have @placeholder the Republic of Ireland at five grounds in Dublin , including the Aviva Stadium before and after redevelopment , which is more than any other nation .", "option_0": "extended", "option_1": "reached", "option_2": "named", "option_3": "faced", "option_4": "revealed"}
{"id": 820, "article": "At the Cannes Lions advertising festival on Thursday morning, an audience was shown a series of short films in the annual New Directors Showcase, which highlights emerging talent. One of the entries had AI as a director. A few days ago, I saw Eclipse, a pop video featuring a French band, at the offices of Saatchi and Saatchi, which runs the Cannes showcase and  commissioned the AI entry. What is remarkable about it is not the production values - it is actually a rather dull piece of work - but a process that involved AI at every stage. All the computer had been given was the track, Saatchi and Saatchi director of film and content Andy Gulliman said. \"We then relied on the machine to give us a script and then a treatment,\" he said. Then, another machine took that treatment and directed the shooting of the promo, by cameras on drones, all connected to the \"AI Spielberg\". Various AI programs, including IBM Watson and a Microsoft chatbot, Ms Rinna, were used at different stages. Facial-recognition software was also involved. During the edit, a program was created to decide where cuts should be made according to the beat of the music and its emotional content. Even the casting was done by a program that examined electroencephalogram (EEG) brain data from actors and matched them to the emotions it had detected in the song and its singer. The production team took a view on the casting - but, luckily, the machine chose the same actor as them. Mr Gulliman, who has produced many glossy adverts shot in locations around the world, found this quite a hands-off experience. \"As producer,  my responsibility is to crew up and find the right people to deliver a script I have on my desk,\" he said. \"With this, it's a case of sitting back and watching the machine take responsibility.\" The treatment involved a starlit landscape, where the band's female vocalist is singing while a man runs towards her. The visual effects were created with a neural art program, of the kind that learns an artist's style and then knocks you up a Van Gogh or a Monet from any photo. Which brings us to the key question - can an AI direct, is it an artist? It seems the band involved in the project thinks not. The electro-pop group - who does not want to be named - has refused to allow Saatchi and Saatchi to release the video for the public to see, which is why we can only give you a partial glimpse of it here. Even Mr Gulliman admits that the thing missing from the AI's work is what he calls the \"happy accidents\" of the creative process. But he sees human directors increasingly working alongside machines as  the technology develops. What strikes me with every new advance in artificial intelligence is how blase we humans have become about some extraordinary achievements. The response to a program that provides instant translation from one one language to another is to laugh at its mistakes. A driverless car navigates the streets of a Californian town, and we sneer when it has a minor collision with a bus. A computer directs a pop video - and we are sniffy about its rather dated 1990s production values. Eclipse will not win any awards for creative film-making, and its director won't be snapped up to make a Hollywood blockbuster. But AI is advancing every day - and a decade from now, actors may find a computer sitting in the director's chair  shouting: \"Cut!\"", "question": "From Ex Machina to Terminator , artificial intelligence has long been a @placeholder for film - makers . But what if AI could actually make a movie ?", "option_0": "bid", "option_1": "subject", "option_2": "recipe", "option_3": "tradition", "option_4": "voice"}
{"id": 821, "article": "As often, his given surname was a reference to where he came from; or rather, in this case, where he was studying, the city of Kairouan. It has since emerged that Seifddine Rezgui had completed the first year of his masters degree only two weeks before he carried out a massacre of at least 38 people. Teachers and officials of Kairouan's Institute of Applied Science and Technology are adamant: Rezgui was a \"normal student\" throughout the four years that he spent there. Was it Kairouan that turned the 23-year-old into a \"soldier of the caliphate\"? The ancient city, located in the centre of Tunisia at an almost equal distance from the sea and the mountains, is one of the oldest Islamic centres in the world. Over the past few days, residents have been keen to tell journalists that it is not a place of \"terrorists.\" Until recently, tourists would flock into Kairouan's narrow and windy streets surrounded by ramparts to visit its remarkable monuments. A World Heritage Site, it is home to the Mosque of the Three Doors, the oldest known mosque with a sculpted facade. At the heart of the old part of town, the Great Mosque, with its marble columns, is described by Unesco as \"an architectural masterpiece that served as a model for several other Maghreban mosques\". Kairouan was founded in 670 and remained the capital of the Muslim world in North Africa for four centuries. Tunis was then chosen as the political capital in the 12th Century, but Kairouan remained the main holy city in the Maghreb. \"The city was largely marginalised under [former President Zine El Abidine] Ben Ali, and Islamist extremists took control of Kairouan after the 2011 revolution,\" says Alaya Allani, an analyst of terror groups. In the two years following the overthrow of Ben Ali, Salafist Islamic fundamentalists and radicals took control of dozens of mosques  in the city and gained ground through charity and humanitarian actions. As in many other towns in Tunisia, preaching tents were erected on a weekly basis in front of schools and supermarkets to attract followers. This is how the extremist group Ansar al-Sharia rapidly grew, undisturbed by the new Islamist administration. Its members want to re-create the ancient North African caliphate, and reinstate Kairouan as the capital. But the town was not a jihadist stronghold, according to Mr Allani. \"It was more a place for radical theoretical work rather than jihadism,\" he says. Jihadist fighters would rather emerge from the towns of Bizerte, Djendouba, Kasserine or Sidi Bouzid. \"But they have created sleeping cells in Kairouan, and these are still active,\" Mr Allani says. In 2013, Ansar al-Sharia was labelled a terrorist group and the government clamped down on the organisation, neutralising most of its domestic capacity. While many have been arrested, hundreds of members - from around the country - are believed to have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight within the ranks of IS. Fedi Saidi, head of the General Student Union of Tunisia's Kairouan branch, told BBC News at least 25 students had travelled to Syria to fight. He added he had warned the city's authorities last month that an attack could be imminent, giving them the details of the students who had travelled to Syria. But Abdelwaheb Alouini, from the Kairouan police, said: \"We hear some warnings every day. \"Sometimes they're correct, but sometimes they're not. \"You can't imagine the effort we make every day to protect our country from terrorism.\" If Seifddine Rezgui was being groomed to commit a massacre, he never showed signs of extremism. He did not even grow a beard or change his clothing style. \"It is quite possible that he was being seduced by radical views over the internet and Kairouan simply provided the right environment for them to grow in his head,\" Mr Allani says. Like many youths, Nada Mrabet decided to adopt that ideology after the revolution. \"It was out of desperation. I was under a lot of pressure, and sometimes you feel like you need to cooperate with the community you live in,\" she told the BBC. \"So we tried to embrace the way they think, so that we wouldn't get into too much trouble. \"Now, I have decided to change and be independent. \"You can have a lot of enemies just for saying what you think.\" Kairouan has inspired another extremist group, known as Okba Ibn Nafaa and linked to al-Qaeda. In fact, its name is that of the city's founder, who also commissioned the building of the Great Mosque. Security officials allege Okba Ibn Nafaa was behind the attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis in March, in which 21 tourists and a Tunisian were killed. \"It is probably the most dangerous group in Tunisia right now,\" says Mr Allani. \"Its members - most of whom are Algerian - have spent much time in training abroad, they are a lot more experienced.\" History and culture are very much palpable in Kairouan, with its medina, surrounded by 3km (two miles) of walls, and a skyline punctuated by the minarets and domes of its mosques and monuments. Extremists have been trying to claim it back, but along the winding streets, residents who have sighted foreigners give us a gentle: \"Welcome.\" \"Please don't speak badly of our town,\" one man said. \"There are no terrorists here, we are good people.\" The names of those killed in the attack are being released. Here's what we know so far about those who lost their lives, as well as those who are injured and missing. Some survivors have also been speaking out about their ordeal.", "question": "When the so - called Islamic State ( IS ) claimed responsibility for last week 's attack at the @placeholder resort of Sousse in Tunisia , it celebrated the gunman , Seifddine Rezgui , by his nom de guerre , Abu Yahya al - Qayrawani .", "option_0": "heart", "option_1": "vacation", "option_2": "hands", "option_3": "luxury", "option_4": "beach"}
{"id": 822, "article": "\"At points, once rent was covered, I had ?¡ê12.50 a week to live off,\" he says. Richard's been telling Newsbeat what life was like not knowing how much money he would earn each month. He spoke to us as the political parties argue over what to do about zero-hours contracts when the election is over. \"I spent 18 months or so on one [a zero-hours contract]. Working full time one week then as minimal as it gets the next,\" Richard says. \"It was tough,\" he says. \"It was very difficult to budget for the future so it was very touch and go the majority of the time.\" He tells us that \"at points once rent was covered it was ?¡ê12.50 a week to live off. And that didn't include electricity, food and other essentials\". \"It was basically one of the big sacks of pasta and as many sauces as you can get.\" He says he was \"basically living like a vegetarian for six weeks at a time\". \"You could get two weeks into a month and be working the full time hours,\" he explains. \"Then the next two weeks your hours could be slashed, so your wage is effectively halved form that point in.\" Richard says finding a more stable job was difficult. \"When you're hungry and eating plain pasta, and your electricity meter has run out and so you're in the stone ages. \"You really don't feel like trying to impress someone else to give you an opportunity.\" Labour say they would give employees the right to a regular contract after working regular hours somewhere for three months. The Conservatives are saying the idea is a threat to jobs, and the Lib Dems say they would ban clauses in these types of contracts that stop people looking for other work. Read more about all the different parties policies. Now with a job with regular hours Richard says he's much happier. \"It's the security, I may not being earning much on the averages but it's enough to keep money in my pocket, food in cupboards and a roof over my head.\" Some surveys suggest that people who are on zero-hours contracts are happier than people in full time work. But Richard wasn't one of them. \"It's hard to look at the positives when you're hungry and in the dark.\" Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "question": "Richard 's now a barrista at a big chain of coffee shops , but still @placeholder his time working on a zero - hours contract .", "option_0": "spent", "option_1": "reached", "option_2": "passes", "option_3": "remembers", "option_4": "spend"}
{"id": 823, "article": "It's his first song since his boy band One Direction announced they were taking a break in January 2016. He told BBC Radio 1, which played the track: \"It's the song I'm most proud of writing.\" After Jenny went to find out what some kids in Liverpool thought about the track, we want to hear from some of you! This chat page is now closed. I quite like Harry's new single but the only thing is that it is a bit sad. Finn, 9, Bristol It's very slow and I think that's because he's still sad about the split-up with his former band. If he made it more lively, it would improve a lot! Olivia, 11,  London Harry's new album is great! The song is well-written and I like the beginning as it starts slow and then gets a bit faster and  slow again. Zayn's and Niall's singles were great as well. You can't compare them to Harry's solo as all of them have different style. Alice, Birmingham We'll I'm not a big fan of Harry styles and I don't like his new single on his own. sorry to all of his fans. Lauren, London I love Harry Styles' new single,  I am his biggest fan and the way the music matches his voice is just beautiful. Leila, 11, London When Harry was on 1D, I liked his vocals a little bit but now I just think they are dreadful. Ben, 11, Lewisham", "question": "Harry Styles has finally unveiled his new single @placeholder Sign Of The Times .", "option_0": "called", "option_1": "title", "option_2": "benefit", "option_3": "experience", "option_4": "term"}
{"id": 824, "article": "David Crompton was suspended by Crime Commissioner Dr Alan Billings after the Hillsborough inquests due to \"eroding trust and confidence\" in the force. The PCP said it had concluded Dr Billings \"should call upon\" Mr Crompton to either resign or retire. Dr Billings will consider the response before making a final decision. In a statement released by the PCP, which met on Friday to consider the matter, panel chair Councillor Talib Hussain said: \"I can confirm that the recommendation of the Police and Crime Panel is that the police and crime commissioner should call upon the chief constable to resign or retire.\" Mr Crompton announced in March, just weeks before he was suspended, he intended to retire in November after four years in the post and 41 years in policing. A report published by the PCP said Mr Crompton had made \"a catastrophic error of judgement\" in attempting to explain the force's legal approach to the Hillsborough inquests after the jury concluded police conduct contributed to or caused the disaster. Having apologised in 2012 for the force's efforts to deflect responsibility for the disaster on to Liverpool supporters he was criticised by Andy Burnham MP for seemingly going back on the apology during the hearing. In a statement published after the inquest he said the force had not tried to defend its failures but \"these failures had to be put into the context of other contributory factors\". The PCP said his comments had led to \"the inevitable risk that it would be perceived as rowing back on the previous apology\" and suggested the force had \"continued to put the protection of its own reputation above the welfare of the families\". The panel concluded that given the \"damage\" his words had done to the force and the \"continuing damage\" which would have been caused to that reputation if Mr Crompton were to stay in post, Dr Billings \"was justified in his decision to suspend the chief constable\".", "question": "The decision to suspend the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police has won the backing of the @placeholder 's Police and Crime Panel ( PCP ) .", "option_0": "region", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "sheriff", "option_3": "force", "option_4": "assembly"}
{"id": 825, "article": "Led by Matt Prior, Joe Root and Graeme Swann on the second day, they posted a decent score on a tough wicket and then their bowlers took charge. The way James Anderson bowled was quite brilliant and I cannot think of a better England bowler in my time than the Lancashire paceman. He is taking wickets in conditions that don't really suit him and he really is a special bowler these days. England will have been worried about what Virender Sehwag would do on this pitch, but Anderson got him second ball and then he got one to swing back into Sachin Tendulkar. Anderson started to get reverse swing as the ball got older and Gautam Gambhir did not know what was coming next when he edged an outswinger to Matt Prior. I mentioned in my Test Match Special commentary that there is a bit of Malcolm Marshall about the way Anderson bowls - not in the pace he generates, but the way he seemingly has the ball on a string and can make it do whatever he wants. He has an aura about him and I cannot place much higher praise on him. He needs to be protected now, and not be made to bowl too many overs, because he is crucial to England's bowling attack and he has a lot of work to do in the next year when the team plays 10 Ashes Tests against Australia. \"Anderson has such ability to move the ball in the air when no-one else can do, he is like gold dust. He's like Richard Hadlee, who was a wonderful swinger of the ball.\" Another thing I noticed was the way Anderson made a bee-line for Kevin Pietersen after he had bowled Sehwag. There was talk of those two not getting along last summer, but I reckon Pietersen, who plays for the same IPL team as Sehwag, suggested that delivery to Anderson and the bowler executed the plan to perfection. India have a lot to do in the match now, and that is also due to England's solid batting which continued into the second day. Root was magnificent on his debut, a model of patience and good technique and I like the way he seemed unruffled by everything that went on around him. He celebrated a little when he reached his half-century and then knuckled down to carry on his job. Prior played well too and Swann could not have timed his first half-century since 2009 much better. He showed that if you play positively you can score runs on this pitch. Finally, I wonder if this will be Sachin Tendulkar's final match. His footwork was all over the place for his dismissal - he looked late and slow. He left the field to silence and it had the feel of somebody playing in his final match. Only time will tell. Jonathan Agnew was talking to BBC Sport's Marc Higginson. Listen to match highlights and Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott's analysis of the day's play on the Test Match Special podcast. We are using archive pictures for this Test because several photo agencies, including Getty Images, have been barred from the ground following a dispute with the Board of Control for Cricket in India, while other agencies have withdrawn their photographers in protest.", "question": "England have @placeholder the initiative in the fourth Test by being more positive and assertive than India .", "option_0": "seized", "option_1": "praised", "option_2": "named", "option_3": "used", "option_4": "joined"}
{"id": 826, "article": "The Royal Society of Arts said the service needed to be overhauled to reduce reoffending rates that cost the taxpayer billions of pounds. It called for staffing to be increased and for prisons to have a legal duty to track rehabilitation rates. The government said it was \"committed to rehabilitating offenders\". The RSA, a charity which aims to promote creativity in all aspects of life, spent a year researching how prisons can better support the rehabilitation of offenders. It said inconsistent leadership from politicians had created a system that put the public at risk and did not reduce reoffending rates. The report comes after the Prison Governors Association last week called for an independent public inquiry into prison standards following the \"unprecedented\" rise in violence and suicides in prisons. Report author Rachel O'Brien, director of the RSA's Future Prison project, said: \"The potential impact that prisons could have on reducing re-offending and community safety has been undermined by a lack of consistent political leadership and clear purpose. \"This has led to reactive policy, episodic change and an over-centralised system, which has disempowered the workforce and undermined public confidence.\" How dangerous are our prisons? There are currently just under 86,000 prisoners in England and Wales. Figures show that from October 2013 to September 2014 around 496,000 adult and juvenile offenders were cautioned, received a non-custodial conviction at court or released from custody. About one in four of these offenders committed a new offence within a year. The RSA welcomed the government's commitment to prison reform and called for the Ministry of Justice to compile a national rehabilitation strategy running to 2020. It also suggested including a rehabilitation requirement for prisons and probation, which would be a legal duty and require services to track individual and institutional progress, as well as a return to frontline staffing levels seen in 2010. It also said the National Offender Management Service, which is responsible for correctional services in England and Wales, should have a smaller, \"arms-length\" function and called for the creation of local prison boards to oversee long-term strategies. Last year, former justice secretary Michael Gove described the failure to reduce re-offending rates as \"horrifying\". Mr Gove's successor Liz Truss is due to set out her plans for prison safety and reform in the coming weeks. A Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said: \"We are committed to rehabilitating offenders to reduce re-offending and create fewer victims. \"We will set out full details of our plan for prison safety and reform in a White Paper in the coming weeks and are carrying out a comprehensive review of the probation system to improve outcomes for offenders and communities.\"", "question": "The prison service in England and Wales is failing to @placeholder the public because it is not rehabilitating offenders well enough , a report says .", "option_0": "establish", "option_1": "enter", "option_2": "protect", "option_3": "educate", "option_4": "address"}
{"id": 827, "article": "It is part of a silent revolution that is causing a huge shift in the composition of the world's population of graduates. For decades, the United States had the highest proportion of people going to university. They dominated the graduate market. Reflecting this former supremacy, among 55 to 64 year olds almost a third of all graduates in the world's major economies are US citizens. But that is changing rapidly among younger generations. In terms of producing graduates, China has overtaken the United States and the combined university systems of European Union countries. The gap is going to become even wider. Even modest predictions see the number of 25 to 34-year-old graduates in China rising by a further 300% by 2030, compared with an increase of around 30% expected in Europe and the United States. In the United States, students have been struggling to afford university costs. In Europe, most countries have put a brake on expanding their universities by either not making public investments or not allowing universities to raise money themselves. But if the West has been sleeping, China and other Asian countries such as India have raced ahead. It isn't simply about bigger student numbers. Students in China and India are much more likely to study mathematics, sciences, computing and engineering - the subjects most relevant to innovation and technological advance. More stories from the BBC's Global education series looking at education from an international perspective and how to get in touch In 2013, 40% of Chinese graduates completed their studies in a Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths) subject - more than twice the share of US graduates. So the graduates who are the cornerstone of economic prosperity in knowledge-based economies are increasingly disproportionately likely to come from China and India. By 2030, China and India could account for more than 60% of the Stem graduates in major economies, compared with only 8% in Europe and 4% in the United States. Countries like China and India are betting on the future with this. With such an increase in people in higher education, conventional wisdom might assume that the value of qualifications would suffer from \"inflation\". But this is not happening. In the OECD countries with the biggest increases in graduate numbers, most continue to see rising earnings. This suggests that an increase in \"knowledge workers\" does not lead to a decline in their pay, unlike the way that technological advancement and globalisation have pushed down the earnings of poorly-educated workers. In the past, OECD countries competed mostly with countries that offered low-skilled work at low wages. Today, countries like China and India are starting to deliver high skills at moderate cost. The West cannot compete by keeping the rest of the world out of their economic systems. There are plenty of examples of European countries that have stagnated over the past century by trying to do just that. The massive investment in education in Asia suggests competition through lower production costs may be merely a transitional strategy for countries on their way to meeting the Western world at the top of the product range. The real challenge for Western countries is to prepare for future competition with Asian economies in the knowledge sector. Some raise doubts about the quality and relevance of the degrees earned in China. Indeed, there are still no direct measures that allow for a comparison of the learning outcomes of graduates across countries and universities. But China has shown the world that it is possible to simultaneously raise quantity and quality in schools. In the latest round of the OECD Pisa tests, the 10% most disadvantaged 15-year-olds in Shanghai scored higher in mathematics than the 10% most privileged 15-year-olds in the United States. Perhaps tellingly, objections to the OECD's proposal for international comparisons between institutions of higher education did not come from Asia, but from countries like the United Kingdom and the United States. Did they fear that their universities might not live up to their past reputations? China's rapid expansion in higher education shows the scale of the challenge for the West and shows the future might be indifferent to tradition and past reputations. It might be unforgiving of frailty and largely ignorant of  assumptions about custom or practice. Success will go to those individuals, universities and countries that are swift to adapt, slow to complain and open to change. The task for governments will be to ensure that their countries rise to these challenges.", "question": "China has been building the @placeholder of almost one university per week .", "option_0": "presence", "option_1": "age", "option_2": "region", "option_3": "state", "option_4": "equivalent"}
{"id": 828, "article": "It follows media speculation that the Scottish Secretary could be a potential successor to Nick Clegg. Opinion polls have suggested the Lib Dems are set to lose many seats across the UK and Scotland in May's general election. Mr Carmichael's Orkney and Shetland seat is considered to be one of the party's safest. This has led to him being named in some quarters as a possible future leadership contender. But when asked whether he would like to lead the party, Mr Carmichael said: \"No. There's no vacancy and I have the constituency that is furthest away from London. \"I have got a family that still includes school age children. And the commitment that it takes to be party leader in modern politics is enormous. \"My family already miss out on a lot just by virtue of the fact that I'm an MP and I'm a minister and I'm away from home every week . \"At least I feel that they miss out on a lot, they might feel differently.\" Mr Carmichael did not rule out continuing to have a role at the Scotland Office if the Lib Dems were in coalition after May. He said: \"Who has a job anywhere is for the prime minister and deputy prime minister, and that is well above my pay grade. I have loved every second of being a minister but I've loved every second of being an MP.\"", "question": "Alistair Carmichael has @placeholder to have ruled out a future bid for leadership of the Liberal Democrats .", "option_0": "sought", "option_1": "appeared", "option_2": "claims", "option_3": "warned", "option_4": "urged"}
{"id": 829, "article": "Dennis Vogelaar denies being part of a ¡ê1.6bn plot to smuggle \"top quality\" drugs into the UK. Co-defendant Leonardus Bijlsma said: \"I can't read\" when asked about a diary of names and addresses found in a car, Birmingham Crown Court heard. Both deny conspiracy to supply drugs. Prosecutors allege the \"lucrative criminal conspiracy\", fronted by a bogus ambulance company in Holland, may have seen up to ¡ê420m of drugs reach the UK, with a street value four times higher. When National Crime Agency (NCA) officers swooped on a meeting near a scrap yard in Smethwick in June, they found an ambulance with six hiding places, according to Robert Davies, prosecuting. Inside were neatly-stacked packets of drugs including 193kg of cocaine with a street value of more than ¡ê30m, and 74kg of heroin worth ¡ê8m in individual deals. Officers also found 19,920 ecstasy tablets and 2kg of MDMA (ecstasy) crystal powder. Bijlsma and Vogelaar, both of Amsterdam, were arrested along with two other men - Olof Schoon, aged 38, and 51-year-old Richard Engelsbel. The jury has already been told that Schoon and Engelsbel have admitted conspiracy to supply drugs. In interview, 56-year-old Bijlsma told officers he had left school aged 14 and had only been in the UK to look at an old BMW to scrap. CCTV was played in court showing how, on one occasion in May, the same ambulance seized by the NCA in Smethwick was driven to the Moorside Industrial Estate in Colchester. The footage also showed Bijlsma and Schoon arriving separately in a Mercedes car just minutes before, then meeting the ambulance crew at a lock-up. The Crown has alleged that the industrial unit was just one of several locations where the drugs were unloaded for distribution. Mr Davies described the firm and its operations as nothing more than \"a veneer\" for the smuggling operation which sometimes even boasted fake patients. The trial, set to resume on Tuesday, continues.", "question": "The driver of a fake Dutch ambulance \" @placeholder to the roof \" with ¡ê 38 m of cocaine and heroin claimed he had \" no clue \" what was in the back , a court heard .", "option_0": "returned", "option_1": "attached", "option_2": "rammed", "option_3": "tied", "option_4": "up"}
{"id": 830, "article": "The Danish forward, who was top scorer for the Bluebirds last season, has been linked with moves to Brighton and Hull. Zohore scored a late winner for Cardiff in their 1-0 victory at Burton, but his boss remains confident of keeping him. \"I hope Ken scores 10 goals before the end of the month, he still won't go,\" Warnock told BBC Wales Sport. Warnock says Zohore is settled at Cardiff and is in the right place to ensure he gets a big money move in the future. The Denmark U21 international is contracted to Cardiff until 2020 after agreeing a new deal in April 2017. \"Why would I be counting the days until the deadline?,\" Warnock said. \"Ken is happy here, in the dressing room after the game I asked him 'has your agent texted you yet' and he said 'yeah'. We have a good laugh! \"I've told him, 'if you don't chase money, it will come to you. If you get 25 goals this year or whatever, you wait and see what's what.'\" Warnock believes the Bluebirds showed at Burton that they have a deeper squad this season to contend in the Championship. \"All I know is that I couldn't have asked for more from the team and the substitutes,\" he said. \"We are going to need 18-20 players and isn't it nice to have a bench who can change a game, who can win a game? \"Last year we had six subs sometimes and three or four of them kids, and we conceded so many late goals.  It is good to (be able to) use the subs to have an influence. \"We have signed good players who want to prove things. We've spent just over ¡ê3 million on seven players, we are trying to get value for money.\"", "question": "Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock has reiterated that match winning striker Kenneth Zohore will not be @placeholder before the close of the transfer window .", "option_0": "released", "option_1": "sold", "option_2": "called", "option_3": "raised", "option_4": "back"}
{"id": 831, "article": "Edinburgh's Dickinson, 32, lasted only a couple of minutes as the Scots opened their two-Test series with victory. \"We'll have to have a look at Al Dickinson,\" Cotter told BBC Scotland. \"Bit of a concern and we'll be looking at alternatives. If he can't take the field next week, we'll look at bringing somebody over.\" Cotter is hopeful other knocks picked up at the Toyota Stadium can be managed before next Saturday's match in Tokyo. Media playback is not supported on this device \"Huw Jones should be okay [to provide cover in the backs],\" said the New Zealander. \"Hopefully we'll be able to fill the absence of Duncan Taylor [at centre] if he can't play with what we've got. \"WP Nel was a little bit sore coming off, also. [We'll have] a full assessment, see if these guys can be back at 100% and we may have to rotate the team a bit.\" Nel scored Scotland's second try in Toyota City after a penalty try had put the Scots in command before the break. There would be no further scores, with Shota Horie crossing for Japan early in the match. When Nel went over early in the second half, Japan were down to 13 men with Hendrik Tui and Rikiya Matsuda yellow-carded, the latter's knock-on giving the Scots their penalty try. \"First of all, I'm happy - the win is what we were after,\" said Cotter. \"The way we got it was probably done in a complicated fashion. We gave the ball back to them a number of times and had to work our defence. We did work our defence and I thought we defended reasonably well. \"Our set piece held up without being great but it was still holding up and gave us a platform. Media playback is not supported on this device \"I thought our discipline was key. They gave away a couple of yellow cards, a penalty try and it was the pressure we put on them by getting down in there into the paddock. We managed to get, I think, 19 turnovers off them. \"The boys aren't particularly happy and next week we know Japan will lift their game. We'll have to lift ours.\" Greig Laidlaw's 16 points with the boot came from six kicks out of six and the captain said: \"We were pleased to win and we probably need to just tighten up a little more and be a little bit more accurate. \"At times in the second half we just gave the ball away and maybe let Japan off the hook.\"", "question": "Scotland head coach Vern Cotter may call up a replacement for Alasdair Dickinson after the @placeholder came off injured in the 26-13 win over Japan .", "option_0": "hosts", "option_1": "difference", "option_2": "title", "option_3": "prop", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 832, "article": "Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was sued by a group of Hispanic drivers who said his deputies relied on race when choosing whom to stop. Judge Murray Snow ruled his deputies may not factor in Hispanic ancestry when making law-enforcement decisions. Mr Arpaio denied the allegations. The sheriff's office \"has never used race and will never use race in its law-enforcement decisions\", said his lawyer Tim Casey, who promised to appeal the decision. \"This is an important victory that will resound far beyond Maricopa County,\" said Cecillia Wang, director of the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project. \"Singling people out for traffic stops and detentions simply because they're Latino is illegal and just plain un-American.\" The ruling was handed down on Friday, eight months after a seven-day trial. At the trial, Maricopa County officials testified that the sheriff's anti-illegal immigrant squad targeted locations where Hispanic day labourers gathered to await work. The judge found the deputies did not routinely check the immigration status of every day labourer, merely those who were of Hispanic origin. Mr Arpaio himself testified he would not investigate the immigration status of white people because he assumed they were in the US legally. \"The evidence demonstrates that the [Maricopa County Sheriff's Office] specifically equated being a Hispanic or Mexican (as opposed to Caucasian or African-American) day labourer with being an unauthorized alien,\" Judge Snow wrote in a 142-page decision. Judge Snow also found the deputies relied on pretexts to pull over vehicles in which they suspected the passengers to be illegal immigrants. The ruling bars Maricopa County deputies from using Hispanic ancestry or race in making law-enforcement decisions, including in decisions to stop a person and verify his or her authorisation to be in the US. It also bars the deputies from detaining Hispanic vehicle passengers based on \"reasonable belief, without more\", that they are in the country illegally. The case was brought by a Mexican tourist stopped outside a church where day labourers were known to congregate and subsequently detained for nine hours, the Arizona Republic reported. He and others who sued Mr Arpaio alleged he ordered some immigration patrols based on citizens' complaints about brown-skinned people congregating or speaking Spanish. Mr Arpaio's office has also been sued by the US justice department, which accused his office of multiple civil liberties violations, including punishing Hispanic jail inmates for speaking Spanish. Mr Arpaio shot to prominence by forcing prisoners to wear pink underwear. In 2012, he suggested President Barack Obama's birth certificate was a forgery after an investigation by his \"cold case posse\".", "question": "The office of an Arizona lawman who @placeholder himself America 's toughest sheriff improperly targeted Hispanics in routine patrols for undocumented immigrants , a federal judge has found .", "option_0": "helped", "option_1": "considered", "option_2": "styles", "option_3": "proclaimed", "option_4": "saved"}
{"id": 833, "article": "The system uses computer analysis of human behaviour and historic crime data to predict crime \"hotspots\" to deploy police officers. It was trialled in Medway in December last year and rolled out across Kent in April. Kent Police Federation said the results needed proper evaluation. The force is using predictive analysis software produced by PredPol, a company based in Los Angeles, California. The software uses past trends and current information to identify \"boxes\" where there is likely to be trouble in the coming few hours. Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) says that within six months of introducing the technique in 2011 property crime fell 12% compared with the previous year. Ann Barnes, Kent Police and Crime Commissioner, approved the ?¡ê130,000 annual expenditure when she was chair of the now-abolished Kent Police Authority. She and Chief Constable Ian Learmonth are taking part in an \"international day of activity\" with beat officers to raise awareness of the new policing method. Police forces in the US are also taking part in their own predictive policing day. Kent Police is one of several forces in the UK to have trialled similar technology, including Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire Police. Ian Pointon, chairman of Kent Police Federation, said that for his members, the jury was still out on the effectiveness of predictive policing in the light of staffing cuts. \"With 500 fewer officers now, have they got the time to actually go and patrol these boxes that predictive policing provide?\" he said. \"Yes, it is useful to know where to place officers and we have done that for many many years in Kent through intelligence-led policing. \"But of course there are still demands from the public for police officers to attend and they are going up, particularly with the introduction of the 101 number. \"And are there too many boxes? \"We are using it to try and reduce a much wider range of crimes than the Americans used it for. \"They targeted just grand theft auto and burglaries but they hadn't been doing intelligence-led policing before that.\"", "question": "A four- month trial of predictive policing @placeholder in Los Angeles reduced street violence in Medway by 6 % , according to Kent Police .", "option_0": "covered", "option_1": "pioneered", "option_2": "collapsed", "option_3": "wrapped", "option_4": "caught"}
{"id": 834, "article": "Lewis Hamilton has been crowned world champion for the last two years ahead of Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg. And Mercedes have dominated the constructors' title, winning 32 of 38 races and completing 23 one-twos. \"The regulations are incredibly stable for next year, so Mercedes will inevitably carry on the dominance,\" Horner told Autosport. \"People get turned off with predictability.\" He said it was up to the sport's senior officials to find a solution. Horner believes the current situation is different to when Red Bull dominated F1 between 2010 and 2013. Driver Sebastian Vettel was world champion for four straight years as Red Bull won four successive championships. \"Two of our world championships went to the last race and we never finished first and second in a championship,\" said Horner.", "question": "Formula 1 @placeholder rule changes to make it less predictable , says Red Bull team principal Christian Horner .", "option_0": "race", "option_1": "expects", "option_2": "forced", "option_3": "needs", "option_4": "side"}
{"id": 835, "article": "A wisecracking way of trying to cover the question about how she and Donald Trump can work together - the reality TV star billionaire and the self-described hard working vicar's daughter. Voters will decide for themselves how funny they find it. But Number 10 has already invested a lot in the early days of this relationship. Perhaps, that is in part due to the early embarrassment of former UKIP leader Nigel Farage's adventures in Manhattan. However, it is also certainly due to her conviction that whoever the US president is, a British leader needs to, and should, cultivate their friendship. Downing Street sources say they have had more contact with the Trump team since its victory than any other country has - and the conversations between the two leaders have focused on how to develop their personal relationship and the bond between the two countries. But even before the two politicians meet tomorrow in the Oval Office, Mrs May is trying to put forward serious arguments about Britain and America's relationship as the world changes at warp speed around the two countries - making a major foreign policy speech at a gathering of the Republican Party in Philadelphia just hours after she touches down. It is plain to see that while she is deadly serious about creating an extremely close relationship with the new president, she will continue to disagree with him on some issues. When repeatedly questioned about his view that torture works, the prime minister told us: \"We condemn torture, I have been very clear, I'm not going to change my position whether I'm talking to you or talking to the president.\" And crucially, she said guidance stating that UK security services cannot share intelligence if it is obtained through torture will not change, telling me: \"Our guidance is very clear about the position that the UK takes, and our position has not changed.\" Despite President Trump's very public doubts about Nato, she says he has already assured her on the phone that he is committed to the alliance. A public restatement of that in the next 24 hours would no doubt be a political boon for her. While the prime minister is plainly uncomfortable with some of Mr Trump's positions, she also wants to emphasise some of the areas where they do agree - the \"shared values\" of looking out for \"ordinary working class families\". In her speech to senators and congressmen tonight she will also emphasise how, in her view, Conservative values are Republican values. The Republicans - the Tories' sister political party - are now in charge at all levels on Capitol Hill, as well as inside the White House. For the GOP and Mrs May's Conservative Party, patriotism, flag and family are not values to shy away from. And despite the squeamishness, even in Tory ranks, about her eagerness to be seen alongside the president, the prime minister is unapologetic about her friendly stance. When asked about appearing to be too close to the controversial new president, she said: \"Donald Trump was elected president of the United States of America. \"The UK and the US have shared challenges, shared interests, that we can work together to deal with. We have a special relationship, it's long standing, it's existed through many different prime ministers and presidents.\" A more different prime minister and president are hard to conceive. What they make of each other, and the relationship between our two countries, will affect us all.", "question": "As she made her way across the Atlantic , Theresa May joked with the press pack on her flight that \" sometimes opposites @placeholder \" .", "option_0": "attract", "option_1": "meet", "option_2": "die", "option_3": "words", "option_4": "happen"}
{"id": 836, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The pair's history of animosity with Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spain's La Liga meant their first Premier League meeting since assuming control on either side of Manchester provided a colourful backdrop to the build-up to this derby. And when the action got under way on the field, it was City who put a marker down and put Manchester United in their place with a peerless first 40 minutes followed by resilience to maintain their 100% start to the season. This was always going to be much more than the Manchester derby - this was as much about Mourinho against Guardiola on the Premier League stage, fighting for supremacy in Manchester. And this was Spaniard Guardiola's day on every level as City claimed the win and his celebrated methods were on show for all to see at Old Trafford, the fiercest enemy territory. Mourinho was a chastened figure post-match, reduced to blaming referee Mark Clattenburg for not awarding two second half penalties for what he felt was City keeper Claudio Bravo's foul on Wayne Rooney and Nicolas Otamendi's handball. It was an act of straw-clutching, although the Portuguese fully accepted City's first-half superiority when he admitted he and his players got it wrong. Media playback is not supported on this device The bottom line is United were second best and this was something of a cold shower for the over-excitement of some who believed 'The Special One' could apply an instant fix to the faults of the past three seasons under David Moyes and Louis van Gaal. Mourinho's decision to play Henrikh Mkhitaryan on the right in his first start since his ¡ê25m summer move from Borussia Dortmund was a dismal failure - and he admitted some of his players struggled to cope with \"the dimension of the game\". The Armenia captain was removed at half-time in a reshuffle that also saw Jesse Lingard taken off, Marcus Rashford and Ander Herrera sent on, and the completely anonymous ¡ê89m midfield man Paul Pogba and Marouane Fellaini pushed forward, with Wayne Rooney shunted out to the right. In other words - Mourinho's selection went wrong. He said: \"I had two or three players in the first half that, if I know what is going to happen, I don't play them. This is football, though, and sometimes players disappoint managers. \"It's my fault because I'm the manager and it's always my fault because it's my choice.\" Guardiola was bold enough to play Kelechi Iheanacho as replacement for the suspended Sergio Aguero and the 19-year-old responded with his ninth goal from just 13 shots on target in the Premier League. And his introduction of Fernando for the youngster after 53 minutes demonstrated a pragmatism that is often overlooked amid Guardiola's purist instincts. He was prepared to use a shield when required. City were also prepared to work for their success, running a total of 119.63km in comparison to United's 111.34km. Guardiola demands the full package from his players. It was not all perfect as his selection of the uncertain Claudio Bravo in goal ran a fine line with failure - but all's well that ends well. The embraces with long-time foe Mourinho at the start and finish were cordial enough - and if Guardiola did get around to having that glass of wine in the Old Trafford manager's office when his media duties were completed it would have tasted sweet. Manchester City made their intentions clear when they lured the most coveted man in management to Etihad Stadium - and Guardiola's team have wasted no time in making big statements of their own. The Catalan has opened up with four straight Premier League wins, this victory at Old Trafford marking them out as the team to beat in the title race this season. It is, of course, early days but City's ability to win with key players either suspended, injured or working their way to full fitness means a significant marker was put down in this derby win. It was a win achieved without the banned Aguero and without influential captain Vincent Kompany who is nearing a return, as is summer signing Ilkay Gundogan, who was also absent. Leroy Sane, the ¡ê37m summer signing from Schalke, made a lively appearance as a substitute here and will be a formidable force when fully fit. John Stones was outstanding when United's second-half siege came, demonstrating why Guardiola was satisfied to spend ¡ê47.5m on the young England defender to bring him from Everton. Kevin de Bruyne was also a key figure, scoring one goal and being involved in the other. He has been directly involved in 32 goals in 46 appearances for Manchester City, scoring 17 and assisting in 15. And when Guardiola studies the statistics, an 81.8% passing success rate will please even this perfectionist, who expressed his satisfaction with this two-dimensional City display - glorious, clinical football in the first half and solid resilience in the second. City restricted United to their fourth lowest home possession share in the Premier League since the 2003-04 season, just 39.9% Manchester City's squad looked short of inspiration and motivation in the understated presence of Manuel Pellegrini last season - this problem looks to have been cured already by Guardiola. It has been an impressive start. Those with Premier League title aspirations now know what they have to beat. Media playback is not supported on this device Pep Guardiola has invested a lot of faith in Claudio Bravo after showing England goalkeeper Joe Hart the door and paying ¡ê17m to bring the 33-year-old Chile international from Barcelona. It was, therefore, no surprise to hear Guardiola mounting a passionate defence of his man despite a performance that left City and their supporters living on their nerves. In Bravo's defence, he has barely had any training sessions with his new team-mates and a debut at Old Trafford is always a daunting introduction. Guardiola's backing for his keeper, while understandable, was at odds with a display that occasionally threatened to spread panic in City's ranks. He was hesitant and occasionally too slow to clear with the ball at his feet and once he came from his line to claim a first-half free-kick, Bravo had to catch it. He did not, allowing Zlatan Ibrahimovic to score and give United hope. Guardiola praised Bravo's willingness to take responsibility and is happy for his keeper to take a high-risk approach in exchange for the rewards he believes it brings. It is too early to say whether Bravo will be an upgrade on the banished Hart but those who believe England's first-choice keeper has been sent into exile too soon will not have had their worries eased by this performance. They will have to trust Guardiola's judgement - and he has not got anything wrong so far. While Mourinho bemoaned those players who struggled to cope with the unique demands of the Manchester derby, he had no such complaints about Marcus Rashford. Mourinho said the 18-year-old looked like he was \"playing against Salford City under-18s\" in a second half performance that combined pace and a fearless approach - and almost an equaliser only for an offside Zlatan Ibrahimovic to get a touch on his goal-bound shot. The question will continue and the clamour will grow for Rashford to start in an area of Mourinho's squad that is starting to look over-crowded. Rashford was the player who put City on the back foot with his speed. It will be one of Mourinho's most urgent tasks to integrate this brilliant young talent into his team. It then begs further questions, with Ibrahimovic seemingly untouchable as the main man, about where Rooney fits in and how Mourinho can shuffle his resources to maximise the potential of Rashford, Antony Martial, Mkhitaryan and Juan Mata. Ibrahimovic had all of United's three shots on target as well as four of their six off target, so it is likely to a case of who plays with the 34-year-old Swede. Rashford, on this showing, cannot be denied his starting place for much longer.", "question": "Pep Guardiola delivered the first meaningful blow in a rivalry with Jose Mourinho that will become a central part of the Premier League 's @placeholder as Manchester City recorded a well - merited win against Manchester United at Old Trafford .", "option_0": "survival", "option_1": "fortunes", "option_2": "future", "option_3": "glory", "option_4": "narrative"}
{"id": 837, "article": "Mr Adams has spent the night in custody after going to Antrim police station, where he was arrested. Speaking before his detention on Wednesday evening, Mr Adams said he was \"innocent of any part\" in the murder. Mrs McConville, a 37-year-old widow and mother-of-10, was abducted and shot by the IRA. Her body was recovered from a beach in County Louth in 2003. Police said a 65-year-old man presented himself to officers at Antrim police station and was arrested. In a statement, Sinn F¨¦in said: \"Last month Gerry Adams said he was available to meet the PSNI about the Jean McConville case. That meeting is taking place this evening.\" Mr Adams added: \"I believe that the killing of Jean McConville and the secret burial of her body was wrong and a grievous injustice to her and her family. \"Well publicised, malicious allegations have been made against me. I reject these. \"While I have never disassociated myself from the IRA and I never will, I am innocent of any part in the abduction, killing or burial of Mrs McConville.\" His party colleague Alex Maskey condemned the timing of the arrest, just over three weeks from the European and local government elections. However, Mrs McConville's son Michael, who was 11 when his mother was murdered, welcomed the arrest. \"We're just happy to see everything moving as it is moving at the minute,\" Mr McConville said. \"Me and the rest of my brothers and sisters are just glad to see the PSNI doing their job. We didn't think it would ever take place [Mr Adams' arrest], but we are quite glad that it is taking place. \"All we're looking for is justice for our mother. Our mother, on the seventh of next month, would have been 80 years of age. \"Although we didn't spend much time with our mother, we'd have like to have spent a lot of time with her. If the IRA hadn't have killed our mother, God knows, she still might have been alive today.\" Mr McConville said what he really wanted was for the perpetrators to be tried as \"war criminals\" at the international court in the Hague, rather than being brought before courts in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson said he \"commends the police for the action they have taken\". Sources: Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Speaking to the media on Thursday, he said: \"It strengthens our political process in Northern Ireland for people to know that no one is above the law, everyone is equal under the law and everyone is equally subject to the law.\" Prime Minister David Cameron said there had been \"absolutely no political interference in this issue\". Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Enda Kenny also rejected suggestions from senior Sinn F¨¦in figures that the arrest of Mr Adams had been politically motivated. \"This is still a live murder case, this is still a live investigation,\" he said. \"All I can say is that I hope the president of Sinn F¨¦in answers in the best way he can, to the fullest extent that he can, questions that are being asked about a live murder investigation.\" Mrs McConville, one of Northern Ireland's Disappeared, was kidnapped in front of her children after being wrongly accused of being an informer. The claim that she was an informer was dismissed after an official investigation by the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman. Mrs McConville was held at one or more houses before being shot and buried in secret. The Disappeared are those who were abducted, murdered and secretly buried by republicans during the Troubles. The IRA admitted in 1999 that it murdered and buried at secret locations nine of the Disappeared. The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains was established in 1999 by a treaty between the British and Irish governments. It lists 16 people as \"disappeared\". Despite extensive searches, the remains of seven of them have not been found. On its website, the commission said all information it received was privileged - it can not be passed on to other agencies or used in a court of law.  It can only be used to try and locate the remains of the Disappeared. Jean McConville's remains were found in 2003 by a man walking at Shelling Hill beach, near Carlingford. It is understood that because Mrs McConville's body was found by accident by a member of the public rather than through information given to the commission, a criminal investigation can take place. Last month, Ivor Bell, 77, a leader in the Provisional IRA in the 1970s, was charged  with aiding and abetting the murder. There have also been a number of other arrests over the murder recently. The case against Bell is based on an interview he allegedly gave to researchers at Boston College in the US. The Boston College tapes are a series of candid, confessional interviews with former loyalist and republican paramilitaries, designed to be an oral history of the Troubles. The paramilitaries were told the tapes would only be made public after their deaths. However, after a series of court cases in the United States, some of the content has been handed over to the authorities. Mr Adams has never been charged with membership of the IRA. He was, however, interned in 1972 under the controversial Special Powers Act, but briefly released in order that he could take part in talks in London between representatives of Sinn Fein and the then Home Secretary Willie Whitelaw. He was later re-arrested and interned at Long Kesh. Following an aborted escape attempt he received a prison sentence.", "question": "Sinn F¨¦in leader Gerry Adams @placeholder to be questioned by Northern Ireland police in connection with the 1972 murder of Jean McConville .", "option_0": "plotted", "option_1": "continues", "option_2": "refused", "option_3": "set", "option_4": "asked"}
{"id": 838, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Coulibaly, 22, signed a three-and-a-half-year deal with Egyptian side Al Ahly, who paid a fee in the region of ¡ê800,000 for the Ivorian. Manager Clark now hopes to sign two forwards in the January window. \"I would just say that we had a head-turning amount of money offered to us,\" said Clark. \"The way it was structured was all in Kilmarnock's favour for a player we only got six months ago on a free transfer. \"Every player around the world has his value and I have seen some very talented players in Scotland since I arrived go for a lot less than the money we received for Souleymane. \"As the manager I now need to replace him but it helps the club in many, many different ways. You get out of the top three or four clubs in Scotland and clubs would find it hard to turn this kind of deal down. \"We saw Motherwell have to do it with Marvin Johnson in the summer and Dundee with Kane Hemmings and Greg Stewart. We're not the only club in this position.\" Media playback is not supported on this device Kilmarnock - knocked out of the Scottish Cup by Hamilton Academical on Saturday - are 10th in the Premiership, a point above Hamilton and four in front of bottom side Inverness Caledonian Thistle. \"I spoke to the board via phone calls, emails and I will sit down with them later on today now the deal has been ratified and give them my ideas and thoughts and where we should go if I am lucky enough to get some of those funds,\" Clark added. \"Even if we had kept [Coulibaly] I was always looking to bring another striker in, so I am in the market for a couple now.\"", "question": "Lee Clark hopes to sign attacking reinforcements after Kilmarnock @placeholder Souleymane Coulibaly for money that \" was too good to turn down \" .", "option_0": "overturned", "option_1": "accepted", "option_2": "suggested", "option_3": "sold", "option_4": "beat"}
{"id": 839, "article": "Prof Ferguson, one of Britain's best-known historians, made the comments at a conference in California on Thursday. Mr Keynes was an influential British economist who died in 1946. Prof Ferguson has now apologised \"unreservedly\" for what he called \"stupid\" and \"insensitive\" remarks. He was asked to comment on Keynes's famous observation of \"in the long run we are all dead\". In unscripted remarks during a question and answer session, the high-profile historian and writer said Keynes was indifferent to the long run because he had no children, and that he had no children because he was gay. But in a statement posted on his website, he said it was obvious that people who do not have children also care about future generations.  The historian also insisted he was not homophobic. \"My disagreements with Keynes's economic philosophy have never had anything to do with his sexual orientation,\" he wrote. \"It is simply false to suggest, as I did, that his approach to economic policy was inspired by any aspect of his personal life. As those who know me and my work are well aware, I detest all prejudice, sexual or otherwise.\" In 1926, Keynes married Lydia Lopokova, a Russian ballerina, and Prof Ferguson also said he had forgotten that she had miscarried.", "question": "Harvard history professor Niall Ferguson has apologised for saying the economist John Maynard Keynes did not care about @placeholder 's future because he was gay and had no children .", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "society", "option_2": "china", "option_3": "drugs", "option_4": "behaviour"}
{"id": 840, "article": "The N44 bus was travelling in the  Newbigging area of Musselburgh at 03:40 on Sunday 5 July when the attack happened. The man is white, 18-21 years old, 5ft 9in tall, of slim build, with dark hair and a Scottish accent. He was wearing a dark jumper, jeans and black shoes at the time. Det Con Stephen McCormick said: \"This robbery has been a terrifying experience for the victim and other passengers on the bus and our officers have been making extensive enquiries to find the person responsible. \"We would urge anyone who may recognise the man pictured or is able to provide any information that might help our investigations to get in touch immediately.\"", "question": "A CCTV image has been released of a man police wish to speak to in connection with an assault and robbery on a @placeholder bus in East Lothian .", "option_0": "night", "option_1": "tour", "option_2": "vehicle", "option_3": "city", "option_4": "cycle"}
{"id": 841, "article": "Sarah King found her cycle was missing from a rack in Camberwell on Thursday night following a meeting. Ms King said she had not realised it had been cut through and then taped back together before she locked her bike to it. Met Police are working with Southwark Council to investigate the theft. Ms King, a Labour councillor, said it was the first time she had heard of a bike being stolen in such a way and wanted to warn others. She said she was \"upset and shocked\" to find it missing as \"I love cycling in London and I love my bike\". Her tweet warning cyclists about the scam has been retweeted nearly 2,500 times. Councillor Darren Merrill, of Southwark Council, said: \"It is appalling that the growing cycling population in the borough are being targeted by these cunning thieves.\"", "question": "A cyclist who had her bike stolen after it was @placeholder to a sabotaged bike rack has warned others about the \" cunning \" scam .", "option_0": "referred", "option_1": "attacked", "option_2": "alerted", "option_3": "thrown", "option_4": "secured"}
{"id": 842, "article": "Owners of Mila, a Bedlington Terrier, found her cowering in a bush in their Halesowen back garden on Thursday evening. Burglars beat the dog - leaving her with nerve damage - after breaking into the house, West Midlands Police said. Homeowner Julie Green said she was \"heartbroken\" to find Mila wounded by burglars, who did not steal anything. \"Whoever is responsible is heartless,\" said Ms Green. \"She is the friendliest dog and would greet anyone. Even though she is poorly she has been trying to roll over and wag her tail.\" Vets believe Mila has neurological nerve damage, preventing her from placing her front feet on the ground. Ch Insp Phil Dolby said police are following several lines of inquiry. He added: \"This did not happen in the dead of night - there will be people around the Albrighton Road area who could have seen the offender or offenders responsible for the break-in.\" More on this and other Black Country stories", "question": "An 18 - month - old family dog is unable to walk after burglars repeatedly kicked it in the @placeholder , police said .", "option_0": "stomach", "option_1": "head", "option_2": "face", "option_3": "race", "option_4": "world"}
{"id": 843, "article": "The \"Give and Take\" (G&T) scheme operated in south-west England and south Wales, fleecing at least 10,000 people between May 2008 and April 2009. The scheme generated ¡ê21m and six G&T committee members, all from the Bristol area, were ordered to pay more than ¡ê500,000 in confiscation and costs. But the prosecution cost was \"not less\" than ¡ê1,465,000, it has now been found. The figures were released following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by the Press Association. A spokeswoman for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said there was a \"strong public interest\" in bringing the case to act as a deterrent, warn the public and achieve justice for victims. \"Investigating and prosecuting complex economic cases of this kind are invariably costly, often taking a significant time to investigate fully and resulting in lengthy trials,\" she said. \"The costs associated with this particular case are in no way unusual or unexpected for a case of this kind.\" During trials in 2012 and 2014, Bristol Crown Court heard the group had encouraged people to \"beg, borrow or steal\" ¡ê3,000 to put into the scheme, which promised more than ¡ê20,000, as more members joined. But as the number of new recruits dried up, the scheme collapsed with 90% of investors losing between ¡ê3,000 and ¡ê15,000. Eleven women, aged between 34 and 69, became the first to be prosecuted for such a scheme, under new legislation in the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Act 2008. Following a Proceeds of Crime hearing six of the group paid back more than ¡ê500,000 but two others were ordered to hand over just ¡ê1 as they had no realisable assets.", "question": "Prosecuting the women who @placeholder a ¡ê 21 m pyramid scheme cost taxpayers more than ¡ê 1.4 m , it has been revealed .", "option_0": "reached", "option_1": "ran", "option_2": "raised", "option_3": "have", "option_4": "amassed"}
{"id": 844, "article": "Christopher Halliwell, 52, initially admitted the double murder of Becky Godden and Sian O'Callaghan from Swindon in 2011. But he evaded justice for killing Miss Godden until now due to a police error. Miss Godden's mother thanked police \"for bringing my little girl home\". A jury at Bristol Crown Court took less than three hours to find him guilty. How Becky's killer was lost and caught Live updates on the guilty verdict Key dates in the investigation The ex-taxi driver is currently serving life after stabbing and strangling Miss O'Callaghan, 22 in 2011. The case came to court after Wiltshire Police unearthed new evidence in the case which centred on soil on a shovel found at Halliwell's home, witness accounts and Halliwell's wounds when he visited a GP two days after Miss Godden disappeared. Halliwell, formerly of Ashbury Avenue, Swindon, confessed to her murder and described himself as \"sick\" to Det Supt Steve Fulcher, of Wiltshire Police, while under arrest for kidnapping Miss O'Callaghan. He made the admission after leading officers to Miss O'Callaghan's grave near the White Horse in Uffington, Oxfordshire, where he took Mr Fulcher aside and told him there was \"another one\", meaning a body. The body of Miss Godden, also known as Miss Godden-Edwards was found in Oxo Bottom field in Eastleach, Gloucestershire, in March 2011. But because Det Supt Fulcher pressed Halliwell for details without cautioning him or allowing him access to a solicitor, the case was ruled inadmissible by a High Court judge. As the verdict was read out, there were cheers in the public gallery. Miss Godden's mother, Karen Edwards, was in tears. Her father, John Godden, had his head in his hands, weeping. Halliwell, who is due to be sentenced on Friday, looked over at her family and smiled as he was taken down to the cells. Outside the court, Ms Edwards personally thanked Mr Fulcher for his work on the case. Fighting back tears, she said: \"I would like to thank him from the bottom of my heart for bringing my little girl home. \"I will always respect him and will be indebted to him for making that moral decision as a police officer. \"He should never have suffered the terrible consequences, the loss of his reputation and career.\" She also paid tribute to Miss O'Callaghan's family for having to relive the details of their daughter's murder all over again. Ian Harris, Head of the Complex Casework Unit for the Crown Prosecution Service Wessex, said: \"After Christopher Halliwell had led Wiltshire Police to the body of Sian O'Callaghan, he also confessed to the murder of Rebecca Godden, who had been missing since January 2003. \"That was in 2011. Since then, our focus has been to get justice for Becky and her family as well. \"Despite all the evidence, including his own confession, Mr Halliwell continued to fight the case. \"In the process, he has put Becky's family through untold suffering on top of the terrible pain he has caused them by murdering Becky.\" He said he hoped the verdict would give them some comfort.", "question": "A convicted killer has been found guilty of murdering missing woman Becky Godden five years after initially @placeholder justice due to police blunders .", "option_0": "serving", "option_1": "handed", "option_2": "prompted", "option_3": "escaping", "option_4": "pursuing"}
{"id": 845, "article": "Patients with life-threatening conditions - like cardiac arrests - are meant to be reached in eight minutes. But only one of the UK's 13 ambulance trusts is currently meeting its target. Ambulance bosses are blaming rising demand and pressure in the system. LIVE: A day in the life of the ambulance service Freedom of information requests by the BBC to ambulance trusts showed over 500,000 hours of ambulance crews' time in England, Wales and Northern Ireland was lost last year waiting for A&E staff to be free to hand over their patients to - a rise of 52% in two years. This is the equivalent of 286 crews being taken out of the system for a whole year or enough to increase the number of ambulance journeys by 10%. Senior paramedics said the situation had become so critical that it was not uncommon to run out of ambulances at peak times. The Welsh ambulance service is the only one that is hitting its targets to respond to life-threatening calls - and that is only after it reduced the number of cases it classed as an emergency from a third to about 5% so it could prioritise the most critical calls. Last week Scotland adopted a similar system to help it cope, while services in Northern Ireland and England are also looking to follow suit. It comes after average response times for life-threatening calls topped 10 minutes in Northern Ireland - a rise of nearly three minutes in two years. Figures provided by two trusts in England also showed average times topping eight minutes for the second highest priority calls, including strokes and fits. In the East Midlands patients waited 1 minute 42 seconds longer for a crew to arrive in 2015-16 than they did in 2013-14, while in the East of England the waits were 1 minute 11 seconds longer. College of Paramedics chair Andrew Newton said the situation was of \"great concern\". \"Talking to colleagues around the country, it's not uncommon to find there are no resources to respond at all at a given time, particularly at nights and weekends. I was talking to one colleague recently who was explaining to me that the nearest ambulances were probably in France.\" Osian Roberts has a unique perspective on the ambulance service. He has been working in Llandudno, Wales, for the past 25 years and is now a team leader - in charge of his son. Mr Roberts believes the job has \"changed a great deal\" during his career. \"When I started over 25 years ago we dealt with life or limb emergencies - but now we're doing more and more calls to patients with chronic illnesses for example, more call-outs, the work we do is so much more diverse.\" His son Aron, who has been working as an ambulance technician for two years, agrees. He says the work is non-stop. \"We can start the shift at 7am - get 10 minutes to check the vehicle then we can be straight out the door. We might not get back until 2pm then get a break of just half an hour. Then it'll be straight out of the door to another call.\" His father believes the public needs to be educated about how to use the 999 service. \"There are other pathways - pharmacy, minor injuries units, GPs and GP out of hours. What we try to say is think wisely before you call an emergency ambulance,\" Mr Roberts adds. WATCH: The father and son ambulance team Prof Jonathan Benger, the ambulance lead at NHS England, said delays at hospitals were causing \"big problems\" for ambulance crews as it meant they were taken out of the system and could not answer 999 calls. But he also said a crucial factor was the increasing number of calls being handled - they hit 9.4m last year, nearly treble the number a decade ago. \"In the face of rising demand it is not surprising we are having difficulty meeting these targets. It is time to look at the system,\" he added. Additional reporting by Christopher Marchant.", "question": "Ambulance services are struggling to reach seriously ill and injured patients quickly enough after rising demand has left the system over - @placeholder , a BBC investigation has found .", "option_0": "rated", "option_1": "stretched", "option_2": "sighted", "option_3": "fixing", "option_4": "style"}
{"id": 846, "article": "Federal investigators in Moscow brought charges over a timber deal in the Kirov region in which he was involved as an unofficial adviser three years ago. The case was previously investigated and dropped by regional prosecutors. Mr Navalny, who was also ordered not to leave the country, suggested the new charges were aimed at discrediting him. Supporters of the anti-corruption lawyer, who led mass protests in Moscow against Russian leader Vladimir Putin this winter, demonstrated outside the offices of the Investigative Committee (SK) in Moscow, where he was charged on Tuesday. Under Article 160 of the Russian criminal code on \"misappropriation or embezzlement\", Mr Navalny faces between five and 10 years in prison if convicted. Reacting to news of the case, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on Twitter: \"We should be concerned with attempts in Russia to silence fierce opposition activist Alexei @navalny.\" The original case related to a loss-making contract concluded by a state-owned timber company in Kirov, a region just west of the Ural Mountains, with another company. The Kirov regional budget for 2009-10 reportedly suffered a loss of 1.3m roubles (?¡ê26,000; $40,000) and Mr Navalny was investigated as he was acting at the time as an adviser to Kirov's governor, Nikita Belykh. Federal investigators initially sought to charge Mr Navalny with causing \"damage to property by means of deceit or abuse of trust\" but they proceeded to more serious charges after reviewing the evidence, SK spokesman Vladimir Markin told reporters. The new charges were posted on the website of the SK, a federal body set up to act as the equivalent of the FBI in Russia. Mr Navalny is now accused of colluding with the heads of the two companies involved to organise the theft of timber worth 16m roubles (?¡ê300,000; $500,000). The anti-corruption campaigner pointed out that he had gone to the SK expecting to be charged with the lesser offence, only to find the case had been altered against him into something much more serious. \"This charge is strange and absurd,\" he said after emerging from the building. \"They have completely changed the essence of the charge.\" \"This is a mega-strange thing,\" he added. \"Even the very figure of 16m roubles has not been explained at all.\" This winter saw the biggest anti-government demonstrations in Moscow since the fall of the USSR.  Protesters rallied around Mr Navalny, who accused Mr Putin's allies of rigging elections. Since Mr Putin was re-elected president in March, legal action against opposition figures has increased markedly. A tough new law was passed on public order offences and tight curbs were placed on non-governmental organisations. In recent weeks, Mr Navalny, a lawyer by training, turned his fire on the SK's chief, Alexander Bastrykin, reports the BBC's Moscow correspondent, Daniel Sandford. Mr Bastrykin denied Mr Navalny's allegations that he had undeclared business interests in the Czech Republic. He admitted once owning a flat there but said he had given it to his first wife. As for commercial activity, he said: \"I was never in business. Business in the sense of aiming to make a profit. If they can find a single euro in profit, I'll resign.\" Mr Navalny vowed on Tuesday to continue his political activities despite the case against him. \"I will continue doing what I did before - nothing has changed for me,\" he was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.", "question": "Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny has been charged with embezzlement in a case he @placeholder as \" strange and absurd \" .", "option_0": "known", "option_1": "died", "option_2": "resigned", "option_3": "named", "option_4": "describes"}
{"id": 847, "article": "We have been talking to some relatives who will be marking this day. Private Eric Smith - remembered by his daughter Ailsa Siemens in Canada My dad fought in Gallipoli. He served in the 3rd Scottish Horse, part of the 2nd Mounted Division. He landed at Suvla Bay in late August 1915 and took part in the last large scale battle on 21 August. He served in trench warfare until the evacuation of Suvla Bay on 20 December. When they went out they were 250 strong, on their return they numbered 18. He was then promoted to sergeant. I'm the baby of the family. My dad was 63 when I was born.  I'm so proud of my dad, what he went through and the fact that he survived. What they went through was quite horrendous. Roderick Nicholson - remembered by great granddaughter, Rosanne Kirk in Lincoln, UK I know bits about my great grandfather. He was in the Dardanelles, where Gallipoli stands in 1915. He lost his arm up to his elbow when he was hit by a grenade and was sent home. So you could say he survived because of that. There is even a rumour within our family that he injured himself on purpose, to get out of fighting. Not all of us believe it. When he came home he was given a prosthetic arm and a number of hooks. He was from an ordinary working family and they didn't pass much on because it simply wasn't talked about back then. I think they were traumatised by the experience so didn't bring it up. Archibald John Stanley Gallantry - remembered by his great grandson Paul Gallantry in Reading, UK We believe Archibald was on the HMS M33, as it was called then. It was built in only seven weeks. It was also called the Minerva and was the last surviving ship in the campaign. It's being restored in Portsmouth at the moment. We think my great grandfather was gunning the Turkish positions off shore. He was there for the whole of the campaign. He was lucky. As far as we know he had also fought in Somaliland in 1901 and then in the Royal Navy in Gallipoli in his 30s. We think he carried on right through World War One. Later on he joined passenger cruises and died at sea. He had seven sons - the youngest was my grandfather who was born in 1922. Dudley Meneaud-Lissenburg - remembered by his daughter Geraldine Meneaud-Lissenburg in Wallington, Surrey, UK My father was born in 1894 in India and joined the army as a boy soldier. He was one of the 29th Division and sailed to Gallipoli where he stayed for a year and then was discharged. He was a horseman and was given a butcher's horse to take out there. When they withdrew from the peninsula, all the horses had to be shot because the sea was too rough to transport them back. He wrote his memoirs in the 70s. He's quoted in several books, talking about how awful the flies were; how it took three of them to open a pot of jam; and how crunchy the rice pudding because of the flies! I have a photo of a reunion of the veterans who went to Gallipoli in 1965 for the 50th anniversary. However, I'm not sure of the copyright - it was taken by someone on the trip. My father is third from the right. I was born when he was 65. William Percival - remembered by great granddaughter, Jayne Lamb My great grandfather died in Gallipoli. In February 1915 he sent a letter to his son which is still in our family. Produced by Sherie Ryder", "question": "One hundred years after the Gallipoli campaign on the Turkish peninsula , families from all over the world are @placeholder to remember the war dead . Australia and New Zealand mark the anniversary as Anzac Day .", "option_0": "helping", "option_1": "invited", "option_2": "set", "option_3": "gathering", "option_4": "attempting"}
{"id": 848, "article": "Mark Marshall missed an early sight on goal for the Bantams as the game took 10 minutes to come to life. Rory Donnelly's hold-up play and pass allowed young midfielder Emmanuel Osadebe to roll the ball into Cody McDonald's path, giving the Gills striker room for a powerful finish past Colin Doyle. After a series of blocked shots, Bradford got a deserved equaliser on the half-hour mark in an increasingly open game as Jordy Hiwula flicked in a header from a corner with no man watching the far post. A deciding goal never came in the second half despite Bradford midfielder Josh Cullen's fierce drive, and a Max Ehmer effort for the Gills from six yards out that was heroically blocked by the Bantams defence. A second yellow card for Gills defender Ryan Jackson came too late to affect what was, on balance, a fair result. Reports supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Gillingham 1, Bradford City 1. Second Half ends, Gillingham 1, Bradford City 1. Substitution, Gillingham. Josh Pask replaces Cody McDonald. Foul by Stephen Darby (Bradford City). Josh Pask (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Second yellow card to Ryan Jackson (Gillingham) for a bad foul. Josh Cullen (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Josh Wright (Gillingham). Foul by Cody McDonald (Gillingham). Nicky Law (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the left wing. Substitution, Gillingham. Elliott List replaces Jay Emmanuel-Thomas. Corner,  Bradford City. Conceded by Scott Wagstaff. Corner,  Bradford City. Conceded by Max Ehmer. Corner,  Gillingham. Conceded by Romain Vincelot. Substitution, Bradford City. James Hanson replaces Billy Clarke. Substitution, Bradford City. Filipe Morais replaces Mark Marshall. Foul by Cody McDonald (Gillingham). Romain Vincelot (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Bradford City. Marc McNulty replaces Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila. Corner,  Gillingham. Conceded by Romain Vincelot. Corner,  Gillingham. Conceded by Nathaniel Knight-Percival. Attempt missed. Mark Byrne (Gillingham) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Attempt saved. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (Gillingham) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Corner,  Gillingham. Conceded by Romain Vincelot. Foul by Mark Marshall (Bradford City). Adedeji Oshilaja (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Josh Wright (Gillingham). Mark Marshall (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Scott Wagstaff (Gillingham). Attempt saved. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Substitution, Gillingham. Scott Wagstaff replaces Rory Donnelly. Attempt missed. Josh Cullen (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. James Meredith (Bradford City) is shown the yellow card. Attempt missed. Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Corner,  Bradford City. Conceded by Adedeji Oshilaja. Second Half begins Gillingham 1, Bradford City 1. First Half ends, Gillingham 1, Bradford City 1. Foul by Josh Wright (Gillingham). Josh Cullen (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.", "question": "Bradford remain undefeated in League One after taking a share of the @placeholder in a spirited draw with 10 - man Gillingham .", "option_0": "points", "option_1": "ground", "option_2": "spot", "option_3": "table", "option_4": "recovery"}
{"id": 849, "article": "New signing Karen Carney joins fellow England stars Davison, Eni Aluko and Fran Kirby in a formidable front line that also includes Ji So-Yun. Chelsea begin their WSL season against Doncaster Rovers Belles on Thursday. \"No one will be able to read what we can do,\" Davison, 28, told BBC Sport. \"We have so many options. Players can rest when needed and we are still dangerous all over pitch with players able to come on and cause complete mayhem.\" Davison missed out on a place in the World Cup squad last summer, but has worked her way back into the England reckoning after playing a starring role as the Blues won the Women's FA Cup and League double in her first season with the club. She started 25 out of Chelsea's 28 games in 2015 and has welcomed Carney's arrival, even if it means playing fewer games as a result. Carney was on target on her debut as the Blues began their domestic season with a 4-1 victory over Thursday's opposition Doncaster in the FA Cup fifth round on Sunday. \"Having so many options makes everything more competitive. The training has gone up a level once more. It will benefit everyone massively,\" the former Arsenal and Liverpool winger said. \"Karen is top quality. She already looks like she has been here a long time. \"We are continuing to build as we did last season and there is definitely more depth to take us to another level. We want to compete in everything.\" Despite dominating the domestic game, Chelsea could not replicate their success in Europe last season and were knocked out of the Champions League by Wolfsburg in the last 16. And although Davison said they want to fight on all fronts this term, progress in the Champions League remains the ultimate challenge \"We want to win everything,\" Davison added. \"We fell short last season but were pretty dominant in the league and want to be dominant again and push on even more. \"In the Champions League, I feel we under-estimated ourselves a bit and showed Wolfsburg a bit too much respect. \"They are a top-quality side with with world-class players but we have no reason to fear anyone. We take confidence from the performances, and the experience of last season.\"", "question": "Women 's Super League champions Chelsea Ladies have the strength in depth and @placeholder quality to cause \" mayhem \" this season no matter who plays , according to winger Gemma Davison .", "option_0": "attacking", "option_1": "continues", "option_2": "contrasting", "option_3": "chained", "option_4": "attracted"}
{"id": 850, "article": "Opposition MPs shouted and ripped up copies of the bill, warning that Kenya was becoming a \"police state\". Four lawmakers were assaulted and another two engaged in a fist-fight. Parliamentary officials adjourned the debate twice, before the controversial changes were pushed through. The government says it needs more powers to fight militant Islamists threatening Kenya's security. The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group has stepped up its military campaign in Kenya, killing 64 people in two attacks in the north-eastern Mandera region since last month. The governing Jubilee Coalition MPs approved the changes despite howls of protest from the opposition in one of the most chaotic parliamentary sessions in Kenya's history, reports the BBC's Emmanuel Igunza from the parliament. Security staff and MPs surrounded Speaker Justin Muturi as voting got under way, our correspondent says. Earlier, opposition MPs mobbed his rostrum and threw books, documents and other projectiles in a bid to block the vote, AFP news agency reports. But the two sides set aside their differences to endorse President Uhuru Kenyatta's nomination of former army general Joseph Nkaissery as interior minister. His predecessor was sacked after the Mandera attacks. At one point, live television broadcasts of the debate were cut as the session degenerated into chaos, our correspondent says. A group of pro-government MPs accosted opposition senators who were in the public gallery and tried to eject them, he says. In the ensuing commotion, one of the senators had his shirt torn, while outside the parliamentary chamber an opposition and pro-government MP threw punches at each other, our correspondent adds. Opposition MPs threw water on Deputy Speaker Joyce Laboso, who ordered two of them to be thrown out. MPs chanted \"no way\" and \"the struggle continues\" as they tore up copies of the bill. Correspondents say there was a heavy police presence around parliament after activists called for protests to show their opposition to the bill. MPs were recalled from their Christmas break to approve changes to the bill passed last week. The bill was denounced by the opposition as draconian. They fear that the proposed amendments will make it even worse. It gives the security and intelligence agencies the right to tap communications without court consent and requires  journalists to obtain police permission before investigating or publishing stories on domestic terrorism and security issues. President Uhuru Kenyatta has defended the bill, saying it is important for the country's security needs. Correction 5 January: We have amended this story to remove reference to a clause allowing terror suspects to be detained for a year, as this was altered before the bill was passed by parliament.", "question": "Kenyan lawmakers @placeholder blows and the deputy speaker had water thrown on her during a chaotic parliamentary session which approved changes to a tough new security bill .", "option_0": "side", "option_1": "messages", "option_2": "fields", "option_3": "traded", "option_4": "proposed"}
{"id": 851, "article": "It was a win for youth democracy with a reported surge in 18 to 24-year-olds at the polls eager to get their voices heard. A high turnout among young voters boosted Labour's vote share, the National Union of Students said, but this is yet to be officially verified. The Labour Party performed strongly in areas with universities including Sheffield and Canterbury. In Headingley, Leeds, young Labour voters celebrated their part in toppling two Liberal Democrat MPs in favour of Labour candidates. Elsi, 19, a midwifery student from Headingley said her vote was \"strategic\". \"I'm an NHS student so that was a factor. Labour is very supportive of funding the NHS and supporting that. It wasn't just for my career but it was for helping other people too,\" she said. Rashelle Thomas-Jarrett, 23, a healthcare student also from Headingley, said: \"I thought if I did vote Labour there was more of a chance of getting Theresa May out.\" Meanwhile, some students at Keele University in Staffordshire in say they were unable to vote after being told their \"names were not on the list\" at polling stations. In the West Midlands, Sandwell councillor Preet Gill became the first ever female Sikh MP, holding Birmingham Edgbaston for Labour. She takes over from Gisela Stuart, who stood down after 20 years. In Sheffield Hallam, former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was one of the highest-profile figures in England lose his seat, with Labour's Jared O Mara winning by more than 2,000 votes. But fellow Liberal Democrat Sir Vince Cable regained the Twickenham seat he had lost to the Conservatives in 2015. Paul Nuttall, UKIP's leader, failed in his bid to win Boston and Skegness and subsequently stood down as head of the party. First-time candidate Mike Hill was reduced to tears as he hugged wife Glynis as it became clear he had held the Hartlepool seat for Labour, the Hartlepool Mail reported. \"It's an emotional experience. It's being proud of an achievement and proud that people have had faith in a fresh face,\" he told the paper. The election brought out the best in English eccentricity with a candidate dressed as a giant fish finger, tongue sandwiches at the count and cat fights over Downing Street. A 26-year-old city councillor gained a seat in Stoke-on-Trent South for the Conservatives for the first time in more than 80 years. Jack Brereton unseated Labour's Rob Flello with a majority of 663. In was a close call for some seats with the Tories taking Richmond Park by just 45 votes. Zac Goldsmith was back in seven months after losing the seat in a by-election. In Dudley North, Labour's Ian Austin held on by a slender 22 votes while in Southampton Itchen, Conservative Royston Smith has a majority of 31. UKIP received less than two per cent of the vote nationally and was reduced to third place in Clacton, the one seat it won in 2015. The party had chosen not to field candidates in 247 constituencies where it stood in 2015, 197 of them in England.", "question": "As the UK faces the @placeholder of a hung Parliament , BBC England looks at the winners and losers of a dramatic night .", "option_0": "grip", "option_1": "process", "option_2": "uncertainty", "option_3": "aftermath", "option_4": "wrath"}
{"id": 852, "article": "Before Sue Sim retired she faced accusations of misconduct and bullying, and a report criticised her management style, but cleared her of wrongdoing. It also said Ms Sim's gender was an issue in the way she was treated. Northumbria Police said she had not provided any basis upon which it could launch her requested investigation. Sue Sim said: \"What needs to be looked at is, is there a culture within the organisation that needs to be addressed? \"I'm not saying Northumbria Police is sexist [but] there's an independent report from a QC conducting the investigation into my behaviour, which stated that officers had behaved in a different way to me because I'm a woman. \"All I've asked the chief constable to do is look at the issues in relation to the statements within that independent report which talked about gender being an issue, and that sexism did play a part.\" A Northumbria Police spokesman said: \"The full report was available to Mrs Sim, as the person complained of, prior to her retirement and when she was still head of the organisation. \"She took no action in her capacity of chief constable in relation to its content. \"We are satisfied, having taken legal advice, that Mrs Sim has not provided any basis upon which we can launch the investigation she requests. \"It is disappointing that Mrs Sim has chosen to publicly air these concerns after her retirement, having led the organisation for five years.\" Ms Sim retired in June and the chief constable post was taken over by Steve Ashman.", "question": "The former chief constable of Northumbria Police has claimed the force is @placeholder to investigate her allegations about sexism .", "option_0": "attempting", "option_1": "preparing", "option_2": "set", "option_3": "refusing", "option_4": "continuing"}
{"id": 853, "article": "The female horse, named Flash Dance, became trapped at Flattmoss Farm, near East Kilbride, on Tuesday afternoon. After initial efforts to free her failed, there were fears that the 440kg (69st) animal may have to be put down. She was freed after a local farmer used a JCB digger to scoop away mud which allowed fire crews to haul her clear. Eddie Kelly, manager at East Kilbride fire station, said: \"This was a challenging and time-critical operation. \"Flash Dance was stuck in deep mud, on a slope, and she was tired, exhausted and very cold. \"We were able to use our specialist rescue skills and equipment to find a solution and, by working with the local farming community, were able to free Flash Dance and reunite her with her owner. The assistance given to us was invaluable.\" Firefighters were called to the farm, in South Lanarkshire, at about 16:00 on Tuesday, after Flash Dance slipped and fell into the ditch while crossing a small bridge. Despite the efforts of owner Kath Mulholland and livery owner John McIntyre and his family, the animal could not be freed and became cold and exhausted. When firefighters arrived they used ropes and an inflatable air bag to try and raise the horse to her feet but she kept sinking into the soft ground. A local farmer was then enlisted and he used his JCB digger to scoop away six feet of mud. This allowed firefighters to get underneath the animal, secure ropes around her body and hoist her clear. The animal was said to be \"tired, cold and dirty but otherwise uninjured\". Ms Mulholland, 58, said: \"The firefighters would not give up. They were fantastic. I just want to thank them, John and his family, the farmer and everyone else who helped.\" Mr McIntyre was involved in the rescue operation along with wife Barbara, 63, daughter Susan, 39, her husband Scott, 42, and daughter Sarah, 29.", "question": "A horse which became stuck in a ditch of freezing mud has been @placeholder after firefighters came to the rescue with the help of a local farming community .", "option_0": "retrieved", "option_1": "praised", "option_2": "released", "option_3": "saved", "option_4": "dismantled"}
{"id": 854, "article": "Littergram invites people to share pictures of rubbish on their smartphone and report it to their council. Danny Lucas, of Wrotham, Kent, said Facebook \"is allowing us to keep our name and wishing us continued success\". Facebook, which owns the US photo-sharing giant, said it had nothing more to add. More news from Kent Earlier in the year, lawyers representing the internet giants had said Littergram's name was too similar to photo editing and sharing app Instagram, and that it was not \"not acceptable\". Facebook added that it was obliged to take reasonable measures to protect its brand. However, in a letter sent to Littergram this month, lawyers said given that the organisation was \"not claiming trademarking rights\", it considered \"this matter closed at this time\". They added that they reserved the right to take action should circumstances change, but went on to wish the \"commendable anti-litter campaign much success\". Mr Lucas said: \"We applaud Facebook for taking this admirable approach and thank them very much for lifting a weight from our shoulders that will allow [us] to focus on the job in hand.\"", "question": "The owner of an anti-litter app has said lawyers for Instagram and Facebook have @placeholder their case demanding he change its name .", "option_0": "dropped", "option_1": "defended", "option_2": "threatened", "option_3": "brought", "option_4": "increased"}
{"id": 855, "article": "Karen Williams and Patty King said the musician was given \"foreign substances to induce his premature death\" by his business manager Laverne Toney. Lawyers for King's estate said the claims are unfounded and disrespectful. Nevada's Clark County Coroner said it would investigate with the Las Vegas Police Department's homicide division. \"At this point, we don't have evidence that these allegations of foul play will be substantiated,\" Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said. \"However, we are taking them very seriously and will be conducting a thorough investigation. \"We are co-ordinating our investigative efforts with the homicide division of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. I expect the investigation will take a minimum of six to eight weeks.\" However a statement from the Las Vegas Police Department said: \"Until such time as the Clark County Coroner determines Mr King's death to be from other than natural causes, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is not moving forward with any investigation.\" King died in his sleep at his Las Vegas home on 14 May, aged 89. At the time, his doctor and the coroner said he had died of a series of small strokes connected to his Type 2 diabetes. But the guitarist's daughters alleged that King's personal assistant Myron Johnson and Toney gave him medication to induce diabetic shock. The women added that \"King was sequestered from all family members\" in the week before his death, and that Toney and Johnson were the only people with him. Toney, who is the executor of King's estate, shrugged off the daughters' claims. \"They've been making allegations all along. What's new?\" she told the Associated Press. A lawyer for King's estate also dismissed the accusations as \"ridiculous\". \"I hope they have a factual basis that they can demonstrate for their defamatory and libellous allegations,\" Brent Bryson said in a statement. Earlier this year, Patty King, Karen Williams and a third daughter, Rita Washington, went to court accusing Toney of neglect, but the case was dismissed because of a lack of evidence. King was born on 16 September 1925 to sharecroppers and worked in the cotton fields as a child before picking up the guitar. Considered one of the world's greatest players, he was known for his sharp single notes and vibrato on the electric guitar he christened Lucille. Known for songs such as The Thrill Is Gone, Three O'Clock Blues and Darlin' You Know I Love You, he influenced generations of guitar players, and was inducted to both the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was married twice and had 15 natural and adopted children, 11 of whom are still alive. His funeral is scheduled to be held on Friday in Mississippi. The Clark County coroner said his investigation would not delay the service.", "question": "US authorities are investigating the death of blues legend BB King after two of his daughters claimed he was @placeholder .", "option_0": "caught", "option_1": "struck", "option_2": "announced", "option_3": "poisoned", "option_4": "detected"}
{"id": 856, "article": "The Thai embassy's consular section in the Burmese capital said it would be closed for the week in the wake of the \"unexpected and prolonged\" protests. Win Zaw Htun and Zaw Lin were sentenced to death last week for the 2014 murders of David Miller and Hannah Witheridge. Thai police have denied allegations the men were forced to confess. But many in Myanmar believe the men were made scapegoats for the crime. The convicted migrant workers denied killing the tourists, saying they were forced by Thai police into confessing under duress, which they later retracted. Hundreds of people, including Buddhist monks and ordinary citizens, were reported to have taken to the streets on Tuesday. Thai media has earlier reported that Thai authorities asked Myanmar to contain the protests. A statement made by the Thai embassy released earlier this week said the demonstrations made it hard to access their entrance. After the verdict hundreds took part in protests which erupted outside the Thai embassy in Yangon, as well as in some towns across Thailand, after Thursday's court ruling, calling for the men's release. Myanmar's army chief Gen. Min Aung Hlaing has called for the case to be reviewed, to which Thailand's Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha said that the men had the standard right to appeal, according to local media. Hannah Witheridge, 23, from Norfolk, and David Miller, 24, from Jersey, were found dead on the island of Koh Tao on 15 September last year. The family of Mr Miller say they believe justice was done by the court, in which \"the judges were invariably diligent, attentive, fair and extraordinarily hardworking,\" said David's brother, Michael. Thai police spokesperson Gen Dejnarong Suthichanbancha  has consistently defended the investigation saying it \"was done transparently and  in compliance with international standards\".", "question": "Protests against the conviction in Thailand of two Burmese men for the murder of a pair of British tourists have been @placeholder in Yangon .", "option_0": "published", "option_1": "raised", "option_2": "growing", "option_3": "criticised", "option_4": "unveiled"}
{"id": 857, "article": "Five family members died on Sunday when their car went off Buncrana pier in County Donegal and into Lough Swilly. Davitt Walsh was on the pier and said he took off his clothes and swam to the family as fast as he could. He said he \"could see the distress in the family\" as they tried to escape from the car. Those who died were Ruth Daniels, 57, her daughter Jodie Lee Daniels, 14, Sean McGrotty, 49, and his sons Mark, 12, and Evan, eight. They were the mother, sister, partner and two sons of Louise James, from Londonderry. \"The father had the window half ajar and started hitting it with his elbow to break it,\" he told Irish state broadcaster RT?¡ë. \"When the window was broke, the father... handed me the baby and said: 'Take the baby.' \"The water started to come into the car and he just looked at me and said: 'Save my baby.' \"I took the baby, I held it above my head and I swam back to shore. \"The father could have saved himself because he was out of the car, but he went back in to save his family. \"I think deep down the father knew I was only going to be able to save one person.\" Mr Walsh, a footballer who has played in the top divisions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, said the car sank \"instantly\". \"My girlfriend was waiting at the shore, she took the baby off me,\" he said. \"I was exhausted on the pier, I just lay there on the algae. \"I just feel really, really terrible that I couldn't do any more for the family.\" The baby, Rionaghac-Ann, was taken to hospital and police said she was recovering well. Mr Walsh, from Kerrykeel in County Donegal, has been praised by the family of the victims for saving her. Jim McGrotty, a brother of Sean, said Mr Walsh was a \"brave man\". \"Words cannot express the enormity of the tragedy which has befallen our family,\" he added. \"If there is anything good which has come out of it is the fact that baby Rionaghac-Ann has been saved.\"", "question": "A man who @placeholder a four - month - old girl in a drowning tragedy off the Irish coast has said he feels \" terrible \" that he could not do more .", "option_0": "rescued", "option_1": "attacked", "option_2": "underwent", "option_3": "spent", "option_4": "beheaded"}
{"id": 858, "article": "Calling herself Amnesia, she had gone on the social network Ask.fm seeking sympathy after breaking up with a boyfriend, Italian media report. \"Kill yourself\", \"Nobody wants you\" and \"You are not normal\" were some of the anonymous replies she received. She jumped to her death from a high-rise building on Sunday. It is still unclear which factors chiefly drove her to take her life. Prosecutors in Padua have opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death. For some time she had been posting messages that suggested she might be suicidal. She appeared to have stopped posting about a week before she died. The girl, whose real name was given as Nadia by Italian daily Il Mattino di Padova, left messages for her family in the town of Fontaniva, near Padua, but they were unable to reach her in time. Micaela Campana, an MP for the Democratic Party in the country's coalition government, said: \"We can no longer read about young people who take their lives because of threats and psychological pressure.\" There have been calls in Italy to shut down Ask.fm, which was sharply criticised for its policy of allowing users to post comment anonymously after previous bullying-related deaths in the UK and US. Ask.fm spokesperson Liva Biseniece told the BBC News website: \"We intend to co-operate fully with the Italian authorities regarding this tragic case. \"We note that suicide cases of young people are always a very complex overlap of social, economic and emotional aspects. We urge the media to provide space and time to establish what prompted this terrible event.\" In recent months, Nadia replied 1,148 times to questions online, Il Mattino di Padova reports. It found a stream of insults and obscenities directed at the girl. \"Where do I see myself living five years from now?\" she wrote in one entry. \"Me living five years from now? Wow.\" At one point, Nadia posted photos of cuts she said she had made to her arms. It appears she planned her death carefully, leaving five letters to family and friends. On news of Nadia's death, her mother was treated in hospital for shock, Il Mattino di Padova reports. \"My daughter was only 14 years old and hadn't done anything,\" the girl's father was quoted as saying. The mayor of Fontaniva, Marcello Mezzasalma, said Nadia's father had confided in him that he had secretly checked his daughter's mobile phone and diary, but had not noticed anything amiss. The mayor said he had decided against declaring a day of mourning so as to avoid \"creating an even bigger clamour\". Blaming the social network, Mr Mezzasalma said: \"Let's close this damn Ask.\" He added that he was in contact with Italian MEP Mara Bizzotto, a member of the opposition Northern League party, who has asked the European Commission for stronger EU legislation on internet abuse. Ask.fm pledged to take action last year after online bullying cases made headlines. \"We urge our members to use the reporting, blocking and deleting options available to them,\" Ms Biseniece said on Wednesday. Ms Campana, who has already proposed a bill to increase the punishment for online abuse, said parliament must urgently debate a bill on bullying and cyberbullying.", "question": "MPs in Italy have called for action against cyberbullying after a girl of 14 , @placeholder to online abuse , killed herself in a north -eastern town .", "option_0": "causing", "option_1": "appears", "option_2": "including", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "subjected"}
{"id": 859, "article": "Samsung said it expected an operating profit of 4.2tn won ($3.5bn; ?¡ê2.3bn) a 14% dip from a year earlier, but better than market projections of 3.5tn won. Compared with the previous quarter, the projected profit is up 12%. Samsung is the world's second-largest maker of mobile phones. \"Its telecommunications business is seen very positive as shipments of smartphones and other high-end handsets expanded,\" said Park Jong-Min of ING Investment Management. Analysts said they expected Samsung's handset business to keep growing robustly, not least due to the Apple's decision to upgrade its existing model of iPhone4 with new features and technology, rather than launch a new version. Apple had been expected to launch an iPhone5 at a media event held earlier this week. \"Given Apple's relatively unchanged new iPhone, Samsung will have the opportunity to eat into Apple's market share with its hardware build-up and growing software power until next year,\" said Jang In-Beom of Bookook Securities. Samsung has also been growing its presence in the tablet PC market. Last month the Korean electronics manufacturer announced that sales of the Samsung GALAXY S II had crossed the 10 million mark, doubling from five million in just eight weeks. Despite the optimism about the growth potential of its handset business, analysts said that external factors remain a big threat to the company in the short to medium-term. There have been concerns that a slowdown in the US coupled with the ongoing debt crisis in Europe may hurt global growth and dent consumer demand. \"The macroeconomic situation will remain a major risk for Samsung in the fourth quarter,\" said Ahn Seong-Ho of Hanwha Securities. At the same time, there are fears that volatility in the currency markets may also have a bearing on its earnings. The Korean won has fallen as much as 10% against the US dollar since the start of July. A weaker won makes Korean goods cheaper for foreign buyers. \"The weakening won may have inflated third-quarter profits,\" said Kim Young-Chan of Shinhan Investment Corp. However, Mr Kim added the exchange rate remained a threat to Samsung as any recovery in the won would have a counter effect.", "question": "Samsung Electronics has issued a better - than - expected profit forecast for the third quarter as its handset business @placeholder to offset falling demand for TVs and computer chips .", "option_0": "extended", "option_1": "expands", "option_2": "prepared", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "aims"}
{"id": 860, "article": "22 February 2017 Last updated at 12:02 GMT He put a note on Twitter to say ' Thanks for all your phone calls and your invitations to your TV talent show. Sorry if my first answer wasn't clear enough but I don't want to be in this competition.' Contestants in talent shows can apply directly to be on them but sometimes people are approached by the TV company and encouraged to take part. Britain's Got Talent said: 'We travel the length and breadth of the country to find the best talent to make them aware of the show and auditions. We do then encourage acts to apply but any such acts will be required to audition on the same basis as any other applicant and normal programme rules apply. So why did Tom turn down the chance to go on BGT? He's been telling Jenny.", "question": "Young musician Tom sent a @placeholder to Simon Cowell after he repeatedly got asked to go on Britain 's Got Talent .", "option_0": "tribute", "option_1": "deal", "option_2": "petition", "option_3": "message", "option_4": "scheme"}
{"id": 861, "article": "With numerous parties expected to win seats it is not easy to check all the permutations for forming a coalition or how a minority government could get its legislation through. But mathematicians have a tool for working out how power is distributed under such circumstances - it's called the Banzhaf Power Index. This is based on calculating the proportion of cases in which each party could provide the swing votes that would convert the losing side into the winning side. The BBC Radio 4 programme Campaign Sidebar asked Hannah Fry, a mathematician at University College London, to calculate the Banzhaf power index (BPI) for some plausible electoral scenarios. This is what she came up with: This analysis can apply not only to coalition negotiations but also to a minority government trying to get legislation passed on a vote-by-vote basis almost daily. From the perspective of the mathematical calculations, it makes no difference whether Labour or Conservatives are the larger of the two main parties. This assumes a predicted five constituencies won by Sinn Fein, whose MPs do not take up their seats at Westminster. That means that the effective threshold for a Commons majority is 323. If the Lib Dems get 30 and the smaller parties get 20, then 273 seats could be a key target for the two big parties. That's what they would then require to achieve a majority without needing the backing of the SNP. This is illustrated by the two scenarios above. In the first one the SNP power score is already much higher than its proportion of seats, but in the second it's the same as the lower of the top two parties. Unless the Lib Dems get more than 30 or so, which is the maximum of most forecasts, they are in a much weaker position than the SNP if that gets about 40. That's because on these scenarios matters are so finely balanced that the SNP could probably just provide the swing votes for a majority, but the Lib Dems couldn't do so without the additional assistance of the smaller parties. If one of the two big parties pulls far enough away from the other but is still significantly short of a majority, then the Lib Dems would move into the same power league as the SNP. If the biggest party is very close to a majority then the other small parties could tip the balance and start to catch up too. Clearly these are only some possible, if plausible, scenarios. The Banzhaf Power Index can equally well be used to look at other outcomes at Westminster. Perhaps the political parties need to recruit some mathematicians - if they haven't already done so. Martin Rosenbaum is the editor of Campaign Sidebar", "question": "Who will really call the shots if we have a @placeholder Parliament ?", "option_0": "growing", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "hung", "option_3": "proposed", "option_4": "petition"}
{"id": 862, "article": "When police arrested a 14-year-old boy in April for threatening to behead his teachers, they could not possibly have suspected they would soon be trying to foil a terrorist plot on the other side of the world. The boy, now 15, who cannot be identified because of his age, was \"the director\" of a deadly plan. His directions were sent from his darkened bedroom in the early hours of the morning, as his mother slept unaware in a nearby room. The teenager - now Britain's youngest convicted terrorist - comes from a \"normal\" family in Blackburn, Lancashire, and had a \"typical relationship\" with his mother who would drive him to any appointments. But the picture that emerged when police searched his bedroom was far from normal. On the windowsill they found a wooden box labelled \"Islamic State\" in the way a teenager might carve out the name of a pop idol. Detectives also discovered a mobile phone, hidden under his mattress. It contained \"significant extremist content\", including an IS fighter screensaver. The boy had searched on the internet for martyrdom operations, explosives and local landmarks including Blackburn Cathedral, the Thwaites building and BAE systems. But it was what detectives found within encrypted messages that revealed Australia was just days away from experiencing a violent terrorist attack orchestrated by the schoolboy. A conversation between the boy and an older teenager in Melbourne, Sevdet Besim, was hidden within the social media application, Telegram. Police lacked the technology to decode the messages and so an officer at the North West Counter Terror Unit developed \"a bespoke software package\" to decrypt the dialogue. Message by message the boy's murderous intentions were unveiled. The race to prevent the bloodshed became apparent. Police contacted the Australian authorities \"immediately\". \"We can get in touch with international partners at the touch of a button,\" said Det Ch Supt Tony Mole. \"Before we'd even read it all, we quickly worked out something sinister was going on and we started almost drip-feeding the Aussies by email.\" During the many hours he spent in his room, the boy had adopted the persona of a much older person to pull the strings of his puppet, 18-year-old Sevdet Besim. Besim was a friend of Abdul Numan Haider, 18, who was shot dead after stabbing police officers at a Melbourne police station in 2014. Between 16 and 25 March more than 3,000 messages were exchanged between the boy and Besim. The boy maintained he had planned other operations and Besim had no idea he was taking instruction from a youngster holed up in his bedroom in Blackburn. The first message came from Besim, announcing \"I'm the brother from Australia.\" The boy, comfortable in his role as \"director\", haughtily responded by testing Besim. He asked him to prove his credibility and used sophisticated extremist language. Once the boy was satisfied Besim held allegiance to the head of IS, the plan to attack began to formulate. Besim suggested Anzac Day, held annually on 25 April. The boy responded: \"Make sure the dogs remember this as well as fallen heroes.\" He warned Besim of the difficulty of beheading a person. \"I suggest you break into someone's house and get your first taste of beheading,\" the boy urged. But Besim concluded this was \"too risky\". Detectives said the pair settled on a plan to \"run over a cop, behead, get the gun and use the spoils of war to have a gunfight\". Besim told the boy he had been out in public, concealing a 15-inch (38cm) knife and \"no-one realised a thing\". He sent a photo of the weapon. A congratulatory response came from the boy: \"Mashallah\", which means \" God has willed it\", and he added a chilling: \"Perfect for tearing through someone's throat\". Police in Melbourne responded rapidly to the UK's warnings and Besim was arrested during dawn raids on 18 April. Detectives found the knife concealed under the seat of his car. They also recovered his mobile phone, on which he had \"actively\" been working on his martyrdom note. Det Ch Supt Mole said: \"I would suggest once you've done your martyrdom speech or whatever you're going to leave... and you've got the car, and the knife is in the car - it could have been any time. \"The plan was the Anzac parade. What I can't say is whether he was going to go earlier, because it was a fairly simple plot.\" Besim was charged with preparation of a terrorism attack in Australia and is due in court in December. In Blackburn, the boy, who was on bail, was rearrested and charged with inciting terrorism. Home Office statistics show in 2014 there were 289 terrorism-related offences in the UK, an increase of 30% on the previous year. Of those, the number of 18-20 year olds involved tripled from 15 to 46. Ten cases involved under 18s. Prof Eric Grove, security studies expert at Liverpool Hope University, said the boy's age reflected a \"disturbing\" propensity for extremists to recruit children. \"Younger people are very impressionable. There has been a tendency in Africa to use child soldiers, and Boko Haram use young girls as suicide bombers. Young British Muslims are a vulnerable target for IS.\" During the 12 months before his arrest, the boy displayed \"concerning behaviour\", saying at school he supported Osama Bin Laden and wanted to become a jihadist. This led to intervention from the Channel Programme, designed to protect vulnerable people from being drawn into terrorism. While the boy appeared to engage initially, perhaps another example of his devious character, his behaviour deteriorated. He began threatening his teachers with violence and was overt in his fascination with beheading, selecting half a dozen potential victims and making a list ranking them in order, leading to the police becoming involved. So what was it that caused this boy to become radicalised? Jim Bonworth, counter terrorism expert at University of Central Lancashire, believes there are a number of reasons people like the teenager take this path. \"He would have that sense of empowerment that he was able to make a difference in some way, even if he couldn't do it himself because he was too young and his bus pass had run out,\" Mr Bonworth said. \"Push factors [leading to radicalisation] are things like discrimination and injustice. Pull factors are glamour, sensation seeking, this sense of danger and purpose. It's so attractive, it's a heady cocktail. \"I'm surprised more young people don't come across that. I'm sure they do, but we don't hear about it.\"", "question": "A British teenager will serve at least five years in custody after admitting a plot to massacre veterans at an Anzac Day parade in Australia in an attack @placeholder by the so - called Islamic State ( IS ) .", "option_0": "staged", "option_1": "inspired", "option_2": "struck", "option_3": "plot", "option_4": "ordered"}
{"id": 863, "article": "About 70 acres of park and gardens at Cannon Hall near Barnsley in South Yorkshire will be improved. The ¡ê2,925,200 is to restore original features including an 18th Century ice house and woodland behind the walled garden. Lakes are also to be dredged. Barnsley Council, which owns the visitor attraction, said work is due to be completed by 2020. More live updates from South Yorkshire Richard Emerson, chairman of the friends of Cannon Hall, said: \"The grant is a major boost for a historic recreational site and is absolutely fantastic news. \"This incredible result follows years of long hours and detailed preparation and is vitally important, enabling much needed restoration and improvement of the park and gardens.\" Cannon Hall was owned by the Spencer-Stanhope family for 300 years and its grounds were designed in the 18th century by Georgian landscape architect Richard Woods. The hall opened as a museum in 1957 and its parks and gardens are free to visit. The grant comes from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Lottery Fund.", "question": "The grounds of a Georgian @placeholder house are to be restored with the help of almost ¡ê 3 m of lottery money .", "option_0": "waterway", "option_1": "disabled", "option_2": "plantation", "option_3": "country", "option_4": "network"}
{"id": 864, "article": "Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said more than 500 dead fish were found in the River Afon, a tributary of the Vyrnwy near Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain. NRW officers said the likely source was drainage of a wildlife pond and wetland by a landowner. It is thought nutrients in this water reduced oxygen levels in the river. Rob Ireson, senior environment officer at NRW, said: \"Draining water from a pond to a stream may seem quite harmless - but it is what probably wiped out most of the fish on this stretch of the Cain. \"The water may look and smell normal - but it can be lethal for fish.\" NRW said it was likely the fish suffocated when the drained water - which they believe contained low levels of dissolved oxygen and carried nutrients that could reduce oxygen levels even more when they break down - mixed with the river water.", "question": "Environmental workers believe the source of pollution which killed hundreds of fish in a Powys river has been @placeholder .", "option_0": "identified", "option_1": "exposed", "option_2": "released", "option_3": "announced", "option_4": "launched"}
{"id": 865, "article": "Now The Mystery of the Sony Pictures Hack - which already had all the ingredients for a major Hollywood film - has taken a new twist as the movie at the heart of the row is pulled. That raises a whole host of questions but the key one - who was behind the attack - remains unanswered. To help get to the bottom of the mystery, the BBC turned detective and considered the evidence. What isn't in doubt, despite Sony's desire to write a script where it wakes up and it was all a bad dream, is that the film giant's internal computer system was hacked in November. The group responsible called itself The Guardians of Peace and warned that if its demands were not met, secret data would be \"shown to the world\". Crucially though it did not outline its demands. A number of as-yet unreleased films popped up on online download sites. The Interview, a comedy featuring a plot to assassinate North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, was not among those released. The hackers also released the salary and social security numbers of thousands of Sony employees - including celebrities. Following threats of 9/11 style incidents at any cinema that screened the film from the group behind the hack, Sony announced that it was cancelling the release of the movie altogether. The case for North Korea being behind the attack seems, at least on the face of it, to be a compelling one. It has a motive and a history of hacking. Its leadership certainly did not disguise its anger about the forthcoming Sony film The Interview. In fact, it described the film as \"an act of terrorism\". And rather like a robbery being pinned on a local criminal who has a history of similar offences, North Korea has form. Many are pointing the finger of suspicion firmly towards the crime Unit 121 of North Korea's General Bureau of Reconnaissance, described by some commentators as the country's most elite hacking unit. And shortly after news that the film was pulled, the New York Times ran an article quoting an unnamed government source as saying it believed that attack to be state-sponsored with the North Korean government involved. It might not be the most compelling evidence but it is worth noting that  North Korea denied that it was behind the attack, saying instead that it was the work of someone sympathetic to its cause. It hardly ever bothers to deny such claims. North Korea is not averse to a bit of hacking but many say that the history of this particular crime does not fit with its modus operandi. Its usual target is South Korea where attacks such as one launched in March 2013 have taken down internal networks. Blogger Marc Rogers drills down into the details of this particular hack. He concludes that the fact that the code was written on a PC with Korean locale and language actually makes it less likely North Korea is the source. He points out that they do not speak traditional Korean in North Korea, they speak their own dialect and traditional Korean is forbidden. \"Let's not forget also that it is trivial to change the language/locale of a computer before compiling code on it,\" he writes. He also points out that the the hackers are very net and social-media savvy. \"That and the sophistication of the operation, do not match with the profile of the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea).\" But perhaps his most compelling piece of evidence is the fact that the attackers only latched onto The Interview connection after the media suggested that North Korea might be linked to the attack. In his blog, Mr Rogers writes \"I would find the presence of Chinese far more plausible\" and others also think that Chinese hackers, possibly recruited by North Korea, are a far more likely source of the malware. Other think it may be hackers out to make some money. When the hack was first reported there was little to suggest a monetary motive but actually the hackers emailed five top Sony Pictures executives on November 21, days before they began leaking the files, and demanded money. Sean Sullivan, a senior researcher at security company F-Secure, believes extortion could be the motive behind the hack. \"That is a lot more credible than a nation state,\" he told the BBC. For him, the real test will  be what the hackers do next. If the pulling of The Interview was their primary motive, things should quieten down but if there are more data dumps, then he thinks everyone should pretty much dismiss North Korea as the source. \"I would even bet they dump The Interview on to a torrent site unless Sony puts some money in a brown paper bag,\" he said. Like Mr Rogers, he does not rule out the involvement of Chinese hackers. \"It is far more likely that North Korea would have recruited Chinese hackers who both wanted to make some money and cause Sony pain,\" he said. If the sorry tale were to be turned into a Hollywood movie and, given the times we live in, it almost certainly will - although probably not made by Sony - a better plotline might be anonymous hackers intent on revenge. To understand how this might be a possibility requires a bit of a trawl through the history of Sony and hacking. Its battle with hackers began in 2005 when its music division installed software which modified computer operating systems to prevent CDs being copied. It continued in 2010 when Sony took on teenaged hacker George Hotz who jailbroke his PlayStation 3 and released the code. Its most high-profile attack happened in April 2011 when hacking group Anonymous launched a campaign to bring down the PlayStation Network. The attackers gaining access to the personal information of more than 77 million users. The hack cost Sony at least $171m. As Chester Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at Sophos, put it in an interview with Gizmodo. \"Sony's been raising the ire of hackers for as long as I can remember, so you have to think that they've known they're a serious target.\" For Mr Roberts, the most obvious suspect, like many of the best whodunnits, may be far closer to home. \"My money is on a disgruntled (possibly ex) employee of Sony,\" he concludes. It is debatable whether those responsible for the attack will ever be brought to justice. The US government has said that, if the hackers do turn out to be North Korean, it will be very difficult to prosecute them. And while many may speculate on other suspects, hard evidence is proving elusive. \"The jury is out - North Korea is definitely a suspect. It had opportunity and the means but to convict them you need more evidence,\" said security expert from the University of Surrey Prof Alan Woodward. What everyone does agrees is that the ripple effects from the attack will be felt long after the commentators have stopped asking who is to blame. Sony Pictures faces a long road to redeeming its reputation and gaining back the trust of Hollywood. America faces the hardest of questions about whether, by withdrawing the film, is has given into threats in a way it usually refuses to do. And the IT bosses of corporations around the world may just as well cancel all their Christmas leave as chief executives demand immediate reviews of their security procedures in a desperate attempt to make sure they never fall foul of similar embarrassing leaks. For Mr Sullivan the hack represents a good moment for corporate America to scrutinise its security arrangements. While it might seem easy to blame a nation state it is time to sit up and acknowledge that this could have happened to any number of firms. He hopes there will be \" a decent post-mortem\". Until then though The Most Mysterious Case of the Sony Hack will remain like Charles Dickens' final novel - The Mystery of Edwin Drood - unfinished.", "question": "It has become the whodunnit that is @placeholder Hollywood without a penny being spent on production .", "option_0": "implicated", "option_1": "leaving", "option_2": "attacking", "option_3": "gripping", "option_4": "poised"}
{"id": 866, "article": "Diamond Reynolds says the powers of those whose job it is to protect the people need to be curtailed. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama is visiting Dallas, where five police officers were killed by a black man. It followed protests against the police killing of Mr Castile and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge a day earlier. In an interview with the BBC, Diamond Reynolds, who is also known as Lavish, recounted the moment her partner was killed, and why she chose to film it. \"I was thinking about our rights, right there at that very second. I was thinking about whether or not people were gonna believe what happened. Because I was still at disbelief myself,\" she told BBC 5 Live. \"Right then and there I knew I wanted to make a change,\" she said. She says changes are needed to laws applying to police. \"If we can't turn to our higher power, you know officers and things of that sort, then who are we to turn to if people that are supposed to be protecting  us, are the ones that are assassinating us?\" Mr Castile had been stopped in Falcon Heights, a suburb of St Paul, because the car had a broken rear light, Ms Reynolds said. Before he was shot, he had told the officer that he was licensed to carry a concealed gun and had one in his possession. Police have started an investigation and the officer involved has been put on leave. Philando Castile's and Alton Sterling's deaths follow a long line of high-profile incidents involving African-Americans dying at the hands of the police, and have led to demonstrations across US cities. Last Thursday, during a protest organised by Black Lives Matter in Dallas, Micah Johnson, 25, launched a revenge attack, killing five police officers and wounding seven more, before being killed by a bomb detonated by a police robot. Diamond Reynolds said resorting to retribution is not a solution. \"I absolutely have the deepest condolences for those families that have lost their loved ones in Dallas and all the officers that were defending us that lost their lives trying to defend us,\" she said. President Obama is due to speak at an interfaith memorial service in Dallas later on Tuesday. Walter Scott - unarmed and shot in the back as he ran away from an officer in North Charleston, South Carolina, in April 2015. Former officer Michael Slager facing murder charge Laquan McDonald - 17-year-old was holding a knife but appeared to be moving away from police in Chicago when shot 16 times in 2014. Officer Jason Van Dyke denies murder charge Michael Brown - 18-year-old shot at least seven times in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014, sparking nationwide protests. Officer Darren Wilson cleared of wrongdoing Eric Garner - died after being placed in a chokehold by New York police while selling cigarettes in July 2014. Grand jury decides against charges, police disciplinary action taken against supervising officer Sgt Kizzy Adonis 1,152 people killed by police in 2015 30% of victims were black 13% of US population is black 97% of deaths were not followed by any charges against police officers What goes through a policeman's head before he shoots? Ms Reynolds says she watches the news every day and prays for people who lose their lives and who don't get justice. But she never thought it could be her. \"And now I'm left to sit here and think 'Why me? Why us? Why his family? Why did this police officer do this? Why can't these laws change? Why can't we get justice? Why why why why why?\"", "question": "The woman who live - @placeholder US police killing her black partner Philando Castile in the state of Minnesota last week says she wants changes in the law .", "option_0": "rank", "option_1": "saw", "option_2": "serving", "option_3": "streamed", "option_4": "questioned"}
{"id": 867, "article": "The agency is taking the 60,000 sq ft 'Maxim 6' building on a 20-year lease. The move will allow Sepa to run several of its operations under one roof. Maxim park was saved from financial collapse only a few months ago by the sale of Lloyds Banking Group debt to an American private equity investor. The debt restructuring involved Cerberus Capital Management, a New York-based investment house. The park, which offers 750,000 sq ft of office and retail space across 10 buildings on a prominent site by the M8 motorway, opened in 2007 but has secured few tenants until now. David Gebbie, from commercial property asset managers Arisaig Property Partners, said the recent financial restructuring of Maxim had allowed Sepa and Maxim to achieve a leasing deal that previously could not have been achieved. He added: \"Both Maxim and Sepa have economically benefited from a review of the original terms without impacting the actual net present value of the lease. \"The news is a great boost for Maxim and the Lanarkshire area.\" Sepa will relocate 350 staff to the office, including 200 from East Kilbride - where they are closing down two neighbouring offices - and others from Stirling and Perth as well as scientific staff from Edinburgh. Sepa's headquarters will remain in Stirling. Sepa chief executive Campbell Gemmell commented: \"I am extremely pleased to be able to announce that Sepa has secured an excellent new facility, which will not only mean more efficient and effective environmental protection for Scotland, but which also provides better value for money for the taxpayer. \"It will provide the operational base for our regulatory teams for west central Scotland, an excellent working environment for several related national functions and a brand new, first class laboratory facility.\"", "question": "The @placeholder Maxim office park in Lanarkshire has been given a major boost with the announcement it is to let an entire block to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency ( Sepa ) .", "option_0": "existing", "option_1": "pound", "option_2": "shadow", "option_3": "amount", "option_4": "struggling"}
{"id": 868, "article": "The Dow Jones index lost 110.26 points to 16,963.69 - having added more than 3% over the previous five sessions. The S&P 500 was down 22.44 points to 1,979.32, while the tech-focused Nasdaq index fell 59.43 points to 4,648.83. Figures released by the Chinese government showed exports sinking 25.4% and imports dropping 13.8%. Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of heavy machinery, fell 4%. US oil fell 4.3% to $36.28 a barrel, while Brent crude dropped 3.4% to $39.45 a barrel. Shares of Exxon Mobil and Chevron both fell 2.1%. Shake Shack shares plunged more than 11.8% after the burger chain reported an 11% rise in fourth quarter sales - the slowest growth rate of the last three quarters. Urban Outfitters shares shot up 16.1% after it reported stronger than excepted sales of its Free People clothing line.", "question": "( Close ) : Wall Street share markets closed down , reversing @placeholder from last week , as oil prices dropped and China reported poor trading figures .", "option_0": "data", "option_1": "fortunes", "option_2": "events", "option_3": "gains", "option_4": "points"}
{"id": 869, "article": "Martin Ramsay photographed the orcas on 18 January. He has previously been lucky enough to photograph the animals, which are the world's large species of dolphin, on other trips to sea. Scotland provides habitat for the UK's only known resident population of killer whales, which contains eight older animals. Earlier this month, an orca found dead on Tiree was identified as a member of this group. The carcass was found on 3 January and later identified by specialists from the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust as \"Lulu\", a female member of the small population.", "question": "A Shetland fisherman has captured pictures of killer whales in action off the @placeholder of Lewis in the Western Isles .", "option_0": "value", "option_1": "effects", "option_2": "west", "option_3": "strait", "option_4": "equivalent"}
{"id": 870, "article": "In 1964, Bruno Steinhoff seized on an opportunity to import cheap furniture made in what was then East Germany and sell it in the more cash-rich West. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, he was able to buy up the factories in East Germany that were supplying the furniture. At the same time, his friend, Claas Daun, was busy making a business out of turning around companies that had serious problems. Mr Daun, a tax lawyer by training, had had some dealings in South Africa, starting in 1993, when he bought the troubled South African retailer, Victoria Lewis. Working alongside Mr Daun, as his chief executive, was a young chartered accountant named Markus Jooste. It was Mr Jooste who convinced Mr Daun to merge his South African assets with Mr Steinhoff's business interests in Europe in 1998. A few months later the new entity acquired the furniture maker, Pat Cornick. It was the first of many acquisitions which have swelled the company into the business it is today. What really cemented Steinhoff as a major player in global retail was the 2011 acquisition of the French homeware retailer, Conforama. This brought six new countries under the group's umbrella. Once thought of as the \"Ikea of Africa\", nowadays the group trades in homeware and general merchandise in Europe, Australia, Africa (especially South Africa) and the United Kingdom. It has been involved in two high-profile takeover battles in Europe - both of which it ultimately lost. In the UK, it tried to outbid Sainsbury's for Argos owner Home Retail Group. Shortly after that failed, Steinhoff put in a bid for the French electronics retailer Darty - losing out in the end to French books and music store Fnac. In addition to this, Steinhoff International counts the South African franchise of the car rental company Hertz in its stable, as well as a host of real estate properties across the world. Markus Joost, a keen racehorse owner, owns about 3% of the company and is said to be worth in the region of $700m (¡ê530m). One of the major shareholders in Steinhoff is Christo Weise, the South African retail billionaire ranked by Forbes as the second-richest man in Africa. The group now has 6,500 outlets in 30 countries, 22 manufacturing facilities and 40 retail brands, including Bensons for Beds and Harveys in the UK, Conforama in Europe, Pep and Ackermans in South Africa and Snooze in Australia. Steinhoff derives about 60% of its earnings in Europe and 34% in Africa. In an effort to fund its continuing expansion plans in Europe, the company moved its primary stock market listing from Johannesburg to Frankfurt in December last year. Steinhoff's relentless expansion by acquisitions has provided a solid basis for profit growth as well. In its latest set of results, operating profit had jumped 46% to €1.1bn (¡ê916m; $1.2bn) in the nine months to March, compared with the same period the year before.", "question": "Although @placeholder in South Africa , the origins of Steinhoff go back to West Germany during the Cold War.", "option_0": "headquartered", "option_1": "boom", "option_2": "originating", "option_3": "located", "option_4": "opened"}
{"id": 871, "article": "Deila said winning trophies remains in Celtic's hands and that he is unconcerned at Aberdeen moving to within a point of the league leaders. The Norwegian has been criticised for the side's recent form. \"I feel pressure all the time,\" said Deila. \"We want to win, I want to win. We have every opportunity again to win a lot of trophies this season.\" The Celtic manager said it was important that the supporters continue to get behind the team. \"As I've said many times, I know why I'm here: it's to win trophies, to do something in Europe and to develop this team,\" he added. \"That's what I'm going to do. \"We have every opportunity again to win a lot of trophies this season - I had two last year. Nothing is lost, so I'm really looking forward to the rest of the season. \"Supporters have their opinions and there are different opinions among the supporters. \"It's very important that they stand behind the team and I'm sure they are. \"We have everything in our hands, we don't need to think about anybody. \"The situation is clear. We have played one game less and if we win that we are four points ahead and that is a better situation than we were in last year.\" Meanwhile, striker Leigh Griffiths, who has been sidelined with a calf injury, took part in light training and will be assessed ahead of Sunday's trip to Hearts. And Ryan Christie, who was signed by Celtic from Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the summer then loaned back to the Highlanders, will be with Deila's side for the rest of the season. The midfielder is currently recovering from a knee injury. \"He has arrived at the club and that is a positive,\" added Deila. \"He is still injured but will start training around the end of January. \"He is very talented but he will have to fight with everyone else to get into the team. \"It is important to get him here, to this environment to get to know all the boys and staff and get used to the way we train and play.\"", "question": "Celtic manager Ronny Deila says he should be @placeholder on results at the end of the season .", "option_0": "switched", "option_1": "sacked", "option_2": "offered", "option_3": "judged", "option_4": "promoted"}
{"id": 872, "article": "But whereas many other whisky producers use an internal element to heat their stills, the ecologically minded artisan fires his with used cooking oil reclaimed from a local chip fryer. \"With the odd chip strained away, she burns a beaut,\" he says amid the bald hills of the Tasmanian Midlands. \"The direct-flame heating of the still [produced by burning the oil] lends a caramel to the spirit.\" That's the not the only piece of unusual equipment in Bignell's still. He uses a reclaimed laundromat tumble dryer for malting. A repurposed motor from a blender acts as a pump amid a marvellous collection of reused bits and pieces that make up his Belgrove Distillery, crammed into a converted, cobwebbed 18th Century stable. Tastings take place in one of the stalls before an order is siphoned from a barrel overhead into a bottle that's numbered, signed and labelled before your eyes. Bignell, an agricultural scientist cum sand-and-ice sculptor of world renown, is committed to locally sourcing his ingredients. He is even considering using sheep manure from under his shearing shed as an alternative to peat, which is burned to impart a smoky flavour to the whisky. \"It's less 'miles' as the shed's next to my rye fields, but I'm worried about a possible marketing downside,\" he says. Not that he need worry. With a rating of 94.5 out of 100, his rye whisky rates as \"liquid gold\" in the world's leading whisky guide, Jim Murray's Whisky Bible. \"Perhaps the most concentrated rye arrival I have tasted for a couple of years from any part of the world. Just so sharp, almost three dimensional,\" Murray's review gushes. No less a figure than Rene Redzepi, the chef who runs fine-dining mecca Noma in Copenhagen, is a fan of Bignell's unique whiskies. Noma's newly opened Sydney pop-up restaurant has five Belgrove whiskies on its list of 23 Australian craft spirits. Bignell says he is \"pinching himself\" and plans on tripling production with a larger second still to 300 litres per month. \"But I've been saying that for a couple of years,\" he says. Tasmania looms large in Australia's history of distilling. When the state was still a colony called Van Diemen's Land, its fourth lieutenant-governor, Sir John Franklin, passed a law banning small pot stills in 1838. A trade in \"rum\" was undermining the fledgling colony, Sir John thought. When the Australian states federated in 1901, \"Bad Frankie's\" law passed through to all of the country, although stills above 40,000 litres were permitted. Enter lauded Tasmanian Bill Lark, a surveyor, who set about changing the law and pioneering Australian craft whisky. On a fly-fishing trip to the Tasmanian highlands he thought the state would be a good place to make whisky. He successfully lobbied politicians to allow the running of stills under 40,000 litres in 1992, and went on to set up his own distillery in Tasmania. Demand for Tasmanian whisky was turbo-charged in 2014 when Tasmania Distillery's brand Sullivans Cove won \"World's Best Single Malt Whisky\" at the World Whisky Awards. It was the first time a whisky from somewhere other than Scotland or Japan had won the prestigious award. Now the 15 or so small-scale distillers in Tasmania can't make enough to keep up with demand and their small stockpiles have been exhausted. While the number of barrels maturing in Tasmania is increasing each year, Tasmania's makers of \"liquid gold\" must manage waiting lists of up to two years for certain barrels. That's something Tasmania Distillery laments, as 700ml bottles of Sullivans Cove now trade privately for $6,000 Australian ($4,200;¡ê3,000). The whisky, which was aged in a French oak barrel, was selling for A$180 before the award and the subsequent stampede to secure them. The distillery didn't think, pre-award, to hold any back, leaving them with only a couple of bottles and a small reserve. \"We won't do that again,\" says marketing manager Bert Cason. Tasmania Distillery was last year able to produce two special release magnums using just a blend of the \"world's best\" barrel, selling them within minutes of release for $10,000 each. A step up in production sophistication from the likes of Belgrove, Tasmania Distillery makes 8,000 bottles a year of the French oak (now $350) and 18,000 bottles in total of all types of Sullivans Cove whisky. Old Hobart Distillery manages demand by allocating \"a significant number\" of bottles from each barrel to specialist bars, restaurants and liquor stores, marketing manager Jane Overeem says. \"The remainder is allocated to our customers who have joined our mailing list. \"Just before Christmas, we released three barrels online after sending an email notification to our very loyal database,\" she says. \"The three barrels sold out in 21 minutes.\" Paul Carter is a journalist and whisky columnist living in Tasmania.", "question": "Just near Bagdad on the road to Jericho in Australia 's @placeholder state of Tasmania , Peter Bignell is making \" liquid gold \" .", "option_0": "home", "option_1": "island", "option_2": "heart", "option_3": "migration", "option_4": "category"}
{"id": 873, "article": "Halfpenny, 27, has an option for another year in France when his deal runs out at the end of the season. Wasps director of rugby Dai Young says the Wales full-back has turned down on offer to join them, but Cardiff Blues and Scarlets remain hopeful. \"It's a no brainer for him to stay in Toulon,\" said Byrne. \"He wasn't in a team photo a few weeks ago so people thought he was going to leave Toulon but it looks like he's maybe had a change of heart. \"People have linked him to the Scarlets but they've got Liam Williams there so that probably wouldn't be the right move either.\" Young's comments are the clearest indication yet that Halfpenny, who could miss the whole season after having knee ligament surgery in September, feels his immediate future remains in France. Returning to Wales would benefit national coach Warren Gatland given the limitations imposed on him on the number of foreign-based players he can select in the squad. But Byrne, who did not play for Wales again after moving to Clermont Auvergne in 2011, believes Halfpenny's importance to the team as one of the world's best place-kickers means his place is safe irrespective of the so-called Gatland's Law. \"It would be great if Leigh came back to Wales but I think his international career is fine if he stays in Toulon,\" said Byrne, who helped Wales win the 2008 Grand Slam and scored 10-tries in a 46-cap career. \"I'm sure he's had a conversation with the coaches - he's a massive weapon for Wales in terms of his kicking.\" Byrne also believes Halfpenny will improve as a player by playing alongside a host of world-class players, including New Zealand great Ma'a Nonu, who joined Toulon after winning the 2015 World Cup. \"The vast majority of the players who leave New Zealand or Australia end up in the Top 14,\" he said. \"Playing with someone like Ma'a Nonu is going to bring his game on. \"So there's not a big rush for him to come back. He's winning trophies, he's playing in front of sell-out crowds week-in-week-out and he's being paid a very good salary.\"", "question": "Leigh Halfpenny will stay in France with Toulon rather than return to join a Welsh @placeholder , according to former Wales full - back Lee Byrne .", "option_0": "region", "option_1": "outfit", "option_2": "deal", "option_3": "series", "option_4": "future"}
{"id": 874, "article": "A proposed new runway north-west of the airport would affect residents living in and around Slough and Windsor. Slough Borough Council said it was important residents were compensated for an increase in noise and the impact on property values. Three events across Slough and Windsor will be held next month. The airport has already set aside ?¡ê550m for compensation and said owners of 750 homes that would need to be demolished would be offered 25% above the market value of their properties. Slough council is also making copies of the consultation document available at a number of its public buildings, including all of the town's libraries. The Heathrow Airport consultation runs until 12 October.", "question": "People in Berkshire who think they should be compensated if Heathrow Airport is expanded are being urged to attend a series of @placeholder events .", "option_0": "health", "option_1": "exhibition", "option_2": "food", "option_3": "traffic", "option_4": "special"}
{"id": 875, "article": "Alvarez, 25, stopped Briton Amir Khan in the sixth round of their Las Vegas bout on 7 May to retain the title. The WBC had given Alvarez a deadline of 22 May to begin negotiations with WBA and IBF champion Golovkin or face being stripped of his title. But Alvarez says he will now target a fight against the unbeaten Kazakhstani. \"I'm hopeful that by putting aside this ticking clock, the two teams can now negotiate this fight,\" said Alvarez. Alvarez, whose only professional defeat came against Floyd Mayweather in 2013, added that he had instructed his promoter to \"finalise a deal as quickly as possible\". Golovkin, 34, who now holds three of the four major middleweight crowns, has won 32 of his 35 fights by knockout in an undefeated career, and was invited into the ring after Alvarez's win over Khan. \"I will fight 'GGG' and I will beat 'GGG' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines,\" said Alvarez.", "question": "WBA and IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin has been handed the WBC title after Mexican Saul ' Canelo ' Alvarez @placeholder the belt .", "option_0": "attacking", "option_1": "influence", "option_2": "vacated", "option_3": "share", "option_4": "form"}
{"id": 876, "article": "Saturday night at Twickenham was all that and more. Breathless chaos, impossible composure.  A moment of brilliance, a litany of stupidity. Arguably the biggest and best win Wales have ever pulled off on foreign soil, indisputably the most devastating defeat of Stuart Lancaster's England regime. How did Wales snatch it? In any normal victory over England - if there were such a thing - there would be those who couldn't care. All that matters is the win. Except this time the style and circumstance will be essential to the celebration. Ten points down at half-time, a scrum disintegrating, a line-out malfunctioning. Half a team out injured before the night had begun, their replacements succumbing the same way. England in charge, kicking their points, holding their line. Some of it sprung from a change in tactics. Keep the ball in play. Take the set-piece out of the equation. A lot of it came down to the dead-eyed kicking of Dan Biggar. Seven penalties kicked for the posts, seven successful. No Welshman has ever scored as many in a World Cup contest as his unblemished 23. With the deficit still seven points and less than 10 minutes remaining, in came the individual inspiration - Lloyd Williams, disappearing down a white-shirted cul-de-sac on the left wing, kicking cross-field with the same elan and accuracy as Didier Camberabero on this same turf 24 years ago to send Gareth Davies away for the critical try. With the score locked at 25-25, a weary yet indefatigable Biggar nailed a monstrous penalty from almost halfway to complete the comeback. All that, and then belief, and guts, and fitness, and fight. There were reasons everywhere for Wales to accept defeat. They would not take them. It still should not have been enough. This was a match won in astonishing fashion but also lost in the way that can haunt teams and finish coaches. Had you missed the entire match then the look on Lancaster's face afterwards would have told you everything you needed to know. This was the doomsday scenario for his side, a win over Australia now the only thing that stands between them and unwanted infamy as the first World Cup hosts in history to go out of their own tournament in the group stages. It was also a collective failure of strategy, a second-half brain freeze that manifested itself in repeated penalties for exactly the same breakdown offence and came to a head in the decision, three minutes from time, to kick for the corner rather than take on the three points that would have rescued at least a draw. For all the talk about the coach's controversial team selection, this was a match decided elsewhere. Owen Farrell was excellent, banging over all five of his penalties, adding a somewhat wobbly drop-goal and a simpler conversion. Sam Burgess bashed and crashed and slammed a little too. Just before half-time, England led 16-6. They were dominant in the scrum, all over every line-out, winning quick ball and creating space out wide as their ball-carriers sucked in defenders. Ben Youngs was firing, Mike Brown scorching a trail. Just after half-time they still led 19-9. With half an hour to go they had it held at 22-12. So where did it go? In the head and in the hands. At ruck after ruck an Englishman would transgress, the whistle of Jerome Garces would trill and Biggar's boot made another dent in their lead. England missed 17 tackles and conceded eight turnovers. Too often in a disintegrating second half they kicked possession aimlessly away. More critical were the 12 penalties, so many for the same offence. Why not realise? Why not adapt? So much else that England had done was based on solid pragmatism: kick for territory, pick up points when deep in opposition territory, keep the defensive line-speed high and door tightly shut. They could still have rescued it. A draw would have kept this most open of groups in the tantalising balance. Farrell had been faultless. So why gamble on something more? Captain Chris Robshaw has been here before. With time running out against South Africa in the autumn of 2012 he instructed Farrell take a penalty that took his side to within a point, rather than going to the corner. England mangled the re-start, ran out time and lost the match. Three years on he went the other way - red rather than black, twist rather than stick - and found the result the same. Lancaster offered him precious little protection afterwards. He had been screaming from the bench to take the points that would have levelled it. He may be screaming in his sleep for long dark nights to come. For all he has done with England, for all the dedication and thought he has put into his four years and the broken bridges he has mended between the country's elite players and its long-suffering support, it may all be crashing down around him. Sides have come back from calamitous defeats in the group stages before to flourish again at World Cups. Four years ago France were embarrassed by Tonga but went on to reach the final and be within a kick of winning the thing. Eight years ago England were blitzed 36-0 by South Africa yet fought back to somehow meet the same opponents again in the final. Neither had to beat a side as accomplished as the Wallabies just to make it into the knockout stages. Lancaster's team, in every Six Nations and every autumn series, has failed at least one big test. The wriggle-room has now gone. Another now-characteristic failure and they will be gone. Quite what happens to Wales next is another matter. With Scott Williams, Liam Williams and Hallam Amos added to an injury-list that already included two props, a winger, a first-choice scrum-half and a Lions full-back and centre, and a bench so bare that they finished this match with a wing at centre, a scrum-half on wing and a patched-up fly-half at full-back, this victory has come at a cruel price. That is for another night and another morning. As midnight passed to the sounds of Hymns and Arias being sung from the stadium bars and early morning arrived to men in red dancing down the dark streets of south-west London, it was all about one match: a win like no other, a night to never forget.", "question": "Sometimes there are games so @placeholder that hype is left looking lightweight . Sometimes there are contests so brutal that there are more men bloodied and broken than left standing . Sometimes teams refuse to be beaten , even when the scoreboard and odds and environment are all against them .", "option_0": "agrees", "option_1": "discover", "option_2": "gripping", "option_3": "show", "option_4": "claiming"}
{"id": 877, "article": "Keane Wallis-Bennett, 12, died at Liberton High School in April 2014. The inquiry into her death has been taking place at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. Mark Hatfield, an inspector for the Health and Safety Executive, was asked about evidence which had been given by a fellow pupil at the school. The pupil had described \"mucking about\" with a friend in the changing room by leaning against the wall with their feet up on the opposite wall. Fiscal depute Gary Aitken said the girl could not remember whether she and her friend had been doing this at the same time or separately. \"If one of the girls was acting in the manner described, is it possible that may be the reason the wall collapsed?\" he asked. Mr Hatfield replied: \"If the wall was only partially cracked, I do not believe it possible for a single girl to have caused it to fall. \"If the wall was already fully cracked, it is possible a single girl, acting in the way described, may have made the wall fall.\" He added that if two girls had been acting simultaneously and the wall was fully cracked, it would \"turn possibility into probability\". The parties involved in the inquiry will make their submissions on Friday.", "question": "A fatal accident inquiry into the death of an Edinburgh schoolgirl who was crushed by a falling wall has @placeholder hearing evidence .", "option_0": "prompted", "option_1": "been", "option_2": "condemned", "option_3": "limited", "option_4": "finished"}
{"id": 878, "article": "The green, red and white of the Mexican flag will be everywhere as tens of thousands of Mexican-Americans and other Chicagoans gather to celebrate the Fifth of May or Cinco de Mayo. That is the day the Mexican army defeated the French invasion against all the odds in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. In Pilsen, they will mark the occasion with a parade of elaborate floats, mariachis, local beauty queens and talented horsemen. And, being a celebration of Mexico, you'll be able to find good food, music and chelas (beer). Particularly the beers. \"In Chicago, the Cinco de Mayo is a marketing ploy to sell alcohol,\" says Vincent Rangel, the President of the Mexican Civic Association of Illinois, and long-time resident of the city. \"I've been in Chicago for 63 years, and we're dumbfounded at how the date has taken on a life of its own. Especially when you consider that it's really not celebrated in Mexico, unless you're actually from Puebla.\" That, says Mr Rangel, is the great irony of the raucous Cinco de Mayo party in the United States: it's a far bigger affair north of the border than it is in Mexico itself. These days, it has an important political dimension too. President Barack Obama celebrated the Cinco de Mayo with a group of prominent Hispanic leaders on the Rose Lawn. They were served tuna ceviche and lamb in tamarind mole as President Obama used the occasion to garner support for the Dream Act, a bill to grant legal status to undocumented young people. Meanwhile in Mexico City, the day is likely to pass off like any other Saturday. Few bars will be doing anything out of the ordinary, and there is no sense that this is the \"Day of Mexican Pride\" as it has been dubbed in the United States. Apart from in one particular neighbourhood towards Mexico City's international airport, Penon de los Banos. Here, the recreation of the Battle of Puebla has been held for decades and all day the small barrio will reverberate to the sounds of muskets, canons and blood-curdling battle cries. And, of course, there will be a huge event in Puebla itself. The picturesque city is where, 150 years ago to the day, the Mexican army under the command of General Ignacio Zaragoza, supported by indigenous warriors carrying machetes, drove out the French troops of Napoleon III. \"Mexico was between two fires,\" says Juan Pablo Salazar, the official historian of Puebla. \"Either we embraced the United States or we embraced Europe.\" At that fork in the road, he says, the Battle of Puebla was crucial in determining the future direction of Mexico by choosing to defend its fledgling sovereignty from the invading forces. The nature of the victory was crucial too. \"The French assumed they'd flatten everyone, particularly the indigenous tribes who had no military technology,\" the historian says. But the Indians, supporting a vastly outnumbered Mexican army, came out to fight from all over Puebla. \"They were very poor, simple people and they fought with their souls. You can imagine the political importance the United States made of the victory. It was a way of telling France: 'This is ours, America is for the Americans'.\" The tale of the outnumbered and weaker Mexicans claiming an unlikely victory against one of the most powerful militaries in the world adds to the romance of the Cinco de Mayo, says Juan Pablo Salazar. It is a story which has been celebrated by successive Mexican governments for a century and a half. On Saturday, thousands of modern-day soldiers will take time away from military matters in Mexico to recreate the battle in front of President Felipe Calderon. Back in the US, there are still a lot of misconceptions about the Cinco de Mayo, says Mexican-born Chicago resident, Vincent Rangel. \"Most people think it's Mexican Independence Day,\" he chuckles. (That's actually on 16 September.) \"We home-grown Mexicans laugh a bit at the half-price margaritas and the buckets of Corona beer for five dollars. I know of Irish pubs that have Cinco de Mayo specials, it's bizarre.\" But, he adds, for fear of sounding like a killjoy, the older generation aren't trying to rain on the parade. \"I think it's encouraging when people ask us 'What is this Cinco de mayo thing all about?' \" \"I explain to my friends who are Germans or Poles or Jewish that, for me at least, it's a moment for quiet reflection about the great sacrifice people made 150 years ago to get us to this point.\"", "question": "If you find yourself on Cermak Road in the Pilsen district of Chicago on Saturday , you might be forgiven for thinking you had stumbled into a Mexican town in the @placeholder of its fiestas .", "option_0": "course", "option_1": "tradition", "option_2": "middle", "option_3": "depths", "option_4": "phases"}
{"id": 879, "article": "The day ticket costing ¡ê10 for adults, ¡ê7 for children and ¡ê25 for a family is aimed at providing affordable public transport on the TrawsCymru network. Economy Secretary Ken Skates hailed it as \"an exciting opportunity\" to boost use of the government-funded service. TrawsCymru buses carried more than two million passengers last year. \"The new TrawsCymru Day Ticket is an exciting opportunity to encourage people across Wales to enjoy this fantastic public transport service and travel Wales,\" said Mr Skates. \"The ticket represents a significant saving for those looking to make long distance journeys and, hopefully, facilitate more hop-on hop-off travel across Wales too - boosting tourism and local economies in the process.\" The scheme allows unlimited travel on T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T9 services and on the X85 service between Newtown and Machynlleth.", "question": "New tickets offering unlimited long distance bus travel across Wales are being @placeholder with hopes of boosting tourism and the economy .", "option_0": "dealt", "option_1": "produced", "option_2": "added", "option_3": "filled", "option_4": "launched"}
{"id": 880, "article": "The 29-year-old, who is currently in Rio hosting coverage of the Olympic Games, said he was \"a huge fan\" of the show and \"cannot wait to get started\". \"I'm still waiting for someone to wake me up and tell me I'm dreaming! It's going to be so much fun,\" he added. Oduba is the fourth star announced for the show, which begins in September. He joins former shadow chancellor Ed Balls, singer Will Young and presenter Laura Whitmore, who were confirmed earlier this week. Oduba, who also appears on BBC Breakfast, said: \"I've been such a huge fan of the show for over a decade. So to actually take to the Strictly stage myself, I don't think I've been more nervously excited - aside from on my wedding day. Let's hope for fewer tears!\" Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "BBC Sport presenter Ore Oduba has become the latest celebrity to join the line - up for the new @placeholder of BBC One 's Strictly Come Dancing .", "option_0": "series", "option_1": "revival", "option_2": "areas", "option_3": "side", "option_4": "end"}
{"id": 881, "article": "Traveller Sally Bowers said the site in Coverack, Cornwall, had become \"our home\" and she had \"nowhere else to go\". Leaseholders St Keverne Parish Council declined to comment but confirmed it had served an eviction notice. It said last year up to 25 parking spaces would be freed if the travellers were relocated. It also \"strongly supports\" a plan to build a travellers' site on Goonhilly Downs. Ms Bowers said she had applied to Cornwall Council, which owns the land, for a certificate of lawfulness to prove she does not need permission to station several caravans at the site. The authority said it had not yet reached a decision on whether to grant the certificate and confirmed it \"does not currently have an alternative site\" to offer the family. It added its previous position had been \"to temporarily tolerate the use of the site\" until an alternative could be provided. The parish council said the proposed Goonhilly Downs site would \"accommodate this particular family\" and solve \"this ongoing blight\". Ms Bowers' 18-year-old son, Elwood, said it was one of the \"better\" places he had lived, having previously resided at a gravel pit and a dump. \"I think I am resourceful because of it, I'm happy to work and have worked in the village since I was 15,\" he said. Ms Bowers said she had not intended to stay at the site so long. \"This has been our home for over ten years and we have tried to make the best of it we could,\" she added, Planning permission has not yet been granted for the new travellers' site.", "question": "A woman who @placeholder three children in a public car park for more than a decade says she is being evicted by the council .", "option_0": "raised", "option_1": "left", "option_2": "holds", "option_3": "attacked", "option_4": "lost"}
{"id": 882, "article": "The 29-year-old, who won a silver for Great Britain at London 2012, needed a find a new partner and be selected again - and he and Chris Grube will now go to Brazil in the men's 470. Dylan Fletcher and Alain Sign - in the 49er - have also been chosen for Rio. The quartet complete the 15-person British sailing team. Patience said: \"It's still a special day but mixed feelings I suppose because I am combining two campaigns to try and still achieve the same goal. \"It was wonderful to do this with Chris and it was wonderful to do that day with Elliot as well.\" Luke Patience (Men's 470) Chris Grube (Men's 470) Dylan Fletcher (49er) Alain Sign (49er) Giles Scott (Finn) Nick Thompson (Laser) Alison Young (Laser Radial) Bryony Shaw (Women's RS:X) Nick Dempsey (Men's RS:X) Hannah Mills (Women's 470) Saskia Clark (Women's 470) Charlotte Dobson (49erFX) Sophie Ainsworth (49erFX) Ben Saxton (Nacra 17) Nicola Groves (Nacra 17)", "question": "Luke Patience has been @placeholder for the Rio 2016 Olympics for the second time , after his initial partner Elliot Willis missed out because of bowel cancer .", "option_0": "qualified", "option_1": "picked", "option_2": "training", "option_3": "praised", "option_4": "honoured"}
{"id": 883, "article": "It comes amid a Ugandan ban on the recruitment of maids to work in Saudi Arabia after accusations that workers have been mistreated. The women were staying in a government-run shelter in Riyadh because they did not have money to pay for a flight. The shelter is for people who have run away from their employers and illegal workers caught by immigration services. A statement from the Ugandan Embassy in Saudi Arabia said that they found 24 women from Uganda at the shelter in the Saudi capital. After visiting the shelter, Ugandan ambassador Rachid Yahya Ssemuddu said that \"most of the cases involved human trafficking\". \"Many of the young girls were brought to Saudi Arabia on promises that could not be met by those recruiting them,\" he said. The Philippines, Indonesia and Ethiopia have also banned domestic workers from travelling to Saudi Arabia after reports of abuse. In efforts to improve working conditions, the Ugandan embassy said it had employed a private company to monitor Ugandan migrant workers. It was using an internet-based system that would ensure that only licensed Saudi employment agencies recruited Ugandan workers in future. The poor treatment and abuse of maids in the Middle East is a familiar tale. Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock tell the disturbing story of a young Ethiopian woman who took a job as a domestic help in Saudi Arabia but was treated like a slave. Read Almaz's story", "question": "Seven women stranded in a Saudi hostel have been @placeholder home , Uganda 's ambassador to Saudi Arabia says .", "option_0": "driven", "option_1": "released", "option_2": "flown", "option_3": "launched", "option_4": "raised"}
{"id": 884, "article": "Admiral Benedictus Kelly lived in Saltford House, near Bath, from 1856 until 1867 when he died. The citation spoke of the \"significant and dangerous\" part he played helping stop the slave trade during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. It was unveiled by MP Jacob Rees Mogg who said the community should celebrate his \"remarkable life\". Chairman of Saltford Environment Group, Phil Harding, has carried out Phil Harding, has carried out extensive research on Admiral Kelly's life. He said he was astounded to discover his contribution to help end slavery, and provide support for the education of children in the 19th Century. Early in his career Admiral Kelly fought the French and Spanish Fleets in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. At the end of his active service he freed 350 slaves. He was also part of HMS Pheasant's anti-slavery patrols off the coast of Africa from 1818 to 1822, following the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807. He intercepted and examined several Portuguese, French and Spanish vessels suspected to be capable of carrying slaves - freeing many hundreds more. Admiral Kelly was also one of the first directors of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, and held directorships of a number of railway companies in the south of England. A bequest after his death led to the building of Kelly College in Tavistock, Devon, - now known as Mount Kelly.", "question": "A plaque has been unveiled to @placeholder a naval admiral 's contribution towards the abolition of slavery .", "option_0": "oversee", "option_1": "compose", "option_2": "complete", "option_3": "build", "option_4": "recognise"}
{"id": 885, "article": "However, it said the girls abducted from a school in Chibok in April 2014 were not among them. The military said the girls and women were freed during major operations ending in the seizure of four Boko Haram camps in the Sambisa Forest. A military spokesman said they were now being interviewed. Weapons were also seized at the camps taken in the latest operation, the military said. In recent months Nigerian security forces have taken back most of the territory previously under the control of Boko Haram, the BBC's Tomi Oladipo reports from Lagos. Gen Chris Olukolade said the hostages were freed as part of a major, ongoing operation. He said accurate intelligence had helped the military locate the camps, which had been attacked from all directions by ground and air forces. Last October, the government said it had secured an agreement for a ceasefire and the release of the girls taken from Chibok, but Boko Haram subsequently denied this. The abduction of the girls in Chibok sparked global outrage with many joining a campaign online to free them using the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls. Several nations including the US and China vowed to help find them and there have been reported sightings of the girls, but none has been found to date. Meanwhile, the government of neighbouring Niger gave more details about fighting between its troops and Boko Haram on an island in Lake Chad over the weekend. It says 28 civilians died when Boko Haram attacked Karamga island and that 46 of its troops died in the battle for the island, along with more than 150 militants. Reports in local media have given a much higher death toll for government forces. Boko Haram's insurgency, and the army campaign against it, have killed more than 15,500 people since 2012. The violence has recently spread to neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon.", "question": "The Nigerian military says it has @placeholder 200 girls and 93 women from an area where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is active .", "option_0": "rescued", "option_1": "received", "option_2": "bombed", "option_3": "criticised", "option_4": "captured"}
{"id": 886, "article": "The 15cm high concrete wall is topped with razor wire, miniature US flags and includes 'Keep Out' signs written in both Spanish and English. It was created by LA-based street artist Plastic Jesus and was inspired by comments made by the Republican Presidential nominee last year when he outlined plans to build a wall along the US-Mexico border to stop illegal immigrants. Curious tourists snapped photographs of the Los Angeles structure, while a picture of the unusual artwork posted on the artist's Instagram account received more than 14,000 likes by Thursday morning. One person called the wall \"the most genius vandalism of the star yet,\" while another said it was the \"best thing I've seen all day.\" There were also those who were unimpressed by the Trump-attacking artwork, with one user exclaiming that \"A Trump presidency is what the US needs.\" In an interview with the BBC, Plastic Jesus explained why he had built the 'wall': \"I wanted to create a piece that drew attention to [Trump's] potential policies,\" he says. \"I knew this week was the republican convention and I suppose I was capitalising on the momentum of the convention.\" And so, on Tuesday afternoon he took his tiny wall made from wood and concrete, and placed it on top of Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He says the response to his wall has been largely supportive. \"I went to Hollywood Boulevard yesterday to take photographs and found myself in an absolute bottleneck of people taking photographs of the piece - it's been absolutely crazy.\" The artist, who emigrated to the US from the UK nine years ago, says he's not a fan of Donald Trump, \"In the US you'll interact with immigrants from all over the world and it's one of the things that makes the US so great. Donald Trump's policy proposals are a threat to all of the immigrants.\" Donald Trump received the 2,327th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007 for his work on America's The Apprentice. By Daniel Avis, BBC's UGC and Social News team", "question": "Donald Trump 's controversial call for a \" great , great wall \" on the US - Mexico border has yet to be @placeholder but a tiny , tiny one has been built instead - surrounding his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .", "option_0": "made", "option_1": "released", "option_2": "realised", "option_3": "implemented", "option_4": "wearing"}
{"id": 887, "article": "Trafford Council closed Bollin Primary School in Bowdon, Greater Manchester on Monday after concerns about a \"reduced capacity of senior leadership\". The council said the school had appointed an interim head teacher and it would reopen for Key Stage 2 pupils on Thursday. Other classes will return in the next few days, said the council. It follows a strike by teachers on Thursday, supported by some parents who demonstrated outside school. The school has appointed Kylie Spark as interim head teacher while Michelle Brindle was \"not in school\", the council said. There are no details about how long Mrs Spark, of Sale's Tyntesfield Primary School, will be in post. A number of staff have been neutrally suspended while investigations continue into a video purporting to show teaching staff at a party making comments about Ms Brindle. Trafford Council added it has applied to the Department for Education for approval for an interim executive board consisting of experienced governors. One parent of a pupil at the school, which was rated as \"outstanding\" in its last Ofsted inspection, said she was worried many of the teachers will not return. Julie Saunders said: \"That is massively disruptive and upsetting for the children. \"It is not just a building with a few supply teachers; a school is a community which knows and understands the kids.\" Sean Anstee, leader of Trafford Council, said he understood parents' concerns and the council had been working with the governing body to resolve issues. He added: \"We are doing everything we can to reopen the school and return it to the wonderful school we know it to be.\" Key Stage 1 pupils will be invited back into school on Friday and early years pupils will return on Monday. A petition of no confidence in Ms Brindle has been signed by more than 900 people. The head teacher told the BBC she did not want to comment. The school teaches more than 200 pupils from the age of three to 11.", "question": "A school shut by council bosses days after a staff strike over workloads is to have a \" @placeholder \" reopening .", "option_0": "dedicated", "option_1": "forced", "option_2": "phased", "option_3": "structure", "option_4": "written"}
{"id": 888, "article": "The presenter was writing in his first column for the Sun since he was released from the show on 25 March after an \"unprovoked physical attack\" on a producer. \"Heartfelt thanks to all those who have written to say how much they will miss me on Top Gear,\" he wrote. \"It's not as much, however, as I'll miss being there.\" He did not add anything more about the incident. Clarkson had been suspended by the BBC on 10 March, following what was called a \"fracas\" with Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon. The decision caused an outpouring of support from Top Gear fans, with more than a million people signing an online petition to reinstate him. The row, which took place in a Yorkshire hotel, was said to have occurred because no hot food was provided following a day's filming. An internal investigation followed and the BBC's director general Tony Hall confirmed Clarkson's contract would not be renewed. His weekly Sun column had not appeared in the interim but the paper had assured readers that he was on holiday and \"had not been sacked\".", "question": "Jeremy Clarkson has said he will miss @placeholder Top Gear , in his first comment since he was dropped from the BBC show .", "option_0": "punching", "option_1": "conduct", "option_2": "join", "option_3": "hosting", "option_4": "marry"}
{"id": 889, "article": "It was only the second time builder Aaron Hughes, 26, had used the gift from his father, Brian, who was with him at Gilfach, near Rhayader, along with his girlfriend Charlotte Croudace. Police cordoned off the area and called in a bomb disposal team from Hereford. Mr Hughes joked that the bomb was \"nice to find,\" but he would have rather have discovered a pot of gold. It is understood the device was a mortar bomb, but why it was buried on a nature reserve is a mystery. The trio were walking along a path on the reserve when they made the discovery. \"It was the first time I'd properly used the metal detector,\" Mr Hughes said. \"I had been out on New Year's Day and I'd found a few coins near a playground - a few coppers and a couple of pound coins. \"The following day on the Gilfach reserve we'd only been there 10 minutes when the detector started beeping. \"I thought I'd discovered a can or a metal lid. I never imagined I would find a bomb. \"I scratched down into the ground and saw the tip of the what we now know is a bomb. \"I wasn't sure what it was to start with, so I started digging down with a spade and flicked it out of the ground and onto the grass. It was about 2-3in (5-7cm) deep. \"We were shocked because it was pretty obviously a bomb. \"We weren't sure whether or not to phone the police because 999 is only for emergencies - but this was sort of an emergency. \"It was a nice thing to find, but I obviously would have rather have found a big pot of gold.\"", "question": "A man using a metal detector he was given for Christmas has @placeholder a World War II bomb on a nature reserve .", "option_0": "unearthed", "option_1": "escaped", "option_2": "rescued", "option_3": "planted", "option_4": "overturned"}
{"id": 890, "article": "William Gowan, 38, had received details of driving test candidates weeks in advance. Gowan, from Ardminnan Road, Portaferry, County Down, pleaded guilty to six counts of misconduct. He received details of 21 candidates sitting driving tests before their test dates. The court was told texts had been received from two mobile phones. The court also heard that Gowan had run to the toilet with his phone in his hand when the police arrived to speak to him. Sentencing him, the judge said Gowan had betrayed the trust placed in him. He said the offence would fully deserve a custodial sentence, but giving him some credit for his guilty plea and taking into account his clean record and low risk of re-offending, he was prepared to mark this \"quite disgraceful behaviour\" with a non-custodial sentence. Gowan received the maximum community service order of 240 hours. The judge warned him he was escaping prison \"by the skin of his teeth\" and would not get a second chance.", "question": "A driving examiner has been sentenced to 240 hours community service for misconduct in public @placeholder .", "option_0": "night", "option_1": "conditions", "option_2": "office", "option_3": "circumstances", "option_4": "life"}
{"id": 891, "article": "The Local Government Association (LGA) says some UK outlets already do so, but the industry must do more. A mandatory scheme in the US has given large restaurant chains until the end of 2016 to put calorie counts on menus. The LGA, which represents councils in England and Wales, has called for voluntary action. Izzi Seccombe, chairman of the LGA's community well-being board, said: \"We are calling on cinema, restaurant and pub chains to step up and show leadership in tackling the obesity crisis, by providing clear and graphic signs at counters and on menus. \"In many cases, people are unaware of how many calories they are consuming. \"Food and drink outlets should be doing more to provide clear and prominent labelling which spells this out clearly.\" More than 3.5 million children in Britain are classed as overweight or obese, the LGA said. It said research showed that soft drinks were the biggest contributor to children's sugar intake. A report by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition has advised the government to halve the current recommended intake of free sugars from 10% to 5%.", "question": "Every restaurant , pub and cinema chain should be @placeholder the calorie content of their food and drink , council leaders have said .", "option_0": "visited", "option_1": "displaying", "option_2": "enjoying", "option_3": "forced", "option_4": "testing"}
{"id": 892, "article": "Liverpool Crown Court was told the drugs, found at a user's home, were in bags embossed with the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) logo. Philip Eckersley, 28, admitted conspiracy to supply cannabis and was jailed for four years, three months. The jury was told a \"degree of sloppiness\" developed at GMP's Longsight property store. Eckersley, of Henry Street, Tyldesley, worked for eight years as a property assistant, the court heard. He stole cannabis bags weighing more than half a kilo and tablets similar to Ecstasy with a street value of ?¡ê3,900. They were found at the home of Stacy Round who bought them from Eckersley's friend, Alex O'Malley, 24, of Douglas Park, Atherton. The 1,303 tablets were part of a larger exhibit of 7,000 tablets which the force computer system showed  \"destroyed\" on 11 September 2012. The cannabis bags should have been destroyed eight days earlier. O'Malley, along with Round, 26, of Railway Street, Atherton, and Scott Owen, 24, of New Barn Lane, Leigh, admitted conspiracy to supply cannabis between February and September 2012. Eckersley, O'Malley and Round also admitting supplying the Class C drug MeOPP between January 2010 and September 2012. Round, who also admitted supplying cocaine, was jailed for three years nine months, O'Malley received two years four months and Owen received eight months.", "question": "A police worker stole seized drugs and @placeholder them to a dealer friend , a court heard .", "option_0": "wounded", "option_1": "passed", "option_2": "encouraging", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "crashed"}
{"id": 893, "article": "Mr Boal was a Unionist MP for the Shankill constituency in Belfast between 1960 and 1971. He left to establish the Democratic Unionist Party with Ian Paisley and was the party's first chairman. Following a series of disagreements with Paisley over the future direction of the DUP, he resigned from the party in 1974. Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader, Jim Allister, paid tribute to Mr Boal, describing him as a \"unique talent in both politics and law\". \"As MP for Shankill in the old Stormont parliament he fought tirelessly for his constituents and was both a vocal opponent of republicanism and an articulate champion of the Union,\" he said. He said that as a barrister, Mr Boal was \"brilliant in cross examination and unrivalled in the skills of advocacy\". Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said Mr Boal would be remembered as a \"man of intellect and commitment\". He added that in politics or law, he \"was a hard man to miss\".", "question": "Desmond Boal , a well - known Northern Ireland barrister and former Unionist MP at Stormont has @placeholder .", "option_0": "returned", "option_1": "written", "option_2": "died", "option_3": "unveiled", "option_4": "spoken"}
{"id": 894, "article": "The bodies of a man and a woman were recovered from Breydon Water, Great Yarmouth, on Thursday. The couple were in their early 60s and from the local area, officers said. The deaths were initially treated as unexplained but police said they were now satisfied there are no suspicious circumstances. More news from Norfolk Emergency services were called to the area shortly after 11:20 BST when a member of the public reported seeing the bodies on a mudbank. Norfolk Police said they were still trying to trace the couple's next of kin.", "question": "The deaths of two people whose bodies were @placeholder on a tidal mudbank in Norfolk are not being treated as suspicious , police have said .", "option_0": "spotted", "option_1": "injured", "option_2": "left", "option_3": "sprayed", "option_4": "evacuated"}
{"id": 895, "article": "More than 360 people are known to have died, most of them in Pakistan, and at least 2,000 were injured. Rescue teams have been sent to remote mountainous areas where the impact of the quake is still unclear. The Taliban, which controls some areas affected, called on aid agencies \"not to hold back\" relief supplies. A spokesman said Taliban fighters had been ordered to help the victims. In another development, Pakistani officials said several glaciers in the Karakoram mountain range had cracked, in one case causing a flood, but so far without loss of life. Many people across the region, afraid of a new quake, spent the night sleeping outside in temperatures close to freezing. \"We have insufficient food and other aid,\" said Abdul Habib Sayed Khil, police chief in Afghanistan's Kunar province. \"It has been raining for four days and the weather is very cold.\" On Tuesday, the Afghan presidential palace tweeted that the death toll had risen to 115, with 538 people injured. It said that 7,630 homes, 12 schools and 17 mosques were among the buildings destroyed or damaged. In a televised address, President Ashraf Ghani urged those living in affected areas to help the rescue effort. The governor of Badakhshan province, Shah Waliullah Adeeb, said survey teams were heading into more remote areas on Tuesday but landslides had blocked roads and helicopters were needed. Afghan victims included 12 schoolgirls killed in a crush as they tried to leave their classes in Taluqan, Takhar province. Mohammad Jan raises his calloused hands to pray for his two grandchildren, who died under the rubble of his house. He says he was saying his afternoon prayers when the earthquake struck. \"We wanted to call for a doctor,\" he tells me. \"But there is no doctor here for miles. It was too late.\" His house is up a precarious and rocky path, 45 minutes from the main city. Here, an extended family all live in a group of colourful painted stone and mud houses that are now either completely or partially damaged. One of them is Amir Rehman, father of four. Although his home is still standing, it is scarred with deep gashes and cracks. \"I worked for three years in Oman to build this house,\" he tells me. \"I can't afford another house like this.\" While the earthquake caused less widespread damage than expected, the poorest people with the most to lose have been the most affected. In Pakistan, at least 248 people were killed and 1,665 injured, the national disaster agency said. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province alone, authorities said at least 202 people had died, and more than 1,480 were injured. At least another 30 died in the north-western tribal areas. Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has admitted that it still has not been able to reach some of the remotest areas affected. NDMA member Ahmed Kamal told the BBC some of those areas had become inaccessible because roads had been blocked in several places by landslides. Mr Kamal could not say how big the unreachable area was. The track record of the disaster management authorities in Pakistan \"is not sterling\", Pakistan's Daily Times says bluntly, adding that lessons from the 2005 earthquake have not been learned. The disaster authorities' \"presence in most vulnerable small towns is minimal while even in major urban areas their efforts are lacking in efficacy and credibility\". \"Let this episode jolt us into the awareness that it is high time we woke up and took disaster preparedness and response more seriously,\" Pakistan's Dawn says. \"The alarm bell has rung,\" Afghanistan's Mandegar agrees, with the Daily Afghanistan accusing the authorities of failing to confront natural disasters. Hasht-e Sobh claims that most buildings in Kabul in the past decade are structurally unsound. \"Such irregularities are the result of administrative and financial corruption in government bodies,\" it says, claiming that most school buildings funded by international organisations in the provinces are not earthquake-proof either. Compiled by BBC Monitoring On Tuesday, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited the district of Shangla, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where at least 49 people were killed. In a statement he said Pakistan was \"capable enough to rescue and rehabilitate those affected\". After the quake, Facebook launched its \"safety check\" feature allowing people in affected areas to tell their families they were safe. Google also launched its \"person finder\" service. The US Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the earthquake was centred in the mountainous Hindu Kush region, 76km (45 miles) south of Faizabad, in Badakhshan province. It was deep - more than 200km below the surface - which meant the shaking at ground level was less than for a shallow earthquake. The USGS said a series of aftershocks - all measuring 4.0 or higher - had struck west of the original quake. Afghan quake: The corner of a continental collision Residents of Kabul and the Indian capital Delhi were shaken by the earthquake and buildings in the Tajik capital Dushanbe were also damaged. The region has a history of powerful earthquakes caused by the northward collision of India with Eurasia. The two plates are moving towards each other at a rate of 4-5cm per year. In 2005, a magnitude-7.6 quake in Pakistan-administered Kashmir left more than 75,000 people dead. In April this year, Nepal suffered its worst earthquake on record, with 9,000 people killed and about 900,000 homes damaged or destroyed.", "question": "Rescue efforts are being @placeholder up to help those affected by the magnitude - 7.5 earthquake which hit remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday .", "option_0": "sought", "option_1": "set", "option_2": "stepped", "option_3": "fitted", "option_4": "offered"}
{"id": 896, "article": "The robbery, which happened at a Bank of Scotland branch in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on Wednesday, sparked a bomb scare. The taxi driver picked up the man from The Avenue in Lochgelly and then made him carry out the robbery at the Mitchelston Industrial Estate branch. Police said the suspect may have been hanging about in Lochgelly beforehand and had a large blue canvas holdall. During the robbery, the taxi driver was forced to present a note to bank staff demanding money. A cashier handed over a four-figure sum but it was later recovered by police at the scene. A dedicated team of detectives have been checking CCTV footage from surrounding premises and carrying out door-to-door inquiries. Det Insp Charlie Duncan said: \"I believe the male we are looking for may have been hanging about in the area of the small industrial estate on The Avenue, Lochgelly between 12.15pm and 12.40pm on Wednesday, before he was able to get a taxi to take him to Kirkcaldy. \"I believe he was carrying a large blue canvas holdall with distinctive stripes on the corners. This male may have walked to this location from Lochgelly or may have been delivered there by another vehicle.\" He added: \"I also know the male left the area of Carberry Road, Kirkcaldy, as he has been seen running along Carberry Place, which leads to the rear of the Asda store. \"I believe he may have tried to leave the area immediately and in doing so may have again used a taxi or public transport, which would have been around 2pm. \"I would ask anyone who believes they may have transported this male to come forward.\" The suspect was described as being as white, 5ft 6in tall, of heavy build. He was wearing a dark green baseball cap, a dark green scarf, a thick, dark blue jacket, tracksuit bottoms and sunglasses. He spoke with a distinctive Eastern European accent. Initial reports from the bank described how a possible explosive device was involved and nearby schools and shops were locked down while officers investigated the scene. Bomb disposal teams scoured the area but they later confirmed no explosives were involved in the incident, police said.", "question": "Police have released more @placeholder about a man who abducted a taxi driver and forced him to rob a bank .", "option_0": "doubts", "option_1": "videos", "option_2": "footage", "option_3": "evidence", "option_4": "details"}
{"id": 897, "article": "With the event reduced to 54 holes by bad weather, Levy completed his second round in 63, eight under par, to close in on a third European Tour title. Swede Michael Jonzon also shot a 63 to sit second on 13 under at Bad Griesbach, with England's Ross Fisher on 12 under after a six-under 65. Martin Kaymer, part of Europe's Ryder Cup team, is in a tie for fourth place. The German is 11 under overall after a seven-under 64. Alexander Levy: \"I will just go and practise a bit, go for a gym session and be ready for tomorrow. I'm just trying to think about my own game and do the best I can.\" Ross Fisher: \"There's still a lot to play for and it's nice to know that we've only got one round to go. It's a tough decision but I think they've made the right call.\" Martin Kaymer: \"I just need to keep going, and obviously Levy is playing great golf. He played well last week too and you have to give him credit. It's a little bit of a different approach now from playing four rounds.\" We've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here.", "question": "France 's Alexander Levy will take a four - shot lead into the final round of the fog - @placeholder European Open .", "option_0": "ridden", "option_1": "delayed", "option_2": "free", "option_3": "soaked", "option_4": "chasing"}
{"id": 898, "article": "On page 77 of a notebook belonging to a domestic servant from East Yorkshire, there is a recipe for curry. Eleanor Grantham's Victorian version of Indian cuisine combines half a pound of meat, two sour apples and a cup of milk with unspecified amounts of dripping, onions and curry powder. But while its ingredients are unlikely to get mouths watering in the way a modern Madras might, it was good enough to grace the dinner table of Manor House in Willerby in 1890. \"The earliest British recipe for curry was 1747, which is a lot earlier than this recipe, but as far as the region is concerned, it's the earliest recipe we've found,\" said Sam Bartle, collections officer at the East Riding Archive where the recipe was discovered. \"I'm told the Victorians were quite keen on curry - it was the height of the British Empire so there were interactions with places like India, so it's not surprising.\" The hard-backed book was unearthed by a descendant of Ms Grantham, who recorded the recipes gathered during the course of her service. Though the curry's simplicity meant it could have been cooked by anyone, the cost of the spices 125 years ago meant it was reserved mainly for the rich. David Leaf, catering lecturer at East Riding College in Beverley, said: \"In authentic Indian restaurants they would use a teaspoon of coriander, turmeric, ginger, paprika, etc. \"Curry powder is probably an English product, because we didn't have all those spices in those days, because they were expensive of course. \"[This] is a modern British version of a curry, using an amalgamated mixture of all those spices.\" A curry is essentially nothing more than a stew, Mr Leaf explained, a method of slow cooking in juices or sauce, or in this case, milk - a regular feature in Indian cooking. \"It's a very simple recipe,\" he said. \"I would think it would make an edible curry by English standards, but not by traditional, authentic Indian methods. \"Have a go.\" No stranger to the stove, I accepted the challenge. There was a time when cooking in animal fat was the norm, with 'mucky fat sandwiches' a staple part of the British diet. But at a time where saturated fat is practically considered a sin, watching a wedge of dripping coat the base of my pan felt inherently wrong. As it sizzled away, I turned my attention to the rest of the ingredients. It was common for Victorian recipes to lack detail due to dishes being passed on by word-of-mouth and Ms Grantham's recipe was no exception. The only quantities specified were for the meat and apples, so I used my judgement and allowed a pair of chopped onions to sweat in the grease for 10 minutes before removing and frying a pile of curry powder. Chunks of apple from two Granny Smiths joined the yellow sludge, followed by half a pound of diced lamb and a sprinkling of flour. I was not convinced I was whipping up a culinary feast and my opinion did not improve when I added 200ml of milk and a dash of sugar and salt. After two hours on the hob, the meat was tender and the apple chunks had become an aromatic jus, but there was no denying its appearance was distinctly unappealing. A panel of brave work colleagues brandished their forks in the name of journalism with mixed feedback. The main complaints were that it was too sweet for some and too mild for most, but the overall conclusion was that, while it wouldn't be anyone's first choice, it was perfectly edible. Mohammed Aslam, head chef at Yorkshire-based Indian restaurant chain, Aagrah, said Ms Grantham's recipe is an example of how a traditional Indian curry has evolved over time. \"Lamb and apples is one of the oldest recipes,\" he said. \"It's a southern [Indian] style of cooking, because what they do in the south is seasonal - what they grow, they use, like apples. \"At that time, it would be classed as a modern recipe, but not authentically Indian. The dripping is unusual. There's no dripping on the subcontinent, so that's the influence of British cooking. \"In olden days we would use mustard oil or ghee as it's common in the villages to have a cow. In the East Riding, maybe not.\" The upper classes regularly dined on curry in the 1600s, said Dr Lizzie Collingham, author of Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors, but strong flavours fell out of favour in the late 17th Century when French cuisine became popular. It was not until the late 18th Century when Britain took control of Bengal that Indian cooking came back into fashion and by 1809 London's first curry house had opened. While The Hindostanee Coffee House did not last long, curry was appearing in Victorian recipe books, including Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management published in 1861. But by the time the kitchen moved out of the basement and into the main part of the house at the turn of the 20th Century, curry was again culled from the dinner menu due to the smell. \"It was no longer seen as nice for middle class women to cook curry and the British started eating bland food,\" Dr Collingham said. \"Then, in the 1940s, Bangladeshi sailors on steam boats jumped ship and started buying up old fish and chip shops and set up little restaurants and cafes to serve their own communities. \"In the 1960s, there was a large immigration of people from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, and that's when [curry] started coming back in a big way.\" According to National Curry Week, 23 million people eat the dish on a regular basis, with 18% of the UK's population eating Indian food at least once a week. Peter Grove, founder of the event, said new figures showed people are turning their nose up at the humble Chicken Tikka Masala for hotter and regional dishes. \"Tikka Masala has been number one for many years and was described as Britain's national dish because it is a British/Bangladeshi creation, not authentically Indian,\" he said. \"The gradual move to hotter dishes is inevitable, firstly because people are experimenting more but more because of popularity of curry as a whole.\" But the food being served in our restaurants bears little resemblance to its origins, warned Dr Collingham. \"A peasant would eat rice and dhal, with chillies and onions. What we have in Indian restaurants was invented for the British or adapted for them,\" she explained. \"But it's completely normal, it's what's been happening to Indian food for centuries. It's a product of the British relationship with India. \"That's what happens when people travel and conquer each other's countries and eat each other's food.\"", "question": "A Victorian curry recipe featuring sour apples and dripping has surfaced in East Yorkshire . It is one of the more extreme examples of how Indian cuisine has evolved in British @placeholder .", "option_0": "prison", "option_1": "practice", "option_2": "america", "option_3": "rhythm", "option_4": "hands"}
{"id": 899, "article": "Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease which is prevalent in sub-tropical and tropical regions. It is a major cause of illness worldwide, causing about 100 million episodes of feverish illness a year. Its outbreak in Burkina Faso is causing alarm and officials are trying to avoid any widespread panic. One man told BBC Afrique's Yacouba Ouedraogo in the capital, Ouagadougou, that the disease had killed his brother quickly: \"My younger brother did not even have a chance to say what was wrong. We just found him dead,\" he said. Dengue fever particularly affects young children and adults, but is not normally fatal, specialists say. Most people who get it will suffer from headaches and fever. Some get rashes, aches and pains and their symptoms usually last for two or three days. An infected person can feel tired for up to three months, but will not usually need treatment. Cases of the disease have been reported from all 12 districts of Ouagadougou, the World Health Organization says. Two other regions - the Sahel Region in the north and the Hauts-Bassins region in the west - have also reported cases.", "question": "Dengue fever has killed at least 20 people in the West African state of Burkina Faso , where about 2,000 cases of the disease have been @placeholder .", "option_0": "warned", "option_1": "released", "option_2": "approved", "option_3": "recorded", "option_4": "unveiled"}
{"id": 900, "article": "More than 120 old or recent bruises and broken bones were discovered on Keegan Downer's body, Birmingham Crown Court was told. Kandyce Downer denies murdering the 18-month-old, after she collapsed at the family home in Birmingham. The child also had a \"terrible\" spiral leg fracture which had gone untreated. It left the girl \"deformed\" with one leg shorter than the other, the court heard. Nigel Power QC said Keegan also had seven recently broken ribs which would have made breathing \"very painful\", and an historic head injury at least several days old at the time she died. Forensic testing of the house where the toddler died revealed traces of her blood on the cot and bedroom wall. Born in March 2014 to a heroin-addict mother, the otherwise healthy girl was put with a foster carer by social services. The child was then placed with 35-year-old Downer as the legal guardian in January 2015. Keegan was described in court as a \"healthy and happy baby\" and lived at Downer's family home in Beckbury Road, Weoley Castle. She collapsed at home shortly before 10am on 5 September 2015. When paramedics arrived, Downer had Keegan lying down on a sofa and told them: \"I don't know when she stopped breathing, because I was in the bath.\" Downer later told paramedics she had popped out and left the child alone during that morning. Keegan died from a combination of septicaemia, infection, blunt chest trauma and old head injuries. Of Downer, Mr Power said: \"We say there is no other realistic candidate for the many and terrible injuries that led to Keegan's death.\" The trial of Downer, who also denies causing or allowing the death of Keegan, continues.", "question": "A mother - of - four @placeholder a toddler to death months after she was made the child 's legal guardian , a court has heard .", "option_0": "battered", "option_1": "sentences", "option_2": "slip", "option_3": "hire", "option_4": "sentenced"}
{"id": 901, "article": "McGee, 32, was in the starting team for Saturday's All-Ireland quarter-final defeat by Dublin while forward McFadden, 33, was a late substitute. McFadden played a record 170 games in a Donegal career which reaped an All-Ireland win and All Star award in 2012. McGee was also in that All-Ireland winning side and made 154 appearances for the Ulster county. St Michael's club player McAadden told the Irish Times: \"I don't know was it 14 or 15 years? The game is changing all the time, and there is plenty of fine talent coming through, so it is time for them to take up the baton. \"The future is bright for Donegal football.\" There are bound to be questions about the inter-county futures of other experienced Donegal stars. Midfielder Rory Kavanagh, who retired at the end of the 2014 campaign and is 34 next week, came back this year but failed to produce his best form. Neil Gallagher, another midfielder, missed this year because of injury while half-forward Christy Toye, a sub against Dublin on Saturday, could have played his last match. Media playback is not supported on this device", "question": "Defender Eamon McGee has joined Donegal team - mate Colm McFadden in @placeholder his inter-county retirement .", "option_0": "chasing", "option_1": "announcing", "option_2": "condemning", "option_3": "wake", "option_4": "awaiting"}
{"id": 902, "article": "BBC correspondents were quick to note the fancy Battersea venue's vibe was in stark contrast to the Labour and Tory manifesto launches. And we weren't the only ones to notice, either: Not everyone was impressed though: One of the party's prospective parliamentary candidates was slightly confused: But another candidate was loving it: [Note: \"Bae\" is slang for \"babe\" - not an acronym for British Aerospace...] And be warned, Bez - the Lib Dems are making a bid for the Party of Rave title: It seems the party mood didn't keep everyone entertained though:", "question": "The Liberal Democrats may be @placeholder in the opinion polls but that did n't stop the party mood at the launch of their manifesto in London .", "option_0": "stored", "option_1": "captured", "option_2": "struggling", "option_3": "closed", "option_4": "built"}
{"id": 903, "article": "MP Damien Collins says British Cycling have been unable to deliver the relevant paperwork, though all parties deny any wrongdoing. Sir Dave Brailsford told the committee the package contained asthma medicine. \"The apparent lack of knowledge of so many in the support staff did not chime with my own experiences,\" Cooke said. Wiggins announced his retirement on Wednesday but the contents of the package given to him at the end of a race in France in 2011 are the subject of a UKAD probe into alleged \"wrongdoing\". Team Sky principal Brailsford told a Department of Culture, Media and Sport select committee last week that the package contained fluimucil, an over-the-counter decongestant available relatively cheaply in France. Writing in the Guardian, 2008 Olympic road race gold medal winner Cooke says the explanations offered do not adequately explain why Team Sky went to such expense to have the drug delivered by British women's coach Simon Cope. \"At the end of the three hours we were informed by Brailsford that the mysterious content of the jiffy bag was a ¡ê10 'decongestant' that was available over the counter in any of eight pharmacies located within 5km of where the team bus was parked in France,\" Cooke said. \"It was an answer that raised even more questions than we had before, especially now we know Simon Cope spent two days travelling to deliver it.\" Cooke, who has spoken out about alleged sexism at British Cycling, also raised concerns about why Cope, a former women's coach at the governing body, was used to transport the package. Media playback is not supported on this device \"Why did the top management deem it acceptable to use the publicly funded national women's team road manager, Simon Cope, in the role of a basic courier?\" she said. \"As the saga developed this year, Cope came up with information entirely new and disturbing to me. In an interview he said that in 2011 he had 'been working with Sky a lot' and been running training camps with Brad. \"Throughout early 2011 I was attempting to get Cope to run a single training camp for the women riders he was meant to be managing. \"Eventually I got Cope to agree to a camp to prepare for the world championships in Copenhagen and we both proposed it to Brailsford and (former technical director Shane) Sutton - the same pair who apparently think it fine to fly a courier with a ¡ê10 med 1,000 miles across Europe. \"I have the email and Sutton's response turning down the training camp suggestion. Nothing was put in its place and so the women went to another world championships without having conducted a single team camp. Needless to say our team preparation was insufficient.\" Find out how to get into cycling with our special guide.", "question": "Nicole Cooke says British Cycling has @placeholder \" more questions than answers , \" over the delivery of an over - the - counter drug to Sir Bradley Wiggins .", "option_0": "described", "option_1": "had", "option_2": "faced", "option_3": "criticised", "option_4": "provided"}
{"id": 904, "article": "He called his visit to the USS Theodore Roosevelt \"a symbol\" of America's stabilising presence in the region. Mr Carter said any concern over his visit was due to \"tension in this part of the world\", blaming China for \"most of the activity over the last year\". His visit clearly irritated Beijing, a BBC correspondent in China says. A Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman warned against \"waving the banner of freedom of navigation to push forward the militarisation of the South China Sea and even provoke and endanger other countries' sovereignty and security interests\". \"In this aspect, we hope the relevant actions and intentions of the US can be made open and above board,\" she said before Mr Carter's visit. The US defence secretary flew on Thursday with his Malaysian counterpart to the Theodore Roosevelt, which was sailing some 70 miles (112 miles) north-west of Borneo. His visit comes a week after a US Navy destroyer sailed inside the 12 nautical mile radius that China claims as its territorial waters around one of its recently reclaimed islands. Countries in and around the South China Sea have wrangled for centuries over control of the ocean areas and its, largely uninhabited, islands. But tensions have increased in recent years as China has backed its expansive claims with island-building and navy patrols. The US alleges China has reclaimed almost 3,000 acres of land in the past 18 months, and fears the dispute could turn into one with global consequences.", "question": "US defence secretary Ash Carter has visited an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea 's contested waters , in what is seen as a @placeholder to China .", "option_0": "signal", "option_1": "response", "option_2": "deal", "option_3": "gesture", "option_4": "tribute"}
{"id": 905, "article": "Representatives from Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the SNP, the Conservatives, Scottish Greens and UKIP will be in the studio panel. Presenter Sarah Smith, who will be chairing the debate, will put the questions you send in to the six guests. The politicians will tackle a range of subjects including the economy, welfare, defence, taxation, pensions and immigration. Email your questions to Scotland.2015@bbc.co.uk - Please put \"election debate\" in the message field. You can also post questions on social media by going to Scotland 2015's Twitter page @BBCScot2015", "question": "As polling day fast approaches , the BBC 's Scotland 2015 programme is holding its final election debate @placeholder politicians answering your questions .", "option_0": "featuring", "option_1": "becoming", "option_2": "brought", "option_3": "attend", "option_4": "change"}
{"id": 906, "article": "The boy stabbed Vincent Uzomah, 50, in a classroom at Dixons Kings Academy, Bradford, on 11 June. There was \"clear evidence\" he attacked Mr Uzomah because he was black, the city's crown court heard. He was handed an 11-year extended sentence, which includes six years' detention and five years on licence. The boy, who admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent but denied attempted murder, was told he could serve half of the six years in custody. He racially abused Mr Uzomah before stabbing him in the stomach with a kitchen knife he had brought to school, the court heard. Jonathan Sharp, prosecuting, said the boy had discussed the attack with a friend beforehand, and later made \"sick\" boasts about his actions on Facebook. About 20 minutes after the attack, the boy, who was not arrested until six hours later, posted a status update containing the line \"I stick a blade straight in his tummy\". The post received 69 \"likes\", something the judge described as \"an appalling reflection of a small microcosm of our society\". Mr Sharp told the court the boy had taken a dislike to Mr Uzomah in the seven weeks he had worked at the school. \"The defendant disliked him, claiming he couldn't teach, and freely referred to him by the epithet beginning with the letter n, including saying it in anger just before he attacked him,\" he said. He said the boy attacked Mr Uzomah after a row over his mobile phone. The teenager was described by witnesses as \"getting angry, red in the face\", Mr Sharp said. \"He approached Mr Uzomah and reached into his pocket, but at that point he took out the knife and stabbed Mr Uzomah in the stomach. \"Mr Uzomah thought he was going to die.\" Sentencing the boy, who cannot be named because of his age, Judge Durham Hall QC described him as \"out of control\" and a bully who \"could not tolerate being told off\". Speaking outside court, Mr Uzomah said: \"As a Christian, I have forgiven this boy who has inflicted this trauma and pain on to me and my family. \"It was, however, important for the law to run its course and for a strong message to be sent out, especially to kids of similar tendencies, that violence is never acceptable. \"Our prayer for him is that he will make use of the opportunities and support that will be provided to him, to become a changed person who will make a positive contribution to society.\" Det Supt Simon Atkinson, from West Yorkshire Police, said: \"This was a shocking and very serious attack on a man doing a job he loved, and he was lucky that the consequences were not more serious. \"His attacker showed no concern by fleeing the scene...he worryingly showed a further lack of remorse towards his victim by boasting about it on social media.\" Outside court, Mr Sharp said it was \"truly remarkable\" that Mr Uzomah had forgiven his attacker. He said: \"The victim has suffered serious physical and psychological injuries, has had to put his career plans on hold and is uncertain when, or if, he will feel able to return to teaching - a profession he loved. \"It was also profoundly distressing to Mr Uzomah - and shocking - that the youth posted a Facebook update boasting of what he had done. This subsequently received 69 'likes' from his circle of acquaintances. \"In the circumstances it is remarkable that Mr Uzomah has expressed his desire to forgive the attacker, whilst wishing to see justice done as a deterrent to others.\" In a statement posted on the Dixons Kings Academy website, the school said: \"This was a very shocking crime, and today a young man has had to face the consequences of his actions. \"We are pleased that Mr Uzomah is making a good recovery, and our school community will continue to do what we can to support Vincent and his family.\"", "question": "A 14 - year - old boy who stabbed a @placeholder teacher before bragging about the racially - motivated attack on Facebook has been handed an 11 - year sentence .", "option_0": "kindergarten", "option_1": "supply", "option_2": "life", "option_3": "sleeping", "option_4": "wounded"}
{"id": 907, "article": "The band were at the forefront of the Liverpool scene but never made it big. The tapes were recorded in March 1960, two years before Starr was poached by Brian Epstein to join The Beatles. Found in Storm's sister's cellar, the tapes will form the group's first and only album release later this month. Starr joined the group at the age of 18 in 1959, but the band got left behind during the Merseybeat boom in the wake of The Beatles' success. They only released a couple of singles, including one produced by Brian Epstein in 1964, but they failed to chart. Frontman Storm, born Alan Caldwell, was known for his gold lame costumes and on-stage charisma. He died in 1972 aged just 34. \"Rory was a performer,\" his sister Iris Caldwell said. \"He wasn't, like The Beatles, a brilliant songwriter. They called him The Golden Boy and Mr Showbusiness. \"Rory was so far ahead of his time. He was doing glam rock then.\" Rod Stewart is among the artists thought to have been influenced by Storm's style, she said. Epstein did not give Storm a real shot at the big time because he \"didn't want any major competition\" for The Beatles, Caldwell believes. The tapes include tracks recorded at the Jive Hive club in Crosby, north of Liverpool, and at Storm's house, known as Stormsville, where bands including The Beatles would get together once clubs like The Cavern had shut at night. \"I suppose these tapes have been in an old sealed box ever since [they were recorded],\" Caldwell said. Author and Radio Merseyside presenter Spencer Leigh said the group were \"crucial to the early years of Merseybeat\". \"Even though the playing is very rough and ready, they have tremendous presence and were probably considerably better than the Beatles were in March 1960,\" he said. Iris Caldwell's son Adam F, a Mobo Award-winning drum and bass DJ, said the recordings allowed a new generation to hear his uncle's style and personality for the first time. \"The quality of the tape left a bit to be desired - it was over half a century ago - but the spirit and rawness suggest a whole scene waiting to happen,\" he said. \"I am so proud that my uncle was, as has been suggested to me often, the father of the Liverpool sound.\" Storm's on-stage antics included climbing up to the high diving board during one gig at New Brighton swimming pool. \"He had a cloak on and stripped right off to his little gold Speedos,\" Caldwell recalled. \"He dived into the water, came up and carried on singing the song. \"Another time, they had a box on the side of the stage. He made his entrance by jumping from the box onto the stage. He did manage to break a couple of ribs but he still finished the spot and then went off to hospital.\" Other than Starr and guitarist Lu Walters, whose whereabouts are unknown, the original members of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes have all passed away.", "question": "Recordings by Rory Storm and the Hurricanes , Ringo Starr 's first band and one of the most popular groups of the early Merseybeat era , have been @placeholder after more than 50 years .", "option_0": "released", "option_1": "celebrated", "option_2": "banned", "option_3": "announced", "option_4": "unearthed"}
{"id": 908, "article": "Minecraft will be made available to every post-primary school as part of an innovative technology project. It will be the first time that it has been made available to schools in this way. Licences for the game will be given to up to 240 sites in Northern Ireland. Minecraft is a Lego-style adventure game enabling players to use 3D blocks to create their own worlds while exploring worlds built by others. It has had over 100 million downloads since its launch in 2009. Now pupils in Northern Ireland will be able to use MinecraftEdu, a special version of the game that is more appropriate for the classroom. It can be used to inspire creative writing, engage young people in city planning, and even teach quantum physics. Londonderry-based innovation festival CultureTECH devised the project and secured ¡ê60,000 of funding from the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure to provide free licenses to over 200 schools and 30 libraries. CultureTECH chief executive Mark Nagurski said the game's popularity meant it could easily be used to help children learn the STEM subjects - science, technology, engineering and mathematics - as well as art, history and computer coding. \"We invited MinecraftEdu to CultureTECH last year and they spent a week at schools in Derry,\" he said. \"The response was ridiculous - the engagement and excitement among the pupils was amazing. \"What is really exciting is how Minecraft is being used by educators to help young people express their creative skills and develop their understanding of technology.\" CultureTECH will work with other organisations to provide training and support to teachers who want to use the programme. St Joseph's Boys' School in Derry has been running a pilot scheme of the project. History teacher Darren Currie said pupils' enthusiasm in lessons using Minecraft had been noticeable. \"Our year nine pupils are participating in a collaborative project between the IT and history departments, constructing and labelling a plantation bawn from the early 17th century using Minecraft,\" Mr Currie said. \"I admit I was very dubious at first because I've had to put a bar on my own children using it at home, but then you see what it can do in an educational context and it can have big benefits to improve learning.\" Culture minister Car¨¢l N¨ª Chuil¨ªn said the project had a role to play in education and economic development. \"Game players regularly exhibit persistence, risk taking, attention to detail and problem solving skills. By making Minecraft available we hope to encourage this kind of behaviour.\"", "question": "Fifty - thousand schoolchildren in Northern Ireland could soon be playing one of the world 's most popular video games in @placeholder .", "option_0": "risk", "option_1": "union", "option_2": "class", "option_3": "control", "option_4": "future"}
{"id": 909, "article": "After the WBA lightweight title defeat to Venezuelan Linares, promoter Eddie Hearn raised the prospect of Crolla moving to light-welterweight. \"With the notice I'd certainly grow into that,\" said Crolla, 30. A move up opens the prospect of facing the winner of Scot Burns' unification bout with Julius Indongo on 15 April. Crolla added: \"Physically I feel strong. I was as big as Linares in there tonight.\" Hearn said: \"Ricky Burns could unify the division on 15 April. I wouldn't rule out the option of moving up to fight the winner.\" Crolla weighed in at a fraction under the 135lbs lightweight limit before his meeting with Linares, so a move to the 140lbs division looks physically within reach. Scotland's Burns has also made similar weight jumps, winning a world title at super-featherweight, moving on to do the same at lightweight and he now holds the WBA crown at light-welterweight. Indongo holds the IBF strap, while highly-rated American Terence Crawford - undefeated in 30 fights - holds the division's other titles. Sporting stitches above his left eye, Crolla told reporters that in the third round against Linares, he had aggravated a rib injury picked up in training, with trainer Joe Gallagher nodding when his fighter was asked if the rib was broken. Linares could now face WBC lightweight champion, American Mikey Garcia, while the IBF belt in the division is held by fellow American Robert Easter and Manchester's Terry Flanagan holds the WBO crown. \"I'm going to have a break with my family now,\" added Crolla. \"I feel like I'm improving in camps still. I believe there will be plenty of options and fights out there for us and I still want to be involved in those big fights. I think I've had a pretty tough two years.\"", "question": "Anthony Crolla will consider moving up to Ricky Burns ' weight class to @placeholder \" big fights \" following his rematch defeat by Jorge Linares on Saturday .", "option_0": "provide", "option_1": "produce", "option_2": "declare", "option_3": "do", "option_4": "pursue"}
{"id": 910, "article": "Out Among the Stars comes out in March and features 12 tracks by the American singer, recorded for Columbia Records in 1981 and 1984. It includes duets with Cash's wife June Carter and friend Waylon Jennings. The tracks have never been made public before. They were not released at the time and the singer, who had fallen out of fashion, was later dropped by his record label. The recordings came to light only when John Carter Cash found them, gathering dust in a vault, while he was cataloguing the singer's private archive in 2012. He found hundreds of reels of unreleased live and studio recordings in the vault, including duets with Bob Dylan. It is the fourth posthumous album released since Johnny Cash died in 2003, aged 71. Speaking to the BBC, Carter Cash said: \"There is more music to be released that is unheard, there are some great recordings. \"But we don't want to release something unless it means something. \"It has to be in line with what we believe my father would have wanted released\". The unreleased recordings will bolster what is already a lucrative business for the Cash estate. In 2009, he sold more than three million records, reportedly earning more than $8m (?¡ê4.9m). But Carter Cash maintained \"the world would be a darker place\" if the music was not released and it was \"worth doing\" if fans around the world wanted to hear it. \"Do you want to see another Picasso if there's one that nobody has ever seen before?\" he asked. \"I would say that probably the world would want to see another Picasso. And it's really the same thing. This is a work of art.\" To date, Johnny Cash sold more than 90 million records. He is best known for songs including Ring of Fire and I Walk the Line and famously performed for inmates in American prisons. \"He would sing the songs for the underdogs,\" said Carter Cash. \"He would reach out to people that no one else would reach out to.\"", "question": "Johnny Cash 's son , John Carter Cash , has described a new album by his late father as \" a great @placeholder \" , saying there will be more records released in the future .", "option_0": "idea", "option_1": "treasure", "option_2": "level", "option_3": "message", "option_4": "heart"}
{"id": 911, "article": "I found it at the Bitcoin London conference, the biggest event about the crypto currency yet staged in the UK. The crowd at this event is young, mostly male - and often evangelical about the subject they have come to discuss. These are interesting times to hold a Bitcoin conference. The currency has seen wild gyrations, with new investors rushing in, then rapidly finding that prices can go down as well up. Regulators have been taking a closer interest, particularly since another innovative currency scheme, Liberty Reserve, proved to be a haven for criminals and money launderers.  And on Tuesday, some of the biggest investors in Bitcoin, the Winklevoss brothers of Facebook fame, have announced plans to float a business based on the virtual currency. If you were looking for reasons to be either cheerful or cynical about the prospects for Bitcoin, you could have found both in the conference room high above Canary Wharf. What struck me was how professional, intense and deeply knowledgeable about their subject most of the speakers seemed. The professionals have moved in. \"It's not a bunch of 16-year-olds in basements any more, it's institutions,\" as one speaker put it. There were lawyers, venture capitalists and software developers, as well as people who had just put a lot of their own money into Bitcoin. There was plenty of hype about the prospects for the currency: Other speakers predicted that Bitcoin would become the natural means of exchange in African countries, where so many people have mobile phones but so few have bank accounts. And another described how Iceland, already a digital pioneer, could switch entirely to Bitcoin. The strong libertarian tendency that is a characteristic of Bitcoin enthusiasts was on display too, with speakers railing against regulation in the United States: \"Stay the hell away from the US\" was the advice to a query from someone wanting to know where best to set up a Bitcoin business. Somewhat surprisingly, a lawyer who worked in this field told the conference that the EU was five years ahead in the way it thought about framing policies for Bitcoin and other virtual currencies. But amidst all the enthusiasm, there were still questions about the long-term viability of the idea and how likely it was to enter the mainstream. One sobering moment came when a software developer described how he'd lost 7,000 Bitcoins because they had not been backed up properly to his computer. That had cost him about $200,000 which he would never see again. \"You get over it,\" he told the crowd. And the sheer complexity of getting and spending Bitcoins is another issue. Asked how the attractions of the currency would be communicated to the public, one speaker said everyone would need to learn computer science. Good luck with that... For myself, I am beginning to get the hang of how you obtain the virtual currency - it is spending it which is the bigger problem. I already had a Bitcoin wallet on my phone, which meant using the ATM at the conference was relatively simple. I showed the machine the barcode which is the public address of my wallet, and once I'd inserted a ¡ê10 note into the slot, it popped up as roughly 0.2 Bitcoin on the phone screen within seconds. In all I had 0.7 Bitcoin - worth about ¡ê43 at Tuesday's exchange rate. And by this time I was hungry. Sadly, nowhere nearby seemed to take Bitcoin in exchange for food. Evangelists for the crypto currency say it's flexible, durable, secure and transportable. Now all they need to do is make sure it's useable.", "question": "On the 39th floor above Canary Wharf , overlooking London 's finance centre , I found a cash machine with a difference . This ATM chews up your ¡ê 10 notes rather than spewing them out , and in return you get a computer code . This is the world 's first Bitcoin cash machine and if the people showing it to me are to be believed , it shows us the @placeholder of money .", "option_0": "island", "option_1": "state", "option_2": "control", "option_3": "future", "option_4": "importance"}
{"id": 912, "article": "A 12-week consultation on the scheme, worth up to ¡ê1,200 a child, has begun. Families with two working parents could be able to claim, and ministers said carers who look after disabled relatives and others would be included. Chancellor George Osborne said stay-at-home mothers, who had made a \"lifestyle choice\", would not be eligible. The government says the overall scheme - set to replace the existing system of employer-supported childcare vouchers - will help 2.5 million families. It is aimed at getting more people back into jobs. The UK has some of the highest childcare costs in the world, with many people with two or more children saying it does not make financial sense for both parents to work. The new system is expected be phased in from autumn 2015, with children under five helped in the first year. It will then build up over time to include all children under the age of 12. Families with two working parents on less than ¡ê150,000 each would be able to claim up to ¡ê1,200 a year per child. Critics have said the focus on work will penalise parents who stay at home to look after their children, or are unable to work because they act as full-time \"carers\" for other adults. However, extra details released by the government on Monday make it clear that parents who do not work because they are carers will also be eligible. Carers are defined as those spending at least 35 hours a week looking after someone such as a disabled relative. But the scheme will not be extended to those who stay at home to bring up their children. Lisa Frederiksen, from Epsom, Surrey, was \"staggered\" by childcare costs for her children Casper, four, and Elizabeth, two. She said: \"As a career-orientated woman, when I had my first child at the age of 40 I was staggered at the cost of childcare. \"My employer would not agree to a part-time role, so I was faced with childcare costs of ¡ê1,200 per month. \"After my second child, it became  apparent that working was not going to pay. With two lots of childcare and the costs of commuting, it just wasn't worth working. \"My Danish husband's family cannot comprehend the cost of childcare here. They pay ¡ê300 a month for care in well-equipped, carefully staffed nurseries. \"This new scheme is a drop in the ocean, but we need a radical rethink.\" Mr Osborne told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme: \"This is help for formal childcare. Obviously it's not for stay-at-home mothers. \"I have huge regard for mothers who want to stay at home and look after their children. That's their lifestyle choice. I want to help those families too. I'm not trying to be exclusive. \"We have a proposal on married couples' tax breaks which I'm going to introduce in the Autumn Statement later this year... that will help stay-at-home mothers.\" Lynne Burnham, secretary of Mothers at Home Matter, called for a \"level playing field\" for all families, with the introduction of a \"family allowance\" for all households with children under the age of 16. She added: \"It should not be for this government to dictate how a family chooses to care for its children.\" Under the proposal, parents will be required to open an online voucher account with a voucher provider and have their payments topped up by the government. For every 80p families pay in, the government will put in 20p, up to the annual limit of ¡ê1,200. The vouchers will be valid for any Ofsted-regulated childcare in England and equivalent bodies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Half of the funding for the new scheme will come from the abolition of the previous system of employer-supported childcare vouchers  - which is provided by only about 5% of employers - and in part by funding switched from elsewhere in Whitehall. A separate scheme will provide funding for parents who claim universal credit. It will see the state cover up to 85% of their childcare costs, up from 70% at present. For Labour, shadow children's minister Sharon Hodgson said: \"Only David Cameron's government could be so out of touch that they expect families to be grateful for help with childcare in 2015 when they've already seen costs spiralling and support taken away.\"", "question": "The government says it wants to expand a @placeholder childcare tax credit scheme to include parents who stay at home because they are full - time carers .", "option_0": "planned", "option_1": "scheme", "option_2": "twisted", "option_3": "pioneering", "option_4": "pledge"}
{"id": 913, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device As he took to the microphone against a backdrop of Murrayfield emptying its appreciation on top of his head, les yeux de glace - the 'eyes of ice' - were beginning to melt. He took one question and was gone. Two questions might have been too much even for one as tough as him. It was, in truth, an extraordinary end-game for Vern Cotter. Not the match - a solid but unspectacular bonus-point victory - but the aftermath of the match, the way the crowd responded to him. He had to be coaxed into walking around the pitch with his players. From the back of the west stand his discomfort was clear when the man on the PA system piped up: 'Let's hear it for Big Vern!' He hung around the back of the procession as a reluctant, and slightly embarrassed, participant but these moments would have been special to him. No question. He spoke about it later. Said it was a privilege to be in this job for three years. Said it was a lovely way to sign off, strolling around the stadium with his Saltire-waving daughter at his side, sure in the knowledge that no matter what results the later kick-offs brought, this was a season that brought respectability and hope back to the national team after pretty much 17 years of cowering behind the couch. This wasn't the way Scott Johnson bowed out or the way Andy Robinson left or the way Frank Hadden departed. It was a different galaxy compared to the last day of Matt Williams, which, let's face it, was a national day of celebration for anybody who cared about the fortunes of the team. It's worth remembering what it was like this time three years ago. The 2014 championship was the last before Cotter arrived - and it was grim. Scotland won one game, in the 79th minute in Rome, and lost the other four. It wouldn't have been so miserable had the other four been contests, but they weren't. Ireland had the game won before the hour-mark.  France won late on despite having precious little ball and Wales won 51-3 after Stuart Hogg was shown the red card. Scotland scored a mere 47 points in five games. They scored just four tries. Their points difference was minus 91. They were international no-marks. Disregarded also-rans. They ranked 10 in the world but now they rank fifth. As Twickenham illustrated in horrendous technicolour, they still have a way to go, but a lot has changed on Cotter's watch and that's why he got such an ovation on Saturday. We've all been around the block in the rugby world and it's hard to remember an international coach bowing out the way Cotter bowed out. Normally, they slip out the back door, unwanted and out of time. This was unique. This was a coach being love-bombed out the door, everybody clapping and cheering and asking each other, 'Why's he leaving? What did we do wrong?' Why's he leaving? Well, he doesn't want to, that's for sure. He wanted to stay, wanted to keep building, wanted to immerse himself further in the project. Circumstance intervened. The SRU feared - and they were right to fear - that Gregor Townsend, the country's one world-class homegrown coach, was going to be lost to England or France and the aesthetic of seeing him vanish with an unknown return date was something they couldn't tolerate. Cotter was a victim of that, not that he sees himself that way. He knows the way of the world. He accepted it and moved on. Sport doesn't tend to do amicable divorces. It doesn't do classy departures, but this was one. And even though the final-day drama of this Six Nations Championship lay in the  'Mousetrap' Test in Paris and the great ambush in Dublin, the scenes in Murrayfield were wonderful. Media playback is not supported on this device If you could have been at the press conference, it was priceless. There we were, trying to press Cotter's buttons, trying to bring him to a profound place where he would tear-up a little as he recounted his odyssey in Scotland. He gave a little, but not a lot. For the most part he was heroically deadpan, a tour-de-force of sternness. He wanted to keep it real, he wanted to talk about the Test against Italy, how it wasn't perfect, but how he admired his players' maturity in working through the tough spots and getting the result they needed. He was asked about legacy, but he wasn't going there. At a guess, he'd have thought it cringe-making to talk about himself in this scenario. Cotter's great strength as a rugby coach is in building a culture, not in talking about building a culture. He does it and doesn't see the point in revelling in it. He's a rugby man, not a show man. Scotland's loss is Montpellier's gain. Joe Schmidt is a go-to man for insight on Cotter. The Ireland coach, and fellow Kiwi, is a great mate of Cotter's. Theirs is a friendship forged in the French championship at Clermont, where they worked and worked and worked and finally succeeded and won the league title for the first time in the club's history. Cotter was head coach, Schmidt was his assistant. Bearing in mind that Schmidt is generally considered Ireland's greatest ever national coach, these are the kinds of things he says about his old mate. \"I learned so many things from him, just about being decisive, just about trying to grow the key leaders. I just found that he had a real ability to crystallise messages and deliver them. That rugby intellect was something else. It's probably hard to specify and quantify because a lot of it is almost by osmosis. You pick things up and you probably don't specifically say, 'Oh, I learned that today'. I absorbed a lot from VC.\" These Scotland players would know the truth of Schmidt's message. They absorbed a lot, too. At the news conference, there were further attempts to tempt him out of his shell and spill the beans about what it all meant to him. He kept it to praise of the players and appreciation of the chance he'd been given in working with them. Then he was away, through the door, down the corridor, into the changing room and back to a group of players who will probably spend the rest of their careers repeating that line from Joe Schmidt: \"I absorbed a lot from VC.\"", "question": "He did n't quite crack , but Stern Vern was n't so firm out there in the middle on the full - time @placeholder .", "option_0": "whistle", "option_1": "level", "option_2": "list", "option_3": "history", "option_4": "island"}
{"id": 914, "article": "They are doing their family's washing - rubbing and rinsing in cold water gushing from a galvanised pipe fed by a cliff-top spring. This might not be a remarkable sight in many parts of the world. But we are in the EU - in the centre of the second largest city in Portugal and the regional capital, Porto. Yet for those with unpaid electricity bills or for jobless families who can't afford to replace a broken washing machine, this free medieval equivalent of a launderette is the only place they can afford to use. Just across the water, there is one sign of Porto's export success. The clue is in the city's very name - it's famous for producing port wine. Every night, backlit advertising signs on a string of historic wine lodges twinkle on the Douro river below. From the southern side (officially it is Vila Nova de Gaia), you have the choice of six bridges to take you into Porto - a steep-sided patchwork of medieval and baroque architecture. But the reality is that many hundreds of the city's buildings are close to falling down. Walking round the centre, you find not just empty shops but whole blocks of abandoned property. Porto is fast becoming a kind of European Detroit or mini-Havana. Many say the place has always exuded an indefinable air of melancholy. But today every street corner is a monument to the economic crisis. But hardship can breed innovation - and there is an alternative for visitors bored with official tourist tours that gloss over the everyday realities. Some young out-of-work architects who refuse to leave the city or join the Portuguese brain-drain have opened an unlikely walking-tours agency they call The Worst Tours. Follow them for a couple of hours and you soon get lost up back alleys, past cheap taverns and through mean streets to old markets with crumbling masonry. The walks show the real impact of the bailout measures in sharp relief. Tax rises and welfare cuts have changed lifestyles and accelerated the neglect of the physical environment. Rival tours may focus on the historical highlights, but the truth is there are now far more lowlights - an estimated 2,000 businesses have closed in the city over the past two years alone. These tours are also unashamedly partisan. Above all, tour guide Gui Castro Felga says, she wants people to understand that austerity measures are not theoretical - they are something you can touch and feel as you walk around the country's second city. \"The cuts that were supposed to make Portugal more competitive with places outside, but they are causing a downward spiral,\" she says. \"People have less money and the result is that stores and local businesses close. It's hurting society deeply in practical terms.\" One surviving, second-generation family business is printers Molografica. It once kept 40 staff busy, but is now trying to keep 11 employed. Its rambling city centre offices house impressive digital machines that can process and print anything from full colour books to top quality brochures and tickets. But what Molografica needs is longer print runs, that will probably come only from customers who export goods or services outside Portugal. Inquiries in Porto may be up a little, but boss Mario Jorge Gomes says orders from industry customers are often much smaller than they used to be. He says: \"I just had an inquiry for a thousand labels for clothing from an old customer. At one time it would be for 1,200 labels.  So you see that I can't create more jobs like the government wants us to. What I am waiting for is more orders.\" So if jobs are continuing to disappear from cities like Porto, then what will the jobless do - or at least where will they go? International labour organisation figures compiled in Lisbon show more lower income families heading for the coast. One such emigre is fisherman Augusto Braga, returning to the nearby port of Matosinhos - about 7km (four miles) north of Porto. This wasn't in his career plan. Made redundant from his job in security, he's returned to the traditional occupation of his family to make ends meet. \"I took the job because they stopped paying my salary and I was made redundant,\" he says. \"There were only small jobs on the land - not enough to live on. I like to be on the sea so it was the only choice.\" Family ties count here - the fishing cooperative is almost an extended family. It's also one that seems to tolerate cash-strapped locals who swarm round as the boats are unloaded - competing with voracious seagulls for a few dropped fish to sell or eat for lunch. One financial sign of the times is that, after years of decline, tinned sardines are making a comeback and more are going for processing. Not so long ago, Portugal's canneries looked outmoded. Yet now fresh fish is too expensive a treat for many, there's a ready market for cheap, yet high-quality, protein. The nearby Minerva factory of the family firm A Poveira cooks fish fresh from the local seas in the morning and its army of mainly women workers pack and can it in the afternoon. It's one of just seven surviving fish canneries in northern Portugal. New investors have put in 5m euros ($6.7m; ?¡ê4.2m), not just preserving the company but breathing new life into it. Fancier new varieties are boosting export orders and saving jobs in a region that badly needs more of both. One of the the longest serving workers is Rosa Macaes. As she speaks, she deftly tailors the sardines with scissors so they fit exactly the tins, nose to tail. \"Times are more difficult and we all have to work longer than ever before,\" she says. \"Everything is more expensive and it's more difficult to help my children and their families than in the past. It's very important to be in a job and I know many people who don't have one. But I believe the jobs are out there - they are hard and younger people just don't want to do them.\" Many might take issue with that in a country where unemployment is falling, but remains at nearly 16%. But as a visit to the country's second city so graphically illustrates, the road to economic recovery is long and the city of Porto and its people bear the scars.", "question": "Half a dozen women are working outdoors at an ancient stone @placeholder set high above a river .", "option_0": "reminder", "option_1": "expectation", "option_2": "school", "option_3": "sink", "option_4": "hut"}
{"id": 915, "article": "His private jet touched down at Prestwick Airport on Tuesday evening and he arrived at the hotel and golf course in Ayrshire a short time later. He confirmed last month he had purchased the complex from Dubai-based Leisurecorp for an undisclosed sum. Mr Trump said: \"I think it is really beautiful and we are going to make it the finest in the world.\" The course will continue to be managed by Starwood Hotels & Resorts. Turnberry is the only course in the Open circuit to be owned privately. Mr Trump has ambitions to host the Open at his other course in Aberdeenshire. In a statement in April, Mr Trump said: \"I intend to invest many millions of dollars (pounds) in order to bring the hotel to the highest levels of luxury. \"When completed, I believe that the Turnberry Hotel will be the finest and most luxurious hotel in all of Europe.\"", "question": "US @placeholder tycoon Donald Trump is in Scotland making his first visit to Turnberry golf resort as its new owner .", "option_0": "property", "option_1": "health", "option_2": "images", "option_3": "motor", "option_4": "oil"}
{"id": 916, "article": "Mr Gao - who was released from prison last week - was emotionless, \"basically unintelligible\" and had lost teeth through malnutrition, Mr Gensher said. As a prominent human rights lawyer, Mr Gao had defended China's Christians and followers of the Falun Gong movement. He is alleged to have suffered physical and psychological abuse in jail. As well as losing many teeth, Mr Gao's daily ration of cabbage and a single slice of bread had caused him to lose 20 kg in weight, according to a statement by US-based advocacy group, Freedom Now. The group said he had been confined to a cramped cell, with very little light, and had been largely deprived of human contact until his release. Freedom Now said Mr Gao's wife, Geng He, had spoken to her husband and was \"completely devastated\" by what the Chinese government had done to him. \"The only thing I feared more than him being killed was his suffering relentless and horrific torture and being kept alive,\" she is quoted as saying. Ms He has urged the Chinese government to allow Mr Gao to seek treatment in the United States, where she and their two children have been living since 2009. 2005: Authorities close down Gao Zhisheng's law practice Dec 2006: Convicted of subversion and sentenced to house arrest Sept 2007: Says he was tortured during a period of detention Jan 2009: Disappears; last seen accompanied by security officials Mar 2010: Reappears for a month before disappearing again Dec 2011: State media says he has been jailed for three years Jan 2012: Gao revealed to be in Xinjiang prison Aug 2014: Gao freed from jail Mr Gensher said Mr Gao had been \"in an incredibly bad way\". \"He is able to say a few words here and there and answering questions in a few words, describing what he went through,\" he said. \"But he's not capable of holding any conversation and there are many occasions where he's just literally just muttering to himself.\" Mr Gao, 50, has been an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, and has defended activists and religious minorities in the past. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 for his work. He is known for campaigning for religious freedom, particularly for members of the banned group Falun Gong. He was arrested in early 2009 and accused of inciting subversion. Mr Gao was released briefly in 2010, and claimed he had been tortured in detention. Shortly after that he disappeared again. State media subsequently said in 2011 that he would be jailed for three years for violating probation rules. He was released from a prison in the western province of Xinjiang last week. The US, European Union and United Nations had repeatedly called on the Chinese authorities to release him.", "question": "Leading Chinese dissident , Gao Zhisheng , has been \" utterly @placeholder \" after three years in jail , says his international lawyer , Jared Gensher .", "option_0": "broke", "option_1": "destroyed", "option_2": "shaken", "option_3": "freed", "option_4": "criticised"}
{"id": 917, "article": "Paula Vasco-Knight was suspended in February after being accused of nepotism for recruiting her daughter's boyfriend to a job at Torbay Hospital. She was suspended on full pay. Dr Vasco-Knight had decided to relocate to the north-west of England for \"family reasons\", said South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The tribunal in January found Claire Sardari and Penny Gates had been victimised as a result of whistle-blowing about their concerns. The South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, was found to have  \"dishonestly\" suppressed a report into accusations of nepotism. Its chairman Peter Hildrew resigned immediately following the decision. Earlier in May it was believed Dr Vasco-Knight was challenging the tribunal. In a statement, South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust said: \"It is unfortunate that Dr Vasco-Knight's achievements have been overshadowed by the employment tribunal judgment. \"Notwithstanding the judgment of the tribunal, Dr Vasco-Knight asserts that an independent report commissioned by a former chair of the trust prior to the tribunal found no evidence that Dr Vasco-Knight had breached trust policies.\" It added that \"no payments have been made to her other than those to which she is entitled under her contract of employment\". Dr Vasco-Knight was appointed a CBE in the New Year Honours List for services to the NHS.", "question": "A suspended hospital chief executive who was @placeholder at an employment tribunal for her treatment of two whistle - blowers has resigned .", "option_0": "killed", "option_1": "caught", "option_2": "abandoned", "option_3": "criticised", "option_4": "questioned"}
{"id": 918, "article": "Rats injected with stem cells 30 minutes after a stroke had almost normal brain function restored within a fortnight. The Bolivian research team say the method has potential in human trials. Current best practice is to treat many patients with \"clot-busting\" drugs in the \"golden hour\" after a stroke has taken place. The research, published in the journal Stem Cell Research and Therapy, adds to others which have found that stem cells could aid stroke patients by boosting the body's ability to repair tissue damage. Stem cells are the body's \"master cells\", with the potential to become many different cell types, and theoretically replace cells lost through disease or injury. Recent tests in humans have show some promise, with stroke symptoms improving after an infusion of stem cells. The Bolivian team, from La Paz University Hospital, extracted a certain type of stem cells from fat and bone marrow, then injected them into the blood vessels of rats shortly after they had suffered an artificially-induced stroke. Even though the introduced cells did not appear to travel to the affected region of the brain, the rats still did better than other rats who did not receive the cells. Within 24 hours, they were already showing a speedier recovery, and two weeks later, they registered almost normal scores on behavioural tests. The researchers said the early introduction of the cells might even interrupt the typical \"chain reaction\" of tissue damage which follows a stroke, in which the initial injury harms additional cells in surrounding areas. Dr Exuperio Diez-Tejedor, who led the research, said: \"Improved recovery was seen regardless of origin of the stem cells, which may increase the usefulness of this treatment in human trials. \"Adipose (fat) -derived cells in particular are abundant and easy to collect without invasive surgery.\" The ease of collection, and the ability to use \"allogenic\" cells from other rats rather than having to harvest the animal's own cells and culture them, meant a treatment was available not weeks after a stroke, when the damage was done, but in this case minutes. They wrote: \"From the viewpoint of clinical translation allogenic stem cells are attractive because they can be easily obtained from young healthy donors, amplified, and stored for immediate use when needed after a stroke.\" They suggested that it might be possible to overcome the risk of immune rejection of the donor cells in humans. However, a spokesman for the Stroke Association said that human trials of this particular technique would not be possible in the near future. Dr Clare Walton said: \"Stem cells are an incredibly interesting area of stroke research and the results of this study provide further insight into their potential use for stroke recovery. \"However, we are a long way off these types of treatments being used in humans and a lot more research is needed.\"", "question": "Stem cells given in the vital @placeholder immediately after a stroke may aid recovery , suggest researchers .", "option_0": "community", "option_1": "organ", "option_2": "period", "option_3": "coalition", "option_4": "west"}
{"id": 919, "article": "The woman, 20, had agreed to ride with a man from their hostel in south-east Queensland to Brisbane, police said. But when he began driving in the opposite direction, she demanded to get out of the car. The man refused. Police intercepted the pair at Gympie, 90km (55 miles) from the hostel, after her father contacted them. The 22-year-old driver, from Sweden, was arrested and taken to hospital for medical treatment. The local Courier Mail newspaper named the woman as Mary Kate Heys, from Manchester. Police said she was not hurt. The newspaper quoted Ms Heys as saying that the man woke her up at 04:30 local time on Monday (18:30 GMT on Sunday) at the Mooloolaba hostel, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, and she agreed to go on a road trip with him. She reportedly began to feel unsafe when he changed plans and said they should drive to Far North Queensland. \"I was so scared and I thought I was going to die,\" Ms Heys told The Courier-Mail. She sent her father text messages reading \"I need you to call Australian Police\" and \"I've been taken by a man a€| please hurry\", the paper reported. The Swedish man will not face charges after the British woman withdrew her complaint against him, police said.", "question": "A British backpacker held against her will during a car trip in Australia was @placeholder by police after texting her location to her father in England .", "option_0": "identified", "option_1": "questioned", "option_2": "confronted", "option_3": "named", "option_4": "rescued"}
{"id": 920, "article": "Three decades of sustained economic growth, concentrated along the booming coast, has lured millions from the impoverished Chinese countryside. This great migration - unprecedented in human history - has put 46 Chinese cities over the one million mark since 1992, out of a national total of 102. And this is just the start. Special Report: The Power of Asia In Graphics: Rising Asia China's new billionaires Asia Business news Currently only about 40% of China's population lives in cities, roughly that of America in 1885. It is estimated that another 350 million Chinese will become urban by 2025, raising China's urban numbers to a cool billion. Accommodating all these people has meant building on a scale the world has never seen before. In the first 20 years of China's economic revolution, begun under Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s, China built some 6.5bn sq m (70bn sq ft) of new housing - the equivalent of more than 150 million average-sized apartments. In Shanghai there were no skyscrapers in 1980; today it has twice as many as New York.  Between 1990 and 2004 developers erected 85m sq m of commercial space in the city - equivalent to 334 Empire State buildings. Nationwide, China's construction industry employs a workforce of about 37 million. Nearly half the world's steel and cement is devoured there, and much of the world's heavy construction equipment has relocated to the People's Republic. Tower cranes, for example, have become the ubiquitous symbol of urban China. But China's urban revolution has also destroyed as much as it has built. In its head-long rush to be rich and modern, China has deprived itself - and the world - of a priceless heritage. Beijing, once among the world's great urban treasures, is fast becoming just another node of globalised consumerism; full of absurdly sanitised reconstitutions of its lost past, unaffordable to working people, lacerated by eight-lane highways. Urban development in China has also displaced more people than any nation in peacetime. In Shanghai alone, redevelopment projects in the 1990s displaced more residents than did 30 years of urban renewal in the United States. Because China's cities are growing outward as well as upward, urbanisation has also consumed a staggering amount of rural countryside. Between 1985 and 1995, Shanghai's footprint grew from 90 sq miles to 790. The \"spreading pancake\" of urban growth in China - \"tan da bing\", the popular Chinese expression for sprawl - has devoured some 45,000 sq miles of productive farmland over the last 30 years, nearly half the land area of the United Kingdom. Chinese suburban development is much more concentrated than in the US. Large detached homes owned by single-families - the American standard - are relatively rare. The basic unit of Chinese suburbia - with its mid-rise apartment towers, community centre and shared public spaces - is half way between a Maoist \"dan wei\" (work unit) and a Californian gated community. Nonetheless, such development on the urban periphery is fast making China a nation of motorists. China's domestic car market now exceeds America's, and the largest car showrooms in the world today are not in Los Angeles or Houston but the People's Republic. Accommodating the steady flow of new cars - Beijing and Shanghai average 1,000 new vehicle registrations a day - is a national road network on the verge of eclipsing the American interstate system as Earth's most extensive human artefact. And with cars and highways have come all the standard spaces of suburban consumerism - drive-through restaurants and big-box shopping malls, budget chain motels, and even that vanished icon of middle America, the drive-in cinema. None of this bodes well for planet Earth. How ironic that, just as the West has begun to get its environmental house in order - finally taking serious action to reduce its carbon footprint, combat global warming, and end its oil addiction - here come the millions of China, wanting the very lifestyle and material amenities that have put us on the verge of environmental collapse. If China were to match, per capita, car ownership in the US (which is falling, incidentally), it would mean more than one billion cars. The planet, in a word, would be fried. And this takes no account of India, which will soon overtake China as the world's most populous nation. Experts such as Paul Gilding have come up with a measure for our total global footprint in terms of our impact on the environment and resources. In his book The Great Disruption he concludes that our economy is operating at about 150% of capacity - in other words, the way we live will take between one-and-a-half planets to sustain. That is not just unsustainable, it is a catastrophe. And yet, who are we to say to China: \"We've had our playful, wasteful day in the sun but you must now conserve.\" Happily, we don't need to; the Chinese are saying it themselves. Even as it sprawls, China is building more public transit than all other nations combined, and is well ahead of the US in developing sustainable building technologies and clean-energy alternatives such as solar, wind, and biomass. According to a study by the Pew Charitable Trusts, China invested $34.6bn (?¡ê21bn) in the clean energy industry between 2005 and 2009 - nearly twice that of the US. We may have taught China to drive, eat, and buy its way to ruin; China may yet show us how to save the world. Thomas J Campanella is author of The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What It Means for the World. He is currently a Fellow in residence at the American Academy in Rome.", "question": "To @placeholder about urbanisation in China is to traffic in superlatives .", "option_0": "celebrate", "option_1": "follow", "option_2": "write", "option_3": "learn", "option_4": "details"}
{"id": 921, "article": "We also discuss the growing importance of algorithms in our lives - and ask whether we should be worried that our gadgets are listening to us. The hottest ticket at the Cheltenham Science Festival was for a debate on the fake news phenomenon hosted by the comedian, and former theoretical physics student, Dara ?¡° Briain. He told a hilarious story about a fake news report of his death after a car driven by his chauffeur plunged into a Dublin ravine - who knew that city's geography was so perilous? But the debate swiftly turned serious when Nasa's former chief scientist Ellen Stofan pointed out that a decline in faith in science in areas like vaccine safety and climate change could have profound consequences for the planet. Expanding on this in an interview for Tech Tent, Dr Stofan told me these were life and death issues, and public misconceptions and mistrust of scientists was a matter of real concern. She'd found President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate \"extremely disappointing\", and was worried that the public was not aware that all the major scientific institutions were agreed that climate change was real and was caused by humans. And she blamed the internet - and the major tech companies - for spreading misinformation: \"There's actually a profit motive in spreading misinformation...people try to find information that reinforces their opinion - and on the internet you can find just about any information.\" She said that, in trying to appear impartial,  the tech firms had helped those who were trying to spread untruths, and they needed to think carefully about putting such information out there without making its veracity clear to people. \"A computer making a decision on our behalf for us - or with us.\"  I had asked Jeni Tennison for a simple definition of an algorithm - and the chief executive of the Open Data Institute came up with a pretty good one. Computers absorbing a torrent of data from social media and the internet of things are being programmed to make ever more decisions - from what you pay to insure your car to where you should go for dinner. But now more questions are being asked about how these algorithms work and whether they are always good for us. Jeni Tennison conceded there was a danger that they were built to reflect a Silicon Valley mindset - and said programmers everywhere needed to sit back and think about the effect on our lives. She was debating algorithms with Hetan Shah of the Royal Statistical Society. He's largely optimistic, seeing these data-driven recipes as improving areas like poverty reduction by mapping crop yields and predicting famine. But he sees a real risk of biased algorithms feeding off biased data: \"The rules that have worked so far have been stretched to breaking point in a world where your fridge and your car are passing round data very quickly.\" He suggests that there could be a group of wise people who could start thinking about issues such as whether a driverless car's algorithm should always favour the safety of a driver in the event of an accident. This week Apple unveiled a wireless smart speaker the HomePod, a rather belated rival to the Amazon Echo and the Google Home, though one which claims superior audio quality. But yet again it seems we are being asked to invite a listening device into our homes. At a debate on listening gadgets in Cheltenham I found an audience pretty wary of this phenomenon - one man asked what Orwell would have thought of a world where we actually paid to be spied on. Audio signal specialist Professor Mark Plumbley from the University of  Surrey explained that the devices were generally only recording once they had been alerted by a wake word such as \"Alexa\" - but after that your voice data was heading off into the cloud to be processed. Security expert Dr Jason Nurse from Oxford University said we needed to ask how long these various services were holding recordings of what we said when talking to our devices. But his real concern was what happened if they were taken over by criminals: \"If hackers got control of these devices then they could record all the time - and that's a pretty significant concern.\" Mark Plumbley is sceptical about the theory held by many that all kinds of online services are eavesdropping on us and then sending us adverts reflecting our overheard conversations. But he cautions that all kinds of apps now ask for permission to use the smartphone's microphone and we should be cautious before agreeing. Voice control has been the hot new trend in home gadgets for quite a while, and if the spate of TV adverts for the Amazon Echo and Google Home are anything to go by, the tech industry is convinced they are a hit with consumers. But maybe it is time to think more carefully about just who could be listening in when we talk to Alexa or Siri.", "question": "In an era of fake news and alternative facts , how can scientists re-engage with the public and make sure they are respected and understood ? That 's a big theme at the Cheltenham Science Festival from which this week 's @placeholder of Tech Tent comes .", "option_0": "tales", "option_1": "state", "option_2": "head", "option_3": "edition", "option_4": "millions"}
{"id": 922, "article": "The man was arrested as he waited to board a plane at Johannesburg airport. Officials said a scan of his body revealed the diamonds he had ingested, worth $2.3m (?¡ê1.4m; 1.8m euros), inside. The man was reportedly of Lebanese origin and was travelling to Dubai. \"We nabbed him just before he went through the security checkpoint,\" Paul Ramaloko, spokesman of the South Africa elite police unit the Hawks said, according to Agence France Presse. Authorities believe the man belongs to a smuggling ring. Another man was arrested in March also attempting to smuggle diamonds out the country in a similar way. South Africa is among the world's top producers of diamonds.", "question": "South African police have arrested a man who they say @placeholder 220 polished diamonds in an attempt to smuggle them out of the country .", "option_0": "stabbed", "option_1": "swallowed", "option_2": "possessed", "option_3": "carries", "option_4": "raised"}
{"id": 923, "article": "Some 30 hostages were freed overnight at Ouagadougou's luxury Splendid Hotel but there are fears that at least 20 people were killed. Gunmen stormed the hotel and a nearby cafe after setting off bombs. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has said it carried out the attack in the West African nation, monitors said. French President Francois Hollande - whose forces are part of the operation against the militants - condemned the \"odious and cowardly attack\". Remi Dandjinou, the Burkinabe communications minister, told the BBC there were between six and seven gunmen and they had been staying at the hotel. He also said a member of the government, Minister of Public Works Clement Sawadogo, was among those freed at the hotel. Thirty-three people were in hospital receiving treatment, he added. French special forces and Burkinabe troops have been deployed at the hotel, which is used by UN staff and Westerners. Hospital chief Robert Sangare quoted survivors as saying at least 20 people had died in the initial attack, before the security forces began their assault on the hotel. Interior Minister Simon Compaore said 10 bodies had been found on the terrace of the nearby Cappuccino cafe. The al-Murabitoun group, which reportedly merged with AQIM recently, was involved in the attack, monitors said. Who are al-Murabitoun? Witnesses said the gunmen had initially entered the Cappuccino cafe. One employee at the cafe told AFP news agency \"several people\" had been killed there. Eyewitnesses reported hearing exchanges of gunfire between the men and security forces, as well as sporadic gunfire from inside the hotel, which is close to the country's international airport. The SITE monitoring group, which analyses jihadist networks, reports that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has said it was behind the attack. The monitoring group specifically stated that those responsible were the al-Murabitoun group, which is based in the Sahara desert in northern Mali and contains fighters loyal to the veteran Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar. Last month, the group announced it had merged with AQIM. Belmokhtar, a one-eyed commander who fought Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s, was once a member of AQIM but left after a falling-out with its leadership. Belmokhtar has been declared dead many times, the latest by a US air strike on 14 June last year in Libya - according to Libyan authorities - but his death has not been formally confirmed. AQIM and al-Murabitoun said they were behind an attack on a hotel in Burkina Faso's neighbour Mali in November, that left 20 people dead. Burkina Faso had recently held its first presidential election since a coup earlier last year. That coup toppled long-time leader Blaise Compaore, who had governed for 27 years. \"We are still in a context of political fragility, so I think the timing of this attack is meaningful,\" Cynthia Ohayon, an analyst with the International Crisis Group, told the BBC from Ouagadougou. \"The country has long borders with Mali and Niger, and we know there are armed groups present on the border, so this was probably something we had coming.\" In November, an AQIM attack on a hotel in the Malian capital Bamako left 19 people dead. Are you in the area? Let us know about your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your stories. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "question": "Exchanges of fire are @placeholder at a hotel in Burkina Faso 's capital as special forces seek to break a deadly siege by suspected Islamist gunmen .", "option_0": "continuing", "option_1": "operating", "option_2": "recorded", "option_3": "buried", "option_4": "stranded"}
{"id": 924, "article": "The move has been recommended by a working group set up by the Scottish government after the Penrose Inquiry into contaminated NHS blood products. Thousands of people were infected with Hepatitis C and HIV through NHS blood products in the 1970s and 80s. But the inquiry concluded few matters could have been done differently. And it made only a single recommendation - that anyone in Scotland who had a blood transfusion before 1991 should be tested for Hepatitis C if they have not already done so. The working group was established by Health Secretary Shona Robison. It was charged with assessing the number of people who contracted Hepatitis C, and how many could still be undiagnosed. It also looked at whether uptake of blood tests had increased after the publication of the Penrose Inquiry report, and if any further action was needed to trace undiagnosed people. The working group's recommendations, which the Scottish government said would be carried out in full, are: The group estimated there could be \"a small number\" of undiagnosed people still alive in Scotland who were infected with Hepatitis C by pre-1991 blood transfusions. It said the risk of infection was small, but anyone who was seriously ill in hospital before September 1991 and thinks they might have had a blood transfusion will be encouraged to seek further advice. Health Secretary Shona Robison said: \"The number of patients likely to be infected is very small, and the lack of historical medical records makes tracing them difficult. \"However, it is possible there are still people yet to be tested and unaware of their infection, and so I have today accepted all these recommendations to ensure that everything possible is done to find people who may have been infected and offer them the best care and treatment. \"Treatments for Hepatitis C have improved greatly in recent years. I would urge anyone who thinks they had a blood transfusion before September 1991 to seek advice from the Hepatitis helpline or their GP practice about a test if they have not yet done so.\" Support group Hepatitis Scotland welcomed the government's decision to accept all the working group's recommendations. Spokesman Leon Wylie said: \"It is likely that there are actually very small numbers who may have been exposed to the infection this way but it is extremely important to make people aware they can have a test if they have been at risk. \"Hepatitis C often does not show any real symptoms until a person has had the illness for many years and the good news is we now have medications that can cure it easily.\"", "question": "People who had a blood transfusion before September 1991 and have still not been tested for Hepatitis C are to be @placeholder in an awareness campaign .", "option_0": "targeted", "option_1": "included", "option_2": "tested", "option_3": "used", "option_4": "launched"}
{"id": 925, "article": "At a ceremony in Kabul, President Hamid Karzai said that from Wednesday \"our own security and military forces will lead all the security activities\". Observers say the best soldiers in the Afghan army are up to the task but there are lingering doubts about some. International troops will remain in Afghanistan until the end of 2014, providing military back-up when needed. The ceremony came shortly after a suicide bomb attack in western Kabul killed three employees of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and wounded more than 20. The attacker was believed to be targeting the convoy of prominent politician and Hazara leader Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq, who escaped with light injuries. Meanwhile, sources close to Taliban representatives have confirmed to the BBC that they are opening an office in the Qatari capital Doha, possibly as early as Tuesday. It is seen as an important stage in establishing a political face for the movement. The Taliban has in the past refused talks with Mr Karzai's government, calling it a puppet of the US. But the Afghan president said on Tuesday he is sending representatives to Qatar to discuss peace talks with the movement. President Karzai has been outspoken about his upset at previous US and Qatari efforts to kick-start the peace process without properly consulting his government, the BBC's Bilal Sarwary reports from Kabul. There is also concern within the presidential palace that the Taliban will use the political office in Qatar to raise funds, our correspondent adds. Tuesday's ceremony saw the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) hand over control of the last 95 districts in a transition process that began in 2011. The last remaining districts included 13 in Kandahar province - the birthplace of the Taliban - and 12 each in Nangarhar, Khost and Paktika, all bastions of insurgent activity along the border with Pakistan. By David LoynBBC News, Kabul There are still 97,000 international troops in Afghanistan as part of the Nato-led mission but those numbers are reducing as the day for the end of combat operations comes closer. The forces are increasingly engaged in the complex business of closing bases and packing kit; very few now go out on patrol. The practical effect of today's event is not great - a handful of districts, mainly along the eastern frontier, and in Kandahar, move formally to full Afghan combat lead. But the symbolic impact is profound. For the first time since the departure of Soviet forces in 1989 and the years of civil war that followed, security across the whole of Afghanistan is now the responsibility of forces led by the Afghan government. Between now and the final exit of international combat troops at the end of next year, they will support combat operations only when requested. Alongside training the only other assistance is helicopters to take out casualties. The Afghan forces remain inconsistent, but those who train them say the best are as good as any army in a developing country. Afghan forces count cost of war Afghanistan profile - Timeline Deadly blast before handover President Karzai called it an historic day and a moment of personal pride. \"This has been one of my greatest desires and pursuits,\" he said, \"and I am glad that I, as an Afghan citizen and an Afghan president, have reached this objective today.\" He reiterated a shift in military strategy, ruling out the future use of air strikes on what he called Afghan homes and villages; the issue of Nato air strikes and civilian casualties has long been a sensitive one. Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Afghan forces were taking up the role with \"remarkable resolve\" but said there was still 18 months of hard work ahead for Isaf troops. \"We will continue to help Afghan troops in operations if needed, but we will no longer plan, execute or lead those operations, and by the end of 2014 our combat mission will be completed,\" he said. Some Afghans who spoke to the BBC said security had improved in their areas after foreign troops left. \"Now that the foreigners are gone, the security situation in the city and in the districts is much better,\" said one man from Kandahar. Another man, from Surkhroad district in eastern Nangarhar province, was less sure. \"In the past when foreign forces were present in Surkhroad the security was fine,\" he said. \"Now that the security responsibilities are being handed over to the Afghan forces, the security situation is currently ok, but there are some insurgents who are still firing from the eastern mountain areas.\" The number of Afghan security forces has been gradually increasing from fewer than 40,000 six years ago to nearly 350,000 today. However, as it has taken over more responsibility for security, the Afghan army has suffered a sharp rise in casualties. By comparison, international coalition casualties have been steadily falling since 2010. A high desertion rate among Afghan forces has also meant that thousands of new recruits are needed each month to fill its ranks. Despite the challenges, Isaf commander General Joseph Dunford recently told the BBC that the Afghan force is \"getting good enough\" to fulfil its role. In recent Taliban attacks on the capital Kabul, Afghan rapid reaction police tackled the insurgents without having to call in Isaf forces. The number of Isaf forces in Afghanistan peaked in 2011 at about 140,000, which included about 101,000 US troops. Isaf currently has about 97,000 troops in the country from 50 contributing nations, the bulk of whom - some 68,000 - are from the US. By the end of 2014 all combat troops should have left to be replaced - if approved by the Afghan government - by a smaller force that will only train and advise. The pressure on contributing nations to withdraw their troops has been exacerbated by a series of \"green-on-blue\" attacks in which members of the Afghan security forces have killed coalition troops. At least 60 Nato personnel died in such attacks in 2012. Many more Afghan security force members have died at the hands of their colleagues, in so-called \"green-on-green\" attacks. US President Barack Obama has not yet said how many troops he will leave in Afghanistan along with other Nato forces at the end of 2014. Washington has said that the Afghan government will get the weapons it needs to fight the insurgency including a fleet of MI-17 transport helicopters, cargo planes and ground support airplanes. Afghan army chief Gen Sher Muhammad Karimi said air capability was a key challenge. \"We are limited in air transportation and in some places we still need Isaf to help us. Other than that we are fully capable of doing our job,\" he told BBC Pashto.", "question": "Nato has handed over security for the whole of Afghanistan for the first time since the Taliban were @placeholder in 2001 .", "option_0": "launched", "option_1": "ousted", "option_2": "revealed", "option_3": "engulfed", "option_4": "held"}
{"id": 926, "article": "The warning by Age UK and Carers UK came as the charities released figures showing there were 1.2m carers over 65 - a 25% rise in the past decade. The biggest increase though has been seen in the over 85s, with the numbers more than doubling to 87,000. The charities said these older carers needed better support. This issue includes NHS funding, GP access and social care, particularly of older people. Policy guide: Where the parties stand The majority of carers over 65 are looking after a partner, although some are looking after elderly parents, or grandchildren, or relations with disabilities, according to the charities. The research by the charities - based on Census data from 2001 and 2011 and their own analysis - estimated the care provided by older carers was worth ?¡ê15bn a year. It warned that despite the growth in numbers, few of the older carers were being offered support by the state. Last year just over 175,000 were given assessments by their local councils. One in three carers aged 65 to 74 provide over 50 hours of care a week, but for the over 85s group that rises to more than half. More than half of the younger age group said they were not in good health, compared to 40% of those who do not have caring responsibilities. Feelings of depression and anxiety were cited by one in three carers aged 65 to 74 and nearly half of the older age group. The BBC has launched an online guide to the care system for the over-65s. The \"care calculator\" covers residential care and the support provided in people's own homes, for tasks such as washing and dressing. Users can submit their postcode and find out how much each service costs where they live in the UK. There is also a dedicated BBC Cost of Care website, with news stories, analysis and video. Dave, 90, is typical of the generation of older people who find themselves caring for loved ones. The former tram driver has been looking after his wife Ethel, who has poor eyesight and limited mobility, for the last 20 years. He does not get any help. \"We like to be independent and between us we manage to get by. We just accept this as the way it is. You just get on with it don't you?\" Carers UK chief executive Helena Herklots said: \"Caring is something that touches all of us at some point in our lives but this research shows that the number of older people are caring for others at a time when they are more likely to need care themselves. \"Action is needed to ensure that older carers have the support they need so they don't have to care alone.\" Councillor Izzi Seccombe, of the Local Government Association, said: \"Councils recognise that informal carers do a challenging job in very difficult circumstances.\" She said local authorities were doing their best to support them and she urged carers to come forward for help, saying that they did not always realise they were entitled to help.", "question": "The number of older carers in England is rising , with @placeholder the pressures of looking after loved ones is damaging their health , research suggests .", "option_0": "trade", "option_1": "feeling", "option_2": "signs", "option_3": "level", "option_4": "doubling"}
{"id": 927, "article": "Themicroscopic modelwas based on a 195-year-old design by the inventor Robert Stirling. Changes included the replacement of the original pistons with a laser beam. The physicists said they were \"astonished\" by how efficiently the machine converted heat into power - but said it did \"not run smoothly\" and had no practical use in its current form. A conventional Stirling engine has a cylinder of gas attached to a heat source at one end and a cold source at the other. The gas is alternately heated and cooled by being shifted to the different temperature locations. As the gas is heated it expands, driving a piston outwards which drives a wheel. This causes a displacer - also attached to the wheel - to move in the cylinder, shifting the majority of the heated gas to the cool area where it contracts, drawing the piston back in. This moves the displacer back to its original position shifting the gas back to the hot area, and the process repeats. A two cylinder variant of the engine uses two pistons rather than a displacer. \"We wanted to understand how such a basic principle works, and if it works at all at a micron-length scale,\" Prof Clemens Bechinger told the BBC. \"Nowadays everybody is trying to make things smaller - electronic circuits and mechanical devices get smaller and smaller - so we thought why not try to investigate this basic process at a micro-scale.\" The physicists carried out their research at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Stuttgart and published it in the latest edition of the Nature Physics Journal. To adapt the engine down to micro-size, they replaced the cylinder of gas with a single micron-sized particle made of a plastic called melamine, roughly 10,000 times the size of an atom. The particle was submerged in a chamber of water four-thousandths of a millimetre high. The pistons were replaced with a focused infrared laser beam which acted as \"optical tweezers\", holding the particle in place. The stronger the laser's intensity the more the particle was confined to one spot. The weaker the intensity the more the particle was able to fluctuate around that spot exploring a larger space. The particle thus behaved in a similar way to the molecules in the original heat engine. When the particle was restricted in movement, it resembled the state the molecules would have been in when the gas was compressed. When it was able to move more freely it acted as the molecules would have done when the gas had been able to expand. Since it was impractical to recreate hot and cold heat baths at the micro-level, a second laser was used. It heated the mixture to 90C (194F) in less than 10 milliseconds. It then was allowed to rapidly cool back to room temperature as soon as the laser was turned off. Although this allowed the physicists to recreate the heat engine process, the amount of energy gained per cycle was not stable. \"In contrast to a macroscopic heat engine where everything works in a very smooth and very deterministic fashion, our engine stutters,\" said Prof Bechinger. He said this was because the water molecules in the solution surrounding the microparticle were constantly colliding into it, causing energy to be passed back and forth. In the larger engine the amount of energy generated by the engine dwarfed that of the tiny collisions happening inside the machine, making them irrelevant. But in the microscopic engine the energy levels were much more similar and could even bring the process to a standstill in extreme cases. Although this made the amount of energy produced per cycle irregular, the team said they were surprised that on average, across a range of cycles, the micro-machine was as efficient as its larger counterpart. \"That was something we did not expect when we started the project,\" said Prof Bechinger. Although the physicists conceded that a mini-steam engine would never be a practical power source, they said they hoped their research could now be used to create more stable power sources for micro-machines.", "question": "The world 's smallest working \" steam engine \" has been @placeholder in Germany , according to a team of researchers .", "option_0": "deployed", "option_1": "introduced", "option_2": "built", "option_3": "revealed", "option_4": "held"}
{"id": 928, "article": "Reckitt Benckiser gave ¡ê38,000 to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), ¡ê5,445 to Cornwall Council and more than ¡ê5,000 to the National Trust. The bottles started arriving on the Lizard in Cornwall in January but were also washed up in Devon. Agencies said the bottles posed a risk to wildlife. Click here for live updates on this story The MCA said it was thought the bottles had come from the MV Blue Ocean which lost a container holding nearly 19,000 of them near Land's End in May last year. The compensation figures were confirmed by the agencies involved in the clean-up. Justin Whitehouse, lead ranger for the National Trust on the Lizard said he did not believe the pollution in the sea had been serious. \"Much of the clean-up was done by volunteers which wasn't factored into the cost,\" he said. \"It was local people mucking in and helping out, but that's what we're good at.\" No-one was available for comment from Reckitt Benckiser but in January it said: \"RB has strong history of environmental performance and the protection and preservation of the environment is our top priority.\"", "question": "A firm has paid out nearly ¡ê 50,000 to clear thousands of its bright pink Vanish plastic detergent bottles that washed up on @placeholder .", "option_0": "levels", "option_1": "display", "option_2": "sale", "option_3": "hold", "option_4": "beaches"}
{"id": 929, "article": "So-called Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the death of Rezaul Karim Siddique, who was killed on Saturday. A statement from the militant group accused him of \"calling to atheism\". But his daughter Rizwana Hasin told the BBC that her father believed in God, and that she had no idea why he was targeted. \"The investigators are investigating still, and we are still waiting to see the results,\" she said. \"We still don't know what was the reason. Maybe [a] misunderstanding, maybe something else. It's still a maybe for me and it's still a maybe for my family.\" Siddique, 58, was a professor of English at Rajshahi University in the country's north-west. He was attacked with machetes as he left for work. He founded a music school and edited a literary magazine, his family said. Police believe he may have been targeted by extremists because he was involved in cultural activities. They have detained a member of an Islamist student organisation for questioning. Hardline Islamist groups dislike anyone involved in the cultural field, the BBC's Dhaka correspondent Akbar Hossain says. Bangladeshi authorities have rejected IS' claim to that attack, saying the organisation does not exist in the country. Siddique is the fourth professor at the university to be have been killed in recent years by suspected Islamists. Earlier this month, a Bangladeshi law student who had expressed secular views online died when he was hacked with machetes and then shot in Dhaka. Last year, four prominent secular bloggers were also killed with machetes. The four bloggers had all appeared on a list of 84 \"atheist bloggers\" drawn up by Islamic groups in 2013 and widely circulated. There have also been attacks on members of religious minorities including Shia, Sufi and Ahmadi Muslims, Christians and Hindus. Muslim-majority Bangladesh is officially secular but critics say the government has failed to properly address the attacks.", "question": "The daughter of a Bangladeshi professor who was hacked to death in a murder @placeholder the killing of several secularists says he was not an atheist .", "option_0": "following", "option_1": "echoing", "option_2": "described", "option_3": "involving", "option_4": "celebrating"}
{"id": 930, "article": "On 3 January in Yiwu in eastern China, a bright orange locomotive pulling 44 containers laden with suitcases, clothes and an assortment of household goods set off on a 7,500-mile (12,000km) journey to western Europe. Ten containers were taken off at the German cargo hub of Duisburg. The rest made up the first cargo train from China to arrive in London at Barking's Eurohub freight terminal. London is the 15th European city to find its way on to the ever-expanding map of destinations for China's rail cargo. Last year, 1,702 freight trains made the voyage to Europe, more than double the 2015 figure. Yiwu Timex Industrial Investments, which is running this service with China's state-run railways, says prices are half that of air cargo and cut two weeks off the journey time by sea. The UK's biggest supermarket, Tesco, doesn't have any goods on this particular train but does use rail to carry toys, electrical goods, homeware and clothing from China to European rail hubs such as Bratislava in Slovakia and Krasnaje in Belarus. Alistair Lindsay, Tesco's head of global logistics, says the supermarket prefers shipping its goods because this is the most environmentally friendly way, as well as offering the best value for money, but that \"where we need to move products quicker we have that option to do it by rail\". This decision would normally be driven by customer demand for particular products, he says. It demonstrates how market demand and the realities of globalisation are increasingly allowing China's President Xi Jinping to realise his ambitious plan to revive the ancient Silk Road. For centuries the fabled trade route from the ancient capital of Xian provided a link to the bustling markets of European cities such as Istanbul and Venice. In the 21st Century China has become the world's biggest exporter, with the export of goods totalling $2.28 trillion (?¡ê1.85tn) in 2015. This rail expansion is part of President Xi's \"One Belt, One Road\" (OBOR) trade policy. For Beijing it offers another way to sustain its economic growth. Kazakhstan is one of the countries on the route and it was there that Mr Xi first outlined his vision in a speech in 2013 saying, \"This will be a great undertaking benefiting the people of all countries along the route.\" Extolling the virtues of globalisation was a theme he repeated again at Davos this week. For some, this is as much political as economic, offering Beijing the chance to project soft power as well as demonstrating it has the influence to thread disparate nations from Russia to Spain together. \"[OBOR] is set to become Xi Jinping's grand legacy,\" says Dr Sam Beatson, of King's College London. \"Regardless of the returns on offer... the policies will continue to be pushed as a means of seeking to fulfil Xi's dream under his leadership.\" One of the other legacies President Xi is trying to tackle is China's pollution problem. While rail cargo is not as green as sea transport it emits less carbon dioxide (CO2) than air travel. This is the \"first argument when trying to get our customers to re-evaluate their options\", says Johan Ignell, rail freight manager at Swedish cargo firm Greencarrier. It calculates that a 40ft (12m) container with 20 tonnes of cargo would account for just 4% of the CO2 emissions it would take to move it by air (though emissions would be more than halved again if it were moved by sea). Freight transport accounts for about 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions, but it is \"fraught with difficulty\" to compare emissions from different transport modes, says Prof Alan McKinnon of Germany's Kuehne Logistics University. Prof McKinnon, one of the authors of a 2014 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says \"load factor, energy efficiency and power sources all make a difference and can be hard to ascertain\". He adds: \"While shifting air cargo to rail will certainly cut emissions, container shipping will continue to command a significant carbon advantage over transcontinental rail, particularly now that most vessels are slow steaming to save fuel.\" There is also a business case for this emerging trade route to grow. Not least among European companies looking to export to China. At the moment there are no plans to run a return train service from London but that could change quickly. China is already the European Union's second biggest export market - though there is an EU trade deficit in goods of about $190bn. For UK companies facing up to the reality of Brexit, China is an attractive proposition and the train carries new opportunities. Brand Avenue is a company that already exports British-made goods including cosmetics and jewellery to China, and chief executive Jody Jacobs says he's exploring moving to rail. \"We deal a lot in goods which weigh a lot in comparison to their volume [which is] where airfreight becomes expensive, such as cosmetics and baby food. \"So for us a service which is quicker than sea and cheaper than air is a great middle ground.\" For established cargo companies rail also offers the potential for growth. Shipping lines have seen profits fall because of overcapacity attributed to the aftermath of the global financial crisis. The world's biggest shipping company, Maersk, told the BBC it is investigating \"possible opportunities\" in long-distance rail, though it sees them as supplementary to sea and air routes. China is planning another 20 European routes for rail freight, and with the world's demand for consumer goods continuing to grow, all the ingredients seem to be there for rail to help the global economy steam ahead in 2017 and beyond.", "question": "It 's not on a boat , it 's not on a @placeholder , it 's on a train . The newest way to send your freight from China to Europe involves spending 15 days on a train that does n't have a buffet car in sight .", "option_0": "plane", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "deal", "option_3": "note", "option_4": "barge"}
{"id": 931, "article": "The increase covers regulated fares, including season tickets, and unregulated, such as off-peak tickets. Campaigners said the rise was a \"kick in the teeth\" for passengers after months of widespread strike disruption. The government said it was delivering the biggest rail modernisation programme for more than a century. The increase in fares came as a strike by conductors on Southern Rail entered its third day, as a long-running row about the role of guards on new trains continued. The RMT union began the 72-hour walkout on New Year's Eve, while another strike is set for 9 January. By Richard Westcott, BBC transport correspondent Even if you allow for inflation, rail fares have gone up by around 25% since the mid-1990s. Some tickets have spiked by 40% in just a decade. Why? Because successive governments have been changing the proportion of the rail bill paid for by passengers. It used to be around 50%. Today it's around 70%. It does of course mean that other taxpayers, who do not catch trains (and that's most people, frankly), are paying less to run them. Ironically, the original idea behind the government regulating around half of our rail fares was to protect passengers from big price rises imposed by train operators. Yet it's often been government ministers who have used the mechanism to put fares up. Bruce Williamson, of the independent campaign group Railfuture, said: \"With the chaos on Southern, lacklustre performance in Scotland and stalled electrification on the Great Western main line, passengers are going to wonder what they are getting for their increased ticket price.\" Lianna Etkind, of the Campaign for Better Transport, said: \"Today's fare rises are another kick in the teeth for long-suffering rail passengers. \"Many experienced a less frequent and more overcrowded service last year, and now they are required to pay more for the same this year.\" The government uses the previous July's Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation to determine increases in regulated train fares, which was 1.9%. Train operating companies set the prices of other tickets but are bound by competition rules. According to the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train operators, around 97p in every pound paid by passengers goes back into running and improving services. RDG chief executive Paul Plummer said: \"Nobody wants to pay more to travel to work and at the moment in some places people aren't getting the service they are paying for. \"However, increases to season tickets are set by government. Money from fares is helping to sustain investment in the longer, newer trains and more punctual journeys that passengers want.\" Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the government has \"always fairly balanced\" the cost of modernising the railways between the taxpayer and the passenger.\" But shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald said passengers are always told that higher fares are necessary to fund investment. \"The truth is that our heavily fragmented railways mean that it takes years longer and costs much more than it should to deliver basic improvements,\" he said.", "question": "Rail passengers are facing higher fares across the UK as average price increases of 2.3 % are @placeholder on the first weekday of the new year .", "option_0": "predicted", "option_1": "introduced", "option_2": "reported", "option_3": "beginning", "option_4": "struggling"}
{"id": 932, "article": "The man, who does not want to be named, is against a 225-bedroom hotel being built at a derelict site descending from Victoria Street to the Cowgate. Developer Andy Jansons is seeking the notice to evict the man from Edinburgh Sheriff court on Tuesday. The man has been in the tree for a week. Work on the development had been due to begin on Monday. The project includes a bar, restaurant, cafe, retail and commercial units. The 19th Century A-listed India Buildings is a part of the planned redevelopment. The B-listed Cowgatehead Church and a C-listed building are also part of the plans.", "question": "Developers of a ¡ê 40 m hotel in Edinburgh 's Old Town are seeking an eviction notice on a man who is @placeholder in a tree on the site .", "option_0": "stabbed", "option_1": "locked", "option_2": "standing", "option_3": "falling", "option_4": "protesting"}
{"id": 933, "article": "Peter Dahlin, 35, has been held since early January amid a crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists. Last week he appeared on state media apparently confessing to breaking the law through his organisation's support of local Chinese rights lawyers. The Swedish embassy confirmed he had left China but gave no further details. Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom welcomed his release, but expressed concern about another Swede in Chinese detention. Gui Minhai, a Swedish national who lived in Hong Kong, is one of five people linked to a Hong Kong publishing house to disappear in recent months.  He vanished while on holiday in Thailand in October last year. He had also appeared on Chinese TV earlier this month, saying he had voluntarily handed himself over to the authorities. Many in Hong Kong believe the five were kidnapped by China and are being held because of allegations in a book they were working on, critical of the mainland. Ms Wallstrom said Sweden's \"efforts to get a clear picture of his situation and the possibility to visit him continue with undiminished force\". Mystery disappearances in Hong Kong book world Gui Minhai: 51, disappeared while staying in Thailand in October 2015. The China-born Swedish national owns the Mighty Current publishing house Lui Bo: last seen in mainland China, just north of Hong Kong, in October 2015. General manager of Mighty Current Cheung Jiping: 32, last seen in mainland China in October 2015. Mighty Current's business manager Lam Wingkei: 60, last seen in Hong Kong in October 2015. Manager of Causeway Bay bookstore Lee Bo: 65 - also known as Paul Lee -  disappeared in Hong Kong in late December 2015. A shareholder in Causeway Bay bookshop and a UK passport holder. Wife withdraws request for police to help find him in early 2016 saying he has been in contact from mainland China", "question": "A Swedish activist who was detained in China on charges of damaging national security has been released and @placeholder .", "option_0": "charged", "option_1": "revealed", "option_2": "announced", "option_3": "sacked", "option_4": "deported"}
{"id": 934, "article": "The most recent and the most familiar is the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs - between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, about 65 million years ago. But before that, 205 million years ago, was the \"End-Triassic Event\" - it set the stage for the Jurassic Period, which saw the rise to prominence of the dinosaurs. Just what happened that killed off half the species on the planet, though, remains a mystery. On the coast of Somerset in the UK this week, one researcher from the US is trying to peel away - actually, to hammer away - some of that mystery, and in so doing providing a picture of science at work. Once upon a time, Paul Olsen of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory was one of the few people who believed that a giant impact of an object from space started the extinction, much like the impact that many people believe caused the demise of the dinosaurs. \"I argued quite passionately for that on the basis of the pattern of extinction, which looks very much like that at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, and because I discovered an 'iridium anomaly' at the level of the extinctions. \"Iridium is very rare in the earth's crust but relatively abundant in extraterrestrial material, so an abundance of that element suggests that there was an impact at that time,\" he explained. \"I thought it was pretty clear that that was a plausible cause.\" But science has moved on. Other workers in the field have found in that same period, enormous lava flows from a flurry of volcanic activity in the then-developing Atlantic Ocean also occurred at exactly the same time. And Prof Olsen himself found more iridium anomalies at different, nearby times. \"The way many scientists work is that while they're pushing one idea passionately, they always have in the back of their mind that they may be wrong, and they have alternative explanations for the same observations - and I did too. \"It wasn't so simple to explain the extinctions as a result of a giant impact, but simpler to explain as a result of the giant lava flows,\" he said. So it is that Prof Olsen is at St Audrie's Bay in Somerset this week, where rocks of the right age are pristinely preserved. What is at issue is the precise timings of the events. Prof Olsen and his colleagues believe that an impact did occur, probably at Rochechouart in south-western France, but that it occurred a few thousand years before the extinction. While it may have had an effect on the life on Earth, the impact does not seem to line up in time with the volcanic activity and the extinction. But, as is so often the case with the record of events laid out like the pages of a book on the Earth's surface, more data is needed, and Prof Olsen is hammering away chunks of it, carrying the samples back to the US for analysis in neatly labelled bags. Gareth Collins, an impact expert at Imperial College London, says that anyone trying to unravel the details of extinction events, \"if they're honest with themselves, would say that we're never going to know\". Just which species died off and disrupted ecosystems, and how stressed various species may have been before dying off, are simply too tricky to figure out from the fossil record. In contrast to the guiding principle of science, any guesses do not lead to testable predictions. \"I think we're still some way off understanding exactly what was the cause of the mass extinction, and the more general question of whether mass extinctions have a common cause or whether each one is an event that needs to be considered in isolation,\" he told BBC News. The extinction at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, for example, again shows a great deal of volcanic activity, and irrefutable evidence for a giant impact. Might it be that all of the \"big five\" extinctions involved both a disrupted climate due to volcanic emissions, as well as something smashing into the Earth? These mysteries will endure for some time. But Dr Collins argues that the efforts to unravel them must press on. \"I think it's incredibly imperative that we understand mass extinction events; they punctuate evolution and they are absolutely as important if not more important than the sort of incremental changes that occur between these extinctions. \"They sort of wipe the slate clean and then allow the next era to occur and the next dominant species to evolve.\" So as Prof Olsen hammers layers of 200-million-year-old shale out of the Somerset foreshore, he is keeping an open mind about what he and others will find. \"When you find evidence that directly contradicts your favourite idea and you have to switch modes, switch paradigms to a different concept, that's real progress,\" he said.", "question": "Five times in the last half a billion years , tremendous , global - scale extinctions have wiped out a significant fraction of life on Earth - and each of them @placeholder a grand puzzle .", "option_0": "fleeing", "option_1": "catch", "option_2": "was", "option_3": "presents", "option_4": "attended"}
{"id": 935, "article": "There have been 51 murders in Greater Vitoria since Saturday, compared with four in January, the police union says. Schools remained closed on Monday and local football matches were also postponed due to the spike in violence. Officials said they would sit down for talks but only once the strike ended. Relatives of the striking officers have been demonstrating in front of police stations as the officers themselves are barred from protesting. They are demanding better pay for military police officers, including additional pay for night work and danger money. The officers stopped patrolling the streets of the city on Saturday morning. The commander of the force has been sacked and a new commander has been tasked with \"restoring order and discipline\", Espirito Santo security chief Andre Garcia said.", "question": "Two hundred federal officers in Brazil are being @placeholder to the city of Vitoria , in the eastern state of Espirito Santo , where police went on strike on Saturday over pay .", "option_0": "sought", "option_1": "held", "option_2": "deployed", "option_3": "flown", "option_4": "committed"}
{"id": 936, "article": "The Young Vic show sees Horrocks perform the music of bands including The Smiths and The Fall, accompanied by dancers and a live band. The Independent says it is \"a personal project that never feels personal\". And Lyn Gardner in the Guardian said it \"springs few surprises\". Horrocks takes to the stage - dominated by an enormous plug socket - in a boilersuit and unlaced boots, later changing into leggings and a T-shirt. She speaks very little in the hour-long piece, instead letting the music and dancing do the talking. Horrocks, who previously showed off her singing talent in Little Voice, told the BBC she wanted to bring music from her past to the show. \"Most of the songs are from northern, male bands in the late 1970s and early 80s,\" said the Absolutely Fabulous star. \"Some of them are very loyal, but most are reinvented. They've got a bit more of a contemporary edge to them.\" But Gardner in The Guardian said she longed \"for more variety, for something less emotionally remote\" in the work. \"There is no Desert Island Discs-style explaining of the significance of the songs Horrocks has chosen to cover,\" she noted. \"Instead, If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me - which takes its title from an unperformed Marc Almond song - occupies the shadowy territory between a fully fledged theatre show and a gig.\" Zoe Anderson, in the Independent, complained that \"it's all very glossy, cleaned of sweat and guitar feedback\" and gave two stars - while Gardner gave it three, later admitting on Twitter her rating had been \"too generous\". \"Whether deconstructing love songs, or actually singing them, Horrocks is sophisticated and remote,\" Anderson wrote. \"These songs weren't part of my adolescence, but If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me doesn't show me why they were so important to hers.\" The Telegraph gave it four stars, with dance critic Mark Monahan noting \"this is a show she's probably been wanting to put on ever since she was about 13\". He added that it is \"one of the crispest and kookiest hours of entertainment you're likely to encounter all year, and oddly elating in the way that only expertly delivered tragedy can be\". Mark Trueman, in What's on Stage, said the show is \"several things at once\". He admitted not being part of the target audience, but added: \"The songs don't sit right in her mouth.\" \"The whole thing feels like an extended music video - slick, easy on the eye, pretty vapid,\" he said. \"There's a thump to the music, but I should have come out wanting to set up a playlist and I just didn't.\" The Stage review, by Natasha Tripney, also admitted she was not moved by the piece, writing: \"This is not my music. I suspect it might make a considerable difference if it were.\" She gave three stars, as Trueman did, and said: \"The show is, says Horrocks, an archaeological exercise, but it's one performed with gloves on. \"The whole production feels a little bit too clean; your lungs stay pink and smoke-free throughout, the soles of your shoes un-sticky, your hair remains free of dubious fluids.\"", "question": "Jane Horrocks ' If You Kiss Me , Kiss Me has been described as \" part gig , part dance piece \" - but it @placeholder critics are not quite sure what to make of it , giving mixed reviews .", "option_0": "suggests", "option_1": "appears", "option_2": "tones", "option_3": "believes", "option_4": "denies"}
{"id": 937, "article": "Ofcom recently revealed that one in four British people still use the same password for all their activities online, suggesting we still have some way to go to fully understand computer security. Here Prof Alan Woodward explores some of the misconceptions about how we stay safe online. While there is still a long way to go in raising awareness of the risks inherent in surfing the net, word is spreading. Unfortunately, some urban legends have arisen that are leading to a false sense of security. Probably the most common of these myths is that your computer cannot be infected simply by visiting a website containing malicious code. The story goes, that you are only going to get malware on your machine if you actively agree to download software. As with many myths it contains a grain of truth. However, you may not recognise that you are giving your permission, and often hackers rely upon the fact that your computer is set to give permission by default to certain types of download. This has led to the phenomenon of \"drive-by downloads\". These downloads can happen in several ways, with hackers developing new methods all the time. Possibly the most insidious technique relies upon what are known as inline frames or \"IFrames\".  The intention of IFrames was to allow webpages that have a mixture of variable and static content to be constructed so that they used computer resources more efficiently. First introduced in 1997, IFrames essentially allow you to embed \"active\" material that is brought in from elsewhere. When misused, IFrames can secretly download another webpage - one you will not see because they can be as small as a single pixel - which redirects you to a page containing an exploit. If your browser and system are vulnerable to this exploit then the malware is downloaded on to your computer. And, you did not agree to anything, did you? A variant of this first great myth is that webpages cannot download to your computer without you clicking on an \"OK\" button. You may have to click but that click might not be doing what you think.  A typical trick is for a compromised site to pop up a box - usually an advert - which you simply have to close if not interested.  The act of closing the advert can be the very click that initiates a download. Things are not always what they seem online. This leads to the second great myth: that only disreputable sites contain malware. Yes it is true that some less salubrious sites are affected in this way, but many well-known sites find themselves compromised too.  A classic example is where a site allows comments to be posted and the web forms have not been secured in quite the right way.  Someone can post a comment containing code and that code can contain an IFrame. With webpages often being an amalgamation of content drawn from various sources, it is very difficult for webmasters to close all the loopholes. The New York Times found this out in 2009 when they were tricked into running an advert which encouraged readers to download fake antivirus software. On the web you are trusting not just the webpage provider but their entire content supply chain. The third myth is more personal. Most of us believe we are too insignificant to be attacked because hackers are interested only in the big fish. Well, yes some hackers will invest a great deal of time trying to break into some high-value target. However, most criminals have long since realised that their return on investment is much higher by targeting many smaller value targets, like you and me. With automation and the global reach of the internet you need only have a tiny fraction of your targets respond in order to reap a very handsome reward. Research has shown that the reason scammers persist with age-old ploys such as the Nigerian scam emails is because, as extraordinary as it might seem, they still work. The criminal invests relatively little time and money but the numbers responding are still high enough to make it worth their while. The delusion involved in the fourth myth may shock many - my computer contains nothing of value. Sorry to disappoint, but your computer is a treasure trove for criminals. What about something as simple as your address book? Criminals love contact lists as they give them valid email addresses and someone who they can pretend to be - you. And, of course, who does not log into some bank, shop, government site or similar with their computer? In doing so you leave your digital identity on your computer, and there is nothing criminals love more than a valid online identity. How many people clear the memory, delete cookies and temporary files when they close down their browser? Quite the opposite is true - for convenience many store their digital identities in their browsers so they do not have to log on every time they wish to use an online service. It is rather like leaving your car keys on the hall table in full view of the letterbox. A fishing rod is all the criminal needs to steal your car. The final myth is the one that leads to the most pronounced false sense of security - that my make of computer or operating system is not vulnerable to security problems. Some people think that being behind a firewall makes them safe. I am afraid that this could not be more wrong. You may find that you are using a less popular computer brand which has yet to attract the attention of criminals, and your firewall may keep out some intruders, but all computers, if connected to the internet, are vulnerable. Alan Woodward is a visiting professor at the University of Surrey's department of computing. He has worked for the UK government and currently advises several FTSE 100 companies about issues including cybersecurity, covert communications and forensic computing through the consultancy Charteris where he is chief technology officer.", "question": "Are we wising up to the dangers @placeholder online ? Or are phishing , spam and hacking just words that we still do not understand and we hope will not happen to us .", "option_0": "shadow", "option_1": "floor", "option_2": "lurking", "option_3": "surrounding", "option_4": "happening"}
{"id": 938, "article": "The white marble statue of a woman was found after a cliff collapsed in the city of Ashkelon. The statue - which lacks a head and arms - dates back about 1,800-2,000 years, officials at the Israel Antiquities Authorities (IAA) believe. However, the storm also caused some damage to the Roman-era port of Caesarea. Israel's officials are due to visit the area to assess the damage. \"The big storm earlier this week caused the cliff to collapse,\" IAA spokeswoman Yoli Schwartz was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency. She added that \"a statue from Roman times was found by a passer-by\". The statue weighs about 200kg (440lb) and stands 1.2m (4ft) tall. Although its head and arms were missing, \"delicately carved sandals\" remained intact, Ms Schwartz said. The IAA has already removed the statue from the site to study it.", "question": "A Roman statue @placeholder for centuries has been unearthed after a massive storm battered Israel 's coast , officials say .", "option_0": "stranded", "option_1": "used", "option_2": "processing", "option_3": "buried", "option_4": "cared"}
{"id": 939, "article": "Almost every cycle which has been part of the Bike2Go project has been removed for \"maintenance and overhaul\". Dumfries and Galloway Council said the bikes will be returned when the scheme is relaunched in conjunction with a similar project run by ScotRail. The ?¡ê155,000 scheme began in 2010, to encourage people get out of their cars, but it has suffered from low uptake. It has provided bikes free of charge to subscribers at 11 locations across the town. However three years after it launched, it emerged that the town's 42 bikes had been hired 2,270 times - a daily average of about two rentals. It worked out at more than ?¡ê60 per rental. Stances at locations including Dumfries Railway Station, the Crichton campus and Heathhall are now standing empty. A survey by BBC Scotland found just one cycle - at the King George V playing fields. Sally Hinchcliffe, of Cycling Dumfries, called on the local authority to consult with local groups before relaunching the scheme. The cycling campaigner said: \"It's a shame that the bikes weren't more successful, but the few times we have used them in the past we found the rental system very clunky to use and sometimes it just wouldn't work at all, although most people who actually managed to rent one of the bikes enjoyed riding them. \"We hope that the relaunch will include discussions with local groups about how to make the most of the bikes - perhaps an on-street rental scheme isn't the best use for them. \"For instance, they could be integrated into Abellio's Scotland-wide bike hire scheme based at the station, or be made available to community groups for bike rides or loan bikes.\" One subscriber to the scheme, Chris Henry, told the BBC he had hoped to use a cycle to travel from the Crichton to the railway station. When he contacted the operator, Hourbike, he was told he could pick up a bike from Cargen Towers - a council building on the opposite side of Dumfries. Mr Henry said: \"I hadn't realised the significance of the name 'hourbike' is that you must walk for an hour, passing at least five empty bike stations, to locate a bike.\" A spokeswoman for Dumfries and Galloway Council said there is usually very low usage of the bikes over the winter months. She added: \"We are looking to relaunch the Bike 2 Go scheme in the spring, in conjunction with ScotRail's launch of their national 'Bike and Go' hire scheme at Dumfries Station. \"We are working with ScotRail to source local maintenance and support for both schemes for the future, and it is therefore appropriate to postpone return of the bikes to their stances until the spring of 2016.\"", "question": "A troubled bike hire scheme in Dumfries has been @placeholder until next spring , BBC Scotland has learned .", "option_0": "suspended", "option_1": "criticised", "option_2": "awarded", "option_3": "declared", "option_4": "named"}
{"id": 940, "article": "Few scientific facts are known about the hapless bird, which was last sighted in 1662. A study of bone specimens shows the chicks hatched in August and grew rapidly to adult size. The bird shed its feathers in March revealing fluffy grey plumage recorded in historical accounts by mariners. Delphine Angst of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, was given access to some of the dodo bones that still exist in museums and collections, including specimens that were recently donated to a museum in France. Her team analysed slices of bone from 22 dodos under the microscope to find out more about the bird's growth and breeding patterns. \"Before our study we knew very very little about these birds,\" said Dr Angst. \"Using the bone histology for the first time we managed to describe that this bird was actually breeding at a certain time of the year and was moulting just after that.\" The scientists can tell from growth patterns in the bones that the chicks grew to adult size very rapidly after hatching from eggs around August. This would have given them a survival advantage when cyclones hit the island between November and March, leading to a scarcity of food. However, the birds probably took several years to reach sexual maturity, possibly because the adult birds lacked any natural predators. The bones of adult birds also show signs of mineral loss, which suggests that they lost old damaged feathers after the breeding season. Ancient mariners gave conflicting accounts of the dodo, describing them as having \"black down\" or \"curled plumes of a greyish colour\". The research, published in Scientific Reports, backs this historical evidence. \"The dodo was quite a brown-grey bird, and during the moulting it had downy, black plumage,\" explained Dr Angst. \"What we found using our scientific methods fit perfectly with what the sailors had written in the past.\" The research could also shed light on the dodo's extinction about 350 years ago, less than 100 years after humans arrived on the island. Hunting was a factor in the dodo's demise, but monkeys, deer, pigs and rats released on the island from ships probably sealed their fate. Dodos laid their eggs in nests on the ground, meaning they were vulnerable to attack by feral mammals. Dr Angst said the dodo is considered \"a very big icon of animal-human induced extinction\", although the full facts are unknown. \"It's difficult to know what was the real impact of humans if we don't know the ecology of this bird and the ecology of the Mauritius island at this time,\" she explained. \"So that's one step to understand the ecology of these birds and the global ecosystem of Mauritius and to say, 'Okay, when the human arrived what exactly did they do wrong and why did these birds became extinct so quickly'.\" Julian Hume of the Natural History Museum, London, a co-researcher on the study, said there are still many mysteries surrounding the dodo. \"Our work is showing the seasons and what was actually affecting the growth of these birds because of the climate in Mauritius,\" he said. \"The cyclone season, when often the island is devastated with storms - all the fruits and all the leaves are blown off the trees - is quite a harsh period for the fauna - the reptiles and the birds on Mauritius.\" The dodo, which is related to the pigeon, evolved on Mauritius. However, bone samples are rare, making it difficult to trace the evolutionary process. Although many specimens of the dodo ended up in European museums, most were lost or destroyed in the Victorian era. Follow Helen on Twitter.", "question": "Scientists are piecing together clues about the life of the dodo , hundreds of years after the flightless bird was @placeholder to extinction .", "option_0": "delivered", "option_1": "close", "option_2": "driven", "option_3": "returned", "option_4": "launched"}
{"id": 941, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Josh Griffiths, 23, finished in two hours 14 minutes 49 seconds on his marathon debut to claim an automatic qualifying place for August's Worlds. Griffiths, who started behind the elite field, was the first British runner to cross the finish line and 13th overall. \"The crowd was amazing and carried me to the finish line,\" Griffiths said. \"The goal for me was to try and run the Welsh Commonwealth Games qualifying time of 2:16:00. It never crossed my mind that I would be running in the World Championships in the summer.\" Robbie Simpson was fastest of Britain's established names, finishing in 2:15:04 ahead of Andrew Davies (2:15:11). The race was won by Daniel Wanjiru of Kenya in 2:05:56. Media playback is not supported on this device \"I didn't really realise until I crossed the finish line what I had just done,\" Griffiths continued. \"I managed to catch up to the lead British runner at about mile 13, but I was working hard with a group of really elite runners who I have looked up to for a long time. \"Before I knew it, I started to pull away from some of them. I was working hard with Robbie Simpson at mile 22 and I knew that my legs were starting to tire. \"Around mile 25, I started to think I had passed everybody, but you're never really sure until you cross that line.\" Griffiths, who finished third in the Cardiff Half Marathon in October, says he was aided by the pace of Simpson. He added: \"I've known Robbie from mountain running previously and I know he's a great runner so the fact that I was able to run with him and work together with him was just great. \"He's really strong and I think we helped each other get to the end. \"This is all very new to me and the thought of being able to run in the World Championships in the summer, I just can't wait.\"", "question": "A club runner with Swansea Harriers @placeholder Britain 's elite men at the London Marathon to qualify for the 2017 World Championships in London .", "option_0": "secured", "option_1": "were", "option_2": "stunned", "option_3": "admits", "option_4": "coached"}
{"id": 942, "article": "Tegwen Roderick from Abercanaid, Merthyr Tydfil, died from blood poisoning at Ysbyty Cwm Cynon, Mountain Ash, in May 2014. Coroner Dr Sarah-Jayne Richards said her treatment was \"substandard across several different levels of care\". The Aberdare inquest heard staff shortages had been blamed. Dr Richards ordered a review of changes implemented by Cwm Taf health board following the death. She said the case was \"complex\" as Mrs Roderick had many clinical problems, including dementia and a condition which led to the weakening of her bones. \"The view has been expressed that often nursing care was provided but simply not recorded or that writing was illegible - either way this is unacceptable and in breach of hospital policy and the duty of care that was owed to Mrs Roderick,\" she said. The coroner said care was substandard, highlighting the monitoring of Mrs Roderick's fluids and dressing changes. Her family also expressed concerns about staff knowledge of lifting and handling, nutrition, hydration and dementia. Mrs Roderick was initially admitted to Prince Charles Hospital , Merthyr Tydfil on 3 April 2014 with a suspected broken left leg after a fall. She was transferred to Ysbyty Cwm Cynon on 18 April with a view to her returning home. But on 19 May an unexplained \"open wound\" fracture to her other leg was discovered and her health deteriorated. Four people were arrested on suspicion of assault and conspiring to pervert the course of justice, but there was 'insufficient evidence to prosecute for gross negligence manslaughter', according to the Crown Prosecution Service. The health board's assistant director Jason Roberts said staff levels were above national minimum guidelines and the manager of the ward has been put on a development programme.", "question": "An 88 - year - old woman who died after being admitted to hospital with a broken leg @placeholder \" deficient nursing care \" , an inquest has found .", "option_0": "nicknamed", "option_1": "resembling", "option_2": "labelled", "option_3": "floor", "option_4": "received"}
{"id": 943, "article": "The 27-year-old is among a group of 18 candidates running for a seat in Russia's parliament this weekend, openly supported by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a sworn enemy of President Vladimir Putin. The former oligarch, who is now in exile, spent a decade in prison here on fraud charges which he says were politically motivated. Natalia, officially a candidate of opposition party Parnas, was initially afraid of accepting the ex-oligarch's backing. \"I didn't know what to expect,\" she said, But, to the surprise of many, all but one of the candidates supported by Mr Khodorkovsky's Open Russia movement were cleared to run for parliament. That's a big change from the 2011 election when Parnas itself was barred from the race. But Natalia says it hasn't been a fair fight. Among a chaos of campaign leaflets and stained mugs in her basement headquarters are dozens of letters from the local authorities. Repeated requests to erect information stands and hold rallies in her constituency have been refused. One rejection claims her campaign could create social \"tension\" with other candidates. \"They are afraid of any opposition, even if it's not so big or powerful,\" Natalia argues, on her way to court to lodge an official complaint against her main rival from the governing party, United Russia. She has spotted posters with his photograph offering free concert tickets and wants the candidate removed from the race for buying votes. The court ultimately rejects her complaint. \"They are afraid when there is something they can't control. I am something that is not under their control in this election. That's why they are so nervous,\" Natalia believes. Perhaps that is why state television has gone on the attack. While news programming has been filled with images of President Putin alongside Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (the official head of United Russia), last week state-controlled NTV showed the latest in a series of films smearing Russia's opposition. Its expose, Eighteen Friends of Khodorkovsky, alleged that the former oil tycoon was funding candidates directly from abroad in violation of Russian rules. The film claimed that his aim was to declare the vote invalid and spark mass protests like those that followed evidence of fraud at the last elections. \"There is nothing they are afraid of more,\" argues Vladimir Kara Murza, co-ordinator of Mr Khodorkovsky's Open Russia movement. He was detained himself last week, at a campaign rally for another opposition candidate which police said had not been authorised. \"I think this [fear of protest] is the biggest, if not the only reason they are going to such lengths to create an appearance of free and fair elections. But I think it's important not to be fooled.\" Open Russia says it provides expert advice and support for candidates like Natalia Gryaznevich, including lawyers and PR, not cash. But the movement does admit it has an agenda. \"We want to show that there are people who have a different vision and want to see Russia as a modern, European democracy,\" Vladimir Kara Murza explains. But the odds look stacked against them. Outside a St Petersburg metro station, a man in a bear suit hands out political newspapers for the local United Russia candidate. The front page sports a big photograph of President Putin. Next to the bear is an advertising stand for the governing party, right on the spot where Natalia was refused permission to campaign. That evening, when Natalia arrives in the yard of an apartment block for a pre-advertised meeting with voters, no-one turns out to hear her. \"I know that 100 people got the invite,\" the young politician shrugs, putting a brave face on it. \"Maybe they don't want to come outside and listen. But they know I am ready to meet them and that's the most important thing.\" Open Russia argues that it is playing the long game. \"We want to use this as a training ground for a new generation of political activists, to get them experience,\" says Vladimir Kara Murza, recalling the story of virtuoso Soviet pianist Rudolf Kehrer. Exiled to Kazakhstan during World War Two, he was forced to practise for years by playing on a plank of wood. \"We know that all regimes end. And when the time comes, we have to be ready,\" Mr Kara Murza argues. Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, has 450 members and is being elected for a five-year term. Four parties had MPs in the outgoing parliament and it was almost totally dominated by supporters of President Vladimir Putin Outspoken anti-Putin MPs were stripped of their mandates This time half the Duma will be chosen by constituencies and half from party lists The same four parties are expected to win all but a handful of seats Fourteen parties are running but only two are consistently critical of the Kremlin. The opposition is weak and disunited and media coverage, especially on state TV, strongly favours the ruling party United Russia. The previous election in 2011 was marred by allegations of fraud, which led to mass protests in Moscow", "question": "There is a large , rust - @placeholder blank space where Natalia Gryaznevich 's face once looked down on a suburb of St Petersburg . The election billboard of the young opposition candidate is one of two that were vandalised ; on the other , her name has been painted over in black .", "option_0": "organised", "option_1": "coloured", "option_2": "class", "option_3": "backed", "option_4": "ranked"}
{"id": 944, "article": "Not much to see here, you might think, time to move along. And yet what we saw today at Westminster was fascinating, the growing pains of a new parliament on show for all to see. You had a prime minister, flush with victory, insisting he should have the freedom to campaign in the referendum on the EU in a way that he did not have in last year's vote on Scottish independence. Even loyal Tory MPs told me that Mr Cameron should have realised that scrapping purdah outright would provoke opposition and an unnecessary battle with his backbenches. Those MPs claimed it showed a rather clumsy approach by Downing Street that a more sophisticated operation would have avoided. The PM might have his first genuine mandate but it only goes so far in parliament. You also heard along the corridors of Westminster the sound of a very large penny dropping, namely that the government no longer has the majority of 80-odd that the Tories enjoyed with the Lib Dems. With just 12 extra votes to play with, the government has begun walking a narrow path where every division is tight. MPs and ministers are realising that this will be their lot for the next five years. The trips will be curtailed; the flexibility the whips once offered long gone. As for the whips, this was their first outing of the parliament. The Conservative whips are quite a new team with not much depth of experience. They are happy they got their business through. But they might have expended too much personal capital too early. And they will be well aware they won only because Labour abstained. This was just an early skirmish. There will be many other battles to be had when new MPs will be more willing to defy their government. And as for Labour, we learned perhaps how they will approach opposition, at least until their new leader is elected. They had the chance to defeat a newly elected government on a matter of defendable principle. But they chose not to. Some suggested it was because they could not guarantee getting enough Labour MPs in to defeat the government. There is nothing worse for an opposition than trying to defeat the government and failing. But senior Labour sources insisted this was a deliberate choice to oppose responsibly and reasonably and not duff up the government just because it can. This may be true but there was clearly a healthy debate within the PLP's upper echelons about whether this was the right choice to make. And as for the rebels, they insisted they would have had more on their side if there had been a chance of defeating the government. They spoke of the concessions given and the promises of more to come. But perhaps we learned that they too can be guilty of exaggerating numbers and may have something more to learn about the best way of using parliamentary procedures to best their government. What impressed me most, though, was the sheer indomitability of Sir William Cash, as we must now call him. Twenty years ago I watched him and others play havoc during the Maastricht votes. Two decades on, he is still there, fighting his fight. For the last four days Bill Cash - as we used to call him - has been in hospital with blood poisoning. This morning he discharged himself to come to parliament, walking unsteadily with a severely swollen leg, speaking unusually while sitting down in the Commons. Young Conservative eurosceptic MPs are sometimes dismissive of the old guard. But few match the perseverance of the 75-year-old MP for Stone.", "question": "So , in the end , only 27 Conservative MPs rebelled over plans to give the government a free @placeholder in the final weeks of the forthcoming EU referendum campaign .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "elections", "option_2": "rein", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "hand"}
{"id": 945, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Jim Neilly, BBC Sport \"I think Team GB's English super heavyweight Anthony Joshua has got a very good chance of winning a gold medal. The Cubans maybe aren't as strong as they used to be though, with the Russians now being very competitive.\" Lucy Abel, BBC Sport \"Only ourselves and Russia have the full quota of three women boxers. Savannah Marshall is the first British woman to be crowned world champion and is the favourite for the gold medal at 75kg. Lightweight Katie Taylor from Ireland has been an inspiration to female boxers across the globe.\" A number of great champions have made their name at the Games, including Hungarian Laszlo Papp, the great Cuban Felix Savon, and the USA's Oscar de la Hoya. Probably the most famous of them all, though, was Cassius Marcellus Clay, who won gold in the light heavyweight contest in Rome in 1960. He later went on to become perhaps the greatest professional heavyweight boxer of all time under the name Muhammad Ali. London will host another momentous step in the history of the sport as women will compete in Olympic boxing for the first time. As boxing provides intense cardiovascular exercise, it is an efficient way to improve the strength of your heart. One hour on a punch bag would burn approximately 354 calories, an hour's sparring would burn approximately 531 calories and an actual hour-long fight would burn approximately 708 calories. Some clubs also offer sessions that are more fitness-based than actual boxing. The US-based Centres for Disease Control Prevention reported that boxing provided the best mixture of exercise for people whose goal is to decrease their risk of obesity, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, osteoporosis and cancer. Training sessions are an excellent way to develop communication skills and learn to work effectively with other people. Clubs also offer a variety of social events beyond simply taking part in the sport. Boxing is a dynamic sport that teaches physical and mental discipline, and the best way to get started is to join a local club. Men: Light fly (49kg), fly (52kg), bantam (56kg), light (60kg), light welter (64kg), welter (69kg), middle (75kg), light heavy (81kg), heavy (91kg), super heavy (+91kg) Women: Fly (51kg), light (60kg), middle (75kg) To ensure safety, it is vital all contact sessions are overseen by a qualified coach and you buy the correct equipment before you start. Beginners will need gloves, gum shields, head gear, boots and shorts, with easy access to punching bags also essential. The Amateur Boxing Association's club finder can help you locate your nearest centre in England, while in Wales you can contact the Welsh Amateur Boxing Association by calling 01446 794 444. The Amateur Boxing Association of Scotland and Irish Amateur Boxing Association websites also contain further information as to how you can get involved. As it involves high-energy exercise, leisure and sport centres, gyms and universities throughout the United Kingdom offer boxing-based sessions which allow people who want to avoid full contact to partake in the sport. More on the GB Boxing website 'Join In Local Sport' aims to get as many people as possible to turn up and take part in activities at their local sports facilities on 18/19 August, 2012 - the first weekend between the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The aim of the initiative is for every sports club and community group in the UK to put on a special event in a bid to encourage more people to get involved as members, supporters or volunteers. More than 4,000 local sports clubs will be opening their doors to host events and show people just how they can get involved. As well as tips on playing sport there will be information on coaching, supporting and how to help out. Find an event near you. More on the London 2012 website All boxers must be at least 17 years old, be no older than 34 and must be amateur athletes. Boxers score points for every punch they land successfully on their opponent's head or upper body. Five judges score each bout, and a boxer scores a point when they deliver a blow that, without being blocked or guarded, lands directly with the knuckle part of the closed glove of either hand on any part of the front or sides of the head or body above the belt. Get your performance under pressure analysed in just 20 minutes by four-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson Start the experiment The scores in each round are the average of a combination of the three judges' scores which are the closest (called 'Similar Score'). The boxer with the most points wins the bout, but if a boxer cannot get up after 10 seconds it is classed as a knockout and the bout is over. Warnings can be applied in each round. When warnings are applied to a boxer, two points are awarded to his/her opponent. A referee can also stop the fight for a disqualification or if they feel one athlete is not in a fit state to continue. In case of a draw of the final scores, the lowest and highest total scores from the judges will be deleted. The winner will be determined by the total score from the three remaining judges. If the scores are still tied, judges will be asked to press the button once for the boxer they think is the winner. The decision is made by taking the majority of the five judges. If both boxers are disqualified there will be no winner. The bout could be declared 'no contest' due to a technical incident beyond the responsibility of the boxers. In the men's, boxers compete in bouts of three rounds, each lasting three minutes, with a one-minute rest period between rounds. In the women's, boxers compete in bouts of four rounds, each lasting two minutes, with a one-minute rest period between rounds. More on the Team GB website Team GB stand a good chance of medalling in both the men's and women's competition. Four of the seven men selected medalled at the 2011 World Championship, with silvers for Andrew Selby,Anthony Joshua and Luke Campbell. The women's trio are highly fancied following the World Championship in May, when middleweight Savannah Marshall won gold and Nicola Adams silver and Natasha Jonas bronze. Ukraine's men's team won four golds at the 2011 World Championship. One of those was lightweight Vasyl Lomachenko, who is a hot favourite to retain his Olympic title. Cuba, as ever, will be formidable foes - watch out for light heavyweight Julio C¨¦sar la Cruz. In the women's tournament, Ireland's Katie Taylor has won four successive world titles. The history of competitive fist-fighting dates back thousands of years, with the earliest records of boxing in Egypt in 3000BC. Cassius Clay - who later became Muhammad Ali - won the light heavyweight gold medal in 1960. The 18-year-old won a unanimous decision over Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland. Boxing was one of the cornerstones of the ancient Olympic Games in Greece from the 23rd Olympiad in 688BC. Pugilism, as the Greeks called it, prohibited clinching and had no weight classes, rounds or time limit. Boxing wasn't on the itinerary of ancient Olympic sports that made up the first modern Games in 1896 as it was considered \"ungentlemanly, dangerous and practised by the dregs of society\". Things have moved on considerably since boxing was introduced to the ancient Olympic Games in the 7th century BC, and even in the 108 years since the sport made its Olympic debut there have been major changes, such as headguards being made mandatory in 1984 and electronic scoring arriving in 1992. However, none of those can match the significance of the three women's events -  flyweight, lightweight and middleweight - scheduled for introduction in London. More on the IOC website", "question": "One of the most prestigious events in Olympic history , boxing began at the Ancient Games with bouts that often ended with @placeholder , fought with long strips of leather wrapped around boxers ' fists or gloves with spikes and weighted lead .", "option_0": "draws", "option_1": "death", "option_2": "posters", "option_3": "punches", "option_4": "team"}
{"id": 946, "article": "Jo didn't know it yet, but there was no need to panic. Because next door was a tailor, a man who had only arrived in Canada days before after fleeing Syria's war-torn violence, unable to speak a word of English. Ibrahim Halil Dudu did not hesitate to come to the rescue. \"I was so excited and so happy,\" Ibrahim told CTV News through a translator. \"I like to help Canadian people from my heart.\" He appeared at the house with his sewing kit, his young son and David Hobson, the Ontario man who had opened his own doors - and renovated his basement - to Ibrahim and his family so they could have a home. \"Within a few minutes he had sewn Jo's dress on to her - and it looked just as good as before,\" recalled wedding photographer Lindsay Coulter, who captured the moment with her camera. Lindsay, 26, was so touched by what she saw, she decided to share the image with her Facebook friends. \"Every weekend I take photos of people on the happiest days of their lives, and today one man who has seen some of the worst things our world has to offer came to the rescue,' she wrote in a post liked more than 22,000 times since 26 September. Ever since, she has been inundated with emails and calls wanting to find out more about the tailor from Aleppo, who spent three years in Turkey waiting for asylum after escaping Syria. \"It's very overwhelming,\" Lindsay said. \"I think Canadians want to help when they see others in need. \"We love Canada, but we know we just won the lottery on where we were born.\" In fact, this story of goodwill goes back even further: Ibrahim, his wife and their three children are among 50 families being sponsored to live in Canada by businessman Jim Estill, who is personally footing the bill of more than a million Canadian dollars (?¡ê588,000/$764,000) so they can claim asylum. These families are among 30,862 Syrian refugees who have arrived in Canada since November 2015. In comparison, Britain has set itself a goal of taking in 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020, and America has accepted 10,000 in the year to 1 October. Lindsay now hopes this story will inspire other countries to follow in Canada's footsteps. \"My massive, massive dream is that others will see what we have done and see it makes us a stronger country and it makes our people more compassionate,\" she said.", "question": "It is the nightmare situation that no bride wants on her wedding day : as one of Jo Du 's bridesmaids did up the @placeholder on her dress , it broke .", "option_0": "clasp", "option_1": "lace", "option_2": "zip", "option_3": "story", "option_4": "ground"}
{"id": 947, "article": "The Grade II listed Durham Miners' Association hall in Red Hill, Durham City, opened in 1915 when the county's coalfield employed 200,000 men. The red-brick mansion contains hundreds of photographs and banners, as well as a debating chamber with 300 seats nicknamed the pitmen's parliament. The association is planning to apply to the Heritage Lottery Fund for ¡ê2m. Among the hall's treasures is a letter written in 1943 from the USSR ambassador on behalf of Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin. The letter thanks Durham miners for a charitable donation of ¡ê1,500 for an X-ray machine. Chairman of the association, Alan Cummings, said: \"It's about a rich, exciting heritage - hard times and good times - and that should be celebrated.  This building represents the finest of that.\" But Mr Cummings said it was a struggle to pay growing maintenance and running costs. Mining historian Dr Stuart Howard, of Sunderland University, said the miners' hall was \"probably the finest trade union building in Europe\". \"It was meant as a status symbol, so when negotiations went on here the status and strength of the union was communicated,\" he added.", "question": "Plans to turn a historic miners ' headquarters into a heritage and @placeholder centre have been unveiled .", "option_0": "community", "option_1": "research", "option_2": "culture", "option_3": "exhibition", "option_4": "information"}
{"id": 948, "article": "Now in its fifth year, the BBC Radio 2 contest challenges under-13s to write a story about any fictional topic. A record 120,421 entries were received, with thousands of volunteers helping to whittle down the entries. Chris Evans unveiled the six young winners in a live broadcast from St James's Palace. \"Every single young writer in this competition deserves a round of applause, a hats off and a whopping well done for creating such sensational stories,\" he said. \"They've all been so moving,\" said teacher Jen Morgan, who helped judge the prize. \"It's just a privilege to read some of them.\" The winners were: Gold: Amabel Smith (10) - It's A Wide World Silver: Hannah Sennouni (12) - Londoner Pigeon Bronze: Lara Akhurst (11) - Blue Gold: Sofia Zambuto (9) - Fight For Life Silver: Robyn Fielding (8) - The Word That Wouldn't Come Out Bronze: Emily Potts (9) - Cake Wars Sofia Zambuto's gold award-winning story recounted a mother's desperate attempt to save her family from what appears to be a tsunami. \"Children we must move now,\" she wrote. \"We must leave our home now. We must find a new home. The wave, the flood is coming again. Run with me now, as fast as your legs will carry you. Follow me now.\" Judge Charlie Higson said the nine-year-old had \"managed to achieve a piece of mature action writing, which is a very difficult thing to do well,\" and praised the \"fantastic twist\". Zambuto had missed the deadline for the 2014 competition by 30 seconds. \"I'm kind of pleased I missed it now,\" she laughed. The top prize in the older category went to 10-year-old Amabel Smith's It's A Wide World, a story set in a not-too-distant future where the \"government uses weight to control society\". Richard Hammond, who chaired the judging panel, called it \"astonishing\" and \"frightening\". \"The idea of the government using obesity as a controlling mechanism is such a fresh and original idea.\" Cake Wars told the story of a baking contest where the contestants sabotaged each other's entries. It was written by nine-year-old Emily Potts, who said it was inspired by her grandmother's \"terrible cakes\". London Pigeon was a first-person/first-pigeon account of a bird's life, while The Word That Wouldn't Come Out described a stammer from the point of view of a stubborn word, stuck in the speaker's mouth. Lara Akhurst's Blue was described by children's laureate Malorie Blackman as \"a mature, personal story which I found immensely moving\". Celebrities including Sir Kenneth Branagh, Jeremy Irons, Sally Hawkins and Charles Dance read out the short stories during the prize-giving ceremony. The event was hosted by the Duchess of Cornwall, who is a patron of the National Literacy Trust. \"Whenever I have a chance - and I don't often get a chance to talk on Radio 2 - I tell everybody we must never forget how important reading and story-telling is,\" she said. \"Like climbing though the wardrobe into Narnia, stories open doors into different worlds. \"We meet impossible people, travel to remote places and make hundreds of new friends. \"We look around with new eyes and recognise Horrid Henry next door or Professor Snape the chemistry teacher in the school down the road. \"The best stories show us what we all have in common.\" 1. Fairy tales: princess, charming, unicorn 2. Royalty: coronation, Queen, majesty 3. Family: BFF, grandmother, aunt 4. Shopping: Prada, make-up, shopaholic 1. Dinosaurs: stegosaurus, Jurassic, raptor 2. Superheroes: Batcave, Gotham, Avengers 3. Football: Aguero, Neuer, Suarez 4. Science fiction: teleport, continuum, tardis An analysis of the 50 million words used in the stories showed that new technology featured strongly in children's imaginations. One of the most common plotlines in the short story competition was achieving sudden internet fame after posting a YouTube video; while #hashtags were incorporated into the stories with increased frequency. \"Children are not tweeting and using Twitter, but they are using the word hashtag and the symbol # for dramatic effect, it is heightening tension,\" said Vineeta Gupta, head of children's dictionaries at the Oxford University Press. But the top 10 nouns were reassuringly related to home, family and daily life. You can read all the finalists, including the six winning stories, on the 500 Words website.", "question": "Stories about heroic pigeons , @placeholder cakes and living with a stammer were among the winners at this year 's 500 Words competition .", "option_0": "skipping", "option_1": "poisoned", "option_2": "forcing", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "flung"}
{"id": 949, "article": "Joe Delaney, of the Grenfell Action Group, told the BBC that Sir Martin Moore-Bick \"couldn't even control the crowd\" at the meeting on Thursday. A video of the meeting shows the ex-judge saying he would \"find the facts as I see them from the evidence\". He has already faced calls to step down just days after being appointed. Sir Martin said he had been invited to the meeting by the Lancaster West Residents Association, and left after almost three hours. He described it afterwards as a \"very useful meeting\". Mr Delaney told BBC Radio 5 live that Sir Martin \"wasn't jeered or booed. It was more scepticism. You could hear people signing and tutting\". \"It got a bit loud before the end. The man couldn't even control the crowd and hold them. I have heard public speakers who can shut up a stadium full of thousands of people. This man couldn't hold a room with 200 or so people.\" Local resident Melvyn Akins, 30, said there was \"frustration, anger and confusion\" in the meeting, and that Sir Martin told those gathered that he could not start work on the inquiry until his terms of reference were established. \"It is going to be an uphill struggle. People feel abandoned. Now you have got somebody coming in and saying 'I am going to look into it all thoroughly' and it is not good enough. \"People firmly believe that arrests should be made as a result of the outcome of all of this. If arrests are not made, people are going to feel justice may not be being done.\" In a short video recorded at the meeting, Sir Martin tells those at the meeting: \"I can't do more than assure you that I know what it is to be impartial. \"I've been a judge for 20 years, and I give you my word that I will look into this matter to the very best of my ability and find the facts as I see them from the evidence. \"That's my job, that's my training, and that's what I intend to do. Now if I can't satisfy you because you have some preconception about me as a person that's up to you.\" Earlier it emerged that cladding samples which failed safety tests in the wake of the fire will be subjected to further \"large-scale\" testing. Experts will fix a complete cladding system to a 30ft-high (9m) demonstration wall and subject it to \"a severe fire\", the government said. It comes after 190 samples out of 191 failed initial combustibility tests. Urgent tests were ordered on cladding from about 600 towers blocks in England after the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed at least 80 people, on 14 June. However, questions have since been asked about the nature of the process after all but one test resulted in a failure. The independent expert panel on safety has now said further testing will be carried out \"as the next step\". So far, tests have covered only the plastic \"core\" on panels similar to those used on Grenfell Tower. The new process will subject a demonstration wall to a \"severe fire in a flat breaking out of a window\" and aim to establish whether it will then spread up the outside wall. It will also assess how different types of aluminium composite material (ACM) panels behave with different types of insulation in a fire, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) said. ACM in the cladding is thought to have been a factor in the rapid spread of the fire at Grenfell Tower, in west London. The results will help landlords decide on further actions they may need to take to ensure buildings are safe, the DCLG added. The Local Government Association - which had called for the tests to be changed - said the new testing \"needs to be undertaken urgently\". \"We have been clear all along that entire cladding panels and the insulation behind them need to be fire tested together as a system, rather than just the core of the panels on their own,\" chairman Lord Porter added. The Fire Industry Association, a trade association with more than 700 UK members, said it applauded the decision to carry out the fire tests. Testing so far had simply focused on the combustibility of the core material in the cladding, it said, adding that the new tests would determine whether cladding would \"actually perform well in a real fire\". However, social housing provider Salix Homes said it had halted work to remove cladding from eight tower blocks in Salford, Greater Manchester, saying government advice was now \"unclear\".", "question": "The retired judge who will head the Grenfell Tower inquiry \" @placeholder the room \" when he met residents and survivors , according to a community group member .", "option_0": "lost", "option_1": "affect", "option_2": "devastated", "option_3": "surrounding", "option_4": "fled"}
{"id": 950, "article": "The inquiry into the Al-Hijrah Trust will look into allegations its trustees failed to comply with financial regulations. The commission, which regulates charities in England and Wales, said it followed an inspection in February. Lawyers acting on behalf of the Al-Hijrah Trust have declined to comment. The commission said its inquiry would focus on the charity's finances and particularly the rent it is paid by the Al-Hijrah School. A spokesman said: \"The charity's trustees have repeatedly failed to submit the charity's accounts within the statutory timescales and address concerns, previously raised by the commission, over the charity's internal financial controls.\" The commission added the trust was not responsible for the running of the school or its funding, and said the school was not the subject of the inquiry. In December, Birmingham City Council launched an investigation into claims the Al-Hijrah Trust used ?¡ê1m of taxpayers' money to set up a faith school in Pakistan. A council spokesperson said: \"We continue to work with the relevant statutory agencies and will consider the findings of the Charity Commission.\"", "question": "A charitable trust in Birmingham which runs a school , @placeholder , mosque and community centre is being investigated by the Charity Commission .", "option_0": "data", "option_1": "leaving", "option_2": "health", "option_3": "museum", "option_4": "library"}
{"id": 951, "article": "Simon Goldsmith, 41, ran 17 laps of Martlesham Heath, near Ipswich, Suffolk, on Sunday. \"It was certainly repetitive, I was verging on dizziness by the end,\" he said. The money raised will go to the local St Elizabeth Hospice where both his parents spent their final weeks. Mr Goldsmith, who grew up in Martlesham and now lives in neighbouring Little Bealings, does a \"low budget\" Elvis impersonation under the name Harry Isaac Presley. In 2010, he raised money by holding a three-day Elvis singing marathon at a pub in Ufford. He was the only person to run the full 26.2 miles (42.1km), which he billed as the \"world's dullest marathon\", but as the day went on he was joined by a number of well-wishers who did laps with him. He completed the course, which finished with a lap around the local shopping centre, in 4 hours and 54 minutes. \"I didn't do as much training as I should have done and I found myself in some dark places, particularly around the halfway mark,\" said Mr Goldsmith. \"You passed the pub on each lap and you could smell the food and see the beer and that was tough, but there were plenty of people about and that cheered me up.\" Following the fundraising success, he said he planned to do a similar event next year.", "question": "A man who @placeholder to run 26 miles around a village green dressed as Elvis after missing out on a London Marathon spot has raised ¡ê 1,500 for charity .", "option_0": "pledged", "option_1": "has", "option_2": "managed", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "chose"}
{"id": 952, "article": "The collection was owned by Britain's first Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole, but was sold to Russia to pay off debts. It is back at his family home, Houghton Hall, Norfolk after The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg agreed a loan. The exhibition was due to end next month but is now on until November. A spokesman for the exhibition, Houghton Revisited, said: \"Tens of thousands have already been to see it, and peak-time sessions during the holidays and at weekends have completely sold out.\" More than 70 pieces, including works by Van Dyck and Rembrandt, have been hung in their original positions and are surrounded by the original furniture, bronzes and marble antiquities. It took a year to broker the deal to bring the paintings to Norfolk. The story of the works and the exhibition is the subject of a BBC4 television documentary, Britain's Lost Treasures: How Houghton Got Its Art Back. It will be screened on Wednesday.", "question": "An exhibition of Old Masters art , that was lost to the UK for 234 years , has been @placeholder after attracting \" tens of thousands \" of visitors .", "option_0": "reconstructed", "option_1": "sacked", "option_2": "extended", "option_3": "criticised", "option_4": "declared"}
{"id": 953, "article": "Today, with quiet dignity, her husband Brendan explained why he believes politics was behind her death. He said: \"She was a politician and she had very strong political views and I believe was she killed because of those views. \"I think she died because of them and she would want to stand up for those in death as much as she did in life.\" As the referendum debate rages, he told me why she feared for our political culture, not just here in the UK but around the world, detailing her belief that the tone of the debate has echoes of the 1930s, with the public feeling insecure, and politicians willing to exploit that sense. \"He told me she was \"very worried and from left and right\". He added: \"I think she was very worried that the language was coarsening, that people were being driven to take more extreme positions, that people didn't work with each other as individuals and on issues, it was all much too tribal and unthinking.\" But Brendan Cox spoke movingly of his desire not just to protect and build on her political achievements - to but to guard the memories of her as his wife, and the mother of their two young children. He told me: \"Most of all I will remember that she met the world with love and both love for her children, love in her family and also love for people she didn't know. \"She just approached things with a spirit, she wasn't perfect at all you know, but she just wanted to make the world a better place, to contribute, and we love her very much.\" Brendan decided to speak out today because he wanted to thank the public for the extraordinary support shown to the family in the last few days. Tomorrow, friends of hers are planning a day of memorials to remember her around the world, including a major event in London's Trafalgar Square.", "question": "Yesterday , Jo Cox 's family watched as the House of Commons , filled with her political friends and colleagues @placeholder her .", "option_0": "embraced", "option_1": "enjoying", "option_2": "aged", "option_3": "sleeping", "option_4": "honoured"}
{"id": 954, "article": "But that is exactly what Jo Pavey has been doing for the past nine months since she gave birth to her second child, Emily, last year. The 40-year-old has already qualified for the 10,000m at the European Championships and has fulfilled the selection criteria to run for England at 5,000m and 10,000m at this summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. \"It's very, very busy,\" she says as she prepares to go for a training run in the sunny lanes surrounding her home in the countryside outside Exeter. \"I don't get a chance to get nervous before training, I just have to get on with it, get the nappies changed and get my kids ready. As a mum, my kids are always my first priority \"Keeping busy has actually done me good. I feel so happy in my personal life it gives me a lot of motivation and happiness towards my training as well.\" Pavey made her major British debut in the 1997 World Championships in Athens and has raced at the last four Olympic Games; her best result coming in 2004 when she was fifth in the 5,000m. She made the finals of the 5,000m and 10,000m at the last of those in London, and won silver medals at the 2012 European Championships and 2006 Commonwealth Games. But to get to that standard requires putting in dozens of miles on the road every week, plus the arduous sessions at the track with her husband, coach and chief babysitter Gavin, and two children in tow. \"It meant we had to go to running venues as a family and I had to run with my phone just in case I was needed,\" she said. \"I didn't know even if it would be possible for me to get back to fitness at this age, it seemed a long way back and I was still breast feeding at the start of April. \"I was training fairly hard, but I think being in that state probably got me really fit because I found it really hard to run fast but I was still putting the effort in. \"Being a mum is my main priority and I've been pleased to be able to combine it with getting back to fitness.\" Media playback is not supported on this device But at an age when many mothers are considering less exercise and more time at home, Pavey has her eyes on qualification for Glasgow in July and racing at her first championship since the 2012 Olympics. She has already qualified for August's European Championships after winning the UK 10,000m title in her first race for the best part of two years last month. But how long can she go on balancing being a mother and a runner? \"I don't know how much longer I'll go on,\" she says with a smile. \"For me, as a mum, my kids are always my first priority. \"I'm very fortunate that my husband's very supportive and we very much work at the running together. He coaches and manages me and obviously looks after the children when I'm training. \"I'm still enjoying it, still doing it, but it's got to work for us as a family. \"I've just got to do this year and see what happens from there really.\"", "question": "Having a baby is demanding enough but balancing a newborn with being a world - class @placeholder runner is even more demanding .", "option_0": "distance", "option_1": "wheelchair", "option_2": "blade", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "form"}
{"id": 955, "article": "It happened in the area of Meadow Farm Drive and Moston Road, in Shrewsbury, at about 10:30 BST on Sunday. The car, described as silver and thought to be a Peugeot 407 or similar, with an 04 or 54 plate, was driven off down Darville. Det Insp Mark Jones, of West Mercia Police, said there were grave concerns for the safety of the attacked man. The attacker was a man described as white, of a stocky build and more than 6ft (1.8m) tall with an eastern European accent.", "question": "A man was attacked and thrown into the boot of a car in what police are treating as a @placeholder kidnapping .", "option_0": "suspected", "option_1": "scheme", "option_2": "double", "option_3": "school", "option_4": "traffic"}
{"id": 956, "article": "Parliament hasn't really got going yet - that won't happen until after the delayed Queen's Speech on Wednesday. But as the dust starts to settle, what do we know about how things will change? The most obvious difference will be personnel. And nowhere is that more striking than in the SNP group. There's been a changing of the guard, with the 2015 intake firmly in charge (largely down to the fact three of the six elected pre-2015 lost their seats last week). Ian Blackford was elected the new Westminster leader on Wednesday - both his challengers were first elected two years ago too. Mr Blackford's deputy - Kirsty Blackman - was also elected in 2015. She beat the only 'elder statesman' to stand for either of the top two positions, Stewart Hosie. The only real nod to the pre-2015 group was that Pete Wishart, first elected in 2001, was chosen as group secretary. I'm told a new frontbench team will be announced in the coming days. There is continuity of sorts in the Conservative group, with David Mundell remaining Scottish Secretary (we still don't know who his under-secretary - de facto deputy - will be). But there is significant change, with a much bigger group of 13 Tory MPs from Scotland. As Mr Mundell told the BBC as he returned to work on Tuesday, he's spent the past decade only having to agree with himself - now he'll have colleagues to consult with. There was speculation earlier this week that the group could form a party within a party - fighting for Scottish interests. Part of this is true; the Scottish Tories intend to lobby hard for what they think is best for Scotland. You can see evidence of that in Ruth Davidson's calls for an \"open Brexit\" with the economy being the firm priority, views echoed in recent days by other senior party figures, including the chancellor Philip Hammond. But I detect little desire to get into public spats by voting against the UK party whip. The Conservative MPs from Scotland want you to know they will lobby internally for Scottish party policies - that they'll continue what they see as their liberal traditions. But don't expect that to mean they'll vote against the main party line in the Commons. Some of the Labour cohort had to travel to Westminster later in the week because they had to work in their old jobs in Scotland on Monday. There are changes at the top of the group, with Lesley Laird announced as the new Shadow Scottish Secretary. A new appointment was inevitable after her predecessor Dave Anderson announced he wasn't seeking re-election. But Ms Laird has only been an MP for a week and some had wondered whether Ian Murray might make a return to the shadow cabinet - particularly after he and Jeremy Corbyn were pictured chatting outside Parliament as the new Scottish group attended a photocall. In the end Mr Murray wasn't even asked to make a return. Mr Corbyn had options and chose not to reach out to a man who has been a long-standing critic and once accused his leader of destroying the party. I'm told he will remain Scottish Labour's spokesman at Westminster though - a post created after he quit Mr Corbyn's shadow cabinet. Finally, could one of the new Lib Dem group soon hold the party's highest office? There's speculation in the corridors of power that Jo Swinson - who returned to the Commons after a two year hiatus - might stand to replace Tim Farron as party leader. She has the backing of senior figures in Scotland, but has yet to announce her plans. Could she follow in the footsteps of Charles Kennedy and Sir Menzies Campbell and be the party's next Scottish leader? Watch this space.", "question": "Back to work . Sort of . Scotland 's latest group of MPs have been in London this week , @placeholder to the new Parliament and , in some cases , their new jobs .", "option_0": "reacting", "option_1": "compared", "option_2": "added", "option_3": "returning", "option_4": "adjusting"}
{"id": 957, "article": "In Britain, the malted milk drink has long been linked to bedtime, a soothing aid to sleep. In India, it's an entirely different story. \"Taller, stronger, sharper,\" is at the top of the Indian website, which has lots of photos of energetic schoolchildren leaping about. In India, Horlicks is a breakfast drink, given to children as an energy boost to fortify them ahead of a long day of learning. Yet the drink's main ingredients are exactly the same: wheat, malted barley and milk. The fact that the same liquid can be perceived in two such different ways is a great example of the \"crazy nonsense and beauty of marketing\", says Andrew Welch. As London managing director for brand consultancy Landor, Mr Welch's job is to help brands build and improve their reputation, and ultimately create higher sales. International expansion is often the only way for firms to do this. When domestic growth has stalled, other countries can provide a business with fresh customers potentially in an area with less competition or where demand for a particular product or service is higher. And of course, having a presence in more than one country ensures a firm isn't reliant on the health of just one nation's economy for its success. But how exactly do companies go from being a local firm based in one country to a global name? Mr Welch says how Horlicks has been marketed is a great example of how to do it, with the drink's attributes emphasised in different ways to appeal to specific audiences. The drink has significantly boosted non-pharmaceutical sales in India for its owner, drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline. \"You can't cookie cutter your brand around the world. This is an organisation which has gone beyond its home market and managed to stay relevant,\" says Mr Welch. Or, to use the industry lingo, \"global is out\" and \"multi-local\" is in. But it's not easy. Online auction site eBay is one of the world's best-known firms, boasting 167 million active buyers and reporting just shy of $9bn (?¡ê7bn) in revenues last year. Yet when it first tried to launch in China it failed. The difficulty of competing with local rivals meant that in 2006, a mere two years after entering China, it was forced to admit defeat and shut down its main website in the country. Instead it formed a joint venture with a local partner to help operate an online auction business in the country. Critics say it failed to recognise that having a strong US brand would not automatically translate to success in China. Home rental site Airbnb is already trying to avoid that mistake, recently rebranding itself as \"Aibiying\" in China. The name translates as \"welcome each other with love\", and the company reportedly said it would be easier for Chinese people to pronounce. One of the frequent criticisms of globalisation is that it is eroding countries' distinctive differences, making cities everywhere look more and more similar. From Germany to the United Arab Emirates to China you can visit the same shops, buy the same furniture, eat the same food, watch the same programmes and listen to the same music. Chris Hirst, European and UK group chief executive of advertising agency Havas, says firms expanding overseas have to overcome people's natural antipathy to this. \"People don't like the idea of a global phenomenon. They want to feel close to a brand and want it to be relevant to them.\" The one exception to this is luxury firms, such as Louis Vuitton or Hermes, who can get away with less local differentiation because their foreignness is part of what makes them desirable, he says. At the other end of the scale, firms such as fast-food chain McDonald's may appear the same in whichever country you go to, but actually works hard to localise its branches, he says. He notes the firm differentiates some menu items to fit in with the local cuisine and tends to source ingredients from the host country. But the number of potential countries a firm can now reach has made it harder. In the 1990s, going global simply meant expanding into western Europe and north America, now countries such as India, China and Russia are all in play, says Mr Hirst. In fact, many of the areas that will generate the most growth in future are currently unfamiliar in the West, according to management consultancy McKinsey. It predicts about 400 midsize emerging-market cities will create nearly 40% of global growth over the next 15 years. \"Increasingly, global means global,\" says Mr Hirst. In some ways advances in technology have made this easier, enabling firms to be present around the world, even in places where they don't have a physical presence. The latest annual ranking of the world's most valuable brands by consultancy Interbrand is dominated by tech firms. Apple and Google came top for the fourth year in a row. Simon Cotterrell, head of strategy at Interband, says that as well as needing to invest less in infrastructure when they expand, their success is also down to the simplicity of their business models. \"The utility is staring customers in the face and doesn't need an explanation.\" In the end, what determines global success for all firms is the same thing that drives success in a company's home market, he says. \"You have to have an offer that meets the needs of that audience. Your relevance has to come back to that problem: are you solving a customer problem in that market? \"It's not brain surgery,\" he says.", "question": "\" Comforting , warming , fortifying since 1906 , \" is @placeholder on the promotional mug Horlicks launched in the UK last year .", "option_0": "found", "option_1": "used", "option_2": "written", "option_3": "focused", "option_4": "collaborating"}
{"id": 958, "article": "The Northern Irish party's 10 MPs will support the Conservatives in key Commons votes in areas such as the Queen's Speech, Budget and Brexit. Labour warned it would undermine trust in the UK government over Northern Ireland. But the Conservatives said they had a duty to form a government. The Conservatives and the DUP have said the deal makes the restoration of the power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland - which collapsed amid a bitter row between the DUP and Sinn Fein about a botched green energy scheme - more likely. Negotiations lasted 18 days after the general election on 8 June resulted in a hung parliament. The support of the DUP, added to the Tories' 317 MPs, means Mrs May passes the 326 figure needed for an overall Commons majority under a \"confidence and supply\" arrangement planned to last until 2022. After talks with DUP leader Arlene Foster at Number 10, the prime minister said the two parties \"share many values\" and the agreement was \"a very good one\". Mrs May said it would would \"enable us to work together in the interests of the whole United Kingdom, give us the certainty we require as we embark on our departure from the European Union, and help us build a stronger and fairer society at home\". Mrs Foster said she was \"delighted\" with a package that includes ?¡ê1bn of new funding, plus more flexibility on almost ?¡ê500m of previously announced funds, on infrastructure, health and education in Northern Ireland. The agreement has prompted calls for more money for Wales and Scotland. Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones called the deal a \"straight bung\" and said it \"kills the idea of fair funding\". The Scottish National Party's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, said Scotland should get \"its fair share\". \"For years the Tories have been cutting budgets and services, but suddenly they have found a magic money tree to help them stay in power,\" he said. Labour said the deal was \"shabby and reckless\" and would undermine the trust in the impartiality of the UK government which was vital to the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said: \"For the government to be putting such an agreement in jeopardy just to prop up this dismal prime minister is nothing short of a disgrace.\" Sinn Fein said the DUP were effectively supporting continued austerity and cuts, as well as \"a blank cheque for a Tory Brexit which threatens the Good Friday Agreement\". However, First Secretary of State Damian Green said only the Conservatives had \"the ability and legitimacy to lead the government our country needs\". \"As the party with the most seats at the general election, the Conservative Party had a duty to form a government,\" he added. \"It is right that we talked to other parties to seek to ensure that the government can provide the competence the country needs at this crucial time.\" Mr Green said the agreement should help to break the deadlock at Stormont which has meant there has been no power-sharing executive since elections in March. The DUP has said that if there is not a devolved government, Westminster would still administer the financial package for Northern Ireland. Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said any extra money for Northern Ireland was a good thing, and the restoration of power-sharing was the only way to ensure it was fairly distributed. \"We may be able to say well done Arlene, when we have the executive in place,\" he said. The DUP and Sinn Fein have been holding talks at Stormont in attempts to restore power-sharing, with negotiators working into the night on Monday. The leaders of all the main political parties in Northern Ireland are expected to be involved in round-table discussions on Tuesday. A sitting of the assembly has been scheduled for Thursday at noon which could involve the election of a first minister and deputy first minister - but only in the event of a deal. Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney has warned that the parties must be close to an agreement by Tuesday night, and both the DUP and Sinn Fein would have to be \"willing to move towards each other's position\". Northern Ireland has been without a power-sharing executive since March, and without a first and deputy first minister since January. Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning", "question": "Theresa May 's ?¡ê1bn deal with the Democratic Unionist Party to back her minority government has been branded \" a bung \" and \" shabby \" by @placeholder parties .", "option_0": "wearing", "option_1": "experience", "option_2": "team", "option_3": "opposing", "option_4": "race"}
{"id": 959, "article": "Grace Warnock was keen to highlight that easily accessible toilets were not just for wheelchair users. So the Prestonpans youngster, who has the bowel disease Crohn's, designed a door sign indicating the needs of people not visibly disabled. Labour MSP Iain Gray is now supporting Grace's Sign campaign and will praise it in the Holyrood chamber. The politician will lead a members' debate titled \"World Toilet Day, We Can't Wait\". Mr Gray, an East Lothian MSP, said: \"The debate will enable me to put Grace's campaign on the agenda at Holyrood as well as highlight the work that still needs to be done globally to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all.\" He added that Grace had already made \"considerable progress\", including coming up with her own new design for door signs.", "question": "A 10 - year - old school girl 's bid to have better @placeholder on the doors of disabled toilets has won praise from MSPs .", "option_0": "handles", "option_1": "signage", "option_2": "access", "option_3": "impact", "option_4": "light"}
{"id": 960, "article": "He was one of six people being treated in hospital in the city of Rennes. The other five remain in a stable condition, the hospital said, four had \"neurological problems\", the fifth had no symptoms. Reports that the drug was a cannabis-based painkiller have been denied by the French health ministry. The Paris prosecutor has opened an investigation The trial, which involved taking the drug orally and has now been suspended, was conducted by a private laboratory in Rennes. Ninety volunteers took the drug, manufactured by the Portuguese company Bial. Ten of the other 84 have been tested, but did not display any of the \"anomalies\" of those admitted, the Rennes hospital said in its statement (in French). On Friday, the chief neuroscientist at the hospital, Gilles Edan, said there was no known antidote to the drug. Analysis: James Gallagher, health editor, BBC News website This is the bitter price of the new medicines we take for granted. Testing such experimental drugs, at the cutting edge of science, can never be completely risk-free. The safety and effectiveness of these drugs are rigorously tested in animals. The risks are low but there must still be a leap of faith when they are tried in people for the first time. This trial has been taking place since July without such major events being reported. Generally in Phase I trials the dose is increased slowly over time, which could be why the side-effects are appearing now. The hospitalised men started taking the drug regularly on 7 January and began showing severe side-effects three days later. It is a high price to pay, but thousands of people do safely take part in similar trials each year. The trial was conducted by Biotrial, a French-based company with an international reputation which has carried out thousands of trials since it was set up in 1989. The study was a Phase I clinical trial, in which healthy volunteers take the medication to evaluate the safety of its use, the ministry said. Before any new medicine can be given to patients, detailed information about how it works and how safe it is must be collected. Clinical trials are the key to getting that data - and without volunteers to take part in the trials, there would be no new treatments for serious diseases such as cancer, multiple sclerosis and arthritis. New EU regulations to speed up clinical drug trials and streamline testing procedures across the 28-nation bloc are due to take effect in 2018. Trials typically have three phases to assess a new medicine for safety and effectiveness Has drug trial safety improved? German medics challenge new EU clinical drug trials Why some new drugs cost so much", "question": "A man left brain - dead after an experimental drug trial in France has @placeholder , local media report .", "option_0": "intensified", "option_1": "revealed", "option_2": "died", "option_3": "begun", "option_4": "risen"}
{"id": 961, "article": "A bus carrying four players to the course took two hours to complete a trip that normally takes 15-20 minutes. Being more than five minutes late usually results in disqualification but officials decided to waive the rule because of \"exceptional circumstances\". World number one Inbee Park carded six birdies for a three-stroke lead. Park was on an earlier bus that, though delayed, arrived well before her tee time. The 27-year-old shot a five-under 67 to move to 10 under, with fellow South Korean Sei Young Kim in second. Halfway leader Minjee Lee slipped seven shots off the pace after a three-over 75. American Angela Stanford, who finished the day nine shots off the lead after a four-over 76, was one of the players on the delayed bus. She tweeted: \"Learning that GPS is a wonderful thing. Hour in a bus and still no sign of the golf course. \"Two hours and 15 min later we arrive. Thank you LPGA for letting us play!\"", "question": "The final three @placeholder at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Mexico were allowed to delay their third rounds by nearly an hour because of traffic .", "option_0": "practice", "option_1": "prop", "option_2": "groups", "option_3": "teams", "option_4": "qualifiers"}
{"id": 962, "article": "Burnett, 23, floored the 38-year-old in the opening round after a combination but Booth showed his experience to take the bout the distance. The new champion had never gone further than six rounds in his 11 career bouts. Burnett had Booth in trouble in the fifth and eighth rounds and he earned a 120-107 verdict from all three judges. Booth had been aiming to become the first boxer in 80 years to become a three-weight British champion. The Nottingham-born fighter previously held the British flyweight and super-bantamweight titles and also was Commonwealth champion at three weights. Burnett is now trained by Adam Booth having recently moved to Eddie Hearn's Matchroom stable. The Belfast man was previously managed by former world champion Ricky Hatton.", "question": "Belfast man Ryan Burnett clinched the British bantamweight title after earning a @placeholder win over veteran Jason Booth in Manchester on Saturday night .", "option_0": "home", "option_1": "aggregate", "option_2": "close", "option_3": "points", "option_4": "record"}
{"id": 963, "article": "And those EU students who are already attending UK universities will continue to receive financial support. The Student Loans Company has sought to reassure students and applicants following the EU referendum. And Mr Johnson has tweeted: \"UK welcomes EU students.\" \"Current students and this autumn's applicants will continue to receive student finance for duration of their course,\" said the Twitter message from the minister. Universities have been seeking clarity about the implications of Brexit for their EU students, international exchanges and for funding from EU research projects. A statement from the Student Loans Company says that those EU students who are already studying in the UK will not face any changes to financial support, such as loans to cover tuition fees. The current arrangements will also remain in place for those who have applied and are expecting to begin university courses in the autumn. But the arrangements for EU students beginning courses in the following year - autumn 2017 - have still to be clarified. There are about 125,000 EU students in higher education in the UK, with Germany and France the biggest senders. But among those non-UK students starting university in the UK last year, there were more students from China than from all the EU countries put together. Following the vote to leave the EU, Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group of universities, said that the Brexit  decision \"creates significant uncertainty\" for higher education. She said that the Russell Group universities would seek assurances from the government that \"staff and students currently working and studying at our universities can continue to do so after the UK negotiates leaving the EU\". Universities have been particularly concerned about the future of EU research funding, with analysis by the Royal Society showing that the UK is one of the largest recipients. It suggests that between 2007 and 2013, the UK received 8.8bn euros (?¡ê7.3bn) in direct EU research funding and had contributed 5.4bn euros (?¡ê4.5bn). But there are examples, such as Norway and Switzerland, that are outside the EU but are able to contribute funds and have \"associate country\" status for EU research projects. These associate member countries do not have a say in how such research funding is directed.", "question": "Students from the European Union starting university courses in the UK this autumn will have their student loans funding @placeholder , University Minister Jo Johnson has said .", "option_0": "honoured", "option_1": "process", "option_2": "free", "option_3": "effect", "option_4": "levels"}
{"id": 964, "article": "Stonewall, a fictional account of rioting by the gay community in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969, premiered at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, with Emmerich saying he was \"deeply relieved\" that the whole film had been shown to audiences. When the trailer for Stonewall was released in June, many in the LGBT community called it a \"whitewash\" of history, as Emmerich's main character, Danny, played by War Horse's Jeremy Irvine, is a blond blue-eyed boy from Indiana. An online petition collected nearly 25,000 signatures calling for its boycott, stating that the riots were a \"multicultural movement\" with transgender woman Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Storm DeLarverie, an African-American lesbian, and Sylvia Rivera, a Puerto-Rican drag queen acknowledged as some of its central protagonists. \"It's a good thing the film is out there now, but I never quite understood the fuss,\" Emmerich says. \"It was a trailer, and people always complain that trailers show everything. We didn't want to make that mistake. \"But it clearly was a big mistake for some people out there. The film is racially and sexually far more diverse than some people appear to think.\" \"It's just a trailer,\" Irvine adds, \"but it's perhaps misleading because there's a second in there where my character throws a stone and it might look like he starts the Stonewall riots, but nothing could be further than the truth. \"Many of the real-life activists of the time are characters in the film. It's been taken out of context.\" The police raid at the Stonewall Inn on 28 June 1969, started three days of rioting from the gay community who frequented the bar, and led directly to the instigation of the gay Pride marches the following year. German-born Emmerich, who is openly gay, believes its significance as part of the civil rights movement is often overlooked. \"Over the years I realised how little people knew about the riots, and this is actually the event that started everything - and it was a group of homeless kids at the centre of it. \"I work with the gay and lesbian centre in Los Angeles and I realised this little known fact - that around 40% of homeless youths in the United States are LGBT. \"The problem on the streets hasn't changed since 1969. We may have gay marriage now, but most of these homeless kids come from the small towns where growing up gay is still terribly difficult, and I wanted this story at the heart of the film. \"Above all, I wanted to make a movie that felt personal - the ones I normally do, not that I hate to do them, but they are not very personal. They have to appeal to nearly everyone and this is a different approach. \"It was the first time on a film set that I was able to tell a straight actor like Jeremy how he should feel as a gay man. I put a lot of emotion into making this movie.\" The 59-year-old director also put a lot of his own personal finance into the film, which had a budget of around $15m (?¡ê9.8m) - a far cry from the $200m (?¡ê131m) that he commanded for 2012. Emmerich says \"not one studio in Hollywood wanted to make the movie, we had to do it totally independently and that was much harder work. \"I had forgotten how hard it was, it's much easier to have a studio behind you, and I guess I've had it easy because of my past success.\" When Ang Lee's Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain was made a decade ago, it was considered a potentially risky project for its stars, Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. If Emmerich says he still struggled with the studios,  Irvine believes the situation has changed drastically for actors. He says lesbian actress Ellen Page was right to say in a recent interview that she was \"bored\" of straight actors being called \"brave\" for taking on a homosexual role. \"Stonewall was a no brainer for me,\" says Irvine. \"Good scripts are few and far between, and when I read it, I jumped on a plane and went to Roland with a stack of notes and ideas. \"Am I worried about doing a 'straight' movie with an actress I am not attracted to? No. It's exactly the same thing. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is in this film as my love interest, and I could have done a lot worse.\" Will 2015 be the year gay cinema becomes mainstream? As well as Stonewall, Julianne Moore and Ellen Page star as a lesbian couple in Freeheld. Todd Haynes's Carol, starring Cate Blanchett, examines a forbidden lesbian relationship in the 1940s. Eddie Redmayne plays a transgender woman in The Danish Girl - which is being released by Universal studios. Emmerich says it's \"the year of the transgender person - it started with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine\". His next movie, Independence Day: Resurgence, the long-awaited sequel to the 1996 original, will feature gay characters, Emmerich adds. \"But we're not even close to the day when a gay person in a movie is not an issue,\" he concludes. \"The time when we don't discuss it is a long time in the future. We may have marriage now, but in  terms of the gay civil rights movement, we have just got started, I really believe that.\" Stonewall is yet to receive a UK release date.", "question": "Known as cinema 's \" master of disaster \" , director Roland Emmerich has moved away from his apocalyptical blockbusters such as 2012 and Independence Day to a project he describes as \" deeply personal \" - a self - @placeholder movie about the start of the gay rights movement .", "option_0": "class", "option_1": "titled", "option_2": "written", "option_3": "funded", "option_4": "printed"}
{"id": 965, "article": "But in recent years, fundraising has stepped up a gear with volunteers keen to push themselves to their limits. Around Wales, mountain treks, marathons, cycle rides and triathlons, are becoming big business for charities - and it seems that trend is set to continue. This weekend about 600 walkers will congregate in the Brecon Beacons for the fourth annual Trekfest challenge where they will do either 100km (60 miles), 75km (46 miles), 50km (31 miles) or 25km (15 miles) to raise money for their chosen causes. The organisation which runs it said the event had become \"hugely popular\" - so far, some 2,500 walkers have scaled the peaks of the beacons in the name of fundraising and the numbers taking part are rising each year. It is not alone. Macmillan Cancer Support said its fundraising walks are attracting thousands of people and it has added two new walks this year. In 2015, its flagship Gower MacMarathon - which is celebrating its 19th year - broke through the ?¡ê1m barrier of money raised for charity. So what is behind the surge in challenges? And are good causes the only ones to benefit? \"The way that we see it, people want to feel they're doing something - they want to focus on an end goal,\" said Amy White, Macmillan's fundraising manager for walks in Wales. \"Taking on something like a walk, they have something to work towards. They are raising money but also working towards personal goals and it's brilliant exercise. \"Our Rhondda walk is now in its eighth year. It started with 30 to 40 people and now has 1,000 walkers each year.\" Adrian Barsby, chairman of the Wales Tourism Alliance, which represents 7,000 businesses, said the industry was feeling the impact. \"These events can only be positive for tourism in Wales,\" he said. \"These people stay overnight, they spend their money when they are here and they see things that might make them want to return. \"Tourism contributes 10-11% of Wales' GDP so the more people who come here the better.\" Organising a Trekfest event in the Brecon Beacons But while charity events can showcase Wales' natural wonders, there is a fear too many visitors might spoil the tranquillity and scenery which are part of the country's appeal. Adventurer Tori James - the first Welsh woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest - said places like Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdon had become hotspots for charity trekkers every weekend during the summer. \"It's a good thing in terms of getting people outdoors, it attracts people who wouldn't normally enter into the mountains - it makes the mountains a bit more accessible,\" she said. \"But at the same time, it does bring pressure to some of the most popular areas, like with car parks. And also erosion, litter and congestion. \"I think it's about educating people how there are different routes on the mountains and you can support charities that actually look after the mountain and help with erosion issues and maintenance.\" It is an issue that is also of concern to Tegryn Jones, chief executive of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority. \"Where we have seen the problem is when we have things like triathlons when the weather is a bit wetter and lots of people are running along the coastal path and that can damage it,\" he said. \"Some charities are very well organised and work very closely with us - but others, we hardly know what's happening. So it's about acting responsibly.\" But, ultimately, an increase in people being outdoors is a good thing, Ms James said. \"I'm taking part in the Welsh Three Peaks Challenge myself this weekend and I can see the appeal in these events,\" she said. \"In a world where we're stuck indoors more behind a computer screen, they are giving people the confidence to get outdoors and see spectacular scenery. \"I have been to some amazing places around the world but in the beacons, the views still take my breath away - and then you have the beauty of the coastal paths. Wales has so much to offer.\" But, of course, there is a downside to holding so many outdoor events in Wales - the weather. \"It can really make or break a walk,\" added Ms White. \"You can have x amount of people signed up to take part but on the day people don't turn up because of downpours. \"But that's out of our hands. We just have to keep building on the momentum and make sure these events continue to have impact.\"", "question": "There was a time when raising money for charity involved little more exertion than simply opening your purse and dropping coins into a @placeholder box .", "option_0": "collection", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "tin", "option_3": "property", "option_4": "metal"}
{"id": 966, "article": "Clive Howard, 56, has been described as a dangerous sexual predator after attacks on six women in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. Howard, from Stowmarket, Suffolk, is due to be sentenced later at Norwich Crown Court. He admitted seven counts of rape, three of kidnap and one of attempted rape. Fifteen further women have since come forward, and Det Sgt Chris Burgess, from Norfolk Police, confirmed at least one was attacked by Howard. He said: \"He is a very dangerous man - he was a sexual predator. There is concern that there are further victims.\" Howard was caught after attacking a woman in her 20s in the St Helens Wharf car park in Norwich on 30 May last year. He had offered her a lift as she walked home but took her to the car park and raped her. A partial image of the number plate of his Volvo, deciphered from CCTV, led to him. His DNA found on the national database linked him to an unsolved case in which a woman was kidnapped in Cambridgeshire in 2013. A woman in her 20s managed to fight him off and his DNA from a scratch was trapped under her fingernail. This case opened the door to other attacks with \"striking similarities\", Mr Burgess said. Father-of-six Howard, a mechanic, was described as a \"loner\" whose marriage broke down 15 years ago. At the time of his arrest, he had an 82-year-old girlfriend. \"He was a quiet man who lived with his parents, frequented dating sites and searched for street workers,\" Det Sgt Burgess said.", "question": "Fifteen women have contacted police fearing they were targeted by a @placeholder - stalker rapist who admitted 11 offences when he appeared in court .", "option_0": "psycho", "option_1": "cliff", "option_2": "woman", "option_3": "night", "option_4": "science"}
{"id": 967, "article": "Footage from Channel 9's 60 Minutes programme in Australia shows the moment Rebekah Aversano sees - and touches - the face of her dead brother. The recipient, Richard Norris, from Virginia, US, was severely injured in a shotgun accident 15 years ago. Until the operation he had rarely gone outside and lived as a recluse. Transplant recipients do not normally meet the families of their donors. But Ms Aversano, from Maryland, came face to face with the man who received some of her brother's facial tissues and structures. She touched his face and said: \"This is the face I grew up with.\" Her brother, Joshua Aversano, had been killed in a road traffic accident, at the age of 21. The decision to donate his face had been difficult, but would have been what he wanted, said his mother Gwen Aversano in a separate interview with CTV News. She said: \"Knowing our son he would have wanted someone else to go on with their lives if he wasn't able to. \"After meeting Mr Norris, seeing him and speaking to him we can definitely see our son in him. \"We were just so pleased we were able to help Mr Norris even though we had such a tragic loss,\" she added. The extensive transplant surgery took place at the University of Maryland three years ago. It lasted more than 36 hours. Mr Norris had lost his lips and nose in a shotgun accident and had limited movement of his mouth. James Partridge, founder of the charity Changing Faces which supports people with facial disfigurements, told the BBC he did not know of another case where the family of the donor had met the person who had received the face. And Mr Barry Jones, former president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, said there were many issues to consider. \"It must be rather difficult for any relative to meet a recipient but it must be particularly difficult for faces,\" he told the BBC. \"On this occasion it seems to have been a happy outcome. But that might not always be the case.\" Mr Jones said a family would have to ponder how they would feel about the personality of the person with the new face. \"I am not against recipients meeting donor families if both parties want too, but I hope they have been counselled properly before their meeting,\" he said.", "question": "A woman , whose brother was killed in a traffic accident , has met the man who was given his face in a @placeholder transplant operation .", "option_0": "retired", "option_1": "pioneering", "option_2": "race", "option_3": "heated", "option_4": "suspected"}
{"id": 968, "article": "But Clive Palmer, who retired from politics last year, is seizing attention again - this time with poetry. His verses, which he posts on social media, have been prolific in recent weeks. They are brief and at times bewildering, just as some described his parliamentary stint. So how does Mr Palmer explain it? \"Poetry doesn't really have a meaning,\" he told Fairfax Media. The famously large man attributed his creativity in part to a recent diet. \"When you're on diet you think about food a lot, and poetry sort of comes from within you.\" His compositions have amused - and confused - his more than 70,000 followers. One newspaper columnist wrote: \"No, we don't know what it means, and neither does Clive.\" Another speculated: \"Maybe he's gunning for a new career as Australia's edgiest poet.\" The poems have been read by YouTube comedian Lewis Spears, who joked Mr Palmer was \"a modern Shakespeare\". They will also be recorded by an electronic music duo, Peking Duk. Mr Palmer is not the first Australian mining magnate to gain attention for poetry. Australia's richest woman, Gina Rinehart, once wrote a critically derided poem titled \"Our Future\", which was later fixed to an iron ore boulder. \"Wordsworth talked about poetry being the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, and I think in Clive's case the origin of poetry comes from a spontaneous overflow of hunger,\" said Associate Prof Bronwyn Lea, who teaches poetry at the University of Queensland. \"But I think it has its own kind of joie de vivre.\" Although the poems \"don't display a good deal of skill or attention\", Prof Lea suggested frequent mentions of \"Moondog\" and \"Mockingbird\" could be references to two famous Americans - poet Louis Thomas Hardin and novelist Harper Lee. \"It's a little bit in the tradition of Yoko Ono and her 'action-poems' which were popular in the 1960s, smashed up with a recipe,\" she told the BBC. \"But that would be reading a lot into it.\" In 2015, Mr Palmer was invited to the Queensland Poetry Festival to read from a self-published book of love poetry he wrote in the 1980s. He has also revealed his favourite writers include Robert Frost, TS Elliot and William Shakespeare. \"I'd encourage him to continue reading those poets as well as to read broadly among contemporary Australian poets,\" Prof Lea said.", "question": "He is the Australian mining tycoon who opened a dinosaur theme park , @placeholder to build a replica Titanic , and spent three years as a maverick MP.", "option_0": "vowed", "option_1": "believed", "option_2": "designed", "option_3": "causing", "option_4": "helped"}
{"id": 969, "article": "Highways England said Balfour Beatty has been chosen to undertake the ¡ê130m project in Kent. Last summer, part of the M20 was used 32 times so lorries could queue during cross-Channel disruption, during a process known as Operation Stack. The government has not yet decided where the lorry park will be built. The plans were announced by the Chancellor George Osborne in November and a total of ¡ê250m was allocated to the project. Two potential locations, both north of the M20 at junction 11 are being considered. The Port of Dover has estimated the UK economy loses up to ¡ê250m per day when Stack is implemented. It is anticipated the park will be partially open by summer 2017.", "question": "A contract has been awarded to build a giant lorry park for 3,600 vehicles to help prevent @placeholder chaos for trucks crossing the English Channel .", "option_0": "demand", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "level", "option_3": "traffic", "option_4": "treat"}
{"id": 970, "article": "It worked. He managed to walk pass the Azeri police that guard the embassy and was admitted onto foreign soil. For over six months, the whereabouts of Emin Huseynov, a prominent human rights campaigner, were unknown, until the Swiss broadcaster SRF broke the news last week that the country's embassy in Baku had been sheltering him since August 2014. The Swiss foreign ministry has confirmed that an Azeri national has been allowed to stay at the embassy on humanitarian grounds and in a statement said that Switzerland was negotiating with the Azeri authorities to resolve the issue \"in the interest of the individual\". Mr Huseynov, the founder of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), a non-governmental organisation monitoring rights violations against journalists, is accused by the Azeri government of tax evasion and abuse of power. Similar charges have been brought against a number of other civil society activists - charges that rights groups describe as \"bogus\". Like most pro-democracy NGOs, Mr Huseynov's IRFS was under surveillance by the Azeri security services. Activists like Mr Huseynov and others currently in detention - such as Rasul Jafarov, human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev, Leyla and Arif Yunus, and Anar Mammadli - have for years openly criticised their government, raising awareness of human rights abuses in the oil and gas-rich country. They have earned recognition for their work from the international community. But Azeri officials, such as President Ilham Aliyev's chief adviser Ramiz Mehdiyev, have branded them \"traitors\". The most recent victim of the government's campaign to silence its critics is the investigative reporter Khadija Ismaylova, known for her corruption investigations into the financial schemes of Azerbaijan's president and his family. In December 2014, she was charged with inciting a man to commit suicide. Last week, she was additionally charged with embezzlement, tax evasion and abuse of power. Her colleagues, whom I met in December in Baku, described her detention as an attempt to silence her. \"By arresting Khadija, the government is sending a message to journalists and to the public in general that those who fight for truth and free speech, those who fight for their rights, will be arrested.\" said Kamran Mahmudov, who briefly stood in for Ms Ismaylova on her popular radio talk-show on US-funded Radio Liberty. A few weeks after this interview, the authorities raided the offices of Radio Liberty and took the station off air. Still in his pyjamas, Kamran Mahmudov was dragged out of his home by the police and taken for questioning. The closure of one of the few remaining independent voices in Azeri media was criticised by the US State Department, the EU and several human rights organisations. According to the New-York based Committee to Protect Journalists, Azerbaijan is the leading jailer of journalists in Europe and Central Asia. However, the government insists that all the charges against journalists and civil society activists are legitimate. \"No one is prosecuted in Azerbaijan based on his or her professional activities or political beliefs,\" said Hikmat Hajiyev, a spokesman for Azerbaijan's foreign affairs ministry. \"Khadija Ismaylova has been engaged in journalistic activities for more than 10 years and could write different stories. Now there is a real criminal case based on the criminal code of Azerbaijan,\" he added. \"It is so unfortunate that the human rights issue is being politicised, and certain groups and circles under the pretext of human rights are trying to interfere in the internal affairs of Azerbaijan.\" President Aliyev pardoned 87 prisoners shortly before the new year, among them two journalists and two members of a pro-democracy youth movement. But most of the activists, journalists and lawyers detained remain behind bars. They face long prison terms if found guilty of their charges. Human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev, who has taken several hundred cases - ranging from violating rights to freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial - to the European Court of Human Rights, is now on trial himself, with his hearing set to resume on February 17. The Kurdakhany detention facility on the outskirts of Baku, where he is being held, has been dubbed \"the university\" because most of the bright minds deemed a threat to the state are being held there. Shortly after visiting him in December, his son, Necmin, wanted to deliver a message from his father to the outside world. \"In today's Azerbaijan defending human rights is a crime,\" he said. \"He and his friends are paying the price for doing just that.\"", "question": "He appeared at the Swiss embassy in Azerbaijan 's capital , Baku , in full disguise : his dark hair @placeholder blond to look more European .", "option_0": "planned", "option_1": "prompted", "option_2": "transporting", "option_3": "dyed", "option_4": "encourages"}
{"id": 971, "article": "The eruption of the Calbuco volcano in Chile in April was shown in the first episode of Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise last month. But a dramatic lightning storm seen above the volcano was actually shot at a different location in 2011. The BBC said viewers should have been told a \"composite image\" was used. The programme showed a violent \"dirty thunderstorm\", in which lightning strikes are seen within the ash clouds from an erupting volcano. In a blog post, the show's producer Tuppence Stone said such events could be difficult to capture on film and so \"it requires special techniques to reveal and portray their true extraordinary nature\". The programme combined time-lapse footage from Calbuco's eruption earlier this year with long-exposure footage of lightning at the Cordon Caulle volcano in 2011. \"These elements had to be combined to create a series of composite images, showing both the size and scale of a Patagonian volcanic eruption, its ash cloud and the repeated strikes of lightning that can occur within it, over many hours,\" Stone wrote. \"By combining local knowledge, expert advice, and state of the art camera and post production techniques we have been able to reveal to audiences the wondrous scale of an epic natural phenomenon.\" However the BBC said viewers should have been alerted to the fact that footage from two different eruptions had been combined. A statement said: \"In order to show viewers the extraordinary spectacle of a dirty thunderstorm with lightning flashes that would be impossible to capture in a single camera, a composite image was put together from footage from two Patagonian volcanoes. \"However, we recognise that this should have been made clear and so have published a blog post to explain the techniques used.\"", "question": "A volcano eruption shown on a BBC Two programme actually used footage from two different volcanoes @placeholder four years apart , the corporation has said .", "option_0": "helped", "option_1": "taken", "option_2": "attacking", "option_3": "sparked", "option_4": "spent"}
{"id": 972, "article": "Currently, women are requested to attend for a smear test every three years when they reach 20, but this will change to 25. The tests currently stop at age 60 but will now continue to 64. The Scottish government said the changes followed recommendations from the UK National Screening Committee. The committee has said testing under-25s is not effective at preventing cervical cancer, but the over-60s remain at risk of developing the condition. Women over 50 years old will be invited for screening every five years. Chief medical officer Catherine Calderwood said the changes brought Scotland into line with the rest of the UK. She said: \"The previous age range was 20 to 60 years, however we now know that cervical screening in young women is more likely to pick up normal cell changes which may result in unnecessary treatment while not changing the number of cases of cancer. \"Meanwhile, older women remain at risk of cervical cancer beyond the age of 60 when screening previously stopped.\" Ms Calderwood added that cervical screening saved about 5,000 lives in the UK every year. The UK government raised the screening age from 20 to 25 in 2004. Robert Music, chief executive of Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust, said: \"Screening saves lives, yet the number of women attending this test in Scotland is falling year on year and in 2014/15 only 70.4% of eligible women took up their invitation. \"This downward trend is extremely concerning as cervical cancer is one of the only cancers that can be prevented. \"We urge all women aged 25-64 to join the cervical screening programme when invited. It is a five minute test that could quite simply save a life.\"", "question": "The age at which women in Scotland are asked to attend their first screening test for the @placeholder of cervical cancer is to increase from Monday .", "option_0": "prevention", "option_1": "possibility", "option_2": "sale", "option_3": "criticism", "option_4": "signs"}
{"id": 973, "article": "Rower Ms Glover won the women's pair in Rio with partner Heather Stanning, defending the title won at London 2012. Mr Backshall, who lives with Ms Glover in Buckinghamshire, took the medal to Bourne End Jewellers. Richard Bull, the firm's head gold and silversmith, said he helped get Mr Backshall out of \"a sticky situation\". LIVE: For more on this and other Buckinghamshire stories The couple, who met in 2014, are due to get married later this month. Ms Glover, originally from Cornwall, revealed how Mr Backshall had damaged her medal during an interview with BBC Breakfast and later tweeted an apology for \"dobbing\" on him. Mr Bull, who repaired her medal said: \"It was brought in to me and I could see it had been dropped obviously and I said to Helen's fianc?? (Steve Backshall) who brought it in that it looked like it had been dropped on concrete and that's pretty much what had happened. \"He admitted to having dropped it himself. \"It was damaged on two edges - on one edge quite badly and the other less badly. But it was quite a mission to restore it. \"They are pretty heavy and bigger than you think. They are about 4in in diameter and must weigh half a kilo and they are solid silver in actual fact and gold-plated on the top so they are a very special piece of jewellery really. \"I feel very honoured to have been trusted with restoring such a priceless object. \"I am very pleased with the way it came out and I think Helen Glover is very pleased as well.\" Ms Glover, who is due to have a victory parade through her home town of Penzance on Sunday, has won three world championships as well as two Olympic golds and is unbeaten in 39 races over five years alongside Ms Stanning. Mr Backshall has presented CBBC show Deadly 60, the Really Wild Show and Steve Backshall's Extreme Mountain Challenge on BBC Two and was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2014.", "question": "TV @placeholder presenter Steve Backshall has had to take fiancee Helen Glover 's Olympic gold medal to be repaired after he dropped it on a concrete floor .", "option_0": "personality", "option_1": "nature", "option_2": "fashion", "option_3": "action", "option_4": "series"}
{"id": 974, "article": "Dear Donor family, In 1990, when I was just 23, I developed renal failure and started peritoneal dialysis. I was a nurse in a busy Glasgow hospital, which I loved. Then I started dialysis. I would dialyse four times a day. I was so tired and was sick a few times a day, not eating and my weight dropped to six stones. My blood count was six instead of 12. I was unable to go out with friends as I couldn't stand for more than 20 minutes without needing to sit down. I continued to work and then just go home and rest. My social life was non-existent and at one point I couldn't see this getting any better. However, three years later, I was just about to start my shift at work when the sister came running up to me and told me not to get changed. There had been a phone call, I had a transplant match. My lovely colleague Michelle took me to the hospital. I had surgery about four hours later and was walking about within 48 hours. I Six days later I was home, feeling hungry and full of energy. This has changed my life enormously, I am so grateful for the decision made by you. You were able to make a decision to donate your child's organs while going through such a traumatic time yourself. I will always remember you and have often been in awe of your decision. I am 49, married, a mum to a lively 9-year-old and I'm still a nurse. None of this would have been possible without your amazing gift of life. My transplant birthday is 31 August which we celebrate every year - 23 this year! Pauline Dear Type 1 Diabetes, You arrived completely out of nowhere. A horrible monster that has taken up residence with my son. You're aggressive and harmful and you won't go away. You follow my son everywhere. You're there when he eats, you're there when he plays, when he goes to school, and even while he sleeps. I can't control you monster, I can only adapt everything in my life to cater for you and \"manage\" your existence. Why couldn't you have chosen me instead of my sweet innocent child? I wish I could take you from my son but I can't. Instead, I watch your every move. I anticipate your next attack, and prepare to manage your fury. We feed you insulin several times a day. Sometimes that's enough but sometimes there's no telling what you will do next. There are no rules. You keep quiet for a while and just as I think I have got some kind of control you will strike! We got a machine that makes the balance between life and monster less painful but it's still there, forever waiting. I pray that you will leave and never come back. The new machine allows me days where I can almost forget that you're here, and then other days where I catch myself looking at my beautiful boy carrying this heavy monster on his back and it makes me weep. I almost mourn the past. The freedom and innocence that have gone will never return. I check my son regularly to see what damage has been caused by the monster who chose to live with us. Daily we prepare for battle. Daily we pray for an antidote that will kill the monster and free my son of its burden. For now, my son is strong and wise but I fear the day he leaves our home to live on his own with the monster. A parent wants to protect their child, but I have to watch as my son battles 24-hours-a-day. This is his life. I can only stand on the sidelines and offer my support and my love. I wish I could offer a cure and rid my baby of this horrible monster. I wish it had chosen me. Angie Dear Father, This letter is a small way to say \"thank you\" for changing my identity forever. When you travelled as a young man from Bangladesh to the UK in the 1960s, leaving your family behind to make a better life for yourself, little did you know the effect it would have on me. When you arrived with a single suitcase, a five pound note and a London address scribbled on a piece of paper, you were taking a big risk. You got a teaching job and integrated as much as possible, notwithstanding the racism of 60s London. You went back to Bangladesh, only to marry my mother, and returned to the UK where my brother and I were born. You wanted us to be British and give us opportunities you never had. You made sure we went to British Universities and have a solid British identity. Although I have a Bengali heritage, which I am very proud of, it is hard for me to claim that I am (with any true meaning) a Bengali. Whilst you took me to Bangladesh several times growing up, it was only for the summer holidays; we never lived there and (in the nicest way) I was treated like a foreigner by my family there. I cannot claim that being Bengali is a major part of my identity, maybe around 10%. The other 90%, I feel British. Give me the \"cricket test\" any day, I'd always choose England. Even though our identities may clash sometimes, your move changed who I am today. So thank you. Your forever grateful younger son. Riad Dear Accident, It was a sunny morning in Cambridge when you changed me.  Crushed but still whole, injured but not dead, damaged but not broken. You challenged me to push my body and mind to their absolute limits as I learnt to walk again three times, when I had to escape the depths of post traumatic stress and when I had to learn to live in the world again. But out of all the pain and adversity, you taught me strength and perseverance. I took the negative and made it positive. I saw how much love was around me that I should never take for granted. You propelled me to push my limits, take risks and never say no. I explored the world, made friends for life and spread my wings like never before. Accident, as much as you hurt me and those closest to me, I have to say thank you. You have made me the strong, independent person I am today. So yes, you changed me, but I am a better person for it. Yours sincerely Sheena Dear Salsa, You changed me. I arrived in London almost six years ago, a young shy Italian woman, with some confidence in her brains and not much confidence in her social or physical skills. Before I met you I didn't really like it here. I found it difficult to meet people and make friends, the city seemed cold and indifferent. I felt, once more, like the odd one out, and wasn't too positive about my future. But then you came along, and amazingly enough you brought with you many smart, funny, sociable and caring people! While dancing I found out it was so easy to start a conversation, make a joke, share a smile. Through your happy, strong beat you showed me how to let go of all my daily worries and stress and just follow the music, follow my lead, follow my body, for hours and hours, five days a week. You opened up doors to me that I didn't even know existed. Now we don't see each other anymore, but that doesn't mean I forgot about you and what you did for me. You will always be my first English (Cuban) love. Marta Dear Epilepsy, When you first arrived I was twelve years old. From a social butterfly to a bedbound haze in a flash. The rules changed and strange new ones became habit: Never bathe alone, walk on the inside of the street, carry limited cash, don't lock the bathroom door and don't go anywhere by yourself. I was told that I wouldn't be able to work or drive. No dignity, no answers, no certainties. A boyfriend? A family? We will see. Children? Maybe. You may overwhelm me frequently but you will not overwhelm my life. I follow the rules you impose in order to be safe. You turned my world upside down but part of me remained. I'm not a teacher as I wished but I have a job and a husband. Soon I hope to have a family. I must be realistic - some dreams aren't meant to be but we'll see. My dreams and aspirations are those which \"normal\" people just have. They aren't wild or imaginative but you've made sure I appreciate the normality I was told I'd never have. You've shaped and enhanced me. Now I'm a fighter - wiser, sympathetic and stronger. I don't despise you as I once did, the hatred has been channelled into a will to defeat you. I now spend my days defeating you rather than being defeated by you. I'll see you again soon. Or maybe not. Yours unwillingly, Jennifer As people become increasingly connected and more mobile, the BBC is exploring how identities are changing. Learn more about the BBC's Identity season or join the discussion on Twitter using the hashtag #BBCIdentity.", "question": "The donor family , the discovery of diabetes , the salsa @placeholder and the dad ... just some of the people , places and conditions you wrote to as part of the BBC 's Identity season .", "option_0": "table", "option_1": "classes", "option_2": "tail", "option_3": "questions", "option_4": "rhythm"}
{"id": 975, "article": "In 1958, newspapers rather than the internet listed football scores; coal was king in Wales, and a red phone box would be where you would make a call, with mobiles still decades away. Chris Coleman's side have earned their place in France by winning five of their nine Group B matches and drawing three. Wales' route to the 1958 World Cup in Sweden was far less glorious. In fact, John Charles and his team-mates failed to qualify. They finished second to Czechoslovakia in their qualification group, but were thrown a lifeline in the unlikely form of global political unrest. Israel had won their section by default as no African or Asian country would play them following the Suez crisis of 1956. However, Fifa were reluctant to allow a team into the World Cup finals without playing a match. Wales were picked to face the Israelis in a two-legged showdown and secured their place at the World Cup with a 2-0 win at Ninian Park on 5 February, 1958. The world was left in shock the day after Wales booked their place at the 1958 World Cup when 23 people, including eight Manchester United players, were killed in the Munich air disaster. The British European Airways (BEA) plane crashed during take-off after it had stopped to refuel in Munich as the team returned from a European Cup match against Red Star Belgrade. Of the people to die, 21 did so instantly, while Duncan Edwards - described by former United temporary manager Jimmy Murphy as the \"greatest of them all\" - passed away 15 days after the crash. Wales drew each of their group games, a run that included a clean sheet against hosts and eventual runners-up Sweden. They then came from behind to beat 1954 runners-up Hungary 2-1 in a play-off and set up a quarter-final against eventual winners Brazil. A then unknown 17-year-old called Edson Arantes do Nascimento - Pele - scored his first World Cup goal, the only one of the match, and Wales were out. Away from football, jukeboxes played rock'n'roll, the space race had begun and Sir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole. In 2015, Cardiff is hosting Rugby World Cup matches, and in 1958, the Welsh capital was also temporary home to prominent sportspeople during the Empire Games - the precursor to the Commonwealth Games.", "question": "Not since 1958 have Welsh fans been able to @placeholder on their own team at a major international tournament , but they can now make travel plans for France after Wales ' qualification for Euro 2016 .", "option_0": "spend", "option_1": "cheer", "option_2": "stay", "option_3": "feature", "option_4": "put"}
{"id": 976, "article": "The bodies of backpackers Hannah Witheridge, 23, from Norfolk, and David Miller, 24, from Jersey, were found on a beach on Koh Tao in September 2014. In 2015 Burmese bar workers Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo, also known as Win Zaw Tun, were found guilty of the killings. Their lawyers have until 23 May to file an appeal with the Supreme Court. A Thai appeal court upheld the death sentences given to the two men in March. Lawyers had been given 30 days to appeal to the Supreme Court, Thailand's final court of appeal. The men claim DNA evidence used to secure their conviction was unsound and a forensic investigator previously testified that evidence had been improperly collected. Lawyers for the convicted men have said they can still challenge the verdict, but because the defence team claims it is working on such limited resources they need more time to prepare a large amount of technical documents. Miss Witheridge, a University of Essex student from Hemsby near Great Yarmouth, and Mr Miller, a civil and structural engineering graduate from the University of Leeds, were found on a beach bludgeoned to death. A post-mortem examination showed Miss Witheridge had been raped.", "question": "Two men who face the death penalty in Thailand for murdering two British tourists have had their appeal @placeholder extended .", "option_0": "deadline", "option_1": "constituency", "option_2": "limits", "option_3": "health", "option_4": "appeal"}
{"id": 977, "article": "Scottish Power said 300 customers have had power cuts, with the worst affected areas around Newtown and Welshpool, Powys. An additional 259 Western Power Distribution customers were without electricity in the Pontyberem area of Carmarthenshire Flood warnings were also issued. Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said flooding would affect the Conwy, Dyfi and Lower Dee valleys. The Met Office yellow \"be ready\" warning for north Wales, Ceredigion and Powys, was in place until 04:00 GMT Monday. The Met Office said: \"Be aware that, given already saturated conditions, flooding is possible either from standing water or from rivers which have remained high after the large rainfall totals over the last few days.\" NRW said its staff would be out working all weekend on flood defences and putting measures in place to reduce the impact on people and their property. Check if this is affecting your journey", "question": "Hundreds of homes were left without power while roads and trains were affected by flooding after storms @placeholder Wales .", "option_0": "battered", "option_1": "released", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "supplies", "option_4": "drug"}
{"id": 978, "article": "South West Trains (SWT) says the increased capacity between Waterloo and Reading, Ascot, Windsor & Eton Riverside, Hounslow and Richmond equates to nearly 10,000 seats a week. The company has also added carriages to a peak-time service from Weybridge. The first new services, to Hounslow, are being served by replacement buses. Extra Sunday afternoon and evening trains will double the current service on the Hounslow Loop from Waterloo, but engineering works mean trains will only run as far as Brentford. From Monday, there will be three new weekday services - from Reading to Waterloo at 06:23, Hounslow to Waterloo at 08:27 and Waterloo to Reading at 19:35 - and longer trains on the Hounslow Loop on Saturdays. The 08:03 Weybridge to Waterloo service will also be increased from four carriages to 10 - the maximum possible on that line. Managing director Tim Shoveller said: \"The improvements to the timetable, combined with the major investments we are delivering across the network, will deliver a real boost for passengers. \"However, we are far from complacent and we know we can do much more.\" A spokesman for independent user watchdog Transport Focus said: \"Passengers will be pleased to see South West Trains introducing extra seats, new services and longer trains. \"Getting a seat, or even sometimes getting on a train, can be a struggle for some. Just 61% of South West Trains passengers tell us that they are satisfied with the availability of seats or space to stand.\" South West Trains said, since 1996, the number of passengers using its trains had increased from 108 million a year to 230 million. It has pledged 258 extra carriages by 2018, a 30% increase. The company says it has now added 57,000 seats a week on its network, which stretches to Bristol, Portsmouth and Weymouth. A separate ?¡ê65m scheme to rollout 108 refurbished carriages across the network is expected to be completed in early 2016.", "question": "A new timetable for trains @placeholder London to Reading , Windsor and Hounslow has been launched , with extra services and more carriages .", "option_0": "built", "option_1": "linking", "option_2": "planned", "option_3": "scheme", "option_4": "offering"}
{"id": 979, "article": "Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union members walked out at 13:00 BST in a row over pay and pensions cuts. Members of staff working on weddings were not expected to join the strike. A NMW spokesman said it was \"very disappointed\" with the strike and apologised to affected customers. Staff at St Fagans National History Museum walked out at 13:15 BST and were handing out leaflets to visitors. Strike action will take place every Saturday and Sunday afternoon throughout August. Neil Harrison, PCS branch chairman at NMW, said: \"Management's proposals would see staff who work weekends lose up to ?¡ê1,000 and nearly 10% off their final pension entitlement. \"Museum staff have already lost 15% in real terms in their wages over the past four years and now they are expected to lose more.\" NMW said National Museum Cardiff, St Fagans National History Museum and the National Waterfront Museum will remain open from 10:00 - 17:00 BST on Saturday and Sunday but may have reduced services; the National Slate Museum, National Wool Museum and Big Pit will close from 13:00 - 17:00 BST. Newport's National Roman Legion Museum is not affected. The NMW spokesman added: \"Like many other public sector organisations, we have to make difficult decisions during these challenging economic times. \"Yet we remain committed to mitigating the impact on staff through increasing the basic pay for the lowest paid by at least 2%, introducing the 'living wage' and are considering ways to protect the payment of pensions.\"", "question": "Staff at six National Museum Wales ( NMW ) sites have walked out in the first of a series of strikes @placeholder throughout the summer holidays .", "option_0": "held", "option_1": "occurring", "option_2": "affecting", "option_3": "action", "option_4": "planned"}
{"id": 980, "article": "Moscow and the IMF agree that the Russian economy will shrink by 3% this year. For some, though, the crisis brings new opportunities. In Bryansk, 400km (249 miles) south-west of Moscow, young cows are being herded by ranchers on horseback. The 7,000 cattle represent just a fraction of a huge new cattle-breeding venture, involving tens of thousands of animals sprawled across farmland the size of England. Alexander Linnik and his brother Viktor were already the country's biggest pork producers when their firm, Miratorg, started breeding prime Aberdeen Angus beef cattle (imported from Australia and the US) in 2010. It is now the biggest such plant in Russia and Europe. The world is getting wealthier - but with rising inequality, the BBC is investigating the winners and losers of this richer world in 2015. Find out about Russia's 'losers' - and the 'winners' on BBC World Service. A Richer World 2015 Listen to the reports and documentaries Last year, the complex was processing 100 head of cattle per day.  Next year, the company says it will process up to 1,000. But such rapid growth would have been impossible without Western sanctions - Moscow's counter-sanctions shut off Russia's domestic market to foreign food exporters, eliminating much of the competition. Then the rouble crashed, making meat very cheap to export. \"We need the rouble to stay cheap for our exports - so the sanctions have been useful,\" says Linnik. But Linnik is keen to avoid the impression that his company relies on luck. \"We've invested a lot in these past eight years, and had government backing,\" he says. Linnik admits that a tough economic climate may dampen the domestic appetite for prime beef, but with the rouble so cheap he hopes the government can help them tap into European markets. \"The sanctions were possibly even more useful for the government, to understand we need to export food,\" he says. \"We have the technology and quality which makes our products a match for, or even better than, anything similar from Europe.\" What's been bad news for Russia has been good news for the Linnik brothers, but others are feeling the pain. Tatyana Volkova is adjusting to a harder life. The single mother lives with her son and daughter, both under 10, in a wooden bungalow provided by the state in Berezniki, a small village outside Yaroslavl. The local authorities stopped free school dinners last year as part of cuts to social spending and now she, like many other parents, is struggling to find the money to feed them. \"For me it is a nightmare - wage cuts, job cuts,\" she says. \"The government is happy to send aid to the people of Ukraine. But when we ordinary Russians are at our most desperate, we are disowned. It's offensive.\" \"We survive thanks to our garden. We have potatoes and some other vegetables left. Sometimes I go fishing. I give the best I can to my kids, and I hope they won't notice this economic crisis,\" Volkova says. \"But there is no spare money at all. I can't even buy any toys for my kids. Before any visit to a shop I have to calculate the possible expenses in order to stay within our family budget. I have just lost my job and now I am struggling to find a new one. Life is not easy for us at all.\" Meanwhile, walking around the centre of Yaroslavl itself, a provincial middle-class city in the heart of Russia, you can hardly tell there is an economic crisis. Shops and market stalls are open, lights are on. People are busy, rushing up and down the streets. When you scratch below the surface, however, local residents tell a different story. People are already feeling the consequences of the falling rouble. The prices of some goods are up 150%, and there are warnings the inflation rate may rise to 20% by spring. \"Every rouble matters when you need to save money,\" says 79-year-old Valentina Golenkina. Every day she goes out to hunt for the cheapest produce and medicine. \"I walk 40-50 minutes on foot to get to this trade centre, because there is a particularly cheap pharmacy here,\" she says. \"I haven't bought any fruit this year, and I buy meat only on big holidays.\" Two-thirds of her pension goes on household bills and medicine, so she has less than $2 (?¡ê1.3) a day left for food. She has no husband or children to help, either. Golenkina says she misses the old days. \"I want the Communist Party to return to power. There was more justice then. Those who worked properly always lived well in the USSR, and this rule does not work now,\" she says. \"I worked all of my life at the factory, and I hoped to live normally as a pensioner, but now I have to struggle.\" For Russia's rich, while there is still plenty of money to go around, there are a few subtle changes being noticed by estate agents. Elena Yurgeneva, sales director at Knight Frank, says luxury property deals are taking longer to complete. \"A significant number of buyers at the high end segment of the market are oil businessmen, and they are not in the mood for shopping,\" she says. She is standing in the spacious dining hall of a mansion in the prestigious western suburbs of Moscow that has been on the market for years. The property owner has dropped his asking price from $35m (?¡ê23m) to $19m (?¡ê13m). She says people aren't nervous about the economy, though. \"It's just not the right time to buy.\" The 'losers' story  and the 'winners' story on the BBC World Service. For more on the BBC's A Richer World, go to www.bbc.com/richerworld - or join the discussion on Twitter using the hashtag #BBCRicherWorld", "question": "The Russian economy is in turmoil - Western sanctions over Ukraine , the fall in oil and gas prices and a tumbling currency have all contributed to a dire outlook . But what impact are people on the @placeholder feeling ?", "option_0": "developing", "option_1": "ground", "option_2": "situation", "option_3": "occasion", "option_4": "floor"}
{"id": 981, "article": "The window of a chemist's shop in central Venice features a digital counter showing the number of people living in the city's historic core. At the moment it should read 55,120 (that's up a bit, actually). But the point is that this is a countdown, raising the alarm that hundreds of people leave each year. In the past the population used to drop suddenly because of the plague. Now Venetians complain about another plague, tourism. The French novelist Victor Hugo said there are two things about a historic building: its use and its beauty. Its use is a matter for the owner, but the beauty belongs to everyone. Some Venetians make big money out of tourism: they always have done. Other businesses leave and their places are taken by more hotels, vast cruise ships visit and homes become holiday lets. Venetians are leaving the place they call La Serenissima - \"the most serene\" - a city currently visited by 20 million tourists a year. The big question is: will Venice end up killed by its own beauty, loved to death? \"For working people, it's becoming unworkable,\" says Sarah Quill, who has photographed the city for four decades and whose archive illustrates the stark contrast between a city once populated by Venetians and now in the grip of an increasing tourist overload. \"It's impossible to avoid the centre if you have appointments and those peaceful early mornings are now a distant memory.\" Part of Venice's problem is what it represents. It is a city of comfort and consolation in an era of furious urbanisation. If you live in a Chinese megalopolis of 30 million souls which was not there not long ago, Venice will seem an ideal polar opposite. Unable to expand over the water that surrounds it - it is built on islands in a lagoon - it is the gold standard for the city of human scale, the world's sentimental ideal city. So what can be done to save sentimentality from economics? Venetians complain about the Chinese buying bars and houses today. Before them it was the Russians, the Americans and, 200 years ago, probably the Austrians. The greatest writer on Venice, John Ruskin, suggested a tongue-in-cheek extra charge to visit, as do some of today's Venetians. A surcharge would raise money but surely not reduce numbers, which is what is needed. Today's protesters say if you put a gate on it you make it a theme park, not a living city. Why not call it a reservation, for preservation? As its a cultural Mecca, why not do what Mecca does and limit the annual number of pilgrims? Visiting Venice is, maybe, not a human right. In his novel England England, Julian Barnes imagined a tourist's version of England built on the Isle of Wight - all the best bits recreated in one convenient place. England England is such a success it becomes an independent state and joins the EU while actual England goes into decline. Could we imagine a Venice 2.0/Venice Venice? Sadly the Japanese version, an Italian shopping experience called Italmura, with canals and gondolas, went bust. But there are commercially successful replicas in Dubai, Qatar, Istanbul and, of course, Las Vegas, where the Venetian Hotel has opened a replica of its replica in Macau - even though China already has a copy of its own, Venice Water Town, a suburb of Hangzhou. And even Venice itself is not entirely genuine. Those horses on St Mark's basilica are copies: do you mind? The medieval bell tower opposite fell down in 1902 and was rebuilt brick-for-brick. Can you tell the difference? Could we not embrace the fake to help the real? Venice is like the panda: charismatic, unsuited to life today but too symbolic to be allowed to disappear. If our beloved wild animals end up existing only in zoos or reservations why not cherished cities? Let's have a new Venice island experience - all the highlights recreated from scratch in one place and better organised for better pictures. Reliable tides, none of the smells and with better food and plumbing. And you and I, obviously we can go to the old Venice and play spot the difference. The World This Week is on BBC World Service Radio and available as a podcast.", "question": "Venice recently witnessed protests against landlords in the city letting their apartments to tourists instead of Venetians . But what can be done to preserve one of the world 's greatest cities as a living @placeholder ?", "option_0": "centre", "option_1": "scheme", "option_2": "result", "option_3": "clue", "option_4": "entity"}
{"id": 982, "article": "A black police chief who had worked diligently to improve community relations, and reduce the use of force, now had to confront a racially motivated attack by a young black man against his officers. \"We're hurting. Our profession is hurting. Dallas officers are hurting. We are heartbroken,\" he said. He spoke on behalf of the Dallas Police Department, but his words echoed a personal statement he made six years earlier, in the wake of another Dallas police death. In June 2010, just weeks after he was sworn in as police chief, a young Dallas officer and father was shot dead on father's day. The killer was Mr Brown's 27-year-old son. \"My family has not only lost a son, but a fellow police officer and a private citizen lost their lives at the hands of our son,\" he said. \"That hurts so deeply I cannot adequately express the sadness I feel inside my heart.\" Mr Brown's son, David O'Neal Brown Jr, first shot dead a private citizen, Jeremy McMillan, as McMillan drove his family to his sister's house. He then shot police officer Craig Shaw, who was responding to the first shooting, more than a dozen times. Mr Brown took a leave of absence, according to local news reports from the time, and there was speculation that he would resign. It was not the first time he had suffered loss - in 1988, his former partner Walter Williams was killed in the line of duty. Three years later, his younger brother was shot dead by a drug dealer. But Mr Brown returned to work, determined to improve the Dallas Police Department's relations with the community. The department began to focus on de-escalation rather than force. Mr Brown placed emphasis on community policing and increasing transparency, even at the cost of clashing with department figures. He made enemies of the police unions by publicly sacking crooked officers, the Dallas Observer reported. He was told community policing was a waste of time. But by 2014, five years after his appointment, excessive force complaints against Dallas officers had fallen by 64%. \"In my opinion, how can you argue with aggressive community policing if it has yielded the safest the city has been over 86 years?\" he said in an interview with the Observer in February. Mr Brown's approach was visible on Thursday, in the hours before the gunman opened fire, as the police department's Twitter account posted pictures of officers posing with protesters and smiling. \"Men, women, boys and girls gathered at Belo Garden Park for the demonstration re: recent police involved shootings,\" said one tweet. \"Dallas police officers maintain traffic control to ensure the safety of the demonstrators,\" said another. In the aftermath of the attack, several reporters who cover the Dallas Police Department pointed out the irony that the gunman targeted a force which had made strides to break the cycle of violence between its officers and community. Speaking to the Observer in February, Mr Brown paid tribute to his officers and acknowledged the risks they took. \"Over the last 12 years we've lost five cops in the line of duty,\" he said. \"I mean, it's not just numbers on a page. It's sacrifice, and it's sacrifice at the highest level.\" Dallas Police Department equalled that 12-year sacrifice in a few short hours on Thursday. On Friday, Mr Brown reiterated his plea for mutual respect. \"There are no words to describe the atrocity that occurred to our city,\" he said. \"All I know is that this: This must stop, this divisiveness between our police and our citizens.\"", "question": "When five Dallas police officers were shot dead by a sniper on Thursday , it fell to David Brown , the city 's police chief , to @placeholder up the shock and grief of the force and the community .", "option_0": "disperse", "option_1": "sum", "option_2": "write", "option_3": "take", "option_4": "woke"}
{"id": 983, "article": "Bronte paid several visits to North Lees Hall in Derbyshire which provided the inspiration for Thornfield Hall. Thornfield Hall was the home of the 1847 novel's hero Edward Rochester. North Lees is now owned by the Peak District National Park Authority, which is holding open events on Saturday and Sunday. At the time of Bronte's visits to the Hathersage area, the Eyre family were living at North Lees. They lived there from 1750 until 1882, as well as occupying the hall for two generations during the 15th Century. In Jane Eyre, the world-renowned author describes the North Lees's battlements, the view from the roof and the apostles' cabinet - a piece of furniture that belonged to the Eyre family. Bronte later bought the cabinet and moved it to her family home in Haworth, Yorkshire, where it can still be seen. The hall closed in July after the Vivat Trust, which had managed the building since 1988, stopped trading. Bronte, born on 21 April 1816, was the eldest of the literary Brontes. She wrote three other novels - Shirley, Villette and The Professor. The open days run from 11:00 to 15:00 BST on both Saturday and Sunday. \"Leaning over the battlements and looking far down, I surveyed the grounds laid out like a map: the bright and velvet lawn closely girdling the grey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park, dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path visibly overgrown, greener with moss than the trees were with foliage.\"", "question": "A Grade II - listed hall that @placeholder Charlotte Bronte 's Jane Eyre is opening its doors to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the author 's birth .", "option_0": "influenced", "option_1": "holds", "option_2": "translates", "option_3": "attracted", "option_4": "featured"}
{"id": 984, "article": "\"Have you been spat at this morning?\" asks a cheery man as we queued up in the pouring rain. He tells me he is all for the right to demonstrate but he doesn't like \"intimidation\". His friend says she has felt frightened this week - one protester came right up to her face shouting \"Tory scum\". She feels safe once she is inside the heavily fortified conference zone, but \"this is meant to be a democracy\", she says, \"people should be allowed to debate without being intimidated\". This is her first Conservative conference and is surprised to learn it is not normally like this. There are always some demonstration outside conferences - 60,000 people took part in a largely peaceful march and rally against austerity and the government's Trade Union Bill on Sunday, in a repeat of a similar demo last year. But what is new this year is the presence of anarchists in significant numbers and the sustained level of verbal abuse directed at everyone wearing a conference pass. Left-wing commentator Owen Jones said that even he had been on the receiving end of verbal abuse, tweeting: \"Just had `Tory scumbag' yelled at me as I walked into Tory conference. Novel!\" The demonstrators themselves are reluctant to talk, especially to the BBC, who, one tells me, are \"getting as bad\" as the rest of the media. \"The migrant crisis? Why can't we just say refugees?\" She breaks off to carry on barracking conference goers:  \"Shame on you! How many weak and vulnerable people have you killed today?\" Some delegates bow their heads, others gaze impassively into the distance, a few blow kisses at the mob. The demonstrators are angry about cuts to benefits and what they see as an assault on the NHS and the welfare state. Iain Duncan Smith is a particular hate figure, along with the prime minister. There has been something approaching a carnival atmosphere outside the secure zone at times - teenagers were line dancing in the street on Monday, as police officers looked on. At other times the mood has been tense. As delegates were queuing up this morning, they watched a police officer with a sub machine gun vault a fence and wrestle a young man with a bulky backpack to the ground, while a police surveillance officer took pictures of the incident with a long lens camera. Some have blamed the police for not doing enough to protect delegates. \"Tory women being subjected to sexist abuse outside conference and police refuse to intervene - disgraceful,\" tweeted business minister Anna Soubry. Home Secretary Theresa May insists Greater Manchester Police are \"operationally independent\". London Mayor Boris Johnson - a veteran of 1980s student politics when anti-Tory anger on the streets reached its heights - took delight in mocking \"our crusty friends\" who threw things at him as he arrived at the conference centre. \"I drew only one conclusion - that we need to do more to encourage sport in schools, because they managed to miss me with every projectile,\" he said in his conference speech on Tuesday. At a fringe meeting on whether the Tories should protect the NHS, on Tuesday, Telegraph columnist Janet Daley told panellists struggling to make themselves heard above the sound of chanting protesters to ignore the \"din\" from protesters who were helping to secure the Conservatives \"millions of votes\". When the sound of drums and chanting was replaced by the drumming of heavy rain on the canvas roof the tent breathed a collective sigh of relief. \"What the police could not be bothered to do God has done for us,\" said a woman in the audience.", "question": "Anti-austerity demonstrations have reached a new pitch outside this year 's Conservative conference in Manchester , with party members and MPs running a daily gauntlet of abuse from @placeholder anarchists and other protesters as they queue to get in .", "option_0": "carrying", "option_1": "masked", "option_2": "wielding", "option_3": "neighbouring", "option_4": "wearing"}
{"id": 985, "article": "Now the officer has revealed that the young man got the job, and will begin work next week. \"He is starting Monday,\" Mr Jeyanesan told Canada's CP24 by email. \"He told me he actually wore the shirt and the tie - I'm just so happy!\" Speaking last week, the officer said Walmart staff had apprehended the would-be thief for attempting to steal a dress shirt, tie and socks. \"This young person has been facing his own difficulties in life and he was looking to straighten out all that by providing for his family and trying to get a job,\" Mr Jeyanesan said. \"This individual didn't have any resources. \"He wanted to go get that job. That was in his mind. I think he truly made a mistake.\" The teenager had told the officer that his father was sick, and that the family had suffered difficult times as a result. Constable Jeyanesan said that thanks to \"some friends who were willing to help out\", the elder man is now employed as well. Speaking to the BBC on 7 August, Mr Jeyanesan's staff sergeant Paul Bois praised his actions. \"Arresting him [the 18-year-old] wouldn't have been in the best interests of anyone,\" he said. \"I reacted very positively to the news; all issues were resolved by the action the officer took. \"It reiterates our goal of being positive role models in the community.\"", "question": "Last Monday , a shoplifter in Toronto was caught stealing an outfit for a job interview . But when Constable Niran Jeyanesan @placeholder to arrest him , he was moved by the 18 - year - old 's story and decided to buy him the clothes instead .", "option_0": "arrived", "option_1": "continued", "option_2": "speaks", "option_3": "wanted", "option_4": "refused"}
{"id": 986, "article": "Everyone is looking around at everyone else. They're wondering what to make of the intimidating, bedraggled man standing in front of us. We've just been ushered into his space, a stale-smelling shipping container strewn with empty water bottles that he frantically gathers up as we enter, the occasional sounds of crushing and rebounding plastic echoing back. Now still and silent, his eyes flit nervously to and fro inside his mask, which depicts some hellish version of a human face, bent and tortured in its bizarre features. The audience is here voluntarily, although you might not know it from the stolen glances darted around the room. Fear, uncertainty and excitement are the main emotions you feel as you move from container to container, shepherded here and there through hidden entrances by a surreal cast of actors, all wearing their disturbing masks. They never quite connect with the audience, forcing you to question what you should be doing, whether you should be interacting more or less with the performance. Such is the mysterious appeal of The Boy Who Crawled Out of His Face - one of a string of \"immersive theatre\" productions that have proved popular in recent months. Over the river, just next to the Olympic Park, audiences in search of a similar experience could find themselves on a set of Secret Cinema recreating the town square in the 1980s hit film Back to the Future, inviting punters to re-experience one of their favourite films in real life. While very different in scale and feel, both productions offered an involving surprise fantasy in the realms of so-called \"immersive theatre\" - a kind of extreme escapism that seems to have taken root in London, with new shows popping up every few weeks. But is this an isolated trend - the latest outlet for experimental theatre directors working in the capital? Or does it reveal a bigger appetite for escapism encompassing computer games, social media and even playing pretend as zombies? The diverse strands of immersive theatre \"appeal to hedonistic desire\", says Dr Adam Alston, lecturer in theatre and performance studies at the University of Surrey. \"It offers something of the fun, entertaining, cool and exhilarating qualities of festivals and clubs,\" he adds. Immersive theatre has been around quite a while now - you could argue all the way back to Shakespeare's day and the thrust stage. The latest fashion is a reaction to the digital age and people's desire for a live, shared experience. Hence the rise in popularity of theatre, festivals and performance art. The \"experiential\" scene is over a decade old now - think of all those people lying on their backs in Tate Modern when Olafur Eliasson's Sun was installed in the Turbine Hall. I'd say London has been something of a centre, with Punchdrunk et al, but I wouldn't discount the contribution that New York, Berlin and Manchester (with its International Festival) have contributed. Read more from Will For a  recent production of Macbeth in east London, the audience stayed 12 hours overnight in a decaying 27-storey tower block, as the play was acted out over three floors. Punters were then invited to sleep in one of the flats before watching the sun rise together on the roof the next morning. It may not match Michael Sheen's 72-hour performance of The Passion at Port Talbot, but David Shearing, a lecturer in theatre and audience immersion at Leeds University, says the immersive Macbeth gave \"a real sense of being part of something\". \"You feel like you're on a journey,\" he said. \"We buy into the experience and not just the performance.\" He said the parallels between immersive theatre and computer games were clear. The Drowned Man, a recent London production, Punchdrunk, left audience members unguided, wandering through extravagantly decorated rooms - letting them decide whether to stay put or follow characters as they explored the space. \"The rules and the structures are the same,\" Dr Shearing says. \"You have to go through levels, especially in Punchdrunk, where you have to hunt out clues and explore the world.\" Destiny, an internet computer game, is just the latest example. Costing $500m (¡ê312.3m) to develop and promote and drawing in 4.5m people worldwide to help test its pre-release versions, it hopes to have 10m players plugging in on day one. In today's world, generating an experience is everything, says Dr Alston. Immersive theatre producers \"put audience members centre stage\" in an apparently tailored experience, including audiences in the action \"to make their 'escapist' experience all the more unique and personal to them\". The trend even reaches into the horror genre, giving people the chance to become one of the undead in a 'zombie bootcamp', or inviting them to be chased around British city streets by zombies on a pre-designated course in 2.8 Hours Later. Immersive theatre productions can now be seen in New York, Berlin, Rio de Janeiro and other global cities, says Dr Alsoton. But what role does London play in all this? According to Mr Shearing, the trend began in the mid-2000s with shows at Battersea Arts Centre and Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Ben Power, associate director at the National Theatre, said the capital had been a \"really important\" incubator for immersive theatre on the world scene. \"Things have grown up in London and Europe that find their way to the US in a mutated form,\" he says. This is partly due to the expense of putting up shows in unusual spaces in other global cities. Adam Feldman, theatre critic for Time Out New York, said some innovative productions \"require such a huge space that it's hard to find somewhere in New York to hold it\". Back on the jetty reaching out over the River Thames, the production company Shunt claims it measures the success of its bizarre production by how far the medium has been pushed - and not the numbers that pop up in its bank account. Co-founder Gemma Brockis says: \"I think we judge our success by our audience and also our own perception of what we find interesting and how we feel we've challenged ourselves - or surprised people, or surprised ourselves.\" The show's first night had to be cancelled because of lightning - perhaps the price of risk-taking on such a scale. But far from being a Londont trend, immersive theatre seems to have plenty of life left in it, whether you want a new brand of escapism or just a good night out.", "question": "Audiences in London are flocking to new productions of \" immersive theatre \" - secret , tailored shows in often wacky @placeholder which take audience participation to a new extent . But what is behind this trend and did it originate in the capital ?", "option_0": "styles", "option_1": "ways", "option_2": "shows", "option_3": "locations", "option_4": "folk"}
{"id": 987, "article": "Andrew Puzder lost the support of several Republican senators after he admitted employing an illegal immigrant as a former housekeeper. The fast-food billionaire had been criticised for his remarks on women and employees at his restaurants. He was the first Trump cabinet pick to fail to secure a nomination. The fallout from Mr Puzder's rancorous 1980s divorce had also returned to dog him. It recently emerged that his ex-wife, Lisa Fierstein, appeared in disguise as a victim of domestic violence in a 1990 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, titled High Class Battered Women. They split in 1987, but she later dropped the abuse claims in a child custody agreement. In an 18 January letter to the Senate committee that had been due to hold Mr Puzder's confirmation hearing, Ms Fierstein said: \"Andy is not and was not abusive or violent.\" But Susan Collins, one of several Republican senators who withheld support for Mr Puzder, said she was taking the talk show tape into consideration. The Maine politician told reporters on Monday: \"I have gone to view the Oprah Winfrey show for an hour on which his former wife appeared and I am reviewing the other information that has come to light.\" The clip was presented last month to members of the Senate panel. The CKE Restaurants chief executive's opposition to raising the minimum wage, overtime laws and break-time for workers had also drawn the ire of union groups. Some of his staff at burger chains such as Carl's Jr and Hardee's claimed they were victims of wage theft or sexual harassment in the workplace. Republican South Carolina Senator Tim Scott said he had voiced reluctance to the Republican leadership to back Mr Puzder. \"As revelations regarding paying employees in cash, illegal immigration, and comments regarding some of the American workforce came to light, I developed serious concerns regarding his nomination,\" he said. Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO union, argued Mr Puzder would not have protected employees against his own industry. \"How can he possibly go out and defend workers?\" he said. Mr Puzder was also criticised for racy commercials that featured bikini models gorging on fast food. Defending the strategy, he argued in a 2011 press release: \"We believe in putting hot models in our commercials, because ugly ones don't sell burgers.\" But perhaps most damagingly, he had admitted failing to pay taxes on an undocumented housekeeper who worked for him for up to five years. He later repaid back-taxes after being nominated by Mr Trump. \"I fully support the president and his highly qualified team,\" said Mr Puzder in a statement on Wednesday as he confirmed his withdrawal.", "question": "US President Donald Trump 's choice for labour secretary has withdrawn from consideration on the eve of a long - @placeholder confirmation hearing .", "option_0": "style", "option_1": "standing", "option_2": "based", "option_3": "range", "option_4": "delayed"}
{"id": 988, "article": "The animal, called Xenoturbella, is so bizarre that for 60 years researchers could not work out what it was - or where it fitted into the family tree. But the discovery of four new species in the Pacific has enabled scientists to conclude that this animal belongs to one of the earliest branches of life. The study is published in the journal Nature. Lead researcher Prof Greg Rouse, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the US, said: \"Our nickname for them was purple socks. \"So if you think of a sock that you have taken off and thrown on the floor - they literally look like that. \"Or a deflated balloon.\" Xenoturbella was first described in 1949. The ocean oddity has no eyes, no brain and no gut. Just a small gaping mouth from which food goes in -  and then waste comes out. Only one species was known, and it left scientists scratching their heads. Early genetic tests mistakenly placed the marine \"sock\" as a mollusc. \"But it turned out they had sequenced the DNA of what it eats,\" explained Prof Rouse. Other researchers thought that it was a once-sophisticated creature that had got rid of all of its complex features as it evolved. But the discovery of four new species from the depths of Pacific Ocean has allowed scientists to study this animal more closely. With Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), they have been able to film these creatures for the first time. They include a new large specimen, which is more than 20cm-long, which has been called Xenoturbella monstrosa. And also Xenoturbella churro: named after the sweet, fried Spanish pastry, which it resembles - in an admittedly less appetising way. The new additions to the family have enabled scientists to carry out more extensive genetic tests. \"We corroborate the fact that they should be thought of as a fairly primitive group,\" said Prof Rouse. They sit near the base of the family tree, he added. \"A major branch on the evolutionary tree of life has now got another four new species instead of just one.\" But if you think it is cased closed for Xenoturbella, think again. \"We've never seen it feeding,\" said Prof Rouse. \"We find it where these molluscs are, and when we sequence it, we find these molluscs, their DNA, is inside. But when we open them up, we find their gut is empty. \"And they just have a tiny little mouth opening.  They don't have teeth, they don't have any sucking proboscis structure that could tear off a piece of some bivalve. \"It is a great unsolved mystery as to how Xenoturbella eats.\" The team hopes future ocean expeditions will shed more light on this bizarre beast of the deep. Follow Rebecca on Twitter", "question": "The mystery of a deep - sea creature that resembles a @placeholder purple sock has been solved , scientists report .", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "beach", "option_2": "discarded", "option_3": "sink", "option_4": "bid"}
{"id": 989, "article": "Spieth, winner of two majors in 2015, will collect a first prize of ¡ê922,266 and a bonus of ¡ê6.6m if he wins the final competition in the FedEx Cup. The American, 22, is on eight under and has a one-stroke lead over Stenson. The Swede, who held a three-shot lead overnight, shot a two-over par 72. Stenson would also win the overall FedEx Cup with victory on the East Lake course, but will have to improve on a Saturday display that saw him post four bogeys. Spieth, in contrast, ended his round on a high with a brilliant 20-foot birdie at the final hole. \"I thought we were tied,\" he said of his battle with Stenson. \"I didn't realise I was leading until about 20 minutes after I finished and someone mentioned it.\" His compatriot Rickie Fowler, another who would pick up the bonus with victory in Atlanta, is four shots behind along with England's Paul Casey. Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy, who has a very slim chance of taking the ¡ê6.6m, is on three under after a level-par 70. Also on three under par, and another with a chance of the ¡ê6.6m, is American Zach Johnson, who must win while Australian world number one Jason Day finishes tied second or worse. Day, who has won three of the previous four tournaments he has competed in, is level par for the tournament.", "question": "Jordan Spieth fired a third round two - under-par 68 as he mastered the wet conditions in Atlanta and @placeholder Henrik Stenson at the top of the Tour Championship leaderboard .", "option_0": "overtook", "option_1": "beat", "option_2": "join", "option_3": "deny", "option_4": "replaced"}
{"id": 990, "article": "Englishman Simon Andrews was taken by helicopter to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast after the accident in the Superstock race. Andrews, 29, is from Evesham in Worcestershire and rides for the Penz13.com BMW team. His family are at his bedside in the Belfast hospital. Last year, he suffered serious injuries in the Le Mans 24-Hour race. Saturday's accident happened at the Metropole section of the 8.9-mile North West circuit. It was the second serious crash at this year's NW200 meeting. On Tuesday, Franck Petricola crashed during a practice session. The 31-year-old Frenchman is being treated at the Royal Victoria Hospital and his condition was described as critical.", "question": "A high - profile rider @placeholder in a critical condition after a crash at Saturday 's North West 200 motorcycling road races in Northern Ireland .", "option_0": "dies", "option_1": "injured", "option_2": "resulted", "option_3": "remains", "option_4": "died"}
{"id": 991, "article": "Postgraduate student Joseph Hone found a manuscript which revealed the scientist had designed the medal for Queen Anne's coronation in 1702. It explained the design as symbolising the dual threats of France and rival Stuart claimants to the throne. It was described as a \"really exciting discovery\" by the project leader. Researching in the National Archives in Kew, Mr Hone found Newton's handwritten account of designing the commemorative medal. The 50-page document had been overlooked for years, he said, as the clasp holding the pages had rusted over. The design had previously been thought to have been the work of a court painter, but the manuscript shows that Newton, who was Master of the Royal Mint at the time, was responsible. Newton's notes reveal that the depiction of the queen as a Greek goddess striking down a monster was not a random picture of a national defender, but a specific reference to contemporary political threats to her rule. In the iconography of this 18th Century propaganda, the creature with two heads represents the joint threat of the French king, Louis XIV, and the so-called \"Old Pretender\", James Stuart. Queen Anne was the daughter of the deposed Catholic monarch, James II, and the old king's son, James Stuart, was living in exile and claiming that he had a more legitimate right to the throne. The medal shows Queen Anne facing this threat of a Catholic alliance between France and the exiled Stuarts, headed by her half-brother James. Gold versions of the medal were to be given out to \"persons of quality\", according to the notes, with cheaper silver versions to be thrown to the crowds. The medal also divided opinion along contemporary political lines, says Mr Hone, with the Tories \"really disliking\" it as an attempt to present the new queen in a way that would be more sympathetic to the rival Whigs. Mr Hone, an English PhD student on a Oxford and Exeter university project, says the discovery casts more light on Newton's professional career and how his work moved between science, maths and humanities. \"The modern obsession with separating science and the humanities falls down when you go back a few centuries,\" he said. \"It's not that he didn't see them as separate, but more that he saw them as inseparable.\" He says the notes show Newton switching ideas from science to maths, classical history, politics and literature. \"It tells us that Newton didn't conceive of himself as a scientist, but a master of lots of trades. The understanding of him as a great scientist is a later imposition, he would have seen himself more as a public servant.\" The project is examining the transitions between different Stuart reigns and looking at public responses during these times of \"regime change\". It was a moment when people wanted to advance their own cause by putting themselves on the right side of the incoming ruler. The co-director of the project, Paulina Kewes, from Oxford's English department, described the findings as a \"really exciting discovery\". \"The notes and sketches for this medal give us an insight into the politics surrounding Anne's succession and Isaac Newton's surprising role in them.\"", "question": "A student at Oxford University has discovered that a coronation medal was personally designed by Isaac Newton and includes a hidden political @placeholder .", "option_0": "weapon", "option_1": "treasure", "option_2": "status", "option_3": "beach", "option_4": "message"}
{"id": 992, "article": "The white cat was apprehended crossing the main prison gate. The incident took place at a jail in Arapiraca city, 250km (155 miles) south-west of Recife in Alagoas state. The confiscated items included drill bits, files, a mobile phone and charger, plus earphones The cat was taken to a local animal centre. The jail holds some 263 prisoners. A prison spokesperson was quoted by local paper Estado de S. Paulo as saying: \"It's tough to find out who's responsible for the action as the cat doesn't speak.\" Officials said the items could be used to effect a means of escape or for communicating with criminals on the outside. The incident took place at New Year, but the photo has only recently been released.", "question": "A cat has been detained in the @placeholder of a jail in Brazil with contraband goods for prisoners strapped to its body with tape .", "option_0": "wake", "option_1": "family", "option_2": "courtyard", "option_3": "cells", "option_4": "grounds"}
{"id": 993, "article": "\"Lord Thomson of Fleet,\" it says. \"He gave new direction to the British newspaper industry.\" And then the sentence that gives pause: \"A strange and adventurous man from nowhere, ennobled by the great virtues of courage, and integrity, and faithfulness.\" Roy Thomson died in 1976 at the age of 82, and his was indeed a remarkable business story. The plaque made me remember it again. He was born to a pretty poor family in Toronto in 1894, and was hindered by poor eyesight. Or maybe helped, increasing his doggedness. He dabbled in small businesses from his teens onwards, with little success. He tried farming, and failed. He went back to Toronto and had several undistinguished jobs. Then he started selling radios in small towns deep in northern Ontario, the only territory left. And there began a remarkable media story. Rural radio users in the 1930s had little to listen to. So Roy Thomson bought someone else's neglected radio licence, and his station CFCH began broadcasting in the town of North Bay in March 1931; the inaugural programme had music by the Battery Boys and a speech by the mayor. Roy Thomson, odd job man, was on his way. In 1934 he bought a small local paper, the Timmins Daily Press, beginning what soon became a diverse media empire. By the end of the 1940s, Thomson owned 19 newspapers and was president of the Canadian daily paper publishers' association. But the old country beckoned. In 1952, seeking his Scottish roots, Roy Thomson moved to Edinburgh. The next year he bought the Scotsman, giving him some status but a lot of criticism as he applied commercial instincts to a venerable paper. Then came television. The government introduced what was called, in typical British look-down-the-nose way, \"commercial\" television. Roy Thomson with his Scotsman credentials led the consortium which won the franchise for Scottish TV, launched in 1957. In a much-quoted (but maybe inaccurately quoted) phrase, he described television as a licence to print money. It was. But print was at the heart of his increasing empire. As he put it: \"I buy newspapers to make money, to buy more newspapers to make more money.\" Like Beaverbrook before him and Conrad Black and Rupert Murdoch after him, Roy Thomson was a wild colonial boy who cut a swathe through traditional owned British newspapers. He used the profits from STV to buy a raft of Kemsley newspapers from the Kemsley family in 1957, including the Sunday Times. When the family owners of what used to be termed The Times of London panicked over tiny losses in 1966, Thomson was there to snap it up. His newspaper empire grew to embrace more than 200 papers in Britain, Canada and the USA, and a host of other publishing interests. Every time he met another newspaperman, he would ask if their paper was for sale. It was brash, vulgar, persistent. Not just publishing, either. With its Scottish perspective connection, the International Thomson Organisation (as it was by then called) joined a consortium that successfully struck oil in North Sea fields. Much of the group's flair was due to a canny chief executive, Gordon Brunton, now Sir Gordon. He had been at the London School of Economics with Vladimir Raitz, the man who revolutionised post war British travel. In 1950 Mr Raitz had organised what was effectively the first modern package holiday, flying fellow Russians to Corsica for a holiday in the sun for ?¡ê32 all round, at a time when harsh official limits on taking sterling abroad severely restricted foreign travel from the UK. Mr Raitz founded the pioneering Horizon Holidays and later helped Sir Gordon launch what became Thomson Holidays, one of the main travel companies of its time. I saw Roy Thomson once, coming in through the revolving doors at the Sunday Times in London, where he moved around by public transport. His pebble thick spectacle lenses glinted in the sun, and he was on his way upstairs to his office, probably to get out his ruler and measure the amount of advertising in his own newspapers and that of his rivals. This overt preoccupation with the commerce of newspapers was scorned by superior journalistic types, but it was he, not they, who got a barony named after Fleet Street, where his newspapers never had offices. But for all Roy Thomson's commercial instincts, he failed to transform the impossibly tangled way that newspapers were produced. A year-long strike of production workers at the Times and the Sunday Times in 1979 changed little, and not long afterwards his son Kenneth (Lord Thomson in Britain, Ken in Canada) sold those two papers to Rupert Murdoch, who then took on the print unions in a decisive encounter that transformed Fleet Street. Many other papers followed that sale. But though print has little or no part in it, Roy Thomson had created a continuing huge business empire. At one time his late son Ken (also Lord Thomson, but only in Britain) was named by the magazine Forbes as the ninth richest man in the world. Roy Thomson's grandson David inherited the leadership of the company in 2006 and continued the evolution of the business by buying the venerable news agency Reuters two years later. He's now chairman of the company named Thomson Reuters, the biggest business information provider in the world. It is a remarkable family story, based on the man who was still a failing jack of all trades at the age of 36, still known only in Canada at the age of 54, who became a national known figure in Britain only in his 60s. Roy Thomson's autobiography is called \"After I was 60\". That's what the plaque means by calling him a strange and adventurous man from nowhere. It is striking to see him so memorialised in St Paul's.", "question": "Down in the crypt underneath the vast bulk of St Paul 's Cathedral , down there where London started , there is a handsome memorial stone with a haunting @placeholder .", "option_0": "body", "option_1": "scheme", "option_2": "inscription", "option_3": "feel", "option_4": "name"}
{"id": 994, "article": "The sheer number of sites refreshing key credentials may trigger delays, reported the Washington Post. The updates could force browsers to keep downloading and checking long lists of safe sites which would slow attempts to reach those destinations. The updates will help stop attackers posing as well-known sites using stolen security credentials. About 500,000 websites were thought to be vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug which, if exploited, would let attackers slowly steal data from web servers. Many sites, including Google, Facebook, DropBox and OKCupid, have now patched the version of the security software they ran, called OpenSSL, that was vulnerable to Heartbleed. However, said Paul Mutton, a security analyst at Netcraft, sites also had to take action to change a separate security measure if they wanted to be sure that visitors' data did not go astray. This separate measure is known as a security certificate and is a guarantee of a site's identity. Heartbleed raised questions about the worth of the guarantee security certificates offered, said Mr Mutton. Using the Heartbleed bug attackers could seize secret keys used in conjunction with security certificates as an identity check. \"It would be safest to assume that all of the 500,000 certificates have been compromised,\" he told the BBC. \"Most Certificate Authorities are offering to reissue and revoke for free, so there is no excuse not to take action.\" However, he said, the revoking and reissuing of hundreds of thousands of certificates could have a knock-on effect on web browsing speeds. When a user visits a site, their browsing program typically checks to see if the security certificate for that site has been revoked, said Mr Mutton. Under normal circumstances, this rarely causes a delay as relatively few certificates are revoked every day. Now, said Mr Mutton, the numbers of revocations were growing, thanks to Heartbleed, with thousands more every day being revoked and reissued. Robin Alden, chief technology officer at certificate authority Comodo, told PC World that its renewal rates had gone up by a factor between 15 and 30 since news about Heartbleed broke. It said it was providing tools to customers to help them check if sites were vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug. \"Certificate revocation has always been a bottleneck since SSL was invented,\" said Dr Mark Manulis, a senior lecturer at the University of Surrey's computing department who specialises in cryptography. If Heartbleed led to large scale revocations that could cause problems, said Dr Manulis, as not all browsers downloaded lists and there were potentially hundreds of certification authorities to contact, \"Each browser would have to contact each of those authorities and download the lists because those lists are not shared,\" he said. Mr Mutton from Netcraft said an added complication was being introduced by firms that issued new certificates but had not revoked the older potentially vulnerable ones. \"This is dangerous,\" he said. \"If the old certificates had been compromised, they could still be spoofed and used for man-in-the-middle attacks even if the affected sites are now using new certificates.\" Dr Dan Page, a lecturer in cryptography from the University of Bristol, said updating certificates and issuing new ones can take time. \"It takes time for the revocations to filter through the system,\" he said. \"Previously there have been breaches but not across everyone,\" added Dr Page. \"That's definitely different here and is much more worrying.\" Also struggling to cope with its workload is the organisation behind the OpenSSL software in which the Heartbleed was found. In an open letter Steve Marquess, president of the OpenSSL Software Foundation, issued a plea for more donations and funding to recruit more people to help maintain the widely used software. \"While OpenSSL does 'belong to the people' it is neither realistic nor appropriate to expect that a few hundred, or even a few thousand, individuals provide all the financial support,\" he wrote in a blogpost. \"The ones who should be contributing real resources are the commercial companies and governments who use OpenSSL extensively and take it for granted,\" he added. Annual donations typically amounted to about $2,000 (?¡ê1,195), he said, though this had briefly spiked following publicity about Heartbleed. More money would help the Foundation hire enough staff to cope with all the requests it gets for help and to maintain the core code. \"There should be at least a half dozen full time OpenSSL team members, not just one, able to concentrate on the care and feeding of OpenSSL without having to hustle commercial work,\" he said. \"If you're a corporate or government decision-maker in a position to do something about it, give it some thought,\" he said.", "question": "The struggle to fix problems caused by the Heartbleed bug may slow browsing speeds , warns @placeholder firm Netcraft .", "option_0": "documents", "option_1": "analysis", "option_2": "trade", "option_3": "centre", "option_4": "a"}
{"id": 995, "article": "There are many things about it that have attracted comment from US columnists to the blogosphere: that he oversaw such controversial and costly wars but should ultimately fall on a matter of personal behaviour; that President Barack Obama was not apparently informed until election day that Gen Petraeus was under investigation by the FBI; and that the issue is now drawing in more people, including General John Allen, who replaced Gen Petraeus as the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan. The inquiry resulted from complaints by a woman that she had received threatening e-mails from Paula Broadwell, Gen Petraeus' biographer and for several months apparently also his lover. The FBI investigation is now moving on to issues such as whether the author had unauthorised access to classified material. Some have written of the general's vanity, suggesting he liked to be surrounded by admiring staffers, academics and indeed journalists. Having met and interviewed him several times, I can certainly confirm that he took particular care of his image (for example preferring to be filmed favouring the patch on his right shoulder - the combat one of the 101st Airborne Division, which he commanded during the 2003 invasion of Iraq), and that lately his staff tried hard to discourage challenging lines of questioning, whereas during our earlier meetings he had proven more than happy to tackle whatever we threw at him. It was during one of these later meetings with Gen Petraeus that he introduced me to Mrs Broadwell, who at that time was working on her book about him and with whom, it emerged last week, he was having an affair. I will not pretend that I had any great presentiment or intuition about what was going on, but did note that during our off-camera conversations, he and I reflected in a humorous way on the ageing process and how it played out in men. Gen Petraeus had gone through cancer treatment in 2009 and it is in this context that a friend of his, a fellow general, sought to explain to me today what had happened: \"Almost everyone considered him to be immortal, but he had been shaken by the cancer business and continually deployed for five-and-a-half years.\" The same officer concluded that while his friend was right to offer his resignation once the extramarital affair with Ms Broadwell had come to light, that \"the president shouldn't have accepted it\". Some reports today suggest that the CIA director did not even himself feel it was a resigning matter, but was persuaded to write the letter by the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. The head of the wider US intelligence community apparently felt it would not be possible for Gen Petraeus to discipline CIA staff accused of marital indiscretions, if he had shown himself fallible in the same regard. General Stan McChrystal, Gen Petraeus' predecessor as Nato commander in Kabul, also suffered a public fall from grace in 2010, stepping down after staff members were quoted by Rolling Stone magazine being critical about the Obama administration. Some used a similar formula at the time, about the president not needing to accept a tendered resignation. Both generals had been lionised in the US press and in Congress, particularly for reversing the slide to civil war in Iraq. It is also true to say that many of the commanders, including British as well as American, whom I have spoken to in Iraq and Afghanistan were completely in awe of these two men and their abilities. As for what they achieved in their attempt to replicate the success of the Iraq surge in Afghanistan, that is a different matter, for many now consider it to have failed. That two commanders who wielded power of life and death over so many, and were widely praised as soldier-scholars, should fall on issues of PR and an affair is itself a stark measure of the degree to which personal failings that might once have been kept private can now be the decisive factors in professional ruin. And how serious are the charges that led to their fall? The FBI cleared the CIA boss of any involvement with sending threatening emails, even if he still has serious issues to address with his wife Holly Petraeus. And an inquiry into Gen McChrystal's conduct towards the Rolling Stone reporter exonerated him of any misconduct. Some once talked of Gen Petraeus - his physical fitness, charging intellect, and devotion to duty in almost super-human terms. Ultimately though he has proven himself all too fallible.", "question": "The fall of David Petraeus , director of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) and the general who successfully commanded America 's troop surge in Iraq during 2007 - 8 is a modern morality @placeholder , even if it did arise from one of the most ancient human failings , marital infidelity .", "option_0": "culture", "option_1": "beach", "option_2": "issue", "option_3": "title", "option_4": "tale"}
{"id": 996, "article": "Little did he know that from that moment on, his boys would become internet megastars! In the video, Harry (the older brother) puts his finger dangerously near to Charlie's mouth - and his little brother bites him. And the famous line 'Charlie bit me!' was born! The boys' dad Howard could never have imagined that, tens years later, the video would have got almost 850 MILLION views on YouTube, becoming one of the most-watched and most famous videos ever to have gone on the internet. Since the Charlie Bit Me video went online, the boys have been all over the world to be on television and appear in adverts. Happy birthday, Charlie Bit Me!", "question": "Ten years ago , one dad uploaded a video of his sons to YouTube so that relatives could watch it , because the file was too big to @placeholder by email .", "option_0": "send", "option_1": "change", "option_2": "download", "option_3": "greet", "option_4": "show"}
{"id": 997, "article": "\"It's hard to understand what happened. We read about it. We've seen the movies. But I don't think you can fully understand what happened out there,\" says Trond Henry Blattman, who lost his son Torjus on Utoeya island on 22 July 2011. \"It was the most secure place to be in Norway that day.\" Mr Blattman is now leader of the 7/22 National Support Group for bereaved families, who have gathered for a weekend every six months since the attacks to share their experience of grieving. It is part of a series of initiatives that offer intensive, targeted, psychological support to survivors of the massacre and the bereaved. \"It is a kind of support to feel that the other families had the same kind of thoughts that you had. How did it happen? Did he suffer a lot?\" he says. \"You get support from that, to feel that everybody is in the same kind of position.\" Source: London Bombings Trauma Response Programme Collective therapy on a national scale like this had never been attempted before. The group met for the fourth and final time in February and though many families would have liked them to continue, Mr Blattman says they have done their job. \"The most important thing after the fourth gathering is that people can move on. Of course we lost our child, life will never be the same. It will be different, but hopefully it will be good.\" These meetings are part of a co-ordinated effort by the Norwegian authorities to bring help to everyone affected by the attacks. \"Faced with this very large terrorist attack we realised we had to do something special in order to co-ordinate all the groups and organisations,\" says Dr Bjorn Guldvog, Norway's chief medical officer. Just two days after the massacre, a group of government agencies and voluntary groups met to form a plan to deal with those affected by trauma. They set up a proactive system of support. Survivors and the bereaved would not have to go find help, it would come to them. Those affected by the bombing in Oslo, most of whom worked for the government, would get help through their workplace. The survivors and bereaved from Utoeya Island, who had come from all over the country, would be looked after within their local municipalities. Local health authorities would be responsible for knocking on doors and making phone calls to them. If help was refused the first time, the idea was they should return later. However, not everyone necessarily wanted or needed help. Research shows that there is a natural healing process which, over time, means most people recover from trauma. Statistics range widely and it is thought that anything from five to 35 per cent of people will experience an adverse psychological reaction in the immediate aftermath of trauma. Without psychological intervention a smaller number will go on to develop serious psychological problems such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Figures released this year in Norway reveal that around half of all Utoeya survivors are experiencing psychological difficulties. Dr Alte Dyregrov, head of the centre for Crisis Psychology in Bergen, says there are many reasons why this is higher than average. The age of the victims and the nature of the attack and where it happened had a profound effect. The young people were somewhere that should have been a very safe place but instead they found themselves being hunted down. \"They struggle with the brutality of the assault, the intrusive images,\" Dr Dyregrov says. \"This was an hour of fighting for their life. It was a different kind of experience for civilians, they are not military personnel.\" Norway learned from previous disasters. After the tsunami in Thailand in 2004 - in which many Norwegians were caught up - they found that bringing people back to the scene of the disaster helped them to deal with trauma and loss. \"It is important for people who have lost their loved ones to be able to go back to the place where that person spent their last minutes and their last seconds, to get a feeling of connection,\" says Dr Guldvog. Only a month after the attacks, survivors and the bereaved were taken back to Utoeya island. With the help of the police they were able to give the exact position where each young person had died and relatives could lay a flower or hold some sort of ceremony on the site. \"Everyone has a lot of imagination in these kind of situations and it is important for them to have as real a picture of what happened as possible. It helps them with coping later,\" says Dr Guldvog. This \"proactive approach\" depended on the expertise within individual municipalities or councils. With more than 400 municipalities in Norway there has been criticism the service was patchy, some saying it was \"inadequate\" or \"lacking altogether\". The outreach programme focused on victims and bereaved family members, it ignored friends of victims. Anecdotal reports say there may have been some suicide cases in this group, linked to the attacks. The Day Norway Cried - report into Norway's response to the Breivik attacks, Jan 2013 \"Controlled re-exposure\" like this was not new. After a maritime disaster in 1999 in which 69 people survived and 16 died, survivors and the bereaved were taken back to the scene together. \"We had some saying, 'This is how I survived,' while there were others there who had lost their loved ones. That was not a good way of doing it, \" says Atle Dyregrov. \"We learned from that not to do it again.\" Survivors of Utoeya were taken back to the island but on a different day. Supporting Utoeya victims was made more complex because so many of them were teenagers. The killing spree happened during the summer holidays and four weeks later young survivors had to start a new school year. Schools and universities across Norway had to find a way of supporting them as well as those who had lost friends and classmates. Ronja Breisnes, 18, survived the killing spree on Utoeya by hiding in a toilet for three hours with seven other young people. She texted her mother throughout the ordeal, all the time well aware that her friends had already been killed. \"I experienced a lot of flashbacks and nightmares. I still have them sometimes, repeating themselves,\" she says. Often she woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep. When she returned to school, she was regularly late or absent from class. She found it hard to study and struggled with what to tell her classmates. Healing Norway will be broadcast on BBC World Service as part of The Truth About Mental Health Season Listen to the programme here More from this series More on mental health More from BBC World Service Her head teacher Hans Vibe had formulated his own plan to deal with the tragedy - he relaxed rules on attendance and performance, usually very strict in Norway. He also assigned sensitive teachers to teach the classes he knew would be worst affected. He acted on his own initiative but the same advice from the Education Directorate was then rolled out across Norway. Though what happened on the 22 July 2011 will haunt Norway for many years to come, the way it dealt with its collective trauma offers a blueprint for communities dealing with a national tragedy. Of course, it helps that Norway is a small and wealthy country but it was the collective, unified response that made the recovery effort possible. For some like Trond Henry Blattman the act of bringing people together was as much a part of the healing process as the treatment received. \"I think if I had asked Torjus then he would have said, 'This is very important work Dad, I think you need to (do it). This is something you can focus on because you can help a lot of people.'\" says Mr Blattman. \"He's an inspiration for me.\" Healing Norway will be broadcast on BBC World Service as part of The Truth About Mental Health season.", "question": "It 's been nearly two years since Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik murdered 77 people , most of them teenagers . Nearly a quarter of Norwegians knew someone directly affected . But as the country began to grieve together , it also @placeholder on a unique process of healing .", "option_0": "embarked", "option_1": "reflects", "option_2": "perched", "option_3": "focused", "option_4": "overturned"}
{"id": 998, "article": "The swan has reportedly attacked river users on a number of occasions. The Conservators of the River Cam, who manage the waterway, confirmed they had met the criteria set by Natural England to legally move the bird and his mate. If approved, the pair will be taken to a site more than 50 miles away and outside the county before the spring nesting season begins. Dr Philippa Noon, of the conservators, said: \"We have on-going concerns for the safety of river users, especially those in small vessels such as kayaks and canoes. \"A suitable receptor site has now been found and we have located a 'competent person' capable of overseeing the move.\" Suitable sites need to be more than 50 miles away from the birds' original territory to prevent them finding their way back. Steve Austin, whose house backs onto the River Cam close to the swan's territory, said he and other residents would be sad to see Mr Asbo go. \"He's never been any trouble to us and I look after him in my garden when busy rowing races take place,\" he said. \"If I'm perfectly honest, though, it would be for the best. He has five or six cygnets each year and some of them will be killed by the rowers' oars. \"It's not really anyone's fault but they are just babies and they can be pretty stupid.\" The application to move Mr Asbo and his mate must be approved before the pair begin to nest, after which it is illegal to move swans.", "question": "An aggressive swan , whose @placeholder earned him the nickname Mr Asbo , could be moved from his Cambridge home .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "flight", "option_3": "life", "option_4": "behaviour"}
{"id": 999, "article": "Police said the attackers - three white men and one Asian man - were racially motivated. The victims were black. Protesters have been gathered since 25-year-old Jamar Clark was shot during a struggle with police on 15 November. People who claimed to witness the incident said that Clark was handcuffed, though police dispute this. Around two dozen tents and canopy shelters have been erected around the 4th Precinct police station. Demonstrators have also barricaded the roads with wood and pallets and lit campfires. According to criminal complaints, the four men went to the camp on 23 November. After a group of protesters attempted to escort them away, eight shots were heard. The city's mayor, Betsy Hodges, said the camp has become unsafe and has asked people to disband their week-long protest. These request have been rejected by protesters, who have vowed to continue camping out despite cold weather and attacks. One of the shooting victims, Wesley Martin, said they refuse to leave. \"They can have the street. We can take the sidewalk,\" said Martin. \"To be honest, we're not going nowhere.\"", "question": "Four men have been charged in a shooting at outside a Minneapolis police station that left five protesters @placeholder .", "option_0": "missing", "option_1": "wounded", "option_2": "continues", "option_3": "bodies", "option_4": "fled"}
{"id": 1000, "article": "A video emerged of the driver at the controls on the same line on which a crash killed seven people in Croydon, south London, on 9 November. The Sun said it had been recorded in April, about three miles from the derailment scene of the derailment. FirstGroup said the driver had been removed from duty pending an inquiry. He is not the same driver involved in last week's fatal crash. A spokesman for the company said: \"We have not seen this video before (we saw the footage for the first time when the Sun sent it last night) and it will now be subject to a full investigation. \"If the situation is as it appears, then this is completely unacceptable and appropriate action will be taken.\" In a 30-second clip the driver appears to struggle to stay awake as the tram moves forward. He is seen apparently struggling to remain upright as passengers are heard expressing shock as the tram approaches the next stop. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"extremely concerned\" by the footage. The BBC has not been able to verify the footage, but Transport for London (TfL) said it was also carrying out urgent inquiries. A TfL spokesman said it had asked operators FirstGroup to take all necessary action and report back as soon as possible. Crystal Palace and Manchester City fans fell silent ahead of their Premier League fixture on Saturday as they paid tribute to the victims of the Croydon tram crash. Both sides and their supporters observed a minute's silence in honour of the six men and one woman killed in the tragedy on November 9. Two of the victims - Dane Chinnery and Philip Seary - were Crystal Palace supporters. In addition to the tram crash victims, the supporters also remembered Harry Davies - a 19-year-old Crystal Palace fans who passed away last month. The derailed tram was carrying about 60 passengers. An interim crash report found it was travelling at 43.5mph in a 12mph zone. It found no evidence of any track defects or obstructions. An investigation also found no malfunction of the braking system. The seven people killed in the crash were Dane Chinnery, 19, Philip Logan, 52, Philip Seary, 57, Dorota Rynkiewicz, 35, and Robert Huxley, 63, all from New Addington, and Mark Smith, 35 and Donald Collett, 62, both from Croydon. A further 51 people were taken to hospital, eight of them with injuries described by London Ambulance Service as serious or life-threatening. The driver of the tram, Alfred Dorris, from Beckenham, south-east London, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and released on bail until May.", "question": "A tram driver has been @placeholder after footage in The Sun appeared to show him struggling to stay awake , transport company FirstGroup has said .", "option_0": "injured", "option_1": "criticised", "option_2": "launched", "option_3": "suspended", "option_4": "named"}
{"id": 1001, "article": "At the time, not only was homosexuality illegal, but those in the armed forces could be shot for having gay sex. The letters, which emerged after Mr Bradley's death in 2008, are therefore unusual and shed an important light on homosexual relationships during the war. What do we know about this forbidden love affair? Wednesday January 24th 1939 My darling, ... I lie awake all night waiting for the postman in the early morning, and then when he does not bring anything from you I just exist, a mass of nerves... All my love forever, G. Information gleaned from the letters indicate Mr Bradley was a reluctant soldier. He did not want to be in the Army, and even pretended to have epilepsy to avoid it. His ruse did not work, though, and in 1939 he was stationed at Park Hall Camp in Oswestry, Shropshire, to train as an anti-aircraft gunner. He was already in love with Gordon Bowsher. The pair had met on a houseboat holiday in Devon in 1938 when Mr Bowsher was in a relationship with Mr Bradley's nephew. Mr Bowsher was from a well-to-do family. His father ran a shipping company, and the Bowshers also owned tea plantations. When war broke out a year later he trained as an infantryman and was stationed at locations across the country. February 12 1940, Park Grange My own darling boy, There is nothing more than I desire in life but to have you with me constantly... ...I can see or I imagine I can see, what your mother and father's reaction would be... the rest of the world have no conception of what our love is - they do not know that it is love... But life as a homosexual in the 1940s was incredibly difficult. Gay activity was a court-martial offence, jail sentences for so-called \"gross indecency\" were common, and much of society strongly disapproved of same-sex relationships. It was not until the Sexual Offences Act 1967 that consenting men aged 21 and over were legally allowed to have gay relationships - and being openly gay in the armed services was not allowed until 2000. The letters, which emerged after Mr Bradley's death in 2008, are rare because most homosexual couples would get rid of anything so incriminating, says gay rights activist Peter Roscoe. In one letter Mr Bowsher urges his lover to \"do one thing for me in deadly seriousness. I want all my letters destroyed. Please darling do this for me. Til then and forever I worship you.\" Mr Roscoe says the letters are inspiring in their positivity. \"There is a gay history and it isn't always negative and tearful,\" he says. \"So many stories are about arrests - Oscar Wilde, Reading Gaol and all those awful, awful stories. \"But despite all the awful circumstances, gay men and lesbians managed to rise above it all and have fascinating and good lives despite everything.\" February 1st, 1941 K . C. Gloucester Regiment, Priors Road, Cheltenham My darling boy, For years I had it drummed into me that no love could last for life... I want you darling seriously to delve into your own mind, and to look for once in to the future. Imagine the time when the war is over and we are living together... would it not be better to live on from now on the memory of our life together when it was at its most golden pitch. Your own G. But was this a love story with a happy ending? Probably not. At one point, Mr Bradley was sent to Scotland on a mission to defend the Forth Bridge. He met and fell in love with two other men. Rather surprisingly, he wrote and told Mr Bowsher all about his romances north of the border. Perhaps even more surprisingly, Mr Bowsher took it all in his stride, writing that he \"understood why they fell in love with you. After all, so did I\". Although the couple wrote throughout the war, the letters stopped in 1945. However, both went on to enjoy interesting lives. Mr Bowsher moved to California and became a well-known horse trainer. In a strange twist, he employed Sirhan Sirhan, who would go on to be convicted of assassinating Robert Kennedy. Mr Bradley was briefly entangled with the MP Sir Paul Latham, who was imprisoned in 1941 following a court martial for \"improper conduct\" with three gunners and a civilian. Sir Paul was exposed after some \"indiscreet letters\" were discovered. Mr Bradley moved to Brighton and died in 2008. A house clearance company found the letters and sold them to a dealer specialising in military mail. The letters were finally bought by Oswestry Town Museum, when curator Mark Hignett was searching on eBay for items connected with the town. He bought just three at first, and says the content led him to believe a fond girlfriend or fianc?? was the sender. There were queries about bed sheets, living conditions - and their dreams for their future life together. When he spotted there were more for sale, he snapped them up too - and on transcribing the letters for a display in the museum, Mr Hignett and his colleagues discovered the truth. The \"girlfriend\" was a boyfriend. The revelation piqued Mr Hignett's interest - he describes his experience as being similar to reading a book and finding the last page ripped out: \"I just had to keep buying the letters to find out what happened next.\" Although he's spent \"thousands of pounds\" on the collection of more than 600 letters, he believes in terms of historical worth the correspondence is \"invaluable\". \"Such letters are extremely rare because they were incriminating - gay men faced years in prison with or without hard labour,\" he says. \"There was even the possibility that gay soldiers could have been shot.\" Work on a book is already under way at the museum, where the letters will also go on display. Perhaps most poignantly, one of the letters contains the lines: \"Wouldn't it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are.\"", "question": "While on military training during World War Two , Gilbert Bradley was in love . He exchanged hundreds of letters with his sweetheart - who merely @placeholder with the initial \" G \" . But more than 70 years later , it was discovered that G stood for Gordon , and Gilbert had been in love with a man .", "option_0": "buzzed", "option_1": "signed", "option_2": "ended", "option_3": "filled", "option_4": "went"}
{"id": 1002, "article": "The claim: Air pollution cuts short 40,000 lives a year in the UK. Reality Check verdict: The 40,000 figure for the UK stems from extensive research over decades in the US. It's a statistical construct not a count of actual deaths. There is no question that air pollution is a serious health problem but it's difficult to assess its precise impact. This means that comparisons between numbers of people killed by air pollution and, for example, tuberculosis or malaria are generally bogus. Air pollution tends to make existing conditions worse, especially cardiovascular disease and lung conditions. The 40,000 early deaths figure is a statistical construct, which originated in a report from the Royal College of Physicians last year. That report combined figures for deaths contributed to by PM2.5 (which is particulates in the air that are smaller than 2.5 micrometres) and those from nitrogen dioxide. The figure it used for PM2.5 was 29,000, which was calculated in 2009 by the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution (COMEAP), which provides independent advice to government on the effects of pollution. The nitrogen dioxide (NO2) figure was 23,500 attributable deaths - it came from a 2015 report from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Clearly those numbers do not add up to 40,000, but there is some overlap between them, so the combined estimate of 40,000 was taken. A week of coverage by BBC News examining possible solutions to the problems caused by air pollution. The COMEAP report that came up with the 29,000 figure takes as its starting point the findings of this report that looked at what happened in various parts of the US between 1980 and 2000 and concluded that for every extra 10 micrograms per cubic metre of PM2.5 in the air, there is about a 6% increase in the mortality risk per year. The COMEAP report goes about using this in a different way, but Prof David Spiegelhalter from Cambridge University, works it out with a simpler, back-of-an-envelope calculation, which is that the average level of PM2.5 in the UK is about 9 micrograms per cubic metre, which means that risk should be rising by about 5%. There are 600,000 deaths a year in the UK, and 5% of that is 30,000, which is close to the COMEAP figure of 29,000. But the authors of this report stressed the uncertainty of their findings. In particular, COMEAP said when it used the 6% figure that it was 75% confident the actual figure was between 1% and 12%. That translates as meaning that that the number of early deaths, for which 29,000 was the central estimate, was probably between 5,000 and 60,000, but there was a one in four chance that it was even outside that range. Also, the 29,000 early deaths figure was based on an average shortening of life of 11.5 years. If you're considering how many people actually had their lives shortened at all in a particular year (the report was looking at 2008) then the number of people affected would be much higher. The authors of the report actually prefer to say that air pollution causes 340,000 years of lost life in the UK, but they are concerned that people will not understand that as well, so they translate that figure into damage equivalent to 29,000 deaths, an average of 11.5 years early instead. The NO2 figure is reached in much the same way, except that its central estimate is of a 2.5% increase in mortality for an extra 10 micrograms per metre cubed. The key difficulty is that there is no way of checking whether this is the case and whether 40,000 people died earlier than they would otherwise have done as a result of air pollution in the UK. So instead we have to rely on statistical estimates to help us understand the severity of the problem. Read more from Reality Check", "question": "It is not possible to count the number of people who have died early as a result of pollution because nobody has air pollution @placeholder as the cause of death on their death certificates .", "option_0": "intensified", "option_1": "written", "option_2": "registered", "option_3": "spot", "option_4": "doubled"}
{"id": 1003, "article": "Cuthbert, 25, was the subject of social media criticism following Wales' 23-19 quarter final defeat by South Africa. Rush played in the same Blues team as Cuthbert and thinks he can rediscover better form and retain his Wales place. \"He needs to put the World Cup behind him, get back to the Blues and pick it up,\" said the ex-All Blacks forward. 'It's about his attitude now, he needs to... prove the public wrong and to win his place back for the Six Nations. \"There's going to be a lot of pressure on him so he needs to get it right back at club level.\" Cuthbert scored 15 tries in his first 29 appearances for Wales, including two against England in the match that clinched the 2013 Six Nations title. That form earned him a British and Irish Lions tour in 2013, where he scored a try in the first Test win over Australia. Media playback is not supported on this device However, he has scored just once in his last 12 Wales Tests, was dropped during the 2015 Six Nations, and did not impress during the World Cup. Rush, who was at the Blues from 2005 until 2012, believes Cuthbert has to get back to \"doing what he enjoys\" on his return to domestic rugby. 'With the ball in hand he can do a lot of damage, he needs to go looking for those opportunities and start enjoying his rugby again,\" added Rush. Blues head coach Danny Wilson believes Cuthbert has been unfairly singled out following Wales' defeat by the Springboks. \"We've all seen over the long haul what a quality 'finishing' winger he is - he scores tries,\" he said. \"If I'm honest he's come in for a little bit of unfair criticism for a player we all know is quality. \"I think he did some really good things and some things I know he won't be as happy with himself about, knowing the standard he holds himself to. \"But I'm sure when he's back on the field with the Blues he'll produce the quality rugby we all know he's capable of.\" Wilson has opted to give his Wales World Cup contingent a rest for Blues' Pro12 trip to Ulster on Friday while Gareth Anscombe is out after undergoing ankle surgery.", "question": "Cardiff Blues wing Alex Cuthbert needs to prove his critics wrong by playing well for his @placeholder after the World Cup , says former captain Xavier Rush .", "option_0": "bravery", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "region", "option_3": "promotion", "option_4": "family"}
{"id": 1004, "article": "England will take the Triple Crown if they win at Twickenham, but, after four successive second-place finishes in the Six Nations, Hartley wants more. \"The older guys are worried about walking away without winning anything big,\" said the 29-year-old hooker. \"We're running out of time. I want to leave with something substantial.\" While Hartley, who will win his 70th cap at the weekend, was part of the team that won the Six Nations in 2011, that came after a chastening and heavy defeat in Dublin. England have won just one Grand Slam in two decades, while Wales have won three in the past 10 years alone. However, England go into the match top of the table with a 100% win record, one point ahead of Warren Gatland's men with two matches remaining. \"It's talking to the young guys about not just drifting through this opportunity we've got now,\" Hartley added. \"The time is now for them to win something. Don't wait five or six years, because you might not ever get the chance. \"We've been runners-up for the last four years, so we were lacking something minuscule. It may be that mental edge. \"At the time, 2011 was weird, an anti-climax. We'd been thrashed by Ireland and then we got given the trophy. \"When you've been in and out of an England shirt like me, when you look back at things, what are you going to say you've achieved? \"At the time when we won that, I didn't feel I enjoyed it. Was I too young? Was I too immature? Or was it because of the loss? So I want to make sure we win something and I enjoy it.\" Listen: Hartley excited to have Tuilagi back in England team The Northampton Saints hooker has played under four different England coaches and believes the current regime is pushing the squad harder than ever before. \"You go from game to game and we play rugby every week, so it's hard not to plod along,\" he said. \"What we've got to realise is that it's two months of sacrifice and hard work, and the rewards can be huge. \"It's not squad meetings when we talk about this, it's catching up with someone in the swimming pool or at lunch, and saying: 'Are you doing everything you can to be ready for the weekend? Because we've got a hell of an opportunity here.'\" The England captain singled out Saracens second row Maro Itoje as someone who \"epitomises\" what he and Jones demand from the squad after the 21-year-old made his first start in the victory over Ireland on 27 February. \"I've watched the way Maro Itoje trains,\" said Hartley. \"The energy and intensity he brings to a session is exactly what I want from my younger players. So when we talk about drifting, he's definitely not.\" Media playback is not supported on this device", "question": "England must @placeholder the chance to win the first silverware of the Eddie Jones regime when they meet Wales on Saturday , says captain Dylan Hartley .", "option_0": "admits", "option_1": "contest", "option_2": "claimed", "option_3": "seize", "option_4": "miss"}
{"id": 1005, "article": "The midfielder was making his way home in the early hours of Sunday morning when the assault happened, just yards from Belfast City Hall. He is being treated for his injuries at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. Ards Manager Niall Currie visited him on Monday. He said the player was conscious but \"not in great shape\". \"He was obviously quite sedated with the painkillers, so he was drowsy but his spirits were good.\" Mr Currie said the club was \"sickened\" by the incident. \"We're all just so shocked,\" he said. \"It's just sickening that this could happen to such a lovely, decent fella. \"He's the last person who would attract any kind of confrontation - a gentleman who wouldn't say boo to a goose.\" \"He's got a lovely family, he's in a lovely relationship with his girlfriend who he's engaged to. \"But fingers crossed he'll make a full recovery and we can bring him into the Ards family again and hopefully he'll be celebrating at the end of the season. \"All of us at the club are thinking about him and praying for him. But he's a strong boy, he'll pull through.\"", "question": "Ards footballer Gary Warwick has suffered a fractured skull and bruising to the @placeholder after being attacked on a night out in Belfast city centre .", "option_0": "face", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "bone", "option_3": "rest", "option_4": "brain"}
{"id": 1006, "article": "News that the company, which provides short-term loans, has itself fallen into the red was met with glee by some, while others point out it remains a huge player in a strictly regulated market. With the company reporting a loss of ¡ê37.3m for 2014 and predicting more losses in 2015, many on social media were quick to jokingly offer the company a loan at an interest rate of 5,000%. So what happened to the company that made a pre-tax profit of ¡ê84.5m in 2012, and what does this say about the wider health of the payday lending industry? Wonga's new management team has been highly critical of the \"problems of the past\". Chairman Andy Haste, who arrived last summer, says that the company needs to repair its reputation and only lend to those who can afford to repay loans. Scandals, including letters from fake legal firms when chasing debts, and advancing a host of unsuitable loans, have caused such damage to the brand that a name change is not off the cards. But key data that explain the big shift into the red include a 36% fall in lending volumes and a fall in customer numbers from a million in 2013 to 575,000 last year. This restriction in lending came as the regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), squeezed the life out of some lenders in a bid to stop vulnerable borrowers being pulled into spiralling debt. The regulator's main weapon is a cap on the cost of payday loans of 0.8% of the amount borrowed per day, which came into force in January. In addition, there is a ¡ê15 cap on default charges. No borrower has to pay back more than twice the amount they initially borrowed, lenders can no longer roll over a loan more than twice, nor can they attempt to reclaim payment from a borrower's account more than twice. It is not only Wonga that has been affected, according to trade body the Consumer Financial Association (CFA). It claims that stricter regulation has changed the face of the High Street. Its analysis suggests there has been a 58% fall in the number of stores offering short-term loans since 2013. Even more striking is its estimate that the volume of payday loan approvals has shrunk by 75% from its 2013 peak. The attention of the regulator has resulted in some big names slashing their workforce or exiting the market altogether. The Cheque Centre, which had 451 branches, announced that it would stop selling loans that needed to be paid back in one lump sum. Meanwhile, The Money Shop, a payday lender owned by US firm Dollar Financial, axed a host of stores. The FCA says that there have been about 400 short-term lenders with permission to operate in the UK, but nobody is in any doubt that the total will plummet. Now all payday lenders need to pass strict FCA assessments in order to get permission to carry on. The deadline for applications for those licences was the end of February. The FCA has yet to say how many applications were made and processing those applications will take many months. So the scale of any exodus is not yet clear. Richard Griffiths, of the CFA, says many of the smallest payday lenders will not have bothered putting in an application and so will stop lending. He estimates that only around 30 lenders are actively making loans subject to the new cap on the cost. Still, that is many more than the three or four that the regulator itself believed would eventually get through the tough assessment process. Wonga has put in a \"good application\", according to its chairman, who pointed to the strengthening of its lending criteria and introduction of the new price cap. Asked if it is still possible to run a profitable payday loan business under the new industry regime, he says it is, but his company is suffering from \"legacy issues\". \"Could you start a payday business today within the cap and be profitable? Yes,\" he says. But he predicts that Wonga will no longer rely solely on \"one product and one price\", although he did not spell out what the new products might be. Mr Griffiths argues that many lenders have already moved away from the one month, short-term, high-interest loan to tide borrowers over until the next payday. Instead, many now offer mini personal loans for six months or so. Some payday lenders may have given the industry a \"tarnished image\" in the words of its own trade body, but there is no doubt that payday loans have been popular. In its results, Wonga makes an unusual estimate - claiming that its research suggests around 13 million people across the UK are \"cash and credit constrained\" and are under-served by mainstream financial services. These are people who may have defaulted on loans, overdrafts and credit cards in the past and so struggle to secure more credit from banks or building societies. So, if the payday lending industry starts turning them away or providers disappear entirely, where can these borrowers go? A recovering economy and rising wages might reduce demand and increase the supply of loans from traditional lenders. If not the regulator says many people will find a way to tighten their belts, or turn to family and friends for help. Some, it is feared, might turn to illegal loan sharks. Consumer groups and charities argue that loans are the cause, not the cure, of financial stress. \"More loans are not always the answer,\" says Mike O'Connor, chief executive of the StepChange debt charity. \"We must do more to help people on low incomes to save for a rainy day so that they are less likely to need to borrow in emergencies.\"", "question": "The rags to @placeholder to rags story of payday lender Wonga has made it a household name but left it with a sullied image .", "option_0": "hell", "option_1": "riches", "option_2": "reel", "option_3": "bits", "option_4": "lead"}
{"id": 1007, "article": "The 20 cattle escaped from their nearby paddock and decided to feast on front lawns and flowers in Peacehaven. Residents are used to straying sheep but say the rogue cattle have become a nuisance. Blaenau Gwent council says it is monitoring the situation. Resident Sonya Gould, 70, said: \"We are used to having pints of milk delivered to our doorstep but not the whole cow. \"They were everywhere. We are all treading cow muck into our carpets because it's all over our garden paths. \"We held a fund-raising event to plant flowers around the communal gardens but the cows have eaten them all.\" The cows also caused consternation by leaving cowpats on garden paths and trampling over lawns in the incident at the end of last week. Ann Ingram, who was woken up by the cows mooing, said:  \"It used to be sheep, and that's bad enough, but cows are a whole different kettle of fish. \"It's frightening for many of the older people here to have cows walking down the street, peering in their windows, it's ridiculous. \"They're obviously big animals, and an elderly person can't just shoo them off - there's no telling what an animal might do.\" People living in Peacehaven have brought in the council in a bid to get the herd to move back to their paddock. A spokesperson for Blaenau Gwent Council said: \"We've done our utmost to tackle this problem, and have responded to all call-outs. \"We continue to monitor the situation at least once a week and any roaming animals will be impounded.\" The council added that they may take legal action against the farmer if he is unable to keep his cows under control.", "question": "A quiet street in Tredegar , Blaenau Gwent , was @placeholder by a herd of cows which trampled on gardens and peered into windows , say residents .", "option_0": "distracted", "option_1": "engulfed", "option_2": "invaded", "option_3": "formed", "option_4": "frequented"}
{"id": 1008, "article": "Small, isolated communities of a few hundred monks, seemingly unperturbed with their white and gold stupas and prayer flags set against the almost impossible blue sky. But anyone who stops to ask a few questions (although they are the kind of questions the busloads of Chinese tourists will never ask) notices something else too. Fear. We are winding our way up the long road from the central city of Chengdu to the Aba Tibetan region in north-west Sichuan Province. Seen as part of \"greater Tibet\" by exile groups, it is an area that lies just outside the borders of the Tibetan Autonomous Region and so, in theory at least, foreign journalists do not need special permission to be here. But many a reporter has been turned away in the past and we are moving quickly, trying not to linger too long in any place. With the gantries bristling with video cameras it is clear that a careful watch is being kept on these monasteries. So the introductions need to be brief and the questions direct. But we find that many monks, despite the risks, are keen to talk - although not on camera. \"What do you think of the Dalai Lama?\" I ask one elderly monk. His response is typical; a hesitation, a glance round, and then, in hushed tones: \"He is always close to our hearts.\" \"Is it dangerous to talk about him?\" \"It is, it is,\" he replies. \"I'd be taken away like this,\" and he gestures by crossing his hands to show me where the handcuffs would go. He speaks of his resentment over the restrictions on his religious freedom, about how - despite reports that China has been relaxing the penalties for carrying or displaying portraits of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader - they have to worship him in secret. And then he bends down and briefly kisses my translator's hand. \"I've been here for 20 years and I've never spoken to a foreigner,\" he says. \"These things have been burning inside of me, just to say it is enough.\" These are sentiments we hear repeated time and again. A Chinese state visit to Britain might not seem like an obvious premise for a reporting trip to this country's remote Tibetan regions. With President Xi Jinping 8,000km (4,970 miles) away and talking of common ground and closer economic ties, his officials would likely see our attempt to gather testimony here as the usual foreign media mischief-making. But while the tight control of coverage of Tibet domestically is nothing new, we wanted to ask Tibetans what they thought of Beijing's recent efforts to keep it off the diplomatic agenda too, the shadow of which looms large over the pomp and ceremony in London. The deep displeasure over the British Prime Minister David Cameron's May 2012 meeting with the Dalai Lama, a man China considers a dangerous separatist, was made abundantly clear. UK-China relations were only put back on track after a great deal of fence-mending, bridge-building, and a statement from the PM's office that he had no plans to meet the Dalai Lama again. He has so far kept his word on that promise, and many critics see a dangerous precedent in Britain's readiness to allow the Chinese Communist Party to demand a foreign policy price in exchange for economic grace and favour. We eventually pass unnoticed through the checkpoints on the edge of Aba County, some 10 hours drive from Chengdu, and reach our ultimate destination, Kirti Monastery. One of the most important centres in Tibetan Buddhism, Kirti has also been at the centre of one of the biggest challenges to Chinese authority in decades. The Tibet-wide rioting of 2008 began here, and many of the more than 140 gruesome self-immolations have taken place in or around Aba. The recent one-man protests, with monks carrying portraits of the Dalai Lama through the centre of Aba along what they now call \"Heroes Street\", have been met with a heavy response. The punishment for such defiance can be up to four years in prison. During our visit, the whole town of Aba was undergoing one of its periodic internet blackouts - completely cut off since early last month - and the monks told us that people had been taken away for simply forwarding prayers and messages from the Dalai Lama. China has long been trying in vain to force people here to turn their backs on their spiritual leader. So what do they think of the attempts to force foreign governments to do the same? Remarkably, in a quiet corner, outside the monastery walls and at great risk to themselves, some of the monks agree to talk to us on camera, providing we disguise their identities. \"The Dalai Lama is the biggest living Buddha for all Tibetans, and he is the only master in our heart,\" one of them tells me. \"He is like the sun to us,\" another adds. \"All the Tibetan people think the same.\" \"When China tells foreign governments not to meet him, should they listen?\" I ask. \"They should meet him,\" the monks insist. And then that fear again, palpable and real. \"If the government knows [we're talking to you] they'll arrest us. It happened before.\" \"Some of us tried to contact reporters overseas online and talk about the Chinese government's control over Tibet. As soon as the government finds out, they'll make the arrest.\" After just a few short minutes, they melt away. There's so much more I'd like to ask them but, fleeting as it is, it is at least real testimony, real voices from one of the most closed and controlled places on the planet. And it is proof that 50 years in exile have done nothing to diminish the Dalai Lama's popularity and authority here. It is that popularity perhaps that lies at the heart of China's continual preoccupation with a man who has spent over five decades in exile, and why it tries so hard to limit his influence on the global stage. The more foreign governments comply, critics say, the more the human rights abuses here slip from international view - and the more isolated Tibet's fearful monks become.", "question": "The first thing that strikes you about the monasteries @placeholder to the side of the mountains on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau is their beauty .", "option_0": "react", "option_1": "returned", "option_2": "clinging", "option_3": "according", "option_4": "decides"}
{"id": 1009, "article": "But there has been an eerie silence in Pakistani quarters in the 24 hours since the Afghan government announced that Mullah Omar died in a Pakistani hospital in April 2013. This was despite reports that the top leadership council of the Taliban had been meeting in the Pakistani city of Quetta to choose the successor. Pakistan's state television has ignored the news for the most part since it first broke. The private media mostly followed the BBC line, and held debates in which the usual ex-military analysts, while refraining from confirming or denying the death, focused on the timing of the leak, saying it was meant to defame Pakistan and undermine Taliban-Kabul talks, which Pakistan had been set to host. Some even suggested the Indians might have forced the hand of the Afghan officials who leaked it to the BBC. A day after Kabul's announcement, a Pakistani foreign office spokesman said he wouldn't like to comment on \"rumours\" of Mullah Omar's death. Few are impressed at Pakistan's stance. Osama Bin Laden was found and killed in Pakistan even though for years Pakistan denied he was present on its soil. Now Afghan intelligence officials have gone ahead with the claim that Mullah Omar died in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi. While there may never be official Pakistani confirmation of this, few doubt claims that he lived most of his post-9/11 life in southern Pakistan. The reason lies in the origin of the Taliban movement, and its symbiotic relationship with Pakistan. The movement was originally confined to some parts of Kandahar province, and was mainly a localised reaction to extortion and moral crimes by local warlords. But it gained strength in the later part of 1994 when Pakistanis dressed as madrassah students descended on the border town of Spin Boldak, busted a huge arms cache of a former mujahideen group, and then rolled up the Kandahar highway to free a Pakistani trade convoy to central Asia which had been held hostage by local warlords. Subsequent years saw former mujahideen fighters joining the Taliban movement in their hundreds in a blitzkrieg in which the southern cities fell to the Taliban one after the other. Security analysts in Pakistan and the US have long held that Pakistan provided the Taliban with logistics and tactical leadership to capture such important regional centres as Herat in the west, Jalalabad in the east and finally Kabul in 1996. Post-9/11, when the US-led coalition dislodged the Taliban regime, Pakistan allowed the fleeing militants to carve a sanctuary on its soil in the border town of Wana in South Waziristan tribal district. This sanctuary later expanded to an entire north-western belt along the Afghan border, called the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata). This played a major role in the Taliban's ability to survive, and finally take the battle to the US-led coalition troops inside Afghanistan. All this while, and despite Pakistan's denials, it was common knowledge the entire Taliban leadership set up bases in Quetta and Peshawar, and later in Karachi, from where they guided operations inside Afghanistan. After the end of Nato's mission in Afghanistan last year, Pakistan moved to clear these sanctuaries of unwanted groups that the Taliban-al-Qaeda militant network had spawned over a decade. In recent months, it has also reverted to securing peace in Afghanistan, without which it cannot successfully implement a major economic corridor the Chinese are building across the length of the country to connect China with the Arabian Sea. But Pakistan's need to keep Indian influence out of Afghanistan continues to cause suspicions among some sections of Afghan ruling circles, who believe Pakistan will manipulate peace talks to achieve its own objectives at the cost of Afghan interests. Many believe the Pakistanis would have kept Mullah Omar's death a secret in order to prevent rifts within Taliban. Meanwhile, Pakistani officials believe that the Afghan intelligence service, the NDS, has been leaking news of the Taliban's engagement with Kabul to embarrass the Taliban leadership and to encourage defections from their ranks. They feel by confirming the news of Mullah Omar's death on Wednesday, the NDS pushed President Ashraf Ghani, who was opposed to making the news public, into a corner. Whether this move by the NDS will achieve peace in Afghanistan is a question only time will answer, but many believe that the Taliban movement will no longer be the monolithic force it remained until about three years ago. And the NDS will also now be able to sell their long-held view to domestic and international audiences that the Taliban leadership is but a lackey of Pakistan.", "question": "The Taliban have confirmed that their leader Mullah Omar is dead , and are thought to have appointed Mullah Akhtar Mansour as the movement 's official @placeholder .", "option_0": "head", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "future", "option_3": "spokesperson", "option_4": "representative"}
{"id": 1010, "article": "Heidi Agan, 32, now has a \"bump made in various sizes\", she said. The single mother-of-two from Corby, Northamptonshire quit her job at a Kettering restaurant last May after customers repeatedly said she looked like Kate Middleton. She now travels across the UK and around the world to make appearances as a royal doppelganger. \"To have done 12 years of something you know and then to leap into an industry that gives with one hand and takes with another is difficult, but I'm just really happy and feel blessed that I did,\" she said. Since the Duchess and Duke of Cambridge announced their forthcoming baby, lookalike Ms Agan has now prepared to appear with child. \"As Kate grows I will too - to be authentic I thought it was important,\" she said. \"It's difficult at the moment as she's not big enough yet to change her entire wardrobe so it's difficult to see how she's' going to dress it.\" Since taking the showbiz plunge Ms Agan has made regular television, radio, corporate and newspaper appearances as the duchess. \"I did the Alan Titchmarsh Show and everywhere you turned there was another celebrity, \" she said. \"You just have to pinch yourself as I can't believe it's happened. \"It was the same in New York. I went to Times Square with Good Morning America and was ferried around with security. \"It's just something I never thought would happen to me, but has turned out to be the most wonderful thing ever.\" Ms Agan follows social media news about Kate Middleton to ensure her own wardrobe matches the duchess', and practices \"her look\" daily. \"The most expensive shoes I've bought as Kate were about ¡ê200, the dress was about ¡ê300 - which I don't think is that bad considering her original evening wedding dress by Alexander McQueen would have cost ten of thousands of pounds. \"I have to get the clothes, the mannerisms, the way she stands and interacts with William right. Things like that are all very important if I want to be the best.\" Ms Agan said her children, aged 11 and four, are \"proud\" of what she's doing. \"It's just been incredible and I feel so blessed with it and without the support of my family I just couldn't do it,\" she said. \"Appearing as Kate has given me the opportunity to spend more time with my own children than if I was doing my waitressing job and that's priceless.\" But she refused to be drawn on who she found most attractive between the royal brothers. \"I don't think either William or Harry are my type, they are too tall... is that diplomatic enough?,\" she said. People in Corby were treated to a \"royal appearance\" on Saturday when Ms Agan appeared for an event in the town's Corporation Street.", "question": "A former waitress who swapped her ¡ê 6 - per - hour job to become a ¡ê 650 - per-appearance Duchess of Cambridge lookalike has \" become pregnant \" to maintain @placeholder .", "option_0": "food", "option_1": "accuracy", "option_2": "evidence", "option_3": "order", "option_4": "stability"}
{"id": 1011, "article": "President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said they hoped for a peace deal in 2016. The latest round of negotiations aiming at reunification have been going on for more than seven months. The Turkish-controlled north broke away in 1974 after a Greek-inspired coup. 'Optimism' at peace talks Rocky road to reunification Mr Anastasiades said his wish was for Greek and Turkish Cypriots to be able to live peacefully together in a reunified Cyprus, while Mr Akinci said he hoped 2016 would bring lasting peace for all. \"I wish the new year will bring lasting peace, serenity and prosperity to all Cypriots,\" Mr Akinci is quoted as saying by the Cyprus Mail. The newspaper said the leaders will meet three times in January. In 2004, Greek Cypriots rejected a UN plan to reunify the island. They were unhappy at limits on their right to return to property in the Turkish north. Turkish Cypriots voted in favour of the plan. The self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is diplomatically isolated, recognised only by Turkey. UN peacekeeping forces estimate that 165,000 Greek Cypriots fled or were expelled from the north, and 45,000 Turkish Cypriots from the south, although the parties to the conflict say the figures are higher.", "question": "Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders on the @placeholder island of Cyprus have for the first time given a joint TV address to wish residents a happy holiday .", "option_0": "beach", "option_1": "soil", "option_2": "divided", "option_3": "face", "option_4": "issue"}
{"id": 1012, "article": "Then a choir of podgy teenage girls troops out, all dressed in sky-blue party frocks, like something out of the 1950s. The mostly elderly spectators, sitting in their raincoats on wooden chairs, listen attentively. It is a fitting mid-afternoon concert to find in Oryol, a Russian provincial town which prides itself on its cultural heritage, and its links to an extraordinary number of Russian authors. Ivan Turgenev, the 19th-Century Russian novelist of elegant love stories, came from here. So did Ivan Bunin, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. So did the ingenious storyteller Nikolai Leskov, the poets Tyutchev and Fet, the short story writer Leonid Andreeva€| It is as if one small English town had produced Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, the Bronte sisters, T S Eliot and Philip Larkin and many more. \"How did this one place give rise to so much literary talent?\" I asked the mayor, Sergei Stupin, who was taking me on a personal tour in his car, to show me all the writers' statues. \"Who knows?\" he answered obliquely. \"Something in the air, perhaps.\" The director of the Turgenev Museum, an enthusiastic bibliophile called Vera Yefremova, was clearer. \"We are in the very middle of Russia,\" she said. \"And in tsarist times Oryol was at the heart of a huge guberniya, or province, which covered a large area and included many estates. \"We like to call this the third literary capital of Russia, after Moscow and St Petersburg. Last year we had 65,000 visitors. But it could be so much more,\" she added wistfully. Like everywhere else in provincial Russia, Oryol is looking to Moscow to furnish more federal funding for upcoming anniversaries. \"To rebrand ourselves,\" says the mayor, a former marketing man. But there's a long way to go before Oryol becomes a mecca for tourism. It feels trapped in time. When I arrived by train from Moscow I was struck by how reminiscent it was of the Soviet towns I had known as a student. The town centre had some charming streets and nice views over a high bank where its two rivers meet. But overall it looked as though it had been largely bypassed by the Russian boom years - roads filled with potholes, abandoned factory sites. And in some older parts of town residents did not even have indoor toilets or running water. They were collecting water in plastic buckets from a standing tap in the street. In political terms Oryol is also a throwback. Curiously, the town council is half-controlled by Communists. And far from focusing on the upcoming 200-year anniversary of Turgenev, their current obsession is to put up a statue to Joseph Stalin - to commemorate his role as wartime leader. It's a talking point which has split Oryol. One young journalist launched an online protest petition, which has already gathered thousands of signatures. But most people I spoke to told me a Stalin statue was a good idea: yes there had been repressions during Stalin's years, but what he had done during the war should never be forgotten. \"And anyway Russia always needs a harsh leader,\" said one of the leading campaigners. \"A firm hand at the top, like Stalin or Putin.\" Meanwhile the mayor, though he is allied to the Communists politically, says he's against it. \"A statue to Stalin would be too divisive in these difficult times,\" he told me. Possibly toeing the official line from Moscow, was what I thought. So is this the old story of the Russian provinces - caught in a time-warp through lack of investment and opportunity? Possibly Oryol's problem is at heart economic - the loss of factory jobs, with nothing to fill the gap. Hence the protest vote for the Communists, whose rule has not helped, given their lack of interest in helping private enterprise to create local wealth. So everyone is beholden to the authorities. Everyone watches their back. Below the radar, however, there were some whispered criticisms of President Putin. But only in private. One man even followed me down the street afterwards, scared in case I didn't understand that I shouldn't use his name. And now Russia is in economic difficulties, and for these provincial towns life has just got much worse. My guess is that people here will keep their heads down - unless the crisis becomes so deep that they have nothing to lose by speaking out.", "question": "On a small stage in a community hall , still grandly called a Palace of Culture , a powerfully @placeholder lady belts out an old Russian gypsy ballad .", "option_0": "clad", "option_1": "discovered", "option_2": "promoting", "option_3": "celebrating", "option_4": "built"}
{"id": 1013, "article": "Northampton Town chairman Kelvin Thomas said phase one of the redevelopment would be completed by early April. The East Stand at Sixfields will include 1,924 seats when completed. Police are investigating alleged financial irregularities associated with the development. It relates to a period of time before Mr Thomas took over the running of the club. In 2013, Northampton Borough Council lent the club ?¡ê10.25m for the work, none of which was completed. Former club chairman David Cardoza was arrested in January as part of the investigation, which police say is ongoing. Mr Thomas, who took over the club at the end of last year, said the Cobblers had worked closely with builders Buckingham Group. \"It is important to us all that the club has a four-sided stadium again and this is the beginning of that work,\" he said. He hopes work on the East Stand will be completed in time for the final home games of the season, so the club can benefit from \"possible increased income\". Planning permission for the redevelopment of the stadium was granted in November 2013. It will increase the capacity of the ground to just under 8,000. A conference centre and hotel might also be built as part of the redevelopment. Work began in May 2014, but has been halted on a number of occasions, most recently in May 2015.", "question": "Builders will resume work on a football stadium nine months after they @placeholder tools in a dispute over payment .", "option_0": "used", "option_1": "opened", "option_2": "use", "option_3": "downed", "option_4": "denied"}
{"id": 1014, "article": "The leftist Syriza government's surprise decision to call that vote scuppered its bailout talks with eurozone ministers. The Greeks have very little time to prepare for a referendum whose outcome could decide their future in the euro. What is the point of the referendum? The government says the EU-IMF bailout terms are unacceptable, but cannot simply be rejected without the Greek people having their say. The issue is so important for Greece's future that \"we decided to turn to the citizens, to explain our negative attitude to it [the bailout], but to give them the choice\", Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, in a letter to eurozone leaders leaked by the Financial Times, said holding a referendum \"is a sovereign democratic right of the Greek people, necessary to ensure ownership over the financial assistance programme that will be eventually agreed with the institutions\". He told the Greek people that the lenders had resorted to \"blackmail\" in order to impose more austerity. After five years of recession and welfare cuts many ordinary Greeks feel bitter that they have suffered while Europe's business elite recovered quickly from the financial crisis. More than democracy is at stake - a vote to reject the bailout could trigger a \"Grexit\", a Greek exit from the euro. A No vote would formally cut the euro pipeline from lenders, and the Greek government could be forced to issue IOUs or a \"new drachma\" currency to prevent a banking collapse. However, the EU has no mechanism for a country to leave the euro - it has never happened before. What will the question be? The language is quite technical, and many Greeks may struggle to understand it: \"Should the proposed agreement be accepted, which was submitted by the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund in the Eurogroup of 25.06.2015 and consists of two parts, which constitute their unified proposal? \"The first document is entitled 'Reforms for the Completion of the Current Program and Beyond' and the second 'Preliminary Debt Sustainability Analysis'.\" Beside the question are two boxes: \"Not approved/No; Approved/Yes\". Uncertainty still surrounds the referendum. Mr Tsipras's political opponents say he has not told the Greek public exactly what the lenders were proposing, and what in particular he rejected. It is not impossible that Greece's tortuous negotiations with lenders could resume in the coming days. And the current bailout expires on Tuesday - the day that Greece is supposed to pay back €1.6bn (¡ê1.1bn; $1.8bn) to the International Monetary Fund. Greece is teetering on the brink of default, and if that happens events could unfold dramatically before 5 July. Who wants a No vote in the referendum? Syriza, the nationalist Independent Greeks, and far-right Golden Dawn say \"No\" to the bailout terms. Opposition parties object to holding a referendum, and their supporters are likely to vote \"Yes\" or abstain. The main opposition parties are New Democracy (centre-right), To Potami (centrist) and Pasok (centre-left). What was the lenders' reaction? Anger. Eurozone finance ministers had been preparing for last-ditch talks on 27 June to hammer out a deal on reforms. Agreement would mean releasing the final €7.2bn bailout instalment that Greece desperately needs. But Mr Tsipras pulled his delegates out of talks the night before and announced the referendum. In an unusual move, the European Commission later published the detailed reforms that it wanted to negotiate with Greece. But the Commission complained that \"neither this latest version of the document, nor an outline of a comprehensive deal could be formally finalised and presented to the Eurogroup due to the unilateral decision of the Greek authorities to abandon the process\". Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he felt betrayed by Mr Tsipras's move. \"Playing off one democracy against 18 others is not an attitude which is fitting for the great Greek nation,\" he said. IMF chief Christine Lagarde said any referendum would relate to \"proposals and arrangements which are no longer valid\". Lenders' proposals - key sticking points Source: European Commission document, 26 Jun 15 (pdf) Why couldn't Greece get a bailout extension? There remains a big gap between what the lenders want and the Greek government's agenda. Syriza - a grassroots coalition of leftists - won elections in January promising to end austerity. The price for Greece's massive €240bn bailout, which started in 2010, was austerity. The budget cuts demanded by the lenders have thrown many Greeks into hardship and a quarter of the workforce is unemployed. Syriza has urged the lenders to release the last €7.2bn of bailout money. But the lenders say Greece must agree to widen the scope of its sales tax (VAT) - to boost revenue - and drastically reduce the numbers entitled to early retirement. The pension system is unsustainable, they argue. Those are the main sticking points, but the lenders also want much more action against corruption and tax evasion. The lenders are not convinced by Syriza's tax income projections. They also suspect that Syriza is unwilling to reform deeply-entrenched working practices.", "question": "Greece 's cash - strapped banks are to remain shut for a week , until after a key 5 July referendum on the country 's bailout @placeholder .", "option_0": "future", "option_1": "body", "option_2": "office", "option_3": "conditions", "option_4": "system"}
{"id": 1015, "article": "Chappell, 49, of Blandford Forum, Dorset, was caught driving 63.9mph (102.8km/h) in a 40mph (64km/h) speed limit in Andover, Hampshire, on 6 April. He was driving a Range Rover on Churchill Way at the time, Aldershot Magistrates' Court heard. Chappell pleaded guilty to the offence through an online court system. He already has 10 points on his licence for three other speeding offences in 2013, 2014 and 2015, the court was told. Magistrate Kathryn Sharp said: \"Looking at the speed and driving records we would be looking at five points and the possibility of a totting disqualification.\" The case was adjourned and Chappell, who was not at the hearing, is set to appear in court on 8 August. Chappell bought BHS off Sir Philip Green in 2015 through his company Retail Acquisitions. Last month he denied the ¡ê2.6m package he took, including a ¡ê600,000 salary, contributed to the demise of the brand.", "question": "Former BHS boss Dominic Chappell , who bought the retail @placeholder for ¡ê 1 , has pleaded guilty to a speeding offence .", "option_0": "race", "option_1": "term", "option_2": "chain", "option_3": "era", "option_4": "world"}
{"id": 1016, "article": "People in the Democratic Republic of Congo expect very little from the state, government or civil servants. In fact, ordinary Congolese often repeat expressions like \"the state is dying but not yet dead\" or \"the state is ever present but completely useless\". It seems they also expect little from the upcoming elections and there can be little argument that DR Congo is indeed a failed state. Ordinary citizens are poor, hungry and under-informed. The government is unable to provide decent education or health services. The country - two-thirds of the size of western Europe - is a battleground. The citizens of DR Congo pray to be delivered from the brutal militias that still control parts of the eastern provinces, where rape has become so commonplace that one senior UN official called the country \"the rape capital of the world\". I asked a university colleague if he thought things could get worse. Andrew Harding: Eastern DR Congo is my favourite place in Africa \"When you are rock bottom, you can still dig deeper,\" was his response. Public administration is in shambles. Civil servants have mutated into predators. Ferdinand Munguna is a retired railway worker in Lubumbashi, the mineral capital of DR Congo in the south of the country. He has to bribe the man working in the pension office who requires \"motivation\" before processing the old man's file. Mr Munguna complains that his pension is \"hardly enough to buy soap\". Starting a business in DR Congo takes 65 days compared to the sub-Saharan African average of 40 days. In neighbouring Rwanda it takes three days. And guess which country has one of the worst air safety records worldwide? The prestigious Foreign Policy magazine's Failed States Index puts DR Congo in the critically failed category. Only Somalia, Chad and Sudan (when it included South Sudan) have worse rankings. The recently released UNDP report on human development indicators put the former Belgian colony at the bottom of the 187 countries it surveyed. On the political front, President Joseph Kabila has shown much more interest in regime consolidation than implementing his five-point development agenda - which most Congolese consider more as a political slogan than a development initiative. When criticised, Mr Kabila's henchmen resort to the ultimate force of dissuasion. Take Zoe Kabila, the president's brother, who reportedly ordered his Republican Guard escort to beat up two traffic officers because they did not give his 4X4 priority. Usually immune to the brutality of the security forces, even people in Kinshasa were shocked by this alleged incident at a busy downtown intersection. Numerous cases of journalist beatings and killings have also been reported. Floribert Chebeya, a highly respected human rights activist was murdered, allegedly by members of the president's inner circle. Poor leadership is a major problem for DR Congo. In the absence of a functioning state or similar, even the best-intended projects can have perverse side effects if they are carried out without comprehensive feasibility studies or efforts to understand local culture and practices. An international medical NGO provided mosquito nets to a poor village in the Upemba region of Katanga. Many lakeside villages in the mineral-rich province suffer from a high rate of malaria-induced child mortality. Sleeping inside these nets is the best way to avoid mosquito bites and malaria. But this laudable action created a human and ecological catastrophe. As the mosquito nets were free and abundant, fisherman used them as fishing nets. Given their extremely fine mesh, not only were fish removed from the lake but all other forms of micro-fauna and micro-flora too. The lake gradually became covered with a black scum. Villagers lost their sources of livelihood and food supply. It took a Belgian priest two years to get the villagers, who believed they had been cursed, to realise what had happened and before the lake was able to regenerate. There are few figures on the political landscape with vision, leaders able to bring an end to corrupt government, reduce poverty, solve the country's security problems or improve the well-being of ordinary people. DR Congo bashing has become a mantra amongst academics, humanitarian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and policy makers. But I think that this is unfair. While it is important to maintain pressure on Kinshasa's unabashedly corrupt political establishment, we also have to consider the country's troubled past. Few societies have accumulated so many woes. Those old enough to remember say the whip and chain is what they associate most with Belgian colonialism. Others however are nostalgic and wish for the Belgians to return to solve the country's problems. Cold War policies facilitated the maintenance of the brutal dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko. He ruled what was then named Zaire for 32 years, supported by the West because of Cold War strategic interests. Two wars - the liberation war that toppled Mobutu and \"Africa's first world war\", from 1997-2002 - are overwhelming obstacles to development, state-building and well-being. DR Congo is also victim to what is commonly referred to as \"the resource curse\". The central government cannot control borders with its nine neighbours. Much of DR Congo's coltan, a mineral used in computers and mobiles, is illegally exported through Rwanda. Precious tropical hardwoods are siphoned off through Uganda. DR Congo's financial and technical partners - the so called \"international community\" - are also to blame. They have no master plan for reform. They do not share a common vision and often implement contradictory programmes. Belgium supported the idea of decentralisation arguing that it could bring government accountability down to the grassroots level. The World Bank blocked the process. Bank experts have some control of the treasury in Kinshasa but they have absolutely no idea of how resources in the provinces are managed. Data collection is a surreal concept in DR Congo - many offices do not have electricity, let alone computers. Absence of national sovereignty is another hallmark of a failed state. DR Congo is a country under international trusteeship. Important decisions are taken by World Bank technocrats, UN officials and increasingly by international NGOs. When the electoral campaign officially opened last month, candidates travelled to Europe and the US to garner support. The UN mission, Monusco, is playing a key logistical role in the elections by transporting ballot boxes across the vast nation. People would not be able to vote without this kind of support. Whatever accountability there is in DR Congo is directed towards international backers, not the Congolese people. Congolese authorities have abdicated from the development agenda. Road rehabilitation and bridge building have been delegated to the World Bank and Belgian Technical Cooperation. Monusco is supposed to look after the security sector. The World Health Organization and medical NGOs try to deal with the public health challenges. The UK is involved in reinforcing governance programmes, while churches provide primary education. The state is an absentee landlord - outside partners do its work. So DR Congo is on an artificial life-support system. But replacing the state, or acting on its behalf, is not viable in the long-term. It undermines state-building momentum. Sources: Estimated figures from the UN and World Bank DR Congo and its partners are clearly confronted by the tragedy of powerlessness. The system is such that when things do not work, go wrong or do not move forward, it is never really anyone's fault. There are plenty of good excuses. A colleague told me when asked why he did not show up for an appointment: \"Well, there was an eclipse that day.\" While DR Congo is clearly a failed state, Congolese society has not failed. On the contrary it is strong, vibrant, dynamic, tolerant and generous. People have a sense of taking charge of their own destinies. Women form rotating credit systems to compensate for the absence of an accessible banking system. Farmers band together to hire a lorry to get their cassava or charcoal from the central city of Kikwit to market in Kinshasa. Bebe, who lives in the Paris suburb of Griney, sends money home to Kasai via Western Union. Some months it contributes to school fees, others it pays for medicines for her ailing mother-in-law. Her father will spend some of it on Primus, the beer of choice in Kinshasa. \"Elikia\" means hope in Lingala and there is much of it throughout the country. Hopes for positive change will come from the people, not from the Congolese political establishment, and certainly not from outside interventions. Theodore Trefon is senior researcher at the Royal Museum for Central Africa and author of the blog Congo Masquerade: The political culture of aid inefficiency and reform failure. On 25 November, the BBC World Service is broadcasting a special one-hour debate in front of a Kinshasa audience: Is DR Congo a failed state? Tune in at 1900 GMT.", "question": "As the Democratic Republic of Congo prepares for just its second general elections in four decades on 28 November , Congolese affairs analyst Theodore Trefon considers whether this failed state , still recovering from a war which led to an estimated four million deaths , can ever be @placeholder .", "option_0": "justified", "option_1": "published", "option_2": "rebuilt", "option_3": "tackled", "option_4": "shows"}
{"id": 1017, "article": "The map of Cornwall was discovered in the private collection of a historian who died in June. Mapmaker George Withiell created it in 1690 to keep track of the new town of Falmouth, which was rapidly expanding. It was last on public display in the 1880s and will be made available to the public by the county's record office. David Thomas, archivist at Cornwall Record Office, said: \"It is one of the most significant early Cornish maps to emerge into the public domain in recent years and we are delighted to have it in our collections, where it will help researchers further understand the growth and development of Falmouth.\" The map was discovered in the private collection of Alan Pearson who bought it from a manuscript dealer in Bristol about 10 years ago. His widow, Mollie, said he was \"extremely excited\" when he discovered the map, but did not tell her how much he paid for it. She said: \"Alan was so passionate about the history of Falmouth, and of course Cornwall in general. \"It's a lovely legacy that the map is now safely stored in its rightful place; somewhere safe where its long-term security is assured and other people can make the most of the information it contains. \"I know Alan would be delighted by this result.\" The map, titled A True Map of all Sir Peter Killigrew's Lands in the Parish of Mylor and part of Budock Lands, was last on display in the 1880s when it was kept in Arwenack House - the oldest building in Falmouth. The map was commissioned by the Killigrew family to record the land they owned.", "question": "An important map which was lost for generations has been found more than 300 years after it was @placeholder .", "option_0": "spotted", "option_1": "drawn", "option_2": "sold", "option_3": "discovered", "option_4": "written"}
{"id": 1018, "article": "Police in Hamelin, in Lower Saxony, say the woman's ex-partner later handed himself in to authorities. The 28-year-old woman, who has not been identified, was found lying on a pavement late on Sunday with serious injuries. She underwent an emergency operation and was flown to a specialist clinic. Police say she had been dragged by the neck through several streets. The man now in custody is described as 38 and from nearby Bad Muender. Both the victim and the suspect are German citizens of Kurdish origin, a police spokesman said. A spokesman for Hannover prosecutors, Thomas Klinge, said the motive for the attack was not yet clear. Police have secured the area where the woman was found and have called for witnesses to come forward.", "question": "A woman has suffered serious injuries after being dragged through the streets of a German town by a cord tied around her neck and @placeholder to a car .", "option_0": "pinned", "option_1": "attached", "option_2": "exposed", "option_3": "forced", "option_4": "according"}
{"id": 1019, "article": "Cheltenham Borough Council said it was probing \"substantial work\" carried out on the listed building where the 'Spy Booth' artwork appeared in April. Days ago vandals attacked the wall for a second time, with large drill holes appearing around the mural. The council said it was investigating a potential criminal offence. \"Evidence is being gathered and investigations continue\" said the council, which earlier confirmed no listed building consent had been sought for the house. Listed building consent is required from the local authority, before any work is done to the fabric of a listed property. The holes drilled in the wall around the mural could be seen a contravention of the regulations. Gloucestershire Police said its officers were present when council officials went into the house but \"purely from a public safety perspective\" to ensure there was \"no breach of the peace in the area\". After the holes appeared, businessman Hekmat Kaveh - who has offered funds to buy the house to ensure the mural stays in the town - said he thought an attempt was being made to remove it. Since the end of June campaigners have been working to reverse a plan to remove and sell the mural by raising up to ?¡ê1m to buy the building and the graffiti on it. The GCHQ-themed mural remains covered in silver and red graffiti, after it was vandalised two weeks ago. A professional art conservator has visited the mural and said it could be saved but might take months to restore. \"We've established it's possible to get the [graffiti] tags off safely without unduly affecting the materials underneath,\" said Tom Organ. \"Now we have to also look at the anti-graffiti coating, and assess whether that, in itself, might cause any problems in the long term.\" Mr Organ added it would take \"weeks if not months\" to restore the mural. Campaigners have spent months trying to keep the artwork in situ on the corner of Fairview Road and Hewlett Road, after the owners of the house claimed it had been sold and workmen arrived to remove it. However Cheltenham Borough Council issued a temporary stop notice preventing further work from taking place on the Grade II* listed building.", "question": "A man has been @placeholder by council officers who used a warrant to enter a Cheltenham house which has been at the centre of a Banksy graffiti tussle .", "option_0": "condemned", "option_1": "questioned", "option_2": "attacked", "option_3": "killed", "option_4": "detained"}
{"id": 1020, "article": "Zarifah Anuar didn't find out she had been circumcised as a child until she was 23. She was just two weeks old when her mother handed her over to her bidan, a traditional midwife, to have part of her clitoris cut. Years later, a colleague asked her if she had undergone the procedure. \"I answered very confidently that I would know if I had,\" said Zarifah.  \"'You should ask your mother', she told me.\" So she did. \"What was a previously casual and happy mood turned sour and antagonistic very quickly\", said Zarifah. \"'Did I cry? Was I asleep? Did I wake up?' I asked my mother. She didn't answer and told me the conversation was over.\" The WHO estimates more than 200 million women and girls worldwide have been cut, varying from a partial nick to a complete removal of the clitoris or sewing-up of the labia. Most Singaporeans have little idea of the procedure's existence in the city-state, but it is observed, typically among Malay Muslims, who make up some 13% of the total resident population. Sunat Perempuan, as it is known in Malay, is usually carried out on girls before the age of two, who normally have the tip of the clitoris cut, with a tiny piece of skin sometimes removed. \"Many of my Indian Muslim friends didn't have the procedure done on them, and were shocked that such practices still exist within the Malay community,\" said Filzah Sumartono, who found out she had undergone the procedure as a baby when she was in her teens. Singapore has no legal ruling against FGM, but many Muslims take guidance from the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS), a statutory board that provides advice on religious matters to Muslims. Ibrahim Sawifi of MUIS has said the body \"does not condone any procedures which bring harm to the individual\", adding that the council has \"always held the position that FGM should be avoided\". But many Malay Muslims, especially amongst the older generations, believe the procedure reduces a woman's libido and decreases the risk of extramarital sexual affairs. Others believe it is a compulsory part of Islamic law, though it is not listed as mandatory in the Koran. \"I had it done, my daughter had it done, and I would definitely like my granddaughter to do it too,\" said a 45-year-old Muslim Malay woman the BBC spoke to. \"It's something compulsory for us to do in Islam.\" \"If performed, one gets extra merit but if not performed, it is not considered sinful or going against the precepts of Islam,\" said Dr Maznah Mohamad of the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. \"But people are still afraid of going against Islam if they don't subject their young daughter to it.\" Yet it is not the procedure itself that many find fault with, but rather the lack of consent that it signifies. \"We start trying to control women's bodies at infancy. It's the first sign to a child that her body is not hers, it's the community's,\" said Filzah, who is a project co-ordinator at gender equality rights group Aware. \"An infant at two weeks wouldn't know anything at all. How could she possibly consent to anything?\" adds Zarifah. According to her, all the Malay Muslim girls in Singapore she knows have undergone this procedure. All of them were unaware of it until they asked their parents. \"Parents should be responsible for keeping their children safe, this goes completely against that. There is a part of me that regrets asking, because I now know just how much my body is not mine,\" she said. But not everyone agrees. \"There are many things parents do without the consent of the child, out of love and their best interests.\" said 28-year-old civil servant Siti*, who also underwent the procedure as a baby. \"What parent would intentionally put their child through harm?\" \"I have no knowledge of how different things would feel with or without [the procedure] but I can feel what needs to be felt,\" Siti added. \"It doesn't make me less of a woman.\" What all the women can agree on, is that more awareness is needed on the subject. \"The community itself is divided,\" said Siti. \"MUIS must create a conversation regarding this topic to help the community move forward and equip young parents with the knowledge they need to make an informed decision.\" \"The Muslim Malay community needs to talk about the issue an understand and accept that it is against the human rights of girls,\" said Zarifah. \"I refuse to accept that this conversation is over.\" *Names have been changed", "question": "Female genital mutilation is carried out by communities around the world . But though it is not commonly associated with modern , cosmopolitan Singapore , it is quietly happening all the time , as the BBC 's Yvette Tan @placeholder .", "option_0": "writes", "option_1": "unfolded", "option_2": "explores", "option_3": "finds", "option_4": "continues"}
{"id": 1021, "article": "The former health secretary, who was in Wrexham last Sunday, held a question-and-answer session at Penlan Social Club. He has promised more freedom for Welsh Labour and devolution that \"holds us together as a United Kingdom\". Yvette Cooper, Jeremy Corbyn and Liz Kendall are also in the battle to be crowned Labour leader in September. Speaking on Saturday, he said: \"I am for the second time in a week in Wales because of the importance of Wales to our party, both [in the] past but also looking to the future. \"We've got the Holyrood elections and Welsh assembly elections next year so Wales and Scotland will be very big in our immediate plans going forward.\" Mr Burnham has said Labour has been \"too out of touch with its grassroots\" and has pledged to do \"whatever I can\" to hold the party together. Several senior Labour figures have claimed the party faces years out of power if Mr Corbyn is elected leader, although the veteran left-winger has the support of more constituency parties than any other candidate.", "question": "Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham @placeholder Wales for the second time in a week to campaign in Swansea .", "option_0": "face", "option_1": "departed", "option_2": "remain", "option_3": "visited", "option_4": "faces"}
{"id": 1022, "article": "The NHS pays for 24-hour healthcare, while general care needs are funded privately or by the council. But health boards and Welsh councils cannot agree who should pay when a person needs certain healthcare - but not around the clock. Care home companies claim the row has left them waiting to be paid. It prompted a group of care home owners to secure a judicial review which ruled in their favour. But the health boards won an appeal - and that has now gone before the Supreme Court for a final ruling. Richard Gordon QC, on behalf of Ceredigion council which is leading the councils' case, told law lords that Wednesday's hearing was \"not just a technical dispute between two public bodies\". He said it \"very much affects service users\" in care homes in Wales. The lawyer argued that whether a registered nurse was carrying out non-nursing duties, or doing nothing, for some of that time they were on duty and on call to carry out nursing tasks when needed. In those circumstances, all funding should be provided by the health boards, he said. Fenella Morris, QC for Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and the six other Welsh trusts, argued that if a nurse carried out a social care task, it did not make it an NHS obligation but work for a local authority. \"We say the NHS is entitled to decide that where a local authority is required to provide social care and a nurse is present to provide social care, it is not necessary for the NHS to pay the cost of that social care.\" Clive Sheldon, the QC representing the secretary of state for health, added: \"Local authorities can be required to arrange for and pay for services carried out by a registered nurse that do not need to be carried out by a registered nurse.\" He added councils are arguing that an on-site qualified nurse was needed, whatever they did, and they should be paid for by the health service. \"We say that is an absurd consequence,\" said Mr Sheldon. Judgement has now been reserved and the final decision by the five law lords hearing the case will be made later this year. The case is already said to have run up a highly criticised legal costs bill of about ¡ê1m.", "question": "A ¡ê 250 m dispute over who pays for nurses @placeholder social care in residential homes in Wales has been heard by the Supreme Court .", "option_0": "delivering", "option_1": "phone", "option_2": "missing", "option_3": "violating", "option_4": "claiming"}
{"id": 1023, "article": "The government wants to allow fees to rise with inflation if universities have a high standard of teaching. Mr Marsden said it gave universities \"cash-in coupons\" to raise their fees. Education Secretary Justine Greening defended the need to protect the value of fees for \"high quality providers\". Ms Greening, heading a department now responsible for higher education as well as schools, presented plans which will encourage more competition within higher education. The education secretary told the House of Commons the changes would not reduce parliamentary scrutiny of the maximum level of fees in England, which is currently ?¡ê9,000 per year. \"But what we are saying to high quality providers is you can access fees up to an inflation-linked maximum fee cap if, and only if, you can demonstrate that you are providing high quality teaching and you have an agreed access and participation plan in place.\" But Mr Marsden said that in unpredictable economic times after the EU referendum, with no certainty on future levels of inflation, this could mean \"significant rises in fee costs\". Raising fees in line with inflation will depend on universities providing high quality teaching, which would be measured by a \"teaching excellence framework\". Mr Marsden said this would become a \"Trojan horse\" for raising fees. \"This is particularly problematic for students post-Brexit with the fragility of our current economy and there are no guarantees on the level of inflation for the next few years.\" Mr Marsden said \"all bets were off\" on how much fees might rise in the years ahead. Ms Greening was also pressed by MPs on a lack of information for universities about what will happen to their EU staff and students and EU research funding. The government's plans, in the Higher Education and Research Bill, will encourage more universities to be created and to make it simpler for institutions to gain their own degree awarding powers. Ms Greening said research showed that increasing the number of universities would improve the economy. \"But the current system for creating universities can feel highly restricted, with new providers requiring the backing of an incumbent institution to become eligible to award its own degrees. \"This Bill levels that playing field by laying the foundations for a new system where it will be clearer, simpler and quicker to establish high quality new providers.\" Ms Greening also set out plans for an Office for Students, which would help to protect value for money for students. This followed concerns from students on issues such as a lack of teaching hours. Neil Carmichael, chairman of the education select committee, said the result of the EU referendum made higher education even more important for the economy. \"Brexit is a call to arms for our education system because we have got to provide more skills, the skills that we need, because we won't necessarily be able to allow anyone from the European Union to do that for us,\" said Mr Carmichael Labour's Stella Creasy said that pushing up fees would limit social mobility. \"The biggest division in our society today is who is able to turn to the bank of mum and dad and who is not,\" she said. The Scottish National Party's education spokeswoman, Carol Monaghan, warned against changes putting \"profit before students\". \"The drive towards the marketisation of student experience is one which we should all view with caution,\" she told MPs. The Liberal Democrats said the bill was no longer \"fit for purpose\" in the \"instability\" following the EU referendum decision. \"The bill totally fails to address the challenges universities will now face around securing funding for research or ensuring student numbers remain level. \"It cannot be allowed to go ahead in its current form,\" said Lib Dem education spokesman John Pugh.", "question": "University tuition fees in England would face \" significant rises \" under plans being put forward by the government , says Labour 's @placeholder education minister Gordon Marsden .", "option_0": "association", "option_1": "communications", "option_2": "shadow", "option_3": "pledge", "option_4": "lobby"}
{"id": 1024, "article": "Both feature a girl in a yellow dress against a starry backdrop, which has led some people to confuse the two. As far as director Christopher Wheeldon is concerned, however, An American in Paris has dibs on the image. \"We got there first,\" he told the BBC at the West End show's opening night on Tuesday. Inspired by the Oscar-winning Gene Kelly film from 1951, An American in Paris tells of US GI Jerry Mulligan, who falls in love in the French capital after World War Two. The show, which won four Tonys after opening on Broadway in 2015, features classic songs by George and Ira Gershwin, among them I Got Rhythm, 'S Wonderful and I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise. Wheeldon, who also choreographs the show, said the success of La La Land was clearly having an impact on audiences at London's newly refurbished Dominion Theatre. \"I think we're seeing a younger audience at our show because of the movie,\" he said. \"Perhaps we're all seeking a bit of innocence in a dark and troubled time.\" \"In difficult times, musicals cheer you up,\" agrees Jane Asher, whose role as a Parisian matriarch sees her sporting a French accent on stage. \"I went to see Beauty and the Beast the other day and was totally transported,\" says Britain's Leanne Cope, who plays the young French dancer who steals Jerry's heart. \"I think this show can do the same thing. It transports you to another time when things were more innocent.\" Critics have been heaping praise, and stars, on the opulent production, which is currently taking bookings up to the end of October. Here's a rundown of what The Guardian, the Daily Mail, The Telegraph and Time Out have been saying. Daisy Lowe, Louise Redknapp and \"Judge\" Robert Rinder were among the Strictly Come Dancing stars in attendance at Tuesday's performance. Their presence, though, was not enough to make Asher consider appearing on the BBC's popular competition. \"I've very flatteringly been asked many times to do Strictly but it's not for me,\" the 70-year-old revealed. \"The chances of me injuring myself are so great I think I'll leave it to others. I'm too old!\" Leslie Caron, who appeared with Kelly in the 1951 film, was also among the audience. Cope likened the veteran actress to a \"fairy godmother\" who had given her some \"wonderful advice\". La La Land, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, won six Oscars last month. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "The brains behind An American in Paris say they 're glad La La Land has revived interest in the Hollywood musical , even if their @placeholder look kind of similar .", "option_0": "growing", "option_1": "show", "option_2": "posters", "option_3": "characters", "option_4": "influence"}
{"id": 1025, "article": "Campaigners for the \"Defend the 10\" group have been inside Carnegie Library in Loughborough Junction since 31 March, the day it was closed for a year. Lambeth Council said its plans would \"guarantee\" the library's future. Protesters voluntarily left at about 12:30 BST and marched to Brixton Library to show \"the fight goes on\". The Carnegie and Minet libraries officially closed for a year on 1 April. The council said they would reopen in 2017 with a gym as \"healthy living centres\". A council spokesman said: \"We are pleased that the occupiers have now left the building. \"It means we can now concentrate on spending our scarce resources on services instead of security, including developing the plans which will guarantee Carnegie Library's future. \"Carnegie will reopen with a library service that will remain free and open to all.\" The authority added none of its 10 libraries were closing and the gym will be in the unused basement of the building. The occupiers, including children and pensioners, were given 24 hours to leave from the point the order was served at 17:30 on Friday. Campaigners said more than 2,000 people joined a march which began at Carnegie Library, passing by Minet Library before ending at Brixton Library, where a rally was held. One protester, 11-year-old Denise, said: \"Libraries are about more than books, they let people meet one another.\" Tom Brandon, from Friends of Lambeth Libraries which began the Defend the Ten campaign to save 10 libraries in the borough, was among those who stayed at the Carnegie since 31 March. Earlier he said: \"The message to Lambeth Council is the fight goes on and we will not give up on any of the libraries to turn into gyms or give away.\" The group plans to attend cabinet meetings and demonstrate outside the office of Greenwich Leisure Limited - which has the contract to open gyms in the libraries.", "question": "A nine - day occupation of a south London library has ended , only hours before those inside were due to be @placeholder .", "option_0": "built", "option_1": "unveiled", "option_2": "restored", "option_3": "evicted", "option_4": "rescued"}
{"id": 1026, "article": "He backed the long-standing agreement during a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the White House said. The One China policy states that there is only one Chinese government. Mr Trump broke with diplomatic norms in December, by accepting a call from the president of Taiwan, considered a breakaway province by China. As president-elect, Mr Trump also said he saw no reason why the agreement should continue without key concessions from Beijing. China retaliated to the Taiwan phone call by making an official complaint to the US. Read more on this story: The telephone conversation on Thursday night was the first between the two since Mr Trump took office on 20 January, though the new US president has called several other national leaders. On Friday, Mr Trump said the conversation was \"very warm\". He added: \"We had a very, very good talk last night, and discussed a lot of subjects. It was a long talk.\" He made the comments during a press conference at the White House with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The White House said a wide range of issues were discussed during the US-China call, which it characterised as \"extremely cordial\". The two leaders had invited each other to visit, it said. A statement from Beijing said China appreciated Mr Trump's acknowledgement of the One China policy, calling the two nations \"co-operative partners\" who could \"push bilateral relations to a historic new high\". Taiwan, meanwhile, said it would continue \"close contact\" with the US, pointing out that maintaining good ties with Washington and Beijing was key to regional stability. Mr Trump has caused concern in Beijing with his stance on trade and the South China Sea, but it was his decision to accept a call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen that triggered most alarm. Though the US is Taiwan's main military ally, no US president or president-elect had spoken directly to a Taiwanese leader for decades. Under the One China policy, the US recognises and has formal ties with China rather than Taiwan. Mr Trump had indicated that policy could change, suggesting the US should not abide by One China unless it secured concessions from Beijing on trade. Comments by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on China's military build-up in the South China Sea further chilled ties. He suggested that the US should block access to artificial islands China is building in disputed waters. Chinese officials have reacted relatively calmly to remarks from the new administration, though they lodged an official protest over the Taiwan phone call. But the Taiwan issue is very sensitive, something state media made clear when it accused Mr Trump of \"playing with fire\". The telephone call followed a letter sent by Mr Trump to Mr Xi on Thursday - the president's first direct approach to the Chinese leader. In it, Mr Trump said he looked forward to \"constructive relations\". The New York Times reports that it was hand-delivered to China's ambassador by National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who had also spoken to China's top foreign policy official last week. There were other signs that the White House was seeking to stabilise ties, such as Ivanka Trump attending a Lunar New Year celebration at the Chinese Embassy in Washington. At a press briefing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang declined to answer whether Mr Trump's acknowledgement of the One China policy had been a condition of the call. The content of the phone call between Mr Trump and Mr Xi will be celebrated in Beijing as signalling a return to the traditional framework of the US-China relationship. Three weeks into the new American administration, after a score of phone calls between Mr Trump and other world leaders, China's absence from the list was becoming ever more conspicuous. Many Chinese citizens see Taiwan as the last piece in China's territorial jigsaw. Any further move towards independence and international recognition for the island would have represented a dangerous humiliation for Mr Xi. With the presidential phone call, Beijing can draw a line under such fears. Three weeks in, it has won a clear and unequivocal commitment from the Trump administration to honour the One China policy. However, it is not clear what, if anything, the Trump administration has won in return.", "question": "US President Donald Trump has @placeholder down on past threats and agreed to honour the so - called \" One China \" policy .", "option_0": "climbed", "option_1": "calmed", "option_2": "cut", "option_3": "tracked", "option_4": "closed"}
{"id": 1027, "article": "British Airways flights are cancelled up to and including 14 January and Easyjet services to the Egyptian resort are suspended until at least 6 January. Easyjet said the move was made to provide some certainty to passengers travelling over the Christmas period. BA said the decision was made following discussions with the UK government. Monarch, Thomson and Thomas Cook have cancelled flights until dates in December. Flights were halted after the UK government said the plane crash in the Sinai desert, which killed 224 people on 31 October, may have been caused by a bomb. Easyjet said customers on affected flights could go to another destination, receive a full refund or get a flight voucher for future travel. BA said customers due to travel on affected flights can claim a full refund, rebook to a later date or switch to an alternative destination. The airline said it was keeping flights, which are scheduled to operate from 16 January, \"under review\". It added: \"The safety and security of our customers will continue to be our top priorities in any decisions we may make.\" Easyjet said on its website: \"We are sorry for the inconvenience this will obviously cause, but we hope that being clear with all our customers at this point helps you to manage your plans with more certainty. \"The situation is beyond our control and passenger safety will always be our number one priority.\" Other dates flights have been cancelled until are: George McGregor from London, who had been due to fly to Sharm el-Sheikh told the BBC it was \"excellent news\" - but Easyjet should have cancelled the flights sooner. \"We were due to fly out on 23 December for Christmas and New Year. Total outlay, ?¡ê1,444,\" he said. \"Until today we could not get our money back to fund an alternative holiday, and faced a charge of ?¡ê180 if we wanted to change flights.\" Ian Harrison, also from London, said he was first told he would only receive an exchange of flights but Easyjet has since offered him a refund. \"It was pretty hard to get alternative accommodation that close to Christmas, or alternative flights, so not much of an offer. \"I've pretty much cancelled my holiday.\" The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) said decisions over the use of Sharm el-Sheikh airport were made by the UK authorities rather than airlines. It said flights would only resume when the authorities were satisfied security was strong enough. ABTA spokesman Sean Tipton said: \"The airlines are setting dates to give people a bit of certainty on where they stand. \"The decision is not theirs about when the airport will be available again to use and there will be a degree of inconsistency in their policies because it is a value judgement.\" The Foreign Office, which advises against all but essential air travel to or from Sharm el-Sheikh, says there are currently no UK airlines operating flights to the resort. Regular flights between the UK and Sharm el-Sheikh were were suspended on 4 November. Special security measures for flights returning to the UK, such as transporting hold baggage on separate planes, were put in place up to 17 November. Islamic State militants have claimed responsibility for bringing down the Airbus 321, operated by Russian airline Metrojet.", "question": "Two airlines have cancelled all flights between Sharm el - Sheikh and the UK until January following the @placeholder bombing of a Russian passenger jet .", "option_0": "suspected", "option_1": "term", "option_2": "cancelled", "option_3": "preferred", "option_4": "spending"}
{"id": 1028, "article": "Davies scored five tries in the World Cup, including a crucial touchdown in their dramatic 28-25 Pool A win over England. He also went over in the 23-19 quarter-final defeat by South Africa. \"I'd love to stay at the Scarlets another couple of years,\" the 25-year-old told BBC Wales. \"Hopefully I'll sign a contract in the next couple of weeks, months or whatever and I can look forward to my future at the Scarlets.\" Davies signed a contract extension with Scarlets ahead of the 2014-15 campaign, the duration of which was not specified. Davies says moving away from Wales is something he might consider in future. \"But at the moment I'm happy playing my rugby in Parc y Scarlets,\" said Davies, who has won nine Wales caps. Media playback is not supported on this device \"It's a brilliant environment to be in, with a great bunch of boys. \"The coaching staff are all good so I'm happy here, so we'll see how it goes.\" Davies was \"gutted\" that Wales did not reach the semi-finals. \"I just think we've got to be a bit more clinical in some areas of our game, maybe,\" added Davies. \"I think there were a few instances against Australia where we got held up over the line three times. \"On another day maybe someone could have done an extra movement and managed to get the ball down and we could have got a try and that could have changed the game. \"We're not a million miles away. It's fine margins.\" However, Davies does not subscribe to the view that the four southern hemisphere teams contesting the semi-finals - New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Argentina - equates to a considerable gap between them and their northern hemisphere counterparts. \"People always think that gap is bigger than it actually is,\" said Davies. \"I think it's maybe different for New Zealand because the way they're playing at the moment they seem to be on a different level. \"But with Australia and South Africa, I think we've shown... we could have beaten South Africa and we ran Australia close as well. \"I think the gap is getting smaller and smaller, but¡­ New Zealand seem to be on a different level at the moment.\" As for the 2016 Six Nations, Davies says Wales cannot consider themselves favourites. \"I'm sure England will have something to say about that,\" he said. \"Ireland are a world-class team as well and France - it's a really tough tournament. \"And Scotland as well - they came really close [to beating Australia]¡­ all the teams are going to be looking forward to the Six Nations.\" Davies may return to Scarlets duty when they host Munster in the Pro12 on Friday.", "question": "Wales scrum - half Gareth Davies hopes to sign a fresh Scarlets contract to keep him at the Welsh @placeholder for the foreseeable future .", "option_0": "table", "option_1": "exiles", "option_2": "union", "option_3": "region", "option_4": "team"}
{"id": 1029, "article": "Johnson trails fellow American Sam Saunders by two shots for the lead, and can overtake Jason Day with victory if the Australian ties for third or worse. Day is tied for 74th on even par after only 16 holes, as play was suspended because of poor light in California. Johnson, starting on the back nine, shot a five-under-par 66. He was stung by a bee on the first hole but went on to hit four birdies in his first nine holes, before dropping a shot on the fourth - his 13th hole - when he missed \"a pretty easy par putt\". \"It would be great to get number one but I'm focused on this week,\" he told the PGA Tour website. \"I played really solid all day long but I just want to put myself in a position to have a chance to win on Sunday. That's the only thing I'm really thinking about.\" Saunders, the grandson of seven-time major winner Arnold Palmer, is looking to win his first PGA Tour event.", "question": "Dustin Johnson 's bid to become world number one @placeholder as he is in tied second place after the first round of the Genesis Open - despite a bee sting .", "option_0": "continued", "option_1": "ends", "option_2": "ended", "option_3": "form", "option_4": "faltered"}
{"id": 1030, "article": "At the same time, as the most powerful country in the world, the United States values the status quo and the leadership Great Britain has exercised within the European Union and beyond. The vote is the beginning of a lengthy transition as Britain reconstructs its regional and global role. Notwithstanding admonitions by the Leave campaign that the vote was none of the Yanks' business, America has a significant stake in what happens now, given the important alliance between the two countries. So how will Brexit affect the special relationship? The US and UK are bound by history, culture, trade, democratic values and shared interests. There is every reason to believe Washington and London will work through all bilateral issues that arise, including new trade arrangements. New deal? Wading into the controversy in April, President Barack Obama warned that in the event of a Leave victory, Great Britain would be at the \"back of the queue\" regarding a new trade agreement. The Obama administration will be devoting its energy to ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Since Prime Minister David Cameron signalled it will be some time before Article 50 is triggered,  a new deal will fall to new governments on both sides. Given the depth of US-UK bilateral investment, a new deal will get done, although the politics on both sides will be tricky. To some extent, the US presidential and Leave campaigns are mirror images. Substantial numbers of voters in both countries believe they have been short-changed. It will take heavy political lifting in Washington and London to convince their sceptical electorates that the end result is a better deal for both. Less clear is what happens to Great Britain and the European Union as they go through this process. For London and Brussels, how do the new UK government and reduced EU alliance interpret the mandate or message from the Brexit vote? And is there a capacity and political will for determined action when the dust settles? Here in the United States, there is an enduring myth that politics should stop at the water's edge. It never has and never will. In this case, the Brexit vote has fundamentally altered British foreign policy and the western international structure, which indirectly affects American foreign policy as well. This is a political earthquake and there could be further aftershocks. England and Wales voted to Leave and Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to Remain. The fissures in British society exposed by the Scottish independence referendum will only deepen in light of the Brexit vote. The US will always value Great Britain, but its composition is once again up for discussion. Great Britain is likely to enter a period of political retrenchment as it negotiates its unprecedented divorce from the EU while it works to preserve its marriage with two units that see value in a European identity. When Europe embarked on its remarkable integration project, Henry Kissinger famously questioned whom Washington should call. While Brussels has become a key hub for American diplomacy, particularly with the renewed relevance of Nato (and greater emphasis on its traditional mission in light of the crisis in Ukraine) and evolution of the European Defence Agency, Washington always had London, Paris and Berlin on speed dial. Brexit doesn't change the importance of American collaboration with key European allies, but gaining a consensus for determined action - always a challenge with the EU at 28  - will become more complex with Europe at 28 minus one. The Brexit vote will surely exacerbate the existing anti-establishment and anti-immigration sentiment in various corners of the continent. The risk is that a Europe preoccupied with redefining its internal and external relationships will be less able to deal coherently with the ongoing migration crisis, its support for Ukraine and sanctions against Russia. Key European allies, to borrow a favourite Obama phrase, will be inclined to devote more resources to \"nation-building at home.\" Nato has encouraged its members to devote 2% of their gross domestic product to defence. Most have fallen short. Brexit will make that an even greater challenge, particularly for Great Britain, which will experience significant near and mid-term costs as it rewires its economy. There are good reasons to believe that both the United Kingdom and European Union will make the new arrangement work. The unanswerable question in Washington is what challenges lurk as they shift from the region that is to the one that will be. At the end of that journey, we know that key relationships will endure. What we don't know is whether they will be more effective. P.J. Crowley is a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, a distinguished fellow at The George Washington University Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication and author of the forthcoming book, Red Line: American Foreign Policy in a Time of Fractured Politics and Failing States.", "question": "There is a revolutionary strain in the American DNA - Great Britain knows all about that - so on the other side of the Atlantic there is an understanding of the @placeholder the British people made with the Brexit vote .", "option_0": "mistakes", "option_1": "table", "option_2": "change", "option_3": "world", "option_4": "statement"}
{"id": 1031, "article": "President Barack Obama said the US was pursuing \"all the appropriate legal channels\" in pursuit of him. US Secretary of State John Kerry has said it would be \"disappointing\" if Russia and China had helped him evade an attempt to extradite him. Mr Snowden, who has applied for asylum in Ecuador, is believed to still be in Russia having flown there on Sunday. White House spokesman Jay Carney said he did not believe Hong Kong's reasons for letting him leave. The US has revoked Mr Snowden's passport, and he is thought to have spent the night in an airside hotel at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. On Monday, a seat was booked in his name on a flight to Cuba, but he was not seen on board when it took off. By Jonathan MarcusBBC diplomatic correspondent Diplomatic fallout over Snowden The 30-year-old IT expert is wanted by the US for revealing to the media details of a secret government surveillance programme, which he obtained while working as a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA). He is charged with theft of government property, unauthorised communication of national defence information and wilful communication of classified communications intelligence. Mr Obama briefly mentioned the case at the White House on Monday, telling reporters: \"What we know is that we are following all the appropriate legal channels and working with various other countries to make sure that the rule of law is observed.\" Speaking during a visit to India earlier, Mr Kerry said it would be \"deeply troubling\" if it became clear that China had \"wilfully\" allowed him to fly out of Hong Kong. \"There would be without any question some effect and impact on the relationship and consequences,\" he said. He also called on Russia to \"live by the standards of the law because that's in the interests of everybody\". Later, Mr Carney said: \"It is our understanding that he is still in Russia.\" In strongly worded comments at a news conference, he said Washington was \"just not buying\" Hong Kong's assertion that the US extradition papers were not in order so they had no reason to detain Mr Snowden. \"This was a deliberate choice by the government to release a fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant, and that decision unquestionably has a negative impact on the US-China relationship,\" he said. What could 'they' know about me? Q&A: Prism surveillance Beware the humble contractor He added that senior US officials were briefing President Barack Obama regularly about all the developments, and called on Russia to use all options to expel the former US spy agency contractor. Meanwhile, Russia's Interfax state news agency quoted an informed source as saying Moscow was considering a US extradition request, but that Mr Snowden had not officially crossed the Russian border so could not be detained. Mr Snowden was in hiding in Hong Kong when his leaks were first published. During a visit to Vietnam earlier on Monday, Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino read out a letter Mr Snowden had sent to request asylum, in which he said he was \"at risk of being persecuted by the US and its agents\". Mr Patino confirmed that his country was processing an asylum request from Mr Snowden. Quito was in contact with Moscow who could \"make the decision it feels is most convenient in accordance with its laws and politics and in accordance with the international laws and norms that could be applied to this case\", he said. When asked whether he knew of Mr Snowden's current location, he declined to answer. \"We will consider the position of the US government and we will take a decision in due course,\" he said, saying Ecuador put the protection of human rights \"above any other interest\". The US and Ecuador have a joint extradition treaty, but it is not applicable to \"crimes or offences of a political character\". Mr Snowden is being supported by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, which said on Sunday that he was heading to Ecuador accompanied by some of its diplomats and legal advisers. Ecuador is already giving political asylum at its London embassy to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is wanted for questioning in Sweden over allegations of sexual assault - which he denies. On Monday, Mr Assange said Mr Snowden was \"healthy and safe\", and travelling to Ecuador \"via a safe path through Russia and other states\". Profile: Edward Snowden He said Mr Snowden had left Hong Kong on a refugee document of passage issued by Ecuador, and was not carrying any NSA secrets with him. Mr Snowden's leaks have led to revelations that the US is systematically seizing vast amounts of phone and web data under an NSA programme known as Prism. He earlier said he had decided to speak out after observing \"a continuing litany of lies\" from senior officials to Congress. US officials have defended the practice of gathering telephone and internet data from private users around the world. They say Prism cannot be used to intentionally target any Americans or anyone in the US, and that it is supervised by judges.", "question": "The US has @placeholder Russia and China after fugitive Edward Snowden left Hong Kong for Moscow .", "option_0": "banned", "option_1": "criticised", "option_2": "state", "option_3": "joined", "option_4": "visited"}
{"id": 1032, "article": "More than 1.7 million Npower customers could save ¡ê261 a year, simply by moving to another Npower tariff. As many as 6.6 million British Gas customers could save ¡ê129 a year, according to Ofgem. However British Gas says it has changed its prices, so the saving is now ¡ê43. The figures also reveal that SSE has almost all of its customers on the most expensive form of tariff. 91% of SSE customers are on standard variable tariffs, compared to just 9% at First Utility. The number of people stuck on standard tariffs is controversial, as most fixed-rate deals are cheaper. In the UK as a whole, 66% of households are on standard tariffs. However Npower said that customers were unlikely to be able to save ¡ê261, as fixed-price deals were usually limited to a certain number of customers. Once a certain number of people have signed up, the deal is withdrawn. Last month, the business and energy secretary, Greg Clark, met energy suppliers, amid claims that some of them were making large profits from customers who are on standard variable tariffs. The industry denied profiteering, but has nevertheless come under pressure to reduce its prices for standard tariffs. Three of the biggest suppliers have frozen their tariffs through the winter as a result. Nevertheless Ofgem published its comparison table to highlight the difference between the cheapest ands most expensive tariffs. \"Millions of people across Britain continue to pay too much for their energy,\" said Mr Clark. \"The measures announced today are a positive step to help more people benefit from increased choice and competition.\" Citizens Advice said the new table would help customers, but that energy firms could still do more to help. \"We'd like to see energy companies do more off their own back to help customers who are on a low income, like moving them to a cheaper deal,\" said Gillian Guy, the chief executive of Citizens Advice. Meanwhile the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) confirmed that is going ahead with plans to help the 10 million households which have been on standard tariffs for more than three years. From next year, suppliers will have to tell Ofgem which of its customers have not switched tariffs. If customers consent, they will be sent details of better deals, prompting them to move.", "question": "Millions of energy customers could save hundreds of pounds a year on their energy @placeholder without even switching supplier , according to the regulator Ofgem .", "option_0": "home", "option_1": "activities", "option_2": "sources", "option_3": "bills", "option_4": "counterpart"}
{"id": 1033, "article": "As one of the dance house's associate choreographers, and a local north London resident, Bourne is a familiar face at the leading venue. But at Christmas, he is the star of the show. From Cinderella to Edward Scissorhands, a Bourne ballet has been the highlight of the Sadler's Wells Christmas bill for more than a decade - so much so he's been dubbed \"Mr Christmas\" by some. This year he is presenting Sleeping Beauty. Despite Bourne's Santa pseudonym, though, there is very little that is Christmassy about his work. He's made the well-known Tchaikovsky classic feel contemporary with his trademark fast-paced choreography - and completely new with the \"shock\" element of a gothic vampire twist. Here the crowd-pleaser tells us about the importance of the audience, his love of a great story and his future plans. How do you feel about being called \"Mr Christmas\"? I've never seen myself as a Father Christmas figure, but I understand it sounds good although we're only in London over Christmas. We do 26 to 28 other venues in the rest of the year. There are certain shows you can do at Christmas and others you can't, including at least half my repertoire. But anything with a fairy-tale background tends to work. Do you feel the epithet encourages accusations from purists and the press of \"dumbing down\" for the sake of ticket sales? I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the audiences that keep coming. Over the years their loyalty around the country has been brilliant. There is a sense the critics want to take me down a peg or two because we are so much more successful than any other dance company in this country, in terms of numbers and the amount of shows. But they have come along with me over the years, so a lot of them accept me more now. How have you experienced the effect of your work? The other night I met a couple who hadn't seen much dance but had seen my Swan Lake and loved it so come back to see Sleeping Beauty. They said they'd been in tears 10 minutes in. It's lovely to hear. There's a level at which the public experience a piece that a critic just can't. Is there also a freedom that comes from your status as a dance \"maverick\"? Every company wants to please the public, but we can do it on a much wider scale as we are not tied to tradition. I do want the balletomanes and the critics to be happy and to understand how much I love these pieces and that I am telling the story in a different way. Over the years, the standard of dancing in my company has gone up considerably. All our production standards are high, so if there is any criticism it can't be made on that level. A lot of those you've worked with have described you as \"generous\". I love audiences and in my own world of dance, where I've been now for a long time, I love promoting young dancers and choreographers so that's where I am generous. I don't see the point of making work if you're not thinking about the audience and if they are not reacting to it, I will keep on until they do. I want my dancers to be generous with the audience. Curtain calls are very important. They smile and look genuine and are saying \"thank you for coming\". I want people to love the company and want to come back. Do you tinker with productions for each new performance? A lot, sometimes every day. We've done this show almost 330 times, but even earlier this month we put new things in. There are always new ideas. Fans of the company, who book for two shows over the weekend - yes, they really do that - know they are going to get something different. What's different about your choreography and your overall production style? My choreography always serves the show, the period I've set it in and the style. It's always about narrative, character and stories and it's acrobatic. Costumes look like they come from film rather than being dance-adapted because we want the audience to relate to the scene. We'll sometimes use normal shoes or even bare feet to make it look appropriate to the period and the choice of dancers is important too. They need to be faces you can relate to. People expect to see something spectacular and that's also what I enjoy; I want people to go \"wow\". On stage, even simple things people love, like just dropping confetti. It's delightful. Aren't you tempted to do a show that is pared-down and simple? I do think about it from time to time. I love the simplicity of things sometimes. I'd like to do something that is completely dancer-led about space and light. It would have to be an experiment as I don't want to lose the audience. My job is to make pieces work and make them accessible for a modern audience, not just a ballet audience. You love a great story but you always want to change a classic. Why? If the audience didn't know the story, as of course they do with Sleeping Beauty, I'd have to spell it out but this way allows me to be creative within the existing structure. Everyone gets it but then you can surprise them. I set Cinderella within the Blitz of World War Two to make it completely new and exciting, but the basic premise of the bad relations and out-of-reach love is infinitely transferable. With Sleeping Beauty, it just wasn't a very good story - Tchaikovsky's music is the attraction. You've clearly got a vivid imagination so why don't you write your own original stories - or even a book? It comes from years of watching lots of movies and plays; my head is full of imagery. But I feel I do write my own stories already. I write my scenarios like stories because it has to make sense to me and marry well to the music. You have to justify going off on a tangent. Every story ever written is based on previous stories. Do you have a favourite among the work you've produced? You need to love them all and want to do them again. Swan Lake changed my life and I am grateful: it made me well-known around the world, it was a news story rather than just an arts story. It wasn't my intention at all, though, and I was completely taken aback. I believed in the idea - bringing in male swans since they do naturally exist but everyone assumes they should be female. It took a while to get used to, the success, the awards, the long run in the West End. It did huge things for us but put us back at first. How did your upbringing influence you? I grew up in north London and there was nothing in our household that you would call high-brow entertainment. I had to find a way to see a lot of things. I went to see an opera and ballet in my late teens as self-education. My parents and I went to a lot of West End musicals and I loved it, but they didn't know ballet so when I got into it, they did too. So I reciprocated the education. They were incredibly supportive and luckily lived long enough to see great things happen to me, such as going to Broadway and Los Angeles - they met lots of old movie stars and had a great time. Your productions are performed all over the world. How is the reception different from country to country? It varies a lot and that fascinates me, but that also applies from town to town in this country. Outside the UK, there are a lot of differences: humour and some themes can be a problem. In Russia homosexuality is a problem, especially when it comes to keeping backers on side. We have done Swan Lake but they were worried about the gay element in The Car Man. They were okay with Dorian Gray as they said it was literature, which was odd to me. Some audiences are very vocal, some very quiet. In Japan they are very silent but at the end you have to bow a lot - to the point of being embarrassing. What's next? I'm working on a new show for next year, brand new. I'm sworn to secrecy at the moment. But it will be opening in Plymouth and then Manchester. It's a fairly well-known story, I can say that, but I'm running out of titles. Sleeping Beauty is at Sadler's Wells in London until 24 January.", "question": "Choreographer Matthew Bourne - known for his modern takes on such ballet classics as Swan Lake - is where we 've come to expect him at this time of year : ensconced within the @placeholder of London 's Sadler 's Wells .", "option_0": "aftermath", "option_1": "impact", "option_2": "walls", "option_3": "vicinity", "option_4": "existence"}
{"id": 1034, "article": "Councillors supported a recommendation to shut Angle, Stackpole and Orielton primary schools at an extraordinary meeting on Thursday. Figures show the cost of running these are between 24% and 65% greater than the county average. A new replacement school is likely to be built at Hundleton. A Welsh medium school is also set for Haverfordwest. At the same meeting, councillors voted unanimously to establish a new school in Haverfordwest for children from 3 to 16. While the exact location has yet to be decided, it will be Pembrokeshire's second Welsh medium secondary school. St Davids councillor David Lloyd called it \"a very important day for the Welsh language in Little England beyond Wales\" - referring to the traditional nickname for parts of the county.", "question": "Three schools are to close on Pembrokeshire 's Angle Peninsula because of @placeholder pupil numbers .", "option_0": "declining", "option_1": "people", "option_2": "side", "option_3": "proposed", "option_4": "committing"}
{"id": 1035, "article": "The attack came after a blue Peugeot and a red Audi crashed on Oldham Road in the Newton Heath area of Manchester about 13:30 on Wednesday. The victim, who was in the Peugeot, remains in a stable condition in hospital. Both the Peugeot and Audi were abandoned at the scene. Greater Manchester Police had been called to reports of a fight in Oldham Road but the group had left when they arrived. The member of the public's van, which the victim had got into for his safety, was rammed by a white Volkswagen Golf as it was driving along The Gateway. The Golf's occupants then dragged him from the van before repeatedly stabbing him and driving off. The van driver took the injured man to Central Park Police Station on Northampton Road. From there he was taken to hospital. Det Ch Insp Paul Walker said: \"This is an absolutely terrifying sequence of events, which must have been extremely frightening for other motorists and people who were in the area at the time, especially for the member of the public who took the man to the police station.\" Any reports of gun crime would be taken very seriously, he added. He appealed for witnesses and anyone with dashcam footage to come forward.", "question": "A man who was threatened at gunpoint @placeholder to escape in a passing van only to be dragged out of the vehicle and stabbed in the legs , police said .", "option_0": "home", "option_1": "drowning", "option_2": "managed", "option_3": "linked", "option_4": "attempt"}
{"id": 1036, "article": "Michael Horn, president and chief executive officer of Volkswagen (VW) of America since 2014, is leaving \"through mutual agreement\", the company said. The statement made no mention of the emissions issue, disclosed by US regulators last year. Another US executive, Hinrich Woebcken, takes over on a interim basis. Mr Horn's departure comes as VW continues to negotiate with US environmental regulators, the Department of Justice, and lawyers representing consumers who are suing the company for compensation. VW said Mr Horn's departure was \"effective immediately\". In VW's statement, Herbert Diess, chief executive of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand, said: \"I want personally to say 'thank you' to Michael Horn for the great work he has done for the brand and with the dealers in the United States.\" The company has admitted that its Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche diesels, marketed as environmentally friendly, were equipped with devices that lowered emissions results during tests. Almost 600,000 VW cars in the US are affected, but the company says about 11 million vehicles worldwide were fitted with the engine software. VW has acknowledged that the costs for recalls, compensation and fines could run into many billions of euros. Last September, just after US regulators disclosed VW's use of the so-called \"defeat devices\", Mr Horn, 54, said at a vehicle launch event that the company \"totally screwed up\". He was the senior VW representative to appear before a Congressional committee investigating the scandal. Mr Horn said the emissions devices were the work of a few individuals, but not VW's top leadership. Mr Woebcken, the North American regional chief and chairman of Volkswagen Group of America, takes over immediately.", "question": "Volkswagen 's top executive in the US is stepping down nearly six months after the German carmaker became @placeholder in the diesel emissions scandal .", "option_0": "engulfed", "option_1": "vote", "option_2": "doubled", "option_3": "announced", "option_4": "emerged"}
{"id": 1037, "article": "It follows criticism that many houses with small annexes would be liable for a 3% surcharge on Stamp Duty. Since 1 April, anyone buying a second home has had to pay the higher rate. Now the Treasury has announced a new set of rules, which will mean that fewer homes with annexes will be liable for the surcharge. Any annex that is worth less than one third of the total property value will no longer qualify for the extra charge. The Treasury described it as a change \"to iron out technical unfairness\". Previously it said that only about 1,000 sales of homes with annexes a year would be affected by higher rate Stamp Duty. Now it says the number will be even smaller than that. To be liable for the higher rate, annexes must also: However, where a home with an annex or cottage does qualify for the Stamp Duty surcharge, the higher rate applies to the value of the whole property, not just the annex. So if someone buys a home worth ¡ê300,000 - with an annex worth ¡ê100,001 - they will face a Stamp Duty bill of ¡ê14,000. Before 1 April they would only have had to pay ¡ê5,000. The government had been lobbied for a change by Sir Eric Pickles, the former Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. The Treasury said that anyone who had paid too much would now be able to apply for a refund.", "question": "The government has announced a surprise change in the tax rules for anyone buying a house that @placeholder a \" granny flat \" , or annex .", "option_0": "prompted", "option_1": "incorporating", "option_2": "resembles", "option_3": "produce", "option_4": "includes"}
{"id": 1038, "article": "Last month cousins Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar were left with life-changing injuries after a corrosive liquid was thrown at them through a car window. And in April clubbers in east London were caught up in an attack involving acid, which left 20 people injured. Assaults involving corrosive substances have more than doubled in England since 2012, police figures show. The vast majority of cases were in London. It is legal to purchase strong acid but there have been growing calls for regulations to be tightened in the wake of recent incidents. The National Police Chiefs Council lead for corrosive attacks, Assistant Chief Constable Rachel Kearton, told the BBC Asian Network that reported acid attacks had seen a significant rise in percentage terms, but that compared with knife crime the number of incidents were \"tiny\". Takeaway restaurant owner Imran Khan was attacked while out delivering food in Barking, east London, in November. He was confronted by a group of youths who demanded money and food while hurling racist abuse at him. When he got back into his vehicle they squirted a corrosive liquid in his face. Mr Khan says the pain \"overtook everything\" and he feared he would be left completely blind. He was saved from long-term damage by a quick thinking shopkeeper who washed his face with clean water at the scene of the attack. He says the attack affected him \"big time\" leaving him feeling unsafe in public, especially after dark. 208 Violence against the person 38 caused serious injuries, 1 was fatal 118 robberies 10 of which left victims with serious injuries 2 sexual offences, including 1 rape Metropolitan Police figures obtained by the BBC show men are twice as likely to be victims of acid attacks in London than women after being linked to a number of gang crimes. The vast majority of cases never reach trial. Dr Simon Harding, a criminologist and expert on gangs at Middlesex University, says acid is becoming \"a weapon of first choice\". \"Acid throwing is a way of showing dominance, power and control, building enormous fear among gang peer groups,\" he says. Gang members know there are advantages in using acid to hurt someone rather than a knife because \"the charges are more serious if you are caught with a knife and the tariff for prison sentences are much higher\". Dr Harding added that \"acid is likely to attract a 'GBH  with intent' charge while using a knife is more likely to lead to the attacker being charged with attempted murder\" \"There's no specific offence of throwing acid. It's a harder offence to prove because there is rarely any DNA evidence and its much easier to dispose of a plastic bottle than it is a knife.\" Dr Harding says the government needs to attack the problem on three fronts. He says acid is too easily available, sentencing needs to be brought into line with knife crime and a programme of education is required. \"Gang members do respond when they realise a victim of an acid attack may never work again or may need 15 or 20 plastic surgery operations.\" \"This is a horrendous crime, it maims, it disfigures,\" ACC Kearton explains. \"What particularly disgusts me about this crime is that it's premeditated, no-one carries acid around on the streets for any other reason than using it for this reason. \"The intention behind this is for someone to live with this for the rest of their lives. \"That is lasting physical and emotional damage, its sometimes why some people choose this as a form of attack.\" Asked what can be done to stop it she says: \"To have an acid in a different bottle to the one it was purchased in can be an offence, we can also regulate volumes of sale, we can regulate ages at which people can buy it.\" Jaf Shah, from the London charity Acid Survivors Trust International says the phenomenon isn't new and dates back to the Victorian times in Britain, but says the recent figures are shocking. \"The recent spike in attacks means the UK has the highest number of reported acid attacks per capita in the world.\" He is among those calling for regulations on the sale of acid to be tightened. There are no age restrictions on buying household bleach or drain cleaning products containing acid in the UK. There are rules which limit the sale of certain substances under the explosives precursors and poisons (EPP) rules aimed at businesses who sell or supply such chemicals in bulk. The Met said it was working with retailers to raise awareness that people might be buying corrosive substances to use as weapons. But Jaf Shah wants the government to make it compulsory when purchasing corrosive chemicals to pay by card that is traceable to an individual and to make acid available only under licence. Labour MP for East Ham Stephen Timms has tabled an adjournment debate for Monday in the House of Commons on the rise in the number of acid attacks. About a third of last year's acid attacks in the capital took place in the London borough of Newham, which is in his constituency. Mr Timms says he is \"most concerned about sulphuric acid\" and that carrying a bottle without justification should be treated as an offence, like carrying a knife.", "question": "The latest acid attacks in north - east London on Thursday , which saw five people being @placeholder with a corrosive liquid , add to a growing number of cases being reported in the UK .", "option_0": "poisoned", "option_1": "greeted", "option_2": "dealt", "option_3": "caught", "option_4": "sprayed"}
{"id": 1039, "article": "The cladding was discovered after checks were carried out on all public buildings across the UK after the fire at the Grenfell Tower flats in London. In a statement, the Department of Health described the cladding as similar to that used at Grenfell Tower. It added that the building continues to meet fire safety requirements. Concerns have been raised about the cladding at Grenfell Tower, where a huge fire left at least 80 people dead, or missing presumed dead. The critical care building in Belfast has been beset by problems and remains mostly closed to the public five years after it was due to open. The ?¡ê150m hospital opened its emergency department on the first two floors, but due to ongoing problems, the other 10 floors lie empty. In a statement to the BBC, a spokesperson for the Department of Health said it is continuing to assess the extent of the cladding. It confirmed that extensive fire safety checks have been carried out across all its buildings \"Out of the 19 buildings inspected it has been identified that the critical care block in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has a limited installation of a cladding system similar to that used on Grenfell Tower Block,\" it said. \"It has been installed to a roof top ventilation plant room and an external entrance canopy.\" The BBC understands the area includes a canopy used in the Emergency Department entrance and a vast area close to the roof which houses the building's heating system. It is understood Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride called an emergency meeting on Thursday involving senior officials who are involved in building works across the hospital sites. \"In light of recent events, the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust is further assessing the extent of the installation, however, it has been confirmed this building has been designed and built in compliance with current building regulations and meets fire safety requirements,\" the statement added. In March, the BBC revealed that millions of pounds in additional funding was required to bring the building up to standard and fit for purpose. Even before this latest problem was identified, there has been no confirmation from the Belfast Health Trust as to when the multi million pound hospital will be fully opened to the public.", "question": "Tests are to be conducted on cladding used on the new critical care building in the @placeholder of Belfast 's Royal Victoria Hospital , the BBC understands .", "option_0": "grounds", "option_1": "middle", "option_2": "vicinity", "option_3": "north", "option_4": "aftermath"}
{"id": 1040, "article": "Self Portrait was painted during the last month of Osmond's life while he received treatment for cancer. It will have a permanent home at a new cancer support centre in the city. A film documentary was also made with Osmond before his death in March. Described as \"one of Wales most foremost artists and an ardent Welshman,\" he was also a lecturer and promoter of Welsh art. His final painting will eventually hang in the new Maggie's support centre for people with cancer, which opens at Velindre hospital in Cardiff in 2017. While the work is entitled Self Portrait, Osmond focuses on the landscapes that have been his home: his birthplace of Wattsville in Caerphilly county, and his home of 30 years at Llansteffan on the Carmarthenshire coast. Osmond died before he could finish the painting, but in the documentary A Brief Eternity: Ar Awyr Le by filmmaker Clare Sturges, Osmond said he \"wouldn't be disillusioned\" if it remained unfinished. \"Abandonment, sometimes, can be the fulfilment of something,\" he said. \"It may not have been the end you have planned, but there will be value in that ending. \"It will be there for people to look at and consider, and think 'this man struggled, this man made an effort, this man thought about things quite deeply'.\" The documentary follows Osmond's progress as he worked on the painting, and as he came to terms with nearing the end of his life. He told the film: \"I believe that our lives are our infinities. I don't remember what happened before, and I won't remember or have any knowledge of what happens afterwards. So I don't fear death, in that respect, because it's not going to happen. This is what I call my brief eternity.\" Osmond describes cancer as \"an extraordinary experience,\" and \"enriching\", which was difficult for most people to come to terms with. \"They think it's like having a boil, that it's just a bloody nuisance. But because of the way it takes over the whole of your existence, the whole of your life, the whole of your family, the whole of your friends and acquaintances, it is more than an illness. It is a way of being.\"", "question": "The last painting by Welsh artist Osi Rhys Osmond is to be displayed in @placeholder for the first time .", "option_0": "history", "option_1": "cardiff", "option_2": "public", "option_3": "life", "option_4": "wales"}
{"id": 1041, "article": "As Africa's most-populous country turns 56, many Nigerians may not be in the mood for celebration - preoccupied as they are with the ongoing recession. For Nigerian businesses, 2016 has indeed been a challenging year. The oil-dependent nation is presently in an economic downturn, largely because of the drop in oil prices. As a consequence, the prices of goods and services have gone up and for many businesses profits are thin. But some fresh, young entrepreneurs are bucking the trend. \"Whatever direction the economy goes, there are always opportunities,\" says Obinna Onunkwo, one of the Nigerians who is changing the face of the property scene. He and his business partner Laide Agboola - who are both under 40 - have just completed the development of a $25m (?¡ê19.2m), 7,700-sq-metre retail centre in Lagos. Nigeria's retail sector has seen significant growth over the past five years and savvy investors like Mr Onunkwo tapped in early. They managed to convince investors that the Maryland Mall in Ikeja was a bankable project. After five months of pitching to investors last year, they were able to raise funds. Mr Onunkwo believes the key to their success was that they ensured any loans they took were in the local currency, the naira, and not dollar loans. A good decision as the naira has weakened significantly over the past year. Sulaiman Balogun, co-founder of ToLet.com.ng - a Nigerian online property search portal, will remember 2016 as the year the cash came in. He and his business partners - Fikayo Ogundipe, Dapo Eludire and Seyi Ayeni - have succeeded in raising $1.2m. This is quite a feat as banks and financial institutions in Nigeria are not keen to lend to new businesses because of a lack of credit records and insufficient collateral. Enterprising technology-driven businesses like ToLet have to prove themselves, sometimes with very little capital, in the hope that big time venture capital firms take notice. After meeting at university, Mr Balogun and his partners started their business in June 2012, when they were in their twenties and at a time when online property search websites were not popular in Nigeria. The partners raised $400 from their personal savings and with family support embarked on their business journey. A year after launching their property platform they managed to raise $230,000 in seed capital from online business builder, Spark.ng, and this made a significant contribution to the growth of their business. Didi Akinyelure: \"They prove that it is possible to diversify away from oil - and show the enterprising spirit of the country as it celebrates its 56th year\" However, their big break came last month, when they caught the eye of Frontier Digital Ventures, a company passionate about online classifieds businesses, and they successfully secured additional funds. Two key things have been the secret to their success. \"We anticipated the recession and kept costs low,\" says Mr Balogun. \"And people still need to look for homes to rent in a recession.\" For Papa Omotayo, a 40-year-old Lagos-based architect, looking to markets outside Nigeria can help entrepreneurs weather an economic slump. \"Make sure your reach goes beyond Africa,\" says Mr Omotayo, the founder of AWCA, a multi-award winning ideas development agency. He has been driven to change the way the African continent is portrayed globally, through art and creativity. Teaming up with  29-year-old Maki Osakwe, creative director of Maki Oh, a fashion brand worn by the likes of Michelle Obama, Lupita Nyong'o and Solange Knowles, the two produced a short fashion film entitled Omi. It just bagged the Best New Director award this week at Milan's fashion film festival. Mr Omotayo says diversity is the secret to his success - ensuring that Nigeria's arts and culture scene reaches beyond Africa. And although he has seen a shift in the spending power of Nigerians this year, his creative business has not slowed down as much as expected, and he is confident that more opportunities will open up for him. These young entrepreneurs are making headlines - in spite of Nigeria's recession. They prove that it is possible to diversify away from oil - and show the enterprising spirit of the country as it celebrates its 56th year.", "question": "In our series of letters from African journalists , Didi Akinyelure , the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award Winner , looks at a fresh @placeholder of young , enterprising men and women who have more reason than most to celebrate Nigeria 's 56th year of independence .", "option_0": "era", "option_1": "level", "option_2": "rate", "option_3": "crop", "option_4": "summit"}
{"id": 1042, "article": "Most of all, it's a chance for more women and girls to get involved in physical activity. In fact, a number of sports organisations and clubs are using this week as an opportunity to introduce females to their sport, offering sessions to try out something new. Here's just a small sample of the ways that you can get involved in Women's Sport Week: In honour of Women's Sport Week, BBC Get Inspired and Radio 1Xtra present Body Talk, an intimate and interactive discussion on body image issues for women in and around sport. Radio 1's Adele Roberts will be chatting with a collection of open and honest women from the sport and entertainment worlds. Five-time Paralympic gold medallist Hannah Cockcroft, So Solid Crew's Lisa Maffia, two-time Olympic cycling champion Joanna Rowsell Shand, Olympic boxer Natasha Jonas, rapper Nadia Rose, TV psychologist Emma Kenny and Liverpool's own Olympic heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson are just some of the people we'll hear from. What you need to know The group will be talking at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool on Thursday, 6 October at 14:00 BST. If you want a seat in the audience, you can apply for a ticket at the BBC Radio 1Xtra Live website. It's first come first served so be quick! For anyone not lucky enough to be in Liverpool, you can see it live on the BBC Sport and BBC Radio 1Xtra websites. Want to try out a new activity? Or maybe you are looking for a way back into a game you used to play? Lets us inspire you to revisit your childhood memories with some of these activities that you can get involved in where you live. Media playback is not supported on this device Useful links Hockey is physically taxing and mentally stimulating. Plus, once hooked, players tend to make hockey friends for life. In England and Wales, Back To Hockey is a campaign offering women and men of all ages either a complete introduction to the game, or a return to hockey if you've had a break from it. If you are keen to get back into the game in Scotland and Northern Ireland, contact the hockey associations in your area who will be happy to help. Media playback is not supported on this device Gymnastics helps to improve your flexibility, balance and co-ordination as well as boosting concentration. From toddlers learning motor skills to adults looking for a fresh way to workout, everyone can get a kick out of learning gymnastics. Check out our guide for information on all different versions of the sport you can take part in. Like running, swimming or cycling? Fancy doing all three, one after the other? If you answered yes to the previous two questions then triathlon is the sport for you! The Olympic distances are a 1.5km swim, followed by a 40km cycle, rounded off with a 10km run. But don't feel daunted, it really is for everybody British Triathlon will be running tailored women only novice training days find out more here. If you have the basics but are no pro, this programme is for you. Tennis Tuesdays is hitting the courts in more than 80 venues across England, Scotland and Wales. Each week's session focuses on a different area of the game and you will improve your ability with a mixture of skills training from professional coaches and match play with other women at your level. You can have fun and be as competitive as you want, without feeling under pressure. If you are an improver or intermediate standard female player, find your nearest venue and sign up today. Useful links Whether you are new to netball or you have played in the past and would like to ease back into playing, there are schemes across the UK to help you. In Scotland, Bounce Back to Netball offers sessions that provide a gentle introduction or re-introduction to the game A similar programme run in England, Back to Netball, encourages beginners or anyone who is a little rusty to come back to the game. Contact Welsh Netball or Netball NI to find out about introductory schemes in these areas. Join over 24,000 adults a week and play rounders! All you need is basic equipment; bat, ball a decent bit of outdoor space and some willing friends and family. Media playback is not supported on this device In aid of Women's Sports Week, Rounders England are hosting the Golden Bat Relay the idea is that one team will play a game starting on Monday and then pass the bat onto another team who play with the gold bat on Tuesday and so on for five evenings. Matches are taking place in Gloucester, Cornwall, Winchester, Leeds and Burnley. There will be a mix of indoor and outdoor rounders played throughout the week. To find out more information head to the Rounders England website. Not in one of those areas but still want to give it a go? Try our guide to find a team near you! Yoga develops strength, flexibility and physical and mental stamina through a variety of stretches and postures. There is a type of yoga for everybody, and it is perfect for those looking to increase their fitness, flexibility or just trying to relax after work. Find out how you can get involved in yoga with our handy guide. Remember, Yoga isn't competitive, so you don't need to worry about being the new one in the class! The term martial arts covers such a large number of different sports, so there is sure to be one discipline that appeals to you. What all have in common is the benefits you can gain to your fitness and confidence. The scope is vast, so if you're thinking of getting involved but don't know were to start, we've got all the tips you need here. Dancing is good for your soul! What's more, it's a fun (and very social) way to work up a sweat and stay fit. Are you inspired to try dance? Or maybe you are a keen enthusiast already? With many different styles in our dance guide you are sure to find the right fit for you. Media playback is not supported on this device Boxing is a dynamic sport that teaches physical and mental discipline, and the training that comes with it is amongst the most intensive in sport. It provides a thorough full-body workout, and can be a lot of fun too. It's also a fun and effective way of developing communication skills and can help people with self-esteem. Looking to perfect your punch or just wanting to keep fit, find out how with our boxing guide. For some the idea of gym fees and exercise equipment can easily put us off, let alone trying to find time for it in our busy lives! We've done some research to find you some ways to get started that are free and, best of all, that you can do from home or anywhere else that fits your schedule. Find out more here. 1. Gather your female friends and family and have some fun - test yourself with one of our #MakeYourMove challenges you can try Hula Hoop, Tai Chi and even the YMCA! 2. Put your postcode into our Women's Sport Week promotion on the Activity Finder to find a session near you. 3. Use #BBCBodyTalk to join the conversation or put your own question to the panel. You can also email us. Join the conversation on Facebook or Twitter. 4. Date for your diary - Sport Scotland have an Active Girls Day on Friday 28th October, where they are encouraging girls to get active within their communities. For more information visit their website here. 5. Fill us in on your week by sending us your Women's Sport Week videos and pictures using #WSW16.", "question": "Women 's Sport Week ( 3-9 October 2016 ) is an opportunity for everybody to @placeholder , raise awareness and increase the profile of women 's sport across the UK .", "option_0": "try", "option_1": "replace", "option_2": "hold", "option_3": "celebrate", "option_4": "identify"}
{"id": 1043, "article": "The airline, which owns Germanwings, said last week that Andreas Lubitz had taken a break from flight school training, but refused to say why. It has now shared emails from 2009 which show Lubitz told instructors he had suffered from \"severe depression\". Meanwhile, all human remains from the crash have reportedly been recovered. French authorities told AFP news agency that the remains of all the victims had been removed from the remote ravine where the plane went down, but mountain troops would return to the scene on Wednesday to search for personal belongings. The search for the second flight recorder will also continue. Also on Tuesday, German newspaper Bild and French news magazine Paris Match said they had obtained a video showing the plane's last moments before the crash. The footage was shot on a mobile phone inside the plane, and recorded the sound of passengers screaming and the sound of a metal object striking the cockpit door, the newspapers said. A recording from the cockpit of the aircraft suggests Lubitz, 27, deliberately caused the disaster last Tuesday, which killed 150 people. Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr previously said that the company was not aware of anything that could have driven the co-pilot to crash the Airbus A320. \"He was 100% fit to fly without any restrictions or conditions,\" he told reporters. It has now emerged, as part of the airline's internal research, that Lubitz had sent information about his depressive episode to the Lufthansa flight school in Bremen, when he resumed training after an interruption of several months. He subsequently passed all medical tests and eventually secured his license. He started working with Lufthansa subsidiary Germanwings in 2013. German prosecutors said on Monday that Lubitz had received treatment for \"suicidal tendencies\" before completing his training. But Lufthansa said his medical records were subject to doctor-patient confidentiality and it had no knowledge of their contents. The company has set aside an additional $300m (a??280m; ?¡ê200m) to cover possible costs arising from the crash. The money is separate from the $54,250 available to the relatives of each passenger to cover short-term expenses. Airlines are obliged to compensate relatives for proven damages of up to a limit of about $157,000, regardless of what caused the crash. Higher compensation is possible if an airline is held liable. None of the victims' bodies were found intact after the plane's 700kph (430mph) impact, but different strands of DNA have been identified. French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday that all 150 victims would be identified by the end of the week. Speaking at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Mr Hollande said \"exceptional scientific work\" had been carried out by the recovery team. Andreas Lubitz: Germanwings co-pilot Who was Andreas Lubitz?", "question": "The Germanwings co-pilot @placeholder of deliberately crashing his plane into the Alps had disclosed an earlier bout of depression , Lufthansa has said .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "warned", "option_2": "cleared", "option_3": "suspected", "option_4": "poured"}
{"id": 1044, "article": "Staffan de Mistura admitted there had been a lack of progress but said that the negotiations had not failed. The talks opened just two days ago and are due to resume again on 25 February. The move came as the Syrian government claimed a major blow against the opposition by cutting a key supply route to the rebel-held city of Aleppo. Syrian state television reported that government forces had broken the siege of Nubul and Zahraa, two towns north-west of Aleppo. Opposition attendees at the talks in Geneva had already been angered at negotiations beginning amid ongoing offensives by the Syrian government backed by Russia. Basma Kodmani, a member of the umbrella group representing opposition factions, the High Negotiations Committee, said encircling Aleppo sent the message that \"there is nothing to negotiate - Just go home\". On the talks, Mr de Mistura admitted \"there's more work to be done\". \"It is not the end and it is not the failure of the talks,\" he said. \"Why? They came and they stayed. Both sides insisted on the fact that they are interested in having a political process started.\" The head of the Syrian delegation accused the opposition of wanting to withdraw from the talks under pressure from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, Reuters reported. Bashar Ja'afari said the UN's announcement was a way of avoiding such a walkout. More than 250,000 people have died in almost five years of war in Syria. Eleven million others have fled their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other, as well as the Islamic State group. A donor's conference opens in London on Thursday aiming to raise billions in new funding for those affected.", "question": "The UN has @placeholder peace talks aimed at ending Syria 's five - year civil war , the organisation 's special envoy has said .", "option_0": "launched", "option_1": "highlighted", "option_2": "lost", "option_3": "suspended", "option_4": "fired"}
{"id": 1045, "article": "The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said there were positive examples but also tensions and confusion over funding and planning. Lack of provision was blamed for stoking hostility to Gypsy Travellers \"pulling in\" at some locations. In 2014 there were 59 named sites in 18 local authority areas in Scotland. The EHRC has been studying how councils have been developing dedicated sites amid claims of struggles to secure land or planning permission. The report noted funding was a \"significant barrier\" for councils, and found that many are uncertain over the extent to which they should be developing accommodation. Alastair Pringle, director of EHRC Scotland, said: \"Over the last year we have seen, once again, tension in some parts of Scotland concerning the  development of temporary or permanent sites for Gypsy Travellers, either in private or public ownership. \"This ongoing lack of provision is forcing many Gypsy Travellers into 'pulling in' at the roadside, often in high profile areas and then risking eviction and local hostility. \"The research shows that with planning and care it is perfectly possible to develop new Gypsy Traveller sites in Scotland.\" Mr Pringle called for a \"co-ordinated and coherent approach\" to be set out in the government's Gypsy Traveller strategy due to be published later this year. He added: \"Without proper provision the community is likely to continue to face hostility and councils are likely to waste more money on avoidable evictions.\" Phil Brown, professor of social change at the University of Salford, who carried out the research, said: \"Taking a strategic rather than ad hoc approach is also recommended as the more transparent the council is the more likely they will have public support.\" Communities Secretary Alex Neil said: \"The Scottish government has already strengthened local strategic planning for accommodation in relation to the needs of Gypsy Travellers, by publishing revised guidance for housing need and demand assessments and local housing strategies. \"This is to help make sure that the accommodation needs of Gypsy Travellers are fully taken into account by local authorities as they plan accommodation provision in their area.\"", "question": "Scotland 's travelling community is likely to face continued hostility unless there is @placeholder to provide it with proper sites , it has been warned .", "option_0": "one", "option_1": "evidence", "option_2": "set", "option_3": "funding", "option_4": "action"}
{"id": 1046, "article": "UKIP's David Coburn and Patrick Harvie of the Greens were interviewed on the BBC Sunday Politics Scotland programme. Mr Coburn said winning one Holyrood seat would be a breakthrough for UKIP, while Mr Harvie hoped for one from each of the eight regional lists. Nicola Sturgeon, Kezia Dugdale, Willie Rennie and Ruth Davidson will all appear on the programme in later weeks. Mr Coburn, who tops UKIP's Highlands and Islands list and launched the party manifesto alongside UK party leader Nigel Farage on Thursday, said UKIP had taken a \"tactical decision\" to focus only on list votes. He said: \"I'd like to break through, that's the main thing. From what I can see in the polls we could win seven seats. \"That would be nice, I'd be very happy to have them, but if we get any seats I'll be delighted. \"We've got so many people coming over from the other parties. Labour is imploding in Scotland, and many of them can never stomach voting for the Conservatives and are voting for us. \"As for the Scottish nationalists, a lot of them are very frightened about Europe - they see what happens to smaller countries in Europe if they don't agree with the EU about austerity and suchlike.\" Mr Coburn said his party's ambition was to have taxes in Scotland \"no higher than they are anywhere else in the UK\", saying he wanted to create jobs to aid the economy. He also said a UKIP activist who was pictured with his face painted black had been \"extremely stupid\", but said the issue was one for the party's disciplinary committee. He replied that \"it ain't in the UKIP manifesto to sit in your bathtub naked, playing the guitar, dressed as a clown\". Mr Coburn added: \"UKIP are the most liberal party you can possibly imagine; we're a libertarian party, you can't get more broad-minded than that.\" Scottish Greens co-convenor Mr Harvie said his party had a \"genuinely realistic chance\" of winning an MSP in each of the eight regional lists for the first time in May's election. He said: \"I think that would be a fantastic step. I certainly think we could get more than one in some regions. \"If we're in that ballpark then we're potentially approaching double figures, and for the first time we'd have an MSP representing every voter in Scotland.\" Pressed on his party's plans for a 60p top rate of tax, Mr Harvie said he didn't believe that high earners would move away to escape higher rates. He said: \"I don't buy the argument that the majority of people even in that higher band are the kind of selfish individuals who would uproot their families and disappear, presumably not taking their current job with them, simply because they'd have to pay a bit more tax on the highest element of their income. \"There are certainly opportunities for high-income and high-wealth people who are motivated purely by greed - and I don't think that's the majority - to hide their income. \"This is a problem for every country. There's a great deal we have to do to stigmatise that kind of behaviour.\" Mr Harvie said the current status quo was a \"race to the bottom\", saying only the Greens were offering truly \"radical\" policies. Each of the party leaders are to be interviewed on the Sunday Politics Scotland programme, with Labour's Kezia Dugdale, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, Conservative Ruth Davidson and Willie Rennie of the Lib Dems all due to appear in the coming weeks.", "question": "The Scottish Greens and UKIP are both @placeholder \" breakthrough \" results in May 's Holyrood election .", "option_0": "published", "option_1": "labelled", "option_2": "targeting", "option_3": "criticised", "option_4": "sides"}
{"id": 1047, "article": "Libratus, an artificial intelligence program developed at Carnegie Mellon University, was trained to play a variant of the game known as no-limit heads-up Texas hold 'em. In a similar tournament in 2015, the humans won. The victory has been hailed as a significant milestone for AI, by the team responsible for building it. The AI won more than $1.5m (?¡ê1.2m) worth of chips from the humans. The matches - held at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh - were live-streamed over gaming site Twitch. Tuomas Sandholm, professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon, said the event was \"historic\". \"Heads-up no limit Texas hold 'em is in a way the last frontier of all the games,\" he said. \"Othello, Chess, Go, Jeopardy have all been conquered, but this remained elusive: this is a landmark in AI game-play.\" Prof Sandholm said that the algorithm could be transferred to a range of other uses. \"This is not just about poker,\" he said. \"The algorithms can take information and output a strategy in a range of scenarios, including negotiations, finance, medical treatment and cybersecurity.\" \"Now we have proven the ability of AI to do strategy and reasoning, there are many potential applications in future.\" One of the professional poker players, Jimmy Chou, admitted at the halfway point that the AI was proving a tough opponent. \"The bot gets better and better every day. It's like a tougher version of us,\" he said. \"The first couple of days, we had high hopes,\" Mr Chou said. \"But every time we find a weakness, it learns from us and the weakness disappears the next day.\" He added that the professionals had been sharing notes and tips in an effort to find weaknesses in the AI's game-play. But they were not the only ones doing homework. Each night after the play ended, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Centre added computations to sharpen the AI's strategy. All four human players shared the $200,000 (?¡ê159,000) prize fund, ranked in order of how well they played against the AI. Jason Les, who came fourth, summed up the feelings of all four players when he said the match had been \"incredibly challenging\". \"I was impressed with the quality of poker Libratus played,\" he said. \"We tried everything we could, but it was just too strong. It became very demoralising.\"", "question": "A poker - playing AI has @placeholder four human players in a marathon match lasting 20 days .", "option_0": "killed", "option_1": "joined", "option_2": "denied", "option_3": "beaten", "option_4": "raised"}
{"id": 1048, "article": "When Claire was told she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair after a spinal injury, she wanted to get back on her feet as quickly as possible and regain her independence. For the past three months she has been training intensively for the marathon using a robotic walking suit to prove she is just as determined as in her sporting days. When Claire sets out with participants on Sunday she knows that most will aim to finish in hours. For her, it will take about three weeks. A former event-rider who had competed at the highest level, Claire thought that the Burghley Horse trials, a four-star horse-riding event for top-class riders in Stamford, Lincolnshire, would be her greatest test. \"I didn't think I'd ever get to that level. But the marathon is a bigger challenge. I was wrong.\" In the beginning she could only take two steps. Just a few weeks ago, she could only walk 30, making the marathon a near impossible feat. But Claire's sporting background has provided her with the resilience she needs to keep going. Following gruelling training sessions three times a week at a Yorkshire clinic, she can now cover longer distances of up to a mile in one session. It takes at least two-and-a-half hours for her to complete a mile but she hopes to improve her speed as the weeks pass, staying in a hotel at night-time and starting afresh every morning from the point where she left off the night before. In 2006, Claire's horse Rolled Oats clipped his shoulder, flinging her from the saddle into a nearby tree. The fall broke her neck, back and ribs and left her paralysed from the chest down. Claire first saw the \"robot legs\", or ReWalk bionic walking device, while researching her condition on the internet. She jokingly likens the device to Wallace and Gromit's \"wrong trousers\", and with the help of her friends and family raised the ¡ê43,000 necessary to get them. But walking in \"techno trousers\" is not as quite as easy as in the Nick Park animation - while the \"wrong trousers\" walk on their own, Claire's require patience, perseverance and intense effort. She says: \"Not feeling my body makes it so hard. I don't know what my feet are doing.\" Claire relies on motion sensors to help her move and lift her legs and one of the most difficult things for her has been simply learning to stand on two feet again. \"To start with I just had to find my balance without wobbling.\" The London marathon is not the only race Claire is competing in, as she and her one-year-old daughter, Maisie, are battling it out to see who will be the first to walk unaided. \"We've had this competition all along so we'll see. She can do 10 steps on her own now. I'm as wobbly as her.\" Claire hopes to raise more than ¡ê50,000 for Spinal Research, a charity which funds medical research to develop treatments for paralysis. Former rugby player Matt Hampson, who was paralysed after a rugby accident, will provide moral support for part of her marathon journey, as will retired tennis player Tim Henman and former champion British equestrian Lucinda Green. \"There's a lot of people who are worse off than me and haven't got the support I've got, so I want to raise as much as I can.\" But, when the marathon is over, Claire thinks that for the first time in six years, she will be delighted to return to her wheelchair.", "question": "Six years ago , professional horse - rider Claire Lomas was told that she would never walk again but now she is attempting to walk more than 26 miles ( 42 km ) at Sunday 's London Marathon thanks to a pair of \" robot legs \" , which have @placeholder her life .", "option_0": "released", "option_1": "transformed", "option_2": "marked", "option_3": "claimed", "option_4": "revealed"}
{"id": 1049, "article": "Dow and DuPont announced plans for a $130bn merger in December. Dow's chief executive officer, Andrew Liveris, will get $52.8m in cash and stocks - a deal that includes his $40m retirement package. Edward Breen -who became DuPont's chief executive in October - will receive $27.2m. The new DowDupont company will be broken into three businesses focusing on agriculture, material sciences and specialty products over a two year period. The companies have said they hope to save $3bn over this period through cost cutting efforts. These types of leaving bonus have been given the name \"golden parachute\" to reflect the large payouts executives are given when a company is taken over and the executives are replaced.", "question": "The heads of Dow and DuPont will get a @placeholder $ 80 m ( ¡ê 56.5 m ) in \" golden parachute \" leaving bonuses following the tie up of the two companies .", "option_0": "projected", "option_1": "value", "option_2": "combined", "option_3": "spent", "option_4": "estimated"}
{"id": 1050, "article": "A major crossing point is the Oresund strait bridge between Malmo in Sweden and the Danish capital Copenhagen, made famous by TV series The Bridge. The checks have irritated commuters who travel daily between the two cities. More than 163,000 asylum seekers arrived in Sweden in 2015 but that number fell to 29,000 last year. The falling number of arrivals means the checks on buses, trains and ferries are no longer necessary, the government says. But while ID checks at border points with Denmark are being scrapped, border controls elsewhere will continue to be tightened, it says. Interior Minister Anders Ygeman also said more surveillance cameras would be used on the Oresund bridge, in addition to vehicle x-rays. Meanwhile, the European Commission recommended that temporary border controls introduced in Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden and Norway during the migrant crisis be phased out in the next six months. \"The time has come to take the last concrete steps to gradually return to a normal functioning of the Schengen Area,\" EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos told journalists, referring to the passport-free zone. In November 2015, Sweden began allowing police to check people entering Sweden from other states in Schengen. \"The government's conclusion is that border controls are still needed and need to be strengthened,\" Mr Ygeman was quoted as saying by The Local news website, hours before the EU Commission's announcement. The real story of 'The Bridge' The measure mandating identity checks on passengers travelling between Denmark and Sweden by bus, train and ferry was last extended in February and expires on 4 May, with the government to let it lapse, Swedish media report. An estimated 20,000 commuters daily cross the Oresund bridge.", "question": "Sweden is ending identity checks on border crossings with Denmark that were @placeholder early last year as thousands of migrants arrived seeking asylum .", "option_0": "instituted", "option_1": "delayed", "option_2": "completed", "option_3": "started", "option_4": "mixed"}
{"id": 1051, "article": "Vauxhall station has been closed and several buildings were evacuated. The crash happened in a busy part of London at the height of the morning rush hour and was witnessed by many residents, workers and commuters. Here people describe what they saw and heard. Steve Carslake told BBC Five Live he saw the aircraft hit the crane after he got out of a van in Mill Street. He said: \"We heard a mighty bang, looked up and saw the helicopter just catch the edge of the crane. \"It didn't hit the tower block itself, it hit the crane and then just came down in a fireball. We ran round the corner. There was a great big lot of black smoke everywhere and there was a couple of cars. \"We heard someone was actually trapped in the car. We went to run towards the car and there was just a large explosion again. \"It was quite devastating to watch, I'm afraid. It was very, very sad to watch.\" Drew Lovell was in his van on the way to picking up waste bins in St George Wharf when he heard the helicopter hit the crane. \"I heard the helicopter and it was absolutely deafening. It sounded like it was above the van so I reversed it up and got out,\" he said. \"I heard a massive big bang. I could hear the rotas going then suddenly nothing. I looked again - it was like slow motion - and there was a massive plume of black smoke, so I jumped out of the van and ran across. \"It was carnage, absolute carnage. \"There was a guy walking towards me, he'd just made it through bridge and he was smouldering. He must have been thrown off the motorcycle. He was worried about his motorcycle as it was leaking oil on the floor. \"I tried to help him, his back was on fire, the back of his coat was melted.\" Mark Osbourne, from Metropolis Motorcycles, a bike shop near the scene, said he ran to try to help the injured. \"There was lots of wreckage and fire,\" he said. \"I saw a woman on a motorcycle that must have missed the carnage by six feet. It felt like a war movie, it was surreal. \"The police arrived within minutes so the response was excellent.\" Loughborough MP Nicky Morgan told BBC News: \"I was walking towards Vauxhall tube station from Lambeth Palace area where I have a flat. \"There was suddenly an enormous bang - I thought something exploded. It was coming from beyond Vauxhall Tube station. \"Then clouds and clouds of black smoke. I presumed what it was I heard was the crane collapsing or the helicopter crashing into it. I heard the bang then saw the clouds of smoke but there was too much in the way to see much at that point.\" Michael Gavin, who was waiting for a train on a platform at Vauxhall station, said: \"I heard the bang - the top of the crane was obscured by the fog so I did not see the impact but I did see the helicopter falling to the ground along with pieces of the crane. \"It was really quite shocking - there was a group of us on the platform waiting. We could not see where it hit because it was blocked by a wall at the end of the station. \"There was a lot of worried people around. I must have been on one of the last trains to get out. \"There was a lot of smoke for about 15 minutes.\" Market worker Andrew Ross said: \"I was going about my business at work and I saw a helicopter. \"I heard a loud bang and I saw this helicopter falling out of the sky. \"Then I heard a loud bang and an orange glow and lots of smoke coming up. \"It was flying below cloud cover - it was still foggy and a little bit dark. \"There was just a loud bang then the helicopter just fell out of the sky. \"I can see part of the crane on the building hanging down.\" Angela Henderson was also on a train platform at Vauxhall. She said: \"I was walking on the platform looking up at the tower and noticing the top was shrouded in mist. \"As I was looking up I heard a massive sound - I thought [it] must be a bomb. \"What really struck me was what fell down. I saw a huge cylindrical object - it looked like a Zeppelin. A huge object plummeted to the ground and as it landed it was surrounded by debris. \"Then it was just silence and everybody ran to the edge of the platform. \"There was a huge bang then we saw a huge plume of smoke just getting bigger and bigger.\" Electrician Rob Easton said:  \"I was working in the arches. I heard an almighty bang. \"I saw the reflection in buildings of a lot of smoke then I went down to the side gate and there was a fireball in the road. \"People were panicking and they were evacuating buildings nearby.\"", "question": "A helicopter has crashed into a crane on top of a 50 - storey building in Vauxhall , central London , showering the street with burning debris and aviation @placeholder and leaving two people dead and nine others injured .", "option_0": "conditions", "option_1": "fish", "option_2": "fuel", "option_3": "equipment", "option_4": "windows"}
{"id": 1052, "article": "Foul by Fernando Llorente (Swansea City). James Tomkins (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Nathan Dyer (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace). Foul by Nathan Dyer (Swansea City). Joel Ward (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Goal!  Crystal Palace 1, Swansea City 1. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Martin Kelly with a cross. Foul by Kyle Naughton (Swansea City). Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Swansea City. Nathan Dyer replaces Wayne Routledge because of an injury. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Wayne Routledge (Swansea City) because of an injury. Corner,  Swansea City. Conceded by James Tomkins. Martin Kelly (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Martin Kelly (Crystal Palace). Foul by Leroy Fer (Swansea City). Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Angel Rangel. Offside, Crystal Palace. Damien Delaney tries a through ball, but Jason Puncheon is caught offside. Substitution, Swansea City. Angel Rangel replaces Neil Taylor. Substitution, Swansea City. Leroy Fer replaces Jay Fulton because of an injury. Attempt missed. Bakary Sako (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Damien Delaney with a headed pass. Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Alfie Mawson. Alfie Mawson (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Fraizer Campbell (Crystal Palace). Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Jay Fulton (Swansea City) because of an injury. Attempt blocked. Joe Ledley (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Lukasz Fabianski. Attempt saved. Bakary Sako (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is saved in the top right corner. Foul by Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City). Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing. Attempt missed. Jack Cork (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Fernando Llorente. Foul by Neil Taylor (Swansea City). Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Fernando Llorente (Swansea City). Damien Delaney (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Crystal Palace. Bakary Sako replaces Andros Townsend. Ki Sung-yueng (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Wilfried Zaha has been given special dispensation to play before going to the Africa Cup of Nations with Ivory Coast. Swansea's Wayne Routledge will be checked after he missed the defeat to Bournemouth due to a mouth abscess. Fernando Llorente is also a doubt after picking up a knock, but Jefferson Montero is definitely absent. Crystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce: \"Our players need to get ready for Swansea on Tuesday night - that's the big game they need to win. \"Watching Premier League football this year, the top six are so much better than last year so it's always hard to pick up points against them. \"Our big game's on Tuesday, there's no doubt about it. We're going to survive by beating teams in the bottom half.\" Swansea caretaker manager Alan Curtis: \"The first goal seems to be crucial at the moment. \"Confidence seems to drain from us when we go behind. I suppose the explanation for that is that we are bottom of the table, we are not winning games and we are conceding too many goals. \"It's a crisis of confidence when we concede a goal.\" A lot of journalists have been saying Crystal Palace should avoid relegation now Sam Allardyce is in charge. They should never have been close to relegation in the first place. As for Swansea, this should be Paul Clement's first game and with any new manager you always get a reaction.  I just don't think it will be enough for this fixture. Prediction: 2-0 Lawro's full predictions v comedian Arron Crascall Head-to-head Crystal Palace Swansea SAM (Sports Analytics Machine) is a super-computer created by @ProfIanMcHale at the University of Salford that is used to predict the outcome of football matches.", "question": "Crystal Palace will have Damien Delaney available again after he missed the loss to Arsenal due to @placeholder .", "option_0": "rain", "option_1": "suspension", "option_2": "injuries", "option_3": "age", "option_4": "flu"}
{"id": 1053, "article": "Eleven of those on board were Norwegian, one was British and one Italian. No survivors have been found. A major rescue operation was launched but ended within hours of the crash. Meanwhile, Norway's civil aviation authority has imposed a flight ban on the type of helicopter that crashed - the Eurocopter (EC) 225L Super Puma. Reports say it was \"totally destroyed\". Its officials told VG newspaper (in Norwegian) that servicing for the helicopter which crashed had been delayed twice in 2015, for a total of 200 flying hours. Later, local media quoted a civil aviation authority spokeswoman as saying the helicopter's two black boxes had been recovered. The British Civilian Aviation Authority later said it was suspending commercial use of the Super Puma, so it would be unable to carry oil and gas workers but could still fly for other purposes. The aircraft was flying from the Gullfaks oil field to Bergen, a centre for the North Sea oil and gas industry. Eleven bodies have been found, and two other people are still missing. Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said news of the crash was \"horrible\". King Harald and Queen Sonja cancelled a trip to Sweden, Norwegian broadcaster NRK reported. 'Peculiar engine sound' Oil company Statoil said all the passengers were on assignment for the company, but worked for different organisations. Statoil has suspended oil production at the Gullfaks B platform \"so that we can take care of the staff in the best way possible\", company vice-president Arne Sigve Nylund told journalists. The helicopter came down near the small island of Turoey, just west of the village of Solsvik. Eyewitnesses reported seeing the helicopter's rotor blade come loose and shear off. \"There was an explosion and a very peculiar engine sound, so I looked out  the window. I saw the helicopter falling quickly into the sea. Then I saw a big explosion,\" a resident told local newspaper Bergensavisen. Photos from the scene showed thick smoke coming from an area of rocky islets. Local media said the helicopter dropped 640m (2,200ft) in the last 10 seconds before it crashed. Some wreckage was found on the rocks, and parts of the fuselage are in the sea. The tail of the aircraft was raised in a salvage operation, local media said, and  preparations are being made to recover the fuselage. Source: Airbus Helicopters The UK's Air Accidents Investigation Branch is sending a team to Norway because it has investigated a number of crashes involving helicopters operating to and from offshore oil and gas fields in recent years. In 2012, EC225 Super Puma helicopters crashed in two incidents in Scotland, one off Aberdeen and another off Shetland. Both crashes were blamed on gearbox problems. In both cases, all passengers and crew were rescued, though in 2013 a Eurocopter AS332 also crashed in Shetland with the loss of four lives. EC225s in the UK were grounded following the crashes but given the go-ahead to resume flying in 2013. Helicopter International magazine editor Elfan ap Rees said major modifications seemed to have dealt with the gearbox problem, and it was difficult to know what could have gone wrong in the Norwegian crash. \"Overall, the Super Pumas have a good safety record and they have been constantly improved and upgraded,\" he told the BBC. \"They have had quite a lot of use in the offshore industry.\"", "question": "Thirteen people are @placeholder dead after a helicopter crashed west of the Norwegian city of Bergen , rescuers say .", "option_0": "touring", "option_1": "celebrating", "option_2": "recovering", "option_3": "presumed", "option_4": "continuing"}
{"id": 1054, "article": "Engineers have been inspecting a defect on the bridge, causing lengthy delays for motorists. The southbound carriageway was closed on Tuesday night as a precaution. The road network company Amey has revealed there are eight parts of the bridge where a similar problem could be encountered in the future. There was significant disruption on the M90 and Kincardine Bridge earlier on Wednesday as a result of the defect, with a contra flow currently operating on the northbound carriageway. One commuter said: \"It's been terrible, I came down the Fife route and I was stuck for about two hours.\" Traffic Scotland reported congestion on the M90 back to junction 3 (Halbeath), while the A90 was very slow northbound from the M90 beyond Dalmeny. The A985 and the Kincardine Bridge were also very busy, with a 25 minute delay on the bridge around 08:30. The problem on the Forth Road Bridge was found during a routine inspection. Before the bridge was opened by the Queen on 4 September 1964, cars could only get across the Forth on a ferry. So the Forth Road Bridge, which at the time was the fourth biggest suspension bridge in the world and the longest outside the United States, was welcomed as an engineering marvel. It transformed the journey between Edinburgh and Fife and from the north of Scotland to the south. Traffic on the crossing grew steadily and it now carries 24 million vehicles across the Forth every year - far more than it was originally designed to handle. But its reputation for engineering excellence has been tarnished over the years by traffic congestion and maintenance problems. Read more on the troubles of the Forth Road Bridge The area involved is hard to reach, so a full inspection could not safely be carried out in darkness. Amey said the footpaths on the Forth Road Bridge will be closed so maintenance vehicles can have access, while abnormal loads are also prevented from crossing the bridge. High-sided vehicles can now access the bridge after they were initially prevented from doing so due to high winds. Mark Arndt, from operating company Amey, said: \"A key structural component beneath the southbound carriageway has failed so it is important that we carry out all the necessary calculations before relaxing safety restrictions. \"Following the detailed inspection carried out this morning we now have the information required to develop both short and long term solutions. Our team will be working through the night to design and check our plans and we aim to have these confirmed during the day tomorrow. \"We apologise for the disruption that these safety restrictions are causing. Our advice remains to avoid Forth Road Bridge for the time being and divert via Kincardine or the A9 and M9, use public transport or travel outwith peak times. \"Drivers did take heed of the warnings today and we would ask them to keep checking the latest information from Traffic Scotland before they set off on their journeys.\" Amey said it would provide further updates when there was new information. A new ?¡ê1.4bn Queensferry Crossing over the Firth of Forth is due to open in December next year. It was ordered by ministers because of corrosion of the main suspension cable on the Forth Road Bridge.", "question": "Traffic on the Forth Road Bridge will be restricted to a single lane in each direction until at least the @placeholder of the day on Thursday .", "option_0": "start", "option_1": "middle", "option_2": "noon", "option_3": "rest", "option_4": "level"}
{"id": 1055, "article": "Start again, Brian. Do you remember Johann Lamont complaining that the party she led, the Scottish Labour Party, was treated \"like a branch office\" by comrades in London? I certainly do. And I also remember the conversation with a senior Labour figure who told me: \"Brian, we're not treated like a branch office. We are a branch office.\" But, of course, you remember all this. It was, at the time two years ago, a defining condemnation of Labour's relationship with Scotland - only faintly reduced in force by the fact that it was delivered by Ms Lamont on demitting office, when a little vitriol is perhaps to be expected. That comment has hovered over Scottish Labour since, a decidedly unwelcome Banquo - although one cannot stretch that metaphor too far, not least because the recent leitmotif of Labour in Scotland has been famine rather than feast. Now, finally, Scottish Labour is seeking to dispel the Lamont lament. To push it away.  To diminish its lingering force. More precisely, the UK party as a whole is enacting a plan for greater Scottish autonomy - after a prolonged period of consultation and consideration. In October last year, Labour's leaders, Jeremy Corbyn and Kezia Dugdale, agreed the outlines of internal party devolution. Now it has been endorsed by the UK party's National Executive  Committee (NEC) and should be carried by the pending UK party conference in Liverpool. Broadly, it gives the Scottish party control over Westminster candidate selection, constituency party organisation and policy, both devolved and reserved. Ms Dugdale has voiced delight.  Whaur's yer branch office noo, as she so nearly said. Further, she told me it entrenched the position of the Scottish leader as heading an autonomous, distinct Scottish party.  She was, she said, the boss of the party in Scotland, taking orders from nobody south of the border. However, there are limits. This is, deliberately and explicitly, enhanced devolution rather than independence. Indeed, the extent of continued co-operation across the border is stressed and vaunted by the party. Kezia Dugdale told me that the party in Scotland remained firmly part of \"the Labour family\" and was fully committed, for example, to working flat out for the return of a UK Labour Government at Westminster. So the limits? Firstly, funding remains as is. Consider primarily the cash from affiliates - that is, mostly, trades unions. Generally, their cash goes to the UK party - with an impact across the UK, including in Scotland. But, when Holyrood elections are pending, there are donations to the party in Scotland. In addition, individual unions support individual candidates who are affiliated to their cause. It has been decided that there will be no attempt to unpick this. Which, of itself, involves a substantial degree of cross-border co-operation. Again, vaunted by Scottish Labour, without caveat. Then there is policy. Ms Dugdale says the new approach entrenches policy autonomy for the Scottish party. Over devolved and reserved issues. They can debate what they like, consider what they like - and adopt relevant policy positions. Except these policy positions, as endorsed by the Scottish party, will not necessarily feature in the manifesto advanced by Labour at a UK General Election. Such a manifesto is, inevitably, a digest of policy positions as set out in the party programme, determined by Clause 5 of Labour's rule book. This will still be the case, even after Scottish party autonomy. So, in the new set-up, Scottish Labour will participate in the Clause 5 meeting which decides the party's policy programme, presumably advocating positions agreed by the Scottish party. Where there is a difference between the Scottish position and that adopted, say, by the UK conference, then there will be discussion and debate. A reconciliation process designed to lead to a common position. At a UK General Election, Scottish Labour candidates will stand upon the same platform as candidates elsewhere in the UK. Again, consider context. Labour is seeking UK power, on an agreed UK policy platform. It cannot, credibly, offer voters a pick and mix. But, I asked Kezia Dugdale, what if the Scottish party wants to scrap Trident - and the UK party does not? There would be, said Ms Dugdale, a reconciliation process with regard to any issue where there was a range of positions. The difference, she said, was that the Scottish party would have a distinct, autonomous position - and would be able to argue for that within the counsels of the wider party. Devo Max, remember. And that \"Labour family\"? Somewhat strained, of late. Less The Broons. More Kane and Abel. Alongside ratifying Scottish autonomy, the Liverpool conference may be a mite - just a tad - preoccupied by the declaration of its leadership contest. It seems fairly certain that Jeremy Corbyn will win out, over Owen Smith. What then? Will the internal insurrection against Mr Corbyn, driven mostly by MPs, subside? Perhaps, for a period at least, if and when he wins a further democratic contest. And what will the newly autonomous Kezia Dugdale do? She backed Owen Smith, suggesting that Mr Corbyn lacked the broad appeal to win power for Labour. Will she continue with that tone? I would reckon not. Such comments, appropriate to a leadership contest, have to be shelved when the outcome is declared. Expect an acceptance of the outcome and an appeal for unity. Reconciliation, Clause 5 style. For now.", "question": "Remember Johann Lamont ? Silly question ; of course you do . She remains , after all , a prominent member of the Scottish Parliament . A committee convener , no less , and one who , I am told , now displays her innate wit and drollery on a particular social @placeholder .", "option_0": "medium", "option_1": "agreement", "option_2": "scale", "option_3": "topic", "option_4": "basis"}
{"id": 1056, "article": "Dimitri Seluk told BBC Sport that Toure was \"very upset\" and could leave. Toure initially played down the row on Twitter, saying: \"Don't take words that do not come from my mouth seriously.\" If they don't respect him then, easy, Yaya will leave But he then wrote: \"Everything Dimitri said is true. He speaks for me. I will explain after the World Cup.\" City gave Toure a birthday cake as they flew to Abu Dhabi and tweeted their congratulations after he turned 31 on 13 May, but Seluk says he was ignored by the club's owners when the squad arrived in the United Arab Emirates last week to celebrate their Premier League title triumph. \"None of them shook his hand on his birthday. It's really sick,\" Seluk said. City declined to comment officially on Seluk's initial claims and are yet to respond to BBC Sport over Toure's subsequent comments. The agent also claimed Toure was unhappy in March 2013, shortly before he signed a new four-year contract, but insisted this latest row is about \"respect\", not money. \"He got a cake but when it was Roberto Carlos's birthday, the president of Anzhi gave him a Bugatti,\" Seluk added. \"I don't expect City to present Yaya with a Bugatti, we only asked that they shook his hand and said 'we congratulate you'. It is the minimum they must do when it is his birthday and the squad is all together. Roberto Carlos's agent Paulo Teixeira: \"This particular situation was due to the fact Anzhi Makhachkala president Suleyman Kerimov likes Roberto Carlos very much and decided to give him a car. \"It was extraordinary situation and not common practice in football. Roberto Carlos, before the Bugatti, had seven cars. He didn't need a car but he accepted the gift.\" \"I hear one newspaper has written that City congratulated him from Twitter but this is a joke. It is better they don't put anything on Twitter if they are not saying anything to him. \"The club's owners ate a 100kg cake after winning the Premier League this season but when they and the players were all together, none of them shook his hand on his birthday. It shows they don't care about him. \"Of course Yaya is upset about this. If this happened to you as a journalist in the BBC and nobody shakes your hand, you will say bye-bye and go to work for somebody else. It is normal.\" The agent of Carlos, Paulo Teixeira, told BBC World Service he did not know why Seluk had chosen to refer to the ¡ê800,000 Bugatti Veyron that the former Brazil defender received as a gift for his 38th birthday in 2011. \"I don't see why this is coming out,\" Teixeira said. \"It's nothing to do with the contract of the player. Toure has got enough money to buy 10 or 20 Bugattis. This is about egos. \"If Yaya's agent comes out with this, it's because he understands his player, what his player needs and maybe he's trying to make the management of the club do something for the player. But I don't know why they're picking up on this, it's almost to the limit of being ridiculous.\" Seluk is adamant he is not looking to negotiate an improved contract for Toure, saying: \"No. Money is not important. He has enough money. Media playback is not supported on this device \"The most important thing is a human relationship and maybe this is his opportunity for Yaya to find that. If City don't respect him, then, easy, Yaya will leave. No problem. \"It is more important he plays for a club that respects him more than having a few thousand pounds added to his salary.\" \"I have spoken to him about leaving and we will see what happens, but, at the moment, Yaya is really upset.\" It is not the first time either Toure - who named his second child after Seluk - or the agent have claimed the player does not get the respect he deserves. In a recent interview for the BBC, Toure said he felt he was not regarded as one of the best players in the world because he is from Africa. \"Proper recognition has only come from the fans,\" he said. \"I don't want to be hard and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.\"", "question": "Yaya Toure has thrown his Manchester City @placeholder into doubt by backing up his agent 's claims that the club 's wealthy owners showed him a lack of respect on his 31st birthday .", "option_0": "origins", "option_1": "past", "option_2": "swings", "option_3": "future", "option_4": "status"}
{"id": 1057, "article": "Haseeb Hamayoon, 28, sent the image to friends and a co-accused branding the officer \"kaffir\" - non-believer - London's Woolwich Crown Court was told. Prosecutors say Mr Hamayoon, Yousaf Syed, 20, and Nadir Syed, 22, plotted an attack using a Rambo-style knife. The cousins deny all charges. The image, allegedly taken on 19 September 2014, shows the back of the officer and was apparently taken by someone in a car. Mr Hamayoon wrote: \"Look at this kaffir. Hounslow parking lot.\" Nadir Syed wrote back: \"How can you pray in such a place?\" Mr Hamayoon replied: \"You're right I'm walking out. This kaffir cop yeh.  Looking inside every car who's in there. I gave him a dirty look.\" Mr Syed replied: \"He's looking for u mate. Mi5 sent him to keep eye on y.\" The messages were exchanged on encrypted messaging service Telegram. Prosecutor Max Hill QC told the court: \"You'll see on Mr Hamayoon's mobile phone two photos taken that show a police officer or PCSO walking away from the car and around a car park. \"The photos are taken from the driver's seat of the car. Those images are created on the telephone. It's quite clear what Mr Hamayoon was writing messages about.\" Two days later, IS militants issued a \"fatwa\" calling on followers to attack Westerners. It implored them to: \"Rig the roads with explosives for them. Attack their bases. Raid their homes. Cut off their heads.\" Prosecutors claim the trio plotted to carry out a terror attack in the UK. Mr Hamayoon and Nadir Syed, from Hounslow, west London and Yousaf Syed, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, filmed themselves stamping on a Remembrance Day poppy and were obsessed with the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby, it is claimed. The trial continues.", "question": "A supporter of so - called Islamic State @placeholder a police officer in a mosque car park before plotting to carry out a knife attack around Remembrance Sunday 2014 , a court heard .", "option_0": "held", "option_1": "labelled", "option_2": "photographed", "option_3": "shooting", "option_4": "waving"}
{"id": 1058, "article": "Newspaper L'Equipe said on Thursday that the Racing Metro fly-half had been banned from playing until 14 February by French Rugby's medical commission. Sexton has yet to recover from a bang to the head he suffered in Ireland's win over Australia last month. \"He will not play a match until he's 100%,\" said Racing coach Laurent Labit. Sexton has not played since Ireland's Australia game on 22 November and has again been left out of the Racing squad for Saturday's Top 14 game against La Rochelle. The Irish Rugby Football Union's medical staff are expected to assess Sexton's fitness either later this month or early in the New Year. Ireland's second Six Nations match will see them taking on France at Dublin's Aviva Stadium on 14 February. If the reports are accurate, Sexton would be available for Ireland's France game but would be in danger of being ruled out of the Rome contest a week earlier. Sexton's exceptional performances during Ireland's impressive autumn series emphasised his importance to coach Joe Schmidt's plans ahead of next year's World Cup. The fly-half is in his second year with the French club but will rejoin Leinster at the end of this season. Sexton will be replaced at Racing Metro by New Zealand star Dan Carter who will join the club on a three-year contract and become the sport's highest-paid player.", "question": "Ireland fly - half Jonathan Sexton is a fitness doubt for his @placeholder 's Six Nations opener against Italy on 7 February according to French reports .", "option_0": "country", "option_1": "france", "option_2": "world", "option_3": "conduct", "option_4": "squad"}
{"id": 1059, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The Dutchman will become the youngest F1 driver in history when he competes in next year's championship. Media playback is not supported on this device Verstappen, who turns 17 next month, currently races in Formula Three. \"I'm a relaxed guy. I will handle it,\" Verstappen, who will replace Jean-Eric Vergne at Toro Rosso, told the BBC. Verstappen is the son of former Formula 1 driver Jos, 42, who contested 106 grands prix for teams such as Benetton and Tyrrell between 1994 and 2003. Max Verstappen will break the record for F1's youngest ever driver by almost two years when he lines up for his debut next year. Spain's Jaime Alguersuari - who was 19 years and 125 days when he raced in Hungary, also for Toro Rosso, in 2009 - is the current record holder. Alguersuari left Torro Rosso and F1 at the end of the 2011 season. The youngest driver to earn a Championship point is Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat, who was 19 when he finished ninth in this season's opening race in Australia. The Russian will be Verstappen's team-mate in 2015. Verstappen was a successful kart racer before driving for Van Amersfoort Racing in this year's Formula Three Championship. He made an impressive transition to F3, winning six consecutive races at one stage, and has eight victories in 27 races so far this season, leaving him second to Frenchman Esteban Ocon in the overall standings. Although he will graduate to F1 with fewer than 40 single-seater races under his belt, it is not unheard of for drivers to make the step up to the top level of the sport with such low levels of experience. Finland's Kimi Raikkonen had only contested 23 single-seater races when he graduated to F1 in 2001. He went on to become world champion in 2007 and is a 20-time grand prix winner. Verstappen is not fazed by his fast-track progress and believes the hardest transition has already been made. \"I think the biggest step I had was karting to F3. I think F3 to F1 will be a smaller step,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live. \"I'm not that worried about it. The cars are a really safe. I think it's more dangerous to bike through a big city than race in an F1 car.\" Verstappen's F3 team boss also believes he can succeed. \"It is a huge step but I think if anyone can do it, it's Max,\" Frits van Amersfoort told the BBC. \"I've never seen a kid that age who is so calm and so relaxed. He has incredible feeling with the car. \"Time will tell and it's a huge step, but I think Max is capable of doing it. He will need some guidance and Toro Rosso will give him that for sure.\" By joining Red Bull's junior team, Verstappen is following the same career path as four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel and his Red Bull team-mate, Australian Daniel Ricciardo. BBC 5 live correspondent James Allen said Verstappen might have the necessary requirements to race in F1 but that some drivers would be concerned at sharing the grid with a 17-year-old. \"The governing body, the FIA, has to award a super licence and you can't race a Formula 1 car until you've got a super licence,\" Allen explained. \"The minimum requirement for that is some victories in certain important feeder categories. \"Verstappen ticks the boxes, so he is eligible for a super licence, but I think there will be quite a debate this weekend at the Belgian GP.\" The ousted Vergne, 24, has collected 11 points for Toro Rosso this season after making his F1 debut for the team in 2012. The Frenchman wrote on Twitter: \"Toro Rosso is a good school. I learnt a lot. Now focused on a great end of season. \"I'm already working for 2015. Still a lot to show in F1.\"", "question": "Sixteen - year - old Max Verstappen insists it is \" more dangerous to bike through a big city than race in an F1 car \" after being @placeholder up to drive for Toro Rosso .", "option_0": "tipped", "option_1": "set", "option_2": "woke", "option_3": "brought", "option_4": "signed"}
{"id": 1060, "article": "Billy Midmore, 23, was found guilty by a jury in 2016 of attacking Carla Whitlock in a Southampton street. He was jailed for 15 years with five years extended licence for causing grievous bodily harm with intent. Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas, said Midmore had an \"appalling\" record and the sentence was \"not excessive\". Ms Whitlock, a mother-of-six, was sprayed with drain cleaner containing sulphuric acid in Guildhall Square in September 2015. Train CCTV showed Midmore giving a high-five and fist-bumping a friend hours later. The trial at Southampton Crown Court heard the attack happened after Ms Whitlock brokered a drug deal which went wrong. Midmore's brother Geoffrey, 27, was robbed of drugs and cash worth ?¡ê2,000. On the morning the acid was bought, Geoffrey Midmore sent a message to his girlfriend saying: \" It's cool though - I know who robbed me and set it up.\" Later that day, he messaged a photograph of the drain cleaner, with the words: \"This is the one face melter\". At the appeal, Billy Midmore's barrister argued the later message was hearsay evidence and should not have been admissible at the trial. The barrister, Mark Ruffell, also argued Billy Midmore should have had a chance at his trial to question his brother about the message and why he sent it. The Crown had argued the brothers, from London, bought the acid together and the attack was a joint enterprise. Lord Thomas said the sentence handed to Billy Midmore was \"not excessive or wrong in principle\" in view of the defendant's \"appalling list of previous convictions\". He said he would explain his decision to refuse the appeal against conviction at a later date.", "question": "One of two brothers , jailed for an acid attack which left a woman @placeholder and blind in one eye , has lost his appeals against both conviction and sentence .", "option_0": "died", "option_1": "scarred", "option_2": "kidnapped", "option_3": "raped", "option_4": "injured"}
{"id": 1061, "article": "Work has begun on constructing the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (Bowl) in the Outer Moray Firth at a cost of ¡ê2.6bn. More than 80 turbines have been proposed for the scheme. The new ¡ê3m fund is open to community groups, charities and non-profit-making organisations. It will operate over five years with ¡ê2m available for projects in Caithness and Sutherland and ¡ê1m for applications from Moray. Energy giant SSE, one of the companies involved in Bowl, has announced the establishment of the fund's panel. Its members are Caithness and North Sutherland Fund co-ordinator David Shearer, Highlands and Islands regional director at Scottish Council for Development and Industry Fraser Grieve and chief executive of Moray Chamber of Commerce Sarah Medcraf. Also Prof James Hunter, who is Emeritus professor of history at the University of the Highlands and Islands, and SSE's head of community investment Morven Smith.", "question": "An independent panel has been set up to consider applications to a community projects fund @placeholder to a massive offshore wind farm project .", "option_0": "awarded", "option_1": "linked", "option_2": "added", "option_3": "relating", "option_4": "dedicated"}
{"id": 1062, "article": "We're talking about the boys of February 1951 - February 1955, a band of men who broke all records and lost 15 games in a row in what was then the Five Nations championship. There were nuances, of course. Some narrow losses. A missed kick here and a dodgy call there. A try-scoring opportunity spurned. A lineout that went badly wrong. Rugby has changed profoundly but, 60 years on, don't those gripes sound a little familiar? Jock King was a hooker in the midst of that run, his international record reading played four, lost four. Jack Hegarty was a back-row - played six and lost six. Donald Cameron was a centre with the same record. Hamish Dawson, a prop, played in seven of the 15 defeats. Doug Elliot and Peter Kininmonth, back-row forwards, played in nine. Kininmonth was captain for five of them, before the mantle passed to another poor soul whose luck was no better. We mention them now because their ghosts are beginning to hover above their successors' heads six decades later. Greig Laidlaw's team are beginning to close in on them in the annals of the damned. This Scotland team have now left behind the pre- and post-war team of 1939-1947 who lost seven on the bounce. Not that they're ever likely to forget, but Laidlaw's men are on nine-in-a-row, the second worst run in the championship in Scotland's 145-year history. They can bring it to an end with victory in Rome this weekend, of course. They're good enough and they're favourites to do it. How they must crave the win, not just to build a path to the future, but to obliterate all these reminders of the past. Nine straight losses. Looked at coldly, it's a number to make you wince. Even when you put it in context, it still doesn't get a whole lot better, but it needs to be done. Scotland lost six of those nine games by seven points or less. They lost eight of them against teams that few thought they would beat. The only game they lost that they were expected to win was Italy, at Murrayfield, last season. That's where we're at. We beat them up for losing to teams that we expect to lose to. It's a crazy kind of logic borne out of frustration and angst. Rome needs to be different. There can be no excuses, no nuances. Italy are not a better team than Scotland. Media playback is not supported on this device That argument holds water against all the other Six Nations sides but not against Italy. The reverse is true on current evidence. Man for man, you'd select a heap more Scots than you would Italians in a composite XV. This is an eminently beatable side that must be put away or else, truly, the ground will open and devour Vern Cotter and his players. The nine defeats have taught Scotland more lessons than a high school kid could hear in a year. They learn and then unlearn. They heed and then forget. They move up only to move back. Scotland 17-19 France - When your opponents' lineout is in complete disarray - France lost eight of their 14 throws - you take advantage. When you're ahead with 90 seconds left, you see it out. You don't lose your head under pressure, give away a penalty and get beaten in a game you ought to have won. Wales 51-3 Scotland - You don't pick up needless yellow cards. Or in this case, an early red card that ended any chance of a victory. France 15-8 Scotland - You take your points, part I.  If you miss a straightforward drop-goal, as Finn Russell did, you could suffer. If you miss a makeable conversion, as Laidlaw did, you pile the pressure on yourself. When you pick up another yellow card, for Johnnie Beattie, you invite trouble. When you don't score in the entire second half, you don't deserve to win. Scotland 23-26 Wales - You take your points, part II. You make your possession pay. So many visits to the Welsh 22 and not enough to show for it. You keep the scoreboard ticking. You plant the seed of doubt. Scotland 19-22 Italy - When you're winning with 10 minutes to go, you don't lose your mind, as Scotland did. They mentally imploded all over the park. They conceded penalty after penalty. Botched a lineout. Missed a critical kick to touch. Picked up two yellow cards. And got suckered, again, by Italy's lineout maul. The lack of leadership in these moments was gobsmacking. England 25-13 Scotland - You take your points, part III. Scotland didn't score in the second half, again. Scotland 10-40 Ireland - You take your points, part IV. No points in the second half once more. Not enough aggression either. Maybe it still wouldn't have been enough against an Irish team on a points-scoring mission, but Scotland lost the physical battle resoundingly and almost embarrassingly. Scotland 9-15 England - You take your points, part V. Laidlaw missed a kickable penalty. Russell missed a makeable drop-goal. Scotland scored three points in the second half. Had Russell made a key pass to Stuart Hogg, the full-back might have gone the length of the field to score. We've all seen this movie before. Wales 27-23 Scotland - You don't cough up four lineouts. You don't fail to execute another gorgeous overlap for the second week in a row - John Barclay missing Hogg. You hope the referee doesn't get it wrong in awarding your opponent a try that should never have been, but it happens. It seems to happen to Scotland a lot. If there's a refereeing blunder in Rome, it can't mean the difference between victory and defeat for Scotland. They need to be better than that. They know more than any of us will ever know about the myriad ways they have lost these nine games because they've lived them, studied them, been tormented by them. Rome has to be the end of the self-inflicted damage and the beginning of something different. From those nine losses you could cut together 80 minutes of action that would make Scotland look like Wales in their Golden Era. There is talent, but is there composure, is there manic aggression combined with detached cool, is there ruthlessness or just another breakdown under pressure, is there a win or another failure? This team doesn't need to learn any more lessons. They've heard them all. They just need to win a game of rugby.", "question": "It 's safe to say that if you @placeholder the names of the Scotland players from the infamous era of the early 1950s , not too many of the current team would have heard of them .", "option_0": "presented", "option_1": "had", "option_2": "change", "option_3": "touching", "option_4": "were"}
{"id": 1063, "article": "Retail sales dropped 1.9% in December, the biggest monthly fall for more than four and a half years. In response, sterling weakened against other currencies, and the pound was down 0.10% against the dollar at $1.2330, and 0.22% lower against the euro at 1.1549 euros. The FTSE 100 share index closed 10 points down, or 0.14%, at 7,198.44. BT Group gained 2.41%, making it the second biggest riser on the index. Investors appeared to welcome the announcement that it would raise prices for its broadband and landline services, while television customers will start having to pay for BT Sport. The biggest was loser on the blue chip index was AstraZeneca, which fell by 3.36%. On Thursday rival firm Bristol-Myers Squibb said it was not going to seek accelerated US approval for a combination of its two immunotherapy drugs as an initial treatment for lung cancer. AstraZeneca's shares were hit because it has similar drugs in development. Royal Mail shares closed down 2.01%, as investors continued to react to Thursday's news of a further decline in the number of letters being delivered. Royal Mail shares had fallen nearly 6% on Thursday. On the FTSE 250, shares in chemicals maker Synthomer jumped by 12.4% after it raised its profit forecast for 2016, saying it expects to report pre-tax profits of about ?¡ê120m.", "question": "News of a sharper - than - expected fall in UK retail sales last month hit the @placeholder of the pound on Friday .", "option_0": "amount", "option_1": "end", "option_2": "value", "option_3": "front", "option_4": "head"}
{"id": 1064, "article": "Naidoo, of Indian and African heritage, has sold millions of albums in Germany, but songs such as 2012's Wo Sind (Where Are) have been widely criticised. Anti-racism groups complained after his selection, on Thursday, for the Stockholm contest. Public broadcaster ARD denied the \"brilliant\" singer was racist. Executive Thomas Schreiber added:  \"It was clear that his nomination would polarise opinions, but we were surprised about the negative response. \"The Eurovision Song Contest is a fun event, in which music and the understanding between European people should be the focus. \"This characteristic must be kept at all costs. The ongoing discussion about Naidoo could harm the image of the Eurovision Song Contest. \"This is why Naidoo will not represent Germany. We will quickly decide now, how the German entry for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest will be found\". In 2014, when Germany marked the 25th anniversary of reunification, Naidoo was criticised for appearing at a rally of the controversial Reichsbuerger group, which wants the re-establishment of Germany as a two-border state. On Friday, Germany's most popular newspaper, Bild, questioned his selection, on its front page. Anti-racism group the Amadeu Antonio Foundation also described the choice as \"problematic\". In response, Naidoo, 44, said on Facebook, in his native language, that it was \"OK for me\" and that ARD had urged him to compete in the first place. He also said he represented a Germany that was \"open to the world\" and tolerant of different religions and lifestyles. This year's contest was won by Swedish singer Mans Zelmerlow with his upbeat pop track Heroes, which was accompanied by innovative animated visuals. Germany, which came last in this year's competition, with zero points, would name a new contender as soon as possible, Mr Schreiber said.", "question": "Germany has withdrawn its @placeholder for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest , following criticism singer Xavier Naidoo 's lyrics are anti-Semitic and homophobic .", "option_0": "bid", "option_1": "act", "option_2": "status", "option_3": "preparations", "option_4": "home"}
{"id": 1065, "article": "Mark Dornan, 22, was arrested after officers from the UK Border Force intercepted a parcel sent from Belgium. The parcel was opened at a Royal Mail depot in Coventry and found to contain over half a kilo of the Class B drug. Police obtained a search warrant and raided Dornan's home in Raploch, Stirling on 8 April. Stirling Sheriff Court was told officers found a shoebox in his bedroom containing digital scales, almost ?¡ê570 in cash, and a card containing notations. They also found a message on a phone about an agreement to supply someone with a half-ounce of the drug for ?¡ê125. Dornan, a plasterer from Raploch, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of herbal cannabis. Defence agent Frazer McCready said his client, a father-of-one, had no criminal record. Mr McCready said: \"He was having financial difficulties, and was clearly beyond his means. \"Unfortunately rather than go to some sort of debt counselling, as he is now doing, he foolishly decided to embark on this exercise with regard to his debts by involving himself in the supply of cannabis. \"Clearly that type of drug was going to be intercepted, and it was. \"There were consequences immediately.\" Sheriff Wyllie Robertson told Dornan that despite the fact he had no offending history, he had \"no alternative\" but to impose the jail sentence, because of the value of the drug involved.", "question": "A man who ordered cannabis on the \" dark web \" and @placeholder to deal the drug to clear his debts has been jailed for six months .", "option_0": "had", "option_1": "managed", "option_2": "refused", "option_3": "continue", "option_4": "planned"}
{"id": 1066, "article": "It is one of the very few observations of the phenomenon from the UK and Ireland. The observatory said the detection was made around the time of a thunderstorm over Dublin on the 24/25 July 2013. The images show the sprite, a carrot-shaped flash of light, rising high above the thunderclouds as seen from Armagh. Typical lightning discharges often jump between clouds or between clouds and the ground. Sprites are associated with similarly powerful electrical fields that occur high above the clouds of the Earth's atmosphere often during particularly intense thunderstorms. The rare flashes are observed at heights from around 50 to 100 km, in the middle part of the Earth's atmosphere known as the mesosphere. Because they are red and usually far away, to the naked eye sprites appear very faint and, like lightning, only last for a very short time - at most for up to a few hundredths of a second. But they are very energetic phenomena and can measure up to several tens of kilometres across. Their discovery in the late 1980s was unexpected, and only became possible when light-sensitive, surveillance-type video cameras were introduced. The Armagh Observatory has used three of those cameras since 2005 to help study meteor activity in this region of the Earth's atmosphere. On 25 July, around 15 lightning flashes were seen between 01:00 and 03:00 BST. At 01:05 BST the luminous, carrot-shaped sprite was recorded on video. The Armagh Observatory's John McFarland said its ground location appeared to have been at least 30 km from Armagh roughly towards the direction of counties Louth and Dublin. \"It appears to be a typical 'red sprite', sometimes called a 'carrot' sprite owing to its distinctive shape,\" Mr McFarland said. \"Apart from being extraordinary and awesome to behold, the relatively recent discovery of sprites reminds us that the Earth's upper atmosphere remains a mystery, with a lot still to be learned about the environment of our own planet.\" A moving image of the phenomenon can be seen at the observatory's website.", "question": "The Armagh Observatory has @placeholder a rare atmospheric phenomenon known as a ' sprite ' on film .", "option_0": "captured", "option_1": "hailed", "option_2": "named", "option_3": "launched", "option_4": "lost"}
{"id": 1067, "article": "On Sunday, the royal couple will visit Sheway, which has helped vulnerable mothers since 1993 in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, an area of the city that has become synonymous with urban poverty and substance abuse. The visit is part of the upcoming Canadian tour by Will and Kate, and one of their first engagements over the week-long visit. Manager Patti Zettel, who described the duke and duchess's planned visit as \"mind-blowing,\" noted Sheway was modelled on a facility in Glasgow, Scotland, that had received Princess Diana's support. \"It shows a commitment to a particular group of marginalised individuals - women and addiction - for a quarter of a century now by the royal family,\" she said. Princess Diana, Prince William's mother, embraced a wide range of humanitarian causes before her death in 1997. She advocated for the homeless and vulnerable youth, and took a personal interest in some unpopular causes of the time, including people with HIV/Aids. The Sheway stop itself is brief - it's expected to last about an hour - but is important to the programme's clients. \"It's a validation that their lives and their experiences have meaning and that their stories deserve to be told,\" Zettel said. Besides the visit to Sheway, over the course of some 30 separate engagements the duke and duchess will pay tribute to veterans of the Afghanistan conflict, will visit staff and volunteers who helped support Syrian refugees recently welcomed to Canada, will meet first responders, will travel to the Great Bear Rainforest - the world's largest temperate rainforest - and will meet a number of First Nations communities. While the tour itinerary nods to Princess Diana's legacy and doesn't shy away from social issues, it also offers many opportunities to showcase the breathtaking natural beauty of British Columbia - Canada's western-most province - and the Yukon, a territory in the country's north. Nathan Tidridge, who has written extensively on the monarchy, said Canadians rarely spend time thinking about the royal family despite the fact that Queen Elizabeth is the Canadian monarch. Still, Tidridge said Canadians will tune in due to the \"glossy magazine\" aspect of the youthful royal family. By highlighting efforts towards reconciliation with Canada's First Nations, conservation and charity work, these tours help \"tell our national story\". \"Any moments that gather us together as a community are really, really, important. It's those intangible moments that royal tours really offer us,\" he said. This is Will and Kate's second visit to Canada as a couple. They were previously in Canada in 2011, shortly after their wedding. The Duke and Duchess will travel with their two young children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. As during the 2011 visit, the family is expected to be a popular draw. Shachi Kurl, executive director of the polling group Angus Reid Institute, said coverage of royal tours in Canada tends to be positive, and Canadian opinion on the royal family tends to be personality driven - many like and respect the Queen and her grandson Prince William, though have lukewarm feelings towards the Prince of Wales. But they are divided over the role of the monarchy in this country. \"When you remove the personalities from the equation and ask the bigger question about who should be our head of state, should we continue as the monarchy, or is that an outdated notion - there you do see some pretty big division in this country,\" she said. Carolyn Harris, an historian and author, said that Will and Kate, as young, modern and relatable royals, have sparked a renewed interest in the royal family among Canadians. \"There is a sense now of there being a very clear future for the royal family [in Canada].\" 24 Sept Victoria,  British Columbia: Their Royal Highnesses, accompanied by their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte, arrive in Victoria, the capital of British Columbia. 25 Sept Vancouver, British Columbia:  The Duke and Duchess will visit Sheway, the Immigration Services Society of British Columbia, an event celebrating young leaders in Canadian arts, music, sport, charity, business, and film, and finally the visit the Kitsilano Coastguard Station. 26 Sept Bella Bella and the Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia: The Duke and Duchess will travel to the Great Bear Rainforest, visit with  the Heiltsuk First Nations community and attend a reception hosted by the province of British Columbia at Government House. 27 Sept Kelowna, British Columbia and Whitehorse, Yukon: They will tour the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia and take part in the BC Government's \"Taste of British Columbia\" festival at Mission Hill Winery before flying to Whitehorse, where they will be greeted by members of the Canadian Rangers. 28 Sept Whitehorse and Carcross, Yukon: Will and Kate will visit the MacBride Museum and meet members of Whitehorse's cultural community before travelling to Carcross, where they will be welcomed by the Carcross/Tagish First Nation. 29 Sept Victoria, British Columbia: The royal couple and their children attend children's party in the grounds of Government House, which will be attended by military families. 30 Sept Haida Gwaii, British Columbia:  The Duke and Duchess visit Haida Gwaii, the archipelago on the northern coast of British Columbia and is home to the Haida Nation. They will attend the opening of the new Haida Gwaii Hospital and Care Centre. They will join local youth for a fishing expedition on the waters of Hecate Strait. 30 Sept Victoria, British Columbia: The royal couple will visit the Cridge Centre for the Family, which provides services and support for women who have experienced domestic violence. They will then meet families who have received support from the Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre and later youth working with the Sail and Life Training Society. They end their tour with a public official departure ceremony at Victoria Harbour Airport.", "question": "Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge 's visit to a Canadian charity that supports pregnant women struggling with addiction will be a \" wonderful closing of the loop \" of the work Princess Diana did in that same realm some 25 years ago , says the @placeholder 's manager .", "option_0": "region", "option_1": "head", "option_2": "organisation", "option_3": "force", "option_4": "group"}
{"id": 1068, "article": "Mr Trump accused Mr Cruz of negative campaigning and \"cheating\" and threatened to sue him \"for not being a natural born citizen\". Mr Cruz condemned the \"amazing torrent of insults and obscenities that come out of [Trump's] mouth\". The two lead the Republican field. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are contesting the Democratic ticket. So far, Mr Cruz has won the Iowa caucus while Mr Trump came first in the New Hampshire primary on 9 February. The full 2016 field Why are Americans so angry? Does America need to change how it elects its presidents? The next contest will be the South Carolina primary on 20 February. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Hewlett Packard executive Carly Fiorina dropped out of the race after disappointing performances in New Hampshire. Florida Senator Marco Rubio, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Ohio Governor John Kasich and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush are still in the race and will be at Saturday's debate. Mr Cruz released a television advertisement before Saturday's debate condemning Mr Trump's \"pattern of sleaze\", which seems to have prompted Mr Trump's threat of legal action. Mr Trump has previously accused Mr Cruz of fraud and had called for the Iowa caucuses to be restaged. He has also attacked Mr Cruz over his birth in Canada. Mr Cruz has previously said there is \"zero chance\" of a lawsuit succeeding because the constitution's definition of \"natural born citizens\" included people born to an American parent. Mr Cruz was born in Calgary to an American mother and a Cuban father. At a rally last Monday, Mr Trump repeated an audience member's vulgar remark about Mr Cruz, leading many to criticise him. 20 February - South Carolina primary (Republican); Nevada caucus (Democrat) 23 February - Nevada caucus (R) 27 February - South Carolina primary (D) 1 March - 'Super Tuesday' - 15 states or territories decide 18-21 July - Republican convention, nominee picked 25-28 July - Democratic convention, nominee picked 8 November - US presidential elections In depth: Primary calendar", "question": "Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have @placeholder ahead of a debate between the remaining Republican contenders for president .", "option_0": "shared", "option_1": "announced", "option_2": "fallen", "option_3": "clashed", "option_4": "signed"}
{"id": 1069, "article": "Andrew Le Masurier died three months ago. Geoffrey Morris from the club said Mr Le Masurier was an inspiration as well as a dedicated and passionate collector. The club's first model railway exhibition since the death of Mr Le Masurier started on Saturday and is one of its largest. It attracted hundreds of model railway fans from across the island and featured a range of different trains and models. Mr Morris said: \"The late Andrew Le Masurier was profoundly deaf, but he was one of our most active members. \"We were so proud to make a lovely nameplate in the form of a Great Western Railway nameplate, which proudly says the 'Andrew Le Masurier Hall'. \"This is our 33rd exhibition. We have held them at various venues around the island.\"", "question": "The headquarters of the Jersey Model Railway Club has been @placeholder in memory of one of its members .", "option_0": "renamed", "option_1": "held", "option_2": "established", "option_3": "revealed", "option_4": "released"}
{"id": 1070, "article": "Costa, 28, was heavily linked with a move to the club in the January transfer window. But Tianjin said: \"We have no intention of becoming involved in any unhealthy competition and, consequently, paying a premium price.\" Costa's 20 top-flight goals this season helped Chelsea win the league title. Tianjin were promoted to the Super League last season and have Italian World Cup winner Fabio Cannavaro as their manager. The club's owner, Shu Yuhui, said in January that a bid to sign Costa had been scuppered by new rules in the Chinese Super League which mean only three foreign players can be fielded per game.", "question": "Chinese Super League club Tianjin Quanjian say they have not made contact with Chelsea striker Diego Costa or his @placeholder \" during the past six months \" .", "option_0": "father", "option_1": "agent", "option_2": "future", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "actions"}
{"id": 1071, "article": "Boris took five years to build at a cost of ?¡ê350,000. The robot \"sees\" objects with sensors on its face and wrists. In 10 seconds it calculates up to a thousand possible ways to grasp an object with its five robotic fingers and plans a path of arm movements to reach its target, avoiding obstructions. \"It's not been programmed to pick it up - it's been programmed to learn how to pick it up,\" explained Professor Wyatt from the University of Birmingham. \"The idea is to get the robot to load your dishwasher.\" \"You get a bunch of objects off a table, scattered as you might have them on a kitchen surface, and the robot will look through the set of objects, find one it wants to pick up, figure out where to put it in the dishwasher, and load it,\" said Professor Wyatt. Why has Boris been assigned kitchen duties? \"It's a typical task that humans engage in. So by putting that into a robot, we hope to make the robots more flexible in future.\"", "question": "A robot @placeholder Boris unveiled today will be loading dishwashers by next year , its developers claim .", "option_0": "resembling", "option_1": "carrying", "option_2": "couple", "option_3": "called", "option_4": "like"}
{"id": 1072, "article": "In his strongest remarks on the issue yet, Mr Obama said climate change would \"impact every country on the planet\". The US president made his comments in a speech to students at the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut. He has previously identified climate change as a central issue for the remainder of his time in office. Faced with strong opposition on the issue from Republicans and industry, Mr Obama used his speech to frame the threat in terms of national security. He said: \"I'm here today to say that climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security and make no mistake: it will impact how our military defends our country. \"Denying it or refusing to deal with it endangers our national security. It undermines the readiness of our forces.\" He went on to list specific military facilities seen as under threat from adverse weather conditions. \"Around Norfolk, high tides and storms increasingly flood parts of our Navy base and an air base. In Alaska, thawing permafrost is damaging military facilities. \"Out West, deeper droughts and longer wildfires could threaten training areas our troops depend on.\" He told the Coast Guard Academy students: \"You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change are so clearly upon us. \"Climate change will shape how every one of our services plan, operate, train, equip, and protect their infrastructure, today and for the long term.\" Mr Obama has used executive orders on climate change to circumvent opposition in Congress - issuing one in March ordering federal agencies to cut greenhouse gas emissions. In China last year, he committed to reducing US carbon emissions by 26-28% by 2025, and he will travel  to Paris in December for an international summit on greenhouse gases.", "question": "President Obama has called climate change \" a serious threat to global security \" and heavily @placeholder climate change deniers .", "option_0": "criticised", "option_1": "outgoing", "option_2": "replaced", "option_3": "trade", "option_4": "issued"}
{"id": 1073, "article": "Martyn Poliakoff of Nottingham University estimates that a solid gold trophy of its size - 36cm (14 in) high - would weigh at least 70kg (154lb). He concludes that the trophy, or at least part of it, must be hollow. Fifa insisted that the metal part of the current trophy, which dates back to 1974, was \"solid gold\". It told the BBC News website the prize weighed 6.175kg, including 4.9kg of \"solid 18-carat gold\" and two layers of the semi-precious stone malachite. Nobody wins the coveted trophy outright as Fifa retains possession between tournaments, awarding a gold-plated replica to each World Cup champion. Making his case on the university's Periodic Table of Videos website, Professor Poliakoff said a genuinely solid gold cup of this height would be \"as much as the weight of quite a large adult\". \"Gold is very heavy, it's one of the densest metals that there is,\" he said. \"According to my calculations, if it was solid all the way through, it would have somewhere between 70 and 80kg of gold in it.\" The professor suggested the term \"solid gold\" might mean \"the metal part is gold all the way through - it isn't that there is a thin layer of gold and the rest is steel, for example\". \"However, I think - and I have no means of knowing - that perhaps the ball at the top, which is the world, is probably hollow... because I don't think that it would be light enough for people to wave above their heads, and also it would be a big waste of gold.\" The professor added that he was \"not very interested in football\". \"I was a teenager when England won the World Cup in 1966,\" he said. \"I didn't watch the game then and I haven't watched a World Cup match since then, but perhaps I will watch something this year.\"", "question": "A British @placeholder professor has calculated that if the World Cup trophy were really solid gold it would be too heavy for footballers to lift .", "option_0": "secret", "option_1": "community", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "motor", "option_4": "chemistry"}
{"id": 1074, "article": "The live broadcast was suspended as doctors attended to him. Mr Lee had been \"unsteady because of prolonged standing, heat and dehydration,\" a statement from his office said. \"His heart is fine and he did not have a stroke.\" He later resumed his speech to applause. Lee Hsien Loong, 64, has been in office since August 2004. Last year, he had surgery to remove his prostate gland. He was diagnosed with lymphoma in the 1990s but recovered. Mr Lee's People's Action Party (PAP) has been in power since 1959, when Singapore was still a self-governing British colony. A former army officer and Cambridge-educated mathematician, he followed his father Lee Kwan Yew into politics in 1984 at the age of 32. As he resumed his speech, he said his government's \"top priority\" would be preparing for succession. Mr Lee said a new prime minister \"must be ready\" to take office after the next general election. The PAP won a decisive victory in last year's elections. Elections in Singapore are held every five years. As prime minister, the younger Mr Lee has launched policies to build a competitive economy, introducing new programmes to upgrade the education system, investing in research and development and transforming the city-state.", "question": "Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong has fainted as he was @placeholder a speech during a National Day rally .", "option_0": "delivering", "option_1": "wearing", "option_2": "following", "option_3": "spared", "option_4": "given"}
{"id": 1075, "article": "A passenger alerted American Airlines cabin crew when his smartphone identified the network as one available nearby and police were notified. After an investigation lasting several hours, police at the airport said no crime had been committed. The flight from LA to London on Sunday was eventually rescheduled for Monday. Many broadband subscribers re-name their home wi-fi network to personalise it. When a device comes within range of the network, its name will appear on a list of potentially available wi-fi connections. While some use their family name or the name of their house, others take a more satirical approach. \"It can be a kooky way of saying you support a local football team or you want to bait your neighbour who supports the opposing team,\" said Stuart Miles of tech review site Pocket Lint. \"Some people use it as advertising. It's an unwritten code of spreading a message that you're allowed to do - but obviously sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's not.\" In a discussion about favourite wi-fi names on community site Reddit, users admitted to using titles like \"FBI Surveillance Van\", \"ISIS HQ\" and names that sounded like computer viruses to alarm passers-by. The acronym LAN (Local Area Network) - the name given to a network linking a small group of computers in a home or business hub - has also been the subject of puns. 'Get off my LAN', 'the promised LAN' and 'WuTangLAN', a homage to US rappers Wu-Tang Clan, are popular choices.", "question": "A wi - fi @placeholder named \" Al - Quida Free Terror Nettwork \" ( sic ) has resulted in a long delay for passengers on a plane at Los Angeles airport .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "signal", "option_2": "community", "option_3": "installation", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 1076, "article": "The blaze broke out in Wilmslow Road, underneath runway one, at about 18:00 GMT Cheshire Police said. Photos from the scene show plumes of smoke billowing out of the underpass. An airport spokeswoman said all flights had been diverted to runway two as a precaution and she believes it will be back to normal soon. Some planes are delayed and passengers should check the status of their flight with their airline, she added. Passengers have reported being stuck at foreign airports as a result, while others said their flights had been diverted to Liverpool and Birmingham. Adam Harrington has tweeted: \"Fire at Manchester airport so sat on a runway in Alicante for an hour and a half.\"", "question": "A car fire in a road tunnel has led to one of Manchester Airport 's runways being @placeholder - causing delays to some flights .", "option_0": "evacuated", "option_1": "bombed", "option_2": "launched", "option_3": "rolled", "option_4": "closed"}
{"id": 1077, "article": "Despite owning two platinum discs (both for his self-titled debut album), he insists he \"can't really get excited\" about awards and chart positions. \"Anyone can get a number one now,\" he says, dismissively. \"You only have to sell, like, 20,000 albums or something. \"If you speak to another band and you say, 'Oh, I had a number one album,' they'll be like, 'yeah, so did we, and John had one last week as well.' It's not really an achievement any more.\" \"You know, The charts are the charts. I can't really get excited about anything I see in them.\" Nonetheless, the Nottingham-born star has described his third album - out this week - as a \"make or break\" release. \"This is a pretty brutal industry,\" he explains. \"If your record sales aren't great, you might not get the chance to make another one.\" Fittingly, the album's title track, On My One, imagines what would happen if he lost it all. \"Three years on the road, 400 shows,\" he sings, \"Where do I call home? No place to go.\" It's a simple blues lament - just two chords and Bugg's voice - that cleaves to the singer's tried and tested template. But the rest of the album is much more adventurous. First single Gimme The Love marries a buzzing bassline to a shuffling Stone Roses drumbeat, while the string-drenched ballad Love, Hope and Misery sounds like a slightly more nasal version of Paolo Nutini. Both NME and Q Magazine have described the record a \"re-invention\" but Bugg would rather it was called \"a continuation\". \"I'm just doing my thing, man.\" Work on the album began in Malibu last year, but the initial sessions were scrapped in favour of Bugg's home demos. \"Weirdly enough, the label preferred my recordings to [the producer] I'd been recording with,\" he says. So he went back home and worked on the album in his front room, where the lack of highfalutin studio gadgetry proved to be a source of inspiration. \"In Nottingham there was a Telecaster knocking around and it only had five strings on it. That's what I did Gimme The Love on. It's cool, things like that, because you're very limited in what you can do and that helps.  When you've got a blank canvas, it can be a bit overwhelming and you can't really come up with any ideas.\" In fact, for the first time, the singer wrote the entire album by himself - laying to rest the claim of inauthenticity that has bugged him (no pun) since it emerged he  shared credits with the likes of Iain Archer (Snow Patrol) and Brendan Benson (The Raconteurs) on his first two albums. He now likens those co-writing sessions to an apprenticeship - \"free education\" for a musician who taught himself guitar on YouTube. His playing is noticeably improved on the new record, something he attributes to taking a year off. \"When you're playing the same songs every night, sometimes the last thing you want to do in the day is play your instrument. So the time off helped. I had a chance to mess around with different styles and just practise.\" He shows off a supple ability on the R&B-influenced Never Wanna Dance, and breaks out a killer guitar solo on the relationship drama Bitter Salt. The latter track is one of a handful of songs co-produced by Garret \"Jacknife\" Lee (U2, REM, Taylor Swift), who turned the low-key original into a rollicking blues stomp. \"I'd written it as a folk song. Then I recorded it with Jacknife and the next day I came in and it sounded like that!\" says Bugg. \"That can be tough. I don't want anyone messing around with my songs. But what I liked about Jacknife is [that] it was still exactly the same song, it was just in a completely different genre. It's got a Jefferson Airplane vibe about it, which I thought was pretty cool.\" Bugg was only 17 when he first came to fame and he quickly earned a reputation for being surly and uncooperative in interviews. In his first encounter with BBC News in 2012, he frequently sounded like a teenager being asked about their homework (which, essentially, he was). \"If you look back at some of my old interviews, I'm much more shy and reserved,\" he admits. These days, he's more confident, with a line in acerbic humour - but his skirmishes with the press have made him cynical. \"Sometimes in interviews, you can come across as the guy that's not so nice, or not very pleasant. But a lot of the time it's the person on the other side that made you feel that way. You know, they've pissed you off in some way and then it reflects. I don't know if they do it on purpose...\" He grimaces as he talks about being told to \"put on a smile\" for television appearances. \"Especially in America, you've got to be so enthusiastic or else there's no point in doing it. Or so they tell me. And that can be hard, when you're not feeling like smiling, to put one on. That's just not me. \"I just feel,\" he concludes, \"like the time spent doing a lot of interviews could be used making more music. Then the people doing the interviews can have something to write about. But that's just my take on it.\" He makes it clear this is not one of those interviews... but our time is running out, nonetheless. So, if the charts are no longer a reliable indicator of success, how will Bugg decide whether his new album has been a hit or a miss? \"I guess, for me, it's when you go and play the shows and the festivals and see what kind of crowd you draw. I think that reflects more than the record sales. \"And Gimme The Love's on Match Of The Day quite a bit, so I'm happy with that. I'll take that.\" On My One is out now on Virgin EMI", "question": "Jake Bugg is not , to put it mildly , the sort of person to sugar - coat his @placeholder .", "option_0": "brain", "option_1": "son", "option_2": "popularity", "option_3": "personality", "option_4": "opinions"}
{"id": 1078, "article": "It was a show of anger typical of Rio - lots of samba and singing mingled with loud calls for political change. Brazil has got used to political surprises - from major corruption probes to last year's impeachment of Dilma Rousseff - but the past few weeks here have been tumultuous. After the leaking of audio recordings where Mr Temer appears to be encouraging bribes, the country's leader is now under investigation. People are angry. Well-known Brazilian artists and musicians including the singer-songwriter and political activist Caetano Veloso took part in the concert, joining the people on the streets to make their voices louder. \"We are here for our rights,\" says actor Daniel Oliveira. \"It's an important day for Brazil.\" The president, though, maintains he has done nothing wrong and has repeatedly refused to resign. \"I think Temer is a lame duck,\" says Sergio Abranches, a political analyst who thinks this is a presidential crisis like no other. \"He'll never recover his political authority. He can remain in power though and that will be very bad for Brazil.\" \"Fora Temer\" (Out with Temer) is a chant that has become popular in recent months - and maybe the crowd's demands could be met. On 6, 7 and 8 June the country's Superior Electoral Court will meet to decide whether or not to annul the 2014 presidential elections - the elections that Dilma Rousseff won with Michel Temer as her running mate. Michel Temer: Brazil president faces new corruption accusations Brazil president retreats from attempts to suspend investigation Brazil: President Temer's first year after impeachment Michel Temer: The man who now leads Brazil If that election was annulled, it would be down to Congress to choose a successor for the period until next year's elections. Not everybody is happy with that. People at the protest chanted \"directas ja\" - \"direct elections now\".  It's an expression that was first used in the 1980s when Brazilians took to the streets to ask for democratic elections after two decades of military rule. But the chant is gaining traction once again as Mr Temer's troubles increase. \"We want to give back to the people the right to choose their next president directly,\" says Congress member Alessandro Molo, who is hopeful that the Electoral Court will decide to take Mr Temer out. \"We have a president [that] we didn't elect,\" says Arthur Bezerra, one of the protesters. \"He was elected as vice-president but not with this political platform he's trying to put right now. \"So we need to get him out of there and we cannot have a new president appointed by the same politicians that are involved in this corruption.\" The next few weeks are really important for Brazilians - if, when and how their president will leave. It is a waiting game that everybody wants to be over to get on with rebuilding political faith in the country.", "question": "It was a miserable day on Sunday in Rio de Janeiro . But the heavy fog smothering the normally sunny @placeholder did not put thousands of people off from heading down to Copacabana to join calls for President Michel Temer to step down .", "option_0": "beaches", "option_1": "evening", "option_2": "shows", "option_3": "skies", "option_4": "audience"}
{"id": 1079, "article": "Oceans hold billions of tonnes of uranium at tiny concentrations, but extracting it remains uneconomical. A report at the 244th meeting of the American Chemical Society described a new technique using uranium-absorbing mats made from discarded shrimp shells. A range of improved approaches were outlined at a symposium at the meeting. The developments are key to a future nuclear power industry. Uranium is currently mined from ore deposits around the world, but there are fears that demand may outstrip the supply of ore as nuclear power becomes more widespread. At issue is the tremendously low concentration of uranium in seawater: about three parts per billion, so that just 3.3mg exist in a full tonne of water. As a result, extracting it is an inherently costly process. Much work carried out in Japan in recent decades has sought to address that. Researchers there came up with a design of a mat of plastic fibres impregnated with molecules that both lock onto the fibres and preferentially absorb uranium. That work culminated in a 2003 field test that netted a kilogram of the metal. The mats can reach 100m in length, suspended underwater at depths up to 200m. They are withdrawn and rinsed with an acid solution that frees the uranium, and the cycle is repeated. Research has focussed on improving both the braided fibres of the mat and the \"ligand\" that captures the uranium, which has most often been a molecule called poly-acrylamidoxime. Several groups at the conference said they had been working on variations on this molecular theme, or variants of porous \"nanoparticles\" made of silica (the stuff of sand) or carbon. Robin Rogers of the University of Alabama, who organised the symposium, outlined an improvement developed in his own group: seafood shells. He said that in the wake of both Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill in the region, \"we began working with the Gulf Coast Agricultural and Seafood Co-operative... and with the shrimpers and crabbers there, and found they were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to get rid of their waste [shells]\". \"We discovered an 'ionic liquid' - a molten salt - could extract a very important polymer called chitin directly from shrimp shells,\" he added. Chitin is a long-chain molecule that is the principal component in crustaceans' shells, but its toughness and its ability to be \"electrospun\" into fibres that can be made into mats make it an ideal sustainable and biodegradable choice for uranium harvesting. While research is continuing, there is still some way to go to reach cost parity with the more mature - but more environmentally damaging - technology of mining uranium ores. \"We have not reached a point where we can 'downselect' to a [single] technology, but we have shown that we can double the capacity of what the Japanese have done,\" Dr Rogers said. \"But the economic analysis being done at the University of Texas has told us that we're not good enough yet, even in today's economy, so we have to improve.\" The work is promising enough, though, to begin to remove a concern about the sustainability of those terrestrial sources and any stumbling block that may present to growth in the nuclear power industry.", "question": "A happy coincidence in the seafood industry has raised the prospects of harvesting uranium - the @placeholder source for nuclear power - from seawater .", "option_0": "main", "option_1": "public", "option_2": "secrets", "option_3": "defining", "option_4": "fuel"}
{"id": 1080, "article": "I love all his work but, particularly, Hard Times. It is a brilliant, taut indictment of industrialism and utilitarianism. But there is also the Micawber Principle, from David Copperfield. Mr Micawber concisely reminded us of the precarious nature of economic life. He explained this to young Copperfield as follows. \"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.\" The First Minister has had to face her own Micawber Principle, of late, in the shape of the GERS figures which suggested that Scotland had a ?¡ê15bn deficit in the most recent year studied, twice the level in the UK as a whole in relation to the economy. Yesterday, in contemplative mood when facing the wicked media, Nicola Sturgeon acknowledged that the figures were \"difficult\", driven largely by reduced revenue from the North Sea. But today, facing her political opponents, there was no room for compromise whatsoever. For example, quizzed by Willie Rennie of the Liberal Democrats, she essayed a tirade against his party's former UK coalition with the Conservatives. She said she would take no lectures on the economy from such a one as Mr Rennie. What appeared evident is that she was disinclined to answer questions from him either. It was perhaps understandable. The figures are indeed difficult and challenging and politically awkward. Tough to defend. So Ms Sturgeon opted instead to attack, lambasting her opponents with eager ferocity. It may have added little to Socratic debate - but then, unless I missed it, Socrates isn't standing for election to Holyrood in May. Labour's Kezia Dugdale said the FM was \"in complete denial\", that the case for independence had been \"devastated\" and that the SNP were pursuing cuts in vital services. Ms Sturgeon retorted that Labour's approach amounted to a \"sheer and utter disgrace\". She depicted Ms Dugdale as inviting the people of Scotland to pay more in tax to meet Tory cuts to which Scotland was subjected because Labour had successfully fended off independence. More generally, she accused her opponents of talking Scotland down, of neglecting the underlying strength of the Scottish economy. Ruth Davidson had a go for the Tories. She accused Ms Sturgeon of perpetuating a \"con\" upon the people of Scotland during the referendum by underplaying the prospective reductions in oil revenues. In reply, Ms Sturgeon chose to single out an alternative example of what she believed to be deception. The PM, she said had promised an oil boom if Scots rejected independence. It had been, she said, \"bluff and bluster\". Each counter-attack by the FM was greeted by throaty cheering from the SNP back benches. Then we got to Willie Rennie. For some reason, these exchanges regularly appear notably icy. Such was the case again today. Mr Rennie challenged the First Minister to \"look me in the eye\" and say she had believed the buoyant oil figures around prior to the referendum. \"Oh, look out,\" as you can hear John Lennon declaring during the sublime closing sequence of Abbey Road. (It is Lennon, isn't it? Would have to consult my sons.) Ms Sturgeon was off. How about that coalition, Mr Rennie, propping up Messrs Cameron and Osborne, \"ripping billions out of the Scottish budget\"? Apparently, the Lib Dem leader's hypocrisy had now reached new levels. Look me in the eye, she said, batting back the challenge. Mr Rennie stared, angry and disconsolate in equal measure. PS: Neglected earlier to praise the mighty United for an outstanding performance in the Cup against the estimable Ross County. Incredible display. Incredible fight. More of that in the league and we'll be grand.", "question": "We all owe Charles Dickens a huge debt . For his warm , emotive @placeholder ; for his incisive social commentary ; for the fact that his work led to that seminal movie , the Muppets Christmas Carol .", "option_0": "voice", "option_1": "writing", "option_2": "manner", "option_3": "humour", "option_4": "media"}
{"id": 1081, "article": "He told the Huffington Post UK he could not \"believe\" it when he saw the Times reports of what he had said in a Pakistani television interview. He said his comments were \"completely wrong\", \"unacceptable\" and the product of a \"twisted mind\" - but took \"full responsibility\" for them. The peer has been suspended by Labour. Lord Ahmed told the Huffington Post that he was not anti-Semitic and said he did not have \"any explanation or excuse\" for his comments. \"I only believe in facts and to be honest I should have stuck with the facts rather than with conspiracy theories,\" he told The Huffington Post, later reiterating his apology to the Press Association. When he saw the video on The Times website of the interview he says was given two or three years ago he said: \"I was horrified... I could not believe that this was me.\" Asked if he had a message for Labour leader Ed Miliband, Lord Ahmed said: \"He's of the Jewish faith and I'm sorry that I embarrassed him or anyone else in the Labour Party. \"I'm particularly sorry to all my colleagues in the House of Lords and in the House of Commons because one thing many of them know is that I'm not anti-Semitic or a conspiracy theorist.\" Lord Ahmed's comments came in a television interview, thought to have been broadcast in April last year, while he was on a visit to Pakistan. He told an Urdu-language broadcast he should have been sentenced by a magistrate but pressure had been placed on the courts to charge him with a more serious offence because of his support for Palestinians. \"My case became more critical because I went to Gaza to support Palestinians. My Jewish friends who own newspapers and TV channels opposed this,\" the Times reports him as saying in the television interview. He said the judge who had sentenced him had been appointed to the High Court after helping a \"Jewish colleague\" of Tony Blair during \"an important case\", the newspaper adds. Lord Ahmed was jailed for 12 weeks in 2009 after sending and receiving text messages while driving. He was freed by the Court of Appeal after serving 16 days of the sentence because of \"exceptional\" mitigation relating to his community work. He had been involved in a fatal crash minutes after sending the messages on Christmas Day 2007. He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving but did not face the more serious charge of causing death by dangerous driving because no causal link could be established between his texts and the crash. But the case was transferred from Sheffield Magistrates Court to Sheffield Crown Court for sentencing because the district judge in the case felt his sentencing powers were not sufficient. The 55-year-old Pakistan-born businessman and Labour Party activist was appointed to the House of Lords by Tony Blair in 1998. He was one of the first three Muslim peers, He was suspended and investigated by the Labour Party in 2012 after allegations he had called for a ?¡ê10m bounty for the capture of US Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush. He was subsequently cleared and reinstated.", "question": "Lord Ahmed has apologised \" completely and unreservedly \" for blaming Jewish - owned media @placeholder for his imprisonment for dangerous driving .", "option_0": "outlet", "option_1": "web", "option_2": "prison", "option_3": "organisations", "option_4": "demands"}
{"id": 1082, "article": "Stephanie Meakin, from Crewe, lied about her mobility for 11 years - during which time she was also seen wading into the sea for baptisms and jogging to a bank. Recorder Mary Loram, at Liverpool Crown Court, said she was a \"thoroughly dishonest woman\". Meakin was sentenced to 15 months, suspended for a year. More updates on this and other stories in Staffordshire The court heard she legitimately began receiving Disability Living Allowance at the highest rate in 1995 due to severe back trouble, which had significantly improved by 2001. She denied dishonestly failing to notify a change in circumstances. The 51-year-old, of Springwell Close, was seen wearing high heels, walking up a steep hill and exercising her Rottweiler. She also went on a church mission to South Africa, during which she had a \"luxury\" visit to the Kruger National Park, and twice flew to see relatives in her homeland of the Philippines, jurors heard. \"The evidence was overwhelming, but you persisted in the lie to the jury that throughout you were in crippling pain,\" Ms Loram told her. The court heard she was deeply religious and established the Church of Abundant Life in Crewe after moving to the UK to marry her husband. When department of work and pensions investigators raided her home, they uncovered a life insurance application form on which she stated that, apart from high blood pressure, she had no on-going health problems and exercised several times a weeks. Defending, Andrew Higginson said Meakin's daughter had since disowned her but her sons were standing by her. He said Meakin suffers from \"widespread pain syndrome\", depression, has mild to moderate disability and now lives with one of her sons.", "question": "A pastor who dishonestly claimed ¡ê 37,000 in benefits because she was in \" crippling pain \" @placeholder the Hokey Cokey at a church Christmas party .", "option_0": "manipulated", "option_1": "danced", "option_2": "insulting", "option_3": "awarded", "option_4": "attacked"}
{"id": 1083, "article": "The 12-year-old, a pupil at Wolfreton School at Willerby, near Hull, fell into a lake near Meymac in the Massif Central region on Tuesday. She died in hospital in Limoges on Wednesday. Balloons were released in her memory at the school and special prayers were held at St Luke's Anglican Church in Willerby. Jessica was one of 24 students and three staff on a five-day trip to the Club Correze adventure centre in France. It is believed she became trapped under an overturned pontoon, which she and a group of children were jumping from while swimming.", "question": "Family and friends of Jessica Lawson , who died on a school trip to France , have @placeholder to remember her .", "option_0": "grown", "option_1": "gathered", "option_2": "continued", "option_3": "managed", "option_4": "long"}
{"id": 1084, "article": "The hosts were chasing the game after only two minutes when Alex Corbisiero touched down, before Leigh Halfpenny kicked four penalties. Australia fought back just before the break but the Lions took control in the second half for a dominant 41-16 win. (provided by Opta Sports) \"We had too many errors early on and we gave them a head start,\" said Horwill. \"We started the second half like we wanted to start the game and then we let them get away with it and they were too good. \"We dug deep and we tried as much as we could. I'm very proud of every single one of my players, but in the end you would have to say that the better team on the night won.\" After losing the second Test 16-15 in Melbourne, Lions coach Warren Gatland said training in the build-up to the final Test had been focused on improving set-pieces, particularly their scrum. That work paid off as the Lions won all 10 of their scrums, while Australia managed just three of their six. \"We just had to hold onto the ball and build pressure and we didn't do that,\" added Horwill. \"We let them into the game and we let them execute the way they wanted to and they scored points. \"It was a bit disappointing from us in the scrum. We'd done so well in the first two Tests but we let ourselves down there a bit. We've got to work on that.\" Australia coach Robbie Deans admitted he was unsure about his future in the wake of the thrashing. After five years in the role he has been coming under increasing pressure and when asked about remaining as the Wallabies' first foreign coach, the New Zealander said: \"You don't presume anything in this industry. Those decisions  are made by others.\" Wallabies' skipper Horwill gave short shrift to questions about Deans's future. \"Robbie's the coach. He's contracted, he's the coach. He's a great coach and now's not the time to time to talk about it,\" Horwill told a post-match press conference. \"We'll review everything at the end after this. Five minutes after I've played a Test match is not the time to talk about coaching positions.\"", "question": "Australia captain James Horwill believes too many errors early in the decisive third Test against the British and Irish Lions cost them a @placeholder win .", "option_0": "crowd", "option_1": "shock", "option_2": "narrow", "option_3": "series", "option_4": "group"}
{"id": 1085, "article": "A gene that scientists identified in these strange, aquatic creatures -  called tardigrades - helps them survive boiling, freezing and radiation. In future, it could be used to protect human cells, the researchers say. It was already known that tardigrades, also known as water bears, were able to survive by shrivelling up into desiccated balls. But the University of Tokyo-led team found a protein that protects its DNA  - wrapping around it like a blanket. The scientists, who published their findings in the journal Nature Communications, went on to grow human cells that produced that same protein, and found that it protected those cells too. This, the scientists suggest, means that genes from these \"extremophiles\", might one day be used to protect living things from radiation - from X-rays, or as a treatment to prevent damage from the Sun's harmful rays. Tardigrades are more commonly - and cutely - known as water bears. Scientists had thought that they survived radiation exposure by repairing the damage done to their DNA. But Prof Takekazu Kunieda, of the University of Tokyo, and his colleagues, carried out an eight-year study of a tardigrade genome to pinpoint the source of its remarkable resilience. To identify their secret weapon, researchers scrutinised the genome of one tardigrade species, looking for proteins that were attached to the DNA, and that therefore might have a protective mechanism. They found one that they have called \"Dsup\" (short for \"damage suppressor\"). The team then inserted the Dsup gene into human cells' DNA, and exposed those modified cells to X-rays; Dsup-treated cells suffered far less DNA damage. Prof Mark Blaxter of the University of Edinburgh told BBC News that the study was \"groundbreaking\". \"This is the first time an individual protein from a tardigrade has been shown to be active in radiation protection. \"[And] radiation is one of the things that's guaranteed to kill you.\" By sequencing and examining the genome, this study also appears to resolve a strange genetic controversy about these creatures. Research published in 2015, involving a different tardigrade species, concluded that the creature had \"acquired\" a portion of its DNA from bacteria through a process called horizontal gene transfer. That study suggested that some of these beasts' notorious imperviousness had been snipped out of the bacterial genetic code. This study found no evidence of this gene transfer. The tardigrades themselves, though, were far more resistant to X-rays than the human cells that the researchers manipulated. \"[So] tardigrades have other tricks up their sleeves, which we have yet to identify,\" said Prof Matthew Cobb from the University of Manchester. With further research, scientists think that genes like Dsup could make it safer and easier to store and transport human cells - protecting, for example, delicate human skin grafts from damage. Prof Kunieda and his co-author on the study, Takuma Hashimoto, applied to patent the Dsup gene in 2015. Prof Cobb added that, in principle, \"these genes could even help us bioengineer organisms to survive in extremely hostile environments, such as on the surface of Mars - [perhaps] as part of a terra-forming project to make the planet hospitable for humans\". And scientists with a fascination for tardigrades think this discovery could be the tip of the iceberg. Prof Blaxter said that tardigrade research could even explain how exactly \"radiation damages DNA, and how we might prevent DNA damage from other sources\". Prof Takekazu Kunieda told BBC News that he hoped more researchers would join the \"tardigrade community\". \"We believe there [are] a lot of treasures there,\" he added.", "question": "Researchers have discovered a genetic @placeholder secret of Earth 's \" hardiest animal \" .", "option_0": "war", "option_1": "treasure", "option_2": "clue", "option_3": "blood", "option_4": "survival"}
{"id": 1086, "article": "The History in Heels project will highlight untold stories of women from Manx history through a series of pop-up displays and events. An MNH spokeswoman said the 10-month project will let people \"follow in the footsteps of the women who made Mann\". It will run at seven MNH site between March and December 2015. Amongst those featured will be the stories of internees, beauty queens, TT racers and politicians. Co-curator Jude Dicken said the displays will take a \"fresh and surprising approach to some of the remarkable island women and their personal histories\". She said: \"We want to introduce these women to our visitors, get them to hear their voices and think about their stories.\" History in Heels also marks the centenary of the National Federation of Women's Institutes and celebrates the 65th anniversary of the formation of the Isle of Man Women's Institute. The first pop-up display will take place at Castle Rushen on 8 March to mark International Women's Day.", "question": "A project which aims to shine a light on some of the Isle of Man 's \" most remarkable women \" will be @placeholder by Manx National Heritage this month .", "option_0": "discussed", "option_1": "launched", "option_2": "supported", "option_3": "commissioned", "option_4": "replaced"}
{"id": 1087, "article": "\"Do you mean Big Joe?\" asks one woman in Liverpool city centre when I ask about the Liverpool City Region's mayoral election on 4 May. While Joe Anderson is mayor of the city of Liverpool, there are five other boroughs in this newly created region - Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral in Merseyside, plus Halton in neighbouring Cheshire. And Mr Anderson was beaten by Steve Rotheram last August in the battle to be selected as Labour's candidate in the Liverpool City Region's mayoral election. The \"Liverpool City Region\" does not have a long-established political history - even choosing its name was not problem-free. Now that a devolution deal has been thrashed out, though, what will her or his powers be? The mayor will have significant powers over transport, which could transform the lives of the 1.5 million people who live there by redesigning bus routes and offering integrated ticketing systems. He or she will also be in charge of housing, which many argue is desperate for root-and-branch reform. Liverpool City Region's Mayoral Election Candidates (listed in alphabetical order) Roger Bannister - Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition Paul Breen - Get the Coppers off the Jury Tony Caldeira - Conservative Carl Cashman - Liberal Democrat Tom Crone - Green Party Tabitha Morton - Women's Equality Party Steve Rotheram - Labour Paula Walters - UKIP Find out more about the candidates - and their key manifesto commitments Local authorities included in the mayoral region: Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton, and Wirral Along with the leaders of the six boroughs, and the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), the mayor will be part of the combined authority, which will also take control of training and skills, and consider how to best invest ?¡ê900m over the next 30 years. This isn't the comprehensive and detailed deal they have down the Mersey in Greater Manchester. Liverpool City Region has not secured control over policing and fire and rescue, for example, and are only \"working on\" a deal for health and social care devolution. In the wording of the deal, it's also notable that in many areas Liverpool City Region will \"work with\" central government rather than be \"free from\" Whitehall. There are big issues around governance too. I'm told the constitution - which will decide how policies are passed - won't be fully ironed out until the mayor is elected. Is it fair to send the voters to the polls without that clarity? Also the Local Enterprise Partnership will get to vote on whether certain policies pass. Again, is it right that a non-elected body can do that? Despite not having the depth and the history of the Greater Manchester deal, though, I have found a level of public engagement in the mayoral race. One young mum in the south of the city told me: \"You need to know Liverpool to control it.\" Merseyside's sense of identity is arguably almost unrivalled in the UK, and that could play out well for whoever becomes mayor on 5 May once the votes are tallied. There is also an economic optimism intertwined with devolution. The opening page of this devolution deal talks about commercial ventures including Superport,  3MG in Halton, and science and innovation strengths at Daresbury. These may be jargony phrases to the majority of the 1.5 million who live here, but companies like Peel Holdings don't invest ?¡ê400m without expecting a decent return. There is also growing support at Westminster. Liverpool Riverside MP Louise Ellman has been a strong voice in making sure the Buses Bill (part of devolution) delivers all that it promises. The combined authority tells me that once its mayor is in place, it will start lobbying Whitehall for even more powers. Merseysiders are known for a determination to get what they want, so we can expect a fascinating few years ahead.", "question": "In the @placeholder of many Scousers , they already have a mayor .", "option_0": "form", "option_1": "midst", "option_2": "minds", "option_3": "footsteps", "option_4": "aftermath"}
{"id": 1088, "article": "The Ministry of Public Security said 1,168 cultural relics worth more than 500m yuan ($80m; ¡ê52m) had been found. The artefacts are thought to be illegally excavated in Niuheliang, a Neolithic archaeological site in north-eastern Liaoning province. The ministry said the activities of the looters had severely damaged the site. Among the artefacts was a coiled jade dragon, one of the earliest known depictions of the mythological creature, authorities said. Unesco says the Niuheliang archaeological site, which dates back 5,500-5,000 years, was a burial and sacrificial centre in the late Hongshan period. State media described the recovery as the biggest operation of its kind since the founding of modern China in 1949. The date of the recovery operation was not provided, but the ministry said in a statement that 1,000 police officer were involved. The looters were said to be split into 10 gangs that were responsible for everything from the excavation to the selling of the relics, according to China Daily. Four archaeologists are also thought to be involved, the newspaper said. \"Artefacts are sold at a fast speed and traded frequently in a short time,\" said Cai Binghui, a police officer who was involved with the case according to China Daily.", "question": "Police in China have taken 175 people into custody in what authorities are calling the country 's biggest ever operation to recover @placeholder artefacts .", "option_0": "bodies", "option_1": "forces", "option_2": "sex", "option_3": "stolen", "option_4": "drugs"}
{"id": 1089, "article": "Fellow crew members Tim Kopra and Scott Kelly will go outside the ISS to fix a broken component, possibly as early as Monday, Nasa said. \"It will be a very busy and interesting day for Tim,\" said Libby Jackson from the UK Space Agency. Mr Peak arrived at the ISS on Tuesday. He is the first UK astronaut to be employed as a professional astronaut by the European Space Agency. The space walk is taking place so the astronauts can try to fix a component called the \"mobile transporter\" -  a rail that runs along much of the length of the space station, which a robotic arm can move along. Mr Peake, who is spending six months in space, will be following the space walk from the inside, the BBC's science correspondent Pallab Ghosh said. His duties will involve getting the crew suited and out of the airlock while talking to mission control, he added. The mobile transporter became stuck on Wednesday. \"The cause of the stall is being evaluated, but experts believe it may be related to a stuck brake handle,\" said the mission's operations manager, Kenny Todd. The space walk will be the third in Mr Kelly's career and the second for Mr Kopra. Meanwhile, Mr Peake, who is spending his first weekend in space, has thanked the thousands of people around the world who sent him good luck messages. His blog also contains a selection of some of the best messages from social media sites Twitter and Instagram. As he does not have the time to reply to each message individually, he wrote: \"The support for our launch was outstanding, and I want to thank each of you for the #GoodLuckTim messages. \"From the schoolchildren who watched the launch in class, people watching on the underground, and viewers outside of UK, your messages have shown how much interest there is in space and they mean a great deal to me. \"We are very busy up here but I promise to start sharing more of our life in space soon.\" The former Army aviator and helicopter test pilot has posted three pictures to his Twitter feed since Friday - one of the view towards Earth, one of him giving a thumbs-up to all his supporters and another of him giving blood for experiments being conducted in space. On Friday, during a live link-up from the space platform, he said his first few days in space had been \"absolutely spectacular\". Answering questions from reporters gathered at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, he said the first two hours had been \"pretty rough\" and he had been feeling \"disorientated and dizzy\". But he was able to show them a backwards somersault and said he was surprised how quickly his body had adapted to weightlessness.", "question": "UK astronaut Tim Peake is to be involved in @placeholder two astronauts carry out a space walk outside the International Space Station ( ISS ) next week .", "option_0": "seeing", "option_1": "holding", "option_2": "sight", "option_3": "size", "option_4": "assisting"}
{"id": 1090, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The two come head to head in the Euro 2016 semi-final, with Bale's Wales facing the biggest game in their history, and Ronaldo, at the age of 31, running out of time to win an international trophy with Portugal. How do the two compare - and who has been more effective at Euro 2016? Bale, 26, has had more joy during the tournament than his Real colleague - so far at least. He has scored three goals to Ronaldo's two and they came in three different group games, whereas Ronaldo's two came in a 3-3 draw with Hungary. Bale has scored two of his five free-kicks, with Ronaldo, 31, failing to score from 10, meaning he has zero goals from 41 free-kick attempts at major tournaments. Ronaldo has had more shots than anyone else in the tournament (36), with Bale joint second - all the way down on 21 and level with Belgium's Kevin de Bruyne. Poland's Arkadiusz Milik and Ronaldo's team-mate Nani are joint fourth on 19. Ronaldo has attempted more passes, with a much better passing accuracy than Bale - but the Welshman has had much more success with his dribbles. If one of these players does prove to be the hero, when is the damage likely to be done? Bale tends to do his scoring at international level earlier on, while Ronaldo leaves it late. Some 60% of Bale's goals for Wales come in the first half, compared to 38% for Ronaldo. Bale has scored three of his 22 goals in the opening 15 minutes, compared to two of Ronaldo's 60. Ronaldo has scored four goals in the last minute, something Bale has never achieved for his country. Yet. There is no doubt whose trophy cabinet is bigger. Neither player nor their team has won an international tournament but Ronaldo has won everything at club level. The Portuguese has won 12 major trophies for Manchester United and Real, to Bale's three. And that's not to mention Ronaldo's three Ballon d'Or awards for the world's top player and four Golden Boots in England and Spain. Bale has none. They are level, however, on PFA player of the year awards - two each. The two have played against each other five times in total at club level, with Ronaldo being on the winning side every time. Is this the perfect time for Bale to seek revenge against his Real Madrid team-mate? Create leagues and play against your friends in BBC Sport's new Euro 2016 Predictor game", "question": "Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo may be prolific team - mates for Real Madrid but on Wednesday they will become @placeholder for 90 minutes - or maybe more .", "option_0": "partners", "option_1": "points", "option_2": "mates", "option_3": "sign", "option_4": "enemies"}
{"id": 1091, "article": "Only Bournemouth, Swansea and Arsenal have been found to be 100% compliant with Uefa recommendations for wheelchair spaces at their grounds. Tottenham are bottom of the list with 28%, behind Watford (35%) and Aston Villa (41%). The survey was carried out by charity Revitalise before the start of the new Premier League season. It follows a BBC Sport investigation in March 2014 which highlighted the issue. In June, top-flight clubs were threatened with legal action after the Equality and Human Rights Commission (ECHR) said it had received a number of complaints about clubs, including Manchester United removing walking aids from away fans. Other examples received by the ECHR include disabled fans being prevented from obtaining season tickets, and problems such as families with young disabled children being unable to sit together at matches. Guidelines on how football clubs in the UK should cater for disabled spectators have been in place since 2004, while European football governing body Uefa's recommendations were published in 2003. The number of wheelchair spaces a stadium should provide is based on its capacity. Last month in the House of Lords during the second reading of the Accessible Sports Grounds Bill, Lord Holmes of Richmond, Britain's most successful Paralympic swimmer, called on Premier League sponsors and broadcasters to pull out of football unless progress was made in providing facilities for disabled fans. If enacted into law, the bill would give local authorities the power to refuse to issue a safety certificate to a sports ground which does not comply with accessible stadia guidelines.", "question": "A new survey has suggested that many Premier League clubs are @placeholder to fail disabled fans .", "option_0": "prepared", "option_1": "aiming", "option_2": "continuing", "option_3": "set", "option_4": "according"}
{"id": 1092, "article": "The sum comprises Premier League prize money, Champions League participation cash, and increased match day revenues from ticket and hospitality sales. The Foxes will also enjoy a higher valuation of sponsorship assets, and a growth in fan bases globally, it said. Leicester clinched a fairytale first championship on Monday evening. Chelsea's 2-2 draw with second-placed Tottenham Hotspur meant the north London club could not catch Leicester. The East Midlands club will now feature in the Uefa Champions League next season, taking them to an even larger European and world TV audience. Spencer Nolan, head of consulting at Repucom UK and Ireland, said adding fans worldwide remained \"central to realising the club's full potential as a commercial entity\". \"While it is too early to really evaluate the rapidly growing fan bases we are starting to see across Asia for example, social media provides us an opportunity to start to quantify this surge.\" This season, the club's Facebook page following has grown by a huge 540%, making it one of the fastest growing accounts of any sports team globally. Algeria's 500,000 followers represent Leicester City's largest fan base on the social network (16.7%), thanks to the performances of PFA Player of the Season, team winger Riyad Mahrez. There have also been large increases in Thailand and Italy, the homelands of the club's owners and manager respectively. Mr Nolan said the summer would be an important time for the East Midlands club to build its commercial presence. \"Leicester City FC's real commercial potential will become clearer in the season break as brands vie to associate themselves to the club and, in turn, the league winners aim to maximise the returns their status could command,\" he said. He also said that in the 2015-16 season, Leicester's TV audiences had soared by more than 23% globally - \"which will help... to increase the value of their sponsorship properties next term\". \"The task now is to optimise the value of those assets and ensure they attract the incomes Leicester City could now generate.\"", "question": "Leicester City are set for a potential ¡ê 150 m boost for winning the Premier League title , analysts at sports @placeholder and marketing firm Repucom have said .", "option_0": "education", "option_1": "news", "option_2": "data", "option_3": "rules", "option_4": "management"}
{"id": 1093, "article": "15 December 2014 Last updated at 16:16 GMT When Ruuxa was born, his mum couldn't take care of him properly and he was hand-reared by zoo keepers at San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The zoo keepers there paired Ruuxa with Raina, a Rhodesian ridgeback, when she was around four weeks old, to be his life-long friend. The video shows Ruuxa and Raina running around together, after Ruuxa recently had to have an operations on his legs. Raina went with him to the hospital and sat with him after the operation, whilst he recovered. Ruuxa has made a complete recovery and is happy to be running around again with his puppy pal.", "question": "A cheetah cub called Ruuxa and puppy named Raina have been @placeholder together as friends at a zoo in America .", "option_0": "spotted", "option_1": "knocked", "option_2": "raised", "option_3": "referred", "option_4": "exchanging"}
{"id": 1094, "article": "The Arsenal star is with the Scotland squad in Larnaca for the Cyprus Cup. Only seven of the 22 in Anna Signeul's current squad play in Scotland. \"Of course you want to develop the game in Scotland but for the national game it's great we have players who have ambition and who want to go elsewhere to become full-time professionals.\" Glasgow City have dominated the domestic game in Scotland but a lack of investment means only a handful of players can dedicate their careers to the game full-time. Clubs like Celtic, Rangers and Hibs are affiliated to the men's set-up but receive no direct funding. The contrast is stark in England and other countries such as Germany and France where they have fully funded professional leagues. It is hardly surprising, then, that those nations and others like them dominate the international scene. Little, who has just returned to the UK to play with Arsenal after a successful spell with Seattle Reign, left Scotland when she was only 16. So do other young Scots need to do the same to get similar opportunities now? \"I think so - getting that opportunity has obviously helped me tremendously,\" said the 26-year-old. \"Because the league in Scotland is not professional, you can't expect players to train at the level needed to compete with the elite.\" The Scottish Football Association recently announced that the home-based players in the Scotland squad will be funded full-time in a bid to prepare properly for their first major finals, but Little thinks the exposure and attention the competition will generate could help create a full-time league. \"What else is going to do it?\" she said. \"More exposure creates opportunity and things can move forward. The Euros can definitely provide a platform.\" Goalkeepers: Shannon Lynn (Vittsjo), Lee Alexander (Glasgow City). Defenders: Jennifer Beattie (Manchester City), Frankie Brown (Bristol City), Rachel Corsie (Seattle Reign), Ifeoma Dieke (Vittsjo), Emma Mitchell (Arsenal), Joelle Murray (Hibernian). Midfielders: Leanne Crichton (Notts County), Erin Cuthbert (Chelsea), Lisa Evans (Bayern Munich), Hayley Lauder (Glasgow City), Kim Little (Arsenal), Joanne Love (Glasgow City), Christie Murray (Doncaster Rovers Belles), Leanne Ross (Glasgow City), Caroline Weir (Liverpool). Forwards: Lizzie Arnot (Hibernian), Fiona Brown (Eskilstuna United), Lana Clelland (Tavagnacco), Jane Ross (Manchester City).", "question": "Scotland midfielder Kim Little hopes this summer 's European Championship in the Netherlands can be the @placeholder for a domestic professional women 's game .", "option_0": "country", "option_1": "table", "option_2": "contest", "option_3": "catalyst", "option_4": "last"}
{"id": 1095, "article": "Ministers said the plans would mean the \"freest and most frictionless possible trade\" with the rest of Europe. This could include a \"temporary customs union\" after Brexit to prevent border problems as the UK leaves the EU. Businesses have called for clarity since the UK said it was leaving the customs union - the EU's tariff-free trading area - as part of Brexit. The customs union document is the first of a series of papers to be published by the UK government on key negotiation issues. On Wednesday it is expected to set out proposals for the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Countries in the customs union don't impose tariffs - taxes on imports - on each other's goods. Every country inside the union levies the same tariffs on imports from abroad. So, for example, a 10% tariff is imposed on some cars imported from outside the customs union, while 7.5% is imposed on roasted coffee. Other goods - such as soap or slate - have no tariffs. The UK's departure from the EU's customs union was confirmed at the weekend in a joint article by Chancellor Philip Hammond and Trade Secretary Liam Fox. According to the newly-published government paper, the UK could ask Brussels to establish a \"temporary customs union\" after it leaves the EU in March 2019. But during this period, it would also expect to be able to negotiate its own international trade deals - something it cannot do as an EU customs union member. Once this period expires, the UK will look to agree either a \"highly streamlined\" border with the EU, or a new \"partnership\" with no customs border at all. The government said the interim arrangements would mean businesses would only have to adjust once to the new arrangements. All of this will have to be negotiated with the EU - and the two sides have not yet even started discussing trade matters. Other obstacles - including the size of the UK's \"divorce bill\" - need to be agreed first. Keir Starmer, Labour's shadow Brexit secretary, said the proposals were \"incoherent and inadequate\" and were designed to \"gloss over deep and continuing divisions within the cabinet\". \"These fantastical and contradictory proposals provide no guidance for negotiators or certainty for businesses,\" he added. Liberal Democrat Brexit spokesman Tom Brake said the plan would \"only delay the economic pain caused by leaving the customs union\". \"We still face the prospect of more red tape for businesses, longer queues at our borders and higher prices for consumers once the transition comes to an end.\" However, the CBI, which represents British businesses, said the proposal was \"encouraging\". Its deputy director general, Josh Hardie, added: \"The clock is ticking and what matters now is giving companies the confidence to continue investing as quickly as possible.\" Adam Fleming, BBC Brussels reporter, said the UK was seeking a customs union agreement \"that will keep things broadly the same for an interim period - an attempt to reassure business\". \"Firms will be told they'll only have to change their processes once,\" he said. \"In Brussels, EU negotiators are likely to stick to their position that that the future relationship can't be considered until agreement has been reached on their priority issues - the rights of citizens, a financial settlement and the Irish border.\" BBC political correspondent Ben Wright said the UK government was \"straining to show that it does have a route-map for Brexit\". He said ministers were also attempting to \"subtly\" put the issue onto the negotiating table sooner than  Brussels wants. \"They want to hustle EU negotiators into talking about trade much sooner than Brussels intends,\" our correspondent said.", "question": "The UK has set out the \" ambitious new customs arrangement \" it wants to @placeholder with the EU after Brexit .", "option_0": "stay", "option_1": "have", "option_2": "secure", "option_3": "coincide", "option_4": "proceed"}
{"id": 1096, "article": "Hygiene concerns about Cats, Cakes and Coffee were raised shortly after it opened in Leicester in August. A hygiene rating of one means \"major improvement necessary\". But owner Lisa Rivers insisted she was only given the low rating because of a paperwork problem, and closed the cafe due to her own ill health. \"The cats are all back at their home, and happy and healthy,\" said Ms Rivers. \"The rating of one was given purely because I didn't have the paperwork on the premises on the day the environmental health visited.\" Leicester City Council, which inspected the cafe, received several reports from concerned members of the public. Dominic Shellard, vice chancellor of De Montfort University in Leicester, tweeted that he was \"very disturbed\" when he visited the cafe describing an \"overpowering smell of cat faeces\". But Ms Rivers insisted the cafe was hygienic and the cats were happy. The charity Cats Protection has concerns about cat cafes, and said there are \"welfare implications of having a number of cats in a limited space with groups of people unknown to them coming and going throughout the day\". The world's first cat cafe is thought to have opened in Taiwan in 1998, and the concept then became popular in Japan. The idea has spread around the world in recent years, with cat cafes in Paris and London attracting long waiting lists.", "question": "A cat cafe offering animal lovers the chance to \" snuggle \" pets while having a snack has closed down after receiving a @placeholder hygiene rating of just one .", "option_0": "food", "option_1": "public", "option_2": "mountain", "option_3": "drug", "option_4": "growing"}
{"id": 1097, "article": "But they are not movie stars or supermodels: they are Hong Kong's A-list \"tutor kings\" and \"tutor queens\", offering pupils a chance to improve mediocre grades. In Hong Kong's consumer culture, looks sell. Celebrity tutors in their sophisticated hair-dos and designer trappings are treated like idols by their young fans who flock to their classes. And they have earnings to match - some have become millionaires and appear regularly on television shows. \"If you want to be a top tutor, it definitely helps if you are young and attractive. Students look at your appearance,\" said Kelly Mok, 26, a \"tutor queen\" at King's Glory, one of Hong Kong's largest tutorial establishments. Her designer clothes and accessories are not just for the billboards; it's how she likes to dress outside classes. But she is also careful to add that she wouldn't be in such high demand if she could not deliver top grades in her subject, English. Richard Eng from Beacon College is often credited with being the first of Hong Kong's \"star tutors\". A former secondary school teacher, he says he got the idea after he featured in photographs advertising his sister, a performance artist. \"In school all the teachers look the same, there's no excitement,\" he said. His own image appears on special ring-binders and folders containing study tips, or pens which harbour a pull-out scroll with his picture and other gifts. Such items became so sought after that they propelled him to near-rock star status among young people. The celebrity tutor phenomenon is a result of the huge growth in out-of-school tutoring in Asia. It is fuelled by highly pressured examination systems and ambitious parents wanting their children to secure places at top universities and high-status secondary schools. In societies where success is equated with good exam results, parental anxiety converts into a \"steady stream of revenue\" for tutoring establishments, according to a study by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The tutoring industry, or \"shadow education\" as the ADB calls it, has become very widespread in Asia, fed by the growth in universities and the rising proportion of school leavers aiming for university. Hong Kong University's professor Mark Bray, one of the authors of the ADB study, said a staggering 72% of final-year school students in Hong Kong now go to private tutors. Richer families have always paid for individual tutoring, but the star tutors offer exam tips and revision notes to the less well-off,  studying in groups of over 100. It's not just Hong Kong. Tutoring has \"spread and intensified in Asia and become more commercialised,\" said professor Bray. In South Korea, 90% of primary school children attend such classes. In South Korea, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India, tutorial schools use star tutors to attract even more students. \"They have found a way to appeal to young people and pull them in. They create a buzz,\" he said. \"We had this phenomenon of star tutors in Kota as well,\" said Pramod Maheshwari, chief executive of Career Point Coaching School in Kota, Rajasthan, India, a city of residential tutorial colleges which attract students from all over the country. \"It can give you an edge.\" But ultimately, he says, expansion of tutoring is driven not by personalities but by \"the inefficiency of the school system\". \"Across India, students' education level is not up to the mark, and millions are preparing for competitive college examinations. It is a huge market,\" said Mr Maheshwari. In China, where private tutorial schools were unknown until the economy opened up in the 1990s, New Oriental Education and Technology has grown to become one of the largest tutoring schools in Asia with around 2.4 million students this year. It boasts 17,600 teachers in 49 cities and an online network of over 7.8 million users. Listed on the New York stock exchange since 2006, its founder Michael Yu (also known as Yu Minhong), became a multi-millionaire on the back of his blend of rote learning exercises, stand-up comedy and motivational speeches. A man from a humble background, who had become an English teacher at Peking University, Mr Yu used the Hong Kong model of employing star tutors to prepare students for tests for universities abroad. Extensive tutoring is sometimes seen as contributing to East Asian countries' high performance in international school comparisons, particularly in mathematics. But professor Bray points out that the high performers in the international Pisa tests (Programme for International Student Assessment) also include countries that do not use much tutoring, such as in Scandinavia. There have also been attempts to reduce the impact of tuition. In the 1980s, the South Korean government issued a blanket prohibition on such private tutoring. It proved to be unenforceable, but it reflected worries that tuition can put too much pressure on pupils, with teachers complaining that pupils were falling asleep in class after long nights of tutoring. In 2009, the South Korean government adopted measures to limit the number of hours students spent in \"hagwons\" or tutorial centres in a bid to reduce childhood stress and increase the level of creative thinking. But the impact has been limited, pushing many tutorial classes online. The government has since realised that the only way to change is to alter the exam culture, reducing the number of university entrance exams and encouraging universities to consider applicants on more than just exam scores. A Singaporean study showed that while tutoring can have a positive influence on the subject being tutored, time taken away from other subjects may lead to a decline in overall academic performance. The ADB report says in all parts of Asia, families are spending a considerable amount of the household income on tutoring. It may contribute to improved achievement for individual students, but it can exacerbate social inequalities. Although there is some evidence of a cultural propensity to pay for tutoring - cities such as Vancouver in Canada and Sydney in Australia with large Chinese communities have a lot of tutoring - this is not the only factor. \"What happens in tutoring depends on what the schools and universities ask for. The parents will respond to whatever they think will get them in,\" said professor Bray. Hong Kong recently shifted from a system similar to GCSEs and A-levels used in the UK to a single examination taken at age 17, leading to an explosion in tutoring. \"There is greater pressure on students because there is only one examination that determines whether you get into university,\" said Kelly Mok. \"With so many tutors in Hong Kong, students don't know who to choose so they go for the 'tutor kings' and 'tutor queens',\" she said. Some students just attend the lectures and watch video recordings of lectures while others purchase add-ons such as personalised interaction with the star tutor or tutor's aide via Facebook or email. But as more students enrol, it can become increasingly difficult to keep up with examination tips learned by classmates. \"Students who would not otherwise have had tutoring may now do so in order not to be at a competitive disadvantage,\" says professor Bray. But Richard Eng denies that tutors are sowing panic. \"Panic comes from the exams themselves. If there was no examination in Hong Kong, no matter what I say or look like, they would not come to me.\"", "question": "They strike glamorous poses in posters in shopping malls and on the @placeholder of buses .", "option_0": "seats", "option_1": "benefits", "option_2": "roof", "option_3": "sides", "option_4": "future"}
{"id": 1098, "article": "The research, funded by Tenovus Cancer Care, found cancer survivors need greater support from health organisations following treatment. University of South Wales researcher Jonathan Tigwell is presenting his initial findings at the National Cancer Research Institute conference. The full report will be published in February next year. Mr Tigwell conducted the study with 15 women, 13 of whom were Welsh, to get a detailed understanding of their experiences. \"There is increasing scientific evidence linking work to health maintenance and that work may help with recovery for conditions such as cancer,\" he said. \"If breast cancer survivors are returning to work at the wrong time, this can significantly affect their long term health, negatively impact on their wider relationships and create avoidable unemployment that would lead to further economic impact.\" Rhiannon Skilton of Tenovus Cancer Care said: \"We have supported more than 2,600 women with breast cancer during the last year, many of whom will have already gone, or will be considering going, back to work.\" Case study Amanda Symonds, 48, from Gwaelod y Garth, near Cardiff, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014 and discharged from Velindre Hospital on New Year's Eve. The single mother-of-one said: \"The thought I had in my mind then was, 'I'm not just closing a chapter on this year, I'm closing the whole book'. But it wasn't to be. \"I would go as far as to say I found this year much harder to deal with than last year.\" She said her treatment and support at Velindre had been \"amazing\" but felt she lost her \"comfort blanket\" when she was discharged. \"They do tell you you're going to feel rubbish for a while after your treatment's finished, it's very tiring, but I wasn't prepared for how rotten it's made me feel.\" Ms Symonds had a phased return back to work and her employer, United Welsh Housing Association had been \"absolutely marvellous\", but two months in she was going to bed as soon as she finished work. She said she had seen a cancer psychologist, but her worries were not about the cancer coming back, they were about getting back to normal and having her life back.", "question": "Support for breast cancer patients should not end when they are @placeholder , according to a new study .", "option_0": "entitled", "option_1": "cured", "option_2": "drowning", "option_3": "admitted", "option_4": "hospitalized"}
{"id": 1099, "article": "Take a look at how they got on as they learned from the professionals how to make and report the news. BBC weather presenter Carol Kirkwood brightened up School Report News Day by passing on some good advice to pupils from Lilian Baylis Technology School in south London. She told Elizabeth and Marta that the secret to good broadcasting was all in the breathing. Scott Mills and Radio 1 co-presenter Chris Stark came in to the School Report newsroom to help pupils phone schools around the UK for updates for the live page. It reminded Scott of his first work experience placement and Chris said everyone was working really hard, despite the lack of coffee! School reporters Sherona and Marijudy, both 14, from St Mary's Catholic High School in Croydon, have been learning how to use their smartphones to shoot video and edit audio. They've also picked up some top tips on zooming in with your feet rather than the camera. What's the worst thing about getting up early? When has a news story changed while you're on air? Pupils asked their questions live on BBC Radio 2. School Reporters from Lister Community School in Newham interviewed BBC Radio 3 presenter Suzy Klein and British solo-clarinettist Emma Johnson. Among other nuggets, they learned some top tips about broadcasting and how to improve as a musician. School Reporters from Prendergast Ladywell School in Lewisham spent their BBC School Report News Day at the BBC's 1Xtra studios. They met and interviewed the radio station's Sarah Evans and presenter A. Dot, and discovered how the studio operates from day to day. Students fromHaggerston School in Hackney spent School Report News Day with BBC Newsbeat learning exactly what skills are needed to be a broadcaster. Rrahiim, Mildred, Reuben, Colin and Tobi list their top-tips for future School Reporters.", "question": "Pupils from schools around the @placeholder have been visiting the BBC on School Report Day , meeting presenters , journalists and producers who work there .", "option_0": "continent", "option_1": "globe", "option_2": "region", "option_3": "country", "option_4": "pace"}
{"id": 1100, "article": "In his closing speech, prosecutor Philip Evans told Woolwich Crown Court the men had given \"lies\" and \"half truths\" as evidence during the trial. Carl Wood, William Lincoln, Jon Harbinson and Hugh Doyle all deny being part in the ?¡ê14m theft. Four other men have already pleaded guilty to taking part in the raid. Summing up the case against the accused men, Mr Evans said the robbery had involved a \"staggering sum of money\" and had been a carefully planned operation by men who knew what they were doing. He asked the jury to consider whether the \"ringleaders\" - who had already pleaded guilty - would have trusted those on trial to look after their jewel-laden bags and not take a \"peek\" inside. \"The men who have pleaded guilty were a group who thrived on acquisitive crime - taking people's money and possessions, greed in reality. \"What they needed were people who wouldn't question that,\" he said. Referring to Mr Lincoln's claim that he did not know what was in the bags he helped move, he asked the jury whether they could \"believe that for one second?\" \"They were never going to let that significant commodity go into the hands of someone they did not trust,\" he said. Mr Evans insisted the four men had not told the truth to the court. \"On each of the four occasions that you have heard the defendants give evidence, each of them have told you lies,\" Mr Evans said. He added that it did not matter what size role each of the men had played because \"if you take part knowingly, you're guilty\". The case continues. Daniel Jones, 60, of Park Avenue, Enfield; John Collins, 75, of Bletsoe Walk, Islington; Terry Perkins, 67, of Heene Road, Enfield, and Brian Reader, 76, of Dartford Road, Dartford, have all previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary.", "question": "Four men accused of being part of the Hatton Garden raid were trusted to be involved because of their \" @placeholder to the ringleaders \" , a court has heard .", "option_0": "allegiance", "option_1": "response", "option_2": "actions", "option_3": "note", "option_4": "connections"}
{"id": 1101, "article": "If you don't like the latter, I'm afraid there's only bad news in store - there will be more leaflets and canvassing than ever during the next six weeks. That's in large part due to the fact that there is a real spring in the step of the smaller parties, buoyed by a general disappointment in their larger, more-established, opponents. Let's talk about UKIP first because it is they who are making this election so different across the North West. In terms of winning seats, their main - and arguably only - Greater Manchester target appears to be Heywood and Middleton, where they ran Labour very close in last autumn's by-election. But UKIP's impact will be felt much more widely - their claim last week that they are the \"new party for the working class\" will have sent shivers down some Labour spines. The Tories, meanwhile, are just as worried about losing precious votes in the key marginals which will ultimately decide the result of the election nationally. Chancellor George Osborne will surely be hoping his devolution deals, and the inclusion of Greater Manchester in the so-called Northern Powerhouse, will win over some hearts, minds and votes - but for decades this hasn't been a happy hunting ground for Conservatives. The Greens are also talking up their chances, but it will be interesting to see from whom will their votes come if they do? And will Bez have as much of an impact on politics in Salford and Eccles as he did on the Manchester music scene with the Happy Mondays? Bez - more formally known as Mark Berry - will be fighting on an anti-fracking ticket in the seat being vacated by Labour's Hazel Blears, who has represented the area since 1997. Political punditry can often be a mug's game but let's take a look at some of the other key battles across the region. Labour is very confident of taking Manchester Withington back from the Liberal Democrats. John Leech may have voted against his government on the Bedroom Tax/ Spare Room Subsidy issue, but his party's U-turn on university tuition fees may not play so well in a constituency packed with students. The Lib Dems could also be at risk in their more established seats of Hazel Grove and Cheadle, but their support is much more established in those seats. Elsewhere, the Tories are after Bolton West - where Labour's Julie Hilling has a majority of just 92 - while Labour fancy their chances of regaining Bury North. Conservative David Nuttall swept in there last time after the expenses scandal which ultimately saw the jailing of Labour incumbent David Chaytor. During the next six weeks, BBC North West Online and BBC Radio Manchester will be giving you all the information you need to make an informed choice about the parties and their positions. Three big events during the campaign will be one-hour live debates on Thursday evenings from mid-April, in Withington, Heywood and Bolton. The economy, immigration, and health - chosen as a result of audience research - will be the main themes. Will the parties' manifestos come alive or quickly unravel? Will there be any \"Gillian Duffy\" moments when the party leaders visit our area? Nobody yet knows but it will be fascinating to watch it all unfold. And to return to the Greater Manchester run - It's a 10k grind rather than a sprint - something we should all remember as this first week of the campaign begins to pick up pace. You can follow my updates on Twitter and listen to my reports on BBC Radio Manchester throughout the campaign.", "question": "It 's always just after the clocks go forward that the streets around here fill up with two things - people in garish clothes training for the Great Manchester run , and political candidates @placeholder your vote .", "option_0": "follow", "option_1": "claimed", "option_2": "winning", "option_3": "chasing", "option_4": "awaiting"}
{"id": 1102, "article": "Williams was presented with the Freedom of Stoke-on-Trent at the city's Town Hall in July. A Freedom of Information request found ¡ê100 was spent on catering after the singer requested guests be provided with cheese and bacon oatcakes. The remainder of the ¡ê259 total was spent on flowers and ceremonial scrolls, the authority said. A series of events was held in Stoke earlier this year to mark the star's 40th birthday. Williams, who grew up in the city, told the private ceremony he was \"honoured\" by the accolade. Oatcakes, which resemble a pancake with a sweet or savoury filling, are considered a traditional Staffordshire delicacy. In recent years there has been a push for the dish to be awarded protected status, as in the case of Cornish pasties or Melton Mowbray pork pies.", "question": "A council spent ¡ê 100 on oatcakes @placeholder at a ceremony honouring Robbie Williams , it has been revealed .", "option_0": "aimed", "option_1": "show", "option_2": "beach", "option_3": "buried", "option_4": "served"}
{"id": 1103, "article": "Calls to the NHS 111 helpline have been a lot higher than the same time last year. Yet the weather has not been unusual for winter and norovirus and flu numbers are nothing out of the ordinary. So what's going on? Nobody, it seems, has a very clear answer. The weekly NHS England figures (ending 24 January) reveal an 8% year-on-year increase in attendances at major A&E units. Calls to 111 were 20% higher than the same week last year. A Welsh government spokesman said there had been a sharp rise in the number of people seeking treatment in emergency departments. It seems to have been a similar picture in Scotland, though with some improvement on last winter according to its government. This week the pressures don't seem to have eased, though we don't yet have the detailed data. There were reports of an \"extremely serious situation\" at one hospital which had to cancel all routine operations and appointments, apart from cancer surgery, for two days. GPs in north London were told that two local hospitals were experiencing \"very high pressure on beds\" which created a \"significant challenge to safe operating\". Practices were asked to consider using alternative options for their patients including walk-in centres. It adds up to a service under even greater pressure than most had expected. NHS England noted there had been bad weather last week, which might have accounted for some of the increase in patient numbers. But while paying tribute to the \"remarkable\" job done by staff in providing high quality services, NHS chiefs acknowledged the \"very real\" pressures which were not expected to ease in the run-up to spring. Heads of emergency departments point out there has not been a sudden new spike in numbers of people coming through their doors. They argue that there has been a steadily increasing trend going back a couple of years. Familiar factors are quoted, including numbers of frail, elderly patients with multiple conditions needing an increasing range of care and treatment. One specialist in geriatric medicine told me more older patients were coming into A&E because of problems with care in their home. This could be because social care was lacking in some way, or because a spouse had become unable to cope. But the surge in hospital attendances was by no means dominated by the over-65s. One theory being put forward is that A&E is a well-regarded \"brand\" amongst the public and is trusted to deliver high quality care even with a wait. This could tie in with people feeling that their local GP practice is overburdened and a perception that appointments are not easy to get. In a 24/7 culture people increasingly expect instant service, including from the NHS. Winters are always busy in the NHS and there are always difficult weeks. This one is unusual because of the scale of the increase in demand. If one thing is clear, it is that people are not getting the message to avoid A&E and go elsewhere unless it's a genuine emergency. Special report page: For the latest news, analysis and video Winter across the UK:  A guide to how the NHS is coping Video: Why hospitals are under so much pressure Video: How a hospital can grind to a halt", "question": "The numbers @placeholder in accident and emergency units have surged .", "option_0": "arriving", "option_1": "crash", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "network", "option_4": "lost"}
{"id": 1104, "article": "Phone footage showing Kashif Samuels hurling racist and Islamophobic abuse at the Turkish man in Tottenham, north London, went viral on 15 October. Samuels, 25, who handed himself into the police, said he was \"ashamed and disgusted\" at his actions. Speaking before sentencing by Highbury Corner magistrates, he said he saw a \"monstrous person\" in the footage. Samuels, who pleaded guilty on 21 October to a racially aggravated public order offence, said: \"It's definitely nothing I can be proud of.\" He told BBC Radio London: \"I saw a monstrous person to be honest I didn't realise existed within me, and now that I've seen it all I can try and do now is prove through future actions that that is not who I am or what I want to be.\" Samuels, of Duffield Drive, Tottenham, described himself as \"a person of colour\" and said: \"I can't ask for forgiveness, all I can say is my remorse and sorrow is genuine.\"", "question": "A former chef who @placeholder a man 's walking frame off a London bus has been jailed for four months .", "option_0": "threw", "option_1": "mounted", "option_2": "named", "option_3": "wore", "option_4": "criticised"}
{"id": 1105, "article": "Stephen Downes, from Glebe Gardens in Moira, is a teacher at Parkview Special School, Lisburn, County Antrim. He had denied hitting a child's face after she took another pupil's milk. He also denied assaulting a second girl who then fell against a radiator . Parents of the two children said they were glad justice had been done. They added that the case had been very difficult for their families. The children both attend Parkview Special School where Downes has been a senior teacher since 1997. The offences took place in late 2010 and early 2011. He had faced a total of five charges but the judge at Lisburn magistrates court dismissed three of them and found him guilty of two charges. Downes is due to be sentenced on 10 May.", "question": "A special @placeholder teacher has been found guilty of cruelty to children after he assaulted two 12 - year - old girls who have severe learning difficulties .", "option_0": "aged", "option_1": "drugs", "option_2": "needs", "option_3": "disabled", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 1106, "article": "The men can now delicately pluck the stalks out of cherries. Sensors on the artificial hand are used to send signals directly to the nerves, the study, published in Science Translational Medicine, said. Meanwhile, a Swedish team has made a separate breakthrough in artificial limbs - anchoring bionic arms directly on to the bone to improve control. One of the beneficiaries of the American work was Igor Spetic, who lost his right hand in an accident four years ago. He was fitted with a bionic replacement, but it was incapable of feeling the world around him. He had to carefully watch what he was doing and judge by eye whether he was squeezing too hard. A team at Case Western Reserve University attached sensors to the bionic hand and in surgery fitted \"cuffs\" around the remaining nerves, which were capable of delivering electronic stimulation. The team could send different patterns of electronic stimulation to the nerves using a computer. These were interpreted in the brain as different sensations. The team \"mapped\" these sensations to 19 different locations on the hand, from the palm to the tip of the thumb, and matched the sensors to the different electronic patterns of stimulation. They then moved on to pressure and textures. Mr Spetic can tell, while blindfolded, whether he is handling different materials such as Velcro or sandpaper. He has been using the sensing hand for two-and-a-half years. Another patient has been using the system for one and a half years. Lead researcher Prof Dustin Tyler told the BBC: \"They can do really fine delicate tasks now. \"We believe within five to 10 years we will have a system completely implanted so we would see a person in the morning, they would have the procedure to put electrodes on each nerve and a device for their pocket, so that when they turn it on they can feel their hands.\" Mr Spetic said: \"I would love to feel my wife's hand, just to hold hands would be the ultimate.\" In both patients the modified hand had the added bonus of eliminating \"phantom limb pain\", in which patients still feel pain from the hand that is no longer there. Meanwhile, scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden say they have implanted the first bone-anchored bionic arm. The technique known as \"osseointegration\" involved connecting the arm directly to the bone, nerves and muscles in the residual stump of the patient's arm. It gave the patient better control. Dr Max Ortiz Catalan said: \"We have used osseointegration to create a long-term stable fusion between man and machine, where we have integrated them at different levels. \"The artificial arm is directly attached to the skeleton, thus providing mechanical stability. \"Then the human's biological control system, that is nerves and muscles, is also interfaced to the machine's control system. \"Reliable communication between the prosthesis and the body has been the missing link for clinical implementation of neural control and sensory feedback, and this is now in place.\"", "question": "Advances in bionic hands have @placeholder a sense of touch to two patients for more than a year , report US scientists .", "option_0": "restored", "option_1": "held", "option_2": "added", "option_3": "launched", "option_4": "extended"}
{"id": 1107, "article": "The 34-year-old hooker also told the Australian Broadcasting Corp that he was stepping down as captain immediately. \"I think it's the right time to call time on my career at this level,\" said Moore, who has played 120 Tests. Flanker Michael Hooper is set to take over the captaincy of the Wallabies, according to local media. Moore, who has played in three World Cups since his debut in 2005, said he had been considering the \"very tough\" decision for months. Injuries \"were not a factor\", he added. \"It has been a big part of my life and it means a lot to me playing for Australia,\" he told the ABC. \"I felt it is the right time to finish the year strongly and then let the next crop of players take the team forward.\" Moore, the 10th most capped international player of all time, plans to play one more season of Super Rugby with the Queensland Reds before retiring from the sport.", "question": "Wallabies skipper Stephen Moore has announced he will @placeholder international rugby union by the end of the year .", "option_0": "remain", "option_1": "receive", "option_2": "quit", "option_3": "replace", "option_4": "miss"}
{"id": 1108, "article": "Neither side was able to take the initiative before the break. Omari Sterling-James ventured forward and drilled against the base of a post for the Moors and that was the closest either side came. Ryan Cresswell broke the deadlock early in the second half when he advanced to head in an inswinging corner. Another defender, Reda Johnson, soon made it two as he connected with a long Michael Green throw and dispatched past Nathan Vaughan. The comfortable win saw Moore end his new club's four-match losing streak with a fully deserved clean sheet. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Eastleigh 2, Solihull Moors 0. Second Half ends, Eastleigh 2, Solihull Moors 0. Substitution, Eastleigh. Jai Reason replaces Andy Drury. Andy Drury (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Substitution, Eastleigh. James Constable replaces Ryan Bird. Substitution, Solihull Moors. Stefan Moore replaces Jordan Gough. Substitution, Solihull Moors. Connor Franklin replaces Darryl Knights. Goal!  Eastleigh 2, Solihull Moors 0. Reda Johnson (Eastleigh). Goal!  Eastleigh 1, Solihull Moors 0. Ryan Cresswell (Eastleigh). Substitution, Solihull Moors. Shepherd Murombedzi replaces Bobby James Moseley. Second Half begins Eastleigh 0, Solihull Moors 0. First Half ends, Eastleigh 0, Solihull Moors 0. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.", "question": "Ronnie Moore celebrated his first home game as Eastleigh manager in @placeholder with a win at home to Solihull Moors .", "option_0": "points", "option_1": "deal", "option_2": "touch", "option_3": "discussions", "option_4": "style"}
{"id": 1109, "article": "With the game at 0-0, Rangers striker Conor Washington's header hit the bar and appeared to cross the line but it was not given by the officials. \"It is very difficult to take for my lads,\" Holloway told BBC Radio London. \"Unfortunately we are left bemoaning a decision where we scored a goal and it wasn't given.\" Having lost their Championship fixture thanks to Sam Gallagher's stoppage-time winner, Holloway thinks its time that technology is used to help the officials in the second tier. \"We scored today but we lost 1-0. Can you please explain that to me Fifa, Uefa or whoever you are?\" he questioned. \"I'd like us to stand up for ourselves and actually take over our own game. It would make sense. \"The officials can only do the job they are asked. The fourth official doesn't need to be stood in between myself and (Blackburn boss) Owen Coyle as we are never going to have an argument - he should be watching a screen. \"You just need to see what the company I used to work for can show the fourth official. He'll have seen clearly it's a goal and could have said it within five seconds, and we'd have been 1-0 up and in a much better situation.\"", "question": "QPR boss Ian Holloway says the English Football League should use @placeholder technology after his side had a goal ruled out in losing 1 - 0 at Blackburn .", "option_0": "power", "option_1": "office", "option_2": "advantage", "option_3": "modern", "option_4": "video"}
{"id": 1110, "article": "The house was badly damaged in the incident in the Killyglen Road area of the town on Sunday afternoon. The men, aged 24 and 34, are being questioned about the attack which was reported to police shortly before 16:45 BST. It follows a series of arson attacks in Larne over recent days. On Monday, a hair salon in the town was extensively damaged when a car was driven through its metal shutters. It is not yet known if the Killyglen Road incident is linked to the previous attacks. However, Ulster Unionist MLA Roy Beggs, who represents East Antrim, said the latest incident \"all the hallmarks of a tit-for-tat attack between feuding criminals\". \"Another car has been set on fire and, with the risk of an exploding petrol tank, homes have been endangered along with the lives of local residents,\" he added. Alliance MLA Stewart Dickson said the attacks must \"stop now before someone is injured or killed\". \"This situation cannot be allowed to increase any further and I appeal to everyone involved to help put an end to things.\" A Northern Ireland Ambulance Service spokesman told the BBC its staff were called to the scene just before 17:00 BST, after a report that the car has been driven into the house. A number of people were assessed by paramedics but no-one was taken to hospital.", "question": "Two men have been arrested after a @placeholder car was \" set on fire and abandoned \" against the front door of a house in Larne , County Antrim .", "option_0": "sports", "option_1": "stolen", "option_2": "crash", "option_3": "drugs", "option_4": "carrying"}
{"id": 1111, "article": "The software, called Greyball, seeks to identify officials around the world trying to catch Uber drivers operating illegally. It then denies them service. The ride-hailing firm has been using the tool to secure early access to cities where its operations had not yet been authorized. But having defended the system just a few days ago, it has now done a U-turn. \"We are expressly prohibiting its use to target action by local regulators going forward,\" said Uber's chief security officer Joe Sullivan. He said the same technology had also been used for many other purposes, including for marketing promotions and deterring Uber riders using the app in violation of the company's term of service. These are understood to include stopping users aiming to physically harm drivers and targeting competitors looking to disrupt operations. These uses will not be affected by the ban. Mr Sullivan said that because of the way the system was configured, it would take some time to ensure the prohibition was fully enforced. Greyball identified regulators posing as ordinary passengers, by collecting data on the location used when ordering a taxi and determining whether this coincided with government offices. A report by The New York Times found that it also checked credit card information to establish whether the user was linked to an institution or law enforcement authority. Uber, the report added, even visited phone shops to trace smartphones bought by city officials setting up multiple accounts in an effort to catch the company's drivers. Once individuals suspected of attempting to entrap drivers were identified, they would be served a \"fake\" version of the Uber app, with fictitious cabs on view. If there were they were successful in ordering a real one, they would have their booking cancelled. Uber has been hit by a series of controversies recently. A video of its chief Travis Kalanick swearing at a driver appeared on social media, and there had also been allegations the company had routinely ignored cases of sexual harassment.", "question": "Uber says it will ban a secret software tool from being used to @placeholder undercover regulators .", "option_0": "evade", "option_1": "produce", "option_2": "cease", "option_3": "stop", "option_4": "train"}
{"id": 1112, "article": "The headlines are lurid and specific: \"North Korea's Kim Jong-un 'binge-eating and drinking' to cope with assassination fears.\" \"NK leader suffering from insomnia, adult diseases,\" reads another. Around the world, a briefing given by the South Korean National Intelligence Service is generating coverage. North Korea's leader has, we are told, gained an enormous amount of weight. He can't sleep. He fears for his life. But how reliable are these briefings, which the South Korean spy agency gives the country's politicians? The truth is that their methods, like those of spies everywhere, are part hard information and part conjecture. I once had lunch with an analyst from the National Intelligence Service (NIS). I can't tell you exactly who he was, because he refused to give out his business card. However, he opined that a woman in Kim Jong-un's inner circle was pregnant. When I asked how he knew, he replied that she was suddenly appearing in photographs with flat, sensible shoes. He may, of course, have been right. Some mothers do say that when they were pregnant, they discarded uncomfortable heels. But the story does illustrate the tenuous ways in which the analysis of photographs in the North Korean media might be hit or miss. Maybe the lady being analysed by South Korea's spy agency just felt like a change of shoe. Maybe the NIS had further, corroborating information. We do not know. Trying to make sense of North Korea's leader Chinese patience with \"Kim The Fat\" wears thin Not Kim Jong-un's first brush with possible ill health Guesswork, intelligence and a bucket of salt: The North Korea rumour mill In the current case, concluding that the Supreme Leader has put on weight is easier. The pictures in North Korean media show the pounds which can't be photoshopped off. According to the National Intelligence Service, he was 90kg in 2012 but now weighs 130kg. Similarly, two years ago, Kim Jong-un was shown limping on North Korean state television, and then, three months later, hobbling with the aid of a walking stick. You don't need to be James Bond to conclude that there was something wrong with at least one of his legs. The surmising (probably in Seoul's intelligence agency, with the aid of medical experts) was that he was suffering from gout, an illness associated with over-indulgence, though there are other causes too. He may have had surgery, which would have explained his absence from public view between the pictures of him limping in discomfort and then with a walking-stick. But seeing the obvious in the photographs is easy. Drawing the right conclusions is harder. This kind of information usually emerges when the NIS briefs South Korea's parliamentary intelligence committee in private. This briefing to politicians then gets passed on to journalists and the information ends up in the newspapers. There is obviously plenty of room for error and distortion in this process. How much spin is put on the bald facts is unclear. In the latest case, the information published was a lot more than the visible evidence of Kim Jong-un's weight-gain. All kinds of theories were also posited. South Korea's main news agency, Yonhap, reported the briefing thus: \"Rep. Lee Cheol-woo of the ruling Saenuri Party, who chairs the committee, said Kim is currently under great stress due to his safety, which has led to excessive binge eating and drinking. \"Kim also fears that overseas media reports on his childhood may spread throughout Pyongyang, which may hurt his legitimacy as the leader of North Korea. \"During his childhood, Kim would stop eating for long periods of time when his mother scolded him, which reflects his stubborn character, Lee quoted the NIS as saying.\" The perils of trusting too much in such sources of information were borne out earlier in this year. In February, the South Korean media cited a similar briefing by the NIS in which it was said that chief of staff of the North Korean army - Kim Jong-un's right-hand-man - had been executed. The South Korean headline was: \"N Korea's military chief executed on corruption charges: sources.\" Three months later, the South Korean government said that Ri Yong-gil, the general previously said to be dead, appeared to be alive. His name had appeared on a list of party officials. Pictures of him in North Korean media showed him to be very much alive, though wearing three-star rather than four-star military insignia. It seems he had been demoted but not executed. None of this is to decry the work of intelligence agencies, making the best of scant information, including analysing photographs. But it is to caution against concluding more than the evidence justifies, and the weaving of elaborate theories into supposed fact. More importantly, even if Kim Jong-un is unhealthy - and the pictures certainly suggest he might be - that certainly doesn't mean his reign is going to end soon.", "question": "After South Korea 's spy agency briefed politicians about North Korean leader Kim Jong - un 's rapid weight gain , prompting speculation he suffered from paranoia - induced insomnia , the BBC 's Stephen Evans reflects on the @placeholder of such observations .", "option_0": "impact", "option_1": "end", "option_2": "results", "option_3": "sale", "option_4": "value"}
{"id": 1113, "article": "Brexit could prove to be the biggest blow yet. It sends shockwaves far beyond British borders. The UK gave the EU a second seat at the UN Security Council, one of only two serious military forces (alongside France), respected diplomatic expertise and a driving force behind making the single market more competitive. All that will now disappear from the EU display cabinet. And as Britons anxiously scan the markets, watching the effect of Brexit on the pound, Europeans fear for the future of what had been a nervously recovering euro. Deeper crisis for Greece perhaps? Italy too is a huge concern. How will this impact the pockets of hundreds of thousands of families across the continent? The EU also worries Brexit could reverse 70 years of European integration. In all my years watching European politics, I have never seen such a widespread sense of Euroscepticism. Plenty of Europeans looked on with envy yesterday as Britain cast its in-out vote. Many of the complaints about the EU raised by the Leave campaign resonated with voters across the continent. Across Europe leading Eurosceptic politicians queued up on Friday morning to crow about the UK referendum result. \"Victory for freedom,\" tweeted Marine Le Pen of France's National Front. She has called for a vote on EU membership in France.  There are similar voices in Italy, the Netherlands and beyond. The mood in Brussels this morning is deeply gloomy. The Brexit vote sends screaming alarm bells; warning that the EU in its current form isn't working. Two processes will soon be launched here - both fraught with difficulty. Untangling the UK from everything EU and negotiating a new relationship once David Cameron or his successor formally starts the Leave process. And a political scramble as the EU tries to save itself, possibly disintegrating further in the process. Expect deep divisions between EU nations and Brussels bureaucrats about the direction the EU now takes. Closer union to show a united European front, or reform and a rethink of the European project? Prime ministers across Europe look nervously over their shoulders at increasingly influential Eurosceptic, more nationalist-minded political rivals.", "question": "The Leave vote in the UK is a huge @placeholder blow for the EU - already reeling from the migrant crisis , the euro crisis and fears about what is seen as an aggressive Russia next door .", "option_0": "race", "option_1": "body", "option_2": "growing", "option_3": "show", "option_4": "swing"}
{"id": 1114, "article": "An emotional Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner proposed legislation that would return control of its debt to the government. \"Excuse me if I get a little nervous, I usually have more poise,\" she said. A New York court last month blocked an interest payment to bondholders as a result of a row with US investors. The $539m payment was for bonds, issued under US legislation, that were restructured following Argentina's default in 2002. A US judge ruled that a deal must first be struck with a group of hedge funds that had rejected the restructuring deal and wanted full payment - known as \"hold-outs\". The draft legislation would replace Bank of New York Mellon as the bondholders' trustee with state-run Banco Nacion, which would enable Argentina to pay the interest owed to the majority of bondholders who agreed to the deal. Bank of New York Mellon has been forbidden from transferring funds. Ms de Kirchner has refused to give in to the \"hold-outs\" demanding full payment and said the new voluntary deal would be in line with the terms of agreements made in 2005 and 2010. More than 90% of creditors agreed to accept large losses at the time. \"If bondholders decide - in individual or collective form - to ask for a change of the legislation and jurisdiction of their bonds ... the economy ministry is authorised to implement a swap for new public bonds under local legislation,\" Ms de Kirchner added. \"I really feel we are living a moment of great injustice in Argentina.\" However, analysts said the move dashed hopes that Argentina could strike a deal with the hedge funds demanding full payment and allow the country to move out of default and return to global capital markets. It was also unclear whether Argentina could sidestep the US court's ruling. Alejo Costa, strategy chief at investment bank Puente in Buenos Aires, said: \"Argentina could end up in contempt.\" There are also fears that dragging out the debt crisis could worsen Argentina's recession and further weaken the peso. Unemployment rose to 7.5% in the second quarter as consumer spending and industrial output both fell.", "question": "Argentina 's president has announced plans for a debt swap to try to @placeholder a US court ruling that pushed Argentina into a second default .", "option_0": "avoid", "option_1": "expand", "option_2": "transform", "option_3": "protect", "option_4": "end"}
{"id": 1115, "article": "Fresh-faced financial technology start-ups (fintechs) are coming up with new mobile-first services - payments, loans, money transfers, digital currencies - and threatening to steal customers, particularly younger ones. Investment bank Goldman Sachs estimates that $4.7tn (?¡ê3.3tn; a??4.1tn) in revenue for traditional financial services is at risk of being displaced by these fintech upstarts. \"From Amazon's transformation of the retail sector, to Uber's revolution in personal transportation, banks are taking heed of what is happening in other industries,\" says Mohit Joshi, global head of financial services at tech consultancy, Infosys. \"The biggest banking market challenge is coming not from challenger banks, but from fintech start-ups.\" This is why many old banks have been flirting with younger models in an effort to stay hip. But are such apparently mismatched relationships doomed to failure? At the southern tip of Africa, in Cape Town, global banking giant Barclays is busy developing a secret tech solution to make it easier for consumers to make payments online. But it has called on the expertise of local tech start-up Peach Payments to help, and the two are working on a product aiming to change the way people transact online in emerging markets. Rahul Jain, co-founder of Peach Payments, says: \"We are helping them actually design the product since we have the feedback from the market and understand e-commerce from the perspective of the merchant and the consumer. 'Invaluable feedback' \"This is invaluable feedback which the bank doesn't have normally.\" From the bank's point of view, \"it's about recognising that not all innovation has to happen within our own four walls,\" says Lubaina Manji, head of Barclays' group innovation office. \"There is a talented and vibrant start-up community globally, which Barclays can work with to co-create the future of financial services.\" Peach Payments was one of 10 start-ups to participate in a 13-week Tech Lab Africa accelerator programme hosted by Barclays in Cape Town in December. The bank also runs programmes and hubs in the UK, USA, and Israel, and has plans to launch activities in India and Lithuania. Another start-up taking part in the programme was Nigerian firm Aella Credit, which has built an instant loan approval and payment platform that relies on data analytics to identify creditworthy borrowers. Aella Credit director Akinola Jones says his firm has remained in constant communication with Barclays' innovation team since taking part in the programme. But sceptics will point out that Barclays' recent decision to sell its Africa operations shows that such partnerships may be more to do with playing catch-up than leading from the front. All those attractive fintech start-ups may appear tempting, but there is no consensus among the big beasts on the best way to get a piece of the action. Some banks, such as Santander, National Bank of Australia and Citigroup, are providing venture funding and seed investments for fintechs. Others, such as Barclays, Bank of America, and Sberbank, are creating or partnering with start-up incubator programmes. Others still, like Spain's BBVA, are simply buying them up. \"We're yet to see which type of approach will prove the most fruitful, but industry experts are unanimous in their belief that those banks which bury their heads in the sand and fail to acknowledge the impact of fintechs are putting their entire business at risk,\" says Vincent Bastid, chief executive of Efma, a research and networking organisation for financial institutions. Efma has just produced a report looking at the impact of fintechs on the established financial services industry. In a similar example, French bank BNP Paribas has linked up with Swiss fintech accelerator, Fusion - a partnership the bank says is \"at the heart\" of its digitisation plan. Based in Geneva, Fusion takes on 10 start-ups each year, and puts them through a 12-month intensive programme of mentoring, funding, and access to markets. Kim Potvin, chief operating officer at BNP Paribas (Suisse), believes the partnership is already yielding tangible results, and will help its Swiss arm become \"a leading player in the financial services of the future.\" Fusion's programme director Sebastien Flury describes the partnership as a \"win-win\" situation, with benefits for banks and start-ups alike. But if all this sounds a little too cosy, entrepreneur Daniel Doderlein, chief executive of Norwegian cloud-based mobile payments platform Auka, has this stark warning for fellow fintech start-ups. \"If you partner with banks too early on, they can basically poison the well for you - you effectively become a consultant. They take the air out of the innovation balloon and the project dies instantly.\" By building his own platform, mCash, and establishing a consumer business first, Mr Doderlein found he was then able to sell it to initially sceptical banks from a position of strength. Norway's Sparebank 1 bought the mCash business in October last year. And Gareth Mellon of research firm Frost & Sullivan warns that the jury is out on just how effective such partnerships are. Many are purely \"defensive strategies\" by the banks, he says, and have proved difficult to integrate within existing business models. \"While fintechs have brought heightened innovation, they remain limited in their scope and, in many ways, are forced to rely upon the established players to ensure market adoption,\" says Mr Mellon. Perhaps the biggest threat to banks, in Europe at least, is the European Commission's forthcoming Payment Services Directive 2, due to come into force early in 2018. This aims to open up electronic payments to more competition by forcing banks to open up their IT systems to new entrants, thus encouraging innovation. \"If you don't provide a mobile payments app to your customers, your risk being marginalised,\" says Mr Doderlein. \"It's going to be a bloodbath.\" Perhaps the banks need tech start-ups more than tech start-ups need the banks. Follow Technology of Business editor @matthew_wall on Twitter.", "question": "Banks around the world are realising that in the rapidly developing world of smartphones and apps they are at risk of falling behind in the innovation @placeholder .", "option_0": "process", "option_1": "marketplace", "option_2": "race", "option_3": "table", "option_4": "event"}
{"id": 1116, "article": "The prime minister acknowledged that \"these wounds run very deep\" during his visit to Jamaica, where he faced calls to apologise from campaigners. He said Britain's role in wiping slavery \"off the face of our planet\" should be remembered. Jamaican PM Portia Simpson Miller said she had raised the issue in talks. Addressing MPs in Jamaica's parliament, Mr Cameron said slavery was \"abhorrent in all its forms\". He added: \"I do hope that, as friends who have gone through so much together since those darkest of times, we can move on from this painful legacy and continue to build for the future.\" Mr Cameron also announced ¡ê25m in British aid for a new Jamaican prison and a ¡ê300 million development package for the Caribbean which will provide grants for infrastructure projects, including roads and bridges. He said his visit - the first by a British prime minister in 14 years - was to \"reinvigorate\" ties between the countries, and that he wanted to concentrate on future relations rather than centuries-old issues. Mrs Simpson Miller said while she was \"aware of the obvious sensitivities\", Jamaica was \"involved in a process under the auspices of the Caribbean Community [Caricom] to engage the UK on the matter\". During Mr Cameron's speech, a small group of protesters with placards that read \"reparations now\" gathered outside parliament. For more than 200 years Britain was at the heart of a lucrative transatlantic trade in millions of enslaved Africans. According to ship records it is estimated about 12.5 million people were transported as slaves from Africa to the Americas and the Caribbean - to work in often brutal conditions on plantations - from the 16th century until the trade was banned in 1807. In 1833, Britain emancipated its enslaved people and raised the equivalent of ¡ê17bn in compensation money to be paid to 46,000 of Britain's slave-owners for \"loss of human property\". University College London has compiled a database of those compensated. Among those listed is General Sir James Duff, who it is claimed is a first cousin six times removed of David Cameron. He was awarded compensation worth around ¡ê3 million in today's terms. Others who received compensation include the ancestors of novelists George Orwell and Graham Greene, as well as distant relatives of Arts Council chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette and celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott. The issue of former slave-owning nations compensating former colonies is a contentious one in the Caribbean, where national commissions have calculated the sums could run into trillions of dollars. One suggestion has been that the money could be provided in the form of debt relief. BBC News correspondent Elaine Dunkley, who specialises in African Caribbean social affairs, said: \"There really has been an issue with reparation in Jamaica, we can't say that the reception there [to Mr Cameron's visit] has been universally warm. \"Correcting the wrongs of the past is not only costly but complicated and David Cameron has said that he doesn't feel reparation is the way forward in this case.\" Mrs Simpson Miller told the United Nations in 2013 there should be \"an international discussion in a non-confrontational manner\" and its parliament had passed a motion backing reparations. One Jamaican MP, Mike Henry, threatened to boycott Mr Cameron's speech at the country's parliament if he did not engage on the issue. Campaigners also called on Mr Cameron to make a personal apology, saying one of his own ancestors was paid compensation for the loss of his slaves in 1834. Bert Samuels, a member of Jamaica's National Commission on Reparations, told Television Jamaica \"he needs to atone, to apologise personally and on behalf of his country\". Sir Hilary Beckles, chairman of Caricom's reparations commission, wrote in an open letter in the Jamaica Observer that the UK must \"play its part in cleaning up this monumental mess of Empire\". Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who lived in Jamaica for two years in his youth, said that, as prime minister, he would be ready to apologise for the slave trade. Speaking at Labour's annual conference in Brighton, Mr Corbyn said it was \"the most brutal part of our history and the history of Jamaica\". During his two-day visit, Mr Cameron revealed the UK will spend ¡ê25m on building a prison in Jamaica so that foreign criminals in the UK can be sent home to serve sentences in the Caribbean. More than 600 Jamaican nationals are in UK jails but cannot be deported because of Jamaica's poor prison conditions. Officials say the foreign aid-funded deal could save taxpayers ¡ê10m a year when transfers begin in 2020. The Howard League for Penal Reform criticised the plan, saying it was \"the wrong use of foreign aid\" and would fail to address the real issue of overcrowding in British prisons.", "question": "David Cameron has @placeholder out making reparations for Britain 's role in the historic slave trade and urged Caribbean countries to \" move on \" .", "option_0": "been", "option_1": "pulled", "option_2": "ruled", "option_3": "called", "option_4": "defended"}
{"id": 1117, "article": "The 44-year-old was arrested in Reading on Saturday afternoon on suspicion of assault and a drugs offence and was taken to nearby Loddon Valley Police Station. Officers became concerned for his welfare and took him to hospital. He was discharged the same day but was then found unresponsive in his cell on Sunday and died later, police said. Formal identification has not taken place yet but the man's next of kin have been informed. He was found unresponsive in his cell at about 04:00 BST on Sunday and was declared dead in hospital an hour later, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said. It is mandatory for cases involving the death of detainees to be referred to the IPCC. Det Ch Supt Tim De Meyer said Thames Valley Police was \"co-operating fully\" with the investigation. \"Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time,\" he added.", "question": "The police watchdog is investigating the death of a man who @placeholder in custody .", "option_0": "drowned", "option_1": "lives", "option_2": "collapsed", "option_3": "died", "option_4": "lies"}
{"id": 1118, "article": "The mill has been unused for more than a decade and various regeneration plans have failed to get off the drawing board. The 24-acre site has been bought by a company which is associated with the Warwickshire-based St Francis Group. Earlier this year, the St Francis Group was part of a consortium which bought the Sirocco site in Belfast. Hilden Mill was formerly home to the Barbour Thread factory which had occupied the site since 1823. The previous owner was granted planning approval for a redevelopment scheme that involved up to 600 homes though that planning permission has since lapsed.", "question": "The Hilden Mill complex near Lisburn , in County Antrim , has been sold to an English @placeholder company .", "option_0": "development", "option_1": "level", "option_2": "language", "option_3": "brain", "option_4": "food"}
{"id": 1119, "article": "Admittedly you will have to fill in a rigorous application form that looks like it has been written by someone who has spent too long working for Deloitte or Accenture, but bureaucracy exists in every walk of life - so why not on the path to violent jihad? Among the cornucopia of material found at Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad declassified on Wednesday is this priceless document - a job application form for becoming a member of al-Qaeda. Points 1-3 are fairly unremarkable - please write clearly and answer truthfully  - pretty much what you would expect to find were you applying for a clerk's job at the local water company You then fill in all the personal details - including name, date of birth, father's name, grandfather's name, profession etc etc That is page one. Page two is where it starts to part company with the average job application form. Amid the quite ordinary and prosaic questions like \"What foreign languages do you speak?\" \"What education level have you attained?\", there are the more unusual -  \"Date of your arrival in the land of jihad\", \"Which Shaykhs do you listen to or read often?\", \"Do you know anyone who travels to Western countries?\" On page three, the form gets down to the nitty gritty. Have you ever been convicted by any court? Have you ever been in jail or prison? In normal circumstances, the preferred - likely required -  answer to those two questions is a big NO. I am going to guess that this form is really looking for a YES. And then these two questions - Do you wish to execute a suicide operation? What objectives would you like to accomplish on your jihad path? And at the end of the form, a return to the - almost - banal. Do you have any chronic or hereditary diseases? Who should we contact in case you became a martyr? Followed by lines for an address and phone number of the person who will be informed of your not-so-accidental death. It is hard not to read this without a slight sense of disbelief. But then I remembered my undergraduate studies of the German sociologist and philosopher, Max Weber. His great piece of work was to identify the depersonalising effects of bureaucracy, and how it marked out a modern organisation. Bureaucracies are organised according to rational principles. Offices are ranked in a hierarchical order and their operations are characterised by impersonal rules. But who knew that in the dusty, arid mountains around Tora Bora, there was a cave devoted to al-Qaeda's HR, codifying the skill-sets of every applicant?", "question": "Fed up with your current job ? Feel you 're not properly @placeholder ? Bored of the 9 - 5 routine ? Al - Qaeda has a job application for you .", "option_0": "challenged", "option_1": "prompted", "option_2": "called", "option_3": "working", "option_4": "engaged"}
{"id": 1120, "article": "Arteta, 29, joined the Gunners on a four-year contract just before the transfer window closed. The deal had looked dead earlier after talks between the two clubs broke down but Arteta handed in the transfer request an hour before the deadline. Arsenal also signed Chelsea's Yossi Benayoun, 31, on a season-long loan. \"Mikel indicated to me that he wished to join Arsenal if a bid came in,\" said Everton manager David Moyes. Media playback is not supported on this device \"I am very disappointed to lose him but the prospect of Champions League football was something I wasn't able to offer him.\" According to BBC sports news correspondent Dan Roan, there is anger behind the scenes at Goodison because Arteta left his announcement so late that there was no time to re-invest the money. Roan added: \"Arsenal offered ¡ê5m on Tuesday and offered ¡ê10m on Wednesday afternoon - both bids were rejected. Any deal was dead until around 1900 BST, when Arteta told Moyes he wished to leave. \"Moyes spoke to the chairman, Bill Kenwright, and said he did not want to keep a player who did not wish to play for Everton. \"Arteta was Everton's highest-paid player ever on around ¡ê75,000 a week and took a big pay cut to join Arsenal.\" Arteta joined Everton from Real Socieded for ¡ê2m in 2005 and has scored 35 goals in 208 appearances. He started his career with Barcelona before spells with Paris Saint-Germain FC and Rangers. The Spaniard suffered a knee ligament injury in February 2009 and was sidelined for almost 12 months before signing a new five-year deal in August 2010. Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown told BBC Sport that both Arteta and Benayoun were \"solid signings\". \"Arsenal made eight signings during this transfer window, which is the biggest turnover of players Arsene Wenger has sanctioned since he came to the club back in 1998. He brought very well then, with a big group coming in - Petit, Overmars, Garde, Manninger, Wreh. Lots came in at once and we've not seen Wenger do that since. It hasn't really been his style of management. The amount of players he has brought in is a big call and only the results will tell as to whether or not he has got the right blend.\" Read more from Martin Keown But when asked if they would be adequate replacements for the departed Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri, Keown added: \"No they're not, it's very hard to replace those players. \"I think back to the [Dennis] Bergkamp era, the impetus those players brought. Arteta is a great passer, Benayoun is not getting into Chelsea team. It's a mixed bag for Arsenal fans.\" Benayoun, the Israel captain, wrote on social networking site Twitter: \"I sign with Arsenal, very happy and excited about it, but now my head is only in the game against grecce on Friday, thanks for the support.\" Both clubs later confirmed the move had gone through. Chelsea offered Liverpool ¡ê8m plus Benayoun for Reds midfielder Raul Meireles on Tuesday, but that deal was rejected. He joined Blues from Liverpool for ¡ê5m in July 2010 but was restricted to 10 appearances last season because of an Achilles injury and has seen only one minute of action this time round. It had been rumoured Benayoun would be included in an offer from Chelsea for Tottenham playmaker Luka Modric. Newcastle had also been linked with the Israeli. Denmark striker Nicklas Bendtner completed a move away from Emirates Stadium just before the window closed, joining Sunderland on a season-long loan.", "question": "Arsenal have signed Everton 's Mikel Arteta for ¡ê 10 m after the Spanish midfielder submitted a transfer request to @placeholder through the move .", "option_0": "reduce", "option_1": "work", "option_2": "force", "option_3": "speed", "option_4": "follow"}
{"id": 1121, "article": "Mercedes signed the Finn this week after agreeing a deal to buy him out of his Williams contract to replace Rosberg, who retired after winning last year's world title. Wolff said: \"Lewis said he thought Valtteri was a nice guy. \"One of the guys he actually got along with well in Formula 1 and he felt he was a good option.\" Wolff, who was talking to Finnish commentator Oskari Saari for a podcast, said he believed there might be less tension between Hamilton and the 27-year-old Finn than there was between the triple world champion and Rosberg. \"I think that works well,\" he added. \"It was OK already between Nico and Lewis, but there was the luggage of the past... Now it is a completely new relationship and there is no animosity. \"There will be moments where it is going to be difficult, but I think that how the personalities are for the team it's going to be a good situation and one that is maybe a bit easier to handle than the past. But I could be wrong.\" BBC Sport revealed on Monday that Bottas had signed a one-year contract, with options to extend it into subsequent seasons. Wolff said that was because a number of leading drivers' contracts were up for renewal at the end of the 2017 season - including multiple world champions Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso of Ferrari and McLaren - and Mercedes wanted to keep their options open. \"We wouldn't have chosen Valtteri if we thought that he was not good enough to continue with the team,\" said Wolff. \"But, as a matter of fact, the market is very dynamic at the moment. Next year options open - young drivers, Sebastian, Fernando, Valtteri, many of them. So it is about understanding that - and Valtteri does. \"Equally we have great faith and confidence in him that he can stay with us for a long time, but now we need to see how the season goes.\"", "question": "Lewis Hamilton has @placeholder Mercedes replacing Nico Rosberg with Valtteri Bottas , says team boss Toto Wolff .", "option_0": "quit", "option_1": "driven", "option_2": "named", "option_3": "defended", "option_4": "backed"}
{"id": 1122, "article": "The initial allocation of 25,000 has been increased to 29,058 for the games against Poland, Ukraine and Germany. An extra 816 tickets are available for the game against Poland on 12 June. An additional 1,726 fans will be able to attend the Ukraine game on 16 June with the total for the Germany game on 21 June jumping from 8,000 to 9,516. The Irish Football Association received over 50,000 ticket applications for Northern Ireland's matches at the tournament. Supporters will find out by the end of February whether their applications have been successful, with priority to be given to those who attended games during qualification. The smallest increase in tickets being made available is for the opening fixture against Poland in Nice, with the allocation rising from 6,000 to 6,816. On Tuesday the Republic of Ireland were given more than 6,500 more tickets for Euro 2016 after talks between the Football Association of Ireland and Uefa. Republic fans now have a total ticket allocation of 32,502 for their games against Sweden, Italy and Belgium.", "question": "Northern Ireland have received an extra 4,058 tickets for Euro 2016 , bringing the total for their three fixtures @placeholder in France to more than 29,000 .", "option_0": "force", "option_1": "homes", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "matches", "option_4": "back"}
{"id": 1123, "article": "Based on CT scans, the organs are fitted into a realistic synthetic \"body\" and connected to pumps which mimic human breathing and blood flow. Nottingham Trent University, with the NHS and Ministry of Defence, used silicone gels to replicate the feel of human tissue. Bespoke models could now be created to prepare for individual operations. Richard Arm, of Nottingham Trent University's School of Art & Design, said he was asked to come up with a heart model for a surgeon who wanted to practice performing an implant. He said: \"When making more organs, the trickiest part was the flexibility. \"The heart has 17 different 'hardnesses' so 'does it feel right?' turns out to be a bit vague. \"Then we put them together and I knew we were getting it right when I started to feel sick.\" The prototype - officially known as a thoracic trauma trainer - will be exhibited to trauma treatment experts. After feedback, two models are due to be produced for the MoD by December 2017. Colonel Peter Mahoney, emeritus professor at Defence Medical Services, said the requirement was for training equipment that was portable, robust and reusable, while \"also achieving a realism\" that had only previously been possible with dead bodies. He added: \"We wanted to start with the chest, because it is a common area connected with trauma, but if it could be created with realistically-moving lungs and blood vessels then any other body parts would be possible.\" Future developments could include the brain, eyes, stomach, pancreas, liver and kidneys, the vascular system in a person's legs and bespoke models for patient-specific preoperative surgical planning.", "question": "Life - like body parts have been 3 D @placeholder to help army surgeons deal with trauma injuries .", "option_0": "according", "option_1": "changes", "option_2": "printed", "option_3": "scheme", "option_4": "used"}
{"id": 1124, "article": "Mr Johnson, the Mayor of London, announced on Sunday that he would be backing the campaign for Britain to leave the EU. His intervention in the debate - made, as he termed it, with \"deafening eclat\" - was even said to have helped cause the pound to slide on the international money markets as traders thought it made the possibility of a so-called Brexit more likely. He has arguably the highest profile of any of the governing Conservative Party except the Prime Minister David Cameron, but those outside the UK may be wondering: who is he, and is that actually his hair? Read on. Profile: Boris Johnson How could 'zip wire prat' become prime minister? Read more about the UK's referendum on the EU Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, to give him his full name, was born in New York and is descended from Turkish, French and German stock. He describes himself as a \"one-man melting pot\". He first made a name for himself in journalism, including a stint as Brussels correspondent for the right-wing Daily Telegraph newspaper and editor of The Spectator magazine. His humorous persona led him to become a fixture on various television programmes, including the satirical BBC panel show Have I Got News For You. He still has a lucrative and entertaining column in the Daily Telegraph, in which august forum he explained the reasons for his decision on the EU. As a politician, he has been a Conservative member of parliament for two constituencies, Henley from 2001 to 2008 and then Uxbridge and South Ruislip from 2015. Lest you think he was putting his feet up between parliamentary mandates, he is also currently serving the second of two terms as mayor of London, no mean feat in a city where the centre-left Labour Party has dominated in recent decades. That's indicative of the position Mr Johnson has carved out for himself as one of the most charismatic politicians in the UK who has wide appeal beyond Conservative heartlands - polling has suggested that his stance on the EU referendum may sway some undecided voters. Just look what happens when you type his name into Google.co.uk. Not quite. He has previously courted controversy for his remarks about (among others) the populations of Liverpool, Portsmouth and Papua New Guinea, not to mention run-ins with his own party leadership and TV chef Jamie Oliver. Last October he accidentally flattened a 10-year-old schoolboy at what was meant to be a friendly game of photo-op rugby in Japan. But none of this seems to have affected his standing among the party faithful or the public at large. Even getting stuck on a zip-wire during the London Olympics in 2012, a sure-fire route to derision for any other politician, only enhanced his eccentric image. Mr Johnson finally ended months of speculation about which side of the EU debate he would back in an immaculately impromptu media scrum outside his home in North London, having reportedly informed the prime minister of his decision earlier the same day. He said that he had come to his decision as a result of deeply held convictions and \"after a huge amount of heartache\". His father Stanley, a former Conservative member of the European parliament, said that his son had performed a noble and potentially \"career-ending move\", ruining any chance of serving in Mr Cameron's cabinet. But Mr Cameron has already said he won't run for another mandate when his current one ends in 2020. Some observers of British politics point out that even if the UK votes to remain in the EU, positioning himself in the \"Out\" camp won't do Mr Johnson any harm with grassroots Conservatives, many of who are Eurosceptic and will have the final say in choosing a new leader. In this, some suggest, he is implementing his long-standing policy on cake: \"My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.\" No, that's Donald Trump. Also a pioneer of unorthodox political hair, but they don't get on. When Mr Trump commented that parts of London are \"so radicalised the police are afraid for their lives\", Mr Johnson retorted: \"The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.\" No, I've confused you now by mentioning Donald Trump. Same hair though. No, that's Julian Assange.", "question": "Foreign observers of the UK 's debate on its forthcoming referendum on whether to stay in the European Union may have noticed an awful lot of fuss about the @placeholder of a man called Boris Johnson - yes , that man on the zip wire .", "option_0": "size", "option_1": "head", "option_2": "appearance", "option_3": "image", "option_4": "views"}
{"id": 1125, "article": "Jamie Toland told police he woke up to find the animal gnawing at the tag around his ankle at his home in Slemish Way, Lisburn, County Antrim. But the High Court in Belfast was told there were \"no signs\" of teeth marks. Bail was refused after the judge said the explanations tested \"the court's ability to accept what he says\". Remanding the 23-year-old in custody, the judge said other outcome would \"defy all the rules of logic and sense\". Mr Toland had been fitted with the electronic monitoring tag last month, after he was granted bail in connection to a burglary that took place in February. He allegedly stole ?¡ê1,550 in cash and a pellet gun during the break-in at a property in Lisburn. The accused now faces a new charge of criminal damage for allegedly removing the monitoring device. The tag is connected to a tamper alarm, and the security firm which manages the tagging system alerted police that the alarm had been trigged on 28 October. Mr Toland was then arrested at his home. A prosecution barrister to the High Court: \"It subsequently became clear that the electronic tag had been removed from the applicant's ankle. The court that heard Mr Toland told police his dog chewed at his ankle tag in an attempt to get the accused to go for a morning walk. The prosecution barrister told the judge: \"The tag was examined and there were no signs of any teeth marks around it.\" He added that it would take up to 40 kilos in weight to break the device. A box installed in Mr Toland's house as part of the monitoring system had been shifted, but the accused claimed it had been moved so he could do some cleaning. A defence lawyer told the court he accepted he faced \"an uphill struggle\" to secure bail for his client again. \"His account of this is that he takes the dog for a walk every morning, but he slept in and the dog was gnawing at the thing on his leg,\" the lawyer added. \"He said when he got up he tried to get the dog off and the item fell off his leg.\" The court heard Mr Toland has been battling alcohol addiction and had suffered two serious assaults earlier this year. He sustained a fractured jaw and a brain injury in one incident. The second attack involved being hit on the skull with a bottle. Remanding the accused into custody, the judge said: \"This is an application where I would have to defy all the rules of logic and sense to do other than refuse him bail.\"", "question": "A burglary suspect has claimed that his pet dog chewed off the electronic tag he had been wearing as part of his bail @placeholder , a court has been told .", "option_0": "fortune", "option_1": "conditions", "option_2": "bond", "option_3": "chest", "option_4": "name"}
{"id": 1126, "article": "Texting can also cut pupil absence, according to the Queen's University Belfast evaluation. The programme involved 15,697 pupils in 29 schools across England, half of whose parents were sent texts. Schools have been using texts to communicate with parents for some time, according to head teachers' leaders. The pupils who took part in the study were from Year 7 - the first year of secondary school, Year 9 and Year 11 - the GCSE year. The parents of about half the pupils involved in the trial were sent roughly one text a week during the school term, for a year starting in September 2014. Overall, the programme amounted to about 30 texts over the year. They included the dates of upcoming tests and warnings about missed homework as well as details about what the children had learned during the day, aiming to prompt conversations at home about school. In each school, either the parents of the Year 11 group or the Year 7 and Year 9 groups were allocated to receive the texts. The researchers carried out baseline tests to determine pupils' abilities at the beginning of the year and used figures from the National Pupil Database to determine their progress. They found that the intervention appeared to have \"an extremely small, positive, yet statistically significant impact\" on attainment, particularly on maths and absenteeism. The researchers found the effect of the intervention was not statistically significant in English and science. The texts cost the schools about ?¡ê6 per pupil over the year, says the report. The study was one of a series funded by the Education Endowment Foundation. EEF chief executive Sir Kevan Collins said the \"simple and cheap\" programme could be \"a better bet for schools\" than persuading parents to attend school-run parenting classes, particularly at secondary school. Malcolm Trobe, interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, agreed using text and social media could be \"a highly efficient way of communicating with parents\". Mr Trobe was particularly impressed with the impact of the texts on pupil absenteeism, shown in the trial. He said that as long as the system was easy for schools to operate, did not incur excessive costs or add to teachers' workload leaders \"this is something that schools can take on and develop\".", "question": "Texts from schools to parents about tests and homework can boost secondary pupils ' maths grades by the @placeholder of a month in class , research suggests .", "option_0": "end", "option_1": "middle", "option_2": "amount", "option_3": "duration", "option_4": "equivalent"}
{"id": 1127, "article": "Former state-appointed emergency managers Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose were charged for failing to protect residents from the toxic water. Two city employees were also charged with felony counts related to the case. Flint's drinking water became contaminated with lead in 2014 after the city changed its water supply. Attorney General Bill Schuette charged Mr Earley and Mr Ambrose with false pretences, conspiracy to commit false pretences, misconduct in office and wilful neglect of duty in office. He also charged former city employees Howard Croft, a public works superintendent, and Daugherty Johnson, a utilities manager, with conspiracy to operate a plant that was not equipped to properly treat water from the Flint River. \"The tragedy that we know of as the Flint water crisis did not occur by accident,\" Mr Schuette said. \"Flint was a casualty of arrogance, disdain and failure of management, an absence of accountability.\" Mr Johnson's attorney, Edwar Zeineh, told the AP news agency his client will plead not guilty. The others and their lawyers could not immediately be reached for comment. The water crisis made national headlines after tests found high amounts of lead in blood samples taken from children in the majority African-American city. The contamination can be traced back to April 2014, when Mr Earley, the emergency manager at the time, decided to change the city's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to save money. The acidic water of Flint River corroded the city's pipes, which leached lead into the water. Flint switched back to the previous water system in October 2015 and federal regulators say that filter tap water is now safe to drink, but still recommend bottled water for young children and pregnant women. So far 13 people have been charged in connection to the investigation into Flint's water supply and an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. The state brought charges against two state regulators and a city employee for official misconduct in April. In July, prosecutors charged six health and environmental workers for concealing data that showed elevated levels of lead in children's blood was tied to the water supply. Mr Early and Mr Ambrose face up to 46 years in prison while Mr Croft and Mr Johnson could face up to 40 years behind bars. Mr Schuette's announcement comes a day after a report found nearly 3,000 areas with recently recorded lead poisoning rates twice as much as those in Flint during the height of the city's water crisis. More than 1,100 of those communities had a rate of elevated blood tests at least four times higher, according to the Reuters report.", "question": "Four more city workers have been charged in the investigation into the lead - @placeholder water crisis in Flint , Michigan , state prosecutors said .", "option_0": "based", "option_1": "backed", "option_2": "tainted", "option_3": "packed", "option_4": "related"}
{"id": 1128, "article": "12:00 Tuesday local time (07:00 GMT): A spokesman for the Taliban tells the BBC that militants have attacked the army-run school in response to military operations in North Waziristan and the Khyber area. The BBC's Wietske Burma in Islamabad tweets: Local channels quote police saying between four to six gunmen wearing security uniform have entered the school. Gunfire is heard from inside the building. Footage from the scene shows injured children and young people being taken away. Security forces close the road and cordon off the area. 13:00-14:00 (08:00-09:00 GMT): The Pakistani army says a gun battle is still under way at the school. The bulk of the 500 students and staff inside the building have been evacuated, officials say. Schoolchildren are photographed being ushered away from the area. Regional government officials update the media on early estimates of the number of people killed. 14:00-15:00 (09:00-10:00): The death roll rises quickly. Local officials go on to say 126 people have been killed, most of them children. Dozens more are injured and taken to Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital. Meanwhile, students are reportedly still being held hostage inside the school. Military officials say a rescue operation is taking place. 15:30 (10:30 GMT): Several explosions are heard from inside the school, as well as continuing gunfire. Reports later emerge of a suicide bomb going off inside the school. Frantic parents continue to search for news of their children. 16:00 (11:00 GMT): More children are being rescued from the siege, officials say. 17:15 (12:15 GMT): An army spokesman says six suspected militants are dead, and bombs planted by the attackers are hampering the military operation. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has by now reached Peshawar and is being briefed on the operation. 20:00 (15:00 GMT): Pakistani officials say the attack is over, with all of the attackers killed, although security forces are still checking for bombs. Soldiers continue to patrol the streets of Peshawar. Meanwhile, the death toll continues to rise. This boy's mother was reportedly a teacher at the school and was killed during the siege. Pakistan's army spokesman Asim Bajwa says 132 children and nine staff members were killed in the attack. The final number of people killed is yet to be confirmed.", "question": "An attack by the Taliban on a school in Peshawar is being seen as one of the worst - ever in Pakistan . Militants stormed the building and scores of children and staff were killed . Here is how @placeholder unfolded .", "option_0": "showing", "option_1": "history", "option_2": "life", "option_3": "leaving", "option_4": "events"}
{"id": 1129, "article": "Abedul Karou and his wife escaped Syria earlier this year after being told nine-year-old son Mohamed had been killed in a bombing raid. They later discovered the youngster was alive - but all borders have been closed and Mohamed is trapped. Mr Karou, now living in Penicuik, said he just wants to hug and kiss his son. The Home Office has said Mohamed must have a DNA test to prove he is the couple's son before he can be brought to the UK. But there are no test centres in Syria due to the devastating civil war, and the nearest are in neighbouring countries which have closed their borders to Syria. Prime Minister Theresa May has now vowed that the case will be looked at. Mr Karou said: \"My sister sent me a picture and I saw him and cried, because he has no clothes. \"He's not eating well because there is no food of course. I don't know if he's being covered in the night - how he sleeps, how he eats, how he's living. We don't know.\" The family were separated after a bombing attack in Homs, in the west of Syria. Mr Karou said: \"My mind was saying he is dead but there was something, a small light of hope in my heart, that he was still alive. Unless I see his dead body I wouldn't believe he had died.\" He said he was \"very happy\" when he learned his son was alive but was very worried for him now. Mr Karou said his son was in a \"miserable situation\" and is concerned he may be kidnapped by jihadis and trained by them. Midlothian MP Owen Thompson has now written to Home Secretary Amber Rudd to ask her to help after receiving an assurance from Theresa May at Prime Minister's Questions that the case would be looked at. He said: \"This family have gone through an unimaginable amount of pain: from finding out that their son is still alive to the agony and frustration of the last six months trying to get Mohamed out of Syria. \"A Red Cross chaperone has been offered to take Mohamed across the border but the Home Office has advised against this because it is just too dangerous. This little boy is in an extremely vulnerable position and urgently needs our help to ensure that he can be reunited with his family in Scotland. \"In light of the exceptional circumstances in this case, I call on the Home Secretary to take immediate action to remove Mohamed from the imminent danger he faces.\" Mr Karou added: \"When I came here and when I see people, communities start talking about my case and they try to open a big conversation about it, my hope is getting bigger and I really feel happy now. \"It's like every father who is responsible for a family. He wants to see a complete, happy family. He wants to get back after a long day and see a complete family waiting for him. He wants to hug him he wants to kiss him.\"", "question": "A Syrian couple living in Scotland after fleeing the war - torn country fearing their son was dead have @placeholder to be reunited with him .", "option_0": "hoped", "option_1": "returned", "option_2": "signed", "option_3": "pleaded", "option_4": "agreed"}
{"id": 1130, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Seven-time Grand Slam champion John McEnroe sums up the Championships at the All England Club rather well. Pristine surfaces, the all-white dress code, strawberries and, most importantly, the world's best tennis players all striving for one of sport's most prestigious prizes. And it is all about to start again. Here are the key things you need to know. The gates open at Wimbledon on Monday, but the fun started a week ago. Qualifying began on Monday, 26 June as lower-ranked players not automatically in the draw competed for the 16 remaining men's places and 12 women's spots. Britain's Alex Ward, ranked world number 855, took one of them, but the likes of Marcus Willis, Liam Broady and Katy Dunne did not make it. The seedings, given to the top 32 players in each singles draw, were announced on Wednesday. Things really started getting moving on Friday, when the draw was made. Play begins on the outside courts at 11:30 BST on Monday, before Britain's Andy Murray, the reigning men's champion, has the honour of opening on Centre Court at 13:00 BST. Murray, Wimbledon champion in 2013 and 2016, has struggled with a hip injury in the lead-up to his title defence. The world number one was forced him to pull out of two warm-up matches at the Hurlingham Club, but practised at the All England Club on Friday and Saturday. And, putting aside his injury concerns, the Scot has been well short of his blistering form 12 months ago. Media playback is not supported on this device The Scot's start to the grass-court season has not been ideal - he lost his only match on the surface so far this year. Murray, 30, won the Queen's title before both Wimbledon triumphs, but this month he suffered a surprise first-round defeat by Australian world number 90 Jordan Thompson at the Aegon Championships. \"There is no guarantee that I won't do well at Wimbledon, but it certainly would have helped to have had more matches,\" said Murray before his injury troubles. Seven-time champion Roger Federer, fresh from winning his fourth title of the year at the Halle Open, is still seen by many as the man to beat. The 35-year-old Swiss won the Australian Open in January - a record 18th Grand Slam title. Another success at Wimbledon will put him clear of the men's record of seven singles titles he shares with Pete Sampras, and move him to within one of Martina Navratilova's all-time record of nine. Federer's long-time rival Rafael Nadal is also among the Wimbledon favourites after winning his 10th French Open crown at Roland Garros. Nadal, 31, has overcome his own injury problems to climb back up to second in the world rankings. Novak Djokovic held all four Grand Slam titles going into last year's Championships. Now he holds none. The 30-year-old Serb, who rediscovered some form by winning the Eastbourne title, has dropped to fourth in the world rankings after a troubled year in which he has split with his coaching team. No Serena Williams and no Maria Sharapova. The ladies' draw might be lacking a bit of stardust without the sport's two biggest names - 22-time Grand Slam champion Williams is pregnant, Sharapova is injured - but that does not mean it will be any less exciting. Will we see a new women's champion this year? More than likely. Only two former winners - Venus Williams and Petra Kvitova - are playing at SW19. Kvitova - champion in 2011 and 2014 - would be a fairytale winner as she continues her return from a career-threatening hand injury sustained when she was stabbed by an intruder at her home. Media playback is not supported on this device The new girl on the block, 20-year-old French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko, might just stun everyone again, while Czech Karolina Pliskova will be feeling confident about her chances after winning the Eastbourne singles. And then, of course, there's Britain's Johanna Konta (more on her next). Like Murray, British women's number one Johanna Konta has seen her preparations marred by an injury scare. Konta, ranked seventh in the world, said on Friday she was \"not 100% certain\" if she will be fit enough to play at Wimbledon after suffering a back injury. The 26-year-old is aiming to raise hopes of a first female British winner since Virginia Wade in 1977. Konta is the first top-10 British woman at Wimbledon since Jo Durie reached the quarter-finals in 1984, however she has only ever won one match in the main draw. Her build-up to this year's tournament began with a run to the Nottingham Open final, where she lost to world number 70 Donna Vekic, a potential second-round opponent. She then lost in the second round of Birmingham's Aegon Classic but then beat Ostapenko and world number one Angelique Kerber to reach the Eastbourne semi-finals, only to withdraw having suffered the injury late in her quarter-final win over Kerber. Joining Murray and Konta in the main draw are 10 other British players. Kyle Edmund and Aljaz Bedene qualified automatically as they are ranked inside the world's top 100, while seven players have been given wildcards. Naomi Broady, Heather Watson, Laura Robson and Katie Boulter go into the women's draw, along with Brydan Klein, Cameron Norrie and James Ward in the men's. Alex Ward, ranked world number 855, joined them after battling through three rounds of qualifying at Roehampton. However, Dan Evans - ranked 50th in the world - will not play after revealing that he failed a drugs test in April. Media playback is not supported on this device 9 - record number of singles titles (Martina Navratilova) 250 - the number of ball boys and girls 14,979 - the number of seats on Centre Court 39,000 - capacity in the grounds at any one time 54,250 - number of balls used during the Championships 140,000 - servings of strawberries sold 320,000 - glasses of Pimm's sold 31,600,000 - total prize money (¡ê) for 2017 Wimbledon remains one of the few major UK sporting events for which you can still buy tickets on the day of play. That means, unless you've already bagged one in the ballot, you're going to have to join the famous queue. Thousands of people gather daily in nearby Wimbledon Park to wait for a limited number of tickets which are available for Centre Court, Court One and Court Two (except for the last four days on Centre Court, when all are sold in advance). Several thousand ground passes, meaning fans can use unreserved seating and standing room on courts three to 18, are available each day at the turnstiles. But don't rely on using your debit card to pay for them - it is cash only. Not got a ticket? Can't be bothered with the queue? Don't worry, because there will be more than 150 hours of coverage on BBC One and BBC Two over two weeks, plus 100 hours of action on BBC Radio 5 live. Sue Barker will once again be at the helm, while three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker returns to our commentary team alongside Pat Cash, Annabel Croft, Tim Henman and John McEnroe and many more. You can also take control of the coverage yourself by choosing between up to 15 live HD streams on your smartphone, tablet and connected TVs. Murray will once again give us an exclusive insight into his Wimbledon campaign with his column for the BBC Sport website. There will also be a range of content on BBC Sport's Twitter,Facebook and Instagram accounts - and, as always, we want you to get involved. This year is a special anniversary as The Championships marks 90 years of coverage on the BBC. Coverage of the Championships started on radio in 1927, and a decade later TV viewers were able to switch on and catch the action. Sue Barker set off around the world in a special BBC One documentary to find out what is it about the green grass of Wimbledon that makes us all become tennis fans for two weeks every summer. \"I still get goose-bumps when I walk into the All England Lawn Tennis Club at the start of tournament and that will never change,\" says the 1977 semi-finalist.", "question": "\" There 's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon - the @placeholder , the way the grass looks on TV . \"", "option_0": "green", "option_1": "future", "option_2": "team", "option_3": "elegance", "option_4": "lawn"}
{"id": 1131, "article": "\"The war did not finish in 2008 - it continues every day, because the Russian occupiers are on our land,\" said protest organiser David Katsarava. Young and old held hands and stood in silence under the scorching sun. Many held Georgian flags and banners condemning Russia's occupation, which gave firepower to pro-Russian rebels. \"Our aim is to unite people and to give them the feeling that it's possible to change something in this war,\" says Mr Katsarava. In early August 2008, Georgia attempted to recapture breakaway South Ossetia, which had fought a separatist war with Georgia in the 1990s. The fighting in 2008 escalated after cross-border skirmishes. Russia responded with a massive invasion. It also seized control of Abkhazia, in support of separatists there. Both regions are internationally recognised as Georgian territory. The five-day war ended in humiliation for Georgia - several towns, a Black Sea port and military airfields were bombed by the Russian air force. Several hundred people were killed and thousands of ethnic Georgians displaced by the conflict. Georgian villages in South Ossetia were razed to the ground. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is conducting an investigation into alleged war crimes committed during the war. What is South Ossetia? Georgia timeline South Ossetia, officially part of Georgia, is separated from the North Ossetia region of Russia by an international border. It is inhabited mostly by Ossetians, who are ethnically and linguistically distinct from other peoples in the region. Most ethnic Georgians have been displaced from South Ossetia by conflict. Georgia, including South Ossetia, was part of the Russian empire in the 19th Century. After the 1917 communist revolution, Georgia became independent but it was declared part of the Soviet Union in 1921. After the 2008 war, Moscow recognised South Ossetia as an independent state and began a process of closer ties that Georgia views as effective annexation. South Ossetia and Abkhazia depend on Russia militarily and financially. Thousands of Russian troops are stationed in the two regions. Moscow has signed strategic agreements with both regions, bringing them firmly into its sphere of influence. While the Georgian protest was taking place Russian President Vladimir Putin was visiting Abkhazia. Just last week US Vice President Mike Pence visited Georgia. He voiced strong US support for Georgia's territorial integrity, and the two countries launched their biggest ever joint military exercises.", "question": "Several hundred Georgians have formed a human @placeholder on a main road near the country 's Russian - controlled South Ossetia region .", "option_0": "chain", "option_1": "position", "option_2": "population", "option_3": "side", "option_4": "impact"}
{"id": 1132, "article": "In Syria alone, the Great Mosque and the Citadel in Aleppo, the castle of every child's imagination at Crac des Chevaliers, and the ancient city of Bosra have been damaged or destroyed. Arguably Syria's most impressive and arresting site, the sprawling ruins at Palmyra (Tadmur to Syrians), is now under Islamic State control and many fear the worst. Having visited Palmyra and these other sites while studying Arabic at Damascus University back in 2007, I am far from alone in feeling that something truly terrible is happening. That these symbols from a bygone era might be destroyed by modern-day barbarian forces when they have survived for hundreds or even thousands of years seems somehow deeply offensive and wrong. IS threat to 'Venice of the Sands' Your memories of Palmyra Saving history from the jihadists Nevertheless, while I feel an acute sadness at the loss of these sites, I understand those who may feel a certain sense of unease at the outpouring of grief and anguish over their desecration. From this perspective, Palmyra is, after all, a collection of stone; albeit stone exquisitely carved and impressively presented, imbued with huge historical import. And compared to the staggering loss of life and widespread humanitarian disaster afflicting the Syrian people, bemoaning the loss of a historic tourist site seems crass. But there are cogent arguments, of course, suggesting that sites like Palmyra are far more significant than that. Important cultural sites are often pointed to as focal points that can be used to (re)unify a people. Sites can act as potent symbols of a united past that may cross ethnic, tribal, linguistic, or cultural lines. In essence, their importance can be seen and used as a low common denominator to promote reconciliation in a post-conflict environment. Most famously, the reconstruction of the old bridge in Mostar in Bosnia-Hercegovina acted as a focal point of wider metaphorical bridge-building between Serbs, Bosniaks (Muslims) and Croats after the civil war in the 1990s when the bridge was demolished. In Syria, too, there have already been tentative attempts towards this kind of a goal, with meetings between regime and opposition officials nominally in charge of antiquities. Similarly, the sheer barbarism of IS, exemplified in its brutality against people and against shared cultural monuments, could be a foil to coax more unity among the dispersed opposition groups and factions. Moreover, these kinds of sites are the heritage and birthright not just of this generation of Syrians so adversely affected by the conflict, but of all Syrians henceforth. As such, focusing on the protection of sites of great historical concern is just, it can be argued, given that the ultimate goal is to preserve and protect the essential character of a people for hundreds of years to come. Some may find it distasteful that many seem to be increasingly inured to the human toll in Syria, while interest is piqued by attacks on historical sites. Doubtless, they might prefer that some of the yardage given over to glossy pictures of Palmyra in its glory days be given over to reporting of the day-to-day devastation faced and experienced by ordinary people. On the same theme, one can hope and advocate for better, longer, more in-depth pieces or more funding for foreign reporters. A righteous lament this may be, but it is an ineffectual one. The numbing reality is that if these were the types of stories that were demanded, more news services would answer the call. It must also be remembered that there are rarely mutually exclusive choices here. The words written and arguments elucidated over the importance of saving cultural heritage sites are also a part of wider discussions and pressure to cobble together anything approaching a meaningful plan to intervene or otherwise halt the worst excesses of the violence in Syria. The takeover of Palmyra has generated a unique media storm, flinging the Syrian conflict back to wider consciousness. If that can be harnessed in the uphill struggle to galvanise a plan going forward, then no-one will complain. Whatever the intellectual or moral merits of focusing on such examples of historical desecration, the fact remains that, for me - and I doubt I'm alone - there remains a unique sadness in the loss of such sites. The abstract and horrifying numbers of deaths that the conflict has produced are not undermined or further ignored, as it were, by the focus on the fate of the likes of Palmyra. The loss of Syria's cultural heritage represents the loss of far more than some tourist attractions, but the loss of connection between multiple generations. As with all things, politics is but the art of the possible. So leveraging the fate of these magnificent and important monuments in the wider hope of incrementally building a pressure to bear on the powers that be is a just and vital thing.", "question": "The @placeholder of world - famous historical sites that have been partially or entirely destroyed by recent conflict in the Middle East grows with grim regularity .", "option_0": "proportion", "option_1": "list", "option_2": "pile", "option_3": "bodies", "option_4": "sight"}
{"id": 1133, "article": "Bio-scientist Samantha Ho, 39, was found dead at the property in Curlew Place, St Neots, on 29 August. Her head and torso were discovered separately, and a post-mortem examination found she died from cuts to her neck. Her husband, Timothy Allen, 40, of Curlew Place, admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility. He appeared via video link at the Old Bailey earlier, where his plea was accepted. Live: More reaction after the guilty plea Allen had denied her murder at an earlier hearing in December. He will be sentenced on 17 March. Police were initially called to the house by the ambulance service after a report of concern for a man at the property. Armed officers forced entry to the house, where Ms Ho's body was found. Allen was arrested on suspicion of murder and taken to hospital with what police described as a serious but not life-threatening injury. He was later charged with murdering his wife. It was \"a tragic case where a woman lost her life and families have been torn apart\", said Det Ch Insp Richard Wall, of Cambridgeshire Police. In a statement, Ms Ho's family described her as \"well-loved... with a bright future ahead of her with lots of aspirations\". The former Nottingham Trent University student had worked at bio-science firm Asterand, in Royston, Hertfordshire, for more than 10 years. Before that she was employed at Pharmagene, which is part of Asterand, and Cambridge firm Cytocell. \"She wanted to be a great scientist, have time to travel the world, realise her dreams and spend more time with family,\" Ms Ho's family said. \"However, on that fateful day... Samantha was tragically taken away from us. That day was a day where a part of us died.\"", "question": "A man has admitted killing his wife who was found @placeholder at a house in Cambridgeshire .", "option_0": "died", "option_1": "abandoned", "option_2": "dumped", "option_3": "beheaded", "option_4": "strangled"}
{"id": 1134, "article": "But ask the right questions, and the level of concern becomes more apparent. \"We look very anxiously - every morning, every afternoon, every day - at the news,\" he says. \"I've got a bad feeling we're not going to get a good ending.\" Greece got through its latest crisis point last week, repaying 200m euros (?¡ê145m; $224m) to the IMF. But the government straightaway turned its attention to Monday's Eurogroup meeting and the repayment of 763m euros due to the IMF on Tuesday. As the debt talks drag on in Brussels, Greek newspapers, radio and television broadcasts shout about the next big challenge. And it is not just the headlines that live by the deadlines. Pensioners like Ted were alarmed this month to find their pension payment was delayed. The government said it was due to a technical error, but reports suggested it had struggled until the last minute to find the cash. \"It's so hard. You can't plan for the future,\" says Ted. \"People are scared - everybody is waiting to see what is going to happen.\" Greece has not received any loans from the eurozone or the IMF since August 2014. There are 7.2bn euros (?¡ê5.3bn; $8bn) left in the country's bailout programme, but creditors refuse to release the money until Athens implements further reforms, involving more spending cuts and tax increases. Meanwhile the Greek government, led since January by the leftist Syriza party of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, is refusing to go against its anti-austerity pre-election promises. Ted and I meet in Petralona, a residential area at the foot of ancient Filopappou Hill in central Athens. A nearby square is fairly busy, with cafe customers lining the pavements - their conversations often turning to the economy. Living with uncertainty is a daily reality. \"People are already so stressed, we can't get any more so,\" a local bar owner tells me. A young graphic designer walking her dog says she avoids watching TV because it makes her feel nervous. \"And every time I do, it's always the same thing.\" \"People in Greece are extremely aware of the payments coming up,\" says Jerome Roos, a Dutch political economist and activist following the debt crisis negotiations in Greece. \"They live by the deadlines. \"But it is the same old story. Default has been 'happening tomorrow' for five years - but now is the moment that it might actually happen tomorrow.\" Researchers have pointed to an increase in suicides and depression during the economic crisis in Greece, partly due to soaring unemployment, which currently stands at around 25%. The previous government was criticised for not responding adequately to the increasing demand for mental health support. Prof George Christodoulou, honorary president of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association, says many people in Greece suffer chronic stress as a result of the crisis. The most marked change in recent years has been a broader sense of grief among the country's population, he adds. \"Presently the people have lost their patience. They are under the influence of chronic stress that is inflated by the media and they are worried about their future and the future of their children.\" He says this has made many people vulnerable - willing to rid themselves of stress at any cost. \"This is potentially a very dangerous crossroad. The sooner this situation crystallises, the better.\" Anti-austerity campaigners have pointed to the detrimental health impact of economic policies, when arguing against spending cuts and tax increases. Some experts believe this should be taken into account by the EU and IMF, as Greece attempts to renegotiate the terms of its 240bn euros international bailout. Meanwhile Dimitri Sotiropoulos, associate professor in political science at the University of Athens, warns that \"economic despair\" could lead to increasing support for extreme parties in Greece. Leaders of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party are currently on trial in Athens, on charges including murder and belonging to a criminal organisation. Back in Petralona, Dimitra Apostolopoulou, 40, is picking up bread from a bakery as her children wait in the car. \"I feel very worried because of the economic situation,\" she says. \"But what can we do?\" Many here seem to do be doing the best thing they can - sit in the sunshine and wait.", "question": "Sitting on his @placeholder 's steps in the sunshine , 68 - year - old Ted Pantelidis does not look too stressed .", "option_0": "world", "option_1": "uncle", "option_2": "country", "option_3": "night", "option_4": "neighbour"}
{"id": 1135, "article": "But increasingly tinkerers and hobbyists are proving they are more than equal to the corporate world, and their efforts are challenging the traditional methods of manufacturing. From the 15-year-old high school student who created a pancreatic cancer test using Google as a research tool, to people making money from home-made electronic devices, citizens are most definitely doing it for themselves. The availability of cheap components, from microcontrollers such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi, coupled with the plethora of crowdsourcing models to allow the sharing of everything from ideas to funding, means that production can move out of the factory and into the home. \"Things that 10 years ago you needed to be in a big company to make are now possible from individuals,\" said Dale Dougherty, founding editor of Make Magazine and the Maker Faire. Make Magazine has become the Das Kapital of the maker movement showcasing what people are making while the fair offers a real-life meeting point for what is often a very diverse community - \"from embroidery to robotics\" as Mr Dougherty puts it. Started in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006, the Maker Faire has now grown to 60 events around the world each year in locations as diverse as India, Tokyo and Newcastle. There is also an independent African Maker Faire, and this is a continent where the maker movement can have real impact thinks Mr Dougherty. \"They are realising that they don't need things that a large Western company has. In the past they have got hand-me-downs from the West which are difficult for them to maintain or repair,\" he said. Instead they can make their own devices, custom-made for medical, communication, farming or other needs. Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, is so convinced that the maker movement will bring about the next industrial revolution, that he has written a book about it. The parallels between the current phenomenon and the beginnings of the digital revolution are remarkable, he told the BBC ahead of the launch of his book: Makers, The New Industrial Revolution. \"There is a sense that this is the PC movement over again. All the ingredients that led to the digital revolution out of the west coast of the US in the 70s and 80s are coming together in manufacturing,\" he told the BBC. \"The difference is it is not going to take 20 years because unlike 1977 we already have the web,\" he added. If the garages in which the computer revolution was born were all about computers and code then the makers' garages are filled with laser cutters and 3D printers. And this time you don't need a computer science or business degree. For those starting out there is a huge web community of amateur experts waiting with tips and advice. For those with ideas but no clue how to turn it into a product, there are cloud manufacturing sites on hand to help with pretty much every part of the process from making to marketing. And for those with neither tools nor ideas there are physical hackerspaces where they can go to get both. The evidence of the revolution is in \"just about everything you see on Kickstarter\", said Mr Anderson. Take the Pebble smart watch which received huge amounts of interest and money on the crowd-funding website, grabbing the limelight from a very similar product designed by Sony. \"In the public perception it outcompeted one of the biggest electronic companies in the world,\" said Mr Anderson. Despite the gathering media circus around makers, Mr Dougherty urges caution when predicting how they will change the world. \"Makers have always been out there, they just didn't have a name for themselves. People often tell me proudly how they had a family member who was a maker, they see it as a tradition rather than a trend,\" he said. He agrees that there is some sort of revolution in the air though. \"We are undergoing a creative rather than an industrial revolution,\" he said. \"It is not replacing large scale manufacturing but people can go quickly from an idea to realised design so it means that people are thinking differently,\" he added. What is new, argues Mr Anderson is the way that corporations are facing a new threat to the old ways of doing things from what he calls \"an army of micro-manufacturers\". Large-scale organisations are definitely sitting up and taking notice of the Maker movement. Intel is one of the sponsors of the Maker Faire and big tech corporation are beginning to hire makers for their research and development teams, according to Mr Dougherty. Autodesk, a leading CAD (computer aided design) software firm makes the majority of money from clients in the building, construction and aerospace industries but increasingly it is keen to adapt its industrial products for consumer use. It is what Autodesk describes as  the \"democratisation of design software\". The firm has recently bought Instructables, a website which offers blueprints for a whole range of products. It is also an investor in TechShop, a physical workshop which gives people access to tools and equipment. It is little wonder that corporates are sniffing around at the edges of the maker movement because it is making one very important thing - money. Etsy, an online marketplace for handmade items, has already surpassed $500m (?¡ê307m) in sales this year while 3D printer manufacturer Makerbot has sold 13,000 units of its affordable 3D printers. 3D printing may be the killer app of the maker movement and Mr Anderson envisages it spreading its influence into a diverse range of industries, from robotics, computer electronics and even jewellery. For the time being though 3D printers are largely being bought by parents \"for their kids as a tool to inspire them\", he said. His own children love theirs. \"The boys make boardgame figures and the girls dolls' house furniture. Dolls' house furniture may not seem like a major industry but it feeds into the idea that it is all about kids playing with something and hoping to become the next Mark Zuckerberg. \"Regular people are designing extraordinary things and some may even be able to build a company around it,\" he said. If Karl Marx had been born in the web age, he might have had to adapt his famous call to arm slightly - \"Makers of the world unite\".", "question": "When Karl Marx predicted a revolution putting the means of production in the hands of the workers , he probably did n't imagine it to be @placeholder by an army of DIYers .", "option_0": "explored", "option_1": "fought", "option_2": "crushed", "option_3": "affected", "option_4": "ruled"}
{"id": 1136, "article": "Scott Sight has been used in the USA for the last six months. It provides a firefighter with a small camera that attaches to existing masks and allows them to see thermal images on a micro-screen in real time. Traditionally, handheld equipment has been used which limits movement and means only one is used per crew. The new device was developed by Flint-based Taylor Dowding Innovation (TDI) in partnership with Scott Safety, a leading manufacturer of personal safety equipment. TDI  argues that it can help save lives by giving firefighters more information in smoke filled environments. The company is part of the growing Welsh technology sector which employs 39,000 people. TDI started four years ago as a specialist in video and hazardous environments. Most of the key parts were developed over the last nine months. Nick Taylor, chief technology officer, said: \"Hand-held thermal imagers can be quite a bit more costly so there is an opportunity for more fire fighters to have them and this is also completely hands-free, which is also beneficial.\" \"A lot of this is down to the miniaturisation possible with electronics, while thermal-imaging sensor elements are more integrated and the development of small displays and better technology has improved, driven by mobile phone developments.\" According to the technology network, Estnet, there are 3,100 companies operating in the \"chips to clicks\" sector which contributes ?¡ê8.3bn to the Welsh economy. Estnet managing director Avril Lewis said the rate of technological development meant ideas could come to market very quickly. \"The technology industry is crucial to Wales and the Welsh economy, because we underpin other key economic sectors, the public sector and the social environment,\" she said. \"We're employing nearly 39,000 people and forecasting 7% growth over the next three years. We're a high-value industry and, as a result, we need to attract high-value people - and it's a well-paid, interesting industry. \"Another part of Estnet is ensuring we have the right skills coming through and we're working very hard with universities to ensure graduates have good-employability skills so they can help our businesses hit the ground running faster.\"", "question": "Ground - breaking thermal imaging software developed in Flintshire is being @placeholder for firefighters in Europe .", "option_0": "criticised", "option_1": "built", "option_2": "launched", "option_3": "called", "option_4": "prepared"}
{"id": 1137, "article": "Gareth Bale could have been the hero again but struck his free-kick over the bar as the home game against Israel ended goalless. Centre-back Ashley Williams was a rock in the heart of the defence once again. So how did the Wales players fare overall? BBC Wales Sport's Dafydd Pritchard runs the rule over the players on duty in Cardiff. Had precious little to do as Israel spent almost the entire match in their own half. Another assured display from the Fulham defender who has made the right wing-back role his own. Sound on the ball and solid defensively. Seldom tested defensively, the Reading player was efficient in possession and played his part in a fifth straight clean sheet for Wales. Led Wales with typical coolness and authority, intercepting any rare dangerous passes a pragmatic Israeli side mustered. Like Gunter, the Tottenham man was hardly troubled by Israel and was his usual calm self in possession. Pushed forward to offer Wales width on the left flank, combining well with Ramsey and the other midfielders as the hosts dominated early on. An industrious display at the base of the Welsh midfield, denying Israel possession and using the ball wisely. Offered an attacking threat with his runs into the Israeli penalty area but might be disappointed not to have converted either of his clear scoring opportunities. Wales' most influential player as they dominated possession, the Arsenal playmaker looked the most likely to carve Israel's defence open. Started well and worked exceptionally hard as he always does, but lacked the cutting edge when he found himself in space in the Israeli box. A relatively subdued display from the Real Madrid forward, although he always kept Israel's defenders on their toes. Buzzed with energy as he came on for the similarly busy Robson-Kanu and was denied a dramatic injury-time winner as his header was from an offside position. Impact was limited by the brevity of his appearance, though he competed well in the air.", "question": "Another @placeholder , another clean sheet but Wales were made to wait as they edge towards Euro 2016 in France .", "option_0": "game", "option_1": "finale", "option_2": "week", "option_3": "point", "option_4": "pace"}
{"id": 1138, "article": "Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (Hial) made the offer which was discussed in a meeting with the Prospect union. More than 120 staff held a 48-hour strike earlier this month which led to the closure of Dundee Airport. Hial's other 10 sites continued to operate during the action. Members of Prospect have been in a dispute over their pay and conditions for the past six years. Hial operates 11 Scottish airports in Dundee, Inverness, Argyll, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland and Wick. Inglis Lyon, managing director of Hial, said: \"A revised offer was made to Prospect today which we understand will be the subject of a consultative ballot. \"Both parties have compromised and in so doing have secured some long term stability for the business.\" He added: \"We are pleased at the progress we have made and believe that the agreement reached today delivers a balanced package of improvements to pay and conditions for security staff.\" Prospect said it would begin balloting members at the end of this week, with the ballot closing on 5 May. A work to rule action will be suspended. Alan Denney, Prospect national secretary, said: \"We believe this offer provides a realistic opportunity to settle our long-running dispute with Hial over the unequal treatment of our members. \"If agreed, there will be an alignment of terms and conditions over the next 20 months.\"", "question": "An agreement in principle has been reached on a @placeholder offer to resolve a long - running dispute on airport security workers ' pay .", "option_0": "written", "option_1": "par", "option_2": "job", "option_3": "bid", "option_4": "allowing"}
{"id": 1139, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Trott became Britain's most successful female Olympian with her fourth gold, in the omnium. Kenny equalled Sir Chris Hoy's record of six GB golds by winning the keirin. Sailor Giles Scott also won gold, and there were silvers for diver Jack Laugher and cyclist Becky James. There were further bronzes in cycling and boxing, with two more in gymnastics. The nine medals won by Britain on day 11 is the most achieved on a single day in Rio so far and the team have won two more medals than at the same stage at London 2012, which was GB's most successful Games. Katy Marchant finished third in the women's track cycling sprint while Joshua Buatsi won boxing bronze in the light-heavyweight division. In the gymnastics Amy Tinkler - at 16, the youngest member of Team GB - was third on the floor a week before she receives her GCSE results, while Nile Wilson emulated her feat on the high bar. Laugher, a gold medallist in the synchronised 3m springboard with Chris Mears, claimed his second Rio medal as he finished second in the individual event. Media playback is not supported on this device Victory for Kenny was GB's 19th gold of the 2016 Games. Scott, 29, earlier sealed gold in sailing's Finn class to give Britain their fifth successive Olympic title in the event, and they are set for another sailing gold from Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark. The run of success kept GB second in the medal table behind the United States, and above China, with five full days of action to come. Britain racked up a total of 12 medals in the velodrome, with every member of the 10-strong track cycling team winning at least one. Germany's Kristina Vogel, who beat James to gold in the women's sprint, wondered how GB's cyclists had managed to be so successful, saying: \"It seems they do nothing for three years, then they start at the Olympics and kill us.\" Media playback is not supported on this device Kenny, the 28-year-old from Bolton, won a dramatic keirin - the race was twice restarted because of infringements - to add to his team sprint and individual sprint victories. Kenny and Trott, from Cheshunt, now boast 10 gold medals between them after both made British Olympic history in the velodrome. Trott, 24, cried as Kenny pedalled his victory lap with his arms in the air, before the couple embraced and kissed as the crowd cheered. Find out how to get into cycling with our special guide. Kenny said: \"Today just felt like a dream. I'm just kind of so tired I'm just floating through it.\" Hoy stood and applauded Kenny's achievement in matching his British record of six golds, calling it a \"special moment\" during his BBC analysis. Trott, who had retained her omnium title in dominant fashion earlier in the evening, said: \"I can't believe it - I did not expect that at all. I am just so happy that it all came together.\" Team GB's Rio 2016 chef de mission Mark England said: \"What this team has delivered so far at Rio 2016 is an incredible achievement and the country should be extremely proud of the athletes and their support staff.\" More on the Team GB medal tracker can be found here. French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie was reduced to tears after being booed on the podium while he received his silver medal. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach described the crowd's behaviour as \"shocking\" and \"unacceptable at the Olympics\". Lavillenie had been booed by the crowd during Monday's competition, as he battled Brazilian Thiago Braz da Silva for gold, giving a thumbs-down gesture to the cameras as he prepared for an attempt. After the medal ceremony, IAAF president Lord Coe, vice-president Sergey Bubka and Da Silva attempted to console Lavillenie, who simply wrote \"no words\" on Twitter. Paula Radcliffe said: \"That is just wrong. Ashamed of the track and field crowd tonight. Cheer your own as loud as you like but never disrespect the others.\" Media playback is not supported on this device In other events at the Olympic Stadium, Great Britain's 2012 bronze medallist Robbie Grabarz finished just outside the medals in the high jump as Canada's Derek Drouin won gold. Grabarz, 28, went over 2.33m - although the bar fell down as he was celebrating and the clearance was only confirmed on appeal - but an earlier failure on his first attempt at 2.25m meant he finished joint fourth. On the track, Eilidh Doyle qualified for the 400m hurdles final and Dina Asher-Smith made it through to the 200m final (02:30 BST on Thursday) as a fastest loser. GB's Laura Muir faded from third to finish seventh in the women's 1500m as Kenya's Faith Kipyegon took gold while Jamaica's Omar McLeod won the men's 110m hurdles. Irish boxer Michael Conlan was furious with judges after losing a controversial points decision to Russia's Vladimir Nikitin in the quarter-finals. \"My dream has been shattered. It's been robbed. I came for gold and I've been cheated,\" said the amateur bantamweight world champion from Belfast. British swimmer Jack Burnell, meanwhile, called his disqualification from the men's 10km open water swim \"absolutely outrageous\" after Dutchman Ferry Weertman took gold. There was plenty of confusion after a dramatic finish, with Greece's Spiros Gianniotis initially given the win before being downgraded to silver. Burnell's disqualification was for two yellow cards - he was unclear why the first was shown, while the second followed a tussle with a rival swimmer. Media playback is not supported on this device Argentine sailor Santiago Lange, who lost part of a lung to cancer last year, teamed up with Cecilia Carranza Saroli to win gold in the Nacra 17 mixed class. Jamaica's seven-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt ran 20.28 seconds to reach the semi-finals of the men's 200m (02:00 BST Thursday). Bolt, who already has seven golds including the 100m in Rio, is seeking a \"treble treble\" of sprint titles, with the 4x100m relay to come. Lightweight Robson Conceicao became Brazil's first Olympic boxing champion by beating France's Sofiane Oumiha. Georgia's Lasha Talakhadze's won gold in the men's +105kg weightlifting category but riot police were called to the arena after judges ruled that Iranian favourite Behdad Salimikordasiabi had failed to register a total in the clean and jerk. Fans booed as Salimikordasiabi and his coach angrily remonstrated with officials for several minutes before the contest was finished. All times BST Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "question": "Golden couple Laura Trott and Jason Kenny - who will @placeholder in September - won historic cycling golds as Britain made Rio 2016 their most successful overseas Olympics with 50 medals .", "option_0": "follow", "option_1": "marry", "option_2": "remain", "option_3": "represent", "option_4": "contest"}
{"id": 1140, "article": "The visitors could not suppress Celtic's cutting edge or endeavour, and were quickly two goals behind thanks to Tom Rogic and Leigh Griffiths. Emilio Izaguirre took over the scoring after the break, striking twice and also missing a penalty. That was a rare moment of relief for a subdued Dundee, who conceded further goals to Scott Brown and Nadir Ciftci. Soon after this game kicked off, Aberdeen scored to lead 3-0 at Tynecastle. The Celtic players would have been unaware of that fact - although plenty of the home fans were following events on the other side of the country - but they are alert enough to the pressure being applied by Derek McInnes's side. Celtic, the defending champions, are currently in pursuit of the league leaders. They were certainly quick to respond against Dundee, taking full advantage of the visitors sitting too deep and being wasteful in possession. The latter issues riled Paul Hartley, but the Dundee manager would no doubt concede that they were in part a response to Celtic's attacking intent. Griffiths had already sent a free-kick into the side netting and another chance over before the home side scored. Dundee often had 10 men behind the ball, but Celtic had the refinement of touch and imagination to break through the lines. They were well served on the flanks, too, and Brown's deft pass released Izaguirre down the left and his cross was expertly volleyed into the net by Rogic. The Australian attacking midfielder grew into a commanding presence. Tall, rangy, powerful and with a delicate touch, he provided all the qualities that Celtic have missed while Stefan Johansen has suffered a dip in form. He might have scored again, but after a brilliant surging run he saw his shot pushed away by Bain, and the Dundee goalkeeper was also equal to another volley later in the first half. Celtic were comfortably in front long before then. Rogic turned provider two minutes after opening the scoring, crossing for Griffiths who took the ball on his chest, stepped past Gary Irvine then drilled a shot past Bain. Hartley was infuriated on the touchline, mostly because his team was so deep. When they did have the ball, they tended to be ponderous, although Paul McGinn did manage a long run down the right that ended with him falling to the ground inside the area as Efe Ambrose challenged, but half-hearted penalty appeals were turned away by the referee Steven McLean. The visitors could not devise a more effective game plan during the interval and it took just one minute of the second half for Rogic to deliver another shot on target, that Bain again saved. Torment continued for the visitors, and Izaguirre finished nearly from close range with his right foot after a one-two with Kris Commons sent him into the area. For all that his defensive nous is questioned, Izaguirre can be irrepressible going forward and he struck again when a cross from his fellow full-back Saido Janko was deflected to the back post and into his path. Only sentiment could disrupt Celtic's poise. When Callum McGregor was pulled back inside the area by a forlorn Irvine, the home fans shouted for Izaguirre to take the spot kick. He was handed the ball, but then wildly blazed it over the bar and spent he next few minutes of the game shaking his head in disbelief. Nadir Ciftci thought he had finally broken his duck for Celtic near the end, but a foul was awarded on Bain just before Ciftci tucked the ball into the empty net from McGregor's free-kick. The Celtic fans booed the decision, but it was a minor complaint on a satisfying afternoon for the home fans at Celtic Park. Ciftci also wasn't finished. Moments later, he crossed for Brown to clip the ball past Bain, and then the former Dundee United striker did grab a goal, latching on to a loose passback and poking the ball past Bain. There was loud acclaim for the goal, and for the scoreline. Match ends, Celtic 6, Dundee 0. Second Half ends, Celtic 6, Dundee 0. Attempt missed. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Attempt blocked. Gary Mackay-Steven (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Greg Stewart (Dundee) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Gary Mackay-Steven (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Greg Stewart (Dundee). Foul by Gary Mackay-Steven (Celtic). Greg Stewart (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Goal!  Celtic 6, Dundee 0. Nadir Ciftci (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Goal!  Celtic 5, Dundee 0. Scott Brown (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nadir Ciftci. Saidy Janko (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Gary Irvine (Dundee). Corner,  Celtic. Conceded by Scott Bain. Attempt saved. Scott Brown (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Nicky Low (Dundee). Foul by Saidy Janko (Celtic). Gary Irvine (Dundee) wins a free kick on the right wing. Attempt blocked. Callum McGregor (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Attempt blocked. Callum McGregor (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Attempt missed. Rhys Healey (Dundee) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic). Rory Loy (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Saidy Janko (Celtic). Gary Irvine (Dundee) wins a free kick on the right wing. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Greg Stewart (Dundee). Attempt blocked. Riccardo Calder (Dundee) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Riccardo Calder (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Saidy Janko (Celtic). Substitution, Dundee. Rhys Healey replaces Kane Hemmings. Attempt missed. Callum McGregor (Celtic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Attempt missed. Riccardo Calder (Dundee) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Emilio Izaguirre (Celtic) left footed shot is too high. Emilio Izaguirre should be disappointed. Penalty Celtic. Callum McGregor draws a foul in the penalty area. Penalty conceded by Gary Irvine (Dundee) after a foul in the penalty area. Substitution, Celtic. Gary Mackay-Steven replaces Kris Commons. Substitution, Celtic. Callum McGregor replaces James Forrest. Attempt missed. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the right.", "question": "Celtic delivered a timely reminder of their commanding @placeholder with an impressive sweeping aside of Dundee .", "option_0": "title", "option_1": "nature", "option_2": "records", "option_3": "captain", "option_4": "officers"}
{"id": 1141, "article": "Euan Blair is pursuing a career in promoting apprenticeships, rather than working in politics. In an interview with The TES magazine, he talks of founding a business which matches students with firms offering apprenticeships. He gave up working in investment banking, saying he preferred to work in a \"more socially motivated\" career. The government has been encouraging more young people to consider apprenticeships as an alternative to university - and is introducing a levy on employers to fund more apprentices. The 32-year-old son of the former prime minister has decided to become part of this drive to raise the profile and reputation of apprenticeships. His firm will connect young people with strong exam grades with apprenticeships in areas such as law, accounting and IT. \"This is going to be a battle. Because the fact is the brand of apprenticeships isn't where it needs to be; be it with schools, be it with employers, be it with parents. You can't change that overnight,\" he told The TES, in an article published on Friday. \"We want a situation where smart kids, who could go to Oxbridge or Russell Group universities, have to make a difficult decision: 'Do I go down that route, or do I join this incredible apprenticeship scheme at a top UK corporate or really exciting tech start-up?'\"", "question": "The push for more young people to take up apprenticeships is being @placeholder by one of Tony Blair 's sons .", "option_0": "backed", "option_1": "continued", "option_2": "sought", "option_3": "made", "option_4": "affected"}
{"id": 1142, "article": "Chepstow's Castle View Hotel's Michael Currey said he has had \"stick about it\" but insists it was meant to look like a Christmas ribbon. It \"didn't go down well with everyone\", he said. Monmouthshire council said it wanted the paint restored to its original colour as it is in a conservation area. Mr Currey said: \"I can see it looked like the England flag from a distance which didn't go down well with everyone. We are in Wales after all. \"The truth is that when we painted the red stripe on we had trouble fixing the bow. \"But now we've managed to fix the bow - and it looks very festive in time for Christmas.\" Chepstow councillor Armand Watts, who runs a nearby hairdressers shop, said: \"It's unusual, and even with the bow it still looks like the England flag.\" A Monmouthshire County Council spokesman said: \"The Castle View Hotel is a listed building within Chepstow's conservation area. Having investigated and spoken with the proprietor we will issue an enforcement notice this week on Mr Currey which takes effect on 31 December. \"This will require him to remove the bow and repaint the exterior to its original colour by 8 January.\"", "question": "A Monmouthshire hotel owner must remove a red ribbon bow painted on the white - @placeholder frontage amid complaints it looks like the English flag .", "option_0": "washed", "option_1": "wing", "option_2": "backed", "option_3": "run", "option_4": "coast"}
{"id": 1143, "article": "The Birmingham team said it had saved the NHS ?¡ê3,200 per patient and could help hundreds of patients UK-wide. The trial involved cutting average time to surgery for 32 patients from two months to just over two weeks - 31 had their tumours removed successfully. But it will be two years before doctors know if operating earlier extends life. About 9,600 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the UK each year, and fewer than 7% live beyond five years. Very little progress has been made in treating the disease since the early 1970s. Currently, just 8% of pancreatic cancer patients in the UK have surgery to successfully remove their tumour, because the majority are diagnosed at an advanced stage, when surgery is not an option. Even if a patient is eligible for surgery, the chances of that surgery being a success are linked to how quickly it takes place. The team at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, led by pancreatic surgeon Keith Roberts, worked with hospitals to speed up referrals for patients and reorganised the way surgery was carried out. They also cut out a treatment generally given to jaundiced patients before surgery, which was thought to reduce the risk of post-operative complications. This involves putting a stent into the bile duct to relieve symptoms. Speeding up time to surgery saw 31 out of 32 patients eligible for surgery go on to have successful treatment - a 97% success rate, compared with a current average of 75%. Complications and hospital readmissions after surgery were also reduced. Mr Roberts said: \"We have shown that it is possible to create a much faster path to surgery for pancreatic cancer patients within the NHS, which could have a significant impact on survival. \"We carried out surgery earlier, avoided unpleasant and costly pre-surgery treatment, and yet there was no significant increase in complications post-surgery.\" Alex Ford, of Pancreatic Cancer UK, which funded the study, said: \"These results are incredibly exciting. Surgery is the only treatment for pancreatic cancer that can save lives. If we can ensure that hundreds more patients have their tumour successfully removed each year, it could be a huge breakthrough in treatment.\" She said savings would be used to fund specialist nurses, who could help speed up the time to surgery still further. Kate Rigby, 69, from Minsterley, near Shrewsbury, was fast-tracked to surgery as part of the pilot.  She had surgery seven days after being diagnosed. \"Within a week of receiving my diagnosis, I had surgery to have my tumour removed. I barely had time to worry about undergoing such an extensive operation,\" she said. \"I had jaundice, but this wasn't treated prior to surgery and this hasn't caused me problems. People, including friends in the medical profession, have been astounded about how quickly I've been able to receive my treatment and how well I've recovered.\"", "question": "Speeding up access to surgery for pancreatic cancer patients diagnosed early enough increased success rates by a third , a pilot @placeholder has shown .", "option_0": "union", "option_1": "scheme", "option_2": "trial", "option_3": "operator", "option_4": "unit"}
{"id": 1144, "article": "Four ex-players from Crewe Alexandra have alleged abuse as children by former youth team coach Barry Bennell. Allegations of historical child sex abuse within the game are being investigated by four police forces in England, and the police and FA have said they expect further allegations to emerge. So do parents still have trust in their coaches? And have attitudes toward safeguarding children playing sport changed over the past few decades? We talk to parents and the people who run the game at the grassroots level. Sam Purnell's six-year-old daughter loves to play football after school in Basingstoke. He says the allegations have not worried him because taking her safety seriously was advertised early on by the team. \"When she signed up, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check requirement was put in big lettering on all the flyers,\" he said. \"I took that as a way to have confidence in them. \"Those checks are there for a reason. People who submit themselves for them have nothing to hide. So I feel that is a safe environment.\" DBS checks replaced CRBs (Criminal Records Bureau checks) and are used to look into a person's criminal record if they apply for certain jobs or voluntary positions, such as when working with children or fostering them. Sarah, who takes her seven-year-old son to a weekly football camp, has stronger concerns. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, she said: \"It is very worrying as a parent. I have been reading so much in the media recently about inappropriate behaviour, sexual assault, but never thought I was potentially putting my son in harm's way. \"Now I hear it is in football academies and that is really concerning. I don't know what checks are done on these people but even if it is DBS checks, you don't know if any previous crimes have been picked up.\" The Football Association is seeking to reassure parents in light of the allegations. FA chairman Greg Clarke said this week there were 8,500 safeguarding officers in the community, and added he had written to 30,000 clubs to raise their awareness. All clubs must also have what is called a welfare officer whose job is to make sure the goals of the association are met, meaning high standards of behaviour on and off the pitch from both players, staff and parents. Sarah Charman is the club welfare officer for Deddington Town FC. The Oxfordshire club has 10 youth teams and both of her young sons play there. \"Things have changed enormously when it comes to protecting children in that way,\" said Mrs Charman. \"The FA has got all the bases covered and they are very strict on them.\" The welfare officer, whose husband is the chairman of the youth section, said anyone who worked with the children, even if just a parent volunteer, would have to have a DBS check. She also said there was a strong network of other welfare officers that met regularly and could support each other through any difficult situations that arose. \"I feel quite confident as a parent that everything is covered,\" added Mrs Charman. \"When I completed my courses to become a welfare officer, it made me think that all the questions that I would have as a parent to allow my children to be looked after by someone else had been answered.\" Phil Davies coaches the under-eight and under-11 teams at Thurlby Tigers in Lincolnshire and says there was a raft of training he had to go through before taking the reins. \"The environment has changed a lot,\" he said. \"I don't even remember anything like welfare officers when I used to play. A lot of the coaches back then didn't have to be qualified and I don't even think there were the DBS checks then.\" As well as being certified by the FA, he has had to do a child-safeguarding course and have his own DBS check. And with his eight-year-old son as keen to join in as he is, it is a reassurance. \"Knowing what the requirements are now, knowing that coach will have to have been checked and trained properly, it does put my mind at ease as a parent too,\" he added. Football is not the only sport where the importance of child safeguarding has developed substantially in recent years. Max Cooter, who lives in Brighton, is a cricket coach and training to be a rugby coach - the two sports his son and daughter play. \"When I was training, there was a six-day course completed over six weeks, and one entire day was dedicated to the pastoral side,\" he said. \"We were told how to spot signs of physical and sexual abuse, we were told how we were to behave with the children, and what we should do if we suspected anything with one of the other coaches, where to go and who to call.\" As a father of two, he feels much safer in the knowledge of how seriously their clubs take these matters. \"When I used to play sports at school and at a cricket club, it just wasn't talked about and wasn't thought of as an issue,\" said Mr Cooter. \"It is scary when you think about what we know now. \"But sport is clearly taking it seriously and have got the measures in place to protect children.\" There is more work to be done, though, and more allegations are likely to come to light, according to Chief Constable Simon Bailey, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) lead for child protection. He said: \"We, as a country, are now having to deal with the legacy of non-recent sexual abuse and the thousands of allegations that we are now seeing across the country. \"I just think that we have more and more victims, thankfully, who are having the confidence to come forward knowing the police service's response and society's response to their abuse is now very different.\"", "question": "The weekend rush to get the kids to football practice is a scene repeated in households across the UK . But this weekend , a @placeholder is hanging over the beautiful game after historical allegations of child sexual abuse were made by former youth players .", "option_0": "cloud", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "spotlight", "option_3": "message", "option_4": "veil"}
{"id": 1145, "article": "The High Court judge also found that Edwin Poots had breached the ministerial code by failing to take the issue before the Stormont Executive. The Department of Health said Mr Poots would \"read and consider\" the verdict. The complete ban, put in place during the 1980s, was lifted in England, Scotland and Wales in November 2011. It was replaced by new rules that allow blood from men whose last sexual contact with another man was more than a year ago. The 12-month deferral was left in place following a Government Advisory Committee report. It identified a much shorter period during which infection with blood-borne viruses could not be detected. Mr Poots maintained the ban in Northern Ireland on the basis of ensuring public safety. But a gay man granted anonymity due to his perceived vulnerability launched a judicial review challenge to Mr Poots' position on blood donation. The judge heard claims that the minister had displayed apparent bias that went beyond religious beliefs and into the realms of prejudice. It was revealed in court that despite the unidentified applicant's sexual orientation, he has become a born-again Christian who now disapproves of homosexual practices. Attorney General John Larkin QC, the chief legal adviser to the Stormont Executive, questioned the legitimacy of the challenge. He claimed the challenge was a waste of time because the applicant had previously had sex for money. Mr Larkin rejected arguments that the issue required full executive approval and questioned whether the minister had made a decision to maintain the current ban. However, the judge said that in continuing the lifetime deferral policy the minister had deviated from the position taken in England, Scotland and Wales. He said the decision was made against the secretary of state's recommendation that the report from the advisory committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs (SaBTO) should be followed. The judge held that the additional risk from deferring donation for 12 months, instead of permanently, was very minimal. He said: \"The minister has decided that MSM (males who have sex with other males) behaviour creates such a high risk of infection to the donor that such donors must be permanently deferred with the result that such blood cannot enter the Northern Ireland blood stock. \"Importing blood from other places which do accept MSM donors, even in limited quantities, leaves the door open for MSM blood to do just that. \"There is clearly a defect in reason here.\" Applying different standards to imported blood defeats the whole purpose of a permanent deferral, he added. Declaring the decision irrational, he said: \"If there is a genuine concern about the safety of MSM-donated blood, such that the blood stock must be protected absolutely from such blood, then the security of that blood must actually be maintained absolutely.\" Dealing with the alleged breach of the ministerial code, the judge said the lifetime ban was both controversial and cross-cutting, taking in equality issues. \"As such the minister had no authority to act without bringing them to the attention of the Executive Committee which he failed to do. \"In doing so the minister breached the ministerial code and... had no legal authority to take a decision in breach of the ministerial code.\" In response to the judgement, a spokesperson for UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: \"We will consider the potential implications of this judgement on UK blood policy.\" Sinn F??in assembly member Maeve McLaughlin, who is currently the chair of Stormont's health committee, said: \"The decision raises in many people's minds serious questions as to whether Edwin Poots has the ability to carry out his duties as health minister for all.\" She added: \"It goes without saying that we need to have robust screening of blood, whoever it comes from. Discriminating against people from within our community who are prepared to give blood, which would be used to save lives, needs to be reversed immediately.\" Alliance Party health spokesman Kieran McCarthy said the DUP MP's position as health minister had been \"seriously compromised\" and he should \"consider his position\". \"He has been badly advised and now has serious questions to answer. Not only has he wasted public funds, but he also acted to prejudice one section of society in Northern Ireland,\" he said. John O'Doherty of the Rainbow Project, a gay advocacy organisation, said: \"This ruling is a shocking indictment of the conduct of Minister Poots, who has proven himself incapable of separating his personal prejudices from his public responsibilities.\"", "question": "Stormont 's health minister did not have the @placeholder to keep an \" irrational \" lifetime ban on gay men giving blood in Northern Ireland , a judge has ruled .", "option_0": "power", "option_1": "discretion", "option_2": "difference", "option_3": "refusal", "option_4": "bench"}
{"id": 1146, "article": "Apocryphal tale or not, death has given a lucrative boost to the selling power of not just Elvis, but also Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and a host of other music legends. It has also enabled a number of entrepreneurial fans of the artists in question to make a good living from selling memorabilia and other things connected to their idols. Elvis's legacy and monetary worth remain immensely strong in particular - according to Forbes' list of top earning dead stars he earned $27m (¡ê21m) in 2016, and sold one million albums. Aged just 42 when he died of a heart attack, the singer's notorious love of unhealthy food could not have helped. His favourite sandwich was said to consist of two slices of fried bread, with crispy bacon and fried bananas, smothered in jam and peanut butter. Graceland sold 11,000 such sandwiches to visitors last year - but it was not Graceland, Memphis, Elvis' former home, rather Graceland Randers in Denmark. The tourist attraction in northern Denmark is owned by Danish-born super-fan Henrik Knudsen, 53, who built a copy of the original Graceland mansion to keep the rock 'n' roller's legend alive in Scandinavia. \"I was 13 when he died, and I couldn't say it was a shock, as I wasn't that deep into him at the time, but what I recognised was this was something big,\" says Henrik, an honorary citizen of Memphis, who has visited Graceland in the US some 100 times. \"This could have been royalty. This could have been a president.\" After establishing a successful Elvis fan club, his Danish replica of Graceland opened in 2011. It cost ¡ê2.8m to build the house, with museum in the basement, a function room, merchandise store, and a diner, but within six years Henrik had made enough money to pay back his investors. Yet with success came a lawsuit from Elvis Presley Enterprises, the corporate body created by the Elvis Presley Trust to manage worldwide licensing of Elvis-related products and ventures, for infringement of the Graceland trademark. In December 2015 Graceland Randers was renamed Memphis Mansions, and Henrik declines to discuss the legal aspects. Elvis Presley signature sandwich - 69 Danish krone ($10.90; ¡ê8.42) Entry price - DKK 99 adults, DKK 69 children 12 to 17, under-12s free 150,000 visitors last year Sells officially licensed Elvis products - such as CDs, DVDs, LPs, merchandise, autographs Another Elvis fanatic who makes a living from his hero is London-based Sid Shaw, the owner of website Elvisly Yours, which sells Elvis-related memorabilia and products to fans in more than 50 countries. Over the years he has sold mugs, costume jewellery, magazines, books, posters, badges, t-shirts, plates, magnets, Elvis sunglasses and tapestries, among others. 'I first heard Elvis on Radio Luxembourg. And that was the only place you could hear pop music [at the time],\" says Sid, now 71. \"Elvis came on and was totally different to anything else, so I became a fan then.\" Sid started making busts of Elvis in 1977, the year of his death, and in 1978 set up a fan club. \"In those days, the Elvis Presley estate didn't have a trademark, so I applied for the trademark 'Elvis', and I was told you can't get it because it is generic,\" he recalls. \"So I applied for the next best thing which is 'Elvisly Yours'... and I got it.\" The phrase Elvisly Yours is the way Elvis fans around the world sign their letters. Sid says to protect himself legally he has acquired a further 38 trade marks in the UK and Europe. At the other end of the online memorabilia scale, eBay says current demand for material related to the King has seen 12 Elvis-related items sold every hour over the last three months, covering everything from mugs to masks. And there are nearly 70,000 current listings for Elvis memorabilia on the site. Entry price - $57.50 (¡ê44.50) adults, $51.75 over 62s and youths 13 to 17, $27 children 7 to 12, under 6s free 500,000 visitors a year 4,000 visitors a day in July Contributes $150m a year to Memphis economy While Elvis fans are mainly of the same generation that grew up with him, others - such as reggae legend Bob Marley - have more cross-generational appeal. In Marley's case he has also become synonymous with Jamaica, helping boost tourism there. \"Bob Marley is more than a native son, he is an icon,\" says Jamaica's director of tourism Paul Pennicook. The Marley legacy is overseen by The Bob Marley Group (Jamaica), which is owned by his family, and includes the Bob Marley Museum. Located in Kingston, the Jamaican capital, the museum was formerly Marley's home, and was purchased in 1975. It was transformed into a museum after his 1981 death, and attracts more than 36,000 visitors a year. Entry costs are $25 per adult, $12 per child aged four to 12 years, and $5 per student with valid Jamaican school ID. Meanwhile, products on sale related to the reggae icon include Marley Coffee, a House of Marley audio equipment range, and One Love ice-cream. Once a star dies, original memorabilia associated with them tends to climb in price. Katherine Schofield, head of the entertainment department at UK auction house Bonhams, says: \"We tend to see a knee-jerk reaction in the market following the death of a collectible artists. \"It takes a bit longer for the market to settle, and we can then see more accurately if prices look likely to stay higher.\" Since David Bowie's death in January 2016 she says there have been high prices for items related to the trend-setting musician, and \"high quality lots coming on to the market\". Truffle Shuffle, a firm which produces images on t-shirts, has also noted that death can boost sales. \"When Bowie died, just like with his music, sales of merchandise tripled, with fans looking to get something to remind them of a cultural icon,\" says Claire Wood, head buyer at TruffleShuffle.com. Meanwhile, Australian street artist Jimmy C (aka James Cochrane), sold limited edition prints of a Bowie wall mural in Brixton, London, he had created in 2013. The 44-year-old sold about 120 prints for ¡ê180 each with 20% going to Cancer Research UK. \"The print is connected to my artwork as much as it is to Bowie, or to be more specific, the artwork was a personal interpretation of Bowie,\" he says. \"I believe it is legitimate for me to sell decent quality prints of my own artwork.\" But be warned, estates are always on the look-out for anything that crosses from homage into copyright infringement. \"Our action against piracy is an ongoing one,\" says the Bob Marley Foundation. \"We continue to encourage the public to do the right thing and report any illegal use of the image of the reggae icon.\"", "question": "When a downward - spiralling Elvis Presley died 40 years ago on 16 August 1977 , a cynical music industry insider was @placeholder to remark that it was a \" smart career move \" .", "option_0": "overheard", "option_1": "aiming", "option_2": "inspired", "option_3": "promised", "option_4": "exposed"}
{"id": 1147, "article": "Six others were injured in the fire in the south-western city of Najran, the civil defence directorate said. The victims all hailed from Bangladesh and India, it added. The region's governor has ordered an investigation and expressed concern over workers' accommodation, the Saudi Press Agency reported. An estimated nine million foreigners work in Saudi Arabia, many of them from South Asia. Rights groups complain that foreign workers often suffer poor conditions and are unable to switch jobs or leave the country without the permission of their employers. \"Firefighters put out a blaze in an old house where there is no ventilation (windows) resulting in the death of 11 residents and injuring six others due to smoke inhalation,\" the civil defence directorate said in a tweet. Najran Governor Prince Juluwe bin Abdulaziz bin Musaed ordered an investigation into the deaths after reading a civil defence report, the Saudi Press Agency reports. It said the governor had \"expressed disappointment\" about the lack of control of foreign workers' lodgings in the region. In 2015, 11 people died in a blaze at a residential block housing workers for the oil giant Saudi Aramco in the eastern city of Khobar.", "question": "Eleven migrant workers died from asphyxiation when fire swept though a windowless house they @placeholder in Saudi Arabia , officials said .", "option_0": "landed", "option_1": "built", "option_2": "supplies", "option_3": "shared", "option_4": "originated"}
{"id": 1148, "article": "A new version of the ministerial code omits a previous reference to ministers being bound by international law. Senior lawyers claim this could affect the UK's international position and relationship with other states. The Cabinet Office said the code was very clear on the need to comply with the law, including international law. Some leading lawyers believe the change could loosen ministerial respect for the rule of law and affect decisions about declaring war or using military force such as drones in Syria. It could also reduce respect for judgements by international courts on, for example, contentious human rights issues, they add. By Clive Coleman, BBC legal correspondent To some this may seem like lawyers arguing over semantics. What is the meaningful difference between the ministerial code referring to a duty to comply with the law \"including international law and treaty obligations\" or simply the duty to comply with \"the law\"? Surely \"the law\" encompasses all domestic and international law? That is certainly the government's position. However, this dispute focuses on the exercise of prerogative powers by ministers. These include the power to use force, for instance, in ordering drone strikes in Syria. They are not set down, defined and limited specifically in UK statutes, and are instead governed by international law and treaty, such as the use of force set out in the UN Charter. It is for that reason that some leading lawyers regard the specific reference to international law in the code as critical. Paul Jenkins, former head of the government legal service, said it was \"disingenuous\" to dismiss the changes as \"as mere tidying up\". He told the Guardian: \"Whether the new wording alters the legal obligations of ministers or not, there can be no doubt that they will regard the change as bolstering, in a most satisfying way, their contempt for the rule of international law.\" Campaign group Rights Watch UK said it was challenging the government's claim that the amendment to the code does not reflect a substantive change. The previous ministerial code, issued in 2010, stressed an \"overarching duty on ministers to comply with the law including international law and treaty obligations and to uphold the administration of justice and to protect the integrity of public life\". A new draft simply refers to a duty to comply with \"the law and to protect the integrity of public life\". Philippe Sands QC, a professor of law at University College London, told the Guardian the change was \"shocking\" and \"another slap to Magna Carta and the idea of the rule of law\". Also writing in the Guardian, former legal adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Frank Berman QC said it was \"impossible not to feel a sense of disbelief at what must have been the deliberate suppression of the reference to international law\" in the new version of the code. A formal letter, seen by the BBC, is being sent to Prime Minister David Cameron by Rights Watch making it clear it wants the original wording reinstated. Rights Watch director Yasmine Ahmed said: \"For the government to erase from the ministerial code the starting presumption that its ministers will comply with international law is seriously concerning. \"It evidences a marked shift in the attitude and commitment of the UK government towards its international legal obligations.\"", "question": "The prime minister is facing a direct legal challenge over changes to the code which sets out rules and @placeholder for ministers ' conduct .", "option_0": "proposals", "option_1": "race", "option_2": "standards", "option_3": "punishments", "option_4": "delay"}
{"id": 1149, "article": "Winner: Boyhood Birdman The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game The Theory of Everything Winner: The Theory of Everything '71 The Imitation Game Paddington Pride Under The Skin Winner: Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler Michael Keaton - Birdman Winner: Julianne Moore - Still Alice Amy Adams - Big Eyes Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl Reese Witherspoon - Wild Winner: JK Simmons - Whiplash Steve Carell - Foxcatcher Ethan Hawke - Boyhood Edward Norton - Birdman Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher Winner: Patricia Arquette - Boyhood Rene Russo - Nightcrawler Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game Imelda Staunton - Pride Emma Stone - Birdman Winner: Richard Linklater - Boyhood Wes Anderson - Grand Budapest Hotel Damian Chazelle - Whiplash Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Birdman James Marsh - The Theory of Everything Winner: The Theory of Everything - Anthony McCarten American Sniper - Jason Hall Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn The Imitation Game - Graham Moore Paddington - Paul King Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson Birdman - Alejandro G. Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr, Armando Bo Boyhood - Richard Linklater Nightcrawler - Dan Gilroy Whiplash - Damien Chazelle Winner: The Lego Movie Big Hero 6 The Boxtrolls Winner: Citizenfour 20 Feet from Stardom 20,000 Days on Earth Finding Vivian Maier Virunga Winner: Ida Leviathan The Lunchbox Trash Two Days, One Night Winners: Birdman - Emmanuel Lubezki The Grand Budapest Hotel - Robert Yeoman Ida - Lukasz Zal, Ryszard Lenczewski Interstellar - Hoyte van Hoytema Mr Turner - Dick Pope Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Into the Woods Mr Turner The Theory of Everything Winner: Whiplash - Tom Cross Birdman - Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione The Grand Budapest Hotel - Barney Pilling The Imitation Game - William Goldenberg Nightcrawler - John Gilroy The Theory of Everything - Jinx Godfrey Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel - Frances Hannon Guardians of the Galaxy - Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou, David White Into the Woods - Peter Swords King, J Roy Helland Mr Turner - Christine Blundell, Lesa Warrener The Theory of Everything - Jan Sewell Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel - Alexandre Desplat Birdman - Antonio Sanchez Interstellar - Hans Zimmer The Theory of Everything - Johann Johannsson Under the Skin - Mica Levi Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel - Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock Big Eyes - Rick Heinrichs, Shane Vieau The Imitation Game - Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana MacDonald Interstellar - Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis Mr Turner - Suzie Davies, Charlotte Watts Winner: Whiplash - Thomas Curley, Ben Wilkins, Craig Mann American Sniper - Walt Martin, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman Birdman - Thomas Varga, Martin Hernandez, Aaron Glascock, Jon Taylor, Frank A Monta?¡Ào The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wayne Lemmer, Christopher Scarabosio, Pawel Wdowczak The Imitation Game - John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Stuart Hilliker, Martin Jensen Winner: Interstellar - Paul Franklin, Scott Fisher, Andrew Lockley Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Erik Winquist, Daniel Barrett Guardians of the Galaxy - Stephane Ceretti, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner, Nicolas Aithadi The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R Christopher White X-Men: Days of Future Past - Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Tim Crosbie, Cameron Waldbauer Winner: The Bigger Picture - Chris Hees, Daisy Jacobs, Jennifer Majka Monkey Love Experiments - Ainslie Henderson, Cam Fraser, Will Anderson My Dad - Marcus Armitage Winner: Boogaloo and Graham - Brian J Falconer, Michael Lennox, Ronan Blaney Emotional Fusebox - Michael Berliner, Rachel Tunnard The Karman Line - Campbell Beaton, Dawn King, Tiernan Hanby, Oscar Sharp Slap - Islay Bell-Webb, Michelangelo Fano, Nick Rowland Three Brothers -S Aleem Khan, Matthieu de Braconier, Stephanie Paeplow Winner: Stephen Beresford, David Livingstone (writer and producer Pride) Elaine Constantine (writer/director Northern Soul) Gregory Burke, Yann Demange (writer and director '71) Hong Khaou (writer/director Lilting) Paul Katis, Andrew De Lotbiniere (director/producer and producer Kajaki: The True Story) Winner: Jack O'Connell Gugu Mbatha-Raw Margot Robbie Miles Teller Shailene Woodley", "question": "Here is the full list of winners for the 2015 Bafta Film Awards , @placeholder at a ceremony in London .", "option_0": "aimed", "option_1": "held", "option_2": "shows", "option_3": "opened", "option_4": "following"}
{"id": 1150, "article": "Western powers and much of the Syrian opposition say it is not conceivable for Mr Assad to lead a post-war Syria. Mr Assad said Iran was supporting his government \"politically, economically and militarily\" but denied that Iranian ground forces had been sent. The latest comments come as Russia increases its presence in Syria. Mr Assad said that the president \"comes to power with the people's assent through elections, and if he leaves, he leaves if the people demand it\". Mr Assad was re-elected in 2014 with 88.7% of the vote. However, the election only took place in government-held areas and the opposition said the vote had no credibility in the midst of a civil war. In the interview Mr Assad also said the refugee crisis which has seen more than four million Syrians flee the country, and millions more internally displaced, was due to \"terrorism\". He urged Western countries to \"stop supporting terrorists\" if they are concerned about an influx of refugees. Mr Assad's message is not new, says the BBC's Sebastian Usher. From the first days of the Syrian crisis, when he was facing unarmed opposition from street protests, he has framed it as a battle against terrorism, What has changed is the timing and the circumstances. Mr Assad and one of his main backers, Russia, are pointing to the refugee crisis and the rise of Islamic State (IS) as proof that their stance has been correct, our correspondent adds. Russia sends signal over future role On Tuesday US Secretary of State John Kerry called his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in an attempt to clarify the reason behind Moscow's military build-up in Syria. Mr Kerry warned that continued support for President Assad \"risks exacerbating and extending the conflict\", a statement said. Russia says it is helping Syria fight Islamic State militants. Moscow has increased its presence in the country just as the regime is losing ground to rebel groups. Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged continued military support for President Assad and has urged other countries to join Russia in sending \"military-technical assistance\". A Pentagon spokesman said on Monday that a steady flow of people and equipment near the north-western city of Latakia suggested Moscow was planning to establish a \"forward air operating base\" at an airport there. Also on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he would travel to Russia next week for talks with Mr Putin on Moscow's involvement in Syria. He \"will present the threats to Israel emanating from the increased flow of advanced weaponry\" to Syria and from the transfer of weapons to Hezbollah and other militant groups, an Israeli official told Reuters news agency.", "question": "Syrian President Bashar al - Assad has said in an interview for Russian TV he will not @placeholder under foreign pressure , saying the Syrian people must decide .", "option_0": "affect", "option_1": "stand", "option_2": "introduce", "option_3": "remain", "option_4": "quit"}
{"id": 1151, "article": "Writing in the Times, he said any future expansion of the EU would pose a \"direct and serious threat\" to public services in the UK, including the NHS. Meanwhile, Home Secretary Theresa May is to argue being in the EU improves Britain's \"clout\" in the world. She will make her first major speech of the EU referendum campaign later. Mr Gove warned that five potential new members of the EU - Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania and Turkey - would result in millions more people having the right to move to the UK. \"Because we cannot control our borders - and because our deal sadly does nothing to change this fact - public services such as the NHS will face an unquantifiable strain as millions more become EU citizens,\" he wrote. \"There is a direct and serious threat to our public services, standard of living and ability to maintain social solidarity if we accept continued EU membership,\" he added. Pro-Brexit campaigners have attempted to return the EU debate to the issue of immigration following US President Barack Obama's intervention in the debate. On Friday, Mr Obama said the UK would be at the \"back of the queue\" for trade deals with the US, if it voted to leave the EU on 23 June. His warning has been seen as a major boost for the Remain campaign. However, writing in the Daily Telegraph, Mayor of London Boris Mr Johnson warned pro-EU campaigners not to \"crow too soon\". He accused Prime Minister David Cameron of achieving \"two-thirds of diddly squat\" in his negotiations with Brussels for a special deal for Britain on immigration and other key demands. \"That deal shows how contemptuously we will be treated if we remain,\" Mr Johnson wrote. On Sunday, Mr May said the free movement of workers within the EU made it more difficult to curb immigration to the UK. But she told BBC's Andrew Marr Show it did not make it \"impossible\". She said controlling immigration - whether from inside or outside the EU - \"is hard\". Vote Leave said Mrs May had \"given up\" on trying to control immigration.", "question": "The UK will face a future @placeholder \" free - for - all \" unless it leaves the European Union , Justice Secretary Michael Gove has warned .", "option_0": "migration", "option_1": "side", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "play", "option_4": "disabled"}
{"id": 1152, "article": "The Volkswagen Passat was spotted in the water at Penmaenmawr on Saturday evening and North Wales Police said the driver suffered minor injuries. Bangor Coastguard also attended, but was stood down as nobody was in the car and it was not causing pollution. A recovery firm attended on Sunday to remove the car, which was stuck on rocks. Aled Thomas, general manager of Moduron Maethlu Motors Ltd, said: \"The tide had carried the vehicle away from the slipway and we could only see the roof bobbing about when we got there. \"I waded out to the car and secured a line to stop it dragging further down the beach. \"We then waited for the tide to go out far enough for our Land Rover to go onto the beach. \"The car was stuck on a rock bed so we then cleared large stones out of the way to a point we could winch it out.\" He also thanked onlookers who gave information about the tides and sand.", "question": "A car had to be winched out of the water after it ended up in the @placeholder at a Conwy beach .", "option_0": "sea", "option_1": "event", "option_2": "tracks", "option_3": "country", "option_4": "chest"}
{"id": 1153, "article": "Developer Burcote Wind has voiced disappointment at the recommendation for its 10-turbine Longburn project. It said it had worked closely with communities over five years to make it suitable for the site near Carsphairn. However, Dumfries and Galloway Council is being advised to reject the scheme due to cumulative landscape impact. Last year the MCS raised its concerns about the project's impact on Cairnsmore of Carsphairn. The organisation said the project would \"close the circle\" around the peak. Now the scheme is to be discussed by the planning committee of the local authority in Dumfries and Galloway. It is being advised to turn it down. Planning officers said it would have \"significant adverse cumulative impacts\" on the landscape and visual amenity of the site surroundings and wider area. They also found it would have an effect on \"cultural heritage assets\" in the site. Burcote Energy said it was disappointed by the recommendation for the scheme which could put about ?¡ê2.5m into a community benefit fund over its operational lifetime. Operations director Fraser Campbell said: \"While the recommendation is based on landscape and visual and cultural heritage impacts, we have had no objections from either SNH or Historic Environment Scotland. \"We have been working on the site for over five years now and worked closely with the communities over the years to ensure that our application is well designed and suited to the site.\" He said they respected the planners' position but did not agree with it. The company also cited support from Dumfries and Galloway Chamber of Commerce and local logistics firm Currie European.", "question": "Planning officials have advised @placeholder for a wind farm the Mountaineering Council of Scotland said would form a \" ring of steel \" around a Galloway hill .", "option_0": "responsibility", "option_1": "race", "option_2": "funding", "option_3": "refusal", "option_4": "news"}
{"id": 1154, "article": "Mark Zuckerberg shared images on his profile of a shoebox-sized device that contained the hardware needed to set up a local, wireless network. \"OpenCellular is the next step on our journey to provide better, more affordable connectivity to bring the world closer together,\" he wrote. But Facebook's efforts in developing countries have been severely criticised over the course of 2016. The site's total user base is now more than 1.6bn. In order to keep bringing on new users, Facebook is looking to parts of the world that do not yet have Facebook, or even the internet. It has developed several technologies, including a lightweight, solar-powered drone that is being engineered and built in the UK. Introducing the company's latest idea, Facebook engineer Kashif Ali said: \"Traditional cellular infrastructure can be very expensive, making it difficult for operators to deploy it everywhere and for smaller organizations or individuals to solve hyperlocal connectivity challenges. \"It's often unaffordable for them to attempt to extend network access in both rural and developed communities.\" He said the hardware - which would eventually be made open-source, along with OpenCellular's software - was capable of working with a wide range of common network standards, such as 2G, LTE and wi-fi. Mr Ali said the design is currently being tested at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California. So far, the team had been able to use the device to send and receive text messages, make voice calls and access basic data connections. Facebook's plans to bring connectivity to the developing world have not always gone smoothly, with some questioning the company's motives. In India, the network's launch of Free Basics was met with scorn by those who said Facebook was giving itself and its partners an unfair advantage over local internet firms. The service was suspended, prompting Facebook investor Marc Andreessen to tweet that the move was \"anti-colonialism\". After derision, the tweet was removed. Mr Zuckerberg later said the investor's comments were \"deeply upsetting\". Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook", "question": "Facebook has launched an open - sourced @placeholder platform , as part of the social network 's continuing attempts to bring internet connectivity to underserved parts of the world .", "option_0": "air", "option_1": "sum", "option_2": "team", "option_3": "communications", "option_4": "shadow"}
{"id": 1155, "article": "Maria Carreiro, 51, said she \"ran down the street like a crazy woman\" after her daughter looked online and discovered the award's true size. Among her plans for the winnings were a Hawaii honeymoon after 30 years of marriage and a larger house. Ms Carreiro had worked at a factory before quitting to raise her children. She said her husband had already left his job. \"I couldn't believe it,\" Ms Carreiro told reporters. \"I was shaking and just couldn't believe that it was real.\" Ms Carreiro bought the LottoMax ticket for a Friday drawing and checked her ticket at the store on Saturday morning. She realised her multi-million dollar mistake when she returned home to tell her family. According to Ontario Lottery and Gaming, 60% of winners of more than C$1m paid off debts, 56% took a vacation, 36% bought a new house and 43% either retired, changed jobs or quit.", "question": "A Toronto woman @placeholder what she thought was a 40,000 Canadian dollar ( $ 39,428 ; ¡ê 26,000 ) lottery prize had in fact won C $ 40m , officials have said .", "option_0": "feared", "option_1": "smashed", "option_2": "filmed", "option_3": "showing", "option_4": "celebrating"}
{"id": 1156, "article": "MSC Oscar is shorter in length than the previous holder the CSCL Globe, which docked in Felixstowe in January, but can carry 124 more containers. It is 396m (1,300ft) long and has a capacity of 19,224 standard containers. Clemence Cheng, chief executive of Port of Felixstowe, said it was a \"very happy day\" for the port. More than 200 people lined the beach between the public viewing platform and Landguard Point to welcome the ship's arrival, although the ship was not carrying a full load. Barrie Bridle, 57, from Southampton, was spending the week in Felixstowe to see the ship. \"I work in the marine industry and we get a lot of shipping in Southampton, but it's always nice to see something different and we don't get them that big in our port,\" he said. \"She'll be just as impressive going out, hopefully with a few more boxes on her.\" Graham Meadows, 60, from Ipswich, said he had a \"fascination\" with its size. \"I missed the Globe in January because I was away, so I got down here early this morning,\" he said. \"I've just finished a night-shift, so I'm tired and I want to go to bed, but I also hope to come down at night and photograph it before I go to work. \"My partner understands my interest in photography, so she accepts it whether it's wildlife or anything else.\" Source: MSC The MSC Oscar had sailed from Wilhelmshaven in Germany and will leave Felixstowe on Tuesday before heading to Rotterdam in The Netherlands and then on to China via Algeciras in Spain and the Suez Canal. Mr Cheng said MSC had worked with the port for the past 30 years and that its continued business, despite the added option of London Gateway, was a \"seal of approval\". \"We're giving them the service that they want,\" he said. \"It's good for the port, good for Suffolk and good for the country.\" The size of a container ship is defined in terms of its load capacity.", "question": "The newly - @placeholder largest container ship in the world has arrived at Felixstowe for its first visit to the UK .", "option_0": "style", "option_1": "crowned", "option_2": "formed", "option_3": "held", "option_4": "head"}
{"id": 1157, "article": "The Bulls had been in administration since June and were facing liquidation. But administrator Brendan Guilfoyle said in a statement that he had sold Bradford Bulls Holdings Limited to OK Bulls Limited for an undisclosed sum. The Rugby Football League will not ratify the takeover until next week, but that is expected to be a formality. The Bradford restaurant owner's consortium, which included Bradford South MP Gerry Sutcliffe, and Bradford Park Avenue were confirmed as front runners to buy the Bulls by the Rugby Football League. And a total of four bids were placed for the Bulls, including one from Super League (Europe) Ltd which was considered a last resort. My main duty as administrator is to get the best return for creditors - and this was the best deal on the table \"This is a great achievement for Bradford Bulls, the players, fans and the city of Bradford,\" said Guilfoyle. \"My main duty as administrator is to get the best return for creditors - and this was the best deal on the table. \"Omar Khan has also passed the Rugby Football League's test as being a 'fit and proper person' to run a rugby club as well as being a passionate fan of the Bulls.\" Despite being deducted six points for entering administration, the Bulls remain in the Super League play-off places with two matches remaining after a run of three straight wins. Guilfoyle added: \"I am really pleased that we were able to retain the playing squad without selling off young stars - which in the end was a crucial decision to achieve the sale. \"There are many people to thank in making this deal possible, not least employees, coaches and the interim chief executive who have all been working without pay. \"But I'm sure they would join me in saying the fans' support has been outstanding and they have played a major part in this rescue. \"And through all this the players have won an extraordinary string of matches.\"", "question": "Bradford Bulls ' future has been @placeholder after the administrators confirmed the Super League club has been sold to Omar Khan 's consortium .", "option_0": "praised", "option_1": "sacked", "option_2": "dropped", "option_3": "secured", "option_4": "suspended"}
{"id": 1158, "article": "The TV chef posed with a police poster at Norwich City Football Club, where she is a director. As reported in the East Anglian Daily Times, she was approached by a fan who said Ms Smith promised to \"keep Corrie in her prayers.\" Mr Mckeague, 23, based at RAF Honington in Suffolk, disappeared after a night out in Bury St Edmunds on 23 September. Norwich City fan Sarah Tali Blewden said: \"My husband is in the army and I couldn't help feeling that it could have been him or one of his friends and I would want someone to help if we were in that situation. \"I handed-out posters and leaflets at the ground. \"At the end of the game I went up to the directors' box and asked Delia if she would mind having a picture with Corrie's poster. \"She hadn't heard he was missing and seemed genuinely shocked and concerned. She said she would keep him and his family in her prayers.\" Mr Mckeague was last spotted on CCTV walking alone and eating fast food in Bury St Edmunds at 03:20 on 24 September. It is thought he stopped for a brief nap in a doorway before setting off to walk the nine miles (15km) back to the RAF Honington base alone. His mother, Nicola Urquhart, said she still believes he is alive and made an appeal for information about his whereabouts. Police said on Friday that a dismembered body found in a suitcase in a lay-by in Derbyshire last week was not that of Mr Mckeague.", "question": "Delia Smith has @placeholder her support for the campaign to find missing RAF serviceman Corrie Mckeague .", "option_0": "paid", "option_1": "announced", "option_2": "shown", "option_3": "criticised", "option_4": "defended"}
{"id": 1159, "article": "Klopp, 48, left Dortmund last summer after leading them to two Bundesliga titles and a Champions League final. Sevilla, trying to win the competition for the third successive season, face Athletic Bilbao in an all-Spanish tie. La Liga rivals Villarreal meet Czech side Sparta Prague, while Portugal's Braga face Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine. The quarter-finals will be played on 7 and 14 April. Liverpool will travel to Dortmund's Westfalenstadion in the first leg. Follow all the Europa League draw reaction here Klopp's Liverpool playing the club at which he built his reputation is the tie most neutral fans were hoping to see at some stage of the Europa League. But the German, who replaced Brendan Rodgers in October, said after Thursday's 3-1 aggregate victory  against Manchester United that he wanted to avoid them in the last eight. Thomas Tuchel's side are widely considered favourites for the competition after beating Tottenham, who are second in the Premier League, 5-1 on aggregate in the last 16. \"Dortmund - why would I want the world's strongest team?\" said Klopp, when asked whether he would like to face his former club in the next round. \"But if we go there, we try to win. We have to be prepared and hopefully we are.\" The former Mainz manager led Dortmund to the 2011 and 2012 Bundesliga titles, plus the 2013 Champions League final, before asking to be released from his contract. However, the 1997 Champions League winners struggled in Klopp's final season and were briefly bottom of the Bundesliga before rallying to finish seventh. Under Tuchel, Dortmund are second in the German top-flight, five points behind Bayern Munich, and unbeaten in their past 14 matches in all competitions. Spanish sides are dominating this season's European competitions, with three representatives left in both the Europa League and Champions League last eight. At least one La Liga side is guaranteed a place in the semi-finals of each competition, with Sevilla drawn against Athletic in the Europa League shortly after Barcelona were paired with Atletico Madrid in the Champions League. Sevilla are seventh in the Spanish top flight, one point ahead of Athletic - who beat Gary Neville's Valencia in the previous round. Unai Emery's side won 2-0 in the only league meeting between the two teams so far this season. \"I'm not happy with the draw because we wanted to avoid a Spanish side,\" said Sevilla technical director Monchi. \"We're going to play a real in-form side. Both sides are fighting for the same thing in the league and the tie will be decided by little details.\"", "question": "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has been @placeholder a return to Borussia Dortmund , with the Reds facing the German side in the Europa League quarter - finals .", "option_0": "secured", "option_1": "handed", "option_2": "named", "option_3": "launched", "option_4": "awaiting"}
{"id": 1160, "article": "Figures from the county council revealed six claims were made that year and a significant amount went to a middle school-aged pupil who fell during a school trip in 2009. The council would not disclose further details for fear of identification. Nothing has been paid to pupils so far in 2014, the figures showed. A total of ¡ê1,091,082 was paid to pupils aged five to 18 between 2011 and 2013 - but the vast majority of that amount was paid in 2013, with the amounts for 2011 and 2012 being ¡ê3,850 and ¡ê47,450 respectively. The accident resulting in the largest payout involved a pupil falling from a height and suffering a spinal injury at the Malvern Hills Outdoor Centre in June 2009, the Health and Safety Executive confirmed. The centre was run by the council at the time. The authority said 90% of all payouts were made by its insurance company.", "question": "More than ¡ê 1 m was paid in compensation to school pupils in Worcestershire in 2013 , a freedom of information @placeholder has shown .", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "state", "option_3": "request", "option_4": "report"}
{"id": 1161, "article": "Matthew Baker, 28, was found after three days on the run. Kelly Baker, 21, of Ilford, was arrested on Wednesday. Baker was awaiting sentencing for attempted murder when he broke out of the north London prison with fellow inmate James Whitlock on Monday. Ms Baker will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Friday. Whitlock, 31, is still being sought by police. A second woman, aged 24, was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender on Thursday and is in custody at an east London police station. A 33-year-old man who was also arrested on Wednesday has been released on bail.", "question": "A woman has been charged with assisting an offender after an inmate who escaped from Pentonville prison was @placeholder .", "option_0": "denied", "option_1": "recaptured", "option_2": "abandoned", "option_3": "named", "option_4": "raped"}
{"id": 1162, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device King, who won gold in the team pursuit at London 2012, suffered eight broken ribs and a collapsed lung while on a regular training route in south Wales. The 24-year-old was in intensive care for two days and in hospital for 10. \"There were loads of things running through my mind, like I would never ride again,\" she told BBC Radio Solent. \"When I hit the floor I was fine. I thought I'd got off lightly. Then I felt excruciating pain as someone rode straight into my back and that's when all the damage was done. \"I could feel my ribs moving and was scared. I was in the road for an hour, it was raining. I lost feeling in my feet, which worried me. Three people had head injuries so I was last to be seen.\" Cardiff-based King, originally from Hampshire, decided in October to switch from track to road cycling to ride full-time for team Wiggle Honda. She was not named in the GB squad for 2014-15 funding year, and believes she has a better chance of getting into shape for the track in Rio by spending a season on the road. King said the crash had not put her off road racing and is determined it will not disrupt her 2015 schedule, although she has not yet been back on a bike. \"In hospital I did three gym sessions - and that was with a chest drain in,\" said King. \"A lot of people called me crazy, but that was just my way of dealing with it. \"I'm hoping to be on a static bike next week, but I won't be on the road for a few weeks - but I definitely will be back on a bike. \"I hope to resume full training at the start of the [new] year, so I'm still very determined.\" King, who was runner-up to Laura Trott at the British Championships road race in June, added: \"Initially I'm bound to be nervous, who wouldn't be? It doesn't change my focus to switch to the road. \"I've had bad crashes before and it hasn't stopped me. This is part of my job and was a freak injury. It was just bad luck.\"", "question": "Britain 's Olympic track champion Dani King was \" in so much pain , I could n't @placeholder , could n't cry , \" after a crash she feared would end her career .", "option_0": "achieve", "option_1": "run", "option_2": "form", "option_3": "breathe", "option_4": "moan"}
{"id": 1163, "article": "The ruling means Ms Park becomes the first democratically elected president to be removed from office, and could face prosecution over corruption allegations. So what does this mean for the country? The constitutional court backed an impeachment vote by parliament last December. It said the now ex-president's actions had \"betrayed the people's confidence\" and were \"a grave violation of law, which cannot be tolerated\". Those actions were her alleged collusion with her close friend, Choi Soon-sil, to pressure South Korean companies into essentially buying favourable treatment from the government. Ms Choi, who held no public office, also had extraordinary access to official documents, even editing some of Ms Park's speeches. Ms Park has not had any presidential powers since December, when parliament voted to impeach her. An election must now be held within 60 days, and the candidates have been waiting in the wings. The new president will have to handle a public which has lost trust in the office, and come up with ways to stop such alleged abuses happening in the future. Many South Korean analysts question whether Ms Park's conservative bloc will recover in time to post a viable threat to the Democrats. Hwang Kyo-ahn has been acting president, but is not seen as a likely contender as he is too closely linked to the Park administration. Moon Jae-in, the former head of the opposition Democratic Party, is one possible frontrunner. He lost to Park in the 2012 election and has been gaining popularity during throughout the impeachment scandal. That is looking highly likely.  Ms Park will now come under intense scrutiny from prosecutors, with no presidential immunity to protect her. If she does go on trial, it will be over a case linked to one of her few close relationships. Her friend Ms Choi is already on trial for a string of corruption offences, as is the de facto head of Samsung, one of the companies alleged to have funnelled money through Ms Choi's charitable foundations to win political favour. Everyone involved denies doing anything wrong. The case has rocked South Korea's business world, with the chiefs of Samsung and the national pension fund implicated in corruption. The scale of alleged bribery is colossal. Samsung alone is accused of paying bribes of 41bn won ($36m; ?¡ê29m) to non-profit foundations operated by Ms Choi. Heads of other big family-run conglomerates - known locally as chaebol - have also been questioned but not charged over donations given to similar foundations. And some of the specifics, including Samsung admitting it spent about $1m on a horse for Ms Choi's daughter, have shocked Koreans. But these are huge global companies. There is nothing so far to suggest that customers are turning away from them in South Korea, let alone around the world. Just this week, Samsung was confirmed as having comfortably held its title as world's biggest seller of smartphones in 2016. Not bad in a year where its highest profile launch had to be recalled after batteries caught fire. Realistically, a far bigger economic threat now are measures Beijing has taken in response to Seoul's decision to allow a US anti-missile system to be installed. They include closing down South Korean businesses in China and discouraging Chinese tourists form visiting South Korea. Despite this shock, South Korea remains a stable democracy and economic powerhouse, so its relationships are unlikely to change. In many ways, the peaceful nature of the impeachment protests and the strength of rule of law play in the country's favour. The US has just begun rolling out a massive missile defence system in South Korea to protect against North Korean attacks and that won't be affected, but the incoming president will have to quickly make friends with the Trump administration to shore up the much-needed military support given by the US. A US spokesman told Reuters this was \"a domestic issue\" and the US remained \"a steadfast ally, friend, and partner\" to South Korea. Japan - which withdrew its envoy from South Korea recently in a row about wartime sex slavery - said it \"needs to promote co-operation\" with the new government \"in various areas\". North Korea's state media, which normally delays reporting international news, immediately reacted, calling Ms Park \"a common criminal\". North Korea has always been scathing of Ms Park - often using her gender to attack her. That rhetoric won't end, but a new leader could potentially help reinvigorate international discussions on how to handle the South's increasingly tempestuous northern neighbour. How do you fix North Korea?", "question": "A South Korean court has voted to @placeholder an impeachment vote against President Park Geun-hye .", "option_0": "suspend", "option_1": "uphold", "option_2": "declare", "option_3": "allow", "option_4": "undergo"}
{"id": 1164, "article": "While the suspected gunman from the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, remains at large, much of the Belgian capital has come to a standstill. Soldiers are patrolling the streets and the metro and local schools are staying shut. But the authorities say normality will begin to return on Wednesday. Here the BBC looks at how the lockdown is affecting different aspects of life in the city. Schools and universities were closed for a second day on Tuesday under the strict security measures. In a statement (in French), education officials said all lessons would be suspended on the orders of Belgium's National Security Council at nurseries, primary and secondary schools. No children would be admitted. The Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) said it was cancelling classes and closing facilities including libraries, parks, and exhibition halls. The Vrije Universiteit Brussel advised all staff to work from home if they could but said it aimed to resume normal activity on Wednesday. Nadine Rosa-Rossa, a school teacher in the Molenbeek district where anti-terror police have focused their operations, told the BBC's Newsday programme that she thought the measures were \"excessive\". \"It's like we are in a war,\" she said. \"It's not a good thing for the children, for the teachers, for everybody.\" Others spoke of the disbelief that schools would re-open on Wednesday when the main suspect was still at large and the terror alert at its highest. But Brussels authorities say schools have not been cited as targets and the government has instructed the schools to take security measures such as creating safe rooms for children in the event of an emergency. Some 300 police will help step up security when schools reopen on Wednesday. Transport authorities in Brussels suspended the city's Metro underground transport system and some bus routes, with others running a reduced service. Only overground trams and trains were operating. The restrictions were set to continue until Wednesday, the Brussels Intermunicipal Transport company (STIB) said, and ministers announced that an extra 200 police would be patrolling the metro to help provide security. Commuters travelling into the city reported quiet trains and empty streets, with some describing a sense of unease. Road traffic spiked in Brussels as people sought alternative ways to get to work. Eurostar is running a full service but says passengers can choose to swap their ticket up to 30 November for another day free of charge. Passengers faced tightened security checks for Thalys and TGV high-speed trains from Brussels Gare du Midi train station. Brussels is home to the EU's headquarters and also hosts the offices of many NGOs, think-tanks and international organisations. Dave Baird, who works at the European Commission building, said his office was still open but very quiet. \"It's a normal working day but some colleagues have stayed at home and are too frightened to travel on the trains,\" he said. Although some Nato staff members had been asked to work at home, ambassadors agreed to meet on Tuesday in response to Turkey's downing of a Russian SU 24 close to its border. Meanwhile Olivier Willocx, head of the Brussels chamber of commerce, BECI, told public broadcaster RTBF (in French) that businesses in the city were facing \"exceptional\" circumstances. He said employers should made their own decisions about whether to keep work places open, taking into account childcare demands due to the closure of schools. Matthias Dobbelaere, who manages a legal practice with offices in Brussels, told the BBC that staff had been told to stay home for now. \"You can't let your people work in Brussels and feel safe when there is a terror threat.\" While some locals complained that their city was becoming a ghost town, others bridled at the idea. \"I live in Brussels. Yes, it's quieter in the centre but I don't see a beleaguered ghost town and I don't feel it either,\" one person tweeted, appealing for everything to be put in perspective. Speaking to the BBC, Letitia Rawlings, who lives in the city, said there was a \"very strange atmosphere\". \"In general, people seem scared to go out,\" she said, adding that the terror threat dominated conversations. The tourism sector has been badly hit in the Belgian capital, with visitors finding many shops, bars and cinemas shut. While the city's main tourist attractions, such as the Grand Place central square, were unusually quiet, cafes and restaurants struggled to attract customers. Hotels, restaurants and cafes were \"licking their wounds\" after a disastrous weekend, reported De Standaard newspaper. \"There are no clients to be seen, just staff. In the hotels it's a flood of cancellations. It's obvious that anyone who didn't have to be in Brussels has stayed away,\" complained Marc Van Muylders from the Brussels hotel and catering sector. The US embassy in Brussels urged its citizens to \"shelter in place and remain at home\". Brussels airport is open and all flights are running as normal, however there are increased security measures in place. Compiled by Jasmine Coleman. Interviews by Stephen Fottrell.", "question": "Brussels is under lockdown for a fourth consecutive day , and on the highest state of alert over fears of a Paris - @placeholder attack by the militant Islamic State group .", "option_0": "era", "option_1": "bound", "option_2": "style", "option_3": "magnitude", "option_4": "area"}
{"id": 1165, "article": "The move is among changes to public procurement rules being proposed by the Scottish government. The Procurement Reform Bill aims to improve the way the public sector buys goods, works and services. Ministers said it would make it easier for small firms to bid for contracts. Guidance under the bill would allow public sector bosses to consider the inappropriateness of awarding contracts to companies using controversial zero-hours contracts, which allow employers to hire staff with no guarantee of work. Public sector bosses could also consider, when deciding on a contract award, whether firms use blacklisting. The issue of blacklisting has angered unions and politicians, following disclosures about a UK-wide database of names used by major construction firms to vet workers. Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the legislation promoted an approach that was \"both business friendly and socially responsible\". The proposed new rules could also lead to greater use of community benefit clauses. These clauses could require companies to provide training, apprenticeships or opportunities for disabled people as part of the contract. \"Changes to public procurement rules will ensure Scotland retains its place as a world leader in public procurement reform, promoting an approach that is both business friendly and socially responsible,\" Ms Sturgeon said. Responding to the bill, Scottish Trades Union Congress general secretary Grahame Smith said: \"The STUC enthusiastically welcomes parts of this important bill, especially its provisions to disqualify firms engaging in tax avoidance and blacklisting from the public procurement process and the commitment to introduce further guidance on workforce matters.\" But Mr Smith described parts of the legislation as \"very disappointing\", adding: \"It is difficult to believe that community benefits will be extended and improved by simply handing contracting authorities a duty to 'consider' whether to impose as part of the contract. \"The STUC is also sceptical that the significant additional requirements placed on local authorities and other contracting agencies will have 'no overall net impact on costs'.\" Scottish Building Federation managing director Vaughan Hart welcomed the publication of the bill. He said: \"With a growing pipeline of publicly funded infrastructure projects planned over the years ahead, this bill offers the potential to transform the efficiency of public procurement - and to encourage many more particularly smaller building companies to bid for public sector contracts. \"We will look forward to scrutinising the detail in the months ahead.\" CBI Scotland said the bill contained \"a number of encouraging measures\", but added that ministers risked missing out on an opportunity to open up the delivery of public services to independent providers. Assistant director David Lonsdale added: \"The bill should enshrine in legislation a 'right to bid' for private and third sector organisations, so that any provider who can demonstrate the capacity and wherewithal to deliver a public service more effectively, innovatively, and for better value is given the opportunity to do so.\"", "question": "Public sector @placeholder could be allowed to consider issues such as blacklisting and zero-hours contracts when awarding work to firms , according to planned reforms .", "option_0": "number", "option_1": "bodies", "option_2": "executives", "option_3": "organizations", "option_4": "beat"}
{"id": 1166, "article": "Mr McCauley died earlier this month, nine years after being severely beaten in a sectarian attack in Londonderry. Jim McCauley said the letter he received may add \"another facet\" to the investigation into his son's murder. Det Ch Insp Michael Harvey appealed to the person who wrote the card to contact police to assist their inquiry. \"I would specifically like to ask one person, who wrote to Mr Jim McCauley expressing their sympathy and disgust at the attack on Paul, to please contact the detectives at Maydown, as I believe they hold vital information in relation to this investigation,\" he said. Mr McCauley was 29 years old when he was beaten by a loyalist gang at a barbecue in the Waterside nine years ago. He was left in a persistent vegetative state until his death in a care home on 6 June. It is believed the attack was carried out by a gang of up to fifteen people. Jim McCauley told BBC Radio Foyle's Breakfast programme that the letter was one of hundreds the family had received after his son's death. \"[It] is of interest because there is a feeling [from] this very kind letter that there may be further information from the individual that sent it,\" he said. \"There may be another facet to the investigation that this individual may be aware of. \"The letters are not anonymous but [this is] a request to that individual to maybe speak to Det Ch Insp Michael Harvey or come back to me or any member of the family, and hopefully we can make contact again.\" He added that he had been disappointed that people he said he knew were holding crucial information had not cooperated with the police inquiry. \"I find that in a crime so horrendous the silence in both communities is appalling, and a sad reflection being tolerated by the good people within those communities that they cannot lever the truth out from those who are basically holding them to ransom,\" he said. Mr McCauley said he and his wife Cathy felt \"a tranquillity\" with the passing of their son. \"There is a mixture of emotions. There is the sadness, the loss, the miss of the person, but also, in Paul's case because he had suffered so much, there is a contentment that he has passed to a better place,\" he said. The PSNI has said \"upwards of 15 detectives\" are working on the inquiry into Mr McCauley's murder. While Mr McCauley said he had been unhappy with the first investigation into his son's death, he said the second inquiry has done \"an awful lot of groundwork\". He added: \"I'm quite definite that we will see justice in that the core that attacked Paul will be brought to book.\" \"These people are not anonymous, they've not ridden into the night after the extremely cowardly and bullying attack.\" On Tuesday's Spotlight programme on BBC One NI at 22:35 BST, Enda McClafferty reports on the death of Paul McCauley.", "question": "Police investigating the murder of Paul McCauley have said they have @placeholder \" vital \" information contained in a sympathy card sent to his father .", "option_0": "examined", "option_1": "called", "option_2": "lost", "option_3": "promised", "option_4": "criticised"}
{"id": 1167, "article": "As I wrote over Easter, the ¡ê8bn identified by Mr Stevens last autumn as part of his proposed solution to a looming NHS funding gap had generated a mixed response from the leading parties. Now it has fuelled a heated series of exchanges dominating the campaign debate. To recap - Simon Stevens and other NHS leaders in England predicted a ¡ê30bn gap by the year 2020. That's the difference between anticipated demand for health care from a rising population and a budget increasing in line with inflation and no more. More than two thirds, they said, could be covered by efficiency savings, in effect seeing more patients and carrying out more procedures for a set amount of money. But that still left ¡ê8bn above inflation, they argued, which the government of the day would need to stump up in 2020. That figure would be reached, it was assumed, after a steadily increasing injection of cash over preceding years. The Liberal Democrats said a little while ago they would find the ¡ê8bn if they were in office. Some of this would be funded by identified tax measures, but the bulk of it would, in the words of Nick Clegg, come from the \"proceeds of growth\". In other words the Lib Dems assume they will find the money if the economy is growing normally in the years leading up to 2020. Now, after skirting around the subject and dropping various hints, the Conservatives say they will as a manifesto pledge commit to finding the ¡ê8bn in real terms in 2020. Actually it will be \"at least\" ¡ê8bn and could be more, according to party sources. There are no revenue-raising plans linked to this plan. The Tory line is that voters can trust them to deliver next time on the back of their record of increasing NHS funding over the last parliament. They say the NHS budget in England in 2015/16 is more than ¡ê7bn higher than in 2010/11 so finding ¡ê8bn by the end of the next parliament should not be a problem. It's worth noting that the ¡ê7bn extra figure was reached over six financial years so over a longer time frame than a single parliament. So where does that leave Labour? Unlike the other main parties it has not signed up to the Stevens financial numbers. It is sticking with its pledge to raise NHS funding in England by ¡ê2.5bn a year from 2016, in effect making a start on the journey towards ¡ê8bn. Labour points out it has specific tax-raising plans, including the mansion tax, which cover this spending commitment. It argues this is real money and that the Conservatives and Lib Dems are guilty of promising \"funny money\" and making unfunded spending pledges. The debate is in essence between \"trust us, we can deliver\" with a higher long-term spending pledge and a more cautious and funded shorter-run plan. As always it will be down to voters to assess the arguments either way. In the end ¡ê8bn could prove too small a government top-up for the NHS. The efficiency savings talked about look extremely ambitious and may not be achieved. And of course there could be unpalatable decisions about even deeper cuts in other Whitehall departments or tax rises to sustain cash injections required by the health service. This issue includes NHS funding, GP access and social care, particularly of older people. Policy guide: Where the parties stand", "question": "It 's another sign of the power of the head of NHS England Simon Stevens in @placeholder the political debate over health .", "option_0": "managing", "option_1": "shaping", "option_2": "introducing", "option_3": "resolving", "option_4": "heated"}
{"id": 1168, "article": "Finally, after all the hype and excitement, consumers are about to  get their hands on virtual reality headsets - and we will find out whether there really is a market for this technology. Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive are both released in the next few weeks, and at the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco Sony unveiled its launch date and price. While Playstation owners will have to wait until October to get their hands on the Sony VR headset, they will pay far less for it than for a Vive or Oculus setup. With nearly 40 million PS4 owners around the world, there's a ready-made market for Sony's offering, so by Christmas it's a fair bet that it will be the leader in VR. Mind you, while there is now a huge amount of experimentation around VR and 360 degree video (see last week's BBC Click for example) there is still confusion about how it will be used beyond gaming. At a launch event for Nokia's Ozo 360 camera last night, I was shown a number of demos filmed with the device. I stood next to the vocalist as a band performed, watched as a bear approached a group of nervous people at a campsite, and saw trainee astronauts learning about weightlessness in a swimming pool. The VR headset meant I could choose my own perspective on each scene, but once the novelty wore off the question remained - what is this for? Still, music producers, moviemakers and educationalists are all now producing 360 and VR material, so hopefully they will find an answer to my question. At the end of a week where Google's AI program AlphaGo defeated a champion Go player, the artificial intelligence community is discussing what this triumph of machine over man means. I visited Microsoft's UK research lab in Cambridge where a number of artificial intelligence projects are under way , including one experiment using AI in the game Minecraft and another where a program examines scans of brain tumours. The man who runs the lab, Chris Bishop, says it's wrong to paint a dystopian future in which machines gradually replace us as they get ever smarter. Instead he sees AI as a collaboration between humans and computers - for instance doctors using the brain tumour scanning program to assist their diagnoses rather than replacing them. \"We need to talk instead about a partnership in which machine intelligence and human intelligence work together,\" he says. \"It's the case today, and will be the case for some time to come that the capabilities of machines, the capabilities of humans are different and complementary and if they work together they will be stronger than either of them alone.\" Incidentally, for a different view, have a look at this piece from Tom Chatfield in the Guardian. He argues that in designing AI systems, we humans are making too many concessions to inflexible computers. Back to gaming and we look at the boom in a phenomenon which is familiar to anyone under 25 but a mystery to the older generation - watching video games online. The big player in the live streaming of video games is Twitch, which was bought by Amazon 18 months ago. But we hear from a rival, Ian Sharpe, who says his Azubu streaming service has a different approach. While Twitch lets anyone become a broadcaster, playing anything from Call of Duty to Minecraft, Azubu is more focused on professional eSports. Last  week it signed a deal with the Electronic Sports League to stream exclusive content from esports tournaments - and Ian Sharpe tells us that this is going to be a new boom area for media firms looking to reach those elusive \"millennials\" who don't watch boring old telly. Tune in to Tech Tent on the BBC World Service at 15:00 GMT for all that and more or catch the podcast later.", "question": "On this week 's @placeholder of Tech Tent we look at two visions of the future of gaming , and we ask whether we should be worried or excited by the latest advances in artificial intelligence .", "option_0": "minds", "option_1": "audiences", "option_2": "worlds", "option_3": "list", "option_4": "edition"}
{"id": 1169, "article": "The Red Planet and Earth are nearing what is called opposition, when their orbits line them up with the Sun - and put them very close to each other. This occurs every 780 days or so, and enables the super-sharp HST to see surface details that are just 30km across. Hubble has imaged Mars at this time routinely since its launch in 1990. Its back catalogue reveals the ever shifting character of our near neighbour - the Red Planet's wispy clouds, its globe-encircling dust storms, and its evolving ice caps. The actual moment of opposition is 22 May at 11:10 GMT; the two planets' closest approach follows just a few days later on 30 May. There will be just 75 million km between the two planets on that day. Countless astronomers with smaller telescopes than Hubble will be grabbing the chance to view Mars in the week ahead. The planetary alignment means the Red Planet's disc, as well as being larger in the sky than usual, is also fully illuminated.", "question": "The Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) has @placeholder another of its stunning portraits of Mars .", "option_0": "taken", "option_1": "launched", "option_2": "shifted", "option_3": "produced", "option_4": "announced"}
{"id": 1170, "article": "The display of such goods has been illegal in large stores and supermarkets since 2012. Now small stores, and other outlets such as pubs and clubs, will also have to keep cigarettes out of sight. The ban has been welcomed by campaign group Action on Smoking and Health (Ash),  but criticised by shopkeeper group the Tobacco Retailers' Alliance. Hazel Cheeseman, director of policy at Ash, said: \"Two-thirds of smokers start before the age of 18, so it is vital that everything is done to put tobacco out of sight to protect future generations. \"The display ban in small shops will work hand in hand with standardised packs, which will be introduced in May 2016, to further protect children from glitzy tobacco packaging.\" But Suleman Khonat, spokesman for the Tobacco Retailers' Alliance, said: \"The introduction of the display ban into larger shops hasn't even been evaluated, so how do we know it will work in smaller shops? \"Of course retailers will need to comply with the law but this is a further unnecessary measure that will hit small businesses.\"", "question": "A ban on @placeholder tobacco products at the point of sale in small shops across the UK has come into force .", "option_0": "risk", "option_1": "developing", "option_2": "showing", "option_3": "representing", "option_4": "chewing"}
{"id": 1171, "article": "The ad lib \"crocodile\" comment emerged during answers to the press, so the DUP's Gavin Robinson was only half joking when he advised party activists that the longer they cheered the better, as it would cut down the time for those pesky enquiries from reporters. Mrs Foster originally made her \"crocodile\" quip after vowing there would not be an Irish Language Act under her watch. On Inside Politics last week, I questioned her several times about whether this remained her position - she did not repeat the formula, instead insisting that few people other than political activists had told her they wanted such an Act. Questioned by the Newsletter's Sam McBride, the DUP leader clarified she had ruled out an Irish Language Act \"in the context of nothing else happening in terms of culture and language\". She emphasised the need to respect all cultures in Northern Ireland, including \"the Ulster Scots, the Orange and British cultural identity\". She added that any moves forward had to be within this overall context. This change of tone on the Irish language appears to imply greater flexibility in the negotiations on restoring devolution due to recommence after the Westminster election. A senior DUP figure told me: \"There's a deal there to be done, provided Sinn F¨¦in want to do it.\" Previously the DUP suggested a \"Public Duties Act,\" which would have incorporated both the Irish and Ulster Scots languages and the implementation of the Military Covenant. That was rejected by both Sinn F¨¦in and the SDLP, on the grounds there should be a stand alone Irish Language Act. The latest Arlene Foster comments may point to a compromise, which would see an Irish Language Act introduced alongside separate legislation dealing with the Ulster Scots, Orange and British identity issues the DUP leader highlights. However, movement on the language issue is not going to take place without Sinn F¨¦in dropping its refusal to share power with Mrs Foster until she's cleared of responsibility for the Renewable Heating Scandal. It's now clear that Sir Patrick Coghlin's inquiry into the Renewable Heating Incentive Scheme (RHI) will take at least a year if not longer. It's unimaginable the DUP leader would contemplate sitting on the sidelines for such a lengthy period. Will Sinn F¨¦in moderate their position on the RHI in the same way that Mrs Foster has changed her tone on Irish? Or will they add to their \"red lines\" perhaps by elevating the importance they attach to other matters, like EU Special Status for Northern Ireland after Brexit or the introduction of same-sex marriage? What the candidates and party leaders say during this campaign should provide us with plenty of clues about whether the next round of talks is for real or just another exercise in going through the motions.", "question": "If labelling Sinn F¨¦in as \" crocodiles \" was the Arlene Foster phrase that stuck at the start of the spring assembly election campaign , then the DUP leader was determined not to make the same mistake again at the @placeholder of the Westminster battle .", "option_0": "centre", "option_1": "hands", "option_2": "outset", "option_3": "close", "option_4": "height"}
{"id": 1172, "article": "At the end of our interview, Fraser gives me a bit of advice about how to make his quotes suitable for publication. \"Whenever I swear, just put 'hell' or 'damn' instead,\" he suggests. That tip comes just after he has been talking about progress with casting disabled actors on TV. Two minutes earlier: \"In terms of opportunity for disabled people, there are four more people on telly than there were 20 years ago. Excuse me for not having a party.\" Fraser and other disabled actors \"clearly have the experience\", he says. \"I mean if I didn't have the experience, I wouldn't be asked to be doing damned Richard III, you know? \"If people didn't think I could act, no-one would let me near the role. But can I get a look-in in any of the BBC dramas? Can I hell.\" Fraser has the experience - although recently, US TV executives have been the most willing to let him use it. He played Paul the Illustrated Seal Boy in American Horror Story: Freak Show, and will soon be part of an addicts' self-help group in a new TV comedy by Dumb And Dumber co-creator Peter Farrelly. He has been in bits on Channel 4 and the BBC, has been a regular on stage and played drums with Coldplay during the London 2012 Paralympic closing ceremony. He is easily recognisable - he was born with underdeveloped arms as a result of his mum being prescribed the morning sickness drug Thalidomide during pregnancy. Ten minutes earlier in the interview, Fraser is not yet as exasperated as he will get by being asked to talk about the opportunities on TV for disabled actors. More of that later. For now, he's talking about playing Richard III for the Northern Broadsides Theatre Company at Hull Truck as part of Hull's 2017 City of Culture events. He describes Richard with relish as a \"wonderfully evil character who has no redeeming qualities at all\". Unlike most actors who have played the scheming monarch, when Fraser steps on stage to deliver the famous opening speech, he won't have a pillow strapped to his back or a walking stick to demonstrate a physical ailment. \"I don't have to start performing my own impairments,\" Fraser says. \"I can just be, in my body. \"I don't have to make any flourishy hand movements to show my wonderfully crippled hand, or prance about on a stick or anything to illustrate the point. \"I can just stand there and be, and I feel be more direct and honest.\" In the opening speech, Richard describes himself as \"rudely stamp'd\", and \"cheated of feature by dissembling nature, deformed, unfinish'd\". He is so bitter about his condition and how he's been treated that he is \"determined to prove a villain\". Among the blunt insults that come his way, he's called a \"poisonous bunchback'd toad\" and a \"lump of foul deformity\". Rather than having a problem with the way Richard is described, Fraser says Shakespeare's words are liberating in an age when most modern disabled characters are portrayed with the utmost sensitivity. \"It's very freeing, precisely because I don't have to worry about any political correctness or [think] 'Hmmm it's my responsibility as a disabled person to imbue this disabled character with as much sensitive understanding as possible',\" he says. \"Au contraire with Richard III. It's literally my job to make him as horrible as possible.\" Fraser says he feels he has to act as an ambassador for disabled people when playing \"most characters if they're in the contemporary setting\". But with Richard, he explains: \"I can be as horrible as possible and infer it's in part due to my disability and I can relax and enjoy that.\" Perhaps Adam Hills, the host of Channel 4's The Last Leg, was referring to the sensitivity - maybe oversensitivity - around portraying disability when he told a recent panel discussion there should be more disabled villains on TV. \"Why are disabled people on TV always portrayed as being nice all the time?\" he asked. \"Nice\" is not a word that could be applied to Richard III. Fraser responds to Hills' comments by saying: \"Disabled people are where black people were in the '80s. \"They can't be baddies. People [in the TV industry] are too politically correct. But they're not ready to give us the hero role yet. So we get no role. \"And for anyone on Channel 4 to have a go about what characters should and shouldn't be with disableda€| How about having some damned disabled actors who actually are damned characters for some of their damned dramas, yeah? \"BBC are all right. ITV are OK. I mean it's minimal and pathetic. But they have something. Something I can hold on to.\" He lists Liz Carr in Silent Witness, Lisa Hammond in EastEnders and Cherylee Houston in Coronation Street. \"What have I got on Channel 4? Some damned lad who's on The Last Leg. Woo. Doesn't impress me, mate. \"And as for those panels - I've been doing panels since 1996 about trying to get disabled actors in. I'm just done with panels. Jobs not panels.\" We're back where we started, and Fraser's exasperation is growing. He stresses he's \"not having a go at Adam Hills\". \"But if people want to talk to me about roles for dramas, the conversation should be, 'We'd like you to audition fora€|' Any other conversation is going to get short shrift from me.\" How does the conversation normally go? \"It's the same as it has since 1996. 'Do you think there should be more disabled actors in different roles and what are the barriers that prevent them?' \"Yes I do. Attitudinal barriers and the fact that commissioning editors didn't go to school with disabled people. \"The questions and the answers have not changed in 21 years. \"But what has changed is my tolerance for the conversation.\" Richard III is at Hull Truck until 27 May, then at the Viaduct Theatre, Halifax, from 30 May-3 June.", "question": "Mat Fraser is the first disabled actor to play Shakespeare 's @placeholder anti-hero Richard III - and he 's relishing the political incorrectness of the Bard 's script . But British TV channels are \" pathetic \" at giving such juicy roles to disabled actors , he says .", "option_0": "proposed", "option_1": "twisted", "option_2": "featuring", "option_3": "developing", "option_4": "supposed"}
{"id": 1173, "article": "Dr Mahathir's accusations of ruling party leaders accepting bribes \"warrant police action\", a spokesperson said. Dr Mahathir and the Bersih pro-democracy movement have called for current PM Najib Razak to resign over corruption allegations. Tens of thousands attended Bersih's weekend rallies across the country. A spokesman for Dr Mahathir, Sufi Yusoff, told Reuters: \"As far as I am aware he has not been approached by the police yet. We will comply with the police on whatever is needed.\" It was unclear whether Dr Mahathir could face charges. Dr Mahathir delivered a speech on Saturday at the rally in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, where he called for a \"people's power\" movement to topple Mr Najib, a former ally. Mr Najib has denied all allegations of corruption and has accused Dr Mahathir of mounting a political smear campaign against him. Read more: 1MDB, the case that's riveting Malaysia. Dr Mahathir was Malaysia's longest serving prime minister, in office from 1981 to 2003, and remains highly influential. The 90-year-old used to lead Mr Najib's party, Umno. Police Inspector-General Khalid Abu Bakar told reporters that, during his speech at the Bersih rally, Dr Mahathir had made \"all sorts of accusations\", including one that alleged Umno division chiefs had received bribes. \"We want to know further and where he had obtained the information... I hope he will give his co-operation,\" said Mr Khalid. He added that other prominent figures who attended the officially illegal rally, as well as the organisers, would also be called up for questioning. Mr Najib has repeatedly denied taking money from Malaysia's state investment fund, 1MDB. The anti-corruption agency has effectively cleared him, saying the $700m (?¡ê455m) found in his personal accounts came from foreign donations.", "question": "Malaysian police have said they will ask former PM Mohamad Mahathir to give a @placeholder on allegations he made at a recent anti-government protest .", "option_0": "comment", "option_1": "statement", "option_2": "briefing", "option_3": "testimony", "option_4": "sex"}
{"id": 1174, "article": "Actress Kate Hudson trod the red carpet with her partner, Muse singer Matt Bellamy, while co-star Liev Schreiber attended with his partner Naomi Watts. The star-studded premiere followed reports claiming this year's festival had struggled to attract big \"names\". The film, directed by Mira Nair, got a mixed reception from critics. Nair won the festival's top prize, the Golden Lion, for Monsoon Wedding in 2001. In her new film, Britain's Riz Ahmed plays a young Pakistani man who becomes a high flier on Wall Street before being radicalised in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Time magazine praised it as a \"tense, thoughtful and truly international\" film that \"raises questions meant to test America's conscience\". Ahmed - who previously played an incompetent bomber in Chris Morris's satire Four Lions - stood out in \"a star-making role\", it added. The 29-year-old was also singled out by Screen International, whose critic said he gives \"a finely nuanced performance that carries the film\". Overall, though, reviewer Mark Adams concluded that the film \"never finds the right pacing or structure to satisfy the dramatic arcs\". Variety said the film \"saddles itself with a laborious narrative structure and half-baked thriller elements\". But the Hollywood Reporter described it as \"a serious-minded film whose politics demand soul-searching and attention\". Hamid's book was nominated for the Booker Prize in 2007. Speaking on the red carpet, Nair said she wanted to reflect the fact that \"the modern Pakistan is nothing like what you read in the papers\". She added that she hoped to bring \"some sense of bridge-making, some sense of healing, basically a sense of communication that goes beyond the stereotype\". This year's line-up also includes To The Wonder, the latest from Tree of Life director Terence Malick, and Robert Redford's The Company You Keep. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix star in Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, the story of a religious cult that some have suggested bears a resemblance to Scientology. Alberto Barbera, the event's new artistic director, has cut the number of films being screened and has faced criticism over the relatively small number of stars attending. Venice has come under increasing competition from the Toronto Film Festival in Canada, which overlaps with its Italian rival.", "question": "The Reluctant Fundamentalist , a big - screen adaptation of Mohsin Hamid 's acclaimed 2007 novel , has @placeholder the 69th Venice Film Festival .", "option_0": "attended", "option_1": "dominated", "option_2": "opened", "option_3": "highlighted", "option_4": "shared"}
{"id": 1175, "article": "Fundraiser Antonio Cortes, 32, donned the DC Comics superhero outfit as part of a charity collection. While taking a break in a pub in Gloucester city centre, Mr Cortes said he heard screams and ran outside to see a man trying to mug a woman. He told the BBC he chased the attacker and wrestled him to the ground until police arrived. \"I could see the woman was distressed and thought 'something has to be done' so I just went with it,\" said Mr Cortes, a trained Thai boxer. Police officers attended minutes later and took the man away. Mr Cortes said when they saw how he was dressed there \"were a few laughs and giggles\". It was a scene reminiscent of BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, when Del Boy and Rodney unwittingly foiled a robbery. In the 1996 Christmas special, the pair were heading to a party dressed as Batman and sidekick Robin when their Reliant Regal van broke down on the way. They walked the rest of the way and, as they emerged from fog in costume, they scared away thieves attempting to mug a councillor. Mr Cortes was in the city as part of his job working for social enterprise Give A Smile UK, which raises awareness of disabled children and sends them and their families on respite holidays all year round. Immediately after the incident the lady, who he thought appeared to be about 60, was taken into the Co-Operative bank by staff to be looked after. Later he saw her with her husband, who came over, shook his hand and said thank you. \"It's very rewarding - a good thing and I feel good for it definitely,\" he said. Gloucestershire Police said a 54-year-old man was arrested in connection with the incident and was in custody.", "question": "A man in a Superman costume @placeholder the day when he stopped a woman being robbed as she used a cash machine .", "option_0": "escaped", "option_1": "saved", "option_2": "remembers", "option_3": "fleeing", "option_4": "celebrating"}
{"id": 1176, "article": "The music star said early testing could save \"millions of pounds each year\" for the NHS, in an interview with the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. His charity, the Elton John Aids Foundation, has offered to finance HIV testing in Lambeth, south London, which has the UK's highest HIV rate. The PM says the UK is driving advances in HIV prevention and treatment. About 40% of people diagnosed with HIV in 2014 were diagnosed late, according to Public Health England (PHE) statistics, which Prime Minister Theresa May described as having \"a significant impact on their long-term prognosis\". Sir Elton said early testing was essential to ensure people were \"diagnosed, they're put on treatment, they won't spread the disease - and we'll know where we stand with the population\". He referenced a project his foundation had implemented at King's College Hospital in London, which allows individuals to be tested for HIV at the same time as receiving a blood test, as an example of how more people can be checked for the disease. \"Most people are willing to have that, and otherwise they wouldn't have a HIV test,\" he said. \"It is something we want the government to get more involved in.\" He added: \"We can solve this, we can stop this disease from spreading.\" On Thursday, NICE announced new guidance aimed at increasing testing in people with undiagnosed HIV in England. The updated guidance recommends all patients in areas with \"high\" and \"extremely high\" rates of HIV should be offered a test on admission to hospital, if they have not previously been diagnosed with HIV and are undergoing a blood test for another reason. In extremely high-rate areas, hospitals should offer the tests even if they are not having blood tests as part of their care, NICE recommends. But councillor Izzi Seccombe, of the Local Government Association, said achieving what NICE was asking was going to be difficult. \"The strain placed on councils by the cuts by central government to public health budgets would make commissioning HIV testing in all surgeries and hospitals in high and extremely high-risk areas an unaffordable burden. \"Despite these limited resources, testing those in high-risk areas must always be a priority. Councils are commissioning HIV testing in a variety of settings.\" The Department of Health maintained councils had been provided with sufficient funding. David Furnish, Sir Elton's husband and chairman of the Elton John Aids Foundation, said that he hoped that by funding testing in Lambeth - the UK local authority with the highest rate of HIV - they would help councils to see that \"short-term investment pays out handsomely in the long run\". The British HIV Association believes that testing for HIV is \"very cost effective\" and that \"deaths due to late diagnosis are completely preventable through excellent treatments\". But, Mr Furnish said, it was vital to combat the stigma surrounding HIV, which Sir Elton described as \"our biggest obstacle\" to beating the disease. Sir Elton praised the prime minister for her support of World Aids Day, and said he had met Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. \"We're wanting to work with him at close... because unless you work together there's no point,\" he said. It is estimated that 103,700 people are living with HIV in the UK and 17% of people with the virus are unaware of their infection, so risk unintentionally passing it on to their sexual partners. Asked by Victoria Derbyshire about his thoughts on the forthcoming presidency of Donald Trump, in relation to HIV, he urged governments around the world to \"keep their mandate about Aids\". He said HIV would \"balloon again and become another catastrophe\" were this not to happen. \"If governments in America say 'we're going to stop funding', it's a very scary time and it would be a tragedy for the world,\" he added. Sir Elton was also questioned about the possibility of meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss gay rights in the country - the pair have previously spoken by phone, but a meeting between the two was postponed in May. The singer said he was \"very hopeful\" it would happen, but added: \"He's a busier man than I am.\" The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays from 09:00-11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "question": "The @placeholder of HIV \" is in sight \" in Western countries , but increased testing is vital , Sir Elton John has said .", "option_0": "end", "option_1": "bodies", "option_2": "head", "option_3": "death", "option_4": "state"}
{"id": 1177, "article": "The prime minister and Nick Clegg are expected to discuss plans for new measures to tackle the threat. Their talks come after the UK's terror threat level was raised to \"severe\" from \"substantial\" in response to the deepening conflict in Iraq and Syria. Labour has called for more action to stop Britons being drawn to extremism. Mr Cameron will make a Commons statement on Monday, proposing new powers to stop would-be terrorists travelling abroad. He has urged European leaders in Brussels to take co-ordinated action to tackle the group calling itself Islamic State (IS), which has seized swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. Speaking before the meeting, he said: \"Today in Brussels is an opportunity to talk with other EU leaders and to make sure we all co-ordinate to stop people travelling to Iraq and Syria to stop radicalisation, to confront extremism.\" He had previously said the \"threat is growing\" from Britons travelling to fight with IS, adding that there were \"gaps in our armoury\" that needed to be strengthened. The new alert level rates the risk of an attack on the UK as \"highly likely\", although Downing Street said there was no evidence to suggest one is \"imminent\". The rating is the second highest of five possible UK threat levels and is the highest since 2011. Labour leader Ed Miliband has suggested the introduction of a \"mandatory programme\" of deradicalisation for people \"drawn into the fringes of extremism\". Writing in the Independent, he also urged the government to revisit the decision to scrap the control orders regime for terror suspects. Talks between Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg, the deputy prime minster and Liberal Democrat leader, come after the Conservatives said they wanted to make it easier to seize the passports of would-be terrorists travelling abroad. The home secretary already has the power - under the Royal Prerogative - to withhold a passport if it is in the public interest to stop somebody travelling. Mr Cameron is also likely to consider strengthening terrorism prevention and investigation measures - or Tpims - which were the coalition's replacement for control orders. However, the Liberal Democrats have said they would only agree to policies that were made calmly, on the basis of evidence and that maintained the liberty of British citizens. A Lib Dem source said Mr Clegg and the prime minister were in \"constant communication\" on the issue, adding that the party \"will consider very carefully any new proposals that are put to us\". BBC political correspondent Louise Stewart said powers to withhold passports had been used 23 times since April 2013, but she said the PM could seek to strengthen those powers. She said the government could not - following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights - make somebody \"stateless\" by refusing them re-entry to Britain, if they had no other passport. \"The sticking point with the Liberal Democrats is they have been against introducing more surveillance measures but say that any new measures would have to be brought in on an evidence basis and it would have to be purely for the safety and security of the British public,\" our correspondent said. Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown has argued that diplomacy is vital to limit the risk from jihadists. \"I think we have got to get away from this idea which says that in response to everything in the Middle East our answer is bombs and rockets,\" he said. Lord Ashdown added that the government was unwise to concentrate on the \"threat of jihadis coming home\". He warned that the bigger threat was a potential \"regional war\" in the Middle East, which would be religious and result in the changing of borders.", "question": "The terrorist threat posed by Islamist extremists is as much a concern for countries in @placeholder Europe as it is for the UK , David Cameron has said .", "option_0": "mainland", "option_1": "leaving", "option_2": "power", "option_3": "touching", "option_4": "fields"}
{"id": 1178, "article": "Drugs giant Pfizer is looking to buy UK firm AstraZeneca in a multi-billion dollar deal, and General Electric (GE) is busy pursuing French engineering giant Alstom. But could tax avoidance be one of the reasons US firms are so keen to buy foreign companies? Pfizer's deal, for instance, would see it moving its top company to the UK for tax purposes. US multinationals have big incentives to invest foreign funds abroad, according to tax campaigners. The US has one of the highest rates of corporation tax in the world - a whopping 35%, compared with 21% in the UK, just 12.5% in Ireland, and zero in tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Keeping money offshore is therefore one way to avoid the high US tax rate. The proposed Pfizer deal would help the multinational use some of its $69bn pile of offshore cash, according to the Tax Justice Network. \"What seems quite clear is that tax avoidance has played an important part in starting the original [Pfizer] bid,\" Tax Justice Network executive director John Christensen says. Pfizer told the BBC that there were strategic business reasons for the proposed deal, but admitted it would give \"a more efficient tax structure\". The companies would potentially operate as \"as [a] new, UK-domiciled combined company\" that \"would not subject AstraZeneca's non-US profits to US tax, which would be in the best interests of the combined company's shareholders\". In addition, UK companies are \"subject to little or no tax on profits generated in non-UK jurisdictions when they are repatriated\". \"Consequently, the current contemplated structure would place us on a more even competitive playing field and would again be in the best interests of the combined company's shareholders,\" Pfizer said. US corporations have billions sitting offshore that could be taxed if the money were brought back to the US,  Mr Christensen says. For example, General Electric has around $108bn held offshore, according to Bloomberg. GE declined to comment on its tax arrangements or the Alstom negotiations. However, a source close to GE told the BBC that the firm is not chasing the Alstom deal for tax reasons, but for business purposes. In addition, the $108bn held overseas has been reinvested and is not held as cash, the source said, adding that while GE does have $57bn cash outside the US, that is held by GE Capital, which uses it for investments. Commentators agree that the reason companies are so keen to invest abroad lies with the US tax system and the high tax rates it imposes. As soon as companies try to bring profits back into the US, they may be liable for tax so they go to great efforts to keep them offshore. \"This prevents investment [coming] fully back into the US where it is needed,\" says Tax Foundation economist Kyle Pomerleau. US multinationals are involved in a cat-and-mouse game with US tax authorities, and use some very creative strategies to minimise income tax payments, the Tax Justice Network says. Common tax avoidance strategies include assigning intellectual property rights to foreign subsidiaries, and then paying the subsidiaries to use a brand, trademark, patent or licence. \"You charge an onshore subsidiary for the use of a brand, but the brand belongs to an offshore company,\" he says. Foreign subsidiaries are also used to charge high management fees to a parent company. \"Offshore companies milk the onshore companies,\" he adds. \"These are the kinds of games that are played.\" In addition, multinationals load foreign acquisitions with tax deductable debt to move money offshore, he says Companies also use share buyback schemes as part of their strategy. Apple, which has tens of billions of dollars overseas, is in the curious situation of taking on debt for a share buyback scheme to placate shareholders back home missing out on dividends. In a share buyback scheme, a company can pay a premium price to buy a limited number of shares from each shareholder. \"It's a way of keeping shareholders happy,\" economist and anti-poverty campaigner Richard Murphy says. \"It's not profitable in the US to provide dividends.\" A premium price has a positive effect on the value of the company's shares in general, which adds to shareholder contentment, Mr Murphy adds. Some estimates put the amount of US cash kept abroad at $1.5 trillion. Nevertheless, multinational firms \"would like to be able to bring money back to the US without paying a big tax\", says Columbia Law School professor Michael Graetz. And in fact some US corporations do opt to bring huge chunks of cash home. Ebay recently said it would repatriate almost $9bn as \"it would make more sense to have more cash in the US for mergers and acquisitions\". There are a number of efforts in the US and elsewhere to try to reform tax rules. Republican congressman Dave Camp has been among US politicians attempting to introduce a draft tax reform act which aims to lower corporation tax. The OECD is in the process of coming up with rules designed to tackle \"base erosion and profit shifting\", which involves companies using mismatches in tax rules to make profits \"disappear\" legally. However, these efforts may take many years to come to fruition. In the meantime, the cat-and-mouse game between multinationals and tax authorities continues.", "question": "US companies are involved in chasing a number of headline - @placeholder deals at the moment , with rationales that tie- ups would be good for the businesses .", "option_0": "lashed", "option_1": "organised", "option_2": "term", "option_3": "sponsored", "option_4": "grabbing"}
{"id": 1179, "article": "Posting photos that are blue, grey or dark in colour and using the \"Inkwell\" filter, which converts colour photos to black and white are all clues according to the Harvard study. The researchers believe the photo-sharing app could be a new form of early detection for mental illness, but is the culture for over-sharing and bragging on social media also to blame for making us feel down in the first place? A previous study by two German universities showed that \"passive following\" on Facebook triggers feelings of envy and resentment in many users, with holiday snaps being the worst offenders. But according to author and journalist Jessica Winter, \"Facebook is actually not the greatest underminer at the social-media cocktail party... That title goes to Instagram,\" she says, where the trend for beautiful, filtered selfies and picture-perfect lifestyles reaches a whole other level. Comedian Juliette Burton, who has struggled with body dysmorphia, depression and anxiety, agrees that social media can be unhelpful. \"They say a picture is worth a thousand words but it's never the full story,\" she says. \"You don't know what else is going on behind this collage of pictures. Being on social media is this whole new expression of our personality, messaging about who we are, but we're still learning what it all means. \"In my experience social media is a hindrance when it all feels very fake and competitive. It's very rare to see people posting about dark stuff. When they do it's a massive cry for help. \"When you're in the middle of a difficult time and you can't get out of bed, these aren't the moments that I'm reaching for my camera phone.\" When the going gets tough it's natural to frantically search for answers online, wishing you were as positive as those #instagood moments. But Bryony Gordon, journalist and author of the book Mad Girl, says there is some solace among the selfies. She set up the group Mental Health Mates through social media after battling with OCD, depression and bulimia. \"I felt completely alone, just like everyone else who suffers from mental illness - because mental illness lies to you by making you feel like a freak. \"Only through writing about it have I realised that actually, it's completely normal to feel weird.\" After putting a message on Twitter about meeting up with others who struggle with mental health issues, Bryony said 20 people turned up for a walk. Now many gatherings later there are a whole network of people meeting up, with groups even starting up in the US. So can social media have health benefits? Bryony says: \"Through the power of social media I've met so many new people and it's a great support. It shouldn't be your only point of help but it's that jumping off point to help you realise you are not alone. \" Juliette thinks so too. \"It's interesting to hear about the Instagram study because we need to work out how we can use this technology to its full potential,\" she says. \"At the same time people are wanting to talk about mental health much more now. Even if you don't suffer yourself just knowing how to bring it up with someone and learning about the right and wrong things to say is a really positive step.\"", "question": "Whether it 's capturing a picturesque @placeholder , a cute pet or a perfect - looking plate of food , many photographs on Instagram give the impression that life is beautiful . But according to new research images posted on the social network may actually reveal if someone is struggling with depression .", "option_0": "sunset", "option_1": "city", "option_2": "team", "option_3": "refrain", "option_4": "view"}
{"id": 1180, "article": "On the road west out of Londonderry, you have to pay close attention if you don't want to miss exactly where the UK comes to an end and the Irish Republic begins. This is an understated, almost invisible border, marked only by the appearance of road signs in kilometres rather than miles, in Irish as well as English - and by the lower fuel prices at the petrol stations. That is what people here are now used to. You can live on one side of the border and work in another, or shop on one side or another, depending on the sterling-euro exchange rate. But many people here can remember a very different time, when the same road out of Derry housed a large British military checkpoint. Historian Dr Billy Kelly showed me all that is left of it:  some concrete paving alongside the grass verge, as well as a memorial plaque set into a nearby wall that tells a chilling story. It commemorates an atrocity that took place at the same spot in 1990, when the IRA forced Patrick \"Patsy\" Gillespie to drive a van packed with explosives towards the checkpoint. It exploded before he could get out, killing him and five British soldiers. Dr Kelly lived in Derry through the Troubles and tells me of the apprehension he would experience passing through the checkpoint. \"It was never something that you liked doing, because if there was even the slightest thing wrong, you could be held for hours,\" he says. When I asked him how he felt today, driving along the same road entirely unhindered, he had one word: \"Thankful.\" Peace has brought the greatest dividend, but local business owner Donal Doherty says the EU has also played a role in the ease of living and working in the region. \"Peace has got rid of all the army and the checkpoints, and as far as I am concerned Europe and the free movement of goods made a huge difference in terms of taking customs posts off the roads,\" he says. His award-winning restaurant, Harry's, is 500 yards inside the Irish border and is popular with people in Derry, especially when the pound is strong against the euro. \"This village used to be a stop village because Customs made you stop here,\" he says. \"Now it's a place where you can trade across the whole of the north-west.\" The Vote Leave campaign says none of that would change in the event of a UK exit from the EU. \"The border would operate essentially as it does now,\" Lee Reynolds, their regional director tells me, because the arrangements on which it is based - the Common Travel Area between the UK and the Republic of Ireland - would be in all parties' interests to maintain. \"We are convinced that the Common Travel Area can continue to exist, that people's lives can carry on normally, that people would continue to be able to travel across the border and trade across the border.\" But that doesn't entirely take away the concerns of people like Kevin McCool of KMC Tyres, who runs a business on the UK side, set up by his father 20 years ago. Not only does he buy tyres from the Republic of Ireland - and wonders how Brexit might affect their price - he also depends on Irish customers coming to him because it is logistically easy and financially worth their while. \"Even a five or 10-minute stop is going to put people off,\" says Mr McCool. \"There is a lot of people just over the border who do what we do, and at the moment people do come to us from over there. \"But if it got to the stage of saving five euros or spending half an hour at a checkpoint, they're not going to cross.\" Those British citizens who live along the UK-Irish border area already think in two currencies, often making daily decisions about where to buy what. Some, like Kevin McCool, now live on the Irish side and travel back and forth every day. For them there is a very practical dimension to the choice on 23 June  - they are weighing up not just the UK-wide arguments but the question of how their everyday lives might be affected by a vote to leave or remain.", "question": "The border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland would be the only @placeholder border between the UK and the European Union if there is a Leave vote . Mishal Husain sees how that is colouring the EU referendum debate in those areas .", "option_0": "resources", "option_1": "land", "option_2": "river", "option_3": "system", "option_4": "skinny"}
{"id": 1181, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device A David Kee shot and Mark Haughey header had the Blues two up at the break but Martin Donnelly and Caoimhin Bonner brought the Reds level. Linfield's Sean Ward was sent-off for bundling Chris Curran over but George McMullan saw the penalty saved. McMullan put Cliftonville 3-2 up with a superb chip and sub Aaron Burns headed Linfield level before Eamonn Seydak was dismissed for two yellow cards. After the match, it emerged that Cliftonville defender Bonner was shown a red card following clashes in the tunnel area as the teams left the pitch after the final whistle. The result means Linfield's lead at the top of the table has been cut to two points by second-placed Crusaders who won 4-2 away to Ballymena United. Linfield looked to be in total command when they led 2-0 at half-time. They had a great chance to go three up but top scorer Andrew Waterworth pulled a low shot wide from a great position early in the second half. That proved crucial as, five minutes later, the sides were level through Donnelly and Bonner. McMullan's spot-kick was then well saved by Ross Glendinning but the Blues keeper was beaten soon afterwards by the home skipper's audacious chip. Linfield manager Warren Feeney: \"It feels a bit like a defeat as we were 2-0 up. \"At half-time I thought it was one of our best performances but I knew Cliftonville would come back at us. \"Andrew Waterworth had a great chance to go 3-0 up - but those are the fine margins in football.\"", "question": "Both sides finished with 10 men as an incident - packed match @placeholder level .", "option_0": "play", "option_1": "gripping", "option_2": "title", "option_3": "earned", "option_4": "finished"}
{"id": 1182, "article": "A group of insiders is unhappy with existing plans to speed up transaction times. They plan to offer existing investors a matching amount of a new virtual asset - called Bitcoin Cash - which could put pressure on the value of original bitcoins. One expert has warned there could be trading \"chaos\" over the coming days. Several popular Bitcoin platforms are refusing to support the new coins. That means investors who currently rely on some Bitcoin currency exchanges and virtual wallets will be unable to take advantage of the offer unless they switch to alternative providers. And moving from one platform to another carries risks of its own. \"Nobody can be sure how this is going to play out over the short term,\" commented Iqbal Gandham, UK managing director of the eToro trading platform. The breakaway plan was revealed just over a week ago after it emerged that a compromise scheme to reform Bitcoin appeared to have gathered enough support to be adopted. The middle-ground solution - known as Segwit2x - is an attempt to address one of Bitcoin's constraints: at present the ledger of past transactions, known as the blockchain, can have only one megabyte of data added to it every 10 minutes. The limitation was originally introduce to protect Bitcoin from cyber-attacks, but has meant some users have had to wait days for their transactions to complete at busy times. Two conflicting solutions were initially proposed: Many \"miners\" - dedicated businesses and others that contribute computer processing power to authorise transactions in return for the chance of being awarded newly minted Bitcoins - favoured the former plan. But many developers - those working on Bitcoin's code or that of associated software - preferred the latter. The Segwit2x initiative solved the impasse by suggesting the data-splitting step should occur in August and then be followed by an increase in the block size to 2MB in November. Under the terms of a related scheme - referred to as Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 91 (BIP 91) - the first step would only happen if 80% of the mining effort adopted the new blockchain software required and used it consistently between 21 July and 31 July. After more than 95% of miners signalled their support for the plan it was widely assumed that a Bitcoin \"civil war\" had been averted. But then ex-Facebook engineer Amaury Sechet and other Bitcoin insiders revealed plans to launch Bitcoin Cash on 1 August at  12:20 UTC (13:20 BST). They claimed that the danger with the Segwit2x scheme was that there was no guarantee a doubling of the block size would follow the data-splitting step, as promised. Instead their new currency would have a block size of 8MB and ditch the data-dividing idea. To further complicate matters, some Bitcoin exchanges are divided about whether to support the creation of Bitcoin Cash and allow its trade, with several yet to declare their plans. Furthermore, some exchanges plan to suspend or restrict trade in Bitcoin altogether for several days until they are confident that any disruption has passed. The uncertainty surrounding Bitcoin Cash's chances has led to one futures market in Bitcoin Cash to value one coin as being worth about $267, a fraction of the $2,780 each bitcoin was trading at short time ago. In theory, if mass adoption were expected, the two currencies should be much closer in price. \"There's massive uncertainty and the quoted futures price should be taken with a grain of salt,\" commented Dr Garrick Hileman, research fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. \"We won't know the real Bitcoin Cash price until a number of exchanges across the world start trading it, and it's still not clear when that will happen.\" And he added that there could be some wild swings in the value of both types of Bitcoin over the coming days. \"My sense is that the split can be managed if exchanges and wallets take the necessary precautions,\" he explained. \"But I suspect some will not be well prepared as this happened quickly and a lot of organisations are coming on board at the last minute. \"It wouldn't surprise me if there is some chaos.\"", "question": "A split in the Bitcoin @placeholder is set to create a new incompatible version of the cryptocurrency on Tuesday .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "system", "option_2": "family", "option_3": "community", "option_4": "heartland"}
{"id": 1183, "article": "The Weeping Window was part of an installation displayed at the Tower of London in 2014 to mark British and Commonwealth deaths in the war. It goes on public display at Caernarfon Castle, Gwynedd, on Tuesday for six weeks as part of a UK-wide tour. The castle is home to the Royal Welch Fusiliers museum. The regiment fought throughout the war, including at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and included a number of poets including David Jones, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Hedd Wyn. The event, which is free for the public to view, sees a cascade of poppies flowing from the wall of the castle to the ground. It will also be accompanied by an exhibition entitled Remembrance for Peace, featuring Wales' Book of Remembrance from World War One. The exhibition is staged by 14-18 NOW, the UK-wide arts programme marking the war's anniversary across the four years. Executive producer Nigel Hinds said: \"Caernarfon Castle is a poignant and fitting place for the poppy sculpture Weeping Window to be presented as part of its tour of the UK. \"It is particularly fitting that the poppies will be at the castle over the centenary of the last weeks of the Battle of the Somme, in which the Royal Welch Fusiliers played such an important role.\" Julie James AM, deputy minister for skills, said: \"The loss suffered by those affected by the First World War was felt for generations, and this exhibition offers an important opportunity to remember and commemorate all those lost.\"", "question": "A sculpture consisting of thousands of ceramic red poppies marking the 100th anniversary of World War One has gone on show at its first @placeholder in Wales .", "option_0": "display", "option_1": "meeting", "option_2": "audience", "option_3": "location", "option_4": "level"}
{"id": 1184, "article": "It was the passion, irreverence and air of apparent anarchy that immediately attracted me on my first visit to Speakers' Corner in 1977. A little over 30 years earlier George Orwell had described the place as \"one of the minor wonders of the world\", writing that in Hyde Park he had listened to \"Indian nationalists, temperance reformers, Communists, Trotskyists, the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB), the Catholic Evidence Society, freethinkers, vegetarians, Mormons, the Salvation Army, the Church Army, and a large variety of plain lunatics\". By 1977, the Indian nationalists had long since won their struggle, but many of the rest of the religious and fringe political groupings were still there, still preaching, arguing and debating. The subjects under discussion were then, and still are, almost entirely unrelated to day-to-day news headlines. At least half the speakers are preachers. Issues of race, religion and nationality are discussed obsessively. The place has changed over the years: the Sunday afternoon crowds are smaller; there are fewer platforms belonging to organised groups, a narrower range of speakers, and the proportion of religious meetings has increased. The demographics of both speakers and crowd have also shifted: now at least as many of the preachers are Muslim as Christian. Nevertheless, despite these changes, Speakers' Corner retains the unique buzz generated by the intensity and eccentricity of face-to-face argument. What's going on in the park becomes clearer with repeat visits. Some of the regulars - speakers, hecklers and observers - have been going there for years. Some of the arguments, particularly those involving small groups debating the merits or otherwise of Bible and Koran, continue from one week to the next. Some of the heckles, hilarious at first hearing, become quite stale fourth time around. But there is plenty else to engage with. The meetings of Heiko Khoo, a Marxist who has spoken in the park since 1986, draw some of the biggest crowds with erudite but accessible discussions on global political and economic issues. Mr Khoo's meetings are reminiscent in style, if not content, to the debates around the the platform of Lord Soper, Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist, who spoke regularly at Speakers' Corner from 1926 until his death in 1998. The anarchist and alternative comedian Tony Allen, who made the transition from heckler to speaker in the mid-1970s, and writer, film-maker and internationalist Ishmahil Blagrove, who first took to a ladder in the 1980s, can both still be heard from time to time. Mr Blagrove was one of a new generation of young, black British speakers who came to talk, heckle and debate on issues of racism, imperialism and black identity in the 1980s and 1990s - sometimes in anger, often with great humour - and others with similar interests also still make occasional visits. Intense political discussions conducted in Arabic are a new feature of recent years: frustrating for non-Arabic speakers, but a reflection of the demographic changes in London as a whole and particularly of the area neighbouring Hyde Park. Even some of the religious debates - intelligent design is a favourite topic - can become intriguingly philosophical. This is what genuine, unmediated, public debate looks and sounds like. In both style and content, it's quite different from the frequently abusive, often anonymous exchanges on Twitter and other online social media platforms. And it's nothing like the carefully controlled exchanges of sound bites and unquestioned assumptions that now pass for debate on our front pages and TV screens. When ordinary people get together to talk to each other face-to-face, they can be challenged immediately to explain and justify what they are saying and can't get away with just sounding important. Lord Soper called it \"the fellowship of controversy\". We need a lot more of it. Speakers' Corner: Debate, democracy and disturbing the peace by Philip Wolmuth is published by The History Press", "question": "Speakers ' Corner in London is well known as the home of free speech , where anyone can get on their soapbox and make their voice heard . Whether anyone will listen is of course another matter . Photographer Philip Wolmuth has been @placeholder the corner in London 's Hyde Park for 35 years , and has just published a book of the work . Here , Wolmuth writes about the changes he has seen during that time .", "option_0": "working", "option_1": "documenting", "option_2": "traced", "option_3": "rocked", "option_4": "visiting"}
{"id": 1185, "article": "The victim alleged that former Senator Wilfred Krichefski carried out the attack with another man. In a 2008 police statement, the victim said he was taken by a member of staff who said: \"I have a boy for you, sir.\" It was the first time details of the allegations against Mr Krichefski have been heard in a public hearing. The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry is hearing evidence of abuse at the home in the 1960s and 1970s. No witnesses gave evidence in person, but statements given to police and the historical redress scheme were read out by the counsel to the inquiry on Friday. In the statement read out at the inquiry, the witness described being taken to a staff room where the abuse by Mr Krichefski and another man allegedly took place. The inquiry heard that the member of staff knocked on the door and said \"I have a boy for you, sir\", before telling the witness: \"You go in and I'll be back to get you later.\" He said Mr Krichefski then asked: \"Do you know why you're here?\" The witness said in his statement that he replied: \"For being truant.\" The un-named witness told the police Mr Krichefski went on to say it was because he was \"wicked and no-one really cares for you\". The boy was threatened with not being allowed to leave the home if he spoke about any of it. He said Mr Krichefski told him: \"Do not say anything to anyone, if you carry on being a good boy you will not be here very long.\" When he was older, he told hospital doctors about the abuse and said he was immediately sectioned and taken to St Saviour's Hospital, where he was told to forget about what he had said. The inquiry continues.", "question": "A former Jersey politician @placeholder a boy in the staff room of the Haut de la Garenne children 's home , an inquiry into the care system has heard .", "option_0": "raped", "option_1": "stranded", "option_2": "visits", "option_3": "struck", "option_4": "finds"}
{"id": 1186, "article": "A total of 96 MLAs took part in the vote and 49 voted against the Sinn F¨¦in motion calling for civil marriage equality for all, with 47 in favour. Sinn F¨¦in, SDLP and five Alliance MLAs supported the motion.  The DUP opposed it and the Ulster Unionists were given a free vote on the issue. Of 53 unionists, only four voted yes. Ahead of the vote, a petition of concern was tabled, meaning the motion would require cross-community support from both unionists and nationalists to succeed.  However, it did not come into play. A full breakdown of the vote has been published on the assembly website. The controversy surrounding Northern Ireland's DUP health minister, Jim Wells, featured heavily in the debate. The health minster issued a public apology on Friday, after he was recorded on camera making comments linking gay relationships and child abuse. Mr Wells then announced his resignation on Monday, after it was confirmed that police are also investigating an incident involving a lesbian couple during a door-to-door election canvas by Mr Wells in County Down. It is alleged that he called at the couple's house, and during a conversation was critical of their lifestyle. He is due to step down on 11 May to spend more time with his seriously ill wife, but Sinn F¨¦in said his resignation should take immediate effect. Sinn F¨¦in's Catriona Ruane expressed sympathy over his wife's illness but said he should have resigned immediately after linking child abuse to gay parents. She Mr Wells had \"violated\" his pledge of office by making his original remarks. \"No matter how much pressure someone is under there is no excuse for the comments that were made. What make the comments even worse was that they were made by the health minister who had taken a pledge of office, who is responsible for safeguarding children,\" she said. Earlier, DUP leader Peter Robinson has asked people \"not to take on the characteristics of a lynch mob\" over the controversy surrounding Mr Wels. \"We need to be very careful on these issues that we have some proportionality,\" he said. \"This was a comment made by a minister who for a considerable number of months has carried on his work during the day and been sitting beside his wife during the night as she's been fighting for her life.\" Ulster Unionist MLA Danny Kinahan told the Assembly he was supporting the Sinn F¨¦in motion for marriage equality and was \"proud\" that his party had given its MLAs a free vote on the motion. \"At school and in the army I believed - and I'm ashamed to say joked carried by the flow - that gay lesbian and such matters were wrong and could be laughed at - I'd never really sat down and thought about it,\" Mr Kinahan said. The UUP MLA said his eyes were opened to discrimination when one of his colleagues, who he described as an \"excellent soldier\"  left the army after failing a vetting process for promotion. \"I want a society here in Northern Ireland where no-one is made to feel a second-class citizen to any extent and certainly not due to sexual definition. I want no discrimination whatsoever on account of religious belief or sexual orientation,\" Mr Kinahan said. Alliance MLA Chris Lyttle told MLAs his party \"is committed to delivering a shared society for everyone  based on religious and civil liberty and equality for all regardless of age, gender, disability, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation and to stand against discrimination or stigmatisation of any kind\". \"The Alliance Party therefore supports the extension of state provided civil marriage to same sex couples, provided that robust legislative protection can uphold the religious freedom of faith groups to define and practice religious marriage as they determine.\" SDLP MLA Colum Eastwood said: \"We need to, as an assembly, as people in positions of power and responsibility, we need to be seen to be embracing all members of our community - all members of our community. He added: \"There is no reason whatsoever, Mr Speaker, why the north of Ireland should be the only place on these islands that doesn't have marriage available to same sex couples.\"", "question": "The Northern Ireland Assembly has rejected a @placeholder calling for the introduction of gay marriage , after debating the issue for a fourth time .", "option_0": "referendum", "option_1": "step", "option_2": "petition", "option_3": "proposal", "option_4": "lifetime"}
{"id": 1187, "article": "The Scottish SPCA said the owner could not longer look after the two large lizards, a female named Pintosh and a male called Babysha. They are being cared for at the charity's centre in Drumoak. Assistant manager Claire Tyczynska said: \"We are rehoming them separately as they don't get along with one another.\" She explained: \"As they are very large and powerful animals, they aren't suited to novice reptile owners and this is why we are specifically appealing to people who have kept iguanas before. \"Pintosh and Babysha are generally good natured with people, although they can be a little bit grumpy sometimes. \"Due to their size, they will each need a very large vivarium with plenty of space to move around.\" She added: \"We would like to hear from anyone who feels they have the knowledge and experience to offer Pintosh or Babysha a new home. \"They will make fantastic pets for owners who will appreciate them and meet their care requirements.\"", "question": "New homes are being @placeholder for a pair of iguanas in Aberdeenshire who do not get along .", "option_0": "blamed", "option_1": "designed", "option_2": "investigated", "option_3": "launched", "option_4": "sought"}
{"id": 1188, "article": "If the interim appointment of the unpopular Rafael Benitez was owner Roman Abramovich reminding Chelsea's fans who calls the shots, the return of Mourinho is a case of giving your public what they want. And what Abramovich wants is for the 50-year-old Portuguese to build on Chelsea's Europa League success and deliver an era similar to his silver-lined first spell between 2004 and 2007, when he brought the title to Stamford Bridge for the first time in 50 years and repeated the feat 12 months later. Media playback is not supported on this device Mourinho says he is walking back into an environment where he is loved - but what will he find in his \"in-tray\" as he tries to make it even better second time around? He will rediscover a squad that still has that inner steel, an automatic default response to pressure that Mourinho built in, allowing them to win the Champions League and Europa League from situations where they seem to be suffering. But this is also a team that needs attention - and a club where the delicate balances of power between Mourinho and Abramovich must be pitched perfectly to survive for any length of time. Mourinho will still have the reliable and influential figure of Petr Cech in goal, while the decision to award Frank Lampard a new one-year deal will have met with the full approval of a coach who still recognises the 34-year-old's influence. But what will Mourinho make of John Terry, and will the veteran, increasingly susceptible to injury, be deemed worthy of a place in any reconstructed Chelsea? Mourinho builds his teams on strength, solidity, reliability and tactical discipline. Terry's fragile fitness means he does not sit easily in any of these categories. David Luiz, the talented maverick, may also be vulnerable. He is not exactly Mourinho's identikit defender, but the incoming manager may feel the Brazilian possesses such a rare talent he can be moulded. On the other hand the prospect of raking in a huge transfer fee, perhaps from Barcelona, may be tempting. Career record up to 1 June 2013 Mourinho will inherit England's Gary Cahill and has Branislav Ivanovic at his disposal, while he has been linked with Porto's highly-rated 22-year-old Eliaquim Mangala. Ashley Cole remains an outstanding left-back at 32 but even this is a situation Mourinho may feel he needs to address for the long term. He will have no worries about Cole when he first arrives but his renowned attention to detail means Mourinho will also be looking into the future. Ryan Bertrand has shown promise but Real Madrid's Fabio Coentrao may be a contender - and Chelsea are more than aware of Southampton's exceptional 17-year-old Luke Shaw. Expect them to try and force their way to the front of the queue at any hint of a sale. Mourinho's pragmatic but successful style will make intriguing viewing given the artistry provided by Chelsea's \"Three Amigos\"  - Juan Mata, Oscar and Eden Hazard - as he has always liked having a powerful base to his midfield. He has already been linked with Luka Modric, another diminutive creator, who he brought to Real Madrid from Tottenham, and Everton's Marouane Fellaini. Fellaini's contract contains a clause which means he can be secured for around ¡ê24m and the giant Belgian has a preference for a holding midfield role rather than as an attacking force, where he was used by David Moyes for much of last season. In his last spell at Chelsea, Mourinho built the attacking threat around the menacing presence and power of Didier Drogba. On occasions, Romelu Lukaku performed like a young Drogba in the making on loan at West Bromwich Albion and Mourinho will be seeking reports from his former right-hand man Steve Clarke, now manager at The Hawthorns, as well as making his own judgements. Played: 185 Won: 124 Drawn: 40 Lost: 21 Honours Premier League: 2004-05, 2005-06 FA Cup: 2006-07 League Cup: 2004-06, 2006-07 Community Shield: 2005 Whether Fernando Torres, rejuvenated to an extent under Benitez, makes the cut remains to be seen but Chelsea will be aware they would take a hefty hit on the ¡ê50m they paid Liverpool should Mourinho decide he does not fit his bill. Bayer Leverkusen's Germany forward Andre Schurrle is expected to sign for Chelsea imminently in a deal worth a reported ¡ê20m and it would be no surprise to see Mourinho boost his somewhat threadbare striking options even further with another high-profile signing. The relationship between Abramovich and Mourinho had fractured by the time he left Chelsea but has been repaired over time to such an extent that the Russian now feels comfortable enough to be reunited - and his reappointed manager feels happy enough to accept his offer. Abramovich and Mourinho have not had to exercise much in the way of compromise in their careers but there may have to be an element in this renewed partnership. The intervening years may well have taught both that they are best for each other. As stated here recently, this is not exactly a case of \"can't live with but can't live without\" but the dynamics of how they work together will be pivotal to the relationship's chances of success and harmony. There may need to be a concession of some power on both sides, something both may find hard to do. It is hard to imagine Abramovich handing too much control to a manager who craves it. All this would have had to be worked out before the final touches were applied to Mourinho's comeback. As ever, Mourinho will be box office and the Premier League will be richer for his presence - especially with a packed agenda as he attempts to take the title back from Manchester United.", "question": "Jose Mourinho arrives back at Chelsea riding a wave of goodwill and @placeholder a historical significance inside Stamford Bridge that affords the special status he awarded himself when he first walked through its doors .", "option_0": "following", "option_1": "carrying", "option_2": "enjoy", "option_3": "sees", "option_4": "grabbed"}
{"id": 1189, "article": "Spending on fighter jets and submarines are partly behind the increase to 5.13 trillion yen (?¡ê35.2bn, $43.6bn). A separate coastguard budget will also be raised sharply. The plans are part of a 97.5tn yen budget for the financial year starting 1 April 2017. Japan's parliament must still approve the budget, but if approved it would be the fifth consecutive rise in the defence budget. A rising social security bill to fund the cost of services for an ageing population is already putting increasing pressure on the country's economy, and the extra defence and coastguard spending will add to Japan's debt. Rising tension with China over disputed islands in the East China Sea has led to Japan's coastguard budget being raised to 210bn yen ($1.8bn) next year - up from 187.7bn yen. Coastguard vessels from both countries routinely shadow each other near the uninhabited islands which are controlled by Japan but also claimed by China. Five new large patrol ships, and 200 more maritime law enforcement staff are among the spending plans. Meanwhile, the country's ballistic missile defence system will also be upgraded in response to advances in North Korea's programme.", "question": "Japan 's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has signed off a record defence budget in the face of territorial disputes with China and North Korea 's nuclear and missile @placeholder .", "option_0": "results", "option_1": "weapons", "option_2": "value", "option_3": "conditions", "option_4": "threats"}
{"id": 1190, "article": "On the factory floor of AMI, a Michigan-based maker of fuel cells, one can hear the future of manufacturing. It is very, very quiet. The loudest noise in the brightly lit factory is the beeping of a hydraulic lift used to replace lightbulbs overhead. The contrast with traditional manufacturing is sharp: Almost no noise, no dirt, little physical effort. And requirements for workers are very different. \"You've got to have the smart people that help build it from the bottom up,\" says AMI President Aaron Crum. \"We don't forge things anymore. We use lasers to cut metal, we extrude ceramics, we do things that are different. And so because of it, we need a different labour force to make it happen.\" Manufacturing in the US is undergoing the same technological revolution that sent workers from agriculture to industry at the end of the 19th Century, says Lou Glazer of consulting group Michigan Future Inc. In the '50s, he says, factory work was a third of the work in America; now it's below 10%. Although manufacturing employment has ticked up in recent months, adding 30,000 jobs since March, the gains pale in comparison to the losses of the past decade. Three and half million manufacturing jobs have vanished in 10 years, bringing the current total to just under 12 million. As employment has plummeted, productivity has soared. Not for nothing does the US National Association of Manufacturers boast that American factory workers are \"the most productive in the world\". About 30 minutes' drive from the AMI plant is the ghost of manufacturing past: Willow Run. It is an almost unfeasibly large plant that once turned out Liberator bombers, then Kaiser cars, then transmissions and car bodies for General Motors. Willow Run closed in 2010 when GM went bankrupt. Of the plant's five million square feet, one million has been cleared for sale. The rest of the factory is an astonishing reminder of what manufacturing used to be like. Hulking presses the size of three-storey houses gather dust, corridors stretch into the gloom seemingly without end, and the warm air is thick with the smell of machine oil. Gathered round a table at a nearby diner, former Willow Run workers remember their first days at the plant. Now in their 50s, they reminisce about what it took to get a job at the plant. \"You didn't need a high school diploma,\" says Sterling Mullins. \"You just needed to be a hard worker,\" says Gerry Gardner, \"and you needed to show up every day, because it wasn't easy work.\" Tom White grew up on a farm, \"so the skills I had weren't really applicable\". Those were the days when manufacturing lifted poorly educated men and put them into America's industrial middle class. \"You could put the kids through college, we had a couple of weeks vacation,\" Mr Gardner says. \"And you had enough money to go out and buy a new car. We weren't rich - I'm not driving no Rolls Royce or anything - but I bought me a GM car.\" Manufacturing jobs still pay well - an average of $77,186 (?¡ê49,223) in pay and benefits in 2010. But there are far fewer of them and, says Mr Glazer the consultant, they are changing. \"That path to mass middle-class work is gone,\" he says. \"The only high-paid factory work left is going be people who both programme and maintain machines. That work is going to be high-paid but it requires much higher skills.\" The US is still a big player in manufacturing. More than 18% of global manufacturing output comes from the US factories. And even if American manufacturing has stumbled a little recently as eurozone orders dry up, many of Michigan's manufacturers are optimistic about the future. But the genie cannot be put back in the bottle. Manufacturing in the US has already changed and will change further, pressed on one side by technology and on the other by globalisation. It will be hugely difficult for less-skilled American workers to attain anything like the living standards of the generation before them.", "question": "For decades America 's vibrant manufacturing sector provided poorly educated workers a @placeholder to the middle class . But today 's plants need highly skilled workers who know their way around ultra-high tech machinery .", "option_0": "bridge", "option_1": "response", "option_2": "tribute", "option_3": "clue", "option_4": "link"}
{"id": 1191, "article": "Fay, 33, should win a record 185th cap when Scotland play Slovenia in their opening Euro 2017 qualifier on Tuesday. She made her debut in 1998 against the Czech Republic. \"The Holland matches were the first time I really took a step back to see if it was time to stop,\" Fay said. Having played in eight major championship campaigns - all unsuccessful - Celtic keeper Fay had a big choice to make after Scotland lost over two legs to the Netherlands in a play-off for the World Cup in Canada. \"I asked myself several questions and the desire to reach a major championship was one of them,\" she said. \"If we qualify for Euro 2017 it will probably be the most special moment of my career.\" Scotland, under coach Anna Signeul, have never been given a better chance. The draw - which includes Belarus, Macedonia and top seeds Iceland - is the kindest ever. With the tournament in the Netherlands in two years time having been expanded, two teams will also qualify from most of the groups. \"Externally there is an expectation on us to qualify, but you can never underestimate any team,\" Fay said. \"We're not a team that has the arrogance to say we will definitely qualify. We are a team that says we know we have good players and we work hard in every game. \"We will give every team the respect they deserve. If we do that I'm confident we will do well in this group.\" The Scots are based at Nova Gorica, which is almost on the Italian border, but the game is being played at Ajdovscina, some 30 minutes away. \"It's a beautiful setting,\" said Fay of a venue which lies in a valley under towering mountains. \"The pitch is a decent size for us and hopefully they will water it a bit before the game. It looks like a good place to start our campaign.\"", "question": "Scotland women 's captain Gemma Fay admits the prospect of playing in a major championship was one of the main factors in deciding not to @placeholder last year .", "option_0": "face", "option_1": "qualify", "option_2": "improve", "option_3": "retire", "option_4": "stay"}
{"id": 1192, "article": "Waseem Al-Muflehi, 15, and Yahya Mohammed, 14, both from Birmingham, disappeared in the water at Barmouth beach, in Gwynedd, last Sunday. Coastguard teams searched for them for three days but the hunt was called off on Tuesday. The body has not yet been identified but the families have been informed. The boys were part of a group of about 500 people from the Somali and Yemeni communities in Birmingham, who were visiting the area last weekend when the incident happened. Emergency services were called to the beach on Sunday after one of the boys was seen to \"disappear under the water\". Members of their group tried to help them but the wind and waves were said to have been too strong.", "question": "A body has washed ashore near to where two teenagers went missing after getting into difficulty in the @placeholder last week .", "option_0": "sea", "option_1": "space", "option_2": "county", "option_3": "race", "option_4": "region"}
{"id": 1193, "article": "Mashboor Hussain, 73, died at his home in Selkirk Road on 11 February 2014. Pathologists said although Mr Hussain had coronary heart disease, his collapse was likely caused by the disturbance at home and his death is being treated as murder. Officers will be on his road today. Det Ch Insp Graeme Gwyn said: \"I believe there are still people who have yet to speak to us and would urge them to contact us. \"Mr Hussain's family naturally remain devastated by his death and desperate to see those responsible for his murder brought to justice.\" At around 11:45 GMT, Mr Hussain opened his front door and was confronted by two men, one armed with a gun. They forced their way into his house and got into a scuffle with him in the hall. The two men ran off with a red Nike show box containing cash and other belongings, such as a mobile phone. Both suspects were wearing hooded tops and one is described as slim and wearing black gloves. Mr Hussain's daughter was in his house at the time of the incident.", "question": "A ¡ê 20,000 reward has been offered for anyone who can help find the @placeholder of a pensioner who died after a scuffle with burglars in Tooting last year .", "option_0": "bodies", "option_1": "trace", "option_2": "sound", "option_3": "experience", "option_4": "killers"}
{"id": 1194, "article": "Kay's 30 Days of The Smiths, created in collaboration with artist Oberman Knocks, mixes the band's music, the tales of people called Smith and her own words into a soundscape. The work will be staged at The Lowry, a stone's throw from lead singer Morrissey childhood home and the Salford Lads Club, where the quartet were photographed for the sleeve of their album The Queen Is Dead. It aims to investigate what it is to be a Smith, find links between the people born with the name and the band and play with the notion that \"if you listen to the word 'Smith', you hear the sound of the word 'myth'. Kay interviewed 30 Salford Smiths, most of who liked \"the fact they shared a name with other people\". \"For every single Smith, there will be another Smith that has got exactly the same name, and any Smith will have been in any situation, like being mistaken for another Smith, so it lends itself to a lot of different funny, as well as tragic, stories,\" she says. \"And it lends itself to a whole series of experiences which are very mundane and ordinary and also very extraordinary. \"There is nobody that is not a somebody.\" Kay says these mix-ups and mistaken identities are worn as a badge of pride, with people \"collecting these stories like a collector might pick up beer coasters\". \"They liked the frisson and the energy that is in that anonymity. \"Quite a few people said that it made them feel a great freedom knowing that there was another Smith out there - it liberated them and they felt they could do absolutely anything they liked because lots of people held their name.\" Kay found she ended up talking about everything \"from murder to suicide to love to divorce to commitment to dedication\" with people who seemed \"compelled to tell\" their stories. \"I went and knocked on these doors and I didn't know what to expect,\" she says. \"In some cases, it was really surprising. \"One woman had three massive tarantulas, and that was the thing she was most excited about. \"Another woman was talking about being kidnapped in her own house, while another, a man, spoke about watching his best friend being murdered in his street. \"A man told me about loving his wife so much that he took her surname, and his family then got annoyed with him. \"And a son was talking with his 70-year-old mother about how he loved her but not his father and he felt funny still having his father's name - and the mother said, 'Our name means nothing to us.'\" However far apart their stories seemed, though, she says they all had one thing in common apart from their surname - their love for Salford. \"There was a feeling that Salford itself was a character, a big open-hearted place,\" Kay says. \"I didn't speak to a single person that disliked Salford. \"When I asked them how far they had travelled, some people hadn't been much further than Salford, while others had been to China, South Africa or Japan, but they all really loved coming back and said there is nowhere like it in the world. \"Everybody said that completely seriously.\" BBC 6 Music presenter Mark Radcliffe says: \"The idea of taking this music and involving local Smiths and making it into a thing was something I didn't feel that I wanted to be left out of.\" Using Salford's neighbouring city as shorthand for the whole area, he says The Smiths were \"the quintessential Manchester band\". \"They have all the hallmarks of great Mancunian music, which I've distilled down to an essence of music that has an uplifting melancholia,\" Radcliffe says. He says choosing which tracks to include was a task of \"great difficulty\", but the three he picked - This Charming Man, What Difference Does It Make? and Panic - \"express the different tenors of The Smiths' sound\". \"This Charming Man is incredibly romantic,\" he says. \"Upbeat but downbeat at the same time, it speaks of abandon and escape but still stuck in a room because you 'haven't got a stitch to wear' - there's a release and a containment in that song. \"Panic has that sense of great mischief and malevolence, which is very much a part of Mancunian humour. \"The Smiths are laced with Mancunian humour, which can be seen as so dry, it borders on the cruel. There is that no-nonsense element to it. \"And What Difference Does It Make? is a great motto, a great adage to live by. \"None of us matter very much, though Morrissey may disagree. \"We are all but ants, little Smiths - and this is not meant disparagingly - but we're all little Smiths with our little stories living in Salford or wherever, and at the end of the day, what difference have any of us made?\" Some of Kay's interviewees were \"massive fans\" of The Smiths and \"actually knew members personally\", but others \"didn't like the band and found the music depressing and nihilistic\". And while she did find one person who had gone to school with Morrissey, she says the stories they told her about their own lives were far more interesting than any such reminiscences. She says \"nobody seemed frustrated\" by the misunderstandings and remarks their name had opened the door to, as \"they had all got used to it and it had become part of their life\". \"They were used to not being believed when they said their surname was Smith,\" says Kay. \"Somebody, when they had got married, had turned up at the hotel and checked in and said, 'Smith'. The staff said, 'That's a good joke, what's your real name?' \"That kind of thing had happened to people a lot.\" Kay says her interviewees were also united by a sense of belonging. \"The connection is so random - you share a surname but what else?\" she says, \"And yet, the people who share the surname Smith felt like they were part of a clan. \"One guy said, 'If I bump into another Smith when I'm out having a drink, I think that guy has got my back,' which was lovely and old-fashioned,  a sense of belonging to a clan. \"And there is a Smith tartan, after all\". 30 Days of The Smiths is at The Lowry on 7 and 8 May as part of the Week 53 festival. To see more interviews with the Smiths of Salford take a look at BBC Radio Manchester's Facebook page.", "question": "What difference does a name make ? Scotland 's national poet Jackie Kay says that in the case of anyone with the UK 's most common surname , Smith , the answer is both a great @placeholder and none at all .", "option_0": "corner", "option_1": "substance", "option_2": "cycle", "option_3": "deal", "option_4": "loss"}
{"id": 1195, "article": "On Wednesday, shares of Chinese solar power manufacturer Hanergy Thin Film were suspended after falling 47%, wiping out $18.6bn (?¡ê11.9bn) from its market capitalisation. That was followed by shares of Goldin Financial, which fell 55% on Thursday. Both firms had seen the price of their shares surge over the past year. Shares of Goldin Financial, which is 70%-owned by Hong Kong billionaire Pan Sutong, have jumped by more than 400% between September 2014 and March this year, according to Reuters. The firm had said that it was not aware of the reason behind the big jump in its share price. About half of Goldin's value - $16.12bn - was erased on Thursday as shares fell. Meanwhile, Hanergy shares had risen five-fold since September before the sell-off began. The firm, controlled by Chinese billionaire Li Hejun, had issued a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Wednesday saying its shares had been halted from trade \"pending the release of an announcement containing inside information\". Li has been considered one of China's richest men on the back of his stake in Hanergy. Nicholas Teo, market analyst at trading firm CMC markets said he had noticed the dramatic drop in Hanergy's shares right away because it had everyone \"scratching their heads\". \"The company was very quick to call a halt to the trading, but without any news, there is plenty of speculation and potentially room for further reaction to the downside if the trading suspension is lifted,\" he said. \"Even after the drop though, Hanergy's shares are basically twice as expensive as some of the firms in that sector.\" David Kuo, chief executive of The Motley Fool Singapore backed the view that Hanergy shares were overvalued. \"Hanergy is involved in the much-hyped solar-panel industry. Investors are paying $50 for every dollar of profit the company makes,\" he said. \"When expectation overtakes reality, reality eventually wins. The market is experiencing a dose of reality.\" There has been speculation as to the reason why the Chinese company halted trading, with Reuters citing an unnamed source as saying the firm is under investigation by Hong Kong regulators. Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has declined to make a comment. Local reports also said that Li, chairman of the firm, did not attend the firm's annual general meeting in Hong Kong on Wednesday.", "question": "Shares of two Hong Kong - listed companies have plunged by about 50 % in the past two days , surprising market watchers across the @placeholder .", "option_0": "region", "option_1": "public", "option_2": "continent", "option_3": "world", "option_4": "mainland"}
{"id": 1196, "article": "The Home Affairs Committee urged the government to state an \"effective cut-off date\" for when EU citizens in the UK would be granted the right to stay. It added there could be fresh delays and backlogs in the immigration system if more people tried to enter the UK. Ministers said it would be \"wrong\" to set out details before exit talks. The government has confirmed it will seek curbs on free movement rules that currently give EU nationals the right to live and work in other member states. But it has said it is not possible to give a firm guarantee about the status of EU nationals currently living in the UK without a reciprocal pledge from other nations about British nationals living on the continent. The committee's report said the outcome of the 23 June referendum, in which Britain voted to leave the EU, had placed EU nationals living in the UK \"in a potentially very difficult and uncertain position\". \"Past experience has shown that previous attempts to tighten immigration rules have led to a spike in immigration prior to the rules coming into force,\" the MPs said. \"EU citizens living and working in the UK must be told where they stand in relation to the UK leaving the EU and they should not be used as bargaining chips in the negotiations.\" By Danny Shaw, home affairs correspondent Every three months, the Home Affairs Committee meticulously documents the progress made by immigration officials in dealing with asylum cases, processing visa applications and removing foreign national offenders. It's usually a depressing read, with examples of inefficiencies, backlogs and delays. Today's report is no exception - but with an extra complication. Britain's looming exit from the European Union raises the possibility of a sudden influx of EU citizens to the UK anxious to claim their right to residence. If, as the report suggests, a \"cut-off date\" months or two years into the future is identified it's hard to see how a \"surge\" in arrivals can be prevented. Name a date in the past - 23 June for example - and there'll be howls of protest from those who arrived afterwards. Dr Swati Dhingra, from the London School of Economics, told BBC 5 live the rise in the national living wage in the UK might encourage people to travel to the country. She also said if there was a cut-off date \"a lot of people might think, if they want to move to the UK - now is the time\". The report said the most obvious cut-off period would be the date Article 50 - the formal mechanism to leave the EU - is triggered, or when the UK actually leaves the bloc. It said the first step to establishing where EU nationals in the UK were living and working was through National Insurance numbers or a system of registration, and the process needed to start quickly. A government spokesman said: \"We are about to begin these negotiations and it would be wrong to set out further unilateral positions in advance. But there is clearly no mandate for accepting the free movement of people as it has existed up until now.\"", "question": "There could be a spike in UK @placeholder ahead of Britain 's withdrawal from the European Union and the possible end to free movement rights , MPs have warned .", "option_0": "spending", "option_1": "dying", "option_2": "circles", "option_3": "migration", "option_4": "show"}
{"id": 1197, "article": "He was the rangy intellectual presenter on late night TV arts shows of the early 1990s in the UK, who looked like he might moonlight in an experimental jazz band. The author and academic entered politics in his native Canada, becoming leader of the opposition party, before last autumn taking on a job as president of the Central European University in Hungary. Mr Ignatieff, in his late sixties, might have been forgiven for thinking that this was a job before retirement - but instead he has stepped into a political storm. The Budapest university has become a symbolic battleground between liberal internationalism and a rising tide of populist nationalism - with loud protests that the Hungarian government is trying to close it down. Mr Ignatieff says it would be the first time a post-War European state had \"got away with shutting down a free university\". \"That's what makes it unprecedented. That's what makes it shocking. \"Now that's crossing a line. We haven't been there before. \"We see absolutely no reason why we should be forced out of Budapest, we think it's outrageous,\" says the university president, speaking in London. \"We're a free institution, and this is about a drive to control,\" says Mr Ignatieff. The Hungarian government has insisted this is not the case and the university has only to fall in line with new higher education regulations. And over the weekend, there were signs that Hungary's ruling Fidesz party would bow to pressure from the European Parliament's centre-right grouping to protect \"basic freedoms\". But this is a dispute with deep roots - not least in relation to the role of the university's funder, George Soros. The Budapest-born billionaire and Holocaust survivor has been a prominent backer of liberal causes. And Mr Ignatieff says Hungary's Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, has had a \"longstanding vendetta\" against Mr Soros. Mr Orban, in turn, told the European Parliament last week that it was Mr Soros who was the aggressor against Hungary. Mr Soros has other feuds running. He has called US President Donald Trump a \"con man and would-be dictator\" and has become a hate figure for some of the US president's supporters. He has also been a vocal opponent of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. And at the weekend, demonstrators in Budapest were chanting: \"Europe, not Moscow,\" fearing that the push against the university was part of a move to look eastwards rather than west. Adding spice to the antagonism is the fact that Mr Orban's early career was helped by a grant from George Soros in the late-1980s, bringing him to study in Oxford. The young student who wrote about civil society and the transition to democracy is now the prime minister facing street protests. And there have been some who have seen this all as a proxy struggle between a liberal establishment and the supporters of Mr Trump, Mr Putin and Mr Orban. In the French presidential elections, Emmanuel Macron is accusing his opponent, Marine le Pen, of being part of an alliance with Mr Orban and Mr Putin. The Central European University (CEU) is a liberal, international institution, accredited in the US as well as Hungary, and created to promote democratic values after the end of Soviet rule. Mr Ignatieff was speaking at the University of East London, about projects that both universities run to support refugees - another position unlikely to win friends with those hostile to immigration. More stories from the BBC's Global education series looking at education from an international perspective, and how to get in touch. You can join the debate at the BBC's Family & Education News Facebook page. But the CEU president says it has been a major miscalculation to believe that the Trump presidency would line up against the university. \"I think one of the assumptions that Mr Orban must have made is that if he squashed an American institution, the Trump administration wouldn't care -  because it's associated with liberalism and all these hated things. \"In fact the American administration has been extremely forthright, right out of the gate.\" The dispute over the university has continued to ripple outwards - with a surrounding digital blizzard of claim, counter-claim and fake news. The European Commission has launched proceedings against Hungary, with vice-president Frans Timmermans saying the country's new rules on higher education were \"perceived by many as an attempt to close down the Central European University\". A collection of European scientists has written to Mr Orban to say moves against the university were \"totally at odds with what we thought was taken for granted in free democracies\". But Mr Orban's reply showed no sign of changing direction. He wrote back that the scientists' claims do not \"correspond with reality\" and there had been \"false allegations\" and an \"international disinformation campaign\" against Hungary's government. So what happens next? Until anything else is confirmed, Mr Ignatieff says that from October the university's licence can be withdrawn and they will be unable to recruit students. \"We're not going to shut down, but we may have to leave the country.\" And he says that they have received offers from six other countries to take the university. But he is still campaigning to stay in Budapest - and not wanting to burn any bridges, emphasises that there is no political challenge to Mr Orban. \"This is not fascism. This is a populist democrat, he won a free and fair election. In Budapest, you're not in the deep freeze of Communist Hungary or fascist Germany.\" Mr Ignatieff also says the hand of Mr Putin shouldn't be seen everywhere: \"We invest in Putin powers that he can only dream of. We pump the guy up bigger than he actually is.\" But this is a line in the sand, says Mr Ignatieff. If universities can be shut down in the heart of Europe, then what does it mean for the future of democracy? \"Democracy is not just majority rule, it's not just free media, it's not just a free judiciary. It's about institutions that have the right to govern themselves,\" he says. \"This is a battle for something I really care about, this is really deep in me. \"Universities are infuriating, they're difficult. But if you want a democracy, you want free institutions. It's really important.\" \"This is one I couldn't afford to miss and one I can't afford to lose.\"", "question": "Michael Ignatieff is not a person you would expect to find at the centre of a global political power play @placeholder names such as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin .", "option_0": "messages", "option_1": "resembled", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "featuring", "option_4": "cycle"}
{"id": 1198, "article": "Riot police used clubs and tear gas to evict the farmers who protested on Tuesday in Van Giang district of Hung Yen province near the capital. Villagers had camped in the area to try to keep the authorities and private developers away from the site. Land rights disputes in Vietnam are becoming increasingly violent. Around 2,000 police and security officers were deployed to repossess the area. \"They threw stun grenades and came towards the field... then 100 bulldozers were sent in to clear crops,\" a local resident, who identified himself only as Kien, told the BBC Vietnamese service. A private company, Vihajico, has been trying for years to build a satellite city called EcoPark, covering 500 hectares of land in the area. More than 4,000 families will lose their farmland as a result of the development, AP news agency reports. Residents have been offered 36 million Vietnamese dong ($1,700; ?¡ê1,000) as compensation for every 360 sq m plot of land. However, some locals have said that the compensation is inadequate, and accuse officials of corruption. Land rights are a contentious issue in Vietnam, where the Communist government owns all land and usage rights are unclear. In January, fish farmer Doan Van Vuon made headlines after he used homemade mines and shotguns in an attempt to stop police from seizing his land.", "question": "Vietnamese police have @placeholder 20 people after hundreds of farmers protested on a disputed plot of land near Hanoi , state media report .", "option_0": "injured", "option_1": "issued", "option_2": "sacked", "option_3": "detained", "option_4": "shot"}
{"id": 1199, "article": "\"As a young woman there are so many things you are told you can't do,\" says Klara \"Our message is always to do it.\" The folk duo, who grew up in a suburb of Stockholm, started writing and performing together just seven years ago, aged 14 and 16. On Wednesday they will be playing the Albert Hall themselves. \"We went ahead and started writing and performing our songs.\" The sisters particularly wanted to deliver a workshop for young girls. \"It's really nice for us to get to meet the girls. And because we started out at the same sort of ages as they are now, they can relate to our story,\" says Johanna, now 23. The workshop is part of the Royal Albert Hall's education workshops programme, which brings rising stars into contact with aspiring teenage musicians. Other sessions have been led by Jake Bugg and Emeli Sande. The audience of 12- to 16-year-olds are treated to a private performance of First Aid Kit hits: Waitress Song, Wolf, their cover of Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge over Troubled Water - and finally Emmylou. \"I wrote my first song when I was six,\" Klara tells the audience. \"Music has always been part of our lives but we never went to music school.\" The girls were born into a musical family. Their talk includes references to their earliest influences, ranging from their father's time in a Swedish rock pop band to listening to the Spice Girls and the Back Street Boys. By their early teens, they had moved on to less typical idols for their age group: Bright Eyes, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Gram Parsons and The Carter Family. \"We became more kind of geeks,\" says Klara. Klara taught herself to play the guitar and Johanna learned to play keyboard. \"We don't know any music theory - well, maybe a little bit.\" Now they say they know each other so well they \"hardly have to think\" about how their voices work together when singing different harmonies. Their global break came with a cover of Fleet Foxes' Tiger Mountain Peasant Song, which the American band shared online. \"They put our cover on their page,\" says Johanna. \"It got half a million views really quickly\". Soon afterwards, they began touring internationally and left school aged 16 and 18. \"We made our first like real album five years ago and have never gone back.\" Johanna reveals she once applied for Pop Idol \"and I didn't get in, but now I have my revenge!\" The question-and-answer session reveals their teenage crushes and the meaning of their matching tattoos. \"It's a native American sign for protection. It's a sisterhood thing. \"We travel around a lot, and it can be scary playing these big stages - but having your sister there means you feel more at home,\" says Klara. \"We still fight, especially about we wear on stage,\" adds Johanna. The girl-only workshop is a hit with the participants. \"There's less pressure than if there had been boys here. We can do what they do,\" says 16-year-old Rhiannon. \"It's more comfortable. You don't feel as self-conscious,\" adds Lanta, 15. The fact the band are largely self-taught also generates interest. \"I am awful at music theory too,\" says Rhiannon. \"I liked that they auditioned for Pop Idol and didn't get in,\" says Joy. \"Their voices work so well together, and I love their passion for music,\" says Sarah. After a short break it's time for a harmony workshop, a chance to learn the parts of Emmylou and a joint performance. The sisters teach the students the voice exercises they learned after Johanna lost her voice and missed two performances. \"The girl who taught us this said not to do it in front of anyone you are in love with. You stick your tongue behind your teeth and then push it out. \"Come on guys you've got to do this. \"It stretches your tongue and your throat.\" The students are split into two groups, one to learn the melody of Emmylou, the other the harmony. At first the students are soft and shy - but by the end of the workshop they are singing strongly. \"This sounds great,\" says Klara. \"I want them to come on stage with us and join our tour.\"", "question": "In a room lined with huge photographs of the greats who have @placeholder the Royal Albert Hall in the past , the Soderberg sisters , also known as First Aid Kit , lead a singing workshop for girls from local schools .", "option_0": "filled", "option_1": "grabbed", "option_2": "targeted", "option_3": "delighted", "option_4": "hosted"}
{"id": 1200, "article": "Tuesday marks the start of another three-day strike by the RMT in what is the longest running strike since the railways were privatised in 1996. The first strike began back in April. But how are commuters bearing up under the stress and strain? Southern rail strike to bring 'major delays' How to claim a refund for Southern disruption Eight strike questions answered Alistair Cansdale is a 42-year-old digital marketer who commuted from Haywards Heath in West Sussex to London Victoria. \"In the end I couldn't take it any longer. Last week I took a big jump and decided to give up my highly paid job in London  - with nothing to go to. \"I was working for a difficult management team who were constantly checking up on people's hours. I spent the whole afternoon every day thinking - what's the earliest I can leave?\" Mr Cansdale said his usual 45-minute journey could take up to three hours. \"It was awful,\" he said, \"and all for ¡ê5,000 a year\" - the price of his annual season ticket. \"Quitting was a huge relief but it's also been unnerving. It's a relief that I don't have to do the daily commute any more.\" Natalie Davies is a 45-year-old personal assistant living in Kent and working in the City. \"I had to move to Edenbridge three years ago to look after my mother and to be honest the problems have not just been throughout this year - the Uckfield line has always been bad - it's just escalated to supremely diabolical this year,\" she said. She said her boss has been \"very sympathetic\" but she \"cannot be seen to be favouring me\". \"The number of times I have had to pay ¡ê80-¡ê100 for a cab home as we only get one train home an hour,\" she added. \"It's soul-destroying and completely ruining my life at the moment as I have to put everything on hold.\" Hannah Blowey, 27, from Eridge in East Sussex, said: \"I'm almost eight months pregnant. I'm going on maternity leave earlier than I would have done if the service home was more reliable. \"It's always a crush getting on the train - and even though I'm heavily pregnant I don't always get a seat,\" she said. \"When I mentioned to the district nurse that I was commuting to London on the Uckfield line she immediately asked if I wanted to be signed off. \"You can't go on maternity leave three months early - you have to carry on.\" Teresa Baldock commutes from Crowborough in East Sussex to London Bridge where she works as a publishing sales manager. She says she's missing out on seeing her baby daughter because of cancelled trains on her journeys home from work. \"It's absolutely horrendous,\" she said. \"I've been late home every night for the past three weeks. My husband has been coming out with our baby daughter in the car at night to pick me up from different stations when the trains have been cancelled. \"I only have half an hour to see my 14-month-old baby on the four days a week I work in London - but if I'm late I don't see her at all.\" She said her boss has allowed her to work from home one day a week. \"I was having a meltdown,\" she said. \"Most days by the time I get to work I just want to curl up under my desk and go to sleep, and from 4pm onwards I'm planning my journey home.\" Lorna Cobbett, 37, travels from Horsham in West Sussex to London Victoria. \"My commute is meant to take 55 minutes - but on a bad day it can take two hours. \"I have triplets, one of them seriously disabled with a life-limiting condition,\" she said. \"My real fear is that I won't be able to get back if my daughter ends up in hospital. Thankfully, the last time we had to call an ambulance for her, earlier this month, I was working from home. \"If I'm in London, how do I know I'm going to be able to get to her as quickly as I need to? It makes me really angry.\" Bradley Rees, a 43-year-old software developer, says the service between Durrington in West Sussex and London Victoria is \"hell - the conditions do get really dangerous\". \"Commuters are cannon fodder caught in the middle of the dispute,\" he says. He has designed a free app - Southern Fail - to help people understand the human impact of what's been happening, he said. \"People have had enough - they're quitting their jobs, they don't see their families - it's taken a real emotional and physical toll.\"", "question": "Things are @placeholder to get a whole lot worse for commuters on trains operated by Southern . The dispute between the rail operator and the RMT union over the role of conductors has now spread , as Aslef drivers also voted to strike in a dispute over driver - only operated trains .", "option_0": "aiming", "option_1": "struggling", "option_2": "set", "option_3": "scrambling", "option_4": "bound"}
{"id": 1201, "article": "Two goal-line clearances frustrated the hosts' Josh Magennis in the first half. Dundee had the better of the second half and saves by Jamie MacDonald denied Paul McGowan and Kane Hemmings. A point may well prove vital in Killie's quest to avoid the relegation play-off spot, which they currently occupy. The Rugby Park side have taken four points from the last six available, leaving them level with Partick Thistle and 11 points ahead of Dundee United, while Dundee's fine run extends to five games unbeaten. The Ayrshire side almost got their new manager's Premiership stewardship off to the perfect start. Craig Slater and Greg Kiltie combined to release Magennis, who turned Darren O'Dea before slotting the ball beyond goalkeeper Scott Bain only for Kevin Holt to clear off the line. Magennis was proving a handful for the Dundee defence and he brought out a fine save from Bain with a driven shot. Greg Stewart had the visitors' first real effort after getting beyond Kevin McHattie but his angled shot was deflected wide by the outstretched leg of Conrad Balatoni. It was a fast tempo affair but the home side came close from two corner kicks. Gary Dicker volleyed McHattie's cross just over and Magennis then had a header blocked on the line by Nick Ross. In between those chances a Slater free-kick from wide on the left almost caught out Bain but the keeper managed to readjust and flick the ball away. On the half-hour mark after withstanding some Killie pressure Stewart robbed Slater in the middle of the park before setting up Rory Loy, a former Killie youth player, who turned a first-time effort over the bar. Media playback is not supported on this device Paul Hartley's team started the second period sprightly and Hemmings blasted wide from 20 yards within seconds of the restart. The big striker then turned provider, setting up Paul McGowan for a powerful left-foot shot from 12 yards that was superbly turned round the post by MacDonald. Hemmings, who had scored 14 goals in his previous 14 appearances, looked again to add to his tally with another sweet strike that MacDonald blocked well diving to his left. The visitors came close to clinching the winner right at the end when Thomas Konrad nodded just wide of MacDonald's left-hand post.", "question": "Lee Clark had to be content with a draw as he @placeholder top - flight football in Scotland for the first time as Kilmarnock manager .", "option_0": "entered", "option_1": "beat", "option_2": "tasted", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "managed"}
{"id": 1202, "article": "The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) issued the warning as the Craven Country Thunder event in Saskatchewan comes to the end on Sunday. In a statement, it said festival-goers \"are definitely having fun and we have noticed at times they feel inspired to 'dance like nobody's watching'\". \"The reality is that other people at the event ARE watching,\" the RCMP said. \"While the RCMP fully supports everyone's desire to have fun and enjoy themselves, we do ask that you please do so while wearing clothes.\" The police have already reported \"a couple\" of public nudity incidents since the festival opened on Thursday, CBC News reports. However, no-one has been charged. Dozens of other - mostly minor - incidents have been reported at the festival. Thousands of people attend the annual country music festival in Craven, just north of the city Regina.", "question": "Dance and enjoy yourself , but not naked - that is a police @placeholder to revellers at a music festival in central Canada .", "option_0": "warning", "option_1": "hole", "option_2": "force", "option_3": "race", "option_4": "message"}
{"id": 1203, "article": "Ketamine is licensed to be used as an anaesthetic but has a reputation as an illegal party drug. Writing in The Lancet Psychiatry, Dr Rupert McShane, who has led a trial in Oxford, since 2011 says ketamine can work on patients with depression \"where nothing has helped before\". However, he is calling for a national registry to monitor its use. Dr McShane says tens of thousands of people who have not responded to other treatment could be helped by the drug. But he adds there should be a national registry for those who prescribe the treatment to monitor the results and avoid misuse of the Class B substance. Of the 101 people taking part who had failed to find a successful depression treatment, 42 of them responded to the ketamine. \"The first ketamine infusion literally saved my life,\" says one patient. \"I had felt so desperate I was going to end it all. \"Subsequent ketamine treatment has enabled me to return to my job full-time. I still struggle at times but being able to work again has given me such a boost.\" Dr McShane hopes more doctors will use it to treat depression but fears that the UK could follow the US where there are private ketamine clinics that vary in their clinical checks. \"We think that patients' treatment should be in specialist centres and formally tracked in national or international registries. This will help us to pick up any safety or abuse problems with longer term use and narrow down what dose, frequency, route and durations of treatment works best.\" The dosage of ketamine used in his trial is much less than the amount used by people who take it as an illegal party drug - and he warns against any kind of self-medication. Dr McShane also warns it is \"not a miracle\" drug for depression and \"maintaining the benefit is a challenge\", which has so far only been achieved by repeated dosing. But participant Louise, a 36-year-old former nurse, said she did not feel that she was becoming dependent on the drug. \"I definitely do not feel at all, in any way 'hooked on' or addicted to the ketamine. I have more trouble with withdrawal and side-effects if I miss a couple of doses of my (standard) antidepressant than I do with the ketamine.\" Commenting on the paper, Prof Allan Young, from the The Royal College of Psychiatrists, said there were still \"significant gaps\" in knowledge about ketamine's use. \"Before ketamine can be recommended for use in clinical practice, extensive research is required to understand how to optimally use ketamine for treating depression,\" he said. \"The Royal College of Psychiatrists has concerns for patient safety and hence recommends mental health practitioners to proceed with caution when treating patients with ketamine.\" Cardiff University psychiatrist Dr Paul Keedwell said: \"Ketamine in the treatment of depression is one of the most exciting discoveries in psychiatry for years. \"However, more research is needed and having a registry allows researchers to share new findings, positive or negative.\"", "question": "Doctors trialling the use of ketamine to treat depression are calling for the treatment to be @placeholder out .", "option_0": "phased", "option_1": "sniffed", "option_2": "offered", "option_3": "checked", "option_4": "rolled"}
{"id": 1204, "article": "Francis Auld had stood trial accused of killing Amanda Duffy in Hamilton in 1992 and the case was found \"not proven\" by a jury. Last year, the Crown Office failed in a bid to secure a retrial of the 45-year-old by using double jeopardy laws. It is understood Mr Auld had been suffering from pancreatic cancer and he died on Saturday in a hospice. Law firm Murray, Hamilton and Chalmers, which had acted for Mr Auld during the attempt for a retrial, confirmed his death. Judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh rejected an attempt by prosecutors to submit new evidence. The Crown wanted to rely on a conversation between prison officer Alexander McCartney and Mr Auld which took place sometime in June 1992. The judges ruled that the new evidence was not admissible and could not be used against Mr Auld and the case could not go ahead.", "question": "A man who was @placeholder of murdering a 19 - year - old student in South Lanarkshire 25 years ago has died .", "option_0": "charged", "option_1": "cleared", "option_2": "knocked", "option_3": "robbed", "option_4": "restrained"}
{"id": 1205, "article": "The fed-up bobby laid into anti-social teenagers, parents, and community support officers in the message. It appeared on the GMP Irlam and Cadishead page on 7 May, prompting a complaint from a teacher, according to the Manchester Evening News. Greater Manchester Police's Salford branch said it is investigating. Ch Insp Glenn Jones said: \"We have launched an internal investigation after we received a report of an inappropriate post on a GMP Facebook account. \"Officers and staff are expected to uphold the standards of behaviour in all of their duties including on social media.\" The post has since been deleted. \"Good Morning everyone. \"An update on what's occurred in the area over the past 24hrs or so. It would be very quiet if it wasn't for one thing...or several \"things\" \"Kids/Yoofs/Yobs/Delinquents (cross out which one). \"There was a call to Heron Drive, Irlam to youths sitting or jumping on vehicles. The youths had gone home to mummy when officers arrived and no damage was found. \"There was a report of drunken youths on the fields at Sandy Lane, Irlam. Again, they had made off back to mummy, probably claiming that they had been doing their science project homework at a mates. How to get alcohol out of ?¡ê3.60 dinner money. \"Please try and find out what your little Keanu or Beyonce are doing at night. If they're drinking or smoking weed, there will be signs. If they are, they will no doubt be causing mither in the street. \"Youths were throwing stones at residents houses and residents themselves, from the railway viaduct over Roseway Avenue, Cadishead. \"And finally, there was a call to Tesco at Woodrow Way, Irlam. Security called to report one man and his dog at the Cashpoint machines. \"Many cashpoint areas have points where you can leave deposits for the bank.  They did so.... Defecating at the cashpoint... Not the dog.... The man.We have a description (Of the man- not the deposit) and CCTV of the incident. The dog is entirely innocent... Wonder if it's a shih-tzu? \"Only me in today as the PCSO's don't work on Sunday's. They have the day off to play with their crayons and Lego. \"Take care and lock your kids up till school time on Monday.\"", "question": "A world - weary police officer who posted a tirade about \" stoned youths \" on a force Facebook page has @placeholder himself in trouble .", "option_0": "declared", "option_1": "found", "option_2": "prompted", "option_3": "landed", "option_4": "grown"}
{"id": 1206, "article": "It's a fair bet that clothing or jewellery popped into your head, but how about posh apartments? In fact, the Italian fashion designer is now creating swanky homes around the globe from China to India and the UK. Similarly surprising examples abound from car firm Bugatti opening clothing stores to fashion designer Vivienne Westwood opening a restaurant in Hong Kong. And there are countless examples of luxury firms which have lent their name to anything from baby bottles to furniture. It's a natural move for a company which is successful in one area to try to extend its reach into new ones, and the attractions are obvious. It can seem \"irresistibly profitable, for doing practically nothing,\" says management consultant and author Peter York, who has been an adviser to many large luxury businesses. Yet if it isn't done well, branching out from their core business risks harming a luxury firm's reputation. Mr York cites fashion firm Pierre Cardin as \"a cautionary tale\". The Italian-born France-based designer was one of the pioneers of brand licensing and his name is now carried on hundreds of products, from shirts and bottled water to tins of sardines. While the approach made Mr Cardin - dubbed \"the licensing king\" -  wealthy, with him estimating his private empire was worth a??1bn ($1.5bn; ?¡ê897m) in 2011, some say it has meant the brand is worth less as a result. Mr Cardin himself however was unapologetic, telling The New York Times: \"I've done it all. If someone asked me to do toilet paper, I'd do it. Why not?\" But Mr York says Pierre Cardin is a classic example of stretching a brand too far. \"In the end, if you overdo it, your brand is devalued. I think the brands which are most careful have the longest future.\" Yet determining when a brand has gone too far is not necessarily clear cut. A Harvard Business Review study of 150 luxury brand extensions says that the number of new areas a company extends into isn't a problem by itself, but says their success depends on whether they are \"adjacent\" products: things which have some kind of logical link to the company's main offering. It's an approach which Italian jewellery and luxury goods firm Bulgari has tried to take. The firm, which was founded over 130 years ago by a silversmith and started off making jewellery and accessories, became familiar to a wider audience in the fifties and sixties as Rome's large film studio Cinecitta took off. Roman Holiday, Ben Hur, War and Peace and La Dolce Vita  were all shot in the famous studios, and a parade of film stars and producers discovered the Italian brand whilst there, helping to win the brand global recognition. Elizabeth Taylor, it was reported, knew just one word in Italian: Bulgari. Bulgari chief executive Jean-Christophe Babin said it was this international reputation that drove it to expand beyond Europe, opening its first flagship store in New York in the 1970s. Gradually it also moved beyond jewellery into watches, fragrances and eventually bags - all of which Mr Babin said fitted in with the firm's \"mission of making the lady more unique, more special\". Yet, more recently, it has made what seems like a rather surprising leap, venturing into the hotel business. It opened its first hotel in Milan in 2004, and in the 12 years since has opened just two more, although a further three are planned. Mr Babin says a hotel stay is the \"ultimate luxury experience\" and suggests that it's similar to the way that its jewellery, often bought to mark a marriage or a birthday, becomes part of an experience. \"The hotel is not something that stays with you forever, but it can create a unique emotion and memory you will keep with you forever,\" he says. He believes that if Bulgari's foray into the sector has succeeded it is in part because they've kept the hotels small \"as if they were a private house\", and limited their number, enabling them to retain tight control over their quality. \"When you move from a core business to a new business, the temptation is often to take it less seriously. We've approached the new businesses in a very authentic way and are treating them as top priorities,\" he says. The fact hotels are not the firm's core business has also removed the pressure for a quick return on their investment, he says. But the real trick, he says is to say no. \"For the three [hotels] we're going to open, we've reviewed 50 to 100 projects and we have said no in 97% of cases.\" For Silvio Ursini, creative director of the hotels and resorts division, it's even simpler. \"Don't venture into a business just because it's there or you want to grow. Do something only if you have something to say,\" he says. This feature is based on interviews by Life of Luxury series producer Neil Koenig.", "question": "If the name Giorgio Armani came up in a game of word @placeholder , what would you say ?", "option_0": "association", "option_1": "events", "option_2": "show", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "interest"}
{"id": 1207, "article": "The acrobat also broke her arm and briefly lost consciousness, her mother told a Brisbane radio station. Skinner was performing during the Kooza show at Brisbane's Skygate venue. \"It will take six to 12 weeks to heal, but her arms and legs work, which is the main thing,\" Anne Skinner said. She was speaking to radio station River 94.9. A spokesperson for the Cirque du Soleil show said: \"A Kooza performer, Lisa Skinner, was injured during a performance in Brisbane on Sunday afternoon. \"She was transported to a local hospital, where she is receiving the medical care she needs. We are happy to report that Lisa is currently stable and in good condition. \"At this time, our priority is on supporting Lisa and her family so they can focus on her recovery. The thoughts and love from the cast and crew of Kooza are with her.\" Skinner, who has toured previously with Cirque du Soleil, was a member of the Australian gymnastics team in the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics. She won gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Sunday's performance was halted while Skinner was taken to hospital but the show later resumed. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "Cirque du Soleil star and Australian Olympic gymnast Lisa Skinner has been @placeholder with a head brace after fracturing a vertebra in a fall during an aerial hoop routine .", "option_0": "reunited", "option_1": "fitted", "option_2": "threatened", "option_3": "charged", "option_4": "hospitalized"}
{"id": 1208, "article": "Despite the absence of 23-time TT winner John McGuinness, Kneen believes more than 10 riders are capable of victory in the solo classes. \"There are some really fast lads and it's going to be very tough but I will have to bring my A game to the races,\" the 29-year-old said. The opening race of this year's festival will take place on Sunday. Earlier this year, Kneen achieved his first Enkalon Trophy success on his BMW Superstock machine in the Irish Championship short circuit meeting at Bishopscourt. And despite limited practice this week he leads the Superstock timesheets and has posted the fourth quickest lap on his Superbike. Rico Penzkofer, ex-racer and Penz13.com BMW Motorrad Racing team principal said: \"He is a proper Manxman and will be prepared for the fortnight in the best possible way - he literally lives the track.\" Since his TT debut in 2009, Kneen has been a regular top-10 finisher with a best of fifth in the 2010 Supersport Race. The 29-year-old made his Mountain Course debut in 2008 when he became the first rider in history to record three race wins in a week at the Manx Grand Prix. He said: \"This week the weather hasn't played ball, but I feel good. We are working hard to get all the bikes set up right and comfortable. I just need more laps now but we're all in the same boat. \"I looking forward to all the races but especially the big bikes. I'm much more confident on them now and much more experienced.\" The Braddan man will also ride for the Jackson Racing Honda team with Josh Brookes in the TT's two Supersport races.", "question": "The strength in @placeholder is as high as ever at this year 's Isle of Man TT , according to local racer Dan Kneen .", "option_0": "formula", "option_1": "front", "option_2": "training", "option_3": "depth", "option_4": "action"}
{"id": 1209, "article": "Barnaby Joyce had said Boo and Pistol would have to be put down by Saturday if they did not leave, because they were \"snuck in\" from the US. Mr Joyce told the BBC he believed they were leaving by private jet on Friday, which he said was \"the wisest move\". But he has also expressed concerns the dogs could now be left stateless. \"The question is if he breached our laws, then did he follow the correct laws in the US?\" Mr Joyce told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. \"My worry is will the US let them back in? If not ... will they have anywhere to go?\" Johnny Depp is living in Australia while filming the fifth instalment of the Pirates of the Caribbean films. He and his wife Amber Heard are accused of not declaring the Yorkshire Terriers to customs officials when they flew into Queensland by private jet last month. Australia has strict import laws to prevent non-native diseases entering the country. The fate of the dogs has gripped Australia and world media. An online petition calling on Mr Joyce to spare them now has more than 17,000 signatures and it sparked a debate about the #waronterrier on Twitter. Dog row sparks #waronterrier \"I get that Johnny Depp broke the law by not telling someone about his dogs but the response is death? That's the largest over-reaction ever,\" said Alexis Rogers on Facebook. Facebook user Bree Graham MacTaggart agreed: \"They don't have to kill the dogs. They could just quarantine them.\" Others, however, did not express much sympathy for the Hollywood actor. \"Very disappointed that Johnny Depp has acted so irresponsibly - he flouted the law,\" said Facebook user Rebecca Gracey. How did social media react? Terriergate grips Australia The dogs should have been properly checked and certificated and then quarantined after arriving in Australia. Their illicit entry appears to have been uncovered after a grooming salon on the Gold Coast posted pictures of them on its Facebook page. Mr Joyce said on Thursday: \"If we start letting movie stars even though they've been the 'sexiest man alive' twice to come into our nation, then why don't we just break the laws for everybody? \"It's time that Pistol and Boo buggered off back to the United States.\" Mr Joyce meanwhile had demanded an apology from a radio presenter who accused him of over-reacting. Kiis FM \"shock jock\" Kyle Sandilands told Mr Joyce in an angry telephone interview on Friday that he sounded \"like an absolute clown\" who made Australians \"sound like a bunch of hillbilly redneck losers\" by publicly threatening the life of someone's pets. \"Sound like a classy guy.  You're a government minister. Have some decency.\" Mr Joyce replied \"it's the law, mate; that's how it works,\" before he was cut off. Customs officials are facing questions over how the dogs were let in despite the strict regulations, while Depp and Heard could face a fine. Can you take your dog to Australia? Source: Australian Department of Agriculture", "question": "Actor Johnny Depp 's dogs are preparing to leave Australia to @placeholder a death threat , the country 's agriculture minister has said .", "option_0": "evade", "option_1": "pursue", "option_2": "be", "option_3": "meet", "option_4": "withstand"}
{"id": 1210, "article": "That's what some TSB customers will be able to do from September when the bank introduces iris recognition to its mobile banking app. It will be the first bank in Europe to introduce the technology, but its arrival will test customers' trust in biometric technology. Customers will need the latest Samsung Galaxy S8 to use the new way of accessing their TSB accounts. Once they have registered their irises, they will be able to log in by simply looking at the phone. TSB's chief information officer Carlos Abarca said iris recognition was the most secure form of biometric authentication currently available. \"It takes advantage of 266 different characteristics, compared with 40 for fingerprints.\" He said it offered customers a combination of security and convenience: \"It's extremely fast - it takes less than a second to get in - and the gesture is very natural. And you don't have to remember secret numbers or passwords.\" Samsung added iris scanning to the biometric security options, alongside face recognition and fingerprint scanning, when the phone went on sale earlier this year. In May the German hacking group the Chaos Computer Club said it had fooled Samsung's iris scanner with a photo used to make a dummy eye. Samsung insisted that it would take an extraordinary set of circumstances, where someone had access to both the phone and a high definition photo of its owner's eye, to beat its system. TSB's Carlos Abarca said he was confident in the security of iris scanning: \"There's no security option that is absolutely perfect. We're relying not only on the biometrics but the digital certificate on the phone. To fake your eyeball is potentially possible - but it is extremely difficult.\" Biometrics has been touted as the solution to establishing someone's identity for the last twenty years but has made slow progress. You can see facial recognition and iris scanning in use at automated passport control systems in various parts of the world, but it's the widespread adoption of smartphones which promises to supercharge adoption of the technology. The fingerprint scanning which arrived on Apple's iPhone in 2013 and is now a feature of many Android smartphones allows millions of users to pay for anything from a cup of coffee to a train journey by touching their phone. Isabelle Moeller of the Biometrics Institute has been working to promote adoption of the technology since 2001. She says consumers have two major concerns: \"Privacy and safety - they want to know their data is secure and the system can't be spoofed.\" But she says the industry is establishing benchmarks for best practice: \"If we can get that right the convenience that biometrics offers can create a fantastic customer experience.\" TSB customers can already log on to their mobile banking app using fingerprint recognition. The minority with a high-end Samsung may try out iris scanning when it becomes an option in September. But in the biometric battle the simplicity of just putting a finger on your phone may prove more attractive than holding it up and looking at it.", "question": "Imagine logging onto your bank account just by @placeholder at your phone .", "option_0": "glancing", "option_1": "staring", "option_2": "closes", "option_3": "staff", "option_4": "crowd"}
{"id": 1211, "article": "Many streets were left under deep water after the torrential downpour, More than half Aberdeen's expected July rain fell in just a few hours. The council said staff should be commended for their efforts to combat the problems, which included more than 600 sandbags being distributed throughout the city. Council leader Councillor Jenny Laing said: \"Our teams worked extremely hard yesterday afternoon, through the night and into today to protect properties and keep people safe on the roads. They should be commended for their efforts. \"Our partners in Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service are also to be thanked for their work too in helping people out during the floods. \"We can appreciate that flooding causes huge problems and inconveniences to residents and businesses which is why there are plans in place to alleviate the problems working in partnership with Scottish Water.\"", "question": "Aberdeen City Council is working with Scottish Water to improve drainage to alleviate the kind of flooding @placeholder in the city on Tuesday .", "option_0": "conditions", "option_1": "collapsed", "option_2": "control", "option_3": "experienced", "option_4": "delays"}
{"id": 1212, "article": "\"This campaign has taken on the big money interests in the economic establishment. We've taken on the political establishment, and we've taken on the media establishment,\" he said. \"And we're gaining ground every day.\" For many in the audience, that \"political establishment\" includes the leader of their own party for the past seven years, Barack Obama. Their disillusionment with a president who campaigned on hope and change eight years ago is palpable. \"He disappointed me,\" says Leslie Liston from Henderson, Nevada. She says she supported Mr Obama in 2008 because of the groundbreaking nature of his being the first black US president, but her priorities have now shifted. \"I'm not just going to vote for someone to be the first of something, I'm going to vote for somebody because they know what they're talking about and they want to do the right thing,\" she said. Who is he? How the self described \"Democratic socialist\" has shaken up the Democratic race 17 things Sanders believes: The Vermont senator in his own words The billionaire vs the socialist: How he compares with the other key outsider candidate, Donald Trump Ms Liston said this was the first political rally she had ever attended - and Saturday will be the first time she has participated in the Nevada caucuses. Others in the crowd, however, were veterans of the first Obama campaign in 2008 and painted a picture of a inspirational candidate who had gone astray once in power. \"Obama seemed to start with the right idea, motivating people, getting young people energised and activated to vote,\" said Debra Mayes of Los Angeles. \"Where he failed is not sustaining that movement. He just dropped the ball on that.\" Sanders supporters focused on what they see as the shortcomings of the Obama administration, and of moderate Democrats beholden to their corporate donors. The establishment Democrats, they said, essentially wasted the majorities the party had built during the years leading to Mr Obama's sweeping victory. If Democratic leaders, including Mr Obama, had been more ambitious, they would have been able to establish a lasting congressional majority, the argument goes. \"He was supposed to bring universal health care, and he just sacrificed that at the very beginning of the discussion,\" said Noah Neumark, who travelled from Los Angeles to help the Sanders campaign in Nevada. \"I know he had a lot of contention with the Republicans, but when you're negotiating you want to start from the high point.\" Instead, he says, Mr Obama's election was a promise of change unfulfilled; a great hope dashed. The Sanders fans in Nevada are not arriving at these views by chance, either. In many ways they are reflecting the position of the man they spent Friday evening cheering. Earlier this month during a television interview, Mr Sanders said that Mr Obama has been unable to provide the leadership to \"close the gap\" between the views of the American people and the actions of a conservative-dominated Congress. \"What we need, when I talk about a political revolution, is bringing millions and millions of people into the political process in a way that does not exist right now,\" Mr Sanders continued. It is a revolution that some may have thought Mr Obama would usher in, instead of the progressive-tinted pragmatism that his presidency represented. Mr Sanders's disagreements with the president go back much farther than this current campaign. In 2012 he repeatedly said that the nation would benefit from a progressive candidate challenging Mr Obama's re-election campaign in the party primaries. \"In a democracy, it's not a bad idea to have different voices out there,\" he said during an interview. According to Patrick Caldwell of the progressive magazine Mother Jones, the Obama campaign even began preparing for a possible challenge from Mr Sanders. That never materialised. But the Vermont senator gave only a tepid endorsement of Mr Obama during the general election, noting that the president \"has not been as strong as he should standing up to Wall Street\". In the past few years Mr Sanders has opposed Obama-backed legislative priorities, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal (which Mrs Clinton also now is against), government surveillance programmes and the president's budget compromises with congressional Republicans. According to a report by CQ Weekly, Mr Sanders voted against Mr Obama's interests 17.5% of the time last year - more than all but four Democratic senators. Another strike against the president came in the form of a cover blurb, written by the senator, for a book titled Buyers' Remorse: How Obama Let the Progressives Down. \"Read this book,\" Mr Sanders urged. What it all amounts to is a campaign for the Democratic nomination that is leavened with critiques of the sitting Democratic president - a man still immensely popular with many in the party. That has created an opening for Mrs Clinton, who at the Democratic debate on 11 February went on the attack. \"The kind of criticism that we've heard from Senator Sanders about our president, I expect from Republicans,\" she said. Mr Sanders replied that her attack was a \"low blow\" and that he has worked with Mr Obama in the past. There is a bit of irony in Mrs Clinton's recent move to contrast herself with Mr Sanders as the heir to the Obama legacy. Just last autumn she seemed to be trying to do exactly the opposite - perhaps as a way of protecting her political left flank. Mr Sanders' early success in Iowa and New Hampshire however has proved that strategy unsuccessful. Now the former secretary of state needs help from those who still strongly support the president - particularly black voters. In 2011, when Mr Sanders was musing about how someone on the left should challenge Mr Obama's re-election campaign, he gave a speech denouncing billionaire Wall Street crooks and a Democratic Party that was little different from the Republicans. All these themes should sound familiar to anyone following the 2016 Democratic campaign. Mr Sanders also had some advice for Mr Obama: \"Fight for a progressive agenda, and do not equivocate,\" he said. \"You're not going to be able to win unless you're prepared to fight.\" Now, looking ahead to what could be a long battle with Mrs Clinton for the Democratic nomination, it seems Mr Sanders is taking his own advice to heart.", "question": "On the eve of the Nevada caucuses , in an outdoor amphitheatre in a suburb of Las Vegas , Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders outlines to the crowd of several thousand the @placeholder arrayed against his upstart presidential campaign .", "option_0": "ground", "option_1": "crowd", "option_2": "contest", "option_3": "leadership", "option_4": "forces"}
{"id": 1213, "article": "Emergency services were called to Longtown Bridge, near Carlisle, on Tuesday after a 32-year-old man got into difficulties in the water. The man had just rescued a young girl from the river, Cumbria Police said. Chief Fire Officer for the county, Jim Onions, warned people against swimming during heatwaves because of strong currents. Divers and rescue crews were involved in the search, along with the coastguard and an RAF helicopter with thermal imaging equipment. The body has not been formally identified. Mr Onions said: \"We are really worried that during a hot spell - especially in the school holidays - people enter the water for a cooling dip because the water looks calm on the surface. \"But I've seen highly skilled firefighters in the water struggling because of strong undercurrents.\" The rescued girl is at Cumberland Infirmary receiving treatment.", "question": "A body has been recovered from a Cumbrian river after a search for a man @placeholder in the water .", "option_0": "spotted", "option_1": "drowned", "option_2": "caught", "option_3": "missing", "option_4": "punched"}
{"id": 1214, "article": "Twenty-four people are still missing and at least 27 people have been injured, eight seriously. Officials have warned of further heavy rain and the risk of mudslides, as the extreme weather moves north. The torrential rain comes in the wake of Typhoon Etau, which ploughed through Japan earlier this week. The region affected is a vast area northeast of Tokyo, stretching from Ibaraki prefecture, a short distance from the capital, right up to Miyagi prefecture, around 350km (217 miles) away. In Ibaraki prefecture: In Tochigi prefecture: In Miyagi prefecture: Fukushima prefecture: Sixty-two-year-old Hisako Sekimoto, who was rescued by military helicopter in the early morning, said she spent a sleepless night on the upper floor of her flooded house with her husband and three cats. \"There was no time to escape. All we could do was go upstairs. It was horrifying,'' she said. \"I kept praying the water wouldn't come upstairs.\" The chief forecaster at the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Takuya Deshimaru, has said the rainfall over the past few days was \"unprecedented\". Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed a co-ordinated and speedy emergency response \"Before anything else, we will continue to do our utmost to save lives and rescue victims, to secure the lives of people,\" he told reporters. Japanese authorities have emphasised disaster prevention and response in recent years, stung by criticism at the time that their response to the 2011 tsunami and earthquake was sluggish.", "question": "Rescue work is continuing across northeast Japan , where at least three people have died in severe flooding and many remain @placeholder .", "option_0": "table", "option_1": "injured", "option_2": "lives", "option_3": "stranded", "option_4": "conditions"}
{"id": 1215, "article": "The detentions, which were not terror-related, took place over the weekend in the capital Dakar and Thies. The assaults on a hotel in Mali and a hotel and restaurant in Burkina Faso, both claimed by Islamists, have raised security fears in the region. Senegal has been comparatively safe but is a popular tourist destination. Last week the Senegalese government ordered hotels to improve security or face closure. Senegalese security forces would also step up patrols, the interior minister said. Eyewitnesses report that presence is already being felt, with police being seen in higher numbers and many vehicles searched. Those detained over the weekend were not targeted as terror suspects but as part of the wider security alert, officials said. Their offences ranged from possessing drugs to having incorrect documents for their vehicles, according to the authorities. \"Security has been reinforced on all levels,'' justice ministry spokesman Soro Diop was quoted as saying by the Associated Press. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said it was behind the attack in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, last month that killed 30 people. The Islamist militant group also claimed the siege on the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, in November last year, that left 20 people dead. AQIM is based in the Sahara Desert and roams between Mali, Niger and Algeria. Senegal has so far avoided a major attack by Islamist militants, despite sharing a border with Mali.", "question": "Police in Senegal have detained 900 people as part of a security operation @placeholder militant attacks in Burkina Faso and Mali .", "option_0": "state", "option_1": "following", "option_2": "killed", "option_3": "believed", "option_4": "linked"}
{"id": 1216, "article": "And yet, with all manner of irony, it was the humiliation Moyes suffered at his former club that sounded the death knell for the Scot and provided the signal for United's owners the Glazers to mark the end of an error. The sight of Everton, the team he left behind after 11 years last summer, outplaying United with a verve and swagger under Roberto Martinez that has barely been seen since Moyes succeeded Sir Alex Ferguson, was clearly the final straw. And the sound of Moyes talking up aspects of an abject United performance in the 2-0 defeat only confirmed the long-held suspicion that he simply could not come to terms with the standards the club and their supporters demand. United's hierarchy have done their best to be supportive of the man they handed a six-year contract on the advice of Ferguson but the evidence of their own eyes has convinced them they cannot afford to slide any further. The planned summer overhaul could not be entrusted to Moyes. The sacking of the 50-year-old will also be a personal embarrassment for Ferguson. His endorsement of Moyes, a manager he saw in his own younger image and likeness, has proved to be a flawed one. United may now be regretting taking the unusual step of allowing a manager, no matter how successful, to hand-pick his successor in an organisation of such scale. If there is blame to be apportioned, Ferguson must take his share. Moyes looked a safe and sensible line of succession after Ferguson ended 26 years with United's 20th crown. But the unknown factor was how a manager who had never won silverware and had only overseen two Champions League qualifiers in a creditable Everton career would cope with the unique demands of Old Trafford. The answer was that he could not. There are, of course, mitigating circumstances. Most regular observers of United admitted the squad that won the title was not vintage, propelled towards the Premier League by one last transfer market flourish from Ferguson in the shape of Robin van Persie. Moyes was cut this slack but the decline from champions to marginal also-rans simply had to be arrested. Everton's win left them 12 points ahead of United. It also left the reigning champions 23 points behind leaders Liverpool, officially out of Champions League contention for the first time in 18 years and struggling to even qualify for the Europa League. United went out of the FA Cup at home to Swansea City in the third round, lost the Capital One Cup semi-final on penalties over two legs to Sunderland and a sign of their declining status was confirmed when a 4-2 aggregate defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-final was almost given the gloss of a moral victory. The Glazers, ruthless though they are, would have accounted for transition. What they would not have counted on was the feeling that Moyes might manage a terminal decline - hence the decision to remove him. Moyes did have to tackle that flawed squad but the bottom line is that he has engineered his own downfall by simply not being up to the job. The transfer of expectations from Everton to those at United has proved too much for him, indeed almost from the time he came through the door. Moyes either could not, or would not, speak the language of positivity expected at United. A prime example was when he labelled Liverpool as favourites for their recent visit to Old Trafford. The words would never have been dragged from a screaming Ferguson. Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said he would not have delivered a similar message even if they had been bottom of the league. On arrival he seemed in awe of the job in hand, rarely showing the steely determination and defiance that marked him out at Everton. The road to his departure almost started at the very beginning, with a dreadful summer in the transfer market - not helped by rookie executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward. Within days of his arrival Moyes backed away from deals the club had in place to sign Barcelona midfielder Thiago Alcantara, who later joined Bayern Munich, and Benfica centre-back Ezequiel Garay. Then, main targets such as Barcelona's Cesc Fabregas,Everton full-back Leighton Baines and even the plan to try and re-sign Cristiano Ronaldo came to nought. In their place came what seemed to be an almost panic-stricken ¡ê27.5m expenditure on Everton midfielder Marouane Fellaini, the identikit of the sort of player United did not need and whose sole attraction seemed to be that he was available. And even though Juan Mata was widely hailed as a fine signing at ¡ê37.5m from Chelsea in January, he never came accompanied by any sort of clear plan as to where Moyes might immediately use him. Moyes was also guilty of throwing the baby out with the bathwater when he assembled his backroom staff. It was understandable he would, as most managers do, bring the bedrock of his previous Everton staff with him in assistant Steve Round, long-time cohort Jimmy Lumsden, goalkeeping coach Chris Woods and former United player Phil Neville. But to dispense with the likes of Mike Phelan, in particular, looked unwise at the time and nothing has happened to change that view. Surely it would have been better to keep a reliable, trusted figure who had played such a key role in the Ferguson era, who could advise him on some of the potential pitfalls? Ryan Giggs was added to the backroom team to give it an added United presence but that has always looked more of an arranged marriage of convenience than part of a carefully-assembled strategy. There was a sense that Moyes never carried the faith of United's players - that he was a man out of his depth handling the bigger stars who would question his methods (and perhaps more pertinently his record) than those who followed him at Everton. Training sessions were understood to be long and tactically laborious, in contrast to the short sharp work of the Ferguson, Rene Meulensteen and Phelan era. Whatever approach Moyes was employing, it resulted in removing the exciting cutting edge that was the hallmark of Ferguson and replaced it with a blunt instrument. Some will say, with a measure of justification, that the players should have adapted but it is difficult in any walk of life to settle for something inferior when you have sampled success brought by the best. Moyes has also struggled to get the best out of the injury-troubled Robin van Persie, with constant speculation about their personal relationship denied by the manager. One unqualified success for Moyes was his relationship with Wayne Rooney, still trying his heart out for United and his manager in the final seconds of misery at Goodison Park. There is irony there, too, in that Moyes and Rooney parted on sour terms when he left Everton as a teenager and was intent on leaving United when he arrived as manager. Moyes handled this stick of dynamite left behind by Ferguson deftly, with Rooney producing outstanding form and also pledging his long-term future to the club. On the pitch, however, Moyes provided the sort of natural caution that often drew criticism from Everton fans. The cavalier attacking policy of Ferguson was in complete contrast to his successor's approach, which must have come as a culture shock to a very patient Old Trafford gallery. Add 11 Premier League defeats from 34 games and this has proved the sort of grim evidence that has led the Glazers to cut Moyes adrift, even with a six-year contract. This has led United to the decision that Moyes is not the man to spend a transfer budget well in excess of ¡ê100m that they expect to use in the summer to right the current wrongs. Moyes has not shown a sure enough touch on the pitch or in the markets to provide a compelling case to stay - and the question remains whether a man who has no serious track record of silverware would have the reputation and profile to attract stellar names to Old Trafford without the cushion of Champions League football to fall back on. There will be sympathy for Moyes. The task of succeeding Ferguson was always going to be a poisoned chalice. However, he inherited the Premier League champions, no matter how in decline they were, and spent ¡ê65m adding to that squad. It will also pain Moyes that his final game ended with the derision of Everton fans ringing his ears. It was a desperate 90 minutes for the Scot on his old ground, hearing his fractured relationship with his former supporters being spelled out in graphic terms. Of greater significance for Moyes and United was that Goodison Park was the place where they finally decided he was no longer up to the task of managing Manchester United.", "question": "The sight of the Grim Reaper wielding a scythe in the direction of Manchester United manager David Moyes when he returned to Everton was part publicity stunt and part black @placeholder .", "option_0": "humour", "option_1": "paint", "option_2": "ranks", "option_3": "eye", "option_4": "advantage"}
{"id": 1217, "article": "The seven-time Formula 1 world champion suffered severe head injuries in a skiing accident in December 2013. He left hospital in September 2014 to continue his recovery at home after coming out of a medically induced coma. Schumacher, 47, continues to receive treatment at his home in Switzerland following the accident in France. Speaking at the opening of an exhibition of Schumacher's career in Marburg, Germany, Sabine Kehm said: \"He is the most successful driver in history and sometimes, on days like this, it is good to be reminded of it. \"Of course, Michael is not here and of course we miss him. We know what has happened and cannot change it. \"We must accept it and hope with everything we have that, with continued support and patience, he will one day be back with us.\" In November, FIA president Jean Todt said Schumacher was \"still fighting\". Earlier this month his former boss at Ferrari Luca di Montezemolo said the latest news about Schumacher's health was \"not good\".", "question": "The manager of @placeholder racing legend Michael Schumacher says she hopes \" that with continued support and patience he will one day be back with us \" .", "option_0": "world", "option_1": "number", "option_2": "motor", "option_3": "colour", "option_4": "french"}
{"id": 1218, "article": "The village of Jiangbei, in Jiangsu province, is being razed to make way for a high-tech development zone. The couples found they could qualify for two new houses and at least $19,000 (?¡ê15,500) extra if they divorced and claimed compensation as singles. Some are over 80, and most said they planned to continue living together. Families who have been living there for generations have little choice but to move to new housing provided by the local government. Each couple could expect to get one 220 sq m house. China's rush for divorce But the families read the fine print and realised that if they were divorced through the courts, they could also claim an extra 70 sq m property and some cash in compensation. A law firm is charging more than $2,000 (?¡ê1,600) to help people with their divorces, China Daily reports. Some of the couples are expecting to remarry at a later date. \"Everybody is doing this, we will deal with other things later,\" one villager told the Nanjing Morning Post. It is not clear whether any of the couples will actually receive the extra compensation. Officials say they are aware of the loophole and do not know whether the compensation arrangements will be changed. Similar cases have occurred before in the area of Nanjing, Jiangsu's regional capital, China Daily reported.", "question": "More than 160 couples in a village in eastern China have decided to divorce in order to get more compensation after the @placeholder demolition of their homes .", "option_0": "continuing", "option_1": "complete", "option_2": "forced", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "birth"}
{"id": 1219, "article": "Paul Kelly, deputy leader of North Lanarkshire Council, was speaking the day after plans for 500 redundancies at the Uddingston base were made public. Belgium owners Ageas said it was looking to close the site by the end of March next year. The Scottish government said it was \"ready to assist\" if jobs do go. Mr Kelly told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that closure would have a \"direct impact on the Lanarkshire area and the local community\". He added: \"This is a very significant number of jobs and our immediate concern is with the workforce and their families. This is the lead up to Christmas, it is devastating news. \"But we are wanting action, we are wanting to immediately act on this that is why we have called on the establishment of a taskforce.\" Mr Kelly urged the Scottish government to get round the table with other partners \"to do all we can\" and \"as soon as possible\". Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish government are understood to be seeking another company which could use the insurance firm's contact centre skills. Five years ago, the company had more than 900 staff in North Lanarkshire. It now employs 521 people at the Tannochside Business Park site. An Ageas spokeswoman said Kwik Fit Insurance Services had been \"under pressure for some time\" as a result of changes in the way people buy insurance and the way the personal insurance market now operates. Mr Kelly said he did \"not disagree\" with the reasons Ageas had given for the planned closure but he believed the current workforce was \"highly skilled and a huge asset\" to the wider business community. He explained that the council had written to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon asking for the establishment of a taskforce. Business minister Paul Wheelhouse said on Tuesday that he was \"very disappointed\" to learn of the proposed closure. He added: \"Should any job losses proceed, we stand ready to assist those affected through our initiative for responding to redundancy situations, Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (PACE) and our Finance Sector Jobs Taskforce. \"I am keen to meet with North Lanarkshire Council to work together with them to ensure we support the local community and secure investment at the site.\" Ageas said it would now enter into a consultation period ahead of the planned shut down next year.", "question": "A taskforce to save jobs at the Kwik Fit insurance @placeholder in Lanarkshire should be set up \" as soon as possible \" , a local councillor has said .", "option_0": "rate", "option_1": "network", "option_2": "extinction", "option_3": "processing", "option_4": "office"}
{"id": 1220, "article": "Joe Pugh, from Barnsley, was one of five people on board the Smiler seriously injured on 2 June. He was on the front row of the ride with girlfriend Leah Washington, 17, who has since had her leg amputated. Speaking on ITV's This Morning, Mr Pugh, 18, said he did not feel any anger towards Alton Towers. \"How they've been with me since the accident, they have been unreal,\" he said. \"You could not thank them enough. \"Obviously when health and safety checks get released and we find out what actually happened I might feel a different emotion but until then I don't feel angry. \"I don't want to point the blame at anybody until something gets released.\" Mr Pugh also said he would never go on a rollercoaster again. \"Maybe in ten 15 years I might change my mind but at this moment, definitely not,\" he said. Mr Pugh said he turned down painkillers after the crash but had two paracetamol when he got into an ambulance. He said he initially feared he could be paralysed but realised he could feel his toes. Medics had told Mr Pugh he would always struggle with stairs as a result of his injuries. The toilet and settee in his bungalow have been raised to make life easier for him, he said. Daniel Thorpe, a 27-year-old assistant hotel manager from Buxton, Derbyshire, 20-year-old Vicky Balch from Leyland in Lancashire, and Chandaben Chauhan, 49, of Wednesbury, West Midlands, also suffered injuries. Merlin Entertainments, which owns the park, has confirmed all those on board at the time of the crash will receive compensation.", "question": "A teenager whose knees were shattered in a rollercoaster crash at Alton Towers has said he does not blame the @placeholder park .", "option_0": "country", "option_1": "entire", "option_2": "team", "option_3": "theme", "option_4": "car"}
{"id": 1221, "article": "The match ended 0-0 - just as it did when the sides when in the group stage last week - and, with no extra time played in the competition, penalty kicks were required to determine a winner. Goalkeeper Akram Elhadi Salim was Sudan's hero, saving the very first effort from Eric Johana and then going on to score the final kick to give his side a 5-3 victory. Sudan will next face Rwanda, who also need a penalty shootout to advance. The defending champions were held to a goalless draw by Kenya but emerged victorious 5-3 after spot-kicks. Uganda and Ethiopia meet in the other semi-final.", "question": "Sudan beat @placeholder South Sudan in a penalty shootout to reach the semi-finals of the Cecafa Cup in Ethiopia .", "option_0": "title", "option_1": "host", "option_2": "neighbours", "option_3": "holders", "option_4": "defeated"}
{"id": 1222, "article": "The flame was also taken on a cliff top chair-lift at The Needles when it arrived on the island en-route from             Bournemouth to Southampton . Sailing Olympian Shirley Robertson carried the flame in Newport. The day began at Bournemouth Pier and the 59-mile route will include a stop at Southampton football club's ground. The flame travelled through 12 communities on Saturday: Bournemouth, Boscombe, Christchurch, Lyndhurst, Brockenhurst, Lymington, Totland, Yarmouth, Carisbrooke, Newport, East Cowes and Southampton. At midday the convoy boarded a ferry from Lymington to the Isle of Wight. And fittingly, it was there that sailor Dame Ellen joined the relay in East Cowes which is famous for its week-long regatta. Cowes has hosted the sailing event since 1826 and it is now the largest of its kind in the world. Dame Ellen is best-known as a solo long-distance yachtswoman, who once held the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe. She said after carrying the torch: \"The other torchbearers are inspiring people who were wonderful to meet but the strongest impression I have from today are the faces - smiles, smiles and more smiles from young and old alike. \"The sense of pride, happiness and community was my lasting feeling - all brought alive, in an instant, by the Olympic torch.\" Another of Britain's finest sailors, Ms Robertson, was among the day's 92 torchbearers. She was the first British woman to win two Olympic gold medals at consecutive games - in Sydney 2000 and then four years later in Athens. Search maps, check street routes and join in 70 days of live coverage in video, stories and pictures Find out where the Olympic torch is going Other highlights of the relay's journey on the Isle of Wight included a visit to             Osborne House  - which was built as a summer residence and retreat for Queen Victoria, who died there in 1901, and Prince Albert - and a trip for two torchbearers on             The Needles chair-lift  at Alum Bay beach. Blue Peter's Big Olympic Tour  was due to have been held at Osborne House but was moved to Bournemouth when the site became waterlogged. Later in Southampton, the flame was exchanged by the side of the pitch at St Mary's Stadium between Alice Constance, 29, from Chepstow and Nicholas Nuttall, 53, from Southwater. The evening celebration at Mayflower Park included performances from Wretch 32 - a dance troupe who will provide a unique fusion of street performance, theatre and sport - and dance act Twist and Pulse. A total of 8,000 people will carry the flame during its 8,000 mile, 70-day journey to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London on 27 July.", "question": "Yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur was cheered on as she @placeholder with the Olympic flame in East Cowes when the torch relay reached the Isle of Wight .", "option_0": "marched", "option_1": "reacted", "option_2": "celebrated", "option_3": "crossed", "option_4": "ran"}
{"id": 1223, "article": "At least 10 children and teenagers were among those killed by a driver who slammed a lorry through a crowd gathered on the Promenade des Anglais, in the southern French city. Bastille Day is a national holiday in France, marking the start of the French Revolution, and it is when families gather to watch big fireworks displays. The identity of the victim in the picture is not known, but the image, taken by Reuters photographer Eric Gaillard, has been widely shared on social media. Italy's Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, one of the many foreign leaders to express solidarity, said: \"We are used to seeing postcards from Nice full of beauty, not images of death with a doll near a destroyed stroller. Reacting is a moral duty.\" Some 30,000 people were thought to have been attending the celebrations along the promenade, a seafront boulevard lined with palm trees and wide walking areas. This illustration by Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff, based on the picture, has also been shared hundreds of times on Twitter. Some have likened the image to that of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy who died on a Turkish beach, face down in the sand. It became a symbol of the refugee crisis, last year. Unlike other recent attacks, many of the victims in Nice are children and teenagers. A local hospital said dozens of them have been treated. Other pictures have also shown broken toys, slippers and objects that were left behind. \"As the lorry passed by me a young boy of 10 or so just managed to leap to one side and escape by inches. \"Tragically dozens of those on foot, young and old alike, were not so lucky,\" Simon Coates, a solicitor from Leeds told the BBC. \"Virtually everyone I saw on the promenade was either dead or beyond real help with truly terrible injuries.\" France's government has offered psychological counselling to the young and their relatives, and some of them have shared their experiences. A journalist from the French newspaper Le Monde told the story of eight-year-old Aya, who returned to the beach front to wait for a missing friend after the attack. Their two families were to meet in the evening for the fireworks, she says, but the friend did not come. So Aya came back to their meeting point in the daytime, hoping to see her friend again, the journalist added. But her friend did not arrive.", "question": "It is a picture that for many came to symbolise the devastation of the attack in Nice : a doll lying on the street next to a @placeholder body .", "option_0": "beach", "option_1": "covered", "option_2": "fallen", "option_3": "date", "option_4": "burned"}
{"id": 1224, "article": "Scientists at the University of Aberdeen are working to find ways to prevent hackers enticing people into downloading malware. Recent large-scale incidents included one that affected the NHS across the UK,  including Scottish health boards. The researchers suggest hackers \"exploit\" certain human behaviour. The scientists believe the main problem faced by big organisations is getting computer users to follow existing security policies. The project will test how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and persuasion techniques can improve the way safety advice is followed. The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has awarded the research team ?¡ê756,000 towards their Supporting Security Policy with Effective Digital Intervention project, which now has total funding of more than ?¡ê1m. Dr Matthew Collinson, who is the principal investigator on the project, said: \"If we look at most cyber security attacks, there is a weakness relating to human behaviour that hackers seek to exploit. \"Their most common approach, and the one we are most familiar with, is the use of phishing emails to entice a user to download malware on to their computer. \"One of the main problems faced by companies and organisations is getting computer users to follow existing security policies, and the main aim of this project is to develop methods to ensure that people are more likely to do so.\" The project coincides with the launch of a new masters degree in AI at the university.", "question": "The way people @placeholder to phishing emails and common cyber attacks will be the focus of a ?¡ê1 m university research project to improve online security .", "option_0": "began", "option_1": "set", "option_2": "respond", "option_3": "learn", "option_4": "linked"}
{"id": 1225, "article": "Sixty years ago the North Sea battered the east coast of England, surging two miles inland. It was caused by a high spring tide, low pressure and exceptionally strong northerly gales. The surge cost 307 lives in English coastal towns and villages. Many more died on the continent and at sea. The Princess Royal attended a service at Chelmsford Cathedral to mark the anniversary, where she was introduced to guests connected with the Great Flood. The service brought together survivors from Essex and further afield, including representatives from the Netherlands where 1,800 people were killed. During the service, the horror on Canvey Island was re-enacted by children from a theatre workshop and three candles representing the lives lost in Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium were lit. Smaller acts of remembrance took place across Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. Shirley Orchard was 16 and living on Canvey Island with her father, mother and nine-year-old sister. She has a vivid memory of the disaster. She said: \"We lived across a road which ended in Small Gains Creek where a lot of people lived in houseboats and we could hear them all screaming. We were lucky to have an upstairs room and were high enough to be above the water. \"My father had a general store and I worked there with him. It was the worst hit shop on the island as the water went in one end and out the other and damaged a lot of the stock. \"I did have a cry when I heard the story about the baby found floating in her pram. \"The mother and father, as well as being friends of mine, were also customers in the shop. \"The last person I served that day was the mother of the baby and it was very sad as they had tried for seven years for a baby. \"They were both found dead sitting huddled up together just below from where they had left the baby. \"I remember we were taken off the island by army truck in the middle of the night.\" In Hunstanton, Norfolk, a smaller event was held to honour the late Reis Leming, the first non-Briton to win the George Medal for bravery in peacetime. The American airman, who died in November aged 81, became the hero of the hour when the floods struck by single-handedly rescuing 27 people, despite not being able to swim. His widow, Kathy Leming, travelled to the town from Oregon in the US along with his daughter, Debra and son, Michael, who wore his father's flying jacket. Mrs Leming said: \"It's just amazing to me that this community values him so much. \"To me he was just the normal man I lived with for 40 years. But I come here and I see his name everywhere and it is really touching.\" A bus was named in his honour before a procession along the town's seafront and an unveiling of a new Reis Leming Way street sign by his family. About 24,000 homes were damaged and more than 30,000 people moved to safety during the floods, which affected 1,000 miles of British coast. More than 177 were lost at sea in fishing boats and more than 130 on the ferry Princess Victoria, which was sailing between Scotland and Ireland when it sank.", "question": "Survivors and relatives of those killed in one of the UK 's worst natural disasters @placeholder to remember the floods of 1953 .", "option_0": "recognised", "option_1": "paused", "option_2": "managed", "option_3": "dared", "option_4": "begin"}
{"id": 1226, "article": "An uncrowned green harp flag was flown above Liberty Hall by the Irish Citizen Army in the week before the rebellion. But it was taken by a soldier when the British Army shelled and stormed the building, and it was later given to a military museum in County Fermanagh. It has now been presented to the Irish president ahead of events to mark the revolt's centenary this weekend. President Michael D Higgins praised the move by the Inniskillings Museum in Enniskillen, saying it was a \"magnificent contribution to the 1916 commemorations\". The rising was a short and ill-fated republican rebellion in 1916 against British rule in Ireland. In spite of its military failure, it is seen by many historians as a significant stepping-stone in the partition of the island and the eventual creation of the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Citizen Army helped plot the rising and manufactured weapons in Liberty Hall. The Proclamation, one of the most important documents in Irish history, was printed in the building the night before the rebellion. A green harp flag had been hoisted above Liberty Hall on Sunday 16 April 1916 in a ceremony led by James Connolly, the commander of the Irish Citizen Army. Nine days later, soldiers from the Enniskillen-based Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers arrived in Dublin to quell the rebellion and the next morning an armed patrol yacht opened fire on Liberty Hall in preparation for their assault. By that stage, the building was virtually empty. Acting Corporal John McAlonen, a 21-year-old fusilier, retrieved a flag, made from green tabby weave wool with an appliqued yellow wool harp, from the ruins of the hall. It was presented to the Inniskillings Museum in 1935 by Col John McClintock, who was the commanding officer of the 3rd Inniskillings during the Rising. The museum has said months of analysis and research indicate the flag in its possession is the same one flown above the Dublin hall at the time of the rising. It contacted the current occupiers of Liberty Hall, the Irish trade union SIPTU, and a decision was taken to conserve the flag and loan it for public display.", "question": "A flag found in the ruins of a building where the 1916 Easter Rising was @placeholder has been returned to Dublin .", "option_0": "twinned", "option_1": "captured", "option_2": "planned", "option_3": "school", "option_4": "fought"}
{"id": 1227, "article": "The drop in oil - and consequently petrol - prices have helped the already booming car industry to attract even more buyers. Yet, despite the assistance plummeting oil has offered the industry, carmakers are still setting their sights on an electric future. Advertised as road ready, stylish and cost effective, many car brands are counting on consumers' worries about the environment, or desire for convenience, to push the electric vehicle market forward. The Chevy Bolt is one of the cars leading the way in that field. General Motors unveiled the concept car at the Consumer Electric Show, in Las Vegas, but are touting the production model at this week's motor show in Detroit. The Bolt will cost $30,000 (?¡ê20,622) with a tax credit from the US government, and GM says the car will go into production at the end of this year. The Bolt is very much designed for urban living. It has a smaller frame than many cars, which the designers say will make it easier to manoeuvre through traffic and fit into tight parking spaces. The car can go approximately 200 miles on a full battery, which is close to the average range of half a tank of petrol in the US. It does take about nine hours of charging to get the battery from empty to full. The average American only drives 40 miles a day, though. So, GM is quick to point out that recharging will typically only take a few hours. \"A quarter of the battery takes about two hours to charge, so it's about the same amount of time as your smart phone,\" says Darin Gesse, product manager for the Bolt. The Bolt was also designed to appeal to a growing number of rideshare drivers and passengers. \"The Uber environment, the stop-and-go, the Lyft environment, that is ideal for a vehicle like this,\" says Mr Gesse, in reference to taxi-booking apps Uber and Lyft. Stopping and starting - typical of urban driving - also adds to the appeal of electric cars, which use regenerative breaking to \"top up\" the power, and get back 95% of the energy used to start the car. According to Mr Gesse the interior of the Bolt was designed with ridesharing in mind. The backseat can fit three passengers, and also has no foot wells to make it easier to climb in and out. The company may be onto something. Ride-hailing services such as Lyft and Uber like to suggest that they lead to fewer numbers of cars on the road, and thus a cut in emissions. Environmentally-conscious passengers, particularly on America's west coast, are likely to be supportive of further efforts to cut emissions. General Motors announced last week that it made a $500m (?¡ê344m) investment in Lyft to help develop a fleet of driverless vehicles. The US manufacturer has not said whether it will join forces with Lyft to help drivers buy or lease the Bolt. As well as developing all-electric vehicles, manufacturers continue to make advances with hybrid petrol/electric cars. Volkswagen - whose green credentials have been damaged by the scandal involving its diesel cars - premiered the Tiguan GTE Active concept, a hybrid sports utility vehicle (SUV), at the Detroit motor show. The Tiguan is a nod to the company's need to offer SUVs to meet North American demand, while the plug-in electric engine is a chance for VW to take a second stab at wooing environmentally inclined drivers. The lithium battery can take the car 20 miles before it switches to a traditional engine that can get the car a further 560 miles. \"I think electric cars will play a really important role worldwide,\" says Dr Herbert Diess, head of the board of management that looks after the Volkswagen brand. Demand from America's west coast and environmental policies in China are helping to increase electric cars sales, says Dr Diess. The Tiguan was in the works before VW's use of \"defeat devices\" to hide emission levels was revealed, and will not be available in the US until 2017. Meanwhile, Chrysler unveiled its new minivan - Pacifica - that comes in a hybrid plug-in version. The car is the newest spin on Chrysler's Town & Country luxury passenger minivan. The hybrid Pacifica can go 30 miles on its electric engine before switching to petrol. Chrysler says it decided to launch the Pacifica as a hybrid because people-movers - used typically for many short trips per day - were \"ideally suited\" to rely on electric engines. Carmakers are having to emphasise the other benefits of electric vehicles, such as saving time and skipping the inconvenience of filling the tank. \"Here in Michigan, and in the north, I've yet to discover a heated gas station,\" says Mr Gesse on a day when Detroit's temperature reached -10C. GM hopes convincing people of the ease of re-powering their cars at home will encourage more sales of the new Bolt and their existing hybrid the Volt. It is likely that the tech-focused markets and environmentally conscious drivers will, for the time being, make up the bulk of the entirely electric market. With emissions standards changing however, more and more car companies are aware that moving to electric is the way forward.", "question": "Filling up at the pump has rarely been less terrifying . A worldwide over @placeholder has pushed the price of oil to an 11 - year low .", "option_0": "supply", "option_1": "company", "option_2": "organisation", "option_3": "scheme", "option_4": "secret"}
{"id": 1228, "article": "To focus minds, the government gave the parties a discussion paper setting out key areas for agreement. They were given until lunchtime on Tuesday to respond to the draft paper. It includes changes to the petition of concern, equality and respect around the Irish language, Ulster Scots and an armed forces covenant. It also suggests a public consultation on plans to deal with the legacy of the Troubles, and details ways of making Northern Ireland's government more accountable. Details of the paper were published by journalist Brian Rowan. Shadow secretary of state Owen Smith has said the government still has to convince the Stormont parties it will be impartial in the talks. \"I've not yet had that reassurance from [secretary of state] James Brokenshire or heard it from the other parties,\" said Mr Smith. \"In the conversations I had with parties last week when I took on the post, they were still concerned that it would be difficult for the British government to illustrate impartiality and I still think they've got a job of work to do persuade people of that.\" Northern Ireland has been without a power-sharing executive since March and without a first and deputy first minister since January. The institutions collapsed amid a bitter row between the DUP and Sinn F¨¦in about a botched green energy scheme. The late deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness, stood down, in a move that triggered a snap election. The parties have until 29 June to reach agreement and have been warned that if they cannot, direct rule could follow. The deadline was set by Secretary of State James Brokenshire. Speaking at a press conference at midday on Tuesday, Sinn F¨¦in's Gerry Kelly said it was Sinn F¨¦in's intention to re-establish the institutions but that \"that has to be on the basis of integrity and respect and a number of outstanding issues.\" \"This is about implementation of previous talks,\" he added. He said that the continuing talks between the DUP and the Conservatives in London \"could have an impact\" on the talks at Stormont. \"Of course, what happens in Britain, and the DUP are hitching their wagon to the Tory government, will have on impact on what's happening here, we just don't know what it is yet,\" he said. Mr Kelly also made it clear that Sinn F¨¦in was not prepared to drop its demand that DUP leader Arlene Foster cannot become first minister while the inquiry into the RHI scandal continues. Meanwhile, the DUP will resume negotiations with the Conservative Party in London on supporting a Tory minority government. The party has been locked in negotiations with the Tories for more than week but it is still not clear when they might sign off on a deal. It was thought an agreement might be reached before the Queen's Speech on Wednesday, but the parties have refused to be drawn on a timeframe.", "question": "Talks to @placeholder Northern Ireland 's power - sharing institutions are continuing , with just nine days left before the government 's deadline .", "option_0": "attend", "option_1": "host", "option_2": "protect", "option_3": "restore", "option_4": "replace"}
{"id": 1229, "article": "It's stating the obvious to say all the parties have female leaders. But the Green's Natalie Bennett, Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood and Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP stand out for their gender in the male-dominated world of politics. There have been a total of 370 women MPs since 1918 at Westminster, for example. There were more men (502) elected to the House of Commons in the 2010 general election. The SNP, Green Party and Plaid Cymru all oppose the renewal of the UK's nuclear missile system - currently made up of four Vanguard-class submarines which carry Trident strategic missiles. The system is based on the Clyde, on Scotland's west coast. The SNP opposes nuclear weapons and wants Trident removed from Scotland. Plaid Cymru's manifesto calls the replacement of Trident \"wasteful and unnecessary\". The Green Party wants to decommission all existing nuclear forces and facilities. This election issue includes foreign policy and the role of UK¡¯s defence forces at home and abroad. The Green Party, Plaid Cymru and the SNP all want to see austerity scaled back. In its manifesto, Plaid Cymru says it does not support the continuation of \"austerity\" policies. A key part of the Green Party's manifesto is to end austerity and \"transform\" the UK economy in order to \"close the gap between the rich and the poor\". The SNP says it supports an alternative to austerity with \"modest\" spending increases. This issue includes the wider economy and deficit reduction but also employment and the role of business. The three parties all back EU membership. Plaid Cymru says it will campaign to stay in EU in event of a referendum, while Ms Sturgeon has said being taken out of the EU against Scotland's will would be \"democratically indefensible\". The Green Party stands for staying in a reformed Europe, but Ms Bennett has said it  wants to hold a referendum because the party \"believes in democracy and self-determination\". This election issue includes the UK¡¯s membership of the European Union and its negotiating position. Health and care is a devolved power in Scotland and Wales, but the three parties all pledge to end what they call the \"creeping privatisation\" of the NHS. This issue includes NHS funding, GP access and social care, particularly of older people. The SNP, Green Party and Plaid Cymru all want to lower the voting age to 16. It comes after Scotland allowed 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in the Scottish referendum. This election issue includes devolution and reform of the Westminster political process. The SNP and Plaid Cymru only put up candidates in Scotland and Wales. The SNP is contesting all 59 seats in Scotland, and Plaid Cymru all 40 in Wales. Ms Bennett is the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, but there is also a Green Party in Northern Ireland and Scottish Green Party. Collectively, they are standing in 571 of the 650 seats. The two nationalist parties also have their own agendas. The SNP wants Scotland to be independent (the Scottish Green Party was in favour of an independent Scotland).  Plaid Cymru wants Wales to get the same powers and funding as Scotland, and harbours longer-term independence aspirations. The Green Party wants further devolution within the UK. However, it ranks things like ensuring global temperatures do not rise by more than 2C and renewable electricity generation among its priorities. In terms of immigration, the Greens' main pledges include removing restrictions on foreign students, abolishing some family migration rules, and giving asylum seekers more rights. Plaid Cymru wants to create a Welsh Migration Service and draw up a skills-shortage list to ensure migration meets Welsh needs. The SNP wants powers over immigration to be devolved to Scotland in the way they are in Australia's states, with adjustment of the points-based system for skilled migrants who choose to move to Scotland. It also wants graduates from Scottish universities to be able to work in Scotland for an agreed period. Read the BBC's full policy guide to political parties' positions on key issues, which is being updated as each manifesto is launched.", "question": "The image of the leaders of the SNP , the Green Party and Plaid Cymru hugging went viral after the BBC debate on Thursday . Commentators have highlighted the friendship between the \" progressive @placeholder \" , but what do the three parties have in common ? And what do they disagree on ?", "option_0": "evil", "option_1": "horrors", "option_2": "alliance", "option_3": "conservatives", "option_4": "word"}
{"id": 1230, "article": "Butler won the IBF world title from 37-year-old Hall on a split decision in Newcastle in 2014. The winner of the re-match in Liverpool on 30 September will be in line to challenge for the WBA title, held by another Briton, Jamie McDonnell. \"If I lose this that's boxing finished for me, I'm retiring.\" Hall said. \"But I feel like this is just the start. Jamie McDonnell - that's the fight I've wanted.\" It is not the first time that retirement has crossed Hall's mind, having previously said he would consider his future after his IBF title fight defeat by Lee Haskins last September. Hall returned to the ring last month by outpointing Jose Aguilar and his second meeting with Butler represents the chance to avenge his previous loss to the 28-year-old. \"I'm buzzing, there's no pressure on me,\" he told BBC Tees. \"I don't want it going to the judges, I'm going to do everything in my power to knock him out.\" Butler stopped Mexico's Carlos Ruben Ruiz in his most recent contest and has a record of 24 wins and only one defeat. He will have home advantage for the re-match with Hall, who he says will be walking into \"the lions' den\". Butler told BBC Merseyside: \"I went to his backyard and took the title off him. This time I plan on doing a right number on him.\"", "question": "Stuart Hall has vowed to @placeholder the ring unless he beats Paul Butler in September 's re-match in a world bantamweight title eliminator .", "option_0": "lose", "option_1": "enter", "option_2": "follow", "option_3": "escape", "option_4": "quit"}
{"id": 1231, "article": "The reports say Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove through the seafront promenade area of the French city on Tuesday and Wednesday in preparation. More than 80 people died when he ploughed his vehicle into people celebrating Bastille Day on Thursday. Six people are being held in connection with the killings. The latest, an Albanian couple who have not been identified, were arrested on Sunday morning, French judicial sources said. Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was shot dead by police when his vehicle's path along the Promenade des Anglais was eventually halted. Europe 1 radio said CCTV footage from the days beforehand showed him driving through the area in the lorry, closely observing the scene. On the day itself, Lahouaiej-Bouhlel phoned his brother in Tunisia during the afternoon, sending a photograph of himself among the crowds, Reuters news agency reported. \"That last day he said he was in Nice with his European friends to celebrate the national holiday,\" the brother, Jabeur, said, adding that in the photo \"he seemed very happy and pleased, he was laughing a lot\". France has called up 12,000 police reservists to boost security in the wake of the killings. A BBC correspondent in Nice says the beaches and cafes are busy again and the promenade has been re-opened. Many people have taken the opportunity to leave tributes or pay their respects to those, including 10 children, who were killed. An impressive air of normality in much of tourist-packed Nice is deceptive. As well as grief, bewilderment hangs in the sea air. There are tears, hugs and silence at the mountain of candles, flowers and cuddly toys on the beach promenade, where joggers stop and parents bring young children to read the messages. A large white banner says: Why children? And, in a child's handwriting: Why do you want war? The bloodstains on the tarmac are gradually disappearing. The lampposts the lorry smashed into will be replaced. But for those who knew or loved the victims, things will never be the same. More armed police and soldiers guarding the streets will serve as a reminder. Amid the fear and sadness, and the unanswerable questions, defiance acts as a source of comfort. He will never defeat us, says one message on the promenade. Another reads: Love defeats hate. Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's estranged wife, who was detained on Friday, was released on Sunday. Those still being held are said to be close associates of the killer but have not been identified. French President Francois Hollande has called the attack terrorism and officials have said investigators will seek to find out whether the Tunisian had links with extremist groups. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel seemed to have been \"radicalised very quickly\". He was unknown to French intelligence services although he had been in trouble with the police for threatening behaviour, violence and petty theft. Tunisian security sources have told the BBC he visited Tunisia frequently, the last time eight months ago. It is not known if he trained in Syria or had any help planning the attack. So-called Islamic State said the attacker was acting in response to its calls to target civilians in countries that are part of the anti-IS coalition. Eighty-five of those injured remain in hospital; 29 are in intensive care and 18 of those are listed as critical.", "question": "The Tunisian man who drove his lorry into crowds of people in Nice @placeholder the route in the days before the attack , French media have reported .", "option_0": "battered", "option_1": "followed", "option_2": "attended", "option_3": "researched", "option_4": "blocked"}
{"id": 1232, "article": "The two-page instruction by the Vatican's department on doctrine said ashes of the dead must be kept in \"sacred places\" such as cemeteries. It also stressed that the Roman Catholic Church still preferred burials over cremations. The Vatican allowed cremation in 1963 but has always frowned on the practice. It also stressed at the time that cremation must not suggest a denial of faith about resurrection. \"It is not permitted to scatter the ashes of the faithful departed in the air, on land, at sea or in some other way, nor may they be preserved in mementos, pieces of jewellery or other objects,\" said the instruction by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. \"These courses of action cannot be legitimised by an appeal to the sanitary, social, or economic motives that may have occasioned the choice of cremation.\" The Vatican said it was issuing the new guidelines to counter \"new ideas contrary to the Church's faith\" that had become widespread since 1963. It said the Church could not \"condone attitudes or permit rites that involve erroneous ideas about death, such as considering death as the definitive annihilation of the person, or the moment of fusion with Mother Nature or the universe, or as a stage in the cycle of regeneration, or as the definitive liberation from the 'prison' of the body\". The guidelines reiterated that Catholics who chose to be cremated \"for reasons contrary to the Christian faith\" must be denied a Christian funeral. The Vatican also stressed that \"the Church continues to prefer the practice of burying the bodies of the deceased, because this shows a greater esteem towards the deceased\". Pope Francis had already approved the guidelines, the Vatican said. Fearing the impact of naturalistic ideas about the circle of life, where the body is regarded as no different to other physical matter, the Vatican has decided to clarify its position on what should happen to the remains of the dead. Cardinal Gerhard Muller, the head of the Church's powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said ashes of those cremated should be committed to a cemetery or another consecrated place. But Britain and some other western countries face a shortage of land in which to bury bodies. There are concerns this announcement will not only place financial burdens on Catholic families but also increase the pressure on cemeteries, half of which are expected to run out of space within the next 20 years.", "question": "The ashes of cremated Catholics can not be kept at home , scattered or @placeholder among family members , the Vatican has announced in new guidelines .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "divided", "option_2": "control", "option_3": "level", "option_4": "homes"}
{"id": 1233, "article": "Pictures on social media showed people dancing in the streets as the restriction came to an end at midnight local time (21:00 GMT). Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said he had taken the decision to help normalise life in Baghdad. It came despite a string of explosions in the capital which killed at least 32 people on Saturday. Residents had previously had their movements restricted between the hours of 00:00 and 05:00. Following the decision to lift the curfew, Iraqis ventured out on to the streets flying flags and honking car horns. \"Before, we felt like we were in prison,\" said cafe owner Faez Abdulillah Ahmed, speaking to AFP news agency. \"We were restricted.\" Shop owner Marwan Hashem added: \"We were waiting for this decision for years.\" The curfew was introduced as a security measure in the violent aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion. An official from Mr Abadi's office said the decision to lift it had been made \"despite the existence of a state of war\", AFP news agency reports. Bombings and explosions remain a fact of life for many in Iraq's capital. Ministers have also had to deal with the threat of Islamic State (IS) militants seizing large swathes of territory close to the city. At least one of Saturday's bombings was claimed by IS, according to the Site Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi activity. It was carried out by a suicide attacker who detonated his explosives near a restaurant, killing at least 22 people. There were also a series of separate blasts on Saturday, including one at a central market. An interior ministry spokesman said he did not believe the attacks were connected with the government's decision to end the curfew, Reuters news agency. Last year there were fears that IS gunmen might attack Baghdad following their sweep across Iraq and Syria. But following Western intervention against the group, the government has regained some of its lost territory. When 'bombers' meet victims on TV Country profile", "question": "People in Baghdad have been @placeholder the lifting of a 12 - year - old curfew in the Iraqi capital .", "option_0": "celebrating", "option_1": "opposing", "option_2": "describing", "option_3": "released", "option_4": "sacked"}
{"id": 1234, "article": "These words have appeared more in Paris in recent days on signs, walls and the Eiffel Tower, marking people's resilience after the attacks of a week ago today. People have been going back to work, and going out to bars and restaurants. Here, Parisians describe the night of the attacks and how they have been trying to return to normality. Marine lives a few kilometres away from the Bataclan music hall where many of the victims died. \"I heard police sirens near the Bataclan and I watched the story unfold on TV. \"I couldn't believe this was happening so close to me. \"I asked myself why the Bataclan and at the bars and restaurants. \"Then I realised that was what the terrorists wanted.\" Marine works at Disneyland Paris and had to go in to work the day after the attacks. \"Although the park was closed my department was open. \"We took calls from people who were frightened and wanted to cancel their trips. \"Kids were sad because they were looking forward to their visit but now wouldn't be able to come. \"Some people asked about our security arrangements but at the time we didn't know. \"But there were a lot of nice people who rang to say they were sorry about what had happened, and some called to say that they will be coming as planned. \"A woman from England said we must not be afraid. \"We try to be joyful and stay in a good mood but it can be difficult.\" On the night of the attacks Samuel Pean was at a bar watching the France v Germany football match. He did not know about what was going on outside until a friend in the United States messaged him to check he was OK. \"When we left the district we saw restaurants and bars were closed but people were inside in the dark. \"Police said we had to move because it was not safe. I didn't know if I could take the metro or not so I went to my parents' house. The following day Samuel went home but he felt the need to be with people. \"I couldn't stay at home. I went to see friends in another district and took the metro. \"But we all knew friends of friends who were affected or who had died. \"I had to go to work on Monday but it was good to be close to colleagues - we are like a family. \"A colleague was crying all day - we needed to be together. \"We are all still a bit afraid. \"I went out to a bar after work which I wouldn't normally do early in the week but it was more of a symbolic gesture. \"It's not normal but we have to pretend. The military and police are everywhere, there are less people on the subway, and more suspect package alerts. \"Paris is quiet and there is not a lot of cars. As it's less noisy you can hear sirens more.\" After work, Solene Bertelli planned to meet her boyfriend outside the Bataclan near to where he lives. She saw a crowd of people in front of the Bataclan having drinks, waiting to go inside to see a band play. \"After that we walked down the street and saw a man who was shouting, \"Run, run.\" \"People were standing around not knowing what to do. Then suddenly everyone started running. \"No matter what direction we went to there was panic. \"We met some strangers who offered to take us into their home. \"This was around 22:00 and we stayed there until 04:00.\" Solene and her boyfriend wanted to go to his home near the Bataclan. \"At the beginning the police didn't want us to go as it was carnage. But a policeman walked with us. \"There was blood and bullets everywhere, and dead people were being taken away.\" Solene works at a bakery and found it difficult to go back to work. \"I work a few days a week at the bakery. It was hard for me to return. \"I had to take the subway, and then I realised what had happened on Friday - I didn't feel safe. \"But as the days go on I am feeling better. \"There are more people on the streets - it's more alive.\"", "question": "Fluctuat nec mergitur - that is the Latin motto on the coat of arms of Paris @placeholder , ' Buffeted ( by waves ) but not sunk . '", "option_0": "city", "option_1": "night", "option_2": "meaning", "option_3": "reads", "option_4": "behaviour"}
{"id": 1235, "article": "Select committee chairmen Huw Irranca-Davies (Labour) and Angus MacNeil (SNP) said he has scrapped UK schemes aimed at cutting emissions, despite pledging internationally to protect the climate. They singled out the decision to axe a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project promised in the Tory manifesto. The government said the CCS scheme had always been \"subject to affordability\". David Cameron is due before the Commons Liaison Committee later, which is made up of MPs who chair Commons select committees. He will be questioned on climate change, as well as the conflict in Syria. Mr Cameron had said CCS was \"absolutely crucial\" for the UK, so the decision to scrap a ?¡ê1bn competition for a large-scale trial CCS plant is being criticised by the MPs. CCS is the \"Holy Grail\" of the fossil fuel industry. If it can be made to work economically at industrial scale, it will capture the emissions from power stations that heat the climate, and bury them deep underground. That would allow coal and gas to be burned in the low-carbon future deemed essential by all governments at the climate summit in Paris. Mr MacNeil, who chairs the energy and climate change committee, told BBC News the decision to scrap the CCS fund was incomprehensible. He said: \"The prime minister said that carbon capture and storage was crucial to meet our climate change targets. \"Yet the government's long-promised carbon capture competition has become the latest low-carbon policy to be chucked on the scrapheap by the government.\" Mr MacNeil said \"sudden changes\" to energy policy were undermining investor confidence in the energy sector. He added: \"The prime minister must acknowledge that building a new generation of gas plants means that we either have to fit power stations with carbon capture technology in the coming decade or potentially bust our carbon budgets.\" Mr Irranca-Davies, chairman of the environmental audit committee, added: \"We're hearing a growing gulf between the prime minister's bold talk about climate change on the international stage and the short-termism and incoherence of decisions on energy and sustainability at home.\" On another issue, Conservative Neil Parish, who chairs the environment, food and rural affairs committee, warned that flood relief would have to be a \"much bigger priority\" for the government if flooding becomes \"the new normal\". In an appearance before the liaison committee in December 2014, Mr Cameron said carbon capture and storage was \"absolutely crucial if we are going to decarbonise effectively\". He said more needed to be known about CCS before committing to it, which is why the government committed ?¡ê1bn for the trial. Energy industry leaders were astonished when the fund was scrapped without explanation following November's Autumn Statement. The Department for Energy and Climate Change told the BBC: \"The government was clear that this was subject to affordability. \"The Spending Review was a tight financial settlement and difficult decisions have had to be made. CCS (still) has a potential role in the long-term decarbonisation of the UK.\" The decision to scrap the CCS trial was applauded by Nigel Lawson's pressure group, the Global Warming Policy Forum. Its spokesman Benny Peiser told the BBC: \"Worldwide, there are currently more than 20 pilot projects being funded. \"Let's wait and see whether the controversial technology will ever be viable at large scale. If so, Britain could simply buy it off the shelf if need be.\" But Professor Dieter Helm, from Oxford University, a supporter of many of the government's other energy reforms, said: \"It's a no-brainer that the shallow North Sea is the place to try out CCS, with lots of empty holes, pipelines, experience and gas plants nearby. \"So the question is really whether the UK cares about the climate change problem or is merely trying to achieve its carbon production targets at minimum cost.\" Follow Roger on Twitter @rharrabin or on Facebook www.facebook.com/roger.harrabin", "question": "The PM has been accused of double @placeholder over climate change , ahead of a Commons committee appearance .", "option_0": "interest", "option_1": "standards", "option_2": "questions", "option_3": "life", "option_4": "voting"}
{"id": 1236, "article": "Jack Proctor, 34, joined forces with cocker spaniel Fudge as he studied for his design and digital arts degree at Edinburgh Napier University. The seven-year-old dog starred in Jack's introductory video and course work, and was in his dissertation. Fudge was at the ceremony wearing robes made by Mr Proctor's wife. Mr Proctor, from Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, said: \"I know it seems eccentric, but Fudge has been part of my journey through uni since day one, so it just feels like a nice way to mark the journey's end. \"He was such a fundamental part of my dissertation that I even mentioned him in the acknowledgement section.\" Mr Proctor and Fudge were seen online last year doing the Ice Bucket Challenge craze when technical trickery was used to show Jack being hoodwinked into getting a soaking by his four-legged friend. Fudge featured in a series of videos for Jack's dissertation on how designers can optimise the shareability of their work, comedy special effects being used to show the dog regularly outsmarting hapless humans. He also took lead and cameo roles in Mr Proctor's course assignment videos including The Dog Dice (in which Fudge plays Snakes and Ladders) and the Soi Dog Foundation. Mr Proctor said: \"Our Ice Bucket Challenge video was our most successful, with millions of views on Facebook and 250,000 on Youtube, but other videos we had made have had view counts ranging from 30,000 to 300,000, and have appeared on news video sites. \"We are very much a partnership so it just seemed right that Fudge should share my big day with me.\"", "question": "A student and his dog have donned robes in Edinburgh at his graduation after the pet helped his owner @placeholder his university degree .", "option_0": "complete", "option_1": "following", "option_2": "show", "option_3": "quit", "option_4": "bank"}
{"id": 1237, "article": "The Lincolnshire racer will ride a Triumph Daytona 675 for Team T3 Racing -  the same bike his last TT win came on in 2014 for Smiths Racing. Johnson will represent the three time British Supersport Cup Champions in both 600cc races. \"It's great to be back on a Triumph 675,\" the 35-year-old said. \"I have a wealth of knowledge on the bike and I hope to replicate the success of 2014 this year. \"I'm eager to get going as we have a busy testing schedule ahead to be fully prepared for first practice in June\".", "question": "Two - time TT winner Gary Johnson has said he is \" excited \" after announcing a return to Triumph @placeholder at the 2016 event .", "option_0": "motorcycles", "option_1": "staff", "option_2": "machinery", "option_3": "riding", "option_4": "contest"}
{"id": 1238, "article": "Two people have been killed in the state, the authorities say - an American surfer and a young Mexican swept away by flood waters. Fourteen fishermen were also reported missing at sea. Barbara quickly lost strength over land but drenched coastal areas with rain, leading to flooding in some areas. The hurricane came ashore some 130 km (80 miles) east of Salina Cruz, home to Mexico's biggest oil refinery. A warning was issued for the stretch of coast between Puerto Angel and Barra de Tonala. Thousands of people in Chiapas and Oaxaca states have been evacuated.  Roads have been closed and sea traffic suspended in the area. The storm that preceded the hurricane caused floods in many coastal areas, including the resort city of Acapulco, further north. The hurricane is expected to dissipate in the next 24 hours.", "question": "Hurricane Barbara has been lashing @placeholder of Mexico 's Pacific coast after making landfall in the town of Santo Domingo Zanatapec , in Oaxaca state .", "option_0": "sustainability", "option_1": "parts", "option_2": "east", "option_3": "traces", "option_4": "following"}
{"id": 1239, "article": "Bain slammed in a low cross from David Cox after 30 minutes after the visitors had absorbed some heavy pressure. Michael Paton went close with a free-kick for the Pars, while Michael Moffat miscued in front of goal. Faissal El Bakhtaoui messed up a close range header and the hosts' top scorer was inches away with a shot late in the game as Airdrie held on for victory. Airdrie, who were stubborn in defence and well organised throughout, move up two places to fourth in the table. Dunfermline, who had not lost in the league since mid-September, will have their lead cut to four points if nearest challengers Ayr United beat Stenhousemuir on Saturday.", "question": "League One leaders Dunfermline slumped to a surprise defeat at home as Jamie Bain @placeholder for Airdrieonians .", "option_0": "prepare", "option_1": "beat", "option_2": "side", "option_3": "held", "option_4": "struck"}
{"id": 1240, "article": "Investigators allege that Mr Virzi received a $10m-kickback (?¡ê6.5m) from a company which won a lucrative irrigation contract, which he denies. The company's executives were arrested days ago trying to leave Panama. Mr Virzi is the latest in a series of high-ranking officials from former administrations to face investigation. In January, the Supreme Court appointed a special prosecutor to investigate claims that former President Ricardo Martinelli had inflated multi-million dollar contracts during his time in office from 2009 to 2014. Mr Martinelli denied the allegations and said they were part of a political vendetta waged against him by his successor in office, Juan Carlos Varela. Mr Varela, who was elected last year, campaigned on a promise to clean up Panamanian politics. The investigation into Mr Virzi centres around allegations that he received $10m from a company hired by the government of Mr Martinelli to build a huge irrigation system in the Tonosi region of Panama. At the time of the alleged payment, Mr Virzi was no longer vice-president but investigators said he still had close links with the government. On Monday, Mr Martinelli defended Mr Virzi, whom he referred to by his nickname, Pipo. The former president said that \"for 40 years we have conducted all kinds of legal business with Pipo Virzi, buying, selling, renting and borrowing. Why is this getting so much negative attention?\". The irrigation system was never built and the company's chief executives are under arrest. Mr Virzi has been charged with money laundering and corruption.", "question": "A court ordered on Wednesday that Panama 's former Vice - President Felipe Virzi be @placeholder while he is investigated for alleged corruption .", "option_0": "elected", "option_1": "imprisoned", "option_2": "revealed", "option_3": "replaced", "option_4": "held"}
{"id": 1241, "article": "The man snatched the bag from the woman in the Coal Wynd car park in Kirkcaldy at about 15:35 on Saturday. After her husband was knocked to the ground, and bumped his head, another woman stepped in and retrieved the bag. The suspect was described as being white, in his 30s, about 5ft 7in tall, of scruffy appearance with frizzy hair. He was wearing a black bomber-style jacket and grey tracksuit bottoms and was carrying a rucksack. Det Sgt Craig Fraser, of Police Scotland, said: \"This was nothing short of a cowardly attack on an elderly lady by this suspect who saw fit to struggle violently with all three people in his attempt to steal this bag. \"The last sighting of the suspect we have is of him is on the High Street near to the indoor market. Anyone who can help us identify this man is asked to call us.\"", "question": "Police are trying to identify a man who tried to steal an elderly woman 's handbag and knocked her husband to the ground when he tried to @placeholder .", "option_0": "enter", "option_1": "show", "option_2": "intervene", "option_3": "run", "option_4": "investigate"}
{"id": 1242, "article": "Three parcels of the suspected drug were found hidden behind a panel of a toilet on a decommissioned plane by Air Salvage International (ASI). The 2Kg (4.4lb) packages were discovered at Cotswold Airport in Kemble, Gloucestershire, on 18 October. Wiltshire Police said they were waiting the results of forensic analysis. A police spokesman said the hidden packages, each measuring 20 cm by 13 cm (8 in by 5 in) were found \"well wrapped in plastic and black gaffer tape\". \"We searched the rest of the plane and put a drugs dog through but actually the dog didn't seem overly interested in the packages,\" he said. \"But they were well wrapped and with the test we did on the powder at the station - we decided to send it for forensic analysis. \"We're waiting for the results before we start trying to trace where the plane came from.\" Air Salvage International (ASI) has declined to comment.", "question": "A haul of what is believed to be cocaine with a street value of ¡ê 120,000 has been uncovered by @placeholder dismantling a scrapped jumbo jet .", "option_0": "helping", "option_1": "holding", "option_2": "following", "option_3": "causing", "option_4": "engineers"}
{"id": 1243, "article": "I wanted to find whether an American degree is worth it. What do those exorbitant fees actually buy you? Right near the BBC bureau in Washington, DC, is one of the more expensive universities in the country - George Washington University. Under its former President Stephen Trachtenberg, prices at GW, as it's known here, have more than doubled over the course of the past few decades. The world is getting wealthier - but with the gap between rich and poor feeling bigger than ever, who are the winners and losers of this richer world in 2015? A Richer World 2015 Listen to the reports and documentaries Trachtenberg invested in fancy dormitories, upmarket sports facilities and state-of-the-art classrooms in a deliberate strategy to make the school more appealing. It worked: the more he spent, the more fees rose and the more students wanted to go there. He has no regrets about the massive inflation in tuition costs because it all leads to better jobs. If a student can find work after graduation, \"then presumably the university,\" he says, \"has served the purpose they wanted, society wanted, and if they can pay the debt back, it's not a problem.\" But if you don't come from a wealthy family, those debts can be enormous. The high cost of fees creates a clear division between haves and have-nots among the student body - indeed in the country as a whole. I sat down for coffee at a local spot with three GW students. Each is working at least one part-time job to pay their college bills, and each is taking on some level of debt. Cindy Zhang is studying international affairs, and she works two part-time jobs to make ends meet. Her parents help out a bit, but she also has about $10,000 in loans per year. Shanil Jiwani currently has $60,000 in loans and he expects that number to double by the time he graduates - he'll be $120,000 in debt before he steps out into the world. Silvia Zenteno's university days are almost over. But even with the maximum amount of financial aid from the university, she still works 30 hours a week, and plans to graduate with $40,000 in loans. So why do it? Why put all that time, money and effort in? Maybe students here don't have much choice. \"When you're talking about your career and how much money you're going to make, your college investment is basically your down payment,\" Anthony Carnevale told me. He's the director of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce. And because Americans don't have a social safety net to fall back on, like many European countries, Carnevale says, US degrees are \"more valuable than degrees in other countries.\" So you pay a lot of money to get a degree from a good school, to get a good job, to pay back the loans of going to a good school. It's a vicious cycle of inflation that shows no signs of stopping. GW has just published its tuition fees for the upcoming school year: $50,367, up 3.4% from last year. What might just put a cap on the rising costs is that wonderfully egalitarian institution - the internet. More US universities are offering online courses virtually for free. You don't get the swanky campus facilities and face-to-face interaction, but you do get a good education. And if costs keep rising at the speed they have been, at some point more American students will say that looks like a pretty good deal. For more on the BBC's A Richer World, go to www.bbc.com/richerworld - or join the discussion on Twitter using the hashtag #BBCRicherWorld", "question": "Nowhere in the world does it cost as much to go to university as it does in the US . Some private universities here cost more than $ 50,000 ( ? ¡ê 38,000 ) per year just for tuition , and that does n't cover accommodation , @placeholder , or even books ( remember those ? ) .", "option_0": "loans", "option_1": "seconds", "option_2": "evil", "option_3": "food", "option_4": "money"}
{"id": 1244, "article": "Those with mental health or neurological conditions were least likely to have developed ways of living with their illness. A study of 15,687 adults has been analysed at Heriot-Watt University. The Welsh government said it was working with charities on a patient guide for those with chronic illnesses. The study, published in the International Journal of Cardiology and based on research in 2012, found: Chronic illnesses affect an estimated 800,000 people in Wales and are a growing problem for the NHS as the population gets older. Dr Ivy Shiue, assistant professor of environmental health at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, said people who had not learnt to live with symptoms experienced worse quality of life and the risks were especially high for those with mental health conditions. \"These patients may start to lose hope and their sense of identity, ultimately leading to a feeling of fear, hopelessness and despair at their condition,\" she said. CASE STUDY: Lisa Welch, from Cwmfelinfach, Caerphilly County, has suffered with depression but got help through a self-management programme and mental health charity Gofal. \"I've had mental health problems for 19 years but it got worse. I had a bad divorce and I couldn't cope. I wouldn't get dressed, I wouldn't go out, wash or shower, it all spiralled out of control from there and it made me feel worse. \"I just didn't want to be here. But I have two boys and that kept me going.\" \"It was only when I had rent arrears and then I was offered help and got introduced to Gofal. Dealing with my bills with the help of my support worker was a big weight off my shoulders.\" The Welsh government said people living with long-term health conditions could benefit from working with medical professionals to help manage their health and wellbeing. \"This can also help to inform them about the support available to them from both the NHS and voluntary organisations,\" said a spokesperson. A guide for patients is also being developed with the Long Term Conditions Alliance Cymru.", "question": "Nearly a third of adults in Wales are @placeholder to cope with the pain and symptoms of long - term health conditions , according to a new study .", "option_0": "threatening", "option_1": "confined", "option_2": "expected", "option_3": "set", "option_4": "struggling"}
{"id": 1245, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Captain Cook made 64 not out and Hales an undefeated 50 to give the home side a lead of 17. England earlier fought back well with the ball, taking five wickets for 42 runs to bowl Pakistan out for 400. Stuart Broad and Chris Woakes each took three, while Misbah-ul-Haq made 56. It was the wicket of Misbah, bowled by James Anderson, that began the England recovery, one desperately needed after Pakistan had dominated day two to begin Friday on 257-3. There was a wobble when Anderson was ordered from the attack controversially, an umpiring decision that helped Sarfraz Ahmed (46 not out) shepherd the tail to add 32 for the final two wickets. But England's openers took advantage of an increasingly benign surface and a lack of swing or turn to give the hosts the upper hand. Media playback is not supported on this device For all of the good work done on day three, England must still defy history if they are to go 2-1 up with one match to play in the four-Test series. In all of the previous 2,211 Tests, teams giving away a first-innings lead of at least 100 lost 69% of matches and won only 3%. Indeed, no side has won a Test at Edgbaston having batted first and given away a lead of more than 69. But with the surface now looking ideal for batting, England have the opportunity to set the tourists a sizeable total and take advantage of any potential deterioration on the final day. Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott told BBC Test Match Special: \"It's been an absolutely splendid day's cricket - cut and thrust. Anybody who hasn't got a ticket for Saturday, go and get one.\" Even after that Pakistan lower-order subsidence, the tourists still had an opportunity to take firm control of the Test by making inroads into England's flaky top order. That they did not was down to England's discipline and their own inability to either penetrate or build pressure. Cook worked off his pads and played trademark cut shots on the way to a 51st Test half-century. Scoring freely, this was his sixth-fastest Test fifty, three of that half-dozen having come in this series. Hales, who began in more circumspect fashion than Cook, had the one moment of fortune when a top edge off Mohammad Amir flew over the slips before he began to find the off-side boundary. That England's deficit was manageable was a result of a bowling performance much improved on the second day. The bulk of the damage was done in the hour after lunch, at a time when the obdurate Misbah looked set to make light of the morning losses of Younus Khan and Asad Shafiq. In a chaotic hour, Anderson had Misbah play on to his stumps, Yasir Shah was run out by Woakes' throw from long leg and Amir was lbw to Woakes. Then Anderson, warned twice on Thursday, was barred from bowling for more, and seemingly minor, incursions on to the middle of the pitch. There is an area - sometimes referred to as the 'danger zone' - on which bowlers cannot run and which is protected by the umpires to prevent unnecessary deterioration of the surface that may unfairly aid bowlers later in the match. Without the threat posed by Anderson's swing, the busy and unorthodox Sarfraz elongated the innings with the help of Sohail Khan and Rahat Ali, who were both eventually removed by Broad. Like Broad, Steven Finn posed more danger than on day two, but still went wicketless, while spinner Moeen Ali was trusted to bowl only 17 of the 136 overs. Geoffrey Boycott on TMS: \"Can England bat well? Can they get in a position where they declare? England have a sniff of victory. But don't put too much on it. \"It's a good batting pitch and there's no spin for the wrist spinner. But when you have to chase 220-250, people make a hash of those chases.\" England seamer Chris Woakes: \"Tomorrow morning is crucial again. We need guys to go on and get big scores. But we will obviously take that from where we were this morning.\" Media playback is not supported on this device", "question": "England openers Alastair Cook and Alex Hales shared an unbroken stand of 120 to leave the third Test against Pakistan delicately @placeholder after three days at Edgbaston .", "option_0": "control", "option_1": "needed", "option_2": "poised", "option_3": "played", "option_4": "tied"}
{"id": 1246, "article": "The 18-year-old joins Formula 1 drivers Pascal Wehrlein and Esteban Ocon as the third member of the scheme. Russell, who finished third in the European Formula 3 championship last season, will race in the GP3 feeder series with the leading ART team. \"It's a dream come true,\" Russell told BBC Radio Norfolk. \"The real hard work starts now.\" Russell, who lives in King's Lynn, added: \"It's quite comforting knowing that if I do the job, I'm quite confident I will get the opportunity from Mercedes to further my career.\" Mercedes F1 team boss Toto Wolff said: \"George has shown impressive form in the junior categories and we've been keeping a close eye on him for a while now. It's still early days in his career but we see great potential in him.\"", "question": "Briton George Russell has been @placeholder to world champions Mercedes ' young driver development programme .", "option_0": "linked", "option_1": "set", "option_2": "signed", "option_3": "assigned", "option_4": "tipped"}
{"id": 1247, "article": "Luaty Beirao was arrested in June with book club members discussing a book about nonviolent resistance. Mr Beirao recently ended his five-week hunger strike in prison. Their arrest prompted protests in Portugal and condemnation from human rights groups. Human Rights Watch's Zenaida Machado urged Angolan judges to \"show independence and not permit this trial to be used as an instrument to silence the government's critics\". The rapper, also known by his stage name Ikonoklasta, has been an outspoken critic of the government, calling for a fairer distribution of the country's oil wealth. Since the end of the conflict in 2002, Africa's second-largest oil producer has witnessed an economic boom, but critics of the elected government say the wealth has only benefited a small elite. The detained activists, who belong to a youth movement, had previously held demonstrations demanding the resignation of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has been in power for 36 years. Their book club had planned to discuss the 1993 book by Gene Sharp called From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation. The June arrests were defended by Angola's deputy state prosecutor who accused them of planning an uprising among students and workers \"with incalculable consequences\". The group face up to 12 years in jail if convicted. Who is Gene Sharp? Gene Sharp is a US academic who researches non-violent revolution. He is credited with the strategy which led to the toppling of Egypt's long-time Hosni Mubarak leader in 2011. His most translated and distributed work, From Dictatorship to Democracy, was written for the Burmese democratic movement in 1993, after the imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi. Gene Sharp: Author of the nonviolent revolution rulebook", "question": "A rapper is among 17 activists who have gone on trial in Angola 's capital , Luanda , charged with preparing acts of rebellion and @placeholder against the president and state institutions .", "option_0": "protesting", "option_1": "conditions", "option_2": "acts", "option_3": "sex", "option_4": "plotting"}
{"id": 1248, "article": "In June 1815, Major Harry Percy arrived by rowing boat at Broadstairs in Kent with the news. From there the dispatch was taken by a fast carriage to the Prince Regent in London. A group of volunteers have recreated the moment the boat arrived in Kent. On Sunday, the dispatch will be taken through London. The dispatch arrived earlier in the morning, landing at Viking Bay in Broadstairs. It was then taken to Canterbury to be presented to the Lord Lieutenant of Kent, before a service marking Waterloo at Canterbury Cathedral. On Sunday, it will arrive in London and be taken throughout the city. In 1815, the ship carrying the dispatch began to drift in the English Channel. The decision was made to row for 20 miles to shore before landing at Broadstairs. Rosalind Blinks, who is the Mayor of Broadstairs, said: \"History was made here and history is often a quirk of fate, it wasn't their intended destination, so it is important that we honour the occasion.\" The 200th anniversary of the battle has seen a series of events throughout Europe re-enacting important moments. Earlier, thousands took part in a re-enactment of the battle of the same fields of Waterloo.", "question": "An event to mark the arrival of a dispatch @placeholder by the Duke of Wellington telling Britain of the victory at Waterloo has taken place .", "option_0": "written", "option_1": "issued", "option_2": "raised", "option_3": "backed", "option_4": "started"}
{"id": 1249, "article": "Rothamsted said that crops had been vandalised, causing \"significant\" damage. The incident took place on Sunday morning at the centre's test site in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. The project aims to see whether the modified crops can deter aphids - a major wheat pest. Rothamsted has previously pleaded with anti-GM campaigners not to destroy their experimental plots, which they say could help reduce pesticide use. But opponents of GM technology claim that planting the crops in the open air would allow modified pollen to get out into the surrounding environment. After the break-in at the site, Rothamsted scientist Toby Bruce             wrote on Twitter  that wheat seeds appeared to have been strewn onto plots, and the tops of plants had been cut off. However, the laboratory said the account was anecdotal and might not be accurate. In a statement, Rothamsted commented: \"The intruder caused significant, random property damage, but failed to disrupt the experiment in this attack.\" The lab's director Prof Maurice Moloney said the act was an attempt to \"deny us all the opportunity to gather knowledge and evidence\" on a possible new approach for reducing the use of pesticides. A 50-year-old man from Devon is to appear at the Central Magistrates Court in St Albans on 13 July. The crop being trialled at Rothamsted contains genes synthesised in the laboratory. It will produce a pheromone called E-beta-farnesene that is normally emitted by aphids when they are threatened by something. When aphids smell it, they fly away. Anti-GM group Take the Flour Back has vowed to \"decontaminate\" the site unless the research is halted. The event was trailed on the organisation's website as \"a nice day out in the country, with picnics, music... and a decontamination\". There is no suggestion the man who has been charged is linked to Take the Flour Back. Eleanor Baylis, from the anti-GM group, said in a statement: \"We have no information about this incident, but are relieved if the quantity of GM pollen released from the trial has been reduced. \"The British people are clear that they're not swallowing this technology.\" The protesters have previously declined an invitation from Rothamsted to meet scientists behind the project and, following a heated debate on the BBC's Newsnight programme, a planned day of action on 27 May will go ahead. But a spokeswoman for Take the Flour Back told BBC News the group would be interested in engaging in a public debate with wide participation. She said the decision not to take part in the debate proposed by Rothamsted was due to the specific conditions of the event. Paul.Rincon-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk", "question": "A man has been charged with criminal damage following a break - in at the Rothamsted Research centre where a trial of GM wheat is being @placeholder .", "option_0": "sought", "option_1": "demolished", "option_2": "administered", "option_3": "held", "option_4": "launched"}
{"id": 1250, "article": "The annual crime performance statistics for 2015/16, which will go to Tynwald in July, show a total of 257 offences compared with 198 the previous year. A police spokesman said most \"were for low level possession, not supply\". There were about 2,000 crimes recorded during the year - the lowest since the 1970s. Chief Constable Gary Roberts said low crime levels were \"good news\". Figures show there was a 53% fall in burglaries, an 18% drop in criminal damage and 33% fewer public order offences but there was an increase in sexual offences and domestic assaults. Home Affairs Minister Juan Watterson said: \"While recorded crime is falling, the demand on the constabulary is not. \"Increasingly the constabulary's role focuses on broader aspects of public safety, including dealing with people who are dependent on alcohol or drugs.\"", "question": "Drug crime in the Isle of Man has risen by 30 % over the past year , @placeholder Manx constabulary figures .", "option_0": "reports", "option_1": "exceeding", "option_2": "including", "option_3": "following", "option_4": "according"}
{"id": 1251, "article": "The 38-year-old was last seen in the Finaghy area of Belfast on Tuesday afternoon and the Daily Mirror claims he was discharged by a civil servant with no prisoner care experience. Mr Smith is charged with the murder of Stephen Carson, who was shot dead in his Belfast home in front of his partner and nine-year-old son in February 2016. The Mirror says that, until five years ago, the high-security routine of prisoner releases was undertaken by three experienced warders. However, it says the role is now the job of a single civilian staff member. The Irish News reports that more than 200 inmates have gone missing from prisons in Northern Ireland in the past decade. It says that between 2007 and 2015, there were 218 incidents of prisoners being unlawfully at large. The figures, released to news website The Detail, show 95 involved Magilligan prison, 93 were inmates at Maghaberry and 30 at Hydebank. According to the Department of Justice website, six inmates including Mr Smith were unlawfully at large as of Wednesday night. The News Letter quotes East Belfast MP Gavin Robinson describing Mr Smith's release as \"catastrophic\", while former justice minister David Ford says prison service procedures must be reviewed with \"real urgency\". It reports that Mr Smith's release comes less than a week after police managed to recapture Damien McLaughlin, who is charged in connection with the 2012 murder of Maghaberry prisoner officer David Black. In a change of gear, the newspaper reports that one of Simon Hamilton's last acts as Economy Minister was to block eight separate News Letter Freedom of Information requests for documents relating to the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme. It says the DUP MLA had not responded to requests dating back to mid-December, but adds: \"On the afternoon of election day, refusal responses began flowing through to the News Letter and continued in the hours before Mr Hamilton left office at 10pm\". The Belfast Telegraph front page features an appeal from Kate Carroll, the widow of Constable Stephen Carroll who was the first police officer to be killed in Northern Ireland since the formation of the PSNI. She urges politicians at the Stormont talks to \"take this second chance by the scruff of the neck and lead us wisely\". The Irish News reports on the pregnant woman and three children who died following a fire at a woman's refuge in Dublin. Irish President Michael Higgins and Taoiseach (prime minister) Enda Kenny have led tributes to the victims. The blaze was at a complex in Cluainin Cronan in Clondalkin. The fire is not being treated as suspicious, but police say investigations are continuing and they are keeping an \"open mind\". The story is covered by the Mirror which also looks at what Northern Ireland can expect as a result of Chancellor Philip Hammond's budget. It says the Stormont Executive is to receive an additional ¡ê120m - ¡ê90m for day-to-day spending until 2019-20, with another ¡ê30m until 2020/21. Stormont's annual budget for day-to-day spending is around ¡ê10bn, while the capital budget is around ¡ê1bn. With no executive in place, the spending plan for next year has not been set. On a lighter note, The Belfast Telegraph reports that a vixen who was rescued after a 100ft fall near Ballintoy has proved quite the little madam. Sianna the fox is receiving round-the-clock attention at Lucy's Trust, a dog sanctuary in County Antrim, but has tried to bite her carer, and has a penchant for the finer foods. A full recovery is not guaranteed after Sianna's ordeal, but vet and trust owner Olivia Kennedy says she is much \"more animated and feisty\" and has arranged \"her crate to her own liking, with lots of ripped up fluff, blankets, cardboard and hay\".", "question": "Murder suspect Michael Smith is the face @placeholder large on the newspaper front pages after he was mistakenly released from Maghaberry Prison .", "option_0": "renewed", "option_1": "looming", "option_2": "assured", "option_3": "hit", "option_4": "word"}
{"id": 1252, "article": "Denis O'Brien obtained the injunction to stop RT¨¦ from reporting details of his personal finances and relationship with former Anglo Irish Bank. Last week, a judge granted permission for the media to report details about Mr O'Brien's finances made under privilege in the D¨¢il (parliament). RT¨¦ lawyers said as a result there was no need for the injunction to remain. The media mogul's fortune is estimated to be around ¡ê5bn. Following the granting of the injunction, the purchase of one of Mr O'Brien's companies was discussed in the D¨¢il. The comments were made by TD Catherine Murphy under privilege. She said Mr O'Brien owed the former Anglo Irish Bank, now the nationalised Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC), upwards of 500m euro (¡ê362m). Ms Murphy, an independent left-wing TD, said Mr O'Brien was attempting to pay loans back at an interest rate of just over 1%, when it was arguable that the correct rate should be over 7%. In response to her comments, lawyers for RT¨¦ and the Irish Times returned to the high court to seek clarity over whether her remarks could be reported in light of the injunction. A judge told the media organisations that he never intended nor could he order any interference with what a TD may say under privilege in the D¨¢il. The application by RT¨¦ to have the injunction discharged relates to a planned broadcast regarding certain information regarding Mr O'Brien's relationship with IBRC. Lawyers for Mr O'Brien said they accepted that following comments made by the Sinn F¨¦in TD Pearse Doherty in the D¨¢il on Tuesday evening, there was nothing in the proposed RT¨¦ script that had been injuncted that warranted further restraint. The lawyer added that as far as he was concerned, the script in its entirety could be published, as a result of events that had happened outside the courtroom. On Tuesday, Mr Doherty gave details of what he said were documents related to Mr O'Brien's IBRC loans during a debate in the D¨¢il. The Sinn F¨¦in finance spokesman said he had documents which led to questions about the way IBRC was run in the public interest.", "question": "Irish @placeholder broadcaster RT¨¦ is trying to get an injunction granted to Ireland 's richest man discharged .", "option_0": "culture", "option_1": "prop", "option_2": "wing", "option_3": "news", "option_4": "state"}
{"id": 1253, "article": "The car, going at 88mph, hit a pole causing a power cut and stopping the town clock, the spoof statement said. The satire was among the first of what could end up being many tributes paid on Back to the Future Day. Movie fans are celebrating 21 October 2015, the date Marty and Doc visited in the 1989 sci-fi time travel adventure sequel Back to the Future II. The crash described in the police press release mirrors the key moment in the Back to the Future II plot, when Marty McFly, 17, and Doc go forward in time. It said officers asked the 17-year-old driver what speed he had been doing, to which he replied, 88mph (142km/h) - the speed the pair's modified silver DeLorean had to hit to trigger the flux capacitor to send them back in time. \"A 17-year-old man was charged and was in possession of a licence which expired over 30 years ago,\" police said. \"Investigations into the vehicle and what a flux capacitor is, are ongoing.\" It also posted an edited image of officers rushing to the scene on their hoverboards. Mount Isa Cinema owner Jodi Saunders was quoted as saying the driver had asked when Jaws 19 - the film being screened at the Holomax cinema in the film - was showing. Mount Isa Mayor Tony McGrady, meanwhile, was quoted as saying repairs were under way to save the clock tower, which in the famous scene is hit by lightning. Queensland Police Media is famed for its light-hearted social media posts. It has previously posted warnings on Facebook about wet roads from the tears of Top Gear fans after the show was cancelled, and has cautioned drivers not to \"go ape\" after a lorry carrying bananas crashed.", "question": "Police in Queensland say they have @placeholder their \" hoverboard unit \" after a silver car crashed near a cinema .", "option_0": "condemned", "option_1": "paid", "option_2": "deployed", "option_3": "lost", "option_4": "seized"}
{"id": 1254, "article": "But the Tories and Labour are today behaving as if the risk of another such shock in the current parliament is nil, because in different ways they've both limited their room to offset the impact of one. And history would teach us that the economy tends to go pop when we least expect it. So what have they announced? Well the Tories have said they would legislate within 100 days of forming a government to make it illegal for a chancellor during the life of the next parliament to raise income tax rates, VAT or National Insurance. There are a couple of things to say about this. First some will see it as a blatant admission that what politicians say, in their manifestos and elsewhere during an election campaign, isn't to be trusted. If we need a new law to convince us Tories won't put up taxes, that implies everything else they've promised during the election campaign is in the category of good intentions, which could be abandoned the moment the going gets tough. Which is hardly likely to reinforce our confidence in the political class. David Cameron would probably say he's prepared to take that risk, because he wants to reinforce the so-called brand of the Conservative Party that it will take as little money as necessary from us to maintain the public services we see as essential - and wants to imply that Labour is less responsible with our precious income. But it is odd, perhaps, that he won't make the same legislated commitment not to put up business taxes or rates, given that he has been frantically positioning the Tories as the pro-business party, in contrast to Ed Miliband's putative anti-business stance. But if businesses aren't to get legislated protection for the corporation tax and rates they pay, they might begin to fear they are the thin end of the Conservatives' no-tax-rises wedge. And then there are a couple of points to make about the conventional view of how best to run an economy. First is that orthodoxy in the Treasury for donkey's years has been that no chancellor should have his or her hands bound (one golden day there'll be a \"her\") in respect of what taxes can be increased or cut - because no chancellor can possibly have the gift of perfect foresight in regard to what economic circumstances may demand. So it is striking that George Osborne - who would presumably remain chancellor if the Tories are re-elected - has agreed that raising more money from income tax, NI and Vat is off limits - it deprives him of revenue-raising flexibility in respect of the three big taxes, which collectively are forecast to raise 65% of all taxation next year. In other words, he has restricted his fiscal room for manoeuvre by two thirds. Now that may or may not reassure voters, but it may not reassure credit rating agencies. How so? Well the UK still has one of the top-notch ratings for its debt, which helps the government to borrow at interest rates which are less than zero (adjusting for inflation). But the AAA and almost-AAA ratings given to us by assorted agencies are based in part on the idea that we have a robust economy able to raise whatever taxes are required to fill a hole, as and when the economy is knocked off track. So it is a bit odd perhaps that the Tories are sending out a signal that there are certain taxes that cannot be adjusted in an upward direction. That said I imagine any no-tax-rises law would contain some kind of force majeure clause, allowing it to be over-ridden in a fully-fledged fiscal crisis. But if that's the case, why bother with the law in the first place. So to get back to where I started, the law is only compelling at all if you believe there can't possibly be a serious economic setback in the next parliament. And that would seem an eccentric assumption to make, after looking around the world - in that the potential for accidents to occur everywhere from Beijing, to Frankfurt to Moscow is not de minimis. To be clear, a similar point can be made about Ed Miliband's pledge today that he would increase tax credits at least in line with inflation every year - in that there may be circumstances when saving a bit of money by being a bit meaner with them would be in the national interest. But in his case he is not planning a law to guarantee these increases. Or at least he hasn't spoken of such a law yet, although there are eight days left of this intriguing election campaign.", "question": "In most British people 's @placeholder , the Great Crash and Recession of 2008 probably feels like yesterday - the defining economic shock of our age , we continue to live with its noxious effects .", "option_0": "perspective", "option_1": "countries", "option_2": "minds", "option_3": "rules", "option_4": "terms"}
{"id": 1255, "article": "Both attackers, reportedly from Central Asia, were shot dead after wounding two policemen. The gunmen were wielding firearms and axes and attacked police in Balashikha, east of Moscow. IS made the claim via Amaq, a news agency linked to the group. Also on Wednesday Russian special forces killed four suspected militants in a shoot-out forces during a raid on an apartment block in St Petersburg. Russia has long been battling extremism in the North Caucasus. Most Russians who have gone to fight for IS in Syria come from this area. The insurgency in the Caucasus followed two bitter separatist conflicts in Russia's Chechnya republic and has occasionally spilled over into violence in other parts of Russia.", "question": "The so - called Islamic State group has said it was behind an attack carried out on @placeholder police outside Moscow on Wednesday .", "option_0": "riot", "option_1": "syrian", "option_2": "sex", "option_3": "traffic", "option_4": "alert"}
{"id": 1256, "article": "During his confirmation hearing to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen Joseph Dunford called Russia's recent actions \"nothing short of alarming\". Relations between the US and Russia have deteriorated since Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea region last year. A pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine has also prompted US sanctions. \"So if you want to talk about a nation that could pose an existential threat to the United States, I'd have to point to Russia.\" Gen Dunford told senators on Thursday. Some US lawmakers have pushed for the military to provide lethal weapons to Ukraine's government, a move Gen Dunford called \"reasonable\". \"Frankly, without that kind of support, they are not going to be able to defend themselves against Russian aggression,\" Gen Dunford said. Thus far the US has only provided non-lethal equipment and training for Ukrainian forces. More than 6,000 people have been killed in fighting in Ukraine, which began in April 2014, between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Russia denies arming the rebels or sending troops there.", "question": "A general in @placeholder for the highest US military post says Russia poses the greatest threat to national security .", "option_0": "attendance", "option_1": "charge", "option_2": "line", "option_3": "office", "option_4": "demand"}
{"id": 1257, "article": "Officers mounted a river search and scrambled a helicopter in a bid to find Josh Dinning, from Gateshead, who had not been seen since Monday night. Police were called at 09:15 BST and an initial search found nothing. He was discovered three hours later in a drawer under his bed. He said he had not wanted to go to school. A Northumbria Police spokesman said the force was reviewing the search to find out why the \"hidden compartment\" had not been checked. His mother, Michelle Dinning, a widow and mother of eight, said she had hoped Josh was already at school when she could not find him. But then the school rang to say he had not arrived, so she called the police. \"At that stage it all got very real and I was panicking, thinking the worst could have happened,\" she said. Word of Josh's disappearance spread and dozens of neighbours joined the search, handing out pictures of him which had been printed off by a library. Ms Dinning said: \"I suggested one more look around the house - this time the police lifted the beds. \"I bent down and saw the green of Josh's school shirt and burst into tears.\" Josh said: \"I could hear people looking for me and I thought I had better stay quiet because when they found me I would get shouted and bawled at so I just stayed where I was.\" His brother Scott, 20, said: \"It's hard to believe that while all this was going on he was just curled up under his bed.\"", "question": "A nine - year - old boy who sparked a police search when his mother @placeholder to find him missing was discovered hiding under his bed .", "option_0": "responded", "option_1": "written", "option_2": "refused", "option_3": "tried", "option_4": "awoke"}
{"id": 1258, "article": "Last Monday, Venezuela deployed 17,000 troops along the border and began closing all the crossings at night. The one-month ban will be lifted in mid-September. Before the restrictions, up to 40% of goods Venezuela subsidises for its domestic market were being smuggled into Colombia, the authorities said. The goods were being sold illegally in Colombia at much higher prices. More than 20,000 litres of fuel have been seized from alleged smugglers in the past eight days, the Venezuelan authorities said. Venezuela, a major oil producer, has the cheapest petrol prices in the world. It costs less than $1 (?¡ê0.60) to fill a medium car's tank. It estimated, before the operation was launched, that 100,000 barrels of petrol were smuggled through its western border every day and sold illegally in Colombia. \"The amount of staples smuggled to Colombia would be enough to load the shelves of our supermarkets,\" Gen Efrain Velasco Lugo, a military spokesman, told El Universal newspaper. \"Those mafias are making a final, desperate attempt to get hold of them. But we are fighting them and vigorously tackling smuggling in the region.\" The Venezuelan military said it has also destroyed or partially blocked 64 paths used by smugglers to cross the porous 2,200-km long (1,360-mile) border. Dissatisfaction with the shortage of many staples, as well as rampant crime and high inflation, led thousands of people in the western Venezuelan states of Tachira and Merida to take to the streets in January. The protests quickly spread to the rest of Venezuela, which faces similar problems. The opposition blames what it says are the failed left-wing policies of the past 15 years - initiated by late President Hugo Chavez - for the country's economic crisis. Correction 11 September 2014: This report, originally published on 19 August, contained a reference to the border closure being agreed by the two countries, based on statements by Venezuelan officials. This has been removed as Colombia later called it a \"unilateral decision\".", "question": "Venezuela says it has arrested 13 people and seized 136 tonnes of @placeholder since it launched an anti-smuggling operation on its border with Colombia .", "option_0": "food", "option_1": "narcotics", "option_2": "marijuana", "option_3": "homes", "option_4": "terms"}
{"id": 1259, "article": "Mr Valls told the BBC Europe could not take all the refugees fleeing what he called terrible wars in Iraq or Syria. \"Otherwise,\" he said, \"our societies will be totally destabilised.\" More than a million migrants, mostly refugees, arrived in Europe last year, many making perilous journeys. On Friday, at least 21 people were killed as their boats sank off Greek islands. Mr Valls also said that France could extend its current state of emergency for \"as long as is necessary\" because of the threat from Islamic State (IS) jihadists, whom he called \"Daesh\". \"We will see if we extend it,\" he said. \"We cannot live forever in a state of emergency.\" The measures were introduced after the IS-led Paris attacks on 13 November and then extended for three months. Mr Valls said the war against IS could last for a generation. \"As long as the threat is there we must use all means at our disposal.\" Katya Adler: Germans struggle to cope with influx Teaching migrants how to behave Migrants feel chill of tighter borders Europe's migrant crisis Mr Valls was speaking to Lyse Doucet, the BBC's chief international correspondent, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Europe, he said, needed to take urgent action to control its external borders. \"If Europe is not capable of protecting its own borders, it's the very idea of Europe that will be questioned.\" Asked about border controls inside Europe which many fear put the passport-free Schengen zone at great risk, Mr Valls said the concept of Europe itself was now in very grave danger. He did not directly criticise Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel for her welcoming message last year to refugees. Mr Valls said she \"had courage\",  but it was clear he believed her message was wrong, our correspondent says. \"A message that says 'Come, you will be welcome' provokes major shifts\" in population, says Mr Valls. He added: \"We know clearly that after the Cologne incidents that with the continuous flow, not only to Germany but the countries of Northern Europe, Austria, the Balkans are confronted with this influx, that's why we need to find practical solutions for our borders.\" Mr Valls was referring to attacks in the German city on New Year's Eve - largely attributed to foreigners - that have sparked 800 complaints, 520 of them relating to sexual crimes. Mrs Merkel will later meet Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Berlin, with both the countries' cabinet members in attendance. EU countries hope Turkey will help to control the flow of migrants reaching the EU from Syria and other conflict zones. On Friday, at least 21 people, including eight children, died when two boats sank off the Greek islands of Farmakonisi and Kalolimnos, the Greek coastguard said. Some 48 survivors reached shore but dozens of other migrants were reported missing. On the issue of the state of emergency, Mr Valls said France was \"at war\", which meant \"using all means in our democracy under the rule of law to protect French people\". Paris attacks: In depth What happened on the night? French politics shift to the right The measure gives police more power to conduct raids and impose house arrests. When asked how long he envisaged the state of emergency remaining, Mr Valls said: \"The time necessary. \"As long as the threat is there, we must use all the means,\" he said, adding that it should stay in place \"until we can get rid of Daesh\", using an acronym for the IS group. \"In Africa, in the Middle East, in Asia we must eradicate, eliminate Daesh,\" he said. \"It is a total and global war that we are facing with terrorism,\" he added. \"The war we are conducting must also be total, global and ruthless.\" Mr Valls said France \"could see attacks again\", adding that six plots had been foiled over the past few months. Attackers linked to IS killed 130 people in co-ordinated assaults across Paris in November, leading to the first declaration of a state of emergency in France in 10 years. The measures are set to expire on 26 February. This week, a group of UN human rights experts said they were \"excessive and disproportionate\".", "question": "French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has warned that Europe 's @placeholder crisis is putting the EU at grave risk .", "option_0": "migration", "option_1": "spending", "option_2": "mainland", "option_3": "beat", "option_4": "food"}
{"id": 1260, "article": "Meeke, who had led after day one, withdrew after damaging his gearbox when he slipped off the road during the 12th stage. Triple world champion Sebastien Ogier will go into Sunday's final day with the best part of a two-minute lead over Volkswagen team-mate Andreas Mikkelsen. Hyundai's Belgian driver Thierry Neuville is in third place. Meeke, 36, is racing a reduced season for Citroen in 2016 but will compete in the full series for the team in 2017 and 2018. The County Tyrone man will race in six to eight rounds of this year's championship as he helps develops a new car.", "question": "Northern Ireland 's Kris Meeke @placeholder his Citroen on the third day of the Monte Carlo Rally on Saturday .", "option_0": "started", "option_1": "lost", "option_2": "retired", "option_3": "won", "option_4": "smashed"}
{"id": 1261, "article": "Kenny Miller's first-half strike secured victory against Luxembourg's Progres Niederkorn in their Europa League first round qualifier. \"I'm not a guy that can make miracles in three weeks,\" said boss Caixinha, who fielded five of his new signings. \"The team is ready to get the rhythm. You only get it playing and by time.\" Three new arrivals - Fabio Cardoso, Ryan Jack and Dalcio - started the match, with fellow summer captures Daniel Candeias and Alfredo Morelos coming on as substitutes. Miller's first-half finish ensured the Ibrox side take a lead into Tuesday's second leg, but Caixinha's side were expected to win far more comfortably against the part-timers. \"It's not a question of fitness, it's a question of time to get the fitness,\" Caixinha added. \"The majority of the players had a good performance, a good rhythm. It's not a question of fitness but it's more a question of better decisions and more aggression.\" Niko Kranjcar, signed last summer by Mark Warburton but injured for most of the campaign, was the star of the show for Rangers. And Caixinha believes the Croat can be a key figure this term. \"He's a fantastic player, a playmaker, he's someone that understands the game,\" the manager added. \"With some freshness in the legs and some freshness in his decisions, we were producing some fantastic football. \"He knows how to play between lines, how to make the last pass, his delivery on set-pieces was great. So he needs to keep playing to get the rhythm. \"We are building a team and we know it's better to build with a small result but at the same time a win. We want to progress and keep going in this competition but, of course, in the second leg we need to do more and we want to keep going.\" The Portuguese coach says his side will be set up to go for the win at the Stade Josy Barthel on Tuesday. \"It is half-time and we are winning,\" he said. \"I don't want the team to think that we are winning going there and to just think about a draw or a 2-1 or whatever. \"I'm not thinking like that. I just think about winning. This is the mentality of our club and the standards demanded. This is the way we need to think.\" Progres boss Paolo Amodio said. \"We will start with 0-0 next week and anything is possible in football. \"I think all the pressure is on Rangers to make sure they go through. They probably expected to win tonight by five or six goals and it's not the case so anything could happen next week.\" Should Rangers reach the second round, they look likely to face Cypriot side AEL Limassol, who won 4-0 away to St Joseph's of Gibraltar.", "question": "Pedro Caixinha insists his new - look Rangers side needs time to find @placeholder after they laboured to a 1 - 0 win on their return to Europe after six years .", "option_0": "form", "option_1": "fortunes", "option_2": "fitness", "option_3": "criticism", "option_4": "title"}
{"id": 1262, "article": "After intense criticism that the United States was not doing its part to help with the migrant crisis afflicting Europe, the Obama administration announced in September that it wanted to resettle about 10,000 Syrian refugees in the US by the same time next year. The decision was met with some fear that militants could exploit the refugee programme to gain entry into the US to carry out attacks. After the attacks in Paris, which left 129 dead, and the news that one of the attackers may have entered Europe as a refugee, those fears have become amplified and spread to governors' mansions across the country as well as the corridors of Congress. Syrian refugees in the US explained in graphics Newly elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives Paul Ryan has now called for a \"pause\" in the US refugee program. He tweeted, \"Our nation has always been welcoming, but we can't let terrorists take advantage of our compassion.\" The process for a Syrian refugee to resettle in the US is long and arduous, involving numerous federal agencies and intense background checks. Compared to Europe, where fingerprints and simple information are taken and migrants can resettle with little difficulty, US processes look very different and are much stricter. It is a long road for a Syrian refugee coming to the US - so where does it start? As cities, town and villages have been overrun, millions of Syrian people have become displaced both internally and externally. But to be eligible for permanent resettlement in another country, displaced persons have to leave Syria and find a camp run by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in a neighbouring country. Many of these camps offer only the most basic living conditions. Upon arrival at the camp, the displaced person registers as a refugee and is given the option to apply for resettlement. Nothing is guaranteed at this point. Not every refugee will be referred by the UNHCR for resettlement. Refugees are allowed to express an interest in particular countries, but the decision on resettlement is ultimately at the UNHCR's discretion. The UNHCR then determines which refugees for whom resettlement makes sense, a senior administration official said. Certain refugees get recommended to the programme in the US. The State Department takes over after a referral is made from the UNHCR, and the Department of Homeland Security decides whether an individual application is approved. Certain indicators for why a refugee may be recommended for the US programme include: if he or she has a relative in the US or whether it is likely he or she will be welcomed by a certain community. \"With Syrians, we've benefitted from years of experience in vetting Iraqi refugee applicants,\" one senior Obama administration official said. The screening is \"robust since large-scale Iraqi processing in 2007.\" If a refugee is cleared to be considered by the US, the process for approval is lengthy - 18-24 months, said one senior administration official. Refugees are admitted at about a 50% acceptance rate after being subjected to \"the most rigorous screening of any traveller to the US,\" an official told reporters in a conference call. That involves extensive in-person interviews about their experiences with conflict, as well as the collection of both biometric and biographic information that is cross-checked with the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and in some cases, the Department of Defense. 4,289,792 registered Syrian refugees around the world 2,370 Syrian refugee arrivals in the US since Oct 2001 Ten thousand people have been referred for resettlement in the US, but the US has not processed their applications yet. After 18-24 months, a refugee may then be sent to his or her new community. The BBC spoke with one young man who resettled with his family outside of Louisville, Kentucky in September. A local church organisation funded by the US government helped him land a job at a car factory. He wants to attend university in the US someday. Like the organisation that helped this man, there are nine organisations that work with the federal government to place refugees across the US.", "question": "In the wake of the attacks in Paris , at least 24 US governors have said that they want Syrian refugees @placeholder from resettling in their states . What checks do Syrian refugees face before they enter the US ?", "option_0": "reeling", "option_1": "rise", "option_2": "recovered", "option_3": "barred", "option_4": "suffer"}
{"id": 1263, "article": "David and Carol Martin, both aged 54, appeared at a news conference at the Dalmahoy Hotel, south of Edinburgh. Mrs Martin said she was stunned when her husband said they had won. \"I thought he was just joking,\" she said. \"I couldn't believe it.\" Mr Martin said it felt \"great\" to have landed the huge win. They were one of two ticket holders who matched the six winning numbers 26, 27, 46, 47, 52 and 58. The couple received a cheque for ¡ê33,035,323. The record jackpot followed 14 consecutive rollovers. The Borders husband and wife said they were relaxing at home on Sunday morning with the lottery ticket on their mantelpiece and only checked it when a friend urged them to do so. They used a mobile phone to check the numbers and the first line contained all six winning ones. \"Obviously the initial shock was surreal,\" said Mr Martin. \"If we had won ¡ê50,000 we would have probably been dancing round the living room,\" said Mr Martin. \"But when we were sitting looking at each other and we had won ¡ê33m we didn't speak to each other for about five minutes. \"We were in total shock.\" The first person to be told the news was their 26-year-old daughter, Lisa, who lives in Australia. Mr Martin said she had thought they were \"pulling her leg\" when they told her the scale of their win. They now plan a family reunion this weekend to begin planning their futures. \"My daughter's in Australia so that will be the first purchase, probably a first class flight home from Australia,\" said Mr Martin. Mr and Mrs Martin said they intended to take early retirement as soon as possible. Mr Martin has been working for the last eight years for Borders Care and Repair (part of Eildon Housing Association) which helps elderly and disabled people fit specialist equipment in their home.? Mrs Martin has worked in the local chemist for most of her working life. The couple, who have been married for 28 years, said they would love a new home in the country, near where they live now, and perhaps a holiday home in the sun. They also intend to help their family and closest friends. Mr Martin said they might look at some ways to help their home town which has been badly affected by flooding recently. \"It has been everywhere with the flooding, not just Hawick,\" he said. \"It is something we will look into. Hawick is a tight-knit community.\" The couple insisted they would not be changed by the win. \"It will certainly change our lives but as people it won't change us,\" said Mr Martin. \"We were happy without the money so hopefully we will be happy with it.\" Even though the prize total is shared, it is still the biggest National Lottery win. However, Saturday's prize is still dwarfed by the the biggest UK win in the Euromillions lottery, a draw where prize money comes from ticket sales in several European countries. Another Scottish couple, Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs, North Ayrshire, collected ¡ê161.6m in 2011.", "question": "A couple from Hawick in the Scottish Borders have been @placeholder as the winners of half of last Saturday 's record ¡ê 66 m National Lottery jackpot .", "option_0": "named", "option_1": "criticised", "option_2": "unveiled", "option_3": "hailed", "option_4": "identified"}
{"id": 1264, "article": "The translation of works from one of India's most famous poets was by Chinese novelist Feng Tang. His publisher said on Monday that it was removing the work from sale following the \"huge debate\" in China's literary and translation circles. Mr Feng has defended his translation, saying a previous version lacked style. Tagore, known as the Bard of Bengal and seen as a literary god in India, was the first non-European to win the Nobel prize for literature. Chinese media picked up on Mr Feng's version of Tagore's Stray Birds poetry collection in recent days, noting that it differed greatly from past Chinese translations. A review by the Chinese Communist Party's mouthpiece People's Daily savaged the work, saying Mr Feng used \"inelegant and vulgar words that makes one look askance\". Much of the criticism appeared to centre on one particular poem, but others in the collection were heavily criticised as too inaccurate, or for using speech that was too informal. Mr Feng had based his translation on an English version of Tagore's original poems which were written in Bengali. Tagore's original (English version) The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal Feng Tang's translation The vast world unzips its trousers in front of its lover Long as a tongue kiss Slim as a verse Publisher Zhejiang Arts and Culture Press noted on its microblog that the Stray Birds translation had \"elicited a huge debate among our domestic literary and translation scenes\". It said that the books would be pulled off shelves nationwide while  a group of experts evaluated the translation. Mr Feng is known for his racy depictions of Beijing youth in the 1990s in his works, reported AFP news agency. The author defended his work in an interview with the Dongfang Daily newspaper, saying he did not believe he had mistranslated Tagore. Responding to criticism that his translation style had \"gone below the baseline\", he said: \"There are different understandings of original works and their authors' intentions. Who gets to decide what should be the baseline?\" He added that a previous Chinese translation of the same work, which many had compared his work to, was basically accurate but \"lacked childlike, spiritual, animalistic and natural poetic meaning\". The decision to pull the translation off shelves, however, sparked another backlash, as netizens complained that this amounted to censorship. \"Whatever the reason, a published book should not be pulled off the shelves, this is the responsibility of a publisher and is its most basic undertaking,\" said Weibo user Tuke2012. Another user, AhRRRQ, said: \"I'm not a fan of Feng Tang and especially don't think much of his translation. But I hope this action was borne out of a decision by the publisher, and not because of some cultural agency or leader's 'administrative intervention'.\"", "question": "A Chinese publisher has pulled a translation of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore 's poems after it sparked controversy for racy @placeholder .", "option_0": "words", "option_1": "translation", "option_2": "content", "option_3": "office", "option_4": "events"}
{"id": 1265, "article": "The Thaad system is designed to protect against threats from North Korea. Hundreds of local residents protested against the deployment, as vehicles carrying equipment arrived at the site in the south of the country. China argues Thaad will destabilise security in the region. The US has in recent days deployed warships and a submarine to the Korean peninsula, amid fears North Korea could be planning further missile or nuclear tests. The Trump administration, which has been urging China to rein in its ally, North Korea, is due to hold a classified briefing for senators on the situation at the White House later on Wednesday. The Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) system is designed to intercept and destroy short and medium-range ballistic missiles during their final phase of flight. \"South Korea and the United States have been working to secure an early operational capability of the Thaad system in response to North Korea's advancing nuclear and missile threat,\" South Korea's defence ministry said in a statement. The system - agreed last year under the Obama administration - is not expected to be operational until the end of 2017, it added. The development coincides with China launching a new aircraft carrier - the first to be made domestically - in a bid to boost its own military presence in the region. Television footage showed military trailers carrying what appeared to be defence equipment to a disused golf course some 250km (155 miles) south of the South Korean capital Seoul on Wednesday morning. Dozens of police lined the road, trying to block hundreds of protesters, some of whom were hurling water bottles at the vehicles. More than 10 people were injured in the clashes with police, activists said. Many of the protesters were local residents of the two towns closest to the military site. \"We will continue our fight and there's still time for Thaad to be actually up and running so we will fight until equipment is withdrawn from the site and ask South Korea's new government to reconsider the plan,\" protester Kim Jong-kyung told Reuters news agency. Police were unable to confirm the casualties. What impact will S Korea's expanded missile defence system have? China has expressed \"serious concern\" over the Thaad deployment and is urging the US and South Korea to withdraw the system, foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters on Wednesday. The deployment has caused significant tension with China - South Korea's largest trading partner - and coincided with a number of economic measures imposed by China, including a ban on tour groups which saw a 40% drop in the number of Chinese visitors in the past month. South Korea last month lodged a complaint with the World Trade Organization, but China denies its recent moves are related to the Thaad deployment. With tensions high in the region, North Korea and the US are continuing to exchange heated rhetoric over the scale of Pyongyang's missile and nuclear programme. US Vice-President Mike Pence warned North Korea not to \"test\" President Donald Trump, after it conducted a failed ballistic missile test on 16 April. On Tuesday, a US submarine - the USS Michigan - joined a group of warships in the Korean peninsula led by aircraft carrier Carl Vinson. US President Donald Trump had earlier vowed to send an \"armada\" to the region over North Korea's missile tests. North Korea meanwhile threatened to sink the aircraft carrier and launch a \"super-mighty pre-emptive strike\" against what it called US aggression. Chinese President Xi Jinping urged \"restraint\" on North Korea in a telephone call with President Trump on Monday.", "question": "The US military has started installing a controversial missile defence system at a site in South Korea , amid high tensions over @placeholder North Korea 's nuclear and missile ambitions .", "option_0": "bury", "option_1": "neighbouring", "option_2": "marred", "option_3": "leaving", "option_4": "developing"}
{"id": 1266, "article": "Avon lady Louise Houghton and neighbour Lisa Quinton were both bitten on the legs during two separate incidents at the house in Isfryn Road, Meliden. Donna Whitelam, 41, had pleaded guilty to having a dog dangerously out of control and causing injury. Llandudno magistrates banned her from keeping dogs for two years. Whitelam had also admitted two lesser charges of owning dogs dangerously out of control. Magistrate John Rooney said the dogs had \"acted in a pack temperament\". He sentenced Whitelam to a 12-month community order, and ordered to pay the victims ?¡ê500 each in compensation.", "question": "Five bulldogs involved in attacks on two women as they called at the owners ' house in Prestatyn must be @placeholder , a court has ordered .", "option_0": "abandoned", "option_1": "declared", "option_2": "identified", "option_3": "dropped", "option_4": "destroyed"}
{"id": 1267, "article": "The 24-year-old Spain player conceded a penalty in last week's win at Arsenal and BBC pundit Garth Crooks claimed Liverpool would be relegated if he remained in the team. \"Alberto could have done better but I don't really understand what we are talking about,\" Klopp said. \"I cannot be interested in criticism from other people.\" Moreno's tackle on Theo Walcott for the penalty at the Emirates was described on TV by former England coach Gary Neville as \"absolute garbage\". Klopp said of the Spanish defender, a ¡ê12m signing from Sevilla two years ago: \"Are we doing this every time someone's performance isn't very good then we talk about it in a press conference? \"He played, so there was a reason for it - that is what I think about and not what other people want me to think.\" Moreno remains the only specialist left-back at the club after summer target Ben Chilwell opted to sign a new contract with Premier League champions Leicester. However, Klopp says he is not concerned by the position, claiming: \"We are not blind and we have other options. Milly [James Milner] can play it really good, we saw that in the Barcelona game. \"I had a talk to him as I didn't want to force a new position on an experienced player. \"Nathaniel Clyne played it, Trent Alexander plays right full-back so we have options and on a very defensive day Ragnar Klavan can play there. \"It is possible to take another [player on a transfer] but only if it is the guy we want.\" Meanwhile, the German was optimistic the shoulder injury sustained by recent signing Sadio Mane in training would not sideline the former Southampton forward for too long. \"It was a challenge with two players up in the air coming down and Sadio fell on his shoulder but it is not that serious,\" Klopp explained \"At this moment I have no idea if he could be available for the weekend [at Burnley] but I don't think it will take a long time. \"At the first moment it was not too good but I think it is all OK.\"", "question": "Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp insists he will not be @placeholder by recent criticism of Reds left - back Alberto Moreno .", "option_0": "swayed", "option_1": "inspired", "option_2": "marred", "option_3": "questioned", "option_4": "boosted"}
{"id": 1268, "article": "A Sky Blues spokesman said the club was considering moving to Coventry Rugby Club's Butts Park Arena. The League 1 side has two years left on its agreement to play home matches at the Ricoh Arena. Rugby club chairman Jon Sharp said both sides were looking at the \"feasibility\" of the plans and talking to architects over possible expansion of the stadium. More on this and other stories from Coventry and Warwickshire Butts Park could be redesigned to have between 15,000 and 25,000 seats, he said, but if it helped improve the rugby club's facilities and gave the football team a permanent home the deal would \"make sense\". \"The two clubs have been talking for couple of years about training together and community work - this is [a] natural extension of that,\" he said. Mr Sharp added talks were still at an early stage, and that no timescale had been put on the plans, which he said would probably take at least two years. Coventry City have played at the Ricoh Arena since leaving Highfield Road in 2005, and shared it with rugby union side Wasps since 2014. The Ricoh has been the centre of several legal battles, and the Sky Blues were forced to play their home games for the 2013/14 season in Northampton after a rent dispute with the stadium's owners.", "question": "Coventry City has confirmed it has held talks with the city 's rugby club over a potential @placeholder - sharing deal .", "option_0": "beat", "option_1": "income", "option_2": "life", "option_3": "ground", "option_4": "centre"}
{"id": 1269, "article": "The options may include chemotherapy and radiation, his doctors said. The 80-year-old politician is in \"good spirits\" recovering at home. The tumour was discovered during a surgery to remove a blood clot from above his left eye last week. A Vietnam veteran, Mr McCain spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. The six-term senator and 2008 Republican presidential candidate underwent surgery at a clinic in Phoenix, in the state of Arizona, last Friday. Tissue analysis revealed that a primary brain tumour known as glioblastoma was associated with the clot, a statement from the Mayo Clinic said. \"The senator's doctors say he is recovering from his surgery 'amazingly well' and his underlying health is excellent,\" it added. \"Treatment options may include a combination of chemotherapy and radiation.\" By James Cook, BBC North America correspondent John McCain is known in Washington as a tough, independent-minded senator - a warrior who is now facing another battle against cancer. He earned his reputation the hard way, being shot down as a US Navy pilot over Vietnam where he was held as a prisoner of war for more than five years, including two in solitary confinement. Repeatedly beaten and tortured, Mr McCain was never again able to raise his arms above his head. During the most recent presidential election campaign, Donald Trump belittled the senator as \"not a war hero\" saying \"I like people who weren't captured\". Many Americans were horrified. Mr McCain may have annoyed many Republicans by arguing for reforms to campaign finance and immigration laws. He may have irritated opponents of America's many wars with his forceful arguments in favour of the projection of US military might. But this country reveres its veterans. The attacks on John McCain's personal sacrifice were roundly condemned then - and millions of Americans will be praying for his recovery now. Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive brain tumour, and increases in frequency with age, affecting more men than women. Mr McCain, who is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, was in \"good spirits as he continues to recover at home with his family\", his office said. His family reacted with \"shock\" to the news, his 32-year-old daughter Meghan said. \"It won't surprise you to learn that in all of this, the one of us who is most confident and calm is my father,\" she said on Twitter. \"So he is meeting this challenge as he has every other. Cancer may afflict him in many ways: but it will not make him surrender. Nothing ever has.\" President Donald Trump said Mr McCain has \"always been a fighter\" and, in a statement, said: \"Get well soon\". Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Mr McCain was a \"hero to our country\". \"He has never shied from a fight, and I know that he will face this challenge with the same extraordinary courage that has characterized his life,\" he said on Twitter. Former President Barack Obama tweeted: \"John McCain is an American hero and one of the bravest fighters I've ever known. Cancer doesn't know what it's up against. Give it hell, John.\"", "question": "Veteran US Republican Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer and is @placeholder treatment options , according to his office .", "option_0": "leaving", "option_1": "show", "option_2": "reviewing", "option_3": "causing", "option_4": "witnessing"}
{"id": 1270, "article": "English is one of the advantages India has which are said to be propelling it to economic superpower status. There are all those Indians who speak excellent English. It's the mother tongue of the elite and effectively the official language of the central government. Then there is the growing number of parents who now aspire to give their children an education through the medium of that language. But is the craze for English an unmixed blessing? Back in the sixties the British regarded Indian English as something of a joke. The comic actor Peter Sellers had mocked it so comprehensively that I found it well nigh impossible to get the BBC to allow anyone with even the faintest Indian accent on the air. In India, we native English speakers laughed at quaint phrases like \"please do the necessary and oblige\", or more simply \"please do the needful\", and \"it is suggested that the meeting be preponed\", which appeared regularly in Indian official correspondence. A senior British diplomat once suggested that his PA should find some less geographically specific way of answering the telephone when he couldn't take the call than saying, \"Sahib is not on his seat\". Much to the diplomat's dismay a colleague told him that his PA had misunderstood the instruction and been even more specific. He'd told the colleague, \"Sahib is in the lavatory.\" Now with Indian writers carrying off the major literary awards, and Westerners in the IT and BPO industries talking of being \"bangalored\" when they are replaced by English-speaking Indians, Indian English is anything but a joke. But could the very success of English in India \"bangalore\" India's own languages? The linguist Professor David Crystal speaking in Delhi said: \"A language is dying every two weeks somewhere in the world today. Half the world's languages will no longer be spoken in another century. This is an extremely serious concern, and English has to share the blame.\" Others put it less politely, describing English as a killer language. But should India worry if English kills off some of its 22 officially recognised and hundreds of its not-so-official languages? Perhaps the answer is no. In his book comparing the future of India, China, and Japan, the former editor of The Economist, Bill Emmott, said India fell short of China in almost every measure except the ability to speak English. So why shouldn't India build on its one advantage? One practical reason is because, looking back over the history of India since it became independent in 1947, it is clear that any threat to Indian languages has the potential to provoke a violent backlash. Mark Tully is a writer and former BBC India correspondent. This is an edited extract from his new book,  Non Stop India, published by Penguin Books, India", "question": "Whether the government , the private sector or NGOs should deliver development is a question which will not have much @placeholder unless India 's wealth continues to grow to pay for that development .", "option_0": "issues", "option_1": "resolution", "option_2": "following", "option_3": "relevance", "option_4": "baffled"}
{"id": 1271, "article": "Michael Forbes' art portrays the US President-elect and also Madonna, who is shown as the Statue of Liberty. Black Isle-based Forbes created the piece this week. Madonna, who opposed Trump's election campaign, has posted an image of the painting on her Facebook and Instagram pages. Her post to Facebook has had more than 57,000 \"likes\" and her Instagram post more than 40,000. Pop surrealist artist Forbes is part of the Tripping Up Trump movement which protested against the building of Trump's golf resort at the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire. The artist painted a mural on a barn of a farmer, also called Michael Forbes, who refused to sell land to Trump for the golf course. Artist Forbes has a gallery in New York and his work in Scotland includes posters for the Highlands' Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, created his painting of Trump this week. Among the latest Trump piece's references are the US election's popular vote won by Hillary Clinton. She lost the election due to the electoral college system. American comic book superhero and pop culture icon, Superman, also appears in Forbes' piece. Madonna features because of her views on Trump and also Forbes' admiration of her activities in the gay community in the US. The artist, who in his youth worked as an assistant to British Pop artist Gerald Laing, has been amused and pleased with the reaction to his Trump painting. He said: \"After Madonna posted it on Instagram my phone has been ringing repeatedly with people telling me about it.\" President-elect Trump takes the oath of office on Friday with an estimated 900,000 people expected to gather in Washington for the induction and related activities.", "question": "A Scottish artist 's painting of Donald Trump as King Kong has been @placeholder thousands of times online after postings by singer Madonna .", "option_0": "declared", "option_1": "crowned", "option_2": "shared", "option_3": "awarded", "option_4": "beaten"}
{"id": 1272, "article": "The search was launched after Pepsi vanished at Findon on Monday afternoon. Potential sightings were reported in the Portlethen area, where the dog was located on Tuesday afternoon. Pepsi's owner Claire Muir, of Aberdeen, told the BBC Scotland news website it was \"amazing\" news and thanked everyone who had helped. She said: \"Pepsi has been found safe and well in the outskirts of the Portlethen area by my incredible parents. \"She's been checked over by vets and she's safe, well, hungry and as cheeky and hyper as ever! \"Simon, myself and all our friends and family who dote on Pepsi are so thankful from the bottom of our dog-loving hearts. Seeing strangers pull together over social media in such a short time and making such a big difference is unbelievable. \"We'll thank everyone properly as soon as we get this girl home and washed.\"", "question": "A dog who sparked a major coastguard and lifeboat search after disappearing near @placeholder has been found safe .", "option_0": "home", "option_1": "material", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "marina", "option_4": "cliffs"}
{"id": 1273, "article": "But they are linked through a song which captures the hope and despair of Wales' quest to reach a first major football championships since 1958. Manic Street Preachers release their Euro 2016 song Together Stronger (C'Mon Wales) on Friday. Yet an oversight meant the process of recording it nearly ended in failure. The song has its roots in the build-up to a match 23 years ago, when a team which included Ryan Giggs, Ian Rush and Mark Hughes was on the verge of qualifying for the 1994 World Cup. \"Back then, the only chant fans had to sing was (to the tune of) an outdated John Lennon song that went 'all we are singing is give us a goal'. \"It sounded desperate,\" said John Morgan, then head of promos at BBC Wales. As a do-or-die clash with Romania approached, he wanted to find a tune that would \"capture the imagination of a nation\" and turned to an unlikely source - 1978 film The Deer Hunter. \"People remember the Russian roulette scene near the end, but I remembered a brilliant song sung by Frankie Valli in the film,\" Mr Morgan said. \"There is a little sequence with soldiers in a Pittsburgh bar about to go to Vietnam. They are all singing along, letting their hair down, before facing the terrible thing. \"It stuck in my head and I thought that would do it.\" Andy Williams' version of that song - Can't Take My Eyes Off You - was used in television adverts and came to symbolise, for a generation of fans, the agony of a missed Paul Bodin penalty and a 2-1 defeat. \"I can remember walking up to the stadium and suddenly there was not that fear in the crowd, just jubilation,\" said Manics singer, James Dean Bradfield. \"Obviously we know it was misplaced now, but the crowd was singing this song and you could hear it all the way down Westgate Street.\" For lyricist and bassist Nicky Wire, his \"personal introduction to Welsh forlornness\" was the 1-1 draw with Scotland in 1985 that denied the country qualification for the 1986 World Cup. A \"dodgy hot dog\" which gave him food poisoning and the death of Scotland manager Jock Stein after the game helped create a sense of despondency around such occasions. \"I've written lyrics before when we have had playoffs (Wales lost to Russia over two legs for a place at Euro 2004), but then chucked them away,\" he said. \"For the Israel game (a 0-0 draw in September 2015 which left Wales close to qualifying for France), I was in a Welsh mini-skirt and scarf ready to post a message saying 'happy days'. \"But that selfie is still on my phone ready to go.\" When qualification did come, courtesy of a Cyprus victory over Israel in October 2015, attention turned to how the Manics would mark it. The answer was simple - Wire lyrics set to the tune of Can't Take My Eyes Off You. According to Bradfield, their version would \"retain the spirit of the original\" with Everything Must Go era \"produced trashiness\". As they started recording, Gavin Fitzjohn from Cogan joined the band to record trumpet and saxophone parts. \"I've said a million times how incredible this scenario is. You're getting on with your stuff day-to-day and it pops into your head that we've qualified,\" he said. \"I'm going to hear this (song) a lot probably, so it is a bit nerve-wracking. I need to make sure it's bang on.\" They duly recorded a \"great version\" that Wire said the band was happy with, before they \"hit the wall\" in December and the dream appeared over. \"Like the complete numpties we are, we hadn't checked with the publishers that we could get permission to actually use the song but with our written lyrics,\" said Bradfield. \"(They refused) then we were left with nothing.\" In January, Bradfield said \"a phoenix arose from the flames\" as he had an idea for putting the words to a new tune. \"It's not A Design for Life or If You Tolerate This but they came to me in 10 minutes flat and so did this,\" he said. \"I dashed from the house to the studio and had a really good old bloke moment, thinking 'I can still do it'.\" He praised Wire's words for giving him a \"great template\" to work from. These used the 1958 World Cup quarter-final defeat against Brazil - Wales' last appearance at a major tournament - as a starting point. \"There was a lack of a cultural impact in that era which was really sad as it was still such a great achievement,\" said Wire. \"To lose to the world's greatest player (Pele) and world's greatest team (Brazil) 1-0, in modern times, you would have lived off that for decades.\" He tried to get as many names into the song, but said it would then have ended up as \"just a list of the greatest Welsh players\". One name that did make it was that of former manager Gary Speed, who died in 2011. \"As a player, he was amazing,\" said Wire. \"I remember against Russia (in the Euro 2004 play-off), he tried to drag the whole Wales team up akin to David Beckham versus Greece, saying 'Come on this is it'.\" The band met up with the Welsh football squad at their Vale of Glamorgan base to record the song in March. Wire described it as a classic Manics \"romantic tragedy\" with good doses of Welsh melancholy and enthusiasm. That is not to say it will not provide an upbeat, sing-along soundtrack to many Welsh people's summer. As Bradfield said: \"If New Order, who were Joy Division, can get away with it, then we can get away with it.\"", "question": "Vietnam - bound soldiers drinking in a Pittsburgh bar and football fans in France this summer may sound like two @placeholder sharing little in common .", "option_0": "status", "option_1": "points", "option_2": "groups", "option_3": "messages", "option_4": "countries"}
{"id": 1274, "article": "We have seen other insurrections - most notably at BP - but these have been non binding. What's the difference? Shareholders get to vote on pay every year but only once every three years does their vote have any teeth. This is the moment when the company presents the pay policy. In other words when it lays out the method by which pay will be calculated for the next three years. If shareholders reject this - as Weir's did yesterday - its back to the drawing board. The debate over high pay tends to focus on the injury done to our ideas of fairness and merit. The gap between the boardroom and the shop floor has become a chasm. According to the High Pay Centre, 20 years ago CEOs earned 40 times as much as the average worker. That multiple is now 180. There is increasing support gathering for the view that high pay is not just grossly unfair and socially divisive, it is economically destructive. How so? The argument goes like this. Remember, most company CEOs don't last long. The average tenure for a FTSE 100 boss is five years. Even when bonuses and pay are delayed, the period over which their performance is judged is pretty short. Therefore, the CEO has to work quickly. The best way to maximise profit is to keep prices as high as the market will bear while cutting costs to the bone. That will increase profits in the short term but is also a recipe for a lack of investment in new products, new machinery, new training, new technology, new anything. All the things that, over time, raise an economy's productivity and its citizens living standards. The amount of money businesses are investing in things that will provide long term benefits is lower than at any time since the 1960s. Some writers, like economist Andrew Smithers, argue that it is not too far fetched to link the decline in productivity, the amount of output per worker hour, to the excesses of executive pay. We have been here before. The shareholder spring of 2012 was meant to chasten boards into more comprehensible, more transparent, and less offensive pay awards. It ushered in the idea of a three-yearly binding vote that Weir just lost. And yet here we are today with Bob Dudley trousering ¡ê14m as his shareholders suffer and, wait for it, Sir Martin Sorrell to get a pay award of nearly ¡ê70m (his shareholders made money). Senior city figures realise something is wrong. Nigel Wilson, the chief executive of Legal and General last week launched a working group to examine a pay regime he described as \"broken\". It remains to be seen whether this shareholder spring gives way to yet another long summer for those in the boardroom.", "question": "The roar of shareholder disapproval became @placeholder yesterday as Weir Group became only the second company in UK history to lose a binding vote on executive pay .", "option_0": "closed", "option_1": "hopes", "option_2": "remains", "option_3": "deafening", "option_4": "conditions"}
{"id": 1275, "article": "The staff worked with detainees held on the Pacific island of Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island. A signed letter from the workers argues that Australia must work to resettle refugees held in these centres. It follows the Guardian's publication of more than 2,000 leaked reports from the immigration centre on Nauru. The \"incident reports\" revealed widespread abuse and trauma among children and women at the centre. The former detention centre employees argue that the only way to secure the safety of asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus Island is to  immediately bring them to Australia. \"It's an untenable situation for it to remain the way it is,\" said Toby O'Brien, a former child protection officer for Save the Children. Many of the staff say that they have already given evidence to several investigations. \"Inquiries and so on are not really relevant to addressing the issue right now because quite a number of adults and children are at immediate risk of harm on the island,\" Mr O'Brien told the BBC. \"By the time these inquiries are finished and recommendations are implemented it's highly likely that more people have been harmed.\" The news comes at the government confirmed it had repatriated a group of six Sri Lankans attempting to reach Australia by boat. \"Our Sri Lankan partners provided advice that this vessel might be targeting Australia so we were ready and waiting to locate and detain the boat,\" Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said. The immigration minister last week accused asylum seekers of setting themselves on fire, deliberately self-harming and making false allegations of sexual assault to get to Australia. The government of Nauru said on Monday most incidents detailed in the cache of files were \"fabricated\" and accused Australian media and politicians of using refugees as political pawns. \"Most refugee & advocate claims on Nauru fabricated to achieve goal to get to Aus. So called 'reports' based solely on these claims #fact,\" it wrote on Twitter. \"Aust left wing media, greens MPs and advocates still using refugees as pawns for their political agendas. Very sad.\"", "question": "More than 100 former employees from Australia 's offshore detention centres have called for asylum seekers to be brought to the @placeholder .", "option_0": "mainland", "option_1": "organisation", "option_2": "date", "option_3": "water", "option_4": "facility"}
{"id": 1276, "article": "Italian diplomat Filippo Grandi, who took over the post from Portugal's Antonio Guterres this year, was speaking on a visit to Lebanon. Mr Grandi also urged the EU to do more for Syrian refugees outside Europe. EU leaders have warned of a crisis after more than a million migrants entered illegally last year. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told the BBC this week: \"If Europe can't protect its own borders, it's the very idea of Europe that could be thrown into doubt.\" On Friday, his Dutch counterpart, Mark Rutte, warned: \"When spring comes and the numbers quadruple, we cannot as the EU cope with the numbers any longer.\" The new UN High Commissioner for Refugees has been meeting refugees in camps in Lebanon and Jordan. Speaking to the BBC's Quentin Somerville, Mr Grandi said: \"Europe can absorb more genuine refugees if it would be better organised among the different member-states. \"However, we understand the predicament. It is a social and political predicament which is very serious.\" The EU is drawing up plans to share the \"burden\" of refugees more evenly among member states, scrapping a controversial rule that means they must claim asylum in the first country they arrive in. Hungary, one of the most vocal critics of migration policy, has dismissed the crisis as a \"German problem\" since Germany is where those arriving in the EU \"would like to go\". Mr Grandi also urged the EU to \"do more for the countries of first asylum\" so there would be \"less motivation for people to flee further away\". Katya Adler: Germans struggle to cope with influx Teaching migrants how to behave Migrants feel chill of tighter borders Europe's migrant crisis", "question": "EU states could take more genuine refugees from Syria if they @placeholder together better , the new head of the UN refugee agency has told the BBC .", "option_0": "enjoy", "option_1": "represent", "option_2": "worked", "option_3": "generate", "option_4": "live"}
{"id": 1277, "article": "The 27-year-old also says that working with manager Brendan Rodgers for the third time influenced his decision to leave Aston Villa for Scotland. Following his ¡ê3.5m move, Sinclair hopes to rejuvenate his career. \"[Petrov] told me about the atmosphere and the fans. He thought it would be great for me, to get my football back on track,\" said Sinclair. \"You saw it when I came on and sprinted from my half to get onto the ball. That's what I want to bring, the excitement back for playing. \"It's been a massive impact from the manager in my choice of coming here. I played under him at Swansea, that was my best football, which led me on to sign for Manchester City. \"He lets me go and express myself. I worked with him at 16 at Chelsea. He thought it was best for me to move out wide, because I came as a striker. He thought that was the quickest route to play in the Chelsea first-team, which it was. \"Over the last two or three years, the football hasn't been great for me and I just wanted to be at a club, enjoy it and playing under a manager who knows me and gives me the confidence to play freely. Media playback is not supported on this device \"Because I've known him for so long, he was saying 'get your football back on track, enjoy it, play games', and at this stage in my career, that's the best option for me. With Celtic being a massive club, it was a no-brainer.\" Sinclair made an immediate impact on his debut, scoring the winning goal against Hearts on Sunday. He only arrived in Glasgow for a medical 24 hours before the game at Tynecastle. Celtic is the 14th club of his career and the former Manchester City and Chelsea winger wants a period of stability after signing a four-year deal. He hopes that \"scoring goals, my trickery, my speed\" will endear him to the Celtic support. \"I've been at numerous clubs. It's all down to stability, if you look back at how many managers I had at Villa,\" Sinclair said. \"Managers have different opinions on players. With the manager here, he knows what I bring and I know what to expect from him, and that's why it was my choice. He led me to this club and I just want to enjoy my football again. \"When you haven't got much confidence and you're in and out of the team, you're not at your best. I kept digging in and I kept going to the gym and doing extra. It's broken through now, I'm happy to be here and I can't wait to kick on. \"The fans were unbelievable. You saw my celebration, running to them, and I want that bond with the fans. \"At some clubs I've not had that, because I've been on loan here, there and everywhere and you're not really a stable player for the team. I'm here for four years and I want to show the fans excitement and make a massive impact.\"", "question": "Scott Sinclair says he was @placeholder to sign for Celtic by former Parkhead midfielder Stiliyan Petrov .", "option_0": "reduced", "option_1": "aiming", "option_2": "subjected", "option_3": "offered", "option_4": "encouraged"}
{"id": 1278, "article": "Mr Hofer, 45, won last month's first round but failed to avoid the run-off. If he wins on Sunday, Mr Hofer could become the EU's first far-right head of state, although Austria's president plays a largely ceremonial role. On Thursday, the two rivals traded accusations during a TV debate. Mr Van der Bellen, 72, accused Mr Hofer of wanting to dismiss any government that did not suit him. He was referring to the fact that, despite limited powers, the president can sack governments and also swears in chancellors. Mr Hofer countered that Mr Van der Bellen was the one who had refused to swear in a Freedom Party chancellor if the party won at the next general election in 2018. However, the debate was said to be less feisty than last Sunday's TV encounter, described by some commentators as a slugfest. In the first round of voting, Mr Hofer secured 35% of the votes, while Mr Van der Bellen, polled 21%. For the first time since World War Two, the candidates from Austria's two main parties - the Social Democrats and the People's Party - did not make it to the run-off. Both parties have governed Austria for decades - either alone or in coalition. This is a big shake-up in Austrian politics, as the country has had a president from the centre-left or centre-right since 1945. The victory in the first round of the far-right candidate reflects widespread discontent with the status quo, as well as concerns about immigration and the economy, correspondents say. Support for the Social Democrats and the People's Party has been falling in recent years. In the last general election in 2013, the two parties won just enough votes to govern in a \"grand coalition\". Incumbent President Heinz Fischer, 77, cannot run again after two terms in office.", "question": "Austria 's far - right Freedom Party presidential candidate Norbert Hofer and his rival , Green - @placeholder Alexander Van der Bellen , are holding final rallies ahead of a run-off vote .", "option_0": "printed", "option_1": "backed", "option_2": "ranked", "option_3": "class", "option_4": "left"}
{"id": 1279, "article": "With its song-and-dance idiom, Bollywood has long been the symbol of popular Indian cinema, both at home and abroad. But a little known fact is that south India's Hyderabad-based Telugu film industry is much more prolific than Bollywood. It also routinely churns out more expensive films than its Mumbai counterpart. A good case in point is Baahubali, a $39m (?¡ê25m) Telugu-language film, which has made headlines for being India's most expensive film. Directed by SS Rajamouli,  the film, originally shot in the south Indian language Telugu, and dubbed in a number of other languages, set the box office on fire when it opened on Friday. So why has the film worked? One reason could be hype and scale. In the run-up to its release, the film's producers set the tone for the epic scale of the movie with the release of a 51,000 sq ft (4,738 sq m ) promotional poster, which it touted as the \"world's largest poster\". The massively publicised budget didn't hurt either. But Baahubali has also successfully married the traditional Indian film template with state-of-the-art special effects. For one, Baahubali is lavish and spectacular with breathtaking locales and special effects. And secondly, the story strikes a chord with a traditional Indian movie-going audience. The plot revolves around an Indian epic of warring princes, scheming aristocrats, loyal generals, valiant queens and lion-hearted kings.  It is a cocktail of Indian mythological and familiar fairytale plotlines of revenge and good triumphing over evil, ticking all the boxes that are familiar tropes in Telugu mythology. There is the lost prince Baahubali - thus named because of his powerful arms - and who grows up in obscurity in a tribal hamlet, completely ignorant of that fact that he is heir to the throne of a powerful kingdom across the mountains. There is the powerful figure of the Indian mother whose impassioned love for her son forms the core of the hero's vendetta to avenge her humiliation. There are angelic damsels whose marksmanship and serious sword skills are no match for the hero's charms in the romance department. The acting is marked by glowering and comic book action with lengthy hyperboles that Telugu films are famous for. The film's dazzling special effects have also drawn audiences to theatres, and are inviting comparisons to Hollywood's best. The film has convincingly recreated magical kingdoms, thrilling bull fights, breathtaking flights across mountain peaks and gripping chases down icy slopes. A spectacular 40-minute war sequence comes as a fitting grand finale. And this is not the first time Mr Rajamouli has successfully translated mythology on to the big screen. His 2010 film Maghadheera (The Mighty Valiant Hero), based on historical fiction, was also a big success. The film is made in two parts and the second part of Baahubali is set for release next year. Clearly, its successful formula of fusing mythology with special effects could become the next big thing in Indian cinema. Sudha G Tilak is an independent journalist and writer based in Delhi", "question": "India 's battle epic Baahubali ( Strong Man ) , billed as its most expensive film to date , was released in cinemas on Friday . Sudha G Tilak explains why the film has @placeholder movie - mad India 's imagination .", "option_0": "caught", "option_1": "drawn", "option_2": "swapped", "option_3": "created", "option_4": "influenced"}
{"id": 1280, "article": "Named Hydrogen One, the device comes cased in either aluminium ($1,195) or titanium ($1,595). It will be powered by Google¡¯s Android operating system and was available to pre-order on Thursday. Industry experts were baffled by the unexpected announcement. \"I¡¯ll be completely frank and say I am struggling to get my head around this,¡± said Ben Wood, an analyst with CCS Insight. \"It seems incredibly niche but catering to a very affluent, committed audience who are clearly more than happy to take Red at its word and put down a huge chunk of change to reserve a device they have few firm details about.¡± Red has made its name by selling extremely high-quality cameras used to create Hollywood blockbusters - such as Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2, which was the first feature to be shot with the company¡¯s new compact 8K camera. But as a mobile device maker, it is unproven, and little is known about key features it has promised. ¡°Hydrogen One is the foundation of a future multi-dimensional media system,¡± the firm¡¯s press release reads, going onto explain that the device will be modular, meaning certain parts can be interchanged, adding or subtracting pieces of hardware to make the device do different things. However, no additional modules will be available when the phone is first launched, the company said, and aside from vague patent applications that is all that is known about the firm¡¯s plans. Perhaps even more ambitious is the company¡¯s promise of a holographic display that does not require any kind of special glasses. Red added: ¡°This incredible retina-riveting display advancement features nanotechnology that seamlessly switches between traditional 2D content, holographic multi-view content, 3D content and interactive games.¡± Analyst Ben Wood told the BBC the device would have a hard time capturing any significant amount of the smartphone market. \"Camera and screen technology are anchor features on high-end smartphones and it would be foolish to discount something that looks so disruptive. \"The problem is that history shows that it is rare that perceived breakthroughs like this actually end up changing a market forever.¡± But as could be expected, fans of Red were excited by the news - though they too were somewhat bewildered. ¡°There were rumours about a smartphone which I utterly and with complete certainty dismissed,¡± wrote David Shapton, from Red news blog RedShark. He added: ¡°There will be doubters. There will be haters. But there is every reason to be a believer too. At this early point, that's exactly what I am.¡± ___________ Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC You can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "question": "A holographic , virtual - augmented and @placeholder - reality - ready smartphone has been unveiled by Red , the company better known for ultra-high quality film cameras .", "option_0": "land", "option_1": "mixed", "option_2": "tongue", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "alternate"}
{"id": 1281, "article": "The WDBS was launched this week to give more people with disabilities the opportunity to play cue sports. The first event will take place on 28 and 29 November at the South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester. Five different disability classification groups will participate at the tournament. The WDBS has been set up under the auspices of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, with help from the English Federation of Disability Sport. \"We are delighted to announce the tournament and are sure it will be a great success,\" said WDBS chairman Nigel Mawer. \"We encourage anyone eligible to take part regardless of their snooker standard. It's a fantastic opportunity to meet others, get free coaching, and compete in a competitive environment.\"", "question": "The first tournament staged by the new World Disability Billiards and Snooker ( WDBS ) @placeholder will take place in Gloucester in November .", "option_0": "facility", "option_1": "unit", "option_2": "team", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "club"}
{"id": 1282, "article": "\"It is like a little stolen holiday,\" says Radcliffe. \"It is a long way from home and we get treated so well.\" The DJ and musician along with the other members of the pirate-themed band, Galleon Blast, will perform at Loopallu later this month. It will be the group's debut appearance at the long-running event. However, Radcliffe and several members of Galleon Blast have been up before with bands The Family Mahone and Mark Radcliffe & Foes. \"Ullapool is very special place and the festival is in an amazing location, and its organiser Robert Hicks always makes us very welcome,\" says Radcliffe. \"One of the things about Loopallu is that it brings musicians and acts to a part of Scotland that some people might not usually consider going to. \"It is an important reminder that Scotland doesn't stop at Glasgow or Edinburgh or Aberdeen.\" A previous appearance at Loopallu by Radcliffe and his musical friends also tied in with a grand tour of Scottish islands, including Easdale, Mull, Iona and Lewis. A similar venture is not planned this time, though the DJ admits they might be a little more appropriately attired - such as pirate frock coats and tricorn hats -  for the sea crossings between the isles. But he says: \"We will be bringing the Loopallu beer tent to a close on the Friday night and playing on the main stage on Saturday afternoon. \"We will be playing sea shanties. Not everyone might be familiar with the songs, but once they hear the rhythms they should quickly get into to it. \"We're a party band. It'll be good fun,\" he adds. Galleon Blast have already played Moseley Folk Festival and Shrewsbury Festival this year. Radcliffe says: \"We've being warming up for Loopallu. \"Our Olympic training regime should mean we'll be in peak condition by the time of our trip to Ullapool.\" Loopallu takes place on 30 September and 1 October.", "question": "DJ Mark Radcliffe can not stay away from Ullapool 's Loopallu . As he prepares to make his fourth , or possibly fifth , visit by his calculations he explains why he is @placeholder to the little music festival in the north west Highlands .", "option_0": "drawn", "option_1": "preparing", "option_2": "travelling", "option_3": "introduced", "option_4": "returning"}
{"id": 1283, "article": "Gavin Hunt, 41, from Tile Cross, and brothers Christopher Dixon and Jamie Dixon, both from Castle Bromwich, used axes and crowbars to break into homes. They then demanded car keys and cash. Hunt was jailed for 12 years and 10 months, Jamie Dixon, 32, to eight years and 10 months, and Christopher Dixon, 29, to seven years and three months. The three men, who wore balaclavas, targeted homes with expensive cars parked outside. In one case in January 2013, Hunt and Christopher Dixon smashed into a house in Newton Road in Great Barr, where they pulled a nine-year-old boy from where he was hiding behind the sofa and threatened him with an axe while his family found the car keys. The men stole a Nissan Pulsar GTR in the Great Barr robbery; an Audi R8 from Grange Park, Northampton; an Audi RS4 from Tile Cross Road in Birmingham, an Audi RS6 from Western Road in Sutton Coldfield; and an Audi RS4 from Oldburgh Drive in Loxley, Warwickshire. Det Con Damian Forrest, from West Midlands Police, said: \"I have no doubt that the gang would have used serious violence to achieve their objectives if they had not got what they wanted.\" Correction 23 September 2014: In the original version of this story it was not made clear which defendants were involved in the offence in January 2013. The story was amended following clarification by the Crown Prosecution Service.", "question": "Three men have been jailed for a series of robberies across the Midlands , including one in which a nine - year - old boy had an axe @placeholder to his throat .", "option_0": "returned", "option_1": "attached", "option_2": "clue", "option_3": "held", "option_4": "appeal"}
{"id": 1284, "article": "The torch will be carried through 40 towns on a week-long journey before being flown to the UK ahead of the Games, which begin on 27 July. BMW is one of several international conglomerates that have agreed to pay for the 10-17 May event. The flame will be lit in Olympia, in southern Greece, on 10 May. The country's British-born 10-km swimming world champion Spyros Gianniotis will be the first torchbearer, and some 500 people will carry the flame on its 3,000-km (1,800-mile) tour of most of the Greek mainland and the island of Crete. The Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) did not say how much the Greek leg of the relay - previously partly funded by the Greek government - would cost. HOC chief Spyros Capralos told the BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens that the contribution of sponsors meant the event would not have to be scaled back due to Greece's difficult financial circumstances. \"On the contrary, the relay will not be affected adversely because it is too important an opportunity to promote Greece,\" said Mr Capralos. 'It's going all around the country... to remind all our fellow countrymen of the importance of the torch, the importance of the Olympic Games, that everything started from here.'' Greece has been hit by a five-year recession and is being kept afloat by rescue loans from other eurozone countries. The BBC's home of 2012: Latest Olympic news, sport, culture, torch relay, video and audio Last year, the country was stripped of the 2013 Mediterranean Games over budget cuts, and the event was moved to Mersin, Turkey. After the Greek relay, the Olympic flame will be handed over to London 2012 at a ceremony in the Panathinaiko stadium, Athens before flying to Britain on 18 May. In the UK, the torch will be carried by 8,000 people - 7,300 people who were nominated and 700 athletes and celebrities. Games organisers aim to bring the flame within 10 miles of 95% of the population. Its 70-day journey, which will begin at Land's End on the morning of 19 May.", "question": "German car maker BMW has @placeholder ensure Greece will be able to fulfil its leg of the Olympic torch relay despite the country 's financial crisis .", "option_0": "revealed", "option_1": "signed", "option_2": "lost", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "promised"}
{"id": 1285, "article": "You can't kick the buzz. Yes, they know the risks, but they're happy to take them at 200 miles per hour. Hundreds of riders bomb down Ireland's country roads on summer evenings - the air is thick with the growl of revving engines. And on the sidelines, the wives, the partners, the children stand and watch and wait - holding their breaths, counting down the laps. They cope with the wait and the worry for a son, daughter, husband or father to reappear again and make the chequered flag. But they cannot stop the racers. Speed kills but it also thrills. Warren Reeve grew up with road racing; it's in his DNA. \"It's a bit like going in for a fight,\" he said. \"You get nervous, you get the butterflies. You're just sat on the clutch and it's all focus and then all that nerve turns into energy.\" He is wary too, he understands the risks but he has a passion for racing. \"You have to be at one with the bike, you have to feel the road through the tyres and the handlebars,\" he said. \"I'd never fall out with the bike because she's bigger than me. You see the young ones getting off their smaller bikes and they're kicking the bike and I'm thinking no, don't do that, she'll get you next time.\" His wife, Jeanette, has her own views but she knows she can't stop him. \"He's born with race fuel in the blood, I'd love him to stop,\" she said. \"Why would you race on crazy roads? \"He promised me glamour, I was thinking Lewis Hamilton stuff, high heels and make up. But no, it's wellies and raincoats.\" And she's got used to the thrills as well as the spills. \"It's normal now, it's a good life, a scary one,\" she said. \"There's a dark side, I've seen it first hand, but it's what we do.\" Robert McCrum is in love with the sport. He has lost a leg, but that hasn't grounded him. \"The doctor said he would make me a limb for the motorcycle,\" he said. \"I have a different limb for racing,\" he added, strapping it on in a matter-of-fact way. \"You always want to win... But if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out, no point in getting annoyed.\" The family come for the racing, he always brings the children, saying it's like \"a wee holiday\". Melissa Kennedy thinks she's immortal but, deep down, she knows she's not. Her passion for road racing comes courtesy of her genes. \"My dad is such a strong figure to me, he's my hero,\" she said. \"Dad bought me a bike for my birthday, he made me get on it and that was it.  Once the visor goes down, I'll get a tap on the back from my dad and he'll give me the thumbs up and that's it, I'm off. \"Mum hates me doing it but she comes to every race because if she didn't she would be beside herself if anything was to happen me and she wasn't there. \"But she can't bring herself to watch me.\" The enthusiast is passionate about road racing. \"Racing is my love,\" she said. \"If I have to give it up I will, but at this present moment in time, I'm sweet.\" Things don't always go right. People are killed and the racers mourn together. They are, many of them say, \"one big family\". They are bonded by their passion for the sport. Their stories are told in a series made by independent production company, DoubleBand Films. Photographer Stephen Davison has also captured the essence and individuality of Ireland's road riders in a series of haunting portraits to accompany the series which also form a touring exhibition. The first episode of Road Riders in on BBC One Northern Ireland at 22:40 BST on 19 April.", "question": "For the road riders , speed is a drug that 's hard to @placeholder .", "option_0": "replace", "option_1": "measure", "option_2": "achieve", "option_3": "quit", "option_4": "grow"}
{"id": 1286, "article": "Michelle Kiss, from Whalley, was among 22 people who died in the suicide bomb attack on Monday. The vigil at Whalley Methodist Church, Lancashire, was organised by her husband Tony, and attended by hundreds who came to pay their respects. Her family said they were devastated \"she had been taken away... in the most traumatic way imaginable\". In a statement, they said she was a \"loving\" wife, mother and daughter to whom \"family meant everything\". Two girls who also died, were commemorated at a vigil held in Worden Park, Leyland, on Thursday. The town was home to the youngest victim, eight-year-old Saffie Roussos and where another victim, Georgina Callander, studied. About 1,500 people were are the event where balloons were released following a minute's silence. Deacon Ellen Monk-Winstanley, from Leyland Methodist Church, said the vigil \"did a great job of reaching out to everybody\" adding it was a comfort \"in the midst of all this pain\".", "question": "A mother who died in the Manchester Arena attack has been @placeholder at a vigil in her home town .", "option_0": "observed", "option_1": "punched", "option_2": "reported", "option_3": "remembered", "option_4": "recreated"}
{"id": 1287, "article": "Her back catalogue has appeared on TIDAL, the Sweden-based company Jay Z dropped ¡ê37m for two weeks ago. As any good Swiftie knows, Taylor had her differences with Spotify, and what it paid for her music. She pulled her back catalogue saying there was an \"inherent value placed on art\" when it came to her work. Now they appear to have re-emerged on TIDAL. All of Taylor's tracks, including her albums Red, 1989, and Fearless can be found by searching her name. The rapper's company, Project Panther, took over Sweden-based Aspiro for a reported $56m (¡ê37m) on 13 March. The firm owned WiMP - which rivals Spotify in some countries - and TIDAL (which streams music in HD). If the rumours are true, Jay Z did his homework before he bought the service. He apparently called a \"summit\" during Grammy week with some of the biggest names in music, including Chris Martin, Madonna, Nicki Minaj and, of course, Beyonce. Lawyers and music execs were there too, to discuss streaming and, according to Forbes magazine, how to make it work better for artists. The move will put Jay Z in competition with Beats Music, founded by Dr Dre and bought by Apple in 2014. Tidal currently offers users access to 25 million tracks, in addition to 75,000 music videos and other content including artist interviews, for ¡ê19.99 per month. That contrasts with Spotify's charge of ¡ê9.99 per month for 30 million tracks. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "question": "The ink might not have dried on the @placeholder , but it seems Jay Z 's new streaming service has signed the star his rivals could n't - Taylor Swift .", "option_0": "deal", "option_1": "show", "option_2": "country", "option_3": "night", "option_4": "spot"}
{"id": 1288, "article": "A dismal first half yielded just three points from the boot of Jason Tovey. Sam Hidalgo-Clyne came off the bench in the second period to set up the first of two Damien Hoyland tries. And the replacement scrum-half darted through to score as the ill-disciplined visitors faded in the face of increased pressure from the hosts. Edinburgh nudge ahead of Glasgow and Munster into fifth place, with those teams in action on Saturday. If Alan Solomons' side are to hang on to a top-six spot and earn a Champions Cup place, they will need to turn in more performances like the second-half showing at Murrayfield. The error-strewn opening 40 minutes was simply appalling. A strangely sluggish Edinburgh moved ahead on 13 minutes when Tovey, making his debut after a loan move from Dragons, knocked over a penalty following a high tackle on thundering prop WP Nel. A ragged sequence of fumbles, stray passes and petty squabbles followed, with Kelly Haimona shoving a penalty wide for Zebre. The first half ended with Oliviero Fabiani barreling through a gap to touch down but the visiting hooker's route was cleared by an obstruction, picked up by the television review. With both sides penalised for squint line-out ball soon after the interval and Haimona short with a penalty attempt, an upturn in the quality on show looked unlikely. But Hidalgo-Clyne's introduction brought with it some much-needed zip and he threaded a grubber through for Hoyland to run on to and the winger was able to kick it on and win the race for the line. Soon after, Hoyland was diving over in the corner after Phil Burleigh did well to gather a fizzing high pass from Hidalgo-Clyne. Tovey converted on both occasions and the fly-half made it three from three when his clever break was supported well by Stuart McInally, with the replacement hooker offloading for Hidalgo-Clyne to waltz through unchallenged. The chance of a just a second try bonus for the hosts this season appeared to have gone when a late penalty was kicked into touch only for Zebre to rob the line-out. However, an offside infringement allowed Edinburgh to keep the ball alive and, with the clock red for almost two minutes, a patient passing move was finished off by Toolis. Edinburgh: Kinghorn, Hoyland, Allen, Burleigh, Brown, Tovey, Kennedy, Dickinson, Ford, Nel, Bresler, B. Toolis, Coman, Watson, Du Preez. Replacements: Helu for Brown (74), Hidalgo-Clyne for Kennedy (48), McInally for Ford (41), Andress for Nel (73), A. Toolis for Bresler (73), Bradbury for Coman (5). Not Used: Dell, Dean. Zebre: Van Zyl, Beyers, Boni, Pratichetti, L. Sarto, Haimona, Palazzani, Lovotti, Fabiani, Chistolini, Geldenhuys, Bortolami, Cook, Ruzza, Meyer. Replacements: Postiglioni for Lovotti (74), Ceccarelli for Chistolini (48), Caffini for Cook (24). Not Used: Roan, Koegelenberg, Burgess, Canna, Bisegni. Ref: Leighton Hodges (Wales).", "question": "Alex Toolis crashed over deep into time @placeholder on to secure a bonus - point victory for Edinburgh at home to Pro12 strugglers Zebre .", "option_0": "clung", "option_1": "helped", "option_2": "inspired", "option_3": "added", "option_4": "crowd"}
{"id": 1289, "article": "An updated yellow \"be aware\" warning was issued by forecasters from 11:00 BST on Friday to 09:00 BST on Saturday. The Met Office said rain and showers will spread north through Wales on Friday evening into Saturday. While many places will miss heavier rain, there could still be \"significant disruption\" in some places. Forecasters said in addition to localised surface water flooding, lightning and hail could cause problems. Some thunderstorms could see 20-30mm (0.8-1.2in) of rain falling in an hour, with heavier persistent rain of  up to 40mm (1.6in) in some parts of south Wales. No incidents have been reported so far in Wales on Friday.", "question": "Heavy rain and @placeholder severe thunderstorms could cause surface water flooding and disruption in parts of Wales .", "option_0": "seized", "option_1": "isolated", "option_2": "run", "option_3": "affected", "option_4": "raised"}
{"id": 1290, "article": "Steffan Roberts Vernon, 33, from Caernarfon, died at the Llanberis beauty spot in Gwynedd, on Sunday alongside Alexander Hadley, 21, from nearby Dinorwig. Two others, aged 27 and 25, were treated in hospital and later released. Police believe the men got into difficulty while swimming in the \"extremely cold\" water. Friends have been posting tributes on a Facebook page called 'Steffan Vernon and why we all love him'. Debbie Ann Williams wrote: \"So sad such a lovely smiley soul the gentle giant who always had a big hug 4 everyone rip steff xxxx\" Eve Maria posted: \"Xxx always ready for an adventure full of smiles and a beautiful crazy laugh xxx\" Emma O'Neill said: \"Some souls leave the world a far better place than when they arrived....just by being a part of it.\" The coroner for north west Wales has launched an investigation into their deaths and an inquest will be opened at a later date.", "question": "Tributes have been paid to a \" gentle giant \" who died while swimming near a @placeholder in a north Wales village .", "option_0": "pool", "option_1": "beach", "option_2": "waterfall", "option_3": "pond", "option_4": "house"}
{"id": 1291, "article": "Aberdeen failed last week with an approach for the 25-year-old striker. \"If clubs are interested it's a compliment,\" said Moult. \"In terms of bids and people being interested I'm very, very grateful. \"But it's the club's decision. I've got another year on my contract and they pay my wages.\" The former Stoke City trainee moved to Fir Park from Wrexham in 2015 and has been top scorer in his two seasons with the Steelmen, netting 18 goals in each campaign. Moult is recovering from groin surgery and while he insists he is confident of being a success should he join a bigger club, he is not agitating for a move. \"It would be wrong for me to go and kick their door down if they value me a little bit more,\" he added. \"I have come up here, worked hard, scored a few goals and people are interested. I'm very, very grateful, whether I am at this football club or another. This club have been unbelievable for me in terms of my profile and the people have been fantastic for me. \"The manager at the time, Ian Barraclough, sold the club to me as a stepping stone. That's what the club is. \"I believe I can score goals wherever I go. If someone pays money and the board feel that it's going to help the football club move forward financially, then I think I have done well.\" Motherwell have tabled a contract extension that would make Moult the best paid player at the club, but he admits the talks have not progressed in recent months. \"It's kind of stood still a little bit. I think the negotiations started at Christmas. A lot has gone one since then, [former manager] Mark McGhee left, Stephen Robinson came in, a lot of new players came in. \"It's a difficult one for myself to sign right now.\"", "question": "Louis Moult says he always viewed Motherwell as a path to bigger things , but insists he will only consider leaving when a bid for him is @placeholder .", "option_0": "helping", "option_1": "set", "option_2": "conduct", "option_3": "reported", "option_4": "accepted"}
{"id": 1292, "article": "Three times the tourists led in Perth, through goals from Crista Cullen, Ellie Watton and Helen Richardson-Walsh. Each time they were pegged back - by Gabrielle Nance, Karri McMahon and Ashleigh Nelson - to keep the series tied before Thursday's fourth match. Captain Richardson-Walsh won her 355th cap to equal Karen Brown's all-time record. \"I felt my 35 years old out there,\" she said. \"It's a massive honour to equal Karen Brown's record. \"It feels like we've been talking about it for a while so I can't wait to break the record. It'll be really nice to get there - a really huge honour.\"", "question": "Great Britain women drew a thrilling third match with Australia 3 - 3 to leave their six - game series @placeholder at 1-1 .", "option_0": "record", "option_1": "deal", "option_2": "place", "option_3": "level", "option_4": "display"}
{"id": 1293, "article": "\"The constituent assembly lacks legitimacy and because of that we cannot accept the result,\" he said. Venezuela's President Nicol??s Maduro called the vote as protests against his government gained momentum in May. The opposition sees it as a move towards dictatorship. The new constituent assembly, comprising 545 members, will rival the National Assembly, currently controlled by the opposition. \"We insist on a peaceful solution for the country's situation,\" said President Santos. Earlier on Friday, police in the Venezuelan capital Caracas fired tear gas and rubber bullets against opposition activists who blocked roads. At least two people were injured. Venezuela has banned protests that could \"disturb or affect\" the vote. Prison terms of between five and 10 years could be imposed on those contravening the ban, Interior Minister N??stor Reverol said on Thursday. The ban on activity will remain in force until Tuesday. Katy Watson, BBC News, Caracas When you drive around Caracas at night, you really notice the lack of street lights - it's very dark and it feels unsafe. A day after the government banned protests ahead of Sunday's vote, the streets of Caracas felt eerily quiet. There were sporadic demonstrations but what stood out were the blockades or \"guarimbas\" as the Venezuelans call them.  Some barricades are just piles of rubbish, others are made with bricks or barbed wire. It's a tactic used by the opposition aimed at halting traffic and causing disruption. And it works - finding a straightforward route is hard, dodging cars driving down the wrong side of the road is the norm, it seems, anything to find a way out of the barricades and get home. More than 100 people have been killed in protest-related violence since April. The situation has worsened to the point that the United States has ordered family members living at the embassy in Caracas to evacuate the country. It also authorised its staff members to leave if they desire. Mr Maduro said his opponents should \"abandon the road to insurrection\" and added that he would be willing to begin a \"roundtable dialogue in the next few hours\". On Wednesday, the US imposed sanctions on 13 senior Venezuelan officials, including Mr Reverol. The sanctions freeze the US assets of those targeted and stop American entities from doing business with them. President Donald Trump promised \"strong and swift economic actions\" if the poll goes ahead. Mr Maduro responded by describing the US as imperialists bent on ruling the world and called the sanctions \"illegal, insolent and unprecedented\".", "question": "Colombia 's President Juan Manuel Santos says his country will not recognise the result of Sunday 's vote in @placeholder Venezuela to elect a new assembly with power to rewrite the constitution .", "option_0": "leaving", "option_1": "getting", "option_2": "force", "option_3": "neighbouring", "option_4": "style"}
{"id": 1294, "article": "The total number of offences, under new legislation which criminalised religious hatred connected to football, dropped from 267 to 203 in 2013/14. Officials said this may account for a 15% drop in all offences with a religious aggravation. The figure of 587 was down from 689 the previous year and 898 in 2011/12. The totals for the preceding five years were relatively stable, with between 600 and 700 charges reported each year. In 51% of the football-related cases, the accused was affiliated with either Rangers or Celtic. In all, there were 635 charges relating to religious prejudice in Scotland when general offences of religious hatred were added to those under the new legislation - the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012. That was a 17% reduction on the previous 12 months. The government said it was committed to review the football legislation after two years, but said the figures showed strong action was being taken to tackle the actions of the \"small minority\" of fans who indulge in offensive behaviour at matches. As in previous years, Roman Catholicism and Protestantism were most often the religions that were the subject of abuse. There was an increase in the proportion of charges which related to Catholicism - from 57% in 2012/13 to 63% in the subsequent 12 months - although the number of offences fell. Offences relating to Protestantism remained steady at 29% - also with a reduced number. In 29% per cent of the incidents, the accused had affiliations with Rangers. Celtic fans accounted for 22%. More than a quarter (28%) referred to support for terrorist organisations. The legislation has proved controversial with football clubs and fans who have complained it does not specify exactly what constitutes offensive behaviour, including which songs or chants could contravene the law. Religious hate crimes fell by 17% overall, which ministers said was testament to hard work taking place to tackle these offences. The government said it had invested ?¡ê9m between 2012 and 2015 in community projects and set up an independent advisory group to tackle the scourge of sectarianism. The statistics also revealed rises in sexual orientation aggravated crime, which were up by up 22%; disability aggravated offences, which increased by 12%; and charges with an aggravation of transgender identity. However, in each case the numbers involved were low. Equalities Secretary Shona Robison condemned those increases and said an awareness campaign had been launched to encourage reporting of such crimes, which included the establishment of third party reporting centres across Scotland. \"No-one should have to face discrimination or prejudice in any form in 21st Century Scotland,\" she said. \"The more we talk about it, the easier it will be for people to report hate crimes to the authorities. \"We are not becoming more intolerant as a society, but we are becoming less tolerant of those who hold prejudiced beliefs.\" Jan Savage, head of campaigns and policy at the charity Enable Scotland said the rise in offences against disabled people was disappointing. But she said: \"More and more disabled people are exercising their rights to report hate crimes and reclaim their communities and the right to feel safe. \"What this also tells us is that there is a real need to tackle the root causes of disability related hate crime, and work harder to change attitudes about disability.\"", "question": "The number of sectarian incidents @placeholder at Scottish football matches fell by 40 % last season , according to Crown Office figures .", "option_0": "recorded", "option_1": "gains", "option_2": "lost", "option_3": "committed", "option_4": "contracted"}
{"id": 1295, "article": "The Friday strike will affect short- and medium-haul flights, similar to Wednesday's action. Pilots staged a walk-out for long-haul flights on Thursday. The pilots' union is hoping strikes will put pressure on management during negotiations on retirement benefits. Lufthansa spokesman Martin Riecken said the company would be able to fly three-quarters of flights on Friday across all carriers under the Lufthansa group, including Swiss International and Austrian Airlines. He said the company would like to resume negotiations with the union. Lufthansa wanted to get rid of a programme that allows pilots to retire at age 55 and receive up to 60% of their pay until they reach the statutory retirement age of 65. Mr Ricecken says a new deal has been tabled by the airline offering to continue the benefit for existing pilots, but with a higher average retirement age of 61 and closing the scheme to new pilots. The airline has been plagued by strikes, which last year cost it €232m (¡ê165m). \"It's not about preventing strategic business decisions,\" said Jorg Handwerg, a spokesman for the union, Vereinigung Cockpit, in a statement on its website. \"Competition should not lead to a sell-off of the values ??that have a significant role in ensuring that Lufthansa has become one of the world's leading aerospace companies.\" The moves are intended as a cost-savings effort, as Lufthansa struggles to compete with low-cost competitors and rivals such as Emirates and Turkish Airlines.", "question": "Lufthansa pilots plan a third day of striking on Friday , following two days of @placeholder action on Wednesday and Thursday , potentially disrupting thousands of passengers .", "option_0": "people", "option_1": "delayed", "option_2": "ice", "option_3": "breathing", "option_4": "planned"}
{"id": 1296, "article": "About 100 fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) took part, some crossing the border from Iraq, some moving from inside Turkey. The toll - of 24 dead and 18 injured - is the largest suffered by the Turkish security forces since 1993. The response by the Turkish military has been a predictable one: more raids by jets and helicopters on targets inside Iraq, with ground forces moving around 8km (five miles) across the Iraqi border. The military says it killed 15 of the PKK insurgents; it claims to have killed as many as 160 in air raids carried out since July. The PKK has proved before that it is capable of such an attack, and of inflicting heavy losses. In June last year, it carried out a very similar night-time raid, using large numbers of fighters, and killed 13 soldiers stationed at a remote outpost along the border. The government vowed then that the soldiers would be better protected, and questions were posed about the suitability of a young, conscript army for tackling an entrenched insurgency. If lessons were learned, they do not appear to have helped those battling the PKK in the latest attacks. Bigger questions hang over why the PKK has escalated its operations against the military over the past four months, and why the Turkish government, which repeatedly says it wants to pursue reconciliation, has been unable to stop the harsh treatment of Kurdish nationalist figures by the judiciary. Time and again, apparent windows for peace have been shut down abruptly. In October 2009, following Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's unprecedented offer of a new beginning for relations between Turkey's largest minority and the state, 34 Kurdish activists, including eight PKK fighters, crossed the border from Iraq, and turned themselves over to the Turkish authorities. It was presented as a gesture, a test of the government's intentions. The activists were allowed to go free, instead of being prosecuted. But then it all went wrong. A jubilant welcome for the activists by tens of thousands of Kurds, waving PKK symbols, provoked a strong nationalist reaction in a Turkish public conditioned to think of the PKK only as an evil, terrorist organisation. The government had rushed into a badly thought-out peace initiative, without preparing the Turkish people for it. By the end of 2009, the main Kurdish party had been banned - for the seventh time - by the constitutional court, and dozens of Kurdish community leaders were being prosecuted under the draconian, catch-all anti-terror laws. One Kurdish editor was sentenced to 166 years in prison, merely for the pro-PKK sentiments published in his newspaper. It was a similar situation after the general election in June this year, in which Kurdish candidates did well. This opened the possibility of Kurds pressing their demands through parliament, and working with the government on a new constitution - one of their central demands. But a court decision to strip one Kurdish MP of his seat, and give it to the ruling AK party, poisoned the atmosphere. Kurdish MPs boycotted parliament, and announced what they called their own \"democratic autonomy\" initiative, taking greater control of local government. There has never been a constructive dialogue between the AK, Turkey's most successful democratic party, and Kurdish leaders. They just seem to talk, or shout, past each other, even though both have acknowledged that the use of military force by both sides has brought about nothing but hatred and the loss of more than 40,000 lives. This despite the fact that the AK is the first party to attempt to address the grievances of the Kurds, and has managed to ease some of the restrictions on Kurdish expressions of identity. The terrible atrocities committed against Kurdish communities in the 1990s have left a searing anger towards the Turkish state, compounded by the poverty, unemployment and ill-treatment that blight the Kurdish south-east. But such is the engrained hostility of millions of Turks towards the Kurdish nationalist movement, that any attempt to negotiate with it could cost a government significant numbers of votes. The lack of leadership on the Kurdish issue has left a vacuum, now filled by the armed hardliners of the PKK. It is hard to interpret its decision to increase its attacks on the army and police as anything else but an attempt to sabotage any future peace initiative, should it ever get off the ground. In the current, bitter climate of mutual recriminations, that is unlikely to happen.", "question": "These were well - @placeholder attacks , carried out simultaneously a little after midnight , on military and police posts close to the border with Iraq .", "option_0": "style", "option_1": "known", "option_2": "planned", "option_3": "sharing", "option_4": "called"}
{"id": 1297, "article": "But I ask because I am merely wondering whether we sometimes forget a grim reality of the story of life on Earth - that extinction has always been with us. In fact, it has quite often been good for us. We are certainly far better off without velociraptors slashing their way through our cities. Our streets are safer with no sabre-toothed tigers. And imagine trying to swat one of those monster prehistoric insects like a vulture-sized dragonfly. The question of extinction most recently surfaced at the talks on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) - the treaty meant to save endangered species from the devastating effects of trade. The slaughter of rhino, the decimation of elephant, the forlorn last stand of the tiger - all had their profiles raised as the delegates in Bangkok negotiated their fate. BBC News: The Editors is a monthly programme on BBC One which brings together the BBC's on-air editors, each a specialist in their field, to answer some of the big questions about what's happening in the world. It is also on BBC World News. BBC News: The Editors And anyone hearing the protests and the campaigns, and the shocking statistics about the losses, might be forgiven for thinking that extinction was some new kind of evil that was not invented until rapacious and uncaring mankind came along. I should state right now that some of the most ghastly examples are indeed entirely the result of man's activities, sometimes unwittingly, sometimes carelessly. However, taking a long view, extinction has been part of the natural order of things throughout Earth's history. The most famous mass wipe-out was the loss of the dinosaurs. And four other great die-offs have been identified - one of them killing off something like 90% of species. But there is so-called \"background\" extinction as well - species fading out year by year, creatures quietly losing out to others and disappearing. These losses might not be spectacular - in fact, they're routine. The result is that the average species only lasts a few million years. Mammals do worst, surviving between one and two million years. Clams do better at five to seven million. A few hardy survivors - the leatherback turtle is a prime example of a sturdy design - cling on for tens of millions of years. But the blunt truth is that the living world is a restless, churning enterprise in which nothing endures forever. Astonishingly, almost every life form that has ever existed on the planet has died out. It is worth pausing to absorb what that means. Something like 90% - or even 99%, according to some estimates - of every kind of sea creature or land animal or insect or plant that enjoyed a spell on Earth then vanished into oblivion. Some remains morphed into fossils and ended up on the shelves of museums. Others have left no trace. Charles Darwin wrote of extinction in his landmark On the Origin of Species. For him, the process of evolution involved new species gaining ground and others losing out. He certainly did not mourn the passing of the losers. So, in the clamour to conserve a host of iconic species, is there a case for us to be more realistic about our ability to intervene? Might the awkward fact be that we can't save everything? It is certainly the case that the creatures with the best chance are those whose looks or adorability or loveable eyes have attracted the strongest support. No-one is fighting to save the tubeworm. But should the emphasis change if extinctions are our fault? Or, worse than that, if the losses are accelerating because of us - by tearing up habitats or causing pollution or simply slaughtering every member of a species? There is a long list of animals whose disappearance can be blamed squarely on human actions. I met one of them on the Galapagos Islands a few years ago - Lonesome George, the last giant tortoise of his species, a lumbering, sad-eyed, endearing creature. On his home island, the plants that he and his kind depended on had been nibbled away by goats brought by sailors, while their eggs were eaten by rats that jumped from the ships. The tortoises themselves used to be carried on board to serve as living larders. Clearly attitudes to the natural world change over time - and vary between regions. For a poor villager in Africa, poaching an elephant for its tusks is easy money. For people in China, ivory and rhino horn are important culturally and - wrongly - medicinally. Conservation is a fairly new idea - ivory used to be a major staple of British Empire trading. By contrast, I found the sight of a haul of smuggled tusks in Bangkok Airport profoundly depressing. The stench was intense and a customs officer said the ivory \"smelled like death\". So what are the arguments for resisting extinction? One is purely selfish - economics. For example, if we fish every last tuna, thousands of people in the fishing industry will lose their jobs. Likewise, if every lion or elephant is shot, the tourist trade will suffer. Extinction can cost in hard cash. Furthermore, there may be unintended effects from eliminating \"keystone\" species - the loss of one plant or creature in a food chain may affect a whole web that we depend on in some way that we have not yet understood. In Thailand, I heard that too few tigers could mean too many deer. In turn, that would mean more destruction of vegetation with a knock-on impact on the birds and monkeys that live in the trees. Another argument is moral - that as the most powerful species on the planet, we have an obligation not to obliterate others, especially if it is through wanton carelessness. In other words, a mark of civilisation would be to feel responsibility for the survival of weaker species. A final point that I find compelling is that we are the first species to have gained the remarkable knowledge that every living thing has its DNA at its heart. We all share that. We may not like everything - ants, spiders, slugs and snakes - but we are related to them. In an extremely loose sense, they are family. And that casts the threat of extinction - and our role in it - in a very different light. David Shukman's report What's wrong with extinction? will be broadcast in a new programme, BBC News: The Editors, starting on BBC1 on 25 March at 23:15 GMT.", "question": "What is wrong with extinction ? I realise this question is the conservation @placeholder of a landmine - or an elephant trap . And that it is likely to ruffle a lot of fur .", "option_0": "following", "option_1": "life", "option_2": "effects", "option_3": "phase", "option_4": "equivalent"}
{"id": 1298, "article": "The secret Elysium website had 87,000 members and was launched on the internet in December, prosecutors say. The suspected ringleader, a 39-year-old man, was arrested in the state of Hesse. The forum was also used to make appointments to abuse children. Police seized the website's server. They found that toddlers were among the children sexually abused, reports say. The chief suspect was arrested at his home in the Limburg-Weilburg area north of Frankfurt on 12 June. He has been linked not only to spreading videos and images of child sex abuse but is also suspected of carrying out acts of serious sexual abuse. What is the dark web? Several suspected users of the site have been arrested in Germany and Austria. Three were held in Germany and another 14 were detained in Austria, according to local reports. Prosecutors were due to give further details on Friday. The website only appeared on the dark web at the end of last year but attracted tens of thousands in a matter of months. Sites on the dark web are not visible through normal search engines, and while there are many legitimate uses for it, it has become a magnet for online criminal activity.", "question": "German police have busted a child sex abuse site on the dark web where images and videos were @placeholder .", "option_0": "exchanged", "option_1": "seized", "option_2": "caught", "option_3": "released", "option_4": "killed"}
{"id": 1299, "article": "Businessman John Adams renamed Palleg golf club in Swansea the Celtic Minor to attract more members. But a spokesman for Celtic Manor warned they will fight \"any attempt to take unfair advantage of their reputation\". Celtic Minor said \"there wasn't any issue\" with the name change. Club manager Melanie Eaton said the name change \"works in their favour.\" She added: \"You put Celtic Manor into Google and there's the Celtic Minor popping up underneath it so there are advantages of having a similar name. \"The club had been established a long time and initially the members didn't want a name change. But the response we get from most of them is brilliant. \"The club was relatively run down when it was bought out and the new owner has spent a lot of money.\" The Celtic Minor golf course is 53 miles (85 km) away from the Celtic Manor, which is owned by billionaire Sir Terry Matthews. A Celtic Manor Resort spokesman said: \"The Celtic Manor Resort would like to make it clear that Celtic Minor Golf Club has no affiliation with the Celtic Manor Resort or its three championship golf courses. \"Celtic Manor is a registered trade mark of Celtic Manor Resort Limited (UK) and we reserve all our rights to protect our name from any attempts to take unfair advantage of our reputation or to exploit our goodwill in these services.\"", "question": "Bosses of the Celtic Manor , which @placeholder the Ryder Cup and the Nato summit , are threatening legal action against a village club changing its name to Celtic Minor .", "option_0": "describes", "option_1": "hosted", "option_2": "shows", "option_3": "holds", "option_4": "sponsors"}
{"id": 1300, "article": "Mohammad Akhlaq was beaten to death by a group of men in Dadri in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Eighteen people are on trial for his murder. The slaughter of cows, considered sacred by Hindus, is banned in many Indian states. The court in Gautam Buddh Nagar, near the Indian capital, Delhi, gave the order after hearing a petition filed by one of Mr Akhlaq's neighbours. Mohammad Danish, Mr Akhlaq's son, said he \"hoped a fresh investigation will bring out the truth\". \"I am hoping for a fair probe. The real facts will be revealed then,\" he told the CNN-IBN news channel. A lab test cited widely in the aftermath of the killing in September had said that the meat allegedly found in his refrigerator was mutton and not beef. However, a new lab report, revealed in June by the lawyers of 18 people on trial for his murder, said that the meat in question was, in fact, beef. Later, it was also revealed that the meat was never in his house, but found inside a bin near his home. Although police have said that the type of meat is irrelevant to the murder case, the defence team has been using the new test results to demand the release of the 18 suspects on the grounds that they were \"provoked\" into attacking Mr Akhlaq. Uttar Pradesh is one of the 10 Indian states where the slaughter of cow, calf, bull and bullock is completely banned. However, the slaughter of buffaloes and the sale and consumption of its meat is permitted.", "question": "A court has ordered the police to register a case against the family of a man who was killed last year over allegations that they had been @placeholder and consuming beef at home .", "option_0": "arrested", "option_1": "scrapped", "option_2": "hunting", "option_3": "storing", "option_4": "seized"}
{"id": 1301, "article": "The American, 29, has not played since beating Vera Zvonareva in last year's Wimbledon final. Shortly after winning that event, she cut her foot on broken glass then needed treatment for a blood clot in her lung. Also among the field for the Wimbledon warm-up are Serena's sister Venus and French Open champion Li Na. Venus has not played since retiring in her third-round match at January's Australian Open with an abdominal injury. Serena's problems started when she cut her foot in Germany shortly after claiming her fourth Wimbledon title. She played in an exhibition match in Belgium against Kim Clijsters days later but had the first of two operations on the injury when she returned to the United States. The second surgery was in October, followed by 10 weeks in a cast and 10 weeks in a walking boot. In February, she was diagnosed with the blood clot and also needed treatment for a gathering of blood under the skin on her stomach \"I am so excited to be healthy enough to compete again,\" she said. \"These past 12 months have been extremely tough and character building.\" Media playback is not supported on this device", "question": "Serena Williams has confirmed she will return to @placeholder at next week 's Aegon International event in Eastbourne .", "option_0": "arrest", "option_1": "action", "option_2": "show", "option_3": "join", "option_4": "performing"}
{"id": 1302, "article": "The small Calabrian town of Gioiosa Ionica, population 7,000, is currently home to a group of asylum seekers, who are given the imitation bank notes, or \"tickets\" as they are known, as part of a voucher system. The refugees can spend the cash on whatever they like, but only in the town, so that local businesses benefit. Rather than featuring European architectural gems, they bear the likenesses of a collection of communists and leftist leaders - Che Guevara on the fake €10 note, Hugo Chavez on the €20 and Karl Marx on the €50. The reverse sides feature the signature of Giovanni Maiolo, the co-ordinator of the town's refugee services. It's all part of what they see in Gioiosa Ionica as a \"win-win situation\". The refugees get to buy food and spend some pocket money while the shopkeepers get new customers, which helps to defuse any tensions about the new arrivals. And the \"win-win\" goes further than that. The town hall receives €35 (¡ê29; $39) per asylum seeker per day from the central government in Rome. This has to cover everything, from accommodation, food and medical care to Italian language lessons, work placements and assistance with asylum bureaucracy. It also includes a couple of euros for pocket money. In an economically deprived place like Gioiosa Ionica that's more used to emigration than immigration, these sums are making a real difference. Previously empty houses now earn a rental income and more people are spending money in the local shops. The fake money ensures the asylum seekers can buy food on a regular basis, even when the funds from Rome are late. The refugee services pay the shopkeepers in real euros when the cash arrives. This way the weight of the delay is borne by the shopkeeper, who effectively gives credit to the refugee services, and not by the migrant. Looking after the refugees has created 20 much-needed jobs. It's all part of the mayor's plan. Left-of-centre Salvatore Fuda was elected three years ago on a manifesto that included bringing migrants to the town deliberately, by joining the government's \"Sprar\" system for the \"protection of asylum seekers and refugees\", which supports migrants by providing those €35 per day. \"A project like ours, with 75 refugee places, brings us about €1m a year in total,\" says Mr Fuda. \"This money is given to the town, not to the migrants, If you compare that to our annual town budget of around €8m, you can see it's a significant economic help for us. \"It creates a virtuous circle - through the rental income, the jobs it's created and the money spent on food here. So it's brought an economic benefit.\" He hasn't just done it for the money, but also to bring an experience of multiculturalism to the local youngsters. \"The children of Gioiosa Ionica will have no difficulties if they meet people of a different colour, culture or religion. They'll have learned for example that in Afghanistan or India people play cricket, not football, and they'll have seen how to play cricket. For him, it means that a child from the far south of Italy will encounter foreigners in just the same way as a child growing up in the big capitals of Paris and London. The migrants seem happy enough, too. Rather than having to live in big refugee centres with little to do, they can get work experience and share houses with other refugees where they can cook for themselves. A local print shop, for example, has given one young Somali man a work placement. And for as long as he can get work, he will be happy staying in this small town in the far south of Italy. Arlene Gregorius's report is episode three of the five-part Destination Europe series broadcast weekly as part of The Compass series on the BBC World Service You can listen to the programme on iPlayer.", "question": "In a far corner of southern Italy , transactions in fake currency are not only accepted by local shopkeepers , they are positively @placeholder .", "option_0": "encouraged", "option_1": "revealed", "option_2": "estimated", "option_3": "documented", "option_4": "battling"}
{"id": 1303, "article": "Lanning worked for channels including Sky Sports and ITV, and covered 50 successive speedway world finals. He described the moment in 1984 when John Lowe made television's first nine-dart finish at the World Matchplay. \"Dave was one of the pioneers of televised darts and his dulcet tones entertained us for over 30 years,\" said PDC chairman Barry Hearn. \"He gave us so many great memories with eloquence and style behind the microphone. \"He is now reunited with his old sparring partner Sid Waddell, and they can share a drink together again tonight.\"", "question": "Darts and speedway commentator Dave Lanning , who @placeholder the first televised nine - dart finish , has died aged 78 .", "option_0": "attended", "option_1": "made", "option_2": "called", "option_3": "bought", "option_4": "founded"}
{"id": 1304, "article": "He told the Depeche du Midi newspaper he feared a violent hate campaign. Mr Cahuzac - who gained a reputation as a vocal crusader against the use of overseas tax havens - quit in March. The scandal damaged President Francois Hollande's already beleaguered government. Mr Cahuzac has been charged with tax fraud. He initially denied a report by an investigative website that he had an undeclared Swiss bank account until 2010. But after a meeting with investigating magistrates in April, he admitted to having the account, which contained about 600,000 euros (?¡ê509,000; $770,000). He told the Depeche newspaper he had transferred the funds to France: he would pay his debts to the state and turn any remaining funds over to charity. A by-election for Mr Cahuzac's old seat, in the south-western administrative department of Lot-et-Garonne, will take place on 16 and 23 June. Correspondents say the scandal is embarrassing for the French Socialist government which has made fighting tax evasion a priority, as it tries to cut public debt. Recent opinion polls show Mr Hollande's approval rating among the public has fallen to about 25%. This is the biggest slump for any French president in the past 50 years. On 5 May, tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Paris to show their dissatisfaction with Mr Hollande.", "question": "France 's disgraced ex-budget minister Jerome Cahuzac , who @placeholder down when he was found to have an undeclared Swiss bank account , says he will not stand in a by-election for his old seat .", "option_0": "played", "option_1": "turned", "option_2": "stood", "option_3": "shut", "option_4": "dragged"}
{"id": 1305, "article": "The miniature robots - dubbed MicroTugs - have power equivalent to a human dragging a blue whale, according to the website detailing the development. The scientists behind the MicroTugs took inspiration from nature, borrowing techniques used by geckos and ants in their design. The robots could be used in factories or on building sites. The team at Stanford, including PhD students David Christensen and Elliot Hawkes, demonstrated a 9g robot that can carry more than 1kg vertically up glass. This is equivalent to a human climbing a skyscraper while carrying an elephant. Another one - that weighs just 20mg but can carry 500mg, was so tiny it had to be built under a microscope, using tweezers to put the parts together. The secret to the robots' strength lies in their sticky feet - which is copied from geckos, some of nature's most adept climbers. \"The hardest part in the development of these guys was coming to the realization that this was possible,\" Mr Christensen told the BBC. He had worked on making things with the adhesive before but had not considered combining it with robotics. \"When we stepped back and thought about it, this was actually a really great use for our adhesives, with its tiny contact force required, and ability to engage and disengage many times a second,\" he said. The team covered the robot's feet with tiny rubber spikes that bend and stick to a surface. When the robot picks its foot back up, the spikes straighten out again and detach. \"It was a really fun project to work on, seeing these robots in action for the first time was pretty incredible,\" said Mr Christensen. The next step, he said, would be about \"looking at ways to make multiples of them work together as a team, and scaling the technology up to larger bots with more industrial parts and a whole lot more force\". The Pentagon's research unit Darpa is working on a similar technique that could allow a man to scale a wall with no climbing equipment, rather like Spiderman. Its Z-Man programme was shared with the public in 2014 although it has been in development for several years. The MicroTug robots will be on show at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation taking place in Seattle next month.", "question": "Tiny robots that can pull @placeholder up to 2,000 times their own weight have been developed at Stanford University .", "option_0": "set", "option_1": "someone", "option_2": "weights", "option_3": "sign", "option_4": "objects"}
{"id": 1306, "article": "Shelley Hall, owner of tortoiseshell tabby Harriet, said she thinks her pet turned on a hot plate as she slid off a pile of ironing on the cooker. She then fled upstairs in her Shropshire home, where she was rescued in a \"poorly\" state by fire crews. The pet mask \"perked her up and now she just smells of smoke\", Ms Hall said. The fire was at her home in Diksmuide Drive, Ellesmere. More updates on this and other stories in Shropshire Ms Hall said she managed to retrieve her other pets but the heavy smoke prevented her from finding 15-year-old Harriet. Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was the first time the specially-designed oxygen mask had been used to save an animal in the county. It follows a campaign earlier this year by charity Smokey Paws to raise funds to buy enough masks for all 23 fire stations in Shropshire.", "question": "A cat which is thought to have started a fire in her owner 's house has been @placeholder using an oxygen mask designed especially for animals .", "option_0": "saved", "option_1": "praised", "option_2": "declared", "option_3": "awarded", "option_4": "revived"}
{"id": 1307, "article": "Dr Sarandev Bhambra, 25, was attacked with a machete by Zack Davies at a Tesco in Mold, Flintshire, in January. Neo-Nazi Davies, 26, from Mold, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 14 years for attempted murder. Dr Bhambra questioned whether the \"barbaric incident\" could have been prevented and called Davies a coward. \"He attacked me from behind and tried to behead me,\" dentist Dr Bhambra said outside court. \"By the grace of God I remained conscious and was able to defend myself. \"It is abhorrent that he has claimed that he tried to kill me in Lee Rigby's honour. My thoughts and prayers go out to Lee Rigby and his family.\" Dr Bhambra, from Leeds, West Yorkshire, added: \"While Zack Davies has been convicted and sentenced for attempting to kill me, I am convinced the background behind the incident has not been explored fully. \"Was I targeted? Mold is a small market town. Davies may have been aware of my movements. \"By his own admission Davies was a man that harboured a real hatred for non-whites. He had a history of violence and always carried a knife. \"He was, by his own admission, known to the police. Could this attack have been prevented?\" The trial heard items associated with white supremacy and Nazism were found at Davies's home, including banners, swastika badges and stickers for the extreme rightwing racist group, Combat 18. During the attack, he was heard to say \"white power\", leading Dr Bhambra to also question why Davies was not considered a \"terrorist\" given his political ideals. After the guilty verdict was delivered in June, Dr Bhambra's brother, Dr Tarlochan Singh Bhambra, said he was \"in no doubt\" the case would have been reported as an \"act of terror\" had the \"racial disposition of this case been reversed\". The victim also said he would be meeting Peter Fuller, who is being honoured for coming to his defence during the attack. Since the attack, Dr Bhambra has undergone intense physiotherapy and rehabilitation. \"Incidents of this nature are avoidable and have no place in our multicultural society,\" he added. \"There are no winners here and true justice is never served. I am moving on with my life both emotionally and professionally in an attempt to catch up on time that has been robbed from me. \"I will never understand racial hatred. What possesses a man to have so much distain for another person? I would not wish this experience on anyone and I will endeavour to gain positively from this totally negative ordeal.\" North Wales Police Det Ch Insp Alun Oldfield defended the force's actions, insisting that racist and extremist incidents are taken \"very seriously\". He said: \"Having consulted with a number of agencies, including the Crown Prosecution Service, a joint decision was made to charge Davies with racially aggravated attempted murder. \"Although Davies was known to the police before this incident, there was nothing to suggest he posed an immediate risk to the public.\"", "question": "The victim of a racially - motivated revenge attack for the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby believes his movements may have been @placeholder .", "option_0": "completed", "option_1": "released", "option_2": "unveiled", "option_3": "announced", "option_4": "tracked"}
{"id": 1308, "article": "David Cameron was giving evidence to the liaison committee, which is made up of the chairs of select committees at Westminster. Neil Parish, who chairs the environment, food and rural affairs committee, put Mr Cameron on the spot. Neil Parish: \"Are you very keen on tidal power? We have the Bristol channel, which has the second highest rise and fall in the world. We could increase our amount of renewable energy without taking good quality land to put solar panels on it.\" David Cameron: \"Instinctively, I can see the strength of the argument for tidal power, because one of the problems with renewables is whether they can provide base-load power. \"Nuclear can. Wind cannot, because it is intermittent. But tidal, because the tide is always going in or out, can provide base-load power. The problem with tidal power, simply put, is that at the moment we have not seen any ideas come forward that can hit a strike price in terms of pounds per megawatt-hour that is very attractive. That is the challenge for tidal. \"Maybe they can come up with something. They are very long-term schemes with big investments up front, and they can last for many, many years, but right now my enthusiasm is reduced slightly by the fact that the cost would be quite high.\" Neil Parish: \"The tidal scheme in Swansea definitely has a very high capital cost, but if you put that over a great number of years you will find that the power is naturally limitless and the cost is inexpensive.\" Mr Cameron: \"Obviously we have to look at the figures as they come out. As I have said, tidal power has got the permanence to it. There are important economic benefits in terms of urban renewal and all the rest of it. I totally see all those arguments and have seen some exciting prospects, but as I said, you have to come back to the question of what the action I take will do to the security of supply and the cost of supply. In all the arguments about renewables, you always have to ask yourself what that will put on a household bill.\" During the later days of the coalition government, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats squabbled over which of them was the driving forced behind support for it within government. Then the election intervened and, returned to power, it dawned on the Conservatives just how expensive (much more than nuclear, I'm told) the project would be. It wouldn't be the first policy to be embraced enthusiastically by a party before an election only to be rejected afterwards. The Lib Dems have accused their former coalition partners of \"playing games\" over the project. Peter Black AM told me: \"A new, more affordable strike price has been submitted by the company. My view is that it's more realistic and should be agreed.\" The project was raised during Welsh Questions in the Commons by the former Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan. She asked her successor-but-one Stephen Crabb: \"When can we expect to hear what financial support will be forthcoming from the Government so that this exciting project can proceed without delay?\" Stephen Crabb said she was right. \"The Swansea tidal lagoon proposition is very exciting and commands wide support across the business community in Wales, but we also need to recognise that the project is asking for a very significant level of public subsidy and intervention. It is absolutely right that the Treasury and the Department of Energy and Climate Change should conduct very robust due diligence in making sure that such projects will deliver value for the taxpayer.\" The company itself is confident it can reach a deal at a price which it believes will make the project viable.", "question": "I missed this on Tuesday due to a @placeholder clash with a Westminster Hall debate so I tip my hat to Construction News for spotting the prime minister 's \" reduced \" enthusiasm for the Swansea tidal lagoon project .", "option_0": "deadline", "option_1": "chance", "option_2": "friendship", "option_3": "deal", "option_4": "minor"}
{"id": 1309, "article": "Alf Davies, 94, was one of a few survivors when the German SS ambushed a convoy in the French town of Wormhout. He described the massacre as \"horrific\", with many friends killed. Known as \"Ambush Alf\", he will be one of the first residents at Cysgod y Gogarth, Llandudno, when it opens, with his memories kept in a time capsule. Gunner Alf Davies of the 69th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery was travelling in an allied convoy of three trucks when the ambush happened. He described \"absolute chaos\" as the SS started firing from roofs and buildings on 20 British soldiers and 30 French POWs who tried to escape through a river. Mr Davies said: \"Some turned left while me and a couple of mates turned the other way and made our way down the river. \"We later found out that the ones who went the other way were caught and put in a barn with a lot of other British troops. \"The SS called the men out five at a time and shot them in cold blood.\" Most of the 50 men died, while Mr Davies and two friends escaped over fields before finding a motorbike and riding to the beaches at Dunkirk. After leaving by boat, he eventually went on to fight at El Alamein in Egypt, Tripoli in Libya, then Italy, Germany and France. He said \"you can never forget\" such experiences. On returning to Llandudno, he was given his nickname and worked for the council. The great grandfather's memories will be preserved by housing association Cartrefi Conwy who are building the 26 apartments. Chief executive Andrew Bowden said the time capsule will be a reminder of \"the courage and sacrifice of Alf's generation\".", "question": "The story of a war veteran who narrowly escaped one of World War Two 's worst atrocities will be preserved at a new @placeholder in Conwy county .", "option_0": "exhibition", "option_1": "era", "option_2": "development", "option_3": "site", "option_4": "night"}
{"id": 1310, "article": "The 29-year-old Scot guaranteed her place in Rio as she eased away from the rest of the field in 54.93 seconds. \"I'm confident,\" the European champion told BBC Sport. \"The hurdles is very open, so I'll just keep plugging away. \"They don't give away Olympic medals easily, but I'm going to try to fight for one.\" With Jessica Turner a distant second in 57.34, Doyle added: \"It was all about remaining focused and putting on a show. \"When you do hurdles, it's all about your stride pattern and running the right race. Sometimes competition can be irrelevant. It's all about your own performance.\" Laura Muir defended her 1500m title in style, a long way clear in a time of four minutes, 10.14 seconds. \"I just wanted to get to Rio and I've done that,\" said the 23-year-old. \"I was fifth at the World Championships last year, so I want to stay in that top five and five is close to three.\" Scots finished in the top three places in the 5,000m, with Steph Twell and Eilish McColgan booking their Olympic spots ahead of Laura Whittle. \"It's been such a tense week, I ran that race in my head a thousand times,\" said Twell, 26, who competed at 2008 Games in Beijing. Like Twell, McColgan has battled back from serious injury, with the 25-year-old switching from the steeplechase following foot surgery. \"I can't explain how happy I am,\" she said. \"This is something I've thought about for so long. \"I didn't even think I'd be running this year, so I'm over the moon to be going to my second Olympics in a different event.\" Lennie Waite was a disappointing second in the 3,000m steeplechase, behind Rosie Clarke, but, unlike the winner, will definitely be going to Rio thanks to a top-two finish since she has twice run inside the qualifying time this season. Waite, 30, said: \"I felt the weight of the world on my shoulders for those last two laps. \"I was not in a great place, just not wanting to mess anything up and get to that finish line. \"I'm so happy to book my ticket but very disappointed that I wasn't able to win today.\" In the 800m, Lynsey Sharp led the last lap from the front but was caught close to the line by Shelayna Oskan-Clarke. \"Obviously, I would have liked to have defended my title but it's nice to get that box ticked. I tied up a little and that's something I need to work on,\" said the European and Commonwealth silver medallist from 2014. Chris O'Hare also clinched his Olympic place, finishing second in a slow and scrappy 1500m, passing fellow Scot Jake Wightman on the home straight. With four Scottish athletes already selected for the marathon and the 10,000m, Andrew Butchart made if five on Saturday with his 5,000m win in Birmingham.", "question": "Eilidh Doyle @placeholder to \" fight \" for an Olympic medal after a comfortable 400 m hurdles victory at the British Championships in Birmingham .", "option_0": "needs", "option_1": "returned", "option_2": "continued", "option_3": "vowed", "option_4": "expects"}
{"id": 1311, "article": "Universities and other experts will be called in to improve lessons and numeracy in an ?¡ê800,000 plan. Education Secretary Kirsty Williams said: \"We must now work together to get the basics right\", with Wales hoping to show an improvement in December in the international Pisa comparison tables. One teachers' leader welcomed the plan, but warned of a maths teacher shortage. The scheme, aimed at lessons for all ages from nursery to sixth form, includes: \"Education reform is our national mission,\" said Ms Williams. \"Working together we will ensure that our young people have an equal opportunity to reach the highest standards.\" In December 2015, a task force set up by former Education Minister Huw Lewis called for a centre of excellence for maths and hubs in schools to boost what was seen as the weakest of the core subjects. Dr Sofia Lyakhova, a senior lecturer in maths at Swansea University, said her institution had already been working with other universities to boost the teaching of further maths at A-level. \"I am delighted that the government is making that support available across all of Wales,\" she added. Tim Pratt, director of the Association of School and College Leaders Cymru, welcomed the announcement, but also called for urgent action to tackle a shortage of maths teachers. \"Schools are reporting difficulties in recruiting maths teachers with the right level of skills and training they need,\" he said. \"We would be very happy to work with the Welsh government to develop strategies to address this situation.\" However, Mr Pratt added that the initiative should not \"further skew the curriculum which is already dominated by maths, English/Welsh and science\". \"These are obviously very important subjects but so are other subjects, and we need to ensure that pupils are taught a broad and balanced curriculum.\"", "question": "Maths teachers will be offered extra help to boost results with the launch of a national @placeholder of excellence .", "option_0": "outbreak", "option_1": "batch", "option_2": "network", "option_3": "volume", "option_4": "school"}
{"id": 1312, "article": "\"Right now, I can imagine the press releases being cranked out,\" he said. \"We need more guns, they'll argue. Fewer gun safety laws. Does anybody really believe that?\" Mr Obama cited polls that find \"the majority of Americans understand we should be changing these laws\". A mid-July survey by the Pew Research Center seems to support his claim. Almost 80% of respondents backed laws preventing the mentally ill from purchasing firearms, and 70% were in favour of a national gun-sale database. Those numbers don't really mean much, however. What does matter is the opinion of members of the US Congress - and that legislative body is overwhelmingly against further gun regulation. This disposition of Congress is a reflection of the disproportionate power of less-populated states in the Senate, the conservative-leaning composition of the current House congressional map and a Republican primary process that makes officeholders more sensitive to vehemently pro-gun-rights voters within their party. Congress doesn't have to represent the views of the majority of Americans, at least as expressed in opinion surveys. It represents the views of Americans who go at the polls on Election Day and the simple majorities in the voting districts in which they cast their ballots. In the Senate - which currently has 54 Republicans and 46 Democrats (or Democratic-supporting independents) - the individual state populations are the key. The votes of Senators John Barrasso and Mike Enzi in pro-gun Wyoming (population 584,153) have the same weight as gun-control-backing Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer in California (population 38.8 million). And when it comes to the most divisive proposal queried in the Pew poll - a ban on assault weapons that is supported by 70% of Democrats but only 48% of Republicans - just seven states, including California, have enacted similar measures for their jurisdictions. The large majorities backing gun control in Illinois, for instance, are more than outweighed by pro-gun states like Alaska, Nebraska and Alabama, with a fraction of its population. In the House of Representatives - which has a 58-vote Republican majority - the divergence between national polls and the political reality within the chamber is even more stark. Thanks to city-rural demographic trends in which pro-regulation liberals tend to live - and vote - in dense urban centres and state-level efforts by Republican-controlled legislatures to draw advantageous voting districts, many state congressional delegations trend more conservative than the general US voting population. In 2012, for instance, Mr Obama carried 50.6% of the US vote, but Republican Mitt Romney won more votes in 226 of the nation's 435 congressional districts. Overall, Democratic House candidates received 1.4 million more votes than Republicans, but the conservative party won 33 more seats. In 2014, 44% of Pennsylvania residents voted for Democratic House candidates, but they only won 27% of that state's seats. And those victorious Republican candidates are selected in primaries where the financial support of deep-pocketed pro-gun lobbying groups like the National Rifle Association can prove decisive and the voters who turn out are the kind of conservatives who don't take kindly to a candidate in favour of greater restrictions on gun ownership. It's a political environment where Republican officeholders face grassroot challenges if they're deemed insufficiently conservative but never if they're not moderate enough. Congress isn't just against high-profile gun regulation - even measures supported by a large majority of the American people - it also prohibits federal efforts to conduct research on the causes of gun violence. \"This is a political choice that we make to allow this to happen every few months in America,\" Mr Obama said in Thursday's press conference. \"If you think this is a problem, then you should expect your elected officials to reflect your views.\" During the 2014 mid-term elections, just 36% of eligible voters went to the polls. And more of them, at least in states and congressional districts where it counts, voted for Republican candidates picked in primaries by just 9.5% of US registered voters. In the US today, it's the gun-control views of that 9.5% that make the difference.", "question": "President Barack Obama stood in the White House briefing room and , once again , railed against those who @placeholder to increased firearm regulation .", "option_0": "race", "option_1": "managed", "option_2": "contributed", "option_3": "object", "option_4": "defected"}
{"id": 1313, "article": "The \"stealthy\" Linux/moose botnet has one goal: infecting connected devices with malware in order to create and sell social media credibility. Researchers have been tracking the botnet since 2015. Now they have new research into what they call the \"ego market\" for fake online fame the botnet is feeding. Canadian researchers Masarah-Cynthia Paquet-Clouston, a criminologist with the University of Montreal, and Olivier Bilodeau, with cybersecurity consultancy firm  GoSecure, are behind the award-winning research into the lucrative world of buying and selling \"followers\" and \"likes\" on social media networks. Ms Paquet-Clouston said it is a global marketplace, with buyers from \"Brazil, Kuwait, China, everywhere. It seems to be worldwide.\" So who is seeking out all this fake online credibility and profile? Accounts of aspiring celebrities and models, small businesses, and online retailers are those typically buying batches of \"likes\" openly advertised for sale online. Average people are also paying to inflate their social media presence. \"There are a lot, a lot, a lot of just common people looking for fame,\" she said. Because so many of the accounts that bought the fake likes were \"highly self-centered,\" they dubbed it the \"ego market\". Ms Paquet-Clouston also said the fraud scheme being run by the Linux/moose botnet creators is an almost perfect crime, with no direct victims and a lot of potential profitability. The average price for 1,000 Instragram follows is $15.98 (?¡ê12.80), although the researchers note there is a huge pricing range. Creating fake social media accounts that then like and follow other accounts is not illegal but it goes against the terms of service of social media networks like Instagram. The purchase of Facebook and Instagram likes and Twitter followers is openly advertised online. \"What's illegal and criminal is doing it through a botnet, through infected devices,\" Ms Paquet-Clouston said. The botnet can take advantage of all kinds of connected devices like routers, even \"smart\" appliances like fridges, toasters, and coffeemakers because, unlike most home computers, they lack antivirus and security software. The malicious program got its name because the file containing its attack code is called elan - French for moose. Ms Paquet-Clouston and Mr Bilodeau hope that their research will spur law enforcement and hosting providers to do more to target this criminal scheme. \"If we don't raise people's awareness on social media fraud, there's a demand and there's a supply and it's likely to continue,\" said Ms Paquet-Clouston. They next part of their research is looking for online actors behind the botnet.", "question": "Malicious software @placeholder in unprotected wi- fi routers is feeding the illicit online market for fake social media \" likes \" .", "option_0": "used", "option_1": "lurking", "option_2": "groups", "option_3": "running", "option_4": "remained"}
{"id": 1314, "article": "Among the row upon row of wooden huts housing families and groups of single men, there's a small, white wooden building. This is a school that is trying to provide an education for children in the most difficult of circumstances - at the interface between people-smuggling and the ordinary world of childhood. Rory Fox, a Cambridgeshire head teacher, has a mission. It is to provide schooling for children who may languish in this camp near Dunkirk,  or be on the road for months, or even years, at a time. Some of his pupils have had no schooling at all. Others have seen their classrooms blown up by so-called Islamic State (IS). Almost all need intensive one-to-one tuition to help them catch up with their peers. Rory says the school is well-resourced but the one-to-one teaching means he is always short of teachers. Some volunteers have come out of retirement, others have given up their half-term holiday, some are primary school specialists and others have taught at secondary school - but all come with the aim to help. He denies there's a risk that a school could possibly make life more comfortable for families at the camp. \"I think it's about fairness, isn't it. And it's not right that these children in this field, just because of how circumstances are, don't have access to the education that everyone else takes for granted,\" he says. Even getting children to the classroom is a challenge. Many will have been awake late into the night trying to board trucks to England. And if it is wet weather, their mothers will not let them out because they have nowhere to dry clothes. Some arrive at school with injuries they have sustained while trying to break into or board trucks. The camp can be a brutal place for children . The smugglers have set up a trestle table in the centre of the camp offering deals for families - though because it is more difficult to smuggle an entire family and inevitably more costly, the going rate is now apparently 50,000 euros (?¡ê38,600). Teenage boys are targeted to break into the trucks because they are under the age of criminal responsibility if they get caught . And girls, as young as 14, are offered heavily discounted passage to the UK, about 1,000 euros (?¡ê774) each only to end up in the sex industry. It is not unusual for parents to give the youngest children alcohol to make them fall into a deep sleep so they are quiet as families try to board the trucks. Rory's deputy, Ginny Parry, has seen a real difference in those children who do decide to attend the school . \"I have seen children who have come into this camp looking sad, looking tired, looking beaten up by the world who will sit in school and learn and grow... they will grow, they will become proud of themselves. \"You couldn't ask for anything more. \"I think what I will go away with is the absolute core belief in education and the power of it to transform people,\" she adds.", "question": "A school in the Grande - Synthe camp in northern France stands on the frontline of the @placeholder crisis - trying to provide an education to children whose parents are determined to get to the UK . Our education correspondent , Gillian Hargreaves , has been given rare access to the school run by British teachers .", "option_0": "river", "option_1": "resource", "option_2": "lebanon", "option_3": "ground", "option_4": "migration"}
{"id": 1315, "article": "Taraneh Alidoosti stars in The Salesman, which is nominated for best foreign language film. On Thursday, she tweeted: \"Trump's visa ban for Iranians is racist. Whether this will include a cultural event or not, I won't attend the Academy Awards 2017 in protest.\" The Oscars take place on 26 February. The Salesman tells the story of a couple whose relationship begins to disintegrate during their performance of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. It is not yet clear whether cast members from foreign language film nominees have been invited to this year's ceremony. Oscars 2017: Full coverage President Trump called for a \"total and complete shut-down of Muslims entering the United States\" during his presidential campaign last year. On Wednesday, he told ABC News his plan was not a \"Muslim ban\", but targeted countries that \"have tremendous terror\". According to some press reports, the US president is on the verge of announcing his intention to stop issuing visas for travellers from seven Muslim countries for a period of 30 days. Iran is likely to be one of those countries, along with Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen, according to a draft executive order which has been published by The New York Times. The eight-page document that appears to the draft order suggests President Trump will suspend the Syrian refugee programme and stop issuing visas for countries deemed to pose a threat to the security of the US. But the White House has refused to comment on the document, and it may be revised before being signed. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "An Iranian actress has said she is going to boycott the Oscars in protest at Donald Trump 's \" racist \" visa @placeholder .", "option_0": "claim", "option_1": "proposals", "option_2": "region", "option_3": "event", "option_4": "decision"}
{"id": 1316, "article": "In her BBC Wales Sport column, world triathlon champion Non Stanford discusses her progress following injury, Helen Jenkins's comeback and reveals what music she listens to when running. She reveals the injury means she has given up on defending her world title, but Stanford is now focused on the Commonwealth Games, where she will represent Wales alongside former double world champion Jenkins. Jenkins has returned to the World Series following a year out with injury and finished third and second in the opening two races of the season in Auckland and Cape Town respectively. However, another former World champion, Leanda Cave, revealed she had not been picked for the Commonwealth Games with Stanford saying she understood her frustration at missing out. Things are moving in the right direction and I'm up and about on two feet and on two wheels so I'm a very happy person right now. Now, when I look back, it seem like the time's gone quite quickly. I'm used to doing so much training so in those first couple of weeks where I literally couldn't do anything, physically I felt terrible. I felt like I'd put on about two stone. I obviously didn't but you just feel like you have no control over your body and you feel lethargic. But I kept myself as busy as possible. I have loads of friends and family that visited me and kept me company. I'm back running so that's great progress. At one point, I was really worried and it feels like you're never going to get back, but back running for an hour is really fantastic. I felt on top of the world. I'm really hoping to be back racing for the Europeans, which is in mid-June. I train with a lot of the girls that race and waving them off from my doorstep as they fly off to New Zealand, South Africa and lately Japan has probably been the toughest bit. I haven't watched one of the races on TV - I've been out on my bike every single time. When I've been out on the bike I've been consciously pushing really hard because I know they're all racing hard. This year the ITU decided that they would increase the number of races you had to do for the series. Last year it was four plus the grand final - this year it's five plus the grand final which is a big ask, especially in Commonwealth year when 80% of the field are going to have to race Commonwealths as well. It was an interesting decision and I know there's a lot of reasons why they've done it. But for me it does mean that I've had to give up any ambition I had of defending my world title, which was tough and took me quite a few weeks to come to terms with. I've had to give up on that one but there's always the Commonwealth Games and that was always the main focus of the year. If I won the Commonwealth Games, that would make up for everything. I was fortunate to do some training with her over the winter and we knew she was in great shape and things were looking great for her. It's tough to come back from being out for a year. Those first few races I know she was really nervous and apprehensive and we were like 'You'll be fine, don't worry'. It is hard after injury and Helen had such a tough time with it and we were all so pleased she's back. I think the whole triathlon community, even people from all over the world, were so delighted to see Helen back on the podium and back racing, because she's just a fantastic athlete. Helen for world champion this year? Definitely, we want to keep it in Wales don't we! My parents have always been incredibly supportive. Bank of mum and dad have helped a lot over the years. Initially I definitely needed the bank of mum starting out. It's probably only the last year that I was able to stand on my own two feet and provide for myself. I'm really fortunate that I've had the support of UK Sport and British Triathlon over the last few years as well which helps. I think with a lot of Olympic and elite sports it's only really the top people that can support themselves and make a living out of it. There's a lot of athletes below who are struggling to make ends meet and literally race to put food on the table and then make it to the next race in order to win some more money. It's really tough and being from Britain we are very fortunate that we're well looked after and there is support out there. Some of the other athletes from around the world do struggle. When I'm running I love it when Fleetwood Mac comes on the shuffle. I was brought up with it on in the house when I was younger and it's stayed with me. I love the older music, the golden oldies. I think that's my parents' influence, growing up listening to Mike and the Mechanics, Sting and The Police and The Beatles. That's what's on my iPod. I don't know whether I should admit that! *Non Stanford was talking to Radio Wales Sport's Steffan Garrero.", "question": "The 25 - year - old has @placeholder training after being sidelined with a foot injury in March and is confident it will not hinder her preparations for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July .", "option_0": "achieved", "option_1": "stirred", "option_2": "resumed", "option_3": "retired", "option_4": "vowed"}
{"id": 1317, "article": "Accies keeper Gary Woods was inspired for 40-odd minutes but his resistance was broken just before the break by Arnaud Djoum. Isamel Goncalves made it 2-0 from an indirect free-kick in the Hamilton box. Jamie Walker scored a delightful curling free-kick from outside the box before substitute Malaury Martin made it 4-0, also from a free-kick. The result means fourth-placed Hearts, who had gone five games in all competitions without a win, are now just five points behind second-placed Rangers in the Premiership table. Hamilton remain second-bottom, one point above Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Woods' performance for much of this match has surely got to be one of the best seen in the Premiership this season. First he saved well from a Walker header, before denying Goncalves who was clean through on goal. The Hearts striker should have done better but Woods still spread himself well to make the block. Sam Nicholson then cut inside to fire in a shot from 25 yards, but Woods was there to tip the ball past the post. The best was yet to come. A header from Goncalves looked to all the world like it was heading for the bottom corner of the net but somehow Woods got his outstretched hand to it. It was an outstanding save. Woods had to look lively again on the half hour mark when Alexandros Tziolis cracked in a volley from the edge of the box. The shot took a deflection on the way through and the keeper did superbly well to adjust his footing and make yet another save. In the 33rd minute Walker made space in the box for another crack at goal but Woods again denied the hosts. Having weathered the early Hearts storm, Hamilton managed to establish something of a foothold in the match. For parts of the first-half their five man midfield enjoyed some possession during lulls in Hearts' dominance. But chances were few. A deflected effort from Eamonn Brophy from the edge of the area the best they could muster in the first-half. It would not get much better in the second-half as Hearts took control. Ali Crawford's free-kick from 30 yards - comfortably saved by Jack Hamilton - was their only effort on target. There are concerns in both defence and attack for Hamilton. These will have to be quickly addressed if the Accies are to preserve their Premiership status. Woods went from hero to villain for Hamilton after handling a back-pass in the penalty area. From the free-kick, Goncalves lashed a shot into the top corner. Soon after it was 3-0 for Hearts as Walker curled in an exquisite free-kick from 20 yards, his 15th goal of the campaign. The fourth came from another free-kick, this time substitute Martin firing home from a similar distance. Hearts head coach Ian Cathro: \"I think one of the biggest positives throughout the first-half was the character of our players to keep pushing. \"We created a lot of chances, we were dominant in the game early, we played with good possession, mixed our attacks as well. \"There were a lot of good stops from him [Hamilton goalkeeper Gary Woods], but the fact we never felt any stress, we stayed calm, we stayed patient, we kept doing the right things and we very much deserved the goal before half-time. \"When you suffer a bad week and three unacceptable results, which was the case, the focus day-to-day has to be on making improvements and making sure you give the maximum every day. \"That's not changed because of this performance and this result. What it means is that everything we had to do today we have done and we will also work again very, very hard tomorrow.\" Hamilton manager Martin Canning: \"Your job is to go and win games and get enough points to stay in the league and, at the minute, performing like that, we won't. \"That's not good enough, but we're not bottom of the league at the minute. The teams above us both lost today - we're still three points off of those two. \"The fixture list at the moment we have had Celtic, Aberdeen, Rangers, Hearts and Rangers again next weekend, so that's five games against the top teams in the league. \"So it was always going to be a difficult spell, but our performance levels today were not good enough and that is not something I have said a lot this season. \"We can't afford to miss players like were missing them today. We had Darian Mackinnon missing today, Mikey Devlin, who are so influential in the team and Alex D'Acol has been a huge miss up the park. I don't think we have looked the same since he hasn't played. \"[On Gary Woods handling the back-pass] Someone whistled from the crowd and Gary's thought the referee has blown his whistle. \"Jamie Walker had gone down as he tried to run through, something happened and there was a coming together and Walker has gone down and someone has blown a whistle from the crowd. It ends up costing us a very important second goal.\" Match ends, Heart of Midlothian 4, Hamilton Academical 0. Second Half ends, Heart of Midlothian 4, Hamilton Academical 0. Attempt missed. Daniel Redmond (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Corner,  Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Andraz Struna. Foul by Alexandros Tziolis (Heart of Midlothian). Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Goal!  Heart of Midlothian 4, Hamilton Academical 0. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner. Tasos Avlonitis (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Alexander Gogic (Hamilton Academical). Alexandros Tziolis (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical). Corner,  Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Gary Woods. Attempt saved. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Foul by Esmael Gon?alves (Heart of Midlothian). Giannis Skondras (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick on the left wing. Hand ball by Alexandros Tziolis (Heart of Midlothian). Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Bjorn Johnsen replaces Jamie Walker. Attempt missed. Greg Docherty (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Attempt blocked. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Attempt missed. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Alexandros Tziolis (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical). Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Ryan Tierney replaces Rakish Bingham. Attempt saved. Rakish Bingham (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Attempt saved. Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Foul by Andraz Struna (Heart of Midlothian). Daniel Redmond (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Moha replaces Sam Nicholson. Attempt blocked. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Foul by Lennard Sowah (Heart of Midlothian). Giannis Skondras (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Sam Nicholson (Heart of Midlothian). Massimo Donati (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Grant Gillespie replaces Eamonn Brophy. Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Malaury Martin replaces Arnaud Djoum. Foul by Arnaud Djoum (Heart of Midlothian). Greg Docherty (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Lennard Sowah (Heart of Midlothian) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the right side of the box. Goal!  Heart of Midlothian 3, Hamilton Academical 0. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner.", "question": "Hearts produced a slick display to cruise past @placeholder Hamilton and snap a five - game winless run .", "option_0": "conditions", "option_1": "struggling", "option_2": "side", "option_3": "involving", "option_4": "hopes"}
{"id": 1318, "article": "Stephen McCusker, who worked at the Rachel House Hospice in Kinross, downloaded 1,740 images of children, 40 of which were considered indecent. The 48-year-old, from Glenrothes in Fife, said he could offer no excuses except \"curiosity mixed with wine\". The Nursing and Midwifery Council banned him for 12 months. Panel chairman Brian Yates said McCusker had a 20-year career without any disciplinary action or complaint. He also said that the images were at the lower end of the indecent image scale. The nurse pleaded guilty last year to one count of taking, or permitting to be taken, indecent photos of children over a four-year period. He was given a three-year supervision order by the court and ordered to complete 250 hours of unpaid work. The court heard McCusker had been viewing the material for \"quite some time\" and he had told officers that he would \"view it, feel disgusted and then delete it\". McCusker said he was \"interested\" in young boys and girls but had never sexually abused a child, adding he could offer \"no explanation\" for his behaviour. He was not present or represented at the Nursing and Midwifery Council. He sent a letter which said: 'I was a nurse for 20 years with an exemplary record. I find it difficult to put in words my shame at the damage I have inflicted on the reputation of the Children's Hospice Association Scotland and the NMC.\" McCusker resigned from his post at the hospice immediately after his arrest, the Nursing and Midwifery Council was told. Mr Yates said: \"Mr McCusker has brought the profession into disrepute as a consequence of his conviction and in particular by reason of the nature of the offence involved. \"Members of the public would be deeply concerned to learn that a learning disabilities and children's nurse, working in a children's hospice had a conviction for offences relating to possession of indecent images of children.\"", "question": "A nurse at a children 's hospice who downloaded hundreds of indecent images of youngsters out of \" curiosity \" has escaped being @placeholder off .", "option_0": "struck", "option_1": "kicked", "option_2": "taken", "option_3": "thrown", "option_4": "carried"}
{"id": 1319, "article": "Kitsch squiggles and merchandise made him a household name and millions of dollars. Done's career has been a runaway success. Yet his life has taken as many twists and turns as the lines in one of his paintings. \"Everybody's life is filled with lots of hills and valleys,\" he says, \"some valleys so deep you'd never imagine you'd fall into them.\" Done is in the process of reshaping himself - attempting to forge a legacy as a serious artist after a troubled period in his life. He lost millions of dollars in 2007 due to the actions of a rogue accountant; and then, in 2011, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. \"I'm better now than I ever was,\" he says, grinning beneath his silver-grey moustache at his gallery in Sydney. \"I've had prostate cancer, I've lost a rather large sum of money, but I'm still here.\" Scattered around the gallery's backroom are a number of vivid, starry eyed paintings of the Harbour Bridge and Great Barrier Reef that have become Done's trademark. Most are rendered in colourful, childlike strokes that seem to reflect his optimism. Throughout his career, Done faced rejection from the art establishment who criticised his work as shallow and populist. The late acclaimed artist Brett Whiteley once famously scoffed: \"I'd rather take methadone than Ken Done.\" But in Done's twilight years, that back-handed attitude might finally be changing, not least because of his turnabout to tackle darker subjects. Done's 2012 series Attack: Japanese Midget Submarines in Sydney Harbour, explores the 1942 Japanese assault on Australian waters. It earned him his first-ever serious praise from critics. The previous year saw him create Portrait After Prostate Cancer, in which his disembodied bright yellow sickly head floats in a dark sky over a lurid red landscape. This year, Done has three large exhibitions. Paintings from Antarctica, launched in the Ken Done Gallery this month; Great Barrier Reef, a solo exhibition of his reef paintings which opens in October at the Rockhampton Art Gallery. In November, he is appearing as part of group exhibition, The Popular Pet Show, a showcase of artists with their pets, at the National Portrait Gallery where Done's contributions include paintings of him with his late dog, Spot. After graduating from art school, Done found a job in the 60s as an ad man. He eventually moved to London, rising to become creative director of advertising agency J Walter Thompson. Yet Done has always, above all, seen himself as an artist. It was 1980, on his fortieth birthday, when Done held his first ever art exhibition. Just three months later he opened his own gallery in The Rocks in Sydney. His first T-shirt soon followed and business took off. His fetchingly simple doodles, often of iconic Aussie settings, were printed on everything from sweaters to golf balls. Princess Diana was even photographed wearing a Ken Done sarong. Within a decade the empire grew to include 15 shops, 150 staff, and, by the early 1990s, boasted an annual turnover of A$50m. Today art colleges \"don't even teach drawing, which I think is ridiculous,\" Done scoffs. \"My track is much more old fashioned in the sense it involved drawing and discipline leading into painting.\" \"There is no need for any wall text in my gallery,\" he says. \"You either like the painting or you don't.\" Done is adamant he has had to overcome his own previous success in design to make his way as an artist. To pave the way, he started to strategically shrink his business in the mid-2000s to just one gallery and shop. \"The first thing that people saw in wide distribution might have been bed linen or a scarf - things I'd done as licensing arrangements, which I had spent a small amount of time doing but is widely seen by lots of people,\" he explains. \"I think it's only now that people have understood and caught up with the paintings.\" Life has taken a turn for the better too. In 2011 Done's lawyers reached a settlement with the financial arm of Commonwealth Bank over his accountant's risky investments. He has also had his prostate removed - a medical procedure he believes that men should be able to talk about openly, in a similar way to breast cancer without shame or embarrassment. Done continues to paint daily and hopes that at least a handful of his work will stand the test of time. He may no longer be as rich as he once was; but he insists it does not matter. Once a poor art student who counted pennies for every single sheet of paper, the most important thing is being able to \"go into an art material shop and buy whatever I want. \"That's real success for me,\" Done says.", "question": "If you @placeholder a typical suburban home in 1980s Australia , in all likelihood there would be a Ken Done print on the wall , a Done cover on the bed , or a Done swimsuit in the wash .", "option_0": "delivered", "option_1": "visited", "option_2": "entered", "option_3": "overturned", "option_4": "wanted"}
{"id": 1320, "article": "Petitioners claim the proposed multi-use Bishopsgate Goodsyard development will \"block out light for thousands of people\" and is \"wrong\" for the area. Boris Johnson has overruled local councils by calling in the plans for the decision to be made by City Hall. He said the development would create hundreds of local jobs. The public planning consultation ends on Monday. The More Light More Power campaign has attracted more than 10,000 signatures for its petition. The group claims Mr Johnson wants to \"push\" this decision through before he steps down as mayor in May to focus on his parliamentary duties. A spokesman for the mayor's office said: \"Bishopsgate Goodsyard, which has stood derelict for more than 50 years, is the biggest site around Tech City in east London and would create hundreds of jobs and homes for Londoners. \"The mayor decided to call in the application and will consider all of the planning issues before taking a decision in due course.\" The scheme proposes at least a dozen buildings ranging in height, with the tallest being about 177m (580ft) and the shortest being about 23m (75ft), or the length of a swimming pool. Some vary from 26 storeys to 46 storeys and comprise of 940 homes, but the majority of the proposed development is assigned for offices, as well as retail, bars and restaurants. The Spitalfields Society, which supports the petition, said none of the 17 objections it had originally raised about the scheme had been resolved. They range from concerns about overdevelopment of the site to the fact only 10% of the accommodation offered would be classed as \"affordable\" or social housing, despite long waiting lists in the area for council homes. Rupert Wheeler, from the society, said: \"It feels as though a vital part of the East End's being stolen from us by this brutal scheme, simply to provide luxury flats for foreign investors that will lie vacant forever, casting a dead shadow over the once vibrant area of Shoreditch.\"", "question": "More than 10,000 people have objected to plans to build skyscrapers on a former @placeholder yard site in east London .", "option_0": "junk", "option_1": "air", "option_2": "scheme", "option_3": "church", "option_4": "goods"}
{"id": 1321, "article": "William Allright, three, had been helping his father sweep the backyard of their home in Great Yarmouth when he picked up the syringe. His father Stephen believes drug users who use a nearby alley dumped it there. Residents raised ?¡ê1,000 to put up gates but the council removed them saying the alley was a right of way. The needle incident happened in the back garden of the Embassy Hotel where the family is living. Residents are now fighting to get the alley closed off officially to stop it happening again. Mr Allright said: \"When you see your child at such a young age with a needle in his hand you wonder where on earth he got it from. \"You find yourself worried to death.\" The boy has had a hepatitis B vaccination and is on antibiotics after a visit to hospital. He now faces six months of further tests until he is cleared of any infection concerns, his father said. In a statement, Great Yarmouth Borough Council said the situation was under constant review and it encouraged businesses in the area to keep reporting incidents.", "question": "A toddler from a Norfolk seaside resort is facing six months of medical tests after a used hypodermic syringe needle became @placeholder in his finger .", "option_0": "place", "option_1": "dumped", "option_2": "landed", "option_3": "embedded", "option_4": "arrived"}
{"id": 1322, "article": "The vast north-eastern Sambisa forest is where they have many bases - and it has been subject to aerial bombardments since February. There has been speculation that some of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped more than a year ago are being held there. Boko Haram has killed thousands in northern Nigeria since 2009. Nigeria's military, backed by troops from neighbouring countries, launched an offensive against Boko Haram in February - and has recaptured most of the territory the militants had taken in the previous year. For the latest news, views and analysis see the BBC Africa Live page. Some of the abducted schoolgirls, who escaped shortly after they were seized, have told the BBC they had been kept in militant camps in the Sambisa forest. BBC Africa security correspondent Tomi Oladipo says the Nigerian military has been steadily reclaiming territory from the insurgents and sees the takeover of Sambisa as one of its biggest goals. But our correspondent says the Sambisa forest, which incorporates a former game reserve, is far larger than any other territory that has been fought over so far. The aerial bombardments on Sambisa, which is mainly in north-eastern Borno state, have been slowed down by weather conditions and poor visibility, he says. Military spokesman Major-General Chris Olukolade refused to give any further details about the offensive. Boko Haram at a glance: Turning the tide against Boko Haram? Who are the militants? Outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan has been widely criticised for not doing enough to end the conflict. But his government has now vowed to crush the group before he hands over to President-elect Muhammadu Buhari at the end of May. An estimated three million people have been forced from their homes since 2009, when Boko Haram launched its insurgency to create an Islamic state. Hundreds have also been kidnapped by the group, including more than 200 girls taken from their boarding school in the Borno town of Chibok last April. Some of them who escaped shortly after the abduction told the BBC they had been kept in militant camps there.", "question": "Nigerian @placeholder troops have joined an offensive on the last known hideout of the Boko Haram Islamist militants , a military spokesman has told the BBC .", "option_0": "federal", "option_1": "components", "option_2": "mainland", "option_3": "groups", "option_4": "ground"}
{"id": 1323, "article": "When it comes to title races, things could hardly be tighter than they have been in the women's top-flight in recent years, with the league champions decided on the final day in both 2014 and 2015. Chelsea start their title defence against newly-promoted Doncaster Rovers Belles, while Reading make a busy start to the season with an opening-week double header away from home, at Arsenal and then Sunderland. BBC Sport examines what could be key moments for each club during the 2016 campaign. Last season: Third Fixture to watch: Manchester City (a), 28 March BBC Sport's Tom Garry: The Gunners impressed on the road in 2015 and their first away game of 2016 will inject some early intrigue into the title race. Pedro Martinez Losa's side travel to rivals Manchester City - a fixture in which they earned a vital 1-0 win last year, arguably costing City the title in the process. Matches between the \"big three\" title contenders could sway the entire season and neither Arsenal nor City will want to slip up as early as March. Last season: Sixth Fixture to watch: Liverpool (a), 23 March Birmingham City have been among the least active in the off-season transfer market, with manager David Parker saying it is \"essential\" the club produce home-grown talent. Losing versatile England winger Karen Carney, who was the first woman inducted to Birmingham City's Hall of Fame, to champions Chelsea is a major blow. Blues spent much of last season battling to avoid relegation. They eventually finished third from bottom ahead of Liverpool, and the opening-day test against a new-look Reds side could be insightful. Media playback is not supported on this device Last season: Champions Fixture to watch: Reading (a), 11 September BBC Sport's Tom Garry: One of the highest-profile stories of last season was Chelsea's signing of England striker Fran Kirby, 22, from her childhood club Reading. Now, following her old side's promotion to the top flight, Kirby will make an emotional return to face the Royals in September. Still adored by most Reading fans, will 'mini-Messi' find the net against her old side, at what will be a key time in the season for both clubs? Last season: Promoted, second in WSL 2 Fixture to watch: Manchester City (a), 2 May Doncaster Rovers Belles' demotion from WSL 1 to make way for Manchester City in 2014 was branded \"scandalous\" at the time, but it also proved to be the rebirth of one of the oldest clubs in the women's game in England. The Belles have since faced Manchester City three times in the past two seasons in cup competitions and even beat them the first time they met in 2014. A league meeting, however, will pack even more emotion for Doncaster on their return to the top flight. Last season: Seventh Fixture to watch: Arsenal (a), 31 July There is nothing like a good build-up to generate excitement around a tasty fixture. That is exactly what will happen when Liverpool travel to Arsenal in July, and come up against a side bolstered by the additions of two of the Reds' biggest stars - England international Fara Williams and Nigeria striker Asisat Oshoala. To magnify the rivalry even further, the two previous WSL champions also meet on the last day of the season. Last season: Second Fixture to watch: Chelsea (a), 19 May Manchester City have been a growing force in the women's game since their introduction to WSL 1 in 2014. Last season they finished second to Chelsea, two points off top spot. Taking one win from their opening five league games last term ultimately cost them. This season, by the time they meet Chelsea in May - their sixth league game - City will want their title ambitions to be right on track. Last season: Fifth Fixture to watch: Chelsea (h), 6 November. For a third successive season, Notts County could help decide the season on the final day - if it goes that far. Chelsea, the defending champions and one of the favourites for the title in 2016, will make the trip to Meadow Lane on 6 November. Notts faced a Manchester City side still in the title hunt on the last day of the 2015 campaign, while Birmingham City fell short of the title a year earlier following a 2-2 draw with Notts. Last season: Promoted, WSL 2 champions Fixture to watch: Arsenal (h), 27 April Reading begin life in the top flight with three games away from home, starting with an opening-week double-header at Arsenal and Sunderland. After facing Notts County at Meadow Lane, the Royals get to move into Adams Park for their first home game, which is against a Gunners side they will have already faced about a month earlier. Last season: Fourth Fixture to watch: Reading (h), 26 March Sunderland were a sensation in their first season in WSL 1 in 2015, mixing it with the front-runners until July. That, however, is when their form slumped dramatically, as they failed to win any of their last eight games. With that miserable run still hanging over them, the Lady Black Cats will be eager to get off to a winning start against newly promoted Reading.", "question": "Women 's Super League One will be bigger than ever this year , with an @placeholder nine - team competition starting on Wednesday , 23 March .", "option_0": "carrying", "option_1": "enforced", "option_2": "murdering", "option_3": "impact", "option_4": "expanded"}
{"id": 1324, "article": "Perhaps as a political anorak I just have a higher boredom threshold than most voters. I'm certainly not surprised people find it dull - election night in 1997 was dramatic and exciting but the month that preceded it was pretty tedious. Political parties and candidates tend to be on their best behaviour during campaigns, relentlessly trying to communicate their message without committing what we hacks call \"gaffes\". I'm currently spending two weeks travelling around Wales as part of our General Election 2015 tour, taking in the \"ground war\" as well as the \"air war\" of leaders' speeches and photo-opportunities. Poor broadband and mobile reception in some of the areas we have visited - key issues for the local economy - explains why I've blogged so infrequently. In seats like the Vale of Glamorgan and Ceredigion, the campaigns are anything but dull. With so much at stake in the Vale, the Tories and Labour are using campaign teams and the latest software to target supporters. In Ceredigion, the poster war between Plaid and the Liberal Democrats extends well beyond the traditional fields to gardens and windows. In some of the seats we visited in North Wales, such as Aberconwy, immigration is a big issue but UKIP's impact is difficult to predict. The overall election result is uncertain and so - unusually - are the policy outcomes. We don't know where the Conservatives' ?¡ê12bn of welfare cuts will apply, even if their coalition partners have offered a few suggestions of Tory intentions. The Welsh government does not know what its budget will be next year, whoever wins. The experts at the Institute for Fiscal Studies said: \"It is not possible to calculate exactly what the budgets of the devolved administrations would be in the next parliament under each party's proposed spending plans. \"This is because we do not know how each party would allocate spending between all the Whitehall spending departments, and the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties have all pledged in their manifestos to introduce some sort of 'funding floor' for Wales.\" The IFS said that the Welsh budget depends on the type of \"funding floor\" adopted. Chancellor George Osborne told us yesterday that the Conservatives - if they win next week - would introduce legislation within 100 days to implement a \"funding floor\". The Welsh government shouldn't expect a windfall. Essentially, the chancellor believes Wales is already fairly funded at 115 % of English spending per head and argues that fair funding would be between 113 % and 116 % of the English equivalent. One more thing: we still don't know who Nicola Sturgeon would support if Wales played England at football. The SNP Leader told Evan Davis: \"I support Scotland at football. England/Wales, I don't know, I guess it would...with me, and I, this is, you know, maybe a bit of a...I'm getting into really difficult territory, maybe this is a bit of a woman thing, probably depend on what players were playing and who I liked best on the field.\" One might think a Scottish football fan might still feel a twinge of guilt over that Joe Jordan handball, but there we go. And there I go. I'm off to Brecon and Radnorshire tonight as the tour continues, concluding in Cardiff Central tomorrow. You should know by now where to find lists of all the candidates. We'll be inflating the BBC Wales tent/igloo/politics pavilion in Queen Street in time for Good Morning Wales at 6am tomorrow.. Do pop in to say hello.", "question": "It has been suggested that this closely - @placeholder election campaign is dull and uninspiring . Even boring . Or vanilla .", "option_0": "focused", "option_1": "fought", "option_2": "torn", "option_3": "form", "option_4": "meaning"}
{"id": 1325, "article": "She said Franklin Nieves, who fled the country, had abandoned his post. Luisa Ortega Diaz also denied that officials had been pressured to provide false evidence at Mr Lopez's trial. On Friday, Mr Nieves posted a video on the internet in which he apologised for his role in what he called a political show trial. In the video, he said he had left Venezuela to escape pressure from the government. Mr Nieves urged fellow prosecutors and judges to join him in expressing their discontent. \"Complete farce\" In a television interview, Ms Ortega Diaz rejected the former prosecutor's accusations. \"At the state prosecutors' office we don't pressure anyone,\" she said. She added that Mr Nieves had given in to \"pressures from foreign and domestic elements\", but was not specific. Ms Ortega also rejected that the allegations by Mr Nieves were grounds for overturning the verdict in Mr Lopez's trial. He was sentenced last month to nearly 14 years in prison on charges of inciting violence during anti-government protests in 2014. Mr Lopez's wife, Lilian Tintori, repeated her call for his release on Monday. \"It is clear that the case was manipulated, a complete farce,\" she told a rally in the city of Maracaibo.", "question": "Venezuela 's attorney general says she has @placeholder a prosecutor who criticised the conviction and imprisonment of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez .", "option_0": "interviewed", "option_1": "condemned", "option_2": "met", "option_3": "summoned", "option_4": "sacked"}
{"id": 1326, "article": "The Gunners arrived on Merseyside high on confidence at the top of the table, but were demolished as Liverpool scored four in a devastating opening 20-minute burst that could have brought them even more goals. Media playback is not supported on this device Martin Skrtel turned in two set-pieces and when Raheem Sterling and Daniel Sturridge also hit the target for rampant Liverpool, a shell-shocked Arsenal's confidence was reduced to tatters. Liverpool, unsurprisingly, were unable to maintain that level of dominance in the second half, but Sterling added his second before Mikel Arteta pulled a goal back for Arsenal from the penalty spot. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger must now rebuild morale and belief before Wednesday's home meeting with Manchester United and an FA Cup fifth-round tie against Liverpool next weekend, leading into the Champions League confrontation with holders Bayern Munich. Wenger has maintained confidence in his Arsenal side all season, but this will now be their severest test after a defeat that was far more comprehensive than even the scoreline suggests. Martin Skrtel's two early strikes took Liverpool to 22 goals from set-pieces this season, more than any other Premier League side. Arsenal, with 43%, have conceded the highest proportion of set-piece goals in the league. As for Liverpool, they continue an impressive pursuit of a top-four place and a return to the Champions League - and they are now only five points behind Arsenal. Liverpool swept away the Gunners in exactly the same manner as Everton were beaten here at Anfield, in a storm of speed, pressing and deadly finishing that was a testimony to the growing threat of Brendan Rodgers's team. The signals for a harrowing 90 minutes to come were posted inside the first minute when Skrtel cashed in on some flat-footed Arsenal defending to divert Steven Gerrard's angled free-kick past Wojciech Szczesny. Liverpool's only moment of anxiety in a magical first half came when goalkeeper Simon Mignolet inexplicably punched a clearance straight at Jon Flanagan - but otherwise Arsenal were overwhelmed. Liverpool's second came via Skrtel and another set-piece, the defender showing great agility to head Gerrard's corner past Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain on the goal-line. The speed with which Arsenal's effort and performance deteriorated in the immediate aftermath of that goal will have horrified Wenger as Liverpool ran riot. Sturridge should have added a third but a rare blemish in front of goal saw him put a lofted finish just wide before sending in a low cross that just failed to find Luis Suarez. Media playback is not supported on this device Suarez almost added what could have been the best of his collection of brilliant Anfield goals this season with a volley of stunning quality and technique that struck the angle of post and bar with Szczesny helpless, Kolo Toure wasting a chance from the rebound. Liverpool were inflicting wave after wave of attacks on Arsenal and the third eventually came, Sterling steering in a simple chance from Suarez's cross. And as Wenger stood motionless in his technical area, Sturridge made it 4-0 after only 20 minutes, taking Philippe Coutinho's perfectly weighted pass in his stride to beat Szczesny. If Arsenal expected respite after the break, it did not arrive and Sterling added the fifth in the 52nd minute. Once again Arsenal were ruthlessly exposed by Toure's pass and even though Szczesny saved Sterling's first effort, he was able to turn in the rebound in front of the Kop. 12 Feb - Man Utd (home) 16 Feb - Liverpool (home) FA Cup 19 Feb - Bayern Munich (home) Champions League 22 Feb - Sunderland (home) Wenger made a triple change on the hour, sending on Kieran Gibbs, Lukas Podolski and Tomas Rosicky for Nacho Monreal, Olivier Giroud and the desperately poor Mesut Ozil. Suarez demonstrated his brilliance once more with an angled free-kick that was heading for the top corner until Szczesny's intervention. Arsenal finally got on the scoresheet after 69 minutes when Gerrard upended Oxlade-Chamberlain and Arteta scored from the spot, the Spaniard almost adding a second immediately as Mignolet did well to see his free-kick through a crowded area to save. Liverpool closed out the win to leave Arsenal facing the most searching questions of their impressive season. Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers: \"It was breathtaking, some of our play. The intensity of our pressing and the goals were fantastic. It gave us a great platform. \"We've been doing it most of the season. Obviously this is a high-profile game and everyone is looking at it. \"The players have been brilliant with their hunger and appetite of the game. We've a lot of young players who want to learn and improve and when you mix that with experienced players, it's a great mix.\" Check out photos from Saturday's Premier League matches on the BBC Sport Facebook page.", "question": "Liverpool made a mockery of Arsenal 's @placeholder as Premier League leaders by handing out an emphatic beating at Anfield .", "option_0": "history", "option_1": "status", "option_2": "narrative", "option_3": "form", "option_4": "dominance"}
{"id": 1327, "article": "Root was adjudged caught behind on review after playing a sweep shot against spinner Ravindra Jadeja. He was seen talking to himself as he departed and aimed a kick at the boundary rope on his way off the field. \"There was frustration there,\" said Root. \"If I get punished then I'm sure it's deserved.\" The original decision of not-out was overturned when third umpire Bruce Oxenford decided that a sound picked up by the on-field microphone as the ball passed the bat was an edge to wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel. \"I was adamant I didn't hit it but there was a spike of sound on the replay and there is no point moaning about it,\" he added. England, 3-0 down in the five-match series, reached 284-4 in Chennai, with Moeen Ali making 120 not out and Root 88. \"We want to start well on the second day and maybe even bat through the day,\" Root told BBC Sport. \"We want to apply pressure where we can, put India's bowlers off their lengths when we can and be ruthless in our defence. \"If we can get all of those together, maybe we can post 500.\" Root has made a half-century in each of the 11 Tests he has played against India, but has only converted one of his last seven fifties against all opponents into a hundred. \"It's frustrating to make scores of 70 and 80, then not kick-on. It does wind you up,\" said the Yorkshire right-hander. \"If I start thinking too much about it, it might detract from my natural game, but big hundreds are what win Tests so that is what I'll be striving for in the new year.\" Vice-captain Root also became the latest member of the England set-up to offer support to skipper Alastair Cook. Cook has admitted to having \"questions\" over his future as leader, while also saying he feels that Root is ready to take over. \"He has been a fantastic captain,\" Root told Sky Sports. \"Hopefully he does stay in the job, he's a great leader who can take us forward. \"I just want to play cricket and things will take care of themselves.\" Cook, who has been publically backed by coach Trevor Bayliss and all-rounder Ben Stokes, will meet with England director of cricket Andrew Strauss to discuss his future in January.", "question": "England batsman Joe Root says he needs to \" @placeholder up a bit \" after reacting angrily to being given out on day one of the fifth Test against India .", "option_0": "dress", "option_1": "picking", "option_2": "grow", "option_3": "warm", "option_4": "speed"}
{"id": 1328, "article": "Brexit Secretary David Davis confirmed the administrations would be asked to consent to the Repeal Bill, which aims to turn EU laws into UK laws so they can then be changed if required. He urged the devolved nations to \"come together\" and support the legislation. The move, which was welcomed by the Scottish and Welsh governments, does not mean they can block Brexit. The Repeal Bill is central to the UK's withdrawal from the EU. As well as ending the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice, it will also bring EU law onto the UK statute book so Parliament can decide which parts to retain. Under a political convention between the devolved institutions and Westminster, any new law that relates to devolved matters needs a legislative consent motion passed. The Repeal Bill does cover devolved areas, particularly in farming and fisheries. However the convention does not have legal force, so it will not allow any of the administrations to veto the legislation. Ministers had previously suggested consent would be required for the new legislation. Confirming the position during a Commons debate about Brexit, Mr Davis said: \"We expect there will be a significant increase in the decision-making power of each devolved administration once we exit the EU. \"That's why, given that this bill affects the powers of devolved institutions and legislates in devolved areas, we will seek the consent of the devolved legislatures of the bill. \"We would like everyone to come together in support of the legislation, which is crucial to delivering the outcome of the referendum.\" A Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We hope this means they have been listening and taking seriously our very strongly felt concerns that this legislation must not in any way restrict the powers and competencies of the Assembly. \"As set out in our policy paper, Brexit and Devolution, leaving the EU must be about the future, not the past. \"We must work with England, Scotland and Northern Ireland - through discussion, not diktat - to map our collective future.\" Plaid Cymru's Brexit spokesman, Hywel Williams also welcomed the news. Mr Williams said: \"The UK government must now publish full details on how the governments of each different UK country will be involved in the process of drawing up the Great Repeal Bill.\" Stephen Gethins, the SNP's international affairs spokesman, said his party would always protect Scotland's interests, and called for full details to be published on how the devolved administrations would be involved in Brexit negotiations.", "question": "The UK government says it will @placeholder the devolved administrations on a key part of Brexit legislation .", "option_0": "impact", "option_1": "build", "option_2": "investigate", "option_3": "consult", "option_4": "blame"}
{"id": 1329, "article": "At least 200 original props from all seven films will feature in the interactive show at the O2 in Greenwich. The props have been loaned by the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, established by the saga's creator George Lucas. The exhibition opens on 18 November. The show, called Star Wars Identities, is interactive and allows visitors to explore the franchise universe, understand how the characters were made and also create a character of their own. The exhibition first began in Canada and has toured European cities including Cologne and Munich. Other pieces of memorabilia which will be on show include the famous bikini worn by Princess Leia -played by actress Carrie Fisher - in the third film Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. The robot R2-D2 costume, operated by the late small English actor Kenny Baker, will also be exhibited. President of X3 Productions - creators of the show - Jacques-Andres Dupont said: \"This exhibition offers a fresh perspective on the beloved characters of Star Wars. \"We get a deeper understanding of their identities, and, at the same time, we get a deeper understanding of our own.\" The show also includes concept art produced before the filming of the first three Star Wars films, which gives an insight into how characters such as Chewbacca were developed before film production commenced. The rights to the franchise were bought by Disney from Lucasfilm in 2012 for $4.05bn (?¡ê3.12bn), and was successfully rebooted in December with the seventh film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a large portion of which was shot at Pinewood Studios. A spin-off film called Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, is due to be released in December this year.", "question": "Star Wars fans can get a rare @placeholder at original costumes from the franchise , including one of Darth Vader 's suits , in an exhibition open to the public in London later this year .", "option_0": "change", "option_1": "glimpse", "option_2": "practice", "option_3": "chance", "option_4": "spot"}
{"id": 1330, "article": "Ramadan Sobhi and Wilfried Bony are likely to miss out because of the Africa Cup of Nations, while Jonathan Walters is doubtful with a knee injury. Juan Zuniga and Nordin Amrabat have joined Watford's lengthy injury list after suffering ankle and leg injuries respectively on Sunday. However, Hornets defender Miguel Britos returns after a one-match ban. Stoke manager Mark Hughes: \"We're giving goals up too readily. We'll address that. A lot of the elements of our play, apart from that, are very good. We had a good result against Watford not too long back. We just need to revisit our thoughts on that one and play as well as we know we can, but clearly take out the catastrophic errors.\" Watford head coach Walter Mazzarri: \"We have 50 per cent less time to prepare than Stoke. They had more rest than us. \"It will be very difficult but I guarantee we will do everything possible to defend the badge.\" One to watch from behind the settee. Stoke were competitive at Chelsea - not many teams score two at Stamford Bridge. They were also competitive at Liverpool, but no matter how you look at it they have still conceded 10 goals in three games. Watford simply did not turn up against Tottenham at Vicarage Road, a complete non-performance, and I can see nothing but more frustration for them here. Prediction: 2-0 Lawro's full predictions v comedian Arron Crascall Head-to-head Stoke City Watford SAM (Sports Analytics Machine) is a super-computer created by @ProfIanMcHale at the University of Salford that is used to predict the outcome of football matches.", "question": "Stoke forward Marko Arnautovic is available to face Watford after serving a three - match @placeholder .", "option_0": "operation", "option_1": "period", "option_2": "deficit", "option_3": "absence", "option_4": "suspension"}
{"id": 1331, "article": "Officials estimate that as many as 25,000 birds landed in the Berkeley Pit last week, and since then have been seen dropping dead in the area. Mine workers tried to prevent the birds from landing in the acidic wastewater, but were overwhelmed by their number. Each year several birds are found floating dead there, but never so many. \"I can't underscore enough how many birds were in the Butte area that night,\" said Mark Thompson, an environmental affairs manager for Montana Resources, which controls the pit mine along with Atlantic Richfield. \"Numbers beyond anything we've ever experienced in our 21 years of monitoring by several orders of magnitude,\", Mr Thompson said, adding that they typically only see between 2,000-5,000 birds in the region each year during the summer and winter migrations. Between 2010 and 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) only recorded 14 snow goose fatalities in the Berkeley Pit. In 1995, 342 snow geese corpses were found floating in the pit's metal-laden waters, leading federal authorities to force the abandoned mine's caretakers to take measures to scare off the birds. On 28 November, mine workers used \"bird hazing\" techniques to try to frighten the birds and prevent them from landing in the water, which is acidic enough to dissolve a motorboat's steel propeller, according to researchers. As the flock approached, they fired loud rifles and shotguns in the air, activated spotlights, and devices called Phoenix Wailers, which emit sounds of predators. But the \"hazing\" techniques failed to prevent the pit from appearing like \"700-acres [2.8 k/sq] of white birds,\" Mr Thompson described. Researchers believe that the birds were forced to land due to an approaching storm, and were embarked on a late-season migration because of warming temperatures in their northern Arctic habitat which allowed them to remain there for longer. The mine's caretakers could face a fine if the companies are determined to have not been complying with the bird hazing programme.", "question": "Thousands of migrating snow geese died after landing in @placeholder pit mine waters in Montana , mine officials have said .", "option_0": "fuel", "option_1": "flash", "option_2": "contaminated", "option_3": "clashes", "option_4": "injuring"}
{"id": 1332, "article": "Stephen Foster, 48, of Norwich, drowned three days after he was discharged by Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and told to seek counselling. The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman said he had been \"let down\". The health trust claimed investment had since been made in psychiatric care. Both the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) were criticised in the report. Mr Foster's partner, Booker-shortlisted novelist Trezza Azzopardi, said the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's behaviour had been \"arrogant, dismissive and shambolic\". \"They have compounded my distress by their complete lack of respect for me or my partner,\" she said. \"They would have continued to ignore me if not for the fact that I contacted the Ombudsman Service.\" Mr Foster went to the hospital with Ms Azzopardi in June 2011 \"because he was feeling suicidal and admitted as an acute patient\", said the ombudsman report, which does not identify the author. \"He was on the ward for more than 16 hours without adequate support,\" the report added. He was eventually assessed by a doctor and then waited all night for the crisis team from the NSFT to see him. They attended at 09:00 the following morning. Mr Foster was assessed by a mental health nurse who discharged him and recommended he attend his GP surgery and get counselling. He was found dead in Whitlingham Broad three days later. The coroner at an inquest into his death recorded a narrative verdict, without attributing the cause to an individual. Ombudsman Julie Mellor said: \"It is unacceptable that a vulnerable man received such little support when he so desperately needed it. \"A bit more time, care and attention by the trusts may have resulted in a different outcome for him.\" The Ombudsman Service recommended both trusts apologise to Mr Foster's partner and inform her of the lessons they learned from her complaint. Debbie White, NSFT director of operations, said: \"Since 2011, the NHS in Norfolk has made significant investments into improving acute psychiatric liaison services. \"We have met Ms Azzopardi to offer our sincere apologies and to underline our commitment to learn the lessons.\" A spokeswoman from the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital said it was \"regrettable\" Mr Foster \"had to wait overnight to be seen by the mental health team\". \"A&E and the acute hospital is not the ideal environment for patients with mental health needs... like other acute hospitals, this trust does not offer specialist mental health services or employ psychiatrists.\" Mr Foster's books include It Cracks Like Breaking Skin, Strides and She Stood There Laughing.", "question": "A critically acclaimed author who died after being admitted to hospital with suicidal feelings was \" @placeholder \" by the NHS , an ombudsman has found .", "option_0": "attacked", "option_1": "crushed", "option_2": "forgotten", "option_3": "failed", "option_4": "overwhelmed"}
{"id": 1333, "article": "Michael Ryan, chair of the Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA), said the result, which saw Leave take 51.9% of the vote, was \"a major blow\". The Art Fund charity was said to be \"deeply concerned about what leaving... will mean for culture in the UK\". National Theatre boss Rufus Norris, meanwhile, said the venue remained \"committed\" to European collaboration. \"We remain resolutely committed to increasing our collaboration with friends and colleagues across the UK, in Europe and around the world,\" he said. \"After this morning's referendum and the divisions it has highlighted, it is also essential that the arts work even harder to give voice to all parts within our society. \"We must be fearless in using the arts as a crucible in which we come to understand who we are as individuals, as communities and as a nation.\" The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which represents the UK's recorded music industry, said the result would surprise many in the industry \"who will be concerned by the economic uncertainty that lies ahead\". But its chief executive, Geoff Taylor said he remained \"confident that British music will remain hugely popular across Europe\". \"We will, of course, press the government to swiftly negotiate trade deals that will ensure unimpeded access to EU markets for our music and our touring artists,\" he added. \"Our government will also now have the opportunity to legislate for stronger domestic copyright rules that encourage investment here in the UK, and which will protect UK creators from piracy.\" Blur's Damon Albarn said at Glastonbury that the referendum result showed that \"democracy has failed us\". JK Rowling, James Corden and choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne joined Albarn in making their feelings clear about the result of Thursday's poll. Harry Potter creator Rowling predicted Scotland would \"seek independence\" and that the legacy of outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron would be the \"breaking up [of] two unions\". Corden, who hosts The Late Late Show in the US, tweeted he \"couldn't get [his] head around what's happening in Britain,\" while Sir Matthew used the social media platform to say he felt \"embarrassed to be British\". Philip Pullman, president of the Society of Authors, said he could not see \"any good coming out of\" the decision. However fellow author Susan Hill countered such sentiments by telling The Bookseller she was \"pleased\" by the result, saying it was both \"very exciting\" and \"hugely challenging\" and that the UK should \"try accepting the challenge\". Singer Cher stayed neutral but tweeted that she was praying the referendum result was the \"Best Decision 4 All UK PPL [people]\". A statement released by the Creative Industries Federation, which represents the UK's arts, creative industries and cultural education, said it would be \"vital for all sides to work together to ensure that the interests of our sector... are safeguarded\". Its chief executive, John Kampfner, said the arts sector would \"play an important role... as the UK creates a new identity and a new position on the world stage\". He added it could also play a part \"in helping to bridge divides\" that had been highlighted during the referendum campaign\". The Association of British Orchestras cited the \"challenges ahead\". It called for guarantees that would ensure musicians \"continued freedom of movement across Europe's borders\". Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund, said the Leave vote meant there was now \"great financial uncertainty\" for the UK's museums and galleries. A statement by actor and director Samuel West, chair of the National Campaign for the Arts, which independently campaigns for the arts, expressed concern the result could impact upon \"our ability to access important European funding\". He added there were \"a host of other issues\" that needed to be addressed, among them \"international artistic exchange, export of cultural products... and access to training in European centres of excellence\". IFTA's Ryan concluded that the Leave decision was \"likely to be devastating\" for the UK creative sector. He told the Hollywood Reporter the UK's vote to leave the European Union had \"blown up [the] foundation\" upon which the industry was based. \"As of today, we no longer know how our relationships with co-producers, financiers and distributors will work, whether new taxes will be dropped on our activities in the rest of Europe or how production financing is going to be raised, without any input from European funding agencies.\" Amanda Nevill, chief executive officer of the British Film Institute, said the organisation could \"completely understand and feel the concern that the industry has right now\". But she said the industry could \"draw strength and confidence from knowing that we are one of the most creative nations on earth and we will undoubtedly continue to enjoy successful and vibrant partnerships in Europe and throughout the world\". A representative from France's National Film Board, meanwhile, told trade paper Variety the vote would have no impact on the country's co-production treaty with the UK, calling it \"a bilateral agreement [not] officially related to the European Union\".", "question": "Entertainment figures and arts bodies have greeted Leave winning the EU referendum with a mixture of @placeholder .", "option_0": "membership", "option_1": "views", "option_2": "methods", "option_3": "power", "option_4": "uncertainty"}
{"id": 1334, "article": "Bracknell Forest Borough Council closed Winkfield Road, near the attraction in Windsor, for \"essential\" repairs on 10 November. However, Windsor and Maidenhead council said it caused a \"nightmare\" for its neighbouring residents. The road will now see three further weeks of work and temporary traffic lights. Bracknell Forest Council said the road, between Squirrels Roundabout and the Legoland roundabout, reopened a day ahead of schedule. It added the scheme aimed to prevent \"a possible future collapse of the culvert retaining walls, which would have posed a significant safety risk and would have caused long-term traffic disruption\". The Windsor and Maidenhead authority had offered to contribute to the cost of the work, in a bid to speed up the scheme, but Bracknell Forest said it was too late to change the schedule.", "question": "A road near Legoland which @placeholder a row between two councils when it closed for roadworks has reopened .", "option_0": "created", "option_1": "staged", "option_2": "crashed", "option_3": "sparked", "option_4": "carrying"}
{"id": 1335, "article": "A visit by Inspector of Crematoria Scotland Robert Swanson was made three days after the publication of the national investigation report. That inquiry, by Dame Elish Angiolini, uncovered \"unethical and abhorrent practices\" at Aberdeen Crematorium. Mr Swanson said he found \"good practice\" in the cremation of babies. But he warned the \"air needs to be cleared\" over the concerns and attitudes of staff. Mr Swanson said: \"In this instance focus was given to examining current procedures and working practices in place at Aberdeen Crematorium to assess what changes have been implemented to ensure that there will be no repeat of the unethical and abhorrent practices described in the report by the Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini. \"The inspection found the operational procedures to be of a good standard with no evidence of current working practices which are comparable to those described in the Report of the National Cremation Investigation.\" The Angiolini report led to an apology by Aberdeen City Council chief executive Angela Scott and an urgent inspection by Mr Swanson. Dame Elish found in some cases that an infant coffin was placed at the side of or on top of an unrelated adult coffin and both cremated together. Many staff had the \"extraordinary belief\" there would be no recovered ashes from babies up to the age of 18 months despite the fact they were recovered in other crematoriums. Mr Swanson observed: \"Of most concern to the Inspector was being advised that a number of the five employees currently working at the Crematorium, who were in post during the period subject to the investigation, regard themselves as being 'the victims'. \"Staff were clearly very apprehensive about what the future holds for them and intimated that a representative of their 'Union' was in attendance that day. \"It is the opinion of the Inspector that if public confidence in the Cremation Authority and the Crematorium is to be restored, then the 'air needs to be cleared' with staff at the earliest opportunity.\"", "question": "An inspection of Aberdeen Crematorium has found some staff believe they were \" victims \" of the national investigation into the disposal of infant @placeholder .", "option_0": "life", "option_1": "data", "option_2": "remains", "option_3": "network", "option_4": "mortality"}
{"id": 1336, "article": "While the former first lady has a poll lead that ranges from dead heat to slightly ahead and an electoral playing field that gives her a decided advantage, Republican nominee Donald Trump - despite an up-and-down past month - remains in striking distance. Whether this is a reflection of Mrs Clinton's weaknesses as a candidate or Mr Trump's unconventional appeal, the reality is the race could still tip towards the Republican if something breaks his way. Here are five reasons why Mrs Clinton could suffer from election-related insomnia despite conventional wisdom that has favoured her for months. There are the things a candidate can control - the message, the on-the-ground organising, the advertising campaigns. Then there are the \"black swans\" - unpredictable one-off events that can render all of those preparations irrelevant. If Mrs Clinton occasionally wakes in a cold sweat between now and November, it could be because she's afraid of something totally out of her control. Given that Mrs Clinton's poll standings have closely tracked American confidence in the economy, a financial collapse could prove devastating to her candidacy. A terrorist attack on US soil could also turn the race on its head. Although Mr Trump is widely viewed as mishandling his response to the Orlando shootings in June, the November attacks in Paris proved a boon to his primary campaign. A high-profile incident could make many Americans take another look at those who would be their commander in chief. Then there are natural disasters and the competency of the ensuing government response. Hurricane Sandy helped boost President Barack Obama's standing in 2012, while Hurricane Katrina devastated the Republicans in 2005. If tragedy strikes, there's no telling how the politics of the situation could play out. Hillary's fear: As any horror movie aficionado knows, the scariest monster is the one that's unseen. An \"October surprise\" on the eve of an election is the under-the-bed bogeyman that every politician dreads. Ms Clinton has seen her ratings for honesty and trustworthiness damaged by stories relating to donations by foreign actors to the Clinton Foundation and her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. Although the information that has emerged has been embarrassing, and the FBI investigation into her email practices paint an at-times-unflattering picture, they have not presented a mortal threat to her candidacya€| yet. But what if damning evidence surfaces - a \"smoking gun\" that even her supporters can't explain away? There's currently a batch of 17,000 emails the FBI recovered from Mrs Clinton's server - documents not originally handed over to the government by Clinton personnel - that is being reviewed by the state department and will probably be made public by the end of October. Then there's the possibility of more hacked Democratic communications being published by WikiLeaks. The group's founder, Julian Assange, has already hinted that Clinton-related documents could come out before the election. It's all a big question mark. Political candidates hate question marks. Hillary's fear: Smoking guns are popular in murder mysteries, but they rarely happen in big-time politics. Mrs Clinton's opponents have spent the better part of 30 years supposedly on the verge of uncovering that key bit of incriminating information, but it never seems to turn up. Only Mrs Clinton knows if her luck is about to run out. Following the Democratic National Convention in late July, Mrs Clinton surged to a modest but steady lead in national polls and a more convincing advantage in key battleground states. Now, however, Mr Trump appears to be cutting into her advantage. Many polls show the race tightening, and a few give the Republican nominee a slight lead. If the numbers stay close heading into election day, there's the possibility that the polls could be understating Mr Trump's support enough for him to end up on top. For instance current survey models could be downplaying the turnout of white male voters - a key demographic for the Republican candidate. There's also the possibility that respondents are unwilling or embarrassed to tell pollsters they support Trump - an American version of the \"shy Tory\" phenomenon that powered John Major to re-election as British prime minister in 1992 (and may have resurfaced in 2015's general election and the Brexit vote). Hillary's fear: Four years ago Republicans, from presidential nominee Mitt Romney on down, believed the election eve polls were biased against them. It turned out the numbers were largely spot on, and Mr Obama cruised to re-election. Since then, however, there have been some glaring misses - in Canada, the UK and several US primary races. Much to Mrs Clinton's dismay, off-kilter polls would be far from the most surprising development in this presidential election season. Mr Trump made headlines in August when he warned that the election could be rigged against him. While his fears centred on vague allegations of potential voter fraud, Mrs Clinton has a different source for her election-day concerns - nefarious digital saboteurs. While talking to reporters on her campaign plane on Sunday, she compared recently hacked Democratic committee emails to a modern-day Watergate break-in. The risk to the US electoral system could be greater than just purloined communications, however. The FBI has found evidence that hackers have breached state-based electoral databases in Illinois and Arizona. It issued a warning to US election officials to upgrade their security protocols and be vigilant against future cyber-attacks. Although it would be extremely difficult for a hostile actor to surreptitiously alter the outcome of a US presidential election, even a handful of questionable results in key precincts could be enough to cast the entire election results in doubt. Hillary's fear: Given the patchwork nature of US electoral systems, each managed by state and local officials, ensuring airtight security is nearly impossible. Against a determined foe, there may be no way to prevent an electoral doomsday scenario that turns a clear-cut Clinton victory into a legal morass. That's not just a Clinton nightmare scenario, it's a national one. The three presidential debates, the first of which is scheduled for 26 September, are a huge opportunity for Mrs Clinton to draw contrasts with Mr Trump on knowledge and experience - but they also have the potential for disaster. The audience for these debates will likely be huge, rivalling the 70 million who tuned in for the highly anticipated vice-presidential showdown between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin in 2008 - or even the record-setting 80 million for the 1980 presidential debate featuring Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and independent candidate John Anderson. Mr Trump is an unconventional debater, but as he demonstrated in 11 Republican primary face-offs, he can be a wily opponent. While he was often thin on details, he had a showman's skill on the stage and kept his opponents off balance. As the unpolished outsider, Mr Trump will enter the debates with lower expectations than career politician Clinton. If he acquits himself well, he could convince reluctant voters to come over to his side. Hillary's fear: John Weaver, Ohio Governor John Kasich's campaign strategist, famously compared the Republican primary debates to a car race where one driver was intoxicated. For Mrs Clinton the presidential showdowns will be more like a boxing match with late-career Mike Tyson. She may feel confident in the ring with Mr Trump, but there's no telling what he might do.", "question": "In just under five months Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may be sleeping soundly in the White House . Before election day @placeholder on 8 November , however , she may be tossing and turning in bed , wondering if there 's something out there that could derail her presidential ambitions .", "option_0": "controls", "option_1": "published", "option_2": "arrives", "option_3": "circulating", "option_4": "embarked"}
{"id": 1337, "article": "The Party of Wales was established in 1925, but it had to wait until 1966 for its first electoral breakthrough, when party president Gwynfor Evans won Carmarthen in a by-election. But Plaid Cymru struggled to build substantially on that success and has never won more than four seats at Westminster. Its electoral fortunes improved after the narrow vote in favour of devolution in the 1997 referendum which led to the creation of the National Assembly for Wales. Although it once served in a governing coalition with Labour in Wales, it currently sits in opposition with 11 AMs. Plaid Cymru contested the 2015 general election at a time when its sister party, the SNP, was enjoying unprecedented power - something Plaid aspires to replicate in Wales. Plaid currently has three MPs. A consistent performance in the 2015 election meant it retained the same three seats it won in the 2010 general election. As of July 2016, Plaid had 8,273 members. Leanne Wood: she's the first female leader in the party's history and her election was seen as a sign of Plaid's desire to build new support in urban and industrial parts of Wales. Under Wood, who is learning to speak Welsh, Plaid's emphasis has not heavily been on independence after opinion polls suggested only modest support for it. As such, much of Plaid's campaign in 2015 focused on alternatives to austerity and a call for Wales to get the same level of spending on devolved services per head as Scotland. There was speculation after the 8 June general election was called that Wood would stand in the Rhondda, but days later she ruled herself out. In this campaign, Wood has attacked Labour over its divisions and will be hoping to attract pro-EU voters. Other key players are Adam Price, a former MP and sitting AM who is co-ordinating the party's general election campaign. Meanwhile, Ynys Mon AM Rhun ap Iorwerth is the party's director of communications. Both he and Mr Price have been tipped as future leaders of Plaid. Hywel Williams, Plaid Cymru candidate in Arfon, is the party's leader in Westminster. Gareth Clubb is the party's chief executive. \"If the dark clouds of Tory rule lurk on the horizon, then Plaid Cymru is the ray of hope.\" \"We want to ensure that Britain is a more secure and united nation - that means acting against the extremists who want to divide us but it also means standing up to the separatists who want to break up this precious union of nations,\" Theresa May, prime minister. Plaid will be hoping to hang on to their existing three seats, and is focused on a further six where the party thinks it can perform well. The party is hoping to take the Labour-held seats of Ynys Mon, Rhondda, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent and Llanelli - as well as the Liberal Democrat-held seat of Ceredigion. Plaid's best hope is Ynys Mon - the Isle of Anglesey, where former Ieuan Wyn Jones will be standing. In 2015 Plaid fell just short of gaining the seat from Labour by 229 votes. Seats that could shape Wales' general election Wood wants to send the \"largest number of Plaid MPs possible\" to Westminster, and if she falls short, she says she's will not resign. \"I've got a long-term project. It's building quite well and I want to see it through,\" she says. Leanne Wood argues that only her party can protect Wales against what could be a dominant Conservative government, citing what she says is falling support for Labour. In the 2017 local elections Plaid gained 33 seats, while Labour lost 107, although it remained the biggest party in Wales. Plaid Cymru, which campaigned to stay in the EU, says it accepts that the people of Wales voted to leave, but says single market membership should be preserved to protect Welsh jobs. As in England, the majority (52.5%) of voters in Wales voted to leave the European Union. In January, Wood and the Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones jointly published a white paper setting out Wales' plans for Brexit. At its heart were proposals for \"continued participation in the single market\" as well as a \"balanced approach to immigration linking migration to jobs\". Other demands included \"a fundamentally different constitutional relationship between the devolved governments and the UK government\" as well as \"proper considerations of a transitional agreement.\" Plaid Cymru election manifesto 2017 Plaid Cymru manifesto at-a-glance Guide to the parties: Conservatives Guide to the parties: Labour Guide to the parties: Liberal Democrats Guide to the parties: UK Independence Party Guide to the parties: Green Party Guide to the parties: Scottish National Party", "question": "Plaid Cymru , which sees itself as a left - wing party @placeholder to increase economic prosperity and social justice in Wales with independence as a long - term aim , will be hoping to add to its three MPs in Westminster .", "option_0": "set", "option_1": "aiming", "option_2": "linked", "option_3": "bid", "option_4": "prepares"}
{"id": 1338, "article": "The Langholm-based firm is charged with falsely claiming scarves were 100% cashmere on two occasions in 2014. The alleged offences are said to have taken place at the company's store in Church Place, Dumfries. Edinburgh Woollen Mill has denied the charge, brought under the Textile Products Regulations 2012. A trial began at Dumfries Sheriff Court earlier this year and it heard from defence witness Dr Philip Greaves this week. The textile fibre analyst tested samples of the red and blue scarves at his own facility and found them to be 96.7% and 97.2% cashmere, he told the court. He said EU and UK standards allow for a 5% tolerance when labelling products. Asked by defence QC Susan Duff if his findings would allow the scarves to labelled as 100% cashmere, he said: \"In terms of regulations, yes. \"There's an industry expression: commercially pure.\" Dr Greaves, described as a \"world leader\" on the subject, said other materials found in the scarves were \"inadvertent impurities\" which can become part of the product during manufacturing or packaging. He said: \"A block of steel will remain pure but textiles pick up material along the way, and that's why there's a tolerance of certain percentages.\" When asked about the results of tests from other labs which found the scarves to contain only 84.4% and 61.6% cashmere, Dr Greaves said bleaching of materials can make them hard to identify as cashmere. \"I think that they perhaps did not recognise the bleached cashmere fibres,\" he said. Questioned by fiscal depute Alison Herald about the other examiners, Dr Greaves said: \"There's nothing to suggest that they are not skilled but perhaps they are not experienced in fibre damage and this particular bleaching of cashmere.\" A second defence witness, Mary Lunn, who tests Edinburgh Woollen Mill fibres for TFT Ilkley, told the court her examination of the scarves found them to be both 100% cashmere. Asked about the difference with Dr Greaves, she said: \"That's within the acceptable range, I would say.\" Questioned by Ms Duff on the two lower cashmere results, Ms Lunn said: \"Obviously they haven't done it right, in my opinion. \"There's no way there could be that much variation, 2% to 4% maybe, but not that much.\" The trial continues.", "question": "Edinburgh Woollen Mill scarves claimed to have been mislabelled were correctly @placeholder as 100 % cashmere , a testing expert has told a court .", "option_0": "served", "option_1": "buried", "option_2": "marked", "option_3": "dressed", "option_4": "sacked"}
{"id": 1339, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device British record holder Muir, 23, looked to be in medal contention at the start of the final lap but dropped off the pace with about 200 metres remaining. Kipyegon's time of four minutes 08.92 seconds meant she finished ahead of Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba (4:10.27) and American Jennifer Simpson (4:10.53). GB's Laura Weightman finished in 11th. \"I went for the win,\" said Muir. \"It's not every day you find yourself in an Olympic final. I was in great shape but the last 150 metres was not quite in me. \"I gave everything and I'm proud of how I ran.\" The early stages proved to be a highly tactical affair, with many of the favourites sitting back, and Muir led after two laps. \"I expected it to be a slow start and then for Kipyegon and Dibaba to come round,\" added Muir. \"I expected to have to react. I followed them round but I couldn't hold on.\" Paula Radcliffe, women's marathon world record holder: \"These races can be difficult to navigate. Sometimes you can react sometimes you can't. \"Laura Muir just didn't quite have what she thought she had in that final lap.\" Find out about how to get into athletics with our special guide. Steve Cram, BBC athletics commentator: \"Poor Laura Muir. She went with it but Kipyegon and Dibaba are so good. They make you go so hard. \"Muir's chance of a medal went with those two. She went for gold but gave up her chance of hanging around and picking up a medal. \"Sometimes if you go for gold you come away with nothing at all.\" Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "question": "Kenya 's Faith Kipyegon won Olympic gold in the women 's 1500 m final at Rio 2016 , as Great Britain 's Laura Muir @placeholder from third place to finish seventh .", "option_0": "recovered", "option_1": "moved", "option_2": "faded", "option_3": "returned", "option_4": "progressed"}
{"id": 1340, "article": "Republican lawmakers are trying to rally votes to pass a new health bill this week after their previous attempt two months ago collapsed in disarray. Mr Trump insists the new measure covers Americans with pre-existing conditions \"beautifully\". But even many Republicans say the bill undermines that popular element of President Barack Obama's signature law. Republicans withdrew a healthcare bill in March to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, after they were unable to secure enough support to pass it. The withdrawal embarrassed the president, who has repeatedly vowed to repeal and replace his predecessor's accomplishment. It was also viewed as a major setback for Republicans, who were unable to rally behind the party's long-held goal to repeal the law, despite control of both the House and Senate. Moderate Republicans were unhappy that the bill cut health coverage too severely, while more conservative lawmakers felt the changes did not go far enough. It has an amendment designed to woo hard-line conservatives, allowing states to ditch key Obamacare insurance regulations. It keeps an Obamacare clause requiring insurers to provide coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, however, it also allows insurers to charge higher rates to those same patients. States could obtain a waiver to allow insurers to charge higher rates based on the \"health status\" of a person if they let their coverage lapse. Insurers could also offer policies that limit benefits for those with pre-existing conditions, which could affect the quality of policies. The new bill's amendment also allows states to apply for permission to opt out of the law's essential health benefits, including maternity, emergency care and mental health. At the centre of debate is whether the new amendment protects Americans with pre-existing conditions such as cancer or diabetes. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan insisted on Tuesday that \"there are a few layers of protections for pre-existing conditions\". Mr Trump told Bloomberg News on Monday: \"I want it to be good for sick people. It will be every bit as good on pre-existing conditions as Obamacare.\" But critics say the new bill will allow insurance companies to charge sick people at significantly higher rates, ultimately pricing them out of the market. The American Medical Association, the Association of Medical Colleges and other consumer advocacy groups have called on Congress to vote against the measure. How disastrous for Trump is healthcare collapse? The rise of Obamacare: Why is the ACA so popular? With Democrats united in opposition, House Republicans are currently short of the 216 votes they need to pass the bill before the Senate could take it up. They can afford only 22 defections, and the latest whip counts put Republican \"no\" votes at about 20, with a dozen more undecided. Though the amended bill has brought some hard-line conservatives on board, moderate Republicans are hesitant to support a measure that is perceived to weaken protections for sick Americans. Top Republican Fred Upton came out against the measure on Tuesday, saying he was \"not at all comfortable\" with removing protection for people with pre-existing conditions. House Republican Billy Long, who campaigned against Obamacare in 2010, says he will not support the bill. The Missouri lawmaker said it \"strips away any guarantee that pre-existing conditions would be covered and affordable\". No vote has been formally scheduled.", "question": "President Donald Trump 's latest attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare is hanging in the @placeholder .", "option_0": "background", "option_1": "future", "option_2": "balance", "option_3": "region", "option_4": "country"}
{"id": 1341, "article": "The hosts looked to be in control in Colombo when the Windies managed only 32 from the first 10 overs, with Chris Gayle taking 16 balls to make three. But Samuels smashed six sixes in his 56-ball 78 to drag his side to 137-6. \"People will rejoice that Darren Sammy has got something to show from his years in charge of the West Indies. He's a delightful man, they've managed to reintegrate Chris Gayle into that side and they've had a wonderful tournament.\" Sri Lanka never got to grips with the chase and, although Nuwan Kulasekara's 13-ball 26 gave them hope, they were bowled out for 101 in the 19th over. The defeat was Sri Lanka's fourth in as many finals after losing the 2009 World T20 final to Pakistan, as well as the 2007 and 2011 World Cups to Australia and India respectively. West Indies had dominated the game from the late 1970s through to the 1990s, winning the first two World Cups and terrorising batsmen with a seemingly endless supply of world-class pace bowlers. However, a fall from grace in all formats had seen them not lift a major trophy since ninth-wicket pair Courtney Browne and Ian Bradshaw added 71 to beat England in the 2004 Champions Trophy final, and this comeback was of a similar magnitude. Darren Sammy's men looked likely to be on the wrong end of a hammering as Sri Lanka's new-ball bowlers applied vice-like pressure, which proved too much for the usually unflappable Gayle. West Indies are the only team to win the World Cup, World T20 and Champions Trophy outright. India also have their name on all three titles, but shared the 2002 Champions Trophy with Sri Lanka. After Johnson Charles was removed by Angelo Mathews in the first over of the match, Gayle was trapped lbw by Ajantha Mendis. The spinner went on to benefit from two poor lbw decisions by Simon Taufel - umpiring his last game before retirement - on the way to figures of 4-12. But Samuels arrived to dish out some brutal treatment to pace bowler Lasith Malinga, with one enormous straight six carrying high in to the top tier of the R Premadasa Stadium. He was caught at deep mid-wicket off 18-year-old spinner Akila Dananjaya, but the Windies took 29 from the final 17 balls of the innings as skipper Sammy finished unbeaten on 26 from 15 deliveries. Even then, Sri Lanka looked well placed, only for the Windies to gather more momentum when Ravi Rampaul produced a beautiful delivery to bowl Tillakaratne Dilshan for a duck. The hosts were able to turn to the experience of Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene but, even though the captains past and present were able to compile a stand of 42, the required run-rate was always rising. Australia's Shane Watson was named man of the tournament. The all-rounder hit the most runs (249), the second most sixes (15) and took the second most wickets (11). With the spin of Samuels and Sunil Narine slowing the scoring, Sangakkara eventually dragged Samuel Badree to Kieron Pollard at deep mid-wicket. Mathews departed quickly before Jayawardene, who had twice been dropped in the deep, buckled under the mounting task, top-edging a reverse sweep off Narine to Sammy. That began a collapse that saw Sri Lanka lose four wickets for nine runs and, although Nuwan Kulasekara showed some late fight, West Indies' triumph was sealed when Malinga was caught at long on off Narine, who finished with devastating figures of 3-9. The Windies came together to dance on the square in celebration, celebrations that seemed unlikely before the intervention of the brilliant Samuels.", "question": "A Marlon Samuels - @placeholder West Indies recovered from an awful start to beat Sri Lanka and win the World Twenty 20 .", "option_0": "interrupted", "option_1": "coached", "option_2": "display", "option_3": "inspired", "option_4": "run"}
{"id": 1342, "article": "The Games, which run from 7-18 September, will see around 4,350 athletes from more than 160 countries travel to Rio, Brazil, to compete in 526 medal events in 22 different sports. Britain enjoyed a hugely successful London Paralympics in 2012, winning 120 medals, including 34 golds, to finish third on the medal table behind China and Russia. With a team of more than 200 expected to be named for the Games, here's a look at some of the Paralympic athletes hoping to make an impact in 2016 on the biggest stage of all. Despite being only 17, Moore has been playing wheelchair basketball for eight years and is now a key part of the GB women's squad who will be playing at next year's Rio Paralympics. Charlotte has a busy life, combining her first year of A Level study in Biology, Chemistry and PE with training alongside the rest of the GB players who are based at the University of Worcester. The teenager, who is paralysed from the waist down, enjoyed double medal success in 2015, first helping the GB Under-25 Women to the world title before securing bronze at the European Championships. \"Having so many others on the team around the same age as me has been really good,\" she said. \"I would love to be selected to Rio and try and put in the same sort of performance that I did at the Europeans but under that bit more pressure.\" In January 2013 the then 27-year-old Giglia was working as fitness coach when she suffered a stroke which left her with restricted movement down her right side. Keen to get back into sport, cycling formed part of her recovery and after being spotted by British Cycling, she joined their development programme in 2014. She made her major international debut in 2015, racing in both the World Track and World Road Championships, and finished the year on a high at the Manchester Para-Cycling event, winning a gold in the C3 pursuit race. \"At the moment, I don't allow myself to think too much about Rio because you never know what is going to happen\" said Giglia. \"I never dreamed I would get to this level but it has allowed me to turn what was a bad situation into a good one. It gives me something to live for and I hope what I am doing can give other people hope that that can do something with their lives.\" The Norwich teenager is Britain's top ranked junior and is hoping to make his Paralympic debut in Rio at the age of 18. Hewett was born with a heart problem, which required surgery when he was six months old, and then aged seven he was diagnosed with a condition called Perthes Disease, which affects his hip joint. Hewett's 2015 saw him make his debut in the Wimbledon wheelchair doubles event in July and also win singles titles in Berlin and Italy and the British Open doubles title. \"It has definitely been a roller-coaster year,\" he said. \"I had some good wins over top 10 players but also some sloppy performances so there is a lot to take out of it for next year. \"Getting to Rio would mean a lot. I've had to overcome a lot but this has been my goal and it would prove that all the hard work and the sacrifices my family and I have made were worth it and a medal would be a dream come true.\" Having won team bronze at London 2012, Wilson wants to add an individual medal to that if he is selected for Rio. The 20-year-old was the youngest member of the GB table tennis squad in London, missing out on a medal in the singles before linking up with Will Bayley and Aaron McKibbin for the team event. Wilson, who has a condition which affects the growing ends of the bones, is expecting to find out whether he has been selected for Rio early in 2016. He said: \"After London, I suffered with a shoulder injury, and that meant a lot of rehabilitation. I also had knee and shoulder operations, so it has required a lot of patience and a lot of waiting around.\" \"That has helped me improve in the gym and improve psychologically and everything is coming together now.\" Watching Hannah Cockcroft and David Weir win gold medals at the 2012 London Paralympics proved a key moment in the life of Coventry teenager Kare Adenegan. Having been left out from participating in sports at school for health and safety reasons, the Games made her realise that she could take part in sport, despite her cerebral palsy, and she quickly discovered that there was an athletics club in her city. In October, aged 14, she was the youngest member of the GB team at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, winning two bronze medals. \"The World Championships were a stepping stone and I learned a lot about technique and tactics which should be beneficial for future competitions. The thought that I might be competing at Rio Paralympics is extremely exciting\" says Adenegan. He may only have made his England debut a few months ago, but Crossen is already targeting gold with Great Britain at the Rio Paralympics. The 25-year-old defender, from Stockton-on-Tees, impressed in June as England finished fifth at the Cerebral Palsy World Championships, their best ever, to secure a place for GB in Brazil. He admits he almost gave up football \"10 times\" after a stroke at the age of 22 left him with restricted movement on his left side. Crossen said: \"I am going for gold. Definitely a medal is the aim going into it. I am not going there to be a tourist, I am going for a medal. \"I would say we have got the third-best team in the world. I know the rankings don't say that but I think we could beat anyone on our day.\"", "question": "The Rio Paralympic Games are fast approaching and Britain 's top @placeholder athletes are hoping that the coming year can bring success .", "option_0": "disabled", "option_1": "spot", "option_2": "names", "option_3": "questions", "option_4": "team"}
{"id": 1343, "article": "The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) also revealed that it has received almost ¡ê6m to cover administration costs of the course. BBC News NI obtained the data through a freedom of information request. The speed awareness course began in June 2010 and may be offered to drivers as an alternative to penalty points. A total of 187,608 speed awareness courses have been completed since then. The maximum speed of a participant on the course was recorded at 86mph in a 70mph zone. Suneil Sharma completed it a few months ago in Belfast after he was caught driving at 38mph in a 30mph zone and said the course was \"worthwhile but tedious\". \"It was certainly worth doing the course rather than taking the penalty points,\" he said. \"They remind you of some of the basic things like leaving the house on time to avoid you driving quickly. \"I think I am a more careful driver now that I have been on it.\" Mr Sharma said he was \"completely gobsmacked\" to hear how many people had taken part in the course. The BBC has also obtained some figures about the speed awareness course and the Young Driver Scheme, which relates to the numbers of people who completed the course between 2011 and 2014. More men than women have been caught speeding. In 2012, almost 50% more men than women took part in the course, with 15,995 men taking part compared to 10,994 women. During the same period, 1,463 people completed the course twice while three people completed it on three occasions. People who are caught speeding while under the age of 25 will complete a different course known as the Young Driver Scheme. About 2,000 young people have been completing it each year. The figures also reveal that about 100 young people each year are completing the course while they still have their R plates. The course costs ¡ê89 and lasts for four hours, during which drivers are taught about the dangers of speeding and the impact of speeding during an accident. On average, drivers will only be given the opportunity to take part in the course if they are driving within 10mph of the speed limit. The course is offered at eight locations in Northern Ireland and is delivered by contractor AADriveTech.", "question": "Almost 190,000 speed awareness courses have been taken across Northern Ireland since the scheme was @placeholder seven years ago .", "option_0": "crushed", "option_1": "introduced", "option_2": "abandoned", "option_3": "spent", "option_4": "injured"}
{"id": 1344, "article": "On Saturday, James Brokenshire became the first secretary of state to attend a gaelic football match in Northern Ireland. It is understood he was in the stadium's control room when the anthem was played. The Northern Ireland Office said he attended \"in the spirit of friendship\". However, A County Armagh Labour MP said Mr Brokenshire had \"snubbed\" the anthem. \"I think that's quite a regressive step,\" Conor McGinn told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme. \"I'm confused and bemused by it and I've asked him to clarify why he did it.\" Mr McGinn said he understood Mr Brokenshire arranged it so \"he wouldn't be present to take his seat\" when the anthem was played before the McKenna Cup final. \"Four years ago Her Majesty The Queen visited Dublin and Croke Park, we've since had a reciprocal visit from the Irish president where both anthems were played with mutual respect, were attended by the taoiseach (Irish prime minister), the prime minister, other ministers. \"So what I want to find out is: Is this a change of protocol and why Mr Brokenshire didn't observe the normal courtesies and protocols around the playing of the national anthem?\" In 2012, then first minister and DUP leader Peter Robinson attended the McKenna Cup final, his first GAA match. Mr Robinson also took his seat just before the game began after the anthem was played. In 2011, then sports minister Car¨¢l N¨ª Chuil¨ªn became the first senior Sinn F¨¦in member to attend a Northern Ireland international football match. She also did not take her seat until after God Save the Queen was played. Mr McGinn said he was \"not naive\" about the feelings of unionist or nationalist politicians, but that Mr Brokenshire is a \"UK government minister\". \"James Brokenshire should be there as the secretary of state for Northern Ireland, a co-guarantor of the (Good Friday) agreement and someone who is above the fray, in a sense. \"He should observe proper respect and protocols for the Irish national anthem, in the way that I would expect the Irish foreign minister to observe the protocols of the UK national anthem.\" A spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) said Mr Brokenshire was \"delighted\" to attend the match and he \"did so in the spirit of friendship\". \"Saturday night was about sport, not politics,\" the spokesperson added. Speaking about the match on Saturday, Mr Brokenshire said he had received an \"absolutely incredible\" welcome.", "question": "The Secretary of State has been @placeholder after it emerged he took his seat at a GAA game after the playing of the Irish national anthem .", "option_0": "declared", "option_1": "fired", "option_2": "rescued", "option_3": "named", "option_4": "criticised"}
{"id": 1345, "article": "It will run across social media and digital platforms for the next month warning potential and existing child sex predators that officers are \"on to them\". Chief Constable Phil Gormley said he would not tolerate Scottish children being groomed. The Scottish government is supporting the ?¡ê40,000 campaign. The campaign outlines how abusers gain power over their victims by violence, coercion or intimidation. They often target young people by offering them something, such as food, drugs, alcohol, gifts or affection, in return for sex. The drive's digital launch follows two weeks of phone box adverts being placed across Scotland where abusers are known to target young people. Chief Constable Phil Gormley said: \"Children across Scotland, both boys and girls, are being groomed for sex by predators. \"This kind of insidious behaviour can, at times, be hidden under a veil of seemingly innocent contact when in reality the child is being groomed to be sexually abused. \"Sexually exploiting a child will not be tolerated and our message to perpetrators is simple: we know how you operate, where you operate and the techniques you use. We're on to you.\" Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: \"Keeping children safe from abuse and exploitation is a key priority for the Scottish government and we fully support the work of Police Scotland to tackle those who prey on children.\" The charity Barnardos Scotland, which is also supporting the campaign, urged people to report any concerns they might have.", "question": "Police Scotland has launched its first public @placeholder campaign to tackle child sexual exploitation ( CSE ) .", "option_0": "sector", "option_1": "address", "option_2": "protection", "option_3": "policy", "option_4": "information"}
{"id": 1346, "article": "Kay plays a supermarket worker forced to spend his commute with a colleague as part of a company car-share scheme. The star has also directed the six half-hour episodes. The series will be the first to be made available online on the iPlayer in its entirety before being broadcast on a BBC TV channel. The iPlayer is mainly used as a catch-up service, but Car Share is part of a trial in which 40 hours of programming will be made available online first. BBC One controller Danny Cohen said: \"It is hugely exciting that Peter Kay is coming to BBC One with his new series - even more so with the innovative plan we have to launch the show online.\" Peter Kay is among the UK's most popular comedians and is best known on TV for Channel 4 shows like Phoenix Nights and Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere. In 2010 and 2011, he broke the world record for the biggest-selling stand-up tour, which was seen by 1.1 million people over 113 arena nights. He is also the first comedian to sell 10 million DVDs in the UK. He said: \"To be finally working with the BBC on a new comedy is a great opportunity. \"And the idea of two people car sharing to work each day really appealed to me, as it highlights the comedy in the minutia of the daily trek and allows the spiralling conversations of life to unwind in all of their glory.\"", "question": "Comedian Peter Kay is to make his first BBC One sitcom , but the show , @placeholder Car Share , will go out on TV only after making its debut on the BBC iPlayer .", "option_0": "titled", "option_1": "according", "option_2": "capturing", "option_3": "based", "option_4": "writes"}
{"id": 1347, "article": "It's a tiny slice of forest in an urban landscape. Hawthorn and crab apple trees provide a shady canopy over a collection of shrubs, wildflowers and grasses. The garden, London Glades, at the Hampton Court Flower Show, is designed to mimic the forest floor. Mounds of rotting wood and garden waste have been covered with topsoil to be more sustainable and echo the natural contours of the wild. Jon Davies of Future Gardens London says the garden sets out to explore a deeper relationship with nature. \"One of the main things we're working with is Hugelkultur, which in German means hill culture,\" explains Jon. \"It's the idea of creating mounds in the ground, so contouring the land rather than just having it flat.\" He says the contours create interesting planting environments for different plants. \"We're trying to get a Hugelkultur revolution going on, especially in the urban environment, and saying, 'Look, your gardens don't have to be flat,'\" he explains. \"We can create these really cool contours, which create really interesting planting environments.\" Part of the concept of the garden is to invoke the senses. Strawberries nestle among other plants, where you can reach out and pick them. There's moss to tickle your toes if you walk barefoot along soft paths. \"We're trying to get people to get all their senses involved when experiencing this garden,\" says co-creator Andreas Christodoulou. \"So there's an edible element to every plant and so therefore you can taste what the plants are like. \"There's a lovely smell, especially during the rain, along the lawn paths, and we encourage people to take off their shoes as they walk through so that they can feel and try to explore the soft landscaped paths.\" Plants are chosen for their textures and flowers, while the trees create dappled light and shade. The overall effect is soft and wild, rather than the straight lines and manicured lawns of traditional gardens. \"We want to try and get a feeling of nature, and the woodland and the wildness into an urban setting so you feel very connected in a deeper way to the natural environment,\" says Jon. Martyn Wilson from Wilson Associates Garden Design is behind a garden that echoes the way nature takes over abandoned industrial spaces. \"The concept is around the regeneration of brownfield sites as they're known,\" he explains. \"My inspiration is from places such as the High Line in New York and the Landschaft Park at Duisberg in Germany, but also major regeneration sites such as the former MG Rover site in Longbridge in Birmingham.\" Sculpted steel forms the basis of the garden, together with concrete blocks. The planting includes birch trees, buddleia bushes, grasses and ferns. \"I'm of the view that people perhaps walk past these spaces,\" says Martyn. \"They perhaps don't look through the hoarding and see what's going on inside. So I'm hoping people will look at these sites and hopefully see the beauty of them. \" Old factories and industrial spaces can go through periods of transition where they are reclaimed by nature. Even a small patch of land of 9 by 5 metres can harbour wildlife. Plants peep through gravel as if they have sprung up naturally, attracting insects such as damselflies. \"This is in essence a gravel garden - it's low maintenance... and if you're wanting to encourage wildlife it's very pollinator beneficial,\" says Martyn. Follow Helen on Twitter.", "question": "Projects such as the High Line in New York have used industrial spaces to create wildlife havens in the heart of the city . It 's a trend that 's spreading around the world . So how can you connect with nature on your own patch of @placeholder ?", "option_0": "earth", "option_1": "life", "option_2": "turf", "option_3": "space", "option_4": "events"}
{"id": 1348, "article": "The mother was at Derby Bus Station on Wednesday evening when she was seen slapping the child. Police arrested the 35-year-old mother on suspicion of common assault, interviewed her and gave her two cautions. Derbyshire Police said the child was now being looked after by social care. It is legal for a parent to physically punish a child in the UK if the punishment is \"reasonable\". However, the Children Act 2004 removed the defence of \"reasonable chastisement\" in England and Wales for any punishment towards a child that leads to bruising, swelling, cuts, grazes or scratches. Scotland and Northern Ireland have similar laws. A United Nations report suggested the UK should pass laws to ban parents from smacking their children.", "question": "A child has been taken away from a mother who slapped the four - year - old across the face , then swore at and pushed a woman who @placeholder .", "option_0": "fled", "option_1": "posed", "option_2": "vanished", "option_3": "collapsed", "option_4": "intervened"}
{"id": 1349, "article": "Yet Polish apple grower Barbara Domasiewicz and her family are unlikely to reap the rewards. That's because neighbouring Russia has always been the biggest single customer for the fruits produced on her family's farm. Now the fate of much of her crop hangs in the balance. Russia's ban on produce from the EU, in retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine is not without precedent. Imports from Poland were halted once before in 2008. But this latest trade embargo has hit just a month before the annual harvest, and there is now a real chance that at least some of the crisp, juicy crop in these orchards, 55km (34 miles) south of the capital Warsaw, will just go to waste. It's a hot, late summer day and Barbara is out in the orchards, walking the neat and fragrantly ripening rows with the marketing director of Ecogrupa, the nearby co-operative that distributes her apples. She tells him she has no illusions about how tricky it will be to find replacement customers willing to take large quantities of her crop. \"We are happy with the quality, but just don't know whether we can sell our apples or what price we can now get. The kind of apples we grow are good sellers in Russia but less popular in many other places in Europe.\" Half of all Poland's apples are exported and last year half of that total went to bulk buyers in Russia for onward distribution to supermarkets and stores. So the embargo puts a squeeze on Polish farmers that is hard to stomach. Brussels puts the value of the country's entire fruit trade with Russia at over 339m euros (¡ê271m). Poland's vegetable sales there came in at about 173m euros (¡ê138m). Poland was also a major, though not the largest, supplier of dairy and meat products. Most of the produce is sold through co-operative trading companies owned collectively by the growers. The largest is Ecogrupa. It has previously sent up to 20 trucks a day across the Russian border, with each 21-tonne load containing some 80,000 apples. Staff have already had plenty of enquiries from global customers looking to buy the now surplus crop, though only for rock-bottom prices. Ecogrupa's marketing director, Pawel Zalewski, has forged close relationships with his Russian buyers and emphasises he has no quarrel with them whatsoever. He thinks the ban has already hit shoppers there hard - with typical fruit price rises of around 60%. He says he would not be surprised if Moscow looked for a face-saving way of reversing the ban before it officially expires in a year. But he says the events of the last few weeks are also a wake-up call for the entire industry. \"Way before the embargo our group started to see that we should change our approach and move away from exporting apples by the crateload to buyers only looking for the lowest price. \"Margins in the industry are very low and we need to change the mindset of consumers. Polish apples are a great product which we can now treat very carefully and sell to new customers abroad.\" So Ecogrupa is encouraging Polish growers to rise above the loss of Russian bulk business by improving quality. Mr Zalewski proudly shows off a vast new processing warehouse built with the aid of EU funds. The place is packed with industry-leading plant and robots to store, clean and grade apples by size and colour markings, even automatically probing the quality right though to the core without leaving a mark. The best of the apples go into custom-designed and branded packaging, finding ready buyers in northern Europe, including Scandinavia and beyond. Now the group is diversifying into turning even more of its growers' produce into \"not from concentrate\" apple juice and offering pre-peeled and cut fruit to caterers and restaurants. Adding value to the apple crop would also meet the approval of Malgorzata Starczewska-Krzysztoszek, chief economist of Lewiatana, the Polish Confederation of Private Employers. She is also on a prestigious economic board which advises the Polish prime minister. \"What's happened is a reminder that we need to change our agricultural model. We produce very good natural products and we must use technology to keep them in better condition, to improve packaging to prolong life without adding chemicals. \"There is a lot of room for innovation in Poland, but I think we can do it because we are always much better when we're under pressure.\" It may not be until December that the financial impact of the embargo on the apple trade becomes clear. Most fruit famers were braced for this ban. But it is not yet clear how much they are willing or able to make the investments needed to replace the bulk trade with Russia with sales to Western fruit buyers who insist on named varieties of the highest quality. When it comes to the EU-wide emergency relief for embargo-hit farmers, apple producers are far from first in the queue. Soft fruit and some vegetable growers have first call on a share of the 125m euro (¡ê100m) fund, designed to avert a price slump by taking some apples out of the European market. Measures are being put in place to try to divert some of this surplus fruit to the needy, but many in the industry fear the mechanisms may not work and countless tonnes of apples will have to be destroyed. Decisions will have to be made as to whether it is worth preserving some or all of the unsold crop in cold storage. Ecogrupa's vice president Jacek Skoneczny welcomes the EU aid but says Polish growers might be better served if they were allowed to send the embargoed apples to places like the Middle East or North Africa to help those in need and also promote their products in such new markets. \"We are happy that the farmers can get EU money, but it might be better that, instead of wasting fruit, we could sell it cheaply to the market outside Europe. People would be able to taste our apples and next time they might come back and buy them.\"", "question": "It 's promising to be one of Poland 's best apple harvests since records began . There has been plenty of rain and just the right amount of @placeholder .", "option_0": "lives", "option_1": "power", "option_2": "sunshine", "option_3": "humidity", "option_4": "culture"}
{"id": 1350, "article": "Protesters refused to take an alternative route suggested by police in central Santiago and hurled stones at them, the government said. Students said they were brutally attacked by riot police. They are demanding that the government of Michelle Bachelet speed up reforms that will guarantee free university education for all Chileans. \"We are tired of waiting,\" read banners carried by students in the demonstration. President Bachelet took office in 2014, promising to implement a number of social measures to reduce inequality. She had served a first term between 2006 and 2010. One of the most contentious issues during the government of her centre-right predecessor, Sebastian Pinera, was Chile's educational system, which critics say favours the private sector. She said policies guaranteeing everyone a free education would show that the country was heading in the right direction. Last year, however, Ms Bachelet's government scaled down the reforms as Chile faced an economic downturn. Many left-wingers felt betrayed by the change of pace. On Saturday, during Ms Bachelet's annual state-of-the-nation address violent protests erupted in Valparaiso. Demonstrators set up barricades and hurled firebombs in Valparaiso, where Chile's Congress meets. Police fired tear gas and water cannon. A security guard died from fume inhalation when masked protestors burned a pharmacy and supermarket. \"We are going to stay on the streets. From today onwards, we expect that the protests will only intensify,\" said Marta Matamala, head of the University of Santiago student union.", "question": "A student demonstration in Chile has turned violent as police used tear gas and water cannons to @placeholder the march .", "option_0": "address", "option_1": "crush", "option_2": "increase", "option_3": "solve", "option_4": "divert"}
{"id": 1351, "article": "On Tuesday China winds up a weeklong public holiday to mark National Day, the anniversary of the 1949 Revolution when the Communist Party came to power. Since then, the Party has imposed tight control over the media, and at times of crisis the room for nuanced reporting shrinks to zero. In the early days of last week, the state propaganda machine met the Hong Kong protests in almost total silence as it awaited instructions from the Communist Party leadership on what to say. Now, despite the distraction of National Day celebrations, the orders have come down, and the machine is working at full throttle. The Chinese state controls the press. Over recent days, the Communist Party flagship newspaper has set the tone for Hong Kong coverage with several commentaries and editorials on its front page. Monday's edition explained the Party's thinking on the principle of democracy, with an editorial which argued that \"respecting the will and interests of the majority is the common essence of all democracies.\" The column went on to argue that Britain had done nothing for democracy in Hong Kong and to insinuate that the 'Occupy' movement is the tool of hostile foreign interests. Using illegal means to achieve \"noble\" purposes is a lie told by a small group of ambitious schemersa€|.who maintain the colonial mentality and are hostile towards democracy. Missing from this primer on democracy is any mention of what citizens should do when they see their laws as unjust and their leaders as unaccountable. At no point in the past turbulent week have China's media mentioned that Hong Kong's demonstrators are peaceful nor have they tackled the rights and wrongs of non-violent civil disobedience. The People's Daily does not address Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King. Nor for that matter does it rush to revisit its own revolution. The simple fact is that there would be no celebrating the 65th anniversary of the People's Republic if Mao Zedong had followed current Party instructions on lawful protest. Mao himself had little time for civil disobedience. He is famous for lines like 'political power comes from the barrel of a gun' and 'revolution is not a dinner party'. He would have scoffed at the 'umbrella revolutionaries' with their hands in the air and signs apologising for disruption. The Chinese public gets its national television news from one place, CCTV. Pictures present particular problems for propaganda organs and several days into the Hong Kong crisis, there were only words. But since the weekend, CCTV has run long reports from its reporters in Hong Kong showing traffic disruption and a chorus of angry voices opposed to the protests from commuters to shopkeepers and foreign residents. The only images of the protesters themselves are carefully edited to give the impression that police are dealing with a potentially violent crowd of extremists. There are no interviews with the demonstrators and no attempt to address their point of view. Monday evening's news headline on CCTV was 'All walks of life express strong dissatisfaction towards Occupy Central'. Anything which may remind mainland citizens of the Tiananmen democracy protests of 1989 is particularly sensitive. Western social media like Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are blocked in China. The photo sharing application Instagram which is normally available has also now been blocked so that images of Hong Kong's protest cannot circulate. And on China's Twitter equivalent, Weibo, searches for \"Occupy Central\", \"Hong Kong students\" and \"Umbrella Revolution\" return error messages. A concerted campaign to eradicate images which present the demonstrators as idealistic, numerous, vulnerablea€|and especially young. China now has its own clear narrative of what's happening in Hong Kong and is working hard to close down any alternative. But at the same time as depriving his citizens of images from the \"umbrella revolution\" China's president Xi Jinping will no doubt be watching them closely himself.", "question": "Quiz question : What has been the top trending story on China 's social media this week ? Wrong answer : Hong Kong . Correct answer : People @placeholder ' Guoqing ' , which in Chinese means ' national celebration ' .", "option_0": "chose", "option_1": "show", "option_2": "join", "option_3": "named", "option_4": "feared"}
{"id": 1352, "article": "The new exhibition at the Museum of Cambridge on Castle Street includes some items never seen by the public. It features reports of some of those imprisoned in both the County Gaol where the county council offices now stand and the Borough Gaol on Gonville Place, where the YMCA stands. The exhibition runs until July. County Gaol, on the site of the city's Norman castle, was constructed between 1802 and 1807. It was used until 1915 and was finally demolished in 1928. Shire Hall, the council headquarters on Castle Street was constructed using some of the old prison bricks. The Borough - or Town - Gaol overlooking Parker's Piece, was built in 1829 and pulled down in 1878. The YMCA and a multi-storey car park now occupy the site. Among those who passed through the penal system were a pair of murderous lovers, Elias Lucas and Mary Reader. They were hanged at County Gaol on 13 April 1850 for killing Susan Lucas. The unfortunate wife of Elias - and sister of Mary - was poisoned with arsenic to enable her killers to marry. Instead, they were hanged together in the prison courtyard. Others escaped the ultimate punishment and were instead deported. John Frederick Mortlock, 33, described as a \"gentleman of Cambridge\" was sentenced to \"21 years' transportation\" in 1842 after being found guilty of attempting to murder a man with a pistol. As late as 1942 what might appear to be severe sentences for minor criminal acts were still being handed out. Jesse Whitehead, a 26-year-old plumber from Kent, was jailed for a year for stealing a silk handkerchief from a member of Queen's College in the city. Some of the items on show have been brought out of storage at the museum while many others have been donated either by descendants of the original owners, or collectors.", "question": "Truncheons , handcuffs and the dying words of two murderers are among @placeholder documenting the history of crime and punishment in Cambridge .", "option_0": "things", "option_1": "evidence", "option_2": "artefacts", "option_3": "points", "option_4": "helping"}
{"id": 1353, "article": "The woman, in her 40s, was asleep in her car in a lay-by at Dunnington, near York, when she was attacked. North Yorkshire Police said the woman was attacked on 1 July, but they have only now obtained a description. The driver is about 55 years old, 5ft 10in tall with blonde or light hair and a tattoo on his upper left arm. His lorry was cream or white in colour, with red lettering on the side including the letters D and E. Det Ch Insp Dave Ellis, of North Yorkshire Police, said: \"I believe that fellow drivers may recognise the description of this man, or of his lorry, and will be able to provide information which will help to identify him.\"", "question": "Police investigating the night - time rape of a vulnerable woman have @placeholder a description of a lorry driver they want to speak to .", "option_0": "attached", "option_1": "unearthed", "option_2": "demanded", "option_3": "issued", "option_4": "sparked"}
{"id": 1354, "article": "The deal was one of several announced during US President Donald Trump's weekend visit to the Middle East which boosted US markets. The Dow Jones rose 0.43% to 20,894.90. The wider S&P 500 climbed 0.52% to 2,394.03, while the Nasdaq was up 0.84% at 6,134.70. Defence companies were among the best performing stocks after the US and Saudi Arabia agreed a $110bn arms deal. Shares in Boeing climbed 1.6%, Lockheed Martin rose 1.6%, and Raytheon was 0.6% higher. Shares in Blackstone, which counts Hilton hotels and craft chain Michaels Stores among its investments, jumped more than 6%. Blackstone said on Saturday it is starting a new investment programme focused on infrastructure, to be financed by $20m from the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, as well as other investors and debt. Infrastructure has been a key talking point for Mr Trump, who says the US is falling behind when it comes to roads and other projects. He has pledged to jumpstart public and private investment in the area. Shares in Ford climbed 2.1% after the carmaker said it had replaced its chief executive Mark Fields, following a major reshuffle. Ford's new chief is Jim Hackett, who formerly ran the company's self-driving car division. Oil price rises also drove energy stock prices higher.", "question": "Shares of US financial services giant Blackstone jumped on Monday after the firm said it would invest $ 100 m in infrastructure , with partners that @placeholder Saudi Arabia .", "option_0": "include", "option_1": "represented", "option_2": "following", "option_3": "rocked", "option_4": "helped"}
{"id": 1355, "article": "The cities are bidding for the Games after Durban was stripped of the event. Warner says it is more cost effective to use the stadium, which hosted the 2012 Olympics and 2017 World Athletics and Para-athletics Championships. \"The first one to make the call has the knockout bid,\" he said. Liverpool's plan will see a temporary athletics track put into Everton's proposed new stadium, while Birmingham is planning on refurbishing Alexander Stadium, the home of the national championships. \"If I was leader of the Liverpool or Birmingham bid I would be ringing [London Mayor] Sadiq Khan and say 'you know what, can we have the athletics in London and we will do everything else?\" Warner told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek. Warner, who is also co-chairman of London 2017, said: \"I spoke to a civil servant, who is heavily involved in the Commonwealth Games bid, he said he was going to be 'be rinsing the treasury for half a billion pounds to put on an English Commonwealth Games.' \"My answer is, save a load of money, use this amazing facility, which is the best in the world and make it an English bid.\" Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson told BBC Radio Merseyside: \"Liverpool's case is around the fact that - with the athletics village, with the things that we would put in place - there would be a huge legacy, not just economic but for sport, for our children, for the future.\" Both cities will be inspected in August, before the final decision in September. The Department of Culture, Media and Sport will then forward the bid to the Commonwealth Games Federation. Cities in Canada, Australia and Malaysia are also expected to bid for the Games.", "question": "Liverpool and Birmingham should ask to use London Stadium for athletics as part of their 2022 Commonwealth Games bids , says @placeholder UK Athletics chief Ed Warner .", "option_0": "shows", "option_1": "outgoing", "option_2": "results", "option_3": "prop", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 1356, "article": "Eighty badgers were vaccinated between September and November and an expansion across Penwith, Cornwall, is planned. Prof Rosie Woodroffe, from the project, said up to 1,000 badgers could be vaccinated in the \"next few years\" and it may be an alternative to the cull. But the government said it was pursuing a \"comprehensive 25-year strategy to deal with the disease\". The seven-year project is costing about ?¡ê1m and is being funded by the Badger and Cattle Vaccination Initiative, the National Trust and through fundraising, with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) providing the trial with vaccinations for free. Prof Woodroffe, who started the pilot in 2013, said it had so far been deemed a success because of \"good participation from land owners\" and meeting the 80 badger vaccination target. She said: \"TB is a terrible problem for farmers and badgers are part of that problem. \"It's been tested on badgers and reduces the risk. It has the potential to reduce the spread.\" Sue James, who allowed the vaccination to take place on her land in West Cornwall, said: \"It seems to me if there's a chance vaccinations can help farmers we should give it a go.\" Defra said: \"England has the highest incidence of bovine TB in Europe and that is why we are pursuing a comprehensive 25-year strategy to deal with the disease, which includes cattle controls, badger vaccination and culling badgers where TB is rife.\" The Penwith peninsula covers the far west of Cornwall.", "question": "A trial to give Bovine TB vaccines to badgers will @placeholder after it was deemed a success by scientists in Cornwall .", "option_0": "discover", "option_1": "expand", "option_2": "improve", "option_3": "close", "option_4": "resume"}
{"id": 1357, "article": "St Joseph's College in Stoke-on-Trent said if every parent paid the optional ¡ê60 per term per child, it would have an additional ¡ê196,000. In a statement, it said like all schools nationally it was \"under increasing financial pressure\". The government said it had \"protected the core schools budget in real terms since 2010\". Read more news for Staffordshire In a letter to parents, the school in Trent Vale for 11 to 18-year-olds, said it was \"facing cuts next year of ¡ê289,000 in addition to the more than ¡ê1m that has been cut\" over the previous five years. It said that meant it had had \"¡ê200 funding cut per pupil per year since 2013 with another ¡ê286 per pupil cut from this year's budget\". In a statement, the school said whilst it could meet its \"core\" commitments, the provision of \"the outstanding opportunities that we strive to offer has been supported by parents for the last 20 years via a voluntary payment to the school fund\". It added: \"We have recently reminded parents, as we do annually, of the benefits to their children of supporting the school in this way.\" The government said school funding was \"at its highest level on record at almost ¡ê41bn in 2017-18\" and that was set to rise, as pupil numbers increase, to ¡ê42bn by 2019/20. It said: \"We recognise that schools are facing cost pressures, which is why we will continue to provide support to help them use their funding in cost effective ways and make efficiencies.", "question": "Parents at a state school have been @placeholder to pay a fee every term to help plug a near ¡ê 300,000 gap in funding .", "option_0": "threatened", "option_1": "invited", "option_2": "voted", "option_3": "raised", "option_4": "ordered"}
{"id": 1358, "article": "Josh Matavesi's interception try set the seal on the win, but it was fly-half Biggar's control and kicking that put Ospreys in charge. Biggar reacted positively to missing some first-half kicks to accumulate a personal match tally of 20 points. \"He was frustrated and took it upon himself to go out and give us some yards,\" said Ospreys captain Jones. \"You watch Dan - whether it's with Wales or the Ospreys - and when he's playing well he gets us on the front foot and that fulcrum between 9, 10 and 12 is pretty good when he's firing.\" Biggar's personal contribution helped Ospreys make a winning start against the team lying second in England's Premiership. Jones was happy with his team's win after their poor form in the early rounds of the Pro12. Ospreys lie eighth in the table after losing five of their opening seven matches. \"People didn't expect too much from us in this first game, but it's a good start,\" added Jones. \"It's the home win that we needed off what we're mature enough to say is a disappointing start in the Pro12, and this was the game we needed. \"If you look at the game it probably could have gone either way and we were lucky to get a couple of decisions and get on the front foot.\" Ospreys face last season's runners-up Clermont Auvergne away in the second round of matches on 22 November. \"It's massive step up,\" added Jones. \"We've got a quick turnaround, but hopefully we can get out there and get something. \"They've had a indifferent start but they always peak for the ERC - they've been to a couple of finals and the squad and the reputation they have got playing at home.\"", "question": "Alun Wyn Jones @placeholder Dan Biggar after he inspired Ospreys to a 25 - 13 win over Exeter in the European Champions Cup.", "option_0": "criticised", "option_1": "produced", "option_2": "suffered", "option_3": "coached", "option_4": "praised"}
{"id": 1359, "article": "Iran was against US intervention, he said, and the world should respect the results of Iraq's April election which saw victory for Nouri Maliki's alliance. But the ayatollah has been overtaken by events. The past week has seen the US launch air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in northern Iraq, while in Baghdad Mr Maliki has failed in his bid to return to the prime minister's office. Although this all goes contrary to Iran's stated wishes, officials in Tehran have said almost nothing. \"Iran's silence shows they are happy with what's happening in Iraq,\" says Ghassan Attiyah, president of the Baghdad-based Iraqi Foundation for Development and Democracy. Mr Attiyah says that Iraq's new Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has strong ties to Iran and for this reason the Iranians have not tried to block his nomination. \"They were not happy with Maliki from the beginning but they accepted him because the Shia bloc supported him in parliament,\" he says. \"But when he started losing and alienating Kurds and Sunnis, Iran didn't like it.\" Iran has also confounded expectations that it would issue an angry condemnation of the US air strikes this week on IS positions in northern Iraq. In fact, in a striking change of tone, an advisor to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that Iran and the US should work together to counter IS in Iraq. Observers say the realisation that the militants are now just 25km (16 miles) from Iran's western border may well have influenced thinking in Tehran. It is clear that the threat posed by the Islamic State is another factor in Iran's decision not to actively oppose the appointment of Mr Abadi as Iraq's new prime minister. Unlike US President Barack Obama, Iran's president has yet to congratulate Mr Abadi on his appointment. But in a phone call on Monday to congratulate another newly elected leader in the region, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said a government must be formed in Iraq \"as soon as possible\", and that Iran would support \"the person who is approved by the majority of Iraqi lawmakers\". It was the first clear indication that Iran was not intending to stand firmly behind Mr Maliki as it has done for its other regional protege, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. There was more bad news for Mr Maliki on Tuesday when the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, also voiced support for the move in Baghdad to choose a new prime minister. Mr Shamkhani's call for all Iraqi groups and coalitions to keep united and work together to protect national unity seemed like a coded message to Mr Maliki that his time was running out. The hardline Javan newspaper, affiliated to Iran's Revolutionary Guard, adopted a similar tone. In an editorial, it called on him to show \"selfless compliance\" to the Iraqi president's decision. The final nail in the coffin was Ayatollah Khamenei lending his support to Mr Abadi's appointment on Wednesday. \"I hope the designation of the new prime minister in Iraq will untie the knot and lead to the establishment of a new government and teach a good lesson to those who aim for sedition in Iraq,\" Ayatollah Khamenei said in a speech to foreign ministry officials and diplomats. \"Maliki won't leave easily,\" says Mohsen Milani, the Iranian-born director of the Center for Strategic and Diplomatic Studies in Florida. \"But if both Iran and the US support the new government, he has to go.\" Mr Maliki said Mr Abadi's nomination was a \"violation of the constitution\" but for Iran what is important at the moment is to see a unified Shia bloc in Iraq and a new government formed without further delay. And if Mr Maliki cannot deliver either of these things, then as far as Iran is concerned, his time is up.", "question": "Less than two months ago , Iran 's Supreme Leader , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , @placeholder out his position on Iraq .", "option_0": "ruled", "option_1": "spoke", "option_2": "spelled", "option_3": "thrown", "option_4": "played"}
{"id": 1360, "article": "For the rescued children this donation, from Red Cross Nigeria and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), was the first chance to get out of the tattered clothes they had been wearing for months, since the very day they were kidnapped by Boko Haram. Handing out clothes to the women and children as well as buckets, towels and soap is the easy part.  It is much harder to help them recover from the physical and psychological damage. \"I saw death when I was with Boko Haram.  I lived with death,\" says Margaret. \"It's only God that saved me. But I'm not the same person now.\" Her two-year-old daughter, Halima, is asleep on her lap, as her young son Jacob, four, cries relentlessly from fever and struggles to sit up on the bed beside her. \"We saw so many ugly things.  People were slaughtered with knives in front of us.  It has changed my view of the world completely,\" she told me. Margaret escaped from captivity several months ago so it was surprising to find her amongst the just rescued women and children. She was there for an extraordinary reunion. When Boko Haram gunmen stormed her village near Damboa late last year Margaret was abducted along with Halima and Jacob. But she had three other children, aged six, eight and 10, back at home - with no one looking after them.  With the jihadists terrorising the towns and villages, killing and abducting, Margaret was worried sick about their safety. \"So I just took the risk and fled with Halima,\" she said adding that it would have been impossible to escape carrying both children. She took the painful decision to leave Jacob in the jihadist camp and begged another abductee, 20-year-old Hauwa, to look after him. I met Hauwa in another room of the school that is a temporary home for the rescued women and children. \"We really suffered there.  We were beaten if we didn't pray.  Every day we were beaten,\" she tells me.  Many of the children fell sick because they were eating so badly in the jihadist camp in the Sambisa forest. Despite all the challenges she still managed to keep Jacob and another woman's child safe - a heroic act that also helped her avoid being handed out as a wife of a Boko Haram fighter. \"I am not married but I told them I was.  I said: 'Look, here are my two children.'\" Hauwa also protected the children during the terrifying rescue mission when the Nigerian military stormed the camp. \"When the aircraft were above us we lay under the bushes to avoid being hit by bullets,\" she says. \"The soldiers were shooting because they thought we were Boko Haram.  Some of our women were hit, some died and others were wounded.\" Hearing that the Nigerian military had brought 275 of the rescued women and children to Yola, Margaret headed to the school \"to find out if I was lucky\". \"When I found my son, Jacob, here, I was so happy it was as if I could fly,\" Margaret said, her face suddenly lighting up. Jacob needs a lot of help though. He is severely malnourished, as are more than 30 of the 200 children that were brought here. Help is available at the very basic clinic that has been set up at the school but some are disturbingly emaciated, with protruding ribs, and need emergency treatment. Retired midwife Mary Galadima points to three children recovering on a mattress on the floor. \"That evening when they were brought here you would shed tears when you see them. These three here couldn't walk - we had to carry them, they were so weak. \"When we give them food they start vomiting and they have diarrhoea because they stayed so long there in the bush,\" says Mrs Galadima, who is now a village health worker in a government-funded programme to boost care in the most vulnerable parts of the country. \"Some also have eye problems because they became infected due to the harsh conditions they lived under, or the eyes were damaged when bombs exploded,\" she says. \"If we know that there is a psychological problem we counsel them, and reassure them.  That is all we are doing.\" The United Nations Population Fund, ICRC and volunteers are also helping with some counselling. \"Any human being put under such level of stress becomes overwhelmed and the normal coping mechanism, the in-built resilience is stretched beyond breaking point,\" says one community leader from Borno state, who asked not to be named. After helping many former abductees he says some display clear signs of Stockholm syndrome. \"They are brainwashed and indoctrinated so I have met some women who begin to think what the group is doing is right,\" he says. Given the staggering level of suffering and heartbreak and the memories that haunt these women and children, the need for psychosocial support is overwhelming. Boko Haram gunmen grabbed Safiya last December when she went to sell food in the market. She was several months pregnant and was taken with her husband. Just hours into her ordeal she tasted the brutality of the jihadists. \"They killed my husband using a knife.  Right in front of me they slit his throat,\" she said. From then on it was a battle for survival for both her and the unborn child, as she was moved from camp to camp - ending up in the harsh environment of the Sambisa forest. \"Every day they would come around and tell us we were infidels and we should convert and accept their religion,\" she recalls. \"Some days they beat us. Sometimes they would starve us of food and even water.\" Safiya gave birth last week to a baby boy - just one day before the Nigerian military attacked to rescue them. \"We were very happy to see the soldiers because Boko Haram has said they would sell us and we never thought we would get out and live amongst people again.\" Safiya then tells me she has three other children aged nine, six and three. \"They were at home in Lassa when I was abducted at the market.\" She has not seen them since then and has no idea how they have fared as the insurgency has battered the towns and villages of the north-east. The Red Cross says at least 60 of the children at the camp in Yola have been separated from their parents. In recent months a local radio and TV station has helped reunite some relatives but so many families have been torn apart during this conflict there is a great need for more tracing of relatives to be done. There are also many victims of sexual violence who need delicate counselling.  Some young women and teenage girls held by Boko Haram have been forced to marry more than five men. \"Any time they go for an operation and one of the fighters is killed they will force the young woman to marry another one,\" says the community leader from Borno state. \"Eventually she becomes a habitual sex slave.\" The survivors have extraordinary levels of resilience and had to be resourceful in order to get through the ordeal.  Now they need huge amounts of long-term help as they try to heal. All names of survivors have been changed.", "question": "They queued up for brand new clothes and flip - flops - cellophane - wrapped dresses for the girls and @placeholder shirts and shorts for the boys .", "option_0": "blood", "option_1": "fuel", "option_2": "matching", "option_3": "short", "option_4": "pioneering"}
{"id": 1361, "article": "The owners of the Cereal Killer Cafe said staff were \"absolutely terrified\" when protesters targeted the shop on Saturday night. Police said the disorder, which spread into Brick Lane, began at about 20:00 BST and lasted for several hours. One man was arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage. Alan Keery, who runs the Cereal Killer cafe with his twin brother Gary, told the Evening Standard newspaper: \"There were children there - they were terrified. \"The staff were absolutely terrified. It was an angry mob throwing paint at the windows. They had torches and pigs' heads.\" He added: \"We're being targeted as the poster boys of gentrification and that's not our fault.\" One witness told the BBC: \"We don't know why they did it but they were wearing Cameron masks. They've written Class War on their banners. \"And later threw paint on the cafe. The staff and employees barricaded themselves inside.\" The brothers from Belfast, who opened the cafe in December 2014, were forced to defend their prices after a Channel 4 interviewer asked whether local people could afford ?¡ê3.20 for a bowl of cereal. On Sunday they tweeted: \"The mob won't win, wearing masks with pitch forks and torches, it's 2015. #hatecrime\" The pre-planned demonstration was advertised on Facebook, with organisers saying: \"We don't want luxury flats that no-one can afford, we want genuinely affordable housing. \"We don't want pop-up gin bars or brioche buns - we want community. \"Soon this City will be an unrecognisable, bland, yuppie infested wasteland with no room for normal (and not so normal) people like us. \"London is our home and worth defending against this onslaught of dog-eat-dog economics. \"Working class people are being forced out of our homes but we won't go out without a fight.\"", "question": "Activists opposed to what they claim is the gentrification of parts of east London threw paint and daubed the word \" scum \" on a @placeholder selling cereal .", "option_0": "supermarket", "option_1": "business", "option_2": "counter", "option_3": "charm", "option_4": "coal"}
{"id": 1362, "article": "When the original Star Wars films were at the peak of their popularity in the rest of the world it was the late 1970s and China was just emerging from the Cultural Revolution. Even this new film will be released in Chinese theatres on 9 January, a month later than the rest of the world. This is mostly due to the fact that foreign studios had already used up China's annual quota of 34  foreign films. China places strict quotas on Hollywood blockbusters to prevent competition with domestic releases, although one industry official, said the date could work to the film's advantage as it is closer to Chinese New Year. \"Good things come to those who wait,\" said another fan. \"The one month wait will be totally worth it,\" said one fan on Chinese microblogging site, Weibo. One even saw a potential positive to Chinese internet censorship. \"No spoilers please, fans like me can't see the film until next year so this is the one time I am grateful for Chinese internet censorship!\" commented Vicky Zhu, a Beijing fan. Disney has pulled out all stops to drum up interest in China, the world's second largest film market. \"We are thrilled to bring Star Wars: The Force Awakens to China,\" said John Hsu, Disney's general manager in China at a promotional event. The studio staged several publicity stunts ahead of the film's release, even placing 500 miniature stormtroopers at Beijing's iconic Great Wall. Disney also reached out to Chinese-Korean K-pop group EXO, to release a dance song, a strategic and savv move. Called \"Lightsaber\", the music video is set in a Jedi club and sees members carrying lightsabers. But the studio did not stop there. It enlisted Chinese heartthrob Lu Han - often referred to as the country's answer to Canadian singer Justin Bieber - to sing the movie's official theme song in both English and Chinese. Director JJ Abrams and lead cast members, including new fan favourite droid BB-8 walked and rolled up the red carpet in a December premiere in Shanghai. A brand new official verified Weibo account was also set up and an active discussion thread soon appeared on the site, drawing in commentary and engaging thousands of fans. \"The message that Star Wars delivers is one of moral guidance within spirituality. Good always triumphs evil, I think all Chinese can identify with that,\" remarked one Chinese fan. But amid all the excitement and Star Wars buzz building up, Disney hit controversy. It unveiled a re-versioned movie poster for the Chinese market - with a few tweaks. New lead character Finn, played by black British actor John Boyega was shrunken in size, compared to the original poster. \"Star Wars' Finn (who happens to be black) and Chewbacca (happens to be Wookiee) get shafted in China,\" pointed out US Twitter user Ray Kwong. \"We all know John Boyega has a major role in the new film so who are Chinese authorities to try and dictate his part?\" said one angry fan. Major fan favourite, Chewbacca was also cut out of the Chinese version of the poster. \"Where's Chewbacca? We all know authorities love to discriminate but why is China targeting Wookiees now,\" said another fan. Authorities are yet to respond to the social media outcry this sparked. Star Wars fans in China have also long been vocal in declaring their hope for a Chinese Jedi. And they want it to be Hong Kong martial arts legend Donnie Yen - famed for his role as a Wing Chun master in the popular 'Ip Man series'. \"If George Lucas is smart, he will know that casting Donnie Yen will be the way to break into the Chinese market,\" said a Beijing fan on Weibo. \"If John Boyega can be cast as a major character then please consider Donnie Yen as a Jedi,\" said another fan. The excitement spiralled further after Shanghai fans caught a glimpse of the Hong Kong action star who showed up at the Chinese premiere. The sighting soon began trending on Chinese social media and dozens of memes were created. \"Donnie Yen could take on 20 stormtroopers at one go. He would make an awesome Jedi,\" said a Weibo user. Another fan summed it up: \"Ip Man at the Star Wars premiere! Could this be a sign?\"", "question": "In 2015 almost every single country on earth @placeholder the release of the new Star Wars film , but China had to wait until this weekend . How will the unique world of new orders , rebel forces and evil empires go down there ?", "option_0": "supported", "option_1": "charting", "option_2": "present", "option_3": "following", "option_4": "celebrated"}
{"id": 1363, "article": "But not, it seems, those living in the village of Lavertezzo, Switzerland. Residents here are thoroughly fed up with a recent influx of tourists, who they accuse of turning their idyllic valley into \"an open air toilet\". This latest stream of tourists were all apparently inspired by a minute-long video, which has been watched 2.6m times so far, dubbing the area \"the Maldives of Milan\". In it, filmmaker Marco Capedri and his friends frolic in the crystal clear waters of the Verzasca river, in the shadow of an imposing double-arched stone bridge. \"A magnificent canyon crossed with emerald waters - one hour from Milan and 45 minutes from Varese,\" Mr Capredi's post proclaimed. With that, Lavertezzo's residents - who are no strangers to tourists - found themselves overwhelmed by Italians crossing the border in search of a taste of paradise. \"I thought the valley had exploded,\" one resident told Ticino News [in Italian]. Another accused the tourists, who came from all over, of turning the valley into \"an outdoor toilet\" and \"running semi-naked down the street\". The reporter, meanwhile, noted the \"socks, cigarettes and cans\" left behind by the day-trippers. The town's mayor, Roberto Bacciarini, was more circumspect in his response. Speaking to Italian newspaper Repubblica [in Italian], he admitted the video had done \"a good job\" in attracting people to the area, but added: \"[Mr Capredi] would do us a favour if he asked his compatriots to park their cars in an orderly manner, and respect the rules of the place.\"", "question": "Most people would be delighted if their home town was @placeholder to the Maldives , one of the world 's top beauty spots .", "option_0": "given", "option_1": "presented", "option_2": "compared", "option_3": "taken", "option_4": "according"}
{"id": 1364, "article": "The 25-year-old, recently dropped from the Great Britain team, alleged that Sutton made sexist comments and told her to \"go and have a baby\". \"I want to change the culture and their treatment of women,\" she said. \"I hope by shining a light and sharing my experiences, the relevant people can investigate and make changes.\" UK Sport, which funds British Cycling's elite performance programmes, said it had been in contact with British Cycling to ensure the allegations were investigated. \"We take allegations of sexism extremely seriously,\"  it said. \"As a recipient of funding, British Cycling should assure us this will be dealt with fairly, swiftly and transparently. \"We expect the highest levels of professionalism from athletes and staff and have zero tolerance to sexist behaviour.\" Varnish has been been invited to meet the equalities officer of British Cycling to discuss her concerns. A British Cycling spokesman said: \"A gold medal is valued by us, no matter who wins it and we are equally proud of all our Olympic and world champions.\" He added that medals won by the Great Britain cycling team are \"testament firstly to the dedication and talent of our riders\" but also a \"tribute to a significant investment in passion, commitment and resources by our performance staff\". Sutton, 58, denies any wrongdoing and says British Cycling did not renew her contract because her times had slowed over the past three years. Media playback is not supported on this device Varnish added: \"I remain open to sharing my experiences with both British Cycling and/or UK Sport, and will happily engage with any investigations into the comments that Shane Sutton has made to me, and other riders.\" The Worcestershire-born rider also said she would like to compete for Britain again, adding that she was not too old and \"not a waste of UK Sport's money\". Earlier, Olympic champions Victoria Pendleton and Nicole Cooke both criticised British Cycling following Varnish's claims. \"I know exactly how miserable they made me,\" two-time Olympic gold medallist Pendleton told the Daily Telegraph. \"I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates.\" Cooke, the 2008 Olympic road race champion, told the Guardian: \"I have my own experiences of Shane and sympathise with Jess. \"Speak out and your dreams will be destroyed and years of hard work wasted. Or put up with it and hope.\" \"I spoke out from the age of 19 and I know what happens.\" Olympic gold medallist Joanna Rowsell Shand said on Monday that she was \"surprised\" at Varnish's claims of sexism.", "question": "Jess Varnish says she spoke out against British Cycling technical director Shane Sutton with the hope of changing attitudes at the @placeholder .", "option_0": "race", "option_1": "country", "option_2": "heart", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "organisation"}
{"id": 1365, "article": "Mark Warwick said there were \"lots of significant cases\" and that discussions would be held over whether they met a war crimes threshold. Lawyers are continuing to refer alleged abuse by soldiers to the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT). The Ministry of Defence said it took such allegations \"extremely seriously\". Two public inquiries have already looked at claims against UK troops in Iraq. Mr Warwick, a former police detective who is in charge of IHAT, told the Independent that the allegations being investigated included ones of murder. The inquiry has considered at least 1,515 possible victims, of whom 280 are alleged to have been unlawfully killed. Mr Warwick said: \"We would look at the credibility of the allegation in the first instance and, when we've looked at a lot of these extra cases coming to us, some of them are duplicates of cases, some of them we've already identified as part of our own investigation process, and some are multiple allegations, where we would investigate as a single allegation.\" IHAT's budget of ¡ê57.2m runs until the end of 2019 - 16 years after the invasion of Iraq began in 2003. \"Over the next 12 to 18 months, we will review all the caseload to better understand the picture and then I think we can say whether 2019 seems realistic,\" said Mr Warwick. BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said Mr Warwick's comments may have been a response to an interview by Michael Fallon reported in the Telegraph. In it, the defence secretary said soldiers were inhibited on the battlefield because they feared \"ambulance-chasing British law firms\" would haul them in front of the courts on their return. Public Interest Lawyers, which represents some alleged victims, said IHAT was \"failing to investigate\" those responsible for \"systemic\" abuse. \"Despite public inquires, court proceedings ongoing since 2004 and the IHAT team of investigators, there is yet to be a single prosecution resulting from IHAT's work,\" a spokesman said. Carla Ferstman, director of the human rights charity Redress, told the Independent that the \"incredibly slow pace\" of IHAT's investigations was \"wholly unacceptable\". She added: \"Things seem to still be moving at a snail's pace. We call upon the government to ensure IHAT can, and does, do what it was set up to do, and to do it now. This cannot be a whitewash.\" Col Richard Kemp, a former army commander in Afghanistan, agreed that the investigation needed to be completed urgently, but said it was \"inconceivable\" that that number of allegations against British troops could be legitimate. \"Of course one has to be concerned about these allegations, but the number, the sheer number, thousands of allegations made against British soldiers in Iraq, I just cannot believe that any significant number of them can be valid,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. However, Dr Andrew Williams, from the University of Warwick, said the investigations could take \"some years more\", saying the process could \"drag out for a long time to come\". Dr Williams - who has written about the murder of Iraqi civilian Baha Mousa - said the \"lapse of time\" since the alleged crimes could hamper investigations. \"In terms of obtaining the witness testimony from the Iraqi civilians concerned, that will be tricky. They are obviously still based in Iraq and getting hold of them, interviewing them, is a long process and logistically very difficult.\" A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman said: \"The vast majority of UK service personnel deployed on military operations conduct themselves professionally and in accordance with the law. \"Where there is sufficient evidence, members of HM Forces can be prosecuted.\" An inquiry into claims of abuse by UK troops in Iraq highlighted the death of 26-year-old hotel worker Mr Mousa, who died in UK military custody in September 2003. It concluded in September 2011, with inquiry chairman Sir William Gage blaming \"corporate failure\" at the Ministry of Defence for the use of banned interrogation methods in Iraq. The Al-Sweady Inquiry, set up in 2009, followed allegations made in judicial review proceedings at the High Court that the human rights of several Iraqis were abused by British troops in the aftermath of a firefight with insurgents near the town of Majar al-Kabir. Inquiry chairman Sir Thayne Forbes said allegations that troops murdered and mutilated Iraqis in custody were \"wholly without foundation\". But he did conclude that some of the detention techniques had amounted to mistreatment.", "question": "UK soldiers who fought in the Iraq War may face prosecution for war crimes , according to the @placeholder of a unit investigating alleged abuses .", "option_0": "reports", "option_1": "results", "option_2": "evidence", "option_3": "collapse", "option_4": "head"}
{"id": 1366, "article": "In September it will be 10 years since the Jyllands Posten newspaper inflamed the Muslim world with the publication of 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, including one of him with a bomb in his turban. The country has been perpetually vigilant since 2005, after its embassies in the Middle East were burned, and Danish exports threatened. Kurt Westergaard, the 79-year-old cartoonist who drew the seminal turban caricature, has spent the past decade living under a death fatwa (religious ruling). He narrowly escaped an attempt to kill him at home, and had to lock himself into a panic room when a Somali militant broke into his home in the city of Aarhus. He continues to live under police protection. The national intelligence service and the police have thwarted at least one potential attack against the offices of Jyllands Posten. Security at the paper's headquarters, and those of other publications, has been quietly stepped up in the wake of January's Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. The intelligence agency PET decided against increasing the official level of alertness after the Paris attacks. PET officers were on protection duty at the cafe on Saturday when the gunman sprayed the entrance with automatic fire. Their presence and return fire ensured the death toll was not more severe. The police appear confident that they have killed the perpetrator, an apparent lone wolf. But Copenhagen remains on a state of high alert. Now the recriminations will begin. The Danish chapter of Pegida - Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of Europe - is planning to march through Copenhagen on Monday evening.", "question": "It was always a case of not if but when . What 's surprising is that it has @placeholder this long for Denmark to be scarred by a fatal terror attack .", "option_0": "happened", "option_1": "appealed", "option_2": "passed", "option_3": "taken", "option_4": "revealed"}
{"id": 1367, "article": "With more than 80% of the ballots counted, Mr Museveni has secured 61% of the votes. His main rival Kizza Besigye, who is under house arrest, is on 34%. Full results are due in a few hours' time. EU observers have criticised the poll, saying the governing party had created an \"intimidating atmosphere\". The election has been marred by sporadic violence and opposition allegations of electoral fraud, with social media sites and messaging apps blocked. \"Voters actively participated in the campaign events and expressed a remarkable determination while waiting for the long hours on the election day to cast their ballots,\" said EU Chief Observer Eduard Kukan. \"However, the [governing] National Resistance Movement's domination of the political landscape distorted the fairness of the campaign.\" Mr Besigye was arrested on Friday on suspicion he was planning to publish his own results, breaking electoral laws, police said, before being escorted to his home. \"We shall detain him until results are announced,\" Kampala police chief Andrew Felix Kaweesi told Uganda's New Vision newspaper. It is the fourth time Mr Besigye, candidate for the opposition Forum for Democratic Change, has taken on President Museveni. The two men were once allies, with Mr Besigye serving as Mr Museveni as his personal doctor when they were guerrilla fighters. Mr Museveni seized power in 1986 and is credited with restoring stability to Uganda. However, critics say he has become increasingly authoritarian. The next closest challenger to Mr Museveni, former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, is in a distant third. He is also reportedly under house arrest. Uganda's old guard tries new election tactics", "question": "Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni looks set to @placeholder his 30 years in power with official results showing him taking a strong lead in elections .", "option_0": "extend", "option_1": "reveal", "option_2": "celebrate", "option_3": "reduce", "option_4": "start"}
{"id": 1368, "article": "The American former swimmer, 31, wants US lawmakers to push for global anti-doping reforms. \"I don't believe I've stood up at an international competition and the rest of the field has been clean,\" he said. Phelps was giving evidence at a US House of Representatives hearing into improving anti-doping measures. The US government helps to fund the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) and the committee could recommend giving more money to the organisation. Phelps, who won 23 Olympic gold medals, added: \"Throughout my career, I have thought that some athletes were cheating and in some cases those suspicions were confirmed. \"Given all the testing I and others have been through, I have a hard time understanding this.\" Phelps spoke out against drugs cheats at the Rio Olympics. When asked about Russian Yulia Efimova, who won Olympic silver after two positive tests, he said dopers returning to elite action \"breaks his heart\". Media playback is not supported on this device A report commissioned by Wada and written by lawyer Richard McLaren claimed in December that more than 1,000 Russian athletes benefited from a state-sponsored doping programme between 2011 and 2015. Travis Tygart, the chief executive of the US Anti-Doping Agency, also addressed Tuesday's hearing at the House of Representatives. He told politicians the International Olympic Committee had let down clean athletes after opting against a blanket ban of Russian athletes at Rio 2016. The IOC instead allowed individual sports to decide their own policy. \"At least two Olympic Games were corrupted and, at the Rio Games this past August, scores of Russian athletes were allowed to compete without credible anti-doping measures,\" said Tygart. \"When the moment came, despite mountains of evidence and vocal opposition from anti-doping leaders and clean athletes from around the world, the IOC chose to welcome the Russian Olympic Committee to Rio.\" Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied government officials were complicit in doping the country's athletes. \"In Russia we never had, don't have, and I hope won't have a state-sponsored doping programme. On the contrary, there will only be a fight against doping,\" he said in a television broadcast. He added a new doping control system was being put together.", "question": "Michael Phelps , the most decorated Olympian of all time , believes he never @placeholder against a completely clean international field .", "option_0": "raced", "option_1": "struggled", "option_2": "held", "option_3": "fought", "option_4": "lost"}
{"id": 1369, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Wiggins and Team Sky boss Brailsford have come under scrutiny since information on the rider's authorised use of banned drugs to treat a medical condition were released by hackers. There are also questions over a medical package he received in 2011. \"Can people believe in Team Sky? 100%,\" Brailsford told the BBC. UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) has been investigating allegations of doping in cycling after it emerged a mystery medical package was delivered to a Team Sky doctor for Wiggins on the final day of the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine, which the Briton won. Brailsford, the former performance director of British Cycling, last month told a parliamentary select committee he understood the package contained a legal decongestant, Fluimucil. Ukad chairman David Kenworthy last week told BBC Sport he found the evidence of Brailsford and British Cycling president Bob Howden \"extraordinary\", saying the answers to the select committee on the content of the medical package were \"very disappointing\". But when this was put to Brailsford, he answered: \"The only extraordinary thing I could see was that he [Kenworthy] actually commented on the whole process himself. \"There is an open investigation that is still ongoing.\" Wiggins, 36, announced his retirement from cycling last month. Britain's most decorated Olympian's use of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) came to light after his confidential medical information was leaked by hackers 'Fancy Bears'. TUEs allow the use of otherwise banned substances if athletes have a genuine medical need, and Wiggins, who has asthma, said he took them to \"put himself back on a level playing field\". There is no suggestion Wiggins, British Cycling or Team Sky have broken any rules. \"It is regrettable,\" added Brailsford. \"But equally the test of time is the key thing, and over time we will continue to perform at the highest level, continue to do it the right way, continue to give people a reason to get behind us and feel proud of our achievements. \"The judgement of what happened in the past will be made in the appropriate time, but for me we have done it the right way, and we'll continue to do it the right way. He added: \"I'm proud in what I've done, I've been doing this a long time, and I've been doing it for 20 years. I'm very much focused on the season ahead.\"", "question": "Sir Dave Brailsford says Team Sky can be trusted \" 100 % \" , despite \" regrettable \" questions over Sir Bradley Wiggins ' medical @placeholder .", "option_0": "show", "option_1": "activity", "option_2": "records", "option_3": "advice", "option_4": "issues"}
{"id": 1370, "article": "Germany, Austria and the Netherlands blocked Turkish attempts to hold rallies in those countries. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed retaliation, accusing them of \"Nazism\". On Monday, the Dutch foreign ministry issued a new travel warning, urging its citizens in Turkey to take care and noting the new \"diplomatic tensions\". The warning to \"avoid gatherings and crowded places\" came as Turkey's foreign ministry lodged a formal protest with the Dutch envoy. Meanwhile, the Dutch deputy prime minister, Lodewijk Asscher, said that \"to be called Nazis by a regime which is walking backwards in regards to human rights is just disgusting\". The BBC's Mark Lowen, in Istanbul, said the two Nato allies were now locked in an \"unprecedented diplomatic crisis\". The proposed rallies aimed to encourage a large number of Turks living in Europe to vote Yes in a referendum on 16 April on expanding the president's powers. The plans were criticised by senior EU officials on Monday. In Germany, for example, there are more than three million people of Turkish origin, of whom an estimated 1.4m are eligible to vote in Turkish elections. In effect, the diaspora is Turkey's fourth-largest electoral district. Planned rallies in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands were blocked after officials cited security concerns or said the rallies could stoke tensions. A gathering in France went ahead, however, after officials said it did not pose a threat. Two Turkish ministers were barred from addressing rallies in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, with one of them escorted to the German border. Police used dogs and water cannon against protesters waving Turkish flags in Rotterdam. Mr Erdogan likened the Netherlands to \"a banana republic\", demanded international organisations impose sanctions on the Netherlands, and accused countries in the West of \"Islamophobia\". \"I have said that I had thought that Nazism was over, but I was wrong. Nazism is alive in the West,\" he added. He warned that countries would \"pay the price\" for their actions. On Monday morning, Turkey summoned the Dutch charge d'affaires in Ankara for the third time in three days. He was handed two notes, protesting against the treatment of the minister escorted to Germany, and the treatment of protesters in Rotterdam. Dutch PM Mark Rutte called Mr Erdogan's comments \"unacceptable\", and demanded an apology. The pressure from Turkey comes days before the Dutch election, in which Mr Rutte is facing pressure from anti-Islam candidate Geert Wilders. Germany's foreign minister said he hoped Turkey would \"return to its senses\". Chancellor Angela Merkel has said her government is not opposed to Turkish ministers attending rallies in Germany, as long as they are \"duly announced\". At a news conference on Monday, she said the Nazi comparisons were \"completely unacceptable\" and that the Netherlands had her full support. Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said he had postponed a meeting later this month with Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim because \"with the current Turkish attacks on Holland the meeting cannot be seen separated from that\". He said he was concerned that \"democratic principles are under great pressure\" in Turkey.", "question": "The Netherlands has warned its citizens over travel to Turkey as a row between the countries shows no @placeholder of abating .", "option_0": "criticism", "option_1": "series", "option_2": "prospect", "option_3": "sign", "option_4": "experience"}
{"id": 1371, "article": "Sanaa Shahid was with her four-year-old son when they were targeted by solicitor Alexander Mackinnon on the Glasgow-bound service from London. He took exception to their presence in first class and told them they should not be in the country. Mrs Shahid said the incident had also left her young son fearful. Speaking on BBC Scotland's Kaye Adams programme, Mrs Shahid said she was determined to speak up against racism. She told the programme: \"I'm born and bred in Glasgow. I consider myself to be Scottish Pakistani. Everything has finished now, but if I was to travel down to London, if I go on public transport, it would still be in the back of my mind. \"I'm not scared to speak up, which is why I did speak up about all of this, because no-one should accept this and no-one should make you feel like you don't belong in your own country. But the thing that scares me is that there's people out there that won't know what to say. \"If this was to happen to my mum, my mum would maybe turn round and say to me 'just ignore it'. MacKinnon was fined last week at Carlisle Magistrates Court after admitting the racially aggravated offence, carried out on 29 December. Mrs Shahid, who works as a corporate lawyer, said she was accosted by a drunken MacKinnon on the 14:30 train as it travelled north. He had targeted her son, telling him to be quiet as he sat in the carriage quietly playing a computer game. He then turned to Mrs Shahid and said they did not belong in first class or the country. Mrs Shahid told MacKinnon he was a racist and began filming him. As he prepared to be escorted from the train by British Transport Police, MacKinnon told Mrs Shahid: \"You're so wonderful wasting police time, miss\", before swearing at her and her son. Mrs Shahid answered: \"You're a disgrace to humanity. Just get off.\" Mrs Shahid said the incident had also taken its toll on her four-year-old son. She told the programme: \"He is aware. he's a very sensitive boy and he was aware of everything that had happened at the time. \"He's fearful of the police. He thinks that the police are there to take you away if you are bad. \"In the few days after the incident he said 'mama is the police going to take me away, I'm naughty, is the police going to take me away?' Mrs Shahid added: \"It has affected him, but it's something that we're working on.\"", "question": "A woman who was racially abused on a train has spoken of her apprehension about travelling on public transport in @placeholder .", "option_0": "accident", "option_1": "england", "option_2": "china", "option_3": "future", "option_4": "london"}
{"id": 1372, "article": "Abendanon has agreed to join Top 14 side Clermont Auvergne in the summer after the French side agreed to pay an undisclosed transfer fee. The 27-year-old has played 193 games for the Premiership club since his debut in the 2005-06 season. Media playback is not supported on this device Eastmond, 24, joined Bath in 2011 after switching codes from rugby league. He had an injury-hit first season in the 15-man game but has now made 46 appearances for the club, scoring eight tries, and has two senior England caps. In November, Bath were forced to play down speculation that Eastmond was keen to return to rugby league, after he walked out at half-time during Bath's LV= Cup win over Sale. He has now signed a new two-year deal with the West Country outfit - and remains on England's radar, having started for the Saxons in their draw with Scotland A on Friday. \"We've been talking to Kyle for quite a while and it was never in doubt,\" head coach Mike Ford told BBC Radio Bristol. \"He's integral to how we want to play. We believe, with his skill set, that he can drive the way we want to play in the future. \"He's happy to stay and we are happy to keep him.\" Abendanon won his first England cap as a replacement against South Africa in Pretoria in June 2007, and made his second and final appearance when he started the 21-15 defeat by France at Twickenham two months later. Eastmond added: \"I've learned so much since joining Bath and that's down to the set-up here and the people around me. \"All I want to do is improve and to help the team achieve great things. I'm really happy to have extended my contract as there's no other club I'd rather play for.\" Abendanon, capped twice by England, signed a new three-year contract in January 2012. But following the arrival of teenage England prospect Anthony Watson in the summer, he has struggled to keep a first-team place at Bath. \"Nick approached us at the start of the season and said there was an offer pending in France,\" explained Ford. \"It was a shock at the time. \"We discussed it with him and his desire to play in France at this time of his career was very strong. \"We granted him early release from his contract and it's been very amicable. He goes with our best wishes.\" Abendanon told the club website: \"I have loved every minute I have played for Bath and want to thank the club for giving me the opportunities they have. \"This has been an extremely hard decision for me, but I feel this is the right time to challenge myself in a new environment.\"", "question": "Bath have @placeholder centre Kyle Eastmond has signed a new contract , but full - back Nick Abendanon is to leave the club at the end of the season .", "option_0": "prop", "option_1": "announced", "option_2": "sacked", "option_3": "retired", "option_4": "seized"}
{"id": 1373, "article": "Avon Fire Authority has been in the spotlight since three senior officers left in five years under \"unusual circumstances\". Evidence of infighting was also uncovered by the BBC. Fire Service chief Kevin Pearson said the claims were \"old, unfounded and had been dismissed several times\". The Home Office said the allegations \"cannot be ignored\". Mr Pearson said: \"Some of them [the allegations] relate to me personally and circumstances around allegations of expenses irregularities, the use of a lease car. \"But the more serious of the allegations relate to decisions made by the authority many years ago.\" Some councillors have been pushing for the investigation for several months. Councillor Nick Wilton said: \"I feel vindicated that the minister has seen sufficient evidence that it's raised concerns in his mind and he's taken this step. \"I think it's very important that we have an impartial, balanced, thorough investigation of the facts.\" In a statement, the Home Office told the BBC: \"The extent, seriousness and persistence of the allegations made against Avon Fire and Rescue Authority cannot be ignored. \"The Government has notified the authority that we intend to take action and will announce details of a full statutory inspection in due course.\" The inspection is being carried out under the 1999 Local Government Act. Peter Abrahams, chairman of the authority, said: \"We are confident this inspection will show how Avon Fire and Rescue continues to provide excellent services to our communities, despite significant financial pressures. \"We are also confident that the inspection will bring an end to the unnecessary and unjustified criticism of our service in the past.\"", "question": "A fire authority is to @placeholder a government inspection amid \" serious and persistent \" allegations against it .", "option_0": "undergo", "option_1": "order", "option_2": "open", "option_3": "protect", "option_4": "pursue"}
{"id": 1374, "article": "In 2002, Suzan-Lori Parks won a Pulitzer Prize for her play Topdog/Underdog.  She remembers suddenly getting a lot of attention as a writer. \"I did an interview with Charlie Rose on TV,\" she says.  \"And he said: 'Hey you're an overnight success'.  I told him yes - but it's been a long night. \"I think almost no writers are overnight successes.  Winning an award is always a combination of many things.\" But that play, which in New York starred Don Cheadle and Jeffrey Wright, made Parks's name.  The following year it travelled to the Royal Court in London and now she's back at the same venue with the play Father Comes Home from the Wars. It's set in and around the American Civil War and President Lincoln's proclamation of 1863, which was a huge step towards the abolition of slavery.  But it's hardly a traditional historical epic.  Actually, it's three separate plays. Sitting over a lunchtime sandwich, Suzan-Lori (the z was a misprint which somehow stuck) says she tries not to talk much about the unusual structure. \"In fact, the play I wrote first is now the final play of the three.  But there are six other plays waiting to take the story on.  They're in different stages of completion and some of them are in very bad drafts. \"As a writer I rewrite.  But basically they'll come up to the present day - or at least much nearer to it.  I think a little perspective is good so maybe they'll stop in the 1950s or '60s.\" The central character of Hero has been promised his freedom from servitude in 1860s America - but to secure it he'll need to fight alongside his master for the pro-slavery Confederate side.  The story owes something to the classical epic the Odyssey, though that's only one influence. Parks is no stranger to experimenting with form.  A decade ago she wrote 365 Days/365 Plays for which she forced herself to write a play a day for a year. \"Some were long and some very short.  For instance there was one called Lickety Split, in which a woman runs on stage and licks a man from head to toea€| and then she splits.  Some of the other plays are so long they still may be running - who knows?\" The new play investigates how people reacted to their own freedom - a topic Parks thinks is still relevant today. \"How does one respond to the notion of freedom?\" she asks. \"Most of us in the western world are free yet we are constrained also.  We are tied down to things and the question of how we exercise the freedom we have is complex. \"Freedom often is not something your master can grant you.  I think it's something you grant yourself.\" So does the fact that Parks is herself African-American add a potency to the play's themes? \"Well, first I am specific but then I am universal.  There are issues which are individual to me as an 'African-American woman person' - but there are questions we all wrestle with today, whoever we are.  We're all wondering what that word, freedom, means. \"So in this play the characters are asking, 'Who am I and what am I doing here?  And what are we to each other?'\" Her writing is regularly praised for its wit and lack of predictability.  Her approach to dialogue is sparky and unusually adventurous - so does she, as a successful black playwright, want to find new ways of using African-American speech interestingly on stage? \"I am interested in language, certainly, but I am always interested in people first.  I love my people - but I also just love people.  Making African-American characters use language interestingly is important to me. It's my job but also it's my calling and my joy.  But I want to put us all on stage.\" The play has a very American setting but Parks says she's delighted with the cast in London.  \"The accent I asked for is what they call General American, so there's no temptation to slip into a southern drawl.  When we did our first stumble-through of the script I wept it was so good. \"We have actors of African descent and of European descent but I've been really impressed how they've all found themselves in the stories on stage.\" After London, Parks is not getting a holiday.  She's working on a stage musical adaptation of the 1972 reggae film The Harder They Come and there's a novel, plus a project for Amazon.  And there's a band called Sula and the Noise and a young son. Then Parks remembers something else. \"And there are the other Father Comes Home plays as well.  I have to find time for six of them somewhere.\" Father Comes Home from the Wars is at the Royal Court theatre in London from 15 September. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "When , two years ago , the play Father Comes Home from the Wars premiered in New York , it received rave reviews . Now the author Suzan - Lori Parks is in London to make the play work for British audiences . But she @placeholder out it 's actually three plays - with much more to come .", "option_0": "threw", "option_1": "sit", "option_2": "spelled", "option_3": "played", "option_4": "points"}
{"id": 1375, "article": "Unused substitute Callum Murray was in the Buckie squad that drew 0-0 with Formartine United on Saturday but the club deny any wrongdoing. The Moray club could secure the title with a win at home to bottom club Strathspey Thistle this weekend. The league's eventual winner will have the chance to join the SPFL next term. Victors of the Highland and Lowland Leagues will meet in a play-off to decide who should face the Scottish League Two bottom club in the League Two play-off final. A meeting of the Highland League's management committee will be held on Thursday. Murray had been on loan to rivals Deveronvale but was recalled by Buckie as cover for injured players and sat on the bench throughout Saturday's goalless draw. Whether he was eligible to be involved or not will come down to the interpretation of the Highland League's rule 8.9.6, which governs the registration of players. Any breach is subject to a fine of up to ¡ê500 and a mandatory three-point deduction for each game affected. SHFL secretary Rod Houston told the BBC that Thursday's meeting had become necessary \"after a storm on social media\". Buckie and Cove Rangers are two points behind leaders Brora Rangers but Brora have played all of their games. Cove face Lossiemouth on Saturday in the final game of the season and Buckie have a superior goal difference going into their meeting with Strathspey. In season 1992-1993, Elgin City won the Highland League but were later stripped of the title after having been found to have fielded ineligible players.", "question": "Scottish Highland Football League title challengers Buckie Thistle could face a damaging points deduction amid claims they @placeholder an ineligible player .", "option_0": "complete", "option_1": "listed", "option_2": "lost", "option_3": "signed", "option_4": "receive"}
{"id": 1376, "article": "The man was carrying no proof of identity when he was found in the city of Nagato on Saturday. Police are expected to hand him over to immigration officials who will decide whether he is a genuine defector. In 2011, nine North Koreans were picked up by the Japanese coastguard after spending five days at sea. They later settled in South Korea. Some 29,000 North Koreans have fled the country since the peninsula was divided at the end of the Korean War in the 1950s, many of them crossing the border into China. In April, a senior North Korean military officer who oversaw spying operations defected - South Korean officials said at the time that such high level defections were rare. Any North Korean who makes it to the South enters into a rehabilitation programme and is given an aid package to help them start a new life. Despite this, many find it hard to adjust.", "question": "Police in Japan are questioning a man who says he jumped from a North Korean ship and swam ashore @placeholder to a plastic container , media report .", "option_0": "returned", "option_1": "subjected", "option_2": "responding", "option_3": "clinging", "option_4": "close"}
{"id": 1377, "article": "Members from the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) will not join walk outs on 5 and 7 February. The RMT union announced the action on Friday after abandoning talks at the conciliation service Acas. The TSSA said LU's proposals \"pave the way for a resolution\". It wants further talks with management. General secretary Manuel Cortes said the offer included the creation of an additional 325 new posts which \"goes some way towards restoring adequate safety on our Tube\". But the union's overtime ban will remain in place while TSSA representatives \"seek further talks with LU\". Members of the RMT will walk out for 16 hours from 18:00 GMT on 5 February, and then hold a 15-hour strike from 10:00 on 7 February. A 24-hour strike by the RMT and TSSA earlier this month over the same issues led to much of the Tube network being shut. BBC London transport correspondent Tom Edwards said the TSSA was the smaller of the two unions so the strike would still have a large impact. But he said the TSSA's announcement could lead to more talks between the RMT and LU. A spokesperson for the RMT said \"all planned action remains on\" but union representatives will return for more talks at Acas on Tuesday. General secretary Mick cash has accused LU of compromising safety on the Tube because of \"cash-led cuts to staffing levels\". Steve Griffiths, LU's chief operating officer, said the proposal had been made \"to both unions in order to end this dispute\". \"We are available for further discussions this week to provide clarification on the implementation of these proposals,\" he said. Transport for London (TfL) has previously said it would address the recommendations of a report which said job cuts had caused \"significant issues\" for Underground passengers.", "question": "One of the unions which was in dispute with London Underground ( LU ) in a row over staff numbers has @placeholder two planned strikes .", "option_0": "faced", "option_1": "escaped", "option_2": "suspended", "option_3": "revealed", "option_4": "organised"}
{"id": 1378, "article": "The Council of the Isles of Scilly says it has been told it will need to borrow up to ¡ê3.5m to cover costs until April. Debts have been building up for several years and the council says it only has ¡ê500,000 in the bank. The authority governing about 2,200 inhabitants said it underestimated its income and was also hit by new environmental laws. More on the Scilly finances story, plus more Devon and Cornwall news The council has been issued with a Section 24 notice by its external auditors Grant Thornton under the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 saying its had \"inadequate financial controls\". The council has said it will need to review its financial strategy for the next few years. The authority has also voted to take out a loan of up to ¡ê3.5m because council tax is collected for only the first 10 months of the year, with no income for the last two. The authority expects to have overspent this year by nearly ¡ê500,000 and may have just over ¡ê40,000 left in the bank at the end of this financial year, it said. Steve Sims, the council's vice chairman and chair of the finance, audit and scrutiny committee, said the council had been running at a deficit of about ¡ê400,000 \"for about four years\" and \"it has hit us now\". \"We have made ¡ê500,000 of savings,\" he said. \"But we underestimated the income we were going to get.\" Debts have been mounting since 2013 because the council \"has to be compliant with environmental laws which we've ignored before,\" Mr Sims added. He also blamed a \"pretty creaking software system of finance\" which it was working with Cornwall Council to improve.", "question": "A remote group of British @placeholder is about to run out of money for the day - to - day running of the community .", "option_0": "families", "option_1": "islands", "option_2": "information", "option_3": "residents", "option_4": "abuse"}
{"id": 1379, "article": "Colin Hough, of Shrewsbury, volunteered to spend time in the box, in a 24-hour Tesco supermarket, to raise money for children's charity Cauldwell Children. He went into the box at midday on Thursday and came out at 14:00 BST on Saturday. He said the toughest part had been the nights, with lights on in the shop and people shopping around him. Former bus driver Mr Hough volunteered for the challenge after reading about the charity's Locked in for Autism campaign. The box in the supermarket measures 3m by 2m. \"The store staff have been so supportive, tapping on the glass to see if I'm okay,\" he said. \"I was a bit nervous going into it but I thought, it's for a really good cause, and it's actually opened up my eyes to what children with autism go through. \"One little girl gave me a card she had made, thanking me for what I'm doing, that made me feel very proud.\" Mr Hough can be supported through his Just Giving page.", "question": "An 81 - year - old man has @placeholder a challenge to spend 50 hours locked inside a perspex box .", "option_0": "completed", "option_1": "set", "option_2": "suffered", "option_3": "died", "option_4": "sparked"}
{"id": 1380, "article": "The aim is to reinstate Scott's Square and Horner's Square that were previously demolished. Councillor Steven Bayes, of Hull City Council, said he hoped the scheme would \"put the area on the map as one of Hull's unique cultural gems\". The plans have been submitted by Wykeland Beal with the City Council. The application includes four rebuilt commercial units on Humber Street suitable for retail units, restaurants or caf¨¦s. Horner's Square dated back to the mid-1800s while records show Scott's Square was created from about 1757 by local builder Joseph Scott.", "question": "A planning application has been submitted for more than 100 @placeholder as part of a ¡ê 17 m scheme to regenerate Hull 's Fruit Market area .", "option_0": "homes", "option_1": "days", "option_2": "months", "option_3": "route", "option_4": "acres"}
{"id": 1381, "article": "After she has made sure no-one can overhear us, she tells me about the realities of living in Buenaventura, Colombia's biggest Pacific port. \"Nowadays you cannot move freely between neighbourhoods,\" she says. \"If I tried to go over there,\" she says nodding in the direction of a nearby neighbourhood, \"they would hit me, or disappear me, or kill me.\" She says sometimes people in the city's oldest neighbourhood of San Jose, also knows as Sanyu, just disappear. \"They capture them, take them away, chop them to pieces, put them in bags and drop them in the sea,\" she explains. \"Sometimes you come across an arm, different body parts, a head,\" she adds. The \"they\" she is referring to are members of Colombia's notorious criminal gangs. The gangs have been around for years, their numbers swelled by former right-wing paramilitaries who demobilised as part of a peace process but then returned to a life of criminality. But the torture, disappearances and dismemberments of victims which is currently plaguing Buenaventura is a recent development. The escalation of violence is blamed on a turf war between two rival gangs - the Urabenos and La Empresa - for this strategic spot for the drugs trade. According to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released on Thursday, entire neighbourhoods are dominated by powerful \"paramilitary successor groups\" which restrict residents' movements, recruit their children, extort their businesses, and routinely engage in horrific acts of violence against anyone who defies their will. \"In several neighbourhoods, residents report the existence of casas de pique - or 'chop-up houses' - where the groups slaughter their victims,\" reads the document. The HRW researchers say that several residents told them they had heard people scream and plead for mercy as they were being dismembered alive. The fear is that these are not isolated cases. Between January 2010 and December 2013 more than 150 disappearances were reported in Buenaventura; twice as many as in any other Colombian municipality. But with many victims' relatives too scared to speak out, the actual figure could be much higher. The Sanyu resident says no one can be trusted. \"Even eight-year-old kids are involved in the violence. You believe they cannot be evil, but they're evil. You might be talking to your enemy,\" she explains. Evil is a word also used by Buenaventura's bishop, the Right Reverend Hernan Epalza. \"It is as if all the evil of Colombia has gathered here in Buenaventura,\" he says. \"Disappearing and dismembering people? I cannot think anything worse,\" he tells the BBC. Buenaventura's police commander Col Jose Correa thinks these extreme methods are used like brutal calling cards. He says his force has managed to capture or kill a number of criminal leaders and the resulting vacuum has further fanned the violence as lower-ranking criminals use all the brutality they can to assert their authority. But he says he is confident the security forces will soon have the situation under control. Bishop Epalza, however, thinks a more integral approach is needed to combat the poverty and lack of opportunities which he believes feed the extreme violence. He says the poorest inhabitants are being further marginalised by the increasing importance of the port city. More than half of the country's cargo already goes through Buenaventura and the flow is set to increase as Colombia looks for new markets in Asia and tries to consolidate its links with Mexico, Peru and Chile. He says the violence is forcing those at the bottom of the ladder to sell up and leave, something he says may be a desirable effect for some. \"We have to asked ourselves: who's behind all of this, who's fostering all this?\" he asks. Back in Sanyu, the local residents say it does feel as if much of the violence is designed to push them out. Their neighbourhood is one of Buenaventura's poorest. Currently, it is nothing more than a collection of derelict wooden huts built upon wooden pillars on land reclaimed from the sea by the descendants of African slaves which first settled here almost five centuries ago. But its proximity to the water makes it of great strategic value for those intent on smuggling drugs and weapons. And its potential worth could be huge if the city decides to expand the port to this area. Already, residents have started to leave. In 2013, 19,000 people were forced to flee their homes in Buenaventura, ensuring the port city a third place in the list of Colombian cities where forced displacement is highest. But there have been signs that the tide might be turning. Last week people took to the streets to protest against the violence. President Juan Manuel Santos visited the city a few days later and set up a task force to deal with the crisis, promising more security and huge social investments. There seems to be some hope among residents who before only felt fear. But according to HRW executive for the Americas Jose Miguel Vivanco, Buenaventura is just an \"extreme example of a reality that exists in different regions of Colombia\". He told the BBC that the criminal gangs which sprang from the demobilised right-wing paramilitary groups should be a sobering reminder of the importance of a proper demilitarisation of former combatants. On Thursday, government negotiators will begin the 22nd round of peace talks with the country's largest rebel group, the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). So far, they have taken over a year to agree on two items of their six-point agenda. But as the negotiations continue, the hope is that the lessons learned from the flawed demobilisations of the past will mean that Colombia's dreams for the future will not turn into the stuff of nightmare as it did in Buenaventura.", "question": "Standing by Colombia 's Pacific shoreline a woman who @placeholder to remain nameless tells me about the horror that her hometown is experiencing .", "option_0": "written", "option_1": "devised", "option_2": "refuses", "option_3": "prefers", "option_4": "vanished"}
{"id": 1382, "article": "Visiting De Schie prison in Rotterdam, you lose count of the number of locked doors you pass. The jail, bordered on two sides by broad waterways, is a child of the 1980s; mostly salmon pink and yellow on the outside, pale blue on the inside. Official websites describe the strikingly \"colourful character of the building\". To increase security, the terrorism unit is at the top of the prison. As we approach through a maze of corridors and interlocked doors, Cees, who manages the wing and requested that we did not publish his surname, points out sophisticated-looking CCTV cameras, equipped with microphones. The TA, as the terrorism wing is called, houses prisoners on remand for terrorist offences or those who have been convicted of them. According to prison deputy director Rob Janssen, most current inmates have either wanted to travel to Syria or Iraq in support of jihadist groups or have returned from the conflict. In Rotterdam there are seven cells in the terrorism wing, each with one inmate. A larger facility at Vught houses another 22 people. On rare occasions De Schie has housed female and juvenile detainees. The policy, which began in 2006, separates extremists from the rest of the prison population to prevent them radicalising other prisoners. It is this system that interested the UK officials who visited the terrorism wing at Vught. It is understood the government is currently considering proposals for a unit housing a very limited number of extremist inmates considered to  present a genuine and enduring risk to national security. The TA is, in effect, a jail within a jail. There is no contact between the inmates and other offenders. It has its own gym, with speakers playing pop music, and a kitchen. Through its darkened glass, two inmates could be seen cooking, a pleasant smell of frying meat filling the corridor. The social activity of the inmates is tightly controlled. The cell windows overlook a courtyard used for exercise. The area used by the terrorist prisoners is separated by a fence and a large fretwork metal dome sits over most of it. Guards will intervene if TA inmates attempt to shout to other inmates. For terrorism unit manager Cees, there is no doubt these measures prevent the radicalisation of other inmates. He tells me one prisoner who was in the TA unit was moved into another part of the jail and began radicalising others. \"So I think it is good to put the prisoners in one unit,\" he said. Others have raised concerns that by putting extremist offenders together, they are likely to reinforce each other's beliefs and become further radicalised. Lawyer Andre Seebregts says the \"severe\" regime, including frequent strip searching of inmates and intense surveillance, is counter-productive. \"I have eight to 10 clients who have spent time in these wings, and I distinctly have the impression that they become more and more negative towards the Dutch authorities, and they feed off each other,\" he says. Daan Weggemans, a researcher at Leiden University, found a more mixed picture. For half the detainees he studied, imprisonment resulted in a \"confirmation of their hostile world view\". However, others saw it as a \"wake-up call\" and broke with their former violent extremist networks, he says. During my visit, I was not permitted to talk to the detainees, but a former inmate of a Dutch terrorism wing agreed to talk about their experiences on condition that they were not named. The ex-prisoner felt the unit was a necessity and \"the least bad of all bad options\" because it prevented the radicalisation of inmates in the general prison population. But they said care was needed to house only extremist \"leaders\" on the wings and not their \"followers\", who presented a much lower risk of radicalising others. Cees says the Rotterdam prison does recognise such distinctions.  Inmates are only allowed to meet in two groups, one group containing those still committed to their extremist beliefs and another smaller group of those who want to work on their \"re-socialisation and reintegration\". The Dutch government continues to discuss how to deal with extremist offenders in the terrorism units. In her office in The Hague, Angeline van Dijk, director of the prison system in the Netherlands, says the authorities understand that prisoners are not all the same. A newly developed \"assessment tool\" will, she told me, allow the authorities to separate inmates within the units, helping to keep the high-risk offenders from those who might be further radicalised. With many more terrorist offenders in jail in England and Wales than in Holland, the proposals being considered by the UK government are even more selective, the BBC understands. There are no plans for anything like a \"jihadi jail\". Any terrorist wing would be small and highly targeted to ensure its inmates would only be those who present the gravest risks.", "question": "An independent review into radicalisation in jails in England and Wales is due to be published . The BBC has learned that UK officials have visited a Dutch prison that separates terrorist offenders from other inmates . Chris Vallance was @placeholder access to the prison .", "option_0": "exposed", "option_1": "granted", "option_2": "deemed", "option_3": "linked", "option_4": "introduced"}
{"id": 1383, "article": "So Deborah wrote a post on Facebook last week, appealing for friends and family to help her find the same pink flower top. \"We will pay for the the shirt and the shipping if someone would be kind enough to sell it to us,\" she wrote. \"It has to be this exact shirt! We've tried similar shirts and they just don't cut it with Cami.\" Deborah's post was shared more than 5,000 times and within days Cami had not one but 161 flower T-Shirts. One Facebook user, Jane Miranda, quickly responded: \"We have one. Size 7/8. If they need one this size they can message me.\" Another, Jill Carpenter Skouson, said: \"The one I found, I'll have by the end of the week. The lady says it's free for you. She has a son with sensory processing disorder, so she can relate to you.\" Deborah from St George, Utah in the US was so overwhelmed by the response from strangers that she posted an update saying they had made her \"sweet girl's life a little happier.\" Target, the store where Deborah first bought Cami's favourite T-Shirt has reached out to the family, and now Cami doesn't ever have to worry about her favourite top ever again. A spokeswoman from the store told the BBC: \"Target is able to recreate the shirt and will be sending multiple sizes to Deborah so that Cami can enjoy it for many years to come.\"", "question": "This is no ordinary T - Shirt . It belongs to 10 year old Cami Skouson who has autism . Her mum Deborah says the shirt brings her comfort , but the problem is she needed a new one and it has been @placeholder .", "option_0": "discontinued", "option_1": "claimed", "option_2": "removed", "option_3": "awarded", "option_4": "named"}
{"id": 1384, "article": "There's something deep within our DNA that makes us want to explore. I've been lucky enough to spend years running expeditions in Antarctica as well as diving some of the world's great oceans, but nothing prepared me for the challenge that's not far from my own front door. The Pennine Way measures 268 miles, from the Peak District to the Scottish Borders, and takes in three national parks and one area of outstanding natural beauty. It's 50 years old, but its roots go back much further than that. In 1935 a letter from the United States landed on the desk of Daily Herald journalist Tom Stephenson. He was the countryside correspondent for the paper and was being asked if there was a long-distance route - similar to the 2,500-mile-long Appalachian Trail - that could be tackled by two American women on a walking holiday in England. Tom knew only too well that the answer was a big no. Much of the uplands remained in private hands, but the mood was changing. The mass trespass at Kinder Scout in 1932 had shown that some walkers weren't prepared to back down from confronting landlords and gamekeepers. Hiking was becoming more popular. With more leisure time on their hands, workers wanted to stretch their legs in the countryside. Tom - who would later become secretary of the Ramblers' Association - spotted an opportunity. With social attitudes changing after World War Two he prodded, cajoled and convinced the authorities that a \"long green trail\" could be established across the North's rugged uplands. But even as the last footpaths and rights of way were being joined together, some landowners remained deeply sceptical of the whole idea. Walkers couldn't be trusted to cross wild areas of land without causing damage and leaving litter. Sylvia Franks was one of Tom Stephenson's close friends and she remembers the battle to get the route recognised. \"They didn't want the hoi polloi walking on their land, that was the top and bottom of it. \"But we'd fought for this country, we'd fought for the rights to be free men and we wanted to walk our countryside.\" On 24 April 1965 - 30 years after Tom Stephenson had the idea - the Pennine Way became a reality. At an opening ceremony in the Yorkshire Dales village of Malham, hundreds of hikers gathered. Sylvia Franks was there. \"You could see hundreds of ramblers congregating and because the site was in a hollow you could see them coming down the hillsides to meet. It was exciting. It really was.\" Tom wanted the Pennine Way to be a significant test: an escape from the buzz of modern life. Fifty years on it certainly still achieves that and will take a fit, committed walker two to three weeks to complete. Most hikers tend to do the route south to north; starting in Edale in the Peak District and ending at Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders. It takes in the Yorkshire Dales, Teesdale, the North Pennines and the Cheviot Hills in Northumberland. But the beauty of the Pennine Way is you don't have to do it all in one go. Some people do it in stages, taking a lifetime to complete the whole route. The Pennine Way comes with a fearsome reputation; after all, it's a journey along the backbone of Britain. The weather is legendary too. The Pennines get more than their fair share of rain, but the paths are now much better, and the signage has improved. For someone like me, who's been lucky to have adventures all over the planet, the Pennine Way was an eye-opener. It's beautiful and still retains an essence of the wilderness that Tom Stephenson wanted to capture. I think he would have been proud of what he achieved. The Pennine Way is broadcast weekly in four episodes from Friday 10 April on BBC One Yorkshire & Lincolnshire, North East & Cumbria, and the North West. It is also available nationwide on the iPlayer for 30 days thereafter.", "question": "Britain 's first national trail , the Pennine Way , celebrates its 50th anniversary on 24 April . Presenter Paul Rose took a journey along the \" Backbone of England \" and considered the post-war social revolution which @placeholder open it up to the public .", "option_0": "phases", "option_1": "questions", "option_2": "marked", "option_3": "provided", "option_4": "helped"}
{"id": 1385, "article": "Manchester City Council used a crane to remove the 44ft (13.5m) trailer, which had sunk into the road surface in South Street, Openshaw. The cost of removal and disposal was almost ?¡ê10,000. Councillor Nigel Murphy said the people who dumped it had \"stolen from Manchester taxpayers\". The trailer, which weighed double the legal limit, had been stripped of usable parts and scrap metal, as well as all its identifying features, such as registration plates. Mr Murphy said investigators suspected the waste had \"come from a site used to sort skips\". A council spokesman said it was hoped \"someone working in logistics\" would recognise the vehicle, which was described as \"an old tri-axle steel waste hydraulic ejector trailer\".", "question": "A trailer filled with 90 tonnes of domestic waste was dumped on a street in an act of \" fly - @placeholder on an industrial scale \" , a council has said .", "option_0": "held", "option_1": "tipping", "option_2": "descending", "option_3": "imposed", "option_4": "expected"}
{"id": 1386, "article": "The poll was triggered when sitting Conservative MP Stephen Phillips quit last week over \"irreconcilable policy differences\" with the government. Ms Evans said she wanted to be an MP in order to put pressure on the government over Brexit. The by-election is expected to take place before the end of the year. On Thursday, three High Court judges ruled the government cannot officially notify the EU of its intention to leave, thus beginning formal talks, without Parliament's support. Lincolnshire voters were among the most Eurosceptic in the UK, with more than 75% of voters in Boston voting to leave. Parts of the county have in recent years seen an influx of EU workers drawn to the area's agricultural industry. Ms Evans said: \"The people of Lincolnshire voted to leave the European Union, and it looks as though the establishment is trying to renege on that. \"We've had the High Court decision which is a clear attempt to frustrate the will of the British people, and is completely unacceptable.\" She accused the political classes of continuing to \"kowtow to the European Union\", adding that if elected she would force PM Theresa May \"to get us out\". UKIP will announce its new leader on 28 November, with Paul Nuttall and John Rees-Evans the rival candidates to Ms Evans. In last year's election in Sleaford and North Hykeham, Mr Phillips won a majority of 24,115, with 56% of the vote. Labour finished second, closely followed by UKIP. Others to have expressed interest in standing in the constituency include Conservative councillor Richard Davies, Joseph Hyatt for the Independents, and UKIP's Victoria Ayling and Robin Hunter-Clarke.", "question": "UKIP leadership @placeholder contender Suzanne Evans says she will put herself forward to represent the party in the Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election .", "option_0": "number", "option_1": "emergency", "option_2": "race", "option_3": "candidate", "option_4": "award"}
{"id": 1387, "article": "Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce said the 33ft (10m) stainless steel sculpture next to Hull's Beverley Gate relic was like a \"granny's vase\". The gate was where King Charles I was refused entry to Hull in 1642, sparking the English Civil War. Hull City Council said it has submitted plans for \"an engaging piece of art\". The chamber is to request the council reconsider the plan. Live updates on this story and others from Hull and East Yorkshire The statue, called Shadow Gate, is to be positioned between Whitefriargate and King Edward Street. Architects Tonkin Liu said it \"invokes the imagery of the trading ships masts and sails,\" and that \"careful consideration has been made to position the sculpture to minimise any harmful impact to surrounding historical buildings.\" Beverley Gate was designated a scheduled ancient monument earlier this year. The chamber has suggested, as an alternative, a statue of Sir John Hotham - the governor of Hull who refused King Charles I entry into the city and its arsenal. During the civil war he was found guilty of treachery and executed in London.", "question": "Plans for a sculpture near the @placeholder of Hull 's ancient defence walls have been criticised by the chamber of commerce .", "option_0": "base", "option_1": "weight", "option_2": "source", "option_3": "number", "option_4": "remains"}
{"id": 1388, "article": "Katrice Lee, from Hartlepool, went missing from a Naafi supermarket at a military base in Paderborn, Germany where her family was stationed. The Royal Military Police (RMP) said the man in the picture was seen putting a child in a green car in the same area where Katrice was last seen in 1981. It refused to say when the e-fit was made, or if it had been newly found. In a statement the force said it had been \"reassessing all evidence... in conjunction with new evidence received\". \"During that process, this piece of evidence was deemed useful to the investigation, so the RMP are duly appealing for fresh information from it,\" a spokesman said. The RMP refused to confirm or deny this meant they had found the e-fit while reassessing evidence and decided to release it. It also refused to confirm it had been created recently, using either new or old evidence. An RMP spokesperson said: \"This is a newly identified line of inquiry as a result of analysing approximately 11,000 documents including eye witness statements.\" The image was shown on the BBC's Crimewatch on Monday night. Katrice's father Richard Lee said he did not know if the picture of the man was a new image or one that police have been \"sitting on for so long\". \"We all live in hope, a lot of people have said to me how do I maintain hope, all I can say is hope maintains me,\" he said. \"At the end of the day this is about a girl who has been missing and I want her back.\"", "question": "An e-fit released in the search for a toddler who @placeholder 36 years ago may be years old , the BBC has learned .", "option_0": "discovered", "option_1": "escaped", "option_2": "drowned", "option_3": "died", "option_4": "disappeared"}
{"id": 1389, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device John Amaechi, BBC Sport \"Basketball is accepted as having the most well-rounded athletes in the world. It's a quick game, and you can be fooled into thinking it's easy to score, but I can tell you it isn't. For Team GB, Luol Deng is the man to watch, but it is going to be a real struggle for the women. For the US men's team, Kevin Durant could emerge as someone to watch as if it is just the 'Kobe Bryant and LeBron James Show', they will fail.\" Star players in the American National Basketball Association (NBA) such as LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant are now some of the most recognisable and highly-paid athletes on the planet. Men's basketball was introduced to the Olympics in 1936, with women given their own competition in 1976. In 1989, basketball's governing body Fiba voted to allow NBA stars to compete in the Olympics. Great Britain will field men's and women's teams at London 2012 - the first time they have competed at the Olympics since London last hosted the Games in 1948. Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng is expected to be the star British performer. Basketball is a fast-moving game, where an hour's play can burn between 630-750 calories. The sport's mixture of running, jumping, pivoting and twisting helps improve balance and build endurance. It is also an excellent way to boost coordination and balance through dribbling, passing and shooting the basketball. As it is a team game, basketball is an excellent way to develop communication skills and learn to work effectively with other people. Clubs also offer a variety of social events beyond simply playing the sport. More than 300,000 people are estimated to play basketball each month in the United Kingdom. It is a cheap game to set-up, with only a hoop and basketball required for a rudimentary match. Thousands of outdoor courts can be found across the country in parks and recreation areas where you can play for free. For people looking to receive coaching, play as part of a team and compete in a league, there are approximately 1,000 clubs in the UK which can be found in sport centres, schools, colleges, universities and gyms. Media playback is not supported on this device Find your local club by using the England Basketball,Basketball Northern Ireland,basketballscotland and Basketball Wales club finders. The 'Try Basketball' scheme by England Basketball is giving people of all ages throughout the country the chance to play the sport, with many sessions costing nothing to take part in. England Basketball's 'Ball Again' campaign is looking to help people aged 25+ who previously played the sport and want to get back to playing again, with 'IM Basketball' designed to help universities, colleges, schools and clubs set-up inter-mural leagues. Basketball Wales run a number of leagues and coaching courses for both children and adults, while basketballscotland provide detailed training for under-14 players through their 'Future Starz' programme. Basketball Northern Ireland run a number of training camps for boys and girls aged 8-18 who are looking to improve their skills. More on the British Basketball website 'Join In Local Sport' aims to get as many people as possible to turn up and take part in activities at their local sports facilities on 18/19 August, 2012 - the first weekend between the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The aim of the initiative is for every sports club and community group in the UK to put on a special event in a bid to encourage more people to get involved as members, supporters or volunteers. More than 4,000 local sports clubs will be opening their doors to host events and show people just how they can get involved. As well as tips on playing sport there will be information on coaching, supporting and how to help out. Find an event near you. Get your performance under pressure analysed in just 20 minutes by four-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson Start the experiment More on the London 2012 website Two teams of five (with seven substitutes) compete on a court that is 15m wide and 28m long, with baskets that are 3.05m above the ground at either end. A game is 40 minutes long, consisting of four 10-minute quarters. The 1972 final saw the USSR beat the previously undefeated USA 51-50 amid huge controversy. The US had celebrated victory only for three seconds to be added to the clock, allowing Sasha Belov to score a dramatic winning basket. Coaches and officials debated the result on court afterwards (above). The team with the most points at the end wins. If the score is tied at the end of playing time for the fourth period, the game shall continue with as many extra periods of five minutes as is necessary to break the tie. There are unlimited substitutions and teams can call time-outs, where play is stopped for up to one minute. Two timeouts can be called per team in the first half of the game, three in the second half, and a further one timeout each extra time period. Points are scored by shooting the ball into the basket from either inside the three-point line (two points), outside the line (three points) or, in the case of fouls and penalties, from a specified spot straight in front of the basket (one point per shot). Once a team is in possession of the ball, they have 24 seconds to shoot or they lose possession to their opponents. Players are not allowed to hold the ball or use two hands while running, and must 'dribble' it by bouncing it from one hand to the floor and back again. If they hold the ball for more than two stops while moving, it is called 'travelling', and possession is conceded. If a player commits five fouls they must be substituted and cannot return to the game. More on the Team GB website Team GB's men have been strengthened by the addition of NBA All-Star Luol Deng, but they finished 13th at the European Championships and have little chance of winning a medal. The women made an encouraging debut at EuroBasket last year but the players themselves say they are not going to medal. The USA's men, with NBA stars like LeBron James, will be red-hot favourites to win gold but expect Spain and Argentina to push them close. USA's women's team are as dominant as their male counterparts - they top the world rankings and are reigning world champions. Australia and Russia will challenge. The popularity of basketball spread quickly following Dr Naismith's invention of the sport in 1891, with students from abroad who had studied in Springfield taking the game far and wide. The silver medals won by the USA's men at the 1972 Olympics remain in a vault at the IOC as the team refused to accept them following the highly-controversial defeat by Russia in the final (which ended their 63-match unbeaten run at the Games). US captain Ken Davis has a clause in his will stating that a member of his family will never be allowed to go and collect his medal. The first game involved a football and two baskets normally used to carry peaches as the target. Someone would retrieve the ball after every basket, with the bottom only removed in 1906 to create the hoop now used today. An Olympic demonstration sport as early as 1904, the first international games were played in the 1920s and men's basketball was introduced to the Olympics in 1936 By 1950, the first World Championship for men was held in Argentina. Three years later, the first World Championship for women took place in Chile, with the opening Olympic competition following in 1976. Over 450 million people now play basketball at a competition and grassroots level, and the sport claims to be closing on football as the world's most popular. More on the IOC website", "question": "Basketball has come a long way since it was invented by a Canadian - Dr James Naismith - in Springfield , USA , in 1891 as a means to keep his gym @placeholder active on a rainy day .", "option_0": "boys", "option_1": "side", "option_2": "counterparts", "option_3": "crew", "option_4": "class"}
{"id": 1390, "article": "By lunchtime, the benchmark FTSE 100 index was up 19.14 points, or 0.31%, at 6,220.26. Anglo American was the best performing miner, up 3.5%, while BHP Billiton was 3% higher. But the top gainers were Standard Chartered and Sports Direct, which both added more than 8%. Mining firms had been boosted on Thursday by rising commodity prices, which were helped by the weakening of the US dollar. The dollar fell on Thursday, after the US Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged, but also indicated that it expected fewer rate rises this year than previously forecast. On the currency markets on Friday, the pound was steady against the dollar at $1.4477. Against the euro, it was 0.25% higher at a??1.2828.", "question": "( Noon ) : London 's leading shares made @placeholder on Friday morning , building on the previous day 's rally , with mining stocks among the biggest risers .", "option_0": "messages", "option_1": "news", "option_2": "data", "option_3": "gains", "option_4": "control"}
{"id": 1391, "article": "Relatives of Maxine Hambleton, Trevor Thrupp and James Craig have made an application to the senior coroner for Birmingham and Solihull. Coroner Louise Hunt will hear submissions on 12 February before making a decision on 24 February. Twenty-one people died and 182 were hurt in the blast on 21 November 1974. An inquest was opened days after the attack but closed without hearing evidence in 1975 after guilty verdicts saw six men jailed. Their convictions were quashed in 1991 and the former Director of Public Prosecutions, Barbara Mills, placed a 75-year embargo on files relating to a Devon and Cornwall Police inquiry into the West Midlands Police investigation. It means those files are not due to be released until 2069. In March 2015, Justice 4 the 21 campaign group met Home Secretary Theresa May and Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers to lobby for an inquest. An application for a fresh inquest was also lodged with the Attorney General. Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine was the youngest of those who died, said they want justice for their loved ones. \"All we want is one thing - justice. No more, no less,\" she said. \"We don't want money, we don't want an apology. All we want is justice. \"We are not political, but they've made it political because they have the key to the door.\"", "question": "The families of three people killed in the 1970s IRA pub bombings in Birmingham have called for their inquests to be @placeholder .", "option_0": "launched", "option_1": "resumed", "option_2": "opened", "option_3": "postponed", "option_4": "attended"}
{"id": 1392, "article": "Emmanuel and Antan Edet were both found guilty of ill-treating a young person, holding him in servitude and assisting unlawful immigration. Ofonime Sunday Inuk, now aged 40, worked up to 17 hours a day unpaid. He cared for the couple's children, and also cooked and cleaned the house. He was about 14 years old in 1989 when he left his native Nigeria with Emmanuel Edet, now 61, and his wife Antan, 58. They changed Mr Inuk's name and added him to their family passport when they first brought him to the UK. He believed he would be working as a paid 'houseboy' and receive education in the UK. But the couple, whom he referred to as 'Sir' and 'Ma' in diaries, gave him only occasional 'pocket money' and forced him to eat his meals alone and sleep on the hallway floor of the house in Perivale. Judge Arran told the Edets: \"The most serious aspect of your behaviour towards him was that it went on for an exceptionally long period of time, robbing him of the opportunity of leading a normal life. \"He has found it difficult to adjust.\" Mr Inuk told Harrow Crown Court he had not seen his passport for more than a decade and once tried to join the Army, but was rejected because he did not have the document. Edet told him it had expired and he needed to visit Nigeria to acquire a new one. He said Mr Inuk would get an emergency travel ticket from the Nigerian embassy, but this never happened. Mr Inuk eventually managed to alert a charity to his plight after the couple went to Nigeria for Christmas in 2013, and they were arrested the following March. Emmanuel Edet worked for Surrey County Council as a manager in the teenage pregnancy strategy team, and was the author of published papers on the subject. His wife was a senior nurse at Ealing Hospital. They each served 287 days on bail with curfew conditions, and half that time will be subtracted from their six-year sentences.", "question": "A @placeholder doctor and his wife , a nurse at Ealing Hospital , have been given six - year sentences after they kept a man as a slave in their west London home .", "option_0": "disabled", "option_1": "retired", "option_2": "suspected", "option_3": "couple", "option_4": "trained"}
{"id": 1393, "article": "Particles called D-mesons seem to decay slightly differently from their antiparticles, LHCb physicist Matthew Charles told the HCP 2011 meeting on Monday. The result may help explain why we see so much more matter than antimatter. The team stresses that further analysis will be needed to shore up the result. At the moment, they are claiming a statistical certainty of \"3.5 sigma\" - suggesting that there is less than a 0.05% chance that the result they see is down to chance. The team has nearly double the amount of data that they have analysed so far, so time will tell whether the result reaches the \"five-sigma\" level that qualifies it for a formal discovery. The LHCb detector was designed to examine particles containing so-called beauty quarks, watching them decay through time after high-energy collisions of other fundamental particles. The LHCb Collaboration was looking at decays of particles called D-mesons, which contain what are known as charmed-quarks, which can in turn decay into kaons and pions. LHCb, one of the six separate experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, is particularly suited for examining what is called \"charge-parity violation\" - slight differences in behaviour if a given particle is swapped for its antimatter counterpart (changing its charge) and turned around one of its axes (changing its parity). Our best understanding of physics so far, called the Standard Model, suggests that the complicated cascades of decay of D-mesons into other particles should be very nearly the same - within less than 0.1% - as a similar chain of antimatter decays. Other experiments, notably at the Fermi National Accelerator facility in the US, have not definitively found a notable difference between the two kinds of decay of D-mesons. But the LHCb team is reporting a difference of about 0.8% - a significant difference that, if true, could herald the first \"new physics\" to be found at the LHC. \"Our result is more significant because our precision is improved - somewhat more precise than all of the previous results put together,\" Dr Charles told BBC News. Spotting such a difference in the behaviour of matter and antimatter particles may also finally help explain why our Universe is overwhelmingly made of matter. \"Certainly this kind of effect, a new source of CP violation, could be a manifestation of the physics which drives the matter - antimatter asymmetry,\" Dr Charles explained. However, he stressed there are \"many steps in the chain\" between confirming the collaboration's experimental result, and resolving the theory to accommodate it. \"This result is a hint of something interesting and if it bears out, it will mean that, at a minimum, our current theoretical understanding needs improving,\" Dr Charles said. \"It's exactly the sort of thing for which the LHC was originally built.\"", "question": "Large Hadron Collider researchers have @placeholder off what may be the facility 's first \" new physics \" outside our current understanding of the Universe .", "option_0": "thrown", "option_1": "peeled", "option_2": "shown", "option_3": "blown", "option_4": "shrugged"}
{"id": 1394, "article": "Zachary Barker, nine, died in hospital after the collision in Spring Gardens, Leek, in Staffordshire, last Saturday. His mother Stephanie said she wanted others to \"benefit from his short life\". She said transplants meant \"even in death\" he could carry on helping. More updates on this story and others in Staffordshire In a statement released by police, she said: \"Zachary was just a lovely lad, full of life and joy. The whole family are devastated by the loss and we cannot believe that we will not see him again. \"He will remain in our hearts, thoughts and memories forever. \"We took the decision to allow his organs to be used for transplant, so that others may benefit from his short life. \"He was a tremendous son who was always willing to help everyone and even in death, he will continue to help others\". Police said a friend of the family has set up a Just Giving page to assist with the cost of the funeral.", "question": "The mother of a boy who died after being hit by a car says allowing her \" tremendous \" son 's organs to be @placeholder will let him \" continue to help others \" .", "option_0": "promoted", "option_1": "used", "option_2": "found", "option_3": "delayed", "option_4": "donated"}
{"id": 1395, "article": "Manon Carpenter, 22, said the thefts from Caerphilly, reported to police on Tuesday, mean she will struggle to train for upcoming events. In total eight bikes and two motorbikes, some owned by her parents, were taken sometime since Sunday. Gwent Police is investigating. Carpenter, who won biking's World Cup Series in 2014, told BBC Wales: \"You just feel that you work for something and people think they can just walk in and take stuff. \"Luckily it isn't mid-season or it would have been a disaster, but I'm going away at the end of December so I'll have to sort out something for that.\" She said: \"Someone is making quite a lot of money,\" adding: \"I am just gutted. We thought our garage was pretty secure.\" Anyone with information about the thefts can call Gwent Police on 101.", "question": "A former world mountain bike champion said she had been left \" gutted \" after her \" whole @placeholder \" of racing and training bikes were stolen from her parents ' home .", "option_0": "fleet", "option_1": "life", "option_2": "wardrobe", "option_3": "number", "option_4": "behaviour"}
{"id": 1396, "article": "The 21-year-old has already thrown 18.41m in 2016, well over the 17.75m British Athletics qualifying standard. But that was at an event without the correct permit to count towards Rio 2016 qualification. In a final attempt for Rio, the Great Yarmouth athlete has created her own event at the University of East Anglia. If she throws more than 17.75m at the competition it shall only count as one qualifying standard, even if she achieves the distance twice. Two qualification standards are required for automatic selection, but the single standard would allow the performance director to consider her for a place in the Olympic squad. She told BBC Radio Norfolk: \"To go to the Olympic Games is the pinnacle of any athlete's career and I've got to achieve it through adversity, which would make it even more special after the mess around I've had this season.\" McKinna's 18.41m throw at the event in Lincolnshire, put on by her former coach Geoff Capes, was 1.43m further than any of her other in-competition efforts this year. However, it is still some way short of Judy Oakes' British record of 19.36m which has stood for almost 28 years. McKinna has previously admitted to losing motivation following the split with twice Commonwealth Games shot put champion Capes, but said she now felt focused. \"I wanted to go there [to the Lincolnshire meeting] to prove a point that I'm over that and better than that now. That was really my sole motivation,\" she said. \"Because of the circumstances and atmosphere of it, I came out and produced that massive throw and I'm hoping that with a similar atmosphere I'll be able to do a similar thing. \"I don't think it's unachievable. If I thought it was unachievable I wouldn't have gone through all the stress of putting on the competition.\"", "question": "British shot putter Sophie McKinna has set up her own meeting on Saturday as she bids for an Olympic qualification distance before Monday 's @placeholder .", "option_0": "meet", "option_1": "office", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "history", "option_4": "deadline"}
{"id": 1397, "article": "The nine-metre (30ft) bronze statue has been erected at the Union Buildings, the government headquarters. The statue, with Mr Mandela's hands reaching outward, was intended to show that he had embraced the whole nation, President Jacob Zuma said. Mr Mandela was given a state funeral at his ancestral home on Sunday. By Pumza FihlaniBBC News, Qunu Nelson Mandela - the final goodbye African National Congress (ANC) members, veterans of the fight against apartheid and foreign dignitaries - including several African presidents and the Prince of Wales - attended the funeral ceremony in the village of Qunu in South Africa's Eastern Cape province. It followed a 10-day period of mourning and celebrating Mr Mandela's life after his death at the age of 95. The national flag was raised on Monday from its half-mast position, and was flying as normal. The statue was unveiled on South Africa's Day of Reconciliation, a public holiday which marks the end of racial conflict in South Africa. 1918 Born in the Eastern Cape 1943 Joined African National Congress 1956 Charged with high treason, but charges dropped after a four-year trial 1962 Arrested, convicted of incitement and leaving country without a passport, sentenced to five years in prison 1964 Charged with sabotage, sentenced to life 1990 Freed from prison 1993 Wins Nobel Peace Prize 1994 Elected first black president 1999 Steps down as leader 2013 Dies aged 95 Six things you didn't know about Mandela Nelson Mandela: Timeline 10 moments from Mandela mourning \"Former President Mandela is associated with the promotion of  reconciliation which is why the day was chosen for the unveiling,\" said the government. During white minority rule, 16 December was called the Day of Covenant to honour the victory of Afrikaners over a Zulu army in an 1838 clash known as the Battle of Blood River. More than a century later, on 16 December 1961, Mr Mandela launched an armed group, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), to fight South Africa's white minority rule. It led to his arrest and imprisonment for 27 years. After he became president in 1994 at the end of minority rule, he used the day to urge South Africans to set aside their differences and to unite. During his address at the funeral on Sunday, Mr Zuma pledged to build on Mr Mandela's legacy. \"As your journey ends today, ours must continue in earnest... South Africa will continue to rise because we dare not fail you,\" he said. Mr Mandela's body lay in state at the Union Buildings for three days last week, at least 100,000 people filed past his open casket to pay their last respects.", "question": "A statue of Nelson Mandela , South Africa 's first black president , has been unveiled in the capital , Pretoria , a day after he was @placeholder .", "option_0": "buried", "option_1": "unveiled", "option_2": "elected", "option_3": "captured", "option_4": "revealed"}
{"id": 1398, "article": "Note: Leena's autism means she sees things better in pictures - we here at BodyPositive have tried to replicate her original article as accurately as possible with images of our own. So what's Neurodiversity?  At the BBC we define it as a wide spectrum that covers a range of hidden neurological conditions like Autism/Asperger's, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Tourette's, learning disabilities - to name just a few! Being neurodiverse means that your brain is wired differently - it doesn't mean you're weird or stupid. It means you think and learn in a different way to other people and there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, it can mean that you are better at some things than many other people. Growing up with a hidden or learning disability can make it difficult to relate to the world around you, especially when it comes to socialising and communicating with people. It can feel lonely, but it does get better with time. It helps to spend time with people you trust, like your friends and family. Having a group of supportive people around you is important because they can encourage you to be the best you can possibly be. You want to be around people who can tell you that you can achieve instead of telling you that you can't. The outside world can seem like a pretty scary place, especially when you get bogged down by so much information (people talking at you, crowded places, sirens), so your anxiety levels shoot up to the point where you hide. That way you don't have to worry about the rest of the world seeing you freak out. Sometimes you feel people don't understand you or you don't understand them. Don't worry about expecting acceptance from others, first learn to accept yourself. Be happy with who you are. Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love you. A lot of people experience anxiety, but if you're neurodiverse it can feel like the end of the world as you know it. It can be challenging growing up knowing that you are different and that you struggle more than other kids. It can also affect your self esteem. As if that's not tough enough, sometimes other people also have a go at you for being different.  This can be really difficult to deal with on top of everything else and it helps to find someone to talk to. You're not alone, even though it might sometimes feel like it. There are lots of people who are going through the same things you are. Don't worry about keeping up with other people. Use your own methods and strategies and go at your own pace. Whatever you want to do in life, find a place where you can achieve things based on what you're good at and what you're interested in. Like these cool talented people who were just like you when they were younger, they're successful now because they focused on what they enjoyed doing and played to their strengths. If they can do it, so can you! Remember - be unique, be you! For more information on neurodiversity at the BBC, visit our Diversity website.", "question": "Hi , I 'm Leena . I work on a BBC project @placeholder Neurodiversity in employment . I also happen to be neurodiverse , because I have autism .", "option_0": "laughs", "option_1": "centre", "option_2": "researching", "option_3": "explores", "option_4": "side"}
{"id": 1399, "article": "\"Occupy it, compulsory purchase it, requisition it,\" the Labour leader told ITV's Peston on Sunday. At least 58 people are believed to have died and many more are homeless after fire engulfed a London tower block. The government says its staff have been drafted in to help the relief effort. The move comes after the prime minister said the initial official response had \"not been good enough\". Mr Corbyn has already called for the government to requisition properties. Speaking earlier in the week, he said: \"It cannot be acceptable that in London you have luxury buildings and luxury flats kept as land banking for the future while the homeless and the poor look for somewhere to live.\" And in an interview on ITV on Sunday, Mr Corbyn said the flats could be requisitioned by the government or bought using compulsory purchase orders. \"Occupy it, compulsory purchase it, requisition it - there's a lot of things you can do. \"But can't we as a society just think, it's all very well putting our arms around people during the crisis but homelessness is rising, the housing crisis is getting worse and my point was quite a simple one. \"In an emergency, you have to bring all assets to the table in order to deal with that crisis and that's what I think we should be doing in this case.\" He also defended Theresa May, who has been criticised for her own personal response to the fire. \"I think everybody cares to an extent, some to a deeper extent and some show empathy in a different way to others,\" he said. \"But the real issue is not about what we as individuals feel - Theresa May, me, anybody else - it's what those people are going through.\" The government says it has embedded a team of civil servants into the council office following widespread criticism of the local council's performance. Other measures outlined by the prime minister following a meeting with residents on Saturday, included more staff covering phone lines and ground staff wearing high-visibility clothing so they could be easily found. Mr Corbyn questioned why it had taken so long for the authorities to help the victims. \"Every day at Heathrow, planes get delayed. Hundreds of people get stranded at airports all over the world,\" he said. \"Hotels are found for them immediately, they are sorted out. Four-hundred-or-so people, still most of them have not got somewhere decent, safe or secure to stay in. \"Somehow or other, it seems to be beyond the wit of the public services to deal with the crisis facing a relatively small number of people in a country of 65 million.\"", "question": "Jeremy Corbyn has reiterated his suggestion that people left homeless by the Grenfell Tower fire could be housed in empty flats , saying the government has the means to @placeholder property .", "option_0": "replace", "option_1": "reveal", "option_2": "buy", "option_3": "seize", "option_4": "safeguard"}
{"id": 1400, "article": "The company said it has reached the halfway point in the project and hopes to finish the process in July. In total, 88 vessels and land-based locations will be switched on. CalMac said the rollout was taking longer than it had anticipated because of the \"challenging geography\" of Scotland's west coast. A firm that was involved in providing wi-fi services to the British armed forces in Afghanistan is working with the ferry operator. CalMac announced in 2013 that it would rollout wi-fi on its services following a campaign and petition by Barra Youth Council on the Western Isles urging the company to do so. The first boat to go live was MV Bute on the Wemyss Bay to Rothesay route in February last year. CalMac said the programme has gathered rapid pace in the last two months. Project manager Jim McKillop said: \"We are now almost halfway through the rollout programme for CalMac public access wi-fi. \"Already we have had some great feedback from communities involved and we are committed to rollout completion by early July.\" Mr McKillop added: \"I'd like to thank everyone for their patience throughout this project - we're under no illusion about the frustration with some of the delays which have occurred. \"But we are confident that the service which is being put in place is something which will be of significant benefit to communities and visitors alike.\" CalMac said that although all vessels will eventually be equipped to offer wi-fi, there will be interruptions to services on \"a small number\" of longer routes. These routes may require other technologies in due course to overcome the issue, the company said. CalMac said these routes involved long crossings of open water and interruptions to services would affect ferries such as MV Isle of Lewis, which would lose its connectivity to the north of Mull until it nears Castlebay on Barra.", "question": "Ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne ( CalMac ) said it aims to complete its rollout of free public access wi - fi on its network and @placeholder this summer .", "option_0": "increase", "option_1": "fleet", "option_2": "integrity", "option_3": "tides", "option_4": "services"}
{"id": 1401, "article": "Who was in, who was out, who could be persuaded and who couldn't? We heard Andy Burnham had been in for a chat, Lord Falconer had emerged smiling but tight lipped, David Lammy had been spotted but later, laughing, he told me he had no idea his party's leader was hunkered down in the Commons, painstakingly putting his top team in place. Tucked inside the Opposition Whips' Office, Jeremy Corbyn and his chief whip Rosie Winterton plus Simon Fletcher, his campaign director, were locked in meeting after meeting, phone call after phone call. Outside in the members' lobby Thatcher was pointing, Churchill had his hands on his hips and I sat on the cold floor, colleagues from Sky and the New Statesman nearby, all of us at the ready. Batteries fading, our phones plugged into the few sockets we could find, we swapped intel and took it in turns to catch glimpses of not very quiet conversations. \"I've got a defence problem,\" we heard Rosie Winterton admit to someone on the phone. They'd offered it to Chris Bryant and \"Jeremy was up for it\", but then Chris wanted \"a half hour conversation about what would happen if we had to invade Russia\". The deal fell down. But \"Jack Dromey could be good at defence\" and then after a moment's silence¡­ it was \"the defence of the realm after all\". Occasionally Jeremy would make an appearance, a quick trip to the loo. \"Any progress,\" we asked, \"how's it going?\" we questioned. \"All wonderful, everything is just wonderful,\" he replied. While he kept shtum, Rosie Winterton let more developments slip out into the corridor - her voice, at times, clearly audible. \"I know this might be a bit of an outside shot¡­ how do you feel about being defence secretary¡­ well, what are your views on Trident¡­ ¡­ ¡­ are you willing to engage in a debate?\" Defence was clearly proving to be a problem. Then a flurry of activity, a door creaking at the end of the corridor and a quick dash to see if Team Corbyn was on the move. Holding my breath, in the distance two shadowy figures glided away from Central Lobby towards the Lords. They were chatting loudly - it wasn't Labour's new leader, and we were back to our listening posts. Doors were being checked and locked, security were doing the rounds - \"You still working here?\" they asked. The huge Palace of Westminster was getting darker and the job of fixing his team felt a long way off for Jeremy Corbyn. But eventually names were revealed. It was getting close to 10pm, big deadlines were looming, BBC outlets wanted lives with me and the story needed to be written. \"Andy is in, Hilary is in, Angela is in,\" we heard. But Labour MPs weren't happy, complaints were already coming in. With John McDonnell as shadow chancellor, the top posts taken by men, one backbencher tweeted \"Labour needed to be better than this,\" while another called the appointments \"a disgrace\". Then, close to midnight, a new voice, we thought it could be Simon Fletcher: \"We're taking a fair amount of shit out there about women¡­ let's make Angela¡­ shadow first minister of State, like Mandelson, she can do PMQs¡­ do the Angela bit now.\" Then, as if on cue, a text from a Labour source: \"Angela Eagle will be shadow First Secretary of State as well as Shadow Secretary for BIS. She will deputise for Jeremy Corbyn in PMQs when David Cameron is away.\" My colleague at Sky had been working since 5am, I don't think he'd eaten all day. We were fading and so it seemed was Jeremy, who we'd just spotted sporting a coat. They were, we thought, still in the office, but realising it was too quiet we started heading for the exit, down narrow staircases, along winding corridors. Then, voices around the corner - it was Rosie. \"We're going home,\" she said. Off home from Westminster in her car but Jeremy was on foot, flanked by a posse of advisers. With just my phone for recording we tried to ask question after question. Nothing, no response, just a march to a waiting car - and the end of a very long night.", "question": "As Jeremy Corbyn and his aides conducted delicate negotiations over the new shadow cabinet in a room at the Palace of Westminster , BBC political correspondent Eleanor Garnier waited in a corridor outside , overhearing conversations that would shape the @placeholder of both MPs and the Labour Party .", "option_0": "impact", "option_1": "hands", "option_2": "opinions", "option_3": "careers", "option_4": "futures"}
{"id": 1402, "article": "The company said revenues rose 11.3% in the 19 weeks to 11 June, with online sales rising 32.3%. The luxury clothing firm said retail sales rose 12.7%, despite what it called \"challenging external trading conditions\", and it was on track to meet its full-year profit targets. During the period it opened new stores in Beijing, Ottawa and Seattle. It also opened concessions in department stores in China, France, Germany, Japan and Spain. Ray Kelvin, founder and chief executive, said: \"We are very pleased with the response from our customers over this period and remain well positioned to deliver our expectations for the full year.\" Analysts at Liberum said Ted Baker was outperforming its rivals both in stores and online, as well as through wholesale channels. Next, Britain's most successful clothing retailer over the past decade, warned in May that its sales could fall by as much as 3.5% this year, due to a cool spring and signs of a slowdown in consumer spending.", "question": "Strong online sales and new stores have helped to boost revenues at UK @placeholder brand Ted Baker .", "option_0": "food", "option_1": "rates", "option_2": "pace", "option_3": "fashion", "option_4": "supermarket"}
{"id": 1403, "article": "The pair had to settle for second behind American duo Anne Haeger and Briana Provancha after being penalised. \"It's been a challenging week,\" said the 27-year old from Dinas Powys. \"We had to turn on and off in concentration... and I think we've proven we're really good at that and we can take that forward to next year.\" Mills and Clark's won silver at London 2012, and their performances have ensured Britain will have a boat in the 470 class at the Rio Olympics. In June, they won the 470-class at the World Cup regatta in Portland. However, the final crews will not be confirmed until next year. The British pair were leading going in to Sunday's race, but made a mistake at the start and impeded another boat. They then compounded the error when completing the wrong number of penalty turns and had to serve another penalty, something Mills admitted was \"a mess\". She added: \"We made some massive errors off the start line, infringed somebody so had to do turns and then didn't do the right amount of turns so had to do another penalty. \"We were so far behind at that point and a very strong left hand track it would seem that there was no way back into the race unfortunately. \"We're just very disappointed with our execution and are very frustrated. \"It's particularly disappointing as we had an otherwise really great week in Rio. \"It's a really tricky place to sail and we dealt with it as best we could to be ahead going into the medal race. \"We've said a lot that ultimately it is going to come down to the medal race next year so that's something we need to look at. \"It's kind of like a 100m final - you can win the semis and it doesn't matter much if you don't perform in the final.\"", "question": "Hannah Mills says she and 470 - class partner Saskia Clarke are in good @placeholder for 2016 in spite of losing out in the Olympic Test event in Rio .", "option_0": "county", "option_1": "contention", "option_2": "fashion", "option_3": "shape", "option_4": "room"}
{"id": 1404, "article": "The biennial event is where the world's aerospace and defence (A&D) companies come to talk - and do - business. And, in an industry where cross-border co-operation is vital, much of that talk was forecast to focus on the dire consequences for British A&D in a post-referendum world. Yet, this being Britain, it's the weather that seems to be the main topic on everyone's lips. Evidence of serious concern about Brexit at this international gathering of executives and military top brass was thin on the ground (publicly, at least). Take comments from the Pentagon's chief buyer of weapons, US Defense Under Secretary Frank Kendall. \"I don't see any reason why it should fundamentally affect our relationship with the UK or our business deals with the UK,\" he said. UK and US defence interests are inextricably linked. BAE Systems, the UK's largest arms manufacturer, has a big presence in the US and is a key contractor on the world's most expensive defence programme, the US-led F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project. BAE is also lead contractor on the Eurofighter Typhoon programme, a pan-European project involving defence giants across the continent. Does Brexit put these in doubt? \"I personally don't think it does,\" Ian King, BAE System's chief executive, told the BBC. \"We don't trade with the EU as a defence entity, it's with individual nations.\" He says that the quality of UK technology and capabilities will always be in demand internationally, especially given that defence and security have risen rapidly up the political agenda. BAE had backed continued EU membership. \"It was right for the UK to stay part of a coherent trading bloc,\" he said. And he still wants to see a trade deal done that involves the free movement of capital and people. But now that the British people have spoken, the strategy is to see what can be done \"to maintain that continuity in a different form\". That's the view among British A&D companies generally. The overwhelming majority of firms wanted to Remain, according to a survey conducted before the referendum by ADS Group, the industry's trade body. They cited access to the European supply chain, skills, and R&D funding among the key benefits. All that is history, though. The challenge now, according to ADS chief executive Paul Everitt, is to achieve continuity - and ram home the message that the UK is open for business. \"We are the largest aerospace and defence market in Europe,\" he said. \"The government needs to send a strong signal about the attractiveness of the business environment here.\" Prime Minister David Cameron tried to do exactly that at the start of the show, in what looked like a carefully choreographed announcement about Boeing's commitment to the UK. The UK government is buying nine Boeing maritime patrol aircraft as part of a ?¡ê3bn, 10-year partnership that involves generating 2,000 jobs. Boeing will also deliver 50 Apache attack helicopters to the British Army. \"Whatever uncertainties our country faces, I want the message to go out loud and clear: the UK will continue to lead the world in both civil and defence aerospace,\" Mr Cameron said. \"We aren't just open for investment, we are a place the global aerospace industry wants to do business - as Boeing's long-term partnership with the UK proves.\" Boeing's chairman Dennis Muilenburg duly reciprocated. \"Boeing is committed to the UK government's prosperity agenda and we share the goals of enhanced economic growth that the prime minister has set,\" he said. Boeing has doubled its presence in the UK over the past five years, and \"we don't really see our plans changing,\" Mr Muilenburg added. There was a similar message from Raytheon International, the US missiles and electronics company which has a big UK presence. Its chief executive, John Harris, called Brexit a \"long play\". He told the BBC: \"We do not see any immediate impact... The process will take years once Article 50 is filed.\" Raytheon would adapt to market changes, he said. But the critical issue \"is to ensure we remain a trusted partner of the UK government\". Among major European companies, too, pre-referendum worries are giving way to post-referendum pragmatism. \"We are where we are,\" said one executive, who had previously privately warned that a Leave vote would be \"economic stupidity\". \"Aerospace is a long-term game. If - and I stress 'if' - there are strategic changes, they will be a long way down the road,\" he said. Mauro Moretti, chief executive of Italy's Leonardo - formerly Finmeccanica - was especially upbeat about his company's UK operations, which include AgustaWestland helicopters. He said: \"We would like to invest [in the UK]. We have in the UK very important facilities. We have a very highly-skilled workforce. \"We would like to maintain our presence - to increase our presence,\" he added. Yet, as the marketing manager of one small UK aerospace supplier pointed out: \"It's easier to maintain trade if you are a big defence contractor dealing with governments. It's going to be more difficult if you are further down the supply chain.\" He didn't want to be named - \"it's not in my commercial interest\" - but his company supplies equipment that ends up on both Airbus and Boeing aircraft. \"I think the uncertainty that is created by leaving the EU is magnified if you are a smaller player in this industry,\" he said. The message from the Brexiteers is that business will soon be unshackled from EU regulations that hindered the pursuit of more opportunities in the wider world. At Farnborough, with its 1,500 exhibitors and 100,000 trade visitors, companies from all corners of the world are touting for business and doing deals. Among these is China, which has its biggest ever presence at the air show. With its huge aerospace and airline ambitions, China wants to do more business with Britain, says Xu Jin, a minister at the Chinese embassy in London. \"The British should not worry about China not being your friend after Brexit,\" he told a conference on aerospace opportunities in his country. So, China won't desert Britain when it leaves the EU? \"Never. This is never going to happen. China is always going to be your friend.\" Another international perspective came from Akbar Al Baker, chief executive of one of aviation's major players, Qatar Airways. As a big purchaser of Airbus aircraft (whose wings are made in the UK) and a 15% shareholder in IAG, owner of British Airways and Iberia (whose shares tanked after the Brexit vote), Qatar Airways is no mere outside observer. But Mr Al Baker says that the \"caution\" around Brexit can be overdone. \"I'm sure that stable minds in the political arena will prevail. And they will realise that regardless of whether Britain stays in the EU, they will still need each other.\" He can't understand why such a momentous move was decided on a simple majority at the ballot box, rather than, say, 75%. But in the end, common sense will prevail, he believes. \"Trade both ways is massive. They both need each other. At the end of the day, you are all Europeans.\"", "question": "Brexit was supposed to cast storm @placeholder over this week 's Farnborough Airshow . Instead , it 's been two days of torrential rain that has cast the real shadow over proceedings .", "option_0": "criticism", "option_1": "names", "option_2": "control", "option_3": "clouds", "option_4": "lights"}
{"id": 1405, "article": "Rejected by the country they call home and unwanted by its neighbours, the Rohingya are impoverished, virtually stateless and have been fleeing Myanmar in droves and for decades. In recent months, tens of thousands of Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh amid a military crackdown on insurgents in Myanmar's western Rakhine state. They have told horrifying stories of rapes, killings and house burnings, which the government of Myanmar - formerly Burma - has claimed are \"false\" and \"distorted\". Activists have condemned the lack of a firm international response. Some have described the situation as South East Asia's Srebrenica, referring to the July 1995 massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims who were meant to be under UN protection - a dark stain on Europe's human rights record. Tun Khin, from the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, says Rohingyas are suffering \"mass atrocities\" perpetrated by security forces in the northern part of Rakhine state. A counter-insurgency campaign was launched after nine border policemen near Maungdaw were killed in a militant attack in early October, but the Rohingya say they are being targeted indiscriminately. The BBC cannot visit the locked-down area to verify the claims and the Myanmar government has vociferously denied alleged abuses. But UN officials have told the BBC that the Rohingya are being collectively punished for militant attacks, with the ultimate goal being ethnic cleansing. The Rohingya are one of Myanmar's many ethnic minorities and say they are descendants of Arab traders and other groups who have been in the region for generations. But Myanmar's government denies them citizenship and sees them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh - a common attitude among many Burmese. The predominantly Buddhist country has a long history of communal mistrust, which was allowed to simmer, and was at times exploited, under decades of military rule. About one million Muslim Rohingya are estimated to live in western Rakhine state, where they are a sizable minority. An outbreak of communal violence there in 2012 saw more than 100,000 people displaced, and tens of thousands of Rohingya remain in decrepit camps where travel is restricted. Hundreds of thousands of undocumented Rohingya already live in Bangladesh, having fled there over many decades. Since a dramatic Rohingya exodus from Myanmar in 2015, the political party of Nobel Peace Prize winner and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has taken power in a historic election, the first to be openly contested in 25 years. But little has changed for the Rohingya and Ms Suu Kyi's failure to condemn the current violence is an outrage, say some observers. \"I'm not saying there are no difficulties,'' she told Singapore's Channel NewsAsia in December. \"But it helps if people recognise the difficulty and are more focused on resolving these difficulties rather than exaggerating them so that everything seems worse than it really is.'' Her failure to defend the Rohingya is extremely disappointing, said Tun Khin, who for years had supported her democracy activism. The question of whether she has much leverage over the military - which still wields great power and controls the most powerful ministries - is a separate one, he said. \"The point is that Aung San Suu Kyi is covering up this crime perpetrated by the military.\" But others say international media fail to understand the complex situation in Rakhine state, where Rohingya Muslims live alongside the mostly Buddhist Rakhine people, who are the state's dominant ethnic group. Khin Mar Mar Kyi, a Myanmar researcher at Oxford University, told the South China Morning Post that the Rakhine were the \"most marginalised minority\" in Myanmar but were ignored by Western media, which she said displayed a \"one-sided humanitarian passion\". Other researchers like Ronan Lee of Australia's Deakin University disagree with this argument, noting that while the Rakhine also face deprivation, \"the solution when faced with massive rights violations is not to announce that someone else is worse off\". In her recent media comments, Ms Suu Kyi said Rakhine Buddhists \"are worried about the fact that they are shrinking as a Rakhine population percentage-wise\" and said she wanted to improve relations between the two communities. A special Myanmar government committee appointed to investigate the ongoing violence in Rakhine state said in an interim report in early January that it had so far  found no evidence to support claims of genocide against the Rohingya, nor to back up widespread rape allegations. The report made no mention of claims that security forces had been killing civilians. Observers had, in any case, not had high hopes of a credible or independent investigation from the committee, which is headed by former general and current Vice-President Myint Swe. Read more - \"The Lady\": A profile of Aung San Suu Kyi South East Asian countries generally don't criticise each other about their internal affairs. It's a key principle of the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean). But the current situation has seen some strident criticism from Myanmar's Muslim-majority neighbours, along with protests.  Indonesian police even say they have foiled an IS-linked bomb plot targeting the Myanmar embassy. On 4 December, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak questioned Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Prize, given her inaction. \"The world cannot sit by and watch genocide taking place. The world cannot just say 'look, it is not our problem'. It is our problem,\" he told thousands at a rally in Kuala Lumpur in support of the Rohingya. His comments followed a call from Malaysia's youth and sports minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, for Asean to review Myanmar's membership over the \"unacceptable\" violence. Some question the timing of the comments, given the unpopular Mr Razak is gearing up for re-election. \"What we want is both talk and action to really help the Rohingya, not just ministers posturing to gain domestic political points,\" said Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch. In Bangladesh, which borders Rakhine state, Amnesty International says hundreds of fleeing Rohingya have been detained and forcibly returned to an uncertain fate since October - a practice it says should end. Bangladesh does not recognise the Rohingya as refugees. Read more: Bangladesh presses Myanmar on Rohingya Leading regional newspapers have condemned Asean's inaction, with Thailand's The Nation describing it as an \"accessory to murder and mayhem\". A meeting of Asean foreign ministers to discuss the crisis was held on 19 December in Myanmar's capital, Yangon, but was dismissed as \"largely an act of political theatre\" by the Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights grouping. Indonesia's ambassador to London, Rizal Sukma, told the BBC in December that a comprehensive approach was needed. He said an investigation with regional participation should be launched and that his country stood ready to participate if any such commission was to be formed. A UN spokeswoman in 2009 described the Rohingya as \"probably the most friendless people in the world\". The UN human rights office recently said for a second time this year that abuses suffered by them could amount to crimes against humanity. It also said that it regretted that the government had failed to act on a number of recommendations it had provided, including lifting restrictions of movement on the Rohingya. It has called for an investigation into the recent allegations of rights abuses, as well as for humanitarian access to be given. The UN's refugee agency says Myanmar's neighbours should keep their borders open if desperate Rohingya once again take to rickety boats to seek refuge in their countries, as happened in early 2015. Spokeswoman Vivian Tan said now would be a good time to set up a regional task force that had been proposed to co-ordinate a response to any such movements. Read more: Kofi Annan downplays Myanmar genocide claims Separately, former UN-Secretary General Kofi Annan is heading another advisory commission currently looking into the general situation in Rakhine state after being asked in August by Ms Suu Kyi. But some have questioned how useful this commission will be, given the exhaustive number of reports that already exist. Its report, in any case, will not be released until later this year. Reporting by Kevin Ponniah.", "question": "They have been described as the world 's most @placeholder people .", "option_0": "disabled", "option_1": "feared", "option_2": "supply", "option_3": "persecuted", "option_4": "decorated"}
{"id": 1406, "article": "Wall Street nearly clawed back all the way from an early slump that dragged the Dow Jones down as much as 180 points in the first half-hour of trading. The Dow ended just 36 points, or 0.2%, lower at 18,068 points. The S&P 500 lost 6.2 points, or 0.3%, to 2,099, while the Nasdaq dropped 0.4% to 4,976. The sell-off in government bonds, a trend partly blamed on rising inflation expectations, has sent yields - which move inversely to bond prices - higher. The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond rose as high as 2.36%. The selling eased by late afternoon and the yield fell to 2.25%, down from 2.28% late Monday. The yield was below 2% as recently as 28 April. The yield on the 10-year German government bond rose to 0.67% from 0.61% the day before. It traded as low as 0.08% last month. \"Bonds had been at such lofty prices that a sell-off was somewhat expected,\" said Chris Gaffney, president of EverBank World Markets. Investors also had their eye on the latest batch of corporate results and some headline-grabbing deals. Verizon agreed to buy AOL for about $4.4bn - a 15% premium to its closing price on Monday. Shares in AOL jumped 18.6% to $50.52, while Verizon fell 0.4% to $49.62. The lack of progress in the Greek debt crisis was also unsettling. It emerged on Tuesday that Greece had used its emergency reserves at the IMF to make the latest  a??750m (?¡ê538m) payment to the Fund.", "question": "( Close ) : US markets fell on Tuesday as a spike in returns on government bonds @placeholder investors .", "option_0": "network", "option_1": "show", "option_2": "failed", "option_3": "remained", "option_4": "rattled"}
{"id": 1407, "article": "From checking appropriate use of language in the script to working out what a bow of a ship might look like in 1790, Dr Hannah Greig tries to ensure Poldark is as accurate as it can be. But sometimes the show sacrifices historical accuracy for the sake of staying true to the novels, which were written by author Winston Graham in the late 1940s and early 1950s. \"In series one, when Ross and Demelza first have sex, her dress is not of an 18th Century construction as it opens at the back, whereas all dresses then would have fastened at the front,\" said Dr Greig \"But we stayed true to how Winston Graham described it in the novel - it's such a powerful and romantic scene - and because it's a fictional period drama we can stay true to those details in the book. The first source should be the novel.\" When researching for the show, the University of York lecturer says she always returns to 18th Century source material. \"I'll use things like Old Bailey records to see what words should be said in a courtroom. I have advised on the content of letters, adverts on a wall and what a children's book might look like.\" Museum collections are also used - the Royal Cornwall Museum has a surviving 18th Century banknote. \"There are a lot of banknotes put down in Poldark, on tables and in deals. You can see how these museum collections inform set and costume designers.\" Horse trainer Mark Atkinson, who provided 22 horses for series two, says it was like \"love at first sight\" for Aidan Turner and his horse Seamus. \"Aidan came to try the horses and I've never known an actor and a horse get on as well as these two do,\" he said. People in 18th Century Cornwall would typically have got around on foot or on horseback. \"Because the roads were pretty terrible in Cornwall then, carriages wouldn't have been used to a great extent,\" he said. George Warleggan, who is part of one of the richest families in Cornwall, has the biggest and most impressive horse. \"He tends to be looking down on the other characters, which was completely deliberate to give him an air of superiority,\" Mr Atkinson said. The attention to detail does not stop there. Even the bridle Poldark uses reflects details about his character, and the time he spent fighting in the American War of Independence. \"The bridle that Ross uses is half military, which he brought back from fighting in the Americas, and half which his father left for him. He also has a bedroll which he used to use in the Americas and he has nickel stirrups that are from the period,\" Mr Atkinson says. \"For authenticity we use old documents, etchings, paintings - basically anything we can get our hands on. \"We also teach the actors to ride, it's one of my favourite things to watch. It's like painting a picture - teaching them to ride is like drawing the outline. \"You then need to work on all the detail and make sure they are comfortable on the horse and ride how the character would ride. You don't want Ross to look too correct, he needs to look relaxed and at home on the horse.\" Food created for the show does not need to be eaten - but it should reflect the social standing of the character, says food stylist Genevieve Taylor. She said there were tricks of the trade to make banquets look as good as possible on camera. \"I ended up wrapping pastry around two Quality Street tins to make a giant pie,\" she said. \"It's the biggest pie I have ever made. The pastry was secured with cocktail sticks and I used loads of salt to make it extra shiny. \"With these creations, you don't know how long they are going to be sat about on set for - it's not the star of the show and is made with longevity in mind. \"There is lots of historical information available, including cookbooks from the period. For example, the art department would get in touch and say we need food for a harvest supper for a well-to-do family. \"It's my job to make the food look correct for the time and make it beautiful.\" Poldark returns to BBC One on Sunday 4 September at 21:00 BST. The Food Programme: Cooking for Poldark featuring food stylist Genevieve Taylor is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Sunday 11 Sept at 12.30.", "question": "Hit TV costume drama Poldark is much more than rugged Cornish coastline , moody weather and the brooding looks of Aidan Turner . As the programme begins its second series , BBC News explores the lengths filmmakers go to create a period piece - and the dilemma they face between historical accuracy and staying true to the @placeholder .", "option_0": "tradition", "option_1": "life", "option_2": "film", "option_3": "country", "option_4": "story"}
{"id": 1408, "article": "Peter Dawson, the R&A chief executive, whose organisation takes the Open Championship to Turnberry on a rota basis, immediately proclaimed calming words on the latest acquisition by the insatiable Trump, though others feared a degree of 'Trump chintz' being foisted upon the famous hotel. Such apprehension was probably unfounded and unfair. Trump is many things but when it comes to golf he appears both passionate and committed. His infamous Trump Links near Aberdeen, amid all its other controversies, is a magnificent golf course, built in true links style and by an architect, Martin Hawtree, whose appointment by Trump revealed a sense of the history and ethos of the game. Jokes about Trump tearing down the iconic Turnberry lighthouse on the Ailsa course and replacing it either with a statue of himself, or something even tackier, have been amusing to read but are surely wide of the mark. Trump knows what Turnberry means in the world of golf. In one sense - and maybe we shouldn't mind this - Trump's ego remains as rampant as ever. He has just landed yet another 'trophy hotel' and this, surely, has been the root of his purchase. Leisurecorp, the company from whom Trump bought Turnberry, presumably had to be more concerned about profit margins at the resort than Trump will ever be. He simply wants to have this bauble among the world's great resorts in his collection. On top of this, Trump's purchase may actually provide financial uplift for that part of Scotland, including nearby Prestwick airport, depending how hard Trump drives the Turnberry brand and attracts people to his golf course. It's a strange one: within Scotland, in one way, Turnberry can be quite a pain to get to, with its ever-narrowing road as you wend your way down that Ayrshire coastline. But once you are there, my goodness, you are in a piece of golfing heaven to match anywhere in the world. The challenge for Trump is to give Turnberry an ongoing cachet and visibility to the world, whilst preserving its historic values. He might just do that. Mr Dawson provided soothing words, and thank goodness. I'm not going to touch a thing unless the R&A ask for it or approve it \"Turnberry is a great favourite among the players and it's on the Open rota for sure,\" said the R&A chief executive. \"Donald Trump is investing in golf properties in Great Britain and Ireland, so he must have great faith in the future of the game, which is very heartening from a businessman of his stature. \"I'm quite sure, if he does buy Turnberry, he will be putting a lot of investment in.\" Trump in turn has doffed his cap to the R&A, happily playing the role of supplicant to one of world sport's most enduring governing bodies. \"The golf course itself is considered one of the greatest in the world - some rate it as the best in the world,\" said the American. \"I'm not going to touch a thing unless the R&A ask for it or approve it. I have the greatest respect for the R&A and for Peter Dawson. I won't do anything to the golf course at all without their full stamp of approval.\" Turnberry last held the Open in 2009. It would expect to host another one at least by 2020. Trump, presumably, cannot wait for the occasion, when it is hard to believe he will make himself scarce. The worry for some is that the Turnberry owner would try to turn Open week into a Donald Trump circus. Personally, I'd doubt it. Trump is rich, brash and egotistical, but all of these attributes are forgivable. On occasion, they can even be helpful. It may be, in the face of much cynicism, that Trump is as sound a protector as Turnberry could have. The Golf Show presented by Graham Spiers, airs every Sunday morning on BBC Radio Scotland at 1030 GMT.", "question": "Some people in Scotland @placeholder with fear at the news this week that Donald Trump , the retiring American billionaire , had bought the Turnberry golf resort in Ayrshire for an estimated ¡ê 35 million .", "option_0": "froze", "option_1": "shuddered", "option_2": "clashed", "option_3": "forms", "option_4": "states"}
{"id": 1409, "article": "The artist has offered the statue, called Verity, to Ilfracombe in north Devon on a 20-year loan. North Devon's Council's executive has decided to accept the loan. Groundwork is expected to start on the planned site at the town's harbour later this month. The sculpture itself is expected in October. Plans for the statue were submitted in June, attracting 177 letters in support and 100 letters of objection. Objectors' concerns ranged from security issues - with fears that it would attract vandalism and publicity seekers - to expressions of dislike of the artist's work. The application said the bronze-clad statue of the woman, carrying a sword, as well as scales with a base of legal books, was a \"modern allegory of truth and justice\". Ilfracombe Town Council had already given its approval, with councillors saying they hoped the sculpture would attract more tourism to the town. The town has embraced modern art since its Landmark Theatre was developed in 2007, employing a white, conical design which was later dubbed Madonna's Bra. After the Hirst sculpture at the beginning of October, it is expected it will be erected about October 18, before it is officially unveiled towards the end of the month. Mr Hirst, who has a restaurant in the town, has been unavailable for comment.", "question": "Plans to put up a 20 m ( 67ft ) high statue of a naked pregnant woman by artist Damien Hirst in a seaside town have @placeholder their final hurdle .", "option_0": "opened", "option_1": "been", "option_2": "passed", "option_3": "unveiled", "option_4": "boosted"}
{"id": 1410, "article": "It's 350m long and for almost every 3m you walk, you go up almost a metre in height - that's steep! But it's not the only strange street or random road in the worlda€| This is Lombard Street in San Francisco, USA. It's officially the world's most crooked street with a total of eight tight hairpin turns along just 400m of the street. And it's downhill, so traffic can only travel one-way at a 5mph speed limit. The narrowest street is in Reutlingen, Germany. It is called Spreuerhofstrasse and when officially measured in 2006 it was just 31cm at the narrowest point. The record for the shortest street is held by Ebenezer Place in Caithness, Scotland. It officially got measured in 2006 with a length of just 2.05 metres. It's so small there's only one doorway on the street. The Wapusk Trail road, at 467 miles in length, is constructed each year in Canada. It's thought to be the longest seasonal winter road in the world and is built on snow and ice each January giving road access for a few weeks to remote areas. The Magic Roundabout in Swindon England definitely takes some beating. It has five mini-roundabouts clustered around a central roundabout. The widest road in the world is the Monumental Axis, in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. The six-lane boulevard was opened in April 1960 and is 250m wide. The Pan-American Highway from Alaska in the USA to Brasilia in Brazil, South America is over 15,000 miles long and is the longest road - apart from a gap between the countries of Panama and Columbia - that you can drive along. The USA's freeways can have loads of lanes on each side but the record breaker is along the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge which has 23 lanes east-bound through the tolls.", "question": "Baldwin Street in Dunedin , New Zealand , is officially the world 's steepest @placeholder road .", "option_0": "crumbling", "option_1": "paved", "option_2": "finds", "option_3": "plane", "option_4": "gathering"}
{"id": 1411, "article": "Sixteen people have been taken to hospital as a precaution, the London Fire Brigade said. Two people escaped from their balconies by ladder while others received information over the telephone on how to get out safely. Fifty firefighters attended the fire in north Kensington, the cause of which is not yet known. Nanga Pedro, who lives next-door to the flat where the fire broke out, told BBC London he had been \"terrified\" trying to get his wife and two young children to safety. \"It was smoke, heat everywhere. We run back inside the house to the balcony, we got to our knees and started crawling,\" he said. The LFB said \"lessons had been learned\" since the Lakanal House fire in 2009, when six people were killed. Station manager Jim Smith explained residents were given \"specific advice\" by 999 operators \"depending on how the fire was affecting their flat\". The residents are not expected to be able to return home for some time while fire investigators and police examine the scene. A spokesman for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea said 12 flats would be uninhabitable for several days. Those unable to stay with friends and family would be offered bed and breakfast accommodation, he said.", "question": "Firefighters have rescued 50 people from a burning @placeholder block in west London after a fire on the third floor .", "option_0": "forest", "option_1": "floor", "option_2": "processing", "option_3": "toilet", "option_4": "tower"}
{"id": 1412, "article": "John Walker, 62, retired in 2003 before gay civil partnerships were introduced in the UK in 2005. As a result his now husband will not receive a full spousal pension if he dies - which he claimed was unlawful. The Court of Appeal rejected his appeal as his pension was accrued before civil partnerships were recognised in law. Mr Walker, 62, retired from chemical group Innospec Ltd, based in Cheshire, after working there for 23 years - with a pension worth ¡ê85,000 a year. He then entered a civil partnership in 2006 - which has since been converted into a marriage - having been in a relationship with his partner since 1983. However, because he retired before laws banning discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation came into force, the most his husband could claim in the event of Mr Walker's death is about ¡ê500 a year. Mr Walker claimed Innospec was failing to treat surviving same-sex spouses and civil partners as equal to surviving spouses in a heterosexual marriage. His lawyers argued that if Mr Walker were to dissolve his same-sex marriage and instead marry a woman, she would be entitled to about ¡ê41,000 a year, after his death. The Innospec pension scheme would only pay his husband about 1% of that amount, they said. In 2012, an employment tribunal in Manchester ruled Innospec's scheme contravened European laws. However, the company launched an appeal supported by the Department for Work and Pensions - and the decision was overturned by an Employment Appeal Tribunal last year. The tribunal ruled that an exemption contained in the Equality Act 2010 meant pension rights accrued before civil partnerships became law in December 2005 did not have to be paid out in full to a civil partner. Mr Walker then asked judges in the Court of Appeal to rule that the appeal tribunal decision was flawed and breached his human rights. He said it was contrary to EU laws setting out the framework for equal treatment in employment. But three judges in the Court of Appeal unanimously ruled the claim failed because it applied to a period before gay civil partnerships were recognised by the law. Speaking after the ruling, Mr Walker, who was represented in court by human rights group Liberty, said: \"I paid exactly the same contributions as my heterosexual colleagues. \"Yet my husband - with whom I have lived for over 20 years - will be entitled to nothing from the company on my death.\" He added: \"How can this constitute anything other than the most flagrant discrimination?\" Giving his ruling, Lord Justice Underhill said: \"I can understand that Mr Walker and his husband will find this conclusion hard to accept. \"But changes in social attitudes, and the legislation that embodies those changes, cannot fully undo the effects of the past.\" The UK government has estimated that \"full equalisation\" of pension rights would cost about ¡ê3.3bn and have complex implications for pension schemes.", "question": "A gay man has @placeholder a legal bid for his husband to be recognised with the same pension rights as a wife would have in a heterosexual relationship .", "option_0": "issued", "option_1": "criticised", "option_2": "lost", "option_3": "rejected", "option_4": "held"}
{"id": 1413, "article": "Public perception appears to have changed. People used to scrub the art away, but nowadays the first reaction seems to be \"is it worth money?\" Street artist Neil Morris agrees this is the case with some, but \"these are the people who never have and never will appreciate the work. For more street art stories follow us on Pinterest \"These people are middle-aged, middle-manager types that think the art is offensive to others without actually asking anyone. And it's money that has changed perception. Money changes everything.\" Fellow artist Jadryk Brown argues that the high prices street art can fetch means \"rich people don't find it scary any more. Nothing's scary if money could be involved\". The internet has also been an influence, according to Richard Clay, professor of digital humanities at Newcastle University. \"These images can, and sometimes do, go viral. For example, the painting and then defacement of a mural of Putin kissing Trump in Lithuania. \"In some cases a photo of a piece of street art online can simply be picked up and adopted in another place. For example, during the Arab Spring, images of Assad with a Hitler moustache appeared online and could soon be seen in Cairo, Beirut and Gaza. \"The ready availability of examples of street art from across the globe informs the practice of artists and the views of their audiences.\" He speculates that \"the authenticity, the site specificity and the (usually) one-off nature of street art\" might \"serve as an antidote to the super-abundance of online images and to streets that are often cluttered with mass-produced commercial imagery\". A study from the University of Warwick indicates that street art in London is generally now associated with improving economic conditions of urban neighbourhoods. It's partly down to a \"loop effect\". Arty areas - such as Brixton - attract more cafes and restaurants that in turn attract the art-loving crowd to move in. Areas outside London can also see graffiti affecting property prices - in both directions. Prof Clay says it can polarise opinion: \"To most people street art is either an indicator of an area that is vibrant or of one that is run-down and in need of better policing. \"It very much depends on individuals' broader opinions about acceptable behaviours in public space, but it seems clear to me that more and more people regard street art as a positive phenomenon. \"Hence, it appears to be being more widely tolerated by public authorities.\" Drawing on walls in public places isn't a new phenomenon. From the prehistoric cave paintings of Burgundy in France, through gladiatorial fan worship in Roman Lyons to the messages left on the walls of Germany's Reichstag in 1945 by triumphant Soviet troops, people are determined to leave a record of their existence and experience. Nor is it an activity associated with one particular socioeconomic group, says Prof Clay. \"Historically it isn't the case. For example, in Rome you can see graffiti left over centuries by aristocratic visitors to the Eternal City. \"There is a tendency nowadays to see modern graffiti as being a working class, inner-city phenomenon. While that has been and remains the case in some cities and with some graffiti writers and crews, it often isn't the case. \"The creative urge to leave one's mark in public space crosses the boundaries of class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and religion. It always has and it always will.\" Artist Scotty Brave points out there has always been graffiti that was thought-provoking, political and clever. \"Modern times have seen graffiti become many different things. Vandalism, art, politics, subcultural visual communication, cryptic language, esoteric social commentary, street art. Even a visual form of humour. \"So when you talk about graffiti, you are talking about all these things. All these things are different, their practitioners are different. Their motives are different, their methods, reasons, approach and application are all different veins of the rebellious act of graffiti. \"Has it lost its power? Of course not, no way, how can it? What power did it ever have? \"The power is in the perception, it's generated by the observer. It can lose power if it allows itself to be generalised, to be boxed, to be spoken of as if it's understood, contained, conquered by those who attempt to categorise, water down and generalise it. \"So be very careful what you say or what you write about it.\" So is there \"good\" graffiti and bad? Prof Clay says \"good graffiti doesn't have to be aesthetically sophisticated\". \"My favourite recent example is visible on a motorway bridge heading north up the M6. In messy, white, blocky paint it reads 'Pies this is your time'. Like many Lancastrians, I love pies and it made me smile and think of home. It took me a long time to realise that The Pies are actually a band.\" Scotty Brave insists graffiti \"has always been art. Even if it's arguably so. I've seen a slashed canvas and a urinal in an art gallery. \"Why not a crude penis scribbled on a police station's window, or a spray-painted name on a train's door? It's all art.\" But some residents in Marlborough, Wiltshire, contacted the BBC to complain about some street art that appeared on a junction box in the town. Kate Tudor says: \"Graffiti is vandalism. I still have to pay to have it removed. Why do you assume everyone has a right to express their stuff by painting on public walls? Why would the rest of us be interested in the thoughts of one special snowflake?\" And fellow townsperson Josh Hartshorn argues: \"Art is something you choose to see and pay for in your house and graffiti gives you no choice and you have to pay to not look at it.\" Some local authorities have been keen on promoting street art - in 2012 Bristol City Council supported an \"urban paint festival\" featuring graffiti, while also clamping down on tagging. Now in its eighth year, the organisers of Upfest say it is \"Europe's largest free, live street and urban art festival\". Callington in Cornwall has murals throughout the town, which are promoted by the town council as a trail for tourists. But other local authorities don't always see the merit of street art - a council that destroyed a mural by Banksy in Clacton-on-Sea was branded \"moronic\", \"useless\" and \"cretinous\" by members of the public after painting over a stencil showing a group of pigeons holding anti-immigration banners towards an exotic-looking bird. If street art can be used as a form of protest or social commentary, it can also be used as a celebration. Six murals were commissioned to mark Leicester City's unlikely Premier League title triumph. Each design captures a different aspect of the Foxes' remarkable win. There's a fine line, though, between appreciating street art and taming it. It's becoming more common for images to protected in situ with thick pieces of Perspex, or even jimmied off walls and reconstructed in galleries, such as the Banksy work removed from a car park in Liverpool. Sam Fishwick, a graffiti artist from Liverpool, dismissed the idea of a street art gallery. \"It's not street art any more if it's hung up in a museum. \"It's raw, it's gritty, it's on the street, it's not meant to be there. When you go and see it in a gallery it loses its charm, it loses its character.\" Artist John Doh agrees: \"When a piece is taken from the street and put inside a museum or gallery it can be a real killer. Often the placement is just as important as the piece.\" Scotty Brave says articles attempting to answer questions about street art \"are futile\". \"The difference is in the painter - whether it's the artist, the activist, the writer, the vandal, the illustrator. People's perception is changed by how it is communicated. It's a visual language, with many tongues, many accents and forms. \"Articles written by people who attempt to group all the genres of graffiti together as something that can be talked about as one thing are futile. It's not one thing, it's many. It cannot be boxed or labelled so easily.\" So perhaps the only thing street art tells us about a place - is that it can tell us nothing.", "question": "Street art is hard to avoid , even if you want to . It creeps along alleyways , blooms across fences , flourishes on flyovers and in underpasses . It 's an age when you can awake in the morning to find your house value @placeholder overnight with the emergence of a Banksy on your wall - or even something a bit like a Banksy on your wall .", "option_0": "increased", "option_1": "touring", "option_2": "fitted", "option_3": "caught", "option_4": "dropping"}
{"id": 1414, "article": "The report also cited problems with emergency response and oversight at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), outside Carlsbad, New Mexico. The state's two senators called the findings \"deeply concerning\". WIPP, which holds specific kinds of defence nuclear waste, remains closed after a radiation leak last month. It is still unclear if the fire and the leak, which contaminated 17 workers, are related. A separate report on the leak is expected in the upcoming weeks. The accidents are the first major incidents at the salt repository, which began taking radioactive waste from US defence sites 15 years ago. In a report released on Friday, the US energy department's Accident Investigation Board (AIB) found the 5 February fire was preventable. The root cause, the board wrote, was the failure of the current and previous contractors running the site to \"adequately recognise and mitigate the hazard regarding a fire in the underground\". Lorries carrying salt were not maintained or cleaned often enough to prevent the build-up of combustible materials and the onboard automatic fire suppression system had been deactivated. \"A nuclear versus mine culture exists where there are significant differences in the maintenance of waste-handling versus non-waste-handling equipment,\" the report said. At a community meeting in Carlsbad on Thursday to preview the report, the lead investigator, Ted Wyka, praised the 86 workers who were half-mile underground in the mine when the fire started, saying they \"did everything they could\" to tell others to evacuate. But a number of safety systems and processes failed, Mr Wyka said. Emergency strobe lights were not activated for five minutes and not all workers heard the evacuation announcement. One worker also switched the air system from normal to filtration mode, which sent smoke billowing through the tunnels. Six were treated for smoke inhalation after the fire. Jose Franco, who runs the energy department's field office in Carlsbad, choked up as he addressed the meeting, saying that at first, he took the findings personally. \"But I think what's important [is] we definitely got away with not ... having anyone seriously hurt,\" Mr Franco said. \"So we need to learn from that. It is what I wanted to hear, and I wanted the truth. We don't need any sugar-coating.\" Hours before, the current contractor at the site demoted the facility's president and project manager. While the report cited the site's contractor and the field office for gaps in oversight, it also recommended the agency headquarters needed to \"re-evaluate resources\" applied to WIPP. In February, Eddy County Commissioner Susan Crockett told the BBC there had been \"a lag in funding for maintenance at WIPP\". \"We've been asking for $10m for the last three years just for maintenance,\" she said. Testing of the underground site has continued since the leak and workers are expected to re-enter the site as early as this weekend.", "question": "Maintenance and safety lapses were at the root of a lorry fire that @placeholder down the only US underground nuclear waste repository in February , a report says .", "option_0": "erupted", "option_1": "broke", "option_2": "swept", "option_3": "shut", "option_4": "stood"}
{"id": 1415, "article": "The painting, entitled Men Drinking in a Pub, was on a bath panel and found during renovation of the artist's previous home in Whitworth Terrace, Spennymoor. It appears to have another work on the reverse, partly covered by wall paint. There was no signature, but it was authenticated by the artist's son-in-law, and was sold to an anonymous bidder for ¡ê2,000. John Anderson, of auctioneers Anderson and Garland, described it as a \"a piece of salvage that may yield a masterpiece\". Norman Cornish, who died last year, started working in the mines when he was 14 and became famous for his paintings of everyday life in the industrial North East after attending the Pitman's Academy. In January, an early self-portrait with a hidden portrait of his wife on the other side was sold for ¡ê13,500.", "question": "A @placeholder artwork by \" Pitman painter \" Norman Cornish has sold at auction .", "option_0": "second", "option_1": "recovered", "option_2": "helped", "option_3": "single", "option_4": "man"}
{"id": 1416, "article": "A video went viral of officer Shrestha Thakur arguing with Bharatiya Janata Party politicians after she tried to fine them for a traffic violation. Ms Thakur said on Facebook that she was told her transfer was routine, but noted that she was not due for a transfer for at least a year. The decision has caused anger in India. The video of the altercation showed the officer angrily telling the agitated group of politicians to get written orders from the chief minister that police had no power to check vehicles or issue tickets for traffic violations. She had also said that police deserved more respect from politicians. Ms Thakur said in her Facebook post that she had been transferred to Bahraich, which was near the Nepal border. She told BBC Hindi she was not sure if the posting was a punishment for doing her job or a reward for her good work, but had decided to treat the news positively. Indian media reports said that the decision to add Ms Thakur's name to a list of 88 other officers who were being transferred was taken after a meeting between the state chief minister Yogi Adityanath and some politicians from the ruling party. The news created waves on social media, with many people criticising the Uttar Pradesh government for punishing competence. Others insisted that people were reading too much into the \"routine\" transfer.", "question": "A policewoman who @placeholder up to a group of ruling party politicians in India 's northern Uttar Pradesh state has been transferred to a different post .", "option_0": "belongs", "option_1": "admitted", "option_2": "held", "option_3": "woke", "option_4": "stood"}
{"id": 1417, "article": "US composer Dan Messe will write the score for a new musical adaptation of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's movie, according to the Facebook page of his band, Hem. Messe will collaborate with playwright Craig Lucas and composer Nathan Tysen. Amelie tells the story of a shy waitress who sets out from Paris' Montmartre district on a mission to make others happy. The film, which sold 8.6m tickets in France and earned $152m (?¡ê97m) worldwide, cast a nostalgic eye on contemporary Paris and catapulted Tautou to stardom. Messe confirmed his role in the project after several leaks in the media. \"So not the best kept secret, but still I'm happy to announce that I've been commissioned to adapt the film Amelie for Broadway,\" he wrote on Facebook. A fan of the film for many years, Messe told Paste Magazine that Hem's 2007 song Half Asleep was influenced by a scene from the movie. \"I wrote that imagining that scene where Amelie and Nino are speaking between the door,\" he says, \"So I'd already written a song for those characters, but then it took years and years to get the rights.\" Messe described composer Yann Tiersen's original film music as \"one of the best movie scores there is,\" adding: \"It's one of the reasons why I love the film.\" But he said the musical would be recognisably different. \"I'm not interested in doing Parisian music. I don't think I'm even going to use accordion in my score. \"The music sounds like mine. But certainly, I'm not playing up the Americana elements either. I'm not having pedal steel and fiddle, but it'll be hyper-romantic and playful more than anything.\" Amelie won four Cesar Awards in France and was nominated for five Oscars, including best foreign language film.", "question": "The 2001 Oscar - nominated romance Amelie , which @placeholder Audrey Tautou , is on its way to Broadway .", "option_0": "portrays", "option_1": "spawned", "option_2": "resembles", "option_3": "starred", "option_4": "attracts"}
{"id": 1418, "article": "His trek caught the public imagination and when he completed his trek, he actually got an invitation to meet Muhammadu Buhari before he was sworn in on Friday. Two years ago, Mr Hashimu was talking with a group of friends about what they would do if Mr Buhari, a former military leader, won the 2015 presidential election. One owned a shop and said he would let people take whatever they wanted, free of charge, but Mr Hashimu did not have much money to give away. \"I made a promise that if Gen Buhari should win the election I would trek from Lagos to Abuja - so it started as this joke!\" he says. When Mr Buhari was declared the winner on 1 April 2015 - becoming the first opposition candidate to win a presidential election in Nigeria - Mr Hashimu's friends called him, reminding him of his promise. Find out more: That same day Mr Hashimu left his home in Ibadan, where he was working in the construction industry, and travelled to Lagos. The next morning he began his long walk. He decided to walk for 12 hours each day and soon realised the scale of the task he had set himself. But news of his journey quickly spread and he was greeted warmly at each village he entered. \"The journey took me 18 days but after I started I only walked three days alone. The other 15 days I walked with people. Most of the young people I met told me that I'm not the only one who loves Buhari and they volunteered to walk me to the next town,\" he says. The excitement generated by his trek lifted his spirits. \"People from all over the world called me. People shared my number on social media so people from the UK and US would be calling me, encouraging me, giving me confidence to walk. Those following me to the next town also gave me encouragement so I was so happy, so happy. \"People started coming up to me and telling me about their problems. 'We have insecurity in our community, we don't have enough land to farm.' All different complaints. Some people said they need water and others that they need light. \"All I would tell them is to write it down, put it inside an envelope and if I should be given the opportunity to see the president then I will deliver their messages to him,\" says Mr Hashimu. He arrived in the capital, Abuja, on 20 April. He had taken with him 100,000 naira ($500, ?¡ê330) to cover his meals and accommodation but had only spent 3,500 naira as people along the way had looked after him. He was met by a crowd of people, including members of President Buhari's support organisation and they arranged a meeting. \"When I met the president he smiled, he was so happy with me. \"He said, 'Thank God you look at me as a young man. You encourage me as well because when you make a promise you fulfil it. I am so happy with you.' \"And then he collected the messages from me,\" says Mr Hashimu. Buhari's first priority in a word: The meeting with the president was brief and he did not manage to ask everything he wanted. \"I'd like to discuss the problems many young people experience because there's no way you can trek all the way from Lagos to Abuja without seeing different things. I met with different kinds of language, different tribes and cultures.\" Mr Hashimu says his journey made him realise Nigerians have huge expectations of the new president. \"People came out and sometimes when I saw the crowds I started crying because I was shocked.\" He said he had nothing to offer them yet they came out to celebrate with him. \"Nigerian people are hungry for change and they have seen change and that's why they came out.\"", "question": "Suleiman Hashimu walked 750 km ( 460 miles ) and @placeholder out six pairs of shoes over 18 days in order to see the inauguration of Nigeria 's new president .", "option_0": "put", "option_1": "wore", "option_2": "rolled", "option_3": "gave", "option_4": "runs"}
{"id": 1419, "article": "Christie - 'Every place in America is a target' 17:40 ET By the time the afternoon session of the Republican Jewish Coalition presidential forum was wrapping up, most of the participating candidates were all but certain as to the exact nature of the violence in San Bernardino. \"I assure you it is an act of terror,\" said former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore, later warning that this was just the beginning. \"We have to be prepared because the world is breaking down.\" Carly Fiorina took aim at the likely Democratic nominee. \"Hillary Clinton was tweeting about gun control while we learned that radical Islamic terrorists have been building pipe bombs,\" she said. And New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spent nearly his entire 30-minute speech talking about the implications of Wednesday's attacks. \"For the first time since 9/11,\" he said, \"we're going to have to confront the loss of American life on American soil to terrorist conduct.\" And he added some words of warning. \"If a centre for the developmentally disabled in San Bernardino, California, can be a target for a terrorist attack, then every place in America is a target for a terrorist attack.\" The New Jersey governor is pinning what were once fading presidential hopes on national security. After the Paris attacks and the events on Wednesday, he feels the US public is giving him another look - and a recent poll of New Hampshire voters shows that he has gained some momentum, moving ahead of Ben Carson into fourth place. \"The entire campaign changed a few weeks ago,\" he said. \"We need to come to grips with the concept in America that we are in the midst of the next world war.\" He went on to attack fellow candidates Rand Paul by name and Ted Cruz by implication - both for voting in the Senate to support a rollback of National Security Agency surveillance operations that went into effect last weekend. \"Every candidate who comes on this stage should be honest with you and tell you we need to do these things,\" he said. \"And anyone who doesn't is putting American families at risk.\" 13:30 ET According to Donald Trump, the violence in San Bernardino on Wednesday \"probably was related\" to \"radical Islamic terrorism\". During remarks at the Republican Jewish Coalition, the New York real-estate mogul wondered why President Barack Obama won't use those words. \"There is something going on with him that we don't know about,\" he said. Several years ago, Mr Trump - before he was a presidential front-runner - made the rounds on the political talk show circuit as one of the leading voices of the \"birther\" movement - that bit of the conservative fringe that questioned the validity of Mr Obama's birth certificate and his American bona fides. Old habits, it seems, die hard. Rubio - 'We live in a different world' 12:00ET \"We certainly have learned some facts that are concerning and weigh on our minds,\"  Marco Rubio said early in his speech before the Republican Jewish Coalition presidential forum. The Florida senator no doubt was referencing the possible Islamic ties of the assailants in the San Bernardino shooting - albeit in a much more oblique way than his fellow senator, Ted Cruz, did earlier Thursday morning. \"We live in a very different world than the one I grew up in, the world that you grew up in and the world we had not long ago,\" Mr Rubio continued. While Mr Rubio's words were carefully, intentionally vague, Mr Cruz wasn't the only candidate to directly tie Wednesday's attacks to overseas terrorism. Inadequate gun-control laws are not to blame for the California shootings, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters after his speech. \"It's about two people who have bought into an ideology that's just absolutely insane.\" Former New York Governor George Pataki said we don't know for sure whether the shootings in San Bernardino \"involved terror or not\", but it was a \"horrible, horrible planned assault\". What we do know, he continued, was that the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the shooting at the US Army base at Fort Hood and the foiled assault at an art exhibit in Garland, Texas - all of which have happened during Barack Obama's presidency - were \"carried out by radical jihadists here in America\". The US should not let First Amendment protections of free speech stand in the way of confronting this \"warped view of jihad\", Pataki continued, comparing a ban on inflammatory Islamic rhetoric to prohibitions on yelling \"fire in a crowded theatre\". \"Radicalisation in America isn't protected speech,\" he said. \"It is a crime, and we should stop it.\" 10:43 ET Texas Senator Ted Cruz took the stage at the presidential forum hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition and called for a moment of silence for the victims of the San Bernardino shootings. Then, while acknowledging \"the details of what happened are still unclear\", he said that he is \"deeply concerned\" that the events in California are \"another manifestation of radical Islamic terrorism here at home\". He said the San Bernardino shootings, along with the Paris attacks last month, \"underscores that we are in a time of war\". \"Whether or not the current administration realises or wishes to acknowledge it,\" Mr Cruz continued. \"Our enemies are at war with us. I believe this nation needs a wartime president to defend it.\" The Texas senator then pitched the audience of Republican Jewish activists and deep-pocketed conservative donors on why he's the man for the job. As he did in last month's Republican presidential debate, he chided President Barack Obama for not using the term \"radical Islamic terrorism\". A president, he said, must speak the truth. \"When the president stands up and says the Islamic State isn't Islamic - that's just nutty,\" he said, calling Mr Obama an apologist for \"radical Islamic terrorism\". He said as president he would make sure the US does more to stand by its allies - Israel in particular - and defeat its enemies. \"If you are voting for Hillary Clinton,\" he said, \"you are voting for the Ayatollah Khamenei to have a nuclear device.\"", "question": "Republican presidential candidates speaking at a forum in Washington , DC , have @placeholder to the mass shooting in California which left at least 14 dead .", "option_0": "shown", "option_1": "responded", "option_2": "added", "option_3": "stormed", "option_4": "according"}
{"id": 1420, "article": "Long a staple in the UK where there are now 70 stores, the designs have been growing in popularity around the world. There are more than 130 stores outside of the UK, in diverse locations from Spain to China and Thailand. Last month the brand announced the first stores in India will open for business this Autumn. And next on the list is Latin America. The firm has hired Michael Engelhaupt from Under Armour International, the American sports clothing and accessories company, to drive the expansion forward. Mr Engelhaupt was head of franchise international and has previously worked for sports brand Adidas. The company says strong online orders sparked the move into Latin America. \"Over time we expect to expand across the region but initially we will be focused on Mexico and Chile because of the inward interest in Cath Kidston coming from those two markets,\" says chief executive Kenny Wilson. \"Michael will be talking to potential franchise partners and, as we have done in other markets, we are looking to do a combination of standalone stores and concessions. \"We did research as we do before deciding to go into any new market and this said that there was a market in Latin America and interest for fun, cheerful, British products like Cath Kidston. We are very confident in the consumer appeal in Latin America for our products,\" he adds. Cath Kidston has seen notable overseas growth. Its 2015 full year results showed overall group sales increased by 2.4% to ?¡ê118.5m, but international retail sales surged by 20.2% hitting ?¡ê55.3m. The company is expanding rapidly. Four new stores opened in the UK last year, one in China and 40 franchise stores, including its first Middle East stores. Franchising has proven a successful tool, particularly so in Japan where double digit sales growth over several years led the company to decide in July 2015 to purchase the Japanese Cath Kidston franchise business of 27 shops back from TSI Holdings subsidiary Sanei International. The agreement brought the stores under the control of the wholly owned subsidiary, Cath Kidston Japan. \"Japan is our biggest international market and a key part of our strategy to globalise the brand,\" said Mr Wilson at the time. The brand's continued success comes in spite of the departure of founder Cath Kidston in November 2014, who retains an 11% stake. Ms Kidston has credited her country childhood - she grew up in Hampshire - as the inspiration for her English heritage-inspired brand. She has however admitted that the floral and polka dot patterns are not to everyone's taste, telling Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 2011: \"People either love it and want a little bit of it very much, or want to stab us.\" Katrina Rattu, an analyst at Verdict Retail expects the company to continue to flourish. \"Its product offering translates well into diverse markets owing to its strong visual brand identity. Their expansion is based in emerging markets with a growing middle class with a higher disposable income. They are increasingly looking to buy into aspirational brands such as Cath Kidston with strong British values.\"", "question": "Mention the name Cath Kidston and more often than not the mind will drift to the floral @placeholder the brand is famous for .", "option_0": "crossing", "option_1": "table", "option_2": "prints", "option_3": "trust", "option_4": "change"}
{"id": 1421, "article": "Jamie Mines was injured at the Kendrick Industrial Estate in Swindon just before Christmas. The 33-year-old was treated at Southmead Hospital in Bristol following the accident and returned home in June. However, a surgical wound on his left foot became severely infected and doctors called him back to amputate it. Mr Mines said: \"It feels so much better now I won't be carrying around an aching, dead piece of meat which was my left foot anymore.\" He is recovering at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. Following the accident, Mr Mines was placed in an induced coma and missed his first Christmas with his five-month-old twins Isabella and Savannah. A fund to help the semi-professional football player, who hails from Frome but now lives in Swindon, raised ¡ê144,000. Mr Mines said: \"It's been so nice to hear of all the amazing support.\" The Health and Safety Executive is investigating the accident.", "question": "A scaffolder who had to have his leg and @placeholder amputated after suffering an electric shock has had a further operation to remove his left foot .", "option_0": "brain", "option_1": "hands", "option_2": "leg", "option_3": "ankle", "option_4": "drug"}
{"id": 1422, "article": "The Trussell Trust, which runs over 420 food banks across the UK, says many children risk going hungry over the six-week break from school. It says demand for emergency parcels for children rose significantly - by more than 4,000 - last July and August. The government said it was helping families meet the cost of living. Figures from the Trussell Trust show 67,506 three-day emergency food supplies were provided for children by its network in July and August 2016, compared with 63,094 in the May and June  - an increase of 4,412 parcels. The trust says nearly half (47%) of those 67,506 parcels went to primary-school-age children and over a quarter (27%) to children aged four and under. It says, while it welcomes the government's decision to keep free school meals for infants in England, more must be done to help struggling families during the holidays. Samantha Stapley, operations manager for England at The Trussell trust, said: \"Over a third of all the food distributed by food banks in our network consistently goes to children, but these new figures show five- to 11-year-olds are more likely than other children to receive a food bank's help. \"This highlights just how close to crisis many families are living - as a nation, we also must address the reasons why families with children are referred to food banks in the first place. \"We welcome the government's decision to maintain free school lunches for children during term time - the next step must be to help families during the holidays. \"Food banks are doing more than ever before, but voluntary organisations alone cannot stop primary school children facing hunger.\" A spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: \"Employment remains the best route out of poverty. \"Record numbers of people are now in work, and we're helping millions of households meet the everyday cost of living and keep more of what they earn. \"We've doubled free childcare to help parents into work, and continue to spend over ?¡ê90bn a year on support for those who need it, including those who are bringing up a family or on a low income. \"Budgeting advice and benefit advances are also available for anyone who needs more help.\"", "question": "As the school summer holidays get under way , food banks are urging people not to forget to @placeholder supplies to their local centres .", "option_0": "avoid", "option_1": "donate", "option_2": "react", "option_3": "improve", "option_4": "attract"}
{"id": 1423, "article": "In 1985 a fresh-faced Gascoigne made his league debut for Newcastle United at the age of 17 as a second-half substitute against Queens Park Rangers. Within three years, \"Gazza\" had won the PFA Young Player of the Year award. Shortly afterwards, in the summer of 1988, he joined Tottenham for ¡ê2.3m. During the World Cup in 1990 he showed his vulnerable side, shedding tears of frustration after his booking in the semi-final against Germany ruled him out of a potential appearance in the final. Despite England's subsequent defeat on penalties depriving Bobby Robson's side of a place in the World Cup Final, Gascoigne went on to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. The aftermath of England's run in the 1990 World Cup saw Gascoigne reach the peak of his popularity as \"Gazzamania\" swept England. He released a pop reworking of the Lindisfarne hit Fog on the Tyne, which reached number 2 on the UK singles chart and led to an appearance on Top of the Pops. But the high times were not to last. At the end of the 1991 season, in the FA Cup Final, a wild and reckless Gascoigne sustained a serious cruciate ligament injury in the early minutes of the game. His already agreed transfer to Italian club Lazio was put on hold while he recovered and, having played some exceptional football in the 1990-91 season, he would never be the same player again. Accompanied by his Geordie sidekick Jimmy \"Fivebellies\" Gardner, Gascoigne went to Italy and eventually resumed his career on the pitch. Although he was plagued by injury, Gascoigne was a popular figure with the fans at the Rome club. In 1995 Gascoigne returned to the UK, joining Glasgow Rangers for ¡ê4.3m, and the following year he married Sheryl, shortly after the birth of son Regan. A year later, he was a key player in the England team which was again defeated on penalties in the semi-finals of a major tournament by the Germans - this time Euro 96 held in England. His \"dentist's chair\" celebration after scoring a magnificent goal against Scotland - itself a reference to his heavy drinking - is a treasured memory of many English football fans. In 1998, he was given a warning by the Scottish FA after a \"playing the flute\" mime - a sectarian gesture - during an Old Firm game against Celtic. Later that year his marriage ended following incidents of domestic violence and he was admitted to the Marchwood Priory hospital to receive treatment for his drink problem. He was also left out of the 1998 World Cup squad and would never play for England again. He spent the last six years of his football career with Middlesbrough, Everton, Burnley, and Chinese side Gansu Tianma, retiring from the game in 2004. The same year, Gazza talked about his problems in his autobiography, including his struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder, bulimia, depression and Tourette's syndrome. He struggled with alcoholism throughout the decade and in 2008 Gascoigne was sectioned under the Mental Health Act following reports that he was acting strangely in Hemel Hempstead. In 2010 he admitted admitting drinking and driving and was given a suspended prison sentence after he was stopped in Newcastle. It was also 2010 that saw perhaps Gascoigne's most bizarre act - when he turned up at Rothbury in Northumberland in an attempt to broker peace between armed police and the gunman Raoul Moat, who'd been on the run after shooting his ex-girlfriend, her new partner - who was killed - and a police officer. Gascoigne appeared at the police cordon, saying he was good friends with \"Moaty\" and that he'd brought the fugitive a \"can of lager, some chicken, a mobile phone and something to keep warm\". The BBC's Fiona Trott, who was at the scene, reported he then posed for some pictures with children before driving off. In February 2012, it was announced he was one of those who had settled claims for damages with the publishers of the News of the World over phone-hacking. He has received treatment on a number of occasions including in February 2013, when he was admitted to a clinic in the US and his management company said he was an alcoholic with \"complex issues\". It followed an appearance at a charity event when he sparked concern by breaking down and sobbing on stage. A number of his celebrity friends helped to fund the trip to the Arizona clinic including former England cricketer Ronnie Irani, presenter Chris Evans and ex-Tottenham and England team-mate Gary Lineker. In August 2013, Gascoigne was fined ¡ê1,000 for assaulting a railway guard and being drunk and disorderly at Stevenage railway station. On Monday, he was again fined ¡ê1,000 and ordered to pay ¡ê1,000 in compensation by Dudley magistrates for making a racist comment to a black security guard in front of hundreds of people at his An Evening With Gazza show.", "question": "One of the @placeholder 's most recognisable and celebrated footballers , Paul Gascoigne 's life on and off the pitch has been an eventful one .", "option_0": "country", "option_1": "sport", "option_2": "uk", "option_3": "continent", "option_4": "team"}
{"id": 1424, "article": "Ashley Young's arrival from Aston Villa comes swiftly after the signing of Phil Jones from Blackburn Rovers, with Atletico Madrid goalkeeper David de Gea and a high-class midfield player also expected to make the move to Old Trafford. The loss to Barcelona in the Champions League final at Wembley did not exactly do United a favour but it would have confirmed in Ferguson's mind that his side was obviously on the wane. Some may have been fooled into thinking everything was OK given United's success in the Premier League but they were the best of a bad bunch last season and Ferguson is brutally realistic. I stand by my belief that he dragged those players to the title and would have claimed the crown with any of the other top sides had he been in charge of them. United were awful for long spells last season and really suffered against Barcelona - the fact they won the league was a work of art in itself How United won the title playing as badly as they did away from home, where they were abysmal on so many occasions, was almost beyond belief. Ferguson will have been well aware that they might not have been so lucky next season. Ferguson had two factors to address. First, the team was awful for long spells last season and really suffered against Barcelona. Secondly, the natural passage of time has resulted in the retirements of Edwin van der Sar, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes, while Ryan Giggs is edging ever nearer towards the end of his career. Giggs was magnificent last season but can you see him having another season like that at the age of 37? I can't. Ferguson has bought defender Jones, who is only a youngster and is clearly a signing for the future. Young, a winger, is a proven, fabulous player with great delivery who will add much. If you watched United last season, they were weak all over. The fact that they won the league was a work of art in itself, the sign of a great club and a great manager, with Ferguson as the key component. If I was Ferguson I would break the bank to land Luka Modric -he is a class act The loss of Scholes and the fact that Giggs is another year closer to the end of his career means Ferguson is almost certain to strengthen in midfield. He has been linked with Tottenham's Luka Modric and Wesley Sneijder from Inter Milan, both fabulous players. I do not know where Modric is going, or even if he is going because Spurs chairman Daniel Levy gave Chelsea very short shrift last week, but if I was Ferguson I would break the bank to land the Croatian. He fits the bill perfectly. Modric is a class act and his performance when Spurs won at Liverpool on the final day of last season was as good as it gets. When the ball comes to him, he doesn't just instinctively know his three options, he knows the best one to take. He also always has time and space in abundance - the hallmark of the great player. Ferguson will obviously recruit a goalkeeper to replace Van der Sar, who was a major reason for their success last season and has been for the last five years. De Gea appears to be the chosen one but the hardest person to replace in your team is always the goalkeeper, as proved by United's struggles to find a quality successor to Peter Schmeichel. Bringing a foreign keeper into the English game is always hit and miss because a big part of the game here is the ball into the box. We have seen the likes of Heurelho Gomes struggle to cope with that aspect of the game whereas Van der Sar was consummate and his communication skills were wonderful. De Gea is only a young boy, so it will be very intriguing to see how he goes if he does sign for United. Retirement and age have taken some of Ferguson's best players out of the equation but he is a master when faced with this sort of situation. He will also be aware of the challenges coming from elsewhere. United and Chelsea undoubtedly came back towards the pack last season, while Manchester City may feel they will never have a better chance of winning the Premier League than next time around. They will spend, Roman Abramovich will back new Chelsea boss Andre Villlas-Boas, while over at Anfield, where not much escapes Ferguson's attention, they now have the Kenny Dalglish factor. Liverpool will clearly strengthen their squad this summer and there is still the feel-good factor following Dalglish's arrival, which galvanised the whole club. Luis Suarez will also be ready for his first full season in the Premier League. The striker was sensational after coming to Anfield in January. But history tells us there is nobody better at coming out on top in a pressurised position than Ferguson. He clearly means business after taking stock of the current condition of his squad. And you would never back against him - you can't back against him - because if he can take his team to the title playing the way they did last season then they would have to start as favourites next season as he begins the process of building his latest Old Trafford model. Alan Hansen was talking to BBC Sport's Phil McNulty", "question": "Sir Alex Ferguson knew major work was needed to rebuild his Manchester United team - and he has responded in @placeholder with his dealings in the transfer market so far .", "option_0": "turn", "option_1": "style", "option_2": "touch", "option_3": "advance", "option_4": "history"}
{"id": 1425, "article": "Parliament agreed to the pay rise earlier this week in a session that was not televised. Last month President John Dramani Mahama authorised an increase in MPs' pay. The BBC's Sammy Darko in Ghana says both rises will be backdated to 2009 - which has caused a public outcry. Our reporter says news of the pay increase, agreed by MPs for the executive, was slow to emerge because it took place in a closed-door session on Tuesday night. This has angered Ghana Integrity Initiative which says such decisions should be debated in public. \"We have the right to know because we are tax payers,\" Vitus Azeem, the head of the anti-corruption group, told Ghana's Citifm radio station. \"If we know what has gone in to arrive at those figures, then we will also be able to make constructive comments on them. But if they hide it from us then that's a problem.\" The president's monthly salary has gone up from about $4,240 (?¡ê2,640) to $6,357, which is tax free. The new salary for ministers, who also have benefits such as the use of two cars, a house with staff and an entertainment allowance, will be $4,770. MPs' salaries have been increased by $2,225 to $3,800 a month. Our reporter says that while Ghana's executive and MPs earn considerably less than some other African parliamentarians - like those in Kenya who earn nearly $10,000 a month - in comparison to other public officials in Ghana their salary is very high. He says the monthly minimum wage in Ghana is about $75 and civil servants, such as teachers, earn below $500. Mr Mahama is the interim head of state following the death of President John Atta Mills in July 2012. Presidential elections will take place in the West African country in December.", "question": "A significant increase in salaries for Ghana 's president , ministers and other top officials has been @placeholder by anti-corruption campaigners .", "option_0": "observed", "option_1": "delayed", "option_2": "backed", "option_3": "criticised", "option_4": "announced"}
{"id": 1426, "article": "It links Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to the Red Sea port of Djibouti - a stretch of more than 750km (466 miles). Travelling at 120km/h, the new service cuts the journey time down from three days by road to about 12 hours. The $3.4bn (?¡ê2.7bn) project was built with the help of funding from a Chinese bank and will have Chinese staff. The track runs parallel to the abandoned Ethio-Djibouti railway, built more than 100 years ago. The BBC's Emmanuel Igunza in Addis Ababa says the new track will initially only run freight services. The passenger trains - which will run each way daily - are to start in three months' time and ticket prices will be announced nearer the time. Getachew Betru, chief executive of Ethiopia Railways, says it will be much cheaper and more reliable than travelling to Djibouti by road. \"In Ethiopia currently if you want to bring your container from Hong Kong to Djibouti it will take you maybe two, three weeks. But it will take you more than that to take it from Djibouti to Addis Ababa. It will now take us one day or more,\" he said. At the opening ceremony on Wednesday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said that the rail line would be a boost to the economy. \"It will provide huge benefits to the industrial parks and modern farms that will be built in the future,\" he said. A businessman at the opening told the BBC that the railway \"would transform\" his trade in transporting livestock. \"It will be easier, more efficient,\" he said. The railway was 70% financed by China's Exim Bank and built by China Railway Group and China Civil Engineering Construction. Chinese controllers, technicians and station masters are among those staffing the services for the next five year after which Ethiopians will be employed. Mr Getachew told the AFP news agency that their local counterparts are in training. Djibouti is important to landlocked Ethiopia which currently imports and exports nearly 90% of its goods through its port. Before construction was completed freight services transported food to areas affected by drought last year. The railway is the first step in a vast 5,000km-long network of rail which Ethiopia hopes to build by 2020, connecting it to Kenya, Sudan and South Sudan. The dream is that one day the railway will extend from Djibouti's coast all the way across Africa to the Atlantic Ocean.", "question": "Ethiopia and Djibouti have launched the first fully @placeholder cross - border railway line in Africa .", "option_0": "electrified", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "automated", "option_3": "interest", "option_4": "completed"}
{"id": 1427, "article": "Kenyan authorities deported the Congolese rumba star on Saturday after video footage of him appearing to kick one of his female dancers went viral. The Agriculture and Commercial society of Zambia said the \"disappointing\" incident was behind its decision. Olomide has denied assault, though he has since apologised for his behaviour. In a post on his official Facebook page on Sunday, the singer apologised to his fans, especially \"women and children\", asking for forgiveness. \"I profoundly regret what happened... it was a moment of madness,\" Olomide told Congolese national broadcaster RTNC, in an interview attached to the same Facebook post. The star apologised directly to the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo who may have felt \"dishonoured by this behaviour\". The footage of Friday's incident at Nairobi's international airport sparked outrage on social media. Kenyan authorities deported Olomide, 60, and three of his dancers on Saturday to DR Congo's capital Kinshasa, following a public outcry over the incident. Speaking to BBC Afrique on Friday, he denied kicking anyone and said he had tried to \"stop\" a \"girl who wanted to fight the dancers I came with\". The video shown on Kenya's KTN News shows police intervening to stop the apparent attack on the woman. Kenyan Youth and Gender Minister Sicily Kariuki had called for the singer's deportation. \"His conduct was an insult to Kenyans and our constitution,\" she said. \"Violence against women and girls cannot be accepted in any shape, form or manner.\" The star has been in similar trouble in the past:", "question": "Organisers in Zambia have cancelled a @placeholder concert by one of Africa 's biggest musicians , Koffi Olomide , in a row over an alleged assault in Kenya .", "option_0": "planned", "option_1": "bid", "option_2": "protest", "option_3": "crash", "option_4": "fractured"}
{"id": 1428, "article": "Russell Crow was rescued from the road by Helen Motteram and now lives in her home as one of the family. When the Gladiator star saw their story online, he took to Twitter to say how \"cool\" it was and offer \"some new songs\" for the bird. He tweeted: \"Haha cool, what a nice lady Helen is to look after the poor blighter.\" With crooked feet and unable to fly, the bird was at first mistaken for a crow and named in honour of the actor. Since then, the cheeky rook has taken over Helen's home - sleeping in her bedroom, stealing her phone chargers and hiding her jewellery. But his antics, and jealousy of Helen's husband, have also made him a minor celebrity - with his fame now reaching the Hollywood star himself. Helen said she was \"amazed\" when she found out Russell Crowe was a fan. \"I tweeted Russell about a month ago saying Russell [the rook] would love to hear from him - but I didn't hear back,\" she said. \"I love his films and we named Russell after him so I've going to tweet him back to say he would love to meet him in person or get an autograph.\" The bird, she said, can \"print with his feet\" and \"hold a pen\" so if the actor would like an autograph in exchange, it could be arranged.", "question": "Oscar - winning actor Russell Crowe has tweeted support for his namesake - a @placeholder rook from Gloucestershire .", "option_0": "forest", "option_1": "flying", "option_2": "controlled", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "disabled"}
{"id": 1429, "article": "The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) held the consultative ballot amid claims of a lack of progress in discussions over the agreement. When it closed earlier, 97% of lecturers backed industrial action, on a turnout of 64%. Colleges Scotland Employers Association said the strike threat was \"disappointing\". They added that it was \"totally inappropriate\" to threaten industrial action while \"constructive talks\" were ongoing. Members of the EIS Further Education Lecturers' Association (EIS-FELA) took part in the ballot. The EIS-FELA executive has now asked the EIS to authorise a statutory industrial action ballot of its members. The full EIS executive will process this request next week. Larry Flanagan, EIS general secretary, said: \"Scotland's further education lecturers have been extremely patient in waiting for college management to deliver on their pay commitments, but that patience is now exhausted. \"After a year of dragging their feet, it is time for Scotland's colleges to make good their promises to lecturers on fair and equal pay.\" EIS-FELA president John Kelly added: \"This is an outstanding ballot result which clearly demonstrates the strong feelings held by Scotland's FE lecturers. \"While no lecturer wants to take strike action, we feel our hand has been forced by the actions of Scotland's college managers. \"We are now requesting a full statutory ballot for industrial action, and would urge all members to continue to support our campaign for full delivery of the pay agreement that was promised to us.\" Shona Struthers, chief executive of the Colleges Scotland Employers' Association, said it held negotiations with the EIS on Thursday and agreed to continue talks this month. She said: \"Given yesterday's progress, it is disappointing and totally inappropriate that the EIS is threatening disruptive strike action while constructive talks are ongoing. \"Lecturing staff have already received a pay increase for 2016/17 which was above public sector pay policy recommendations, and we are fully committed to honouring the terms of agreement reached last March, including paying the top of the salary scale of ?¡ê40,000 for lecturers. \"A national pay scale and migration plan has already been jointly developed with the EIS which will give lecturers on average a 9% pay increase over the next two years. \"We came to the negotiating table on Thursday in good faith, open to compromise, and hoping to secure agreement on the implementation of the total package agreed in March 2016, which included bringing pay and conditions together.\"", "question": "College lecturers have @placeholder for industrial action in a dispute over a pay deal agreed almost a year ago .", "option_0": "cited", "option_1": "signed", "option_2": "criticised", "option_3": "voted", "option_4": "appealed"}
{"id": 1430, "article": "As he trudges homeward, a young boy orphaned by the war latches on to him, looking for a father-figure. Once home, the man, Chandra - or Agni ('Fire') to give his nom-de-guerre - comes hard up against the traditions that the Maoists have tried to overturn, and finds resistance against changing them. White Sun, a new film from Nepal, isn't simply a good yarn with a majestic Himalayan backdrop. It holds up a mirror to today's Nepalese society. The second feature by Nepalese director Deepak Rauniyar, the film opens in Nepal this week having won the Best Film award at the Singapore International Film Festival. Already screened at festivals in Venice, Toronto and Busan, it will soon show in Dubai, Rotterdam, Palm Springs and elsewhere. The central point of contention in Chandra's village is how to give a respectful funeral to his deceased father, the late mayor. The taciturn Chandra (played by Dahayang Rai) clashes with his brother Suraj (Rabindra Singha Baniya), who is loyal to the now-defunct monarchy, and with the Hindu priest (Deepak Chhetri) and other traditionalist villagers, creating some very funny moments. Modernity clashes with custom, not least when Suraj drapes his deceased father's funeral shroud in a royalist flag. Just getting the corpse out of the house and to the river is bitterly contentious. Director Rauniyar told BBC News he wanted to show how the bitter experience of the 1996-2006 war still permeates people's lives. \"People like Chandra believe in change, believe traditional law is unfair to everyone else,\" he said. \"But people like Suraj still defend the older generation, even if they agree some rules were discriminatory. Because they [both sides in the war] had no mercy for opposing parties in the past, their past now haunts them.\" For anyone who has spent time in Nepalese villages, the film feels astonishingly real - perhaps less surprising given that many of the roles are played by ordinary rural Nepalese. Most striking among these are the two young children - the orphaned boy, Badri (played by Amrit Pariyar) and Pooja (Sumi Malla), daughter of Chandra's wife Durga, who has been left behind for years in the village. Pooja's paternity is unclear but she wishes Chandra is her father. Here lies not just a human tragedy but also a political one, because under Nepal's contentious new constitution, neither child would easily get citizenship. Badri would fail because he doesn't have the paperwork to prove who his parents were. Pooja would fail because a mother cannot, in the absence of a father, simply confer her nationality on her child. \"She would be not be able to do anything,\" said Rauniyar.  \"Job, passport, even renting a room in a hotel requires citizenship these days.\" Little wonder that his estranged wife, Durga, tries her best to get him to sign documents saying he is Pooja's father. Durga has already fallen foul of village customs by touching the dead body of her father-in-law. That is not deemed acceptable, because she comes from a low social caste, but she does not care. Asha Magarati, who plays her, says Durga shows that even the civil war, which \"took thousands of lives and disabled and displaced many more\", might have a silver lining. \"Because of war, gender role in our society has changed for good,\" she said. \"Because men went to fight against regime or for regime, women like Durga were forced to take care and responsibilitya€| Durga stands for post-war generation of strong women in Nepali society, at least for me.\" Rauniyar - whose previous film, Highway, examined Nepal's culture of political strikes - said that in White Sun he wanted to look at the legacy of the war, but not in a hopeless way. Instead, he wanted to bring three generations together in his characters, \"force them to converse, and see what beautiful can happen\". His symbolism is ambitious: the deceased man's body is a metaphor for the old constitution and royal rule. Consigning it to the past, to history, is difficult. \"The film's characters struggle to get the old man's corpse out of the house,\" Rauniyar said. \"They choose to make life harder on themselves. Whether it's small issues or bigger political issues like our constitution, we don't seem to look for the logical path.\" But the film, infused with pathos and humour amid darkness and some violence, does not feel didactic. In his quest to bury his father, Chandra knocks on many doors.  It all ends with a twist.", "question": "A battle - hardened , world - weary but still young former Maoist guerrilla is @placeholder back to his native village after his father dies .", "option_0": "dropping", "option_1": "tuned", "option_2": "summoned", "option_3": "holding", "option_4": "driven"}
{"id": 1431, "article": "The breakthrough came when their foreign ministers signed an accord setting out how the plant and the river would be environmentally monitored. Argentina argued the mill polluted the river, while Uruguay said strict environmental codes were followed. The dispute saw frequent protests on the Argentine side and strained ties. \"I'm very happy with the accord,\" Uruguayan President Jose Mujica said, while Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman used similar language, tweeting that \"both governments are very satisfied\". Mr Timerman and his Uruguayan counterpart, Luis Almagro, signed an accord late on Sunday, finessing an earlier agreement reached by the two countries in July. The accord sets up a scientific committee composed of experts from both nations which will monitor the pollution levels in the River Uruguay and within the mill. The pulp mill, which opened in 2007, is located in the Uruguayan town of Fray Bentos on the banks of the River Uruguay which forms the border between the two South American nations. Residents across the river in the Argentine town of Gualeguaychu staged frequent protests and closed the bridge that spans the river, arguing that the plant was contaminating the water. People there say they will await the results of the first monitoring tests to decide if they will resume their actions, BBC Mundo's Veronica Smink reports. Argentina lodged a complaint before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2006, arguing that Uruguay had broken the terms of a 1975 treaty regulating the use of the River Uruguay which forms the border between them. In a ruling issued in April, the ICJ said that Uruguay had breached its procedural obligations to inform Argentina of its plans but had not violated its environmental obligations under the treaty and therefore the mill could continue operations.", "question": "Argentina and Uruguay both say they are happy after a deal was reached to end their long - running row over a pulp mill on the banks of their @placeholder river .", "option_0": "sports", "option_1": "records", "option_2": "hill", "option_3": "home", "option_4": "shared"}
{"id": 1432, "article": "The UK government will limit payments to the first two children in a family. SNP MP Alison Thewliss said it meant women who have a third child as a result of rape would have to produce evidence of exceptional circumstances, or face losing some payments. The UK government said guidance would be issued on supporting rape victims. Ms Thewliss said: \"The decision not to allow the emergency debate is incredibly frustrating - but I won't just give up.\" The plan to restrict tax credits for any new claimants to a maximum of two children was announced in the 2015 budget. The change is due to come into force from next month. It means women who have had a third or subsequent child as a result of rape will still be able to claim tax credits, but will have to demonstrate their exceptional circumstances to qualify. This has been dubbed the \"rape clause\". Ms Thewliss, MP for Glasgow Central, said it would \"unleash utter chaos\" with doctors, nurses and social workers expected to judge whether the exemption applies. Speaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme she said she had been waiting more than a year and a half \"to get answers to my questions\". \"The fact remains that there are 660,000 of these third party professionals - doctors, nurses, social workers - and they have not received any training from the UK government on this policy,\" she said. \"So if a woman goes and presents to her GP, or to a nurse or social worker, and says 'I would like to claim an exemption under this rule', they won't know the first thing about it.\" A UK government spokesman said it was \"absolutely right that we have the right exemptions in place\". He added: \"We have thought carefully about how we will work with charities and health and social care professionals to support victims of rape. We will be publishing guidance shortly.\"", "question": "A Scottish MP has had her call for an emergency debate in the Commons over a controversial change to tax credits @placeholder .", "option_0": "rejected", "option_1": "needs", "option_2": "suggests", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "planned"}
{"id": 1433, "article": "The show, which took place at a derelict seafront lido in Weston-super-Mare, attracted huge interest when it ran for five weeks in the summer. North Somerset District Council confirmed that Banksy had left behind a giant pin wheel from the attraction. It said it would be stored safely until it was decided what part it would play in any revamp of the Tropicana site. The outdoor pool and leisure facility closed in 2000 due to falling visitor numbers. Since then, there have been various attempts to re-open or demolish the structure. Banksy, who is thought to hail from Bristol, said he had been motivated to work on the site because he \"loved\" the Tropicana as a child.", "question": "Graffiti artist Banksy has donated an exhibit from his Dismaland theme park to the Somerset town where it was @placeholder .", "option_0": "exhibited", "option_1": "installed", "option_2": "revealed", "option_3": "dropped", "option_4": "held"}
{"id": 1434, "article": "Mr McAfee made the offer to the FBI in an article published by Business Insider. Apple has refused to comply with a court order asking it to unlock the device, dividing opinion over whether the firm should be compelled to do so. Mr McAfee said he and his team would take on the task \"free of charge\". The offer came as Mr McAfee continues his campaign as a US presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party. \"It will take us three weeks,\" he claimed in his article. Security expert Graham Cluley told the BBC he was sceptical of Mr McAfee's claims. \"The iPhone is notoriously difficult to hack compared to other devices,\" he said. For instance, Mr Cluley cast doubts on Mr McAfee's idea that he could use \"social engineering\" to work out the pass-code of Farook's locked iPhone. This is a process by which hackers try to find out login credentials by tricking people into giving them away. \"In a nutshell, dead men tell no tales,\" said Mr Cluley. \"Good luck to Mr McAfee trying to socially engineer a corpse into revealing its pass-code.\" \"The FBI isn't interested anyway, they want to set a precedent that there shouldn't be locks they can't break,\" he added. In his article, Mr McAfee stated that he was keen to unlock the device because he didn't want Apple to be forced to implement a \"back door\" - a method by which security services could access data on encrypted devices. Chief executive of Apple Tim Cook had previously said in a statement that the firm did not want to co-operate. He argued that introducing a back door would make all iPhones vulnerable to hacking by criminals. Mr McAfee believes that it would be possible to retrieve data from the phone by other means - though he did not give many details of how it would be done. \"I would eat my shoe on the Neil Cavuto [television] show if we could not break the encryption on the San Bernardino phone,\" he added. Some, including the Australian Children's eSafety Commissioner who spoke to tech website ZDNet, have said that Apple would not necessarily have to introduce a back door, but that the firm is only being asked to provide access to a single device. Other tech firms have rallied behind Apple's following a few days of debate over how it should respond to the FBI's request. Google boss Sundar Pichai had already expressed his support for Mr Cook and yesterday chief executive of Twitter Jack Dorsey added his approval via a tweet. In a statement, Facebook said it condemned terrorism and had solidarity with the victims of terror, but would continue its policy of opposing requests to diminish security. \"We will continue to fight aggressively against requirements for companies to weaken the security of their systems,\" it said. \"These demands would create a chilling precedent and obstruct companies' efforts to secure their products.\"", "question": "Anti-virus software creator John McAfee has said he will break the encryption on an iPhone used by San Bernardino @placeholder Syed Farook .", "option_0": "attitudes", "option_1": "killer", "option_2": "organisation", "option_3": "forces", "option_4": "union"}
{"id": 1435, "article": "Mr Corbyn had imposed a three-line whip on his MPs to vote to back Brexit. But 52 Labour MPs rebelled in Wednesday's vote, including 11 junior shadow ministers, and three whips whose job it is to impose party discipline. Convention dictates that members of the leader's shadow team should resign or be sacked if they defy such an order. Some did resign, including shadow business secretary Clive Lewis, who was replaced by Rebecca Long-Bailey. But, after a meeting between Mr Corbyn and his chief whip Nick Brown, the remaining rebels will receive only a letter insisting that they must \"comply with the whip\" in the future. When the government brought its Brexit Bill to the Commons, Mr Corbyn said Labour would not seek to obstruct the EU referendum result. To ensure as many of his MPs supported him as possible, he imposed a three-line whip, the strictest instruction to vote with the party. 4 Shadow Cabinet re-shuffles in 18 months 32  resignations, of whom... 4 later returned to top positions 4 of those who quit, did so to vote against the Brexit Bill BBC political correspondent Chris Mason says the formal warnings leave the prospect, unless they are moved, of three whips trying to persuade their colleagues to vote with a leader who himself rebelled against Labour more than 400 times in government - and when they themselves have also defied him. There are still a \"couple of vacancies\" to be filled in Mr Corbyn's shadow team but it is not expected there will be any further announcements until next week. It has been announced that Ian Lavery and Andrew Gwynne have been appointed joint national elections and campaign coordinators for Labour. Jon Trickett has become shadow minister for the Cabinet Office and will remain shadow Lord President of the Council. In Wednesday's vote, the draft legislation was approved by 494 votes to 122, and now moves to the House of Lords. Prime Minister Theresa May wants to trigger formal Brexit talks by the end of March. She will do this by invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty but requires Parliament's permission before doing so.", "question": "Labour frontbenchers who defied Jeremy Corbyn in the Commons Brexit vote will be sent a formal written warning over their @placeholder but will not be sacked .", "option_0": "development", "option_1": "lives", "option_2": "crowd", "option_3": "behaviour", "option_4": "fate"}
{"id": 1436, "article": "An independent panel of government advisers says health professionals should take every opportunity to discuss diet, exercise, smoking and drinking habits. Ministers have backed the proposal from the NHS Future Forum to \"make every contact count\". But the Royal College of GPs says the move could drive some patients away. The recommendation is part of a series of papers from the panel of independent experts. Their first report last year outlined changes to the Health and Social Care Bill. They are now setting out their conclusions on four other areas - public health, information, improving links between services and education and training. The paper on public health states that everyone has a responsibility for their own health, but it also contends that the NHS is responsible for helping people to improve their health and well-being. It goes on to argue that healthcare professionals should use every contact to do this, whatever their area of expertise or the initial purpose of the discussion. The report points out that each day in England GPs and practice nurses see over 800,000 people, dentists see over 250,000 NHS patients, and 1.6 million people visit a pharmacy. \"There are millions of opportunities every day for the NHS to help to improve people's health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities, but to take this opportunity it needs a different view of how to use its contacts with the public.\" In particular, the report emphasises the importance of the four main lifestyle risk factors - diet, physical activity, alcohol and tobacco. For example, it suggests that collecting medication from a pharmacy is a chance to offer help on cutting down on alcohol, or that a routine dental check-up could be used to discuss smoking. The paper says to emphasise the importance of this responsibility, the government should seek to include it in the NHS Constitution. The coalition government has accepted the forum's recommendations. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said: \"The NHS Future Forum has again provided invaluable feedback and advice on what the NHS needs to do to improve results and put the NHS truly on the side of patients.\" However Dr Clare Gerada, of the Royal College of GPs, says raising lifestyle risks routinely with patients, even if they are unrelated to their illness, could be counter-productive. \"We already look for opportunities to offer advice, but the idea that every consultation will have to address these four concerns may deter patients from coming in the first place. The discussion must be based on the patient's agenda, and we should prise open these other issues only if it feels appropriate.\" Dr John Ashton, the director of public health in Cumbria, also criticised the initiative. \"The general point of making every contact count is a good idea, and has been the basis of what GPs have been trained to do for thirty years.  But the problem is they're making it the centrepiece of public health, whereas it is the wider conditions that actually shape health and behaviour, including taxation, education and improving self-esteem.\" But Professor Lindsey Davies, the president of the Faculty of Public Health, backed the plan. \"We don't want healthcare professionals to be telling off ill people. Professionals do need to think holistically about the needs of the person in front of them and taking appropriate opportunities to help them get healthier - and stay that way.\"", "question": "NHS staff in England must adapt their roles to ensure they promote good health under plans being @placeholder .", "option_0": "introduced", "option_1": "warned", "option_2": "revealed", "option_3": "published", "option_4": "scrapped"}
{"id": 1437, "article": "Slough council has agreed to shut the road over the railway at Stoke Poges Lane from 24 November until April, with some of the main work due at Christmas. In a letter to residents Network Rail said the Horlicks bridge works would carry on through Christmas Day and include the sound of chainsaws. The renovations form part of the ?¡ê14.8bn Crossrail project. Using existing tracks, new 200m (650ft) trains, able to take up to 1,500 passengers, will run from Reading to London Paddington. Work on the wider scheme started in May 2009 but its extension to Reading was announced in April. The letter sent to locals said: \"The removal of the bridge will generate noise throughout the Christmas period beginning on Christmas Eve with the preparation of the tracks, and continuing both day and night until 28 December. \"There will also be occasional night works including chainsaws for vegetation clearance, planning tarmac off the bridge and removing the existing bridge parapets. \"We will do our best to minimise the impact of our work on local residents.\" The existing bridge will be cut up and removed in late December, with construction on its replacement beginning on 5 January. A road closure will be in place between Lansdowne Avenue and the Horlicks Factory at Simpson Way, but access to both roads will remain for residents. The first Crossrail services through central London will start in late 2018.", "question": "People living near a steel bridge have been @placeholder to expect a noisy Christmas as the bridge is cut up and replaced .", "option_0": "revealed", "option_1": "warned", "option_2": "led", "option_3": "forced", "option_4": "known"}
{"id": 1438, "article": "The International Cricket Council (ICC) had previously announced a total fund of $1m (¡ê776,000) for the event, hosted by England and Wales from 24 June. But that has increased to $2m (¡ê1.5m). The ICC also announced plans for a blueprint to grow the women's game, including proposals for further parity with men's cricket. Those plans - which the ICC said show \"intent to move towards equality across the game within 15 years\" - are to be published in full later this year. In addition to the scheduled 10 fixtures to be broadcast live on TV, the remaining 21 World Cup matches will be streamed live. There will be radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 live, while the BBC Sport website will show video highlights. There was a ¡ê155,000 prize fund for the 2013 Women's World Cup. At the most recent men's tournament, in 2015, the overall prize fund was ¡ê7.8m. \"We think the Women's World Cup this summer will be a turning point in the history of the game,\" said ICC chief executive David Richardson. \"There is growing interest globally in women's sports and we want cricket to be front and centre of this and lead by example.\" England get their tournament under way on the opening day, when they play India in Derby, with their first warm-up game against Sri Lanka at Chesterfield on 19 June. Australia are the defending champions, having secured the 2013 title with a 114-run victory over West Indies in Mumbai.", "question": "Every match at this year 's Women 's World Cup will be broadcast live for the first time , with tournament prize money to be @placeholder .", "option_0": "unveiled", "option_1": "paid", "option_2": "doubled", "option_3": "announced", "option_4": "released"}
{"id": 1439, "article": "\"I've been up for it three times, I got three knockbacks,\" Dyer said during the recording of ITV's Jonathan Ross Show. Fellow guest Dame Diana Rigg - who plays Lady Olenna Tyrell in the HBO fantasy drama - blamed Dyer's voice. \"I'll put in a word for you as long as you lose the cockney accent.\" Dyer told Ross he went for several roles. \"One was Pyper. Is it Pyper?\" Pyper is played by London-born Josef Altin, and Dyer said other Londoners had managed to get parts. \"There's a couple of cockneys knocking about. There's a couple of chimney sweeps too. I've seen them.\" A range of British accents can be heard on the show - including Sean Bean's Yorkshire delivery. Dyer - who plays Queen Vic landlord Mick Carter in the BBC One soap - has recently spoken about bringing a \"cockney\" flavour to roles made famous by \"posh\" actors. \"I think that I could play Sherlock... if I did it my way. Benedict [Cumberbatch] is brilliant and the lines roll off his tongue, but that role is about being highly intelligent rather than posh. \"I think I could do Doctor Who as well. The star, who grew up in Canning Town, east London, also told Ross he changes his EastEnders' scripts - adding more cockney rhyming slang. \"I made the job hard for myself really because I thought when I come in it, I want to bring back a bit of the East End. They're good writers there but they're quite middle class people so I'm constantly changing the dialogue and I'm freaking their nut out and they have meetings over the word 'boat race'.\" Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "question": "It 's packed with British acting talent , but EastEnders star Danny Dyer repeatedly auditioned for a part in the hit @placeholder TV Game of Thrones ... and failed every time .", "option_0": "state", "option_1": "series", "option_2": "direction", "option_3": "region", "option_4": "hit"}
{"id": 1440, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device John has previously dedicated a silver medal to William Lloyd's son (also named William), and the two were joined on the sofa by Lynne Holt, who arranged the transplant. John hopes to win a darts medal in the Games, where over 700 people including organ donors and recipients will compete to raise awareness of organ donation in the UK.  For more information, including how to attend, visit the British Transplant Games website. To find out more about organ donation, visit NHS Yes I Donate.", "question": "To mark the start of 2016 's Transplant Games , BBC Breakfast @placeholder darts player John Coyle on their sofa - and introduced him to the father of the man whose organs saved his life .", "option_0": "reports", "option_1": "understands", "option_2": "hosted", "option_3": "placed", "option_4": "throwing"}
{"id": 1441, "article": "Parental controls are offered to users to prevent children seeing unsuitable material. Sky customers were most likely to implement the filters and BT customers least likely, Ofcom reported. Some 97% of those who had adopted filters said they were useful. The UK's largest internet service providers (ISPs) are required under a semi-voluntary agreement with the UK government to adopt network-level filtering via a scheme known as Active Choice Plus. Between 30% to 40% of Sky customers enabled filters, Ofcom's report said. That compared to 14% for TalkTalk, 12% for Virgin Media and 6% for BT. Sky automatically enables the feature even if the original request is ignored, which likely explains why it has the highest take-up rate. All ISPs allow users to disable the filters whenever they want. New users were more likely to enable the filters than existing ones, said Ofcom. The report also indicated that awareness of ISP content filters had increased among parents of children aged five to 15, from 50% last year to 57% this year. Some 76% of parents said that they knew enough to help their children manage online risks, with the vast majority - 78% - saying that they trusted their children to use the internet safely. Reasons given for not using filters were threefold:", "question": "The vast majority of UK internet users are not taking advantage of net censors designed to filter out pornography and other content , according to the @placeholder regulator Ofcom .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "trade", "option_2": "media", "option_3": "communications", "option_4": "assembly"}
{"id": 1442, "article": "The team from South Queensferry was sent out after a member of the public reported a possible aircraft coming down in the Firth of Forth on Tuesday. The team reached the object but discovered it was a giraffe-shaped helium balloon. A coastguard spokesman said the call at 21:55 was made in good faith. He said: \"The team was called out to a possible aircraft ditching in the Firth of Forth which turned out to be a giraffe-shaped helium balloon. \"The man who called wasn't trying to mislead us. He saw it and he thought it was an aircraft.\"", "question": "A coastguard rescue team was called out to a report of an aircraft ditching only to find out it was @placeholder by a balloon shaped as a giraffe .", "option_0": "sparked", "option_1": "driven", "option_2": "destroyed", "option_3": "replaced", "option_4": "described"}
{"id": 1443, "article": "The Scottish Borders Walking Festival takes place in Peebles this year between 3 and 9 September. It will be held in Hawick in 2018; Ettrick, Yarrow and Selkirk the following year and Jedburgh and Ancrum in 2020. The annual event, established in 1995, is said to bring \"significant economic benefits\" to the region. Scottish Borders Council's Countryside Access Team is tasked with ensuring the festival takes place each year. It invites expressions of interest from all of the area's community councils. Six communities responded to the call for hosts for 2018 to 2020 and the three successful bids have now been confirmed.", "question": "The @placeholder for three future editions of a south of Scotland walking festival have been selected .", "option_0": "ability", "option_1": "public", "option_2": "proposals", "option_3": "scheme", "option_4": "locations"}
{"id": 1444, "article": "James Comey spoke to US politicians as the war of words between the FBI and Apple intensified. The FBI has asked Apple to unlock the iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook who killed 14 people in December 2015. Apple has refused, saying the protection of personal data was \"incredibly important\". \"This is the hardest question I have seen in government and it's going to require negotiation and conversation,\" Mr Comey told the House Intelligence Committee. \"I love encryption, I love privacy, and when I hear corporations saying we're going to take you to a world where no one can look at your stuff, part of me thinks that's great,\" he said. However, he added, law enforcement saved lives, rescued children and prevented terror attacks using search warrants that gave it access to information on mobile phones. \"We are going to move to a world where that is not possible anymore,\" he said. \"The world will not end but it will be a different world than where we are today and where we were in 2014.\" People needed to understand \"the costs associated with moving to a world of universal strong encryption\", he added. Mr Comey said it should be left to Congress and others to decide about what counted as reasonable law enforcement access to encrypted data. He also said if Apple did unlock the phone it was \"unlikely to be a trailblazer\" for many future cases. The speed with which the technology in smartphones changes meant any defects Apple exploited to get at data would not be present in newer gadgets. Despite this, he added that it would be \"instructive\" for other courts. At another hearing Microsoft President Brad Smith said it would be filing an amicus brief to support Apple's position. Mr Smith told a House Judiciary Committee that Microsoft \"wholeheartedly\" supported Apple on the issue of resisting calls to unlock the phone. Earlier this week Microsoft founder Bill Gates said the row should prompt a debate about the access that law enforcement gets to data in terror investigations. The row between Apple and the FBI over the phone of Farook blew up last week when the bureau asked the electronics firm for help to unlock the smartphone. Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people and wounded 22 others during the attack in San Bernadino. So far, Apple has refused to unlock the phone. In an interview aired yesterday with US TV network ABC, Apple boss Tim Cook said the FBI was asking it to make \"the software equivalent of cancer\". He added: \"Some things are hard and some things are right. And some things are both. This is one of those things.\" Apple has until 26 February to formally respond to the FBI order.", "question": "The FBI director has said the row over access to a dead murderer 's i Phone was the \" hardest question \" he had @placeholder in his job .", "option_0": "arrived", "option_1": "doubled", "option_2": "disappeared", "option_3": "had", "option_4": "tackled"}
{"id": 1445, "article": "Not the most pleasant route for a walk. But spirits were high. \"Adalet!\" chanted the thousands gathered - \"Justice!\" Their white T-shirts emblazoned with the word rapidly became soaked with sweat on day 19 of a 450km (280-mile) march from Ankara to Istanbul. The movement began when Enis Berberoglu, an opposition MP from the Republican People's Party (CHP), was arrested for allegedly leaking documents purporting to show the Turkish government arming jihadists in Syria, which he denies. But it has become a wider uprising against what participants see as an erosion of democracy under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. \"We are not happy in our country, we don't have any hope,\" said Leyla, a 70-year-old grandmother, as she joined the march for the first day. What is wrong with Turkey, I asked? \"Recep Tayyip Erdogan. That's all.\" The marchers are fighting Turkey's erosion of democracy, though it is the nationwide purge of the past year that has united them. The failed coup last July saw rogue soldiers bombing government buildings and driving tanks into civilians, killing more than 260. Since then, over 50,000 people have been arrested and 140,000 dismissed or suspended. There is a widespread feeling that the government has seized the chance to crush all opponents, not just alleged coup supporters. Among the marchers was Ulas Bayraktar, a former political science professor at Mersin University in southern Turkey. In April, he was fired by a government decree. He was one of 1,100 academics who had signed a petition calling on the government to cease armed conflict in Kurdish-dominated areas - and paid the price for dissent. \"I see this as a call for justice but also for democracy, for peace,\" he said. \"I lost my job for this demand so it's normal that I'm here. I want to be hopeful because we are approaching the bottom of the sea. And if your feet touch the bottom, you can rise up very quickly.\" The march was launched by the CHP leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Long criticised as weak, the sprightly 68-year-old has suddenly hit his stride, even being compared to Gandhi for the Salt March against British colonial rule in the 1930s. Doctors check him after each day of walking and he alternates pairs of trainers to ease the pain. \"We want to make Turkey civilised,\" he told the BBC during a midday break from the sun. \"We need justice, not MPs, journalists and academics in prison. There's no independent judiciary. We'll continue our fight until we get democracy and the authoritarian regime collapses.\" President Erdogan has lambasted the march for \"supporting terrorist groups\", with Mr Kilicdaroglu hitting back that it shows \"the mindset of a dictator\". But, mindful that intervening could provoke a backlash, the government has allowed it to go ahead and police and soldiers provide protection. The march is due to culminate on Sunday near the prison in Istanbul where the MP, Enis Berberoglu, is being detained,  but organisers say they want to build on it in the months ahead. Along the way, most passing vehicles hooted their support. But other drivers chanted the Erdogan campaign song. As we neared the town of Izmit, 100km from Istanbul, garage workers gathered to make a four-finger Islamist gesture promoted by the president. \"This is not a way to seek justice,\" said one, Hakan Murat. \"It can be found in courts, not by inciting people on the streets. The CHP is sheltering terrorists, while we're dying for our nation. It makes us angry.\" As the daytime heat subsided, the crowd prepared to walk again, treating blisters and rejuvenated by watermelon and meatballs. A kilometre-long Turkish flag was unfurled along the motorway, held aloft by participants for the final stretch of the day. Protests here have come and gone over the years and the opposition is notoriously fractured. But this simple movement has gained momentum, with a feeling that the marchers have finally found a positive and peaceful way to challenge an increasingly authoritarian government. Along the motorways and hills of the route between Ankara and Istanbul, a glimmer of optimism has been kindled. For the organisers and the marchers, the task now is to build on it if they are to pave an alternative road ahead for Turkey.", "question": "At 08:00 , the motorway tarmac was @placeholder heat . There was no shade from the 30C heat , just the exhaust fumes of passing cars .", "option_0": "battling", "option_1": "losing", "option_2": "radiating", "option_3": "caught", "option_4": "awarded"}
{"id": 1446, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Colin Slater, 83, worked on his first Notts game in 1959 as a local newspaper journalist, making his BBC Radio Nottingham bow in 1968. He will remain the station's Magpies correspondent. The Sony Radio Academy award winner was made an MBE in 2001. \"Now is the right time to have made this decision,\" he said. Colin's last commentary for BBC Radio Nottingham will be the Magpies' trip to Newport County on 6 May - almost 50 years after he was first heard on the airwaves. \"I left newspapers just as Radio Nottingham was starting,\" he said. \"I got a telephone call from the first manager of the station, Gerald Nethercott, who asked me to be their Notts County correspondent. \"The first game I did on radio was in August 1968. Notts County lost 5-0 at Lincoln.\" Colin, whose input helped save the club from going out of business in 1965, was behind the microphone at Wembley on several occasions during the 1990s, as Notts County twice won promotion and beat Ascoli to win the Anglo-Italian Cup. Other memorable matches included a 2-0 win over Chelsea in 1981, the year the Magpies won promotion to top flight, a victory over Leyton Orient in 1998 which saw them promoted as champions of Division Three and the 5-0 thrashing of Darlington in 2010 that saw them win League Two. He will continue to report on the club's fortunes but has given up match commentary to limit his travelling. He said: \"I will still be at home matches and I will travel to a selection of away matches, but I won't be commentating. \"Rather than doing 50 games a season, which has been my norm for years, I think that I'll be doing something between 30 and 35 games a season. County moment: \"The final whistle at Wembley in a play-off final against Brighton and the knowledge that Notts were going back to the old First Division.\" County manager: \"Jimmy Sirrel, by some distance, was the most successful manager not just of my time with Notts County, but in their entire history.\" County player: \"Don Masson. The finest passer of the ball that I've seen in Notts County's colours. Magical moments - splitting defences with one pass. Outstanding. Ground to visit: \"The Emirates Stadium. I've been a guest there but not worked there. I think it's just wonderful and better than the new Wembley.\" BBC Radio Nottingham's Matchtalk presenter David Jackson: \"He seems to know everyone and takes a keen interest in each and every one of them. It's incredible. \"I grew up listening to Colin's voice on BBC Radio Nottingham and I'll never forget the feeling of pride I got when I first shared a commentary with him. It was at Field Mill in 2002, Notts County were playing Mansfield Town. \"Colin was his typically generous self even though I stepped over my allocated time to continue commentating as Mansfield went 3-0 up. \"And then there's that voice. What a voice. Any broadcaster would give their right arm for a voice as distinctive. The airwaves each Saturday afternoon will be all the poorer for not having Colin's voice gracing them.\" BBC Radio Nottingham sport producer Colin Fray: \"It's been a privilege and a pleasure to work alongside Colin, and it will continue to be so in the future. \"His knowledge of Notts County and his contacts book are second to none, and I'm delighted that he'll be carrying on as the station's Notts correspondent, still attending many of the club's matches on behalf of the BBC. \"Colin's decision to hang up his commentary microphone leaves his replacement with a hard act to follow.\" 1959: Covered first Notts County match, a 2-1 win over Chester for Nottingham Evening News and Football News. 1963: Notts County correspondent for Nottingham Evening Post and Guardian Journal. 1968: Covered first Notts County match for BBC Radio Nottingham, a 5-0 defeat at Lincoln City. 1989: 4 February, covered 1,000th match. 1998: 21 February, covered 1,500th match. 2001: Made an MBE 2007: 13 October, covered 2,000th match 2009: Celebrated 50th anniversary as Notts County correspondent by accepting Lifetime Achievement Award by Sony Radio Academy. 2014: Given Special Award by the Football League and inducted into the Notts County Hall of Fame. 2016: Given Pride of Nottingham Award at Nottingham Sports Awards.", "question": "A BBC radio reporter who has covered more than 2,500 Notts County matches over seven decades is @placeholder from commentary .", "option_0": "omitted", "option_1": "reeling", "option_2": "exempt", "option_3": "retiring", "option_4": "eliminated"}
{"id": 1447, "article": "The Beecroft report on employment law in 2012 suggested small firms be able to dismiss people without a reason, in return for paid compensation. But the plan, which would have cut unfair dismissal cases, was blocked in the coalition by the Lib Dems. Mr Javid told the Andrew Marr Show: \"I won't be looking at that again.\" The newly appointed business secretary, whose job was held by Lib Dem Vince Cable in the last parliament, said the Enterprise Bill in Wednesday's Queen's Speech would propose a series of measures to cut red tape. \"What we will be doing, though, is looking at deregulation, taking it even further. \"During the last Parliament we have saved businesses from about ¡ê10bn of costs collectively in regulation and I think we can do at least that again.\" \"The other thing I want to do is help more small businesses with some of the challenges they face, not just red tape but especially the issue of late payments. \"Small businesses in our country are owed, I think, about ¡ê30bn - that's a record high in late payments so we're going to set up a small business conciliation service to help deal with that.\" Mr Javid said \"all sorts of issues\" would be looked at, with businesses and others asked to bring forward ideas on deregulation. He added: \"I also want to take a look at regulators to see if... [they] can be made part of a system to help cut regulation on businesses.\"", "question": "Business Secretary Sajid Javid has ruled out returning to @placeholder to make it easier for firms to sack staff using \" no fault \" dismissals .", "option_0": "offer", "option_1": "proposals", "option_2": "duty", "option_3": "office", "option_4": "bid"}
{"id": 1448, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Forced to follow on 397 behind after being bowled out for only 101, the tourists battled hard to reach 309-5 - trailing by 88 at Chester-le-Street. Captain Angelo Mathews made a counter-attacking 80, Kaushal Silva 60 and Dinesh Chandimal an unbeaten 54. James Anderson ended the day with two wickets and Chris Woakes, Steven Finn and Moeen Ali one apiece. As well as Sri Lanka batted on an admittedly placid surface, a second successive innings victory for England - and a series triumph - remains the most likely outcome. There is no rain forecast on Monday, the second new ball is only four overs old and Rangana Herath - boasting a Test average of 13 - is the next batsman in at number eight. But Mathews and his players deserve considerable credit for the manner in which they took the game into a fourth day given that their previous highest total in three attempts was 119. Broad and Anderson needed only four overs to claim the remaining two Sri Lanka wickets after they resumed on 91-8. However, demonstrating the sort of application which had been sorely lacking this summer, Sri Lanka batted for 84 overs at the second attempt - more than they managed in the entire Headingley Test. Opener Silva provided the bulk of the early resistance to an England attack that struggled to extract pace or sideways movement from an occasionally two-paced surface. He was assisted by Dimuth Karunaratne and Kusal Mendis, both of whom made 26 before falling to edges off Woakes and Anderson respectively. Compact in defence and driving especially well through the covers, Silva brought up a 111-ball half-century after the left-handed Lahiru Thirimanne was bowled by a beautiful delivery from Moeen that turned past his forward prod to hit the top of off stump. If Silva's innings was notable for its watchfulness, Mathews adopted a more aggressive approach. Having survived a missed stumping by Jonny Bairstow on 36, he dominated a fourth-wicket stand of 82 with Silva, showing particular disdain for Moeen's off-spin as he used his feet to good effect. The departure of Silva, who spooned a catch behind off a leading edge from the otherwise unthreatening Finn, only marginally checked Mathews' momentum. But even after the skipper was caught behind poking at one from Anderson that he could have left, Chandimal and Milinda Siriwardana survived the remaining 20 overs of the day. Chandimal, mixing agricultural mows over mid-wicket with sparkling drives, brought up his half-century three overs before the close, while the more circumspect Siriwardana played an equally important part in an unbroken sixth-wicket partnership that is worth 87. England's Steven Finn on BBC Test Match Special: \"Sri Lanka fought hard on what is a good wicket. \"For them to be bowled out for 101 in the first innings was an anomaly. We're going to have to work hard for these five wickets tomorrow.\" Sri Lanka's Kaushal Silva: \"Compared to the last three innings, we were really positive. \"The wicket is spinning. If we can get 150-200 runs lead, that would be very competitive for us.\" Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott: \"A very good day's cricket - good for Sri Lanka as a team. They showed some fight and determination. \"The difference today was the technique of the batsmen, starting with Silva. A lot of their batsmen moved their feet better. \"There was a competition out there for once. It's probably the only good day Sri Lanka have had.\" BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"Mathews is a really fierce competitor and a good all-round cricketer. He won't be happy with the way this tour has gone. \"Sri Lanka have shown much more resilience with the bat but England's bowlers look a bit jaded.\" Listen to Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott review the day's play on the TMS podcast.", "question": "A belated Sri Lanka fightback @placeholder England 's victory push on the third day of the second Test .", "option_0": "dominated", "option_1": "delayed", "option_2": "named", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "followed"}
{"id": 1449, "article": "Dubbed Athena, the satellite will be some 12m in length and weigh about five tonnes when launched in 2028. The European Space Agency's (Esa) Science Programme Committee selected the project at a meeting in Toulouse. Design work now will confirm the technologies and industrial capability needed to construct the mission, which is costed at over one billion euros. \"It's a tremendously exciting moment for the team; it's not every day you have a billion-euro decision go in your favour,\" said Prof Paul Nandra, the chairman of the Athena Coordination Group. \"We've just got to build it and get it up there, and as long as we do our job right, there's nothing that should stop that,\" he told BBC News. The SPC will meet again, probably in 2019, to give a full and final approval to the telescope project. This should be a rubber stamping exercise - provided costs can be contained and no technical showstoppers are identified. In truth, there should be no surprises. The Athena concept has been under study for a number of years already by leading scientists and industrial partners. Athena is regarded as a next-generation observatory - an X-ray equivalent to the giant machines such as the Square Kilometre Array and the European Extremely Large Telescope that will view the cosmos at longer wavelengths. Athena will have a survey capability and sensitivity a hundred times better than today's best X-ray space telescopes - America's Chandra mission, and Esa's XMM-Newton telescope. Athena will use its advanced optics and detectors to look deep into the Universe and far back in time. The key objectives are twofold - to understand how gas was assembled into the galaxies and galactic clusters we see around us today, and to study the origin and evolution of the monstrous black holes that reside at the centres of galaxies. An Athena-like telescope is needed to do this because the processes being investigated are extremely hot, and radiate at high energies - in the X-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The telescope will carry some novel mirrors for the purpose, incorporating \"silicon pore optics\".  These use stacks of silicon material to corral the X-ray photons towards the telescope's two big instruments. \"The Wide Field Imager does what it says - it maps X-rays over a wide field, and that's what you need to discover black holes in the distant cosmos, to count them, and to see how they formed in the early Universe when the first stars and galaxies were also forming,\" explained Prof Nandra, who is affiliated to the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany. \"The X-ray Integral Field Unit will do spectroscopy, measuring very accurately the energy of the X-ray photons. The XIFU enables you to do lots of very interesting astrophysics, mostly regarding hot gas structures in the Universe.\" One interesting question for the forthcoming design study concerns Athena's launcher. Ordinarily, the choice would be a heavy-lifting Ariane 5, but there is no certainty that this rocket will still be in production by 2028. Europe would hope by then to have a new vehicle, Ariane 6. However, its specifications are currently under review and the ability to loft a telescope the size of Athena has yet to be confirmed. Athena is what Esa terms a \"Large Class\" mission - its biggest and most expensive space science ventures. It likes to launch one of these every few years. Gaia, a star mapper, has just gone into orbit. This will be followed in 2016 by BepiColombo, a joint project with Japan to go study the planet Mercury. Juice, a mission to Jupiter and its moons, is taking the 2022 launch opportunity. And with Athena targeted for 2028, it is likely the 2034 slot will go to a trio of satellites known as Lisa, which will aim to detect gravitational waves in space. Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "question": "Europe has @placeholder the process that should lead to the biggest X-ray space telescope ever built .", "option_0": "approved", "option_1": "welcomed", "option_2": "said", "option_3": "chosen", "option_4": "initiated"}
{"id": 1450, "article": "However, 13% of those who claimed ¡ê4bn, saying they were misled about the financial state of the bank, are still heading for court next month. The bank announced it had agreed terms with a further 9% of all the claimants, taking the total to 87%. The previous agreement was reached in December 2016. The bank put aside ¡ê800m to settle the litigation and is understood to have paid a further ¡ê10m towards the legal costs for the latest agreement. However, RBS emphasised that the settlements reached were \"without any admission of liability\". They concern the rights issue in spring of 2008, months before the bank had to be bailed out. Then chief executive Fred Goodwin raised ¡ê12bn from shareholders, telling them the bank was sound. The legal claim is that bank executives knew of the Royal Bank's weakness and misled shareholders. The court case, due to start on 22 May, is scheduled to see Mr Goodwin on the stand on 8 June. It is reckoned by Royal Bank that the court case could continue for three to five years. Its strategy has been to try to reach out-of-court settlements, removing uncertainty over the potential costs. Chief executive Ross McEwan said: \"We have been very clear that putting our legacy issues behind us is a priority so that we can focus on building the best bank for our customers, shareholders and employees. \"We are pleased to have reached this agreement. We will continue to explore the possibility of settlement with the remaining claimants but if we cannot settle on agreeable terms we will defend the claims at trial.\" Royal Bank of Scotland is to publish its results for the first three months of 2017 on Friday morning.", "question": "Royal Bank of Scotland has moved closer to reaching a full settlement with the shareholder @placeholder suing it over a 2008 issue of shares .", "option_0": "force", "option_1": "groups", "option_2": "period", "option_3": "crowd", "option_4": "organisation"}
{"id": 1451, "article": "The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) is a monthly survey of a panel of firms, tracking indicators such as new orders, employment and exports. It had shown a fall in activity in July, the first month after the Brexit vote, but has now bounced back. The survey also points to accelerating inflationary pressures. This is due to increased import prices because of the fall in value of sterling. The PMI is produced by Ulster Bank and its chief economist, Richard Ramsey, said that while the headline shows a return to growth there are also \"notable weaknesses.' He said \"the two growing concerns are the surge in inflationary pressures and stagnation within the local services sector.\" The services sector is the dominant part of Northern Ireland's economy. The survey showed it had its first fall in employment levels in 39 months and also experienced a drop in new orders. Mr Ramsey said the full effect of growing inflationary pressure will depend in part on firms' ability and appetite to absorb higher import costs. But he warned consumers: \"Price rises and a squeeze on disposable incomes is already in the pipeline. \"This will hit consumer spending and economic growth in the months ahead.\"", "question": "Northern Ireland 's private sector grew in August as the weakening of sterling @placeholder exports and cross-border shopping , a survey has suggested .", "option_0": "declining", "option_1": "affects", "option_2": "bond", "option_3": "note", "option_4": "boosted"}
{"id": 1452, "article": "Arlette Ricci, 73, was sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to pay a a??1 million (?¡ê720,000;$1.1m) fine. The court also confiscated two properties worth four million euros (?¡ê2.9m;$4.2m). HSBC's Swiss private banking arm is being investigated after a leak revealed large scale tax fraud. Ms Ricci, who can appeal, was given a two-year suspended sentence on top of her one-year custodial sentence. Her daughter, Margot Vignat, 51, was also convicted and given an eight-month suspended sentence. Ms Ricci was accused of hiding millions of euros from the French authorities to evade tax using an offshore HSBC account. She was ordered by the court to pay millions in back taxes for the period of 2007-2009, with the exact amount to be set at a later date. Ms Ricci's lawyer, Jean-Marc Fedida, claimed his client had been made an example of, calling her sentence \"extremely severe\". Mr Fedida said he may ask the judge to let Ms Ricci serve the sentence under lenient conditions, such as partial liberty or wearing an electronic tag. But telephone recordings quoted in court apparently showed that the perfume heiress was aware she was breaking the law. In one phone conversation, she said, laughing, \"I believe I did the right thing and I never heard from Bercy so all is well,\" referring to the French finance ministry. \"Yes, inevitably, necessarily because all that is illegal anyway,\" she said. Ms Ricci, who has consistently denied the accusations against her, will now have to decide whether to appeal against her conviction. She was the first of around 50 French nationals to face trial over tax evasion in the HSBC case. Her prosecution was seen as a test case for the so-called \"Swissleaks\" scandal. A list of thousands of HSBC's clients was passed to the French government in 2009 by whistleblower Herve Falciani, a former employee of the bank's private operation in Switzerland. But the bank's tax-evasion practices didn't come to light until the documents were reported by the BBC's Panorama programme and a host of other international media outlets in 2015. Widespread media coverage led to criminal investigations in the US, France, Belgium and Argentina but not in the UK, where HSBC is based. The UK's HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was given the leaked data in 2010 and identified 1,100 people from the list of 7,000 British clients who had not paid their taxes. But almost five years later, only one tax evader has been prosecuted. In February, HSBC Group Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver admitted \"unacceptable\" practices had taken place at the bank's Swiss arm.", "question": "The heir to the Nina Ricci perfume and @placeholder fortune has been convicted of tax fraud by a Paris court after hiding millions in an offshore HSBC account .", "option_0": "integrity", "option_1": "handles", "option_2": "fashion", "option_3": "words", "option_4": "diamond"}
{"id": 1453, "article": "Tributes poured in for Benaud, a former Australian Test captain, after his death last year aged 84. The limited-run coin salutes his career on and off the field, and features iconic fan group \"The Richies\". It was conceived with the approval of Benaud's widow, Daphne. The Royal Australian Mint said the number of coins - 95,929 - was inspired by combining nine statistics from Benaud's playing career. After 63 Tests between 1952 and 1964, Benaud became even better known as a prolific commentator, author and columnist. He was a fixture of summer, inspiring a fan group who attended games wearing Benaud's trademark cream jacket. They also donned grey wigs and carried fake microphones as a light-hearted show of respect. Benaud last commentated in England in the 2005 Ashes series, but he worked on in Australia until 2013. The co-founder of The Richies, Michael Hennessy, said the commemorative coin was a fitting tribute to Benaud. \"He's only the second cricketer to be honoured on a coin after Don Bradman,\" he told the BBC. \"He'll never be replaced, obviously, he's a one-of-a-kind icon of the game.\" Mr Hennessy said it was an honour to have The Richies featured in the coin's final design. \"So many people grew up listening to Richie, he shaped summer for so many people,\" he said. \"Cricket has changed but the game will move on and at least it's nice to remember him with tributes like this.\" The Richies have petitioned to turn day two of the SCG Test, played in early January, to be officially recognised as Richie Day.", "question": "He was called \" the @placeholder of cricket \" and now legendary commentator Richie Benaud will be the face of a 50 cent coin in Australia .", "option_0": "voice", "option_1": "miracle", "option_2": "life", "option_3": "size", "option_4": "cast"}
{"id": 1454, "article": "On a bad day, the security checks could add a good hour to a round trip between Belfast and Dublin. Some in the Remain camp argued that a vote to exit the European Union would see a return of permanent border checkpoints. Those in the Leave camp, including Secretary of State Theresa Villiers, insisted that was nonsense. EU Referendum results So what now? The honest answer is that nobody quite knows. Those who dismiss claims that a \"hard border\" could return point to what is called the Common Travel Area between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which allows the free movement of people and goods. There have been such agreements, which pre-dated the European Union (EU), that allowed easier cross-border movement. However, it is unclear how those arrangements will be affected by the UK's withdrawal from the EU. When the United Kingdom formally exits the EU, it is possible the EU will insist on some form of checks on the movement of people for security reasons, and goods, for the purposes of gathering any taxes due on products entering its territory from a non-member state. However, there would be enormous pressure on the Irish government to resist any EU demands for permanent border checkpoints for domestic political reasons. When he began talking to Sinn F??in in the hope of influencing republicans to end their campaign of violence, former SDLP leader John Hume argued that the border was irrelevant and did not exist in practical terms. The sight of armed guards at permanent border checkpoints would make that border highly visible and hugely controversial. Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Enda Kenny said on Friday that the Irish government will seek to maintain the Common Travel Area. That clearly suggests he does not envisage a \"hard border\". It is unclear at this stage what impact Brexit might have on policing arrangements in Northern Ireland. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) can currently share intelligence with other European police forces and access central data bases through Europol, and can participate in joint investigation teams. It can also use European Arrest Warrants to ask other police forces to arrest suspects on its behalf. Likewise, other European police forces regularly ask the PSNI to act on their behalf. The future of all of those arrangements and structures is now unclear. It is possible they may all have to re-negotiated by the British government with each individual member state in the EU. The PSNI hopes that will not be necessary and that the EU will recognise the mutual benefits of keeping existing arrangements in place. But nothing is clear, and the fog of uncertainty is unlikely to be lifted anytime soon. Get the results in full.", "question": "Those who experienced the \" hard border \" that existed between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland during the Troubles will shudder at the memory of long queues of @placeholder as ID was checked and vehicles searched .", "option_0": "serving", "option_1": "strangers", "option_2": "traffic", "option_3": "passengers", "option_4": "emotion"}
{"id": 1455, "article": "Iago Falque put the hosts in front after 15 minutes as he burst clear down the right and picked out the bottom corner with a left-footed strike. The striker then turned provider, sliding in Marco Benassi to finish one-on-one against Ciprian Tatarusanu. England keeper Hart saved Borja Valero's deflected strike but could not prevent Khouma Babacar's late header. The win follows last week's 3-1 victory over Roma as Torino extended their unbeaten run to four games. Elsewhere, AC Milan fought back from 3-1 down to beat Sassuolo 4-3 thanks to three second-half goals, including a stunning volley from 18-year-old Manuel Locatelli. Match ends, Torino 2, Fiorentina 1. Second Half ends, Torino 2, Fiorentina 1. Foul by Nenad Tomovic (Fiorentina). Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. Antonio Barreca (Torino) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Daniele Baselli following a corner. Attempt blocked. Afriyie Acquah (Torino) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Corner,  Torino. Conceded by Mat¨ªas Vecino. Attempt blocked. Adem Ljajic (Torino) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrea Belotti. Corner,  Torino. Conceded by Carlos Salcedo. Davide Astori (Fiorentina) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Andrea Belotti (Torino). Foul by Khouma Babacar (Fiorentina). Luca Rossettini (Torino) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Substitution, Torino. Daniele Baselli replaces Marco Benassi. Attempt missed. Antonio Barreca (Torino) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high. Attempt saved. Josef Mart¨ªnez (Torino) header from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Antonio Barreca with a cross. Attempt blocked. Andrea Belotti (Torino) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marco Benassi. Goal!  Torino 2, Fiorentina 1. Khouma Babacar (Fiorentina) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Hrvoje Milic with a cross. Attempt missed. Davide Zappacosta (Torino) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Afriyie Acquah. Attempt blocked. Adem Ljajic (Torino) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mirko Valdifiori. Foul by Carlos S¨¢nchez (Fiorentina). Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Mauro Z¨¢rate (Fiorentina) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Mirko Valdifiori (Torino). Carlos Salcedo (Fiorentina) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Carlos Salcedo (Fiorentina). Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick on the right wing. Attempt saved. Josef Mart¨ªnez (Torino) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Adem Ljajic. Corner,  Torino. Conceded by Carlos Salcedo. Attempt blocked. Adem Ljajic (Torino) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrea Belotti. Foul by Mat¨ªas Vecino (Fiorentina). Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick on the left wing. Carlos Salcedo (Fiorentina) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Andrea Belotti (Torino). Foul by Carlos Salcedo (Fiorentina). Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Substitution, Torino. Josef Mart¨ªnez replaces Iago Falque. Attempt saved. Andrea Belotti (Torino) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Iago Falque with a cross. Attempt missed. Hrvoje Milic (Fiorentina) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Nikola Kalinic with a headed pass. Borja Valero (Fiorentina) wins a free kick in the defensive half.", "question": "Joe Hart helped Torino secure back - to - back @placeholder victories in Serie A as they held on to beat Fiorentina .", "option_0": "cup", "option_1": "championship", "option_2": "gain", "option_3": "home", "option_4": "brace"}
{"id": 1456, "article": "The 79-year-old was commissioned to write and direct the six-part untitled show earlier this year. \"I'm doing my best with it, but I should never have gotten into it,\" he said at the Cannes film festival. \"I thought six half-hours would be a cinch, but it's not. It's very hard. I'm not good at it, I'm floundering.\" He added: \"It could be a cosmic embarrassment. I just hope I don't disappoint Amazon.\" When it was announced in January Allen was making the series, the Annie Hall director made similar self-deprecating comments about the project. \"I don't know how I got into this - I have no ideas and I'm not sure where to begin,\" he said. The TV series - the first Allen has ever created - is due to be available to Amazon Prime subscribers in the US, UK and Germany next year. The director is promoting his 46th film - Irrational Man - at the Cannes film festival. Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone, it tells of a philosophy professor who is deeply depressed until he perks up at the thought of committing a murder. Discussing the film's plot surrounding life's choices, Allen was typically bleak at its press conference, saying: \"Life has its own agenda, and it runs right over you. \"We're all going to end up in a very bad position sooner or later. The same position, but a bad one - and the only way out of it, the only thing you can do as an artist, is to explain to people how life is worth living and has a meaning.\"", "question": "Woody Allen has admitted he made a \" catastrophic mistake \" @placeholder up to create a TV series for Amazon 's online video service .", "option_0": "grew", "option_1": "set", "option_2": "signing", "option_3": "woke", "option_4": "locked"}
{"id": 1457, "article": "The proposed rally has been widely opposed - police have refused to issue it a permit and injunctions to block the event are before the Australian Human Rights Commission and New South Wales Supreme Court. But anti-multiculturalism group Party for Freedom still plans to go ahead with its event on Saturday. The party's spokesman, Nick Folkes, told the BBC his group respected the local community and had complied with requests from authorities to stage the rally at a park away from the intended site at Cronulla beach. \"We're not going down to start a riot, that's not our intention at all. We understand that Cronulla is a beautiful place,\" Mr Folkes said. \"What happened 10 years ago protected [it], Cronulla's remained pretty peaceful and they haven't had gangs coming in,\" Mr Folkes said. Mr Folkes says that some locals support his point of view, but community leaders are adamant that the views of the Party for Freedom are not widely held in Cronulla. Chamber of commerce spokeswoman Annette Tasker said the rally would be disastrous for local businesses. Business owners blamed the riots for a sharp drop in business in the years following 2005, with some reporting drops in trade of up to 50%. \"The trauma that business owners suffered 10 years ago is of no concern to [Party for Freedom] whatsoever,\" Ms Tasker said. \"Some people didn't make it, they just didn't make it. You can only suffer financial loss for so long. \"It's very hard to overcome fear in a business.\" Sutherland Shire Deputy Mayor Hassan Awada, a Muslim who came to Australia from Lebanon, ran a barber shop in Cronulla at the time of the riot. He said in the wake of the riots he was inundated with support. \"I could not count the number of people who walked into my shop to basically let me know and reassure me that after what happened they were just as disappointed as I was,\" Mr Awada said. \"They destroyed the local area's reputation [then] and this group is doing exactly the same, claiming to come to the area to support the Australian way of life, but ... destroying it.\" Police say there will be a large police presence in Cronulla on Saturday. New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione will make an official statement later in the week. Referring to the events of 2005, Mr Scipione told Australia's 60 Minutes in November: \"The place was just swimming with alcohol, large crowds, a lot of emotion and then the build of the heat. All of those together, it's almost like a perfect storm.\" The Party for Freedom follows an agenda largely focused on preventing Muslims from immigrating to Australia. It was one of the groups involved with Reclaim Australia. The Reclaim Australia movement has pushed anti-immigration groups into the media spotlight recently with several series of rallies held in major cities this year. A loose coalition of groups with widely varying agendas, the common in the movement's Australia's ideology is opposition to Islam and a perception that the government kowtows to minority groups.", "question": "It is 10 years since a race riot blew up in the usually tranquil Sydney suburb of Cronulla . An anti-immigration group 's plan to hold a \" @placeholder \" rally has locals fearing a new outbreak of violence .", "option_0": "change", "option_1": "protest", "option_2": "memorial", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "address"}
{"id": 1458, "article": "Among the gloom and the water, stories of uplifting community spirit, of rescues and of neighbourly support have emerged. In what has been a devastating week for many people, here are some of the stories of those involved. The residents of Brunton Avenue, a quiet street not far from the River Eden in Carlisle, shared the horror of Storm Desmond. For many it was the second time they had watched their homes being submerged. \"This is my lovely home,\" Sarah Betton says, wading through the water in her living room, \"it will need a bit of decorating.\" At its peak, the floods reached halfway up her front window. Her new \"dream\" kitchen had just been finished, she says. A wooden train track - a recent birthday present for her son - floats in a corner. He has been asking to play with it, she adds. \"There were quite a few toys and DVDs, which are all replaceable, but it is that thing of explaining to a three-year-old why he can't have his Thomas the Tank Engine DVD or his train.\" Further along the road, Alan Shaw picks up a Christmas bauble floating across his living room. \"Everything has gone,\" he says. \"Just forget it. Goodnight Vienna.\" \"Stuff I can cope with,\" he says, his voice cracking, \"as long as the family was all right - that was my only worry. We will get it sorted. We got it sorted last time.\" Brothers Ben, 12, and 10-year-old Sam were among those rescued from the roof of homes in Carlisle. \"We couldn't get downstairs because the water was just so high,\" Ben says. \"It was probably up to my head. \"We pretty much just stayed upstairs. We didn't really have anything to do until the boat came.\" Sam says his family had to climb out of the bathroom window. \"We had to climb down the roof and get into the boat,\" he adds. Marion Riley's mother - who is in her 80s - was also forced out of her home. Returning to the house the day after, Marion says: \"I just can't believe it. You just can't believe what the water does. \"My stomach is churning and I feel absolutely horrible inside because it is the first time we have seen what flood water does to somebody's property.\" Kindness is keeping Cumbria afloat Ten of the UK's worst weather events How could climate change affect the UK? Storm Desmond: Your questions Why did defences not stop flooding? As the water levels rose in Carlisle on Saturday night, student Beth Simpson went to the pub for dinner because she was unsure if it was safe to use her cooker. Soon power was down, her phone signal was gone, and she was unable to contact her housemates. The 21-year-old was rendered homeless, left only with the clothes she had gone out in. \"It was really, really scary. I didn't know how far the water had come up into my house. I didn't even know if my housemates were safe. \"People were saying, 'Come and stay at mine, I've got a spare bed or a sofa.' It was quite remarkable.\" Beth and her friends returned home on Monday, picking up what belongings they could salvage. They have now all moved out and are having to find new accommodation to complete their final year of university. \"It is just surreal. It kind of feels like an out-of-body experience.\" Jacinta Cooper's bridal shop in Carlisle's Warwick Road - one of the worst-hit areas of the city - was badly flooded. \"These are shoes and mannequins,\" she says, pointing to a sodden corridor. \"These are a couple of dresses that a lady was thinking about choosing,\" she says, pointing to two badly-damaged dresses hanging on the wall. \"She was actually going to come back on Saturday afternoon but we had to close because of the fear of getting home. \"She didn't get the chance to choose it.\" Her voice cracking with emotion, she adds: \"I just do want my brides to know everything will be OK for them.\" \"You can't resell it because it is all contaminated,\" says Billy Bone, as he piles all the food from his corner shop into a skip. He estimates he is throwing away ?¡ê45,000-?¡ê50,000 of stock. \"We are skipping it and the shelving is going, so we are just stripping it all out. \"It'll be quite a large sum of money.\" \"Dogs, cats, rabbits, birds - you name it - hamsters, we rescued them all to be honest, as well as people,\" Chris Egan, from the Maryport Inshore Rescue, says. The lifeboat team - which consists of 18 volunteer crew - was called out to Carlisle at 09:00 GMT on Sunday. They spent 10 hours in Carlisle. Most of the crew had already spent 16 hours helping in Cockermouth and Penrith on Saturday - working through the night and finally getting to bed at 06:00 GMT. Some had been out on Thursday and Friday night after work. On Monday, it was back to the day job. \"There are a lot of people walking around with bags under their eyes,\" he adds. Production: Dominic Bailey and Ben Fell", "question": "The flooding in Cumbria was indiscriminate . It hit families , pensioners , and children alike . It hit some people for the second time since 2009 . In total , more than 6,000 homes were flooded across the @placeholder . The huge mop - up is now under way , even as the threat of further flooding remains .", "option_0": "region", "option_1": "side", "option_2": "county", "option_3": "sea", "option_4": "city"}
{"id": 1459, "article": "The American, 22, won the Masters and US Open, missed out by one shot on a play-off at The Open and finished second in the US PGA Championship. Spieth has won twice in 2016 but blew a five-shot lead at the Masters in April. \"Most of the questions are comparing to last year and that's unfair because that's happened less than a dozen times to anybody in golf,\" he said. \"I would appreciate if people would look at the positives over comparing to maybe what would hopefully happen to me a few times in my career, a year like last year. \"So it seems a bit unfair, at 22, to be expecting something like that all the time.\" Spieth made four birdies in the first seven holes at The Open on Saturday but dropped five strokes in seven holes as he finished five over for the tournament after three rounds.", "question": "Jordan Spieth feels he is being unfairly @placeholder after failing to replicate his successes of 2015 .", "option_0": "sacked", "option_1": "criticised", "option_2": "rewarded", "option_3": "promoted", "option_4": "punished"}
{"id": 1460, "article": "The incident happened in the garden of a house on Newington Road at about 10:30 on Saturday. The worker was confronted by a man and then followed for a short while. The Royal Mail employee was unhurt but said to be left in a \"state of shock\". PC Emma Neylon said it was a \"strange incident\" to happen in broad daylight on a Saturday morning. The man police want to trace is described as being white, in his early 40s, about 5ft 6in to 5ft 8in tall with short brown hair described as ruffled. He was wearing a navy blue hooded top, beige shorts and spoke a foreign language. The man was acting in what was described as an \"erratic manner\".", "question": "A postal worker has been threatened and then followed by a man while making his @placeholder in Annan .", "option_0": "death", "option_1": "difficulties", "option_2": "deliveries", "option_3": "family", "option_4": "escape"}
{"id": 1461, "article": "The Bevan Foundation said eight new taxes would help make Wales \"greener, healthier and better off\". The Welsh Government and Plaid Cymru welcomed the report. But UKIP said the taxes would make Wales \"more miserable\" and the Conservatives said the report \"smacks of nanny statism\". Under the Wales Act 2014, the Welsh Government has the power to establish new taxes in devolved areas. The taxes proposed by the think tank are: Bevan Foundation director Victoria Winckler said the sunbed tax would need to be \"fairly substantial\" to deter people. She said: \"We think taxes are actually really important. We've got used to talking about taxes as if they're a bad thing. \"But actually taxes pay for all the good things we have.\" Cabinet secretary for finance Mark Drakeford said: \"The power to introduce new Welsh taxes could be used to improve the lives and wellbeing of people across the country. \"This is a very helpful report and raises awareness of these new powers.\" UKIP assembly group leader Neil Hamilton said: \"The Bevan Foundation wants to make Wales a more miserable place by taxing the people's pleasures.\" He added: \"Mark Drakeford's refusal to rule out these killjoy taxes shows the danger of giving tax-raising powers to a Welsh Labour government, as the Tory government in London proposes in the Wales Bill now going through Parliament. \"Wales should be given the referendum on tax-raising powers we were promised before giving Labour the power to tax us out of existence.\" Welsh Conservative economy spokesman Russell George said: \"The report, while well-intentioned, smacks of nanny statism and will serve only to discourage entrepreneurs, boost the black market economy and create another unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.\" He added: \"Arbitrary taxes will do nothing but leave the people of Wales worse off at a time when gross disposable income already lags behind the rest of the UK.\" The Bevan Foundation's research was funded by a grant from the anti-poverty charity the Joseph Rowntree Trust. Plaid Cymru's shadow cabinet secretary for external affairs, Steffan Lewis, said: \"Plaid Cymru was the first major party to propose the introduction of a levy on sugar drinks and we are a party committed to embracing new ideas in other areas of fiscal policy too. \"Over the coming period, the priority will be to secure enhanced fiscal responsibility for Wales so that we can deliver accountability and greater levers for social justice and prosperity.\" ENDS", "question": "Charges on sunbed use and take - away food @placeholder are among a number of taxes the Welsh Government should introduce , according to a think tank .", "option_0": "deals", "option_1": "stamps", "option_2": "packaging", "option_3": "imports", "option_4": "engineers"}
{"id": 1462, "article": "Officers were called to the school in South Lanarkshire on 21 December. It is understood parents were notified about the incident before the end of term. South Lanarkshire Council said it was aware of the incident. Police said a decision had still to be made on whether to refer the matter to a social work-led team or the Scottish Children's Reporter Administrator. A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: \"An 11-year-old male pupil at a primary school in South Lanarkshire has been referred to the Youth Justice Co-ordinator (a police officer within the Restorative Justice Department) for alleged drugs offences. \"A decision has still to be made as to disposal - whether a referral to the Early and Effective Intervention Co-ordinator - a multi-agency team with a social work lead - or a police report to the Scottish Children's Reporter Administrator.\"", "question": "A primary school pupil has been reported to police after allegedly being caught with cannabis in @placeholder .", "option_0": "malaysia", "option_1": "response", "option_2": "iraq", "option_3": "labour", "option_4": "class"}
{"id": 1463, "article": "A limit of 12 books per cell has been removed, while relatives and friends can now send books to inmates directly. The rule changes, affecting more than 80,000 inmates in England and Wales, are meant to help prepare inmates for work when released. Mr Gove said those \"languishing in prison\" were \"potential assets\" who could be \"productive and contribute\". The scrapping of the rules from 1 September is one of Mr Gove's first key changes to prison policy since being appointed as justice secretary. The restriction on receiving books directly came as a result of the Incentives and Earned Privileges scheme, introduced in November 2013 under Mr Gove's predecessor, Chris Grayling. It prevented prisoners from receiving direct parcels unless there were \"exceptional circumstances\", such as a medical condition. Although inmates were still allowed to use prison libraries, critics claimed they were often inadequately stocked and could be hard to access because of staff shortages. That scheme was relaxed after a High Court ruling in December found that restricting prisoners' access to books was unlawful. Subsequently, people were allowed to buy new books for prisoners through four approved retailers - Blackwell's, Foyles, Waterstones or WH Smith - who would send them to prisoners directly. Mr Gove's changes will remove the limit of 12 books to a cell, as long as prisoners observe overall limits on the volume of personal possessions. They will also allow people to send parcels of books directly to inmates without having to buy them through approved sources. Governors will still be able to withhold any books which they deem \"inappropriate, not conducive to rehabilitation, or contrary to the safe running of the prison\". And rules on receiving parcels other than book-only packages will remain. Mr Gove said the most important thing that could be done for people in prison was ensure they were usefully employed, and received skills needed for employment, such as literacy and numeracy. He cited Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute as a \"big influence\" on this thinking. \"He believes that we should see all human beings as assets, not liabilities,\" he said. \"I agree. Every individual has something to offer, every one of us can earn respect. People who are currently languishing in prison are potential assets to society. They could be productive and contribute. \"If we look at them only as problems to be contained we miss the opportunity to transform their lives and to save ourselves and our society both money and pain.\" Chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, Frances Cook, who had fiercely criticised the book restrictions, said the move was a \"fantastic final coda\" to its Books For Prisoners campaign.", "question": "Rules restricting the number of books a prisoner can have have been @placeholder by Justice Secretary Michael Gove .", "option_0": "set", "option_1": "criticised", "option_2": "overturned", "option_3": "unveiled", "option_4": "sacked"}
{"id": 1464, "article": "The yellow submarine is currently in Punta Arenas, Chile, and is due to sail for the Southern Ocean on Friday. Scientists will use the robot to survey cold, deep waters that help to regulate Earth's climate. The 3.5m-long sub was given the name that a public poll had suggested - but which ministers subsequently blocked - go on the JCR's replacement. No matter - there is still enormous interest in the humorous moniker and the autonomous vehicles that will carry it underwater. Southampton's National Oceanography Centre has built three robots in its new Autosub Long Range class, and all will be branded Boaty when they go out on an expedition. The subs can stay down for weeks on end. They have a depth rating of 6,000m and a range of 6,000km. The robots have proven their capabilities in a series of sea trials and are now open to the general scientific community to use. First up is a mission being run by the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Southampton. Their scientists plan to deploy Boaty to swim through a gap in the ocean floor ridge that extends northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Known as the Orkney Passage, this opening is the main gateway for dense, cold waters formed around the White Continent to move into the Atlantic. It is a key motor in the so-called \"great ocean conveyor\" - the relentless system of deep circulation that helps redistribute all the heat energy that has built up in the climate system. The passage floor is very rugged, and will challenge Boaty's autonomous systems to keep it safe. Mike Meredith from the British Antarctic Survey said: \"Boaty's a very intelligent underwater system; it can sense the environment around it, so it knows the height it is above the seabed and it can map out its trajectory and its position in a very advanced way.\" Povl Abrahamsen is a co-investigator on the cruise and took the pictures on this page. He added: \"This is the first time that Boaty will be used in this type of environment, and it certainly will bring challenges. \"We're very much hoping that Boaty will help to give the spatial coverage that we can't really get from other methods.\" Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "question": "\" Boaty McBoatface \" has just been @placeholder aboard the UK 's polar ship , the RRS James Clark Ross .", "option_0": "unearthed", "option_1": "knighted", "option_2": "named", "option_3": "captured", "option_4": "loaded"}
{"id": 1465, "article": "Sunday's race will be only the third time in 163 years that the women's competition is raced on the same day and stretch of water as the men. Te Water Naude, 20, will row for Oxford in the four and quarter mile course. \"It's a big deal, especially the women on the tideway. It sets a precedent for other women's sports,\" she said. She continued: \"I watched the Boat Race on TV when I was little and I had no idea there was a women's race until I was much older. \"I hope that girls and women watching it are inspired to take up more sport and enjoy it. Part of this whole thing is enjoying the process and how long it takes to build up to this one day.\" Media playback is not supported on this device 26-year-old Josh Bugajski, a third year Oncology master's student whose mother is Welsh, says representing Oxford is a momentous achievement in one of the world's signature sporting events. \"It is probably the biggest event imaginable for many rowers. I know the Olympics are put forward as the biggest in the world but I think for many people who are in the Boat Race, this can almost overshadow getting an Olympic medal,\" he said. \"We are billed as having trained for the last seven months but in reality there are guys who have trained for years for this one race. \"It's nice to know if you are involved in a Boat Race and especially if you win a Boat Race, your name will be carved into history and it will be there for as long as the race carries on for. \"Because of the attractiveness of the race it has brought in really top end rowers. \"That does mean the race is generally of a very high standard. \"It's very comparable to international racing. Just the prowess of it means it's a very attractive race to be part of.\"", "question": "Welsh rower Rebecca te Water Naud¨¦ hopes more women will be @placeholder to start rowing as the men 's and women 's Boat Race takes place on the same day .", "option_0": "willing", "option_1": "shown", "option_2": "returning", "option_3": "encouraged", "option_4": "introduced"}
{"id": 1466, "article": "The speech built on her article in The Times on Monday and is important for a number of reasons - not least its attempt to marry a general and widespread disillusion among the public that the economy \"is not working for them\" with a sense that the Conservative Party's driving philosophy is about more than free markets. The first of these is straight from the playbook of Mr Miliband; the second is from Lady Thatcher. Here's Mr Miliband at the time of the 2011 Labour Party conference where he announced plans to rein in \"excessive pay\". \"This is not an anti-business message, this is an anti-business as usual message,\" he told the Today programme. And here's Mrs May today, on her plans to tackle the \"unhealthy and growing gap\" between what she deliberately describes as \"bosses\" and \"workers\". \"It is not anti-business to suggest that big business needs to change,\" she said. Now, of course Mrs May would be likely to splutter into her morning cup of tea if there was any suggestion that Mr Miliband was guiding her politically. As she said in her speech this morning, the Home Secretary believes that Labour's approach to \"equality\" holds people back. And she insisted the Conservatives remained the party of enterprise. But Mrs May's pledges to put worker representatives on company boards (as well as \"consumers\"), to make shareholder votes on executive remuneration binding, to oblige companies to publish data on the pay multiple between a company's chief executive and the pay of the average worker, to have a \"proper industrial strategy\" that could be used to block takeovers such as Pfizer's attempt to buy AstraZeneca - all are certainly a substantial attempt to build the broadest of Tory tents. Further, they are a deliberate economic pitch for the centre ground of politics, to a level of detail many will be surprised by. Anyone who thought that a Conservative-led administration under Mrs May would not be interventionist when it comes to economic and business policy will certainly have to reconsider. Mrs May even had some words for policy makers at the Bank of England, saying that ultra-low interest rates had helped home owners over those struggling to clamber on the housing ladder. So, where does Lady Thatcher fit in? Rather more subtly, but still distinctly, in the line: \"We don't just believe in markets, but in communities.\" Lady Thatcher was clear on her distrust of \"big state\" solutions and spoke regularly of communities of people, even \"society\" despite the oft-quoted line that there was \"no such thing\". She said that people should be allowed to get on and should prosper, as long as they played by the rules. Mrs May appears to be echoing the sentiment, replacing the \"big state\" with \"big business\" and \"vested interests\". She vowed to take them on, tying a reformist line directly from Robert Peel to Joseph Chamberlain to Lady Thatcher. Mrs May also spoke of \"leading on behalf of the people\". Many argue that Brexit uncertainty will make the fortunes of the UK economy over the coming months and years difficult to forecast. Mrs May, launching herself as the UK's next prime minister, appears to want to be tested on whether that economy is seen as working for everyone.", "question": "In her speech this morning - which has now taken on far more weight given that she is just about ready to measure the curtains for Number 10 - Theresa May laid out a set of policies that bring together two strands of thinking and two @placeholder who would not have been overly comfortable in each other 's company - Ed Miliband and Margaret Thatcher .", "option_0": "side", "option_1": "rates", "option_2": "killers", "option_3": "personalities", "option_4": "men"}
{"id": 1467, "article": "Yusf Pirot, 16, of Arnold in Nottingham said he wanted to show the world that not all Muslims were terrorists. \"The reason I wanted to do it was because I grew up in a society where I was being called a terrorist nearly every day,\" he said. A video of his hugs has attracted millions of views on social media. Another video of a blindfolded Muslim man asking for hugs in the aftermath of the Paris attacks has also gone viral. Yusf said: \"This idea was in my head for a long time - I wanted to send a message out to the world and tell them that I am a Muslim - there are 1.7bn of us in the world that doesn't mean that every single one of us is a terrorist. \"Deep inside I do care - and it hurts me. \"I was really shocked and surprised. I thought it would be a normal video and ... not a big deal. I was like 'wow'.\" He said he decided to stage his hug event after hearing about the terrorist attacks in Paris: \"I was shocked - why would anyone want to hurt another human being a€| why would  they kill innocent people for no reason? \"When I was blindfolded I heard a few people saying negative things - one person said to his friend what would happen if I punched him in the face?\" The teenager said \"some brainwashed people think it is alright to go and  blow themselves up a€| not all Muslims think the same way\". Wendy Feargrieve of Calverton, who stopped to give Yusf a hug, said: \"He was blindfolded and he couldn't see who was going up to him and what they were going to do. I walked up to him... and he put his arms around me and I told him he was very brave to do what he was doing.\" Yusf's older brother Salam, who arrived with his family from northern Iraq in 2007, told the BBC: \"We are proud of him and what he did.\"", "question": "A Kurdish Muslim teenager who handed out free hugs to strangers while blindfolded said he has been @placeholder by the response .", "option_0": "rejected", "option_1": "offended", "option_2": "inspired", "option_3": "unveiled", "option_4": "overwhelmed"}
{"id": 1468, "article": "If it's longevity in a job you are looking for, you really should not be heading to the Ghana parliament. Judging from the experience of its 24 years of existence, it seems to be a place more for short-term apprenticeships. The 7th parliament of Ghana's Fourth Republic was inaugurated earlier this month and many Ghanaians stayed up until midnight to watch on television as all 275 members swore the oath of allegiance at a colourful ceremony. The Honourable Elizabeth Ohene: \"It costs a lot of money to get elected into parliament and some people don't finish paying off their debts before they lose their seats. But at least they are assured of being called Honourable for... life\" Our parliament is getting a reputation for being an unsentimental place where members, no matter how revered they might be, are regularly chucked out unceremoniously. The membership of the house seems to get renewed comprehensively at elections every four years. When this Fourth Republic started life 24 years ago on 7 January, 1993, the current governing party, the NPP, were not in parliament, having boycotted the parliamentary elections. The NPP first entered parliament in 1997 with 61 elected members. Today, there are 169 NPP MPs but only one, Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu, dates back to the 1997 intake. He is the current majority leader, and speaking at the midnight sitting, he put it this way with a wistful smile: \"I am the lone ranger in my party's caucus from the 1997-2001 stock. Just two remain in the 2001-2005 stock. For the 2005-2009 group, we have 20 remaining.\" The situation is no less dramatic on the NDC side of the House. Of the 189 members of the NDC that entered the house in January 1993, only one survives today as a Member of Parliament, Alban Bagbin. He has been elected second deputy speaker and he pointed out equally wistfully that on his side of the house, 80 of his colleagues lost their seats during the recent elections and out of that number, 42 were one-term members. This new parliament has 182 new entrants in the 275-member chamber.  Of the 93 continuing members, not many can be described as \"old hands\". The newly commissioned Parliament Training Institute is going to be very busy as the new members are taken through the arcane ways of the house. There are voices being raised today about the brutal attrition rate of the membership of the house and the need for us to build institutional memory in our parliament. Something tells me such voices will disappear once the political party primary season starts and the jostling begins to find candidates for the parliamentary elections. In our country, anybody who has been in parliament for three terms is mocked mercilessly as a \"Mugabe\", who should be forced to stand down. Nobody says so openly but part of the attraction of wanting to go to parliament is obviously the financial remuneration. Our MPs tend to look well-off and are assured of a handsome package at the end of the four-year term. That is what the public sees, and of course the parliamentarians are called \"Honourable\", and this counts for very much hereabouts. And yet the life of an MP in Ghana can be a trial and a temptation. Being an MP means you wake up each morning to a long queue of people in your house. Some of them want money to pay school fees or hospital bills, some want jobs for themselves or for their children or both, some just want to tell their MP they are angry the MP's vehicle drove past them and did not offer them a ride and they wouldn't be voting for him or her at the next elections. You ignore your demanding constituents at your electoral peril. In the meantime there is a lot of excitement about the new intake. They are younger, the youngest being the 23-year old female university student who sits on the majority benches. There are 35 women in the house, nowhere near the number that we all think we should have, but they are a power-packed group. On the majority side, a 35-year old female is the deputy majority leader. The majority of people who make it into our parliament still come from the teaching profession but the lawyers and bankers, doctors now constitute a sizeable number. It costs a lot of money to get elected into parliament and some people do not finish paying off their debts before they lose their seats. But at least they are assured of being called \"Honourable\" for the rest of their lives and many consider that a worthwhile investment.", "question": "Life as an MP in Ghana is traditionally a short - lived stint , partly because of a tradition of mocking longstanding MPs as \" Mugabe \" , @placeholder journalist Elizabeth Ohene , herself a former MP , in our series of letters from African journalists .", "option_0": "lost", "option_1": "writes", "option_2": "leaving", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "including"}
{"id": 1469, "article": "The musical, which was plagued with problems from its inception, took $2.9m (¡ê1.8m) over nine performances last week, according to The Broadway League. The Edge said it was a \"proud day\" for everyone who has been involved. The show, which cost $75m (¡ê48m) to make, is the most expensive Broadway show to be produced. Initially the production was beset with problems, which included injuries to some of the cast members, opening night delays, poor reviews and unpaid royalty claims. \"For all the problems, there was magic on the stage,\" Bono said. \"Things did get chaotic and messy after our producer Tony Adams died. But this week's news has us all giddy again and we are raising our glasses to Tony, to our indefatigable cast, crew, creative - and production team.\" Co-producer Jeremiah Harris admitted he and his colleague, fellow producer Michael Cohl, \"came into a very difficult situation\" when they signed up. \"We've changed the team. We added players when we needed to. We've moved some players around to different positions. And the success we've had here is the culmination of all those people working hard to get done what we've gotten done,\" he said. According to figures collected by Cohl and Harris, it is thought that half of all attendees to Spider-Man had never been to a Broadway show before. They claim the production has been seen by more than 600,000 people during the past year. 'Longevity' 1. Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark - $2.9m (¡ê1.8m) 2. Wicked - $2.7m (¡ê1.7m) 3. The Lion King - $2.4m (¡ê1.5m) 4. Hugh Jackman: Back On Broadway - $2m (¡ê1.2m) 5. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - $1.9m (¡ê1.2m) Figures recorded over nine shows The musical has beaten the previous record set by Wicked in 2011, which took $2.2m (¡ê1.4m) over an eight-show run in January last year. Over Christmas and New Year many productions added a ninth show to their regular eight-show week, which helped boost total ticket takings this year. Head-to-head last week, over nine shows, Wicked took $2.7m (¡ê1.7m). However, Wicked which is performed at the Gershwin Theatre, has about 100 seats less than the 1,930-seat Foxwoods Theatre, home of the superhero musical. The Lion King recorded takings of $2.4m (¡ê1.5m) and Hugh Jackman: Back On Broadway took a total of $2m (¡ê1.2m) Harris insisted they still had a long way to go. \"The time to crow is when we have sustained longevity and we've returned the money to our investors.\" Not all shows enjoyed healthy ticket sales over the festive period, with producers of the musical Lysistrata Jones announcing the comedy will close on Sunday.", "question": "Spider - Man : Turn Off the Dark , @placeholder by U2's Bono and The Edge , has taken the highest single - week takings of any show in Broadway history .", "option_0": "inspired", "option_1": "worn", "option_2": "exhausted", "option_3": "performed", "option_4": "written"}
{"id": 1470, "article": "The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has said that most \"thoughtful\" politicians, officials and businesses from Britain and the rest of the European Union realise that the two year deadline is simply not achievable. The government position is becoming clearer. By the end of the Article 50 timetable - which Number 10 believes will be March 2019 - the UK will have legally agreed to leave the EU. But it will not be like jumping off a cliff edge. Rather, Britain and the EU will still have a close relationship, with many EU rules remaining in place. They will slowly be unravelled over subsequent years as Brexit is made a reality. Many businesses will welcome the strong guidance from the Treasury. The financial services sector and other large UK businesses fear that the substantial amount of work needed to reformulate the relationship with the rest of the EU is simply not possible in two years. Mr Hammond appears to be preparing the ground ahead of the next general election. By the time Theresa May goes to the country in 2020, the UK will have agreed to leave the EU. But, in practical terms, we may well not have actually fully left.", "question": "The government has given the strongest @placeholder yet that the Brexit process could take a lot longer than the two years needed for the official Article 50 exit process to be completed .", "option_0": "light", "option_1": "signal", "option_2": "hope", "option_3": "challenge", "option_4": "suggestion"}
{"id": 1471, "article": "The survey of 1,000 adults carried out by YouGov for the Greater London Authority showed 58% wanted TfL to have more powers over train services. The poll also showed only 14% supported the government's decision to overrule a plan for TfL to take over the services. The Department for Transport said it was \"determined to improve journeys\". The survey comes as a cross-party group of MPs have written to the prime minister urging her to review Transport Secretary Chris Grayling's decision. The letter was signed by Conservative MPs Tania Mathias and Bob Neill, Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake and eleven Labour MPs. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the poll showed it was \"time for the transport secretary to stop burying his head in the sand and listen to what commuters want\". \"This is much more important than party politics - it is about people's jobs, time with their family and quality of life,\" he said. A spokesperson for the Department for Transport said the mayor's business plan for taking over Southeastern routes \"provided no extra capacity in peak hours, and there was no funding identified for improvements to infrastructure\". \"We can deliver service improvements through partnership, without the need for a massive reorganisation,\" the spokesperson said. Earlier this month Mr Grayling was urged to resign by his fellow Conservative MP Mr Neill after a leaked letter showed he opposed rail devolution to keep it \"out of the clutches\" of Labour. The transport secretary said costs were the reason for overruling the plan, although he has not yet commented about the letter.", "question": "Most Londoners believe suburban rail routes should be @placeholder by Transport for London ( TfL ) , according to a new poll .", "option_0": "boosted", "option_1": "held", "option_2": "scrapped", "option_3": "controlled", "option_4": "reviewed"}
{"id": 1472, "article": "\"The Gherkin really started the trend,\" says Peter Rees, ex-chief planner of the City of London and professor at UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture. It is not the first building to earn a nickname inspired by items usually found in the kitchen pantry. Indeed, Prince Charles also dubbed the 309m-high Shard an \"enormous salt cellar\". With work having resumed on the Can of Ham in January and the Cucumber on its way, BBC News explores some of the capital's most high-profile morsels. So what came first - the building or the name? \"The Gherkin is circular so wind can flow around it more easily. It's smaller at the top so the closer you get to it, the less oppressive it gets. And it's tapered at the bottom to maximise the amount of space there. \"When you put those practical considerations together, you get an iconic shape,\" says Prof Rees. But the shape of the building - real name 30 St Mary Axe - drew jeers and taunts from some after its completion in late 2003. \"They called it the 'Erotic Gherkin' and it was meant to be offensive, but it caught people's attention,\" he says. \"One year, just before Christmas, there was a laser light show that lit it up like a Christmas tree. When the public saw it, they fell in love with the shape.\" Officially called the Willis Building, the tower's design was influenced by \"overlapping curved shells\". It is now popularly known as the Prawn - a name architects Foster + Partners refuse to use. \"The name was not given by us, nor was our intention to design a building which resembles a prawn,\" a spokeswoman said. Another London gem is the Olympic Velodrome, nicknamed the Pringle. Its curved roof, designed to reduce hot air inside and collect rainwater, reminded journalists of the famous snack. \"It's funny how the 'Pringle' nickname for the building has stuck,\" the BBC's Adrian Warner has said. \"People will start rewriting history and claiming they came up with it.\" \"We already have a giant gherkin in the City, now it looks as if we are going to have an enormous salt cellar as well,\" the Prince of Wales said in 2003. The name didn't stick - nowadays the skyscraper in London Bridge - the UK's tallest - is much better known as the Shard. Prof Rees laughs as he remembers the Leadenhall Building being dubbed the Cheesegrater. \"I take credit for this one,\" he says. \"When I first saw a model of the building, I told Richard Rogers [the architect] I could imagine his wife Ruth, who owns a restaurant, using it to grate parmesan on pasta. I don't think he was too happy, but it stuck.\" The skyscraper has a distinctive wedge shape to protect views of St Paul's Cathedral and horizontal fins to cut out the sun's glare. The cylindrical residential tower, officially known as 1 Merchant's Square, is set to shoot up in the near future, although construction and completion dates are not confirmed. Architect Robin Partington, who also worked on the Gherkin, said: \"Nicknames can often reinforce the identity and branding of the building, but can conflict with the corporate vision.\" A squat, tubby tower is soon to take its place on London's dining table. Nicknamed the Can of Ham, the 24-storey office block - real names 60-70 St Mary's Axe - was granted planning permission seven years ago, but construction was put on hold and resumed in 2015. It is set to be completed in 2018. Two new substantial skyscrapers have been planned for London's skyline. One Undershaft, which might be as tall as the Shard, could become known as \"the Waffle\", Prof Rees jokes. And a new tower at 22 Bishopsgate has already been called the Club Sandwich, he says. 309m height of the Salt Cellar (Shard) 224m height of the Cheesegrater 6,000 capacity of the Pringle 178m circumference of the Gherkin at its widest point 222 apartments to be built in the Cucumber Not everyone is a fan of the move towards bold architecture. Architect Barbara Weiss, who campaigns to protect London's skyline, argues that the trend in iconic buildings is \"unhealthy\" for the capital. \"Since the Gherkin, a burst of commercial buildings stands in place of civic monuments,\" she says. \"It's just glorifying money and it's unhealthy to society, politics, the economy. They stand up as ghettos in the air, especially the residential towers for the extremely wealthy.\" The obsession with iconic buildings is not just limited to towers, Ms Weiss says. She compares London's architecture a to a \"pack of liquorice allsorts\" with all the buildings \"trying to be such different shapes and sizes\". Ham, cheese and pickles. Welcome to the London lunchbox.", "question": "Since the Gherkin @placeholder London 's skyline in 2003 , a number of architectural delicacies have popped up around the capital . Prince Charles once likened the capital to an \" absurdist picnic table \" , but has it really started to resemble a giant 's feast ?", "option_0": "wrecked", "option_1": "flung", "option_2": "painted", "option_3": "nicknamed", "option_4": "pierced"}
{"id": 1473, "article": "Police have only just revealed the discovery last month of fake \"Captagon\" pills and say they do not know if they were destined for the Middle East. Meanwhile, Italy's financial police revealed this week they had uncovered 37.5m pills of another drug, tramadol, also used by Islamist fighters. The cargo was heading for Libya. Tramadol is a synthetic opioid-like drug used as a painkiller. Italian police said the consignment had come from India and would have been used for two purposes: to help finance Islamist terrorism and for use by jihadist fighters as a stimulant and to heighten resistance to physical stress. Abuse of tramadol was described by a report this year as \"rampant\" in the ranks of Boko Haram fighters in Nigeria and to have played a role in \"enabling atrocities on both sides of the conflict\". The main ingredient of counterfeit Captagon tablets is usually amphetamine but illegal drug-makers often add caffeine or other substances. It is widely seen as fuelling the conflict in Syria, as the drug has generated millions of dollars in revenue and has been used by combatants. The drug previously sold as Captagon was a psychostimulant called fenethylline, banned since the 1980s, related to amphetamine. Taking the drug lowers inhibitions to violence and prolongs a fighter's ability to remain alert for combat. The counterfeit Captagon pills were found in a barn in Brunssum in the southern Dutch province of Limburg, along with a tablet-making machine and other drugs. Police said the tablets had been analysed by the Netherlands Forensic Institute and found to contain two ingredients, amphetamine and caffeine. The pills were of a type used as a stimulant in the Middle East but it was not known if that was their destination. A man who lived in the neighbouring house was arrested a few days after the discovery last month and a woman was detained on Monday. Two other suspects are being sought. In March, Greek police arrested four suspects in a fake Captagon-making ring and confiscated 650,000 tablets.", "question": "Dutch police are searching for two suspects after a drugs laboratory was found with a large stash of pills @placeholder by jihadists .", "option_0": "favoured", "option_1": "made", "option_2": "targeted", "option_3": "sparked", "option_4": "stolen"}
{"id": 1474, "article": "Bogdan Nawrocki, 21, went missing from his Radford home in January 2014, prompting a major police appeal. In February, Robert Marcinkiewicz-Szurkowski, 27, of Sneinton, was jailed for 27 years for killing Polish national Mr Nawrocki. The 10-day blaze at the Player Street building is not connected to the murder inquiry, officers said. Det Ch Insp Tony Heydon, who led the investigation, said: \"We succeeded in seeing justice carried out for Bogdan but despite a vast amount of searches, we have been unable to give his family the opportunity to give him the funeral he deserves. \"We still have a ?¡ê5,000 reward for information so if you know anything that could help, it's not too late.\" Nottingham Crown Court heard traces of Mr Nawrocki's blood were found during a search of a property in Osborne Street that he shared with his killer. He had been the victim of \"a prolonged and violent attack\" and his body taken away from the property. Police have searched more than 40 sites, including previously at the former Player's cigarette factory, but Mr Nawrocki's body has never been located. Det Ch Insp Heydon said they had received new information several weeks ago and had already planned the search when the fire took hold. He said: \"We have had to allow the fire service get on with their job and now that is completely out, we can access the site safely. \"The site is extensive and there are underground tunnels so there were safety issues for officers conducting the search.\" The blaze broke out in part of the Player's building which was being renovated into student accommodation. About half the structure had to be pulled down to allow crews to get to pockets of fire. An investigation into how the fire started is currently under way.", "question": "Tunnels beneath a former factory , partly @placeholder after a fire , are to be searched for a murdered man 's body .", "option_0": "head", "option_1": "recovering", "option_2": "term", "option_3": "demolished", "option_4": "suspended"}
{"id": 1475, "article": "Research by the BBC found the shortfall facing 22 hospital trusts in the region had risen by 63% compared to 2013-14. NHS Providers, a lobby group representing NHS organisations, said the level of debt represented about a quarter of the UK's total NHS debt. The government said it had managed to increase the NHS budget by ¡ê2bn. Of the 22 trusts, only four - Luton and Dunstable, Bucks Healthcare, Papworth and James Paget - predict surpluses in 2014-15. Ipswich Hospital forecasts a ¡ê12m deficit, while the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, Norfolk, predicts a ¡ê14.9m deficit. Northampton Hospital predicts a ¡ê16.7m deficit. NHS Providers said \"sustainable\" funding solutions were needed. Saffron Cordery, its director of policy and strategy, said the whole NHS faced a ¡ê1bn deficit. \"We've reached a point where we're at genuine risk of damaging quality of care for patients,\" she said. Allyson Pollock, a University of London professor of public health research and policy, said it was likely hospitals would look to generate cash through providing \"non-NHS services, such as more private patients\". Political blogger Iain Dale said: \"I don't think there is a short-term solution. Any future government will at some point have to write-off debts.\" Richard Murray, director of policy at the King's Fund think tank, called for less \"premium agency nursing\" to be used and more care in the community. Both Ipswich and Bedford hospitals said their deficits were linked to increased demand from patients, with people living longer. Nick Hulme, chief executive of Ipswich Hospital, said there was a \"systemic problem\" with NHS funding, in that there were \"more sicker patients and patients living longer\". The Luton and Dunstable Hospital, which expects a ¡ê19,000 surplus, said it had not \"sacrificed quality\" and was meeting targets. A Department of Health spokesman said: \"We've been able to increase the NHS budget by an extra ¡ê2bn for the next financial year, and NHS England's own chief executive Simon Stevens acknowledged we had 'listened and responded with the funding [needed] for next year to sustain frontline NHS services and kick-start transformation'.\"", "question": "The ¡ê 259 m deficit facing East of England hospitals poses a \" genuine risk of damaging quality of care \" , it has been @placeholder .", "option_0": "warned", "option_1": "unveiled", "option_2": "said", "option_3": "identified", "option_4": "released"}
{"id": 1476, "article": "For centuries, women at official Thetford Town Council functions have been required to seek the mayor's permission to take their hats off. However men are trusted to use their own judgement and may discard their headwear all on their own. The historic maxim will be mulled over at a meeting next month, after the newly-elected councillor Francesca Robinson said it was \"demeaning\". So forget the urban myths about killing Welshmen with longbows or being allowed to herd your sheep over city bridges - here are some real rules you may be breaking without realising it. Section 54 of the Metropolitan Police Act stipulates you are not allowed to carry a plank along a pavement in London, unless you are unloading it from a vehicle. The ban extends to casks, tubs, hoops, wheels, ladders, poles and placards. And if you thought you would get around the rule by rolling your tub along, that's banned too. The law is in place to prevent nuisance and increase ease of passage on public thoroughfares. You are also not allowed to fly a kite if it could cause annoyance, slide upon ice or snow in any street in a manner which could cause injury to others, or \"ride or drive furiously, or so as to endanger the life or limb of any person\" in any thoroughfare. Residents on a new development in Beverley, East Yorkshire, are subject to a restrictive covenant banning them from hanging out the washing or airing clean clothes outdoors. Covenants prohibiting hanging washing in the front garden are fairly common, but the one at Westwood Park covers windows, balconies, roof terraces, communal gardens and potentially even the back gardens of individual houses on the site. The idea behind the rule at the luxury location is to prevent peoples' smalls fluttering in the breeze, which could detract from the look of the estate. The developers, though, did fit every home with a washer-dryer to help the enforcement of the covenant. Other common covenants prevent occupiers from erecting fences in their front garden, keeping livestock other than domestic pets, washing their cars on the premises and removing any grassed areas. Frank Blades was not ready to rush away from the graveside after laying his wife Violet to rest at Hannah Park Cemetery in Worksop, Nottingham in the summer of 2015. He stayed for an extra 20 minutes - and was billed ?¡ê160 for it. A spokesman for the funeral directors said: \"We incurred a charge of ?¡ê160 from Bassetlaw District Council due to their gravediggers working beyond their contracted hours when our client wished to visit other family graves following the funeral. \"As with any third-party fee that we pay on behalf of our clients this was included in our final invoice.\" Liz Prime, head of neighbourhoods at Bassetlaw District Council, said she was surprised the charge had been passed on and not absorbed by the funeral company. \"The council has certainly not penalised Mr Blades for spending additional time at his wife's graveside to mourn her loss.\" Mr Blades said: \"I just accepted it. I just tried to forget it. I am saying this because it might happen to other people.\" Handling a salmon in suspicious circumstances sounds like it may be an archaic law, but it is in fact enshrined in Section 32 of the Salmon Act 1986. It is aimed at selling fish gained through illicit means - rather than people furtively skulking around dark corners clutching their Salmo salar. The phrasing is broad enough to provoke thought, however. A five-hour House of Lords debate about the issue in February 1986 decided the wording would protect unwitting people from the then-in-place wider law of \"possessing salmon which have been illegally taken, killed or landed\". If you want chips with your suspiciously-handled fish, make sure they're legal. The Polish Potatoes Order 2004 makes it illegal for someone to \"import into England potatoes which he knows to be or has reasonable cause to suspect to be Polish potatoes\". An exception is made if you write to an inspector at least two days before you plan to bring your tubers over, giving details of: The law was introduced in response to ring rot outbreaks in Poland. In 2012, the Food and Environment Research Agency reinforced the guideline, by demanding a ring rot test certificate accompany the spuds. This was triggered by a poor crop in the UK leading to importers searching for European replacements. A rule introduced at the beginning of 2011 banned staff at Carlisle City Council from talking about anything not work-related. If employees wanted to discuss the weather, holidays or babies (the three categories specified in the instructions), they were told to clock-out - so they would not be paid for time spent chatting. An e-mail sent to 31 workers by two team leaders in the city's benefits department also warned staff \"to be aware of the reason why they are here, which is to work and not to treat the office as a day-to-day holiday camp\". The GMB Union representative at the council, Ged Craig, said the message was \"ridiculous and a disgrace - it is suggesting that if, for example, you are standing in a queue for the photocopier having a chat you should clock out.\" The e-mail went on to say that the way staff previously worked could not be sustained in the \"current economic climate\". Following the outrage of the staff and the involvement of the union, the rule was dropped. Daventry Council, in Northamptonshire, introduced rules for dog walkers which decreed they can be fined up to ?¡ê100 if they walk their dog without carrying a bag to dispose of its waste. This means that if you get stopped after disposing of a used bag, you would still be susceptible to the fine. Dogwalkers should therefore either carry a spare to flourish when challenged, or become one of those owners who keep the full bag with them.", "question": "An 800 - year - old dress code banning women from taking off their hats may finally be @placeholder later in Norfolk . But what other old - fashioned , or just plain strange , rules are in place around England ?", "option_0": "overturned", "option_1": "kicked", "option_2": "broken", "option_3": "built", "option_4": "restored"}
{"id": 1477, "article": "Net profit for 2012 at EADS rose 19% to 1.23bn euros ($1.61bn; ?¡ê1.06bn). Revenues rose 15% to 56.48bn euros. Revenues at Airbus rose 17% to 38.59bn euros, mostly due to commercial sales. However, EADS's profit in the fourth quarter fell sharply after taking one-off charges at its helicopter and defence electronics divisions. Net profit in the three months to December fell 47% from a year ago to 325m euros. This was after a 198m-euro hit at its defence electronics contractor Cassidian due to restructuring costs, and a 100m-euro charge at Eurocopter after renegotiating contracts with government customers. Looking ahead, EADS said its focus was on growing profits, adding there was \"still some way to go to meet our profitability targets\". For 2013, it is targeting an operating profit of 3.5bn euros and expects to see \"moderate growth\" in revenues, though results will be affected by problems with its A350 XWB model. Shares in EADS rose more than 7% in lunchtime trading in Paris. In 2012 the group's order intake showed \"continuing commercial momentum across the EADS portfolio\", the firm said. At the end of 2012, its order book had increased by 5% to 566.5bn euros. The bulk of that came from Airbus. Its order book increased 6% to 523.4bn euros, although it took fewer orders in 2012 than the year before. \"A strong focus on deliveries helped to significantly improve cash generation during the fourth quarter,\" said chief executive Tom Enders in a statement. \"Going forward, the focus on bottom line growth remains our priority number one as a management team.\" Last month, rival Boeing also reported a sharp rise in profits, thanks in part to stronger sales of commercial planes. Earlier this month, Airbus said it would not use lithium-ion batteries in its forthcoming A350 plane because of problems that have grounded Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. International regulators grounded all 787 Dreamliners in January so that safety checks could be carried out on their batteries after incidents on a Japan Airlines plane and an All Nippon Airways plane. Investigations into the battery have so far proved inconclusive. Airbus's A350, which was intended to challenge the Dreamliner, has been delayed because of a problem with its wings. \"The A350 XWB programme remains challenging,\" EADS said. \"Any schedule change could lead to increasingly higher impact on provisions.\" EADS also invited shareholders to an extraordinary meeting on 27 March to approve its new governance structure and a share buyback programme for up to 15% of its stock. Last year, the group announced sweeping governance changes that will result in Germany and France eventually holding equal stakes in EADS of about 12%, and Spain holding 4%. This followed the collapse of a proposed merger between EADS and BAE Systems after political deadlock between the UK, French and German governments.", "question": "Aerospace and defence group EADS has reported a rise in profits and sales in 2012 , boosted by a strong @placeholder from its aircraft maker Airbus .", "option_0": "performance", "option_1": "amount", "option_2": "offer", "option_3": "criticism", "option_4": "response"}
{"id": 1478, "article": "Born at the height of Britpop, the female protagonist of computer game Tomb Raider became one of the pillars of Cool Britannia - but also provoked the ire of feminists who criticised her sexualised image. Her journey took in two Hollywood films, numerous magazine covers and advertising campaigns but began in the comparatively unglamorous English city of Derby. Tomb Raider was created by a small team of people working for Core Design, a video game developer founded in the city in 1988. \"The story goes that within the industry it wasn't easy to sell a female heroine,\" says Heather Gibson, one of the six developers who created the original game. \"Up until then they were quite masculine characters because your main market was men or boys.\" The character was thought up by one of Heather's colleagues, Toby Gard, who has cited the comic character Tank Girl and musician Neneh Cherry as inspirations. \"He wanted a strong female character as the lead role,\" says Ms Gibson. \"It was pooh-poohed in its very original form but Toby just stuck with it.\" The game was launched on 25 October 1996 - three months after Spice Girls released their debut single Wannabe. \"It's not coincidence that it was that sort of time,\" says Iain Simons, director of the National Videogame Foundation and the GameCity festival. \"I think she [Lara Croft] was part of a broader movement towards a new kind of powerful feminism that came about.\" While the game's developers expected it to appeal to men and boys, it found an unexpected audience among women and girls. In fact, early data from parent company Eidos suggested that 40% of the early players were female. Among these was Meagan Marie, who was 12 when the first game was released. \"The initial attraction to the game was feeling represented,\" she says. \"It was really cool to see this beautiful woman who was so powerful and in control.\" Ms Marie, who has written an official book - 20 Years of Tomb Raider - to mark the anniversary, says that Lara inspired her to push herself. \"That's one of the reoccurring things that I hear, especially with women specifically in my age range, in their early 30s,\" she says. \"I know so many women who talked about wanting to be an archaeologist or wanting to go into these other fields because Lara inspired them.\" Ms Marie says there was a \"perfect storm\" when Lara popped up into public consciousness. \"She was a female protagonist and there weren't many,\" she says. \"It was also really at the time where Girl Power was starting to gain movement because of the Spice Girls.\" The game was originally launched on the Sega Saturn but it really took off when released on the more popular PlayStation the following month. Its lead character soon became ubiquitous, gracing not just the covers of videogames magazines but lifestyle magazines too. Brands used her to endorse their products, with notable adverts including Lucozade, Seat cars and Visa. The band U2 used the character during their PopMart tour in 1997, where she appeared on stage in custom footage broadcast across a massive screen. Lara also had a stab at becoming a pop singer herself and Rhona Mitra, the official Lara Croft model for 1997-8, recorded two whole albums with Dave Stewart, best known for being one-half of Eurythmics. Even the government was keen to capitalise on the game's success. Lara was named as an ambassador for British scientific excellence. \"There was a kind of Britsoft along with Britpop, it was 97 when [Tony] Blair got in [as prime minister],\" says Mr Simons. \"I think she's part of that fabric of icons that came out of Britain, that was part of that Cool Britannia, Blur and Oasis, Spice Girls sort of period.\" Ian Livingstone CBE, who launched Tomb Raider when he was executive chairman of Core Design's parent firm Eidos, said nobody expected the game to be as successful as it was. \"I think we had budgeted 100,000 units... and we ended up selling 7.5 million units of the first Tomb Raider. Lara Croft became arguably as iconic as James Bond did in films.\" Angelina Jolie starred in two blockbuster Hollywood adaptations - Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and the sequel Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003). Jolie has said that filming in Cambodia for the first film was a life-changing experience. She adopted her first child from the country shortly after the film's release, and it also sparked her humanitarian work. In the film companion she explained her reservations about how the film would thrust her into the limelight. \"Did I really want to star in a massive blockbuster that was going to up my profile like never before and would make it impossible to disappear from the public eye?\" she said. Jolie said she was \"extremely out of shape\" before the film but spent months training to prepare for the role, including weapons training by an SAS instructor, fight training, gymnastics, motorcycle riding and dog sledding. She only wore shorts once throughout both films and her bra was only padded by one extra cup size. Jolie said: \"My Lara has still got what makes her a cyber-icon, but I'm more athletic than curvy, in control rather than cute.\" She recently returned to Cambodia to direct a film adaptation of First They Killed My Father, the memoir of Cambodian human rights activist Loung Ung. It was a hit because it was \"an amazingly high-quality game\", Mr Livingstone says, and having a powerful, female central character boosted its appeal. \"Men wanted to play the character of Lara Croft and a lot of women wanted to be Lara Croft.\" However, the character's exaggerated feminine image has antagonised many. Feminist Germaine Greer dubbed her a \"sergeant major with balloons stuffed up his shirt\" and \"not a real woman\". Sex was certainly used to sell the games. A series of models were hired to play her, including former Page 3 girl Nell McAndrew - who was later fired when she posed nude as Lara for Playboy. \"Sex has been used to market things in the world since marketing pretty much started,\" says Mr Simons. \"And that's not peculiar to videogames by any means.\" And while the games emphasised Lara's athleticism, Mr Simons said later versions featured a character who now had noticeably larger breasts. However, Ms Marie thinks being a sex symbol is not incompatible with being a powerful female icon. \"To some people Lara was a sex symbol and was this beautiful woman who was positioned as a pinup character in the advertising,\" she says. \"But she was also inspirational on so many levels and had a fairly fleshed out character and a very interesting one, and inspirational in terms of her independence and quick wit.\" Now, 20 years on, Tomb Raider has evolved and the Lara Croft character is noticeably less sexualised - the hotpants have gone and her breasts have shrunk. The 2013 reboot featured a younger Lara, and explored her origins and how she became the Tomb Raider. \"This Lara was definitely positioned as more of a flawed character in that she's very human,\" says Ms Marie. \"So she expresses fear and has to push through that to be courageous and save her friends.\" Lara may be less prominent in mainstream media now, but the 2013 reboot was the best-selling game in the history of the franchise, and a new film is set to come out in 2018. \"It's really incredible to see that 20 years after Lara first debuted she is still doing incredibly well and the future looks very bright for the franchise,\" says Ms Marie.", "question": "A feminist icon , a virtual blow - up doll , the sixth Spice Girl , a cyberbabe , an ambassador for Britain , or a @placeholder male fantasy ? Lara Croft , who turns 20 today , has been described as all of these .", "option_0": "picture", "option_1": "school", "option_2": "distorted", "option_3": "growing", "option_4": "planned"}
{"id": 1479, "article": "The visitors led 24-0 at the break through a brace from Sneyd and tries from Fetuli Talanoa and Albert Kelly. Kelly bagged his second after the restart and Josh Griffin and Carlos Tuimavave scored before Sneyd crossed for his third of the evening. Sam Wood and Oliver Roberts got consolation scores for the Giants in the second half. Huddersfield stand-off Danny Brough, who needs six points to move up to ninth on the all-time domestic points scorers list, missed both his attempts at goal. The dominant victory moves the Black and Whites up to second in the Super League table before the rest of the weekend's fixtures. Huddersfield Giants: Mason, Ormsby, S. Wood, Mellor, McIntosh, Brough, Brierley, Rapira, Leeming, Ikahihifo, Roberts, Smith, Hinchcliffe. Replacements: Wakeman, Clough, Dickinson, M. Wood. Hull FC: Shaul, Fonua, Tuimavave, Griffin, Talanoa, Kelly, Sneyd, Taylor, Houghton, Bowden, Manu, Minichiello, Thompson. Replacements: Connor, Green, Matongo, Washbrook. Referee: Phil Bentham. Attendance: 5,176.", "question": "Marc Sneyd scored a hat - trick and @placeholder eight goals as Hull FC comfortably won at Huddersfield Giants .", "option_0": "finish", "option_1": "kicked", "option_2": "level", "option_3": "assisted", "option_4": "named"}
{"id": 1480, "article": "The funding will see the town's Grand Theatre produce the work about the giant gorilla in 2017, using \"multiple art forms in a variety of locations\". A theatre spokesman said a \"surprise\" show for a \"secret and fantastical site\" was also planned for this year. Chief executive Ruth Eastwood said the works would celebrate \"the uniqueness of this amazing town\". The theatre was given the funding after applying to the council's Ambition For Excellence fund, which is aimed at \"stimulating and supporting ambition, talent and excellence across the arts sector in England\". The spokesman said the productions would \"involve artists of international standing as well as local talent\" and be created in conjunction with local arts company LeftCoast. He added that exact locations for the production had yet to be confirmed. LeftCoast artistic director Michael Trainor said the award was \"a huge vote of confidence in Blackpool's creative community and will bring the very highest quality creative experiences to the amazing locations\". Source: IMDB The \"surprise\" show, due to be staged later this year, will be created with help from theatre company Dreamthinkspeak, which has created several works for the Brighton Festival and for Liverpool's City of Culture programme in 2008. Artistic director Tristan Sharps said he had been \"dreaming about this project for the last two years\" and was \"really looking forward to creating a show for a secret and fantastical site at the heart of the town\". \"I'm really excited to explore and discover how the project will adapt and develop in response to this remarkable town's past, present and future,\" he added.", "question": "Blackpool is to stage a \" reimagining \" of the King Kong @placeholder , thanks to a ¡ê 680,000 Arts Council grant .", "option_0": "decline", "option_1": "process", "option_2": "story", "option_3": "museum", "option_4": "constituency"}
{"id": 1481, "article": "Tests were scheduled across India but those at Kamptee, Nagpur, Ahmednagar, Ahmedabad, Goa and Kirkee have now been delayed. More than 300 candidates are being questioned in connection with the leak, officials said. In addition, 18 other people have been arrested in Maharashtra and Goa states. An internal investigation has been ordered, army officials say. Some reports suggest tests at other centres are likely to be cancelled. Police said the students were allegedly given the question papers in advance by people connected to coaching institutes. The exams were for lower-level posts in the Indian army such as soldier-tradesman and soldier-clerk.", "question": "The Indian army has cancelled recruitment exams in six centres in the @placeholder of the country after question papers were reportedly leaked .", "option_0": "middle", "option_1": "east", "option_2": "colours", "option_3": "west", "option_4": "region"}
{"id": 1482, "article": "The Council of Islamic Ideology - which came under fire last month for suggesting husbands should be allowed to lightly beat their wives - said it had declared such killings to be un-Islamic in 1999, and made clear it was restating its position following a spate of killings in recent weeks. A working group formed to look into the matter has recommended that while \"adultery, obscenity and immodesty are grave sins and Islam prescribes harsh punishments for them, it does not allow an individual to act in an extra-judicial manner\". The CII said it was up to the courts to declare an individual guilty or innocent. Its statement says that anyone guilty of such killing should be tried under a range of existing laws that cover different categories of murder.  These laws, it says, are in conformity with Islamic teachings and therefore no new legislation is required. There have been at least four cases in the past month in which a woman was killed in a marital dispute. It is alleged the murders were carried out by family members or relatives of a rejected suitor, either on their own or following the verdict of local elders. Last week a young woman, Zeenat Rafiq, was allegedly burnt to death in Lahore by her mother for marrying without family consent, triggering widespread anger. A week earlier school teacher Maria Sadaqat was set on fire in Murree near Islamabad for refusing a marriage proposal. She died of her injuries. And last month a teenager was burnt to death near Abbottabad on the orders of village elders because she helped a female friend to elope, police said. On Sunday, ahead of the CII statement, a group of Pakistani clerics issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, declaring honour killing to be against the teaching of Islam. According to the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), at least 109 people were killed for \"honour\" during just four months, between January and April this year. Human rights monitors say the incidence of such killings is on the rise. The HRCP reported 1,100 honour killing incidents in 2015, 1,105 in 2014 and 869 in 2013. Increased media coverage may be one reason but changing lifestyles amid continuing social conservatism are also a major factor. For example, women's education and their exposure to changing lifestyles and fashion in the media have been growing. Mobile phones and the internet have also empowered many women. But social norms continue to prevent them from practising this newfound liberation. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the killers are often close relatives - a brother, father, cousin, even a mother, or a maternal or paternal uncle. Most killings take place after the woman concerned is accused of having a pre-marital or  extra-marital affair, marries a man of her choice despite her family's opposition, or refuses a marriage proposal brought by her family. Since honour killings are largely a family affair, most cases go unreported - so police rarely make arrests. Even in the reported cases the families involved often reach an out-of-court settlement and the alleged killers walk free. Under a 1980s law the next-of-kin of the victim have the right to pardon the person accused of killing them. Attempts to introduce stricter laws have often been abandoned following opposition from religious lobbyists. A law passed by the Punjab parliament in February which criminalised all forms of violence against women has still not been enacted after the CII said it violated Islamic teachings. There is the sanction of society. Honour killing is a function of culture, and so it cuts across religions. One example is the recent murder of a Christian teenage girl in Sialkot. The police said that Anum Masih wanted to marry a Christian neighbour but her family was opposed to the proposal. On Sunday morning, her 23-year-old brother, Saqib Masih, smashed her head with a log, police said. In an article published in Dawn newspaper, Lahore-based intellectual Mushtaq Soofi explained the phenomenon by linking it to the origin of private property and the concomitant evolution of modern family in societies that have not progressed beyond feudal ethics. \"Once consigned to the household, a woman was gradually reduced to a piece of property,\" he wrote. \"And property if left unguarded is taken by someone else.\" This, he said, was also \"the secret of endogamous marriage\". Women also needed to be \"monitored and controlled\" because of their reproductive power. \"She is considered a machine that makes men,\" Mushtaq Soofi added. \"If she goes off with a man not accepted by her family, she in fact creates the male competitors who would challenge the family muscle.\"", "question": "The Council of Islamic Ideology ( CII ) in Pakistan has declared that killing in the name of family honour is un - Islamic and against the law . The group , which advises the government on religious aspects of law and society , issued its statement after a recent spate of killings shocked many in Pakistan and around the world . Will anyone @placeholder ?", "option_0": "understand", "option_1": "listen", "option_2": "forces", "option_3": "show", "option_4": "change"}
{"id": 1483, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Ards midfielder Gareth Tommons and Crues attacker David Cushley were sent-off before Owens headed in from a Paul Heatley cross to clinch victory. Ballymena United fought back from two down to draw 2-2 with Dungannon Swifts while Portadown beat Carrick 4-0. Jamie McGonigle hit a double in Coleraine's 3-0 win at Ballinamallard. Relive the Premiership action on our text commentary Ian Parkhill put the Bannsiders ahead seconds into the second half at Ferney Park before McGonigle sealed a win which takes Coleraine up three places to sixth. Ards had the chance to replace Crusaders as leaders but Stephen Baxter's side showed the stuff of champions to take all three points at the Bangor Fuels Arena. Media playback is not supported on this device Tommons was first to go on 50 minutes followed by Cushley 20 minutes later, both straight reds for poor tackles. \"Ards made it tough for us and you have to give them credit,\" said Crusaders matchwinner Owens. \"I think they will do well this season. Our performances have not been great but we dug in and got the result. \"It was a great ball in by Paul Heatley and I got on the end of it.\" Andrew Mitchell put the in-form Swifts in control against Ballymena, scoring twice in four minutes at Stangmore Park. Conor McCloskey reduced the deficit with a diving header before Cathair Friel's second-half equaliser. It was a debut to remember for Portadown midfielder Alan Byrne, with the former Shelbourne and Drogheda player netting in an impressive display from Shamrock Park hosts. Aaron Haire was injured in scoring Portadown's third goal and he required lengthy treatment for a head injury before being stretched off.", "question": "Jordan Owens struck in @placeholder time to give champions Crusaders a 1 - 0 away win over Ards and stretch their lead at the top of the Premiership to four points .", "option_0": "space", "option_1": "record", "option_2": "hand", "option_3": "order", "option_4": "added"}
{"id": 1484, "article": "Stephen McCusker, who worked at the Rachel House Hospice in Kinross, downloaded 1,740 images of children, 40 of which were considered indecent. The 48-year-old, from Glenrothes in Fife, said he could offer no excuses except \"curiosity mixed with wine\". The Nursing and Midwifery Council banned him for 12 months. Panel chairman Brian Yates said McCusker had a 20-year career without any disciplinary action or complaint. He also said that the images were at the lower end of the indecent image scale. The nurse pleaded guilty last year to one count of taking, or permitting to be taken, indecent photos of children over a four-year period. He was given a three-year supervision order by the court and ordered to complete 250 hours of unpaid work. The court heard McCusker had been viewing the material for \"quite some time\" and he had told officers that he would \"view it, feel disgusted and then delete it\". McCusker said he was \"interested\" in young boys and girls but had never sexually abused a child, adding he could offer \"no explanation\" for his behaviour. He was not present or represented at the Nursing and Midwifery Council. He sent a letter which said: 'I was a nurse for 20 years with an exemplary record. I find it difficult to put in words my shame at the damage I have inflicted on the reputation of the Children's Hospice Association Scotland and the NMC.\" McCusker resigned from his post at the hospice immediately after his arrest, the Nursing and Midwifery Council was told. Mr Yates said: \"Mr McCusker has brought the profession into disrepute as a consequence of his conviction and in particular by reason of the nature of the offence involved. \"Members of the public would be deeply concerned to learn that a learning disabilities and children's nurse, working in a children's hospice had a conviction for offences relating to possession of indecent images of children.\"", "question": "A nurse at a children 's hospice who downloaded hundreds of indecent images of youngsters out of \" curiosity \" has @placeholder being struck off .", "option_0": "revealed", "option_1": "died", "option_2": "escaped", "option_3": "described", "option_4": "attracted"}
{"id": 1485, "article": "The diversity and racial inequality campaign in America has been ditched after it was criticised as opportunistic and inappropriate. Starbucks spokesman Jim Olson said the coffee chain's race initiative would carry on without the messages. The campaign was launched after national protests in the US over several police killings of black men in New York and Ferguson, Missouri. \"While there has been criticism of the initiative - and I know this hasn't been easy for any of you - let me assure you that we didn't expect universal praise,\" a company memo from CEO Howard Schultz said. Some customers said they didn't want to talk about race while being served coffee. The #racetogether hashtag was also hijacked after being promoted on Twitter. \"Most people come to Starbucks for coffee,\" said Ninette Musili, a 19-year-old African-American student at the University of Michigan. \"Race is an uncomfortable thing to bring up, especially in a Starbucks.\" Another customer, Shane Mulholland, 46, said Starbucks wasn't the place to talk about race. \"They're here for coffee. They're not here to push their political agenda,\" he said. \"I even contemplated not coming here because of it.\" He said Starbucks should remain neutral on topics like race because it's an established brand, rather than risk putting customers off. \"There are other ways you can go about doing things to stimulate interest in what you're doing,\" said Mulholland. \"They must be doing so well they don't have to worry about losing customers over that.\" Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "question": "Starbucks baristas wo n't @placeholder Race Together on customers ' cups any more .", "option_0": "write", "option_1": "fixed", "option_2": "suspected", "option_3": "even", "option_4": "scrambled"}
{"id": 1486, "article": "Joan McVittie transformed two schools in deprived areas of London. Sally Coates has overseen huge improvements at Burlington Danes Academy in west London. Three fostering couples who have cared for more than 620 children between them are also recognised with MBEs. Dame Joan, now 60, said she was \"absolutely thrilled\" to be singled out for her work in education and only wished her parents had been around to see her receive the honour. She says the secret of her success in schools has been \"to get a good team\" and to ensure that the people around her \"grow and develop\". \"It's about playing to people's strengths,\" she added. She was recognised for her work in improving Leytonstone School, and then going on to transform Woodside High, in Tottenham. She took the Tottenham school, which replaced White Hart Lane School - dubbed \"the worst school in London\" - from the verge of closure to an outstanding Ofsted rating in just five years. Last year it was rated one of the top 25 most improved schools in the country for its GCSE results. She is also rewarded for her time serving on a national body encouraging good school leadership, National College for School Leadership, and for her contribution to the Association of School and College Leaders, of which she is a past president. Dame Sally, who has worked in teaching since she was 22, is also credited with transforming a school - this time on the deprived White City Estate in west London. Now, 59, she took over Burlington Danes, which replaced a school in special measures, in 2008. She said the first day she went into the school it was \"pretty chaotic\". \"There weren't any systems and structures, and nothing was really working,\" she added. Pupils' poor behaviour and poor results was disheartening, she said, but she managed to begin the process of change by having high expectations of her pupils, and plenty of optimism and resilience. \"The thing to remember is that everyone wants things to work. The teachers want to work in a good school, the parents want the school to be good and the children want to be in a good school.\" She also recently oversaw a review of the standards expected of teachers for the government and served as a member of the committee which recently reviewed the national tests children take at the end of primary school. About 10% of the total honours go to people for their work in education. Some 31 head teachers were recognised in all. Patricia and Bryan Bottomley have been given MBEs for their work with children and families. The couple have fostered over 600 children of all ages and nationalities over 40 years in the area of Hull. They have had as many as three or four children placed with them at any one time, as well as raising six children of their own. They have also worked for many years supporting new foster parents, and the couple have provided respite care for other foster families. Also recognised with an MBE for their work as foster carers are Jackie and John Franklin. They have been foster carers for over 30 years and have fostered nearly 100 children under the age of six years in Bristol. The couple have also raised three daughters and a son whom they adopted when he was three. They were recognised by the City of Bristol in 2011 with a long service award and are recognised as having profoundly improved the lives of children looked after by the local authority. Anthony Hiles, and his wife Muriel, have also been awarded an MBE for their work as foster carers in the West Midlands since November 1994. The couple are currently linked with six children and have cared for over 20 disabled children to date, offering short breaks typically comprising a few nights a month, but occasionally more, perhaps to enable a family to take a holiday. They go beyond their duties by keeping in touch with families, listening to them and offering them advice and support.", "question": "Two head teachers who have turned around @placeholder schools and contributed to education at a national level have been made dames in the Queen 's New Year 's Honours .", "option_0": "allowing", "option_1": "forcing", "option_2": "struggling", "option_3": "aged", "option_4": "helped"}
{"id": 1487, "article": "The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) will scrutinise how he remained in public life. Lead counsel to the inquiry, Brian Altman QC, said it will adopt the same method it used for claims about late Labour MP Lord Janner. Accusations about abuse by Smith in Westminster will be covered separately. The far-reaching inquiry will not require \"specific findings\" into allegations against the Liberal MP, who died aged 82 in 2010, its counsel said. He is suspected of sexually abusing children at Knowl View school and Cambridge House Boys' Hostel in Rochdale. The two institutions, where children were placed in the care of Rochdale Borough Council, are currently being examined by the IICSA. Mr Altman, QC for the inquiry, told a preliminary hearing its work would focus on the authorities' responses rather than any offending. He said this was partly informed by the \"inability of Cyril Smith to respond to those allegations\". He stated the inquiry is interested in the extent to \"which a public figure like Cyril Smith may have been able to target young men\" who lived at Cambridge House and \"how he was able to remain at the centre of public life in Rochdale despite awareness of the part of some of the allegations against him\". The inquiry will consider: The Rochdale arm of the inquiry is one of 13 areas of public life being scrutinised for child protection failings, ranging from the Army to the Roman Catholic church. Smith acted as a governor for several schools in the town, including Knowl View, which shut in 1992. The Crown Prosecution Service and Greater Manchester Police said in 2012 Smith would have faced prosecution if the allegations had been in the current era. Public evidence hearings for the investigation begin in October.", "question": "The response of public @placeholder to child sex abuse allegations against former Rochdale MP Cyril Smith is to be examined by a child sex abuse inquiry .", "option_0": "bid", "option_1": "head", "option_2": "powers", "option_3": "bodies", "option_4": "officials"}
{"id": 1488, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The warning, in a letter to clubs from the FA, follows allegations of historical child abuse in the sport. It is FA policy that all coaches of youth teams must have an FA accepted in-date criminal records check (CRC). The FA says while 99.7% of clubs have been compliant, there are more than 2,500 coaches without an in-date CRC. There are also nearly 5,000 youth teams without a named coach. FA chairman Greg Clarke has written to clubs demanding they update their information on the FA's Whole Game System (WGS) by midnight on 15 January. Failure to do so will mean \"clubs will face suspension from all football activity without further notice\", the FA says. Furthermore, a club's affiliation will be removed as of midnight on 28 February if they remain non-compliant with the requirement that their coaches having an in-date CRC. The letter warns clubs that if they \"have a coach who is not compliant with this, you must not allow them to coach, train, supervise or assist at matches with any youth teams, until this requirement is met\". It continues: \"This is an essential aspect of any club's responsibilities when working with U18s and, as a club, you are responsible for ensuring that no-one coaches, or has unsupervised access to children, until they have an FA accepted check.\" The spotlight has fallen on abuse in football since a number of former footballers came forward publicly to tell their stories. Police said in December there are 429 potential victims linked to football, some as young as four at the time of the alleged offence, and 148 clubs are now involved, with 155 potential suspects identified.", "question": "Junior football clubs in England face suspension from the Football Association if their coaches have not been @placeholder to work with children .", "option_0": "willing", "option_1": "introduced", "option_2": "cleared", "option_3": "issued", "option_4": "threatening"}
{"id": 1489, "article": "NHS Borders warned earlier this month that it was facing \"exceptional\" pressure on beds at the Borders General Hospital. An update issued on the situation said the facility near Melrose remained busy. It stressed that staff were continuing to work hard to ensure that patients were \"kept safe and well cared for\". NHS Borders reminded the public that community pharmacists were available to provide advice and treatment for a range of common illnesses and ailments, and to give advice about medicines. \"If you have an illness or injury that won't go away and that isn't an emergency, contact your GP to make an appointment,\" a statement added. \"When your GP surgery is closed and you're too ill to wait, you can access medical care by calling NHS 24 on the free phone number 111. \"If the condition is immediately life-threatening, dial 999 for an emergency ambulance.\"", "question": "A health board has thanked the public for its support to help a hospital cope with a \" busy winter @placeholder \" .", "option_0": "safety", "option_1": "power", "option_2": "life", "option_3": "schedule", "option_4": "period"}
{"id": 1490, "article": "The annual Roald Dahl Funny Prize is to be relaunched in 2016 as part of the author's centenary celebrations. Set up by former children's laureate Michael Rosen in 2008, the prize is intended to reward authors and artists of humorous children's books. A spokesman for the Dahl Literary Estate said they looked forward to making the prize \"even more impactful\". The prize was created as a joint enterprise between book charity Booktrust, the Roald Dahl literary estate and Rosen. 'Robust future' \"We are delighted with the success that the Roald Dahl Funny Prize has achieved in a fairly short amount of time,\" said Luke Kelly of Dahl & Dahl. \"The Prize has paid tribute to many fantastically talented, inventive and mischievous storytellers.\" Booktrust boss Viv Bird said the prize had been a \"phenomenal triumph\" but she wanted to ensure \"a robust future for this unique celebration of funny books\". Last year's winners, Simon Rickerty (Monkey Nut) and Jim Smith (I Am Not A Loser), received ?¡ê2,500 each.", "question": "A children 's book prize @placeholder by Matilda author Roald Dahl has been put on hold for two years .", "option_0": "presented", "option_1": "inspired", "option_2": "helped", "option_3": "run", "option_4": "criticised"}
{"id": 1491, "article": "Africa will go through six human actions this year - it will stand, kneel, squat, bow, fall and then rise again. Here's how. In the group of those who will be standing in Africa in 2017 is Donald Trump. Yes, I know it's an act of treason to associate him with Africa. But when he's sworn in as president, his foreign policy (or tweetplomacy) will have a bearing on our continent. His critics warn that his isolationist stand might mean less attention will be paid to Africa. But it could just force Africans to find solutions from within, by strengthening our institutions, improving infrastructure, governance and security and trading more amongst ourselves. Another man who also takes office in January is Nana Akufo-Addo, the president-elect of Ghana. He's tried to enter Flagstaff House (the presidential residency) through the ballot box as the New Patriotic Party candidate since 2008. Now that he has the keys, Ghanaians will wait to see how he delivers his pledge of one district, one factory, lest he becomes one man, one term. And then there's the state of emergency in Ethiopia, which still stands. It was put in place last October following violent protests. The government says the security situation has improved save for some clashes in the northern part of Amhara region. Some 9,000 people detained under the state of emergency have been released and the government says it could lift the emergency before its six-month period is over. There are two prominent men who will be kneeling before voters to ask for a job. Paul Kagame has been president for the last 16 years, but Rwandans appear to want more of him and have voted to remove the term-limit barrier. In August, Mr Kagame will therefore use his constitutional right to ask for a new employment contract. In the same month, his Kenyan neighbour Uhuru Kenyatta will also be reapplying for his job. Last September, while warning the main opposition leader Raila Odinga to mind his own party and leave the ruling Jubilee party alone, President Kenyatta famously said: \"a€| as you continue to search for a seat and salivate, we are feasting on the meat\". It will be clear in August whether Kenyans will give Jubilee more time to feast or turn the party itself into mince meat. Joseph Warungu: \"The Nigerian economy... enters 2017 in the squat position\" The African Union has been searching for a new Chief Executive Officer and will fill the position in January. Three men and two women from Botswana, Kenya, Chad, Senegal and Equatorial Guinea will fight it out to replace the outgoing South African Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, as Chair of the AU Commission. Now to some situations and people who can't decide whether to stand or sit. The Nigerian economy has caught its nastiest stomach bug in more than two decades. And so it enters 2017 in the squat position. A combination of factors including a crash in the global price of oil, which Nigeria relies a lot on, and a fall in the naira, the country's currency, contributed to the sizeable contraction of the economy in 2016. The anger and frustration among the people was aptly captured by this online comment from one Nigerian in November: \"We are now going into depression and deep S***! Buhari has himself to blame for unfortunately being a gentleman!\" Over in The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh is no gentleman - he's chosen to squat at State House. He lost the presidential election to Adama Barrow and publicly conceded defeat. A little later, the thought of leaving the seat he has called his own for the last 22 years overpowered him and he changed his mind. Africa and the world have asked him to go home, but he is defiant. As his last day in office approaches on 19 of January, the same force he used to gain power in 1994 could be used to relieve him of his office. There are three notable people who will be bowing out of office in 2017. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first elected female head of state in Africa, is coming to the end of her second and final term of office in Liberia. One of those waiting on the touchline to join the succession race is football star George Weah. The former AC Milan and Chelsea striker failed to score in the 2005 presidential tournament but hopes 2017 will be his year. Angolans will have a chance to replace the only man they've known as president for nearly 40 years. Although Jose Eduardo dos Santos has announced he'll step down, his blood will still flow through the veins of power and the economy in Angola. His daughter, Isabel, heads Sonangol, the state oil company and is considered by Forbes to be Africa's richest woman, while his son, Jose, is chairman of the country's sovereign wealth fund, Fundo Soberano de Angola. In neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, 2017 could mark the beginning of the end for another family dynasty, which started in 1997 when Laurent Desire Kabila became president after overthrowing Mobutu Sese Seko. Laurent Kabila's son Joseph picked up the reigns after his father's assassination in 2001, and was bent on staying in power until attempts to change the constitution to allow him a third term backfired. Violent street protests have piled pressure on President Kabila to exit from office this year and the issue is bound to continue into the new year. The theme of falling is alive in South Africa. The #FeesMustFall campaign by university students sought to fight the rising cost of higher education and saw violent clashes between police and protesters, disruptions in the university calendar and the arrest of a number of students. 2017 promises more of the same because not only have the fees not fallen, some top universities have announced an 8% increase. And then there's the question of the country's President Jacob Zuma. In December 2017, his tenure as leader of the governing ANC party runs out, but his term as the country's president only ends in 2019. Allowing Mr Zuma to continue as head of state but with the ANC under someone else's leadership could create two centres of power, which could be political suicide. So will the ANC #LetZumaFall as it did President Thabo Mbeki under similar circumstances? 2017 will have answers. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is another that could face the threat of falling in Africa if more African countries continue to withdraw from the Rome Statute. A number of countries have notified the UN Secretary-General of their intention to withdraw, saying the ICC unfairly targets African leaders in its application of international justice. And now to international trends where fashion, like history, has a habit of repeating itself. A quick glance at catwalk signs for 2017 shows that the hems of women's skirts will be falling - to just below the knee. Apparently midi-skirts elongate the figure and flatter the wearer, so this must be a good fall. The Africa Cup of Nations tournament kicks off in mid-January in Gabon and Uganda carries the hopes of East Africa. The region has a terrible record in continental football. Uganda's last appearance in the finals was in 1978 when it lost to Ghana in the final. Kenya and Tanzania have never progressed beyond the group stage, so if Uganda can rise, East Africa can stand tall. In politics, despite all manner of socio-economic challenges, the spirit of the Africans is on the rise - they've already just about removed one long-serving president from power (The Gambia, even if he is still resisting ) and in 2017 a couple more might follow (DR Congo, Angola) When Africa stumbles, it must rise because as they say in Nigeria, the sun shines on those who stand before it shines on those who are sitting. More from Joseph Warungu: Should the UK join the African Union? Kenyans beg for mercy Doctors take on traditional healers Why Kenya has banned on-air sex", "question": "In our series of letters from African journalists , @placeholder and communications trainer Joseph Warungu gives a personal guide to some of the key people , places and events to watch out for in Africa in 2017 .", "option_0": "media", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "blood", "option_3": "culture", "option_4": "actor"}
{"id": 1492, "article": "How important are trade unions to the Labour Party? The Labour Party grew out of the trade union movement at the beginning of the 20th Century when, following a special trade union conference, the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) was formed out of unions and other left wing organisations. The LRC sponsored the first two Labour MPs elected in 1900. Today many Labour MPs come from trade union backgrounds or have close links to unions. In fact, you must be a member of a trade union to be eligible to seek selection as a Labour candidate, unless for some reason you have been prevented from doing so. The old system of direct trade union sponsorship of MPs no longer exists, but many Labour MPs receive substantial donations to their constituency party. What's changed? In 2013, former leader Ed Miliband proposed historic reforms to the relationship between the party and the unions following a row over candidate selection in Falkirk. A special Labour Party conference passed party reforms in March 2014, bringing in one member one vote for Labour leadership elections and opt-in for trade union affiliate Labour members. The old electoral college, which gave unions, party members and MPs/MEPs a third of the vote each, was abolished. For the next leader, voting will take place on a one-member-one-vote basis in a single section comprising Labour Party members, affiliated trade union supporters and registered supporters. How much money does Labour get from the trade unions? The trade unions provide the majority of recorded donations to Labour and in the past it has been income Labour could rely upon. In 2014 unions donated around ¡ê11m to Labour, accounting for about 58% of total donations received that year. Its top donors were Unite, Unison and Usdaw. The Electoral Commission's donation figures include the affiliation fees that trade unions pay to the Labour Party in return for the privileges of affiliated membership for themselves and their members. For a union to affiliate nationally, it must pay ¡ê3 from its political fund for each member that it wishes to affiliate. But the way in which trade union members affiliate to Labour is undergoing changes at the moment. Previously trade union members had been automatically affiliated to the Labour Party unless they pro-actively chose to opt out. Now they must choose to opt-in. Trade unions will still collect a levy from their members but this will go into their own political funds rather than automatically to Labour, though they can still chose to donate this money to Labour if they wish to. Some argue that this puts Labour's finances at risk, whilst other see it as an opportunity to change the party's funding base. Labour highlights the income it receives in donations too small to be registered with the Electoral Commission. Figures released to the BBC show that small donations and membership accounted for 35% of Labour's income in 2014. How many affiliated trade union supporters does Labour have now? In the 2010 Labour leadership election, about 2.7 million ballot papers were distributed to trade unionists. No-where near that many trade unionists will be entitled to a say this time around. Currently the party has just 500 affiliate trade union supporters who have 'opted-in' under the new system, though Labour expects that figure to go up massively in the coming months as the trade unions begin a recruitment drive.", "question": "Labour 's relationship with the trade unions is under the spotlight again as the party 's leadership contest gets under way and following criticism by outgoing Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy of the @placeholder of the Unite union .", "option_0": "end", "option_1": "horrors", "option_2": "influence", "option_3": "outcome", "option_4": "members"}
{"id": 1493, "article": "The waves are the result of swells produced by Hurricane Marie in the Pacific, 800 miles (1,300km) west of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. Dangerous wave conditions are expected to continue through Thursday despite a weakened storm. One person has died while surfing on a beach in Malibu. But it is unclear if the death was caused by the surf or a medical condition. Despite the danger, thousands of spectators lined the Wedge, a popular surf spot in Newport Beach, to watch surfboarders take on the waves, town officials said. The swells are the largest seen in southern California since a pair of hurricanes hit the Pacific within weeks of each other in 1997, National Weather Service weather specialist Stuart Ceto said.", "question": "Waves as high as 20ft ( 6 m ) in southern California have damaged waterfront homes , knocked out pier pilings and @placeholder scores of surfers .", "option_0": "protect", "option_1": "destroyed", "option_2": "stranded", "option_3": "wounded", "option_4": "attracted"}
{"id": 1494, "article": "The trunk road drops from 150m (492ft) to 20m (65ft) as it enters a valley at the braes in Caithness. There have been accusations from business leaders and politicians that the problem with this section of the A9 was being \"ignored\". Documents key to progressing the improvements have been published. The documents, called made orders, are part of the process towards eventually appointing a contractor and then starting work in 2018, Transport Minister Humza Yousaf has said. He added: \"The Scottish government has been working to progress the much-needed improvements to the A9 at Berriedale Braes. \"The hairpin bend and steep hill at Berriedale Braes has presented drivers, in particular HGVs and other long vehicles, with a very challenging road to negotiate. \"Having got the go-ahead last December following the public local inquiry, we are now able to publish the made orders for the scheme as a clear signal of our commitment to deliver this scheme.\"", "question": "Construction of @placeholder improvements to a challenging hairpin bend on the A9 at Berriedale Braes could begin next year , the Scottish government has said .", "option_0": "masked", "option_1": "planned", "option_2": "paying", "option_3": "further", "option_4": "linked"}
{"id": 1495, "article": "Trevor O'Neill was shot outside a supermarket in Majorca just after 21:00 local time on Wednesday, Irish national broadcaster RT?¡ë reports. His shooting is understood to be linked to a feud between Irish criminal gangs. Mr O'Neill's partner and three children, aged five, seven and 10, were with him when the attack happened. They had travelled to Majorca on Saturday for a holiday for his 40th birthday. Police believe the attack was connected to a dispute between the Hutch and Kinahan groups, but Mr O'Neill was not the intended victim. The feud between the gangs was sparked by the killing of Dubliner Gary Hutch in Spain last year and most of the resulting violence and murders have happened in Dublin. Attempts to revive Mr O'Neill at the scene failed and police are said to be searching for up to three suspects. It is understood that he was not linked to organised crime but may have been talking to a member of the Hutch family at the time.", "question": "An Irishman who was shot dead on a Spanish @placeholder is believed to have been killed in a case of mistaken identity in a gang - related attack .", "option_0": "island", "option_1": "sex", "option_2": "street", "option_3": "race", "option_4": "pool"}
{"id": 1496, "article": "The number of people visiting shopping centres surged by 6.2% compared with last year, while footfall on the High Street slipped 0.1%, according to retail analyst Springboard. Retail parks were the most popular destination, with visitors up 8.5%. Overall, footfall was up on last year. Springboard Insights director Diane Wehrle credited strong consumer confidence for the rise. \"Consumers are feeling much more confident about their job prospects and wage increases, so they are willing to go out and spend,\" she told the BBC. Separately, business lobby group the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), said its monthly survey showed economic growth had continued to pick up pace in the three months to August. It also said there were \"strong expectations\" for the next three months. The CBI's monthly survey includes 754 private firms from a range of sectors. The lobby group's monthly private sector growth indicator showed an overall reading of 31% for the three months to August,  just below the 2015 high recorded in May. The percentage reading indicates the number of firms reporting that business performance was up, compared with those reporting it was down. \"The weather may have been a washout this month, but the sun has certainly been shining on the British economy,\" said CBI director of economics Rain Newton-Smith.", "question": "Wet weather over the bank holiday weekend drove shoppers indoors , with many opting for @placeholder shopping centres instead of the High Street , figures suggest .", "option_0": "struggling", "option_1": "showing", "option_2": "causing", "option_3": "remarks", "option_4": "covered"}
{"id": 1497, "article": "The company, which reported the biggest annual loss in its history earlier this year, was the biggest loser on the FTSE 100 after going ex-dividend. Overall, the benchmark index was down 25 points or 0.34% at 7,306.98. On the currency markets, the pound was virtually unchanged against the dollar at $1.2481 and up 0.14% against the euro at 1.1723. Pearson's fall was exacerbated by a broker downgrade from Exane BNP Paribas. Three other stocks also suffered from going ex-dividend. Lloyds Banking Group shed 2.9%, while insurer Aviva dropped 2.8% and Paddy Power Betfair lost 2.3%. The biggest climber on the FTSE 100 was Easyjet which rose by 4.2% after reporting passenger numbers grew by 10.6% in March. It was followed by property groups British Land, which was up by 2.3%, Persimmon, up by 2.1%, Barratt Developments 1.9% higher  and Land Securities which rose 1.7%.", "question": "( Close ) : Embattled publisher Pearson @placeholder new woes on Thursday as its share price ended the day 6.7 % lower .", "option_0": "output", "option_1": "faced", "option_2": "remained", "option_3": "closed", "option_4": "announced"}
{"id": 1498, "article": "Special Report: The Technology of Business Helping feed the world with big data Bad guys v the data defenders Big Data: Are you ready for blast-off? Lotus F1 Team looks to tech to win Hey you, get on to my cloud This new era of medicine is being driven by an explosion in health-related data from a growing range of public and private sources, analysed by increasingly powerful number-crunching computers. And now that sequencing human genomes is getting faster and cheaper, the days of truly personalised healthcare are drawing closer. Combining public health records with all the new sources of health data generated by wearable devices, wi-fi enabled scales, smartphones and low-cost diagnostic kit, could provide a far more accurate picture of our health and the treatments we receive. And the more hard evidence we have, the better the decisions we can make. Take diabetes as an example. Nearly 350 million people worldwide have the disease, according to the World Health Organization, with about 50% of them likely to die from cardiovascular disease and stroke. An obesity epidemic also means far more children are now succumbing to type-2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease. Cheap blood glucose level testers, from companies such as Sanofi Aventis, can now be attached to smartphones and that data recorded and collated for analysis. This information can be combined with other data from exercise and diet apps to build up a more complete picture of patients' lifestyles. \"We're working with app and insulin pump providers to bring their data together with existing clinical data to allow patients to become much more involved in the management of their own care,\" says David Sibbald, chief executive of informatics company Aridhia. \"This has to happen if healthcare is to be affordable in future.\" Matt Smith, northern European chief technology officer for SoftwareAG, believes improvements in smartphone sensors and mobile diagnostic kit will help health providers make earlier interventions. \"Say we've written an app that monitors your exercise and the phone's accelerometer detects a lot of movement - we could respond to that data in real-time and send a message suggesting you check your blood sugar level,\" he says. \"This kind of early intervention could prevent a paramedic having to come out and even save your life.\" As more and more information is known about us, the more tailored our treatments will  become, believes Wayne Parslow, European manager for US healthcare analytics company, MedeAnalytics. \"Soon we'll be carrying our own personalised health plans around with us,\" he says. Most medical experts agree that the digitalisation and sharing of anonymised medical records from GPs, hospitals and other sources could lead to significant improvements in how we run our health services and tackle disease. But bringing all these disparate data sets together and standardising them is a big challenge. Dr Cliff Morgan, chief clinical information officer for the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, told the BBC: \"We're heading down the road to a completely digital health care record. But a lot of this data is in physically separated databases - there are about 400 in our hospitals alone - and so far we have brought 60% of these together into one clinical data warehouse.\" Business analytics company SAS is handling the aggregation and anonymisation of the data, which can then be interrogated in new ways, says Dr Morgan. \"Analysing this mountain of data helps us discover correlations that weren't so obvious before, so we can begin refining the way we practise medicine and identify those who are statistically more likely to succumb to a particular disease,\" he says. Hospitals can then allocate resources more efficiently and target smaller and smaller groups with almost tailor-made treatments. \"We'll be able to work out whether treatment A or B is better because we'll have live, fizzing statistics to back up the traditional wisdom and experience of doctors,\" he says. Data sharing is key to such advances, but privacy concerns continue to dog progress. NHS England recently postponed its care.data project for six months to give the public more time to understand it. As populations grow and people live longer, healthcare costs are growing to unsustainable levels. The NHS has been tasked with finding annual savings of ¡ê20bn by 2015. Big data analytics can help squeeze inefficiencies out of the system. For example, by looking a doctor's prescriptions for cholesterol-reducing statins across the country, Prescribing Analytics, a joint venture comprising NHS doctors, academics and tech start-ups, found that at least ¡ê200m a year could be saved if doctors switched from branded to cheaper - but equally effective - generic versions of the drugs. Other research has suggested these savings could be increased to ¡ê1.4bn a year if the same approach was applied to a range of other commonly prescribed drugs. Worldwide, individual hospitals are making better use of data to reduce emergency waiting times, track patient movements, moderate X-ray dosage levels, and generally manage resources more efficiently. Mr Parslow says access to huge amounts of data is enabling companies such as his to develop predictive algorithms that can forecast which demographics are likely to cost the most to treat in future, for conditions like diabetes and asthma. \"This will help healthcare providers intervene earlier and redesign their services to cope with the expected massive increase in healthcare demand,\" he says. Another exciting development is the combination of big data analytics and genomics to tackle diseases such as cancer, which is still resistant to about 75% of current treatments. The human genome project - three billion base pairs of DNA first mapped in 2000 by Craig Venter and Dr Francis Collins - took 13 years at a cost of $3bn (¡ê1.8bn). Now the latest DNA sequencing machines from the likes of Illumina can map a human genome in a day, potentially bringing the per-genome sequencing cost to under $1,000 for the first time. Companies such as US-based MolecularHealth are getting close to predicting which cancer drugs are likely to be most effective for your genetic profile and your particular type of cancer. Dr Werner Eberhardt, chief health platform expert at software company SAP, says: \"By bringing gene sequencing and historical cancer treatment data together we're moving towards truly personalised healthcare.\"", "question": "We are moving from a world where we treat illnesses to one where we predict and prevent them , advised by mobile doctors in our @placeholder .", "option_0": "series", "option_1": "pockets", "option_2": "countries", "option_3": "states", "option_4": "lives"}
{"id": 1499, "article": "Minutes later Sonia and Derek were clinging to their mother in the North Atlantic, while their elder sister Barbara had disappeared down a rope that they prayed had led to a lifeboat. Four days earlier they had set sail from Liverpool destined for Canada where they were to begin a new life - far away from deadly German bombs. In the event they were the only entire family to survive a tragedy that would claim the lives of 87 children and 175 adults - and put an end to the short-lived policy of overseas evacuation. The steam passenger ship was holed by the torpedo and sank in the early hours of 18 September, 600 miles off Ireland after its Royal Naval escort had deployed elsewhere. It was one of the worst sea tragedies involving children of World War II. The German U-48 submarine's repeated torpedo shots caused wide-scale panic and terror among the 400 passengers as lifeboats were launched and children and grown-ups scrambled for life jackets. The evacuees, many of whom were travelling with their mothers, had ironically been selected for the voyage because of their vulnerability to bombing in their home towns and cities. The Children's Overseas Reception Board, which had been set up just three months earlier to co-ordinate the evacuation of 210,000 British children to Canada, New Zealand and Australia, was disbanded following the tragedy. \"The idea was that by evacuating children out of the way it would somehow stiffen British resistance and we'd be much better equipped mentally and physically to face off a German invasion,\" explained Imperial War Museum historian Terry Chapman. The Merseyside Maritime Museum estimates that 170,000 children were evacuated to the British Dominions or the US during World War II. But the children on board the SS City of Benares never reached Canada. Sonia said: \"Little did we know at 10 o'clock that night that a U-boat had spotted us and was out for us.\" \"We rushed out onto the deck and the lifeboats had already been lowered into the sea which was very rough and we were on a sinking ship with no lifeboat and we wondered what was going to happen next.\" Barbara managed to climb a rope onto a lifeboat, while her mother, Sonia and Derek spent six hours in the Atlantic before being picked up by HMS Hurricane - but not before despair had set in. Derek said: \"Our mother told us 'let's just undo our lifebelts and we'll go to sleep in the water'.\" It was Sonia who refused to let the family die and urged them to keep hoping until the Royal Navy lights appeared out of the dark. Safely on board and recovering from hypothermia, they waited for news of Barbara. Derek said: \"My mother kept on calling 'has anyone seen Barbara?' A report came in that some people had died in their lifeboat and then another report came in that everybody had died in another boat. \"It went on and on and my mother was virtually giving up hope until in the last minute a sailor came down to my mother and said 'here's your Barbara'.\" \"The story of the sinking of the City of Benares is so important that everybody needs to be reminded of it from time to time,\" said Derek. \"It is one of those stories that never fades in the retelling and is a stark reminder to all of us of those dark days of the Second World War when terrible things happened to men, women and children.\"", "question": "Just before midnight on September 17 1940 , the Bech children were among 100 evacuees on board the SS City of Benares , who were @placeholder from their sleep by a German torpedo .", "option_0": "evacuated", "option_1": "banned", "option_2": "murdered", "option_3": "recovered", "option_4": "woken"}
{"id": 1500, "article": "McColgan, 24, broke her ankle in January and has suffered a setback in her return from injury. \"Initially, we believed this injury would be a small blip in the road meaning six weeks off from running,\" McColgan wrote in a training blog. \"Sadly, the fracture has fully extended.\" The Scot competed at London 2012 in the 3000m steeplechase, failing to make the final, and came sixth in the same event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. She said: \"There is nothing I can do except rest and attempt to let the bone heal as impacting the joint will continue to open the fracture. \"The healing becomes less likely as time goes on, so shortly I will find out whether I need to undergo surgery in order to force the bone to heal. \"Hopefully from September I can slowly build up my training again. A completely injury-free, illness-free, winter is going to be central to my preparation for 2016 and many athletes struggle to achieve that. \"Rio 2016 will come round before any of us realise and at the end of the day the Olympic Games is the pinnacle. All the hard work, dedication, and sacrifices are purely for the Olympics. Every athlete wants to be a part of it. \"My event choice is still under question - perhaps a move to the 5000m or 10,000m will be more feasible after foot surgery, rather than risking injury over the steeplechase in such an important year.\"", "question": "Eilish McColgan says the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio are \" now more than ever \" her goal after revealing she is unlikely to @placeholder again this year .", "option_0": "reduce", "option_1": "quit", "option_2": "join", "option_3": "replace", "option_4": "race"}
{"id": 1501, "article": "The National Farmers' Union said Welsh Government proposals to extend countryside rights of way access would \"have major repercussions for farmers\". It said allowing more activities would impact the day-to-day running of farms. The Welsh Government said the plans were meant to help rural businesses thrive. NFU Cymru claim the proposals are \"radical\" and could affect the 460,000 hectares (1,1m acres) of farmland in Wales. Open access land includes areas of open country, registered common land and private land where people are able to walk, run and explore without having to stay on paths. Geraint Rowlands, Meirionnydd NFU Cymru county chairman, said changing the access could particularly affect farmers who have \"diversified\" into camping. \"Meirionnydd [in Gwynedd] is an area that relies heavily on income from tourism and many farmers in particular have diversified into camping businesses, for supplementary income,\" he said. \"If the proposals to allow camping on any access land came into force, members of the public could camp anywhere on those 460,000 hectaresa€|for free.\" NFU Cymru said the proposals were \"buried\" within the Taking Forward Wales' Sustainable Management of Natural Resources consultation. \"Along with the obvious monetary impact and the increased liability on farmers, there is also concern that these additional activities could disrupt wildlife habitats, scare animals, create ruts on land and injuries could occur whilst carrying out these activities in remote areas,\" added Mr Rowlands. \"Whilst we wish to see the public and their pets enjoy their time in this beautiful area of Wales, we do have concerns that allowing access to camping, organised games, hang gliding and paragliding could impact on the running of farming businesses.\" A Welsh Government spokesman said the purpose of the consultation was to \"gain a better understanding of views on a more modern, streamlined and effective regulatory framework\" following the UK's exit from the European Union. \"By bringing proposals together into one consultation we are delivering exactly what our stakeholders asked for - a more joined-up approach,\" he added. \"A consultation workshop was held at the Royal Welsh Show in July with further events planned across Wales during September. We have also extended the closing date until the end of September to provide stakeholders more time to respond. \"Access proposals relating to where people can go and what they can do are intended to help individuals and businesses in rural areas to thrive following our exit from the EU.\"", "question": "Plans to allow paragliding , games , camping and hang gliding on open access land in Wales have been @placeholder by a farming union .", "option_0": "approved", "option_1": "backed", "option_2": "raised", "option_3": "criticised", "option_4": "unveiled"}
{"id": 1502, "article": "Workington Town's Derwent Park joins other illustrious host venues such as Liverpool's Anfield and the London Stadium, now home to West Ham. BBC Sport explains how this west Cumbrian town came to be included, and why league is so prevalent in that part of the world. The origins of rugby league are key to its popularity in west Cumbria. In the late part of the 1800s teams in the north drawn from Cumbrian shipbuilders, Lancastrian textile workers and the pitmen of Yorkshire could literally not afford to adhere to the Rugby Football Union's 'amateur' ethos, which outlawed any payments to players. Players injured during matches, who could not work, would not be paid, nor would those who had to miss work to play, and as such the great schism came with the birth of the Northern Union and a new code of rugby in 1895. That breakaway, the early incarnation of league, allowed clubs to reimburse players for their services, and as such those towns and cities along the 'industrial belt' of England came to embrace the game, giving league its unique geographical spread. Some of rugby league's most famous characters, such as Douglas Clark and Dick Huddart, hailed from the old Cumberland and there are traces of Cumbria's lineage throughout the current Super League, in Kyle Amor, Brad Singleton and Ben Harrison. Workington Town and Barrow both lifted Challenge Cups in the 1950s featuring stars such as Gus Risman, Ike Southward and Willie Horne and before the move to the summer game, Cumbrian clubs produced players to represent Great Britain at the highest level. While the history is rich, the current fortunes of Cumbrian club rugby league are not quite so fruitful. All three teams - Workington, Whitehaven and Barrow - will play in the bottom tier, after relegation for Town and Haven. Town's drop has coincided with a reshuffle behind the scenes with a new chairman, in former player Garry Mounsey, and a new head coach in Dave Clark. \"There's no doubt that relegation in isolation is a massive disappointment for the club and the fans,\" Workington director Malcolm Allison said. \"However, what it has done is allow us to reassess things, bring together a wider board of directors and review the structure of the club both on and off the field. \"The fact that we can look forward to an international match between Scotland and New Zealand is a real tonic for the fans of the local area.\" Initially there were plans to create a new purpose-built stadium for the 2013 World Cup, but when that fell through Workington was handed host status, developing a bond between Scotland and Cumbria that has since been reinforced. Head coach Steve McCormack has his own links to the area with his successful spell in charge at Whitehaven, while players such as Brett Carter, Brett Phillips and Callum Phillips have worn the Bravehearts colours as Town players. \"It's been good to us, west Cumbria has been really good for Scotland,\" Scotland boss Steve McCormack told BBC Sport. \"We played our pool games there in the 2013 World Cup, got a great victory against Tonga and a good performance against Italy. \"Then we played Wales in the European Cup the following year and won then, so we're undefeated there and it would be nice to do that again against the Kiwis.\"", "question": "Amidst the expansion plans made for the Four Nations , with games staged in Coventry and London , there is one heartland area - Cumbria - whose commitment to the sport of rugby league has been @placeholder .", "option_0": "unveiled", "option_1": "rewarded", "option_2": "named", "option_3": "released", "option_4": "scrapped"}
{"id": 1503, "article": "The incident happened during an intermission of Guillaume Tell, prompting anti-terror units to enter the Lincoln Center venue. Several audience members said a man told them he was there to release the ashes of a friend, police said. The man has been identified and the authorities are trying to reach him. Cultural venues in New York are on alert for potential threats following the 9/11 attacks and the sprinkling of the unknown material caused the opera house to be evacuated. The show was cancelled, as was the night's performance of L'Italiana in Algeri, while police investigated. John Miller, the New York Police Department's deputy commissioner in charge of intelligence and counterterrorism, said that while disposing of ashes may violate city codes \"I don't believe at this point that we see any criminal intent here\". Some of those attending said they were particularly sad to miss the fourth act of Guillaume Tell, which is considered to have the best music in the opera.", "question": "New York 's Metropolitan Opera @placeholder an afternoon performance after an audience member sprinkled what is suspected to be cremated ashes on to the orchestra .", "option_0": "suffered", "option_1": "feared", "option_2": "filed", "option_3": "received", "option_4": "halted"}
{"id": 1504, "article": "The Prime Minister David Cameron told his party conference earlier this month that housing was the \"one big piece of unfinished business in our economy\" and he wanted a \"national crusade\" to get homes built. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told his party conference that housing was \"a top priority\" and promised the biggest council house-building programme since the 1970s. Housing policy is on the front-line of UK politics. Both Conservatives and Labour agree there needs to be significant increase in supply, but there is a clear divide on what to build. For the Tories it is about measures to encourage home ownership while for the opposition the focus is on homes for social rent. Housing is not just about putting a roof over people's heads - it is ideological. Parties accuse each other of 'social engineering' in the policies they are putting forward. Homeowners are more than twice as likely to vote Conservative as Labour and those in social rented homes are more than twice as likely to vote Labour as Conservative. Housing has always been tribal. It is generational too. According to the last census, among the over 50s more than 80% are owner-occupiers. But among the under 35s, a majority are in the rented sector. What is more, twice as many pensioners voted Conservative as Labour at the last election. Few deny that Britain is facing a housing crisis, although its real impact is felt most acutely in the south of England - and nowhere more so than the city of Oxford which, according to the council leader, is facing catastrophe because of it. Bob Price says Oxford is now the most unaffordable place to live in Britain and warns that the world-famous city's very future is at risk. \"Our University is unable to recruit and retain key people, the city hospitals cannot get enough doctors and nurses, high-tech industries like BMW and Mini are unable to maintain the workforces they need,\" Mr Price argues. \"The major institutions of the city are in danger of grinding to a halt.\" It is a vision of a city unable to function. Already the shortage of affordable homes means that 46,000 people commute into Oxford each day, workers coming from as far afield as Birmingham and Swindon. The average house price is more than 16 times average earnings. To get a mortgage on a mid-priced semi requires an income of at least ?¡ê70,000 and with rents sky-high too. The man who runs Oxford Bus Company, Phil Southall, is actively considering building a staff dormitory because he cannot attract enough bus drivers to keep services going. \"We need some more housing for our staff so they can afford to live locally otherwise people have to travel further and further, which means we have to pay more and more, which means people in the city have to be charged more for their bus travel,\" Mr Southall says. Oxford can't expand because of what some call the green garotte, a ring of greenbelt land where it's almost impossible to build homes. And even beyond, in David Cameron's Witney constituency there's fierce opposition to government efforts to increase supply. Under new planning laws introduced by the Conservatives, local councils are required to \"boost significantly the supply of housing\" and must commission an independent Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA) to work out how many homes are needed in their area. In Oxfordshire, the SHMA calculated that to meet demand and the affordability crisis, the county needed to provide 5,000 new homes each year over the next two decades. West Oxfordshire, including Mr Cameron's constituency, should contribute around 660, the assessment calculated. But the district council refused to accept the verdict, claiming the numbers were \"too high and should be adjusted downward\". Councillors agreed on their own figure of 525 a year. Some parish councils in West Oxfordshire argue that even this number is far too high and have promised to fight what they see as unnecessary development. The attitude of such local communities is quite understandable. New housing development almost certainly involves disruption, noise and a lot of mess. There are often real issues around the infrastructure to support new neighbourhoods. And, of course, there will be those who worry the arrival of new affordable homes will potentially reduce the value of their own homes. The housing crisis sets homeowners against private renters, rural heritage against urban expansion. It is where progress collides with tradition and where national ambition must confront local anxiety. Party leaders at Westminster may say it is a priority these days, but the politics of housing is as multi-layered as a residential tower-block, and the solutions often hard to reach. For decades, politicians rarely talked about housing.  Now, it seems, they rarely talk about anything else. Interactive: Where can I afford to live? In video: What the average price will buy you Q&A: Why are starter homes controversial?", "question": "Few deny that the UK is facing a housing crisis , the @placeholder has become a hot political topic . But the best way to solve it is still widely disputed , as national ambition confronts local anxiety and tradition .", "option_0": "relationship", "option_1": "jury", "option_2": "crowd", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "subject"}
{"id": 1505, "article": "VisitScotland said the Office for National Statistics (ONS) data showed the number of people employed in the industry in Scotland grew by 11%. UK-wide growth was just 4% in 2014-15, according to the VisitScotland. The 217,000 people working in Scottish tourism accounts for 9% of the total number of jobs in Scotland. Edinburgh and Glasgow are the two biggest tourism employers. In Argyll and Bute, tourism jobs represent nearly a fifth of all employment in the region. Visit Scotland said the figures showed tourism created jobs and sustained communities around the country. The 15,700 tourism workers in the Highlands make up 14% of the region's total - the same percentage as Perth and Kinross, which employs 8,700 people in the industry. West Dunbartonshire saw a 41%  jump to 3,100 employees, while Eilean Siar had an increase of 22% and Dundee, 20%. Tourism has been one of the brighter prospects in the Scottish economy. It should be helped by the (continuing) weakening of sterling, though the latest VisitScotland figures pre-date that Brexit effect by a year. A rise of 17% in the number of bar staff in only one year is hard to explain at a time when the number of pubs has been falling. That makes it one indication that the precise numbers should carry a data health warning. It is the bigger trends and the statistical direction of travel - pun intended - that matters more. The numbers highlight, for instance, how this sector differs from the rest of the economy in being disproportionately made up of businesses employing between 5 and 50 employees. A quick glance at developments in Scotland's cities will also see healthy growth in hotel building and conversion. Serviced apartments are a growing feature, and two of them are part of a VisitScotland mission, announced today, to attract more visitors from India. The figures suggest that employment by tour operators is down, while most other categories are up. That could signify a shift to more independent travel. That would include the big success of marketing the coastal route round the north of Scotland. The tourism infrastructure has been stretched by that success. It will be further stretched in remoter hotels and tourism businesses if employers are unable to attract flexible seasonal staff from across the European Union. Culture and Tourism Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: \"Our tourism industry is going from strength to strength and these figures serve to highlight the vital role that tourism plays in Scotland's economy. \"They also show how important the industry is to our rural and coastal economies. Our food and drink sectors continue to play an important role in attracting our visitors and creating employment opportunities.\" Malcolm Roughead, Chief Executive of VisitScotland, said: \"Tourism is more than a holiday experience. It creates jobs and sustains communities in every corner of Scotland all year round and is at the heart of the Scottish economy. \"These fantastic new figures show that, from hotel owners to waiting staff, tourism really is the driving force for providing the jobs of today and tomorrow.\"", "question": "The number of people working in Scottish tourism has risen by more than twice the @placeholder of the UK as a whole , according to official figures .", "option_0": "banks", "option_1": "average", "option_2": "areas", "option_3": "rate", "option_4": "depths"}
{"id": 1506, "article": "Usain Bolt stands to lose one of his nine Olympic golds after a retest of Carter's sample from the 2008 Games was found to contain a banned stimulant. Michael Frater, Asafa Powell and Dwight Thomas also face forfeiting medals. \"We have to decide what the best legal process is,\" Jamaican Olympic Association chief Mike Fennell said. \"It is a team and we are interested in ensuring they are properly protected and given a fair chance of clearing their names.\" Nevertheless the association has written to the athletes requesting they return their medals, he said. Carter's lawyer confirmed on Wednesday that the sprinter will lodge his own appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Bolt, 30, completed a 'triple triple' in Rio last summer. He won gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay to add to his successes in the same events in 2008 and 2012. Carter, 31, was also part of the squad that won the event in London five years ago and helped Jamaica win at the World Championships in 2011, 2013 and 2015. He ran the first leg in Beijing for Jamaica's 4x100m relay team, which also included Bolt, Frater, Powell and Thomas, who ran in the heats. The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which is responsible for authorising the retests for both the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Games, released updated statistics about the process on Wednesday. Beijing 2008: London 2012:", "question": "Jamaica may appeal against the decision to strip the @placeholder of its Beijing 4x100 m relay squad of their gold medals after Nesta Carter 's failed drugs test .", "option_0": "quality", "option_1": "rest", "option_2": "birth", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "men"}
{"id": 1507, "article": "Mr Justice Nicol said the Home Office's system to \"fast track\" certain cases contained \"structural unfairness\". The process accelerates legal hearings and appeals, while keeping the individual detained at all times. The government said it was disappointed by the judgment and would be appealing. The judge said that despite a number of safeguards, applicants were not able to properly prepare their cases and their lawyers were also put in an unfair position. Ruling on a case brought by campaign group Detention Action, the judge said: \"In my judgment the Fast Track Rules (FTR) do incorporate structural unfairness. They put the appellant at a serious procedural disadvantage. \"The appellant is always detained and, as is obvious, the fact of detention places additional obstacles in the way of achieving all that has to be done before a tribunal hearing. Fast-track removals were introduced more than a decade ago because the then government believed too many people were abusing the system. But critics have long said the speed of the procedure is manifestly unfair, not least to individuals who may have complex but genuine claims for protection. Mr Justice Nicol has put a stay on his judgement, and that means that the fast-track system remains in operation and asylum seekers within it can still be removed. But if the government loses the eventual appeal, it could deal a major blow to an important part of the removal system. There have been previous judgements against parts of the system - but this one is more important because the court said it was wrong that ministers could impose time limits, rather than giving discretion to tribunals. That's something which the judge said looked like sacrificing fairness \"on the altar of speed and convenience\". \"What seems to me to make the FTR structurally unfair is the serious procedural disadvantage which comes from the abbreviated timetable and curtailed case management powers.\" During the case, the government had argued that the system was fair because asylum seekers could ask for a 10-day adjournment before a final decision. But the judge said the power to adjourn had a \"very limited role\" in ensuring a just outcome. \"Therefore I find that the claimant's challenge to the legality of the Fast Track Rules succeeds,\" the judge concluded. Although Mr Justice Nicol has ruled the system illegal, he has put a temporary delay on his judgement coming into force to allow the government time to consider an appeal. The Detained Fast Track system plays a key role in immigration removals and can lead to someone leaving the country in about 22 days. The system was created in 2003, and was applied to 4,300 asylum seekers in 2013. Reacting to the judgement, Detention Action director Jerome Phelps said: \"We are pleased that the Fast Track appeals process has been found not just unlawful but ultra vires [beyond the government's powers]. \"But we are shocked and disappointed that a stay has been granted, given that this is an area of law requiring the highest standards of justice and fairness. \"By granting the stay, it appears that the judge considers that the severe potential consequences to asylum seekers, including removal in breach of the Refugee Convention, are outweighed by the inconvenience to the Home Office and Lord Chancellor of suspending the process.\" The Refugee Council welcomed the ruling, with chief executive Maurice Wren saying: \"Today the courts have recognised the detained fast track appeals system for what it is: fundamentally unfair and a grotesque caricature of British justice. \"This is an important step forward in the battle to stop government officials arbitrarily and shamefully imprisoning some of the world's most desperate people who have simply asked for our protection.\" The government says Detained Fast Track is an important part of the UK's immigration system. A spokesman said: \"It contributes significantly to the speed and effectiveness with which asylum cases are processed - including swiftly removing those found not to be in need of protection - and saves the taxpayer money.\"", "question": "The future of a key part of the government 's system to remove @placeholder asylum seekers is in doubt after the High Court ruled it was unlawful .", "option_0": "ground", "option_1": "show", "option_2": "wing", "option_3": "failed", "option_4": "join"}
{"id": 1508, "article": "Around 360,000 tonnes of oil and grease are flowing through the UK's sewerage system each year, creating a fat problem to solve. Just as fatty food swells the circumference of our waistline, it narrows the circumference of our sewage pipes, threatening blockage and back-up. If all the fat, oil and grease we wash into our drains every year were to coagulate in one place, it would create a \"mega-fatberg\", enough to fill an ocean-going supertanker or dwarf the Titanic. Costing the Earth: Burn that Fat is on BBC Radio 4, Wednesday, 25 September at 21:00 BST Or afterwards on iPlayer Piers Clark, the commercial director of Thames Water, says he has seen a significant increase in the problem over the last generation. \"The modern diet has a much higher fat content than in the 60s and 70s. There are 111,000 food establishments in London - a number significantly higher than 10 years ago.\" The Greater London Authority estimates there are 8,273 fast-food shops in the capital. And beneath the streets, near Trafalgar Square in central London, Thames Water is well aware of the problem. In Victorian sewers big enough to stand in, greasy sludge is sticking to the bricks at water level. Carved-off chunks, squashed between (gloved) fingers, have the feel of hard butter, the look of lumpy Plasticine and the smell of... well, you can imagine. Robert Smith, who delights in the title of chief flusher, says that a fondness for a high-fat diet is not the only problem. Wet wipes and earbuds give the grease some structural bondage, which is what caused the berg beneath Kingston upon Thames this summer and a two-mile-long fat \"snake\" discovered coiled beneath Leicester Square a few years ago. Once discovered it all goes to landfill - until now. Thames Water will shortly be burning it to keep the lights on. According to Mr Clark, it is a first. \"We'll be harvesting fat from our sewer network and turning it into power in our facility in east London where we hope to provide enough for 40,000 homes,\" he says To do this they'll need to extract 30 tonnes of fat a day, refine it to create a biofuel for use in a specially-built power station producing nearly 130 GWh of electricity every year, according to Ofgem estimates. The leftovers from the appetite for greasy food do not just go down the drain, as evidenced on the outskirts of Hull at Brocklesby Limited. Its yard looks like a nutritionist's nightmare; pungent drums of old crisps mixed with sweating kebab meat and chicken legs, pallets laden with mayonnaise and rancid butter and a paddling pool of pig fat, courtesy of the pork scratching factory. Owner Robert Brocklesby describes with some pride how much of this would once have been waste taken to rot in the ground, but now is all reused. \"There has been a huge change with regard to used oils and fats being used in the biofuel market,\" he says. \"There has been a real shift in the last decade or so as the demand for vehicle fuel is insatiable.\" Even those tiny butter packs served with hotel breakfasts are shredded, steamed and separated into water and oil. He reckons they produce around 80 million litres of biodiesel here, enough to fill the tanks of around one-and-a-half million cars. But they also produce lubricants, waste water for bio-digesters and fertiliser. Everything, he believes, has a use. Where waste is put and where fuel is found are two of the most heated environmental debates of the moment, so burning fat to keep the lights on or former pork scratchings in pistons seems like the perfect answer. But at the University of Wolverhampton, microbiologist Dr Iza Radecka is trying something even more ambitious - making plastic for body implants from old chip fat. \"We start with something that is horrible and dark and greasy,\" she says. \"We make this beautiful, white, flaky material which can be used for biomedical applications - a bio-plastic for implants or a scaffold for tissue repair.\" She says old cooking oil is good because it is cheap, biodegradable and - with the addition of the right microbes, fermentation and ultrasound - has a much higher yield of polymer than raw glucose and fructose. This means that waste cooking oil could actually be more efficient than its raw ingredients. It would be a delicious irony, so to speak, if the waste oil from the chips which clog my arteries could one day build me new ones. Costing the Earth: Burn that Fat is on BBC Radio 4, Wednesday, 25 September at 21:00 BST, or afterwards on iPlayer", "question": "Last month , a \" fatberg \" the size of a double - decker bus was found under the streets of south - west London . But what causes them and how are they @placeholder ?", "option_0": "tackled", "option_1": "handle", "option_2": "live", "option_3": "interact", "option_4": "justified"}
{"id": 1509, "article": "Instead, a study concluded, the only way to prevent a hangover is to drink less alcohol. More than 800 students were asked how they tried to relieve hangover symptoms, but neither food nor water was found to have any positive effect. The findings are being presented at a conference in Amsterdam. A team of international researchers from the Netherlands and Canada surveyed students' drinking habits to find out whether hangovers could be eased or if some people were immune to them. Among 826 Dutch students, 54% ate food after drinking alcohol, including fatty food and heavy breakfasts, in the hope of staving off a hangover. With the same aim, more than two-thirds drank water while drinking alcohol and more than half drank water before going to bed. Although these groups showed a slight improvement in how they felt compared with those who hadn't drunk water, there was no real difference in the severity of their hangovers. Previous research suggests that about 25% of drinkers claim never to get hangovers. So the researchers questioned 789 Canadian students about their drinking in the previous month and the hangovers they experienced, finding that those who didn't get a hangover simply consumed \"too little alcohol to develop a hangover in the first place\". Of those students who drank heavily, with an estimated blood alcohol concentration of more than 0.2%, almost no-one was immune to hangovers. According to lead author Dr Joris Verster, from Utrecht University, the relationship was pretty straightforward. \"The more you drink, the more likely you are to get a hangover. \"Drinking water may help against thirst and a dry mouth, but it will not take away the misery, the headache and the nausea.\" Dr Verster said part of the problem was that scientists still do not know what causes a hangover. \"Research has concluded that it's not simply dehydration - we know the immune system is involved, but before we know what causes it, it's very unlikely we'll find an effective cure.\" He said the next step was to carry out more controlled trials on hangovers. Dr Michael Bloomfield, from University College, London, said the economic costs of alcohol abuse ran into hundreds of billions of euros every year. \"It's therefore very important to answer simple questions like, 'How do you avoid a hangover?' \"Whilst further research is needed, this new research tells us that the answer is simple - drink less.\" The paper is presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology conference. What strategies do people use when they have drunk too much alcohol? Find out why alcohol can make you feel awful the morning after. BBC iWonder - How can I avoid a hangover?", "question": "Raiding the fridge or downing glasses of water after a night of heavy drinking wo n't improve your sore @placeholder the next day , Dutch research suggests .", "option_0": "leaves", "option_1": "feet", "option_2": "head", "option_3": "deal", "option_4": "eyes"}
{"id": 1510, "article": "Nearly 500,000 illegal cigarettes were also confiscated during Operation Fetch. The goods were found by tobacco detection dogs working with trading standards officers from across Wales. Health Minister Mark Drakeford said the clampdown on illegal trading would help safeguard public health. The Welsh Government said smoking was the biggest single case of early death in Wales, with almost 6,000 deaths annually, and the sale of illegal tobacco undermined work to reduce smoking rates. It added it also compromised current tobacco control measures such as age-of-sale legislation, labelling and the ban on having tobacco on display in shops. Mr Drakeford said: \"I am very concerned about illegal tobacco because its affordability and availability threatens the health of children, making it so much easier for them to access tobacco. It also eliminates the price incentive for smokers to quit the habit. \"This is not a Robin Hood crime. It is criminality which deprives the public of vital revenue which is used to fund essential public and health services, including tackling the damaging impacts of tobacco itself but its effects extend far beyond that.\" Matthew Cridland, chairman of the Wales heads of trading standards, said figures showed 15% of tobacco used in Wales was illegal - the equivalent of one million cigarettes being smoked a day. \"We want to work with all tobacco control partners to address not only supply but also demand for illegal tobacco and trading standards will continue to vigorously pursue all those who distribute and supply this product,\" he added.", "question": "Almost two tonnes of illegal hand - @placeholder tobacco - enough to make two million cigarettes - was seized in Wales during the summer of 2015 .", "option_0": "held", "option_1": "blown", "option_2": "smoked", "option_3": "rolled", "option_4": "fought"}
{"id": 1511, "article": "The pair said they had reached the end of a three-year deal with the Academy and were moving onto new projects. Their departure comes after the US television audience for the 2015 show was revealed to be the lowest for six years. First-time host Neil Patrick Harris also received luke-warm reviews. Some blamed the 16% dip in the ratings - compared to 2014's show with Ellen DeGeneres at the helm - on a lack of nominations for films with mass appeal. Meron tweeted: \"Ending 3 year deal producing #Oscars, its an honor to say 'We'd like to thank The Academy'\". Zadan tweeted a similar message: \"Honored we had 3 yr prod deal. 3 yrs stress & fun. Thrilled we were asked, happy to be moving on w/ lots of great friends. Thank you Acad.\" Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy, said Zadan and Meron had been \"wonderful creative partners over the last three years, contributing some of the most innovative and memorable Oscar moments\". Meron told Deadline that it been his and Zadan's decision to go. \"Frankly before the Oscars this year were even broadcast, we were questioning whether or not, if we were ever asked, whether we wanted to do it again. \"The past couple of years have been incredible, but at the same time, we've also put a lot of projects on hold, and they haven't been getting our full attention.\" Zadan and Meron's most memorable Oscar moments include DeGeneres taking her celebrity-packed selfie at the 2014 ceremony.", "question": "Craig Zadan and Neil Meron , who have produced the last three Academy Awards , will not be @placeholder for next year 's Oscars .", "option_0": "braced", "option_1": "blamed", "option_2": "criticised", "option_3": "sold", "option_4": "returning"}
{"id": 1512, "article": "A set of data due during the General Election campaign was postponed. Correspondence seen by the BBC reveals how politically sensitive this decision was. Whitehall conventions ban the release of controversial announcements during election campaigns. Data releases for which the release date has not already been published will be held till after polling day. But official stats with a publication date already in the calendar will be put out as normal. The NHS England monthly performance data had been carded some time before for June 8th which, it later turned out, was to be polling day. A Freedom of Information request by BBC News has revealed delicate internal discussions about whether or not to press on with publication on that day. An official from the UK Statistics Authority advises Government bodies and departments in an email that statistical publications of \"significant public interest\" due on June 8th should be rescheduled - \"publishing on polling day presents difficulties in communicating data clearly and fully, not least because of restrictions in place around reporting.\" Intriguingly an NHS England manager responds with a concern that \"changing the timing of this release in either direction would, to me, create the perception of political interference which tends me towards keeping the release for the original date.\" The unnamed UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) official, acting on behalf of the National Statistician, warns again of the difficulties with communicating data on polling day and continued: \"If you were challenged about political interference, the response would be that this is about ensuring orderly release\". The NHS manager comes back questioning how the release of data on polling day would not be orderly and asking for more of an explanation of the difficulties releasing data that day. There is another reference to \"reticence\" about changing the date because of how that might be perceived. The UKSA official points out that broadcast media are not permitted to report anything about the election on polling day and the Whitehall conventions prevent any corrections of mistakes by journalists.  NHS England then decides to announce a 24 hour delay in publication till June 9th and puts out a statement saying the decision was taken on the recommendation of the National Statistician, UK Statistics Authority. The figures, which came out on June 9th, revealed a slight improvement in A&E performance (patients seen within four hours), but also the highest number of patients waiting longer than 18 weeks for routine surgery since September 2008. The postponed publication will not warrant a mention in the history books and in the hurly burly of the election campaign the decision did not generate much of a political row beyond social media. But the email exchange lifts a lid on the world of politics and data. It raises questions about whether the data should have been brought forward one day instead of delayed - and whether snap general elections should derail planned data releases. All this comes a short time after NHS England quietly changed the timing of future data. In 2015, the organisation controversially moved from publishing weekly A&E waiting time figures to monthly. The logic given was that this would be in line with other statistics, such as waits for routine surgery. The result was a delay of six weeks so, for example, the key January A&E data was not published till March. A leak of internal NHS A&E data to the BBC's Faye Kirkland in January resulted in the intervention of the UK Statistics Authority. NHS England was criticised for circulating weekly data inside the organisation but delaying official publication for six weeks. The organisation has now decided to cut the delay till two weeks so, for example, from August this year, A&E data for July will be published. Official statistics allow patients and the media to assess the performance of the NHS. Delays are not in anyone's interest. Recent revelations suggest that the timing of these stats has not been as straightforward as it might have been.", "question": "NHS monthly performance stats are not everyone 's idea of a gripping read . Spreadsheets and tables are @placeholder in the NHS England website and hard to find for the uninitiated . But they amount to a vitally important barometer of the pressures in A&E units and the waits experienced by patients for both emergency care and routine surgery .", "option_0": "buried", "option_1": "gathering", "option_2": "arriving", "option_3": "parallels", "option_4": "published"}
{"id": 1513, "article": "After 146 years in the business, the owners said declining tickets sales and high operating costs were to blame. Activists who campaigned for decades against the travelling circus's animal acts welcomed the news. The circus was well known for its hyperbolic slogan, which inspired an Oscar-winning film. \"After much evaluation and deliberation, my family and I have made the difficult business decision that Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey will hold its final performances in May,\" said a statement from Kenneth Feld, CEO of Feld Entertainment, the family business which has run the circus since the late 1960s. However, animal rights group Peta released a statement, saying the closure \"heralds the end of what has been the saddest show on earth for wild animals, and asks all other animal circuses to follow suit, as this is a sign of changing times\". In May 2016, after years of legal battles with activists, the circus stopped its elephant shows and sent the animals to live at a conservation centre in Florida. The circus troupe, including its animals, appeared in the 1952 film The Greatest Show on Earth. Produced by Cecil B DeMille, the film won two Oscars, including best picture.", "question": "The curtain is coming down on the most @placeholder circus in the US , the \" Greatest Show on Earth \" , run by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey .", "option_0": "celebrated", "option_1": "floor", "option_2": "faced", "option_3": "ranked", "option_4": "hated"}
{"id": 1514, "article": "This may come as a surprise to many in the racing industry who believe that racehorse speed has reached its limit. But researchers say more work is required to determine whether the increased speeds are due to breeding techniques or changes in training and riding techniques. The study has been published in Royal Society journal Biology Letters.. Previous studies had shown that racehorse speeds had not increased since 1950. Many in the race horse industry had concluded that thoroughbreds might have reached the limits of their speed. This raised the question as to whether it was worth horse owners paying large amounts of money to stud farms aiming to breed future winners. So Patrick Sharman, a PhD student at Exeter University and race enthusiast, decided to take a closer look. He found that previous studies were not comprehensive. They only analysed the winning time of a small number of races. These studies included middle distance (8 to 12 furlongs) and long distance (14 to 20 furlongs) races, but excluded sprints (5 to 7 furlongs). Mr Sharman analysed the times from every single so-called elite race involving the very fastest horses between 1850 and 2012, and also included all race meetings since 1997. He found that there had been little improvement in speeds between 1910 and 1975. But since then there has been a steady improvement in sprint races. The average winning time for a six-furlong race over the past 15 years has been cut by more than a second - which is a huge amount by sprint standards. A modern day horse would beat a horse from the early 90s by seven horse lengths. However, there was little, if any, improvement at middle and longer distances. Mr Sharman says that this could be due to the fact that horses are being bred for speed rather than endurance. If that is the case, then speeds at middle and long distances could also be improved if breeders changed their methods. The improvement could be explained by a change in riding techniques since the 1970s - with jockeys adopting Lester Piggott's style of riding with shortened stirrups or improved training methods. But Mr Sharman wonders why there has been no improvement in the longer distances. \"My hunch is that we are seeing a genetic change, with breeders focusing on speed rather than endurance,\" he told BBC News. \"I don't believe that over the longer distances horses have reached their limit.\" Brian O'Rourke, the managing director of the UK National Stud in Newmarket believes that commercial pressures tend to favour the breeding of speed. \"Back in the 1970s most horses that would win the Derby would go for the Gold Cup which is two and a half miles as opposed to a mile and a half,\" he told BBC News. \"But since the late 70s and early 80s the thoroughbred industry has become commercialised. Everybody is breeding for speed now because they want precocious horses that run at two (years old) not four. \"They want instant success like flicking a switch, but that does not always happen.\" Last year BBC Sport asked leading experts why human athletes were getting faster but horses were not. Follow Pallab on Twitter", "question": "Racehorses are @placeholder to get quicker , a study of winning times spanning 165 years of racing indicates .", "option_0": "poised", "option_1": "scrambling", "option_2": "helping", "option_3": "continuing", "option_4": "known"}
{"id": 1515, "article": "A cross-party group of peers said Britain's financial sector must be offered a Brexit \"bridge\" to prevent firms moving to rival locations such as New York, Dublin, Frankfurt or Paris. It urged the government to act to stop business tumbling off a \"cliff edge\". It comes as Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to meet other EU leaders at a summit meeting in Brussels. Mrs May will take part in EU-wide discussions on defence, foreign affairs, migration and the economy as well as holding bilateral meetings with the leaders of Latvia and Lithuania and the president of the European Parliament. However, she will not be present for a dinner on Thursday evening - at which the EU's remaining 27 leaders are expected to discuss their approach to Brexit. In other Brexit developments: The UK is expected to begin official negotiations on the terms of its exit this Spring following the Leave vote in June's referendum. Businesses are pushing for an interim arrangement to safeguard the interests of companies, investors and customers during the period between the UK's departure and when post-Brexit trading and regulatory arrangements are settled. In the latest of a series of Lords Committee reports on Brexit, its EU financial affairs sub-committee said firms could decide to remove their operations from London because of uncertainty about what kind of agreement would be negotiated for cross-border trade. Analysis by Simon Jack, the BBC's business editor There are many definitions of what such a Brexit transition might look like. Is it merely an implementation period for a largely agreed deal or is it a longer term arrangement that keeps the status quo in place while details are worked out more slowly? Either way, the pressure for more clarity is growing. The Lords Committee is warning that thousands of banking jobs will go to Europe if some sort of transition deal is not made ready. Lobbying group TheCityUK will endorse that view and privately bankers are finalising contingency plans and some are close to pressing \"Go\". The chairman of HSBC, Douglas Flint, has told Bloomberg TV that the bank was looking at the option of moving staff to Paris if needed. As one source told me: \"There is no enthusiasm for leaving. Banks are looking for excuses to stay.\" We'll soon see whether the sudden warmth towards a transitional deal is excuse enough. Baroness Falkner, the Lib Dem peer who chairs the committee, said that while she did not detect any sense of panic in the City, it was important \"red lines\" were set out in areas such as passporting rights, which London firms need in order to trade freely across EU. \"Companies may decide that uncertainty is too high a price to pay so they might as well move to Dublin, they might as well move to Frankfurt - that is our great concern.\" The Lords urged businesses to strengthen the government's negotiating hand by sharing internal analysis about their passporting rights as soon as possible. It said a failure to do so could leave companies seeking equivalent provisions that are \"patchy, unreliable and vulnerable to political influence\". However, it said building a detailed picture may prove a challenge for the government because some City firms do not fully understand their reliance on passporting. \"The committee got a sense that [government] engagement has been sporadic and it should be more consistent and there ought to be a clearer view,\" Baroness Falkner said. The Lords also stressed the importance of firms being able to seamlessly move staff around Europe to ensure they and the growing FinTech sector continued to thrive. Speaking on Friday, Mr Davis said his over-arching goal was \"maximum access to markets with the minimum disruption\" to firms as part of a \"smooth and orderly\" exit. He said a transitional agreement was possible \"if necessary\" but he believed both sides should be able to conclude a full EU withdrawal agreement within the 18-month timeframe set out by EU negotiators.", "question": "Financial services firms could @placeholder the City unless a transitional Brexit deal is secured , ministers have been warned .", "option_0": "lose", "option_1": "enter", "option_2": "threaten", "option_3": "quit", "option_4": "transform"}
{"id": 1516, "article": "It was the latest public spat over the transfer of power since Mauricio Macri narrowly beat Ms Fernandez's chosen successor. She boycotted Mr Macri's inauguration two weeks ago in a row over the venue. Ms Fernandez had led Argentina since 2007, taking over the presidency from her husband Nestor after elections. Nestor Kirchner, who died in 2010, came to power in 2003. The administration of Mauricio Macri now uses the Twitter handle @CasaRosada - named after the iconic pink presidential palace in Buenos Aires. One of the first messages posted on the account reads: \"Today the #CasaRosada finds us united. There's change in the air and we're ready to grow.\" Less than 24 hours after being unveiled, the new official site was showing more than 100,000 followers. The previous official account @CasaRosadaAR now describes itself as a \"Twitter tribute\" to the presidencies of Ms Fernandez and her late husband, Nestor Kirchner - and \"not official from 10 December 2015\". It currently shows 326,000 followers. Twitter removed the blue badge marking it as a verified account on 10 December, AFP news agency reports. Mr Macri's victory was the first in more than a decade for Argentina's centre-right opposition and ended the Peronist Party's 12-year rule.", "question": "Argentina 's new president has unveiled a new official Twitter account after @placeholder leader Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner decided to keep the old one .", "option_0": "outgoing", "option_1": "struggling", "option_2": "undergoing", "option_3": "becoming", "option_4": "admitting"}
{"id": 1517, "article": "Gestede looped the ball over goalkeeper Jamal Blackman after the Blades had failed to clear Patrick Bamford's lofted pass into the penalty area. The former Aston Villa man hit the post with another header before half-time. Sheffield United, who won their opening match against Brentford, had a goal disallowed in stoppage time. Jack O'Connell was adjudged to be offside when Dael Fry nodded a free-kick into his own net and, with that, the League One champions suffered their first defeat since 24 January. Before the dramatic ending, the Blades' best attempt at goal was Paul Coutts' side-footed effort from 20 yards, which Darren Randolph palmed wide for a corner. Gestede and Bamford were two of four additions to the Middlesbrough side beaten at Wolves seven days earlier, replacing summer signings Martin Braithwaite and Ashley Fletcher, and the pair repaid their manager's faith by combining for Boro's first league goal of the campaign. The hosts also gave a debut to midfielder Lewis Baker, who played the final 23 minutes as a substitute after joining the club on loan from Chelsea on Friday. Match ends, Middlesbrough 1, Sheffield United 0. Second Half ends, Middlesbrough 1, Sheffield United 0. Chris Basham (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough). Attempt missed. Mark Duffy (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner following a set piece situation. Paul Coutts (Sheffield United) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Jonny Howson (Middlesbrough). Video Review:. Offside, Sheffield United. Mark Duffy tries a through ball, but Jack O'Connell is caught offside. Jack O'Connell (Sheffield United) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Cyrus Christie (Middlesbrough). Attempt blocked. David Brooks (Sheffield United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Foul by Ched Evans (Sheffield United). Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt saved. Leon Clarke (Sheffield United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Offside, Middlesbrough. Patrick Bamford tries a through ball, but Ashley Fletcher is caught offside. Foul by Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough). David Brooks (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Ched Evans (Sheffield United). Foul by Ashley Fletcher (Middlesbrough). Richard Stearman (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Middlesbrough. Grant Leadbitter replaces Adam Forshaw. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Richard Stearman (Sheffield United) because of an injury. Substitution, Middlesbrough. Ashley Fletcher replaces Britt Assombalonga. Substitution, Sheffield United. David Brooks replaces Kieron Freeman. Offside, Sheffield United. Mark Duffy tries a through ball, but Kieron Freeman is caught offside. Offside, Middlesbrough. George Friend tries a through ball, but Patrick Bamford is caught offside. Attempt saved. Cyrus Christie (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lewis Baker. George Friend (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Kieron Freeman (Sheffield United) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by George Friend (Middlesbrough). Offside, Middlesbrough. Dael Fry tries a through ball, but Patrick Bamford is caught offside. Attempt missed. Ched Evans (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jack O'Connell. Substitution, Sheffield United. Ched Evans replaces Billy Sharp. Substitution, Middlesbrough. Lewis Baker replaces Rudy Gestede. Richard Stearman (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Britt Assombalonga (Middlesbrough). Kieron Freeman (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.", "question": "Rudy Gestede 's first - half header earned Garry Monk 's Middlesbrough a home win over Sheffield United and their first @placeholder of the Championship season .", "option_0": "title", "option_1": "form", "option_2": "taste", "option_3": "points", "option_4": "survival"}
{"id": 1518, "article": "Up to 100 shooting meteors an hour will streak across the sky in the beautiful natural firework show, visible around the world. Those hoping to catch a glimpse of the shower shouldn't be disappointed this year. Astronomers say they're expecting extra-dark skies which will create perfect stargazing conditions. The Perseids are actually tiny pieces of the Swift-Tuttle comet that can be seen every year when the Earth passes through a cloud of the comet's debris. They're bits of ice and dust, which can be as small as a grain of sand or as big as a pea. The fragments were left behind when Swift-Tuttle passed close to Earth in 1992. The meteors appear to come from a point in the constellation of Perseus, hence the name Perseid. They hit the Earth's atmosphere at a whopping speed of 134,000 mph, but don't pose any danger to us on Earth. The celestial show is expected to hit its peak overnight on Wednesday but you can see it any night this week. Unlike some other cosmic events, spectators don't need special technology to watch the Perseids unfold. It's best to find a wide open space away from tall buildings or trees, and with as little light as possible. The more of the sky you can see, the better. This year the Moon's glow will not interfere with meteor-watching, as it will be approaching its darkest or \"new\" phase, experts say.", "question": "Stargazers are getting ready to @placeholder the spectacular Perseid meteor shower .", "option_0": "join", "option_1": "enjoy", "option_2": "enter", "option_3": "celebrate", "option_4": "explore"}
{"id": 1519, "article": "So staff and volunteers at St Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, decided this year to find a way for their smallest patients to mark their first Halloween. They decided to get their sewing kits out and made pint-sized outfits for each of the 35 babies in their care at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The mini dressing-up box includes outfits for Superman, Captain America, Batman, Wonder Woman, butterflies and the local baseball team, the Kansas City Royals. Parents go to pick a costume which they feel suits their baby best and for Jennifer Behnke and her husband Fritz, Captain America was the only choice for their son William. \"He's our superhero and we call him Warrior William because he's such a little fighter,\" said Mrs Behnke. William was born on 15 August at 25 weeks weighing just 1lb 1oz (481g). Ten weeks on and he has grown to a much healthier 4lb 11oz (2.1kg). \"You're in your own world for 12-16 hours a day when you're in the NICU and you don't know what's happening outside,\" said Mrs Behnke. \"So it's great with Halloween coming up to be able to celebrate even though we're still in St Luke's.\" Michelle Manuel, a spokesman for the hospital, said US charity March of Dimes had come up with the idea of the Halloween costumes. The charity focuses on raising awareness about premature babies and its local volunteers joined forces with the NICU nurses to make the little outfits out of felt. \"It's so positive to be able to mark Halloween which is their first milestone,\" said Ms Manuel. \"Being in the NICU can be a stressful and emotional time so to be able to provide the families with something normal and a way to make a good memory is great.\" As well as the costumes each baby received a gift pack with a \"Trick or Treat, smell my feet\" card featuring their baby's footprints, a hand-crocheted pumpkin filled with sweets and a Halloween book. By Annie Flury, UGC and Social News Team", "question": "Premature babies and their families generally miss out on celebrating holidays and big @placeholder like everyone else because the focus is just on getting big enough and well enough to go home .", "option_0": "spaces", "option_1": "show", "option_2": "behaviour", "option_3": "sounds", "option_4": "events"}
{"id": 1520, "article": "\"I want to write a James Bond theme tune,\" he says. \"I've got this half a song that me and Noel Gallagher worked on and I think it would be great for a Bond theme. There's a bit of minor key going on. That would be an ambition definitely.\" The Modfather will be 59 later this month and the ground-breaking debut album by his old band The Jam turns 40 next week. While many acts would settle for a re-mastered re-issue on white vinyl to mark the anniversary (other colours are available), this ever-changingman is looking forward to the release of his 13th solo studio album on Friday. Oh - and the birth of his eighth child, \"the littlest Weller\". He jokes: \"Me and the wife are waiting for a summer release!\" But are there parallels between knocking out another great record and fathering another child into your 60th year? \"Well, every child is different, but you treat them the same. And it's the same with records really. You have to love all of them. \"You can't tell how you feel about it until months later really, until you've had time to really absorb it... I'm talking about records now - not children!\" He adds: \"My wife always says after each one, 'Are you going to take some time off now?' And I always intend to, then I start writing again, then all of a sudden these songs come and I have very little control over it. \"I can't imagine my life not writing. It's ongoing to me and I don't think it's ever going to run out until I drop down dead. \"I still think I can fly high and I never want to be grounded.\" Weller's forthcoming musical offspring has been christened A Kind Revolution. But it's definitely \"not a political record\", he says. The title remains a provocative one, though, especially given it arrives just weeks before a general election. Coincidence? \"Yeah, I was in deep conversation with Theresa May saying, 'When you next having an election, love?'\" the ex-Red Wedge member says with a grin. \"No - pure coincidence. My record is nothing to do with politics. It's about people. \"I think it's a scary time for all of us, we just don't know how it's going to go. It seems the whole world is catching alight, almost like a prelude to a world war.\" What would the slogan on a Paul Weller campaign poster say? \"Love one another, man, and try and be kind and be good to each other and the world would be a better place.  Incredibly simplistic, I know, but that's the bottom line.\" Weller goes on: \"More compassion, more solidarity with our fellow human beings - a lot of those things are missing for me in society and in the world in general really. \"I don't think any of the answers to the current state of the world lie in politics. I think it's time for people to not put their faith and judgement into theories or politics, or even philosophies, and to look inside ourselves. \"Whatever happened to our own responsibility to our society and our country and the world? \"We should be changing ourselves and it's unfair to expect one person is going to change everything for us.\" Is that easier said than done though? \"Often I think about peace in the world and then I have to look inside myself and think am I at peace? Can I live up to all the things I believe in or spout? \"I'm kind of intent on changing myself to get rid of thoughts or negative feelings. Until you can feel that within yourself it's hard to project that on to the world.\" It's clear on the new record that Weller has been doing some serious soul searching and digging deep inside his vast record collection for musical inspiration from the likes of David Bowie, The Beatles, Curtis Mayfield, Miles Davis, northern soul, funk and beyond. He confesses: \"These influences are just inside me. I've soaked them up down the years and they always come out one way or another.\" He's also been flicking through his phone contacts to secure the vocal talents of Boy George and soul sirens PP Arnold and Madeline Bell, plus the bluesy guitar playing of Strypes youngster Josh McClorey and Robert Wyatt's jazz trumpet. Track two Nova channels the avant garde spirit of late Bowie, while next song Long Long Road, Paul's favourite, finds him back at the bar-room piano belting out a big romantic McCartney-esque ballad. Album closer The Impossible Idea even has a Broadway musical quality to it or, as Weller puts it, \"it's like a German beer hall song but with a sort of French chanson feel to it too\". More on that one shortly... As fans of The Style Council will tell you, Weller has never been afraid of failure, and in the last six months alone he's taken a plethora of new challenges on. He's produced a remix for his good pals Syd Arthur, a film score to the boxing film Jawbone, and has even found time to make his acting debut as a rather convincing dead Viking alongside mate Martin Freeman in the final episode of Sherlock. So what else could possibly be left on this man's bucket list? \"I want to see the UK win the Eurovision Song Contest,\" says Weller. \"And I think they need The Impossible Idea as their tune.\" Is he serious? Would he be there in Kiev? \"Yeah, they could have it absolutely. I could be there, possibly. If it was my song then I would definitely, yeah.\" If you're reading this, Team UK, it's still not too late. To achieve the impossible on Saturday night, better call Paul. A Kind Revolution is out on Friday 12 May. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "Curled up in the corner of a comfy record label couch , and @placeholder down by his standards - jumper and jeans - Paul Weller is in full - on daydream mode .", "option_0": "stepped", "option_1": "screwed", "option_2": "shut", "option_3": "replaced", "option_4": "dressed"}
{"id": 1521, "article": "Julie Sharp, who was manager of the North Somercotes playgroup, took the cash over a two year period. She also used some of it to pay for shoes, handbags and clothes. Sharp, 49, of East Row, South Somercotes, admitted a charge of furnishing false information between April 2014 and March 2016. Lincoln Crown Court heard she had paid herself wages she was not entitled to and paid herself at a higher rate than agreed. Joey Kwong, prosecuting, told the court Sharp, who was responsible for paying staff wages, also overpaid her daughter when she worked for the group. He said staff noticed her lifestyle becoming luxurious, with her collecting \"rare editions of Disney figures\", clothing, shoes and handbags. The court heard Sharp justified her spending by saying she had sold gold and received PPI payments. Mr Kwong said the matter came to light after staff complained to the group's new chair. She later handed in her notice. Hannah Walker, for Sharp, said the defendant got into financial difficulties after taking out pay day loans to pay off her son's drug debts. The court also heard the loss of money had led to financial difficulties for the playgroup. Judge Simon Hirst adjourned sentencing for a hearing to determine a disputed prosecution claim that the effect of Sharp taking the money was that a child with autism did not receive council funded one-to-one assistance. Sharp was bailed until the hearing which is due to take place in July.", "question": "The manager of a playgroup took ? ¡ê 35,000 from the organisation to help fund her @placeholder of rare edition Disney figures , a court has heard .", "option_0": "experience", "option_1": "collection", "option_2": "purchases", "option_3": "outbreak", "option_4": "goal"}
{"id": 1522, "article": "The McGill's 904 service went up in flames just outside Largs on the A760 Kilbirnie Road at about 13:35 on Saturday. Emergency services attended but the driver and passengers were uninjured. A woman whose partially-sighted mother was on board later thanked the driver for keeping everyone safe. Kathleen McKenna told the BBC: \"The bus started filling up with smoke. \"The driver told everyone to get off as quickly as possible. He then made sure everyone was as far away as possible. \"The bus was popping and banging as the fire took hold. The driver did really, really well. \"The police arrived and asked if anyone needed to go to hospital but they were all fine. They just needed a cup of tea.\" Police Scotland said the road was closed for a time but later re-opened. The burnt-out bus has been removed.", "question": "A bus driver whose vehicle caught fire in North Ayrshire has been praised after all the passengers were safely @placeholder .", "option_0": "evacuated", "option_1": "removed", "option_2": "transported", "option_3": "deal", "option_4": "announced"}
{"id": 1523, "article": "The three-times champions slumped to bottom of their pool last season, winning just the one match. But O'Driscoll says he has been impressed by the impact of Lancaster, who joined Leinster at the start of September as a senior coach. \"He's been a great signing,\" O'Driscoll told BBC 5 live. \"I can see a big shift in defence, there is an appetite and a hunger again. \"I just see a greater intensity and aggression level when they don't have the ball. \"I also see greater organisation - I'm sure Leo Cullen is tying it all together brilliantly - and it definitely gives a little bit of optimism that Leinster will be a lot more competitive than they were last year.\" Leinster open their Champions Cup campaign with a home game against Castres on Saturday with Northampton and Montpellier also in their pool. During O'Driscoll's career, Munster and Leinster regularly dominated the European landscape, with Munster winning the Heineken Cup in 2006 and 2008, before Leinster's success in 2009, 2011 and 2012. But last season no Irish province reached the knockout stages, and O'Driscoll says the money on offer in England and France has had an impact. \"I think we are struggling to attract the really top class players, and it does come down to a money issue,\" said the former Lions and Ireland captain. \"The fall of sterling has a positive effect for Irish capabilities in the future, but players seem to be choosing going to the Premiership or to France because there seems to be that extra 50 or 100 grand above what the provinces and the union are willing to supplement for our overseas projects. \"That is a concern, I don't see the Ma'a Nonus of the world coming over and playing in Ireland in the last couple of seasons. \"I also think success obviously attracts players, and we had that a few years ago.\" O'Driscoll has backed the Irish Rugby Union's controversial decision to block Ulster's South African scrum-half Ruan Pienaar from signing a new contract in Belfast. O'Driscoll feels up-and-coming Irish number 9s now need to be given more exposure at the top level. \"Ulster fans won't love me saying it, but he's been contracted twice and [the IRFU] don't want to set precedents by giving overseas players a third contract which in a way sends the wrong signals. \"Ruan has plugged himself into the system, and really enjoyed it, but at the same time Ireland have struggled in the scrum-half position for years. \"You look beyond Conor Murray and I think there is a huge gulf in class down to the next player. \"Ruan provided that exposure on a daily basis to scrum-halves coming in and seeing him at close quarters but after six years they still haven't developed a scrum-half to come through and fill his boots. \"I think now they have to change a different tack, and give these young guys experience whether they are ready or not.\" Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "question": "Brian O'Driscoll believes the @placeholder of ex-England coach Stuart Lancaster will result in a marked improvement in Leinster 's European form this season .", "option_0": "reign", "option_1": "input", "option_2": "signing", "option_3": "fate", "option_4": "return"}
{"id": 1524, "article": "The 25-year-old boxer suffered a bleed on the skull and was placed in an induced coma after losing his British middleweight title to Eubank Jr. Eubank Jr, 26, who said he had not heard from Blackwell, tweeted: \"Hope there's no hard feelings.\" Blackwell responded: \"We were both doing a job and it was unfortunate.\" It came following an initial post by Blackwell in which he said he was on the mend and had been \"very lucky\". Blackwell spent more than a week in an induced coma after he was taken to hospital following the fight, which referee Victor Loughlin stopped on the advice of the ringside doctor in the 10th round. The boxer said last week he was getting \"better by the day\". Eubank Jr said he would like to visit Blackwell in hospital, adding: \"I've tried reaching out since you woke.\"", "question": "Nick Blackwell says he holds \" no hard feelings \" towards Chris Eubank Jr as he @placeholder his recovery following their fight in London last month .", "option_0": "feared", "option_1": "continues", "option_2": "spent", "option_3": "expressed", "option_4": "explains"}
{"id": 1525, "article": "Christopher Collier, 53, admitted the manslaughter of his wife Julie at their flat in Charter Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire in September 2015. Bristol Crown Court heard both were \"long-term alcoholics\" and drinking had damaged Mrs Collier's health to the extent she had to use a wheelchair . Collier was sentenced to four years but is likely to serve two. On the night of Mrs Collier's death, the court heard, something happened which caused Collier to lose his temper and strike his \"frail\" 7-stone wife, who would have \"posed no real threat\" to him. Collier told police his wife had hit him and threatened him with a screwdriver. He had punched her and they had fallen to the floor but she was still conscious when he left the flat to buy more drink. When he returned, he thought she was asleep. But when he could not wake her the next morning he called 999. She had died from a subdural haemorrhage. Sentencing, Mr Justice Teare told Collier: \"This was not a case of a fight involving just one punch. There was a struggle in which you punched her more than once, you ended up on the floor and she banged her head on the floor.\" But, he said, there was \"no intent to cause her really serious bodily harm\". Collier had shown \"enormous promise\" as a young man, Adrian Waterman QC, defending said. He was \"educated at one of the country's leading schools\" - Downside - and had gone on to study at Oxford University. He had expressed concerns before that he might lose his temper one day \"in the face of what he described as Julie's vile attitude\" when drunk, Mr Waterman QC said. \"She had been violent before and he knew that he might snap and obviously, that night, he did.\" In a letter read out in court, Collier said his actions were \"unforgiveable\". \"I have caused the death of the person I loved,\" he wrote. Mrs Collier's family said in a statement they were \"completely devastated to have lost a loving mum, daughter, sister and friend in such a sudden and tragic way\".", "question": "A man has been jailed for killing his @placeholder wife when he \" snapped \" during a row after an night of drinking .", "option_0": "brain", "option_1": "estranged", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "disabled"}
{"id": 1526, "article": "She will represent the Queen during a visit to the Mediterranean island on 20 and 21 September. The trip has been planned to mark 50 years of Maltese independence. The duchess will only spend one night away from home and Prince George, who will be one year old on Tuesday, will not go with her. Earlier this year the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited Australia and New Zealand with Prince George. After the announcement of the duchess's solo trip, the official British Monarchy Twitter account tweeted: \"The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh lived in Malta when they were just married, while the duke was on naval service.\"", "question": "The Duchess of Cambridge will visit Malta later this year in her first official overseas trip without Prince William , Kensington Palace has @placeholder .", "option_0": "opened", "option_1": "said", "option_2": "become", "option_3": "been", "option_4": "suggested"}
{"id": 1527, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device That figure fell well short of the record ¡ê225m spent in 2011. Crystal Palace were the busiest top-flight club on deadline day, signing four players including Wilfried Zaha. Hull announced the latest transfer, with Lokomotiv Moscow striker Dame N'Doye's move confirmed at 00:10 GMT. There were 13 Premier League signings on deadline day, and 35 across the window. A record summer of spending saw an outlay of ¡ê835m, which topped the ¡ê760m spent across the whole of last season. This window's spending takes the total for 2014-15 to ¡ê965m. Dan Jones, partner in the sports business group at Deloitte, said: \"Given the record level of spending seen in the summer, it is not entirely surprising that we haven't seen a new record for the January window. \"However, with all Premier League clubs recording record revenues, we might have expected one or two more major deals.\" Some of the key findings from Deloitte's analysis of the January 2015 transfer window include: The most surprising transfer of deadline day saw Manchester United sign 21-year-old Bolton defender Andy Kellett on loan. There were five inter-Premier League transfers with Darren Fletcher moving from Manchester United to West Brom on a free transfer, Chelsea selling Ryan Bertrand to Southampton, Tottenham loaning Aaron Lennon to Everton, Robert Huth going from Stoke to Leicester on loan and Manchester United selling Zaha to Palace. The Eagles also signed Bolton midfielder Lee Chung-yong and teenagers Andreas Breimyr and Keshi Anderson. Tottenham signed MK Dons midfielder Dele Alli for a fee in the region of ¡ê5m and loaned him back to the League One club. Despite being the biggest spenders, Chelsea made a profit on the day, selling Andre Schurrle to Wolfsburg for ¡ê22m and Bertrand for an undisclosed fee, as well as loaning Mohamed Salah to Fiorentina as part of the deal to sign Cuadrado. Midfielder Filip Djuricic joined Bertrand at Southampton, moving to the club on loan from Benfica. Manchester City had already done their recruitment, with striker Wilfried Bony joining from Swansea for a fee that could reach ¡ê28m. Arsenal did likewise in signing Villarreal defender Gabriel Paulista for ¡ê11m. Leicester broke their club record earlier in the window to sign Croatia striker Andrej Kramaric for more than ¡ê9m. In Scotland, Celtic spent more than ¡ê2m on Dundee United midfielders Stuart Armstrong and Gary Mackay-Steven while Rangers signed five players on loan from Newcastle. It was a quiet day across Europe - Schurrle's move apart - with Spain's transfer window having closed on Friday.", "question": "Chelsea 's ¡ê 23.3 m signing of winger Juan Cuadrado was the biggest deal completed on transfer deadline day as Premier League spending in the January window @placeholder last year 's ¡ê 130 m .", "option_0": "surpassing", "option_1": "matched", "option_2": "stage", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "reached"}
{"id": 1528, "article": "The Family Library had said it would cease to exist beyond 31 July if ¡ê250,000 was not raised. The government has now pledged ¡ê100,000 which, combined with ¡ê25,000 of donations and a match-funding donor, will mean it has the money needed. The charity runs services on the island which Tynwald previously funded. It took control of the services in 2012, when government funding ceased, and has been funded by online gambling firm PokerStars and that company's co-founders, the Sheinberg family. The Family Library provides lending services, resources to the Isle of Man's primary schools and a mobile service in rural parts of the island. Explaining the government donation, Treasury Minister Alf Cannan told the House of Keys: \"Having given full consideration to the social value of the Family Library and mobile library, the Council of Ministers and Treasury have agreed a payment of ¡ê100,000 to enable the service to continue for the next 12 months.\" Librarian Mary Cousins said the charity was \"overwhelmed\" by the news, which had come \"out of the blue\". She said it was \"more than we every hoped or expected\". \"It's not just the funding, but the confirmation that all our services are valued in the community - it means a great deal to us and exactly why we do the work we do. \"We'd just like to thank everyone who supported us.\"", "question": "The Isle of Man government has agreed to help secure the future of a charity which @placeholder a \" lifeline \" book delivery service on the island .", "option_0": "destroyed", "option_1": "contained", "option_2": "supplies", "option_3": "blamed", "option_4": "includes"}
{"id": 1529, "article": "The Mourne men are set for relegation from Division One after a fifth straight league defeat as Dublin moved closer to a league semi-final. Down took a surprise 1-2 to 0-1 lead after eight minutes thanks to a rare goalkeeping mistake by Stephen Cluxton. However, Dublin responded with an unanswered 1-7 with Cormac Costello netting for the All-Ireland champions. Down hit the woodwork twice in the last few minutes, but Dublin were always able to raise their game any time the Mournemen threatened to push them close. Cluxton's blunder as he allowed a Donal O'Hare attempt at a point to slip through his fingers gave Down a shock early boost. However, Down suffered a blow seconds later when Kevin McKernan picked up a harsh black card for a pull-down, though his replacement Joe Murphy kicked a point with his first touch to stretch Down's lead to four. However, Costello's 18th-minute goal put the Dubs 1-4 to 1-2 ahead, after Kevin McManamon's initial shot had been blocked. As Dublin began to run at will through the Down defence, the home side were held scoreless for 27 minutes before Donal O'Hare's 35th-minute free left them trailing by 1-8 to 1-3 at the break. Dublin hit three of the first four points after the break to stretch their lead out to seven after 43 minutes, McManamon chipping over a point after Down 'keeper Michael Cunningham saved his near-post shot. The Dubs took their foot off the gas for a spell, and Down took advantage with three points in a row with Kilcoo pair Darragh O'Hanlon and Paul Devlin scoring from play. However, a Dean Rock 45 and Jonny Cooper and Paddy Andrews points killed off any hopes of a Down comeback. Paul Devlin wasted a glorious late goal chance and Gerard McGovern hit the woodwork late on as Down kept battling but the game was already beyond them by that stage. Down manager Eamonn Burns praised his team's display after the game and confirmed recent reports that Benny Coulter, Dan Gordon and Martin Clarke are unlikely to return to the squad this year.", "question": "Down produced an @placeholder display but still fell to an eight - point defeat to All - Ireland champions Dublin in Newry .", "option_0": "conceded", "option_1": "entertaining", "option_2": "relegated", "option_3": "improved", "option_4": "alleged"}
{"id": 1530, "article": "Kathleen Thompson's husband Pat was one of the 96 people who died following overcrowding at the FA Cup semi-final in April 1989. Mrs Thompson was one of the first of the victims' relatives to give a background statement to the court. The remaining families will give their \"pen portraits\" later. Coroner Lord Justice Goldring has called the disaster \"the worst-ever at a British sports stadium\". It unfolded on 15 April 1989 during Liverpool's match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's ground. The inquests, set to last a year, were ordered after new evidence revealed by the Hillsborough Independent Panel led to the original inquest verdicts being quashed. Profiles of all those who died The background statements are the first time the court has heard how the disaster impacted on individual families. Weeping as she spoke, Mrs Thompson said her husband, a 35-year-old railway guard, \"was not a hooligan, but a hard-working family man\". She said he had been \"a loving and generous man who treated me with love and respect, a larger-than-life character... and a smashing dad\" to five children aged under six. Opening proceedings, 41-year-old victim Arthur Horrocks' son Jon read out a statement from his mother Susan, in which she said Mr Horrocks had been \"a wonderful husband and best friend... devoted and much loved\". The hearing was told Mr Horrocks loved music and had regularly visited the Cavern Club in Liverpool. He had attended every Liverpool home match. Stephen Jones, whose wife Christine was one of seven women who died, said she had been an avid fan who organised coach trips to away matches and loved the atmosphere of the games. He said the senior radiographer and Sunday school teacher had been \"an amazing wife\", who \"dominated a room\". \"She was effervescent, candid and lively,\" he said. Wilf Whelan told the hearing about his son Ian, who was nicknamed \"Ronnie\" after his football hero, Liverpool midfielder Ronnie Whelan. He said the 19-year-old \"wasn't a football hooligan\" but a music lover, who had left two red roses on the doorstep of his girlfriend on the day of the semi-final. \"Our family feel they've had to defend his good name for 25 years,\" he said. Paying tribute to her brother, Roy Pemberton, Shirley Riley said the family had been left thinking about what he would have achieved, \"a successful career, a family and many more dreams... we will never know\". She said her parents \"never truly got over the loss\" of their son, who had been \"extremely precious and the apple of their eye\". Paula Ann Smith's brother Walter said they both attended Liverpool games, but as they only had one ticket for the semi-final he let his sister have it. \"I often think if I had been there with her, she would still be alive today,\" he said. Christine McEvoy cried as she told the jury about her daughter, Basildon factory worker Marian McCabe. She said the 21-year-old had been a \"good and generous\" woman who worked overtime to pay for tickets and who missed Mrs McEvoy's wedding to go to a game as \"her greatest love was Liverpool Football Club\". The day's final two statements came from the families of partners Tracey Cox and Rick Jones. Stephanie Conning, who survived the disaster, described her brother's 23-year-old girlfriend as \"the sister I never had\". She said Tracey Cox's death had \"permanently affected all our lives for the worst\". Doreen Jones, Rick's mother, cried as she told the hearing of her family's lives \"changed forever that awful day\". \"I could not imagine a life without Rick and I did not want to. It was a very dark place for us all,\" she said. \"My pain is centred on what Rick and Tracey missed and what their lives would have been like. \"After all, they only went to watch a football game.\" Adjourning the proceedings until Monday, coroner Lord Justice Goldring told the jury the statements were \"as emotional as I said they would be\". \"They underline the individual tragedies,\" he said.", "question": "The widow of one of the Hillsborough disaster victims has told an inquest jury in Warrington it \" @placeholder \" her five children of their father .", "option_0": "subjected", "option_1": "informed", "option_2": "displayed", "option_3": "robbed", "option_4": "delighted"}
{"id": 1531, "article": "The 47-year-old former Leeds, Wigan and Brentford manager replaced Steven Pressley as Fleetwood boss on Saturday. Rosler took Brentford to a League One play-off final and left shortly before they reached the Championship in 2014. \"When I joined Brentford they were a mid-table team and look where they are today,\" he told BBC Radio Lancashire. \"I played a major role in that and I think with having the owner so ambitious and committed to the club, we can do similar things here. \"We have to create a top-six mentality and over time when you have that mentality that will give top-six results, and that is ultimately where we want to be in my time here.\" The former Manchester City striker and East Germany international also said his side will deploy a direct and forward-thinking style. \"My team will always be high energy with a lot of transitions,\" he added. \"We will try to be direct but not with long balls; being direct with quick, forward passes and a lot of runs forward and players committed into the box. \"It can be a very attractive way [to play] but the most important thing is that you finish off the good work.\"", "question": "New Fleetwood Town manager Uwe Rosler says he will urge his League One side to have a top - six mentality and play @placeholder football .", "option_0": "age", "option_1": "training", "option_2": "centre", "option_3": "injured", "option_4": "attacking"}
{"id": 1532, "article": "The five horses - the largest of which is about 0.8m (2ft 8in) in height - and three foals were taken on 13 July from a field near March, Cambridgeshire. Two were found in Christchurch on Tuesday and five in a field near Beck Row travellers' site in Suffolk on Wednesday, police said. However, a palomino mare, Barbie, is still missing. No-one has been arrested in connection with the thefts and inquiries are continuing, Cambridgeshire Police said. More news from Cambridgeshire Thieves cut through a 12,000-volt fence at the house in Stonea to take the animals, which owners Daniel and Jo Everett had bred for showing. The couple were involved in rescuing some of the animals with police on Tuesday. \"We got a phone call from the police that they had eyes on our horses and to be on stand by,\" Mrs Everett said. When they got to the field, she said the \"mares were tied with seatbelts around their necks and two had no access to water\". The animals were rounded up and taken back to the stables. Seven of the eight horses and foals are now home, but all are \"thin, dehydrated and confused\", she said. One also has a leg wound which is being treated with antibiotics. The couple have appealed for the return of mare Barbie, but praised officers involved in the investigation. \"There was a huge police presence. They were amazing and two had come in on their own holiday time,\" Mrs Everett said.", "question": "Seven of the eight miniature horses and foals @placeholder when thieves cut through an electric fence have been found .", "option_0": "disrupted", "option_1": "born", "option_2": "names", "option_3": "fought", "option_4": "stolen"}
{"id": 1533, "article": "Leslie Barrett died instantly when 28-year-old Faisal Ali crashed into his car on the A171 near Tranmire, North Yorkshire, on 8 September 2013. Ali, who denied causing death by dangerous driving, was found guilty at York Crown Court on 19 February. He was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court, where he was also banned from driving for four years. North Yorkshire Police said Ali, of Oxford Road, Middlesbrough, had been driving his white Mercedes car at speed when he overtook a vehicle on double white lines. The businessman smashed into Mr Barrett's Vauxhall Vectra, which was travelling in the opposite direction. Mr Barrett, from Sleights, near Whitby, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. His daughter, Claire Sinclair, read a statement out in court. In it she said Ali had shown \"no acceptance of his flagrant disregard for the road or its users\". \"Because of his refusal to face up to and accept his guilt, our family has had to endure an agonising 18 months wait and have the harrowing nature of a full trial before a right and just verdict was reached.\"", "question": "A driver who killed a 65 - year - old man while overtaking on a @placeholder road in Whitby has been jailed for four years .", "option_0": "woman", "option_1": "vehicle", "option_2": "man", "option_3": "drug", "option_4": "country"}
{"id": 1534, "article": "The Victorian-built structure was severely damaged in a storm on New Year's Eve and was close to collapse. Engineers worked round-the-clock to stabilise the structure, with the repairs completed two weeks early. The closure had affected passengers travelling between Carlisle and Glasgow since the beginning of January. Phil Verster, managing director of the ScotRail Alliance, said: \"I am delighted our engineers have been able to complete this vital job earlier than scheduled and get passengers back onto the West Coast Mainline. \"We appreciate the understanding customers have shown throughout the recovery operation. \"I am very proud of the hard work and commitment of our engineers who have had to contend with extremely challenging conditions at Lamington - battling against the elements and clock to save this important structure from collapse.\" The ScotRail Alliance said part of the Lamington viaduct was left \"on the brink of failure\" by flood damage caused by Storm Frank. It said floodwater scoured out much of the foundations of the second pier. The seven-week engineering project to fix it involved diverting the Clyde and stabilising the viaduct. Virgin Trains put on shuttle services which followed a local line through Dumfries - but it added extra time to each journey. Claire Perry, UK government Rail Minister, said: \"When I visited the Lamington Viaduct in January I saw first-hand the scale of the engineering challenge and the dedicated Network Rail team working round-the-clock to resolve the damage. \"In difficult conditions, they have managed to re-open ahead of schedule, and I'm grateful for the patience of customers who were disrupted and to the staff who adapted remarkably.\" The Scottish government's Transport Minister, Derek Mackay, said he was \"pleased\" to see the \"resumption of the vital passenger and freight services that rely on the West Coast Mainline\". \"I would particularly like to praise the efforts of all those people who have worked on securing and rebuilding the structure, especially amid the challenging weather conditions that we have experienced this winter,\" he said. Last month, it emerged a train was allowed to cross the viaduct at high speed, after it suffered damage but before the closure decision. The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is investigating the incident.", "question": "Train services on the West Coast Mainline have @placeholder after the completion of major repairs to the Lamington Viaduct .", "option_0": "resumed", "option_1": "soared", "option_2": "sour", "option_3": "launched", "option_4": "ended"}
{"id": 1535, "article": "It uses data from Credit Suisse from October for the report, which urges leaders meeting in Davos this week to take action on inequality. Oxfam also calculated that the richest 62 people in the world had as much wealth as the poorest half of the global population. It criticised the work of lobbyists and the amount of money kept in tax havens. Oxfam predicted that the 1% would overtake the rest of the world this time last year. It takes cash and assets worth $68,800 (?¡ê48,300) to get into the top 10%, and $760,000 (?¡ê533,000) to be in the 1%. That means that if you own an average house in London without a mortgage, you are probably in the 1%. The figures carry various caveats, for example, information about the wealth of the super-rich is hard to come by, which Credit Suisse says means its estimates of the proportion of wealth held by the 10% and the 1% is \"likely to err on the low side\". As a global report, the figures also necessarily include some estimates of levels of wealth in countries from which accurate statistics are not available. Oxfam said that the 62 richest people having as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the population is a remarkable concentration of wealth, given that it would have taken 388 individuals to have the same wealth as the bottom 50% in 2010. \"Instead of an economy that works for the prosperity of all, for future generations, and for the planet, we have instead created an economy for the 1%,\" Oxfam's report says. The trend over the period that Credit Suisse has been carrying out this research has been that the proportion of wealth held by the top 1% fell gradually from 2000 to 2009 and has risen every year since then. In fact, it is only in the 2015 figures that the proportion held by the top 1% overtakes the share taken by them in the first report in 2000. Oxfam calls on governments to take action to reverse this trend. It wants workers paid a living wage and the gap with executive rewards to be narrowed. It calls for an end to the gender pay gap, compensation for unpaid care and the promotion of equal land and inheritance rights for women. And it wants governments to take action on lobbying, reducing the price of medicines, taxing wealth rather than consumption and using progressive public spending to tackle inequality.", "question": "The richest 1 % now has as much wealth as the rest of the world @placeholder , according to Oxfam .", "option_0": "level", "option_1": "continues", "option_2": "did", "option_3": "vote", "option_4": "combined"}
{"id": 1536, "article": "The Jersey hoard was found in a field by metal detectorists Richard Miles and Reg Meade in 2012. The leather purse is about the size of an average palm and is described as an important find by senior conservator Neil Mahrer. He said they have so far removed some 40,000 coins and this was the first bag they had come across. Mr Mahrer said: \"It is made of leather, it looks like it is either made of one sheet or bootlace strands. \"It is about 8cm across and 4cm deep. It is joined at one side to two rings that could have been for fixing it to a belt.\" The team from Jersey Heritage have been working for the past 18 months on removing the coins one at a time. There are an estimated 70,000 coins in the hoard. Mr Mahrer said: \"The really important thing that might change our ideas is when we get to look at the coins themselves as we don't know the significance of the purse to the people who buried the hoard.\" He said they would be removing all the coins surrounding the purse so they could then remove it with the earth in a single block. The previous major find from the hoard was a selection of gold jewellery. Mr Mahrer said: \"Since removing the gold torques we thought we were in a coin-rich areas but seeing this it looks like we're in a rich seem of surprises again. \"Finding a purse where the whole thing is intact with the coins inside is pretty rare.\"", "question": "A rare purse has been found in the @placeholder of one of the world 's largest hoards of celtic coins .", "option_0": "mountains", "option_1": "middle", "option_2": "south", "option_3": "grounds", "option_4": "centre"}
{"id": 1537, "article": "Restaurateurs and hoteliers can now look forwards to a two year bulge in tourism numbers, with the 2011 wedding to be followed by the 2012 Olympics. Meanwhile media companies can expect exceptional viewing figures. And some economists think that a feel-good event could help lift broader consumer spending out of the doldrums. \"Extraneous events can increase feelings of economic and other wellbeing,\" says Professor Stephen Lea of Exeter University, who specialises in economic psychology. While many consumers have been directly affected by the recession, or fear they will be, he says there is also a large group of people who are merely affected by the atmosphere of doom and gloom. These people - who may have experienced better circumstances this year and anticipate better circumstances next year - still tend to rein in their spending with others during the recession. But if the wedding sparks a feel-good factor, he thinks many in this group may choose to increase their discretionary spending on electronics goods, home improvements and other things that might otherwise be postponed. \"The great advantage is that generally these people are not borrowing, but spending out of savings or increased income,\" he adds. A more tangible benefit to the UK economy could come from tourism. According to recent research by tourism board Visit Britain, the attraction of royalty already accounts for ¡ê500m in tourist spending each year in normal times. \"Our culture and heritage reputation is very strong around the world,\" says Visit Britain spokesman Paul Eastham. \"At the heart of that lies the monarchy.\" He notes that in 1981, Charles and Diana's wedding was cited as the reason tourists were most likely to visit the UK. International viewing figures for the television broadcast of Charles and Diana's wedding were estimated at over 750 million. \"People like to be on the spot when historic events happen,\" he adds, saying the coming wedding is \"likely to produce a very positive additional premium on what we normally see\". He also brushes off any concern that the 2011 wedding may sap tourist numbers for the 2012 Olympics. \"From our point of view it's almost ideal,\" he says, claiming there would be a \"halo effect\" for the UK of showcasing its two tourism strengths: pomp and circumstance followed by a hi-tech sporting event. The timing of the announcement is good news for retailers specialising in Royal commemorative items, who expect to have a range of products available in time for Christmas. The UK Gift Company, which specialises in Royal items anticipates an upturn in business of about 30% to 40%. Plates and mugs still lead demand, according to managing director Stephen Church, although he also expects stiff trade in hand painted boxes for trinkets. He said the leading china houses would produce items ranging in price from more than ¡ê1,000 for limited editions to less than ¡ê5. Mr Church added that he was amazed that so many people of different age groups bought such items. The older generation tended to be most keen, but young men would still be attracted to items such as cufflinks to mark the occasion, he said. Some William and Kate items have already been produced. Four years ago, Woolworths was so confident that the couple were to be engaged that it produced a commemorative mug and plate. The relationship has survived since then, but Woolworths on the High Street has not - with the final stores closing in January 2009. The longevity of memorabilia is also obvious from the items still on sale on internet auction sites from previous Royal weddings. A quick glance at what is on offer from Prince William's parents' marriage sees glass bowls on sale for ¡ê19.50. Other items include glasses, a bell, newspaper cuttings from the day, coins, spoons and even a bottle of \"wedding ale\".", "question": "Next year 's royal wedding is set to give the UK economy a boost , with tourism , merchandising and broadcasting among the best placed @placeholder .", "option_0": "attractions", "option_1": "shows", "option_2": "sectors", "option_3": "results", "option_4": "control"}
{"id": 1538, "article": "El Diario de Juarez has become known for its strong reporting from the deadly streets of Ciudad Juarez. But the killing of a 21-year-old photographer last week prompted the newspaper to run a front-page editorial asking: \"What do you want from us?\" Rights groups say journalists are regularly being targeted by drug gangs. The Committee to Protect Journalists, a US-based advocacy group, says more than 30 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2006. Many of those killed were reporting on crime or corruption, the group says, adding that the climate of fear has led to a widespread culture of self-censorship among fearful media workers. El Diario's editorial, published on its front page on Sunday, was its second since Luis Carlos Santiago, 21, was shot in Ciudad Juarez on 17 September. He later died of his injuries, although an intern who was also shot, Carlos Sanchez, survived the attack. \"The loss of two reporters from this publishing house in less than two years represents an irreparable sorrow for all of us who work here, and, in particular, for their families,\" the newspaper said. Describing the drug lords as the \"de facto authorities\" within Ciudad Juarez, the newspaper asked the cartels: \"We ask you to explain what you want from us, what we should try to publish or not publish, so we know what to expect.\" It highlighted the lack of progress in the investigation into the 2008 death of Armando Rodriguez, shot dead outside his home in view of his family. But the editorial insisted it was not \"a surrender\", saying instead that it had simply become \"impossible to do our job in these conditions\". Speaking to BBC World Service an editor at El Diario, Gerardo Rodriguez, said there was a war going on in Mexico that the journalists did not ask for. He expressed anger at the lack of progress in the official investigation into Mr Rodriguez's death and criticised the government as well as the cartels. \"We are looking for a peace agreement. No story is worth the life of anyone anymore.\" The newspaper had not decided to stop publishing stories on the drug war, Mr Rodriguez said, but would consider doing so if the answer that came from the cartels indicated that was their wish. Describing El Diario as a \"very aggressive\" organisation that \"searches for the truth\", he conceded that the paper might have to scale back its work if the violence did not stop. \"We may consider stopping in exchange for the lives of our reporters.\" Carlos Lauria, of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said El Diario's decision was a cause for regret. \"Even in one of the places where violence is worst... El Diario was still doing a lot of good reporting on crime,\" he told the Associated Press, describing the paper's move as \"an indication that the situation is out of control\". Ciudad Juarez is one of the deadliest flashpoints in Mexico's drug battles, which have seen violence rise sharply in the country's north in recent weeks. Opposition groups say a government crackdown on cartels, which began three-and-a-half years ago, has done nothing to stop the flow of drugs to the US. More than 28,000 people have died in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon deployed the army against the cartels in 2006. The violence has spilled over into Central America. However, the president has defended his policy, saying that the rise in violence is a sign that the cartels are becoming more desperate.", "question": "A Mexican newspaper in the heartland of the country 's drug war has asked cartels for @placeholder on whether it should publish stories on the conflict .", "option_0": "criticism", "option_1": "action", "option_2": "effect", "option_3": "opinions", "option_4": "guidance"}
{"id": 1539, "article": "In workplaces around the world a bit of humour can go a long way towards making it a more enjoyable place to spend eight or so hours a day. But for every genuinely funny employee or boss, there are others whose unfunny or inappropriate jokes make colleagues wince. So treading carefully, how exactly does humour help both improve a workplace and the standing of the person who is good at it? When Steve Carlisle, president of General Motors of Canada, walks around the firm's Ontario headquarters he shares jokes, and uses humour to bond with his staff. \"I believe having a sense of humour is part of the leadership package,\" Mr Carlisle says. \"It can help people feel more relaxed, more comfortable and thus be more effective at what they do.\" What Mr Carlisle brings to his role at the car giant is exactly what a business professor called Maurice Schweitzer cautiously recommends. Prof Schweitzer recently co-authored a study entitled Risky Business: When Humour Increases and Decreases Status. It found that a worker or boss who successfully use humour is seen as both confident and competent, which in turn increases his or her status. \"In the workplace context, people look up to those who are confident,\" says Prof Schweitzer, who works at the University of Philadelphia's Wharton School. \"Being funny is taking a risk, and being risky shows confidence.\" But do workers think that a humorous colleague is more competent at his or her job? Prof Schweitzer says that telling a good joke requires both intellect and empathy, which makes colleagues believe that the person has a greater level of competency across the board. \"Being funny requires us to take into consideration other people's points of view, and what they may find funny,\" he explains. \"And being funny means you understand effective timing, and how to straddle a fine line between what is humorous and what's offensive.\" Prof Schweitzer adds that if a person tells inappropriate jokes, be they insulting or unfunny, they are still regarded as more confident, but - perhaps unsurprisingly - also incompetent. The study says: \"Telling inappropriate jokes signals low competence, and the combined effect of high confidence and low competence harms status.\" Essentially, you don't want to be like David Brent, the cringeworthy fictional boss from The Office, the TV comedy series that was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. \"Humour creates a flattening of relationships in a hierarchal company,\" says Jennifer Moss, co-founder of Toronto's Plasticity Labs, which conducts research on emotional intelligence and happiness for businesses. \"To create stronger engagement with your staff, it helps to be humorous.\" One example Prof Schweitzer cites of a good use of humour is a tweet sent out back in 2009 by former Twitter chief operating officer Dick Costolo. Mr Costolo tweeted: \"First full day as Twitter COO tomorrow. Step one, undermine CEO, consolidate power.\" As it happened, Mr Costolo did actually go on to become Twitter's chief executive a year later, holding the role for five years before ultimately leaving the company. Prof Schweitzer says: \"Mr Costolo's not a seasoned veteran when it comes to comedy, he's not a comedian but he endeared himself to the company.\" In fact, having some fun in the office can combat negative side effects of intense jobs. In a 2006 study published in The Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, researchers found that for healthcare workers, emotional exhaustion was significantly lower among those who experienced greater levels of fun at work. Also, research out of Vrije University Amsterdam concluded that teams that share more jokes gave more supportive and constructive statements to each other, such as \"that's a great idea\" or \"we could solve this problem by doing X\". When it comes to the type of humour you might want to try out on your workmates, Prof Schweitzer says that self-deprecation \"can be effective\" because it humanises the joke-teller. Sarcasm can also be effectively used, according to Prof Adam Galinsky of Columbia Business School, but he urges a cautious approach. He says sarcastic humour works best when trust and playfulness has been established between parties, otherwise a wrongly-placed sarcastic comment can appear flippant or cruel. \"Sarcasm requires a cognitive capacity to understand flexibility of thinking and how words can be interpreted,\" says Prof Galinsky. \"It is a particular type of social intelligence that not everyone uses or grasps.\" More stories from the BBC's Business Brain series looking at quirky or unusual business topics from around the world: Putting the fun back into dance classes Can you be taught to be more charismatic? Does selling up mean selling out? 'I turned my dad's erotic novel into a hit podcast' Would you carry something abroad for a stranger? Barbara Plester, senior lecturer at the University of Auckland Business, says it is simply vital for jokes to not cause offence. The author of The Complexity of Workplace Humour: Laughter, Jokers and the Dark Side of Humour, also cautions about high-ranking managers bringing comedy to the office. \"While some managers do retain and use their sense of humour, the potential for causing distress is even greater when you add a power differential,\" she says. \"Therefore, a manager joking with a subordinate risks not only offending the worker if the humour is taken poorly, but may come in for other accusations, such as sexual harassment, if the humour backfires.\" Ms Plester also warns that senior staff sharing jokes \"can never be sure if they are really funny, or if others laugh because the manager has power and so subordinates laugh strategically to please the boss.\" Connecticut resident Tim Washer never shied away from being the \"funny guy at work\", thanks to growing up appreciating comedians and even trying some stand-up. Now a comedy writer and consultant, Mr Washer says the right wisecrack will ease tension and help bonding. He says: \"If I tell a joke and you laugh, then we've shared a moment and we have something in common.\" Follow Business Brain series editor Will Smale on Twitter @WillSmale1", "question": "Have you heard the joke about the humourless office worker who went for a @placeholder ? He did n't get it .", "option_0": "promotion", "option_1": "change", "option_2": "device", "option_3": "drink", "option_4": "run"}
{"id": 1540, "article": "The Family and Parenting Institute says intense scrutiny of parents has led to claims they are responsible for a deterioration in adolescent behaviour. But its chief executive Dr Katherine Rake says there is no evidence of a decline in parenting standards. If anything, parents are becoming more \"professional\", she says. In an article to mark the start of Parenting Week, Dr Rake says parenting has become \"one of the most charged political and cultural subjects of our age\". \"The scrutiny of parenting has led to the idea of a parenting 'deficit', and the view that there are growing number of parents who are incapable,\" she adds. \"Yet, this focus of parenting skills is not matched by conclusive evidence about a decline in our standards of parenting.\" The article is published after the government announced it was planning to try out free parenting classes in three areas of England. Dr Rake continues: \"There is a risk that the current debate on problem families unhelpfully adds another stereotype to a modern mythology of parenting. \"Alongside the 'pushy parent'; who helicopters around their child and elbows others out of the way in pursuit of their child's interests, we have the deficit model of a feckless parent, who is need of corrective state intervention.\" She adds: \"Much of the evidence available suggests that far from becoming a nation of apathetic, laissez-faire parents, many of us are spending more time with our children and having higher expectations of them.\" She continues: \"Working mothers now spend more time with their children than non-working mothers did in 1981.\" She also quotes research that suggests that more parents in 2006 expected their children to be polite and do their homework than did so 20 years earlier. Dr Rake adds: \"One of the explanations for the criminal behaviour of some young looters over the course of the riots was the poor parenting they had received.\" She adds that \"while it would be impossible to ascertain conclusively whether the 'quality' of parenting has improved or declined over time\", a recent study suggested there was no evidence for declining standards of parenting over all. At the same time parenting has been subject to the forces of \"professionalisation\" and \"marketisation\", she says which has \"in turn led to increased scrutiny of our private, domestic lives\". She adds: \"While the debate on parenting has been genuinely important in improving the quality of parenting that some children receive, it also inevitable leaves others feeling judged and under pressure to deliver to a set of fixed, and inevitable elusive standards.\" On problem families, Dr Rake said greater credence had been given to the idea that the government should intervene in what she described as \"cases of market failure\". But there was an important distinction between so-called \"problem families\" who drive criminal activity and families who experience multiple problems, she said. If the two were confused, the policies tackling the issue would fail, she suggested. Helping such families turn things around, as was promised the wake of the summer riots, was likely to be a challenge and very costly, she warned. Family Intervention Projects which have been seen as one of the main methods of doing this would require an investment of between ?¡ê1.5bn and ?¡ê2bn, she said.", "question": "Parents are stereotyped as either \" feckless \" or \" pushy \" in a @placeholder that puts huge pressures on families , experts say .", "option_0": "growing", "option_1": "boom", "option_2": "sign", "option_3": "fashion", "option_4": "society"}
{"id": 1541, "article": "The England players, mouths dry with fear, looked for escape routes - or even potential weapons - in case the mob fell on them. Bowler Harold Larwood, the focus of the fury, turned to team-mate Les Ames. \"If they come,\" he said, \"you can take the leg stump for protection - I'll take the middle.\" Never before or since that moment, 80 years ago to the day, on 16 January 1933, had cricket - and arguably any other sport - seen a contest which fired such anger, which reached so far and echoed for so long, as the Bodyline tour. \"In Australia to this day, the word Bodyline carries the stench of underhand or unsportsmanlike behaviour; with the series regarded as Australian cricket's most controversial,\" said David Studham from the Australian National Sports Museum. The view of the MCC, which organised the tour, is slightly different. The curator of its museum, Adam Chadwick, said: \"Was Bodyline unsportsmanlike? By the standards of the day, yes. By the standards of now, it was a stroke of genius.\" At the beginning of the 1930s, the MCC - Marylebone Cricket Club - still ruled the cricketing world from its seat at Lord's in London. But it had a problem, in the shape of batting phenomenon Don Bradman. During their 1930 tour of England, Australia - the arch rivals - had dominated the home bowlers, with Bradman averaging a staggering 139.14. The MCC looked to austere amateur player Douglas Jardine for an answer, making him England captain. Jardine believed Bradman struggled against balls which bounced into his chest and formed a tactic to exploit this. But the plan needed the right bowler, and that bowler was former Nottinghamshire miner Harold Larwood. Duncan Hamilton, Larwood's biographer, said: \"He had two things. Firstly he was incredibly accurate, he claimed never to have bowled a wide in his career, and accuracy was essential to Bodyline. \"Secondly he was devastatingly fast. All his contemporaries said he was the quickest they had faced. At certain times during that series he must have got close to, if not passed, the 100mph (160km/h) mark. \"Every fast bowler who sees that old footage says, 'Wow, that's quick!'.\" Jardine's plan was to use what was known in England as leg theory. Bowling fast, high-bouncing deliveries on the line of the leg stump of the wicket - where a batsman would usually stand. The batsman had three choices: to move but risk exposing his wicket, to play the ball with his bat and face being caught by a ring of close fielders, or try to duck and risk painful blows. The tour began in earnest at Sydney in December 1932, ironically without Bradman playing. Bodyline brought England victory. By Jonathan AgnewBBC cricket correspondent Bodyline introduced a previously unspoken element into Test cricket - namely the physical intimidation of the batsman. The placement of fielders, deliberately positioned to catch the ball from batsmen protecting themselves from short, fast deliveries aimed at the ribs and throat, was entirely legal at the time, but seriously threatened the code of sportsmanship that is so central to cricket. That said, the Australian administrators - who made such a meal of Jardine's tactic at the time - were noticeably quiet when their own fast bowlers Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson were terrifying batsmen with short-pitched bowling in the 1970s. The authorities acted swiftly after the Bodyline tour to limit the placing of fielders in catching positions on the leg side in an attempt to deter a repeat of the tactic, and also brought in a restriction of the number of bouncers that can be bowled in a single over. But after Lillee and Thomson, the West Indies' formidable pace attack of the late 1970s and 80s also proved that skilful, intimidatory fast bowling is every bit as effective as Bodyline, even with field restrictions and after the introduction of helmets. Complaints about the tactic quickly appeared. As the bruises and wickets mounted, the disquiet turned to anger, with claims batsmen were being physically targeted. Despite Australia levelling the series at the second match in Melbourne, the repeated blows to lightly protected players attracted outraged headlines. Some batsmen endured hours of punishment and even Bradman looked unsettled. Mr Studham said: \"The tactics employed by Jardine roused intense passions, as they were so out of accord with anything that had previously happened on the cricket field. \"Targeting the bowling along the line of the batsman's body was regarded by the Australian crowds as vicious, unsporting and especially after repeatedly battering the batsmen, 'hitting a man when he was down and certainly no part of cricket'.\" With everything to play for, and feelings running at fever pitch, the Adelaide match opened in front of packed stands. Cricket bible Wisden would later call it \"probably the most unpleasant Test ever played\". Australian captain Bill Woodfull was left staggering after being struck just above the heart by Larwood. The booing lasted for three minutes, despite the fact England had not yet deployed Bodyline tactics in the match. That would change though, moments later, when Jardine called out to Larwood: \"Well bowled Harold,\" and set the fielders in the hated Bodyline formation. Police had to be deployed on the boundary. The next day, Oldfield had his skull cracked and Larwood had to be escorted from the ground. Source: BBC Religion & Ethics Is fair play important in sport? The line between gamesmanship and cheating Can cricket teach children fair play? It was almost inevitable the problems would overflow from the playing field. But no-one could have predicted it would lead to three events then unthinkable in cricket. MCC tour manager Pelham Warner, seeking to smooth relationships, was sent packing by the normally placid Woodfull with what were, for some years, the 25 most famous words in sport. \"I don't want to see you, Mr Warner. There are two teams out there. One is trying to play cricket and the other is not.\" The comment, made in the previously sacrosanct dressing room, was then leaked to the press. The next day, Australian Board of Control for International Cricket sent a cable to the MCC which described England's tactics as \"unsportsmanlike\", the ultimate taboo for guardians of the game. Mr Chadwick said: \"The MCC reacted with incredulity to the Australian messages that the tactics were unsportsmanlike and they felt it was really out of the question that an MCC team led by a gentleman of Douglas Jardine's character could possibly behave in such a manner. \"The archives really do show the feeling was 'Oh, the Australians are being a bit hysterical about it'.\" But the situation spiralled. Jardine threatened to withdraw his team from the remaining two matches unless the allegation was retracted. Stoked by newspaper reports, each country backed its own players. The standoff only ended when Australian Prime Minister Joseph Lyons told the cricket board a British boycott of Australian goods could cripple the country. England won the series 4-1. Bradman's batting average was cut to a merely excellent 56. But the shock lasted for years. Mr Studham said he felt Bodyline was one of those sporting \"rite of passage\" stories all Australian children learn about. \"The on-field tactics and resulting carnage at the third Test in Adelaide split already strained relations between the teams, the game's governing authorities, and even threatened to split the governments. \"While perfectly legal at the time, it left lasting ill-feeling in Australia where it was seen to be outside the spirit of the game. \"The fact that a few years later the laws of cricket were amended to ban Bodyline bowling contributed greatly to its continuing national disdain.\" Mr Chadwick said: \"The MCC did not have any advance warning of the tactics which Jardine was using and wasn't really aware of the impact - all they were getting was newspaper reports and telegraph messages of the score. \"When they saw it for themselves they realised this really wasn't the sort of cricket they had always set themselves up to promote as containing the best values of Britishness and gentlemanly fair play.\" Jardine retired from first class cricket the following year. Larwood's agony was more extended. Injured through over-bowling, he was then stunned at his treatment by cricket's hierarchy. Mr Hamilton said: \"He was totally betrayed by the establishment. They treated him like toxic waste. \"He was asked to apologise and he rightly refused, saying he had done what his captain had asked. He got no support for his injury. \"On his return to Nottingham he was met by cheering crowds 10,000-strong. He went from that to being vilified. The whole thing was a tragedy.\" Larwood never played for England again. On the advice of some of his old Bodyline foes, he emigrated to Australia in 1950 - becoming firm friends with Bert Oldfield. He was appointed MBE in 1993, at the age of 88. A statue of him was unveiled in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, close to his birthplace, in 2002.", "question": "As Australian batsman Bert Oldfield collapsed , his skull @placeholder by a lightning - fast ball , the booing from the 50,000 - strong Adelaide Oval crowd became a deafening howl .", "option_0": "inspired", "option_1": "surrounded", "option_2": "fractured", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "following"}
{"id": 1542, "article": "The Blades reached the semi-finals of the Capital One Cup but finished fifth in League One and failed to gain promotion through the play-offs. A statement on the club's website said: \"A change in direction was necessary for the forthcoming season.\" Clough, 49, had managerial spells at Burton Albion and Derby County manager before replacing David Weir at Bramall Lane in October 2013. Clough's backroom staff of Gary Crosby, Andy Garner, Martin Taylor, Simon Clough, Michael Forsyth and Matt Brown will also leave the club, which faces a fifth successive year in the third tier. The club statement added: \"The search for the club's new first-team manager will now start and it is hoped this will result in identifying and recruiting the right candidate within a relatively short period of time. \"The club would like to place on record its thanks to Nigel, as well as his backroom staff.\" Former England international forward Clough started his managerial career with Burton Albion in 1998 after a successful playing career that took in stints with Nottingham Forest, Liverpool and Manchester City. Having guided the Brewers to the top of the Conference Premier, he left to take over Derby in January 2009, following in the footsteps of his late father Brian, who managed the club to the league title in the 1970s.", "question": "Nigel Clough has been @placeholder as the manager of Sheffield United .", "option_0": "hailed", "option_1": "sacked", "option_2": "identified", "option_3": "announced", "option_4": "selected"}
{"id": 1543, "article": "It is believed Jason McGovern, of Tydavnet, was punched at a pub on John Street on Sunday. He was hit a short time later at Cunningham Terrace car park and died in the early hours of New Year's Eve. Two men aged 21, a 19-year-old man, an 18-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy are due in court in Omagh on Saturday. The two 21-year-olds who have been charged were arrested in the Omagh area earlier on Friday. To date, detectives investigating Mr McGovern's death have made six arrests. A 21-year-old who was arrested on Wednesday was released on bail earlier this week. A post-mortem examination concluded that Mr McGovern died from a serious head injury that was the result of the assaults.", "question": "Five people have been charged with affray by police investigating the death of a teenager who was @placeholder twice in Omagh , County Tyrone .", "option_0": "attacked", "option_1": "seized", "option_2": "injured", "option_3": "murdered", "option_4": "caught"}
{"id": 1544, "article": "A nine-month investigative report by the Indianapolis Star newspaper has just been published, and the scope of its claims is startling. After reviewing hundreds of police files and court cases, the paper says \"at least\" 368 American gymnasts have made allegations of sexual abuse in the past 20 years. The report claims 115 adults \"at every level of the sport\" are implicated in the abuse. Dr Larry Nassar, who used to work for the body that governs US gymnastics, is the subject of two separate lawsuits alleging sexual abuse - which he denies. And USA Gymnastics has itself been accused of failing to protect athletes. Meanwhile, the journalists who have been investigating for much of the year believe \"there is still a lot more to come out\". In August, the Indianapolis Star published a story detailing allegations of sexual abuse committed by coaches working for USA Gymnastics. It claimed that the sporting body did not report allegations of abuse to relevant authorities. Tim Evans, one of the journalists working on the paper's ongoing investigation, told BBC Sport they first heard details of the abuse in March. \"My colleague Marisa [Kwiatkowski] was looking at another case in basketball when it was suggested she look at gymnastics,\" he said. \"When that initial story was published we had three women call us and say that Dr Nassar did things to them. They did not know each other and their stories were almost identical. \"We spent a month or so investigating Nassar.\" In September, former club gymnast Rachael Denhollander waived her right to anonymity and, in an interview with the Indy Star, detailed the abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands Dr Nassar. Speaking to BBC World Service's Sportshour programme, Denhollander said Dr Nassar allegedly sexually assaulted her during treatment for back and wrist injuries, despite her mother being in the room. This is as big as anything we've uncovered in recent years She said: \"He would position himself so she could not see what he was doing. The other dynamic is that he was very trusted. It was very difficult to reconcile the person he was supposed to be with what he was doing, so the only conclusion I could come to was that I must be making a mistake. She added: \"That the truth has not come out in the past 18 years is something that has haunted me. The only thing that I feel now is very deep grief. I did not feel the need to come forward publicly for myself - there is nothing I gain from this for myself. \"But to be able to see the other women have a voice, that is worth everything. That is more powerful a motivation than fear.\" Dr Nassar has been accused of sexual assault in two lawsuits filed by two former US women gymnasts. He denies the claims. The pair are also suing USA Gymnastics because they claim its policies allowed the abuse to continue. Lawyer John Manley is representing the two athletes. He told Sportshour: \"Our allegations are that US Gymnastics made a choice at the highest level to cover up for Dr Nassar and others, and sacrifice children. \"Case in point: they fired Nassar in early 2015 and they didn't tell anyone, including Michigan State University, where he was allowed to continue to see young girls as a doctor, even after US Gymnastics had terminated his services because they believed he was an abuser. \"That is a stunning revelation, but they kept it secret. The reason child sexual abuse flourishes is because of secrecy. \"Our goal for our clients is to get them justice, but it is also to fundamentally change the way elite sport does business in this country.\" USA Gymnastics says it severed ties with Dr Nassar in 2015 when claims were brought to its attention. It denies that allegations of abuse were kept quiet in order to preserve the sport's reputation. The organisation says it is \"proud of the work it has done to address and guard against child sexual abuse\" and has passed evidence on to the FBI. USA Gymnastics was asked by BBC Sport whether its staff knew of Dr Nassar's alleged misconduct during the period he was employed. It responded: \"When USA Gymnastics learned of athlete concerns about Dr Nassar we immediately notified the FBI and relieved Nassar of any further assignments. \"Since then, we have co-operated with the FBI while the investigation has moved forward. Our support has and continues to include refraining from making further public statements or taking any other action that might interfere with the investigation. We are grateful to the athletes for coming forward to share their concerns.\" Larry Nassar was a member of the USA Gymnastics medical staff from 1986 and team doctor for the women's team from 1996. He left the Indianapolis-based organisation in 2015. He also worked with gymnasts at Michigan State University and has a website selling DVDs of rehabilitation programs for injured gymnasts. He was arrested and charged on 21 November for alleged criminal sexual conduct against a child, who was neither a gymnast nor a patient. The abuse is alleged to have taken place at his Michigan home. Others have alleged that they were sexually assaulted by him, including patients at Michigan State University. The university confirmed to the BBC that its police are currently investigating about 50 complaints. Dr Nassar's lawyer Matt Newburg told the BBC his firm was continuing a \"review of the reports\". Nassar made his first court appearance this month. He faced three sexual assault charges against a girl under 13. He pleaded not guilty. A preliminary hearing was due to take place in December but the judge granted a defence request to delay that until 17 February. When the charges were brought in November, Michigan attorney general Bill Schuette said the case against Dr Nassar was the \"tip of the iceberg\". Meanwhile, USA Gymnastics has announced it will conduct an independent review into its handling of sexual abuse cases. In response to the Indy Star's latest report it issued the following statement: \"Nothing is more important to USA Gymnastics, the board of directors and chief executive Steve Penny than protecting athletes, which requires sustained vigilance by everyone - coaches, athletes, parents, administrators and officials. \"We are saddened when any athlete has been harmed in the course of his or her gymnastics career.\" Indy Star Journalist Mark Alesia told Sportshour that he believes more allegations of sexual abuse will surface. He said: \"There's a lot more to come out, we suspect, on how USA Gymnastics handles sexual abuse complaints. \"As part of our investigation we have learned that it was keeping files of sexual abuse complaints but not reporting them to authorities. If we get to those, we think there will be a lot more to report.\"", "question": "As Britain comes to terms with reports of widespread sexual abuse in football , gymnastics in the United States is dealing with its own @placeholder scandal .", "option_0": "sex", "option_1": "secret", "option_2": "commitments", "option_3": "growing", "option_4": "region"}
{"id": 1545, "article": "Robert Wiley, 62, who weighs 23-stone, told the BBC he fell on his back after the specially adapted wheelchair he was in toppled over. \"I was stuck like a beached whale, it was embarrassing,\" said bed-ridden Mr Wiley from Saltash in Cornwall. The ambulance firm said the crew used a \"controlled lower to the ground\". More on this story and others from Devon and Cornwall Former van driver Mr Wiley suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bladder cancer, and needs an oxygen supply to breathe properly. He was being taken to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth for a scan last Thursday when he said the accident happened. \"They started taking me through the door and the next thing I knew I was on my back. I thought 'what the hell',\" he said. \"If it was not for my son they would have never got me up.\" Wayne Spedding, operations director at E-zec Medical Transport, which sub-contracted Lifestar Medical Ltd for the job, said Mr Wiley was not dropped. \"If staff feel continuing a manoeuvre may become unstable they gradually lower to the ground and reposition,\" he said. \"I understand it may feel like he has been dropped, and that it may have been a bit of a shock, but it was a controlled manoeuvre.\"", "question": "A cancer patient has @placeholder to an ambulance firm after being \" dropped \" on his household steps while being taken to hospital .", "option_0": "complained", "option_1": "vowed", "option_2": "opened", "option_3": "fled", "option_4": "written"}
{"id": 1546, "article": "Here are five facts you need to know about Prue: 1. She grew up in South Africa and helped to start a cooking college there, now called 'Prue Leith's Chefs Academy'. 2. She went to the famous Le Cordon Bleu cookery school in London. 3. But she's not just a cook, she opened her first restaurant in 1969 and she already knows what it's like to be on TV... She spent 11 years as a judge on BBC Two programme The Great British Menu. She's also a writer and has written seven novels so far. 4. She loves her mad dog Meg, a rescue mongrel, and her beautiful cat Magnificat (known as Mags). 5. And she's received a couple of royal awards, an OBE in 1989 and a CBE in 2010. So there are a few facts about Prue Leith. We'll let you know if she does end up joining Paul Hollywood on The Great British Bake Off. Channel 4 said it would be announcing the programme's line-up \"in due course\".", "question": "There are rumours that 76 - year - old food critic and campaigner Prue Leith could @placeholder Mary Berry when The Great British Bake Off starts on Channel 4 , but who is she ?", "option_0": "show", "option_1": "date", "option_2": "transform", "option_3": "replace", "option_4": "become"}
{"id": 1547, "article": "Burnt-out tyres, broken glass and concrete blocks littered the neighbourhood's only tarmac road, and an armoured truck was parked outside the prison itself. Similar trucks have been patrolling the streets of the capital for most of this week, with their turret-mounted machine guns hidden under protective bags. This time, the weapon was gleaming in the sun. \"There have been killings and looting, young men have died and a bakery was ransacked,\" angry residents shouted. When asked who had committed those crimes, they answered in a chorus: \"Soldiers, policemen!\" An officer heading one of the police squads waved the BBC car through and played down the violence. \"We're only using plastic bullets,\" he said. The head of the national police, Charles Bisengimana, has acknowledged that his force had killed at least four people in Kinshasa since the presidential result was announced on Friday afternoon - three looters and one woman hit by a stray bullet. The UN-sponsored station Radio Okapi put the death toll at six in the capital. \"We only use non-lethal equipment to disperse protest marches, but policemen who protect buildings or people had to use weapons,\" Gen Bisengimana said. He also warned that armed police would be used against \"armed groups linked to the opposition\" after one policeman was shot dead on Thursday and another one injured by gunfire on Saturday. The situation was under control, he added. More reports of violence came from the central city of Mbuji-Mayi, where official tallies show that 97% of voters supported the opposition candidate Etienne Tshisekedi. The president of the local civil society committee said one man had died there and members of the security forces had arrested numerous people or stolen their belongings. Another civil society leader, Willy Wabo, was murdered overnight in North Kivu province, in the east of the country. A local journalist said Mr Wabo had vigorously denounced irregularities in the electoral process. The Kinshasa voters who have been burning tyres and breaking down electricity poles on Saturday are also putting the election result in doubt. \"We are really disappointed. We voted for Tshisekedi, now we are told it's Kabila. That's why we are angry,\" a local woman said. Election observers are now scrutinising the detailed results posted by the electoral commission on its website following the announcement of President Kabila's re-election on Friday evening. Several electoral observation missions, including the Carter Centre, are expected to issue reports in the coming days on the credibility of the paper trail from each of the 63,000 polling stations to the final tally. Already, some trends from the raw data are striking: The number of polling stations where the results were discarded by the electoral commission because of electoral violence or logistical problems is consistently higher in areas where the opposition vote was high. For example, nearly one in five polling stations in Kinshasa was not included in the election result, compared to less than 1% in Katanga. Two-thirds of Kinshasa voters chose Mr Tshisekedi, while 90% of those in Katanga voted for Mr Kabila. In Mr Kabila's home village of Manono, more voters cast their ballots than were registered on the list, resulting in a turnout rate of 100.14%. According to official figures, only one person in that entire constituency voted for Mr Tshisekedi.", "question": "Gunshots were ringing out in the streets around the central prison in Kinshasa , the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo , on Saturday as groups of three policemen armed with assault rifles went door - to - door in apparent search @placeholder after a night of violence and looting .", "option_0": "operations", "option_1": "era", "option_2": "show", "option_3": "states", "option_4": "conditions"}
{"id": 1548, "article": "A major factor in turning the accident into a \"disaster\" was timing. Just 12 days before the 1979 accident that saw a partial core meltdown at one of the two reactors at the Pennsylvania plant, The China Syndrome was released in cinemas across the US. The film's plot centred on a major safety issue at a California nuclear plant. It was a spooky backdrop to the worst real world nuclear accident in US history. While citizens were frightened by TMI, so too were investors. The accident happened after just three months of commercial operation causing the plant owner to go bankrupt. The whole clean up effort took 14 years and cost almost $1bn. In the wake of TMI, demand for nukes fell through the floor. The Watts Bar plant in Tennessee, the first new nuclear installation in the US, became operational in 2016, two decades after the previous one. Many US scientists, greatly concerned by the threat of climate change, have come out in support of nuclear, arguing that the need for large-scale low-carbon energy outweighs concerns over safety. Just after the Paris climate agreement was signed in 2015, four prominent researchers wrote a public letter urging the rapid uptake of new nuclear. \"Nuclear will make the difference between the world missing crucial climate targets or achieving them,\" wrote the group, which included Nasa scientist James Hansen. \"The future of our planet and our descendants depends on basing decisions on facts, and letting go of long-held biases when it comes to nuclear power.\" A big problem for Three Mile Island, though, was the fact that the state of Pennsylvania doesn't regard nuclear energy as a renewable resource. Some analysts believe that unless nuclear installations are treated as green sources, their days are numbered. \"The Three Mile Island announcement represents the clear need for rational carbon pricing in US power markets or we'll continue to see nuclear's role continue to fade going forward,\" said John Larsen, an expert on the US power sector at the Rhodium Group. \"With no sign of that happening at the federal level, the question is being left to the states.\" Six nuclear plants have closed around the US in the past five years. Another five are likely to go in the next few. But even if the nuclear operators could benefit from the public purse in the way that renewables like wind and solar already do, the real killer for atomic energy has been natural gas. Hydraulic fracturing has seen US production of gas rise by over 40% in the decade to 2016. It's plentiful, cheap and flexible. Operators can turn production on or off rapidly in response to demands. And as well as puncturing nuclear's bubble, the rise of gas has also helped put coal on the floor. Between 2006 and 2016 coal production fell by a third. By 2015 the amount of electricity being produced from gas edged ahead of coal for the first time. So can President Trump's promises to remove regulations and limit environmental precautions boost coal back to the top of the heap? Not really, say some experts. Old-fashioned coal and nuclear don't work well with the newest kids on the energy block, solar and wind. \"Nuclear plants are very hard to ramp up or ramp down. So are most coal-fired plants,\" said Prof Jeremy Weber from the University of Pittsburgh. \"They don't complement the intermittent nature of renewables as well as natural gas. And they are more expensive. It's really a left as well as a right punch.\" Coal will continue to play a major part in the US energy mix for many years to come, and some believe that President Trump's push in favour may result in a boost in production. However, the long term future of the US coal and nuclear industries is not looking good. \"The President's reforms may be able to move the dial on the margin for coal, but massive displacement has already occurred and the majority of that isn't going to come back with a rolling back of regulations,\" said Prof Weber. He went on: \"Natural gas and renewables will eat away at coal and nuclear over time. No one is even fathoming such an expensive risky investment as a nuclear power plant outside of highly regulated markets. \"I don't see anything reversing that trend.\" Follow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook.", "question": "No one died , there were no direct health impacts , but the Three Mile Island ( TMI ) nuclear accident burned so deeply into the US @placeholder that it has helped limit the future use of the power source across America .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "soil", "option_2": "news", "option_3": "psyche", "option_4": "document"}
{"id": 1549, "article": "The Cornwall Federation of WIs (CFWI) says the hall at Kelly Bray is theirs and anyone wishing to use it should seek their permission. But according to locals, the hall was purchased in 1937 by the village for the WI. The row started after the local branch of the WI, which met in the hall, folded in 2013 due to lack of members. The CFWI changed the locks and put up a sign regarding entry requirements in November 2014. However, residents changed the locks again and are using it for events. The hall, on the corner of Stokes Road and Parson's Green, was built with the deeds saying the site was sold \"for an Institute for the women of Kelly Bray\". The CFWI said in a statement: \"The hall was established specifically for the use of WI and not for village hall purposes. \"The recent actions of the village hall committee to force entry in the building, change the locks and deny access to the trustees of CFWI are not only highly regrettable but also illegal, and the trustees are seeking a way forward through discussions with their lawyers.\" The village hall committee rejected the WI's claims, saying that according to their interpretation of the deeds, the hall was purchased by the village for the use of the WI ladies and they have vowed to carry on using it. It said the hall had been used over the years for events such as Christenings, wakes, dog-grooming classes and Young Farmers' pantos as well as the WI. Susie Iannantuoni, from the village committee, said villagers had been \"horrified\" when the hall was locked by the WI. \"We have money to pay the bills, we have insured it and running repairs are being done. \"I think the situation is dreadful. We have the same aims as the WI, to have the hall for the community and reach out to people. We are providing a social service.\"", "question": "A Women 's Institute ( WI ) is considering legal action in a row with villagers over @placeholder of a meeting hall .", "option_0": "signs", "option_1": "destruction", "option_2": "ownership", "option_3": "branches", "option_4": "members"}
{"id": 1550, "article": "While many people got to ask both candidates questions, there were a few key characters who stole the limelight. The first was Abigail Eatock, who asked the opening question of Mrs May. She didn't pull any punches: \"Why should the public trust anything you say or any of your policies when you have a known track record of broken promises and back tracking during your time as home secretary and now as prime minister?\" Abigail, who is the chair of the University of York's UKIP Society, impressed people with her challenge to Mrs May. \"Just let this woman quiz Theresa May for the rest of the show. Amazing.\"  wrote the Huffington Post's Owen Bennett. The UKIP supporter's contribution was taken to heart by many on the left of UK politics with Labour member Jo Philips simply tweeting \"Star!! #Abigail\" Self-described stand-up comedian and socialist Chris Coltrane tweeted \"Abigail for Prime Minister\". Though he later deleted the tweet. \"Abigail you are my life hero.\" tweeted Labour member Rosa. Was Abigail satisfied with Theresa May's answer to her question? \"I felt it was a lot of political spiel,\" she told the BBC, adding that she felt the answer was too rehearsed. Abigail may have shot to prominence for her direct questions but Twitter took another audience member to heart for pure aesthetics. Whilst sporting a large and bushy moustache this audience member first questioned Theresa May on her manifesto and later Jeremy Corbyn about his defence policy. \"I want to vote for this man's moustache immediately\" wrote Paul Southall.  \"That moustache is truly magnificent\" another user concurred. \"In a sea of uncertainty... there is a handlebar moustache\" proclaimed Nancy Dewe Matthews. Inevitably he was dubbed moustache man by social media users. \"Handlebar moustache man's moustache presumably already has 17 Twitter parody accounts.\" joked actor David Schneider. At the time of writing one account named simply Moustache Man had been created. To some he had the look of a character who had tumbled out of a bedtime story: The issue of Trident turned into one of the livelier moments of Jeremy Corbyn's questions from the audience. It also demonstrated how Twitter won't hesitate to depict someone as a pantomime villain. Audience member Adam Murgatroyd kicked off discussion by asking Mr Corbyn: \"If Britain were under imminent threat from nuclear weapons how would you react?\" Mr Murgatroyd said he was \"concerned\" that Mr Corbyn wouldn't commit to using nuclear weapons in retaliation to a nuclear attack. Mr Murgatroyd was quickly portrayed by users as someone hungry to use nuclear weapons. A tweet from Joey Fazza shared more than 700 times showed Mr Murgatroyd with the caption: \"When you want to blow millions of people up but Corbs isn't into a world that's a nuclear wasteland.\" Another tweet shared almost 600 times showed him with the caption: \"Let me push the button, I will push it, let me push it.\" But TV presenter Piers Morgan's tweet echoing the concerns of Mr Murgatroyd was also widely shared: \"So a rogue state nukes London then prepares to nuke Birmingham & Sheffield. Corbyn would do nothing to stop them.\" By contrast a lady who accused the rest of the audience of being \"obsessed with murdering millions of people\" was lionised by twitter users. \"I love this woman. She speaks for me\", wrote Labour member Helen Cherry. \"Kudos to the young woman who who expressed surprise so many in #bbcqt audience are obsessed with genocide\", tweeted Ian Fraser But journalist Jane Merrick didn't agree: \"The woman who said her fellow #bbcqt audience members were 'keen' on killing millions was so disingenuous it's beyond belief.\" Compiled by the BBC's UGC and Social Media team", "question": "It may have been Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn 's big @placeholder but it was the lively audience which caught the imagination of social media .", "option_0": "affair", "option_1": "idea", "option_2": "process", "option_3": "risks", "option_4": "night"}
{"id": 1551, "article": "With 99% of the votes counted, his conservative National Coalition Party had 18.2% compared to the opposition Centre Party's 21.2%. \"It seems as though the Centre has won. Congratulations,\" Mr Stubb told Finland's YLE public broadcaster. The election campaign was dominated by the country's protracted recession and other economic issues. A year of stagnation in 2014 was preceded by two years of recession and unemployment now stands at 9.2%. The Centre Party is led by millionaire former IT executive Juha Sipila. The YLE website's tracking of the results put the NCP marginally ahead of the right-wing eurosceptic Finns Party (17.6%) and the Social Democrats (16.5%). YLE forecast that the Centre Party would get at least 49 seats in the 200-member parliament, while the National Coalition Party would have 37. \"I think this gap will be enough,\" Mr Sipila told MTV3 broadcaster. \"This result will enable several possible coalition combinations.\" Mr Sipila was relatively unknown in Finland until he became leader of the Centre Party three years ago. He has publicly criticised Mr Stubb's plans to cut 6bn euros (?¡ê4.3bn) from budget deficits over the coming four years, dismissing the proposal as unrealistic. Mr Sipila has pledged to create more than 200,000 jobs in the next 10 years. Finland's economy has been the main issue during the election campaign. The governing coalition has struggled to push through reforms, leading to a reduction in support for Mr Stubb ahead of Sunday's vote.", "question": "Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb has @placeholder the general election , near complete results show .", "option_0": "lost", "option_1": "called", "option_2": "led", "option_3": "joined", "option_4": "declared"}
{"id": 1552, "article": "Bush was smarting from a lamentable debate performance, during which his attempt to ambush his one-time protege Marco Rubio with an attack on the Senator's absenteeism from Capitol Hill had boomeranged horribly. The headline \"Boulder Crushes Bush,\" was already doing the rounds on Twitter. In the spin room, veteran journalists composed one-word obituaries: \"Finished.\" Suffice to say, Bush was not in the mood for a lengthy post mortem with the BBC, and headed down the corridor with an uncharacteristic burst of energy. Yet when I asked him if his performance was up to scratch, that furry microphone positioned temptingly just below his jawline, he was sufficiently riled up to answer. \"It's not a performance,\" he harrumphed, \"I'm running for President of the United States.\" Many of Bush's problems were summed up in those four words: \"It's not a performance.\" In a conservative movement that continues to deify its movie-star president Ronald Reagan and which lauds Donald Trump, who is better known these days as a reality TV star than a property developer, \"performance\" has never been more important. The debates are generating record-breaking viewing figures. Politics has become a branch of the entertainment industry, with television rather than social media the dominant platform. So candidates who dismiss the theatrical requirements of modern-day campaigning do so at their peril. Judging by the enduring popularity of the boastful billionaire, the Republican base likes brash performers, the type who would not look out of place hosting WWE professional wrestling. Alas, Jeb Bush looks like he would be more at home presenting the graveyard shift on National Public Radio. Bush's frustration that night in Boulder was not just palpable but also understandable. With eight years' experience as Governor of Florida, with binders full of policy proposals at his fingertips and with a detailed knowledge of foreign affairs, he has the smarts to be president. What's lacking is a winning personality and the requisite flair for political vaudeville. Bush's great misfortune is not just that he is an establishment candidate running at a time when anti-establishment candidates are in vogue. He also suffers from the fact that experience and expertise seem less important than sheer entertainment value. During last week's debate in Milwaukee, presumably frustrated by the policy incoherence of Trump and Carson, his anger again came to the boil. \"We have to win the Presidency,\" he complained. \"And the way you win the Presidency is to have practical plans.\" He's right, of course. What's more, policy wonks and contemplative thinkers can reach the White House. However, as Bill Clinton (wonk) and Barack Obama (brooding thinker) both demonstrated, they need also to have a feel for political stagecraft. The early frontrunner, for some the presumed nominee, Bush was at his strongest when voters had not yet attached a personality to his famous name. And that is hugely ironic, because most commentators thought his name, and the history and sense of entitlement that went with it, would prove to be his biggest handicap. As it turns out, the problem is not Bush but Jeb - or Jeb!, as his campaign banners have rebranded him, in the hope of vesting him with much-needed lustre. From bungling the most obvious question that he was likely to be asked - did he support his brother's decision to invade Iraq? - to launching that ill-conceived attack on Rubio, Jeb has not looked ready for primetime. Again, this is ironic, given that the presidency has been the target of his ambitions for so long. Some candidates grow in stature as the campaign goes on, as Marco Rubio has demonstrated. Others suffer stage fright, or simply prove temperamentally unsuited to prosper in a modern-day campaign. Here, Bush runs the risk of joining the roll call of candidates who had strong paper qualifications to be president but not the skills as a campaigner to win the presidential nomination - a list that includes George Romney (the father of Mitt), and Rudy Giuliani. Bush not only faces a personality problem but a political one. He himself acknowledged this at the start of his campaign when he said, rather nobly, that he was willing \"to lose the primary to win the general.\" By this he meant that he would take moderate positions on issues like immigration that risked alienating the insurgent right but which would make the Grand Old Party (GOP) more inclusive. At the moment, however, he is struggling even to win over pragmatists in his party. Here is it worth considering Jeb's political bloodline, because the story of the Bushes in some ways doubles as the story of the modern GOP. The dynastic patriarch Prescott Bush, a Republican Senator from Connecticut, was the kind of northern-eastern patrician who used to dominate the party. George Herbert Walker, his preppy son, moved from New England to Texas, not only to make his fortune as an oil man but because the Republican party's political centre of gravity shifted after the civil rights era from Wall Street to the Sunbelt and the South. His eldest son, George W Bush, a born-again Christian, benefited from the marrying of the conservative movement with the evangelical movement. Jeb Bush hoped he could write a new chapter not just in family lore but also in GOP history. A fluent Spanish-speaker, married to a Mexican-American, he looked like the ideal figurehead for a party desperate to make inroads into Latino communities. Unfortunately for him, the Republican base seemingly has decided on a wholly different path. Trump, who has electrified the base not just with his showmanship but his hard-line stance on immigration, has framed the contest and given it a heavily anti-immigration tone. The Bush obituaries drafted in Boulder are precipitate. Though his campaign has been forced to make cutbacks, he has enough money to remain in the race. Born 11 February 1953 in Midland, Texas. Son of President George Bush, and younger brother of President George W Bush. Married Mexican Columba Garnica Gallo in 1973. The couple have three children. Moved to Miami, Florida, in 1980, where he helped form what would become a successful real estate company, the Codina Group. Entered politics in 1984, as chairman of the Dade County Republican Party. In 1994, ran for governor against a popular incumbent, Lawton Chiles, losing by a small margin. Became governor in 1998, after campaigning on issues normally regarded as Democratic Party territory: public school education, urban renewal, and Medicaid funding. During his eight years as governor, he overhauled the state's education system and pushed for substantial tax cuts. Profile: Jeb Bush Besides, he has always set out to play a long game, hence his statement about losing a few battles in order to ultimately win the war. As primaries are held in the so-called Blue Zone, the populous Democrat-leaning states where GOP primary voters tend to be more moderate, Bush's pragmatist message should resonate more strongly. This Blue Zone, as the veteran pundit Charlie Cook and others have pointed out, explains why establishment candidates so often end up on top. That said, after Boulder, he has been usurped by Marco Rubio. Looking ahead to primary season proper, one could imagine an outpouring of sympathy towards Bush should, God forbid, something happen to his father. That said, there is not much love for George Herbert Walker Bush on the Republican right, where he was always suspected of being a blue-blood moderate rather than a red meat conservative. Or, put another way, a New Englander rather than a true Texan, who betrayed conservative principles by breaking his famous \"read my lips, no new taxes\" pledge. The epic irony is that Jeb Bush was long seen as the great political talent in his family. Presumably, it will be of little comfort that the Kennedys once said the same thing of young Teddy.", "question": "One of my more memorable moments on the campaign trail so far came after the Republican debate in Boulder , Colorado , when I found myself @placeholder Jeb Bush down a corridor , attempting to lasso him with a boom mike - a contraption which looks like a fishing rod , with a rodent - like furry microphone attached to the end .", "option_0": "listed", "option_1": "leading", "option_2": "lost", "option_3": "chasing", "option_4": "thrown"}
{"id": 1553, "article": "Police say a drone hit the New York skyscraper's 40th floor and then fell on to a ledge five levels lower. Sean Riddle was charged with reckless endangerment and illegal navigation of an aircraft in and over the city. The tweet, from a Twitter account in his name, also blames a year-old news article for its misleading information. \"All I wanted was to shoot five seconds of video to promote a non-profit,\" the tweet says. \"I asked a cop 20 minutes before I did it. He said it was fine. \"Aside from asking a cop, I went to this website: Where to fly a drone in New York City, legally.\" However, US drone owners are being urged to consult the Know Before You Fly website, backed by drone makers and the Federal Aviation Administration,  which shows the Empire State Building and much of the rest of Manhattan has been designated as a restricted zone because of its heliports and helipads. The website also says recreational users should:", "question": "A man charged with @placeholder a drone into the Empire State Building has apparently tweeted that a policeman had told him it was \" fine \" to fly there .", "option_0": "bringing", "option_1": "carrying", "option_2": "crashing", "option_3": "attempting", "option_4": "smuggling"}
{"id": 1554, "article": "On Tuesday, staff were told the JTI Gallaher cigarette factory plant in Ballymena is to close permanently by 2017. Previously known as Gallahers, the firm has manufactured tobacco in Northern Ireland for more than 150 years. It is the last remaining tobacco factory in the UK. Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister said it was \"terrible news\". Full production will resume on Thursday although office staff are still working and the factory is open. JTI Gallaher said because many workers had been left shocked by the news, there was a safety issue around the operation of equipment. It is a major employer and its closure is a significant blow to the economy. By Julian O'NeillBBC News NI Business Correspondent JTI Gallahers has been one of the cornerstones of the Ballymena economy. Staff were well-paid - it is believed the average salaries were more than ?¡ê60,000. But when the jobs relocate to Poland or Romania the payroll will be nothing like that. The company and many politicians have blamed new EU rules on tobacco packaging for the shutdown. While that may have been the basis of a review, this is ultimately about costs. The decision will prompt a new bout of anxiety at another major Ballymena employer, Michelin. Production costs - primarily energy bills - leave 1,000 workers uneasy. While Invest NI and the Northern Ireland Executive promote new jobs with success, sustaining others presents a huge challenge. It is estimated that the plant in Ballymena contributed ?¡ê60m in wages to the local economy. Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster said the introduction of the EU tobacco products directive had impacted on the plant because of changes to the size of roll your own tobacco packs. In February, MEPs voted by 514 in favour to 66 against, with 58 abstentions, to approve the new anti-smoking legislation. It would have required major adjustments in technology and operations at the JTI Gallaghers's plant in the town. The company has proposed moving its existing plants in Northern Ireland and Belgium to other countries, such as Poland and Romania. Ms Foster criticised Sinn F??in MEP Martina Anderson for supporting the directive. \"Others were prepared to be champions of this EU directive,\" she said. \"Martina Anderson felt it was the right thing to do, but wasn't prepared to join the dots and to make the association that if she followed through on that support that it would cost jobs.\" However, Ms Anderson said the directive would be applicable across Europe. \"It's going to be applicable in Poland, it's going to be applicable in Romania, and it was going to be applicable in the north,\" she said. \"We have another example of big industry example using workers as a pawn. \"They are not interested in safeguarding jobs, what they are interested in doing is trying to get cheap labour.\" Ms Foster said she would be meeting the first minister and deputy first minister along with the DUP MP, Ian Paisley jnr, and the Employment Minister Stephen Farry on Wednesday. Management at the factory said there was \"shock and tears\" as staff were told the news at a series of meetings. Des Blackadder, editor of the Ballymena Times, said when the news broke it came like a \"tsunami\". \"It brought a wave of depression to this town because anybody with any common sense and certainly the workers knew that Gallahers' lifetime wasn't infinite, it was going to come to an end at some stage. But when it did come to an end yesterday, it really came with a great deal of shock,\" he said. \"There were many many ashen faces in Ballymena.\" He said the impact of the losses would be felt by many in the town. \"The vast majority of people in Ballymena would have had a relative who worked in Gallahers or would have known several friends who worked in Gallahers, so it's something which affects an entire community,\" he added. The Ballymena factory is currently owned by Japan Tobacco International (JTI), which took over in 2007. JTI released a statement on Tuesday announcing its intention to \"restructure its manufacturing facilities as a result of significant and sustained changes impacting its global business\". It has proposed moving its existing plants in Northern Ireland and Belgium to other countries, such as Poland and Romania. Leading politicians have pledged to support the workers and said they would work to try to mitigate the job losses.", "question": "Staff at a cigarette plant in County Antrim have been given time off to @placeholder the news that all 877 jobs are to be lost .", "option_0": "capture", "option_1": "introduce", "option_2": "absorb", "option_3": "deny", "option_4": "warn"}
{"id": 1555, "article": "The former PM told the BBC the vote was a \"catastrophe\" and said it was vital to study the \"real-life implications\". Mr Blair said he accepted the verdict of June's referendum, but recommended looking again at Brexit when \"we have a clear sense of where we're going\". Downing Street said it was \"absolutely committed\" to seeing Brexit through. A spokesman said the British people had expressed their view very clearly on 23 June, when 51.9% of voters opted to leave the EU, adding: \"There will be no second referendum.\" Supporters of leaving the EU argue it will free up the UK to trade better globally and give the government better control of immigration. But Mr Blair told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he believed the Brexit vote was a catastrophe and argued that it was important that the views of the \"16 million\" people who had backed remaining in the EU should not be ignored. He added: \"If it becomes clear that this is either a deal that doesn't make it worth our while leaving, or alternatively a deal that's going to be so serious in its implications people may decide they don't want to go, there's got to be some way, either through Parliament, or an election, or possibly through another referendum, in which people express their view.\" But he said the vote for Brexit could not be changed \"unless it becomes clear that the British people have had a change of mind\". Mr Blair's interview followed an article in the New European newspaper in which he said those who believed in the EU \"have to recognise we're the insurgents now\". \"We have to build the capability to mobilise and to organise. We have to prise apart the alliance which gave us Brexit.\" UKIP MP Douglas Carswell tweeted that Mr Blair was \"seeking to de-legitimise and reverse\" the referendum result. The government has promised to invoke Article 50 - setting formal talks with the EU in motion - by the end of March next year. It says it will not provide a \"running commentary\" on its stance before negotiations for leaving the EU begin but has pledged to make Brexit work for the whole country. Mr Blair told the BBC it was unclear what the outcome of negotiations, in terms of restrictions of movement of people and access to the single market, would be, adding: \"We will start to see the real-life implications of this decision to go.\" \"We've got to work out: are the freedoms that we are going to gain really so substantial that we want to leave the European Union?\" He warned of the talks with the EU: \"I'm convinced that it's going to be very, very tough. We have to understand we are not going to be conducting these negotiations with a group of European businessmen who might well decide that they want maximum access to the UK... \"The people we are going to be conducting these negotiations with are the political leaders of the European Union and their parliaments. \"I'm arguing we should keep our options open,\" he said. Mr Blair, who was prime minister between 1997 and 2007, announced last month that he was winding up most of his commercial ventures to focus on not-for-profit work. In 2004, Mr Blair said a UK referendum would be held on ratification of the European Constitution Treaty, creating, among other measures, a European Council president and a \"common defence policy\". But voters in France and the Netherlands rejected the treaty, which was discarded. In 2007, the Labour government rejected calls for a referendum on a second treaty, which came to be known as the Lisbon Treaty, arguing it was a different document and a UK referendum was not needed. Earlier this month, Mr Blair told Esquire magazine he was considering whether there was a \"role\" for him in UK politics, having not been actively involved for almost a decade.", "question": "The UK should keep its \" options open \" over Brexit , Tony Blair has said , adding that a second referendum should not be @placeholder out .", "option_0": "sold", "option_1": "put", "option_2": "ruled", "option_3": "walked", "option_4": "rolled"}
{"id": 1556, "article": "No inquest has been held into the 2012 murder at her family's request. Ms Meagher was originally from Drogheda, but moved to Australia from Ireland in 2009 with her husband. She worked for ABC Radio but went missing during a night out with colleagues. Her body was discovered six days later buried on the outskirts of Melbourne. Adrian Bayley, who had a history of violent sex attacks, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum jail term of 35 years for her murder. On Friday, coroner Ian Gray said Jill Meagher's death had been \"preventable\". He pointed to failings by Community Correctional Services (CCS), a division of Corrections Victoria and the Adult Parole Board (APB), a separate body within the Department of Human services. \"A more rigorous, risk-averse approach by CCS and the APB would have led to a cancellation of Bayley's parole,\" Mr Gray said. \"The approach taken is difficult to understand ... it did not bring dangerous and high risk parolees immediately to account.\" Bayley had been on parole for previous rapes when he raped and murdered Ms Meagher as she walked home from Brunswick in the early hours of 22 September 2012. He was also on bail pending an appeal of a three-month sentence after pleading guilty to attacking a man outside a pub at Geelong in 2011. At the time of that incident, Bayley had been on parole after serving eight years' jail for 16 counts of rape against five women. He had already served time for rapes committed from the age of 18. The coroner noted Victoria's parole system had been amended since Ms Meagher's murder. Had it been changed when Bayley was charged with the Geelong assault, a representative from Corrections Victoria told the coroner, his parole probably would have been cancelled automatically when he was convicted of that offence. \"The poignant truth of this ... will resonate with Ms Meagher's husband, family and friends,\" the coroner said.", "question": "The Australian authorities could have prevented the rape and murder of Irish woman Jill Meagher by revoking her killer 's parole as soon as he @placeholder it , a coroner has found .", "option_0": "undergoes", "option_1": "got", "option_2": "slept", "option_3": "breached", "option_4": "lost"}
{"id": 1557, "article": "Matt Godden opened the scoring from the penalty spot against the run of play in the 18th minute. Cheltenham had made the brighter start, but Emmanuel Onariase tripped Godden on the edge of the box and referee Trevor Kettle pointed to the penalty spot. Godden stepped up to convert his 16th goal of the season and Stevenage took control, with Jobi McAnuff denied by a fine Scott Brown block in the 27th minute. The lead was doubled five minutes into the second half when Steven Schumacher's free-kick was nodded down by Charlie Lee and Luke Wilkinson forced it over the line from close range. Lee was sent off for a second yellow card in the 56th minute after bringing down Alex Pike. Cheltenham failed to make their extra man count until 10 minutes from the end when a flying volley from Kyle Wootton gave them hope, but only two more saves from Brown denied Stevenage a third. Report supplied by the Press Association Match ends, Stevenage 2, Cheltenham Town 1. Second Half ends, Stevenage 2, Cheltenham Town 1. Attempt missed. James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is too high. Foul by Michael Tonge (Stevenage). Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt saved. Dan Holman (Cheltenham Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Foul by Jobi McAnuff (Stevenage). Alex Pike (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Connor Ogilvie (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Dan Holman (Cheltenham Town). Tom Pett (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Jordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town). Connor Ogilvie (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card. Foul by Tom Pett (Stevenage). Liam Davis (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner,  Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Jamie Jones. Foul by Luke Wilkinson (Stevenage). Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner,  Stevenage. Conceded by Manny Onariase. Attempt saved. Jobi McAnuff (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Foul by Luke Wilkinson (Stevenage). Kyle Wootton (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Jamie Jones (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Goal!  Stevenage 2, Cheltenham Town 1. Kyle Wootton (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by William Boyle following a corner. Corner,  Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Steven Schumacher. Attempt saved. Dan Holman (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Jack Munns replaces Liam Davis. Substitution, Stevenage. Michael Tonge replaces Josh McQuoid. Fraser Franks (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Kyle Wootton (Cheltenham Town). Ben Kennedy (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Liam Davis (Cheltenham Town). Corner,  Stevenage. Conceded by Scott Brown. Attempt saved. Jobi McAnuff (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Steven Schumacher (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town). Attempt missed. Ronnie Henry (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Corner,  Stevenage. Conceded by Manny Onariase. Substitution, Cheltenham Town. James Dayton replaces Billy Waters.", "question": "Stevenage made it four @placeholder wins in a row by defeating relegation - threatened Cheltenham 2 - 1 in League Two .", "option_0": "straight", "option_1": "growth", "option_2": "crowd", "option_3": "more", "option_4": "home"}
{"id": 1558, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Selby's IBF featherweight world title defence against Jonathan Victor Barros in Las Vegas was called off on Friday. The Welshman has said Carl Frampton and Abner Mares, the regular WBA champion, could be future opponents. \"Selby's not really had that one big fight which can make him that name,\" Khan told BBC Wales Sport. \"I think beating someone like Abner Mares or someone like [Leo] Santa Cruz or Frampton would definitely take him to a different level. \"They're big names in the world of boxing and [some] have titles so, definitely by beating one of those big names, Selby would be right up there. \"I think Selby has the talent to do it. He's a prospect to keep an eye on in the future.\" Selby's third defence of his IBF world title was meant to take place on the undercard of Frampton's WBA featherweight title bout with Mexico's Leo Santa Cruz at the MGM Grand. If he had beaten Barros, Selby was planning to challenge Frampton - with the Northern Irishman saying he would like the fight to take place at Belfast's Windsor Park. Media playback is not supported on this device The abandonment of Selby's fight against Barros could delay those plans but, whenever it may happen, it is a fight Khan would like to see materialise. \"I like Selby. Selby is a very good fighter. He's a world champion himself, having that IBF title,\" the 2004 Olympic lightweight silver medallist added. \"The fight between Santa Cruz and Frampton is for a world title so unifying it and to have it [a Selby-Frampton fight] in the UK would be massive. \"Two British fighters fighting for two world titles in the same division would be huge. I think that could happen in the future.\" The featherweight division is one of boxing's most competitive and open at the moment, and a bout between Selby and three-time world champion Mares would also excite Khan. \"It makes sense. Us fighters will fight anyone, whoever they put us in front of,\" he said. \"I think that Abner - I know him, I've trained with him - is a good fighter. I think that would be a good fight for Abner to have. \"And the winner of that could go on and fight the winner of the Frampton fight.\"", "question": "Lee Selby @placeholder a high - profile fight to take his career to the next level , according to former light - welterweight world champion Amir Khan .", "option_0": "fought", "option_1": "produced", "option_2": "needs", "option_3": "lost", "option_4": "signed"}
{"id": 1559, "article": "John Edwards, 61, is planning to be buried on Friday in Halifax and to \"bring people words of light from the grave\", in a bid to reduce the number of addicts' funerals he has to attend. The Walking Free charity founder works with suicidal addicts and their families. Mr Edwards is due to stream his incarceration live via a smartphone. His coffin, 8ft long, 3.5ft high and 4ft wide (2.4m x 1m x 1.3m), gives him some room to move. He will receive food and water through a pipe and a second pipe will be connected to a caravan toilet, Mr Edwards told the BBC while standing in the grave as he was digging it. \"I've been to hundreds of funerals and I am so desperate to stop others,\" he said. \"It's an extreme thing to do, but so is suicide and drug addiction.\" Me Edwards hoped he would be able to talk to people while in the ground and give them hope. \"I've been there and done it all, I've really been there. I'm speaking their language. \"I am saying don't end up in a premature grave - that's extreme. \"But extreme times demand extreme measures.\" There is to be a team above the ground during his incarceration helping his unusual stay at a community centre.", "question": "A @placeholder drug addict and charity worker is to bury himself for several days and broadcast on social media .", "option_0": "disabled", "option_1": "recovered", "option_2": "serving", "option_3": "couple", "option_4": "retired"}
{"id": 1560, "article": "It said the increase provided further support for \"the view that the housing market is gradually gaining momentum\". The annual rate of price growth rose to 1.1%, the fastest pace since November 2011. The increases mean that the average house now costs ??167,912, the Nationwide said. Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist, said a number of factors were likely to have contributed to the recent pick-up in activity. \"There has been an improvement in the availability and a reduction in the cost of credit, partly as a result of policy measures, such as the Funding for Lending Scheme,\" he said. \"With the UK returning to growth in the first quarter of 2013, the improvement in wider economic conditions may also be playing a role in boosting sentiment.\" The Funding for Lending Scheme allows banks to borrow money at a discount from the Bank of England, providing they can show they have passed it on to customers in the form of loans. Mr Gardner said that this had increased the availability of mortgages and pushed down rates. As a result, prices in the last three months compared with the previous three months were up by 0.4%, and have been growing according to this measure since October 2012. Mr Gardner said that property sales were also up, running at about 5% higher each month this year than the average monthly level in 2012. The number of mortgages approved, which can be expected to feed through to sales, also picked up at the start of the year, he said. He expected the market to continue to gain momentum, partly owing to government support for more credit. However, the government's Help to Buy scheme has come in for criticism, with claims that this would simply create another housing market bubble. Under the Help to Buy Scheme, borrowers are able to take out an equity loan from the government, which will enable them to put down a deposit of just 5% on a property. That scheme began on 1 April. Under the second scheme, starting in January 2014 and due to run until 2017, the government will guarantee up to 15% of a mortgage on homes worth up to ??600,000. The scheme will be used to support ??130bn of mortgages. Critics have included the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, who warned that the scheme must not become permanent. Source: Land Registry. Annual change to end of April \"I'm sure that there is no place in the long run for a scheme of this kind,\" he told Sky News in a recent interview. On Wednesday, the OECD said that while new housing measures were likely to encourage residential investment and supply, there could be \"upward pressure on house prices\" if builders did not build more homes. The Nationwide figures are based on its own lending data. Its rival, the Halifax - which is part of the Lloyds Banking Group - recorded a 2% average annual rise in prices a month ago. The two lenders calculate their year-on-year figures slightly differently. Karelia Scott-Daniels, managing director of buying agents, Manse & Garret Property Search, said: \"Much of the momentum is coming from London and South East England, and there is a danger that this is masking the stagnation in some other regions. \"But for properties that are priced correctly, there is no shortage of buyers.\" Other commentators were more sceptical about Nationwide's conclusions. \"The rise in house prices recorded by the Nationwide in May could further boost the growing sense of optimism regarding the housing market. But the fundamentals are still weak, and we think much of that optimism is misplaced,\" said a spokesman for Capital Economics. Data from the Land Registry has shown that price changes have varied widely across the UK. Figures published on Thursday, covering England and Wales, showed that house prices rose by 6.2% in the 12 months to the end of April in London, and by 1.4% in the South East of England. However, the North East of England saw average price falls of 5.7% and there was a drop of 3.7% in the North West of England over the same period. The annual increase across England and Wales was 0.7%, the Land Registry said. These rises were dwarfed by the increases seen recently in the US. US house prices in March were up 10.9% from a year earlier, the biggest rise in nearly seven years, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller index which was published on Tuesday.", "question": "UK house prices recorded a \" modest \" rise in May , increasing by 0.4 % , according to the latest survey from the Nationwide building @placeholder .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "shows", "option_2": "authority", "option_3": "society", "option_4": "office"}
{"id": 1561, "article": "Omran Ben Shaaban was kidnapped, shot and tortured by people who many in Misrata believe were supporters of the late dictator. The 22-year-old died in France, where he was receiving medical treatment for his injuries. His body was flown back to Libya, met by hundreds of mourners. In Misrata, protesters called for the government to avenge his death. Mr Shaaban was kidnapped by armed men in July and held for 50 days in the town of Bani Walid, a former Gaddafi stronghold that lies south-east of the capital Tripoli. He was freed last week following the mediation efforts of Mohamed Magarief, Libya's interim leader and president of the ruling General National Congress (GNC). Mr Shaaban arrived in Misrata with torture marks on his body and a bullet wound near his spinal cord, according to reports. He was taken to Paris for treatment, but died on Monday. Hundreds of people gathered at the airport in Misrata to greet his body. His coffin was carried in a procession to a football stadium where funeral prayers were held. Mr Shaaban came to prominence on 20 October last year when he was pictured at the scene as Col Gaddafi was dragged from a drainage pipe where he was hiding in Sirte. The GNC mourned the \"loss of a brave hero\" and has said it will take all necessary measures to bring the perpetrators to justice, according to a statement issued on the official Lana news agency.", "question": "One of the Libyan rebels credited with capturing ex-leader Muammar Gaddafi last year has been @placeholder in his hometown of Misrata .", "option_0": "handed", "option_1": "buried", "option_2": "held", "option_3": "assassinated", "option_4": "released"}
{"id": 1562, "article": "Each year, according to the conservation group Project Jonah, around 300 dolphins and whales become stranded in New Zealand. Many of these incidents occur at Farewell Spit, a thin arc of sand at the top of the South Island which separates a shallow bay from the open ocean. Last week, more than 400 pilot whales became stranded on this 5km-long (three mile-long) stretch and, while some were saved by conservation officials and volunteers in a desperate rescue effort, most died. The beachings occur in the summer months, according to Gary Riordan, who is 62 and has lived in the area for most of his life. \"It pretty much happens every year,\" says Mr Riordan, who runs a beachside camp ground not far from where they often become stranded. \"There's a lot of theories out there as to why it happens, but at the end of the day I think there's four or five hotspots where they strand [in New Zealand], and the one thing they all have in common is shallow water.\" \"As far as often goes: It's pretty much seasonal, always around January or February. It's something that the locals expect every year about this time.\" Joanna Wheaton, who also lives in the area, said she was pleasantly surprised there wasn't a mass stranding in 2016. \"Farewell Spit is a unique natural trap for them,\" she says. In February 2015 about 200 pilot whales - which, despite their name, are actually members of the dolphin family - beached not far from the cafe where she works. At least half of them died. \"It's always the same species, pilot whales, and the same extreme tide situation on the inner beach,\" she says. Dr Rochelle Constantine, a marine biologist at the University of Auckland, also says the shallow water around Farewell Spit is what causes the whales to beach. \"Farewell Spit, geographically, is quite an interesting place,\" she says. \"It spans around in a broad arc. On either side is large bay and the open ocean. \"There's a series of really large sand banks all through there in the bay, and it just gradually becomes more and more shallow,\" Dr Constantine says. Because the water becomes shallower gradually, the whales may not be able to detect the change using echo-location, in the same way they would a sudden rise in gradient, she says. \"They can echo-locate, but it's [a problem with] the signal that they get bounced back. It's a combination of this gentle gradient and the soft sand. They probably aren't detecting that they are swimming into more and more shallow water.\" By the time they do realise, it's often too late. The tide has already begun to run out. Farewell Spit is especially deadly as it sits, like a hook, right in the pilot whales' path. \"They can swim straight into Golden Bay and the embrace of the Farewell Spit. It's just geographically a very tricky spot,\" Dr Constantine says. While the shallow water and its effect on echolocation is the most likely reason the animals become stranded at Farewell Spit, Dr Constantine says pilot whales also have strong social bonds, and this could explain why such large numbers become stuck, or return once rescuers re-float them. \"I have attended a fair few strandings and what is highlighted is how variable they all are,\" she says. \"We do know that because they are quite strongly socially-bonded, they will hang out with each other, but to be honest, every stranding is different. Sometimes they just muck up and don't get the right cues, and other times its because they are strongly bonded to [stranded] individuals in the group.\" \"We think there's some confusion going on in each stranding, but finding a reason is often difficult,\" she says. Scientists don't know for sure why they regularly beach in January or February, though Dr Constantine said it could be because of feeding patterns and changes in ocean temperature which see more whales passing through the Cook Strait at that time of year. \"These are quite hard things to measure as scientists, because the reality is we don't often see pilot whales in this area until they are about to strand. They are not really coastal.\" \"We really don't know much about the movements of pilot whales in New Zealand. It could be simply they are not around at other times of the year.\" According to the New Zealand Department of Conservation, the largest recorded stranding was an estimated 1,000 pilot whales on the Chatham Islands, another stranding hotspot, in 1918.", "question": "Each year locals from Golden Bay at the top of New Zealand 's South Island know to expect a whale beaching at a narrow strip of sand @placeholder into the Cook Strait , known as Farewell Spit . Ben Collins looks at what makes the area so deadly .", "option_0": "lights", "option_1": "opening", "option_2": "tuned", "option_3": "curving", "option_4": "pour"}
{"id": 1563, "article": "In many ways, that game at the Stade de France set the tone for much of what was to follow in the championship - some admirable stuff mixed with some self-defeating errors and all adding up to a defeat, albeit one that contained encouraging nuances. Jonny Gray was a colossus that day. The second-row made 19 tackles and stole two French line-outs to mark himself out as a world class player in the making. Stuart Hogg typified the pockets of elan in Scotland's play, running for 88 metres, the second-highest total of the day. Scotland played with ambition before the French juggernauts trundled in and won the match, 15-8. In what was to become a recurring theme of the season, Cotter's team failed to score in the second half. There was a feel-good about the way that Scotland played, though. So many line-breaks, so much positivity in a backline that was once bereft of ideas. The feeling before round two, at home to Wales, was that a win was possible. They came within three points. Scant consolation. Again, we drew out the upside. Hogg was magnificent once more, the game's most lethal attacker, the full-back adding another 144 metres, and a try.  After a poor 2014, Hogg's devil had been restored and he was delightful to watch. The points famine returned, a 25-minute block in the second half where Scotland went pointless. There was controversy, too. Glen Jackson, the referee, dished out penalties and inconsistencies like confetti at a wedding. Cotter felt aggrieved and expressed his disquiet in his own inimitable way. The less the Scotland coach says the more chilling he becomes. Stern Vern has no need for a hair-dryer. Two games, two honourable losses and now Italy to come. This was the day that Cotter's championship would achieve lift-off. That was the plan, but not the reality. It was a cataclysm. Discipline went out the window. Thirteen penalties made it 38 conceded in three games. Too many. In that fateful second half, Scotland spent 62% of the game in Italy's half and scored the sum total of three points. The flair of the opening matches evaporated. Still, the win looked likely until Peter Horne, playing nicely up to that point, missed a kick to touch and Italy grew as a consequence. The great Sergio Parisse took control. Scotland lacked that kind of leader. The endgame was horrific. Two yellow cards in quick succession for Scotland. Confusion. Panic. Then a late try that gave victory to the visitors. This is the ultimate one-that-got-away. And it was sore. Where there was hope, now there was despair and the dread of a whitewash. Scotland went to Twickenham, got their noses in front at half-time then sank. Another 40 minutes without a score. There were good things in there, some big performances, some suggestion that there can be a brighter tomorrow, but the bottom line - four losses from four - came as a kick in the gut. The Wooden Spoon was served up on a dramatic last day where Scotland's only role in the championship-defining drama was as Ireland's whipping boy. Once more, 40 minutes went by without Cotter's men troubling the scoreboard. As the home team came to terms with their failure, the Irish took over Murrayfield. Champions again. In the midst of this despond, Glasgow emerged. Thank goodness. They were like a beacon in the dark. Their Pro12 semi-final win over Ulster at a heaving Scotstoun and their conquering of Munster in the final in Belfast summed up what Gregor Townsend has created. Both of those wins were seismic, but in different ways. Against Ulster, it was a grind, a test of endurance, will and nerve - and Glasgow passed it right at the death. The final was an exhibition of their ambition and their execution. They were a riot of clever and accurate rugby, a joy to behold. What quickened the pulse wasn't just the fact that Glasgow won the Pro12 for the first time, it was the way they won it. No sense of anxiety in the final, just an embracing of the occasion and a belief that they were good enough to set it alight. Edinburgh had a major journey in the European Challenge Cup. They made a final, too, but didn't have the confidence that Glasgow had and a great chance was lost against Gloucester. Their Pro 12 was poor. If Glasgow's next challenge is proving their worth in the Champions Cup then Edinburgh's is to make the top four of the Pro 12. It's time they delivered. Summer saw the countdown to the World Cup. John Hardie was parachuted in from New Zealand and straight into Cotter's squad. WP Nel and Josh Strauss made it, too, on the residency rule. Every game that Scotland played had a fascination. The eyes of the rugby world were on their opener against Japan, who had just caused international tremors by beating the Springboks. Scotland scored five second half tries to win by 35 points. Hardie scored the game-turning try - and made 21 tackles to boot. The protest against his sudden arrival on the scene quietened somewhat in the wake of a wonderful performance. The USA were seen off with another five-try romp, a further illustration that Scotland now possess an ability to score that hasn't been as strong for 15 years. There was an unbreachable gulf in power against the Springboks in the third game. Even still, Scotland's capacity to conjure a try out of nothing served them well and kept within seven points until the hour-mark. They had no right to be that close. In the end, it was 34-16 to South Africa. That was about right. The must-win game was won, but only just. Scotland weren't so much in a hole against Samoa as a crater. Defensively they were a shambles, conceding three tries and 20 points in the opening 21 minutes. In previous years, Scotland might have folded altogether after that start, but they didn't. They fought against their own deficiencies, stayed calm, drew level with a converted Hardie try and saw it out in the second half. It was heart-stopping, but it was enough. They were in the quarter-finals. And now it got serious. The Wallabies had been supreme in their pool of death with England and Wales. They had a wondrous attack and a defence that the Welsh couldn't score against when the Wallabies had two men in the bin. Scotland scored three tries against Australia. The problem was that Australia scored five. Well, it was one of the problems. The other was a referee who made a bad call under pressure and then ran away. Everybody looked at Craig Joubert, but the bigger truth could be found by looking in the mirror. Scotland played clinically and heroically in attack and had earned their lead going into the closing minutes. They had a line-out and had they secured it they would almost certainly have made the semi-final. The line-out was a mess and the controversy happened as a result. It was a missed opportunity that will live with this team forever. Going into 2016, what do we expect of Scotland? It's impossible to know. The World Cup would indicate that Nel has made a big difference to the scrum and that Hardie has a made a huge impact in the back row. The Gray brothers can be immense in-between. As a pack of forwards, they're very encouraging. There is a menace about the Scottish backline that excites, but also a vulnerability that's worrying. Scotland can score, but can they stop the big guns scoring? They conceded three tries against South Africa, four against Samoa and five against the Wallabies. Three wins from their 10 most important Tests in 2015 is a meagre return, but there are signs of life and hope. Scotland have the talent to turn those numbers around, but they need to get mean in 2016.", "question": "Vern Cotter 's first Six Nations as Scotland head coach began in Paris in the first week of February , but given how much rugby has been played in the @placeholder it almost seems like an eternity ago .", "option_0": "city", "option_1": "process", "option_2": "sport", "option_3": "highlands", "option_4": "meantime"}
{"id": 1564, "article": "Concern has been raised across the UK about the practice of so-called \"sex-for-rent\". Now Dawn Bowden claims examples of the practice have now been seen in Wales. Carl Sargeant, Welsh Government Communities Secretary, called the practice abhorrent and said he would raise the issue with the Home Office. A recent BBC investigation in England found that young, vulnerable people were being targeted with online classified adverts offering accommodation in exchange for sex. Justice secretary Liz Truss has already pledged that the UK government will review the matter. Ms Bowden told AMs on Wednesday of one advert for \"Tenants with benefits\" in Cardiff and the south Wales valleys that stated: \"Must reply with a picture.\" An advert for a room in Bridgend, she explained, asked for someone with a \"Naturist lifestyle\". Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Labour AM Ms Bowden said the advert stated: \"Will want to meet and get to know and discuss the ground rules for services required.\" She said: \"Whilst this practice may not be illegal, it is inherently immoral and is deliberately targeting desperate women, and sometimes men, who feel they have no other options than to give into this exploitation.\" Welsh housing charity Shelter Cymru said that although it had not seen explicit sex-for-rent arrangements, it had seen cases of private landlords demanding sexual favours from their tenants. Jennie Bibbings, campaigns manager at Shelter Cymru, said: \"This is a problem that has its roots in the power imbalance between landlord and tenant, as well as the housing supply crisis which means that tenants simply don't have enough choice of affordable accommodation.\" Ms Bowden's call for an amendment to the Housing Act (Wales) 2014 - which regulates landlords in Wales - was backed by opposition groups in an assembly debate on Wednesday, Welsh Conservative AM David Melding said he was in \"great sympathy\" with the proposal, calling the practice \"morally repugnant\". Plaid AM Sian Gwenllian argued that part of the solution was to provide more affordable housing, saying fewer people would be forced into such situations as a result. UKIP's Gareth Bennett called some of the adverts he had seen an \"eye-opener\". The Communities Secretary with responsibility for housing, Carl Sargeant, said sex-for-rent was a \"symptom of a more fundamental problem\" of young people struggling to get accommodation. But he said the measure that Ms Bowden called for \"will simply not tackle this issue on its own\". A Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We condemn this abhorrent practice which takes advantage of the poverty and social inequality of the people it preys on. \"We will do everything in our power to tackle this issue but amending the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 does not offer the solution.\"", "question": "Advertisements for @placeholder offered in return for sexual favours should be banned in Wales , an AM has said .", "option_0": "beat", "option_1": "properties", "option_2": "condoms", "option_3": "drugs", "option_4": "spending"}
{"id": 1565, "article": "Ashley Albert, 34, from Sacramento, California, is a real estate executive and the proud mother of Kayley and Teagan, both under four years old. She says she found using Baby Connect, an app that helps parents record breastfeeds, nappy changes, sleep times and so on, very useful. \"The newborn days are such a blur - you're in survival mode - so having something to look back to was essential,\" she says. \"It helped me with knowing how long in-between feedings my baby had gone, what side she last fed on - because I could never remember - and for how long she was averaging.\" The advantages of breastfeeding are well-known, with medical bodies across the world recommending the practice for the health benefits it provides both babies and mothers. But many mums find it difficult and painful, then struggle with feelings of guilt if they can't feed their baby naturally. So it's no wonder that Baby Connect is just one of scores of breastfeeding tracking and advice apps available for download in a fast-growing market forecast to grow from $36m (?¡ê28m) in 2015 to nearly $250m (?¡ê194m) by 2020, according to MarketsandMarkets. In 2016, breastfeeding was the second fastest-growing category on Amazon.com in the baby product sector, behind only portable cribs. And the baby care market generally is forecast to grow from $11bn this year to more than $13bn in 2021, according to research consultancy Trefis.com. One advantage of such apps is that all the recorded data can be automatically synchronised across devices - including those of other carers you authorise - and you can set up alarms to help plan your day. Mind you, babies are pretty good at setting their own ear-splitting alarms to let you know when they need something. \"I used the app to log breastfeeding, pumping, diapers [nappies], growth, milestones, medical information/stats, medicines, and food,\" says Ms Albert. Xavier Launay, a 48-year-old French software engineer now based in the US, says he created Baby Connect in 2008 because he wanted to help his wife manage the breastfeeding of their two kids. Back then, all records were kept on paper at the daycare nursery and Mr Launay was convinced that digital records would be more efficient. Today, the app has attracted 700,000 users - mostly in the US - who have recorded millions of baby interactions. \"When it's time for the paediatrician visit, parents know they can answer any question about the child's daily routine,\" argues Mr Launay. Alex Ooi, creator of the Feed Baby app, says he didn't see it as a business opportunity at first, more as a way of helping his partner. Now the app has been downloaded nearly two million times by users in the US, UK, Australia, Canada and Russia. He thinks that there is an opportunity for such tech to help new parents receive the advice they need. \"From what we've seen there is probably more that could be done to help connect medically certified professionals with new parents via tech,\" says Mr Ooi. But not everyone is convinced of the benefits of such apps. \"One of the major drawbacks of many such consumer apps is that the data collected does not provide meaningful insights,\" says Brahadeesh Chandrasekara, a health industry analyst at research consultancy Frost & Sullivan. \"The data do not guide the mother or families if the numbers are outside the desired range. \"There is a need for apps that can provide meaningful insights to the mother, families and the providers on the data gathered, as such valuable insights can help in identifying the root cause of a problem.\" For decades now, new mums have used breastfeeding pumps to help their babies receive the health benefits of breast milk but delivered from a bottle. But traditional designs often made women feel like ungainly milch cows. About 13 million women use them worldwide, but some analysts are predicting an 11% increase in the market by 2022 as the technology improves. \"Though many women find them convenient,\" says Mr Chandrasekara, \"these devices are known to be noisy and bulky, which can make them uncomfortable. So innovation is focused on reducing their noise and size.\" Leading breast pump makers include Philips, Lansinoh, Ardo, and Avent. But one, Medela, a Swiss company founded in 1961, has developed Sonata, a \"smart\" breast pump costing $399.99 (?¡ê300). \"Based on clinical and academic lactation research, Medela developed a two-phase technology, an advanced algorithm that creates a vacuum pattern which emulates a baby's natural suckling behaviour,\" says Stephen Flint, the firm's chief technology officer. An accompanying app, MyMedela, tracks breastfeeding and pumping sessions, as well as other metrics, such as the baby's height, weight, sleep patterns, and nappy changes. \"Sonata and MyMedela are meant to function as a complete support system that puts a mum in control of her own schedule, so that she can breastfeed, and continue to lead an independent, dynamic life,\" says Mr Flint. \"A mum doesn't just take care of her baby, she has a life to live, and other goals to pursue. If she gets help and support, she can most easily combine breastfeeding with her other goals.\"", "question": "Caring for a new baby can be an overwhelming experience - there 's lots to cope with and keep track of . And breastfeeding is n't as easy as it looks . Can technology help new mums or is it just another layer of @placeholder in an already hectic life ?", "option_0": "decline", "option_1": "change", "option_2": "complexity", "option_3": "drama", "option_4": "beaches"}
{"id": 1566, "article": "The officer, who has since died, used the name Rick Gibson to join Liverpool-based activist group Big Flame. In 1976, \"Rick\" was forced out of the group amid a \"tirade of abuse\" after members apparently found birth and death records for the real Mr Gibson. The details were released by a judge-led inquiry into undercover policing. The Undercover Policing Inquiry is being led by Sir John Mitting. It was previously led by Sir Christopher Pitchford, who has now retired. For two years it has reported on undercover police operations conducted by police forces in England and Wales since 1968. In this case, the officer had tried to explain to campaigners that he adopted a pseudonym to \"avoid detection and arrest\" because he was \"wanted\" by police. \"No violence was used, but he was expelled from the group after a lengthy tirade of abuse,\" a Metropolitan Police risk assessment compiled for the inquiry said. Big Flame, which described itself as a \"revolutionary socialist feminist organisation\", was set up in 1970 but had largely disbanded by the mid-1980s. After the incident, the policeman was withdrawn as an undercover officer in the Special Demonstration Squad - the secretive Met unit responsible for infiltrating protest groups. The document included details of three officers who used cover names, revealed by the inquiry after the Met decided not to oppose their disclosure. One undercover officer used the pseudonym Douglas Edwards, and was deployed to gather information on the Independent Labour Party and the left-wing groups, Tri-Continental and the Dambusters Mobilising Committee. The document said the government was concerned about the risk of \"large-scale public disorder\" and that the officer, who was deployed between 1968 and 1971, posed as a \"long-distance lorry driver\". In a personal statement, the second policeman, who has since retired and did not want his real name to be revealed, said he was initially told to report on anarchist groups. \"Some of them were quite nasty pieces of work,\" he wrote. He said problems linked to undercover policing were \"blown out of all proportion\", but added: \"Other people have fathered children and you can't have that.\" In 2014, the Met paid ?¡ê425,000 in compensation to a woman who did not know the father of her child was an undercover officer, Bob Lambert, who was using the pseudonym Bob Robinson. A third policeman, whose cover name was John Graham, reported on the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in the late 1960s. In his statement, he said: \"I regarded the people I was with as intellectuals. \"They were just people who believed that the Americans shouldn't be in Vietnam but had no idea how to get them out.\" The officer, who also gathered information on the Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation, grew a beard and was said to have been \"scruffier\" than his colleagues.", "question": "A policeman who used a dead child 's identity to infiltrate a protest group in the 1970s was @placeholder out when his cover was blown , police documents show .", "option_0": "wiped", "option_1": "singled", "option_2": "washed", "option_3": "thrown", "option_4": "knocked"}
{"id": 1567, "article": "The League Against Cruel Sports said it has video evidence suggesting hunts were routinely using dogs to hunt foxes and not merely \"flush\" them from cover for shooting, which is allowed. The League's director said hunts were \"flouting the law with impunity\". The Scottish Countryside Alliance said the allegations were politically motivated. It added that a lack of prosecutions suggested the law was being complied with. Scotland became the first UK nation to ban hunting with dogs in 2002, with England and Wales following two years later. The League said it carried out surveillance on five recent hunts in Scotland between December 2015 and March 2015 and saw no shotguns used during 16 days of filming. Robbie Marsland, director of the League in Scotland, added: \"Our footage suggests that at least half the hunts in Scotland are flouting the law with impunity and are operating as if the ban doesn't apply to them. \"While the hunts we observed claimed to be 'flushing to guns', our investigators did not see a single shotgun either used or even brandished.\" The video evidence does not include any footage of a fox being killed by dogs. The Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002 states that a person who deliberately hunts a wild mammal with a dog is committing an offence. An exception is made whereby dogs under control may be used \"to flush a fox or mink from below ground or...to flush a fox from an enclosed space within rocks or other secure cover above ground\". This process is known as \"flushing to guns\". The League is now calling for an amendment to the law to reduce the number of dogs used in flushing to guns to two and the addition of a clause outlawing reckless behaviour. Campaigners will show MSPs a video containing some of the footage at Holyrood on Wednesday. Information on one of the hunts has been passed to Police Scotland. Jamie Stewart, director of the Scottish Countryside Alliance, which supports hunting foxes with dogs, called the current law \"unjustified\" but said it did at least allow hunts and hill packs to continue to deliver \"a much-needed service\" to livestock farmers. He told the BBC he was \"appalled\" that campaigners were trying to change the law on the evidence of a video that was \"at best subjective, at worst contrived\". He added: \"There have been no convictions relating to fox control with hounds which suggests compliance with the legislation and that Police Scotland and other agencies have effectively monitored the practices over the 13 or so years since implementation. \"The League Against Cruel Sports is a tiny organisation with a membership of less than 3,000 UK-wide. \"It has a political agenda which rejects the case for managing foxes entirely and has no interest in the economic and environmental wellbeing of rural Scotland. \"Serious animal welfare organisations recognise that the Act has achieved some level of balance.\" A Scottish government spokeswoman said there were no plans to amend current legislation. She added: \"The offences laid out in the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002 are very clear. \"Evidence of criminal activity is a matter for Police Scotland, so as with any crime we would urge anyone with any information to inform the police immediately.\" Scottish Labour's rural affairs spokeswoman Sarah Boyack said the video evidence provided by the League was \"deeply concerning\" and urged ministers to consider the amendments. The Conservatives have pledged to hold a  House of Commons vote on repealing the ban in England and Wales. The SNP does not routinely vote on legislation that does not affect Scotland, but its MPs are being urged by campaigners to use their vote this time. The party has not yet said whether it will vote on the matter.", "question": "At least half of Scotland 's @placeholder hunts are breaking the law on fox hunting , campaigners have claimed .", "option_0": "air", "option_1": "wolf", "option_2": "registered", "option_3": "preferred", "option_4": "witch"}
{"id": 1568, "article": "On Wednesday, Trump will spend his first full day in Europe as the US president. He's said so many different things about the place - sometimes he says he loves the continent and other times calls it a hellhole - that it's hard to know how things will go. One thing is certain: his schedule is packed. He'll visit Rome, the Vatican and Brussels on Wednesday, speaking on that day with Pope Francis and later in the evening with King Philippe of the Belgians. On Thursday he'll spend the day in Brussels, having lunch with President Emmanuel Macron of France and talking with European Union officials, then he heads to Sicily for a Group of Seven meeting. During his whirlwind tour of the continent, he'll speak with the Europeans about Nato and defence spending of various countries (he thinks they should make a bigger financial commitment to the alliance). He'll also talk about US foreign policy and his vision for the nation's role on the global stage. Over the course of the trip he's likely to be preoccupied, however, with the recent controversies in Washington, including the sacking of the FBI director James Comey and his own relationship with Russian officials. His meetings in Europe could go well, or they could go very badly. So much depends upon his mood, say those who are close to him, and on the temperament of those who meet with him. Trump is a \"salesman\", said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor of Italian studies and history at NYU, and for that reason he's likely to adjust his remarks to make the people around him happy - at least for the moment. Why has Trump been so harsh on Iran? Saudi deals kick off Trump foreign tour How will homebody Trump cope abroad? Trump-Russia scandal: How did we get here? His aides believe that one of the president's strengths is his ability to deal with people in the moment and adapt on the fly. They cast him as a dealmaker par excellence, closing a sale when the time is right (or abruptly upping the ante), and in this way justify the way that he's expressed so many, conflicting views of the continent. Michael S Smith, a terrorism analyst who has advised the US government, said: \"The biggest challenge he's going to face is managing relationships after sending so many mixed signals.\" He's offered up odd, disjointed praise: \"Belgium is a beautiful city,\" he once said (he's also called Brussels \"a hellhole\"). He seems to be fond of Scotland, the place where his mother was born. Still he's not exactly embraced local customs. Last year he visited a Scottish town with pubs where, as one of his travelling companions told me, \"They served rabbit.\" So they drove to a town about 25 miles away with a McDonald's. It was another sign that he doesn't embrace European traditions and - sometimes at least - views them with distaste. On a more serious level he's said Nato is \"obsolete\" and then seemed to change his mind. He once described Germany as a \"total mess\", tweeting that the country \"owes vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!\" In his reckoning, the Europeans exploit trade deals. He's said the trade agreements are \"very unfair to the United States.\" He's said he doesn't think the EU \"matters very much for the United States\", and he's described it as \"basically a vehicle for Germany\". He was elected in part because of his outspoken manner and his tough, uncompromising positions: he made it clear that America wasn't going to get pushed around - by the Europeans or anybody else - and that he'd focus on American interests. It's harder to act like a pit bull about American interests when you're talking to people who don't see them as their priority. Since taking office, he's tried to make amends with the Germans and the other Europeans who've visited the White House. More recently he's been advised to soften his tone while he's in Belgium and Italy, and to downplay his views about trade. Still he's not going to soft-pedal all of his views. George Mason University's Francis Buckley, who worked on a foreign-policy speech for Trump during the campaign, said Trump has made it clear Europeans must contribute more to Nato and believes, Buckley explained, \"that would have to be corrected\". Critics of the administration believe that the president has a dark view of Europe and has aligned himself with nationalist forces - and point to his generous assessment of authoritarian leaders in Russia and Turkey. In this way the president's views are, said Ben-Ghiat, \"destabilising\". Smith adds: \"The president has been posturing his intention to align the US with Russia in a manner that most people would consider stunning.\" Smith said he hoped the president's travels through Europe would help to clarify his positions towards Nato, the EU and other institutions and dispel concerns about his intentions. Up to this point, Smith said: \"It's all been a fog of known unknowns.\"", "question": "President Trump sees Europe as a place filled with cheaters and bedlam - and as a place populated by lovely people . Soon he 'll be meeting with European leaders and will try to explain his @placeholder views . What could go wrong ?", "option_0": "contrasting", "option_1": "name", "option_2": "hands", "option_3": "TRUE", "option_4": "home"}
{"id": 1569, "article": "A skeleton of a meat-eating Jurassic dinosaur, the theropod, was uncovered by spring storms at Lavernock beach, Vale of Glamorgan, in 2014. The dinosaur's missing foot was found at the beach by palaeontology student, Sam Davies, of Bridgend, at the beginning of this month. \"My first reaction was that I was very lucky,\" he said. The fossilised skeleton of the theropod - a distant cousin of the giant Tyrannosaurus rex - went on display at the National Museum Cardiff's main hall in June after it was found by fossil-hunting brothers Nick and Rob Hanigan. Mr Davies, who studies at the University of Portsmouth, visited Lavernock, near Penarth, after his tutor told him its cliffs were rich with fossils. He arrived only hours after a cliff fall had exposed the fossil and before it could be washed away by the tide. \"It was pure luck that I found it. It was just sitting on top of a slab of rock,\" he said. His tutor, Dr David Martill, confirmed the find was the missing foot of the recently discovered dinosaur, after the student emailed a picture. Dr Martill said: \"This was a chance-in-a-million find and highlights how important it is to encourage fossil hunting in this country.\" He said the specimen would help chart the evolution of dinosaur feet. The foot has been donated to the Amgueddfa Cymru, which hopes to put it on display with the rest of the skeleton soon. Dr Caroline Buttler, head of palaeontology at the museum, said: \"The dinosaur found by Nick and Rob Hanigan is the first skeleton of a theropod found in Wales. \"Sam's find adds to its significance because we can learn more about the animal and how it is related to the dinosaurs that eventually evolved into birds.\"", "question": "The fossilised foot of a dinosaur has been discovered on a south Wales beach , National Museum Wales has @placeholder .", "option_0": "shown", "option_1": "said", "option_2": "announced", "option_3": "reopened", "option_4": "been"}
{"id": 1570, "article": "The deal comes after Sony's Amazing Spider-Man 2 under-performed at the box office last year. Despite a respectable $709m (¡ê465m) box office haul, it was the lowest-grossing of Sony's five Spider-Man films so far. The character could now appear in Marvel films such as Iron Man and Thor. However, the timing of the deal makes it likely his first outing will be in 2016's Captain America: Civil War. The character already appears in the comic book version of the story. Marvel will then co-produce the next solo Spider-Man outing, financed by Sony Pictures, which will be released in 2017. Kevin Feige, the Marvel boss who has overseen 10 consecutive box office blockbusters, including Avengers Assemble and Guardians of the Galaxy, will be involved in all future creative decisions about Spider-Man. He will work alongside Amy Pascal, the Sony executive who recently stood down following a cyber-attack that saw her private emails leaked. Fans have been clamouring for Spider-Man to join Marvel's roster on the big screen for more than a decade. The character is part of the Marvel's comic book empire, but Sony has owned the film rights since 1999, when it paid a reported $7m (¡ê4.6m). Evil Dead director Sam Raimi first brought the character to the big screen, with Tobey Maguire in the lead role. More recently, the series was rebooted, with British actor Andrew Garfield inside the iconic red and blue suit and Marc Webb directing. But the new deal effectively spells the end for Garfield's portrayal of Peter Parker and his superhero alter-ego, reported the LA Times. Sony had been casting around for ways to re-invigorate the franchise after his second outing failed to break the $1 billion (¡ê657 million) mark at the box office last May. A third Amazing Spider-Man film was postponed to 2018, while a spin-off film, The Sinister Six, focusing on Spider-Man's most notorious enemies, was slated for 2016. There was also discussion of introducing a female set of heroes in their own films; and a potential film based around Peter Parker's Aunt May. But, at the same time, Sony was holding discussions with Marvel - as revealed in emails leaked as a result of last year's cyber-attack. Those emails showed that Marvel was pushing for Spider-Man to appear in the next Captain America movie;  while Sony Pictures president Doug Belgrad wanted a Marvel-produced Spider-Man movie in which Sony retained \"creative control, marketing and distribution.\" Although those talks were said to have stalled in December, the new announcement effectively fulfils all of those criteria. It has also led to Marvel reshuffling the release dates of its upcoming movies. The next Thor movie would have gone head-to-head with a new Spider-Man movie in the summer of 2017. It will now move to November of that year, shunting a film based on the Black Panther character into the following year. The two-part Avengers: Infinity War movies, however, will not budge. \"The deal comes at a time when Sony needs not only hits at the box office but major franchises,\" wrote Marc Graser in Variety magazine. \"It's why Ghostbusters is being revived, this time with a female cast, and why properties like Uncharted, based on Sony's hit videogame franchise are finally getting a greenlight.\" \"This is the right decision for the franchise, for our business, for Marvel, and for the fans,\" said Sony chairman Michael Lynton. \"I am thrilled to team with my friends at Sony Pictures along with Amy Pascal to produce the next Spider-Man movie,\" said Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige in a statement. \"Amy has been deeply involved in the realisation on film of one of the world's most beloved characters. Marvel's involvement will hopefully deliver the creative continuity and authenticity that fans demand from the MCU [Marvel Cinematic Universe]. \"I am equally excited for the opportunity to have Spider-Man appear in the MCU, something which both we at Marvel, and fans alike, have been looking forward to for years.\"", "question": "Sony Pictures and the Walt Disney company have agreed to share custody of Spider - Man , in a deal that means the @placeholder - slinging superhero could appear in a future Avengers movie .", "option_0": "region", "option_1": "sword", "option_2": "web", "option_3": "chest", "option_4": "country"}
{"id": 1571, "article": "Chris Millar is also out while Keith Watson and Ally Gilchrist are not quite ready to return. Ross County defender Paul Quinn will be given a week off after playing against Rangers with a knock. Michael Gardyne and Martin Woods return after missing the draw with the Ibrox side while Erik Cikos has recovered from a dead leg. St Johnstone's Ricky Foster: \"It was good getting a win up there earlier in the season and I'm hoping for more of the same. \"You always want to do well against an old team. You have a point to prove and want to come out on top. \"These are good games to play in, as long as you win.\" Ross County's Alex Schalk: \"We have a massive opportunity on Saturday to narrow the gap with St Johnstone as well but you can't keep saying that. \"You have to grab these opportunities. We are going to go on a run now that will help us back into the top six, I am confident of that. \"The manager wants us to be an established top-six side, that has worked well so far but we have had a bad start. \"We can look up to St Johnstone and how well they are doing but I think with the ability we have in this group, we should be there as well.\"", "question": "St Johnstone midfielder Murray Davidson will not be @placeholder despite recovering from an ankle fracture .", "option_0": "offered", "option_1": "carried", "option_2": "injured", "option_3": "risked", "option_4": "denied"}
{"id": 1572, "article": "The 9ft (3m) deep, 22ft (7m) long hole was caused by heavy rain washing away a drain running under part of Traigh Golf Course, near Mallaig. The club is now having to find money to help it pay the estimated ?¡ê16,000 cost of the repairs needed. The sinkhole has been fenced off and the nine-hole course remains open to members. Traigh, between Arisaig and Mallaig, is known as one of Scotland's most picturesque courses because of its views to Skye and the Small Isles. The club's insurance will cover some of the cost of the repairs, but it still expects to have to raise thousands of pounds. About 200 tonnes of sand will be needed to fill the hole near the seventh green.", "question": "A large sinkhole has appeared near a green on the UK @placeholder 's most westerly golf course .", "option_0": "region", "option_1": "world", "option_2": "country", "option_3": "mainland", "option_4": "night"}
{"id": 1573, "article": "Linton Zoo manager Kim Simmons posted photos of Arnie the cat looking after some of the animals online after he died on 9 January. \"We had hundreds of messages but it went crazy when MSN ran it in America,\" she said. \"His story seems to have touched, and been shared by, so many.\" She added: \"His most special job... was as the baby-sitter of abandoned newborn animals brought into the house for hand-rearing. \"Arnie baby-sat all four of our adult lions when they were cubs and some of their offspring too.\" She said the zoo did not like to hand-rear animals unless absolutely necessary, but added: \"Arnie did the job wonderfully for us. \"He would climb into their baskets and snuggle up. There is nothing quite like a real, warm beating heart next to a young animal.\" The zoo's Facebook tribute, posted a few day's after Arnie's death, read: \"On the morning of Wednesday 9th January, after completing his staff greetings and doing his usual morning rounds to see his zoo friends, purring all the way, Arnie, our ginger tom returned home for a spot of breakfast and then snuggled up on his bed and went to sleep. \"There he passed away peacefully.\" Mrs Simmons said Arnie had arthritis in his rear legs together with \"other age-related problems, for which he was receiving appropriate medical support\". \"He had a good and thorough life,\" she added. \"He was outstanding in everything he did.\" Mrs Simmons said staff were now busy responding to requests from around the world for more photographs and stories about Arnie. \"We are thinking about putting together a book,\" she said. \"His life is the stuff of Disney movies.\"", "question": "A cat who became a \" baby - sitter \" to newborn animals at a Cambridgeshire zoo has become a \" global star \" after his death was @placeholder online , staff said .", "option_0": "abandoned", "option_1": "crushed", "option_2": "spotted", "option_3": "released", "option_4": "reported"}
{"id": 1574, "article": "Zoe Morgan, 21, and Lee Simmons, 33, were found dead near the Queen Street store on 28 September at 5:50 BST. They had been in a relationship since July. Andrew Saunders, 20, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to murder at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday. He will be sentenced in the New Year. The discovery of the bodies of the couple led to the street being closed as police began their investigation. Saunders was arrested later that day and then charged with their murder. Miss Morgan, who worked as a window dresser, had recently graduated from the University of South Wales with an honours degree in fashion marketing and retail design. It is believed the couple struck up a romance while working together. In a tribute following the deaths, Miss Morgan's family said she was a \"beautiful daughter, sister, granddaughter and auntie who had a heart of gold and would do anything for anybody.\" Mr Simmons was a described as a genuine and lovely young man by a childhood friend, who added: \"he always had a smile on his face and he was well loved\". Hundreds also attended vigils in memory of the couple around the city. Judge Eleri Rees, the Recorder of Cardiff, remanded Saunders into custody. The defendant, who had short brown hair and a beard and wore a blue hooded top, spoke only to confirm his name before entering guilty pleas. He will be sentenced next year by Mrs Justice Nicola Davies. Prosecutor Michael Jones said she would have to watch \"disturbing\" CCTV footage.", "question": "A man has admitted murdering a couple found @placeholder on a street near the Cardiff city centre Matalan shop where they worked .", "option_0": "called", "option_1": "overturned", "option_2": "stabbed", "option_3": "perched", "option_4": "stranded"}
{"id": 1575, "article": "The car, in Glencaw Park in the Galliagh area of the city, was set on fire at about 23:45 GMT on Wednesday evening. It is believed a petrol bomb was used in the attack. No-one was injured. Three men, dressed in balaclavas and dark jackets, were seen running away from the car after it was set alight. The family were in the house at the time with their four children. The children's aunt said her brother chased the men but was not able to catch them. \"He just wants to know why they did it,\" she said. \"That's the only thing that is really bothering him. \"He would like them to approach him and tell him why they did it with the children in the house. \"We're not going to move out. We want to stay and get it sorted out.\" She added that the children were frightened after the incident. \"The oldest one knows everything that's going on, she's terrified to stay in the house now,\" she said. \"She was asking everything about the police being involved. She's only six years old. \"It's not as if we could have hid it from her because she was awakened by all the noise and banging.\" SDLP councillor Brian Tierney said the family were \"shocked and distraught\" by the attack. The police have appealed for information.", "question": "A family whose car was destroyed in an arson attack in Londonderry have said they want to know why they were @placeholder .", "option_0": "targeted", "option_1": "spotted", "option_2": "arrested", "option_3": "injured", "option_4": "seized"}
{"id": 1576, "article": "A rocket from the Hebrides missile range in the Western Isles has become the first vehicle to be launched into space from UK soil. But the achievement almost went unnoticed. It happened in October during an international military exercise in the Atlantic. The aim of At Sea Demonstration 15 was to test the ability of warships to defend themselves against incoming missiles. One of the those incoming target missiles was an American Terrier-Orion two-stage rocket which was launched from the Hebrides missile range in the Western Isles. Playing the part of a ballistic missile, it soared high over the North Atlantic, so becoming the first space vehicle to lift-off from UK soil and leave the Earth's atmosphere. Until now every UK space shot has had to go abroad to be launched. It was an exercise which achieved several firsts in military technology.  But this milestone passed almost unmarked. The point was to stop the missile coming down, not watch it go up. What's more the Terrier-Orion will never appear in a museum because it was blown to bits over the Atlantic by the US Navy's guided missile destroyer USS Ross. For Dr Malcolm Macdonald, of Strathclyde University and director of the Scottish Centre of Excellence in Satellite Applications, the milestone has brought particular pleasure, not least that it was launched from the Hebrides Range. \"Probably the least-heralded event of 2015 is that an object was sent into space from the UK,\" he says. \"Also, that's where my family croft was, according to our family history. \"It'd be great to see some real spacecraft going up into orbit from Scotland.\" That may happen next. The news emerged as six sites are vying to become the UK's first commercial spaceport, four of them in Scotland. A conference organised by the Royal Aeronautical Society is hearing from six sites hoping to be the chosen by the UK as a spaceport. They are the airports at Prestwick, Campbeltown and Stornoway, the former RAF base at Leuchars in Fife, Newquay airport in Cornwall and Llanbedr airport in the Snowdonia National Park. Here the emphasis will be on horizontal launches, such as those achieved by the Virgin Galactic project. There's more to that than space tourism. Virgin Galactic are preparing to test a launcher which could put small satellites into orbit from a Boeing 747. And former Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn says the tourism spin-offs are not to be sniffed at. \"People will come to see space launches,\" he says. \"Would somebody go to Machrihanish to see a rocket launch? \"Well, people go to Cape Canaveral to see rockets launched. \"They even go to Roswell, New Mexico, to see a plastic alien because they're so interested in space.\" It is worth bearing in mind that Scotland is pretty good at this space business already. It's reckoned our space industry already supports five and a half thousand, mostly highly-skilled, jobs. In 2014, Ukube-1 became the first Scottish-built satellite to go into orbit. Does today's news mean the Hebrides Missile Range could host a space launch site? QuinetiQ, who run it for the UK Ministry of Defence, say they have no plans to use it as a commercial spaceport. But they do stress they have the expertise to support a spaceport anywhere in the UK. And a feasibility study is under way for a commercial vertical launch facility near Tongue in Sutherland. Could Scotland boldly go? We already have.", "question": "Scotland has @placeholder another first in space .", "option_0": "enjoyed", "option_1": "reported", "option_2": "suffered", "option_3": "scored", "option_4": "seen"}
{"id": 1577, "article": "Southend United striker Nile Ranger, 25, has been charged with conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, police said. The offences are alleged to have been committed in February 2015. Mr Ranger appeared alongside two other defendants at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court earlier. Aseany Duncan, 19, was charged with possessing the personal bank details of 500 people on his phone for the use of fraud. He was also charged with conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering alongside Mr Ranger and Reanne Morgan, 18. The case will next be heard at Wood Green Crown Court in the New Year. Southend United have said Mr Ranger will continue to be available for selection at the League One club. Read more on this story and other Essex news Mr Ranger, of Bounds Green, north London, signed a new three-and-a-half year contract with Southend at the start of this month, having started his career at Newcastle United before moving to Swindon Town and then Blackpool. He joined Southend in the summer after a trial, having not played a first-team game since November 2014 while at Blackpool.", "question": "A footballer has been charged over an alleged scam involving a vulnerable person 's bank details being taken so their savings could be @placeholder .", "option_0": "held", "option_1": "stopped", "option_2": "team", "option_3": "lost", "option_4": "accessed"}
{"id": 1578, "article": "More than 700 travelling fans watched Vale suffer their fifth straight away loss to slip back into the bottom four. But Brown believes many fans are aware of the circumstances that he is working under, with his squad hit by injuries. \"We can see they're frustrated, 100%,\" Brown told BBC Radio Stoke. \"The ones who look into the true problems we have are very understanding of the situation,\" added the 40-year-old, who is still acting on a caretaker manager basis and awaiting a decision on his own future. The loss of defender Andre Bikey late on in Vale's defeat on Saturday, to become the club's ninth current injury casualty, was the sparking point to the fans' anger. But Brown is now ready to risk turning as his replacement to Remie Streete, who has been sidelined for three matches with a hamstring injury, when they host promoted Sheffield United on Good Friday. \"We hope to have Remie for Friday,\" Brown added. \"We certainly need him.\" Vale have only won three times in 2017 - but all three have been in the past month, in a run of good home form that has brought them 10 points out of a possible 12 at Vale Park. Their biggest home test to date comes on Friday against the Blades, one of Brown's old clubs and the likely League One champions. \"Other teams are beating teams who are higher in the table,\" he said. \"That's what we're going to have to do in the coming weeks. \"We knew it was going to go all the way, but there are games we can still win. We need to be as positive as we can.\" Vale, in 21st, are one point behind three clubs - Bury, Shrewsbury Town and Gillingham. Brown's men have a game in hand, away at Walsall on 25 April, but Vale have the second worst away record in the division, having picked up just nine points in 20 games. They have lost last their past five away matches, having not won on their travels since beating MK Dons 1-0 on 9 October.", "question": "Port Vale caretaker manager Michael Brown says he can understand why some supporters @placeholder their frustration at the end of Saturday 's 1 - 0 League One defeat at Chesterfield .", "option_0": "showed", "option_1": "stretched", "option_2": "continued", "option_3": "strengthened", "option_4": "reported"}
{"id": 1579, "article": "The court objected to a requirement that voters register no later than 15 days before polling day. Some other provisions were also deemed to be unconstitutional. The conservative party of PM Viktor Orban dominates parliament. Last year Fidesz changed some other laws amid EU pressure over democratic standards. After Friday's court ruling the head of the party's parliamentary group, Antal Rogan, said the new voter registration system would not be introduced for the 2014 general election. The new electoral law was adopted by parliament last November, but then President Janos Ader referred it to the constitutional court. He also highlighted public concern about the law's provisions on election campaigning and advertising. The court ruled that the law restricted voter rights to an unjustifiable degree, the Politics.hu news website reports. The court objected to a proposal that political ads be restricted to the publicly run media, calling it a grave violation of freedom of speech. The court also opposed proposed bans on cinemas screening political ads during the campaign and on the publication of any election-related opinion polls in the six days prior to election day. Last year the European Commission - the EU's executive arm - took legal action against Mr Orban's government over reforms to Hungary's central bank, data protection and the judiciary. There have been many protests in Hungary against Fidesz's laws which, in the eyes of critics, infringe on civil liberties. Mr Orban has accused the EU of interfering in Hungary's domestic affairs. He has argued that major reforms are necessary to \"renew\" Hungary's institutions, saying the legacy of communism has not yet been eradicated.", "question": "Hungary 's constitutional court has struck down a controversial electoral law that critics said would have @placeholder the ruling party , Fidesz .", "option_0": "favoured", "option_1": "doubled", "option_2": "seized", "option_3": "eliminated", "option_4": "breached"}
{"id": 1580, "article": "Theresa May has framed this election in terms of Brexit. The Conservatives are the party which will deliver on the referendum result, she has said, while other parties - namely Labour and the Lib Dems - want to frustrate the process. In doing so she's stolen a march on UKIP; the party which for so long was the sole advocate of leaving the EU. It hasn't abandoned Brexit. It has said it will continue to \"hold the government's feet to the fire\" and push for the kind of EU exit it wants, adamant there's still a role to play. But UKIP needs a new unique selling point. Cue a plethora of policies designed to appeal to the party's core voters; a moratorium on new Islamic schools in the state system, Sharia courts outlawed and a ban on face coverings in public places. This is a return to right-wing territory in which UKIP has dabbled before. A step away from the libertarian values the party has said in the past that it stands for. It's an extension of the party's popular stance on controlled immigration; limit the number of people who come to the UK and ensure those who do fully integrate into society. But it's more than that. UKIP has long appealed to a certain emotion among parts of the electorate, portraying itself as the true protector of British values, proud to stand up for a way of life it claims is at risk of erosion from political correctness. Its integration agenda was quickly labelled by some as offensive, even Islamophobic, but for UKIP these policies are true patriotism, a defence of the realm and its values from what it calls \"crude multiculturalism\". UKIP still sees itself as the party prepared to say things other politicians won't, unafraid to risk offence to create debate. It takes credit for forcing other parties to talk frankly about immigration; now they hope to do the same with integration and in doing so ensure their relevance beyond Brexit and appeal to their traditional supporters. The Tories have stomped on UKIP turf, so the party's trying to break new ground. If it's more radical as a consequence? So be it. The question is whether it will be enough.", "question": "What do you do when the central policy on which your party was @placeholder and has long campaigned becomes the domain of a political rival ? If you 're UKIP , get radical .", "option_0": "colour", "option_1": "bathed", "option_2": "formed", "option_3": "granted", "option_4": "grounded"}
{"id": 1581, "article": "But you might take a second glance when you notice that the footballer in question isn't playing in 2011, but in 1911. Leigh Richmond Roose was born in Holt near Wrexham on 27 November 1877, and died during the Battle of The Somme, aged 38, in October 1916. His biographer calls him a \"forgotten hero\" and the game's \"first superstar\". Roose started his amateur career at Aberystwyth Town in 1895, while studying medicine at the university there. But within two seasons Roose became famous throughout Wales, both for his keeping, and his crowd-pleasing antics. He would turn his back on play to tell jokes to the fans, and perform gymnastics from the goal crossbar while the ball was at the other end of the field. By 1900, he'd led Aberystwyth to the Welsh Cup, and earned an international call-up It also brought him to the attention of English First Division clubs, seeing him play for Stoke City, Everton, Sunderland, Celtic, Aston Villa and Woolwich Arsenal. His biographer, Spencer Vignes, explained the Football Association was even forced to change the rules of the game because of him. \"Leigh revolutionised the way the game was played in England.  Before Leigh, goalkeepers were just shot-stoppers, if they came off their line they had no protection from being punched, shoulder-charged and trampled by the forwards, in a game which was vastly more physical than today. \"Usually they were too terrified to come out of their goal, even though - in those days - they were allowed to handle the ball anywhere in their own half of the field.\" \"But Leigh was such a physical specimen that he could take on the forwards at their own game. \"He'd flatten the striker, catch the ball, and carry play up field like a rugby fullback does today.  So in 1912, at the end of his career, the rules were changed so that keepers could only handle the ball inside the penalty area.\" Practical jokes But Mr Vignes said the FA was not a fan of Roose. \"They hated him every bit as much as the fans loved him. He insisted on staying amateur, playing practical jokes and larking around at a time when the FA were trying to portray football as a serious professional sport.\" \"Leigh was also a bit of a London socialite, and made as many headlines off the field as on it; something else which didn't go down too well with the FA\" In 1909 the FA launched an investigation into the expenses Roose, as an amateur, was claiming from his then club, Sunderland. As an amateur, he could not be paid for playing, but received more in expenses than his team-mates earned professionally. According to Mr Vignes, the FA's concerns weren't entirely unmerited. When Roose missed his train from Euston for a 1906 Stoke match away to Aston Villa, he hired his own locomotive and carriage, and sent the ¡ê31 bill to his club; this at a time when a miner would earn around ¡ê1, three shillings a week. Yet Roose's clubs considered it money well spent. \"You have to remember that the people who run football clubs are businessmen.  If Leigh was getting ¡ê1,000 a season in expenses, then you can be sure that the clubs were making ¡ê2,000 a season through the turnstiles and in extra publicity.\" \"He was the first football superstar, with the playing style of Peter Schmiechel, the bon viveur attitude of George Best, and the media-savvy sense of David Beckham.\" \"People who'd never watched football in their life knew who he was, children chased his carriage, and women hung around his hotel for the chance to spend a night with him.\" Among those women was music hall star Marie Lloyd, who popularised the song My Old Man Said Follow The Van. Their relationship - Lloyd was married at the time - caused a media storm, displeasing the FA, but only serving to enhance Roose's popularity. In 1905 The Daily Mail listed Roose as London's second most eligible bachelor, behind cricketing legend Jack Hobbs. When the paper invited readers to vote for players in a World XI, Roose won the goalkeeper's spot by a landslide. Forgotten hero One hundred years ago, Roose ended his playing career with Arsenal, having never properly recovered from a broken wrist two years before. When war broke out in 1914, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, despite having never completed his medicine degree. Later he transferred to the Royal Fusiliers and served in the trenches at the Battle of The Somme in 1916. He earned the Military Medal for using his goalkeeping skills to fend off a flame-thrower attack on his unit, by hurling grenades into the enemy. But just weeks after learning of the honour, Roose was killed on 7 October, 1916. Details about his death had remained a mystery until Mr Vignes researched his biography. \"Nobody knew exactly what had happened, Leigh had simply vanished from the official records.\" \"It was only after studying the war memorial to the Somme victims at Theipval, that I discovered that he is listed on there, but as 'Corporal Rouse', not 'Corporal Roose.\" \"I don't know why Leigh is largely a forgotten hero nowadays, his life had all the ingredients to make him a legend a century on.\"", "question": "You could be forgiven for skipping over yet another article talking about a talented international goalkeeper who courts the cameras , dates the trendiest singers , lands himself in hot water through his bad @placeholder and gets big money .", "option_0": "mood", "option_1": "behaviour", "option_2": "breath", "option_3": "waterfall", "option_4": "location"}
{"id": 1582, "article": "Peace envoy Mr Waite was kidnapped in Lebanon in January 1987 as he negotiated the release of western hostages. After his release five years later he flew into RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire, where the bells of the nearby parish church were rung to mark his arrival. During his latest visit, he met the bell-ringers who had welcomed him home. Mr Waite was held captive, mostly in solitary confinement, chained and often blindfolded, for 1,763 days before his release on 18 November 1991. Now aged 77, he returned to the former RAF base where his plane landed, and where he stayed for several weeks as he began to get his life back to normal. During the return visit in which the bells were rung for him again, he thanked some of the original bell-ringers at the neighbouring St Michael and All Angels church. \"One night my wife and I heard the bells ringing, and I said, 'Oh, the bell ringers must be practising', and she turned to me and said, 'They're ringing the bells for you'. \"I thought it was lovely thing to do. Twenty five years on it gives me an opportunity to say thanks for people who cared,\" he said. \"I experienced a real welcome. It was so nice and generous to welcome us in that way. \"You don't have to say a great deal or do a great deal - little symbolic gestures mean so much at times of distress.\" Mr Waite, who was envoy to Robert Runcie, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, also wrote a personal message in the church visitors book, 25 years after he wrote an entry on his first visit to the church. A quarter of a century on from his release, Terry Waite's memories of what happened on that rainy and blustery day, when he flew into RAF Lyneham, have not faded. \"It was raining so we went into the great hangar and there I gave my address, and then went to meet my family,\" he said. \"It was an emotional occasion, but it also had an amusing side to it. \"When the plane landed Robert Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was late because he'd been held up by traffic. \"On the plane they collected all the paper cups and serviettes in the haste to make the plane tidy and presentable and shoved them in the front toilet, so when Robert ran up the steps late, and said \"I must use the loo\", he opened the door and was immediately showered with paper cups and serviettes. \"It was not a dignified entry for the Archbishop of Canterbury. \"It's the amusing things that stick in your mind.\" You can listen to an exclusive interview with Terry Waite as he returns to Lyneham, on Marie Lennon's programme on BBC Wiltshire on Wednesday 19 October from 09:00 BST.", "question": "Former hostage Terry Waite has @placeholder the site of his return to the UK 25 years ago .", "option_0": "entered", "option_1": "discovered", "option_2": "joined", "option_3": "reached", "option_4": "revisited"}
{"id": 1583, "article": "The Royal Lancaster Infirmary has again blamed \"a significant surge in demand\" for the problem. It comes three weeks after a similar appeal was issued over a lack of beds. University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust said: \"Yet again we are experiencing increased pressure in our A&E department at the RLI.\" A trust spokesman said: \"This is due mostly to patients that need to be admitted to our wards from A&E, however, due to delayed discharges and lack of bed availability, we are having to keep those patients in A&E.\" Another appeal was made in March. People who are not suffering serious illnesses or injuries are advised to dial the NHS advice line on 111, a pharmacist, Primary Care Assessment Centre, or GP.", "question": "A hospital has urged people to @placeholder going to its accident and emergency unit for the third time in six months .", "option_0": "start", "option_1": "join", "option_2": "avoid", "option_3": "try", "option_4": "restrict"}
{"id": 1584, "article": "Excalibur Steel is the name of the management buy-out bid. It was thought to involve keeping the blast furnaces open for the production of new steel and was favoured by unions. It was based on the original turnaround plan submitted to - and rejected by - the board of Tata in March. The Liberty House bid was submitted by Indian businessman Sanjeev Gupta who has already snapped up some of Tata's assets. His plan involved recycling existing steel in less costly and labour-intensive Arc furnaces rather than producing brand new steel. These two bids have been submitted separately and seem incompatible but it emerges there is a potential compromise position in which Excalibur would work with Liberty on a plan that would see one of the blast furnaces continue operating for an unspecified time, while simultaneously introducing Arc furnaces alongside. In a potential tie-up, Excalibur would bring valuable management know how in the shape of Stuart Willkie, the man who ran Tata's strip products business until taking a recent leave of absence to mount the Excalibur bid. A combined bid is thought to be popular with the government which has offered hundreds of millions in debt financing and an offer to take a stake of up to 25% in the company that wins. Other names reported to be interested are: private equity group Greybull Capital, which recently bought Tata's Scunthorpe steel plant; Chinese producer Hebei Iron and Steel; Leeds-based private equity fund Endless; JSW, India's second largest steel producer; and NUCOR, the largest steel-maker in the US. The bids will be submitted to a Tata board meeting in Mumbai on Wednesday and the Business Secretary Sajid Javid will be going along in a show of government support. He was severely criticised for being in Australia at the time of the crucial board meeting in March when Tata put its UK business up for sale.", "question": "As the deadline for bids for Tata 's UK steel business @placeholder by this lunchtime , it seems there is potential for two of the bidders to work together .", "option_0": "ticked", "option_1": "passed", "option_2": "used", "option_3": "expired", "option_4": "continued"}
{"id": 1585, "article": "Whizz, a Newfoundland, worked with the Royal Navy Rescue, the Severn Area Rescue Association and the Marine Volunteer Service. He died on 1 March, aged 12, following a ten year water rescue career. The PDSA Order of Merit is given to animals that display outstanding devotion to their owner or society. Whizz, who had cancer, is only the third dog to receive the honour since it was brought in 2014. His handler Ellie Bedford, owner David Pugh and descendent Tizz, accepted the medal on his behalf from PDSA Director General Jan McLoughlin. Mr Pugh, from Portishead near Bristol, said Whizz was \"exuberant - a fantastic working dog\" who gave his all then came home for love and affection. He was trained to work with a lifeguard who swims with the dog on rescue missions. \"A drowning person is like 10 people because they panic and can take a dog under with them, so the lifeguard swims with the dog to talk to the victim,\" said Mr Pugh. His work as a therapy dog included visits to children and adults in hospices and helping children overcome their fear of dogs. \"I won't see his like again but I've got great memories,\" Mr Pugh said.", "question": "A dog which rescued nine people during his working life @placeholder the Bristol Channel and River Severn has been given a posthumous award for his service .", "option_0": "visited", "option_1": "deserve", "option_2": "lifted", "option_3": "patrolling", "option_4": "wearing"}
{"id": 1586, "article": "The health director of Takhar province said the girls fell ill shortly after drinking water at their school. An education official in Kabul said preliminary investigations suggested the water had been poisoned. A local official in Takhar suggested that people opposed to education for girls were responsible. The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul says that similar events have been reported before, but no conclusive evidence of poisoning has been found. The official said 40 girls were treated and then discharged but 100 others including female teachers have been kept in hospital, after complaining of severe nausea, headaches and dizziness. The water has been sent to a laboratory for analysis, and the official said he had asked for a full inquiry. A spokesman for the education directorate in Takhar said the victims are aged from 14 to 30. He said it appeared that \"narrow-minded people\" opposed to education for girls were behind the incident.", "question": "More than 100 schoolgirls in northeastern Afghanistan are in hospital suffering from @placeholder poisoning .", "option_0": "injuring", "option_1": "schools", "option_2": "leaving", "option_3": "suspected", "option_4": "becoming"}
{"id": 1587, "article": "Plans for the €617m (¡ê517m; $656m) pre-Christmas handout were opposed by European bodies negotiating Greece's financial lifeline. A deal agreed earlier this month to provide the next tranche of debt relief for Athens is now on hold. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Greece would not be blackmailed. Athens said the pension payment would come out of a €1bn tax surplus but European creditors on Thursday said the Greek move raised \"significant concerns on both process and substance\" regarding the country's bailout obligations. In a joint statement, representatives from the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the European rescue fund said they would now decide whether to uphold a Eurogroup decision granting Greece short-term debt relief earlier this month. Mr Tsipras said the situation had to be resolved \"without blackmail\" on the part of Greece's creditors. France has defended Greece against a hardening stance by Germany and the Eurogroup of EU finance ministers, headed Jeroen Dijsselbloem. A spokesman for Mr Dijsselbloem on Wednesday said the eurozone was suspending the recently announced debt relief scheme for Athens in retaliation for not being fully briefed on Mr Tsipras's handout plans, which also include a lower sales tax for Greek islands dealing with migration. \"The institutions have concluded that the actions of the Greek government appear to not be in line with our agreements,\" said the spokesman. But France's Finance Minister, Michel Sapin, and the country's European economic affairs commissioner, Pierre Moscovici, have publicly distanced themselves from the Eurogroup decision. \"Individual statements are not the collective statements of the Eurogroup,\" said Mr Sapin. The latest debt-relief deal with Greece was agreed on 5 December and would reduce the interest burden on the country's debts of more than €300bn. The Greek government announced its bonus for pensioners receiving below €800 a month just three days later but without consulting the eurozone representatives. It also scrapped a rise in VAT for residents of Aegean islands to help relieve the economic pressure caused by an influx of migrants. The arrangement of 5 December included extending the maturity on certain loans to the Greek government, and locking in the interest rate on some of its debts in order to reduce the country's repayment burden, but it did not alter the total amount owed. A key player in the latest decision to suspend the recent debt deal has been Germany. \"If the rescue programme is going to be deemed a success, it is imperative that measures are not taken unilaterally,\" said a spokesman for the German finance ministry.", "question": "The Greek parliament has defied the international creditors providing Athens ' bailout funds and @placeholder through a one - off payment to pensioners .", "option_0": "loans", "option_1": "brings", "option_2": "sliding", "option_3": "swept", "option_4": "voted"}
{"id": 1588, "article": "The raids came as the government banned the group, which it accused of trying to recruit fighters for so-called Islamic State (IS). An Interior Ministry spokeswoman said there was no indication DWR (True Religion) was planning attacks itself. She said the group had breached the constitution and incited hatred. There was no immediate statement from the group. Some of those who have gone to fight for IS in the Middle East had contact with the organisation before they left. Officials estimate that almost 900 people in total have so far left Germany to join IS in Syria or Iraq. \"The message to the radical Islamist scene is clear: we do not tolerate fanatics who try to radicalise young people and send them to jihad,\" said Peter Beuth, interior minister for Hesse state, where some of the raids took place. \"By banning this organisation, a major source of radicalisation has been eradicated nationwide. Those who spread hate messages can't hide behind freedom of religion.\"", "question": "German police have carried out nationwide dawn raids on more than 200 mosques , apartments and @placeholder associated with an Islamist group .", "option_0": "schools", "option_1": "leaving", "option_2": "communications", "option_3": "emergency", "option_4": "offices"}
{"id": 1589, "article": "In the video, a car can be seen mounting the pavement and striking the victim in Mansfield town centre. Nottinghamshire Police said it was \"unbelievable\" he suffered only minor injuries and is \"recovering well\" after the incident, which happened in April. Officers are appealing to garages which may have repaired a Skoda Octavia with front end damage. The victim was hit in Leeming Street by a dark-coloured vehicle, which also collided with an electric box before heading off along a bus lane and travelling down Clumber Street. Police believe the car was parked in Leeming Street before the incident and the driver may have been involved in an altercation with people outside the Bowl in Hand pub. Det Con Kelly Holloway said: \"Had the car not struck the electric box this incident could easily have ended in tragedy.\"", "question": "Footage of a hit - and - run in which a man @placeholder to be crushed against a wall has been released .", "option_0": "pretended", "option_1": "appears", "option_2": "has", "option_3": "attempted", "option_4": "dedicated"}
{"id": 1590, "article": "The 18th Century road bridge over the River Wharfe in Tadcaster is expected to take up to 12-months to repair at a cost of ¡ê3m. It collapsed on 29 December last year, splitting the town in two. The government provided ¡ê300,000 towards the costs of the footbridge, which has been built in sections over the river. The bridge was formally opened by the chair of North Yorkshire County Council, David Jeffels, and the town's Conservative MP, Nigel Adams. The men crossed the bridge accompanied by a mother and daughter who live on opposite sides of the river. Chrissie Wilson, whose home was flooded over Christmas, was crossing the bridge to stay with her mother Babs when it began to collapse. Miss Wilson said: \"We're so proud to be doing this. Mum was born and grew up in Tadcaster and her family goes back 300 years in the town. \"We're just so impressed with the way the town has pulled together through all this and delighted to have a bridge that connects the centre of the town again.\" The town's county councillor, Chris Metcalfe, said the opening of the temporary bridge was a chance for the whole town to celebrate. \"Everybody has shown incredible community spirit through these past challenging weeks. \"The county council and its contractors are proud to have met the challenges and completed the footbridge as swiftly as possible so that people and business can get back to some normality,\" he said.", "question": "A footbridge reuniting a town @placeholder after its road bridge collapsed during flooding has opened .", "option_0": "drowned", "option_1": "divided", "option_2": "center", "option_3": "ground", "option_4": "condition"}
{"id": 1591, "article": "The big difference is that the numbers from which you make your six selections will go up in October from one to 49 to one to 59. While this doesn't sound like it will make a huge difference, it actually takes your odds of winning the jackpot from one in 14 million to one in 45 million. Camelot, which runs the lottery, says that the new system will create bigger, rolling jackpots, which is true. Because it is so much less likely that anybody will win the top prize, there will be many more rollovers. It also says that the chances of winning a prize have increased, which is true, because people who match two numbers will get a free go on the game the following week. The chances of winning a cash prize, however, have fallen considerably. There will also be a raffle that will give prizes of ¡ê1m and ¡ê20,000, for which the odds of winning depend on the number of entries, but the organisers estimate that you have a one in 10 million chance of winning either ¡ê1m on the raffle or the jackpot. This change comes only two years after the last set of changes, which doubled the price of a ticket to ¡ê2 but introduced the raffle with ¡ê20,000 prizes. At the time, the prize for matching three balls increased from ¡ê10 to ¡ê25. The odds of matching three balls were unchanged, but of course the cost of entry had doubled, which effectively doubled the odds (because ¡ê2 would previously have bought two tickets). The estimated prize for matching five balls plus the bonus ball fell from ¡ê100,000 to ¡ê50,000 while the prize for matching five balls went from ¡ê1,500 to ¡ê1,000. It appears that the Lotto organisers have discovered that what persuades people to buy lottery tickets is rollovers to create enormous prizes. Camelot's commentary in its financial reporting about the effect that Euromillions rollovers (or the lack of them) have on ticket sales is very clear about that. The company is clearly counting on the lengthening odds of winning both vast amounts of money and small and middling sums having less effect. Because honestly, who can cope in their head with the difference between odds of 14 million to one and odds of 45 million to one? It's like comparing the odds of flipping a coin and getting 22 consecutive heads with the odds of getting 24. They both represent staggeringly unlikely events - it's just that in the case of a lottery it happens to someone every now and then.", "question": "There has been outrage on some front pages about the shake - up to the Lotto game @placeholder this week .", "option_0": "effect", "option_1": "announced", "option_2": "deal", "option_3": "water", "option_4": "show"}
{"id": 1592, "article": "Across the city's 33 council areas, 86% got into their first choice of school. Overall, the number of applications was down by 4% to 98,944. The Pan London Admissions Board said pressure for places remained high despite the slight drop in applications. The national figure will not be announced for several weeks. The London figures also show that overall, 96% of children received an offer from one of their top three preferred schools. Last year, it was 94%. The areas with the highest number of first preference admissions were Barking and Dagenham (93%), Newham (92%) and Bexley (91%), while Kensington and Chelsea (68%), Hammersmith and Fulham (76%) and Harrow (79%) had the lowest. The admissions board said the variation in boroughs was because the city had such a dense population and that while some schools might not have offered many first preferences, they may have a high proportion of first preferences for pupils from neighbouring boroughs because schools were situated near borough boundaries. It said some parents may also choose to select a school their child was unlikely to receive an offer for. Sara Williams, chair of the Pan London Admissions Board, said: \"The demand for primary school places in London remains high, having increased by 5% since 2011. \"Overall there has been a slight fall in demand for reception places since last year, but the pressure on London schools to deliver places for children across the capital due to start school this September remains. \"We will be keeping an eye on birth rates and patterns of population growth, but we expect demand for primary school places to continue at least at current levels and demand for secondary school places to grow considerably in the years ahead.\"", "question": "About 14,000 children have missed out on their first choice of primary school in London , figures @placeholder .", "option_0": "given", "option_1": "reveal", "option_2": "claimed", "option_3": "shown", "option_4": "released"}
{"id": 1593, "article": "Kubrick's adaption of the 1977 Stephen King novel of the same name was released in cinemas 32 years ago. The film follows recovering alcoholic and struggling writer Jack Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson, and his wife and their young son Danny. They move into the Overlook Hotel after Jack is appointed caretaker of the imposing and isolated North American mountain retreat while it is closed for winter. Tension mounts as Danny, who has psychic abilities, and his troubled and abusive father encounter the evil spirits that haunt the Overlook's deserted corridors and its sinister room 237. In an interview with French film critic Michel Ciment, Kubrick said he hoped audiences would get a \"good fright\" watching it. But some viewers believe The Shining is far more than a scary film. They are convinced the characters' dialogue, their clothing and even the pattern of the Overlook's carpet are codes. Breaking those cryptic clues, they argue, reveals hidden messages about the genocide of America's indigenous people, the Nazi's Final Solution and even an admission the 1969 Moon Landing was faked. Filmmakers and best friends Rodney Ascher and Tim Kirk, who are both huge fans of Kubrick's work, explore these theories and others in their documentary Room 237. Ascher said: \"I wasn't looking for messages myself. \"This project began because my friend Tim and I discovered that countless other people were doing so, and based on our love of Kubrick's films, and consciousness of the great lengths he went to make them, the idea that The Shining was littered with these signs and symbols was totally plausible to us and something we wanted to know everything about.\" He added: \"As I discovered more and more of them, it actually became a little frightening, as if I was opening up a book of forbidden knowledge - doing most of the research between the hours of 10pm and 3am made the experience especially eerie.\" Room 237's interviewees include Michigan-based history professor Geoffrey Cocks, who believes The Shining is about Nazi Germany's extermination of Jewish people. Prof Cocks, who wrote the book The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History and the Holocaust, points to repeated use of the number 42 in the film. Danny wears a baseball shirt with the number on the sleeves, and another scene a TV set shows the movie Summer of '42. In 1942, Nazi officials met for the Wannsee Conference to plan the genocide of European Jews. Other clues to the Holocaust theory include Kubrick changing the colour of the Torrance family's VW Beetle from the King novel's red to yellow - the colour of the star-shaped identification badges Jews were forced to wear. Another interviewee, veteran US television journalist and former war correspondent Bill Blakemore, suggests The Shining is about the mistreatment of America's Native Indians. Blakemore's evidence includes an explanation early on in the film that the Overlook was built in 1907 on an Indian burial ground. In 1907 the name Indian Territory, an area of land where the US government relocated North American indigenous people, changed to Oklahoma. Later in the film, a frustrated Jack bounces a rubber ball off an Indian tapestry that hangs on a lobby wall. Meanwhile, in the hotel's larder are stocked tins of baking powder branded Calumet, the word for an Indian peace pipe. One of the more startling theories is that The Shining is Kubrick's confession to helping the US government fake the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. Author and film-maker Jay Weidner insists the signs are all there. In one scene, Danny is playing with toy cars on the hotel's oddly patterned carpet. He sits inside a hexagonal shape - the same shape, says Weidner, as the launch pad area of Apollo 11. When Danny rises from his game, a rocket with the lettering Apollo 11 on it can be seen on the boy's jumper and he walks slowly towards room 237. According to Weidner, schoolchildren in the 1960s were taught that the distance from the Earth to the Moon was 237,000 miles. Critic Ciment asked Kubrick why he switched the hotel room number from the book's 217 to 237. The director said the Timberline Lodge, in Oregon, which was used for the film, had a room 217 but staff feared no-one would want to stay in it after the film was released, so it was decided to change it to 237, a room number that did not exist in the lodge. Matthew Leyland, reviews editor at Total Film magazine, is not surprised that people continue to be captivated by The Shining so long after it was released. He said: \"It's a scary film that still scares. \"Horror films can sometimes date terribly but apart from the bell bottoms and the odd hammy moment, Kubrick's film holds up incredibly well after 30-odd years. \"Most of his films - particularly the later ones - have a persistent sense of foreboding, of something truly ghastly about to happen, but this is Kubrick at his eeriest and most uncanny.\" Leyland said Kubrick was fond of symbolism and cryptic vibes. He said the imagery and themes in his most famous film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, have invited endless speculation and interpretation over the years. He added: \"Given what a meticulous, painstaking, serious-minded director Kubrick was, it's probably likely that he intended The Shining to be more than just a story of a man going mad in a hotel, although I thought many of the theories espoused in Room 237 were more entertaining than credible.\" After watching Room 237, Leyland reckons most viewers of The Shining will see it in a different light than they had in previous viewings. For Ascher, the documentary's director, delving into the theories left him with some concerns about how he might feel when watching The Shining again. He said: \"I had a fear that in a way, by deconstructing the film, I may have killed this thing I loved. \"But happily enough, when I recently re-watched the film about a month ago with my mother-in-law who was preparing to watch 237, I was instantly able to fall under its spell again.\" Room 237 is released in the UK on 26 October.", "question": "A new documentary , Room 237 , explores the theory that messages are hidden in horror film The Shining . So what @placeholder do some people believe its director Stanley Kubrick secreted in the frames of his chilling masterpiece ?", "option_0": "leaving", "option_1": "meanings", "option_2": "lies", "option_3": "show", "option_4": "story"}
{"id": 1594, "article": "Colin Parry said he had asked Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness to speak at the Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Peace Centre during a visit to Belfast. Johnathan Ball, three, and Tim Parry, 12, died in the attack in March 1993. The Northern Ireland deputy first minister, who was a senior IRA figure, has agreed to the visit in principle. The two boys died and 54 others were injured when two bombs hidden in litter bins went off in Bridge Street. Mr Parry made the request to Mr McGuinness after travelling to Belfast for a BBC Radio Five Live documentary. He said he had invited the politician to speak because \"part of our ethos is that we talk to everyone\". \"We don't just talk to victims of terrorism or young people who are at risk of being radicalised. We also talk to people who have been associated with terrorist acts,\" he said. \"In simple terms, you make peace with your enemies, not with your friends. He added that while Mr McGuinness was \"now a mainstream politician, Martin's history is one of being involved with the IRA\". \"His past would have placed him beyond the pale for many people, but not for me and my foundation,\" he said. Mr McGuinness has previously met with Mr Parry and visited the centre and the town for private meetings. During a visit in 2001 he said he was sorry that Irish republicans were responsible for the boys' deaths and that the bombing had been wrong.", "question": "The father of a boy killed in the IRA bomb attack in Warrington has asked a former leader of the @placeholder to lecture at a centre set up in his son 's memory .", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "response", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "band", "option_4": "group"}
{"id": 1595, "article": "Wendell Baker, 56, beat and raped 66-year-old Hazel Backwell before locking her in a cupboard at her home in Stratford, east London, in 1997. Baker was found not guilty in 1999 when a judge wrongly ruled his trial could not proceed. Changes to the law in 2005 meant he could be retried. He has been ordered to serve a minimum of 10 years and six months. Ms Backwell suffered a \"terrifying ordeal\" and thought she was going to die at the hands of Baker, who broke into her home and attacked her, the Old Bailey heard. He tied her hands behind her back with flex and beat and raped her. He then proceeded to ransack her house before leaving her bound and trapped in a cupboard. A \"terrified\" Ms Backwell was found by chance by a neighbour the following evening. By Danny ShawHome affairs correspondent, BBC News Wendell Baker almost got away with it. Had it not been for a court order compelling his defence solicitors to hand over copies of the case papers after the police had inexplicably lost theirs, a retrial would not have been possible. Baker had escaped justice in 1999 because of another blunder: a judge wrongly ruled that the key - and virtually only - evidence against him, from DNA samples, was inadmissible. The decision, corrected by the Law Lords, led Labour to introduce sweeping new powers ensuring DNA profiles from people cleared of crimes could be retained, measures which the Coalition Government has now watered down. Baker, from Walthamstow, was acquitted of raping Ms Backwell, who died in 2002, when the first trial judge ruled DNA evidence had not been collected correctly and could not be used. The Law Lords later overturned the judge's ruling, although as the law stood Baker could not be tried a second time for the same crime. But after the law was amended it was possible for him to be tried again. Jurors heard a DNA match was found \"in the order of one in a billion\" linking him to the case. Sentencing Baker at the Old Bailey, Judge Peter Rook said: \"It seems to me it's difficult to find a case of more serious rape during the course of a burglary, short of where the victim is either killed or caused very serious harm. \"This was a particularly grave case of the rape of a woman in her own bedroom, you having broken into her home at night. Up until then she had always felt safe and secure in her home. \"This was a planned offence to steal money. When you could not find any, you decided to punish her with a brutal and vicious attack and by raping her.\" The victim was beaten \"black and blue\" and \"her face was unrecognisable even to her own son who only recognised her by her voice,\" the judge told the court. A statement on behalf of Ms Backwell's son David and her family said the \"depraved attack\" had \"completely ruined her life\". It added: \"She survived the attack and was able to give a detailed account of what Wendell Baker put her through but her life was never the same again. \"My mother sadly passed away lonely, with a broken heart and a shadow of her former self and was never able to see the man who caused her so much pain jailed for what he did. \"My mother felt as if she had been raped a second time when Wendell Baker was first acquitted. \"My mother suffered and it saddens me that she is not here to witness this momentous day. \"Today is a good day for our family but it will always be tinged with sadness.\" Following the sentence, Det Ch Insp Christopher Burgess said: \"Wendell Baker mistakenly believed that he had got away with this horrific crime back in 1997 but the Special Casework Investigations Team has worked tirelessly to ensure that he will now spend a considerable amount of time in jail for the crime he has committed.\"", "question": "A man convicted under the amended double @placeholder law of raping a pensioner has been jailed for life .", "option_0": "decker", "option_1": "teams", "option_2": "crime", "option_3": "parts", "option_4": "jeopardy"}
{"id": 1596, "article": "A week is just a week, but when it comes to strategic focus, China is on course. It's easier to look laser sharp when the competition is in disarray. Here the internal difficulties of the US and the European Union are helpful to China. As Chinese Foreign Ministry official Zhang Jun put it in a discussion with foreign journalists: \"If people want to say China has taken a position of leadership, it's not because China suddenly thrust itself forward as a leader. It's because the original front-runners suddenly fell back and pushed China to the front.\" In the past week alone, a bitter row over the size of the crowd at the Trump inauguration, followed by street protests the next day, underlined the divisions of the world's superpower even at the very moment which was supposed to heal. For China's citizens, brought up to see street protests as dangerous, this was another symptom of dysfunction in a political system they've been taught to distrust. And next, an American president echoed Beijing's message that the mainstream American media can't be trusted. So it's been a week to put a spring in the step of China's communists, to shake off the inferiority complex of an autocratic political system, and even to advance the claim that China's system is superior. Among business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Xi talked the language of global togetherness, but back home his Communist Party's flagship newspaper, the People's Daily, lost no time in declaring the bankruptcy of Western politics. \"The emergence of capitalism's social crisis is the most updated evidence to show the superiority of socialism and Marxism,\" it said. This ideological inoculation is invaluable for Xi Jinping ahead of the vital Communist Party Congress which will clarify China's leadership line-up for the next five years. What's more, greater political confidence at home allows him to focus out. The inauguration of a billionaire celebrity promising to make America great again through building walls confirms the view of some in Beijing that the United States is in terminal decline, and that this is a moment of opportunity for China. President Xi's favourite slogans are the \"China Dream\" and the \"great rejuvenation of the Chinese people\". But it's all happening faster than his predecessors could have imagined. It's less than two decades since China fully entered a US-led world of global capitalism. When China joined the World Trade Organization, it complained bitterly about living under rules made by the US and its friends, while fully expecting to live under those rules for decades to come. But November's American presidential election finished what the 2008 financial crisis had begun: a shift in worldview. And now we are one week into the new leadership mission set out by President Xi at Davos. A word about character. In China there are some who compare Mr Trump's character and leadership style with China's Chairman Mao. They point to the former's relentless tweeting as a new version of the latter's daily deluge of quotations. They note other similarities: the unpredictability, distrust of media, and overwhelming self-confidence. Some admire and some despise, but Donald Trump, they say, is a great disrupter in the Maoist mould. All of which is a discussion which takes some of the heat off President Xi at home. Until recently critics accused him of Maoist tendencies after his relentless concentration of titles and power and his frenetic media personality cult. But as China's citizens look out on a world of strongmen this week, their own president may seem comparatively sober, predictable and experienced: not too much the Caesar, nor too little, for a global leader in our age. Meanwhile Mr Xi's outward facing message, that China wants a world of fair trade and globalisation, got a boost this week from several quarters, including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The Chinese-led development bank said it is set for expansion. It currently has nearly 60 members and now says another 25 are likely to join this year. Two years ago when the AIIB was launched, it became a symbol of the pulling power of China's money and nimble diplomacy when US allies lined up to join despite strong US opposition. This week, AIIB president Jin Liqun told journalists, it was China's turn to contribute to the world: \"China needs to do something that can help it be recognised as a responsible leader.\" But in the long view, if this week is to be remembered as a tipping point towards Chinese power, it will not be because of anything announced in Beijing but because of what happens in Washington. One of President Trump's first acts in office was to sign an executive order withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact which the Obama administration had insisted would cement US leadership in Asia. \"Protection will lead to greater strength\", said Mr Trump. But in an open letter, outgoing US ambassadors in the region disagreed. \"Walking away from TPP may be seen by future generations as the moment America chose to cede leadership to others in this part of the world and accept a diminished role.\" Certainly in response to the Trump announcement, US ally and TPP signatory Australia immediately said it hoped to recast the trade agreement without the US, and said China might be invited to join. Asia is the key testing ground where the US stands in the way of China's ambitions. Since the end of World War Two, Washington has insisted that the US is in Asia for the good of all and invested decades in diplomacy and defence to maintain the liberal international order. On the campaign trail, Mr Trump expressed impatience with that investment. And having withdrawn from the TPP, the Trump administration will have to find a new way to nurture key allies and partners in the region and to reassure them that 'America first' does not mean everyone else last. But at the same moment, China's diplomats and bankers are stepping up their efforts and their focus does not waver. Last year, Beijing turned an international legal defeat over the South China Sea into a diplomatic triumph by charming and disarming the Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. In the Trump era, it has other US allies in its sights. Only this week, Thailand confirmed funding for the purchase of a Chinese submarine. But on security, the week also saw a cloud on China's leadership horizon. The new White House spokesman Sean Spicer seemed to echo warnings to China from incoming Secretary of State Rex Tillerson when he sketched out a position on the South China Sea. \"We're going to make sure that we defend international territories from being taken over by one country,\" said Mr Spicer. It's not clear exactly what he meant or exactly what Mr Tillerson meant, but a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman immediately restated China's claim to sovereignty in the region, and insisted that Beijing would be resolute in defending its own rights and interests. If the Trump administration is to push back against China in the South China Sea it will need support from US allies who ask themselves whether Mr Trump has the strategic focus necessary for such a risky undertaking. China will naturally encourage those doubts given its preference for making domination of the South China Sea a fait accompli with as little fuss as possible. But there are many players, many unpredictable variables and many wrong moves in this game. One week into the new world order, China's leaders may feel some things are playing into their hand. But it will be many months, perhaps years, before they can judge whether China's global gamble is a win against Trump's America.", "question": "At his inauguration last week President Trump reframed the American mission from leadership of a global rules - based system in the interests of all , to ' America first ' . Meanwhile the leader of Communist China rebranded his prickly protectionist power as the defender of globalisation and shared @placeholder . So after week one in this upside down new world , how stands China 's bid for global leadership ?", "option_0": "values", "option_1": "prosperity", "option_2": "information", "option_3": "humour", "option_4": "night"}
{"id": 1597, "article": "\"There's no doubt whatsoever that there's no future in capitalism,\" he said in a 2012 interview. \"It's probably no more than 500 years old, and it's demonstrating over and over again that it is destroying the world.\" He moved to the wilds of Chile and Argentina, espousing an anti-consumerist philosophy, buying huge swaths of land and making enemies along the way. To some he was an environmental hero, but many in South America viewed him with suspicion, unconvinced his motives were altruistic. North Face founder dies in kayak accident After founding The North Face as a small ski and backpacking gear shop in San Francisco in the 1960s, Mr Tompkins helped his then wife start Esprit, a clothing brand. Both companies would grow into multinational clothing giants. But in the late 1980s, he left the business world for South America in order to pursue environmentalism, co-founding the Foundation for Deep Ecology in 1990. He often said that he felt lucky to have escaped the shackles of the corporate class and, in his own words, do something with \"meaning\". That, it seems, he unquestionably did, spending millions of dollars buying up swathes of pristine land in Argentina and Chile - areas in which he claimed to feel like a \"de facto citizen\" - and turning them into conservation areas. In a statement after his death in a kayaking accident, Tompkins Conservation, which represents his family's various environmental foundations, called him \"one of the earth's foremost conservationists\". He and wife Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, it said, had purchased some 2.2 million acres of land, including Pumalin Park in Chile, one of the world's largest private nature reserves, made up of forests, lakes and fjords stretching from the Andes mountains to the Pacific. But their large-scale South American activities have not been immune from controversy or opposition. Right-wing Chilean politicians accused the US couple of land grabbing, while local media have sometimes peddled conspiracy theories alleging all sorts of \"dark\" motives lying behind their activities, according to a 2009 profile. As a fierce activist, Mr Tompkins also faced-off with corporate interests and their political backers, from loggers to salmon exporters and energy companies hoping to dam Patagonia's rivers. Despite the heat, he took a bold stand - asserting that he was acting in the best interests of his adopted homelands. \"It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot,\" he once said. \"If you're trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers and oceans, you're not much of a patriot.\"", "question": "Douglas Tompkins made a fortune selling high - @placeholder jackets and adventure gear as the founder of North Face , but he spent his final years railing against the very corporate world that made him a billionaire .", "option_0": "rise", "option_1": "speed", "option_2": "growing", "option_3": "visibility", "option_4": "end"}
{"id": 1598, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device In October, the Dutchman said McCarthy, who has been struggling with a hamstring injury, was \"massively overloaded\" by the Republic. O'Neill said this week that Koeman was \"bleating\" about the matter. Now Koeman has advised McCarthy not to join the Ireland squad, saying: \"The player is not fit.\" On Wednesday, McCarthy was named in the Republic's provisional 35-man squad for the World Cup qualifier on 12 November. In the previous international window in October, McCarthy played one full game and around 80 minutes of another, despite having not featured for Everton since 23 August because of a groin problem. He has since made one substitute appearance for Everton, but has missed their last two games and will sit out Saturday's trip to Chelsea. \"I think to have a call-up, he needs to be close to being fit, but it is a little bit the same story as what happened last time,\" said Koeman. \"We spoke to James and my advice to him is to stay here, do training and be fit as soon as possible - but the final decision is by the player.\" Asked if he had spoken to O'Neill about the situation, Koeman added: \"No, it's not necessary, because we have the contact between the medical staff. \"If the manager does not take the right decision, maybe he can take the good advice of the medical staff.\" Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "question": "Everton manager Ronald Koeman has @placeholder to Republic of Ireland boss Martin O'Neill in their row over midfielder James McCarthy .", "option_0": "compared", "option_1": "talked", "option_2": "contributed", "option_3": "responded", "option_4": "declined"}
{"id": 1599, "article": "Knitters from Thirsk Yarn Bombers were recruited to fashion the woolly winter warmers for the three rescued birds. The plucky chickens are not used to the outdoors and their previous living conditions caused them to shed their feathers, staff at Thirsk Birds of Prey Centre said. It is hoped the hens will re-grow a full plumage in about 10 weeks. Ms Badgery, who owns the centre, took the hens on as pets from the re-homing charity British Hen Welfare Trust. She said the woolly jumpers protect the birds from winter weather as well as aggression from other chickens. \"They are used to being in a controlled, warm climate with no natural light - not cold weather,\" Ms Badgery said. \"When it comes to introducing them to other hens there can be aggression, plucking feathers and damaging them, and I don't want that to happen.\" The birds were rescued on Sunday and Ms Badgery made a Twitter appeal for woolly jumpers on Monday. \"The response was fantastic,\" she said. \"I have to thank Thirsk Yarn Bombers for their immediate knitting skills!\" The jumpers will only be worn outside and when the hens are introduced to her other pet chickens. Yarn bombing, also known as guerrilla knitting, is a type of street art using knitted or crocheted items.", "question": "A brood of balding ex-battery hens have had pullovers made for them as protection from the @placeholder .", "option_0": "world", "option_1": "elements", "option_2": "mainland", "option_3": "tide", "option_4": "public"}
{"id": 1600, "article": "It will feature an installation of more than 60,000 lights stretching from the City Chambers to the Tron Kirk. Up to 250,000 people are expected to attend the event, which runs from 30 November to 24 December. Audiences will be able to enter the canopy of light and listen to recordings from choirs. Commissioned works by Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Edinburgh Gay Men's Chorus and the Edinburgh Choral Union and Edinburgh Police Choir will feature. The 100,000 tickets is the combined capacity of the city's three main sporting arenas - Murrayfield, Easter Road and Tynecastle stadiums. Charlie Wood, director of Underbelly, said: \"The response from not just Edinburgh but the rest of the world has been amazing with no sign of demand slowing down. We are so happy to have already issued 100,000 free tickets in such a short period of time. \"I advise everyone to book now to avoid disappointment. There will be no finer place to celebrate the spirit of Christmas this year than here in Edinburgh.\" Fiona Hyslop, Secretary for Culture, Europe and External affairs, said: \"These figures speak volumes and demonstrate that people across Scotland, and the world, are hugely excited about The Virgin Money Street of Light event. \"The event is an outstanding addition to Edinburgh's Christmas programme and will showcase our beautiful capital city from the City Chambers to the Tron Kirk in the lead up to Scotland's Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design in 2016.\"", "question": "More than 100,000 tickets for the Virgin Money Street of Light event in Edinburgh this Christmas have been @placeholder up .", "option_0": "signed", "option_1": "put", "option_2": "snapped", "option_3": "taken", "option_4": "opened"}
{"id": 1601, "article": "Telford and Wrekin Council said during the European elections posters were \"defaced\" with \"quite offensive symbols and quite offensive language\". Posters were also not taken down until \"long after\" the 14-day period allowed following the election. The ban, which comes into effect on January 1, will include posters on bus shelters and lamp-posts. Managing director Richard Partington said: \"There's been a European election poster on junction 6 of the M4 for quite a considerable time, and now we are having to get rid of it because it's looking quite a mess.\" Although backing the decision, Labour council leader Kuldip Sahota admitted he had been climbing lamp-posts to put up posters for the past 15 years, saying it was \"all part of electioneering\".", "question": "A council has banned all party political posters on its @placeholder and property at the next general election .", "option_0": "land", "option_1": "beach", "option_2": "night", "option_3": "operations", "option_4": "goods"}
{"id": 1602, "article": "She appeared with Lula on the balcony of his apartment and waved to hundreds of people who had gathered below. Lula has said his brief arrest on Friday is part of a campaign to sully his image and that of Ms Rousseff. Police are looking into payments and donations made to Lula's institute. Some of Brazil's wealthiest people as well as dozens of politicians from both the governing coalition and the opposition are also being investigated for involvement in the alleged Petrobras corruption scheme. Lula, a left-wing icon, left office in 2011. His Workers' Party has been hit hard by the long-running scandal. After his interrogation on Friday, he told reporters he was the victim of a \"prejudice as a working-class man\". Ms Rousseff turned up at his home on Saturday, along with hundreds of people showing support for the former president. Saturday's rally was peaceful in contrast to angry scenes on Friday when protesters clashed with police outside the building. \"She is going to meet with Lula as a gesture of solidarity and support,\" a press officer at the presidential palace told the Associated Press news agency. She later could be seen on the balcony with Lula and his wife Marisa. The Workers' Party has held the Brazilian presidency since 2003, both under Lula and Ms Rousseff. In the latest operations, police enforced 33 search and 11 detention warrants in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Bahia, officials said. Lula, 70, is suspected of receiving about 30m reais ($8m; ?¡ê5.6m) in speaking fees and donations to his charity. His home was among the premises targeted, as was the headquarters of the institute in Sao Paulo.", "question": "Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has @placeholder her predecessor , Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva , a day after he was questioned over corruption allegations at the state oil company , Petrobras .", "option_0": "announced", "option_1": "praised", "option_2": "revealed", "option_3": "visited", "option_4": "questioned"}
{"id": 1603, "article": "The undisclosed fee for the 22-year-old Portuguese is understood to eclipse the ¡ê6.5m spent on strikers Kevin Doyle in 2009 and Steven Fletcher in 2010. Both players were signed while Wolves were a Premier League club. Cavaleiro is Wolves' second signing of deadline day, after defender Richard Stearman returned on loan from Fulham. Morocco midfielder Romain Saiss joined on Tuesday from French Ligue 1 club Angers for an undisclosed fee on a four-year deal, while Wolves are also reported to have had two bids rejected for Derby County striker Chris Martin. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "question": "Wolves have made their 12th summer signing by bringing in Monaco winger Ivan Cavaleiro on a five - year contract for a reported club - @placeholder deal .", "option_0": "class", "option_1": "record", "option_2": "side", "option_3": "mate", "option_4": "term"}
{"id": 1604, "article": "The former UKIP leader was in the city with his successor Paul Nuttall, who is standing in the seat vacated by Tristram Hunt. The egg, said to have been thrown by a youth, was launched at the UKIP pair in the Hanley area  earlier. It comes after Mr Farage's wife Kirsten said she and her husband had been living \"separate lives for some years\". She said the former UKIP leader had moved out of the family home in Kent and the situation \"suits everyone\" involved. They married in 1999 and have two children. Stoke Central by-election candidates list Mr Farage and Mr Nuttall were in Stoke-on-Trent ahead of a campaign event. The Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election, to be held on 23 February, was triggered by Labour MP Mr Hunt's decision to quit Parliament for a job at the V&A  museum in London.", "question": "Nigel Farage @placeholder an egg that was pelted at him on the campaign trail in Stoke - on - Trent .", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "suffered", "option_2": "dodged", "option_3": "was", "option_4": "held"}
{"id": 1605, "article": "Killeavy Castle was sold at auction for ?¡ê1.19m in March. It was bought by an Australian couple who have strong links to the Killeavy area of south Armagh. They have appointed architects to design a 36-bedroom hotel close to the castle and to restore the 19th century listed building \"to its former glory\". They said it could create 85 jobs. The couple, who wish to remain anonymous, are hoping to apply for planning permission for the project early next year. The castle has not been occupied for more than 10 years and was sold in a poor state of repair. The 330-acre estate backs onto the slopes of Slieve Gullion and includes a farm and woodland. In a statement, the new owners said: \"Our vision is for Killeavy Castle and Demesne to be restored to its former glory, within a financially viable hospitality and agriculture business, so that it can be maintained and be available for use by the public for many years into the future.\" It is understood there are plans to incorporate the two-storey castle into a new wedding venue. The couple have appointed a design team which is being led by Newry-based architects P O'Hagan and Associates. The owners said the team also includes \"conservation surveyors, hotel and hospitality consultants, quantity surveyors, landscape architects, structural, mechanical and electrical engineers, arboricultural and transport consultants\". \"As you can imagine the plans for the site are still developing and are at an early stage,\" their statement added. \"We think we know what will be successful, but the team is working with various statutory bodies, including Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) Invest NI and Newry and Mourne District Council, to refine the plans and ensure a sustainable development for Killeavy Castle and Demesne.\" The couple have strong family ties to the area as the man's parents both grew up within four miles of the castle, before emigrating to Australia in the 1960s. The owners said they have been regular visitors to south Armagh over the last 30 years and  have lots of family and friends living in the area. Killeavy Castle started life as a country farm house, built in a gothic style by the Foxall family between 1810 and 1820. In 1836, Powell Foxall commissioned the Dublin-based architect George Papworth to extend the building, adding four stone towers, outbuildings and Tudor-style windows. The extended 4,000 sq ft house then became known as Killeavy Castle. By 1881, the castle was the home of the Bell family, who owned it until recently. It is located within a government-designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).", "question": "The new owners of a @placeholder castle in County Armagh have announced that they are planning to build a hotel within the castle grounds .", "option_0": "dilapidated", "option_1": "motor", "option_2": "heated", "option_3": "packed", "option_4": "man"}
{"id": 1606, "article": "At prime minister's questions, David Cameron questioned Mr Khan's judgement over sharing a platform with a man he said supported so-called Islamic State. A Labour spokesman said Mr Cameron's comments \"demeaned the office of prime minister\". Mr Khan accused him of joining a \"divisive, dog-whistling campaign\". Speaking about violent extremism, the prime minister said: \"It's very important we do not back these people and we do not appear on platforms with these people.\" He continued: \"I am concerned about Labour's candidate for mayor of London, who has appeared again and again and again,\" before being interrupted by shouts of \"shame\" and \"disgrace\" from the Labour benches. He went on to say Mr Khan had appeared on a platform nine times with a preacher from his Tooting constituency, Suliman Gani, whom Mr Cameron alleged \"supports IS\". He added: \"If you do it time after time after time it is right to question your judgement.\" Mr Khan tweeted: \"Disappointed PM has joined Zac Goldsmith's divisive, dog-whistling campaign. I've fought extremism all my life.\" The Conservative candidate for mayor, Zac Goldsmith, has repeatedly accused the Labour MP for Tooting of \"giving platforms and oxygen and even cover to people who are extremist\". Mr Khan maintains that he has fought strongly against radical Islamists and has himself been a victim of their threats. In a BBC London debate on Monday, Mr Khan said he had \"never hidden\" the fact that, as a former chairman of Liberty and a human rights lawyer, he had acted for \"some pretty unsavoury characters\". And when asked if he regretted sharing a platform with extremists, he said: \"I regret giving the impression I subscribed to their views and I've been quite clear I find their views abhorrent.\" Mr Goldsmith insists he has never labelled his Labour rival an \"extremist\" but says it is right to ask questions about his opponent's past. Asked what evidence Mr Cameron had that Mr Gani was a supporter of IS, the prime minister's official spokeswoman said at a Westminster press briefing: \"The point the prime minister was referring to was that at events, this individual has spoken up in support of a range of things including the formation of Islamic State.\" Mr Gani responded on Twitter saying: \"I hope the prime minister will reflect and retract his comments. This is defamation at its highest level.\" Find out more about who is standing in the London elections.", "question": "The Labour candidate for London mayor Sadiq Khan , has rejected the prime minister 's accusation that he has @placeholder with extremists .", "option_0": "associated", "option_1": "sided", "option_2": "diagnosed", "option_3": "dealt", "option_4": "attacked"}
{"id": 1607, "article": "The charity said Khizar Hayat, who was sentenced to death 12 years ago for killing a colleague, suffers from severe paranoid schizophrenia. Authorities in Pakistan are about to resume executions after a break for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the country has executed 176 people since lifting a moratorium in December. Phelim Kine, deputy Asia director at HRW, said executing people with mental illnesses was \"a barbarous affront to decency\" that \"serves no criminal justice purpose\". \"Pakistan's president should immediately commute Khizar Hayat's execution and prevent a ghastly infringement of basic rights,\" Mr Kine said. \"The Pakistani government should take this opportunity to reaffirm its human rights commitments and explicitly reject the odious practice of executing people with psychosocial disabilities.\" The UN Commission on Human Rights adopted resolutions in 1999 and 2000 urging countries not to impose the death penalty \"on a person suffering from any form of mental disorder\". Mr Hayat, a former policeman, was arrested in 2001 for allegedly killing a colleague and in 2003 he was sentenced to death. In 2008, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and he has been taking antipsychotic medication since. According to his lawyers, by 2012 Mr Hayat had become so delusional that he was moved to the prison hospital where he has spent the past five years. Pakistan suspended executions for seven years until December 2014, when they were resumed in the wake of the Peshawar school massacre. There are more than 8,000 people on death row in the country, according to HRW. About 1,000 have lost their appeals and had clemency petitions rejected. Supporters of the death penalty in Pakistan argue that fast-track executions are needed to rein in militant attacks.", "question": "Human Rights Watch has urged Pakistan not to execute a mentally ill man who is scheduled to be @placeholder on Tuesday .", "option_0": "carried", "option_1": "placed", "option_2": "released", "option_3": "detained", "option_4": "hanged"}
{"id": 1608, "article": "She has previously hinted that the former president would \"have to come out of retirement\" if she won. Outlining her plans at a campaign rally in southern state of Kentucky, she pointed out the economic success of Bill Clinton's presidency. Kentucky will vote in a Democratic primary on Tuesday, along with Oregon. Campaigning at a rally ahead of the primary, Ms Clinton made her case why she thought he could help. \"My husband I'm going to put in charge of revitalising the economy because, you know, he knows how to do it,\" she told the crowd. \"And especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out.\" She also emphasised her commitment to supporting workers in the coal industry, after comments she made in another coal state, West Virginia, went down very badly. Hinting at bad times ahead for the coal mines alienated many workers in that state and cost her votes in the West Virginia primary. But on Sunday she said \"We can't and we must not walk away from them. I feel such a sense of obligation.\" Clinton v Sanders in policies What will Clinton v Trump look like? Bill Clinton's economic legacy Profile of Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton hopes to earn a convincing victory over her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders on Tuesday, having lost West Virginia to Mr Sanders last week. She has a significant lead over Mr Sanders of nearly 300 pledged delegates but would like a decisive win in order to enable her to focus on beating her Republican rival, Donald Trump. Mrs Clinton had expressed her views on her husband's economic prowess earlier this month. \"He's got more ideas a minute than anybody I know,\" she said. Mr Clinton presided over the longest economic boom in US history, with growth averaging 4% a year and a budget surplus when he left office in 2000.", "question": "The Democratic frontrunner in the race for the White House , Hillary Clinton , says she will @placeholder her husband Bill to revitalise the economy .", "option_0": "announce", "option_1": "inspire", "option_2": "enlist", "option_3": "join", "option_4": "send"}
{"id": 1609, "article": "All 118 passengers and 17 crew on board the Airbus A330-220 were evacuated at Urgench International Airport. The aircraft was searched by Uzbek security forces but no explosive device was found, Egyptian officials said. Three weeks ago, an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo carrying 66 people crashed into the Mediterranean Sea. The cause of the crash remains a mystery, although Egyptian officials have said an act of terrorism is more likely than a technical failure. French investigators said last week that signals from one of the plane's black boxes had been detected about 290km (180 miles north) of the Egyptian coast. The chairman of EgyptAir, Safwat Mussallam, told the AFP news agency that Flight MS955 left Cairo at 21:55 GMT (23:55 Cairo time) on Tuesday and was scheduled to land in Beijing at 07:34 GMT (15:34 Beijing time) on Wednesday. During the flight, an anonymous caller telephoned security agents in Cairo to say a bomb was on board the aircraft and the pilot was told to land at the nearest airport. The plane eventually touched down at Urgench, about 840km (600 miles) west of the Uzbek capital Tashkent, at 03:00 GMT (08:00 Tashkent time) on Wednesday, Uzbekistan Airways said in a statement. \"The aircraft was evacuated, searched and the result of the search was negative, we were told by the Uzbek authorities, who gave us the authorisation to take off again,\" Mr Mussallam said. \"We must take any warning seriously,\" he added. Egyptian officials told the Associated Press news agency that the plane resumed its journey to Beijing about four hours after landing in Urgench. The official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, also said the bomb threat was a hoax.", "question": "An EgyptAir plane that was forced to land in Uzbekistan due to a hoax bomb threat has been @placeholder to resume its journey from Cairo to Beijing .", "option_0": "expected", "option_1": "launched", "option_2": "cleared", "option_3": "urged", "option_4": "voted"}
{"id": 1610, "article": "It is the first film of Bin Laden to emerge since al-Qaeda released a video address by him in 2007. The Pentagon released the video with the audio removed. Here is what the clips show: A relatively long clip of Bin Laden making a statement to camera. He is wearing a white headcovering, a white shirt and a golden robe, and his delivery is in a style similar to that of previous video addresses by the al-Qaeda leader. He is reading from notes on the table in front of him. He has his hands laid flat on the table, though he occasionally raises his right index finger for emphasis. He is wearing a ring on the little finger of his right hand. Pentagon officials said it was a message to the United States. There is no confirmation it was shot at the compound in Abbottabad where Bin Laden was found, but that is where he is said to have been living for the last few years. Shows Osama Bin Laden watching footage of himself on television. The television is on a small table with what looks like a satellite box next to it. The al-Qaeda leader is seen sitting in front of the table, apparently cross-legged on a carpeted floor, using a remote control. He has a blanket over his shoulders and is wearing a black woolen hat. He strokes his beard, which looks grey - not black as in the other video clips. Two other monitors, both switched off, can be seen in the room. There is what looks like a black sheet to the left of the TV, possibly covering a window. At the start of the clip a list of channels come up, and it appears that Al-Jazeera is selected. The images playing on the TV seem to be old footage of the al-Qaeda leader, including shots of him walking in the mountains. There is also an image of the twin towers in New York in flames on 11 September 2001, with a still photo of Bin Laden superimposed on top of it and Arabic script. The first of three videos in which Bin Laden appears to be rehearsing for a video message. He is wearing the same clothes as in the first video, but with a bare wooden panel or door as a backdrop. A white sleeveless vest is visible under his white shirt. Here too, Bin Laden seems to be rehearsing. He starts to talk, then glances to his right uncertainly before continuing to speak to the camera. He is again wearing a white shirt and hat, though not the gold robe. The backdrop is plain and dark brown. Another short clip of Bin Laden dressed in white shirt, hat and golden robe, speaking to camera. This time the backdrop is what looks like a crumpled blue sheet. As in the previous videos, he occasionally looks down to read from notes.", "question": "The Pentagon has released five @placeholder video clips of al - Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden , seized at the secret compound in northern Pakistan where he was shot dead by US special forces this week .", "option_0": "groups", "option_1": "separate", "option_2": "status", "option_3": "home", "option_4": "serving"}
{"id": 1611, "article": "A row has broken out after Mark Reckless joined the Conservatives, despite rules stating only party members can be in the assembly group. It caused Monmouth AM Nick Ramsay to ask: \"Am I a member of a Welsh Conservative group or am I a member of some kind of hybrid independent group?\" Welsh leader Andrew RT Davies said the constitution had not been suspended. Mr Reckless defected from the Conservatives as Rochester and Strood MP in 2014. He became the UKIP AM for South Wales East in May 2016 but quit UKIP on Thursday to rejoin the Tories. Speaking on BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme, Mr Ramsay said: \"It has raised as many questions as it has answered and from my point of view, I think we need clarification on this because I think confusion will otherwise arise. \"We now have a member in the Conservative group who is not a member of the party - now that is a strange situation.\" Contradicting what his party leader earlier insisted, Mr Ramsay said the party's constitution \"had to have been suspended in some shape or manner\". He also said a Wales Office minister would not be willing to meet with the Welsh Conservative group with Mr Reckless in it. A UK Conservatives source has told BBC Wales that Tory AMs had put their positions \"in jeopardy\" by allowing Mr Reckless to join them. Earlier this week, Mr Davies said there was \"unanimous agreement\" among his group \"that Mark was a fit and proper person to vote with and work with the Conservative group in the assembly\". He added: \"I accept some MPs, because of historical arrangements and historical actions by Mark, feel aggrieved by Mark's actions, but he has not applied to join the party.\" However, two senior grassroots Tories in South Wales East also told BBC Wales they were happy with the decision to bring Mr Reckless into the group. Mr Ramsay also raised concerns about the impact this would have on the party at the polls: \"Are we a Welsh Conservative group that can go into a future assembly election and campaign on one united platform? Clearly that is not the case.\" A number of Welsh Conservative MPs have criticised the decision to allow Mark Reckless into the Tory fold at the assembly, but this is the first time someone within the group has done so. Nick Ramsay believes the Conservative group in Cardiff Bay will not be able campaign in unity in future or discuss confidential party matters with the new member. There has been nothing official from Andrew RT Davies, but his supporters have questioned why Mr Ramsay did not make his concerns more apparent at the time. This story has thrown up a strange mix of the ins and outs of the party rulebook and old-fashioned Tory tribal antagonism towards Mark Reckless, because of his defection two years ago. Senior Conservatives at Westminster do not want a high-profile row with party colleagues in Cardiff, and that is why they are not speaking publicly now. But behind the scenes, they hold the view that Andrew RT Davies has entirely misjudged the mood of the party if he thinks he can make this work.", "question": "The defection of a UKIP AM to the Welsh Conservatives has left a Tory AM feeling \" unsure of his @placeholder \" .", "option_0": "life", "option_1": "leadership", "option_2": "speech", "option_3": "future", "option_4": "status"}
{"id": 1612, "article": "Official figures show the average increase in 2016/17 will go up to ¡ê1,374 which includes county council, community council and police precepts. Blaenau Gwent is the most expensive area where the annual fee stands at ¡ê1,695, with Neath Port Talbot and Merthyr Tydfil following behind. Pembrokeshire has the lowest rates at ¡ê1,071. Every local authority area will see a rise in taxes as councils try to balance their books in the wake of continuing budget cuts. Welsh Local Government Association chief executive Steve Thomas said the latest rises were \"consistent\" with those over the last 10 years. He added: \"We are trying to run more services based on council tax income. \"Would we like it to be lower? Possibly, but if we are going to pay for these services, the council taxes are vital for local authorities.\" Last week, a report found a shake-up of the council tax system and a re-valuing of homes was needed, 11 years since tax bands were last reviewed.", "question": "Home owners will have to pay an average of ¡ê 47 more in council tax for a band D @placeholder in Wales from April .", "option_0": "property", "option_1": "home", "option_2": "facility", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "scheme"}
{"id": 1613, "article": "The annual congressional baseball game in Washington was hailed as a rare and welcome moment of unity among lawmakers of both major parties. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise remains in a critical condition, but improving, after the shooting. There were huge cheers when his name was heard around the stadium. \"Not here, but in our thoughts and prayers, Steve Scalise,\" said the announcer before the game, which was won by the Democrats by 11 runs to 2, moving them ahead with 40 wins to 39 in the historic series. However, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said that his team gave the trophy to the Republicans to put in Mr Scalise's office. One of the Capitol Police officers, David Bailey, who was hailed as a hero for the way he helped to subdue the gunman, appeared on crutches. To loud applause he threw the first pitch, which is a longstanding baseball ritual that usually falls to a dignitary or celebrity. President Donald Trump did not attend but sent a video message of support. The game, held at Nationals Park, has been a congressional tradition for more than a century. Both Republicans and Democrats have pointed to the attack as a reason to ease heated political rhetoric. This isn't just a baseball game. It is a rare and genuine opportunity for Democrats and Republicans to put their divisions aside and show those gathered in the stadium and watching across the US, that they are not just politicians - they are people and players. One woman who bought her ticket after yesterday's shooting told me she wanted just one feel-good moment after everything that has happened. Another group of Republican interns described the game as the only thing in Washington that really works. The crowds are holding banners and team colours. Many are tributes and prayers for Congressman Steve Scalise. There may be fierce rivalry out on the pitch, but there are also a number of players who have become fierce friends. The suspected gunman, James T Hodgkinson, died from his injuries hours after Wednesday's shooting. The 66-year-old suspect from Belleville, Illinois, was a volunteer for Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign but whether he was politically motivated is still unclear, investigators said.", "question": "US politicians have played a charity baseball game a day after a shooting - as they practised in Virginia - @placeholder a top Republican and three others .", "option_0": "including", "option_1": "ditch", "option_2": "wearing", "option_3": "wounded", "option_4": "threatening"}
{"id": 1614, "article": "Our world is dominated by the need to control oil. It is often the cause of wars. It can make nations extremely wealthy, while shortages can bring economies to their knees. As oil prices fall around the world, we asked what difference oil makes to you. You have been contacting journalists at the BBC using Facebook and Twitter, and uploading your pictures to the BBC website as well as emailing your experiences. People on Twitter sent @ replies to the @BBC_HaveYourSay account on Tuesday to say how the price of oil has affected them. Maksut Kosker took the following picture, he said: \"I took this picture in Arbil, just one week after ISIS captured Mosul. We faced a huge oil shortage so there were hundreds of vehicles waiting for oil in rest the of Kurdistan.\" People posted comments to the BBC World News Facebook page on Tuesday to share their views about the drop in oil prices. Jay Turtle from Oklahoma City, US sent us this picture: People have been contacting us on Twitter throughout the week, explaining how the drop in oil prices has affected them. The UK offshore oil and gas industry has reported its worst annual performance for four decades. BBC News website readers are emailing their experiences: Charlie, UK: I'm in a slightly luckier predicament in that I have a staff position with one of the oil companies working in the North Sea. So might have a better chance of keeping my current 2/3 rota, but I certainly do not want to see any of my fellow workers offshore being forced and believe you me its \"forced\", into a change in their terms and conditions in accepting the 3/3 rota to save costs for the oil and contracting companies. Chris Berridge, London, UK: I have worked in the oil and gas sector for more than 40 years now and have seen several economic cycles in our industry. Since I only have a few years to go I am less concerned for myself but the future of the industry looks bleak for the workers. Tom, UK: I have recently started my career with a large UK based oil and gas company, however, I'm now coming to terms with the fact my career is unlikely to involve me staying in the UK for much longer. Shame to see the decline of the North Sea after a very prosperous 40 years, but it's difficult to see it ever fully recovering. Barry J Clarke, Hemel Hempstead, UK: Amazing isn't it that all the petrol stations from independent through to supermarkets like Sainsburys and Tesco have put their prices up in the last week. Roderic Kyle, UK: We only have to go back to 1980 to 1986 to see the \"deja vu\" with the present situation! I worked in drilling (chief mechanic) in the middle east in 1980. The price was high in relative terms - around $35 per barrel, I think it peaked near $40. The pound was at $2.30. New rigs were being ordered worldwide. By 1983, the price had fallen back. The mobile rig market collapsed. I was offshore India when the rig lost its contract. The only work I could find was in the North Sea as a mechanical technician. My income was reduced by over 60%. In 1986 I was on a platform hook-up when the price of oil fell to below $9 per barrel and the oil company were looking at mothballing the platform. The mobile rig market was dead. The worldwide work force was half that of 1981. This time the North Sea is full of old platforms, requiring large amounts of cash to maintain. I do not think the future is anything but downhill for the industry - except for decommissioning and scrapping, and we shall see whether the oil companies clear up their own mess without bleating and asking the tax payer for help! I'm glad to be out of it! Page created by Dhruti Shah & Victoria Park", "question": "Oil dominates every aspect of our lives . It fuels our cars , it is used in the production of our plastic goods , the electricity for our homes and factories and can even be found in the fertiliser used in @placeholder growing .", "option_0": "grape", "option_1": "fruit", "option_2": "rice", "option_3": "crop", "option_4": "power"}
{"id": 1615, "article": "More than 70,000 people are expected to attend the Download Festival, headlined by Kiss, Muse and Slipknot. Police said there had been dramatic falls in theft in past years and the wrist tag payment system was one of several ways of keeping this going. While some fans had reported problems with the technology, organisers said it worked in the vast majority of cases . Police have reported consistent falls in crime, with last year alone seeing a 70% drop in theft. The wrist tags are topped up with credit to be used at the various stalls across the site and mean both customers and businesses do not have to carry cash. Most people have welcomed the innovation but some said the tags had not worked leaving them without access to food and drink. Organiser Live Nation said it estimated 1% of users had experienced problems and extra help desks had been laid on. Sgt Ian Weston, who will be patrolling the site in plain clothes, said: \"Our main concern is theft from tents, persons and vehicles, so we give out a lot of advice about using lockers and such. \"Intelligence looks at the organised gangs across the country and establishes which festivals they are going to and we build a strategy to deal with that.\" Sgt Richard Jordan, a motorcycle officer, said: \"From lunchtime (on Friday) it will become very, very busy and the road network sees a lot of strain especially at the beginning and end of the day. \"Unless you need to come here or the airport avoid the area and if you come, expect delays.\"", "question": "A cashless payment system is being used at a Leicestershire rock @placeholder in an effort to cut crime .", "option_0": "house", "option_1": "prison", "option_2": "spot", "option_3": "property", "option_4": "event"}
{"id": 1616, "article": "DJ Harri - who has been at the Glasgow club since its inception - said there were concerns it would have to close. Speaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, he said: \"We thought: 'They're going to get shot of us'.\" But its fortunes changed in 1990 when the Stone Roses played in Glasgow Green and held their after-show party at the venue. \"From then on we had four years of being mobbed every week,\" he said. Based in Jamaica Street and nestled between the River Clyde and Glasgow Central Station, the club now regularly features in lists of the world's best night clubs. On 1 April, it celebrated its 30th anniversary, attracting regulars and new clientele alike. One clubber said he came simply because he \"researched on Google the best clubs in Glasgow and Sub Club was on the top\". A club regular said \"the originality of the music\" had kept her coming since 2002. Another said: \"I've been coming here for years and years and I met my partner in the Sub Club, so it's a really special place for us.\" Owner Mike Grieve said the club's appeal was down to its focus on good music, new ideas and not following fashions. \"It still has the same kind of feel, the same audience, the same demographic - it's just moved on 30 years,\" he said. Former NME editor Stuart Cosgrove has regularly been to the basement club since the 1980s. \"It's the club that has done the most across Europe to bring dance music to prominence,\" he said. \"Over the years it has been a pioneer for hip hop, the Chicago sound, for underground New York dance music and for Detroit techno. \"It's been the place where some of the world's greatest DJs have found their most energetic crowds.\"", "question": "When the Sub Club opened in April in 1987 it @placeholder to take off .", "option_0": "struggled", "option_1": "agreed", "option_2": "decided", "option_3": "voted", "option_4": "continued"}
{"id": 1617, "article": "Net income in the July-to-September rose to $1.1bn (?¡ê687m). Alibaba, founded in 1999 by Jack Ma, floated in New York in September, breaking records by raising $25bn. The shares have traded around 45% above the listing price in expectation that the firm's rapid growth will continue. The shares rose 4.2%. After taking account of certain one-off costs in the quarter, net income fell by 39%. The costs included $490m in incentive and retention payments to certain executives, and the costs of consolidating newly bought businesses, as well as other investments and marketing costs. Revenue rose 53.7% to $2.74bn, its fastest growth for three quarters, with mobile revenues accounting for 22% of the total. Alibaba's platforms carry 80% of Chinese online commerce, a fast-growing market where spending is forecast to triple from its 2011 level by 2015. Often described as a combination of eBay and Amazon, Alibaba does not sell its own goods, but links buyers and sellers. It says it is the largest online and mobile commerce company in the world in terms of volume. There has been speculation that its main source of earnings - from advertising and sales commissions - might be affected by China's slowing economy. Alibaba's companies include the Taobao and Tmall.com retail websites, which are household names in China but little-known outside the country. It plans to expand into emerging markets, and, eventually, to operate in the US and Europe.", "question": "Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has reported a 15 % rise in quarterly profits in its first set of @placeholder since it listed its shares in New York .", "option_0": "results", "option_1": "growth", "option_2": "years", "option_3": "reports", "option_4": "accounts"}
{"id": 1618, "article": "There are many things that can affect a person's death, and the experience of their loved ones. For example, what would make a dying person most comfortable? Do they want their relatives involved? When should medicines be stopped? For more than a decade a system called the Liverpool Care Pathway was put in place in hospitals and hospices in an effort to give people comfortable, dignified deaths. Among other things, it involved checklists prompting staff to consider whether invasive procedures and drugs should no longer be given to people in the last stage of life. But two years ago it was abolished in response to fierce criticism. An independent report suggested that, on some occasions, the balance had swung too far, from preventing unnecessary treatment to denying some people basic care. It found some patients on the pathway had been left thirsty and deprived of food and water, while others were given sedative drugs they did not need. Now the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is re-writing the rules for England. Its draft proposals are wide-ranging. But can new guidance really improve how people die? Families had described loved ones being put on the Liverpool Care Pathway without their knowledge. Others viewed it as solely a tick-box exercise, that took health care staff away from people's last needs But retired palliative care expert Dr Claud Regnard, writing just after the LCP was scrapped, said it was not the pathway itself that was to blame He suggested the guidance was \"made a scapegoat\". Instead Dr Regnard suggested, bad decision making, insufficient training and poor communication all played a part in the tragic cases. And as he pointed out lists can be extremely important - asking if people would choose an airline that had no tick boxes to check all safety procedures were in place? NICE accepts the problems were caused by the poor way the document was implemented - rather than a direct consequence of the pathway itself. But the question remains, with increasing financial pressures on the NHS and concerns that staff are over-worked, whether these issues can once more get in the way of a dignified death. Charities and the Royal College of Physicians warn training for healthcare staff must not be skimped. And some have warned the focus on these caring skills has been displaced as more and more technical knowledge is required of nursing and care staff. The new proposals make no mention of lists or tick boxes. And much of the content comes as no surprise - there are calls for basic daily checks to make make sure patients are well hydrated and nourished. Families might also be encouraged to be more closely involved in care if appropriate and safe - for example helping to give loved ones sips of water. Throughout clear communication and involving patients and relatives in decisions is paramount. While focusing on some simple, fundamental areas of care, NICE recognises there is still much we don't know about the final stages of life - particularly how to predict who is approaching their last few days. And it suggests some drugs - for example those used to reduce fluid in the chest - might be causing more harm than good. More research is needed to find out when best to give medicines and when best to withhold them, its experts say. The National Council of Palliative Care welcomes the new draft. Its chief executive, Claire Henry, praised the shift away from ticking boxes to a focus on the individual. She says it mirrors a cultural shift - people are more aware of these issues and want to make sure their loved ones have a comfortable death. But she argues conversations need to start much earlier on - before people become ill. Only then will they and their loved ones be aware of what they want in their last few days and know what to expect as death draws near.", "question": "Dealing with death is never easy . But for the relatives , friends , doctors and nurses caring for the half a million people who die in England each year it is an inevitability of life that has to be @placeholder .", "option_0": "tackled", "option_1": "restored", "option_2": "faced", "option_3": "developed", "option_4": "solved"}
{"id": 1619, "article": "His comments caused fury in Tehran, with some MPs demanding a formal apology and calling for the visit to be cancelled. But as the main newspapers in both countries digest the visit, they all seem to agree that in the end pragmatism won the day, with both countries deciding to put politics to one side and focus on trade and business ties. Turkey and Iran are neighbours, and the recent breakthrough in Tehran's nuclear negotiations with the six world powers has led to hopes of a big boost to cross-border trade if a permanent deal can be reached. Iran rolled out the red carpet for Mr Erdogan, with meetings with both President Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But there was a definite subtext to the reception. As Mr Erdogan was touching down in Tehran, a prominent Iranian newspaper, Shahrvand, went to press with a front-page cartoon portraying him as an Ottoman Don Quixote, blundering through the labyrinth of Middle Eastern politics. President Rouhani, usually relaxed and smiling, seemed markedly formal and cold as he welcomed Mr Erdogan in the midday sunshine at Saadabad Palace in Tehran. Mounted guards of honour holding the Turkish and Iranian flags escorted Mr Erdogan's entourage. Unusually they were also carrying a prominent Shia symbol: red flags bearing the name of the third Shia imam. Observers say it was a subtle reminder to Mr Erdogan of the days of the Persian and Ottoman empires, and their long history - dating back to the 16th Century - of rivalry for regional dominance. For many Iranians writing on social media, the red flags evoked the glory days of past great Persian leaders. \"There was no better way to remind the restorer of the Ottoman Empire of the Safavid king, Shah Abbas,\" one person tweeted. Both empires are long gone but tensions remain as Shia Iran and predominantly Sunni Turkey still find themselves on opposite sides of the fault lines dividing today's Middle East. In Syria, Iran supports the government of Bashar al-Assad while Turkey wants him gone. Tehran and Ankara also have differences over Iraq - and in Yemen, Turkey has sided with Iran's main regional rival, Saudi Arabia, and supported the Sunni Arab coalition, which is bombing Houthi Shia fighters. The Saudis and their allies accuse Iran of arming the Houthis, something Iran and the Houthis deny. The two presidents, at their meeting in Tehran, discussed the situation in all three war-torn countries, but they focused - in public at least - on their common desire for the bloodshed to end as soon as possible. It was clear that, on both sides, minds are focused on the economy. \"This is a critical phase for Iran-Turkey relations,\" says Turkish commentator Sinan Ulgen, of the Edam Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies. \"Once the nuclear deal is finalised and the sanctions are gradually removed, the Turkey-Iran relationship will be more important from the economic standpoint, given the huge interest of the Turkish business community in becoming more involved in Iran.\" The Iranian press has been striking a similar note. \"Thirty-billion-dollar target\" was the headline in Iran's reformist Etehad newspaper, picking up on the comments by President Rouhani that Iran and Turkey are aiming to raise bilateral trade from the current $14bn to $30bn by the end of next year. \"Cheap gas from Iran\" was another key theme of the visit, according to Sharq newspaper, which quoted Mr Erdogan as saying that Turkey was ready to buy more gas from Iran, provided the price was right. On both sides, observers seem to agree that the visit has helped to steer the Turkish-Iranian relationship back towards the right track. The decision to go ahead with the visit, despite the controversy, has been the right one, according to Sami Kohen, of the Turkish Melliyet newspaper: \"Despite the recent duel of words, [it] raises hopes that a climate that was on the verge of spoiling will improve.\"", "question": "When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey accused Iran last month of trying to dominate the Middle East , there were fears his scheduled trip to the country could be in @placeholder .", "option_0": "history", "option_1": "response", "option_2": "jeopardy", "option_3": "error", "option_4": "fact"}
{"id": 1620, "article": "Repairs to the Wellington Brae path, costing about ?¡ê200,000, were suspended for an investigation. The land belongs to the father of former councillor Willie Young. Councillors will be asked on Wednesday to agree steps for work to resume. An investigation report is not due to be completed until September. Aberdeen City Council admitted a \"serious failing\" in April after the repairs were ordered without proper approval. Mr Young, the city's former finance convener, lost his seat at the local government elections. The project was to have been fully funded by cycling charity Sustrans. It awarded just over ?¡ê21,000 for preliminary work, with the full funding to be paid when the work was completed. Councillors will be told a report will not be completed until September, and in the meantime they are being asked to agree steps for work to resume on the path, which officials say is currently a health and safety risk.", "question": "Repairs to an Aberdeen footpath which were @placeholder amid a row over who owned the land should resume as soon as possible , according to officials .", "option_0": "planned", "option_1": "halted", "option_2": "evacuated", "option_3": "denied", "option_4": "injured"}
{"id": 1621, "article": "BBC Sport takes a look at some of the more offbeat stories from across the English Football League - including the fans who ended up feeling rather pleased the opposition goalkeeper was not shown the red card they begged for. Score fastest League One goal of the season. Check. Strong start. Check. Game plan ruined. Check. Still win 5-2. Check. Tom Nichols put Peterborough United ahead after just 26 seconds against Chesterfield, then things went a little wrong. \"I know it sounds weird but the early goal knocked us off what we wanted to do,\" Peterborough manager Grant McCann told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. \"Yes, we wanted to start well, but once we scored we sat back and let their two midfielders control the game for 40 minutes.\" Two deflected goals in three first-half minutes from Ched Evans and Liam O'Neil saw the struggling Spireites go 2-1 up after 25 minutes. While Gwion Edwards managed to level for Posh before the break, McCann did not hold back at half-time. \"At half-time I said 'you are so lucky to come in 2-2' - yes it was a great strike from Gwion and good goal from Tom but they dominated us. \"I knew it would happen, they are trying to get out of the bottom four. It was always going to be a tough game. In the second half we showed what we can do.\" Teenager Tom Owen-Evans volleyed home the sort of first professional goal dreams are made of. However, it counted for nothing as Newport County's League Two home game against Morecambe was abandoned at half-time because of a waterlogged pitch. \"We scored an unbelievable goal,\" Newport manager Graham Westley told BBC Radio Wales Sport. \"It's a sickener for Tom. He's sitting in there holding his head in his hands. He can't believe it's happened to him. He'll score plenty more and plenty more like that. \"It is what it is, the game's off and there's nothing we can do about it.\" Oh, and if there was any debating the quality of the goal, even rival manager Jim Bentley felt compelled to comment on the 19-year-old's effort. \"That was a wonder strike by their kid,\" he told BBC Radio Lancashire. Not bad praise considering the conditions at Rodney Parade, where Bentley said they \"would be better off swimming on it than playing football\". 'Off, off, off!' The chant echoed around John Smith's Stadium when Bristol City's Frank Fielding handled outside the area, scuppering a chance for Huddersfield's Nahki Wells. After referee Keith Stroud consulted his assistant, only a yellow card was brandished. Cue an angry home crowd. But an error by that very same goalkeeper minutes later, allowing Wells to put the winner into an empty net, was surely enough to leave the Terriers faithful feeling rather chuffed that Fielding did not get his marching orders? Huddersfield boss David Wagner played it straight after their first Championship win in six games lifted them up to fourth. \"It was a clear red card but we have to accept the referee's decision,\" the German said. Sure you do. As for Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson, well he refused to blame his goalkeeper for failing to control the backpass from Korey Smith, which led to the goal. \"He has kept us in games and won us games,\" Johnson said. \"It was a mistake but I don't want to dwell on it.\" At the start of November, Rochdale's Calvin Andrew had the ignominy of being served with one of the longest bans in English football history. Six weeks later, after serving a nine-match ban - having initially been given a 12-game suspension for elbowing Oldham's Peter Clarke - he returned and scored the decisive goal in Dale's 3-2 win over League One leaders Scunthorpe. The 29-year-old came off the bench on the hour mark and 15 minutes later put his side 3-0 up in a game that eventually finished 3-2. So, you are the new manager and need to find a way to endear yourself to the fans. Robbie Neilson certainly gave it a good go in his first home game in charge, leading MK Dons to a historic victory over bitter rivals AFC Wimbledon in their first league meeting. It also ended MK Dons' 16-match winless league run at home. \"I'm delighted, delighted for the players, the staff, the fans and the owner as well,\" said Neilson, who left Scottish Premiership side Hearts to take over at MK. \"It was a huge game for us. It had been a long time since the team has won here and it is huge in the history of this club as well.\" And the fact it was decided with Dean Bowditch's penalty and AFC Wimbledon were in it until the very end simply made it all the sweeter for the Scot. \"There is nothing better than a huge game like that, when you have not won for a long time, to do it in the manner in which we did. Sometimes in these games if you win 3-0 or 4-0, it doesn't have the same significance of winning 1-0 and really having to work hard for it. \"People putting their bodies on the line, working really hard, closing down, turning people, pressing opponents - if you are winning 3-0 you can have the cigar out for the final half hour, but that was 96 minutes of hard work.\" Take part in our new Premier League Predictor game, which allows you to create leagues with friends.", "question": "Mother Nature cruelly taking away a dream goal and how hitting the back of the net early can be a bad thing are among the stories you may have missed on a day the latest chapter in one of England 's most divisive rivalries was @placeholder .", "option_0": "written", "option_1": "completed", "option_2": "released", "option_3": "unveiled", "option_4": "eliminated"}
{"id": 1622, "article": "The UK National Tree Seed Project announced said it had now collected and protected seeds of juniper plants from across the country. They will be stored in the Millennium Seed Bank in Wakehurst, Sussex. While gin sales have enjoyed a recent boom, juniper has been threatened by disease. A deadly fungus, phytophthora austrocedrai, has been particularly damaging for the plants in Scotland, one of the main areas for juniper growth. Although the seed storage will not cure disease, project managers hope it will aid conservation and stop juniper falling into extinction. The project is run by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and funded by the People's Postcode Lottery. Project officer Simon Kallow called it \"a type of insurance policy\", and said the aim was to make the seed bank active and useful, so that people could use it to conduct research and conservation work. Since it began in 2013, the project has \"banked\" 5.8 million seeds from 6,500 UK trees, and it will continue cataloguing until 2018. Juniper is the first species to be fully collected. \"We prioritise this group because it is the most threatened and also has the largest distribution, some rare, some common,\" said Mr Kallow. \"It was completed first, largely because our partners at the Forestry Commission worked hard to collect it from many populations.\" Juniper hotspots in the UK include Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Cumbria, Conwy and the Scottish Highlands. The juniper seeds will be kept in jars in giant freezers at -20C. \"They will be tested every now and then, by germinating them. This will happen around every 10 years,\" said Mr Kallow. \"Seeds can be kept alive for hundreds of years in the right conditions.\" UK gin sales are predicted to outstrip Scotch whisky sales by 2020, according to figures released in December. And a spirit cannot be classed as gin unless it is flavoured with juniper. Leon Dalloway, founder of Gin Journey, which offers gin-themed tours around the UK, welcomed the news, but said he was confident we would not be running out any time soon. \"'I know at least one fairly large London distillery where they have a 'secret room' containing a year's extra stock in case there is a plight,\" he said. Mr Dalloway also said most British gins also use juniper berries from overseas. \"Think the Pyrenees, Tuscany, and primarily Macedonia or Bosnia. That's where the juniper harnesses the most oils. As long as their stocks are ample, we'll be all right.\"", "question": "The @placeholder of gin is safe , according to UK horticultural experts who have been working to conserve juniper , the spirit 's key ingredient .", "option_0": "future", "option_1": "popularity", "option_2": "amount", "option_3": "blend", "option_4": "operator"}
{"id": 1623, "article": "But using the diminutive vehicle to study penguins, researchers have found, has has much less impact on their behaviour than being approached by a human. Scientists say the unusual approach provides \"a less invasive and stressful way to collect data on these species\". These findings are published in the journal Nature Methods. In part of their study, the researchers even disguised one rover as a penguin chick in order to access a colony of notoriously nervous emperor penguins. Dr Yvon Le Maho from the National Centre for Scientific Research in Strasbourg, France, led the study. He first decided to test the rover after he found that traditional flipper tags compromised the health of penguins. To avoid these \"unethical\" flipper tags, the researchers began using tiny transponders - tags implanted under the birds' skin - to monitor a colony of king penguins on Possession Island in the South Indian Ocean. But - just like the microchips often used to \"identichip\" pets - reading data from these tags requires them to be scanned up close using a receiver. \"I wondered if it might be possible to use a technological device to do this, and I thought about a rover,\" Dr Le Maho told BBC News. He and his colleagues measured penguins' heart rates when the vehicle approached and when a human researcher approached. \"There was a very high increase in heart rate with the human -  much more than in a rover,\" he explained. This reaction to people is exacerbated by the fact that, when the birds are incubating eggs, \"they won't move\". The approach of the little vehicle certainly seemed to irritate the birds, which - as footage revealed -  waited until the rover came close, then lunged and snapped with their beaks and flippers. \"But when the rover stops, even within the territory of the birds, they don't pay any attention to it,\" said Dr Le Maho. In fact when the team measured the increase in the birds' heart rate when the rover approached, the found it was about the same as when another bird passed by. \"It's very much higher when a person [approaches],\" said Dr Le Maho \"Even if the human is motionless, they still have a very high heart rate. And [it only returns to normal] more than five minutes after the human has left.\" In the second part of their research, Dr Le Maho and his colleagues wanted to see if they could use their rover to study the very shy emperor penguin. \"Emperors huddle together, because they have no [other] territorial defence,\" the scientist explained. \"So when they see the rover approaching, they get very stressed. \"So we thought, what if you camouflage the rover - disguise it as a chick.\" The researchers worked with the team of nature filmmakers, who produced the penguin documentary Spy in the Huddle. This resulted in an even more a comical-looking rover, with a fake chick sitting on top, which the researchers used to infiltrate the colony. But the disguise was effective; the emperor penguins allowed the rover to approach close enough to read their tags. Some birds even interacted with it - vocalising at the fake chick. \"Scientists do not generally speak about disturbance they cause,\" Dr Le Maho told BBC News. \"But I have always been very concerned with that - it relates to both science and ethics.\" Follow Victoria on Twitter", "question": "It looks comical - a remote @placeholder car zipping around a penguin colony dodging irritated snaps from the birds .", "option_0": "controlled", "option_1": "motor", "option_2": "fuel", "option_3": "packed", "option_4": "developed"}
{"id": 1624, "article": "TAS Racing confirmed on Wednesday that Martin and William Dunlop will ride for them in next year's roads campaign, including the TT and North West 200. The team will be the German manufacturers' official representatives at all international road races. \"It's a new bike and I've never ridden it before, but we all know its pedigree,\" said 33-year-old Martin. The Grimsby racer had contemplated retirement before agreeing the new deal and he added:  \"I'll always give it my all and to be with a quality manufacturer like BMW is mega.\" The team's schedule will also include the Ulster Grand Prix, plus selected national races. Dunlop said: \"We have a top team and I'm happy to be working with Guy again at the TT, where I think together we can be even stronger with this exciting new package.\" The Moneymore-based team ended a 14-year association with Suzuki to team up with the German manufacturer. And manager Hector Neill said it was a \"great honour\" to be chosen to spearhead BMW Motorrad's campaign. Martin achieved two podiums at the 2014 TT, while Dunlop was running in a podium place in the Senior before crashing on the third lap.", "question": "Isle of Man TT star Guy Martin says a move to BMW Motorrad @placeholder is the reason he will still be racing in 2015 .", "option_0": "information", "option_1": "advice", "option_2": "machinery", "option_3": "numbers", "option_4": "behaviour"}
{"id": 1625, "article": "There has been a cut in the number of dedicated firearms licensing officers ahead of new controls. But Asst Ch Con Mark Williams said much of the extra work would be undertaken by community officers who have been given additional training. An amnesty has been launched to allow owners to surrender their airguns. The Air Weapon and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 comes into force from 31 December 2016. Mr Williams told the BBC: \"There's been a number of dedicated firearms licensing officers in the past. \"What we've done in recent months is train community officers that work right across Scotland who will also be able to handle the application process for licensing any weapon.\" Police are launching an airgun amnesty ahead of new laws which make it illegal to possess one without a licence. Seventy-two police stations across Scotland will be accepting the weapons during the three-week campaign from 23 May until 12 June. Powers to legislate on air rifles were devolved to Holyrood in 2012. The cost of the new airgun license has still to be announced but the British Association of Shooting and Conservation said it expects it to be less than the ?¡ê79.50 shotgun licence. It has been estimated there could be 500,000 airguns in Scotland but Asst Ch Con Williams said he was confident his officers could cope with large numbers being given up. He added: \"We're certainly prepared for the surrender process and we're prepared with officers and staff across Scotland to manage that and we've trained a number of extra staff to cope with any uplift in demand around the licensing itself.\" Ahead of the amnesty being launched, the victim of a recent airgun injury has been speaking about his experience. Jordan Fyfe was shot while walking his dog in Glasgow. He said: \"I pulled my dog round the corner and saw I'd been shot in the leg. It was embedded in the back of my knee although at that point I didn't know it was still in there.\" Mr Fyfe added: \"I went home phoned the police and then went to the Royal Infirmary and had an X-ray. \"The next day at half past nine I was in theatre getting it removed under general anaesthetic.\" Mr Fyfe said he was lucky to have the pellet removed without any complications. The campaign to tighten airgun controls gathered momentum after the death of toddler Andrew Morton in Glasgow in 2005. He was shot in the head by a drug addict. Police Scotland said advice on how to transport the weapons safely, and to find out where the nearest designation station was, could be found on their website. The Scottish government ran a public consultation on the licensing scheme in 2013. The idea was rejected by 87% of respondents - with some describing it as \"draconian\" and \"heavy-handed\". But the Scottish government said it was committed to licensing air guns and was looking for views on how this would work in practice.", "question": "A senior officer has insisted Police Scotland will be able to cope with any @placeholder workload caused by the licensing of airguns .", "option_0": "committed", "option_1": "allowing", "option_2": "increased", "option_3": "further", "option_4": "causing"}
{"id": 1626, "article": "The body's chairman Ajit Pai said it received several complaints about the monologue, which some viewers branded homophobic. It concerned crude sexual references involving Mr Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. On Twitter, angry users set the hashtag #FireColbert trending worldwide. Mr Pai told radio host Rich Zeoli he had now had a chance to watch the controversial clip, which aired on Colbert's CBS programme The Late Show last Monday. \"We have received a number of complaints,\" Mr Pai said. \"We'll follow the standard operating procedures, as we always do, and make sure we evaluate what the facts are and apply the law fairly and fully.\" The FCC is a US government agency which regulates TV and radio broadcasters. CBS could be fined if it decides that Colbert's joke was indecent. The FCC definition includes remarks that appeal to \"an average person's prurient interest\" or that \"depict or describe sexual conduct in a 'patently offensive' way; and, taken as a whole, lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value\". However, Colbert could escape a fine on the basis that The Late Show airs at 23:30 EST - outside the hours of 06:00 and 22:00 when it is assumed that children could be watching. The FCC's website claims it does not take action against sexually explicit content aired after those hours, to safeguard \"constitutionally-protected free speech rights of adults\". As The Late Show is pre-taped, the editors had also bleeped out the most offensive language before it was broadcast. Despite demands for him to be fired over the alleged slur, Colbert said on Wednesday that he would change \"some of the words\" in the monologue but did not regret it. He then offered an olive branch to the LGBT community, saying: \"Anyone who expresses their love for another person in their own way is, to me, an American hero.\" One Trump supporter who took part in the movement #GaysForTrump, tweeted on Wednesday that Colbert's original rant was \"homophobic\" and \"disgusting\", while others repeated calls for his sacking. A Twitter account devoted to getting Colbert sacked was set up on 3 May under the handle @firecolbert. Many defended the comedian, however. \"It's really rich that the people who are calling Colbert a homophobe are the Trump voters who are actively working against gay rights,\" tweeted Tammie Willis. Others noted that Mr Trump had himself been recorded using obscene language, including bragging to TV host Billy Bush about trying to have sex with a married woman. Former Republican Governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee argued that Colbert should be protected by the First Amendment, which enshrines the right to free speech in the US. \"Don't let gov't decide when speech is ok,\" he tweeted. Mr Huckabee is himself under fire for insensitive comments, after tweeting that he would celebrate the Latino \"Cinco de Mayo\" holiday by drinking a jar of \"hot salsa\" and watching old Speedy Gonzales cartoons. The 5 May celebration commemorates Mexico's military victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Critics said the Republican's so-called joke was pandering to anti-Mexican stereotypes.", "question": "US comedian Stephen Colbert is to be @placeholder by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) over a joke about President Donald Trump .", "option_0": "interviewed", "option_1": "reinstated", "option_2": "backed", "option_3": "held", "option_4": "investigated"}
{"id": 1627, "article": "Madagascar's government chartered a plane to evacuate her and 85 other women. The youngest of her four children, whom she left behind when he was six years old, played a key role in her evacuation, tracking her down via a welfare agency that rescues \"slave maids\", she says. Ms Baholiarisoa says she was trapped in \"a living hell\" after being duped into going to Lebanon. A recruiting agency had promised her a nursing job for three years, with a salary of $800 (¡ê486) a month. Ms Baholiarisoa says she thought it would give her a chance to save money, which she could send to her children. But her dream was shattered the minute she touched down in Beirut. \"It was a trap, because as soon as I got there they took away my papers and said my contract didn't mean anything,\" Ms Baholiarisoa says. \"They said, 'Abeline, this is null and void.' For the next 15 years they shattered my life and the lives of my children.\" Ms Baholiarisoa says she was put to work as a maid with another Malagasy woman in the house of a rich couple with newborn triplets. \"We didn't have time to eat or sleep - night and day. We didn't even have time to clean ourselves. \"I worked 24 hours a day and received $160 a month. From this, I had to pay the lady of the house money for my food because they only gave us a quarter of a loaf of bread and some bits of fruit each day.\" Ms Baholiarisoa says she ran away from her first job after seven months and her second job after two years. But with no papers and no way to return home she was forced to accept maid jobs  for 12 more years. Fabienne Marie Ange - a social worker with Madagascar's Union of Qualified Domestic Workers (SPDTS), which specialises in helping \"slave maids\" - says many of them are so traumatised that they do not even know where they are. \"Sometimes in Lebanon the boss gives them drugs to keep them strong. They have to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week and they don't eat properly. It has an effect on their mental [health],\" Ms Ange says. Ms Baholiarisoa says she refused her employer's attempts to give her pills for \"stress\", but she knew of people who ended up with an \"empty brain\" after taking them. \"You become like a beast, like an animal made for work,\" she says. Some women are forced to work in Lebanon's clubs and streets as prostitutes, while some maids sell their bodies on the side just to pay for food, Ms Ange says. According to SPDTS President Noro Randimbiarison, some of the women have died in mysterious circumstances in Lebanon. When their bodies were eventually returned to Madagascar, it was discovered that several of them had missing organs. \"Some families decided to open the coffin and found that the girl didn't have eyes, her  eyes had been replaced by doll's eyes, or they didn't have a tongue or intestines or the heart. This really happens. It's real,\" says Ms Randimbiarison. Medical reports on the cause of death are vague - and some families have been told that the women committed suicide by jumping off tall buildings, she says. Ms Baholiarisoa claims women were pushed from windows, sometimes to cripple them just enough so they could not run away; others disappear, fuelling suspicion that they were killed. \"We have no idea how many women have died out there or have gone mad because if you ask a boss where is his maid they say she ran off with someone and it's over,\" she says. \"Where is the proof that she's run off and they haven't buried her in the courtyard? We don't have any proof.\" Madagascar's Minister of Population Nadine Ramaroson, the only government minister tackling the issue, says \"a very organised network\" involving senior government officials and businessmen emerged in the 1990s to engage in human trafficking. Government officials provide fraudulent work permits, travel and identity document for around $5,000 per trafficked woman, social workers say. Ms Ramaroson says the government is trying to break the criminal networks, but it is not easy. While one job agency flew 300 women to Jordan last month with the government's approval, 43 women bound for Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were stopped from boarding planes. Ms Ramaroson said all were recruited from remote rural areas with high illiteracy and poverty levels. Some 16-year-old girls were given forged identity papers showing their age as 21. She said their contracts stated they would work in top institutions \"when these girls don't even know what electricity is\". Ms Baholiarisoa considers herself lucky. Given up for dead by her older children, her youngest child - now an adult - contacted SPDTS to help trace his mother. They picked up one of her many calls for repatriation at the consulate in Beirut, she says. Ms Baholiarisoa now helps SPDTS track down other women trying to escape Lebanon and to prevent other women from being duped into taking jobs in the Middle East. \"If the madam at SPDTS hadn't taken me in with open arms I don't know what I would have done,\" she says. \"It pains me that these girls are leaving because I know what awaits them, especially the beautiful ones.\" From the plane load of women rescued in March, Ms Baholiarisoa is the only one with a job. Some of the women have returned to discover husbands remarried and children adopted. Others, like Ms Baholiarisoa, have to rebuild relationships after much hurt and loss.", "question": "Forced to work as a \" slave maid \" for wealthy families in Lebanon for 15 years , Abeline Baholiarisoa - a 59 - year - old woman from Madagascar - finally achieved her @placeholder in March .", "option_0": "honeymoon", "option_1": "contests", "option_2": "neighbour", "option_3": "freedom", "option_4": "life"}
{"id": 1628, "article": "That was the topic on this weekend's In the Balance on the World Service. It certainly resonated with me as I presented the programme from Tokyo. After its early 1990s crash, Japan has struggled with deflation for 15 years and has not yet been able to turn it around. In China, there's deflation in factory prices, which have fallen continually for two and a half years, and the increase in the consumer price index (CPI) has slowed to 1.4%, the lowest since the 2009 global recession. My guests, who are well-known experts on China - George Magnus, Michael Pettis, and Patrick Chovanec - joined me from London, Beijing, and New York, respectively, and we discussed what was driving the deflation trend and why it matters for the rest of the world. The panel debated the various causes of deflation: domestic versus international, as well as whether it was cyclical or structural. Some of the reasons mentioned included falling global commodity prices and over-capacity in Chinese industry. Patrick Chovanec pointed to the spare capacity in a variety of businesses that could contribute to lower producer prices. And structurally, China's growth is slowing down as it matures and changes from an investment-led to a consumer-led economy. As China shifts gear, that implies slower price rises, so any deflation would reflect more of a structural change in the economy. Any transition can be difficult, and China's structural transformation is on a scale never seen before. The panellists were sanguine that it was possible and happening already. Indeed, one of the indicators of the re-balancing of the Chinese economy is the growth of the services sector versus manufacturing. I've written before about how last year was the first time in which the services was a larger part of the economy than manufacturing. And it still has some room to grow. So, that brings us back to whether the lower prices from China are here to stay. Slower economic growth, but on a more sound footing, would imply lower inflation. Michael Pettis sees economic growth slowing to 3-4% by the end of President Xi Jinping's decade in office, but household incomes growing more rapidly, just as they did in Japan. The slowing of prices, though, isn't just due to domestic factors. As I mentioned earlier, globally, falling commodity prices are pushing down prices. As one of the biggest energy importers in the world, China's prices are affected by oil, gas and of course hard commodities like iron ore. So, taken together, it looks like the downward pressure on prices in China isn't another cyclical blip similar to when China experienced a couple of years of outright deflation after the Asian financial crisis. There are structural issues underlying the change in prices that is shifting along with China's growth model. Michael Pettis sees China exporting its deflation worldwide. Will it mean, though, that the China price will return? Not necessarily. Deflation and inflation measure the change in prices. Once prices settle at a level, then it's possible to have minimal change but at a lower or higher level. Ultimately, the cost of Chinese goods and services will be determined by the equilibrium the economy settles at. That will have a lot to do with productivity, wages, costs, etc. In other words, China's competitiveness is yet to be determined. Until then, however, the rest of the world will be affected by the prices of the world's biggest trader. It's just more uncertain than what we have been used to when the US was the main setter of global market prices. And that will be the state of the world economy that we'll need to get used to: being affected by the two biggest economies in the world, although one of them is still in a state of development and transition. That's the China effect on the world economy that will be felt in a variety of ways for years to come.", "question": "Is the \" China price \" back ? After years of hearing about rising wages ending the era of the China price when cheap exports lowered the prices of global @placeholder goods , it seems that China has a surprise for the world . Deflation , that is , falling prices , is an issue for the world 's second biggest economy , just as it is for many others .", "option_0": "driven", "option_1": "district", "option_2": "spanning", "option_3": "manufactured", "option_4": "predicted"}
{"id": 1629, "article": "Friends and relatives of Zoe Morgan, 21 and Lee Simmons, 33, lit candles during the vigil at Hailey Park, Cardiff. The couple were found dead near the Matalan store in Queen Street early on 28 September. Earlier on Monday, Andrew Saunders, 20, of no fixed address, appeared in court charged with their murder. He appeared via video link and was remanded in custody at Cardiff Crown Court. He will appear again on 19 December. Another vigil is due to be held at Grangetown on Wednesday night.", "question": "About 150 people attended a vigil in memory of a couple found dead near the shop where they @placeholder in Cardiff city centre .", "option_0": "spot", "option_1": "died", "option_2": "attacked", "option_3": "worked", "option_4": "beat"}
{"id": 1630, "article": "In Mid Dorset and North Poole, Conservative Michael Tomlinson beat Vikki Slade - a seat which had been held by Lib Dem Annette Brooke. The Tories held Bournemouth East and West, Christchurch, Dorset West, North and South and Poole. Tobias Ellwood was re-elected in Bournemouth East. After the count, which saw the Conservatives cross the finishing line with a 14,612 majority, Mr Ellwood said: \"Two Conservative MPs return to Westminster, we're both elated.\" He said he aimed to support tourism in the town and would be tackling the \"big challenge\" of the proposed Navitus Bay wind farm. The former coalition partners lost 22.5% of their vote in that constituency. Ms Slade, the Lib Dem candidate who failed to hold on to her party's seat, tweeted: \"I am looking for a job! Will consider anything that my skills fit..Please pass to anyone who may be looking!\" Her CV lists dinghy sailing among her interests. Richard Drax will be returning to Parliament after winning the Dorset South seat with 23,756 votes over Labour's Simon Bowkett's 11,762. Conor Burns held the seat of Bournemouth West with 20,155 votes and Christopher Chope retained Christchurch for the Conservatives with 28,887. UKIP came second in both of these constituencies.", "question": "The Conservative Party has taken all seats across Dorset , @placeholder the one Liberal Democrat - held seat in the county .", "option_0": "leaving", "option_1": "including", "option_2": "hosted", "option_3": "becoming", "option_4": "claiming"}
{"id": 1631, "article": "Those thinking of doing something to help others should not be put off by the risk of being sued, ministers said. Under the new law for England and Wales, judges will be urged to show leniency in cases that get to court. The measure is expected to be included in the Queen's Speech on Wednesday. The Ministry of Justice says people are often deterred from doing things to benefit others because they worry about negligence. Health and safety concerns had been used to remove \"dustpans and brushes from street pastors clearing up glass and offering support to town centre revellers\", the MoJ said. It also claimed street parties and picnics had been cancelled because of demands for \"up to ?¡ê5m\" of public liability insurance. Of the many people who do volunteer, research suggests that nearly half of them, 47%, are concerned about the risk of liability, it added. It wants to force judges to give weight to three factors in cases where people do end up facing litigation: The MoJ said the new bill would also \"put the law more clearly on the side of employers\" when something goes wrong at work through no fault of their own. The law change would protect small business owners who take a \"responsible approach to safety training and procedures\" from the challenges of \"irresponsible employees\", it said. Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said: \"I want a society where common sense is the order of the day, and I believe this measure will help us get there.\"", "question": "Extra legal protection is to be given to people carrying out good @placeholder , volunteering or planning local events who end up being involved in liability claims , the government has announced .", "option_0": "advice", "option_1": "jobs", "option_2": "life", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "deeds"}
{"id": 1632, "article": "He did not have any visitors on Friday after doctors advised him to rest, but his family are said to have been in contact by phone. The 91-year-old Duke of Edinburgh was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on Wednesday from Balmoral. The Queen left Balmoral for a few hours on Friday, the first time she has been seen in public for a couple of days. She drove herself out of the gates of the estate in a Range Rover, returning later in a convoy that included the Earl and Countess of Wessex. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed an RAF helicopter was scrambled to take the duke to hospital on Wednesday, but its efforts to land near a road were thwarted by fog. A spokesman said it was eventually decided it would be quicker to complete the 50-mile journey by road. It is the duke's third hospital stay in nine months. He spent four days in hospital over Christmas, following an operation to clear a blocked heart artery. And after attending events to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in June, Prince Philip was admitted to hospital for five nights, missing several days of festivities after sustaining the original bladder infection.", "question": "Prince Philip has remained in hospital as he @placeholder to receive treatment for a bladder infection .", "option_0": "continues", "option_1": "struggled", "option_2": "prepared", "option_3": "prepares", "option_4": "prepare"}
{"id": 1633, "article": "An Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film has existed since 1947 - though for the first decade the winner was simply selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences without competition. The category has had a complex, and at times controversial, voting procedure which few have been entirely happy with or have entirely understood. This time the chairman of the AMPAS Foreign Language Film committee, Mark Johnson, has again overhauled the system in an attempt to involve more Oscar voters. The selection process is unlike other Oscar categories: Unlike last year, with Michael Haneke's Amour, there is no obvious front-runner. So which of the five will triumph? Country: Belgium Language: Flemish, with English-language songs Belgium's Track Record: Belgium's seventh Oscar nomination in this category - though it has never won Director: Felix van Groeningen Story: Didier meets Elise. He is older and a fan of things American.  He plays banjo with a Bluegrass band and Elise becomes their vocalist. Soon the couple have a daughter, Maybelle. But Maybelle becomes seriously ill and huge pressure is brought to bear on the couple's relationship. The story is about grief and how we cope with it but there is a lot of attractive music along the way too. Chances of winning: Based on a play co-written by lead actor Johan Heldenbergh, the film was well received at last year's Berlin Film Festival and had good reviews internationally. Central performances are strong. It's not hard to predict the first disaster the family will face but then the director lets the audience in on a second calamity long before he needs to - after which the storyline is too obvious and sags. But some Oscar voters will engage with the family tragedy and many will enjoy the Bluegrass - which usefully gives the film some English-language content. Country: Italy Language: Italian Italy's Track Record: Italy has been nominated a massive 28 times. However the most recent of ten victories was in 1998.  (In addition there were three wins before 1956, when the winner was at the Academy's discretion.) Director: Paolo Sorrentino Story: Jep Gambardella (played by Toni Servillo) is a successful journalist in Rome. As a young man he wrote a much-praised novel but he's now become a social butterfly enjoying everything high society in Rome has to offer. Reaching 65, Jep takes stock of his life and relationships. Chances of winning: The film won the Bafta equivalent of Best Foreign Language Film - the Best Film Not in the English Language on Sunday. Sorrentino's film was popular with critics at last year's Cannes: some clearly enjoyed revisiting the glamorous Rome which Federico Fellini made his own in the 1950s and 1960s. The film shows a city filled with attractive people, sexual adventure and gorgeous architecture. In its latter half the story becomes more political but probably few Academy voters will care much about swipes at Silvio Berlusconi and Italy's political class generally.  The film's energy and style may be enough to give Sorrentino victory. Country: Denmark Language: Danish Denmark's Track Record: Denmark has been nominated 10 times. It won in 1987, 1988 and 2010. Director: Thomas Vinterberg Story: Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen) is a teaching assistant at a nursery in a small Danish town and is popular with the young children. One of them, Klara, becomes emotionally attached to him perhaps because her home-life offers very little warmth or security. Feeling rejected by him, Klara seems to suggest Lucas has sexually assaulted her. Soon the tightly-knit community turns against the previously loved and respected teacher. Chances of winning: A standard TV police procedural would play a guessing-game with the audience - is Lucas guilty of what he's accused of? But Thomas Vinterberg is putting society on trial, not an individual. The characters are convincingly flawed, such as the head teacher who too quickly takes the child's side on principle.  Mikkelsen, as usual, gives a terrific performance as a man wrongly accused. The story will find echoes beyond Scandinavia and it's just possible the Academy will prefer it to the glamour of the Italian entry. The screenplay conveniently gives Lucas an eastern European girlfriend with whom he communicates in English - a canny boost to international sales and Oscar chances? Country: Cambodia Language: French Cambodia's track record: This is the country's first Oscar nomination Director: Rithy Panh Story: Unusually for this category The Missing Picture is a documentary, though not a standard one. It recounts what happened in the director's native Cambodia after Pol Pot came to power in the 1960s. Around half the film is old documentary and news footage of the sort you might find in a TV programme about Cambodian history. But Rithy Panh also uses wooden dolls to dramatise what happened to his family and to society generally. Chances of winning: One of the least traditional entries ever in this category. It may appeal to voters who think the Oscars too often ignore the unusual and quirky. The doll device works unexpectedly well. This year's new voting procedures may help the film attract Academy voters more used to documentaries than to feature films. In terms of production, the film is almost as much French as it is Cambodian: its natural home may ultimately be on TV. Country: Palestine Language: Arabic Palestinian Track Record: It's their second nomination: the first was from the same director. Director: Hany Abu-Assad Story: Omar is a young Palestinian who works as a baker and who wants to get together with the attractive Nadia. Her brother persuades him to take part in an armed mission in the West Bank in which an Israeli soldier is shot dead. Omar is picked up by the Israelis who decide he could be a means of tracking down bigger figures. Omar's life spins out of control: is there anybody he can now trust? Chances of winning: Like Abu-Assad's Oscar-nominated Paradise Now (2005) this is a well-made thriller with a distinct political slant. After the earlier film Abu-Assad had an unhappy time in Hollywood making The Courier but he is a skilled director who knows how to build tension. The relentlessly negative portrayal of Israel may not find favour in Hollywood.  There is an unconvincing point in the plot where the Israelis make the same basic error twice and credibility wobbles. But locations and lead performances feel fresh. Of the shortlisted films, this is the story which may linger longest in the memory.", "question": "Amid the glitz and glamour of Oscar @placeholder , the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film seldom gets much media attention but it provides a valuable snapshot each year of what is happening in cinema beyond Hollywood . This year , the way the Oscar is awarded has altered . Could change bring a different kind of winner ?", "option_0": "night", "option_1": "nominations", "option_2": "praise", "option_3": "events", "option_4": "era"}
{"id": 1634, "article": "Saudi Arabia is also accused of funding IS, either directly or by failing to prevent private donors from sending money to the group. But Saudi Arabia rejects both accusations, and has announced the formation of a new Islamic anti-terrorism coalition. Five experts share their views. Professor Bernard Haykel is director of the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University. \"The Islamic State's religious genealogy comes from 'Jihadi Salafism', a theological current that is very old in Islam that is quite literalist. \"[Followers are] extremely rigorous, and condemn other Muslims who don't share their theology. That gives them the hard edge when it comes to violence, because they can justify it theologically. \"Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab is in that Salafist tradition. He was a religious reformer in Arabia who was able to create a religious movement that ended up creating a state. \"He saw that Muslims had deviated from the 'true' message of Islam; not praying properly or at all, or engaging in practices that he felt were violations of the faith. \"A lot of scholars of the period started writing treatises against his ideas. They felt that he was not sufficiently educated to teach. \"Eventually he was able to connect with the  leader of the al-Saud family in 1744. That alliance had very strong and lasting effects. \"He believed there is a pure version of the faith, and that if one goes back to it, one is guaranteed salvation in the hereafter, but also in life God will give you all the things he promised. \"The first Saudi State, based on this Wahhabi faith, seemed to confirm his message because of the political and military success it had throughout the 18th Century and 19th Century where it conquered most of Arabia. \"Once a town was conquered he would appoint teachers to educate people in his version of the faith. He wrote a number of short books that were the basis for the teaching, books that are used by ISIS today. \"ISIS claims that the Saudi state has deviated from the true beliefs of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, and that they are the true representatives of the Salafi or Wahhabi message.\" Saudi-born Professor Madawi al-Rashid is visiting professor at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics. \"The Wahhabis were given full control of the religious, social and cultural life of the kingdom. As long as the Wahhabi preachers preached that Saudis should obey their rulers, the al-Saud family were happy. \"In the 1960s and 1970s the Arab world was full of revolutionary ideas. The Saudi government thought the Wahhabis were a good antidote, because they provide an alternative narrative about how to obey rulers and not interfere in politics. \"In the 1980s, King Fahd established a printing press to publish Korans, sent for free to different parts of the world. They established Al-Madinah University to teach religion to students from around the world. \"Wahhabism is definitely an intolerant form of Islam. It is a local religious tradition that has gone global prematurely. We're seeing that it can be a revolutionary language that would inspire someone to commit atrocities in the name of Islam. \"When Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviet Union, Wahhabism was instrumentalised by the Saudi regime. It inspired young Muslim men to go to Afghanistan to fight a jihad against the Russian infidels. \"Wahhabism benefitted from the arrival of the Muslim brotherhood, who were exiled from places like Egypt, Syria and Iraq in the 1950s and 1960s. Saudi Arabia welcomed them. \"A lot of them became religious teachers so the fusion between this Wahhabi tradition, and the organisational skills of other Islamists, led to the emergence of a new trend in Saudi Arabia; the Islamist trend, what is referred to as the Islamic awakening.\" Saudi-born Aimen Dean left school to fight jihad in Bosnia in the 1990s and subsequently joined al-Qaeda. Disillusioned, he then started working undercover for the British government. \"The traditional Salafism practised mainly in Saudi Arabia and especially by the religious establishment might not have a favourable view of other strands of Islam, but is nonetheless very active in combating political violence because it believes in the sanctity of governance. It is better to put law and order and stability above the pursuit of justice and political ideals. \"The religious establishment in Saudi Arabia hasn't actually done anything in the form of discriminating violently against other forms of Islam. \"I always hear people saying 'We don't hear many Muslims condemn ISIS, standing up against terrorism'. \"How many Saudi security forces died in the fight against al-Qaeda and ISIS? How many ISIS and al-Qaeda prisoners are in the prisons of Saudi Arabia? This year alone 1,850 ISIS suspects have been arrested in Saudi Arabia. \"Just the simple expression of sympathy [for ISIS] could land you in prison in Saudi Arabia. \"Saudi jails are filled with radical Islamists, yet across the Gulf Iranian jails are filled with liberals and human rights campaigners. Who is the moderate and who is the hard-liner? \"If you look at the numbers of Saudis who joined ISIS, there are up to 180 per million. \"In Tunisia - a vehemently secular nation with no religious education whatsoever for more than half a century - it's more than 212 per million.\" Matthew Levitt directs the counterterrorism program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. \"Contrary to conventional wisdom, ISIL derives a relatively small share of its funds from deep-pocket donors. And while terror financing within Saudi Arabia was once a major problem, Riyadh has begun to turn a corner - especially when it comes to financing ISIL. \"ISIL has been financially self-sufficient for years, including its early days as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).  A 2006 US assessment determined that AQI created a self-sustaining insurgency in Iraq, raising $70m-$200m (?¡ê47m-?¡ê134m) a year from illegal activities alone. \"Seized AQI documents indicate that 'outside donations amounted to only a tiny fraction - no more than 5% - of the group's operating budgets from 2005 until 2010'. \"Today, ISIL's primary sources of funding are extortion, oil smuggling, and other criminal activities.  A small number of major donors were designated as terrorist financiers by the US Treasury Department, but these were exceptions. \"The Saudis have arrested several hundred ISIL suspects, reportedly including some ISIL financiers, but Riyadh provides no breakdown of the numbers. Recent polling data suggests support for ISIL within Saudi Arabia hovers around 5%.  And yet, those results suggest the Saudis have reason to worry: 5% of the Saudi population represents over a half a million potential donors. \"Authorities worry about ISIL sympathisers' ability to raise and move funds through hard-to-monitor cash transfers, a typical method among Saudi donors. \"Another concern is ISIL fundraising through social media and other communication technologies. Saudi authorities reported that ISIL fundraisers have solicited donors via Twitter and told them to establish contact via Skype. Donors were then asked to purchase international prepaid cards and provide the card numbers via Skype. These would be sold to earn cash. \"In March, Saudi Arabia co-chaired with the US and Italy the inaugural meeting of the Counter-ISIL Finance Group. This working group will get a significant boost this week at a UN Security Council summit of finance ministers focused on countering ISIL financing. \"Doing more to prevent ISIL donors moving money through banks and money exchangers is sure to be on the agenda.\" Mohammed Yahya is political consultant at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in London. \"Accusations that Saudi Arabia funds these groups and supports them ideologically are not only unfounded, they are an extreme disservice to the fight against terrorism, both in Saudi Arabia and internationally. \"Saudi Arabia has some of the strictest financial measures and controls to stop any funding to terrorist organisations. \"There is very strict monitoring on moving money overseas. Some individuals in the past have beaten the system, but the system that's in place is one of the most rigorous in the world. \"Many of these individuals [who may have funded IS] are in jail. Eight hundred people are incarcerated today that have direct links to ISIS. \"The Islamic State has conducted several attacks on Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia's counter-terrorism and intelligence programmes are the biggest threat they have both ideologically and on the ground. \"Saudi Arabia is very diverse. There are many different kinds of Muslims of all backgrounds and around 18 million Muslims visit annually for pilgrimage. Saudi Arabia has enacted laws that strictly prohibit religious incitement and calling for the death of innocent people. \"The fact that there is intolerant or controversial speech in Saudi Arabia is not a reflection of government policy. \"Much of Islam's teachings have been misconstrued. \"Just because one Islamic text by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab is used by ISIS does not mean that his teachings are everything that ISIS believes. They will use whatever fits their narrative from any source. \"To blame what is going on today in Syria and Iraq and elsewhere on the teachings of somebody that existed 270 years ago is just misleading.\" The Inquiry: Is Saudi Arabia to blame for IS? was broadcast on the BBC World Service. Listen online or download the podcast.", "question": "Is Saudi Arabia to blame for the rise of the so - called Islamic State ( IS or ISIL ) ? It is commonly claimed that Wahhabism , the strict form of Islam @placeholder in the Kingdom - and the Saudi state 's aggressive promotion of it - has fuelled terrorism .", "option_0": "taught", "option_1": "accepted", "option_2": "originating", "option_3": "found", "option_4": "clashes"}
{"id": 1635, "article": "Central bank governor John Mangudya said the cash, known as bond notes, will be backed by $200m (?¡ê140m) support from the Africa Export-Import Bank. The specially-designed two, five, 10 and 20 dollar notes will have the same value as their US dollar equivalents. Zimbabwe introduced the US dollar after ditching its own currency in 2009 following sustained hyperinflation. Since then Zimbabweans have been using the dollar as well as a number of other foreign currencies including the South African rand and the Chinese yuan. Africa Live: More on this and other African news stories. Zimbabwea€?s multi-currency confusion But the BBC's Brian Hungwe in the capital, Harare, says that bank customers are not always able to withdraw the amount of US dollars they want because of a shortage of dollar notes in Zimbabwe. The governor stressed that the issuing of bond notes was not the first step on the way to reintroducing the defunct currency, the Zimbabwe Herald newspaper reports. Mr Mangudya also introduced a number of other measures to steer people away from using US dollar cash. This includes setting a $1,000 limit on how much cash can be taken out of the country. He wants to encourage people to make greater use of the rand since a large portion of Zimbabwe's trade is with South Africa. But our correspondent says that people are reluctant to hold rands as they are not confident that the currency will maintain its value against the dollar. He adds that not all shops and traders accept the full range of currencies officially in use. The central bank brought in so-called bond coins of one, five, 10 and 25 cents, pegged to the US dollar, in 2014. Mr Mangudya said the bank was still working on a design for the new notes, but they should be in circulation \"within the next two months\", the Herald reports.", "question": "Zimbabwe is set to @placeholder its own version of the US dollar in order to ease a cash shortage in the country .", "option_0": "expand", "option_1": "print", "option_2": "suspend", "option_3": "persuade", "option_4": "announce"}
{"id": 1636, "article": "Oban-based Cr¨´bag uses images of healthy and infected algae that have been photographed by scientists with the use of microscope technology. The business's designer, Jessica Giannotti, has a background in marine science. Cr¨´bag also works with Dr Claire Gachon, an expert in seaweed at the Scottish Association of Marine Science (SAMS). The French scientist's research includes studies of green and brown algae and the diseases that affect them. Cr¨´bag and SAMS are both based at the Scottish Marine Institute in Oban, and a portion of Cr¨´bag's sales goes towards scientific research. Ms Giannotti said microscopy images taken under UV light helped to reveal colours and patterns of healthy algal cells, and the spores of infections attacking the tiny plant life. Brown and green algae found on Scotland's coasts have been used to help guide Cr¨´bag's designs. The business in Argyll was one of nine designer-makers from the Highlands and Islands to exhibit products at the fashion design event, Craft at Top Drawer, earlier this week. They were brought to the London trade show by Emergents. The Inverness-based community interest company promotes crafts, design, fashion and new writing and publishing in the Highlands and Islands. Also exhibiting at the trade show was Netty Sopata, of Lewis-based Diggory Brown. It has been working with Harris Tweed maker, Uist Wool, in North Uist, to create garments that use batches of undyed wool that is usually a by-product of tweed production. The project was one of five to receive funding from Zero Waste Scotland last year. The other Emergents' exhibitors were jewellery designers and makers Gilly Langton, from Plockton, and Eileen Gatt, from Munlochy, also Carloway-based fashion accessories designer Rarebird and Highlands textiles businesses Rae Anne and Emma Nobel Textiles and Westray-based textiles designer Hume Sweet Hume.", "question": "Algae have @placeholder the designs of a Scottish - based textiles producer .", "option_0": "inspired", "option_1": "revealed", "option_2": "praised", "option_3": "criticised", "option_4": "completed"}
{"id": 1637, "article": "The National Trust counted 2,342 pups born this season at Blakeney in Norfolk - about 80 fewer than last year. Ajay Tegala, National Trust ranger, said: \"This is good news as the seals were spreading at such a rate over such a big area that it makes it easier to protect them.\" The Trust said the lower birth rate meant the colony had \"stabilised\". After grey seals began colonising the spit on the north Norfolk coast, the Trust said there was anecdotal evidence of two pups being born in 1987 or 1988 and a first \"official\" record of five pups in 1999. A more accurate standardised method of counting pups began in 2006 when 213 were recorded. 2,342 recorded in 2015 2,426 (2014) 1,566 (2013) 747 (2010) 213 (2006) The Trust has 12 volunteers to try and make sure people visiting with their dogs did not disturb the breeding colony. Mr Tegala said: \"The seals have filled the key habitats on Blakeney, so it's good news the population has stabilised this year. \"If they continued to spread into the dunes and along the beach towards Cley, this would make them harder to protect. \"When a breeding site becomes too densely populated, grey seals tend to colonise new habitats and there is already anecdotal evidence seals from the Norfolk colonies at Blakeney and Horsey have moved south to the Thames estuary and northern France.\" The Trust said it was estimated more than 750 pups had been born at Horsey this year.", "question": "The number of seals born at England 's largest colony has dropped for the first time after nine years of @placeholder .", "option_0": "growth", "option_1": "delays", "option_2": "criticism", "option_3": "uncertainty", "option_4": "operation"}
{"id": 1638, "article": "The letter, on the party's headed notepaper, was brought home by children attending the Saint Francis Primary School in Derrylatinee, County Tyrone. Sinn F¨¦in says the letter, written by candidate Michelle Gildernew, was part of a campaign for better broadband. The Belfast Telegraph has reported that one parent has sought legal advice. Sinn F¨¦in's northern leader, Michelle O'Neill, says the letter was about trying to get improved services. \"Broadband is a major issue for people in rural areas,\" he added. \"It's a a big bugbear, an issue which Michelle has campaigned on for many years, and the party as a whole\". In her letter to the school principal, Ms Gildernew says she would be \"very grateful\" if a copy could be sent home \"with every family\". Mrs O'Neill said Ms Gildernew was the parent of a child at the school and \"was raising the issue with the rest of the parents\". A spokesperson for the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools said neither they, nor the school, had received any complaints.", "question": "Sinn F¨¦in has defended a decision to @placeholder a letter to the parents of school children during the assembly election campaign .", "option_0": "distribute", "option_1": "write", "option_2": "offer", "option_3": "open", "option_4": "introduce"}
{"id": 1639, "article": "Marvin Douglas, 33, of Milton Keynes, was jailed for nine years and nine months at St Albans Crown Court for conspiracy to supply cocaine. He had led a gang selling drugs across Bedfordshire, London and the Home Counties. When arrested, he was on licence from jail after a drugs conviction in 2010. Crack cocaine with a street value of up to ¡ê32,000 and ¡ê20,000 in cash were found in his Volkswagen Scirocco car on 23 September last year. He had tried to break free as police cars surrounded his vehicle but rammed into two police vehicles, flipping the car onto its roof. Another leading member of the gang, Lee Dixon, 31, was caught with cash and cocaine when arrested at his home in Williamson Road, Kempston, on 15 October last year. He was jailed at St Albans Crown Court for six years and six months. Dixon and Douglas had been linked through forensics and phone records to Robert Willoughby, 45, arrested at a drugs \"safe house\" in Harlinger Street, Woolwich, on 5 March, last year, police said. National Crime Agency (NCA) officers seized a substantial amount of cocaine and ¡ê19,740 during that arrest. Willoughby was jailed for 14 years. Forensics also linked the men with Kimberley Oyewole, 35, who was arrested at house in Bethwin Road, Southwark, south London, on 20 November. Officers discovered cocaine and heroin with a street value of more than ¡ê3,000 and ¡ê4,835 cash. He will be sentenced later. Douglas, Dixon and Oyewole all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine between 1 February 2014 and 21 November 2014. Det Insp Paul Baron said: \"Douglas is a prolific drug dealer who has persistently continued his criminality despite being previously arrested and even jailed. \"These people were involved in the supply and distribution of a large amount of class A drugs.\"", "question": "A drugs gang boss stopped on the A1 in Bedfordshire @placeholder crack cocaine rammed police cars in pursuit and flipped his car over , a court heard .", "option_0": "face", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "crowds", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "carrying"}
{"id": 1640, "article": "The Spanish-speaking film, starring Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal, is set in Chile in 1988, when a public referendum was called on Pinochet's 15-year coup-seized leadership. The people were to be asked to vote Yes for a continuation of Pinochet's rule or No for him to go. While the Yes campaigners go down a hackneyed route of vaunting Pinochet's great leadership and trashing the opposition, the No camp realise a radical new approach is needed. The people are scared and sceptical of a corrupt process and will take some persuading to even go to the polls. The answer is to hire advertising hotshot Rene Saavedra, who says they must harness the strategies of product advertising, namely the power of the positive message. \"Many people know how Pinochet got into power by overthrowing President Allende but very few know how he got out,\" says Bernal who plays Saavedra. \"Even I, who am from Latin America, didn't know about the campaign that went on. I didn't know how important publicity was to the movement and what actually went on. \"It was one of the most interesting things about the film and encouraged me to do it.\" Used to working on promotions for products such as fizzy drinks, Saavedra dismisses focusing on the atrocities of Pinochet's rule to take the sweet shop approach to the Nos' campaign: shiny imagery of rainbows and a beautiful future full of sun-soaked days of family fun. \"The film sees the birth of democracy in Chile through the eyes of a publicist,\" says Bernal. \"An archetypal publicist doesn't exist, but this character is fascinating because of his joyful attitude. \"He has a childish fascination with toys and things like his new microwave. These kind of things gave the character an interesting way to see the story.\" The No camp, a group made up of 16 political parties, are unsurprisingly unconvinced. But they pull together behind Saavedra in a spirit of unity and camaraderie. It's a dynamic that followed through into the cast, many of whom are the real-life members of the No campaign. \"There was the fraternal aspect to making the movie, which got me closer to the drama and to the freedom that that moment in history experienced,\" says Bernal. As for the members of the Yes campaign, they made a point of making themselves elusive. \"All the protagonists from the campaign were very up for making the movie. Some acted as themselves and others play their antagonists,\" says Bernal. \"They couldn't find people from the Yes campaign. There was only one person who was known but he didn't want to talk. A victory has many generals but a defeat has none.\" One of the original No team is Eugenio Garcia, on whom Bernal's character is based. Garcia, a smiling and gentle man, says he was taken aback when approached by Chilean director Pablo Larrain. \"It was a surprise for me as this happened 25 years ago and then I forgot, did my job and got on with my life,\" says Garcia. \"Now when I see the movie, it's very emotional.  It's a very good interpretation of how we all felt at the time, our fears and anticipation. It makes me remember all the emotions. It's beautiful.\" Meeting Garcia was a true honour and also valuable to understanding and playing Saavedra, say Bernal. It all adds to the film's air of authenticity, which Larrain has taken pains to achieve through the use of an old U-matic camera to help blend news footage from the era with the acting scenes. At heart, Saavedra is just a simple man of the people, deeply concerned for the young son who lives with him and longing to be reconciled with his estranged wife. When the Yes campaign hit back with underhand tactics, Saavedra feels the threats on a deeply personal level, rather than as part and parcel of the dirty game of politics. It sums up the other feeling pervading No: intimacy. This, Bernal explains, is down to Larrain.  No is the final part in Larrain's trilogy covering the Pinochet era. The first two films were Tony Manero and Post Mortem. No signals a closure for the director, who was a child at the time of the events of the film and whose parents were Yes voters. \"It's a film that is very personal to Pablo. He was 12 when this happened,\" says Bernal. \"It is, for him and other Chileans, a reconciliation, not just with society or the country, but with one's own history.\" Ultimately, the No campaign is triumphant. An unexpected 97% of registered voters turn out at the polls. The No campaign wins almost 56% of the vote. Pinochet stepped down in 1990 after losing democratic presidential and parliamentary elections. When he died in 2006, he was still to stand trial for human rights abuses, as ordered by the Chilean courts. This \"injustice\" is just one of the many issues that make No relevant to today's audience, says the politically-minded Bernal. But would he ever turn his interest into a career? \"I am very interested in politics,\" says the actor, who is a big supporter of human rights group Amnesty International. \"But as for going into it seriously in a formal way, I can't see that happening. Then again how many politicians have said the same?\" No is released in the UK on Friday, 8 February. The Academy Awards are on Sunday, 24 February.", "question": "Much has been documented on the rise and fall of Chile 's brutal military dictator General Augusto Pinochet yet little on the men who brought about his demise . The Oscar - @placeholder foreign - language film , No , seeks to redress the balance .", "option_0": "ending", "option_1": "nominated", "option_2": "ridden", "option_3": "flung", "option_4": "ravaged"}
{"id": 1641, "article": "The F-35 Lightning II will appear at the Royal International Air Tattoo and Farnborough Air Show in July, the US Air Force has announced. It was due to be shown at the 2014 events but was cancelled days before after the entire fleet was grounded in the US following an engine fire. The RAF says the aircraft will place it at the forefront of fighter technology. In November, Chancellor George Osborne outlined plans for Britain to speed up its purchase of the new fighter jets. The UK will have 24 aircraft available on two new aircraft carriers by 2023. Two of the jets which are stationed at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona will be flown over for both air shows. Visitors to the Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire \"will be the first outside the US to see the stealthy, supersonic aircraft's state-of-the-art capabilities\", event organisers say. Andy Armstrong, chief executive, said: \"No doubt, the sight of F-35s in the sky will be quite common for future generations but this summer, all those who attend our air show will enjoy a first glimpse of that future. \"Over the years, the Air Tattoo has featured the UK and European debuts of some of the world's most iconic aircraft but few will have been as important to the UK's future defence capability as the F-35.\"", "question": "New dates have been set for the first UK @placeholder of the jet due to be used on Britain 's new aircraft carriers .", "option_0": "phase", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "displays", "option_3": "deployment", "option_4": "version"}
{"id": 1642, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The Briton, 20, admits taking on the new routine, comprising 3.5 somersaults with one twist, is a gamble. \"Changing is a risky decision, but you have to take risks if you want to win Olympic medals,\" he told BBC Sport. Daley developed trouble with his \"demon dive\" at the 2012 Olympics, eventually seeking therapy in a bid to master it. He went on to claim bronze in London but struggled with the dive again at the 2013 Worlds, admitting the backwards 2.5 somersault with 2.5 twists routine in the piked position \"terrified\" him. Daley will perform his new dive in the 10m platform at the British National Championships in Plymouth in February as part of his preparations for the Rio Olympics in 2016. He added: \"Lots of people who have seen the dive have told me it's like a little firework because you don't expect it. \"It just happens at the end - a massive twist. So hopefully instead of the demon dive I'll have a firework dive instead. \"It's a weight off my shoulders now and even my other dives are going better than they were before, so I believe I can win Olympic gold in Rio.\" In a wide-ranging interview at the Olympic diving venue in Rio, Daley also told BBC Sport he is \"happier\" since revealing publicly he is in a relationship with another man. \"The support has been amazing and it's made me happy to be who I wanted to be,\" said the 2009 World Champion. \"It makes it easier to train when you're positive and that all means I'll dive better and compete better.\" Daley finished fourth alongside now retired diver Peter Waterfield in the 10m synchronised event at the London Olympics and won silver with James Denny at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. However, they are unlikely to pair up again in the near future as Denny, 21, is currently unable to perform dives to the same degree of difficulty as Daley. \"If I do synchro, I want to do it so I can go and win Olympic medals and not just make up the numbers,\" said Daley. \"It depends if anyone does come up through the ranks, but at the moment I'm not doing it.\" Daley also ruled out the possibility of competing in the new mixed-gender synchronised competition, which will be launched at this summer's World Championships in Kazan, Russia. \"It's going to be interesting to see how it works because at the moment the leading men do harder dives than the women so I can only see it working if junior men team up with senior women,\" he said. \"It'll be exciting to watch, but until it becomes an Olympic sport I'll be focusing on my new dive and individual [event].\"", "question": "Tom Daley has @placeholder his \" demon dive \" for a dive that no - one has ever attempted in competition in a bid to win Olympic gold in 2016 .", "option_0": "criticised", "option_1": "defended", "option_2": "dropped", "option_3": "revealed", "option_4": "described"}
{"id": 1643, "article": "The tent was still there when I left but the VIPs will not now be coming. The plan was for government officials to spend today signing a raft of documents including the key contract which guaranteed EDF a reward of high prices of ?¡ê92.50 per MWh for the financial risk they are taking with this mammoth project. But hours after EDF's board voted to approve the ?¡ê18bn power plant on Thursday, the government launched a further review of the project. This stunning new development came all the way from the top of government and the timing seemed calculated to cause maximum impact. EDF executives were taken completely off guard, the post-Brexit run of major investment is abruptly halted and what precious entente cordiale in Anglo-French relations there is left after the EU referendum result seems diminished. Is it a genuine pause for a new government to read the small print of a project that is two administrations old, or a signal of a potential change in policy? If so - what is plan B? The nuclear fleet is not getting any younger, renewables are not yet placed to take the strain in January when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. If it's an attempt to get better terms it's a poker game where the stakes are very high.", "question": "Down at Hinkley Point yesterday , I watched the EDF Energy staff @placeholder the party tent in preparation for the arrival of VIPs invited to toast the final piece in the nuclear power station puzzle .", "option_0": "provided", "option_1": "erect", "option_2": "exit", "option_3": "share", "option_4": "surrounding"}
{"id": 1644, "article": "The consumers - the voters - appear to be shrugging off the uncertainties, the unknowns and the warnings of future risks. Many economists had predicted that a vote to leave the EU would tip Britain into recession. Instead, after six months, the UK is on track to be the fastest growing economy in the G7. Orders in the manufacturing sector are expanding at the fastest rate in 25 years. Consumers are acting \"almost as though the referendum had not taken place\" asserts Andy Haldane, the Chief Economist at the Bank of England. The economic forecasters are on the defensive or taking a turn in the confessional, admitting that the forecasting profession \"is to some extent in crisis\". It is a reminder of what I was once told - that economics is not a science but the politics of money. There have been times in the past when politicians have urged voters to go out and spend, almost as if shopping was a patriotic duty. In recent months, the British consumer has needed no urging. Warnings have been defied. Financed by a surge in borrowing, spending is accelerating. Confidence is high, buoyed by real income growth, the housing market outside London, low unemployment and a soaring stock market. Our European neighbours are a little open-mouthed at the way the script is unfolding. But many of the same economists and forecasters who had warned against Brexit still believe a reckoning is coming. The rising costs of imports because of a weakened pound and increased fuel prices will combine to force some retailers to raise their prices. Higher inflation will test consumer appetites. The robust economy has bought the government political space. It is not at the moment under pressure and does not yet need to show its hand but, slowly, a narrative is emerging that carries risks for Theresa May and her tightly-wound circle; that they are hobbled by indecision. Perhaps, not surprisingly, you hear it said in the European Commission that the government neither has a strategy for the negotiations ahead nor does it know what it wants. That is seeping into the conversations in Westminster and was boosted by the charge from Sir Ivan Rogers, the former UK Ambassador to the EU, of \"muddled thinking\" in the government. It is a narrative rejected by Mrs May and, to be fair to No 10, there are no easy choices. It is as complex a negotiation as any government has faced. Inevitably some people will be disappointed. Brussels thinks the UK has made its choice. The PM has said the UK will insist on controlling EU immigration and on leaving the jurisdiction of the European courts. To those sitting in the halls of the EU that means Britain is set on leaving the single market because access to the internal market depends on accepting freedom of movement. Theresa May has repeatedly rejected the idea that what the UK wants is a binary decision. She certainly believes that the government has to reassert control over EU migration and that is close to being a red line. But ministers believe that does not preclude a deal, whereby access to the single market is negotiated for certain industries or where some elements of freedom of movement are accepted, while negotiating for the right to apply a brake if the system is under pressure. The official EU line is the one echoed by Angela Merkel who insists there will be \"no cherry picking\". So far, the 27 other members of the EU have been remarkably united behind that response. The government, however, believes that once the negotiations start there will be greater flexibility to be exploited. Downing Street knows that almost any deal has the capacity to stir up divisions, not least within the PM's own party. The differences will not easily be reconciled. Many of the Brexiteers want to leave the single market and the customs union as quickly as possible, precisely because of the conditions attached to belonging to it. However, a sizeable part of the Conservative Party, the City and the business community believes that leaving the single market would be reckless, risking serious damage to the UK economy. Some time after the end of March, when Article 50 is triggered, the negotiations will begin. The initial focus will be on the terms of the divorce. Early on, the UK will face the bill to settle outstanding obligations, like contributions to the EU budget and towards EU pensions. In Brussels they put the price tag somewhere between 55 and 60 billion euros. That one item alone has the potential to sour negotiations. In the two years to settle the divorce there will almost certainly be no time to agree a trade deal. That is why both the EU and some UK ministers are calling for a transitional arrangement. This will be a much more dangerous period for the government. Inward investment may weaken, businesses may postpone expenditure and some companies may decide to move part of their operations to a EU capital, while consumers may lose their confidence. The challenge for the government will be to keep the voters believing that an agreement is achievable which protects the economy. The greatest risk for the prime minister is that her opening bid is dismissed out of hand or that it becomes apparent that a compromise is beyond reach. There are well-known figures in the European Commission who do not disguise their determination to see the UK hurt. That was Sir Ivan Rogers's concern, that the UK could slide into a \"disorderly break\" with nothing to show for all the talking, leaving the UK trading under World Trade Organization rules with common tariffs. Within 10 weeks Mrs May will have to shed her instinctive caution, define her goals and become the great persuader both in Europe and at home. At some stage she will face the maxim \"to lead is to choose\".", "question": "It is a curious moment in British politics . The government is facing the most important negotiations in over 50 years . The @placeholder will shape the future of the UK economy - but you would not necessarily know it .", "option_0": "race", "option_1": "outcome", "option_2": "process", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "negotiation"}
{"id": 1645, "article": "Nick Alexander 35, of Colchester, Essex, was killed at the Bataclan concert hall, where he was selling band merchandise. He was a member of St Andrew's Church in Weeley and had been attending since he was a child. Reverend David Newman said Mr Alexander visited him there just a few weeks ago, having heard he was ill. He said it was \"typical of him to think of others and to actually do something about it.\" He said he learned of Mr Alexander's death from his family who worship at the church, where the book can be signed. \"He was a very intelligent boy all the way along. As a youngster, he was always reliable and also good fun. \"He was very thoughtful in his dealings with the older members of the church,\" he said. From his earliest days, he was \"charming, had integrity and was encouraging of others\", he added. He said the church is in a \"complete sense of shock\" not only at the \"suddenness of the death of a young man\" but also at \"the wicked arbitrariness of the killing of so many people.\" The Anglican vicar said people are starting to think how this \"desperately negative event\" can be turned into something positive. \"Above all we need to hold on to the memories of a positive young man who lived his life in a very fulfilling way,\" he said. An online fundraising page for Mr Alexander's family has raised nearly ?¡ê60,000.", "question": "A book of condolence has been @placeholder for a British man who died in the Paris attacks .", "option_0": "launched", "option_1": "issued", "option_2": "opened", "option_3": "blamed", "option_4": "called"}
{"id": 1646, "article": "Born in Barry, she and her family emigrated when she was four, but stories about her late father's early life in the Neath Valley stayed with her \"in politics and beyond\". Ms Gillard, 53, was the Australian Labor Party prime minister in 2010-13. She has been speaking on BBC Radio Wales programme, Sunday Supplement. Ms Gillard said she did not have \"original memories\" of Wales but the fact her parents' \"formative experiences were there, that was the subject of our family discussions in the home, so the consciousness that I was born in Wales and that mattered, has been with me throughout my life\". Speaking to presenter Vaughan Roderick, BBC Wales' Welsh affairs editor, she explained how her father, who had lived in Cwmgwrach, was \"very interested in politics and he thought for both my sister and I that it was important we grew up with an understanding of government and policies and why they mattered and what fairness was\". She added: \"In giving us that world view, all of the examples were from south Wales; from him growing up in a coal mining village in Cwmgwrach, being one of seven children, not being able to complete his education simply because of the poverty of his family.\" She explained how he won a scholarship to finish secondary school education but ended up leaving school at 14. \"And so all of these things about fairness and equity, the importance of education, were burnt into my sister and I from very early on in our family life and they have been the values which have stayed with me,\" she said. She said she had been shocked to see the contrast between Cwmgwrach and her own childhood home in Australia when she visited. \"I remember, vaguely, my first memories of being in the migrant hostel when we arrived in Australia, but then all of my other childhood memories were of being in our home in Kingswood, a suburb of Adelaide, going to the local state school... we had a house with a big back yard. I mean, we weren't moneyed people but that was the Australian way of life. \"And then to go to Cwmgwrach to see the sort of housing people lived in... my grandmother, my father's mother, was still alive then and she lived in a house with an outside toilet and things like that. \"But also, to be surrounded by people you were related to, this was a completely different experience for me. \"For all of my life my family had been mum, dad and my sister, Alison, and we weren't related to anyone else in Australia and there you were suddenly in a village in south Wales where you are just related to so many people, so many cousins and aunts and uncles.\" Ms Gillard served as the 27th prime minister of Australia, and the Australian Labor Party leader for three years and three days from 2010 to 2013. She was the first woman to hold either position. On 26 June 2013, after a leadership split, Ms Gillard lost the leadership of the party to Kevin Rudd. She resigned as prime minister the following day.", "question": "Welsh @placeholder shaped Julia Gillard 's politics which led her to become Australia 's first female prime minister , she has told BBC Wales .", "option_0": "influence", "option_1": "culture", "option_2": "remains", "option_3": "roots", "option_4": "language"}
{"id": 1647, "article": "Cataract operations carried out at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton in May left some with blurred vision. The procedures were carried out on 62 people in a mobile unit by by private provider Vanguard Healthcare. Twenty-five of them had a \"normal recovery\". Ophthalmology staff voiced concerns but operations continued, the report says. The first operations happened on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the start of the month. The hospital had planned to operate on 400 people. But by the Tuesday, some patients had come to back to the hospital complaining about their vision. The report claims that three patients needed further surgery because of retention of lens matter, two suffered eye burns while six patients were found with microscopic metallic fragments in their eyes. One told staff they were \"shouted at\" for moving, the report said. Initial internal staff emails focused on a lack of follow-up arrangements for the patients and said it was unusual to have three patients complaining of problems. The national average rate for complications in this type of surgery is 4.64%, but the report said the figure on patients sent to the mobile unit differed \"10-fold\" from this. Ophthalmology staff also told managers in emails that \"one a year would have been an issue\". Hospital managers decided to review all patients who had been operated on, but also gave the go-ahead for new surgeries to take place while previous patients were still being checked. Source: NHS cataract surgery These new operations then had to be stopped after staff assessing patients who had previously undergone procedures found some also had eye problems. On the final day of surgery, there were seven operations despite the warnings over previous complications. A statement from the hospital said: \"The decision to allow surgery to go ahead on 9 May was taken following a number of teleconference conversations with all parties involved during that week.\" But the hospital said that not everybody included in the email was in the hospital that day and \"there was a delay in the email being seen\". \"Surgery was stopped during the morning as a result of the email and feedback from the review clinic that was also being held at the same time,\" the statement added. The report investigated whether surgical technique could have been to blame but said this could not \"provide the whole explanation\". The Vanguard mobile unit was brought in to help lower waiting lists for the eye operations. The firm's CEO, Ian Gillespie, said he wanted to \"personally convey\" his sympathy for any patients affected. \"The investigation does not identify any one cause, but instead points to a number of different factors which may have led to the complications experienced by patients,\" he said. \"No issues have been identified with the Vanguard mobile theatre facility itself; however there are clearly lessons to be learnt by all parties.\" Musgrove Park Hospital had initially refused to release its internal report citing legal issues with its publication. But it was released following a Freedom of Information Act request by the BBC.", "question": "Patients who had eye operations at a hospital where staff raised concerns about the procedures said they suffered pain and felt @placeholder , a report claims .", "option_0": "practices", "option_1": "rushed", "option_2": "conditions", "option_3": "abandoned", "option_4": "stalled"}
{"id": 1648, "article": "Citizens Advice said it expected more than 370,000 people to seek advice on money matters during the month. Meanwhile, the Money Advice Trust (MAT) said more than five million people could run into financial difficulties. The MAT said its National Debtline service had already had its busiest December in four years. It took an average of 715 calls a day over the four weeks, and helped more than 40,000 people online. Looking ahead, the MAT said \"perilously few\" people have set a budget, or have a plan to repay existing debts. Just before Christmas, the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, warned about the high level of debt among UK households. Unsecured debt, including spending on credit cards, is rising at its fastest pace in 11 years, the Bank of England said. An online poll, conducted for the MAT by YouGov, suggested that 11% of consumers expect to fall behind with their finances in the New Year, equating to around 5.5 million people. About 32% have set a budget they plan to stick to, and 12% have a strategy to repay debts they already owe, according to the poll of 2,000 people. \"January can be a difficult month for household budgets - and it is easy to see how many people fall behind when the bills for Christmas spending begin to land,\" said Joanna Elson, the chief executive of the MAT. \"Unfortunately our research shows that perilously few households have a plan for how to repay the debts they currently owe - and many could fall into serious difficulty as a result.\" Citizens Advice said it expected a call for financial advice every three seconds in January. While many people worry about personal debt, it said many others want help with planning long-term finances. \"Although debt worries can be more acute in January, people are also taking stock of their finances and thinking about the future,\" said Gillian Guy, the chief executive of Citizens Advice. \"It doesn't matter what your earn - whether you are on minimum wage or have a comfortable salary - everyone can benefit from reviewing their finances.\" As part of its advice, National Debtline recommends that consumers: Last week, a survey for Uswitch suggested that consumers would carry an average outstanding sum of ?¡ê636 on their credit cards into the New Year.", "question": "Debt charities expect to have one of their busiest Januarys in years , as consumers recover from the Christmas spending @placeholder .", "option_0": "organisation", "option_1": "force", "option_2": "race", "option_3": "shows", "option_4": "period"}
{"id": 1649, "article": "At the tender age of 18 years and 227 days, the Red Bull driver produced a masterful display of skill and aggression to claim top spot at the Circuit de Catalunya. Admittedly, it only really happened because the dominant Mercedes managed to crash into each other. Fast forward a year, and it's a Mercedes v Ferrari two-way contest, with Sebastian Vettel qualifying less than a tenth of a second behind Lewis Hamilton on the grid. Make your selection for your top-10 race result... And bear in mind that it could rain on race day in Barcelona. Who will finish in the top 10 at the Spanish Grand Prix?", "question": "The 2016 Spanish Grand Prix gave us one of the races of the season , as a young buck named Max Verstappen wrote his name into the F1 @placeholder books .", "option_0": "country", "option_1": "biography", "option_2": "event", "option_3": "places", "option_4": "history"}
{"id": 1650, "article": "There is the apprenticeship levy on businesses which will raise ¡ê3bn by 2019-20. Higher stamp duty tax on buy-to-let properties and second homes. Higher levels of insurance premium tax - which increases costs for anyone with a car or house insurance policy. Changes to taxes levied on banks which will raise a further ¡ê1.7bn. There is likely to plenty more where that came from in tomorrow's Budget. I would watch for fuel duty increases matching the rate of inflation (many close to the chancellor doubt he will take the political pain of more rapid increases), further changes to insurance premiums, higher taxes on cigarettes and alcohol (so-called \"sin taxes\"), the attempted closure of tax avoidance loop holes and higher business taxes. As one Treasury source pointed out to me, yes, businesses might be irritated by the upward pressure on taxes but frankly \"their support hasn't got anywhere much else to go\". The government doesn't imagine a warm embrace for John McDonnell from the UK's titans of industry. George Osborne, an instinctive tax cutter, imposes tax rises for a reason. His \"big project\" for which he wants to be remembered is \"balancing the books\" by 2020 and even delivering a surplus. That means the government earning as much as it spends and thereby eliminating the deficit. So, tomorrow, look for that 2019-20 borrowing figure. It is the one that matters to the chancellor and the one which he will go through some pain now to achieve. Whilst gently pointing out that the overall debt burden for the government totals more than ¡ê1.5trn - costing the government about ¡ê1bn a week in debt interest payments. At the time of the autumn statement, the Office for Budget Responsibility predicted a government budget surplus by the end of this Parliament of ¡ê10bn. Mr Osborne will do all he can to hit that target. Even though - in total government expenditure terms - ¡ê10bn is little more than a rounding error. And achieving it has become harder as economic growth has slowed and wage increases have eased. Both reduce government income. And therefore put an upward pressure on borrowing. Tomorrow's Budget comes against a backdrop of what Mr Osborne calls the \"dangerous cocktail\" of economic gloom 2016 has presented us with. The fall in the stock market largely sparked by fears over global growth could mean a ¡ê2 billion reduction in government tax revenues according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. And, lower share prices and volatile markets also make government asset sales far harder. The government has already delayed the sale of the final tranche of Lloyds Bank it still owns, raising around ¡ê2bn. It has also placed firmly on the back burner plans to offload part of its 73% stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland - which was due to raise another ¡ê5bn by next year. Wage increases 1% lower than forecast (and the Bank of England predicts they will be 0.75% below forecast) means ¡ê5bn less in tax revenues by 2020. So, hitting that surplus figure is getting harder. And tax rises will have to be higher, and public sector cuts (though delayed until the end of the parliament) deeper, than Mr Osborne thought last year. To judge whether the Treasury is on track to hit its surplus there is a second figure to focus on tomorrow. That is the amount of government borrowing undertaken this year. The Chancellor's target is ¡ê73.5bn. In the more optimistic days of the autumn statement - just four months ago - the government appeared on target. But the poorer economic news since then has affected tax receipts and put that number under pressure. By January, the government's borrowing figure had already hit ¡ê66.5bn. Yes, down nearly 14% but suggesting a year-end figure closer to ¡ê80bn than ¡ê70bn. Can Mr Osborne pull that figure back to target? And what tax rises and public sector cuts - the pain bit - is he willing to endure? At stake is his economic reputation. And the small matter of the security of Britain's economic future.", "question": "It does n't take long reading through last July 's Budget and November 's Autumn Statement to stumble across the difficult bits - what some have described as the \" stealth taxes \" the Treasury likes to @placeholder in a slightly quieter voice compared to the spending commitments .", "option_0": "decline", "option_1": "announce", "option_2": "arrive", "option_3": "intervene", "option_4": "offer"}
{"id": 1651, "article": "The filmmaker got word that Gil - also a famous musician - was hosting a prestigious viewing session of Padilha's first feature film \"Elite Squad\" at his house. Padilha was furious, as his movie had just been released in cinemas. But a copy of the film leaked during post-production, and hit file sharing websites four months before its official release. It became a piracy \"super-hit\" in Brazil. Some analysts estimated that more than a million people watched illegal copies of \"Elite Squad\" before the movie ever hit the big screens. When Padilha heard that the culture minister was about to be part of that statistic, with an illegal copy of his movie, he evaded security and knocked on Gil's door demanding the pirate DVD be handed to him - which was promptly done by an embarrassed servant. Brazil has long been a haven for movie piracy. A government study found that 41% of Brazilian internet users have downloaded content illegally from the internet. Piracy is also prevalent on the streets - with DVDs being openly sold in most commercial places and roads, and even outside movie theatres. So Brazil is an unlikely place for movie subscription service Netflix to be successful. Yet, since it was launched in Brazil in 2011, Netflix subscriptions have soared in the country. The company does not release country-specific numbers, but two independent studies suggest Brazil has over the years become the fourth-largest market for Netflix - after US, Canada and the United Kingdom. The company has 69 million users worldwide. Netflix's chief executive Reed Hastings - who usually refrains from commenting on countries - says Brazil is a \"rocket ship\" for its company. When Netflix's Brazil and Latin Americas service started in September 2011 it was the firm's first venture outside of North America. The region was chosen for three primary reasons - broadband penetration was considered big enough as a market, incomes at the time were rising rapidly, and there was an appetite for Hollywood content. Netflix's chief communications officer Jonathan Friedland says there was another important reason that facilitated their entry. \"In Europe you have to buy individual content licences for every movie or TV show in each country, such as France, Germany or Spain,\" he says. \"In Latin America, you only need to two licenses - one for all Spanish-speaking countries and another one for Brazil.\" Netflix's strategy against piracy was put to the test in Brazil, a country where users and sellers are rarely brought to justice for that crime. The company decided to beat piracy by being competitive. \"If you offer good content at low prices and rapidly - releasing series in the same moment in Brazil as people are getting them in the US - that makes piracy less enticing,\" says Mr Friedland. One of the key elements in its strategy is pricing. Netflix subscriptions in Brazil vary from 19.90 to 29.90 reais ($5 to $7.50; ?¡ê3 to ?¡ê4.60) a month. One movie ticket alone in Sao Paulo costs 30 reais ($7.50). For that same amount of money you can buy about 10 illegal DVDs in the streets, but the quality is not always reliable. And while many Brazilians illegally download films and TV shows, others are either not technologically savvy enough to do so, or are too concerned about computer viruses and malware. For commentator Sergio Branco, director at the academic think tank Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro, Netflix's low prices is a key factor behind its success, making it more attractive to users than online piracy. He also praises the firm's subscription-based model, which is mirrored at music streaming service Spotify, and online book provider Oyster Books. Mr Branco says: \"Instead of charging for a movie or a song or a book, these services charge a monthly fee for people to have access to a vast archive of cultural services.\" Mr Friedland adds that when Netflix enters a country, the rates of internet file sharing drop. \"Most people don't want to steal,\" he says. \"They don't want viruses in their computers, they don't want the hassle of it.\" In addition to getting its pricing right, Netflix also had to work hard to adapt to local consumer habits, such as issuing pre-paid cards, and getting partnerships with local banks to allow payment for users who do not have credit cards. Brazil's often low-quality internet connections also tested the company's adaptive streaming technology - that adjusts the quality of video transmission according to available bandwidth. According to Netflix, Brazil's current economic woes is not hampering business there, as its product is seen by consumers as a cheaper alternative to going out. Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings said earlier this month, in a presentation of the firm's latest results, that its base in Brazil is still growing, despite the economic contraction. He said: \"In Brazil, a value-based product that is very inexpensive is appreciated. Even though there are tight economic times currently, that has not held back our growth.\" But what does hit Netflix is currency fluctuation. This year's appreciation of the dollar has made some international markets less profitable for shareholders in dollar-terms - particularly in Brazil, where the currency has lost 30% in value. According to Mr Friedland, Netflix is still in \"rocket ship\" mode in Brazil, and now attracting content producers in the country. Four years ago the company was approached by Jose Padilha - the same piracy-aggrieved movie director - who proposed a series about the history of cocaine in Latin America. The Netflix original \"Narcos\" - based on the life of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar - premiered in August and was an international success. In Brazil, it went down particularly well, with national star Wagner Moura in the main role, and music by popular singer Rodrigo Amarante. Now Netflix wants to draw content out of countries like Brazil and launch it globally. The company recently  had a contest for young Brazilian filmmakers and gave global distribution to the winner's production. Next year it will launch \"3%\", a science-fiction series set and produced in Brazil and spoken in Portuguese.", "question": "In 2007 , the @placeholder Brazilian movie director Jose Padilha pulled a daring stunt on the country 's then Culture Minister , Gilberto Gil .", "option_0": "head", "option_1": "pair", "option_2": "words", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "acclaimed"}
{"id": 1652, "article": "These are just a few of the questions posed by parents who took part in an online question-and-answer session run by Mumsnet and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) on Wednesday. As part of Tomorrow's Engineers Week, the organisations got to together to help parents who were stumped when their children asked questions about science, maths and engineering matters. The BBC News website has compiled some of the questions and answers. Tiny droplets of water float in the air and scatter light. It is an extension of their spine. It helps with balance and aids communication. Hailstones bring driven up and down by strong winds in thunderstorms and crashing in to each other build up an electric charge. That eventually leads to a big spark of lightning (mostly between the top and bottom of the cloud but sometimes down to the ground). They are standing on the bottom of the sea. We know the Earth's core is so hot it would be difficult for any living organisms as we know them to survive. However, in the outer crust of the Earth, there are some bacteria and organisms that live far below the surface. Light bounces off clouds and makes the sky look less dark. On clear nights, it looks a lot darker. Engineers are developing robots that can learn from their experiences.", "question": "Why do cats have tails ? How can you hear the train @placeholder before it gets to the station ? Why do n't wind turbines in the sea sink with the weight ?", "option_0": "running", "option_1": "ticking", "option_2": "groups", "option_3": "passing", "option_4": "arriving"}
{"id": 1653, "article": "Joanna Toner, 39, secured a ruling that the council overseeing the city centre project breached its legal duty to ensure equality for disabled people. Mrs Toner said the lower kerbs were \"dangerous\" as she could not tell where the pavement ended and the road began. However, the ruling does not mean the pavements have to be ripped up. Outside the High Court in Belfast, Mrs Toner said she was \"delighted\" by the outcome of the judicial review. \"The council has to take into consideration the needs of disabled people in every decision they take,\" she said. \"If you can't tell where the path ends and the road begins you're just not safe from stepping out into traffic.\" She said that previously she could walk around the city centre without difficulty, accompanied by her guide dog or using a white cane. But the public realm scheme, and specifically the kerb heights, had dealt a blow to her confidence, she added. As part of the scheme - which involved new paving and kerbs in and around Bow Street and the Market Square areas of the County Antrim city - kerbs were lowered to 30mm. Mrs Toner's lawyers argued that academic research recommending the edges should be at least 60mm in height was not properly considered. In a wide-ranging case, they also alleged bias, unfairness, breaches of Mrs Toner's human rights and that a flawed consultation process had been carried out. Mr Justice Maguire dismissed most of the challenges apart from claims that an equality impact assessment was not carried out, as required by law. \"There is clear evidence that the blind or partially sighted as a group of disabled people were likely to be affected by the way the scheme was designed and built,\" he said. The redevelopment was completed in October 2015 and Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council is now expected to ensure an assessment is carried out. \"The council will now carefully consider the detail of the decision and has no further comment to make at this time,\" it said in a statement. Mrs Toner's case was backed by Guide Dogs NI and the Royal National Institute of Blind People in Northern Ireland. In a joint statement, the charities called on councils undertaking shared space schemes to comply with government guidance in relation to kerb heights, consult effectively with their residents who are blind and partially sighted and organisations like themselves during the design.", "question": "A blind woman has won a landmark legal challenge over the height of kerbs in a multi-million pound @placeholder scheme in Lisburn .", "option_0": "building", "option_1": "processing", "option_2": "community", "option_3": "pyramid", "option_4": "regeneration"}
{"id": 1654, "article": "Her back catalogue has appeared on TIDAL, the Sweden-based company Jay Z dropped ¡ê37m for two weeks ago. As any good Swiftie knows, Taylor had her differences with Spotify, and what it paid for her music. She pulled her back catalogue saying there was an \"inherent value placed on art\" when it came to her work. Now they appear to have re-emerged on TIDAL. All of Taylor's tracks, including her albums Red, 1989, and Fearless can be found by searching her name. The rapper's company, Project Panther, took over Sweden-based Aspiro for a reported $56m (¡ê37m) on 13 March. The firm owned WiMP - which rivals Spotify in some countries - and TIDAL (which streams music in HD). If the rumours are true, Jay Z did his homework before he bought the service. He apparently called a \"summit\" during Grammy week with some of the biggest names in music, including Chris Martin, Madonna, Nicki Minaj and, of course, Beyonce. Lawyers and music execs were there too, to discuss streaming and, according to Forbes magazine, how to make it work better for artists. The move will put Jay Z in competition with Beats Music, founded by Dr Dre and bought by Apple in 2014. Tidal currently offers users access to 25 million tracks, in addition to 75,000 music videos and other content including artist interviews, for ¡ê19.99 per month. That contrasts with Spotify's charge of ¡ê9.99 per month for 30 million tracks. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "question": "The ink might not have @placeholder on the deal , but it seems Jay Z 's new streaming service has signed the star his rivals could n't - Taylor Swift .", "option_0": "worked", "option_1": "dried", "option_2": "begun", "option_3": "appeared", "option_4": "arrived"}
{"id": 1655, "article": "Anorexia presented as a voice inside my head, one that began to distort my mindset from the age of nine. Initially a companionship, it stole my trust in order to manipulate my thoughts. When there were aspects of my life that I could not influence and when I found it difficult to deal with my emotions, anorexia allowed me to feel a sense of control over my food intake. What I did not realise is that I was actually becoming powerless, dominated by an irrational and illogical voice that acquainted itself as a friend and something that wanted what was best for me. When I first went to see my GP at 13 or 14, I was still able to process some thoughts rationally and was still fighting. However, despite being diagnosed with anorexia, I was told my Body Mass Index (BMI) was not low enough to receive treatment and to return when I was of a lower weight. As time progressed, anorexia became more and more dominant until my mind became completely overpowered and the voice of Abigail fell silent. I had been engulfed by my eating disorder. I had been tricked into believing that I wanted anorexia, that I needed to fight everyone else in my life in order to protect it. Anybody who told me that my illness was torturous or detrimental was cut out of my life as anorexia saw them as a threat. It was like being in an abusive relationship with my mind. I became secluded, had no interest in the things that had previously made me happy, I never smiled, was paranoid that everyone in my life was against me and that I was deserving of anorexia. My days were spent counting calories, exercising obsessively and obeying all of the demands of my illness. I needed to make the voice happy and I would stop at nothing to do so. I was admitted to hospital on more than one occasion but it took rediscovering my love of football to really ignite my recovery. I found that watching sport provided respite from anorexia. I could immerse myself into a match for 90 minutes and not think about food or losing weight. The more sport I watched and the more I spoke to people about it, the more I realised there was something else in that I could be successful at, something else to focus my attention towards and with a lot of hard work, determination, various therapies and seeing my eating disorder for the odious imposter that it was, I was thankfully able to recover and have recently graduated as a sports journalist. At my worst, I had given up on life. Mentally consumed and controlled, my eating disorder had worn me down to see myself as undeserving. Physically, I was at severe risk of suffering a heart attack, my organs were failing, hair was falling out, I was constantly cold and weak and with no energy left to fight, I had no quality of life. Yet, despite all of the pain, my eating disorder still relentlessly tormented me. Only in recovery could I see that this mental illness had lied to me, abused me and stripped me of myself. Anorexia made me believe that without it I would be nothing, that I was worthy of the pain and suffering it bestowed upon me. I now realise I am worth so much more and have healthy ways of dealing with things that are beyond my control. One thing I learnt whilst in recovery is that this destructive eating disorder would not have been satisfied until I died. Coupled with body dysmorphia, I never saw the emaciated and withdrawn person I had become and even when gravely ill, my eating disorder continued to reinforce how fat and worthless I was. Eating disorders are complex illnesses and although they may well be exacerbated by it, they are certainly not a product of narcissism. It is extremely tough because you have to want to get better and this is often the most difficult hurdle as anorexia convinces you that nothing needs to change. Reintroducing things that previously brought happiness provided escapism from anorexia and over time, this allowed my personality and thoughts to return and quash those of my illness. Recovery is a long process and one which you have to fight hard for, but it is the most worthwhile battle you will ever fight. Anorexia still lives in my head but it will never again have the power and control of my mind.", "question": "Abigail Davies ' organs were failing , her hair was falling out and she did not have the strength to bathe herself - and all because of anorexia . The 25 - year - old , of Neath , was @placeholder close to death after developing the eating disorder while still in primary school . But what drove her to such extremes ? And how did she fight back ? She tells her story .", "option_0": "inspired", "option_1": "declared", "option_2": "hacked", "option_3": "causing", "option_4": "driven"}
{"id": 1656, "article": "More than ?¡ê400,000 is needed towards repairing the instrument, which is the largest in a private house in Europe. It has 2,300 pipes and 52 speaking stops, but several no longer work, while broken pistons mean there are several missing notes. It is now being played in twice-weekly recitals to raise money through donations. It was built in 1891 by \"Father\" Henry Willis and took two and a half years to transport in sections to the estate in Woodstock, Oxfordshire from Camden in London. A spokeswoman said during its illustrious history it had \"entertained kings, emperors and wounded World War One soldiers\". She added: \"The Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) visited for a week, and greatly enjoyed the organ, particularly Wagner opera transcriptions. \"Three years later, the German Emperor visited Blenheim with His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and listened to a recital of Wagner and Handel. \"He likened playing the organ to 'steering a great battleship', and was so taken by the organist that he invited the latter to play in Berlin, an invitation that was later accepted. \"During the First World War the Long Library served as a convalescent hospital, and the organ was much used for the entertainment of the troops.\" The organ was commissioned by the 8th Duke of Marlborough George Charles Spencer-Churchill - who was Winston Churchill's uncle - and his wife Lillian. He died a year after its installation. The inscription above it reads: \"We leave thy voice to speak within these walls in years to come when ours are still.\"", "question": "The restoration of a giant 125 - year - old organ at Blenheim Palace is to be @placeholder through a series of concerts .", "option_0": "transformed", "option_1": "funded", "option_2": "performed", "option_3": "scrapped", "option_4": "seen"}
{"id": 1657, "article": "\"If you have money then you can control people,\" she seems to say on the tape which has been widely circulated. Ms Hammah has not yet commented on the tape or her sacking. The BBC's Sammy Darko in Accra says she played a key role in President John Mahama's election last year. Some pundits will feel vindicated over her sacking, as they warned that she was too young and inexperienced to serve in government, our correspondent says. In August, she said there was a lot of pressure on her to steal public money because people thought that, as a minister, she was rich. She described such demands as \"obnoxious\", reports the Ghanaweb news site. \"Corrupt politicians are the reflection of [a] corrupt society!\" it quotes her as saying. Ms Hammah first came to the public attention after stumbling several times while making a speech and then saying she had been given the wrong text. On the tape, which has not been independently verified, she says: \"I will not quit politics until I make one million dollars.\" She also criticising another deputy minister, calling her \"senseless, ugly, loud and egoistic\". Information Minister Mahama Ayariga did not give any reason for Ms Hammah's dismissal in her one-sentence announcement. But it comes 24 hours after the tape went viral on social media and was played on a local radio station. Her driver has been questioned by the police, after she lodged a complaint, saying her right to privacy had been infringed. Police spokesman Freeman Tetttey told the BBC they were investigating whether an offence had been committed.", "question": "Ghana 's Deputy Communications Minister Victoria Hammah has been sacked after she was @placeholder allegedly saying she would stay in politics until she has made $ 1 m ( ¡ê 600,000 ) .", "option_0": "attacked", "option_1": "dismissed", "option_2": "suspended", "option_3": "questioned", "option_4": "recorded"}
{"id": 1658, "article": "His comments came after opposition Labor Leader Bill Shorten conceded defeat and congratulated him. Votes are still being counted, but the Liberal-National coalition is expected to win enough seats to govern. However, a strong swing against it has left doubts about its agenda and Mr Turnbull's leadership. The coalition still remains short of the 76 seats it needs to claim a majority in the lower house, the House of Representatives. But it should secure at least 74, and also has the support of three independent and minor party politicians - Cathy McGowan, Andrew Wilkie and Bob Katter - guaranteeing budget supply and confidence. Labor is currently on 66 seats, with five still in doubt. At a news conference, Mr Turnbull said: \"We have had a successful election. We have secured the largest number of seats in parliament.\" He admitted that the election was \"a tough business\", but welcomed Mr Shorten's calls for \"common ground\" in parliament. Speaking earlier, Mr Shorten admitted defeat. \"It is clear that Mr Turnbull and his coalition will form a  government,\" he said. \"So I have spoken to Mr Turnbull earlier this afternoon to congratulate him and [his wife] Lucy and to wish them my very best.\" Malcolm Turnbull has his majority, but he is beset on all sides. Inside his party he faces a restless right wing that disapproves of his \"small-l\" liberal leanings. Opposition leader Bill Shorten is taunting Mr Turnbull at every opportunity and predicting a return to the polls within a year. The Senate promises to be unruly - several senators-elect are already bickering. With Australia's AAA credit rating under a cloud, Mr Turnbull will need to corral populist senators into passing budget cuts. The prime minister has his party's support for now, but his enemies are watching closely. Former Australian leader Paul Keating once said Mr Turnbull was brilliant and fearless, but had no judgment. The prime minister can't afford to put a foot wrong now. Stringent requirements for verifying votes meant the count progressed slowly after the 2 July poll. Postal votes, which are counted after polling day, heavily favoured the coalition and helped them cross the line in a number of closely run electorates. The tight result is likely to put pressure on the government's agenda, particularly in the Senate, where many independent and minor party candidates are set to take office. The massive scale of Australia's election Australia's new powerbroker Cartoon: Planet of Forbidden Prime Ministers While final Senate results may not be known until August, anti-immigration politician Pauline Hanson is likely to hold at least three seats. South Australia's Senator Nick Xenophon and his newly formed Nick Xenophon Team are also likely to hold three spots, while former shock jock Derryn Hinch has secured a seat. Conflicting agendas and strong personalities could make it difficult for Mr Turnbull to pass legislation through the Senate. Mr Turnbull has come under pressure both internally and externally since the worse-than-expected election result became clear. Senator Cory Bernardi, one of the coalition's most vocal right-wingers, called the election \"a disaster\" and has since made moves to establish his own conservative movement, although he denies plans to defect from the Liberal party. Mr Shorten has repeatedly called on Mr Turnbull to stand down, saying he has lost his mandate. On Thursday ratings agency Standard & Poor's lowered Australia's credit rating outlook from stable to negative, warning the country could lose its AAA rating unless it undertook budget repair. Treasurer Scott Morrison described the downgrade as \"sobering\" and said the government's budget savings needed to be implemented. But shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said the opposition would campaign against any spending cuts that would hurt Australians on low incomes. Doubts have been raised over the passage of government's Australian Building and Construction Commission bill, which aims to re-establish a watchdog that monitors union activity in Australia's building industry. The bill's non-passage provided Mr Turnbull with the trigger to call an early \"double-dissolution\" election where all 76 Senate seats were up for grabs, rather than the usual half. Independent MP Bob Katter has already indicated that he will withdraw his support from the government if it engages in what he sees as \"union bashing\".", "question": "Australia 's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has @placeholder victory for his conservative coalition in last week 's closely fought general election .", "option_0": "sealed", "option_1": "conceded", "option_2": "declared", "option_3": "achieved", "option_4": "denied"}
{"id": 1659, "article": "Bath and North East Somerset Council (Banes) also wants healthy eating and local food promoted. Traders will be required to use more uniform stalls with a \"pastel coloured canopy\" by January 2017 to \"fit in\" with the city's World Heritage status. Some have already expressed concern at the changes. Under the proposals, buskers who play on the street and sell CDs of their own music will need street trading consent. Ed Collacott, who has been selling fine art photographs on a stall for 25 years, said street sellers were \"one of the delights\" of Bath. \"There are some amazing street traders here selling very different things and each one of us is an individual,\" he added. \"To have everything under the same canopy might not look great and it certainly wouldn't be good for my photos.\" However, Liberal Democrat deputy leader of the council, David Dixon said the changes were designed to make things look better and ensure everyone was working to the same objective. \"Our street trading scene in Bath is one of the most varied you'll find in any city,\" he added. \"We're not making a huge overhaul of the street trading policy whatsoever. It's time for our renewal [and] we did an excellent consultation. \"We had a trial over the past year for the new style canopies, which actually went down very well.\" Mr Dixon said the council would be prepared to help stall holders with the changes but added they would be expected to stick to the rules. The council also intends to purchase a number of units, for both existing and new traders, which could be rented if necessary. Sark Kenny, who runs a stall selling leather goods, said the changes to his canopy would cost him about ?¡ê400, but he thought it might cost some traders up to ?¡ê800.", "question": "New regulations covering the @placeholder , structure and appearance of street traders ' pitches in Bath have been voted through .", "option_0": "ground", "option_1": "layout", "option_2": "organisation", "option_3": "nature", "option_4": "size"}
{"id": 1660, "article": "The Washington Post said there was \"moderate confidence\" in the report's findings, while the spy agency said the worm was meant to boost regime coffers. Security company Symantec also believes a hacking group linked to North Korea was behind the attack. But North Korea's involvement has been disputed by other security firms. Wannacry victims included more than 60 NHS trusts in the UK as well as Fedex, Renault and Telefonica. Those hit by the worm were asked to pay a ransom to have their data restored. The newspaper said the NSA report claims that the worm was created by a hacker group \"sponsored\" by North Korea's spy agency - the Reconnaissance General Bureau. The assessment chimes with conclusions drawn by Symantec which said it was put together by the Lazarus hacker group working on behalf of the regime. The Washington Post said the evidence gathered in the report was \"not conclusive\" but strongly suggested North Korea's involvement. However, in late May, intelligence company Flashpoint said its analysis suggested hackers fluent in Chinese were responsible. In addition, James Scott, a senior fellow at the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, has thrown doubt on links between Lazarus and Pyongyang. Attempts to tie the two together were \"premature and inconclusive\", he wrote. As a money-making scheme the outbreak failed as, so far, none of the $140,000 (?¡ê110,000) in bitcoins raised in ransom payments by victims has been withdrawn. Security experts believed this is because the transactions will be easy to track, putting law enforcement on the trail of the worm's creators. If North Korea was involved in the Wannacry outbreak and other hacking attempts, then it could be the signal that the nation is gearing up for more attacks, John Hultquist, a computer security researcher at FireEye told Reuters. \"It suggests they are preparing for something fairly significant,\" he added.", "question": "The Wannacry worm that infected @placeholder in 150 countries in May has been blamed on North Korea by the US 's National Security Agency ( NSA ) .", "option_0": "organisations", "option_1": "hundreds", "option_2": "supplies", "option_3": "individuals", "option_4": "children"}
{"id": 1661, "article": "Vicious has been created by Will and Grace writer Gary Janetti and award-winning playwright Mark Ravenhill. The show, to air next year, will also feature Rising Damp actress Frances De La Tour as their feisty best friend. Sir Ian will play ageing actor Freddie who has lived in a cramped flat with Sir Derek's Stuart for nearly 50 years. Their worlds are turned upside down when a young man called Ash moves in upstairs. Writer and co-producer Janetti, who has also worked on award-winning US comedy Family Guy, said he was \"incredibly excited\" to be working with \"this unbelievable cast\". ITV's comedy commissioning editor, Myfanwy Moore, said the broadcaster was \"thrilled this exciting and bold sitcom, with stellar performers and writing talent is to join the increasing slate of new look comedy shows on the channel\". Next month Sir Ian will be seen reprising the role of wizard Gandalf in Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The film, which co-stars Martin Freeman, Elijah Wood and Benedict Cumberbatch, is due in UK cinemas on 14 December.", "question": "Veteran British actors Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi are @placeholder up to play a bickering gay couple in a new ITV1 sitcom .", "option_0": "blown", "option_1": "grew", "option_2": "set", "option_3": "teaming", "option_4": "signed"}
{"id": 1662, "article": "This year's presidential race is being watched even more closely by governments and foreign ministers around the world. That is because this is a race like no other. It is hard to remember a candidate as out of step with the existing foreign policy mainstream as the Republican contender Donald Trump. His views on Russia, on Nato, on Muslims, Mexico - you name it - are at variance with the policies that have dominated US foreign policy thinking for decades. True, Mr Trump's populist call reflects a frustration with politics as usual which has echoes in many other countries. Britain's vote to leave the European Union had an element of this.  So too does the rise of populist far-right parties such as the National Front in France. But a US president with such views would be an unwelcome and uncomfortable problem for most of America's allies. The foreign ministries and embassies of Washington's partners are weighing up the political campaigns, trying to determine not just who might win, but what might their policies be? Who might become the key policy players? And how might the essential direction of US policy change? If Hillary Clinton were to win, most of those questions are relatively easy to answer. As a former Secretary of State under President Obama she is a known quantity. So are many of the people around her. Some analysts have commented on a more hawkish streak in Mrs Clinton's make-up - there are those in her circle who have advocated a more activist approach on Syria for example. But under Mrs Clinton there would be a significant degree of continuity in US foreign policy. That, as far as can be determined, would not be the case under a President Trump. As a businessman and reality TV star he has no real experience of foreign policy whatsoever. It is far from clear who would occupy the key jobs in a Trump administration. His campaign has been largely deserted by the \"A\" team of Republican foreign policy experts and much of the \"B\" team as well! Much of Mr Trump's thinking seems muddled. In his recent ABC interview for example,  it was not clear that he fully understood Russia's role in Ukraine - first commenting that Russian President Vladimir Putin was \"not going into Ukraine\" and when told that Russia through its seizure of Crimea  was already there, Mr Trump accepted \"well, he's there in a certain way\". For some, this seemed to hold out the possibility that a Trump administration might accept the annexation of Ukraine to further better relations with Moscow. Mr Trump's views on Russia epitomise why his rise is causing such concern among Washington's European allies. Mr Trump has not just mitigated criticism of the seizure of Crimea. He has raised questions about his willingness to come to the aid of a Nato ally threatened by Moscow. The close ties of his campaign strategist Paul Manafort with the Russian-backed former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych have also raised eyebrows, as have the allegations of Russian hacking of Democratic Party e-mail servers. The motivation behind Mr Trump's stance on Russia is unclear. He obviously thinks he can \"do business\" with Mr Putin. He may not be Mr Putin's man. He is not \"the Siberian candidate\" as some critics have dubbed him (in a reference to 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate in which a right-wing politician becomes the stooge of a communist conspiracy). But he is self-evidently the candidate that Mr Putin would like to see elected. Mr Trump's statements about the world are mostly a combination of rhetoric, bravado and bluster. One struggles to draw a coherent foreign policy from them. But from what he has said so far it suggests that a Trump administration would be \"interesting\" to say the least.", "question": "Who sits in the White House matters for the world . For the United States , despite all the reports about its relative decline and diminishing influence , remains the one truly global @placeholder .", "option_0": "survival", "option_1": "shows", "option_2": "threat", "option_3": "power", "option_4": "events"}
{"id": 1663, "article": "Thirteen winning tickets in the National Lottery draw of 27 August remain unclaimed - five of them are ¡ê1m wins. It was a bumper draw that day. There were 67 extra winners in addition to the normal 21 prizes owing to a raffle draw celebrating Team GB's success at the Rio Olympics. It may have been that players failed to check those extra draw details. It may have been that they were away from home as it was a Bank Holiday weekend in much of the UK. Either way ¡ê5.6m is going to lottery good causes if those winners do not make a claim in the next couple of months. Overall, only 3% of National Lottery prizes go unclaimed. That is a fraction of the sum that people miss out on through unclaimed benefits or compensation. In today's automated world, why do many of these payouts still require people to make a complaint and a claim? Nearly ¡ê2bn in redress was paid to consumers of financial services in the first half of the year. While the industry watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, holds data on the success of compensation schemes in reaching those entitled to payouts, it does not publish all of it. One of the biggest unknowns is the number of people affected by mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI), and the amount they should receive. This loan insurance was sold on an industrial scale to people who did not want or need it, or who could not claim. As a result banks have paid out ¡ê25bn in compensation in the past few years. Estimates suggest the total bill, were all sales paid back, could be ¡ê100bn. An estimated nine million people in the UK could still make a complaint. So why not simply pay everyone back? The reason is clear from consultation into a proposed deadline for PPI compensation claims. \"We remain of the view that not all PPI was mis-sold and that, properly sold, PPI could meet some consumers' genuine credit protection needs,\" the FCA says during the consultation. So, the FCA says that, in effect, every case must be taken on its merits, and that requires people to make a complaint, despite consumer groups claiming that a huge number of mis-selling victims are missing out. \"We do not consider that there are strong grounds to significantly depart from this complaints-led approach now,\" the FCA adds. One of the most controversial compensation cases was the payouts for those mis-sold credit card and identity theft protection by insurer CPP. Seven million people were eligible for compensation and received letters inviting them to make a claim for compensation. Some consumer groups argued that the letters looked like junk mail. By the time the claims window expired, more than four million people had missed out. Only a third of those eligible received compensation, averaging ¡ê190 each. Just one submitted claim was rejected. Any kind of dispute that puts the onus on individuals making an initial complaint can be \"incredibly stressful\" says James Walker, founder of consumer website Resolver. \"Lots of the people I speak to tell me they have simply given up. What is frustrating is people don't realise that the rights they have when it comes to taking things further are actually quite strong,\" he says. \"You don't have to suffer in silence for long periods of time if you want to escalate your complaint and there are lots of free ombudsman schemes that can help you.\" He points to cases such as a pensioner who parked his car to go to the doctors, oblivious of a parking restriction notice that was obscured by a fence. He received a ticket, followed by debt collection notices, but after more than a year in dispute received ¡ê350 in refunds and compensation. Despite these cases, there is a move in some industries for compensation to be paid automatically more often. In October last year, Virgin became the first train company to automatically compensate some passengers if they are delayed. Travellers using its services on the West Coast mainline - and who book their tickets via the company app or website - receive automatic repayments. Research has shown that most rail passengers do not bother to claim compensation, even when it is due - a situation that led to a so-called super-complaint by consumers' association Which?. In the airline industry, where passengers must make a claim for compensation following delays, an estimated 70% of those who have a right to a payout do not claim, according to a comparison website. Communications regulator Ofcom is also investigating the use of automatic compensation when phone or internet services fail. At present, customers tend to go through one of two ombudsman services. Proposals to be published by the regulator in the new year are aimed at providing \"easier redress\" when something goes wrong. Arguably, the most significant change in redress for consumers may result from the 2015 Consumer Rights Act. UK consumers may be included automatically in a legal claim for damages in a US-style class action and so receive automatic compensation if the case succeeds. A ¡ê14bn legal claim filed against Mastercard seeking damages for anti-competitive card fees is the first significant test of these new rules. Unclaimed payments are not always in the form of compensation. Billions of pounds in benefits is unclaimed every year by those entitled to the money. Up to ¡ê4.6bn of Housing Benefit went unclaimed in 2014-15, according to the latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Families entitled to the benefit but not claiming it missed out on an average of ¡ê3,000 per year. Some 1.4 million households failing to receive Pension Credit are missing out on ¡ê2,000 a year, the figures show. Entitlements worth thousands of pounds a year were also going unclaimed for employment and support allowance (available to those who are unable to work owing to illness) and jobseekers' allowance. The DWP says that a lack of awareness of these entitlements and the \"perceived stigma\" of claiming benefits were thought to be among the reasons that people failed to make a claim. Some of these payouts will become automatic under the new Universal Credit benefit, which is being gradually introduced across the UK. Later in life, many people could miss out on retirement income, with millions of pension savings pots lying dormant. These are often small pots of savings from workplace pensions when employees spent a short period of time in jobs and have moved home since. All this amounts to billions of pounds available to claim - and claim legitimately - without the need for a lucky lottery win.", "question": "A glorious summer of @placeholder and sporting success should have been even better for more than a dozen lottery players .", "option_0": "teeth", "option_1": "food", "option_2": "homes", "option_3": "health", "option_4": "sunshine"}
{"id": 1664, "article": "The head of the federal euthanasia commission said the teenager was \"suffering unbearable physical pain\". Belgium is the only country that allows minors of any age to choose euthanasia. They must have rational decision-making capacity and be in the final stages of a terminal illness. The parents of the under-18 year olds must also give their consent. Euthanasia commission head Wim Distelmans said the teenager was \"nearly 18\". He said doctors used \"palliative sedation\", which involves bringing patients into an induced coma, as part of the process, Assisted dying around the world Belgian Paralympian 'not ready' for euthanasia \"Fortunately there are very few children who are considered [for euthanasia] but that does not mean we should refuse them the right to a dignified death,\" he told the Het Nieuwsblad newspaper. Mr Distelmans told Reuters news agency the case had been reported to his committee by a local doctor last week. The case occurred in Flemish-speaking Belgium, reports RTBF (in French), the public broadcaster for Belgium's French-speaking community. The Netherlands also allows euthanasia for minors, but they must be aged over 12 years old. Belgium lifted the age restrictions in 2014. The law passed by parliament said the child would have to be terminally ill, face \"unbearable physical suffering\" and make repeated requests to die before euthanasia is considered. Many people, including church leaders and some paediatricians, questioned whether children would be able to make such a difficult choice. Senator Jean-Jacques De Gucht said he was proud the legislation had passed. He said having the possibility to ask about euthanasia \"makes a big difference to many people\". Only the Netherlands and Belgium permit euthanasia for patients under the age of 18. In the Netherlands, a competent patient between the ages of 16 and 18 may request euthanasia or assisted suicide. The parent or guardian does not have a veto, but must be consulted. Competent patients aged between 12 and 16 may also qualify, but only if their parent or guardian consents. In Belgium, a competent patient under the age of 18 may request euthanasia with parental consent. Additional scrutiny of the child's competence is required, and suffering based on a psychiatric disorder is excluded. The rate of euthanasia in the Netherlands has remained fairly stable at 2.8% of all deaths (in 2010), according to Penney Lewis, Professor of Law at King's College London. The most recent survey of doctors in the UK was in 2007-08. The rate of euthanasia was reported to be 0.21% of all deaths, and a similar rate has been reported in France (in 2009), even though euthanasia remains illegal in both countries. In contrast, research carried out in Flanders, Belgium found the rate prior to legalisation was unclear, with separate surveys reporting rates of 0.3% of all deaths in the region (in 2001-02) and 1.1% (in 1998). The rate has risen steadily since legalisation in 2002 to 4.6% of all deaths in the most recent survey in 2013. Euthanasia is an intervention undertaken with the intention of ending a life to relieve suffering, for example a lethal injection administered by a doctor Assisted suicide is any act that intentionally helps another person kill themselves, for example by providing them with the means to do so, most commonly by prescribing a lethal medication Assisted dying is usually used in the US and the UK to mean assisted suicide for the terminally ill only, as for example in the Assisted Dying Bills recently debated in the UK", "question": "A terminally - ill 17 - year - old has become the first minor to be helped to die in Belgium since age restrictions on euthanasia requests were @placeholder two years ago , officials say .", "option_0": "passed", "option_1": "listed", "option_2": "exposed", "option_3": "removed", "option_4": "following"}
{"id": 1665, "article": "In articulating why the tournament needed a dramatic overhaul, Dodson spoke about \"bleak prospects\" and \"perfect storms\" if everything stayed the same. Browne went even further when pointing out a \"potentially profound\" risk to the professional game in Ireland if the Pro12 didn't get its act together. It was all about money. The Pro12 brings in about ¡ê12m in television revenues - a relative spit in a bucket compared to the riches of the Premiership in England and the Top 14 in France. The unions in Scotland, Ireland and Wales were all beside themselves with worry over the yawning financial disadvantage they were at compared to the English and the French as they attempted to keep hold of their marquee players. In exploring the possibility of inviting two American franchises into the Pro12 in time for the 2018-19 season, Dodson spoke of the necessity to tap into new markets and find new money in order to fight off English and French clubs who may come looking for Scotland's finest. \"To stay as we are is not an option,\" he said. Things have changed. It's not the Americans who are in the frame now, it's the South Africans. And 2018-19 is not on the table anymore, it's 2017-18. It's the coming season, which begins in September. On 7 July - this coming Friday - the South African Rugby Union will go through the Pro12's list of requirements for acceptance of two of their franchises - the Cheetahs from Bloemfontein and the Kings from Port Elizabeth - into the next Pro12 campaign. They will have to make commitments on finance - each of the current 12 clubs from Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales could be in line for an extra ¡ê500,000-¡ê800,000 in revenues from the South African union and South African television - as well as commitments on squad enhancement. The last thing the Pro12 needs is two more also-rans. The Cheetahs and the Kings are the poor relations of South African rugby. Of the six SARU franchises in Super Rugby, they are the weakest. They sit in their usual perch at the tail-end of the southern hemisphere club competition, a combined eight wins from 27 games this season and six wins from 30 games last season. Of the 27 players used by the Springboks in their 3-0 series win over the French this month, only two came from the Cheetahs and none at all from the Kings. Super Rugby is a failing competition, the expansion to 18 teams - to include sides from Japan and Argentina in addition to those from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa - has proved to be a calamity that now needs unravelling. The crowds are falling, the television audience is collapsing, there are too many teams in a bloated league format that is confusing and unloved. Three teams will be culled at the end of the current season - the Cheetahs and the Kings are two of them. SARU could have killed off the pair of them or they could have rolled them into their four other franchises, but then the Pro12 option struck and now, according to sources close to the negotiations, this deal is 75% likely to happen in time for the coming season. Already, behind the scenes, a provisional format for a new Pro14 is being put together. There are different scenarios but the most probable is that the 14 teams are split into two divisions of seven - two Irish, two Welsh, one Scottish, one Italian and one South African. They'd play home and away - 12 games. All the regular local derbies would exist on top of that. Instead of two rounds of the 1872 Cup between Glasgow and Edinburgh there would be three. Play-offs would continue and fewer games would be played in international windows. That's if SARU deliver the goods on Friday and everything goes smoothly thereafter. Don't discount a spanner in the works, but there is mounting confidence in this going through. If it does, then the already rapid pace of change will go up another gear as the various unions attempt to sell this to their supporters, and their various commercial and logistical arms attempt to put plans in place. There's a fixture schedule to be organised, there are arrangements to be made over playing the South Africans in South Africa and having the South Africans playing in Europe. The Pro12 already has too many uncompetitive teams and one of the pre-requisites of the deal would be that the decidedly underwhelming Cheetahs - who average just less than 8,000 fans per home game in a stadium that holds 48,000 - and the flops that are the Kings - who bring in just 7,000 per game in a ground that holds almost 49,000 - would be beefed-up by transplanted Springboks. Quite how SARU are going to remove talents from the Stormers, the Bulls, the Sharks and the Lions without there being an uprising in Cape Town, Pretoria, Durban and Johannesburg is anybody's guess. That's what they will need to sign up to, though. There's potentially a mountainous in-tray and precious little time to get through it. If Friday happens the way Pro12 officials think it may, they'd have eight weeks until the new league is supposed to start. There is a surreal air to all of this. Supporters of the Pro12 clubs haven't really engaged with this story yet, partly, one suspects, because the British and Irish Lions are preoccupying their thoughts and, partly again, because they probably think this is just a flyer, a silly season story for the summer, a bottle of smoke. It's hard to get your head around. The wrong kind of expansionism - plans are still afoot to bring in an American franchise next summer - has brought Super Rugby to a dark place. Why follow them? How can you shoe-horn in, at eye-watering speed, two disparate South African franchises and expect to be taken seriously as a league? How can supporters buy into a competition that looks like a dog's dinner? The Pro12 knows that in terms of PR they have an Everest to climb. In their slippers. Going backwards. In a blindfold. There's also the bottom line that Dodson and Browne and others have spoken about. As it is, the Pro12 is not doing it for them as a commercial entity. To sit on their hands and do nothing but moan about their lack of cash and their vulnerability to rich owners in England and France achieves nothing. The Pro12 needs a radical shake-up, it's true. This would be radical, no doubt about it. A year ago, Dodson and Browne said they wouldn't be hanging about, that the time for action was now. Usually you take that stuff with a pinch of salt. For some, as they digest this, it'll be a shot of brandy that'll be required.", "question": "It was back in August last year that Mark Dodson , chief executive of Scottish Rugby , and Philip Browne , his counterpart in the Irish Rugby Football Union , truly raised the @placeholder about the Pro12.", "option_0": "facts", "option_1": "document", "option_2": "alarm", "option_3": "frequency", "option_4": "news"}
{"id": 1666, "article": "On 21 August he was named prime minister by the legislature, in a move that was widely expected. Under Gen Prayuth, the military had hand-picked the legislature, populating it with mostly military and police figures. It also issued an interim constitution in July that gives the military sweeping powers. Such moves have triggered concerns that the military is seeking to strengthen its hold on the country as it initiates political reform. But Gen Prayuth and junta officials have argued that military rule has brought stability to Thailand following months of violent protests between the pro- and anti-Thaksin camps. Gen Prayuth began his military career in the prestigious Queen's Guard unit, which has nurtured other top army bosses, according to The Bangkok Post. The 21st of August happens to be Queen's Guard Day and is said to be an auspicious day for the general. He climbed the ranks to become a commander in the King's Guard, before taking over as head of the army in October 2010. He is seen as a staunch royalist, having favoured a tough stance against the \"Red Shirt\" protest movement supporting populist former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and the government of his sister Yingluck. After taking over the army, Gen Prayuth said that he wanted the army to remain neutral, but some of his actions prompted questions over whether he was intervening in politics. The pressure group Human Rights Watch said he had been \"interfering\" into an investigation into deadly political protests in 2010. In May 2011, a prominent opposition MP and Red Shirt leader, Jatuporn Promphan, was imprisoned after being charged with making comments deemed to be disrespectful of the monarchy - a very serious offence in Thailand. The case against him was prompted by a complaint from Gen Prayuth. He insisted at the time that his motive was not political but rather to protect the monarchy. However, questions were again raised when in June 2011 he appealed for voters to back \"good people\" in that year's elections, in what was widely interpreted as a swipe at Ms Yingluck and her Pheu Thai party. It nevertheless swept to power, winning a majority in parliament. Pheu Thai had worked hard to cultivate good relations with Gen Prayuth and the other top echelons of the Thai military, and when there were mass protests last autumn over a controversial amnesty law Pheu Thai had proposed, he stayed silent on the issue. However, as the protests dragged on, he proposed a \"people's council\" of civilians from both sides of the political divide. Months of political conflict appeared to have forced Gen Prayuth's hand. He said he initiated the coup as a reaction to \"the violence in Bangkok and many parts of the country that resulted in loss of innocent lives and property, [which] was likely to escalate\".", "question": "Thai army chief General Prayuth Chan- ocha was due to be retiring in September , but since the dramatic coup on 22 May he has been in effective control of the country as head of the junta that has @placeholder the civilian government .", "option_0": "rocked", "option_1": "replaced", "option_2": "prompted", "option_3": "entered", "option_4": "run"}
{"id": 1667, "article": "The parties were at loggerheads, but over social and economic issues, not paramilitaries and the border. Not so the current crisis, that has the feel of a 1990s time-warp about it. IRA activity, guns and government and unmasking the true identity of supposed anti-drugs vigilantes - we have seen it all before. Last time, the pressure on the moderate Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) led to its eclipse by the hardline Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). Now we have a reversal of the roles. The consequences of UUP leader Mike Nesbitt's bold gambit in pulling his party out of government remain unclear - some electoral advantage, probably, bolstering the UUP's comeback. But is the DUP big enough to soak up the pressure with elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly not due until the spring? After initially talking about excluding Sinn F??in from power, the DUP - with First Minister Peter Robinson back from leave - is focusing on holding yet more \"intensive talks\". Given the failure to implement the Stormont House deal, there is room for scepticism about what fresh negotiations will achieve regarding the status of the IRA. Ideas in the ether include a return of the old Independent Monitoring Commission or the recall of some ex-IRA prisoners to jail. Perhaps the renewed pressure on Sinn F??in over the IRA will change the party's calculations over the budgetary problems that have proved so hard to resolve. Or perhaps post-Good Friday Agreement history will repeat itself and the power sharing coalition will prove unable to stagger on until next May's scheduled elections. Sinn F??in's opponents in the Republic of Ireland have made the most of republicans' latest discomfiture, but the Irish government doesn't want to see a return to what Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan described as \"car crash politics\" at Stormont. Equally, David Cameron is unlikely to relish having to devote time and energy to a resumption of direct rule. But London and Dublin better have their contingency plans ready in case the next proposed round of talks proves ultimately as unproductive as other recent negotiations.", "question": "During the long months when the dark budget @placeholder hung over Stormont , the one silver lining it was possible to point to is that the nature of the problem - disagreement over welfare policy - showed how much the landscape had changed .", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "cloud", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "history", "option_4": "night"}
{"id": 1668, "article": "The Independent Police Complaints Commission said Mr Crompton was alleged to have told lawyers to \"pour blame\" on Liverpool fans at the hearings. Families of some of the victims had lodged the complaint. The inquests concluded 96 Liverpool fans were unlawfully killed. Mr Crompton was suspended after the inquests over \"an erosion of trust\". The commission, which acts as the national police watchdog, said an investigation would be \"significantly hampered\" because a legal principle of confidentiality would prevent it from reviewing communications between Mr Crompton and his legal team. The force declined a request from the Independent Police Complaints Commission to waive legal professional privilege, which makes communication between lawyers and their clients confidential. The commission's deputy chair, Rachel Cerfontyne, said the evidence it assessed \"doesn't indicate that a criminal or misconduct offence has occurred\".", "question": "A complaint against the suspended South Yorkshire Police chief David Crompton over alleged @placeholder to his legal team at the Hillsborough inquests will not be investigated .", "option_0": "response", "option_1": "bias", "option_2": "changes", "option_3": "negligence", "option_4": "instructions"}
{"id": 1669, "article": "Karen Whitmore was made redundant from her post as assistant director of organisation and governance at Middlesbrough Council in June. Teesside Magistrates Court heard claims she was targeted for raising concerns about the sale of buildings for under the market value. Ms Whitmore claims unfair dismissal. The hearing was told of Ms Whitmore concerns over the council's sale of Grade I listed Acklam Hall. She said that when she asked by external auditors to investigate the sale she was told officers had agreed a price reduction of ¡ê1.2m for the building. Ms Whitmore was also told to hide the way it was handled because the then-mayor, Ray Mallon, did not want to be embarrassed, she claimed. The tribunal was also told she raised concerns about selling Middlesbrough's Training and Development Centre to Mr Mallon's election agent, for ¡ê400,000 after an independent valuation was put at between ¡ê600,000 and ¡ê900,000. She claimed she was bullied by the current chief executive, Tony Parkinson, undermined by the former chief executive, Mike Robinson, and her concerns and complaints were ignored by the mayor, David Budd. All men contest the accusations, and the hearing continues.", "question": "A former senior council officer was \" bullied and threatened \" after refusing to cover up the way @placeholder were sold off , an employment tribunal has heard .", "option_0": "community", "option_1": "stage", "option_2": "assets", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "staff"}
{"id": 1670, "article": "Further caps are coming into effect on roaming - or connection - charges within all 28 countries of the European Union (EU). From June next year, roaming charges in the EU will be abolished completely. The government said that those making calls, downloading data or texting would save millions of pounds in charges following the latest changes. \"Roughly a million Brits stay the night in Europe every day, and they spend around ?¡ê350m a year on roaming charges,\" said Ed Vaizey, the minister for the digital economy. \"So by realising these changes, we're going to save British consumers millions of pounds a year.\" The charge cap will also apply in Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Consumers pay roaming charges whenever they connect to an operator based abroad. The charges are in addition to the cost of the call itself, and for short calls they can make up a large proportion of the overall fee. The biggest reductions will be for people downloading data - such as emails, pictures or social media - where the roaming charge will be cut by about 75%. Charges for outgoing phone calls will be cut by a similar amount. The charge for texting will be reduced by about 66%. So whereas those making a phone call in Europe would previously have paid roughly 16.5p to get connected, they will now pay just 4p. The charge is repeated for every minute of the call. Data downloads, which previously cost a maximum of 17.4p, will also now cost 4p for each megabyte of data. When the call charges themselves are taken into consideration, the government says the average total cost of a phone call should fall by more than half. Not all customers will see a reduction, however, as some operators include roaming charges within special packages. O2 said most of its customers would see immediate reductions, while EE said the majority of its customers would not be affected. Three already provides free roaming for most of its customers in a limited number of countries. Mr Vaizey questioned what would happen to the roaming charge caps should the UK vote to leave the EU. \"I don't know what would happen if we leave the EU, and that's the problem,\" he told the BBC. \"They might stay, or they might not stay.\" The controls on charges are being introduced under an EU regulation - not a directive - which means they have not been specifically incorporated into UK law. So if the UK voted to leave the EU, it could decide whether it wanted to keep them or not. The Vote Leave campaign said the UK would be able to retain the price caps if it wanted to. \"These charges are being abolished across Europe and abroad. There is no evidence to suggest that they will go up if we vote leave,\" said Matthew Elliott, chief executive of Vote Leave.", "question": "UK consumers using their mobile phones in Europe will see reductions in their @placeholder from Saturday .", "option_0": "prices", "option_1": "bills", "option_2": "response", "option_3": "departure", "option_4": "usage"}
{"id": 1671, "article": "The US Commerce Department made the move after ZTE and its units allegedly violated its sanctions on Iran. ZTE is reportedly going to appeal against the curbs, which are likely to damage its global supply chain. It's Hong Kong-listed shares have been suspended from trading since March 7. In a filing to the stock exchange, ZTE said it needed to conduct \"a thorough self-assessment on the potential impacts of the restriction measures on the business and operation of the group\". ZTE is the second-biggest supplier of telecommunications equipment in China after Huawei. The Shenzhen-based firm is known for its smartphones but also makes semiconductors and other products. It was estimated to have about 3.5% of the world's smartphone market last year and US based Qualcomm is one of its biggest suppliers. China's government has said it was in \"resolute opposition\" to the US restrictions and that the move would \"severely affect normal operations of Chinese companies\".", "question": "Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE is postponing the release of its annual financial @placeholder and board meeting in order to assess the impact of new US export restrictions on the firm .", "option_0": "results", "option_1": "food", "option_2": "stability", "option_3": "unit", "option_4": "fleet"}
{"id": 1672, "article": "Graeme Murty reported no fresh injury problems, with Jordan Rossiter and Niko Kranjcar still on the sidelines. St Johnstone hope to have Keith Watson, Danny Swanson and Graham Cummins back in contention after injury while Liam Craig returns from suspension. Murray Davidson remains on the sidelines along with long-term absentee Ally Gilchrist. Rangers striker Martyn Waghorn: \"It's obviously not ideal and we have a big challenge ahead and we know what we have got to do. \"It's going to be difficult, but it's only us that can turn it around. We have got to play Aberdeen again twice. \"We have got a lot of belief and a lot of good players in the squad. It's going to be difficult, but never say never. \"It's part of football, how you respond and how you react to adversity. \"This is a difficult time, but it's only us that can turn it around, work on the training pitch, work off it together as a team. Doing that for the club is all we can do. \"We are playing for Rangers, you need to be clinical, you need to score goals and you need to win games - and we are not doing that just now.\" St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright: \"I don't think past performances and results will come into it. \"They have a different person in charge. It's a totally different game because it's a totally different set of circumstances. \"They are on a run of poor results, we have come off the back of a poor result and a poor performance. \"We are still having a very good season and we will respond to it. I know they will. \"The pressure is on Rangers because they are expected to be challenging for second. \"We are doing great to be only six points behind them. So the pressure is all on Rangers: they are at home, they have had a few bad results, their fans will be demanding a response. \"The one thing Rangers will have is possession. They have created a lot of chances, they haven't maybe taken those chances and that's the one aspect of their game that has let them down this season, they have admitted that themselves. \"We have got to make sure we are right and limit them to very few opportunities, because the worry for us is they all of a sudden start taking those chances. That would cause us a problem.\"", "question": "Clint Hill is back in the Rangers squad to face St Johnstone after missing the defeat by Inverness with a @placeholder injury .", "option_0": "phone", "option_1": "head", "option_2": "snake", "option_3": "miracle", "option_4": "brain"}
{"id": 1673, "article": "The 31-year-old striker scored Champions League goals against AC Milan and Manchester United and netted the winner in an Old Firm derby yet he remains best known for the last-gasp double 10 years ago today that changed a chopper's flight path. With Celtic holding a two-point lead over Rangers going into the final day of the season and leading 1-0 at Motherwell, the helicopter carrying the Premier League trophy set off for Fir Park. But, with McDonald firing in his first on 88 minutes and adding a second soon after, the pilot had to do an abrupt U-turn and head for Edinburgh where Nacho Novo's goal had given Rangers a 1-0 win at Hibernian. McDonald, now in his second spell at Motherwell, has a vital play-off final to prepare for and is fed up talking about 'Helicopter Sunday'. However, BBC Scotland found a few others willing to share their memories of an amazing climax to season 2004-05. Alex McLeish would celebrate his second, and Rangers' 51st, league title that day. \"There's wasn't much in the way of pre-match nerves because it was out of our control. They only thing we focused on was hammering home the message 'you have to win this game because if Celtic do drop points you'll regret it for the rest of your lives'. \"With Celtic leading and us at 0-0, there were a few slumped shoulders at half-time. \"I spoke to [captain] Barry Ferguson and said we need to keep them motivated. If there are two goals, one for us and one for Motherwell, the whole outcome changes. \"We said keep going, keep attacking, we need a goal. And then Thomas Buffel set one up for wee Nacho. \"When I heard the second roar, I assumed the Celtic game had finished. I didn't realise Scott McDonald had scored another. \"The only fear I had was Soto Kyrgiakos and Marvin Andrews, keeping the ball between them at the back. We're not talking Barcelona defenders here, they were two big warriors. But they didn't make any slip-ups, they were clever and careful enough to see the game out. \"Winning my first title with Rangers was the best feeling ever but, for the second, I don't think I'll ever experience another reaction like that from the fans. That spine-tingling enjoyment.\" Inverness skipper Richie Foran was in the Motherwell midfield and 'set up' the equaliser. \"There was no real pressure but [manager] Terry Butcher certainly had us up for the game. He's a big Rangers man, as we all know, and the team-talk was unbelievable. He really wanted to win it. \"Celtic had a lot of opportunities but big Gordon Marshall had a wonderful game and they just couldn't get the second goal past him. \"Some of the Celtic players started to argue among themselves and argue with the referee as they started to feel the pressure. \"I had a shot and shanked it but it fell to Scott and he absolutely pinged it into the top corner. When I saw that, I ran off the other way. I thought 'there's no way I'm celebrating, I'll be lynched when I go back to Ireland!' \"I remember a young Celtic fan crying his eyes out afterwards. He called over in an Irish accent, 'Richie, what have you done?' That stuck with me. There was such a sadness among the Celtic support. \"Skippy [McDonald] was also pretty devastated in the dressing room. He was asking for security guards to walk him to his car.\" Craig Beattie came off the bench on 75 minutes, replacing John Hartson in the Celtic attack. \"We were favourites. Going into the match we had it in our own hands. We took the lead and it seemed pretty comfortable. \"Then, all of a sudden... Wow; it all just turned on its head. I can't believe it's been 10 years and I still can't believe it happened! \"It's a 10-and-a-half month build-up from the first day of pre-season and to lose it in the last five minutes of the season was heart-breaking. \"[Manager] Martin O'Neill made a few changes, going with more experienced players. \"Some of the players we had were world class, [Craig] Bellamy, Hartson, [John] Sutton, those guys were phenomenal. [Stiliyan] Petrov and [Alan] Thompson in midfield, it was a team full of quality. \"There was absolutely nothing said in the changing room. Martin sat on the floor for 20-25 minutes and didn't say a word; everyone was just looking at the floor. It was very rare for the manager to be stuck for words.\" Kenny Clark was the man in the middle at Easter Road. \"In terms of the sheer drama of the finish and the change of mood, I don't think anything compares. \"Twice prior to that I had refereed on the final day when the league could have been won or lost, so I had some experience of it. \"The added complication on the day was that Hibs could qualify for the Uefa Cup as long as they didn't lose by too many goals. \"Maybe 20 minutes into the second half, the game changed. It was like boxers backing off from one another. \"Hibs had retreated into their own half and Rangers were just being allowed to keep the ball. It was an extraordinary situation. \"Aberdeen weren't winning by enough goals [against Hearts] to put Hibs under pressure, so they decided losing by a one-goal margin was okay. And Rangers had decided as long as we have the three points all we can do is hope something changes at Fir Park. \"Just before the Rangers fans erupted at the news of the goal, Barry Ferguson had asked how long to go. I said, 'four minutes' and he said, 'just blow, this is boring'. \"A minute later, the whole mood changed completely and all of a sudden there was an urgency about Rangers, who thought 'let's not do anything stupid here'.\" Alex Rae capped his first season with Rangers with a league winner's medal. \"It's without doubt the most dramatic day of my career. I sent the missus to New York on the Thursday because I thought 'if we lose this title, I'm going to be an absolute nightmare'. \"I remember Barry Ferguson jumping on my back and saying 'we've won this' and I had visions of big Marvin Andrews mis-controlling the ball or something. I was just trying to focus and get over the line. \"Marvin and Kyrgiakos were just playing the ball between each other. I've never been involved in a game when the opposition didn't try to get an equaliser but circumstances were with us that day. \"There were players dancing around like maniacs afterwards but I was actually overwhelmed. It was something that I'd never envisaged. \"A year before, I was at Wolves and I was doing an interview with Tony Gubba for the BBC and he asked me 'what's your passion?'. I said it was Rangers and he said he was seeing Alex McLeish the next day. I said 'tell him I'm available' and from that interview I got one of the happiest days in football. \"When you speak to fans, they always remember Helicopter Sunday. It will go down in folklore.\"", "question": "As a former Australia international @placeholder in Europe , Scott McDonald will be a seasoned air traveller . Just do n't ask him about helicopters .", "option_0": "negotiated", "option_1": "arrived", "option_2": "starred", "option_3": "based", "option_4": "officer"}
{"id": 1674, "article": "The campaign group named Maj Gen Ahmadu Mohammed and eight other officers in a report last year, accusing the military of killing more than 8,000 detainees. \"It is unthinkable\" to recall the officer, who was sacked in 2014, before an inquiry had even begun, it said. The military is investigating the allegations, a spokesman told the BBC. \"These are just allegations - until proven, no-one should be punished unnecessarily,\" military spokesman General Rabe Abubakar said, confirming that Gen Mohammed had been reinstated. Amnesty says Gen Mohammed was \"in command of operations when the military executed more than 640 detainees following a Boko Haram attack on the detention centre in Giwa barracks on 14 March 2014\". He was sacked for unrelated reasons before recently being reinstated. \"Major General Mohammed must be investigated for participating in, sanctioning or failing to prevent the deaths of hundreds of people,\" Amnesty's secretary general Salil Shetty said in a statement. But Gen Abubakar said the allegations were being investigated. The London-based group said since March 2011, more than 8,000 young men and boys have been either shot, starved, suffocated or tortured to death in military custody and no-one has been held responsible. President Muhammad Buhari promised to look into the issue when he came to power last year. Boko Haram's Islamist insurgency has claimed thousands of lives and displaced more than two million people over the past six years. In the latest incident, at least 65 people were killed and 136 injured when militants attacked the north-eastern Dalori village on Saturday night. Why Boko Haram remains a threat", "question": "Amnesty International has @placeholder the reinstatement of a Nigerian general it accuses of war crimes in the fight against Boko Haram .", "option_0": "criticised", "option_1": "welcomed", "option_2": "raised", "option_3": "released", "option_4": "ordered"}
{"id": 1675, "article": "It is the latest development in efforts to solve the mystery of the aircraft, which went missing in March 2014. The plane, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, had 239 people on board when it vanished. It is presumed to have crashed into the sea after veering off course. Three ships are searching a 120,000 sq km area of the southern Indian Ocean but have so far found no trace of the plane. Five pieces of debris have been confirmed as definitely or probably from the plane. Each was found thousands of miles from the search zone, though within the area models of ocean currents have indicated debris could wash up. 1. A section of wing called a flaperon, found on Reunion Island in July 2015 - confirmed as debris in September 2015 2. Horizontal stabilizer from tail section, found in Mozambique in December 2015 3. Stabilizer panel with \"No Step\" stencil, found in Mozambique in February 2016 4. Engine cowling bearing Rolls-Royce logo, found in March 2016 in Mossel Bay, South Africa 5. Fragment of interior door panel found in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius in March 2016 All the debris is being examined in Australia by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) and other experts. They use manufacturing marks on the pieces as well as samples of marine ecology like barnacles to help confirm whether they are likely to have come from the missing Boeing 777. Speaking on Thursday, Malaysia's Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said the team had \"confirmed that both pieces of debris from South Africa and Rodrigues Island are almost certainly from MH370\". The ATSB also said both sections were \"almost certainly\" from 9M-MRO, which is the plane's registration. No other 777 has ever crashed in the southern hemisphere, and none has reported missing pieces. The ocean search, involving Australia, Malaysia and China, has scoured more than 105,000 sq km of seafloor so far, much of it areas which have never been explored before. But the countries have agreed that in the absence of \"credible new information\" the search will end by the middle of the year.", "question": "Two pieces of aircraft debris found on @placeholder in Mauritius and South Africa almost certainly came from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 , say Malaysian and Australian officials .", "option_0": "beaches", "option_1": "show", "option_2": "hold", "option_3": "sale", "option_4": "display"}
{"id": 1676, "article": "Models will need to provide a doctor's certificate attesting to their overall physical health, with special regard to their body mass index (BMI) - a measure of weight in relation to height. The health ministry says the aim is to fight eating disorders and inaccessible ideals of beauty. Digitally altered photos will also have to be labelled from 1 October. Images where a model's appearance has been manipulated will need to be marked photographie retouch¨¦e (English: retouched photograph). A previous version of the bill had suggested a minimum BMI for models, prompting protests from modelling agencies in France. But the final version, backed by MPs 2015, allows doctors to decide whether a model is too thin by taking into account their weight, age, and body shape. Employers breaking the law could face fines of up to 75,000 euros (¡ê63,500; $82,000) and up to six months in jail. \"Exposing young people to normative and unrealistic images of bodies leads to a sense of self-depreciation and poor self-esteem that can impact health-related behaviour,\" said France's Minister of Social Affairs and Health, Marisol Touraine, in a statement on Friday, French media report. France is not the first country to legislate on underweight models - Italy, Spain and Israel have all done so. Anorexia affects between 30,000 to 40,000 people in France, 90% of whom are women.", "question": "A law in France banning the use of unhealthily thin @placeholder models has come into effect .", "option_0": "coal", "option_1": "valleys", "option_2": "data", "option_3": "community", "option_4": "fashion"}
{"id": 1677, "article": "The total length of the connection is about 19 miles (30km) of which Western Power Distribution proposes to place about 4.3 miles (7km) underground. The preferred route extends from Llandyfaelog, east of Idole, underneath the River Towy, then west of Peniel. But opponents are against the use of overhead lines on wooden double-poles. The poles are up to 18m (59ft) high and objectors have claimed the development would damage local people's lives along with the ecology and tourism of the area. Andrew Hubbold from Western Power Distribution (WPD) said: \"In autumn this year WPD will publish a Statement of Community Consultation (SoCC) which sets out how the third and final stage of consultation will be carried out on this proposed connection.\" After their consultation, an application will be submitted to the Planning Inspectorate for a decision.", "question": "The preferred route to connect the power generated by two wind farms in Carmarthenshire 's Brechfa Forest to the electricity @placeholder , has been unveiled .", "option_0": "market", "option_1": "outbreak", "option_2": "source", "option_3": "network", "option_4": "generation"}
{"id": 1678, "article": "He says he is \"frustrated and saddened\" and will look for a third option if Mr Trump wins the Republican nomination. The colourful campaign of Mr Trump, who has already won three of the four early voting states, has divided Republicans. The brash billionaire is leading almost all of the 11 states voting for their presidential candidates on Tuesday. The votes on so-called \"Super Tuesday\" take the presidential race to the national stage, and is often seen as a sink-or-swim moment for candidates. \"If Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee, my expectation is that I will look for some third candidate - a conservative option, a Constitutionalist,\" Senator Sasse said in an open letter on Facebook. \"Mr Trump's relentless focus is on dividing Americans, and on tearing down rather than building back up this glorious nation,\" he continued. Why we should have seen Trump coming 22 things that Donald Trump believes Five strange Trump-Rubio insults What's so super about Super Tuesday? Mr Sasse, a non-establishment Republican conservative with Tea Party roots, has yet to endorse any of Mr Trump's rivals but has campaigned for both senators, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Donald Trump has been a divisive figure in the Republican campaign, with incendiary comments and promises to a build a wall along the US-Mexico border to keep immigrants out and calls to halt all immigration by Muslims into the US. But some of his supporters, who often say they are attracted by his authenticity, believe his success in business will translate into transforming the US economy and help to secure America's borders. Mr Trump won his first high profile backing on Friday with the endorsement of New Jersey Governor and former Republican candidate Chris Christie. Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions followed suit on Sunday to become the first sitting senator to endorse the billionaire. In the latest row, the front-runner has sought to defend himself after coming under heavy criticism for refusing to denounce the endorsement of a Ku Klux Klan white supremacist leader at the weekend. He told NBC on Monday that had was given \"a very bad earpiece\" for Sunday's CNN interview, in which he said: \"I don't know anything about David Duke. OK?\" His rivals were quick to wade in, with Ted Cruz tweeting: \"Really sad. @realDonaldTrump you're better than this. We should all agree, racism is wrong, KKK is abhorrent.\" Marco Rubio told a campaign rally in Virginia his refusal to condemn the remarks \"makes him unelectable\". \"We cannot be a party who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan,\" he told his supporters. On the Democratic side, candidate Bernie Sanders tweeted: \"America's first black president cannot and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the KKK.\" His post was later retweeted by rival Hillary Clinton, who swept to victory on Saturday in the South Carolina Democratic primary - her third victory in four contests. In her victory speech, the former secretary of state aimed a dig at Donald Trump, slamming his campaign slogan: \"Despite what you hear, we don't need to make America great again. America has never stopped being great.\" On the Republican side, Mr Trump leads a field that has dwindled to five from 12 a month ago. He won the Nevada caucus last Wednesday by a wide margin and correspondents say he is beginning to look unstoppable. 1 March - \"Super Tuesday\" - 15 states or territories decide 15 March - Five big states vote, including Ohio and Florida 18-21 July - Republican convention, nominee picked 25-28 July - Democratic convention, nominee picked 8 November - US presidential elections In depth: Primary calendar", "question": "Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he will not back Republican front - runner Donald Trump for president , the highest - @placeholder elected party member to do so .", "option_0": "level", "option_1": "wing", "option_2": "ranked", "option_3": "inspired", "option_4": "backed"}
{"id": 1679, "article": "Saturday's 2-0 loss at Bloomfield Road left the Shrimpers eight points outside the play-offs with six games remaining. \"I can't fault the effort, what I can fault is the quality in the final third,\" Brown told BBC Essex. \"When you step up a division you need to step up your quality.\" Second-half goals from Blackpool's Mark Cullen and Jacob Blyth means Brown's men have won just one of their last four games - last Wednesday's 3-1 victory over Sheffield United. \"We asked questions but they weren't serious questions,\" Brown added. \"Consequently we've come away with nothing. You can hear the disappointment in my voice. \"I don't play mind games. I really thought two games ago it (the play-offs) was off and one game ago it was on again.\"", "question": "Southend United boss Phil Brown was left bemoaning his side 's lack of @placeholder quality after defeat at relegation - threatened Blackpool all but ended their League One play - off push .", "option_0": "defending", "option_1": "match", "option_2": "attacking", "option_3": "league", "option_4": "form"}
{"id": 1680, "article": "Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas is reportedly keen on having the 49-year-old back in France next season. But Garde insisted he is fully committed to rock-bottom Villa's attempts to stay in the Premier League. \"I'm 100%  focused on Aston Villa. The situation is difficult enough not to comment on speculation,\" he told BBC WM 95.6. Former Arsenal midfielder Garde was a player and head coach with Lyon and, in an interview published in the Daily Express, Aulas described him as \"a child of the club\". \"If he called tomorrow, it would help me a lot,\" he added. Villa are eight points adrift at the foot of the table, but Garde does not think his time at the club will harm his profile in the game when it is time to move on. \"I'm not working and living only for my reputation - I'm not living for the past, I'm living for the future,\" he said. Garde, who has been critical of his players since he replaced Tim Sherwood in November, has won only three of his 19 Premier League games in charge. Despite having only eight games left, he does not accept that relegation is a foregone conclusion. \"No, relegation is not inevitable for me, all the players are aware of the situation,\" he added. \"I'm not stupid enough to think it's going to be easy - it's an impossible mission that we have to make possible.\"", "question": "Aston Villa manager Remi Garde has refused to be @placeholder on reports linking him with a return to former club Lyon .", "option_0": "arrested", "option_1": "drawn", "option_2": "held", "option_3": "released", "option_4": "prop"}
{"id": 1681, "article": "On average, customers logged on to banking websites 4.3m times a day in 2015, down from 4.4m in 2014, according to the British Bankers Association (BBA). At the same time the use of apps - on phones and tablets - went up from 7m logins a day in 2014, to 11m last year. In total, customers used such apps 4bn times in 2015, the BBA said. \"Customers love the new technology that is allowing us to bank round the clock,\" said Anthony Browne, the BBA's chief executive. \"You can set up standing orders while standing in the queue for the bus and check your balance while checking in at the airport.\" However, when it comes to actual payments, people are still more likely to use a computer rather than an app. In 2015 there were 417m internet payments, compared to 347m payments on an app. One reason for that is that most customers still have to log in to their bank's website if they want to set up a payment to a new person. However new app-based banks, like Atom, Starling and Tandem, are making it easier to carry out the full range of transactions while on the move. The number of payments via app rose by 54% last year, while payments via websites rose by just 2%.", "question": "The use of internet banking on a computer has @placeholder for the first time , as users switch to mobile apps .", "option_0": "resumed", "option_1": "fallen", "option_2": "broken", "option_3": "defended", "option_4": "revealed"}
{"id": 1682, "article": "Mr DiCaprio entered Indonesia on a tourist visa and on Sunday visited Gunung Leuser National Park in Aceh. \"A world-class biodiversity hotspot... but palm oil expansion is destroying this unique place,\" he posted. If the comments were judged as \"incitement\", he would be banned in future, a top official told the BBC. ''In terms of [his] visa and immigration permit, Leonardo DiCaprio did not do anything wrong: He entered and left Indonesia legally. But, we still investigate,\" Heru Santoso, spokesperson for the director general of immigration department, said. \"If DiCaprio's posting in his social media can be categorised as incitement or provocation, we can blacklist him from coming back to Indonesia.\" It is not the first time a Hollywood star has run into trouble in Indonesia over their environmental activism. Star Wars actor Harrison Ford was threatened with deportation in 2013 for \"harassing state institutions\" after interviewing the then forestry minister about illegal logging. In posts on his Instagram account, Mr DiCaprio said he was working to save the Leuser ecosystem, \"the last place on Earth where Sumatran orang-utans, tigers, rhinos and elephants coexist in the wild\". On Twitter, he posted a link to a petition addressed to the Indonesian President Joko Widodo, calling for the area to be protected. Some members of the government have accused him of running a \"black campaign\" to discredit the government and the country's palm oil industry. But Farwiza Farhan, chairperson of the group Forest, Nature and Environment of Aceh, told BBC Indonesia that the Oscar-winning actor had done nothing wrong. \"The claim that he was trying to discredit Indonesia doesn't make sense because these environment campaigns are local movements,\" she said. \"He just gave his support. Tourists can come and speak their opinion. When Leo arrived in Medan he was shocked that the haze was so thick, he asked us: 'Is this smoke or clouds?'\" More on palm oil: What causes South East Asia's haze? Palm oil threat to Indonesia's orangutans Is Malaysia's palm oil worth the cost?", "question": "Indonesia says it may ban Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio from @placeholder over his comments on rainforests being cleared for palm oil plantations .", "option_0": "broadcasting", "option_1": "filming", "option_2": "participating", "option_3": "returning", "option_4": "changes"}
{"id": 1683, "article": "Later this week we should have a clearer idea of who is going to form the next government. But - in what has been called the UK's first social media election - how instrumental has this battle been? BBC Asian Network has teamed up with independent political researchers Demos to look at the digital campaign from the point of view of three young, passionate and undecided voters. Over the last three months they have been following local and national candidates from across the political spectrum on Facebook and Twitter to see whether their minds can be swayed. Sakib Rashid, 20 Biomedical student Sakib Rashid is a first-time voter from London's Brent North constituency, a seat held by Labour back in 2010.  He came over to the UK from Bangladesh when he was only a year old and has grown up with his mother, brother and sister in a two-bedroom council flat. At the beginning of the experiment he said he saw a lot of \"tormenting\" and \"finger pointing between the different parties\". But as the campaign has entered its final stages, he says that has changed. \"I really, really like what's going on now as we get closer to the election with everyone trying to persuade you rather than just putting down other parties and being really childish.\" Simmi Juss, 32 Like Sakib, Simmi Juss from the Wolverhampton South West constituency, is also completely undecided. She is in a tight marginal seat that the Conservatives narrowly won from Labour in 2010. She is a self-confessed social media addict, but has found the constant political messages filling her timelines to be at times over powering and confusing. The regeneration of Wolverhampton city centre is a key issue to her, but she is disappointed that her local candidates have not engaged more on the different digital platforms. What really sticks in her mind has been the funny stories and \"the things that are less policy-based and more personal-based\". Milifandom - the growing online group of teenage girls following Ed Miliband- is the campaign that will stay with her the most. Iram Asim, 31 In the constituency of Linlithgow and Falkirk East, Iram Asim began the experiment politically invigorated by last year's referendum, but not knowing who to vote for. For her too it has been the lighter moments on Twitter and Facebook that have stood out. She particularly liked a mock-up of Britain's Got Talent with David Cameron facing the panel of judges, \"It's pretty hilarious and it's something you would remember as well,\" she said. But Iram feels politicians still have a lot to learn on their digital platforms. \"They don't make the most of social media,\" she said. \"They don't use it to their advantage, which they should. It's mostly used to taunt other parties.\" Decision time As the experiment nears its conclusion she admits that it has been both social media and the leaders' debates that are swaying her mind towards the SNP - she has not ruled out Labour though. Of the three of them, though, it is Sakib who has had the most help from social media. \"I've seen a lot of policies being tweeted -  it's actually helped me quite a lot to make my decision because now I know I don't have to go and read an article,\" he said. \"I can see straightaway why I should vote for different parties.\" Labour's stance on tuition fees chimes well with him, but it is the Conservatives proposals on welfare that could be the decisive factor. \"I'll probably be voting Conservative. I say 'probably' because there's a very small chance that I could change my mind.\" Simmi cannot decide between the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats, though. \"At the moment it feels like I'm just going to be sort of closing my eyes and you know dropping a pin on one of the parties because I don't know.\" Engagement Comments like that are not likely to go down well with political campaigners who have poured huge amounts of time, resources and money into social media. Carl Miller, from Demos, says the volume of traffic has been unprecedented. \"Over the last 10 weeks of the long campaign we've seen 21 million Facebook interactions and over seven million tweets broadly about politics or the politicians fighting the election and trying to dominate the digital world,\" he said. But just how effective have the parties been in getting their points across to the undecided voter? For Sakib and Iram it has helped both of them narrow down their choice. In Simmi's case though, it hasn't given any politician a clear decisive edge. What this digital campaign has achieved, though, is engaging the three of them with this election; it has also got them far more interested in what the different parties have to offer. You can hear the full documentary #Decides on the BBC Asian Network from 17:00 BST on Tuesday, 5 May and afterwards on the BBC iPlayer.", "question": "So with millions of tweets sent , Facebook likes posted and online @placeholder shared , the digital campaigning is nearly over .", "option_0": "videos", "option_1": "posts", "option_2": "content", "option_3": "dates", "option_4": "heart"}
{"id": 1684, "article": "This degree of celebrity among fellow Cwmbran High School pupils is a world away from the isolation and loneliness many choir members felt before joining. Last Saturday they performed in front of 56,000 people at the Principality Stadium, while they were now making their way to their latest show - for 20 pensioners at Ty Gwyn residential home. Being part of the group has allowed many of the 12 members, who are severely or profoundly deaf, to be part of something for the first time. Their upbeat performances using sign language - of songs by artists such as Take That, Celine Dion and Journey - have made them an integral part of the school and allowed them to connect with many others outside. \"When Llantarnam and Fairwater comprehensives closed and moved to the new high school [in September 2015], there were about 100 sixth formers coming together for the first time,\" said Claire Simms, the head of the deaf unit. \"The choir taught them to perform 'Bills' by LunchMoney Lewis together, which really helped the transition. \"Most of their songs are about going for your dreams, not being held back, because these children face barriers most other people don't.\" The deaf unit's 15 pupils, drawn from Newport, Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent, would leave school and could suffer loneliness during holidays and evenings, as they were unable to communicate properly with local children. But when Llantarnam school's music teacher Mary Cole was asked to introduce them to music in 2011, she found a way of opening up a whole new social world. \"When lyrics are translated into sign, they find it so much easier to understand the emotions connected to them,\" she said. \"They can't hear it in my voice but can pick it up in my expressions and it is amazing how they convey it (in sign).\" Mrs Cole used others methods - such as asking pupils to take their shoes off on stage to feel the vibrations of music - and found children not confident enough to give a presentation in class came alive. The choir has now appeared at London's Royal Albert Hall, Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena and auditioned for Britain's Got Talent. \"They are quite nervous about talking to strangers and wary about the community. But they just walk up on stage and perform,\" Mrs Cole added. The highlight so far came last Saturday when they were asked to accompany the male voice choir and sign the Welsh and Australian national anthems ahead of the rugby international at the Principality Stadium. The sense of belonging and purpose it has created is illustrated by the fact that Alex Miller, 22 and Tyler Mason, 21, both from Newport, have remained part of the choir despite having left the school. \"I feel part of a community here, the deaf world,\" said Mr Miller. \"It's so important, as I feel at home and can talk using sign language only.\" There are an estimated 1,700 deaf children in Wales, according to organisation Children in Wales, which is about 1.6 in every 1,000 babies born. Many are supported in mainstream or private education, like Jack Harris, 13, who was studying at Newport's Rougemont School with the help of a signer. But he struggled and says he now feels more comfortable at the unit and as a member of the choir. All the children have faced difficulties, perhaps none more so than year ten pupil Adrian Bucik, who moved to Wales from Poland with his parents about three years ago. They spoke no English which meant he did not have the advantage of lip reading or communicating through written word or on social media. But he has now learnt British Sign Language and is an integral part of the choir - and performs a solo for the Take That song Shine. \"They experience a lot of social problems and are too worried to do things like go to the bank or hairdresser on their own,\" added Mrs Cole, who runs the choir with volunteer Lou Heirene. \"Being with others who can sign gives them a security and they feel part of a community more than they ever have before.\"", "question": "An almost star @placeholder schoolgirl asked \" are they performing today ? \" as a group dressed all in black with white ties and gloves trooped past .", "option_0": "sized", "option_1": "struck", "option_2": "launched", "option_3": "labelled", "option_4": "showing"}
{"id": 1685, "article": "The 15-year-old had admitted attacking Zadhullah Boota, who was given a community order in 2010 after he was convicted of sexually assaulting her. Bradford Crown Court heard she \"snapped\" after he was not imprisoned. Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC said jailing her would be \"callous and cruel\" and it was clear the attack had been motivated by the abuse. Live updates on this story and others from Leeds and West Yorkshire Sentencing the girl to a two-year youth rehabilitation order, he said he believed Boota had been dealt with \"somewhat leniently\". \"It is self evident that this offence was caused by, and solely relates to, the impact of the offending upon you when you were [a young girl],\" he said. \"I hope to be able to help you \"There is no question of locking you up. That would be callous and cruel in the extreme.\" The girl, who cannot be identified because of her age, told Boota \"I'm going to kill you\" before she stabbed him in the stomach in November 2015. She later handed herself in to police. The court heard the girl told officers her life had been destroyed by the abuse she had suffered. She said she felt let down by the justice system when Boota did not go to prison. The girl, who was originally charged with attempted murder, pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm on Monday. Gabrielle Shaw, from the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said child abusers are often given \"lenient\" sentences which can \"re-traumatise\" their victims. \"We are pleased that Judge Durham Hall has acknowledged the long-term impacts of childhood abuse on this teenager and that the leniency shown by the legal system towards the man who abused her contributed to what she did,\" she said.", "question": "A judge has @placeholder a teenage girl who stabbed the man who sexually abused her as a child from a prison sentence .", "option_0": "sparked", "option_1": "spared", "option_2": "defended", "option_3": "identified", "option_4": "convicted"}
{"id": 1686, "article": "Originally from South America, the red imported fire ant is feared for its burning and potentially lethal sting. If not eradicated, it is estimated the insect could trigger up to 3,000 anaphylactic reactions in Australia each year. An independent review called for urgent action before it spread nationwide. The analysis of the National Red Imported Fire Ant Eradication Program recommended spending A$380m (¡ê225m; $284m) over 10 years to stop the ant's rapid march, the ABC reported. Red ant colonies entered Australia through the Port of Brisbane in 2001. Since then, they have flourished in south-east Queensland and are now estimated to be within 50km (30 miles) of the New South Wales border. The aggressive insect is known to bite humans and livestock en masse. Its venomous sting can cause blistered spots or even trigger a deadly allergic reaction. In the United States, more than 80 deaths have been attributed to the species. Invasive Species Council CEO Andrew Cox said unless Australia ramped up its eradication programme, it could suffer a damage bill worth billions of dollars. \"Fire ants will be a massive hit to our economy, our environment, our healthcare system and our outdoor lifestyle if we do not act now,\" he said in a statement. \"Eradication is still possible and in our nation's interest but the time to act is rapidly diminishing.\" The species could become more damaging than any other feral animal, he said. State and federal authorities have faced criticism for not doing more to control the outbreak. A spokesman for federal Agricultural Minister Barnaby Joyce said $328m had already been spent on eradication efforts. Further investment would be considered at the next ministers' meeting in May. \"The Agricultural Ministers' Forum has agreed with the findings of independent review that eradication remains technically feasible, cost-beneficial and in the national interest,\" he said in a statement to the BBC. Which is the most notorious ant species on earth?", "question": "Red fire ants could wreak more damage in Australia than feral rabbits , cane toads and foxes @placeholder , experts have warned in a new report .", "option_0": "groups", "option_1": "claimed", "option_2": "do", "option_3": "combined", "option_4": "feared"}
{"id": 1687, "article": "Ysgol Gymraeg Dewi Sant was established at Seion Chapel in Llanelli. The school opened with 34 pupils and two teachers, but has grown to 450 children at its current site. An assembly and Eisteddfod was held to mark the occasion along with the unveiling of a plaque. Among the special guests was Maureen Williams, who was one of the school's first pupils and a former teacher. Current head teacher Ann Clwyd Davies said: \"It has been a very emotional morning\" and all the children are \"very proud\" to be part of the school. \"There is a need for Welsh education and I think the huge battle during the 40s has paved the way,\" she said. Ms Davies added that a new school building was in the pipeline, and they are currently in discussions with Carmarthenshire council.", "question": "The first Welsh medium primary school to be @placeholder by a local authority celebrated its 70th birthday on St David 's Day .", "option_0": "investigated", "option_1": "distracted", "option_2": "overshadowed", "option_3": "inspired", "option_4": "provided"}
{"id": 1688, "article": "Organiser, Karen Rogers, whose maiden name was Liddiard, organised the event after researching her family tree for over 20 years. The Liddiards married into the Seymour family, whose descendents included Jane Seymour the third wife of Henry VIII. Parish records for Aldbourne, Wiltshire show from 1625 until 1925, more than 900 Liddiards had lived in the village. Mrs Rogers has traced the origins of her family to Rockley near Marlborough in the 15th Century. The family was concentrated in Ogbourne St Andrew and Aldbourne in the centuries that followed. \"The Liddiards were quite a wealthy family, they actually owned Rockley Manor for a time,\" she said. \"They're the family that we can trace without a broken line from 1453 till today and one of their descendents will be coming along,\" added Mrs Rogers. From the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries the family spread across England and its colonies. Kelvin Derek Lydiard and his wife Jacqueline travelled from Perth, Australia for the event. Mr Lydiard said: \"It's a really mind-boggling experience just to meet other family members who have stayed in England and around the local area. \"Where we come from, there aren't many at all.\" His wife Jacqueline added: \"It's quite spooky as we walked on to the green and I thought Oh my God he looks like my husband. It's just amazing. \"Even one of the wives said, 'your husband looks like my husband'.\"", "question": "More than 150 people gathered for an @placeholder family reunion in a village where many of their ancestors lived .", "option_0": "attempted", "option_1": "end", "option_2": "extended", "option_3": "alleged", "option_4": "acclaimed"}
{"id": 1689, "article": "Representatives of the US and Russia, which back opposing sides in the conflict, held talks earlier in an effort to agree a joint position. The continuing fighting on the ground in Syria has dimmed hopes for a truce. Meanwhile, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura conceded hopes of resuming peace talks on 25 February were not realistic. But he also insisted the talks could be successful \"if emergency aid continues and we get a ceasefire\". On Wednesday, the UN and Syrian Arab Red Crescent were able to deliver desperately-needed supplies of food and medicine for 80,000 people in three besieged towns around Damascus and two in Idlib province. The UN is also planning a \"high-altitude\" airdrop of aid for 200,000 people trapped in government-controlled areas of the eastern city of Deir al-Zour that are surrounded by Islamic State militants. Last week, members of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) agreed that humanitarian access to besieged areas in Syria would be stepped up and that a taskforce would by Friday \"elaborate modalities\" for a cessation of hostilities. They said it should apply to any of the warring parties other than so-called IS and al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliate that is part of a major rebel alliance. The military officials meeting in Geneva on Friday afternoon are expected discuss which areas of Syria will be covered and which groups should be included, according to the Associated Press. They will also seek agreement on what actions would constitute violations and appropriate responses. Ahead of the talks, Mr de Mistura was quoted by the Swedish newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, as saying: \"The Americans and Russians must sit down and agree on a concrete plan on a cessation of hostilities.\" The US, which backs the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad and is carrying out air strikes on IS positions in Syria as part of a multinational coalition, has criticised Russia's decision to continue its air campaign in support of government offensives in northern and southern Syria in the past week. Washington suspects Moscow is delaying the start of the cessation of hostilities for as long as possible to give Mr Assad time to crush rebel forces around the divided northern city of Aleppo. However, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the BBC: \"We are absolutely for and support everything which goes in the direction of a peace agreement.\" There was no sign of a ceasefire taking force inside Syria on Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group that has a network of sources on the ground, reported clashes and air strikes in the western outskirts of Damascus, the countryside north of the city of Homs and in the northern provinces of Hama and Idlib. Turkey, which opposes Mr Assad, was also continuing to shell a Syrian Kurdish militia across the border near the rebel-held town of Azaz, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency reported. It comes after the Turkish government blamed the Popular Protection Units (YPG), which is aligned to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), for a bomb attack in Ankara on Wednesday. YPG fighters have taken advantage of the Syrian government offensive and accompanying Russian air strikes in Aleppo province to capture several towns and an airbase from rebel groups. Mr de Mistura said the Turkish bombardment was \"complicating\" the situation in Syria, and warned: \"Any type of further conflict along the border of Syria has the potential to spin out of control.\"", "question": "Military officials from 17 countries are to meet in Geneva to discuss how to secure a cessation of hostilities in Syria , as a deadline they @placeholder expires .", "option_0": "opened", "option_1": "representing", "option_2": "collapsed", "option_3": "set", "option_4": "held"}
{"id": 1690, "article": "Being the first Indian prime minister to visit Silicon Valley in 30 years, Narendra Modi has a chance to take back with him an understanding of why the area leads the world in innovation and a bolder vision for India. Mr Modi will be meeting a different expatriate community than anywhere else in the world - Indians who have left their regional, religious, and socio-economic differences behind and who work together to achieve success and uplift their communities. They network with and help each other. They invest in each other's companies and learn from common mistakes. Most Indians in Silicon Valley consider themselves to be loyal American citizens yet they take extraordinary pride in their heritage. Nearly half of Silicon Valley's technology companies are founded by immigrants and Indians - who started 16% of its companies - dominate this group. Here are a few things that Mr Modi can learn from his visit to Silicon Valley: Mr Modi has talked a lot about smart cities. But he is essentially talking about cleaner and more efficient cities. These ambitious, technologically-connected cities do not take billions of dollars to build. The sensors necessary to monitor things such as traffic patterns, air quality, noise, radiation levels and water quality, and to manage pollution and waste, parking, traffic congestion, security and almost every other aspect of a city's functioning are now commonly available and inexpensive. Many start-ups in Silicon Valley are building these technologies and are getting their funding on sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo. India doesn't yet have equivalent funding mechanisms so the government may need to fund start-ups that create the new technology infrastructure. San Francisco-based Uber showed Indian entrepreneurs that taxi-ordering app was practical even in India's chaotic cities. But Uber targeted elite, high-end customers and did many things wrong. The bigger opportunities are to share rides in three-wheelers, bicycle rickshaws, and buses. Technology can also facilitate hiring of workers in the informal economy - labourers, technicians, maids and commercial painters and for tractor-sharing on farms, bike-sharing and farm seed swaps. Indian entrepreneurs are trying to build their own versions of these technologies but they need the support of the government in streamlining cumbersome regulations. Inexpensive sensors can be connected to smartphones and tablets to result in medical devices that are as accurate as those that Western hospitals use. There are many Indian companies working on this in the US. Some Indian companies have already built better and more practical technology than I have seen here in Silicon Valley. Forus Health, founded by K Chandrasekhar, developed a portable eye-screening device called 3nethra which can detect eye diseases such as cataract, diabetic retinopathy and cornea-related problems. Kanav Kohol built the Swasthya Slate, a health device with 33 sensors, to monitor blood pressure, blood sugar, heart rate, blood haemoglobin, urine protein and diseases such as HIV, syphilis, dengue and malaria. Anu Acharya's company MapMyGenome is doing world-class analysis of genomic data to provide insights into the genetic basis of individuals' health, including traits, lifestyle, drug responses, inherited conditions, and diseases. There are also great opportunities in telemedicine to connect people in remote villages to medical experts. Whether for booking railway tickets and monitoring train arrival times or for analysing government productivity and efficiency data, virtually every aspect of public services can be improved through measurement, monitoring, and automation. Entrepreneurs can take a key role in modernising governance by using technology and data to improve efficiency and stem corruption. No matter how hard the government tries, it will not be able to fix India's public schools in time to educate the more than 100 million children in towns and villages with substandard educational facilities. The only solution lies in using technology. India now has the fastest growing smartphone market in the world and soon the majority of Indians will own one. These can also be used for education. There are thousands of apps available today that can teach subjects such as history, geography, music, mathematics, and science. Indian entrepreneurs can build versions of these in local languages. And they can build adaptive learning platforms which tailor the learning path to the needs of the student. For example, if a child likes reading books, the digital tutor can teach mathematics and science in a traditional way. If that doesn't work, the tutor can try videos. If that's too boring, it can switch to games or puzzles. Digital tutors can provide equally good education to all children, rich and poor. Mr Modi should sponsor projects to build these. A leading cause of disease in India and the developing world are waterborne viruses. Affluent Indians spend billions of dollars annually on bottled water, but this isn't always safe. A technology from Chile can help solve this problem. The Advanced Innovation Center (AIC) Chile has developed a system that converts water into a plasma state through a high-intensity electrical field and eliminates microbiological content through electroporation, oxidation, ionisation, UV and IR radiation, and shockwaves. It was tested in a Santiago slum in mid-2011 and has worked flawlessly ever since. After visiting Chile and seeing this in operation, I had AIC founder Alfredo Zolezzi bring the technology to the US. It was tested for conformance to Environment Protection Agency guidelines by the leading US public health and safety organisation, NSF International. It broke the scale and exceeded NSF's highest standards. It killed 100% of all bacteria and viruses in the 24 heavily tainted samples that were tested. This company now has a home in Silicon Valley and is rolling out the technology in South America. Mr Modi should take these to every village in India. Sensors can be used to monitor soil humidity and optimise watering. Aquaculture can be optimised with on-farm diagnostic technologies. Dairy and farm production can be automated. These can be connected to smartphones that farmers are buying. Technology can dramatically increase the efficiency of Indian farms - at a very low cost. Schoolchildren in Silicon Valley have the opportunity to play with 3D printers, robot-building kits, and sensor components. These printers and kits are not expensive. With a modest investment, every village could be provided with these so children there could be building robots that automate manufacturing; designing innovative new consumer products; and customising 3D designs for global consumers. They can be developing sensor-based systems for diverse industries; smart-city technologies; and new home-monitoring and home-automation systems.", "question": "Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit California during his upcoming trip to the US . He will visit the offices of some major internet companies , host a meeting of Indian start - ups , @placeholder a town hall meeting with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and address the diaspora . Technology entrepreneur and academic Vivek Wadhwa on what Mr Modi can take away from his time in Silicon Valley .", "option_0": "leaving", "option_1": "considers", "option_2": "attend", "option_3": "according", "option_4": "argues"}
{"id": 1691, "article": "Alan Millar expected the usual single yolks as part of his ham, egg and chips meal when he ordered his lunch at The Gloucester Old Spot pub. But pub owner Amy Devenish said her customer was \"so excited\" at what was placed before him. Mr Millar shared his delight by buying all the staff a drink to celebrate. Ms Devenish added: \"The boys in the kitchen started frantically ringing the bell, so we went in to find out what was up. \"They said 'have a look at this, it's a triple yolker'. We couldn't believe it, we've never seen one of those before. \"I took a snap on my phone and then once the ham, egg and chips was plated up I took it out to the table. \"The old boy was so excited as he'd never seen one before.\" \"He was shouting over to his kids to tell them to come and have a look at it. He actually bought all the staff a drink later on.\" The pictures were posted on the pub's Facebook on Sunday, attracting hundreds of likes. The Cotswold Legbar blue eggs were from Le Chasse in Zeals, Wiltshire.", "question": "A diner who was @placeholder both a triple and a double yolker at a Bristol pub bought all the staff a drink to celebrate his egg surprise .", "option_0": "seized", "option_1": "stabbed", "option_2": "spotted", "option_3": "punched", "option_4": "served"}
{"id": 1692, "article": "Eight weeks old Velu was born to mother Heleen on 24 June and lives in the Budongo Trail at the zoo with 18 other chimpanzees. Heleen is from a group of nine chimpanzees who arrived at Edinburgh Zoo from the Netherlands in 2010. The chimps started life in a research lab, then were rehomed to Beekse Bergen Safari Park, before Edinburgh. Sophie Pearson, team leader for the Budongo Trail at Edinburgh Zoo, said: \"We are delighted with the arrival and successful integration of Velu into our chimpanzee group. \"Still very young, Velu will look like a baby for another five years or so. \"He currently has a beautiful pale, pinky-coloured face which will darken as he gets older and has a mass of spiky hair. \"His father is either 38 year old Louis or 21 year old Rene, two of the males in our group. Later on we will do a paternity test to confirm.\"", "question": "The first baby chimpanzee to be @placeholder in captivity in Scotland in 15 years has gone on display at Edinburgh Zoo.", "option_0": "opened", "option_1": "spent", "option_2": "bathed", "option_3": "reared", "option_4": "renamed"}
{"id": 1693, "article": "So at least they could ask each other here - in the face of that horror, and a series of other recent atrocities in Beirut, in Iraq, and in the skies over the Sinai desert: \"Can we put aside some of our differences and do better when we take on the extremists?\" The most obvious progress, however fragile, was over Syria, described by French president Francois Hollande as \"the greatest factory of terrorism the world has ever seen\". For more than four years, Syria has been laid waste by a civil war of increasing savagery. Large areas have emptied of people, leaving ungoverned space for IS extremists to seize. So ending the war - somehow - is now even more imperative. President Vladimir Putin is key. Russia too is an IS victim now. So has he been brought closer to the US-led coalition, or they closer to him? Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, had face-to-face talks with Mr Putin. They did break down some of the profound differences between Russia and the West over that intractable Syrian civil war. Mr Cameron told President Putin Russian bombing of the moderate opposition in Syria was a \"mistake\". Then, after their talks, Mr Cameron said that was changing: \"I think there are some signs, some signs, that they are focusing more on IS, but we need to see that continued. \"The gap has been enormous between those of us who believe [Syria's President Bashar al-]Assad should go immediately and those, like President Putin, who have been supporting him, who continue to support him. I think everyone recognises the need for compromise.\" The hope is that prospects for a peace process supervised by the United Nations are now improving, although substantial obstacles remain. The prize, of course, would be an eventual democratic settlement in Syria. At the G20, President Putin said Russia had changed tactics, focusing its bombing on IS, not on moderate opposition forces ranged against President Assad. Russia was actually starting to work with some of the Western-backed groups. The Russian President used his closing press conference to declare: \"Currently, on the battlefield, we have established contact with a part of the armed Syrian opposition who have asked us not to strike territories under their control. \"We have come to an agreement with them, and we are following it. In addition, when the armed opposition can actively fight terrorist groups, we are prepared to provide them with our air support\". Western leaders will be keen to verify that. As for US President Barack Obama, he said the military coalition working with the US had taken territory back from IS and was denying them all-important space in which to train and to plot attacks. But President Obama again rejected committing substantial US ground forces, while arguing patience would be rewarded. \"There will be an intensification of the strategy that we put forward, the strategy that is ultimately going to work, but, as as I said from the start, it is going to take time,\" he said. More than that, President Obama stressed a world united against \"the face of evil\" would prevail. But I have to report, listening to him in Turkey, he was not sounding his usual confident self. It was more the uncertain commander-in-chief. \"There are going to be some things we try that don't work, and some strategies that do, and when we find ones that do, we will double down on those,\" he said. President Obama even downplayed what he called \"modest\" diplomatic progress on Syria. Still, the heads of government did agree on a range of measures, including to share intelligence better, as well as to strengthen aviation security. The trouble is they sorely need those improvements, after devastating failures that apparently made destroying the Russian airliner possible and let some of those who carried out the Paris attacks move around Europe unchecked. This was a G20 like no other.", "question": "This long @placeholder summit brought the world 's most powerful leaders to Turkey immediately after the Paris attacks .", "option_0": "shows", "option_1": "planned", "option_2": "emerged", "option_3": "surrounding", "option_4": "raised"}
{"id": 1694, "article": "Work on the A423 Southern Bypass to create a \"hamburger\" style roundabout at Kennington began in June. During the ??7m scheme, a contraflow system reduced the bypass to one lane between Hinksey Hill and Heyford Hill interchanges. The roundabout is designed to increase capacity by up to 30%, Oxfordshire County Council said. In July, motorists were warned by Oxfordshire County Council to use alternative forms of transport because of delays of up to three hours. The work has included the refurbishment of four bridges and a new subway for pedestrians and cyclists. Councillor David Nimmo Smith, cabinet member for transport, said: \"The improved access through this key route into and around Oxford means that public transport services will also be quicker and more reliable, and I would encourage people to use these services.\"", "question": "Six months of roadworks which led to long delays for motorists in Oxford have been @placeholder .", "option_0": "released", "option_1": "launched", "option_2": "announced", "option_3": "completed", "option_4": "documented"}
{"id": 1695, "article": "So when the prospect of a non-contact training session reduced him to a tangle of self-doubt and anxiety, he knew the ball was burst. Nine months on from the pre-season friendly - Ansbro's London Irish travelling to face Munster - and the characteristically fierce lunging tackle that broke his neck in the summer of 2012, his confidence had been shredded. \"I was just terrified,\" says ex-centre Ansbro, looking back. \"The edge that I'd had was gone. \"I'd lost a lot of confidence, my movement patterns, vision and decision-making. \"I was really dreading it. I felt supremely confident going into that season, in attack and defence, I was so looking forward to it. \"Then it was almost like being in the academy again and getting your first training session. \"I didn't get particularly close to coming back in the end - I didn't even get to controlled contact.\" Ultimately, Ansbro skipped the session. He announced his retirement soon after, aged 27. His was an unerring devotion that endeared him to his peers and coaches. He relished not just the practicalities of scything down opponents but the strategy and organisation that positioned him to do so. This would always, however, render him vulnerable to bodily grievance in the line of duty. The fractured vertebrae at the top of his spine consigned Ansbro to three months in a halo brace - a metal contraption attached via four screws to his skull that immobilised his neck. \"I think that [the injury] was about the fourth time I tackled someone with my head in that game alone,\" he jokes. His Test career with Scotland was, by modern standards, fleeting, with 11 caps spread across two years. He was the first contemporary black player to represent the nation - not that he affords that statistic much more than a shrug - having been born in Glasgow and adopted at 10 weeks old by a white English family who lived in Dumfries. Erudite and articulate, he attended boarding school in Lancashire, and studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, featuring in varsity matches, and winning a contract with Northampton Saints. These days, he teaches biology at Harrow School - whose alumni include the meaty frames of Saracens forwards Billy Vunipola and Maro Itoje - and indulges in a spot of coaching, grateful to have left rugby with an able body under the circumstances. But there are moments, albeit growing briefer with the passage of time, where he longs for the banter and the camaraderie of the hours spent among the lads. \"Ultimately, you become a fan again,\" he says of the transition. \"There's a perception, particularly with the [Six Nations] Wooden Spoon, that Scotland are not as strong a rugby nation as they should be, and I hate that, because I know it's not true. \"Glasgow don't win the Pro12 unless they've got a lot of good quality players. Edinburgh had a great run in the European Challenge Cup. \"It's the same with coaching; you just want the boys to go out and show the world what they're about and how good they are. \"We've always had very good players but our best players haven't always performed, which can be frustrating. \"Now, everyone seems to be playing well, and it just allows you to build momentum.\" Ansbro knows what it's like to castle Australia, the maddening, rage-inducing finale to last Sunday's quarter-final loss in stark contrast to Scotland's 9-6 victory Down Under three years ago. Of course, that glorious triumph, in a New South Wales deluge, was immortalised online by the immediate aftermath, the Scots' flocking to form a delirious rain-soaked rammy, and Ansbro clashing foreheads with the somewhat beefier Al Strokosch, requiring nearly 50 stitches as a result. \"It was probably the first time I'd ever celebrated, like properly celebrated, a win,\" he says. \"It meant so much. \"I'd been injured that Six Nations, we'd Wooden-Spooned it, and morale, after one lost game is bad, but you play four, five games of rugby, that pressure of letting so many people down, it can be pretty miserable. \"All of a sudden to flip that round in one game was pretty ridiculous. \"Without a shadow of a doubt, they underestimated what we were going to bring to the game. The weather certainly helped, kept the game nice and tight for us, and allowed us to strike in the last play.\" Ansbro played with plenty of Scotland's present roster. Alongside the treasured euphoria of sinking the Wallabies, and South Africa, he endured heartbreaks of his own. Failed Six Nations fixtures and an exasperating World Cup exit in 2011. But in Vern Cotter's side, he sees a spark, an unruly \"fearlessness\" and a familiarity fostered by domestic glory. \"Having essentially an entire backline that plays at the same club, Glasgow, a successful club as well - these boys are used to winning,\" he said. \"I'm so excited about the momentum the Australia game could help build - there's always hope, there's always optimism when you support Scotland, but I do feel like this is a step change. \"I'm tired of people underestimating Scotland and Scottish rugby. Off the back of quite a few disappointing Six Nations campaigns, there's a lack of respect towards Scottish rugby that I think needs to be addressed. \"I think people don't expect Scotland to win games at the moment, which is one of the great things about last Sunday, and also one of the bad things about last Sunday - everyone saw that we could have won the game, but we didn't. \"I think it's time we set the record straight.\"", "question": "Joe Ansbro never imagined he 'd approach a game of rugby with anything less than an all - @placeholder , unquestionable commitment .", "option_0": "packed", "option_1": "sized", "option_2": "point", "option_3": "soaked", "option_4": "consuming"}
{"id": 1696, "article": "Police began searching for Marcel Hesse after the dead boy was found in his cellar on Monday night. They said he posted images of the body online. The teenager, 19, was arrested in the western city of Herne on Thursday after identifying himself at a restaurant, German media report. He then reported a fire in a nearby flat, where another body was found. Mr Hesse is alleged to have boasted in an online chat-room about also murdering a woman. The body found on Thursday was male, a police spokesman said. Shocked locals have been gathering outside the apartment in Herne. The nine-year-old boy died of multiple stab wounds, and the discovery of his body on Monday sparked a huge manhunt. On Wednesday, with the suspect still at-large, children in Herne were told to play indoors at kindergartens. Police warned the public that the teenager may be armed. A witness said Marcel Hesse had revealed his attack on the messaging service WhatsApp. He had suggested he had wanted to kill himself but failed and murdered the boy instead. Police said he shared images on the internet of himself next to the dead child. The boy's family told German media that the teenager had asked him to help with a ladder. The boy's stepfather went to search for the boy, and found his body in Mr Hesse's cellar. Investigators in the nearby city of Bochum said the suspect had also spoken online of killing a woman, claiming she \"put up more of a fight than the child\" and weighed some 120kg (19 stone). The motive for his alleged attack appeared to have been the woman's bank, computer and phone details.", "question": "German police have arrested a teenager suspected of killing his nine - year - old @placeholder , after a nationwide manhunt .", "option_0": "neighbour", "option_1": "effect", "option_2": "team", "option_3": "child", "option_4": "girlfriend"}
{"id": 1697, "article": "The chief ministers of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man said the islands had a \"direct interest\" in the UK's withdrawal because it would affect their trade arrangements with the EU. People in the Crown dependencies were not eligible to vote in the referendum. Mr Cameron told the House of Commons on Monday the islands would be consulted. In the open letter published on Tuesday the leaders of the Crown dependencies said they wished to \"retain the status quo\" regarding their relationship with the EU, in particular concerning their Protocol 3 deal. Protocol 3 - the section of the UK Treaty of Accession relating to the Crown dependencies - currently allows the islands to have free trade of goods with the EU but will be nullified when the UK formally leaves the union. Decisions concerning rights for EU nationals were also \"of particular relevance\" to the Crown dependencies because they \"are home to a significant number of non-British EU nationals and residents that have EU rights through their connection to the UK\", the letter said. The leaders asked the prime minister to confirm that the islands would be \"kept informed on matters of interest to us\" and to be allowed to contribute to negotiations \"where appropriate\". However, the chief ministers stressed their \"closest relationship is with the UK\" and they understood that Brexit would not prevent free trade and free movement of people between their jurisdictions. The BBC has approached the prime minister's office for comment.", "question": "Britain 's Crown dependencies have @placeholder to David Cameron requesting a seat at Brexit negotiations despite already being outside the EU .", "option_0": "appealed", "option_1": "sought", "option_2": "refused", "option_3": "agreed", "option_4": "written"}
{"id": 1698, "article": "Friday, 28 August AFC Liverpool v Radcliffe Borough Seven Acre and Sidcup v Sittingbourne Sholing v Swindon Supermarine St Ives Town v Norwich United Wantage Town v Didcot Town Saturday, 29 August AFC Wulfrunians                v  Romulus Carlton Town                   v  Shepshed Dynamo Coleshill Town                 v  Stafford Rangers Loughborough University        v  Long Eaton Utd Sporting Khalsa                v  Cadbury Athletic Stourport Swifts               v  Alvechurch Westfields                     v  Kidsgrove Ath Phoenix Sports                 v  Guernsey Whitley Bay                    v  Heaton Stannington West Auckland Town             v  Washington Ashington                      v  Thackley North Shields                  v  Kendal Town Bishop Auckland                v  Jarrow Roofing Silsden                        v  Padiham Guisborough Town               v  Newcastle Benfield Marske Utd                     v  Lancaster City Harrogate Railway              v  Spennymoor Town Holker Old Boys                v  Dunston UTS Consett                        v  Scarborough Athletic Tadcaster Albion               v  Colne Newton Aycliffe                v  Morpeth Town Congleton Town                 v  Handsworth Parramore Runcorn Linnets                v  Pontefract Collieries Armthorpe Welfare              v  New Mills Runcorn Town                   v  Northwich Alsager Town                   v  Shaw Lane Aquaforce Mossley                        v  Bamber Bridge Burscough                      v  AFC Emley Barton Town Old Boys           v  Droylsden 1874 Northwich                 v  Maltby Main Abbey Hey                      v  Warrington Town Brighouse Town                 v  Atherton Collieries Stocksbridge P S               v  Farsley Celtic Glossop North End              v  Prescot Cables Goole                          v  Sheffield Trafford                       v  Witton Albion Ossett Albion                  v  Maine Road AFC Blackpool                  v  Ossett Town Market Drayton                 v  Bridgnorth Town Bromsgrove Sporting            v  Hinckley Utd Newcastle Town                 v  Continental Star Leek Town                      v  Rocester Rugby Town                     v  Coventry Sphinx Chasetown                      v  Evesham Tividale                       v  Hanley Town Harborough Town                v  Oadby Town Kirby Muxloe                   v  Holwell Sports Loughborough Dynamo            v  Basford Utd Radford                        v  Spalding Utd Dunkirk                        v  Bottesford Town South Normanton Athletic       v  Lincoln Utd Gresley                        v  Coalville Town Leicester Nirvana              v  Belper Town Clipstone                      v  Cleethorpes Town Mildenhall Town                v  Soham Town Rangers Yaxley                         v  Godmanchester Rovers Deeping Rangers                v  Dereham Town Wroxham                        v  Fakenham Town Wisbech Town                   v  Holbeach Utd Newmarket Town                 v  Peterborough Sports London Colney                  v  Potters Bar Town St Margaretsbury               v  AFC Hornchurch Welwyn Garden City             v  Waltham Abbey Ilford                         v  Stanway Rovers Hullbridge Sports              v  Maldon & Tiptree Harlow                         v  Southend Manor Barking                        v  Haringey Borough AFC Sudbury                    v  Ware Whitton Utd                    v  Kirkley & Pakefield Hoddesdon Town                 v  Romford Redbridge                      v  Heybridge Cockfosters                    v  Tower Hamlets Saffron Walden Town            v  Cheshunt Great Wakering                 v  Brantham Athletic Basildon Utd                   v  Long Melford Thurrock                       v  Royston Town Witham Town                    v  Brightlingsea Regent FC Clacton                     v  Aveley Ashford Town                   v  AFC Kempston Rovers Long Buckby                    v  Daventry Town Barton                         v  Berkhamsted Risborough Rangers             v  Aylesbury Wembley                        v  North Greenford Utd Northampton Sileby Rangers     v  Leighton Bedfont & Feltham              v  AFC Hayes Newport Pagnell Town           v  AFC Dunstable Bedfont Sports                 v  Hanwell Town Uxbridge                       v  Northampton Spencer Aylesbury Utd                  v  Northwood Bedford Town                   v  Thrapston Town Cogenhoe Utd                   v  Spelthorne Sports Tring Athletic                 v  Arlesey Kings Langley                  v  AFC Rushden & Diamonds Chertsey Town                  v  Kidlington Binfield                       v  Shortwood Utd Badshot Lea                    v  Fleet Town Marlow                         v  Godalming Town Brimscombe & Thrupp            v  Bracknell Town Tuffley Rovers                 v  Bishops Cleeve Cheltenham Saracens     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{"id": 1699, "article": "Urie, who played the part of \"Big Bob\" in the soap, aims to complete a top 10 of everyday things that he could not do before. Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland's Kaye Adams programme, Urie described his struggles with depression and anxiety. The actor, who had gastric bypass surgery last year, said the weight loss meant he could now claim his life back. He said: \"For the last 15 years, there was a decline, everything was a struggle. \"Getting up out of a chair was a struggle, getting in and out of the bath was a struggle, walking anywhere, talking to people because I was out of breath all the time. I was frightened to leave the house because someone might say something. \"There was just a whole big catalogue of possible hazards that my brain went through before I could think of doing anything\". As well as undergoing surgery, Urie was given medication to help his battles with mental health, which he believes proved crucial in changing his situation. He said: \"The solution for me started in my head. Nobody ends up in that position voluntarily, in the state I was in, nobody wants to be there. I'm not saying I wasn't responsible, but nobody wants to be there. \"So I had to look at the reasons why I eat, I had to look at the reasons why I didn't want anything other than playing 'Candy Crush Saga' and phoning pizzas. \"I needed to find out what was wrong with me and what the problem was. Once that started getting sorted out, the other options started coming in.\" The Paisley-born actor, who is also a musician, said the compliments he had received from people following his transformation had encouraged him. He said: \"That is what's keeping me going. When you're in the position I was in, self-esteem was a terrible thing. I've still got the same brain and the same feelings. \"People will get tired of talking about it once it settles down but at the moment, it is my main focus and I'm just concentrating on getting healthy again. \"That is what this bucket list is sort of about really. It's about claiming life and getting life, because I just sat in my house for so long and I won't get tired of the positivity. How can you get tired of that?\" Part of the list includes a wish to help others in a similar position who are afraid to leave the house because of their situation. He explained: \"There's maybe someone listening to this now who is where I was, crippled with it, mentally and physically. I don't know how to help but I want to, that's on my list\". Another ambition is to book a photo shoot, something Urie says he would not have had the confidence to take part in previously. He said: \"That's the self-indulgent one. All the way through this journey, I've been posting before and after pictures on Facebook and it's for me to remind myself because I need to remember what I came from. \"I need to remember what it was like.  I don't want to forget because it could come back. This surgery isn't a miracle, it could happen again. \"So I'd just like to do a big, fancy photo-shoot and try to look handsome in it, and compare it to my worst photo of the past. It's a self-indulgent thing but it's also a self-esteem thing, because I never, ever would have done that as I wouldn't have felt good enough\".", "question": "Former River City actor Tom Urie has @placeholder up a \" weight - loss bucket list \" ' after losing 16 stone .", "option_0": "drawn", "option_1": "stepped", "option_2": "built", "option_3": "set", "option_4": "picked"}
{"id": 1700, "article": "Ministers will consider whether to allow cage-trapping and killing by injection of infected badgers found on affected farms. Individual action plans will be developed for farms with long-term bovine TB issues. Other measures involve deeper and more sensitive testing of herds. But Wales' chief vet stressed there would be no \"large scale, indiscriminate cull of badgers\" - and any infected badgers found would be dealt with humanely. On Tuesday, the Welsh Government unveiled new plans which include dividing up Wales into different areas with low, intermediate and high incidence of the disease. Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and counties alongside the border with England will be classed as \"high\", while north west Wales is classified as \"low\". A tailored approach will be developed to reflect the varying disease conditions and risks. The aim is to try and avoid the disease from spreading to north west Wales and to work towards eradicating it in areas of high prevalence. During a 12-week consultation, the Welsh Government will seek views on the measures that should be applied to each area. For farms where there are persistent breakdowns, individual action plans will be developed in partnership with farmers, vets and the Animal and Plant Health Agency. These would involve investigating farming practices. Where it can be shown that badgers are part of the problem, Rural Affairs Secretary Lesley Griffiths said she would consider allowing cage-trapping them with infected animals being humanely killed. Similar measures were recently piloted in Northern Ireland. Meanwhile in England, licensed marksmen have been culling badgers in parts of Cornwall, Herefordshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Dorset. Farming unions had been calling for a badger cull to be included in the Welsh Government's new plans, a move fiercely opposed by wildlife groups. Speaking in the Senedd, Ms Griffiths said it was \"time to take stock\" and \"consider a refreshed approach\". \"Since we introduced the eradication programme in 2012 we have seen a decrease in the number of new cases of bovine TB in cattle herds in Wales, with the latest figures showing the number of new TB incidents is down by 19%,\" she added. \"I am keen to build on this success and speed up progress, which is why I am looking to introduce enhanced, evidence-based measures.\" Ms Griffiths said vaccination still had a role to play in the approach to TB eradication but added it was \"too soon to think\" about using it in the future when it was unknown when the supply would be restored. Chief veterinary officer for Wales Prof Christianne Glossop told BBC Wales it was possible that deeper and earlier testing could mean the number of cattle slaughtered would rise in the short term. \"As we find cattle at an earlier stage we're likely to find more infected cattle. But it's really important we find them as soon a possible and remove them from the farm,\" she said. Prof Glossop said they were determined to tackle \"chronic\" TB in herds at 60 farms, which in the longest 10 cases, had been going on for up to a decade. Where infected badgers were found on farms, they would most probably consider euthanizing the animals - using a lethal injection - as opposed to shooting. \"We're not proposing a large scale, indiscriminate cull of badgers across large swathes of countryside - we're talking about looking for infected groups of badgers and removing those in an appropriate and humane way,\" said Prof Glossop. She said large scale culling was not appropriate or necessary in Wales and a \"minimal damage approach\" should be tried. Gwyndaf Thomas, who farms in Meidrim, Carmarthenshire, has been told 85 of his cows are to be slaughtered next week. He said, aside from the effect on his business, it could be distressing. \"I hope they won't want to shoot animals on the farm,\" he said. The Farmers' Union of Wales (FUW)  called it a \"small step in the right direction\" but said many farmers would be concerned at the implications of splitting Wales into TB zones. \"Targeting infected badgers would be a welcome move, but it is disappointing that it has taken so many years to move back towards common sense after the original comprehensive plan to tackle the disease in wildlife was abandoned by the previous Welsh Government,\" said FUW president Glyn Roberts. NFU Cymru president, Stephen James said there was \"welcome recognition\" of the link between cattle and wildlife in disease transmission \"but we are concerned at the time it may take for this issue to be adequately addressed.\" Conservative rural affairs spokesman Paul Davies AM welcomed the  consultation but believed it was a case of \"too little, too late\". He added: \"It is imperative we see more decisive action from the Welsh Government as this disease is having a devastating impact on rural communities and Welsh farming.\"", "question": "A large scale of cull of badgers has been @placeholder out as part of a \" refreshed \" approach to tackling TB in cattle in Wales .", "option_0": "ruled", "option_1": "thrown", "option_2": "wiped", "option_3": "singled", "option_4": "launched"}
{"id": 1701, "article": "The book was part of a sale of more than 50 items, which included sketches and letters and raised ¡ê101,952. Most of them were amassed by John Cawood from the Lake District, with which Potter had a long association. Memorabilia was being auctioned to mark 150 years since the author's birth. Mr Cawood started his collection in 1972 and set out to achieve a complete set of first editions of Potter's books. Beatrix Potter did not stop at writing tales that would last for more than a century. In 1903 Peter Rabbit became the first literary character in the world to be licensed and turned into a doll. It was all the author's idea too. She went on to invent a Peter Rabbit board game a year later and came up with further spin-offs, such as painting books, featuring her characters. Beatrix Potter's legacy is a huge money-spinner for the Lake District, not only from the buildings and land she left to the National Trust but in the thousands of people who visit from all over the world, including Japan, where Peter Rabbit and other characters have acted as mascots for banks. 100 million copies of \"little books\" sold globally 35 languages 4,000 acres of land, and 15 farms, bequeathed to the National Trust 100,000 visitors a year to Beatrix Potter's former home, Hill Top, Cumbria 15,000 Japanese visitors a year to The World of Beatrix Potter An illustration for The Story of Miss Moppet featured instructions from the author on how it was to be shrunk to fit the title-page A first edition of the book also featured in the sale. A handwritten letter dated February 1924, from Beatrix Heelis - the author's married name -  was estimated to fetch up to ¡ê1,200, but sold for ¡ê2,700. Clive Moss, an auctioneer at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions in London, said of the sale: \"Bids were received briskly from within the auction room, online and on the telephone from a world-wide audience.\" Stamps depicting Beatrix Potter's creations, such as Peter Rabbit and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, have also been released to mark her 150th birthday.", "question": "A first edition of Beatrix Potter 's iconic work , the Tale of Peter Rabbit , has sold at auction for ¡ê 43,400 - an increase of more than ¡ê 8,000 on its @placeholder price .", "option_0": "purchase", "option_1": "initial", "option_2": "banks", "option_3": "listed", "option_4": "home"}
{"id": 1702, "article": "The vacancy on the Supreme Court presents more immediate concerns, however. The court is in the middle of its term, and it is in the process of reviewing a number of high-profile cases on subjects like immigration reform, union dues, healthcare reform and abortion. It seems increasingly likely that the battle over Scalia's successor will drag on for months. President Barack Obama has announced that he will select a nominee, but Republicans in the Senate, which must confirm any appointment, appear committed to blocking any candidate until a new (Republican, they hope) president takes office in January 2017. In other words, the court could be left with eight justices for 11 months or more. If the vote on a case under consideration ends in a four-to-four tie, the court is effectively silent. The lower-court decision being reviewed continues to stand - but only in the particular court's jurisdiction. It has no binding effect on the rest of the nation. This presents an unusual situation where the benefits of such ties vary greatly depending on the disposition of the case at question. How a circuit court or state supreme court ruled becomes of the utmost importance - at least until the uncertainty in the high court is settled. Although most court cases don't result in votes that are so sharply divided, several this term appear headed in that direction. Here are four key cases that could end up in a tie - and who would benefit from such a stalemate. Immigration reform - A group of 26 states, led by Texas, sued the US government challenging the legality of President Barack Obama's unilateral executive action in 2014 which suspended the deportation of the families of US citizens and permanent residents. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reviewed the case and halted implementation of Mr Obama's policy pending full consideration of the merits of the case. The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to expedite consideration of the case, and the justices agreed. If it's a tie: The Fifth Circuit suspension would stay in effect until a district court trial could be conducted. Mr Obama's high-profile decision to bypass Congress in implementing reform of US immigration law would likely languish past the end of his administration in January. Who wins? Conservatives have vociferously objected to what they call Mr Obama's dictatorial actions. For them a tie here is as good as a win. Union dues - Public-sector employees are not required to join a union, but the Supreme Court held in 1977 that unions can charge non-participating employees a fee to cover certain expenses incurred while operating on their behalf. Ten schoolteachers, with the assistance of a Christian educational group, sued the California Teachers Association, charging that paying such fees violated their constitutional right to free speech. The Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled in favour of the union. If it's a tie: The Ninth Circuit opinion, which deferred to the 1977 Supreme Court decision, would prevail and public-sector unions across the US would continue to be able to collect fees. Who wins? If the public-sector unions make it through this case with their fee-collecting ability intact, it will almost certainly be because of Scalia's death. Just a year ago Justice Samuel Alito wrote an opinion in a related case, joined by Scalia and the three other conservative justices, that all but telegraphed that changes were coming. That's all been thrown in doubt now. Abortion - In 2013 Texas passed a law that required abortion clinics in the state to meet the same medical standards as outpatient surgical centres and any abortion-performing physicians to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their practice. Critics said the law would make it prohibitively expensive for many abortion clinics to operate and effectively close those that are in rural areas far from hospitals. A group of women's health clinics and physicians filed suit against the state, arguing that the law placed an undue burden on a woman's right to an abortion, but the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the law was constitutional. If it's a tie: The Fifth Circuit ruling upholding the Texas law would stand. It would only have effect in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, however. Who wins? Abortion foes would end up celebrating the outcome, as it would allow the Texas law to go into effect. With Scalia on the court, however, there may have been five votes to uphold the new abortion restrictions, paving the way for more states to follow suit and ending the legal challenges already working their way through other jurisdictions. Healthcare reform - Another year, another challenge to Mr Obama's signature healthcare reform plan. At issue this time is a requirement in the law that all insurance plans must provide free-of-charge coverage for birth-control drugs. Because of objections from religious non-profit groups that said they were being forced to pay for certain types of contraception that they viewed as immoral, the Obama administration implemented a work-around that moved the cost of coverage onto the government. Religious groups sued the government in a number of different courts to strike down the requirement that they notify the government that they were exercising their moral objection, which would make it easier for the government to implement an alternative coverage. The Supreme Court consolidated seven of these cases and agreed to consider them all at one time. If it's a tie: All seven cases in question go back to the lower courts from which they arrived. Most of them have upheld the legality of the Obama administration's provision in varying degrees. Who wins? Nobody! Or maybe everybody. In many jurisdictions the government's rules would go into effect. In the Eighth Circuit, covering seven states in the central US, the rules would be suspended pending further legal action. All in all it would create an enormous headache for government bureaucrats in charge of implementing and enforcing the healthcare law.", "question": "Much of the political discussion following Justice Antonin Scalia 's death has centred on the impact it will have on the Supreme Court for decades to come . A new justice - whether appointed by Barack Obama or a Democratic successor next year - could shift the court 's balance from conservative to liberal for a @placeholder .", "option_0": "change", "option_1": "deal", "option_2": "generation", "option_3": "group", "option_4": "deadline"}
{"id": 1703, "article": "For a few moments, the whole process of sifting, mixing and baking helps take her mind off her personal plight. Not only has she lost a well-paid and enjoyable job because of a life-threatening illness, she is also one of about a million Dutch people who suddenly find themselves in negative equity. Maureen needs to move to sheltered accommodation as soon as possible. Yet she has only had one offer for her flat, way short of the 200,000 euros that she paid just two years ago. But this is not just a story of over-optimistic lenders who tempted the Dutch to pile into property in the mistaken assumption that it would continue to rise in value. The housing dam has broken. Holland is sitting on some 650bn euros in mortgage loans,  with many properties worth 25% less than they were before the financial crisis. No other EU consumers are as deeply in debt. The bursting of the Netherlands real estate bubble is now on a scale only previously seen in the United States and Spain. Worst of all, it is endangering banks and jobs - stalling the longed-for recovery that is starting to emerge in neighbouring north European countries. And all this in a country that until recently was seen as an exemplary economy - one that was quick to criticise others in Europe for not living within their means. The irony is not lost on Dutch citizens. What remains one of the most open and competitive countries in the eurozone finds itself busting EU deficit limits and having to rapidly impose painful state austerity measures on its people against the clock. For Maureen Wachtels, it is a surprising turn of events because she thought she was being frugal. When she was in the market to buy, she borrowed some 200,000 euros, but was told she could borrow almost 500,000 euros - and many did just that. \"We were all forced to buy because at the time there didn't seem to be any property to rent. Now we are stuck with houses we can't sell,\" she says. \"I never expected that in just two years my asking price would come down from over 200,000 euros to 179,000. \"All I have is an offer for 153,000 euros which I have sent to the bank - but they have not responded.\" She has advised her children to decline their inheritance on her death - because otherwise they could be stuck with her unexpected debts which will total some 35,000 euros. The estate agent handling the sale, Dennis Stello, principal of Match Makelaars in Rotterdam, says the price falls are a good thing - not least because a return to affordability has revived the previously moribund rental market. Despite this, he feels desperately sorry for clients like Maureen Wachtels who have been caught up in financial events. Mr Stello believes the origins of the crisis lie in botched economic policy of the previous government. For instance, until recently tax breaks for mortgage borrowers in the Netherlands were so generous that they inflated the market to the point where most people could no longer afford to buy. He suggests the fault lies with politicians looking for votes who failed to act on warnings and correct the state's unsustainable generosity; the mortgage tax breaks were costing taxpayers an estimated 14bn euros a year. Finally, the system was changed but by then the market was falling. \"The price drop began in 2008 and it won't stop. In my opinion prices will keep coming down 2 or 3% a year until they end up around half of what they were,\" says Mr Stello. \"They could fall even more as and when the European Central Bank raises interest rates.\" For some, the Dutch experience provides an economic lesson of the risks for a prosperous economy caught up in a post-bubble crunch when it has ceded control of its monetary policy, interest rates and currency. One man who has closely followed the Dutch housing market is Maarten van Wijk, an economic specialist for the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper. \"If you have a house worth 150,000 euros, but it has a mortgage of 200,000 this has a large psychological effect. You can't move, you just have to struggle to pay down the mortgage as fast as possible. \"That is money you can't spend in the economy. It has also come as a surprise to most people. \"If you went to a dinner party before the crisis and told people you were renting a house, people would probably consider you financially backward. \"It was received wisdom that house prices would always go up.\" So far forced sales are relatively low - estimated at only 3,000 or so since the crisis began. Banks are offering various relief measures to try and keep people in their homes - not least because the lenders themselves want to avoid writing down their home loans. One possible future escape route for some stressed homebuyers might be tapping into their accrued personal pension funds - if they have any. It is an idea under active consideration in a country now exploring any possible avenue to escape a debt crisis of its own making.", "question": "Maureen Wachtels is trying to @placeholder by making a Victoria sponge in her small but pristine central Rotterdam flat .", "option_0": "grow", "option_1": "download", "option_2": "write", "option_3": "arrive", "option_4": "relax"}
{"id": 1704, "article": "There are questions over whether the event can continue to attract top talent and retain its position as one of the movie world's leading festivals. Alberto Barbera said a major new cinema complex would be built despite being abandoned in 2011 due to lack of funds. He said: \"We cannot host a modern event and attract film-makers without it.\" He added: \"So yes, it has to happen. It was one of the conditions for me taking the role. \"We know we have this reputation for quality. It's our greatest asset, and it's a privileged position.\" Barbera has cut the number of films being screened and has faced criticism over the number of stars attending this year. Venice has come under increasing competition from the Toronto Film Festival, which overlaps with its Italian rival. Since the economic crash of 2008, Hollywood studios and celebrities have often preferred to show their movies there. A new, state of the art cinema complex was due to open in Venice in 2012, but work was shelved last year when asbestos was discovered. That left a 100ft crater next to the Palazzo Del Cinema. But Barbera promised the new buildings would be finished by 2015. \"It's a deal, it is signed and sealed,\" he told BBC News. \"We will start work either later on in the year or in 2013.\" Local authorities, including the city of Venice, will now fund the renovations, he added. The film festival is the oldest in the world, and will show more than 60 world premieres over the next 10 days, including Wednesday's screening of Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, starring Kate Hudson and British actor Riz Ahmed. Barbera, who used to head Italy's Museum of Cinema at Turin, also said he had other plans to change the event, including introducing a five-day film market starting this year, and giving a first time film-making prize, which would involve the festival funding three movies by new directors. The Observer film critic Jason Solomons blamed the exodus of top films and stars on the high cost of conducting press interviews in the city and accommodating film talent. \"A few years ago, Joe Wright's Atonement had its world premiere at Venice,\" he said. \"Now he's made Anna Karenina, again starring Keira Knightley. It's a period film all about decadence and decay, and it belongs in Venice. It should be here. But they can't afford to launch it here now.\" Another problem, according to Solomons, was the recent closure of the Hotel Des Bains on the Lido island - the setting for the 1971 film Death in Venice. The hotel is being turned into luxury flats. \"Death in Venice says it all,\" Solomons continues. \"By closing the Des Bains, the stars have nowhere to stay.\" Critics, though, still say they rate the festival highly. As well as The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the event will also show Tree of Life director Terence Malick's To The Wonder and Robert Redford's The Company You Keep. Meanwhile, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix will star in The Master, the story of a religious cult during World War Two, directed by Magnolia's Paul Thomas Anderson. \"They've actually gone against the grain by reducing, not increasing, the amount of films on offer, and that's brave,\" suggested The Independent's Kaleem Aftab. \"It looks like less will be more from now on in order for Venice to overcome the impression that this is a festival on the wane. But on paper, it's delivered some big names this year.\" The Venice Film Festival runs until 8 September.", "question": "The Venice Film Festival 's new artistic director has pledged to revive the event 's facilities and @placeholder as this year 's festival gets under way .", "option_0": "fortunes", "option_1": "announcement", "option_2": "staff", "option_3": "atmosphere", "option_4": "life"}
{"id": 1705, "article": "Lee Irving, 24, was found dead near a footpath in Fawdon, Newcastle, in 2015. Two men are accused of murdering him at a house nearby, while two women are accused of causing or allowing his death. They all deny the charges. One of the women, Nicole Lawrence, 22, must have known he had been injured, Newcastle Crown Court was told. It is alleged Mr Irving, who had learning difficulties, had been sedated rather than taken for medical treatment by the defendants, who were all living at a house in Kenton Bar at the time of Mr Irving's death in June of last year. The court heard how Mr Irving's body was found about half a mile from the house with 27 rib fractures and a broken nose and jaw. The prosecution alleges that Miss Lawrence's boyfriend James Wheatley, 29, and Barry Imray, 35, beat Mr Irving over a 10-day period at the house. Mr Imray is said to have used a pushchair to move the body to where it was found. The prosecution said an account given by Miss Lawrence to her sister after Mr Irving's death also proved she knew he had needed medical assistance. Robert Smith QC, prosecuting, said: 'It's clear from her internet searches that she knew Lee Irving had suffered from a further life-threatening event which could only be another violent assault. \"She and the other defendants did nothing whatsoever to obtain help for him. \"Every one of them knew that he had been beaten, punched and kicked in that property, that he had been sedated with drugs and if he died there would be a police investigation into the conduct of all of them.\" The court was also told the four defendants conspired to remove evidence by cleaning bloodstains from the house and hiding mobile phones. The fourth defendant is Mr Wheatley's mother Julie Mills, 51, who is accused of causing or allowing Mr Irving's death, a charge also faced - and denied - by Mr Wheatley and Mr Imray. Both women also deny perverting the course of justice, a charge admitted by both of the other two defendants. The trial continues.", "question": "A woman on trial over the death of a man searched for information about @placeholder haemorrhages in the hours before his body was found , a court has heard .", "option_0": "possible", "option_1": "sex", "option_2": "helping", "option_3": "brain", "option_4": "multiple"}
{"id": 1706, "article": "Pint or cigarette (sometimes both) in hand, the UK Independence Party leader attacks today's politicians for being mechanical and overly on-message. Like regulars throughout the nation's boozers, he states his opinions without much recourse to political correctness. He inspires affection and respect among those who agree with him on cutting immigration and leaving the European Union. But, true to his image as an outspoken saloon bar philosopher, he gets into plenty of fights. The latest - a televised debate with Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg - was not of his making. Mr Clegg, positioning himself as the spiritual head of Britain's Europhiles, dared Mr Farage to slug things out. He accepted, gladly. As UKIP regularly out-polls the Lib Dems and continues to record strong showings in Westminster by-elections, he is keen to go further. He wants to win the most UK seats in May's European elections and then go on to gain the party's first MPs at Westminster at the 2015 general election. These ambitions show UKIP has come a long way under Mr Farage. Profile: Nick Clegg But what is his story? Nigel Paul Farage was born on 3 April 1964 in Kent. His stockbroker father, Guy Oscar Justus Farage, an alcoholic, walked out on the family when Nigel was five-years-old. Yet this seemed to do little to damage his conventional upper-middle-class upbringing. Nigel attended fee-paying Dulwich College, where he developed a love of cricket, rugby and political debate. He decided at the age of 18 not to go to university, entering the City instead. With his gregarious, laddish ways he proved popular among his clients and fellow traders on the metals exchange. Mr Farage, who started work just before the \"big bang\" in the City, earned a more than comfortable living, but he had another calling - politics. He joined the Conservatives but became disillusioned with the way the party was going under John Major. Like many on the Eurosceptic wing, he was furious when the prime minister signed the Maastricht Treaty, stipulating an \"ever-closer union\" between European nations. Mr Farage decided to break away, becoming one of the founder members of the UK Independence Party, at that time known as the Anti-Federalist League. In his early 20s, he had the first of several brushes with death, when he was run over by a car in Orpington, Kent, after a night in the pub. He sustained severe injuries and doctors feared he would lose a leg.  Grainne Hayes, his nurse, became his first wife. He had two sons with Ms Hayes, both now grown up, and two daughters with his current wife, Kirsten Mehr, a German national he married in 1999. Months after recovering from his road accident, Mr Farage was diagnosed with testicular cancer. He made a full recovery, but he says the experience changed him, making him even more determined to make the most of life. The young Farage might have had energy and enthusiasm to spare - but his early electoral forays with UKIP proved frustrating. At the 1997 general election, it was overshadowed by the Referendum Party, backed by multimillionaire businessman Sir James Goldsmith. But as the Referendum Party faded, UKIP started to take up some of its hardcore anti-EU support. In 1999, it saw its first electoral breakthrough - thanks to the introduction of proportional representation for European elections, which made it easier for smaller parties to gain seats. Mr Farage was one of three UKIP members voted in to the European Parliament, representing the south-east of England. The decision to take up seats in Brussels sparked one of many splits in the UKIP ranks - they were proving to be a rancorous bunch. Mr Farage scored a publicity coup by recruiting former TV presenter and ex-Labour MP Robert Kilroy-Silk to be a candidate in the 2004 European elections, but the plan backfired when Mr Kilroy-Silk attempted to take the party over. It was a turbulent time for UKIP but in that year's elections it had increased its number of MEPs to 12. In 2006 Mr Farage was elected as leader, replacing the less flamboyant Roger Knapman. He was already a fierce critic of Conservative leader David Cameron, who earlier that year had described UKIP members as \"fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists\". Mr Farage told the press that \"nine out of 10\" Tories agreed with his party's views on Europe. Asked if UKIP was declaring war on the Conservatives, he said: \"It is a war between UKIP and entire political establishment.\" At the 2009 European elections, with Mr Farage becoming a regular fixture on TV discussion programmes, UKIP got more votes than Labour and the Lib Dems and increased its number of MEPs to 13. But the party knew it could do little to bring about its goal of getting Britain out of the EU from Brussels and Strasbourg - and it had always performed poorly in UK domestic elections. In an effort to change this, Mr Farage resigned as leader in 2009 to contest the Buckingham seat held by House of Commons Speaker John Bercow. He gained widespread publicity in March 2010 - two months before the election - when he launched an attack in the European Parliament on the President of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy, accusing him of having \"the charisma of a damp rag\" and \"the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk\". It raised Mr Farage's profile, going viral on the internet, but made little difference to his Westminster ambitions. He came third, behind Mr Bercow and an independent candidate, Mr Farage's chosen successor as leader, Lord Pearson of Rannoch, was not suited to the cut and thrust of modern political debate and presentation, and UKIP polled just 3.1% nationally. But there was a far greater personal disaster. On the day of the election an aeroplane carrying Mr Farage crashed after a UKIP-supporting banner became entangled in the tail fin. He was dragged from the wreckage with serious injuries. After recovering in hospital, he told the London Evening Standard the experience had changed him: \"I think it's made me more 'me' than I was before, to be honest. Even more fatalistic. \"Even more convinced it's not a dress rehearsal. Even more driven than I was before. And I am driven.\" Mr Farage decided he wanted to become leader again and was easily voted back after Lord Pearson resigned. Europe, and particularly migration to the UK from EU countries, has been a growing political issue since the enlargement of 2004. Mr Farage has increased UKIP's focus on the immigration impact of being in the EU. In doing so he wants to be seen as tribune for the disenfranchised, not just the older, comfortably off middle classes alienated by rapid social change caused by mass immigration, but working-class voters left behind in the hunt for jobs and seemingly ignored by the increasingly professionalised \"political class\". At last year's local elections in England UKIP won more than 140 seats and averaged 25% of the vote in the wards where it was standing. It has come second in parliamentary by-elections in Eastleigh and in Wythenshawe and Sale East. Under pressure from many in his own party - some fearful of UKIP's rise - to address the EU issue, Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron has promised an in-out referendum on the membership if his party wins the next election. But Mr Cameron, Labour leader Ed Miliband and, of course, Nick Clegg have all said they would prefer to remain \"in\" rather than \"out\". Mr Farage stands four-square against this. UKIP is aiming to win the most votes, and seats, at the European elections. From polling just 0.3% at the 1997 general election, it would represent amazing progress. Mr Farage, who professes a love of all things European, except the European Union, and other \"homogenising\" projects, would certainly raise a glass or two to that.", "question": "Nigel Farage revels in being \" the man in the pub \" , the political outsider who , to adopt an old beer - advertising slogan , \" reaches the @placeholder other politicians can not reach \" .", "option_0": "level", "option_1": "limits", "option_2": "atmosphere", "option_3": "word", "option_4": "parts"}
{"id": 1707, "article": "David Sterling has done so because of the failure to pass a budget for the new financial year. Mr Sterling will use emergency powers to release cash and resources to departments until a new budget is in place. He said that while the procedures can keep cash flowing to public services it is \"not a substitute for a budget agreed by an executive\". He has written to all Stormont departments setting out their spending limits for the next four months. Mr Sterling now controls a sum of money equivalent to 75% of this year's budget. Section 59 of the Northern Ireland Act allows him to use that money \"for such services and purposes\" as he directs. However, he cannot start funding new policies and has limited flexibility to respond to unforeseen events. If no budget is in place by the end of July, Mr Sterling will then have the right to spend an amount equivalent to 95% of this year's budget across the whole of the financial year. That will effectively mean in-year cuts of least 5% across the public service. However, officials think it is improbable that the emergency situation will continue for that length of time. When a budget is eventually passed, departments will have access to the full level of funding available. Mr Sterling has also sought to reassure community and voluntary bodies who feared losing funding. He said departments are writing to groups to \"confirm interim funding designed to maintain the ongoing integrity of the key services they provide until an agreed budget is in place\". Meanwhile, it is understood that the Department of Finance has received legal advice that it can spend so-called \"accruing resources\" as part of emergency budget procedures. This is money that comes to departments from sources other than the block grant and includes things like planning fees and EU farm subsidies. There had been doubt about whether officials had the legal authority to spend that money.", "question": "A senior civil servant has @placeholder control of Stormont 's finances .", "option_0": "scrapped", "option_1": "named", "option_2": "criticised", "option_3": "complete", "option_4": "taken"}
{"id": 1708, "article": "Government figures revealed Dorset Police had the worst figures in the UK for carrying out Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks on time. In nine out of 12 months in 2015 the force failed to complete the target of 100% of checks in 60 days. It caused delays for residents applying for certain jobs, particularly work with children or vulnerable adults. The force said it was now achieving above the targets and had reduced the backlog of applications by almost 90%. Dorset's police and crime commissioner, Martyn Underhill, said: \"I was shocked to find out about the delays, we had a really unacceptable backlog. \"The volume is huge as we have 600 applications a week - we didn't have enough staff, we let it slip but we have turned it round.\" Figures showed the force only processed a quarter within the 60-day target in May, making it the worst out of 50 forces across a 10-month range. Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks are required for anyone working or volunteering with children and vulnerable adults.", "question": "A police force @placeholder for taking too long to process criminal record checks said it has made \" improvements \" .", "option_0": "blamed", "option_1": "request", "option_2": "criticised", "option_3": "called", "option_4": "reward"}
{"id": 1709, "article": "Wa state is one of the most secretive places on earth. Search for it on Google Maps and you won't find it. Ask for a visa and you'll be denied. \"We thought everyone who wanted to visit were spies,\" one Wa official said. But times in Myanmar, and in Wa state, are changing. So for reasons that are still not entirely clear, the BBC was among a small group of international and local journalists invited for a first ever guided tour. Our entry was via a border post not far from Myanmar's north-eastern border with China. Having been thoroughly checked out by Burmese soldiers, we cross no-man's land and are warmly embraced by our minders from the local TV station, Wa TV. \"Welcome to Wa state,\" they beam at us as we are ushered into the back of waiting pickups. It is like a long awaited first date, and given the history of the Wa people we are just a little bit nervous. Back in British colonial times they were known as the \"Wild Wa\", famous for fighting ferociously and chopping the heads of their enemies off, before displaying them on poles. Awkward jokes about head-hunting out of the way, we travel south into rebel territory. Wa state is about the size of Wales, with a population of about half-a-million. It is really a state within a state, hugging the Chinese border. Its autonomous status dates back to a peace deal Wa rebels struck with central government in 1989. In return for stopping fighting, the rebels were given land to manage as they wished. So the Wa grew the most lucrative crop they could get their hands on - poppies. Over the next decade, Wa state and the Golden Triangle cemented its reputation as one of the world's leading producers of opium and heroin. The point of our carefully organised trip appears, at least in part, to show that the Wa have kicked their drug habit. So in our first few days we're taken to see some of the crops that have replaced the poppies. Tea, coffee and rubber. In Mong Mao, Wa's second town, a Taiwanese businessman comes to speak to us at the immaculately manicured oolong tea plantation he owns. He tells us that in common with almost everything that is made in Wa state, all his tea is sold to China. In fact, Wa state feels more like China than Myanmar. The money used is the Chinese yuan, the main language Mandarin, and infrastructure, like electricity and mobile phone networks, comes over the border from Chinese companies. \"I don't know what we get from being part of Myanmar\", Construction Minister Yeng Gar tells us with a loud laugh. \"But we don't want independence, we do want to be part of Myanmar.\" It is a strategy that's worked well. The Wa have spent the last two decades astutely playing their two large neighbours off against each other. A well equipped rebel army keeps the Burmese military at arm's length, while close business ties with China have allowed the Wa to build infrastructure and prosper. We are shown roads and schools that would be the envy of other, more \"loyal\" Burmese states. But drugs are still a major issue. From what we can see, large-scale opium production has ceased, but the drug habit may have simply gone indoors. United Nations and US State Department reports accuse the Wa of becoming major manufacturers of methamphetamine pills, known locally as \"yaba\". Disappointingly, meth factories don't feature on our itinerary. But we do persuade our minders to let us speak to Justice Secretary Li San Lu. He is surprisingly candid, telling us that meth production is a huge problem, with two tonnes of pills having been seized this year alone. The blame, he says, lies with outsiders. \"We locals don't know how to make yaba,\" he says somewhat implausibly. \"The ingredients are all being brought in from China, India and Thailand and then manufactured here. We're the victims.\" Before we could press him any further our minders stepped in and informed us that our reporting was over for the day. That night, feeling mutinous, we skipped the karaoke, side-stepped the minders and headed out for an unguided look around Panghsan, the state capital. It was soon clear that the Wa's taste for the illicit isn't limited to drugs. On almost every street was a shop selling the parts of endangered animals. Tiger teeth and skulls, elephant tusks and pangolin skins were all openly on sale. The women behind the counter tell us that most of their customers are Chinese and that delivery across the border can easily be arranged. Myanmar's most famous wildlife market, Mong La, is just 100km (62 miles) away, but what is striking about Panghsan is how organised and high-end it is. These shops are not market stalls, but supermarkets of endangered animals' parts. A previously undocumented gateway into the lucrative Chinese market. We film the shops discreetly with our mobile phones before showing the footage to Nick Cox from the World Wildlife Fund when we return to Yangon. \"It shows that there are more markets than we were previously aware of,\" he says. \"To see a market with such high-end stores selling highly finished products of critically endangered species show this problem isn't going anywhere. \"There is still a massive demand and people have a lot of money to spend on these products.\" The Wa, for their part, do not see stopping the trade in animal parts as their problem. \"We don't have those sort of animals here, we cut down all our jungle for rubber plantations,\" Foreign Minister Zhao Guo An says. \"This is just free trade.\" And that, to a certain extent sums up the Wa. Detached from both national and international laws, they do exactly as they please. And they do not want to change. Efforts to pull them into plans for a new more federal Myanmar have to date been a complete failure. Having been forced by the Chinese to attend talks, the Wa delegation walked out in a huff on day one, when they were given the wrong accreditation badges. The message was clear. The Wa are happy with the status quo and the freedom that comes with it.", "question": "The remote Wa @placeholder of Shan state in Myanmar 's east is a place few outsiders have seen . The people who live in this unofficial , effectively autonomous state within Myanmar used to be called the Wild Wa , and as the BBC 's Jonah Fisher found , drugs , money and the wildlife trade are flourishing .", "option_0": "district", "option_1": "valley", "option_2": "millions", "option_3": "country", "option_4": "region"}
{"id": 1710, "article": "February footfall saw a 2.3% drop compared to 12 months earlier; Scotland and Northern Ireland saw an increase of 1.2% and 1.3% respectively. The UK average saw a 0.8% drop. Greater London and Wales saw the biggest decline. Sara Jones from the Welsh Retail Consortium said the figures will be of \"continued concern for retailers\". Despite a twelfth successive month of falling shoppers, there was some recovery from the January slump. Diane Wehrle, of Springboard, which compiled the data, said the Welsh figures \"must be put into the context of a much greater drop of 8.8% in February last year and 4.6% fall in January\". Ms Jones said the WRC will work with partners, including the Welsh government, to look at how regeneration strategies can help boost shopper numbers.", "question": "Wales has seen the largest drop in the number of shoppers in UK nations and @placeholder , according to new figures .", "option_0": "level", "option_1": "regions", "option_2": "countries", "option_3": "close", "option_4": "wales"}
{"id": 1711, "article": "Nathan Broadhead, Regan Poole and Jack Evans had shots saved by France goalkeeper Dimitry Bertaud. But Wales were indebted to their own keeper Luke Pilling, who had to pull off three good late saves from Jeremy Livolant. Following Tuesday's Group B opener, Wales face Bahrain on 2 June and then Ivory Coast on 5 June. Wales: Pilling, Coxe, Abbruzzese, Harries, Rodon (c), Poole, J. Evans, Thomas, James, Broadhead, Harris. Subs: L. Thomas, Mepham, Lewis, Dasilva, K. Evans, Humphries, Ovenden, Cullen, Roberts.", "question": "Wales Under - 20s began their Toulon Tournament campaign with an @placeholder draw against hosts France in Aubagne .", "option_0": "attempted", "option_1": "opening", "option_2": "aggravated", "option_3": "encouraging", "option_4": "display"}
{"id": 1712, "article": "The roads in question are located in one of the city's roughest and most deprived areas - the Tenderloin neighbourhood. Located in downtown San Francisco, Tenderloin has long had many of the city's highest crime rates, with violent street offences and drug dealing being particular problems. The name Tenderloin started to appear on maps of San Francisco in the 1930s. While there are numerous theories as to how it got its name, one of the most widely believed is the suggestion that policemen in the early 20th Century had to be paid more to patrol there, thereby enabling them to afford more expensive cuts of meat when they went to a steakhouse. Fast forward to 2014 and Tenderloin is not the type of place you would expect to see a successful high-tech firm like Zendesk base itself. Yet led by its Danish chief executive Mikkel Svane, Zendesk is enthusiastically leading efforts to help improve the area and the lives of its 25,000 residents. \"I don't want to make us sound more idealistic than necessary,\" says Mr Svane, 43. \"It's just important to be part of the neighbourhood and community.\" Founded in Denmark in 2007 by Mr Svane and two colleagues, Zendesk makes customer service software. Now worth $1.3bn, its clients include household names such as Disney, L'Oreal, Vodafone, Ikea and 20th Century Fox. The business relocated its main base from Copenhagen to California in 2009 to be closer to Silicon Valley venture capitalists and other start-up technology firms with global ambitions. Zendesk first moved into Tenderloin in 2011, where it recently opened a swanky new 73,000sq ft (6,800sq m) headquarters. The first technology business to base itself in the neighbourhood with the lowest commercial occupancy rates in the city, Zendesk did so after being given a financial incentive by the City and County of San Francisco. The local authority had long been keen to attract such growing technology firms to Tenderloin, to help boost the area's economy and aid its wider regeneration. And so the City and County of San Francisco introduced community benefit agreements (CBAs) for Tenderloin. Under the terms of Zendesk's CBA it got a six-year tax break on staff wages in return for pledging to carry out a certain level of community outreach work. So in addition to picking up litter, Zendesk staff do everything from helping to serve meals to the homeless, and teaching local people computer skills. Zendesk also donates money to local charities, and has space on its ground floor that people in the local community can hire out for free. While cynics may say that the company is only doing such things because it has to under the terms of its CBA, both the local government and community leaders in Tenderloin agree that, led by Mr Svane, Zendesk continues to do far more than is required. The amiable and outgoing Mr Svane certainly appears to relish taking a lead with the community work, be it the litter picking, giving public talks, or joining his staff in giving Tenderloin residents computer lessons. \"It's interesting to see our continued investment in the neighbourhood and be a part of the future of the Tenderloin,\" he says. \"It's something that we all enjoy very much.\" Other technology firms such as Twitter, Spotify and Microsoft have since followed Zendesk into Tenderloin under similar CBA deals, but local historian Deleano Seymour, 67, says Mr Svane and his staff lead the way when it comes to the level of community work they undertake. \"There is no-one even close to doing the civic work that Zendesk is doing,\" he says. \"Zendesk goes way beyond the requirement of the payback on the CBAs tech companies have with the city.\" So far this year Zendesk says employees at its headquarters have logged 1,676 hours of volunteer time in Tenderloin. Bevan Duffy, who helps lead the City and County of San Francisco's efforts to reduce homelessness, agrees that Zendesk has \"set the standard\" when it comes to community work. \"Zendesk has meaningfully involved their employees directly in making meals and in assisting people,\" he says. \"And in humanising the experience that many individuals and families have living in the Tenderloin, which is challenging. \"I wish Zendesk didn't stand apart as much as they do.\" When not doing community work Mr Svane continues to lead Zendesk's expansion. Despite the company's success, he says he doesn't consider himself to be a \"traditional entrepreneur\". Instead he says he simply enjoys working with computers. \"I've always been working with computers, and I'm fascinated by what you can build and produce and what technology can enable you to do,\" he says. Born in Copenhagen, Mr Svane got into computer programming from the age of 11. After gaining a degree in economics, he went into the software industry in his 20s, and co-founded Zendesk when he was in his mid-30s, along with his friends Alexander Aghassipour and Morten Primdahl. Mr Svane says they saw a gap in the market for a simple-to-use system that enables firms to manage their interaction with customers, such as organising and responding to emails, or live internet help chats. After initially funding the business themselves, external investment soon followed, both before and after the move to the US. The company now has more than 600 staff worldwide, with offices in Copenhagen, London and Melbourne, and Mr Svane says he is focusing his efforts on securing more large customers. \"We are still in the very early days of this company,\" he says. \"This is the most amazing thing I've done in my life and I can't imagine doing anything else.\"", "question": "The morning after technology company Zendesk @placeholder $ 98 m ( ?¡ê56 m ) in a share sale in May , its boss led all 360 staff at its San Francisco headquarters out on to the local streets to pick up litter .", "option_0": "gasped", "option_1": "reported", "option_2": "raised", "option_3": "bought", "option_4": "entered"}
{"id": 1713, "article": "Your face is your most expressive feature; it tells the world what you are feeling, who you are and where you come from.  Although no two faces are exactly the same, they share a number of common characteristics; a couple of eyes, a nose, a mouth and a philtrum. The philtrum is the groove on your top lip that lies just beneath your nose. You see it every day in the mirror so you probably never think about it It has no obvious function. Instead it is an accident of our origins, a clue to our fishy past and how our faces first formed. Your face is formed in the womb in the first couple of months of life, from when you were the size of a grain of rice to when you were the size of a kidney bean. The video (above) of a growing human face shows how this process happens. It has been created from high quality scans of human embryos at early stages of development, provided by universities and hospitals. This unique time-lapse video shows the face developing from a one-month-old embryo to an age of 10 weeks. If you watch it closely, you will see that the human face is actually formed of three main sections which rotate and come together in an unborn foetus. The way this happens only really makes sense when you realise that, strange though it may sound, we are actually descended from fish. The early human embryo looks very similar to the embryo of any other mammal, bird or amphibian - all of which have evolved from fish. Your eyes start out on the sides of your head, but then move to the middle. The top lip along with the jaw and palate started life as gill-like structures on your neck. Your nostrils and the middle part of your lip come down from the top of your head. There is no trace of a scar; the plates of tissue and muscle fuse seamlessly. But there is, however, a little remnant of all this activity in the middle of your top lip - your philtrum. This whole process, the bits coming together of the various elements to produce a recognisable human face, requires great precision. To fuse correctly the three sections must grow and meet at precisely the right time in the womb. If the timing is out, by as little as an hour, the baby may grow up with a cleft lip or cleft lip and palate, which can be extremely disfiguring.  Around the world one in 700 babies are born with clefts. There are other odd things about human anatomy that can only really be explained by our fishy ancestry. For example, if you were to cut up a shark you would discover that its gonads are lodged up in its chest, behind its liver. Like the shark our gonads also start life high up, near the liver. But unlike the shark they need to descend. In a woman they descend and become the ovaries, located conveniently near the uterus and the fallopian tubes In men, they become the testes; but to get down and fill the scrotum they have to make a far longer and more tortuous journey south. One consequence of this journey is the creation of a weakening in the abdominal wall. And as a result, men are far more prone than women to what are known as inguinal hernias. An inguinal hernia can appear as a lump in the groin area and may be painful; the lump normally disappears if you lie down. The lump is actually the contents of your gut protruding through that weakness in the muscle wall left behind by the descent of the testes. Inguinal hernias often require surgery, and if you are unfortunate enough to get one, blame it on fish. An American called Charles Osborne has the dubious honour of holding a record for the longest recorded bout of hiccups -  68 years worth, from 1922 to 1990. It seems that again it is our fishy ancestors who are partly to blame. A hiccup is caused by a spasm of the diaphragm, a big muscle in the chest, followed by an involuntary gulp. Both these actions have watery roots. In fish the nerves that activate breathing take a short journey from an ancient part of the brain, the brain stem, to the throat and gills. In us, it is more complicated. Explore evolution on the Open University Tree of Life BBC Nature: History of LIfe on Earth To breathe properly, our brain stem has to send messages not just to the throat, but down to the chest and diaphragm. This complex arrangement means that the nerves are prone to spasm, which can initiate hiccups. Once a hiccup has started, it is kept going by a simple motor reflex that we seem to have inherited from an amphibian ancestor. For the ancient tadpole, the nerve controlling this reflex served a useful purpose, allowing the entrance to the lung to remain open when breathing air but closing it off when gulping water - which would then be directed only to the gills. For humans and other mammals who hiccup, it has no value but does provide another bit of evidence of our common ancestry. Dr Michael Mosley presents Inside the Human Body, Thursdays, 9pm, from 5 May on BBC 1.", "question": "It may seem strange that humans have evolved from fish , but the evidence can be found not just in @placeholder but also within our own bodies .", "option_0": "generations", "option_1": "fossils", "option_2": "sight", "option_3": "touch", "option_4": "animals"}
{"id": 1714, "article": "Their enduring music, fashion and legend have spawned festivals that are reversing the demoralising effects of drought and economic decline. The most glittering takes place this week in Parkes, a farming community 350km (217 miles) west of Sydney, named after Sir Henry Parkes, one of the founding fathers of modern Australia, who was born half a world away in Coventry. Parkes is being transformed by more than 20,000 Elvis loyalists in a motley collection of flared jumpsuits, a galaxy of sequins, jet-black wigs and sideburns, along with cockpit aviator sunglasses. There is a legion of buskers, look-a-like contests, a street parade, displays of Elvis artefacts and an Elvis-themed Gospel Service, which has become so popular it has outgrown its previous home in a supermarket car park and now takes place in a local park. The headline acts are international tribute artists Pete Storm from the UK and the American entertainer Jake Rowley. The real King - who would have celebrated his 82nd birthday last week- may never have travelled to Australia, but 40 years after his death, his appeal remains as magnetic as ever. \"I remember when he died the world just went crazy. It was a pretty devastating time,\" said Sheridan Woodcroft from Melbourne, as she boarded the Elvis Express, a special train service from Sydney to Parkes. \"He just had the X-factor. He was so charismatic, he was gorgeous.\" Australia's biggest Elvis festival was borne out of economic necessity. Back in the early 1990s, mid-summer trade in baking-hot Parkes was sluggish but Bob Steel, 75, and his wife Anne, owners of the Gracelands restaurant, had a plan. \"It was a pretty slack time. I went to a hoteliers' meeting and they were all having their grizzle about quiet times. I said, well, Elvis's birthday is in January and we could have a birthday party,\" Mr Steel told the BBC. And they did. In January 1993, 190 people attended the inaugural event in the Steels' restaurant. From simple beginnings, the festival now generates about A$13m (US$9.7m, ?¡ê7.9m) each year. \"It's a tremendous economic benefit and it has really revived a town that was struggling. [Parkes] is now a place that people have heard about, they stop there when they are travelling through,\" said John Connell from the University of Sydney, who has written a book about the festival. His co-author Chris Gibson, a professor of geography at the University of Wollongong, explained that they had researched how various carnivals - from those celebrating scones and pumpkins to music and art - can benefit small country towns in Australia. \"There's a spirit of quirky eclecticism and larrikin [boisterous or maverick] humour in country Australia that comes out at these sorts of festivals. They can reinvent the story of a place, really,\" said Professor Gibson, dressed in a purple Elvis costume at Sydney's Central Station. \"Although there are still jobs in agriculture, it is a fading industry, whereas the future is really about tourism, music, creativity and culture,\" he added. Kandos, in the Mudgee winemaking district of New South Wales, hosts a Bob Marley festival, while since 2012 fans of ABBA have headed to the town of Trundle for its annual homage to Sweden's finest. Elsewhere the tasty Food (Food of Orange District) jamboree draws large crowds, while the Tamworth Country Music Festival is arguably one of Australia's premier music events. So is Parkes worried it could lose its lustre because of the competition in other parts of New South Wales and beyond? Ken Keith, who is his ninth year as mayor and probably the only public official in Australia who turns up for work in a blue jumpsuit, is not concerned. \"Why other people haven't been able to replicate it or steal the concept from us is just the friendly nature of the town, where people are made to feel welcome,\" he explained. This week Parkes is turning on not only a warm reception, but one that is roasting hot, with temperatures expected to climb to the high 30s Celsius. Also celebrating a quarter of a century as an Elvis tribute singer is John Collins, who, as a marriage celebrant, officiates at Elvis-themed weddings all over Australia. \"The Parkes Elvis festival is something everyone has to put on their bucket list. You've got to go at least once. One of the entertainers last year nearly cried when he had to go home. He didn't want it to finish,\" he said. As the Elvis Express prepared to roll out of Sydney - on what is quite likely to be Australia's most high-spirited rail journey - Simone Collison from Menangle had gathered with her friends for the trip. They all wore matching black and white spotted outfits with pink tops and  sunglasses. Asked why a singer who died so long ago still had so many devoted fans, she said simply: \"Everyone still loves him. That will never die.\"", "question": "They are unlikely saviours but Elvis Presley , ABBA and Bob Marley are helping to revive the @placeholder of small outback towns in Australia .", "option_0": "state", "option_1": "head", "option_2": "prevalence", "option_3": "fate", "option_4": "fortunes"}
{"id": 1715, "article": "Former Colchester loanee Pyke, 19, scored twice for Vale in a pre-season friendly win over non-league neighbours Kidsgrove on Saturday. Pyke failed to score in 12 outings for Colchester last season after joining the Essex club on loan during the January transfer window. Vale have signed two other strikers Tom Pope and Tyrone Barnett this summer. Boss Michael Brown has also made six other close-season signings, winger Cristian Montano, goalkeepers Rob Lainton and Sam Hornby, and defenders Joe Davis, Graham Kelly and Antony Kay. They are also expected to sign experienced full-back Lawrie Wilson following his release from promoted Championship side Bolton Wanderers. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "question": "Huddersfield Town striker Rekeil Pyke has joined @placeholder League Two club Port Vale on a season - long loan .", "option_0": "rejoined", "option_1": "reading", "option_2": "completed", "option_3": "side", "option_4": "relegated"}
{"id": 1716, "article": "The Oscar-winning director, who is currently working on a film in Krakow, served 42 days for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old before fleeing the country. Polish prosecutors have confirmed they will question the 81-year-old, who has both Polish and French passports. Polanski said he had \"confidence in Poland's justice system\". \"I will submit myself to the procedure and we will see,\" he told a TV news channel, \"I hope everything will be alright\". Poland generally does not allow extradition of its citizens, but has an extradition agreement with the US who filed a request at the beginning of January. Polanski was arrested in 2009 by Swiss authorities after travelling to Zurich to attend a film festival, but avoided extradition. His movements are restricted by a warrant in effect in 188 countries, but he has avoided extradition by travelling between France, Poland and Switzerland. The director is working on a new film, An Officer and A Spy, about a 19th Century French scandal dubbed \"the Dreyfus affair\". He won an Oscar in 2003 for directing The Pianist, a harrowing story set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw that mirrored his own childhood experiences.", "question": "Roman Polanski has said he will @placeholder with Polish authorities over an extradition request to the US , where he is wanted for a 1977 sex case .", "option_0": "cooperate", "option_1": "speak", "option_2": "remain", "option_3": "negotiate", "option_4": "deal"}
{"id": 1717, "article": "The driver sustained minor injuries in the crash and was taken to hospital for a check-up. The crash happened at a roundabout on Daniels Road, Norwich, at about 11:30 GMT. Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service said all the turkeys were accounted for and the RSPCA was helping get them a \"safe place\". Traffic was \"snarled up\" as a result of the crash, a BBC reporter at the scene said The BBC understands the Bernard Matthews turkeys were heading from a farm to a factory. Norfolk Police said diesel had spilt and entered drains in the road, close to Notcutts garden centre. Scott Norman, from the fire service, said the turkeys looked \"fine\" and the RSPCA was helping to ensure they were \"removed to a safe place\". \"There's a lot of diesel gone on the floor and there's some livestock in the lorry, so we're ensuring its welfare,\" Mr Norman said. A Bernard Matthews spokesman said: \"The driver has been taken to hospital for a precautionary measure but we understand they have escaped relatively unscathed.\" The RSPCA said an inspector had assessed the site and was happy the \"turkeys' welfare is not in any further immediate danger\". BBC Radio Norfolk reporter Bob Carter said the lorry's windscreen was smashed in the crash, in which the vehicle hit a lamppost. He said traffic was \"very, very snarled up\". Norfolk Police said officers were diverting traffic on to Ipswich Road.", "question": "Six hundred turkeys have been saved after a lorry thought to be taking them to slaughter @placeholder .", "option_0": "overturned", "option_1": "change", "option_2": "traffic", "option_3": "ground", "option_4": "house"}
{"id": 1718, "article": "The members say they'll continue as a four-piece after Zayn Malik announced he was leaving the group last week to \"live like a normal 22-year-old\". His departure was followed by rumours on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook that One Direction was about to break up. But Liam Payne thanked fans for sticking with the band and for \"not thinking it's finished\". He tweeted: \"I can see a lot of people thanking us for staying but your the real Heros here thanks for not thinking it's finished.\" The band continued their On the Road Again tour and have been playing concerts in South Africa. They start the European leg of the tour by playing Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on 5 and 6 June. Zayn Malik quit the group last week after flying back to the UK, having been \"signed off with stress\". It was after reports that he'd cheated on his 21-year-old fiancee, Perrie Edwards. He told The Sun that he was \"upset\" for the group's fans and he said there was no bad blood between him and his former bandmates, who he said had been \"really supportive\". It's thought he's working on a solo album with producer Naughty Boy, who's worked on tracks for Emeli Sande, Cheryl Cole and Leona Lewis. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "question": "One Direction is not on the verge of @placeholder up , despite rumours started on social media .", "option_0": "opening", "option_1": "woke", "option_2": "grew", "option_3": "picking", "option_4": "splitting"}
{"id": 1719, "article": "Former leader Nick Paget-Brown resigned on 30 June following continued criticism of the council's handling of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Local politicians have warned that the new leader must come from outside the \"contaminated\" administration. Councillor Daniel Moylan said the ruling Conservative group has to \"show a complete break with the past\". Mr Moyland, the Conservative former deputy leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council, said \"any idea of a continuity candidate would be a very bad idea\". \"We have to be able to go to the people of North Kensington and to the victims of the fire with a real sense of acknowledging how badly they have been let down, a real sense of shame if you like,\" he told BBC London Radio. Kensington and Chelsea Conservatives will hold a regular group meeting on Monday evening. It is expected during this meeting they will vote on replacements for Mr Paget-Brown and former deputy council leader Rock Feilding-Mellen, who also resigned. The chosen candidates must then gain approval by a vote in full council, a formality given the Conservative group control 40 out of 50 seats on Kensington and Chelsea Council. Judith Blakeman, a Labour councillor in the ward which houses Grenfell Tower, said \"it can't possibly be one of the cabinet members\" as they had voted to endorse the former leadership. \"They are all contaminated. No member of the current cabinet would have any credibility with the residents of North Kensington,\" she added. Sadiq Khan has called for commissioners to take over the running of Kensington and Chelsea Council. The Mayor of London said the government had \"no option\" but to appoint \"untainted\" commissioners.", "question": "The new leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council will be @placeholder later , the BBC understands .", "option_0": "named", "option_1": "elected", "option_2": "scrapped", "option_3": "born", "option_4": "announced"}
{"id": 1720, "article": "In recent years, countries like Mongolia and Uganda have been praised for making great strides in improving palliative care, which focuses on managing pain and discomfort caused by serious illnesses like cancer, HIV and strokes. In India, however, the situation is dismal. Most Indians who need palliative care simply don't get it and die in excruciating pain. Home to 1.3 billion people, India ranked 67 out of 80 countries in a study released last year comparing end-of-life care. The report considered the United Kingdom as the best place in the world to die. India faces major shortages in specialists, awareness and facilities. But the southern state of Kerala is an exception. It has more palliative care centres than the rest of the country put together and its extensive programme is bolstered by thousands of volunteers who give up their time to tend to those who are incurably ill, bedridden or nearing the end of their lives. Every week, people like Radha Upasarna assist specially trained physicians and nurses treating patients at home. They check for bedsores, deliver food, and often just listen and chat. Mrs Upasarna says what she does is not only a service to her community, but a way to overcome bouts of loneliness she has experienced after her husband's death in 2014. \"It doesn't feel like work,\" she said. \"It's just something I want to do.\" Care-givers say also what makes a huge difference is that morphine is available in Kerala's hospitals and at homes for patients who need it. Despite being the gold standard to treat severe pain, access to the opium-based drug has been highly restricted in India over fears of addiction and misuse. That means although India is the leading global producer of legal opium, almost all of it is exported to the West. In 2014, in what was seen as a major step forward, the parliament amended national law to simplify procedures for doctors to prescribe morphine, but it has so far had little impact on the ground, experts say. In Kerala, access is vastly better because the state changed its narcotic regulations almost 20 years ago. Zubair, 55, had a series of amputations to his right leg as treatment for a bone tumour. Due to the agonising pain he continues to suffer even after being cured, he has been taking morphine since 1994. MR Rajagopal, the doctor who first prescribed the painkiller to him, says he's an example of what morphine can do to a person even when a disease is not terminal. Dr Rajagopal estimates that 99% of Indians who need morphine don't get it and \"their lives are destroyed and they [often] take their own lives\". But for Zubair, who lives in the city of Kozhikode (formerly Calicut), \"morphine restored me back to life\". Although other states in India have largely failed to provide access to effective painkillers and palliative care, particularly in rural swathes, initiatives are slowly emerging outside of Kerala. Nadia district in the eastern state of West Bengal, for example, started a home-care programme in 2014 to assist hundreds of needy villagers. Called Sanjeevani (which means life giving in Sanskrit), the programme has benefitted patients like Dayal Durlav, who is battling oral cancer. The 62-year-old's family refuses to look after him, believing that his illness is contagious because the same type of cancer claimed his brother's life. Dispelling such myths is a part of what the programme's volunteers, nurses and doctors have been trained to do. \"I'm grateful they come to see me,\" Mr Dayal said. \"I'm old and I need their help.\" This report was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Follow Atish on Twitter @atishpatel", "question": "Demand for good quality end - of - life care has grown globally as more people live longer with chronic @placeholder .", "option_0": "routes", "option_1": "results", "option_2": "groups", "option_3": "infection", "option_4": "conditions"}
{"id": 1721, "article": "Andrejs Borodins was in charge of the 1,300 tonne cargo ship Frifjord when a pilot from Dundee harbour found him staggering and incoherent. The 53-year-old Latvian had planned to sail the 250ft ship from Perth to Norway in July. Borodins was jailed for four months at Dundee Sheriff Court. The captain's drunken state was discovered when pilot Barry Nisbet came aboard at Balmerino to help steer the vessel past the road and rail bridges on the Tay. He sent Borodins to his bunk to sleep off his intoxication, with the first mate taking the wheel as the ship docked in Dundee. Police attended and arrested Borodins, who failed a breath test. He pleaded guilty on indictment to a charge under the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003. Defence solicitor John Kydd said Borodins had been working at sea for 25 years, having previously done his national service in the Russian military. He said: \"It is lucky for him that the pilot did what he did otherwise there could have been a disaster - there could have been an accident. \"He was exhausted from doing back to back six hour shifts and that was his reason for drinking. \"He says he doesn't normally drink much -  this was abnormal for him.\" Sheriff Alastair Brown jailed Borodins for four months, reduced from six months for his early guilty plea. He said: \"This charge is not equivalent to drink driving. \"You put yourself in a condition where you were unable to discharge your responsibilities as master of the vessel. \"I regard that as very serious - it is a gross breach of your duty.\"", "question": "A drunken sea captain @placeholder sailing a cargo ship up the River Tay while almost four times the legal alcohol limit has been jailed .", "option_0": "school", "option_1": "enjoys", "option_2": "suffered", "option_3": "died", "option_4": "caught"}
{"id": 1722, "article": "It tells the story of the game between the two counties on 1 September 1939 - the day Germany invaded Poland. \"I have always been fascinated by cricket and history,\" said playwright Colin Philpott. \"It must have been very surreal to have been there that day.\" No first-class cricket was played on English soil during World War Two. The play centres on cricketer Hedley Verity, who played for Yorkshire from 1930 until 1939 and appeared in 40 Test matches for England. He joined the Green Howards regiment and died in 1943 from wounds sustained during the Allied invasion of Sicily. \"Despite the fact that other county games elsewhere were called off, the cricketers of Sussex and Yorkshire decided to carry on - mainly because it was the benefit match of one of the Sussex players,\" said documentary maker Mr Philpott. \"It turned out to be a fairly remarkable day of cricket as well. \"Hedley Verity turned in some astonishing figures of seven [wickets] for nine [runs], Sussex were bowled out for 33 and Yorkshire won.\" The play, which has been funded by the Arts Council England, is being performed at Newhaven Fort in East Sussex. On Saturday it will be at Sussex County Cricket Ground in Hove, and on 1 September at Yorkshire's ground at Headingley. \"The main reason we are doing it at Newhaven Fort is that there is a Romney hut there which looks quite 1930s, so that seemed a really great venue to do it,\" said Mr Philpott. \"But, of course, the county ground is the iconic venue that is relevant to this story so we are looking forward to doing it there.\"", "question": "A play commemorating the last first - class game of cricket to be played before the outbreak of World War Two is @placeholder Yorkshire and Sussex .", "option_0": "touring", "option_1": "continuing", "option_2": "entitled", "option_3": "targeting", "option_4": "lost"}
{"id": 1723, "article": "The FT analysed 3.5 million children's exam results for the six years to 2011. In 2011 London pupils did better in five GCSEs including maths and English than pupils from any other region. FT education correspondent Chris Cook said that when the figures were adjusted to account for poverty London's performance was even stronger. Analysis of the data from the National Pupil Database showed that results improved during the six-year period. In 2004 London's exam results were just fourth best out of nine English regions. During the period the performance gap between richer and poorer pupils narrowed in London - a change that was not mirrored elsewhere in England, suggests the analysis. The FT says that by 2011 pupils in some of the poorest areas of the capital were outperforming children in more affluent areas. For example the FT says: \"A London child can expect to achieve one better grade in three subjects than a similar child from a similar neighbourhood in the south-eastern counties\". At their most extreme the figures suggest a child from the top-performing borough, Westminster, would outperform a similar child from a similar neighbourhood in Hull by two grades in every subject. Commenting on the findings, Chris Husbands, director of London University's Institute of Education said the improvement in London results made the capital \"not only the national but in many ways the international school success story in the last 10 years.\" Professor Husbands also praised the targeted interventions that had helped improve teaching and management in many London schools. The FT also quotes Lord Adonis, a former schools minister under Labour: \"For 15 years London has been the pathfinder for school reform.\" Lord Adonis particularly praised the Teach First scheme which encourages top graduates into teaching and which began in the capital. He also said the academy programme and the London Challenge which ran for eight years until 2011 were effective in turning around poorly-performing schools. A DfE spokeswoman said: \"London's schools have made great strides in recent years and should be congratulated on their improvement. \"Great leadership, high-quality teaching, the success of academies and strong partnerships, where strong schools support weaker ones, have driven this progress in London. We would like all schools across England to match this success, raising standards for all our children.\"", "question": "London @placeholder schools have undergone a \" startling turnaround and are now the best in England \" according to a study by the Financial Times newspaper .", "option_0": "health", "option_1": "state", "option_2": "side", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "primary"}
{"id": 1724, "article": "There are four major islands, as well as many smaller ones, in the country: Grande Comore; Moheli; Anjouan; and Mayotte. Mayotte, however, voted against impendence and is still governed by France. To add to the country's troubles, two of the four major islands, Anjouan and Moheli, declared unilateral independence in a violent conflict in 1997. The descendants of Arab traders, Malay immigrants and African peoples contribute to the islands' complex ethnic mix. Natural resources are in short supply and the islands' chief exports - vanilla, cloves and perfume essence - are prone to price fluctuations. Money sent home by Comorans living abroad is an important source of income. Population 773,000 Area 1,862 sq km (719 sq miles) Major languages Arabic, French, Comoran (a blend of Swahili and Arabic) Major religion Islam Life expectancy 60 years (men), 63 years (women) Currency  Comoran franc President: Azali Assoumani Former coup leader Azali Assoumani was declared winner of the May 2016 presidential election after violence and vote irregularities forced a partial re-run of the poll. He succeeds outgoing President Ikililou Dhoinine after narrowly beating ruling party candidate Vice-President Mohamed Ali Soilihi by 41% of the vote to 39%. A former army officer, Mr Assoumani first came to power in 1999, after ousting acting president Tadjiddine Ben Said Massonde in a military coup. He won the election three years later, stepping down in 2006 at the end of his term to democratically hand over power to Ahmed Abdallah Sambi. The presidency of the union rotates between three islands. The Comoros authorities have a tight hold on the media in the country. Journalists risk arrest and detention, and newspapers have been suspended and radio stations put off the air over reports deemed offensive to the government. Radio is the dominant medium. The national state-run network competes with regional services and private stations. There are also private newspaper papers. Most publish weekly; a feeble advertising market, poverty and poor distribution inhibit circulation. Some key dates in the history of the Comoros: 1886 - Comoros become a French protectorate. 1974 - Three of the islands making up the Comoros vote for independence, but a fourth island, Mayotte, votes to stay with France. A year later, Comoros unilaterally declares independence, with Ahmed Abdallah as president. The same year, however, Abdallah is overthrown, ushering in decades of political unrest punctuated by coups. 1997 - The islands of Anjouan and Moheli declare independence from the Comoros. Troops from the island of Grande Comore land in Anjouan to try to prevent its secession, but are routed. The conflict lasts until 2001 when voters agree on a new constitution that will keep the three islands as one country, but will grant each greater autonomy. Tensions linger, however. 2003 - Leaders of semi-autonomous islands reach a power-sharing deal, paving the way for elections 2007 - The African Union sends troops to help keep the peace in June's elections after Anjouan president Mohamed Bacar refuses to stand down. The crisis escalates when Anjouan holds local elections in defiance of the federal government and the African Union. Mohamed Bacar is inaugurated as Anjouan's president. The African Union starts a navy blockade around the island. The following year, the separatists are defeated. 2009 - The island of Mayotte votes to fully integrate with France. The Comoros government, which lays claim to the island, terms the referendum null and void. 2009 - Yemenia Airways plane crashes off Comoros, killing all but one of 153 people on board. Comoran expatriates demonstrate in France after suggestions plane may have been faulty. 2013 - Comoros comes out on top in a survey of women's rights in 21 Arab League states. The poll by the Thomson Reuters Foundation surveyed 336 gender experts.", "question": "After more than 20 coups or attempted coups , the archipelago of islands that make up Comoros are trying to consolidate political stability and use their picture - perfect @placeholder to climb out of poverty .", "option_0": "drought", "option_1": "beaches", "option_2": "constitution", "option_3": "government", "option_4": "sets"}
{"id": 1725, "article": "After a drab first half at Elland Road, Wood looped a header home from Charlie Taylor's cross to put the hosts ahead. Anthony Knockaert and Glenn Murray were both thwarted by Rob Green as the Seagulls were frustrated. And Wood smashed in his 24th league goal of the season from the spot after Souleymane Doukara was tripped. Victory for Garry Monk's side lifted them to fourth in the table, eight points behind the second-placed Seagulls, and perhaps more pertinently, given them an eight-point cushion to Fulham just outside the top six. After Newcastle could only draw at Birmingham earlier on Saturday, Chris Hughton's side knew they would lead the Championship if they won in West Yorkshire. They came closest in a dull first half, but it came inadvertently from a Leeds player, when Rob Green made a superb reflex save when the ball looped off defender Liam Cooper. The first shot on target in the match came after 55 minutes, but soon after Leeds had the lead thanks to a textbook goal from the New Zealand international, who has now scored against 18 teams in the second tier this season. Brighton had chances, when Murray shot wide and straight at Green, while Knockaert found the palms of the keeper when he could have laid the ball off to a team-mate. But the hosts secured the three points after a clumsy challenge in the penalty from Fikayo Tomori, making his full league debut for the Seagulls in place of injured captain Bruno. Match ends, Leeds United 2, Brighton and Hove Albion 0. Second Half ends, Leeds United 2, Brighton and Hove Albion 0. Attempt missed. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from very close range is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Anthony Knockaert with a cross following a corner. Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Charlie Taylor. Substitution, Leeds United. Eunan O'Kane replaces Pablo Hern¨¢ndez. Goal!  Leeds United 2, Brighton and Hove Albion 0. Chris Wood (Leeds United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal. Penalty Leeds United. Souleymane Doukara draws a foul in the penalty area. Penalty conceded by Fikayo Tomori (Brighton and Hove Albion) after a foul in the penalty area. Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Oliver Norwood replaces Beram Kayal because of an injury. Attempt missed. Chris Wood (Leeds United) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the right. Assisted by Gaetano Berardi with a cross. Kyle Bartley (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion). Substitution, Leeds United. Stuart Dallas replaces Hadi Sacko. Foul by Liam Bridcutt (Leeds United). Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt blocked. Beram Kayal (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Attempt saved. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Anthony Knockaert. Foul by Liam Cooper (Leeds United). Chuba Akpom (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing. Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Liam Bridcutt. Substitution, Leeds United. Souleymane Doukara replaces Alfonso. Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Chuba Akpom replaces Sam Baldock. Attempt blocked. Alfonso (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Attempt missed. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Attempt saved. Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Beram Kayal. Foul by Chris Wood (Leeds United). Uwe H¨¹nemeier (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Solly March replaces Jiri Skalak. Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Robert Green. Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Gaetano Berardi. Attempt missed. Alfonso (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Alfonso (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion). Attempt missed. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Anthony Knockaert with a cross following a corner. Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Alfonso. Attempt blocked. Fikayo Tomori (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Attempt blocked. Sam Baldock (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Glenn Murray. Goal!  Leeds United 1, Brighton and Hove Albion 0. Chris Wood (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Charlie Taylor with a cross. Attempt blocked. Pablo Hern¨¢ndez (Leeds United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Charlie Taylor.", "question": "A Chris Wood double gave Leeds United victory over fellow @placeholder hopefuls Brighton , who failed to return to the top of the Championship .", "option_0": "tensions", "option_1": "relegation", "option_2": "points", "option_3": "league", "option_4": "promotion"}
{"id": 1726, "article": "Col Steve Warren told reporters that IS was \"on the defensive\", and had \"not gained one inch in Iraq since May\". It had also been driven out of 20% of its territory in Syria, he added. Despite the losses, IS has continued to launch counter-offensives - including several near the western Iraqi city of Haditha in the past 48 hours. Col Warren said coalition air strikes had helped Iraqi government forces repel an assault on Monday by about 200 militants, and that more than 100 had been killed. He did not give a figure for casualties on the government side, but a Sunni tribal commander told AFP news agency that they had lost more than 25 fighters. Haditha Mayor Mabrouk Hamid said the IS counter-offensive had involved more than 40 armoured vehicles, some of them filled with explosives. Col Warren said IS had shifted its focus to Haditha, situated near a key dam in the north of Anbar province, after losing control of the provincial capital Ramadi the government last week. The coalition spokesman also denied claims by IS that it had captured the towns of Barwana and Sakran, near Haditha. He insisted it had not gained any territory in Iraq since May, when Ramadi was overrun in an embarrassing defeat for the army. In June 2014, IS seized large parts of northern and western Iraq, and proclaimed the creation of a caliphate stretching across the border with Syria. Iraqi government and Kurdish Peshmerga forces - supported by Iranian-backed Shia militiamen, Sunni tribesmen and coalition air strikes - have since regained more than 20,000 sq km (about 8.000 sq miles), according to the coalition. IS militants have also been driven out of the city of Tikrit in the past year, but they continue to control Mosul, the largest city in the north. In Syria, the jihadists have been losing ground to President Bashar al-Assad's forces, rebel groups, and Kurdish militia fighters. But they have also been able to capture new territory of strategic value, including the ancient city of Palmyra.", "question": "Islamic State ( IS ) has lost 40 % of the territory it once controlled in Iraq , a spokesman for the US - led coalition @placeholder the jihadist group says .", "option_0": "surrounding", "option_1": "following", "option_2": "shows", "option_3": "battling", "option_4": "feared"}
{"id": 1727, "article": "The 52-year-old was speaking after his side slumped to a 2-0 defeat by Queen of the South in Dumfries. McCoist has a 12-month rolling contract with the Scottish Championship club, who it is understood cannot afford financially to pay him off. \"I am the Rangers manager and that will be the case hopefully for the foreseeable future,\" he said. Asked if he thought he would still be in charge next season, McCoist replied \"absolutely\", although it is understood that he tendered his resignation on Thursday. Rangers have refused to comment officially about the manager's position and, with most of the club's board in London for the next 48 hours, no talks are planned about an immediate exit. The Glasgow club are in the position of having to pay his salary of ¡ê400,000 per year up in full, come to a settlement, or keep him in place for the next 12 months. McCoist refused to comment on what he described as \"speculation\" about his future but stressed that he remained \"100% committed to getting Rangers into the top flight\". He said he had \"no idea\" if it would be his last match in charge but stressed \"I hope not\". McCoist had come under increasing pressure after his side slipped nine points behind Championship leaders Hearts. It intensified after a surprise 3-2 defeat by part-timers Alloa Athletic in the Petrofac Training Cup semi-final and, following the defeat in Dumfries, the manager admitted that the Edinburgh side were now \"strong favourites\" for the Championship title and automatic promotion. Bellshill-born McCoist was a Rangers player for 15 years as well as playing for St Johnstone, Sunderland, Kilmarnock and Scotland. He had been assistant manager at Ibrox under Walter Smith and stepped up as his successor in summer 2011 while Rangers were still in the Scottish Premier League. Following Rangers' financial problems and the departure of several top players as they headed into administration, McCoist famously said: \"We don't do walking away.\" He subsequently led the side from the bottom tier of Scottish football by winning two consecutive league titles. They began this season as favourites for the Scottish Championship title, but attendances have fallen significantly amid continued fan dissatisfaction with the board and criticism of on-field performances. The possibility of McCoist remaining at Ibrox has not prevented bookmakers issuing odds on the next permanent manager. Two former Rangers players - Terry Butcher and Stuart McCall - have been installed as early favourites. Butcher this week pulled out of the shortlist to start a second spell as manager at Motherwell as successor to McCall. They are closely followed by another former Rangers player, Billy Davies, whose last managerial job was with Nottingham Forest. Former England midfielder Dennis Wise, who last managed at Leeds United in 2008, is also highly quoted, having been director of football under Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley, who has helped fund Rangers this season.", "question": "Ally McCoist insists he will continue as Rangers manager despite refusing to deny that he has @placeholder in his notice .", "option_0": "played", "option_1": "resulted", "option_2": "stalled", "option_3": "resigned", "option_4": "handed"}
{"id": 1728, "article": "From the frozen cornfields of Iowa to the sultry summer streets of Cleveland for the Republican National convention in Ohio, I've taken the temperature of Donald Trump supporters. Around kitchen tables in Alabama, at bars in Texas, and over coffee in Michigan, I've listened as they've told me why they're voting for the billionaire businessman. Each and every supporter I've met has been nothing less than warm and friendly, and my coverage has always been fair, which is why I wasn't prepared for what happened at a recent rally in Fort Lauderdale. As is part of my job, I was live tweeting from the event, over the course of the evening. I'd spoken to several supporters to find out why they loved their candidate, and was sharing a flavour of the rally through a range of pictures. As I sat in the press pen, I took some photos of the arena. The seats were filling up, but some sections by me were empty. I took four pictures and posted them on Twitter. I thought nothing of it. I do this sort of live coverage of events all the time. But then, my Twitter account starting going crazy. At first I thought the notifications were because I'd mistyped the name of the place as \"Sunshine\", instead of \"Sunrise\". I quickly wrote a tweet clarifying this. But the sudden interest had nothing to do with a geographical typo. A local talk show host had shared my tweet, insinuating I'd doctored the images. I'd done nothing of the sort, but that didn't stop the torrent of abuse which followed. \"This is obviously an attempt to undermine Trump.\" \"Go back to sleep filthy journalist,\" read one of the messages. I was accused of being a Hillary Clinton propagandist, of posting from my \"ugly ass\" and of being a \"servant\" of the mainstream media. One person even suggested I should be arrested and tried for treason. I carried on with my job, sharing photos and video of the speakers and supporters. But the talk show host, and others continued to bait me online, accusing me of lying, which of course I was not. Earlier in the night, my colleague had posted a video, also pointing out that 40 minutes from the start of the rally, the arena was \"far from full\", yet he was not subjected to the same vitriol. \"Propaganda whore.\" \"Bitch.\" The insults kept flying. It felt like a virtual mob was hurling toward me. The language was rude, some of it was sexist, and in one case racist. \"Go back to India,\" wrote a user who had Nazi imagery on his timeline. \"Leave this country now,\" he continued, as he described me as \"disgusting and degenerate\". That account has now been suspended. A female Trump supporter contacted me online to say how horrified she was by the white supremacist insults. She and a few others wanted to make clear that this wasn't the sort of language they, or their candidate, would condone. Yet, anger towards journalists comes from the top. At the same Florida rally, Mr Trump himself, proclaimed the media was \"crooked as hell\". As he did, the audience chanted \"Lock them up\". It felt uncomfortable as we stood in the small press pen surrounded by a hostile, baying crowd. Trump's shock troops: Who are the 'alt-right'? As a disparate, mostly online phenomenon that lacks a cohesive structure or any sort of central organisation, it's tough to pin down. But observers of the movement - both critics and supporters - agree on a few things. The alt-right is against political correctness and feminism. It's nationalist, tribalist and anti-establishment. Its followers are fond of internet pranks and using provocative, often grossly offensive messages to goad their enemies on both the right and the left. And many of them are huge supporters of Donald Trump. This sentiment has grown as the campaign has progressed. Supporters I've met in recent weeks have told me they are unhappy with a narrative they believe paints their candidate in an unfairly negative light. For some, it's become a licence to bully and harass. At a recent rally, writer Jared Yates Sexton tweeted how Trump supporters there had talked about beating up reporters. \"Guy just said he thought Trump would lock up dishonest press after election,\" he wrote \"'You got to do something' his friend says.\" Earlier this year Julia Ioffe, a reporter with GQ magazine who wrote an article about Melania Trump, received online abuse, including death threats. The tone of the abuse was anti-Semitic. Some of the tweets directed at her included superimposed images of her at a concentration camp, with the title \"CampTrump\". At the time, Mr Trump was asked on CNN to condemn the threats. He refused to, saying he hadn't read the piece. \"I heard the article was nasty,\" he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. \"I don't have a message to the fans. A woman wrote an article that's inaccurate.\" At a rally in December, Mr Trump described NBC's Katy Tur as a \"third-rate journalist.\" He didn't hold back, as over a number of days, he called her a liar, and said her tweets were \"disgraceful\". The response from his supporters online was more alarming for Tur, who at one point needed Secret Service protection. Some of the tweets she received incited violence: \"MAYBE A FEW JOURNALISTS DO NEED TO BE WHACKED,\" said one. \"MAYBE THEN THEYD STOP BEI[N]G BIASED HACKS. KILL EM ALL STARTING W/ KATY TUR,\" were the words in another. Mr Trump's distrust of the media has seen publications, including the Washington Post, banned from covering his events.  His ire is somewhat ironic, given the oxygen of publicity he gets from all the airtime. That strength of feeling towards the mainstream media, isn't unique to those who back Trump. Earlier this year, supporters of Bernie Sanders were accused of threatening behaviour on social media, after media outlets said Hillary Clinton had won the Democratic primary. The strangest thing about my experience at the Trump rally was that a tweet I posted, showing crowds going wild as Donald Trump arrived on stage, was shared by nearly 700 people, and liked by more than 800. Many of his supporters used it as a positive example of how the media should be covering Mr Trump. One Twitter user even accused me of being pro-Trump. For the record, I'm neither pro or anti. As journalists it's our job to look at all candidates with a critical eye, and evaluate their policies and statements for the benefit of our readers. Supporters who are loyal to a candidate might not always like what they see, but that should never give anyone a licence to use nasty or vicious language I'll continue to be fair in my reporting of all candidates - and hope I don't encounter abuse or racism like that again.", "question": "While covering a Donald Trump rally , BBC reporter Rajini Vaidyanathan received a barrage of online abuse , some of it racist . Here she explains what happened , and how it sheds light on an ugly side to the US presidential @placeholder .", "option_0": "race", "option_1": "hillside", "option_2": "representation", "option_3": "phenomenon", "option_4": "title"}
{"id": 1729, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Taylor, who beat world number one Van Gerwen 11-5 in the final of the inaugural event in Cardiff in 2016, won a 16th World Matchplay title on Sunday. The pair will be alongside Adrian Lewis and Raymond van Barneveld in Group A. Group B consists of Gary Anderson, Peter Wright, Dave Chisnall and Austria's Mensur Suljovic. The eight-man field will compete for a first prize of ¡ê100,000 on 16-17 September, with all sessions of the tournament being broadcast live by the BBC. Taylor, 56, rose to fourth in the world rankings with his World Matchplay victory, in what was his final appearance in Blackpool before his planned retirement after the 2018 World Championship.", "question": "Defending champion Phil Taylor has been @placeholder in the same group as PDC world champion Michael van Gerwen for September 's Champions League of Darts .", "option_0": "beaten", "option_1": "included", "option_2": "recognised", "option_3": "placed", "option_4": "drawn"}
{"id": 1730, "article": "The ride-sharing company had been threatened with legal action from regulators who said it did not have permission for the tests. Initially, Uber said it would continue regardless but then decided to stop the trials a week after they had begun. If granted, the $150 (?¡ê120) permit would allow the firm to restart tests. \"We are taking steps to complete our application to apply for a DMV [Department of Motor Vehicles] testing permit,\" an Uber spokeswoman said in a statement. \"Uber remains 100% committed to California.\" The permit application has yet to be filed but two manually driven modified cars are already on the road, according to the Reuters news agency. While the self-driving vehicles were briefly available in San Francisco last year, they were occasionally offered to Uber passengers via the company's ride-hailing app. A driver was present in the vehicles and able to intervene as a safety precaution, the company said at the time. An engineer was also present in the passenger seat. However, criticism was levelled at the company after a video emerged of one of its modified Volvos apparently going through a red light during the December tests. At the time, regulators pointed out that more than 20 other companies, including Google and Ford, tested their self-driving vehicles with a permit. Uber has also performed self-driving car tests in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - where no permit is required.", "question": "Uber is applying for a permit to test its self - driving vehicles in California , after it was forced to @placeholder such trials in December .", "option_0": "show", "option_1": "avoid", "option_2": "suspend", "option_3": "ensure", "option_4": "replace"}
{"id": 1731, "article": "The European Union terminates all its nuclear-related economic sanctions including an embargo on buying Iranian crude oil, but more importantly, ends restrictions on Iranian trade, shipping and insurance. \"This is a day we were awaiting for years. There will be big changes,\" says Michael Tockuss, managing director of the German-Iranian chamber of commerce. \"We will also get some 300 Iranian individuals and companies off the (EU) sanctions list. Up to now, we couldn't do a single business transaction with them, not even selling bread or biscuits.\" Besides removing sanctions on entire sectors such as banking or insurance, Iranian entities or individuals who were blacklisted because of their alleged nuclear-related activities can now do business with the EU. However, those on the terrorism sanctions list, will still be excluded. The United States will no longer apply its crippling sanctions on Iran's economy, especially on the banking sector. A full annulment of those restrictions would in some cases require approval by the Republican-dominated US Congress - which is why President Obama opted for issuing \"waiver orders\" for these sanctions. The US, too, keeps sanctions on entities accused of sponsoring terrorism such as Iran's Revolutionary Guards or those allegedly linked to it. Previous UN Security Council resolutions that imposed sanctions on Iran's nuclear programme will be annulled. Though the economic impact of these has been small in scope, compared with US or EU sanctions, those of the UN lent legitimacy to restrictive actions by others. With the lifting of sanctions Iran will be able to export as much crude oil to the world as it can, or as much as it can find demand for. Before imposing an oil embargo on Iran in 2012, one in every five barrels of Iranian crude went to European refineries. Iran has been selling just over one million barrels a day for the past few years, mostly to China, India, Japan and South Korea. Tehran says it will hike sales by 500,000 barrels the day after sanctions are lifted and increase total exports to around 2.5 million barrels within the next year. This will push the price in only one direction: downwards. The market is already flooded by cheap oil and there will be many more barrels in the market than there are buyers. In order to win back its customers, Iran plans to offer discounts on prices that are already the lowest in 11 years. Iran's full return to the market could trigger a price war with its arch-rival Saudi Arabia, which is trying to keep its own market share by selling under the market price. But the biggest bottleneck in future business with Iran could be banks. Although Iran will again be connected to the global financial system it is unclear how many banks will re-engage in Iranian business. \"When I speak to our big German banks, they say wait until 'implementation day' then another 12 months, then you might be able to speak to us again about doing business with Iran,\" says Mr Tockuss. US financial and judicial authorities have slapped hefty penalties on two dozen European banks for bypassing US sanctions on Iran, Sudan and Cuba. Over the last 10 years, banks have paid $14bn in fines or out-of-court settlements - French bank BNP Paribas's bill alone amounted to $9bn. \"A number of UK banks have given commitments to US regulators not to increase their Iran exposure,\" says Justine Walker, director of financial crime at the British Bankers' Association. Both German and British business leaders say they have asked the US Treasury to give a \"green light\" to banks, so that financial institutions are confident in handling Iran-related requests by their European clients. \"If we can't convince any big banks to provide us with big amounts, we have to look for a large number of smaller banks,\" says Mr Tockuss, whose chamber members managed to keep doing business with Iran, thanks to small German banks with no exposure to the US market. But such \"micro-financing\" could prove inadequate for large-scale projects like the overhaul of Iran's railway system by engineering firm Siemens, or the purchase of large passenger aircraft from Airbus. If practical complexities were not enough, there are also legal ones too. The US is lifting its so-called \"secondary sanctions\" - the ones that apply to non-US individuals or companies, but US \"primary sanctions\"  will still ban US nationals and companies from engaging in business with Iran. \"There are big grey areas: what about non-US subsidiaries of US companies?\" says sanctions expert Maya Lester, a barrister at London's Brick Court Chambers. The text of the nuclear deal says business with Iran will be permissible for subsidiaries of US companies but that contradicts with US primary sanctions. Many companies and their lawyers are waiting for detailed guidelines by the US Treasury's financial and asset control office (OFAC) before doing business with Iran. But the legal complications are not solely on the western side. It may seem straightforward to export cosmetics to Iran's hungry market but navigating the country's legal and regulatory regime is like walking in a minefield. Corruption is an epidemic, says Ahmad Tavakoli, a prominent Iranian conservative member of parliament. Sometimes obtaining import permits could be a headache without \"extra payments\", while some businesses,  such as those in the UK must observe Britain's Bribery Act. \"There might be joy for now, but there will also be surprises and disappointments,\" says one managing director of a Tehran-based engineering procurement firm. \"Many will understand that sanctions were only part of the problem.\"", "question": "The untangling of the world 's most complex regime of sanctions @placeholder now .", "option_0": "removing", "option_1": "starts", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "mixed", "option_4": "transporting"}
{"id": 1732, "article": "A typical consumer bill currently includes ¡ê17.25 a year for renewables support. The report by the Department of Enterprise says this could increase to more than ¡ê50 a year by 2020. That is because of a UK-wide change in the subsidy system. Until now, it has disproportionately benefited Northern Ireland. The report also warns that the Stormont Executive's target of having 40% of electricity generation from renewables by 2020 could be \"unachievable.\" That is also related to the major change in how renewable energy projects, like wind and solar energy, are subsidised. Around 20% of electricity in Northern Ireland is now generated from renewable sources. Under the current system all renewable energy projects are guaranteed a subsidy. That system is ending in 2017, to be replaced by one in which there is UK-wide competition for subsidy payments. Renewable development will take place within the UK wherever it is most economic. There will therefore be no guarantees about how much subsidy will be allocated to Northern Ireland generators. The report states: \"This also means that there is no basis for the Executive to set a NI renewable target. Instead it would contribute to the UK target. \"Despite the commitment to the 40% target by 2020, there is no EU driver for this.\" The change in the subsidy scheme means that even if the 40% target is abandoned consumers will still have to pay more. The report says that the maximum net benefit to the Northern Ireland economy is achieved at 25% renewable generation. It adds that \"increasing deployment above 25% is still positive for the economy but the net benefit declines with increasing deployment\". Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster said the new subsidy scheme raises \"difficult questions for Northern Ireland\" in terms of cost to consumers and the ability to operate a devolved energy policy. The consultation closes for responses on Friday, 8 May 2015.", "question": "Electricity consumers in Northern Ireland could see a threefold rise in the @placeholder they have to pay to subsidise renewable energy , an official report has warned .", "option_0": "county", "option_1": "amount", "option_2": "fees", "option_3": "public", "option_4": "country"}
{"id": 1733, "article": "Scientists in California found that canines succumbed to the green eyed monster when their owners showed affection to a stuffed dog in tests. Some experts have argued that jealousy requires complex cognition and is unique to people. But the authors say their work shows it may also come in a more basic form. These findings probably won't be a major surprise to anyone who's ever owned a dog, but the team say this is the first experimental test of jealous behaviours in man's best friend. Human jealousy is a complicated emotion, requiring a \"social triangle\" and usually arising when an interloper threatens an important relationship. It is said to be the third leading cause of non-accidental homicide across cultures. Building on research that shows that six month old infants display jealousy, the scientists studied 36 dogs in their homes and video recorded their actions when their owners displayed affection to a realistic-looking stuffed canine. Over three quarters of the dogs were likely to push or touch the owner when they interacted with the decoy. The envious mutts were more than three times as likely to do this for interactions with the stuffed dog compared to when their owners gave their attention to other objects including a book. Around a third tried to get between the owner and the faux fido, while a quarter of the put-upon pooches snapped at the dummy dog. \"Our study suggests not only that dogs do engage in what appear to be jealous behaviours but also that they were seeking to break up the connection between the owner and a seeming rival,\" said Prof Christine Harris from University of California in San Diego. \"We can't really speak to the dogs' subjective experiences, of course, but it looks as though they were motivated to protect an important social relationship.\" The researchers believe that the dogs understood that the stuffed dog was real. The authors cite the fact that 86% of the dogs sniffed the toy's rear end, during and after the experiment. Jealousy, according to the authors, may have evolved in species that have multiple dependent young that concurrently compete for food and affection. The argue that jealousy might give an advantage to a young animal that is not only alert to the interactions between its siblings and its parents  but is motivated to intervene. \"Many people have assumed that jealousy is a social construction of human beings - or that it's an emotion specifically tied to sexual and romantic relationships,\" said Prof Harris. \"Our results challenge these ideas, showing that animals besides ourselves display strong distress whenever a rival usurps a loved one's affection.\" The research has been published in the journal, PLOS One. Follow Matt on Twitter @mattmcgrathbbc.", "question": "Jealousy is not just a human condition according to researchers , as it appears to be hard wired into the @placeholder of dogs as well .", "option_0": "question", "option_1": "brains", "option_2": "effects", "option_3": "genes", "option_4": "story"}
{"id": 1734, "article": "Stuart Lawrence has complained to the Metropolitan Police (Met) over an incident on 16 November. He also alleges a pattern of behaviour against him by officers. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) will oversee the investigation, conducted by the Met. In 1993, Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racist attack in Eltham, south-east London. Last year Gary Dobson and David Norris were convicted of the murder of 18-year-old student. The Metropolitan Police faced criticism over the original investigation into the death and a public inquiry branded the force institutionally racist. Stuart Lawrence, 35, said he had been stopped by police up to 25 times over several years. His solicitor Imran Khan said Mr Lawrence decided to formally complain after he was halted by police on 16 November. Mr Khan said: \"That was the straw that broke the camel's back. \"That was the culmination of a course of conduct over many years which amounted to harassment and discrimination based upon his skin colour, his ethnic origin.\" In a statement, the IPCC said it would supervise the investigation following \"careful consideration\" of a referral from the Met on 9 January. \"The referral relates to an incident in November 2012 when Mr Lawrence was stopped by police officers but the complaint also alleges an overall pattern of behaviour against him by MPS officers on the grounds of his ethnicity,\" the statement said. \"Last year, the IPCC shared public concerns generated by a number of referrals alleging racism and announced it would closely scrutinise how the MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) handled racism complaints. \"As a result of that scrutiny the IPCC has supervised a number of cases alleging racism in the MPS and undertaken additional work. \"We will be publishing the results of this and any further lessons to be learned from Mr Lawrence's case.\" It said the decision to supervise the investigation would be kept under review.", "question": "The police watchdog will supervise an investigation into a complaint by Stephen Lawrence 's brother that officers stopped and @placeholder him because he was black .", "option_0": "searched", "option_1": "protect", "option_2": "reversed", "option_3": "ejected", "option_4": "force"}
{"id": 1735, "article": "The attacks turned personal as Republican Donald Trump accused his rival Hillary Clinton of not having the right temperament to be president. Meanwhile, Mrs Clinton baited Mr Trump by pointing out that he refuses to release his tax returns. The New York showdown could be the most watched debate in TV history, with up to 100 million viewers. US debate: Five Twitter takeaways Key issues - where candidates stand How does the US election work? Hours before the programme, polls suggested the candidates were locked in a dead heat, adding to the tension between the rivals on stage throughout the debate. \"I have a feeling that by the end of this evening, I'm going to be blamed for everything that's ever happened,\" Mrs Clinton quipped when prompted to respond to one of Mr Trump's attacks. \"Why not?\" Mr Trump interrupted. \"Yeah, why not,\" she answered. \"You know, just join the debate by saying more crazy things.\" 5 million tweets about the debate 62% of them were about Trump 444,000 were about NBC presenter Lester Holt (pictured) 10,500 were about #UnlikelyDebateGuests Mr Trump was later thrown on the defensive by moderator Lester Holt for not disclosing his tax returns. He claimed he was under a \"routine audit\" and would release the document once the audit was finished. But the hotel developer promised he would release them if his opponent released 33,000 emails that were deleted during an investigation into her private email set-up while secretary of state. Mrs Clinton made a brief response to Mr Trump's attacks about her use of a private email server - which has haunted her on the campaign trail. She said there were no excuses for the \"mistake\" and that she takes responsibility for it. But she was also uncomfortable when defending her changing position on the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Other debate highlights: One key exchange was over Mr Trump's long-held belief that President Barack Obama was born outside the US, a position he finally reversed two weeks ago. \"He has a long record of engaging in racist behaviour,\" she said, adding that it was a \"very hurtful\" lie that annoyed and bothered the first African American president. When asked by Mr Holt to explain his change in stance, he said he wanted to concentrate on bigger, more important issues. She attacked him for praising Russian President Vladimir Putin, and suggesting he \"find\" her emails. \"I was so shocked when Donald publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans. That is just unacceptable... Donald is unfit to be commander-in-chief.\" The debate was the first of three between the two candidates, and the American voters go to the polls on 8 November. Watch full debate (via digg) Donald Trump is the consummate salesman. Rules, tradition, even the truth are only relevant in so much as they help seal the deal. The weaknesses of this approach is the perception that the salesman is all talk and no substance - a problem that can be exacerbated by 90 minutes under the debate spotlight. In the end, the lawyerly preparations paid off for Mrs Clinton as she controlled the evening with forensic precision. While Trump had a strategy - and pursued it on occasion - he was often blown off course by the former secretary of state and torpedoed by his own sometimes badgering performance. While Mrs Clinton was occasionally prone to know-it-all-ness - particularly in her repeated appeals to outside fact-checkers - she largely maintained the upper hand. More from Anthony A CNN/ORC poll taken after the debate found that 62% of voters who had watched the head-to-head thought that Mrs Clinton came out on top, with just 27% giving it to Mr Trump. This is based on interviews with 521 registered voters chosen as part of a random national sample. But only 26% identified themselves as Republicans while 41% identified themselves as Democrats. An informal CNBC poll on its website found that 61% of people thought that Mr Trump won while 39% went for Mrs Clinton, but as CNBC itself points out, the poll is not scientific - anyone, including people outside the US, appears to be able to vote. A post-debate survey by Public Policy Polling of 1,002 debate-watchers found that 51% of national voters thought Mrs Clinton had won, with 40% choosing Mr Trump and 9% undecided. New York Times - The editorial board was unimpressed with the debate, saying \"when just one candidate is serious and the other is a vacuous bully, the term loses all meaning\". Opinion writer Nick Kristof said Trump had \"hurt himself\", others said Mrs Clinton had \"crushed\" her opponent. Washington Post - Writers unanimously called it for Mrs Clinton, saying Mr Trump had \"bombed on the ultimate reality show\" and \"did not appear ready to be president\". Fox News - Pundits said Mr Trump had \"struggled\", \"never took control\" and \"failed to exploit\" the issue around Mrs Clinton's emails. \"It helps to be prepared,\" one writer told the Republican candidate. LA Times - Its panel of three commentators had Mrs Clinton winning every round. \"Politics is harder than it seems, and Trump found that out tonight,\" said one. \"Clinton was unflappable... and probably likeable enough,\" said another. Breitbart - Writers at the hard-right news website said Mr Trump had \"bludgeoned\" Mrs Clinton on trade and accused debate moderator Lester Holt of \"shilling\" for Mrs Clinton. Some 75% of readers said Mr Trump had won. The Hill - Pundits consulted by the Washington politics website said Mrs Clinton had won, but in a poll its readers called it for Mr Trump. New York Daily News - The tabloid's verdict: \"A grumpy loser! Trump pesters, interrupts Hillary throughout debate - but Clinton gets the last laugh.\" US media verdict on debate The much-vaunted role of fact-checkers in this debate was perhaps not as central as many expected it to be. Mrs Clinton's denial that she had called the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership the \"gold standard\" of trade agreements was called out by fact-checkers, as was Mr Trump's denial that he had called calling climate change a hoax invented by the Chinese. Reality Check: Clinton v Trump debate Mr Trump is said to have interrupted Mrs Clinton three times as many times as she interrupted him during the debate, leading to accusations that the Republican was engaging in sexist behaviour by attempting to assert male dominance. Role of gender in the debate Mr Trump initially told CNN that Lester Holt had done \"a great job\" and his questions were \"very fair\", but the Republican nominee did complain in a tweet that nothing had come up during the debate about issues on which Mrs Clinton is perceived to be weak. Later, speaking on Fox News, he went on the attack: \"He didn't ask her about a lot of things he should have asked her about... Why, I don't know.\" When asked if he felt Holt had veered a little too far \"into the left lane\", he replied: \"More than a little.\" Former New York Mayor and Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani said Holt should be \"ashamed of himself\", and Fox media pundit Howard Kurtz accused him of anti-Trump bias. Profile: Who is moderator Lester Holt? Who's ahead in the polls? A-Z guide to political jargon Full election coverage", "question": "The two US presidential candidates have clashed over jobs , terrorism and @placeholder in a bitter television debate .", "option_0": "violence", "option_1": "sex", "option_2": "religion", "option_3": "race", "option_4": "emergency"}
{"id": 1736, "article": "That's what happened on Thursday morning in Sydney - or so it seemed. It turned out to be an elaborate advertising hoax, which not everyone fell for - throwing up the question of just how effective such campaigns really are. In this latest case it was a ploy to get the company trending and boost awareness of the release of a new app launched on that very day. The made-up social media manager who was fired from his made-up job went by the name of Dave - and #SaveDave and #DaveGetsFired did indeed go viral in Sydney on Thursday morning. Fictional Dave bad-mouthed his former company, ridiculing the way in which they wanted him to promote said app. He also revealed that he could still use the company account and offered to send free pizza to people who got in touch with him. Whereas the story wasn't real, the pizza very much was. While some people believed the story and expressed their support for the ranting runaway, many immediately smelled a hoax. The reaction was mixed - from amusement and respect for the campaign ... ... to people saying how much they \"hate\" any such marketing on social medial, doubting that it will translate into any gains for the company behind it. Using social media for marketing campaigns means walking a fine line, it's a medium to be handled with great care if you don't want things to backfire. \"A hoax of this type where you are misleading people is actually a semi-suicidal form of using social media,\" Thomas Crampton, global managing director from the advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather told the BBC. \"Social media are media of trust. And if you undermine that trust you're undermining one of the core values of the medium.\" He explains that in fact it has taken people a while to develop that very trust. When companies then use it to intentionally take you for a ride it tends not to go down too well with people. And in most major examples of that kind, the cases got a lot of attention not because they succeeded but because of the complaints and anger over them. \"I think people appreciate a clever campaign when it is transparently that - it's a campaign,\" says Phil Simmonds, VP Asia Pacific with advertisers McCorkell. \"When people have their emotions or belief systems manipulated, they don't like it and it can backfire spectacularly. The 'Man in the jacket' was a huge one, and people fully fell for it.\" In the case of the 'Man in the jacket', a clothing company in Australia had a girl post a video on Youtube talking about how she had allegedly met the love of her life in a cafe but only had his jacket - no contact details. Reaching out to the public to help her find that man, this Cinderella-looking-for-her-Prince-Charming was in fact advertising for the jacket and the clothing firm behind it. \"There was huge backlash when it turned out to be an engineered campaign,\" Mr Simmonds explains. And he was not the only one whom Dave reminded of that jacket hoax. In fact, there are many examples where the exact opposite of a hoax turned out to be the thing that worked: extreme sincerity and honesty. It is a strategy that usually works best in a moment of crisis, when a company can come forward to apologise. \"It's when you are in a bad situation and you're trying to cash in on the sincerity or the belief that somebody has in you,\" says Mr Crampton. \"So you're counting on sincerity to bail you out.\" Classic examples include the US airline JetBlue chief executive apologising for chaos and long delays during a winter storm or the chief executive of KFC Malaysia apologising for an incident in which a customer was assaulted by a member of staff in one of its branches. The success or failure of marketing strategies on social media are crucial. \"Nowadays it's fundamental,\" says Mr Crampton. \"Social media is where we spend a huge portion of our lives - on Facebook, Twitter, or WeChat. And the ability of a company to engage in those media is key for them as a brand.\" The days where marketing could look at social media as merely 'nice to have' are over. And playing with the trust of your audience tends to not turn out well. In fact, even if you wanted to do that, it gets harder and harder with people getting more and more savvy in spotting your ploy. Indeed, there was quite a bit of mockery and ridicule for those who did in fact fall for Dave's Twitter saga.", "question": "Imagine a social media manager getting fired but , on leaving taking the Twitter login and going rogue , @placeholder the firm on their very account .", "option_0": "highlights", "option_1": "quoting", "option_2": "writes", "option_3": "reflecting", "option_4": "slamming"}
{"id": 1737, "article": "The AI system, called Lengpudashi, won a landslide victory and $290,000 (?¡ê230,000) in the five-day competition. It is the second time this year that an AI program has beaten competitive poker players. An earlier version of the program, known as Libratus, beat four of the world's best poker pros during a 20-day game in January. The AI systems were the work of Tuomas Sandholm, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the US, and PhD student Noam Brown. The prize money will go to Strategic Machine, a firm founded by the duo. The human team up against Lengpudashi was led by Yue Du, an amateur poker player who won the World Series of Poker $5,000 buy-in, no-limit, Texas Hold'em category last year. Mr Du's \"Team Dragon\" consisted of engineers, computer scientists and investors who attempted to use game theory and their knowledge of machine intelligence to anticipate and counter Lengpudashi's play. Unlike chess and Go, in which all the playable pieces are visible on the board, poker is what computer scientists call an \"imperfect information game\". This means relying on complicated betting strategies and a player's ability to bluff, or spot when opponents are bluffing. \"People think that bluffing is very human,\" Mr Brown told Bloomberg, \"It turns out that's not true.\" \"A computer can learn from experience that if it has a weak hand and it bluffs, it can make more money.\" Like the poker pro-beating Libratus AI program before it, Lengpudashi was run on a supercomputer at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Researchers commonly use matches like these to hone an AI program's reasoning skills and strategic decision making.", "question": "An artificial intelligence program has beaten a team of six poker players at a series of @placeholder matches in China .", "option_0": "exhibition", "option_1": "emergency", "option_2": "level", "option_3": "food", "option_4": "card"}
{"id": 1738, "article": "Last month's invitation, coming so soon after the US President took office, has proved highly controversial. Speaker John Bercow has said Mr Trump should not address Parliament during the trip in light of the row over his travel ban and comments about women. And 1.8 million people have signed a petition against the state visit. The petition, saying that the visit should be downgraded, will be debated by MPs next week alongside one backing the visit. The government said it recognised the \"strong views\" expressed but looked forward to welcoming the US president once details have been arranged. Mrs May spoke to the US president about the trip as part of their \"regular engagement\", Downing Street said. \"They discussed a range of issues, including trade and security and also discussed the president's upcoming state visit to the UK,\" a spokesman said. \"The prime minister said she looks forward to welcoming him later this year.\" The invitation was issued during Prime Minister Theresa May's talks with the US president in Washington last month. The government has rejected calls for the visit to be put on hold or scaled back in light of the controversy surrounding the first month of the Trump presidency. More than 1.8 million people signed a petition claiming the visit would cause the Queen \"embarrassment\" while a counter petition calling for the visit to go ahead attracted more than 309,000 signatures. Both petitions will be debated by the House of Commons on 20 February. The government responds to all petitions on its website if they are signed by more than 10,000 people, and a similar response has been issued in support of the one calling for the state visit to go ahead. Published on the petitions website, they say the government believes Mr Trump \"should be extended the full courtesy of a state visit\", adding: \"This invitation reflects the importance of the relationship between the United States of America and the United Kingdom. \"At this stage, final dates have not yet been agreed for the state visit.\" Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon rejected suggestions that the government was out of step with public opinion over the issue. \"I think the government has a duty obviously to have good relations with the US, probably our closest ally and most important economic trading partner,\" he told Sam Walker on BBC Radio 5 live Daily. \"It is equally important in a democracy that you accept the results of a democracy. President Trump has been elected now by the US and we work with him.\" Solicitor Graham Guest, from Leeds, started the online petition that said Mr Trump should be allowed into the UK but not to make a state visit. It came amid protests at the president's executive order preventing people from seven mainly-Muslim countries from entering the US.", "question": "Theresa May has said she looks forward to welcoming Donald Trump to the UK later this year after discussing his @placeholder state visit on the phone .", "option_0": "planned", "option_1": "preferred", "option_2": "imposed", "option_3": "fire", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 1739, "article": "The 99-year-old was unable to travel from her home in France to collect her Oldie of the Year award in person at Tuesday's ceremony in London. But in a recorded message she said she was \"utterly delighted\" the judges deemed there was \"sufficient snap in my celery\" to win the accolade. Other award recipients included Aung San Suu Kyi and Germaine Greer. Suu Kyi, who leads Myanmar's National League for Democracy party and spent 15 years under house arrest, also accepted in absentia. In a signed letter she wrote: \"I must admit that I have not had much time recently to reflect on what it means to be old. I was fortunate to have been able to enjoy a retirement experience somewhat earlier than most.\" The tongue-in cheek awards are given out annually by The Oldie, set up by former Private Eye editor Richard Ingrams to take an irreverent stand against ageism. Previous winners include Sir Roger Bannister (2015), Mary Berry (2014), Joanna Lumley (2010) and the Queen Mother (2001). De Havilland said:  \"It is deeply gratifying to thus find myself in the company of the Queen Mother, whose record I have long wanted to match as well as that of so many other distinguished recipients.\" She shared her Oldie of the Year award with 101-year-old former barrister and member of the House of Lords, Jeremy Hutchinson. This year's judges included broadcasters and writers Gyles Brandreth and Libby Purves and TV producer John Lloyd. De Havilland, who will turn 100 in July, is the oldest living Oscar winner. She earned the first of her five Oscar nominations for her role as Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Wind.  She won best actress Academy awards for 1946's To Each His Own and 1949's The Heiress during a film career that spanned 53 years. Her sister was the Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who died in 2013. Winners of The Oldie of the Year Awards 2016: OLDIES OF THE YEAR - Olivia de Havilland (99) and Jeremy Hutchinson (101) BARGEES OF THE YEAR -  Tim West (80) and Prunella Scales (83) \"Stars of Channel 4's Great Canal Journeys\" CAMPAIGNER OF THE YEAR - Baroness Meacher (75) \"The peeress who led the Lords revolt during the tax credits debate\" HEROINE OF THE YEAR - Aung San Suu Kyi (70) - \"Instrumental in brokering peace in Myanmar and recipient of Nobel Peace Prize\" LONGBOWMAN OF THE YEAR -  Robert Hardy (90) - \"Star of All Creatures Great and Small, but also author of 'Longbow' and trustee of the Royal Armouries at Tower of London\" SQUARE EYES OF THE YEAR - June (78) and Leon (81) - \"Straight-talking, funny and firm favourites in the hit programme Gogglebox\" JUNGLE GOURMET OF THE YEAR - Lady Colin Campbell (66) - \"Gracefully tucked into an array of bugs using a knife and fork on I'm A Celebritya€|\" WITNESS OF THE YEAR - Don McCullin (80) - \"War photographer from Vietnam onwards. Ongoing work highlighting the realities of conflict and recently appointed Master of Photography for Photo London\" ICONOCLAST OF THE YEAR - Germaine Greer (76) - \"Controversial opinions on transgender\"", "question": "Gone With The Wind actress Olivia de Havilland has been @placeholder by satirical magazine The Oldie .", "option_0": "published", "option_1": "marked", "option_2": "inspired", "option_3": "released", "option_4": "honoured"}
{"id": 1740, "article": "This time they came to the Camden Town Shed, in north London, but next time it could be a church hall, market stall or community centre near you. Ugo Vallauri and Janet Gunter are the co-founders of The Restart Project, which aims to stop people throwing away broken gadgets and other electrical items and, instead, get them fixed by taking them along to a Restart party. At these gatherings, damaged and broken devices and gadgets are taken apart, and hopefully repaired, by the teams of fixers that the project brings together. The idea came out of work Mr Vallauri has done with Computer Aid, a charity that refurbishes old computers for use in developing nations. \"They fix almost everything in those places,\" he said, \"they just don't have the money to buy them new.\" By contrast, he said, in developed nations people have lost the will to fix broken gadgets. A combination of convenience and cultural pressure leads people to buy new rather than repair. \"Also people have lost trust in commercial repairs. They do not know who to go to and who they can trust, especially when it comes to electronics and electrical goods.\" Just as when people take their car to a mechanic, people often fear that when they take their broken gadgets to a repair shop they will be overcharged or bamboozled by jargon. The idea with Restart is to overcome that fear by getting people involved with the repair process themselves. Opening up a kettle, coffee grinder or laptop and helping to take it to pieces is a powerful way to get over that fear, said Ben Skidmore, one of Restart's roster of regular fixers. That fear tends to evaporate completely if the item in question gets fixed, he said. The fixers at Restart parties include people like Mr Skidmore who have been tinkering as a hobby for years, to others such as Francis Dove who runs an electrical repair shop. When someone walks in to a Restart party with a damaged or broken gadget, it goes through a \"triage stage\" during which its owner describes the symptoms and people offer their opinions about what's wrong. Then, more often than not, it is put on a tabletop, taken to pieces and the repair work begins. \"The best technicians are nosy,\" said Mr Dove, peering at the exposed circuit board of an LCD TV. On average about 20-25 people bring along something in need of repair to a Restart party, said Mr Vallauri. In Camden, the fixers got to grips with, amongst other things, an LCD TV, a boombox, a digital car radio, a laptop, two digital cameras and a pair of headphones. On the night some, such as the boombox, were easy to fix. The boombox's radio tuner looked broken, but when the case was cracked open it emerged that the piece of plastic that moves when the tuning wheel is turned had simply slipped out of sight. In moments, it was returned to its track and the repair was done. Others were trickier. Mr Dove instantly spotted dodgy capacitors on the circuit board of the LCD TV that were responsible for putting it into an eternal standby mode. Ripping them out and replacing them should solve the problem, he said. For Mr Vallauri, the failing capacitors are symptomatic of the way modern electrical equipment is built. Manufacturers could choose to use components that cost a fraction more and radically lengthen the life of the average gadget, he said. Instead, he said, more often than not they go cheap and produce goods that have obsolescence built in. Fixing items that suffer this manufacturing neglect is straightforward even though few people know it. Mr Vallauri quoted research which suggests that about 23% of the waste electrical equipment in recycling centres could be refurbished and repaired easily. Unlocking the value in that could prove a huge boost to local economies in financial and social terms, he said. Unfortunately, he said, that value is hard to realise because most recycling policies involve local authorities signing a deal with a contractor to manage the waste. That divorces people from being involved with what they discard, said Mr Vallauri. The undoubted convenience comes at a high social cost. Getting between the authority and the waste management firm is hard, he said, but would reap real dividends. \"We don't like it when we see things that end up in a skip, or even recycled by our councils, when they could have a second or third life if only we use some basic repair skills,\" he said.", "question": "On a warm summer 's night they came , bearing the damaged and broken , to the place where old things are @placeholder and made whole again .", "option_0": "reunited", "option_1": "healed", "option_2": "found", "option_3": "destroyed", "option_4": "growing"}
{"id": 1741, "article": "Experts already know lots about the virus and how it attacks, but fighting it with a drug is newer territory. Since Ebola was first identified, in 1976, every outbreak has been contained with strict hygiene - isolation of patients and suspected patients, ensuring staff wore suitable protective clothing and carried out proper cleaning and disposal of clinical waste. There have been no drugs to do the job because developing them is extremely expensive, and, until now, the major pharmaceutical companies have not seen enough of a market. That's changing. The virus can enter the body via infected droplets (blood, vomit, faeces) through broken skin or mucous membranes such as the eyes, the lining of the nose or the mouth. Once inside, it rapidly multiplies in the blood, taking over and attacking cells. The disease is not airborne like flu. Very close direct contact with an infected person is required for the virus to be passed to another person. Infection may also occur through direct contact with contaminated bedding, clothing and surfaces. All of this has been known for nearly 40 years, but only now is the world really gearing up to the threat. Scientists are focusing their efforts on two approaches: There are lots of different experimental vaccines and drug treatments for Ebola under development, but they have not yet been fully tested for safety or effectiveness. Experimental drugs such as ZMapp have already been given to patients in the current outbreak, but they have not saved all patients. Two US aid workers and a Briton recovered after taking it, but a Liberian doctor and a Spanish priest died. The medicine has only previously been tested on animals, and experts say it is still unclear whether the drug boosts chances of recovery. Stocks have been extremely limited, and the manufacturers of the drug say it will take months to increase production. One of the first therapies to reach the frontline could be the blood of survivors. They will have mounted an immune response capable of defeating the virus and antibodies that attack Ebola will still be loitering in their bloodstream. Taking blood and emptying it of blood cells leaves behind an antibody-packed plasma which can be injected into patients. In theory this should help the patient fight the virus. However, this has been tried only a handful of times before and it is unclear how effective it would be. Also this is not some perfectly manufactured drug or vaccine. The effectiveness of the serum could vary from survivor to survivor. The US, UK and Canada are testing different kinds of vaccine in controlled clinical trials. The aim is to have 20,000 doses that could be used in West Africa by early next year. Normally it would take years of human trials before a completely new vaccine was approved for use. But such is the urgency of the Ebola outbreak that experimental vaccines are being fast-tracked at an astonishing rate. Russia recently announced it is also developing three vaccines, with one being ready for clinical trials within three months. David Heymann, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: \"There's been a lot of international attention to making sure that clinical trials of new vaccines and medicines are done. \"And my feeling is that if the resources continue those studies could possibly be begun and already provide some initial answers before Christmas.\" It is hoped these vaccines will offer protection by delivering a harmless agent that will teach the body how to mount an immune response against Ebola. If the person then came into contact with the real virus, their body should already know how to fight it. Tests are ongoing, but there is no certainty how well they will work. Dr Ben Neuman, an expert in virus and from the University of Reading, said: \"Trials in monkeys have been promising. But they get a very different type of Ebola to humans. \"In a person it's a different kind of disease and we don't know for sure if the same treatments will work. \"Plus we need to scale up the doses. People are a big, walking test tube essentially.\" Given the size of the outbreak, it's also unlikely that there will be enough vaccine or medicine to go round - at least initially. Until these medicines to fight Ebola are ready, the focus has to be on disease control. It was basic techniques that beat previous outbreaks. The hope is they will do the same now.", "question": "With the death toll rising and the disease still spreading , the @placeholder is on to find a treatment for Ebola .", "option_0": "race", "option_1": "force", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "doctor", "option_4": "sea"}
{"id": 1742, "article": "The predators' battle over carrion was shot in the snow-covered Trossachs. Full details of the fight, and which of the animals came out on top, will be given during Thursday night's programme. Winterwatch has been capturing footage of wildlife in Scotland, including the Cairngorms. The fox versus eagle footage was shot in the Trossachs, an area of mountains and glens in central Scotland. Golden eagles are the UK's second largest bird of prey after the white-tailed sea eagle. The raptors are mainly found in Scotland's north west Highlands and Islands, but a few are found at the RSPB's Haweswater reserve in Cumbria. In the Cairngorms, Winterwatch has been reporting on efforts to conserve rare Scottish wildcats.", "question": "Footage of a fight between a fox and a golden eagle over @placeholder has been captured by BBC Springwatch 's Winterwatch programme .", "option_0": "force", "option_1": "centre", "option_2": "food", "option_3": "war", "option_4": "hunting"}
{"id": 1743, "article": "The man, 47, was assessed by medical staff and again by a mental health team after the incident on Tuesday. An RAF Typhoon was seen escorting the Qatar Airways flight QR23 from Doha after the pilot was handed a note about a possible device on board. The man was sectioned \"for a fuller assessment\", police said. The Airbus A330 was carrying 269 passengers and 13 Qatar Airways crew. It landed ahead of its scheduled arrival time of 13:15 BST, the airline said. Manchester Airport was temporarily closed and some other flights were diverted to Liverpool and Leeds. Operations at the airport resumed at about 14:00 after flights in and out were suspended for about 25 minutes. Passengers disembarked the plane \"as normal\", a Manchester Airport spokesman said. The RAF confirmed Typhoon aircraft were launched from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire as part of its \"quick reaction alert role\" when a pilot requested assistance. Aurang Zeb, 60, who was returning from a holiday to his home in Bradford, said: \"I thought there was something wrong because there was a jet flying so near.\" He said the plane landed and was taken to an area well away from the terminal, where they waited for 45 minutes, then moved again closer to the terminal. Mr Zeb added: \"Then I saw all the police with guns. Lots of police everywhere. Kids were crying, some people looked very worried because of rumours there was a bomb on the plane.\" Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Matt Cox said he was asleep in his seat until the aircraft landed. He said: \"We didn't get told anything about the nature of what was happening at any point. \"It's not nice finding things out from Twitter rather than the people who are supposed to be in charge of you. Obviously we know why they did it.\"", "question": "A man has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act after a bomb hoax @placeholder in an RAF jet escorting a passenger plane to Manchester Airport .", "option_0": "resulted", "option_1": "exploded", "option_2": "collided", "option_3": "drowned", "option_4": "overturned"}
{"id": 1744, "article": "Joshua knocked out Wladimir Klitschko to add the WBA world heavyweight title to his IBF crown at Wembley Stadium last weekend. Afterwards the Englishman was hailed as \"the biggest sports star in Britain\". \"Nothing would make us happier than having a Joshua fight at some point,\" Phillips told BBC Radio Wales Sport. Phillips says the stadium's roof - the only one of its kind in the United Kingdom - ensures the home of Welsh rugby can be used at anytime. \"The stadium is an asset that we want to use,\" he continued. \"When we're not playing rugby on it, we want to use it as much as we can so we've sort of driven that quite hard this year with concerts.\" Speedway, rugby league, football and boxing have all taken centre stage there and Phillips says talks are continuing with NFL chiefs over the possibility of hosting American Football. Joshua's stunning win over Klitschko added to his appeal and Tyson Fury has accepted the prospect of an all-British title bout. Welsh boxing legend Joe Calzaghe beat Mikkel Kessler in front of an estimated 50,000 fans at what was then named Millennium Stadium in November, 2007 Phillips, the joint stadium and Welsh Rugby Union chief executive, added: \"We're in conversations with various boxing promoters. Find out how to get into boxing with our special guide. \"Obviously the roof - we are the only big stadium with a roof - and it's been done before, obviously, with Calzaghe and so on, previously. \"So nothing would make us happier than having a Joshua fight at some point.\" Get all the latest boxing news sent straight to your device with notifications in the BBC Sport app. Find out more here.", "question": "Principality Stadium chief executive Martyn Phillips would relish the chance to host an Anthony Joshua bout at the 74,500 @placeholder Cardiff venue .", "option_0": "area", "option_1": "capacity", "option_2": "table", "option_3": "series", "option_4": "era"}
{"id": 1745, "article": "Terri Spragg, 35, of Bettesworth Road, Ryde, Isle of Wight, was found guilty of seven counts of sexual activity with a child under 16 in December. She originally received a 15-month sentence, suspended for two years. The Court of Appeal has now jailed her for three years. Solicitor General Robert Buckland QC MP described the original sentence as \"unduly lenient\" and referred the case to the Court of Appeal. He said Spragg engaged in a series of sexual activities with the victim between 12 August and 1 November 2014, when he was 14. The mother-of-four was caught after the victim's sister discovered messages on his phone, he added. Speaking after the hearing on Thursday, the solicitor general said: \"Gaining a child's trust and abusing it in this way is unacceptable. \"The original sentence failed to take proper account of the seriousness of the offence and the impact it has had on the victim and his family. \"I hope the court's decision to impose an immediate prison sentence sends a clear message to society that such offences will not be tolerated.\"", "question": "A former dinner lady who was spared prison after being found guilty of sexual activity with a child has now been jailed after her original sentence was @placeholder .", "option_0": "stabbed", "option_1": "served", "option_2": "granted", "option_3": "caught", "option_4": "overturned"}
{"id": 1746, "article": "Robert Dear will be treated at a state psychiatric hospital and may eventually be tried if his mental health improves. On 27 November, Mr Dear, 57, opened fire at the clinic in Colorado Springs. Nine people were also wounded. In a previous court appearance, Mr Dear called himself a \"warrior for the babies\" and made repeated outbursts. On Wednesday, Mr Dear called the judge a \"filthy animal\" as he was led out of the courtroom. Experts testified that he was not capable of understanding the court proceedings or able to assist in his defence. Mr Dear could still face the death penalty if he is convicted. Those who knew Mr Dear before the shooting described him as having a violent temper, anti-government sentiments and longstanding disdain for abortion providers. He told police he idolised Paul Hill, an anti-abortion activist who killed a Florida doctor more than two decades ago. He had recently moved to a remote part of Colorado after spending years living in North and South Carolina.", "question": "A man who @placeholder to killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic last year has been declared mentally unfit to stand trial .", "option_0": "failed", "option_1": "committed", "option_2": "confessed", "option_3": "stabbed", "option_4": "tried"}
{"id": 1747, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Such is the supercharged media frenzy over the so-called \"fight of the century\", and the ramped-up interest in events here in Nevada, this will be one of the most lucrative sporting events in history, generating an estimated half a billion dollars. Floyd 'Money' Mayweather is already the richest sportsman in the world. Now the American is set to earn another $200m (¡ê130m) for this weekend's world welterweight title fight. Opponent Manny Pacquiao will have to be content with around $130m (¡ê85m). And the Filipino is doing well outside the ring too, having recently signed new endorsement deals with the likes of Nike, Foot Locker, and Nestle. Media playback is not supported on this device The anticipation for Mayweather v Pacquiao is understandable. After all, these are two of the greatest pound-for-pound fighters of their era - one undefeated; the other a champion of six weight divisions. Something has to give. And few sports can match boxing for sheer fervour when it comes to fight-nights such as this. And yet, despite the barely believable numbers being generated here, they are also perhaps symbolic of a sport that has sold its soul and lost its way. The fight is generating record revenue for a boxing bout. But much of that is down to the pent-up demand created by six years of negotiations over money, quarrels between television networks, and delays over drugs testing. This is the first super-fight of the social media age, and it has benefited from unprecedented levels of hype and a recovering US economy. That may be good for the fighters' bank balances, but surely the sport would have been better served if the two men had fought at their peak, not as they begin to think about retirement. The fight will generate gate receipts of $74m (¡ê48m), breaking the record set by Mayweather's clash with Saul Alvarez in 2013. But given that it is taking place in an arena with just 16,500 seats - only 500 of them available to the public - this is hardly an event staged with the average sports fan in mind. Tickets have been advertised for hundreds of thousands of dollars, surpassing the level of demand for the Super Bowl, but most will go to members of the fighters' entourages, guests of wealthy corporations, or the casinos' most valued clients - the so-called 'high-rollers' (as long as they have credit-lines with the casino of $250,000). At the Excalibur hotel - over the road from the MGM where the fight will take place - guests are being charged $400 (¡ê260) just to watch the action on a TV screen in a bar. Fans are even being charged to attend the weigh-in. Has sport ever felt as far from its Corinthian ideals? Media playback is not supported on this device This week I sat through one of the best attended, yet most anodyne and subdued media conferences many boxing reporters had ever witnessed when Mayweather and Pacquiao appeared together for the first time here. No need for needle, we were told. Too much mutual respect. The fight sells itself. But it was hard not to conclude that Mayweather's predictable, stock answers were indicative of a man for whom money rather than his reputation as a sportsman is now the priority. After reeling off a long list of sponsors he wanted to thank, promoter Bob Arum claimed the hype surrounding the fight was fantastic for the sport. But it is hard to see how hosting the fight in a small, exclusive arena and behind a prohibitive pay wall is the best way of exposing a new generation of fans to the sport and increasing its appeal. The fight will be watched by three to four million people in the US, many more than the record 2.4 million viewers who paid to see Mayweather take on Oscar De La Hoya in 2007. But for many others in the US, watching the fight on pay-per-view TV is simply too expensive when it costs $99 (¡ê65) in HD. More than the interests of the sport, this is about what is good for the two fighters, their promoters, joint host broadcasters HBO and Showtime, the MGM hotel and casino, secondary ticket selling agencies, and of course the city of Las Vegas - where room rates have hit record highs. It all seems a far cry from 1995 when 28 million Americans tuned in to see Mike Tyson beat Buster Mathis on Fox. Or 1985 when 19 million TV viewers across Britain watched Barry McGuigan become world champion. I visited McGuigan last week at the gym he runs with his son in Battersea. He would not begrudge the fighters maximising the money they could make, and pointed to the dangers involved. Like Arum, he insisted the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight was a huge shot in the arm for a sport that has seen its popularity fade in recent years. While acknowledging the rampant commercialism behind the event, he was delighted that boxing was back in the headlines, and providing 2015 with arguably its biggest sporting moment. There are indeed causes for some optimism. Al Haymon - Mayweather's adviser - has recently invested $20m establishing the Premier Boxing Championship in the US. In partnership with NBC, the PBC series is an attempt to return boxing to the mainstream - staging fights on network television with the aim of building a new audience. McGuigan himself is doing his bit to return the sport to terrestrial screens on this side of the Atlantic, having struck a deal with ITV to televise his fighter Carl Frampton's bout with Chris Avalos back in February, the channel's first world title fight since 2008. The free-to-air show attracted an audience of almost two million. The fact 80,000 people turned up at Wembley last June to watch Carl Froch fight George Groves is further encouragement. Media playback is not supported on this device Yet the sport still has a long way to go before confounding those who have predicted its death. The confusing and fractured competitive landscape created by having four sanctioning organisations, with no single governing body, continues to do untold damage. After years of mismanagement, greed and corruption, there are too many belts, too few household names, and growing competition from mixed martial arts such as UFC. The fear remains that Mayweather v Pacquiao is a one-off. The interest and money generated by what is being described as boxing's last great super-fight proves that the sport retains appeal, even today in such a crowded sporting marketplace. But don't necessarily expect it to restore the credibility of a sport that has a long way to go before staging the revival it craves. This may be the most lucrative fight in boxing history, but its legacy remains harder to predict.", "question": "There are countless examples of how closely linked sport and money have become , but here in Las Vegas this week , the @placeholder has appeared too close for comfort .", "option_0": "party", "option_1": "world", "option_2": "relationship", "option_3": "office", "option_4": "mood"}
{"id": 1748, "article": "The Shanghai Composite benchmark ended 2.2% higher at 4,121.71. The index crossed the 4,000 mark for the first time since 2008 on Friday. China's monthly trade data showed its exports fell in March from a year ago by 14.6% in yuan terms, compared with forecasts for a rise of more than 8%. Imports fell 12.3% in yuan terms compared with forecasts for a fall of more than 11%. The official numbers mean the country's monthly trade surplus has shrunk to its smallest in 13 months. Analysts said the export numbers for March were a surprise. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index closed up 2.7% at 28,016.34 to hit a fresh seven-year high as the market continued to benefit from large inflows of money from mainland Chinese investors through the new stock connect trading link. Last month, Beijing allowed mutual funds to invest in Hong Kong through the connect plan. In Japan, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index closed flat, down just 0.01% at 19,905.46 points. On Friday, the index traded above 20,000 for the first time since April 2000 and it is up nearly 15% this year. Australian shares were in positive territory early on Monday but lost gains later with the S&P/ASX 200 closing down 0.14% at 5,960.30. Commodity prices were weighing on shares of some mining companies as iron prices remain depressed. Australia has said it expects the plunging price of iron ore to slash revenue forecasts by A$25bn (¡ê13bn; $19bn) over the next four years. Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey told the Australian Financial Review that the price for iron ore, Australia's biggest export, could fall as low as $35 a tonne. Atlas Iron shares remained suspended. The company said on Friday that it would stop all mining in Australia because iron ore prices were below its breakeven level. \"Despite an extensive cost-cutting programme... the global supply-demand imbalance for iron ore has driven prices down to the point where it is no longer viable for Atlas to continue production,\" the firm said. In South Korea, the Kospi share index closed up 0.5% at 2,098.92.", "question": "Shares in China were higher on Monday as weaker - than - expected trade data from the mainland raised hopes among investors that Beijing may introduce further stimulus @placeholder soon .", "option_0": "side", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "opportunities", "option_3": "measures", "option_4": "so"}
{"id": 1749, "article": "Shares closed 16% higher on Thursday, making an overall increase of 56% since the release - putting Nintendo's market value at 3.6tn yen ($34bn; ?¡ê25.7bn). Pokemon Go players search locations in the real world to find virtual Pokemon creatures on their smartphone screens. The game has become a global phenomenon since its release. It topped the app store download chart on both iPhone's App Store and Google Play just days after its initial release in the US, Australia and New Zealand. Nintendo shares had already started the week with a 25% jump on Monday alone. Pokemon Go: All you need to know Pokemon Go is a monster mobile hit US Holocaust museum asks Pokemon Go players to stop Pokemon Go: Pikachu pops up on Downing Street Pokemon Go firm fixes 'full Google access' error The Pokemon creatures first emerged in the 1990s on Nintendo's Game Boy device. For the new game, Nintendo has partnered with US-based developer Niantic and the Pokemon Company, which owns the rights to the characters. Nintendo, which is also behind the iconic Super Mario game, has traditionally relied on sales of its gaming consoles. However, sales of those have been slowing in recent years as more gamers move online and onto portable devices. Analysts have long criticised the company for lagging rivals such as Sony and being late in catering to the growing smartphone market.", "question": "Shares in the Japanese company Nintendo have seen a sharp rise since the release of the @placeholder reality game Pokemon Go , gaining more than 50 % .", "option_0": "augmented", "option_1": "alternate", "option_2": "troubled", "option_3": "space", "option_4": "body"}
{"id": 1750, "article": "20 January 2016 Last updated at 09:52 GMT Ms Eklund founded the company in 2009, and the label went on to gain international attention - with a place on the shelves of Barneys New York, Opening Ceremony and J Crew, and in the pages of renowned fashion magazine Vogue. But the African market remains the 30-year-old's main focus, and the company has just opened new stores in Senegal's capital, Dakar, and surfing hotspot Cape Town in South Africa. A new branch in Morocco is planned for later this year. All Bantu Wax's colourful clothing is made on the continent too, its designs inspired by traditional African wax prints. Women of Africa is a BBC season recognising inspiring women across the continent. The second series, Africa's New Businesswomen, introduces eight female entrepreneurs who are finding success in their country - and beyond. Read more here", "question": "With 26,000 km ( 16,155 miles ) of coastline , Africa is a surfer 's dream . Ethiopian - American entrepreneur Yodit Eklund is hoping to tap into this burgeoning @placeholder culture with her home - grown swimwear brand Bantu Wax .", "option_0": "beach", "option_1": "surf", "option_2": "home", "option_3": "developing", "option_4": "supply"}
{"id": 1751, "article": "The world number 547 returned to competition at Eastbourne in June after 17 months out with a wrist injury. She has played just 10 matches, winning three, since then and last featured at an ITF event in Monterrey a month ago. \"Laura's team decided it was most effective for her to spend her time training for the rest of the year,\" the 21-year-old's management company said. Robson received a wildcard entry to Wimbledon after her return but lost 6-4 6-4 to Evgeniya Rodina in the first round. Her first win in almost two years came at a Challenger event - a level below the WTA tour - in Canada the following month. She went on to suffer a first-round exit at the US Open last month, losing 3-6 6-3 7-5 to Russian Elena Vesnina. Robson will be able to use her protected ranking of 58 to enter January's Australian Open. Protected rankings are given to players suffering long-term injuries - 58 was Robson's position after the 2014 Australian Open.", "question": "Former British number one Laura Robson will not play again this year as she @placeholder her recovery from injury .", "option_0": "crossed", "option_1": "reached", "option_2": "continues", "option_3": "fears", "option_4": "announced"}
{"id": 1752, "article": "Historic ties stretch back to British and Portuguese colonial rule, when a large number of Indians migrated to Africa. But how do things stand now? Indians may have spiced up food in Africa - introducing samosas and ???biryani - but now it is India that is looking to the continent to keep plates full - and at an affordable price, by growing lentils. Known as \"daal\" in India, these pulses are the staple diet for millions of Indians but prices have doubled in the past 18 months because of two successive drought years. So Mr Modi has signed a deal with Mozambique to produce 100,000 tonnes of pulses over the next year, which it aims to double in four years at a fixed price. And to avoid any complaints from fussy eaters, India will advise on their cultivation so that the taste is correct, India's information minister has said. Indians consume nearly 22 million tonnes of pulses annually, so this may seem like a piddling deal, however it is indicative of the opportunities the Asian country sees in Africa where large tracts of land go uncultivated. Investing in African agriculture has been top of India's agenda for several years- though land, and who farms it, is a contentious issue. It has led some Indian farmers who tried their luck in Africa to reportedly give up. To this end the option of contract or co-operative farming instead of leasing land, as with the Mozambique model, is being explored. \"For me personally, this visit is an opportunity to pay homage to two of the greatest human souls to have ever walked this Earth - Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela,\" Mr Modi said on his arrival in South Africa. Indeed the fight against racial discrimination is what most unifies the two nations. Over the weekend, the Indian prime minister took a train journey to Pietermaritzburg Station, where a Mahatma Gandhi was thrown off a train in 1893 because the young lawyer refused to leave his first class compartment, reserved for white passengers. This spurred him to take up his lifelong fight for equal rights that changed the history of both South Africa and India. Xenophobia is now the demon South Africa needs to tackle - and many Indian traders, who are seen as exploitative, have faced attack there. But it is the racism in India that has been centre stage more recently - with a spate of attacks on Africans, many of whom go to study at Indian universities. As Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper put it, it's \"time for India to explain its promise to protect Africans on its soil\". Mr Modi has been pushing for diaspora Indians to register as a Non-Resident Indian (NRI) to get an Indian passport and pay tax. However, while many Indians in Africa look to their motherland for their cultural fix, most feel patriotic to the home of their birth and the feel Africa offers them greater opportunities. Thousands of patients from Africa travel to India every year to seek specialised treatment. In 2015 more than 10,000 Kenyans did so, spending $98m (¡ê76m), according to government in Kenya, which is Mr Modi's last stop. Specialist treatment for diseases like cancer is becoming increasingly expensive in Kenya. Few private hospitals are equipped to provide treatment, and those that are charge high rates. Many middle class Kenyans believe it is cheaper to get an air ticket, visa, accommodation and pay for treatment in India than it is to go to a private hospital in the capital, Nairobi, for treatment. The public hospitals are cheaper but overstretched and not adequately equipped to handle the number of cases. Cancer patients can wait as long as a year to get a cheap radiotherapy appointment at a public hospital. This is why many Kenyans end up opting to fundraise or sell property to seek a faster or cheaper cure in India. But among a raft of African aid and investment promises India made last year, $10m was to an India-Africa Health Fund. Providing affordable drugs will be key to this initiative - many HIV patients in Africa are dependent on cheaper generic Indian ARVs. And according to Kenya's Daily Nation, a deal will be signed for India to help set up a cancer hospital in Kenya and supply it with a telecobalt machine. The most in-your-face example of the strong trade links between India and Africa is the hair on women's head - with upmarket hairdressers doing a roaring trade in Indian hair weaves, which makes millions for India annually. At street level, there are Indian wheeler dealers and Tata cars, on screens there are Bollywood movies. People will flock to fill up cinemas in Tanzania - which is the third country on Mr Modi's tour - even if a film isn't dubbed or have subtitles. China's annual trade with Africa stands at $200bn, compared to India's $72bn - but India's influence seems more visible - perhaps not surprising given the large Indian communities, especially in former British colonies, where they were brought in as indentured labour to work on sugar plantations and build railways. And, according to the South African presidency, despite the dominance of China, India is South Africa's largest trade partner.  It said trade in 2015 was almost $6.7bn. Arguably the most controversial arrival from India to Africa in recent years is the Gupta family, who, through their investment company Oakbay investments, have interests in computers, mining, air travel, energy, technology and the media and employ about 10,000 people. Originally from India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, they came to South Africa in 1993. Their infamy lies in their close relationship to President Jacob Zuma and allegations of their influence on government - which came to a head last year over the appointment of a finance minister. The country's corruption watchdog is now set to investigate them. Their TV channel has been the only one to give prominence to Mr Modi's state visit to South Africa. But he may be wondering why, given the pressure the family has been under in South Africa, the Guptas have chosen Dubai as a second base and not their motherland. All four countries on Mr Modi's tour are on the Indian Ocean coast, which has been a piracy hotspot in recent years. With warships patrolling along the Somali coast, the pirates have operated further away and even staged some attacks closer to India than Somalia. The Indian Navy has played a significant role in these patrols off the East African coast to protect trade routes. So maritime security has been touted as one of the major objectives of the Indian prime minister's trip. \"It is an ocean of many economic opportunities,\" he is quoted as saying. Co-operation on training and the supply of equipment for securing the coastline is on the cards. Indian soldiers are often deployed on UN peacekeeping missions in Africa, and now Mr Modi is keen to explore defence manufacturing projects in South Africa. \"Our companies can also pool their capacities to jointly develop or manufacture defence equipments and platforms. And, not just to meet our defence needs, but also to respond to regional and global demand,\" he said. The populations of India and Africa combined account for a third of the world's population - and for years they have been lobbying for reform of the UN Security Council. South Africa and India support each other's bids for a permanent seat - India backing South Africa over Nigeria - the other big powerhouse of Africa. This is hardly surprising given that India was the first country to put the issue of apartheid on the agenda at the UN General Assembly in 1946. Plus they are both members of the Brics group of emerging economies. While in South Africa, Mr Modi has been bolstered by assurances that the country endorsed India's bid to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), set up to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons by controlling access to sensitive technology. Joining the group, set up in response to India's first nuclear test in 1974, is a major foreign policy ambition - and suffered a setback recently when reportedly blocked by China.", "question": "India 's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on an African @placeholder offensive , visiting four nations where he hopes to tie up energy and trade deals and remind the continent of their cultural bond .", "option_0": "education", "option_1": "island", "option_2": "american", "option_3": "charm", "option_4": "air"}
{"id": 1753, "article": "The scrum-half takes over with London Irish back-row Ofisa Treviranus not included in the match-day squad. Fotuali'i is one of seven British-based players named by Samoa head coach Stephen Betham in his starting XV. Betham has ensured that all but one of his squad will have had a taste of World Cup finals action. Should fly-half Patrick Fa'apale come off the bench, only prop Jake Grey will not have played at the finals. Scotland will secure a place in the quarter-finals with a victory, but Samoa cannot qualify. Centres Rey Lee-Lo, of Cardiff Blues, and George Pisi, of Northampton, combine for the first time for Samoa. And Betham names a new back-row combination of Bath duo Maurie Fa'asavalu and Alafoti Fa'osiliva, plus Bristol's Jack Lam. Fa'atoina Autagavaia, the former Northampton wing now with French club Nevers, replaces Alesana Tuilagi, the Newcastle Falcons player who is suspended for foul play in the weekend defeat by Japan. Aurillac hooker Manu Leiataua, who made his debut for Samoa in their only ever win over Scotland - 27-17 during the 2013 Quadrangular Tournament in South Africa - will make his first World Cup appearance. Northampton wing Ken Pisi drops to the bench, while Sale Sharks centre Johnny Leota, Waikato hooker Ole Avei, and flankers Josh Ione and Faifili Levave drop out the squad. Samoa: Tim Nanai-Williams (Ricoh Black Rams), Paul Perez (Coastal Sharks), George Pisi (Northampton Saints), Rey Lee-Lo (Cardiff Blues), Fa'atoina Autagavaia (Nevers), Tusi Pisi (Suntory Sungoliath), Kahn Fotuali'i (Northampton Saints, captain); Sakaria Taulafo (Stade Francais), Ma'atulimanu Leiataua (Aurillac), Census Johnston (Toulouse), Teofilo Paulo (Benetton Treviso), Kane Thompson (Newcastle Falcons), Maurie Faasavalu (Bath), Jack Lam (Bristol), Alafoti Faosiliva (Bath). Replacements: Motu Matu'u (Wellington Hurricanes), Viliamu Afatia (Agen), Anthony Perenise (Bristol), Faifili Levave (Wellington Lions), Vavae Tuilagi (Carcassonne), Vavao Afemai (Manu 7s), Patrick Faapale (Manu 7s), Ken Pisi (Northampton Saints).", "question": "Northampton Saints ' Kahn Fotuali'i will captain a Samoa side @placeholder seven changes for their final Rugby World Cup game against Scotland in Newcastle .", "option_0": "title", "option_1": "named", "option_2": "making", "option_3": "showing", "option_4": "added"}
{"id": 1754, "article": "Denbighshire councillors previously rejected the application for the range at Craig Y Ddywart quarry at Rhewl. The decision was based on concerns about site supervision and gun crime. Councillors agreed it could result in a cost award if its reasons for refusal were found invalid on appeal. North Wales Police had urged the councillors to reconsider the matter. A report by officers to the planning committee said: \"In defending any appeal against a refusal, it would be necessary to provide a clear evidence that there is a reasonable likelihood of there being an increase in crime in the locality or nationally as a result of the grant of the variation. \"Officers do not consider that there is such evidence to support a refusal.\"", "question": "A decision not to allow North Wales Police to hire out its firearms training centre to gun clubs and government organisations has been @placeholder .", "option_0": "released", "option_1": "reversed", "option_2": "halted", "option_3": "revealed", "option_4": "criticised"}
{"id": 1755, "article": "Rachael Phoenix, the owner of Voltaire in Bangor, said she was \"sickened\" by the decision to use tallow, a type of animal fat, in the notes. She said she \"had to take a stand\" and customers had been \"very supportive\". The Bank of England did not comment on whether businesses were obliged to accept the notes. Some vegetarians, Sikhs and Hindus have expressed anger at the use of tallow. A petition calling for an end of the use of animal products in the notes, which launched in September, has attracted 130,000 signatures. In a statement posted on Facebook, Ms Phoenix said: \"We have decided not to accept the notes here at Voltaire as a stand against using animal products in our everyday necessary products. \"Thank you to all our wonderful customers who have been so supportive in our decision. \"We do hope that this does not cause too much inconvenience.\" Ms Phoenix said Voltaire, which opened eight months ago, was the \"only 100% vegan restaurant in Wales\". She added: \"It sickened us that they have done it in the first place. We had to show that we were not happy with it.\" After initially being concerned the move would inconvenience customers, she said they had been \"really supportive\". \"We are making sure that we have plenty of change,\" Ms Phoenix added. \"Once the old notes are out of circulation we will have to see what happens then.\" Voltaire is not the first eatery to reject the new tender; Cambridge's vegetarian Rainbow Cafe also recently decided not to accept the new ¡ê5 notes. According to the Bank of England, if a debtor pays in legal tender, they have \"good defence if sued for non-payment of the debt.\" The bank said it was looking into how to make the notes meat-free.", "question": "A vegan restaurant in Gwynedd has said it will not accept the new ¡ê 5 note as it @placeholder animal products .", "option_0": "accepts", "option_1": "contains", "option_2": "planned", "option_3": "serves", "option_4": "avoided"}
{"id": 1756, "article": "Pompey climbed into the top three for the first time since September with a 2-0 win at Crawley on Tuesday. \"We've had so much criticism,\" Cook told BBC Radio Solent. \"Some of it is not fair and we all feel it after a bad result or performance. \"That's the way to answer it, with that kind of result.\" After disappointing home results against Morecambe and Crewe, Portsmouth moved above Carlisle into third with the win at Crawley. Second-half goals from Christian Burgess and Kyle Bennett gave Portsmouth all three points. With 11 games remaining in the season, Cook knows his squad need to keep their focus in the run-in. \"I'm quite a strong character,\" he said. \"I've been around football long enough. \"We've lifted ourselves off the floor so I've said to the lads: 'Let's stay off the floor between now and the end of the season'.\"", "question": "Portsmouth manager Paul Cook was delighted with the @placeholder of his side 's response as they moved into the League Two automatic promotion places .", "option_0": "focus", "option_1": "impact", "option_2": "nature", "option_3": "rest", "option_4": "sound"}
{"id": 1757, "article": "The National Audit Office says the government's plans for three million new apprenticeships in England by 2020 should be honed to meet skills gaps. The focus should be less on how many apprenticeships are created and more on which sector needs them, it adds. A minister said employers are creating training places to meet their needs. The report says the Department for Education (DfE), which was recently given overall responsibility for the apprenticeships programme, has not yet set out how the increase in apprenticeship numbers will lead to increased productivity. Presently, it relies on market mechanisms to attract the right apprenticeships to address skills gaps in the economy. The DfE is \"therefore not directly involved in deciding where, or at what level, apprenticeships take place\". For maximum benefit to the country, it adds, there needs to be \"a clear rationale for how apprenticeships fit into the wider plan for productivity and growth\". The report argues that \"without this strategic underpinning, there is a clear risk that the drive to deliver greater numbers is delivered at the expense of delivering maximum value\". The NAO report also stresses that the DfE has no way of checking how its programme is achieving its aims. \"There are no success measures in terms of, for example, how the programme is impacting on skills levels, addressing skills gaps or improving achievement rates,\" it says. But the report does note that the programme is in the early stages of a transition, and that it has been suggested a new Institute for Apprenticeships may take on the role of measuring success. The NAO also highlights research comparing the earnings potential of successful apprentices and those following different paths. There are significant differences in earnings for apprentices across different sectors, but the report says that the most common apprenticeships do not command the biggest wages. Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, said: \"The Department for Education needs to chart and follow a course from having a lot of apprenticeships to having the right apprenticeships in order to help improve the UK's productivity and achieve value for money, in return for the costs of the programme.\" Petra Wilton of the Chartered Management Institute, said: \"It's far too early to measure the impact of the new trailblazer apprenticeships - as apprentices on the new degree courses have not yet even finished their first year. \"There's no doubt higher apprenticeship programmes make a positive economic contribution.\" Apprenticeships and Skills Minister Robert Halfon said: \"Our apprenticeship reforms give young people a ladder of opportunity, provide employers with high quality apprentices and deliver real benefits to the economy. \"We are giving employers more power than ever before to design apprenticeships that are rigorous, robust and world class. \"The new Institute for Apprenticeships will ensure that apprenticeships are even more closely tailored to the needs of employers.\" Shadow Minister for Higher Education, Further Education, and Skills, Gordon Marsden said the report underlined what opposition MPs had been saying for months. \"The government needs to put extra capacity urgently into delivering the strategy. \"Robert Halfon needs to lobby his Treasury colleagues to give the apprenticeship agencies the funding to carry this programme through properly.\"", "question": "The government 's multi-billion pound apprenticeships @placeholder needs to be more strategically linked to its plans for economic growth , a report says .", "option_0": "scheme", "option_1": "show", "option_2": "needs", "option_3": "community", "option_4": "party"}
{"id": 1758, "article": "An episode of the 1960s period drama concluded with The Beatles' song Tomorrow Never Knows. The song was not a cover version by another artist. It was the original tune. As Mad Men's creator told the New York Times newspaper, no-one can remember a song written and recorded by The Beatles ever being licensed for use on a television series. The producers of Mad Men reportedly paid about $250,000 (¡ê155,000) for the recording and publishing rights to use the tune. Typically, licensing rights for major international pop songs sell for under $100,000. The Mad Men deal underlines the enduring significance of a pop group that disbanded 42 years ago. It also underlines the huge money-making potential that still resides in The Beatles' back catalogue. After all these years, the band remain something of a money-making machine. Just how much money will no doubt always remain a secret between those who control Beatles-world and the taxman. But it is clear that the band continue to generate millions of pounds each year for those people and organisations with a stake in brand Beatles. After the group split, the key issues became how to manage the name, the catalogue, and the complex finances. Over subsequent decades, assets were shuffled between corporate, individual and family concerns. There have been investments in non-music interests (some successful, some not), legal settlements, family disputes, and, of course, the deaths of two band members. The main Beatles company is Apple Corp Ltd, controlled by Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the estates of John Lennon and George Harrison. Apple Corp administers the catalogue of Beatles releases, sales of which now total more than 600 million records, tapes and CDs. The firm holds the licensing rights for the brand and music, and has approval rights for the master recordings. Apple recently oversaw, for example, the digitally remastered release of Yellow Submarine on DVD and CD. According to the last accounts filed, Apple Corp paid ¡ê18m to its shareholders. But there are other sources of wealth. Sir Paul was frequently referred to as the first music billionaire. But it seems that he is not there yet. During his divorce in 2008 from Heather Mills, it was disclosed his assets were worth about ¡ê450m, and included art works by Picasso and Renoir, plus land and other property. By 2012, according the annual Rich List compiled by the Sunday Times, his wealth had risen to ¡ê515m, up from ¡ê495m the year before. Sir Paul still tours and records, and in 2011 his company grossed box office receipts of ¡ê50m. Another company, which handles some Lennon and McCartney song-writing revenues, made profits of ¡ê5.3m. In addition, there was his huge post-Beatles success with his band, Wings. Ringo Starr also still performs and records, with his All Starr band. Last year his company, Startling Music, paid him a ¡ê2m dividend, and the Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth at ¡ê160m. Meanwhile, the widow of George Harrison, Olivia, and their son Dhani, had a joint fortune of ¡ê180m, according to the Rich List. As for John Lennon, much of his estate is controlled via the US and administered by Yoko Ono. The estate's value is reportedly close to ¡ê200m. The beneficiaries of The Beatles' legacy go far beyond Apple Corp, however. Sony ATV holds the rights to Beatles music and lyrics, and EMI Group controls the master recordings. The proposed $1.9bn sale of EMI to Universal Music announced in September only got approval from competition regulators after EMI agreed to sell about a third of its assets to other music companies. Selling off The Beatles, though, was most certainly not part of the deal. They continue to be far too valuable. The complicated \"ownership\" of The Beatles was blamed by some for holding back the full exploitation of the band. Things are changing, though, and over the past few years new revenue streams - big and small - have opened up. The Beatles were slow to the online music revolution, perhaps because they were profiting so hugely from CD sales. Also, with The Beatles having pioneered the concept album, there was a reluctance by some involved in managing the legacy to see the music broken up into downloadable bites. However, Beatles songs finally became available on iTunes in November 2010. Within a couple of days, 28 of the top 100 tunes being downloaded were by The Beatles. The band also made up 16 of the top 50 albums, including four in the top 10. There have also been anthology projects, a tour by the Cirque du Soleil circus group called The Beatles Love, and The Beatles Rock Band video game. Beatles ring tones, Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit games, and a Ben & Jerry's ice cream called Imagine Whirled Peace - in honour of Lennon - also provide a financial cut for the estate. But it is the music that is the cash cow, and there are few signs that it is going out of favour. Rather, The Beatles seem to have transcended the divide between young and old, the fashionable and unfashionable. So it's a fair bet that each new generation will continue to buy the re-packaged, re-mastered, re-heated music of the world's most successful band.", "question": "Last May , in the US , the hit television series Mad Men made a little piece of @placeholder .", "option_0": "history", "option_1": "colour", "option_2": "results", "option_3": "night", "option_4": "me"}
{"id": 1759, "article": "That's not a bad accolade for British actor, Mark Rylance, especially when it comes from one of Hollywood's biggest directors, Steven Spielberg. Rylance, who won an Oscar earlier this year for his role in Spielberg's Bridge of Spies, returns to the big screen this week in the director's adaptation of Roald Dahl's The BFG. Rylance plays the eponymous Big Friendly Giant Speaking to BBC arts editor Will Gompertz, Rylance praised Dahl's storytelling. \"He's captured something in this story... that young people hold the key, that young people are not frightened. The BFG has given up but the young person says, 'No, we can change this.'\" The BFG opens in the UK on Friday.", "question": "\" He 's one of the greatest actors I 've ever @placeholder in my career . \"", "option_0": "built", "option_1": "base", "option_2": "experienced", "option_3": "served", "option_4": "worked"}
{"id": 1760, "article": "Tepco said xenon had been found in reactor two, which was previously thought to be near a stable shutdown. There has been no increase in temperature or pressure, but the discovery may indicate a problem with the reactor. Boric acid - used to suppress nuclear reactions - has been injected as a precaution. Ever since the meltdowns in March triggered by the huge earthquake and tsunami, engineers have been working to bring the Fukushima reactors under control. The government and Tepco - the Tokyo Electric Power Company - have said they are on track to achieve a stable shutdown by the end of the year. But now they have found what could be a problem - radioactive xenon gas detected in a filter in reactor two. Since it has a short half-life, it indicates a possibility of resumed nuclear fission in recent days. Tepco says the temperature of the reactor, which has been below boiling point, has not increased, indicating any reaction would be small. It is not ruling out a false reading but boric acid, which suppresses fission, was injected into the reactor overnight. Meanwhile, elsewhere in Japan a reactor has been switched on for the first time since the disaster. Safety fears mean local authorities have been refusing permission for restarts after routine maintenance. Dozens of facilities are offline amid concern about electricity shortages.", "question": "A radioactive gas has been detected at Japan 's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant , the facility 's @placeholder says .", "option_0": "operator", "option_1": "manager", "option_2": "body", "option_3": "media", "option_4": "sports"}
{"id": 1761, "article": "Thursday was the final chance clubs in the Football League had to bring players in on an emergency loan deal this season, but that has coincided with an unfortunately timed closing period for Fifa. The governing body's offices shut down at 11:00 GMT for the Easter period on Thursday because of the holiday season in Switzerland. That has left some Football League sides in the lurch, as Fifa's international clearance is needed for players to move between clubs under the umbrellas of the England's Football Association and the Football Association of Wales. That means the proposed loan moves of Peterborough's Souleymane Coulibaly to Newport and Swansea's Liam Shephard to Yeovil almost certainly will not go through until Fifa's offices next open on Tuesday - and both League Two clubs have two matches before then. Yeovil said in a statement: \"With today being the final day of the loan window, the club are very disappointed that the offices at Fifa closed early, causing problems for clubs ahead of a busy weekend of football.\" And Yeovil manager Darren Way added: \"Despite lodging the paperwork for the loan at 3:30pm yesterday (Wednesday 23 March) we are very disappointed that the clearance hasn't been granted in time for tomorrow's match.\" Not only is it the final emergency loan of the season, Thursday marks the end of the window altogether, with Fifa scrapping it to protect the \"sporting integrity of competitions\". At least there will not be anything like this ever again... Have you added the new Top Story alerts in the BBC Sport app? Simply head to the menu in the app - and don't forget you can also add score alerts for the Six Nations, your football team and more.", "question": "We all know what @placeholder day is like . The mad scramble to get contracts signed and deals over the line in time .", "option_0": "lives", "option_1": "side", "option_2": "health", "option_3": "control", "option_4": "deadline"}
{"id": 1762, "article": "5 March 2015 Last updated at 13:24 GMT At the same time, he has been meeting some of the artists that have featured on his 1xtra show, Destination Africa. In Botswana he met DJ Gouveia, the author of the country's most popular dance track in recent months, Ambuye - meaning God - and started by asking him about his DJing career. DJ Edu and team would like to know the name of your favourite club and why you like it. Get in touch on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, using #ClubAfricaBBC. Make sure to include your location.", "question": "BBC Radio 1 x tra 's DJ Edu is travelling across Africa looking for the continent 's best nightclub and exploring how clubbing reflects the growth of the middle @placeholder as part of the BBC 's A Richer World season ,", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "west", "option_2": "state", "option_3": "societies", "option_4": "classes"}
{"id": 1763, "article": "The film, starring Carey Mulligan, Helen Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep, tells the story of the British women who demanded the right to vote at the turn of the 20th Century. The film premiere will be simultaneously screened at cinemas across the UK on 7 October. Suffragette was written by Abi Morgan and has been directed by Sarah Gavron. Told through the eyes of the character of Maud, played by Carey Mulligan, the film tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fought for the right to vote. BFI London Film Festival Director Clare Stewart called it \"an urgent and compelling film - made by British women, about British women who changed the course of history and it is, quite simply, a film that everyone must see\", Suffragette producers Faye Ward and Alison Owen added: \"The Suffragettes would have felt very much at home here, surrounded by the energy, determination, hard work and inspiration that goes into both the Festival and the films that screen here.\" The full programme for the festival will be announced on 1 September.", "question": "This year 's London Film Festival will open with the @placeholder drama Suffragette , it has been announced .", "option_0": "public", "option_1": "sea", "option_2": "period", "option_3": "weight", "option_4": "world"}
{"id": 1764, "article": "Emergency services were called to the incident on the A4232 near junction 33 of the M4 at 05:45 BST on Wednesday. Repairs were carried out and both carriageways to Culverhouse Cross were reopened at about 11:55. The Federation of Small Businesses said the incident \"highlighted the fragility of Cardiff's transport infrastructure\". FSB Wales spokesman Rhodri Evans said: \"Getting around Cardiff can be a challenge for our members on normal working days, but the crash today has had a significant knock-on impact for business across Cardiff. \"We need to find ways of reducing the strain on our roads network and finding other ways of getting people around our capital, particularly at peak times. \"Today's incident underlines why we need to start seeing progress on the proposed South Wales Metro system so that we have a more resilient transport system in Cardiff should this sort of incident occur in future.\" The Welsh government said ?¡ê77m was being invested in the first phase of the metro project and work was being carried out to develop the next phase. A spokesperson added: \"Securing additional investment from the European Structural Fund and private sector, together with the improvements to the Great Western Main Line and Valley Lines will deliver a step change in integrated transport for south Wales and provide a template for public transport across the whole of Wales.\" The incident caused tailbacks in neighbouring counties, with motorists reporting delays of up to two hours. Bus travel in and around the city was affected and pupils travelling to schools in Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan were caught up in the delays. Nikki Boniwell, who was travelling to Cardiff from Swansea, said her normal one-hour journey took two-and-a-half-hours. Earlier on Wednesday, Jennie Griffiths, head of South Wales Fire and Rescue Service's control room, said crews were using specialist absorbent materials to contain and secure further spillage of the tanker's load on to the road.", "question": "A tanker carrying corrosive chemicals , which @placeholder and caused traffic delays around Cardiff , has been recovered and the road has reopened .", "option_0": "struck", "option_1": "died", "option_2": "destroyed", "option_3": "overturned", "option_4": "collapsed"}
{"id": 1765, "article": "It found sixth formers at Willenhall E-ACT Academy in the West Midlands were afraid to leave their common room because of younger pupils' behaviour. Inspectors rated the school inadequate overall, noting that \"during 2015 and 2016, 70% of teachers left\". The BBC has contacted school sponsor E-ACT for comment. More stories from the Black Country In a letter sent to parents following the critical report's publication, E-ACT said it had \"strong leadership\" in place \"driving standards\" and was \"confident that Willenhall Academy will continue to make rapid progress\". The school - which Ofsted described as \"coasting\" - was inspected in March and almost a third of pupils were found to be regularly absent. Individual aspects of provision were also given a rating of \"inadequate\" - among them the quality of teaching, which was described in the report as \"weak\", and pupil behaviour. \"Persistently poor behaviour at social times and in lessons leads to many pupils feeling unsafe and not learning well,\" the report said. A third of the staff who responded to an online questionnaire said they did not feel pupils were safe. Oftsed said E-ACT  \"fully recognised the challenges\" and had begun to \"address aspects of greatest concern\", with its leaders' judgements \"fully in line with inspectors' experiences and evidence\". However, it said leaders and sponsors had overseen a decline in standards since a previous inspection in 2015. \"While there is an ambition to address inadequacies and to raise aspirations, there is not yet a sustainable track record in the school to suggest capacity for improvement,\" it continued. E-ACT's letter to parents said it was \"proud of the fact that almost two thirds of our academies are rated at least good\". Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning", "question": "Students pelted school inspectors with @placeholder and jostled them in corridors during an Ofsted visit , according to the watchdog 's report .", "option_0": "food", "option_1": "unions", "option_2": "hazards", "option_3": "questions", "option_4": "disabled"}
{"id": 1766, "article": "Lutfur Rahman was found guilty of corrupt practices last week and was immediately removed from office. He was addressing a meeting in east London organised by his supporters to protest against the judgment. Mr Rahman told supporters his party would win the mayoral race and he would challenge the High Court's ruling. \"Those votes were cast freely and fairly. People in Tower Hamlets are smart, they're astute,\" he said. \"They did not vote because they were bribed, coerced or intimidated. I don't think they just voted for me just because of who I am. I was voted in on my record.\" The High Court ruling prevents Mr Rahman from standing in the mayoral election which has to be re-run because he was found guilty of election fraud in May 2014. Activist group Counterfire said it wanted to \"defend democracy\" in the borough, \"challenge racism\" and ensure \"anti-racist, anti-war and anti-austerity politics find their place in the council\". Mr Rahman has consistently denied wrongdoing and announced via his website earlier this week that he would be appealing the High Court decision. The disgraced mayor was part of the Tower Hamlets First party. In his election court judgement, Commissioner Richard Mawrey predicted Mr Rahman would not accept the result. Mr Mawrey said: \"On past form it appears inevitable that Mr Rahman will denounce this judgement as yet another example of the racism and Islamophobia that have hounded him throughout his political life. \"It is nothing of the sort.\" In the case, Mr Mawrey said the mayor had \"driven a coach and horses through election law and didn't care\".", "question": "The former mayor of Tower Hamlets has vowed to clear his name in his first public @placeholder since a High Court ruling found him guilty of election fraud .", "option_0": "secret", "option_1": "office", "option_2": "unit", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "speech"}
{"id": 1767, "article": "They are the first to be included in the table since 2011, when elements 114 and 116 were added. The first true iteration of the table was produced in 1869 by the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. The new additions were formally verified by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) on 30 December 2015. The body announced that a team of Russian and American researchers had provided sufficient evidence to claim the discovery of elements 115, 117 and 118. How do elements get their names? IUPAC awarded credit for the discovery of element 113 to a Japanese team at the Riken Institute. The teams responsible for the discoveries have been invited to come up with permanent names and chemical symbols for the now-confirmed elements. \"The chemistry community is eager to see its most cherished table finally being completed down to the seventh row. IUPAC has now initiated the process of formalising names and symbols for these elements,\" said Prof Jan Reedijk, president of the inorganic chemistry division of IUPAC. New elements can be named after a mythological concept, a mineral, a place or country, a property or a scientist. After the responsible IUPAC division accepts the new names and two-letter symbols, they will be presented for public review for five months. The chemistry organisation's council will then make a final decision.", "question": "Four chemical elements have been formally added to the periodic table , completing the @placeholder 's seventh row .", "option_0": "region", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "molecule", "option_3": "scheme", "option_4": "force"}
{"id": 1768, "article": "Proposals in the government's White Paper  include cutting the number of different orders from 19 to six. A \"community trigger\" would also force police, councils and agencies to act if five households made a complaint. Labour said the new measures were a \"weaker rebrand\" of powers to tackle anti-social behaviour. The government says it wants to take the existing 19 powers and reduce them to six which are connected to the behaviour of people, the protection of places and the powers of the police. Under the new proposals: The trigger that they're talking about - five people causes trigger - is it five people on the same street? Five people in the community? Have four people got to suffer unless they can get a fifth person to come forward? The bottom line with Asbos - and any minor problems with them - is that the people that are getting them, the victims, they don't have enough support. And everything that comes out of the Home Office since I started in to them 10 years ago, there is never funding to support the victims and witnesses to anti-social behaviour. People may report anti-social behaviour to the police, but they might not follow it through with a statement in writing and that is the problem. And that is going to be the problem with this. They've still got to get people to come forward and report. I couldn't get five people on my street to report anything - regardless of what I've done over the years here. They might report it, but they won't follow it through and that's the problem, it's the fear factor. Source:  BBC Radio 5Live Home Secretary Theresa May told the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) annual conference in Manchester that the government's approach \"empowers local communities, places victims' needs at its heart and puts more trust in the professionals than ever before\". Mrs May said the community trigger would be piloted in three areas - Manchester, Brighton and Hove and West Lindsey, in Lincolnshire, from 1 June. It will force the police, councils and other agencies to act if five households complain, or the same individual complains three times. And she told Acpo the new approach \"will not dump all of society's problems on the police\". \"We are challenging local agencies to do more to prevent crime and anti-social behaviour in the first place - lowering the burden on the police - and our new powers are available to range of agencies and explicitly include actions to change an offender's behaviour and stop future incidents.\" Mrs May earlier told the BBC that Asbos were \"too bureaucratic\" and took too long to put into place. The Home Office first signalled an end to Asbos, introduced under Tony Blair's Labour government, earlier at the start of last year. It believes the orders are seen by some youths as a badge of honour and it has pointed out that more than half are breached at least once. The shadow home office minister, Gloria De Piero, says while Asbos are imperfect, the new measures will only make matters worse. \"Asbos are sometimes breached and that's a really serious thing. That's why you get a criminal record. \"Actually half of the people who breach Asbos end up behind bars, that's how seriously Labour took it. The new Crime Prevention Injunction, you won't even get a criminal record.\" One woman from Backworth in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who has been a repeated victim of anti-social behaviour, told the BBC she supported the move to lower the burden of proof for anti-social acts. \"You have to have a level of trust in the community, that people like me do not make things up. \"But the main problem is that there is not enough of a multi-agency approach to the problem. \"In my experience the police are proactive in trying to identify and find those who threaten us but the local authority is not. \"There needs to be more intelligence shared between the agencies.\" Javed Khan, chief executive of Victim Support, said victims of anti-social behaviour should be taken seriously as soon as they made a report to the police. He added: \"We hope that the new Criminal Behaviour Order will deliver the rapid response for victims that is needed. \"But just dishing out the orders won't be enough. If the government really wants to put victims first, tough enforcement and follow-up will be required, to avoid making the CBO an empty sanction.\"", "question": "The government has announced new plans to tackle anti-social behaviour in England and Wales , including orders to @placeholder Asbos .", "option_0": "reveal", "option_1": "speak", "option_2": "represent", "option_3": "replace", "option_4": "identify"}
{"id": 1769, "article": "He's hoping lady luck will be on his side this time after having lost $900 (?¡ê590) over the past two nights playing his favourite game - roulette. But as the ball settles in slot number four he realises he's lost another $200. \"I don't come here to win, but just to have some fun,\" he says. The 37-year-old businessman claims he is not an active gambler but comes to the casino for the experience. And that's the story of most people who visit Goa's casinos. Goa is often referred as the Las Vegas of India. It's one of the three places in India that allows legal casinos to operate, and the only state that permits live gaming, though with restrictions. Live gaming, which means there's a person dealing you the cards, is allowed only on offshore casinos - so the gambling dens are onboard ships anchored on the Mandovi river overlooking Panaji, Goa's state capital. The casinos on land are only permitted to operate electronic games. Today, the state's 15 casinos - four of them offshore - receive some 15,000 visitors every day. Most of them are domestic tourists - who are in Goa on a holiday to enjoy the famous beaches, but end up visiting an offshore casino for the experience. The age group of these guests ranges from 25 to 40; working professionals, couples, businessmen or just a family from a small Indian city, can all be spotted here. The casinos consciously market themselves as entertainment destinations - providing unlimited food, alcohol, live performances and gaming - all at one ship - for an entry fee that costs around $40. This helps them draw a lot more people, who otherwise would be wary of visiting. \"We are catering to the mass market, not the high rollers,\" says Jaydev Mody, chairman of Delta Corp, which operates two offshore casinos. An average player spends $200-300 on gambling, with roulette and blackjack being the most popular games - and 20% of the visitors are serious players who come here just to gamble like Senthil from Bangalore. He says: \"Previously I used to travel to Macau twice a year, but now I come here every two months.\" Casino visitors have been rising 30% annually - and casinos are now a significant revenue generator for Goa. It's estimated the industry contributes more than $30m a year to the state's exchequer in the form of taxes and levies. But despite their rising popularity, casinos have been facing political heat and opposition in the state. The licences of the four offshore casinos will expire next year on 31 March, and there's pressure on the government not to renew them - till they move out of the river Mandovi and relocate in the deep sea, away from the city. There are two key reasons for this opposition. Political parties and non-government organisations say that casinos are a bad influence and they are making many people gambling addicts. \"It is an evil affecting Goan society. Many young Goans are falling for this culture, ruining their life and destroying the families,\" Luizinho Faleiro, local leader of the main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, said earlier this year. Critics also say the casinos are polluting the Mandovi river. Ironically, the campaign to shut these casinos was initiated by the Bhartiya Janta Party, which is now ruling the state, when it was in the opposition. There is also a proposal to ban local residents from entering casinos altogether. It's a suggestion that the state's chief minister, Laxmikant Parsekar, admits would be hard to implement. \"It will probably be difficult to screen and check the all entrants,\" he says. Casino owners deny the allegation and argue that the industry is creating jobs for locals. Senior officials in the government say that any move to ban local residents from entering the casinos is unlikely. \"Any such move will be unconstitutional and will be counterproductive,\" says William Britto, owner of Chances casino and resorts. Currently officials are scouting for an alternate location where the ships can be shifted after their licences expire. But like the last few times, the casinos are expected to get an extension again. Among all this cacophony, the industry is also worried about future growth. With footfalls rising sharply every year, offshore casinos are worried that they will need more capacity to meet the growing demand. Adding more ships won't help, they say, but if they were allowed to operate live games on land then that would help expand the market. \"We can create a destination just like Singapore or Macau. Create resorts and casinos and fill them up,\" says Mr Mody. The current situation has left the local government in a dilemma - it is difficult to publicly acknowledge the crucial contribution made by casinos to the treasury, and on the other, it cannot create unfriendly policies that will harm casinos. For now the industry is hoping that opposition voices will die down in the future, paving the way for their expansion. And given that there is a huge dearth of places in the country where people can gamble legally, Goa may just still turn out to be a winning bet for investors.", "question": "As the wheel spins , and the white ball bounces across different coloured @placeholder with distinct numbers , Bahlu Jai Singh waits with bated breath .", "option_0": "starts", "option_1": "walls", "option_2": "lines", "option_3": "pockets", "option_4": "tiles"}
{"id": 1770, "article": "\"In the end, it's not the years in your life that counts, it's the life in your years,\" was the message on Twitter and Instagram, also shared by President Trump. There was just one problem: the words have been attributed to Lincoln many times over the years, but there is no evidence he ever said them. The post has since been deleted. It was the latest example of a growing modern phenomenon, the fake political quote. Some have said \"fake news\" could have swung the outcome of November's US presidential election. Bogus stories like \"Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Donald Trump for President\" were extensively shared online. Made up quotes are perhaps more benign than fictitious news stories with a clear political agenda. But they still raise concerns, says James Ball of Buzzfeed News, who is writing a book about \"post-truth\" politics. \"If enough people share and believe these fake quotes, then they can contribute to the polarisation of politics, making each side think less of the other, especially as many partisans think fake news is a problem which affects primarily (or only) their opponents.\" These fake quotes don't just come from right-wing politicians and activists. In the days after the US election, a quote supposedly taken from a 1998 Donald Trump interview went viral online. \"If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up,\" the quote said. It seemed too obnoxious to be true - and it was. Fake George Orwell quotes are a specialty in left-wing social media circles. One example is \"during times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.\" There is no evidence the 1984 author ever said these words, but social media is awash with shareable pictures of them alongside Orwell's monochrome face. So how do bogus quotes like this get into circulation? \"Sometimes people just want new followers or shares on social media, and either invent a quote or (naively or otherwise) lift a questionable one,\" says James Ball. \"Others invent quotes as a hoax or parody to show up people they disagree with, or to fire up their own side - or simply to make money from adverts on fake news sites.\" The internet means fake quotes can spread very quickly. \"It's easier to fabricate things than it is to debunk them,\" says Rasmus Nielsen, director of research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. \"As communication gets easier, there is going to be more and more of this stuff floating about online.\" Jenni Sargent runs First Draft News, which is working with social media companies and news organisations to look at innovative solutions to the problem. \"People are experimenting with the most engaging way to spread false information,\" she says. She wants news websites to come up with entertaining ways of debunking fake facts and quotes. A blue tick next to a name on Twitter tells you the account has been verified as \"authentic\". Sargent wants to come up with ways to highlight unreliable sources, \"like the opposite of a blue tick\". Facebook is introducing tools for German users to flag false stories ahead of that country's parliamentary elections in the autumn. Third-party fact checkers would mark unreliable stories as \"disputed\". The BBC has also said it will fact check deliberately misleading stories \"masquerading as news\". British MP Damian Collins is chairing a parliamentary inquiry into these issues, which will look at the possibility of news websites having \"verified\" markers. Collins thinks fake quotes attributed to electoral candidates could end up \"distorting the democratic process\". Often verifying quotes is simply a case of rigorously searching through publicly available information, says Kim LaCapria, who works for rumour-busting website Snopes. The volume of dubious content online is greater than ever before, but verification can be easier because far more information is digitised, she says. \"It's actually pretty easy for average social media users to fact check online.\" Her job involves looking at outright fake quotes, but also real quotes presented in a misleading way. For example, Al Gore has been ridiculed for claiming he \"invented the internet\". The former vice president did once say \"I took the initiative in creating the Internet,\" but taken in full context, that line seems rather more modest. We are less likely to expend energy verifying a quote which confirms our political beliefs, says LaCapria, an effect which psychologists call confirmation bias. Whether a fake quote comes from the left or the right, it tends to have one common feature, she says. \"It validates our preconceived beliefs or feelings, and that's often proffered as a valid reason to spread it.\"", "question": "It was Abraham Lincoln 's 208th birthday last weekend . The US Republican Party 's social media feeds @placeholder the 16th president by sharing a picture of his iconic memorial in Washington DC , with an inspiring quote laid over the top .", "option_0": "reached", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "honoured", "option_3": "control", "option_4": "visited"}
{"id": 1771, "article": "But Mrs Justice Nicola Davies said medical staff acted professionally and in the best interest of Janet Tracey. Mrs Tracey, 63, died at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, in March 2011. Her husband David says the notice was put on unlawfully, which the Cambridge University Hospitals Trust denies. Mrs Justice Davies found a second notice, which followed three days afterwards and two days before Mrs Tracey's death, was put in place with the agreement of her family, who were unwilling to speak to her about it. The judge, who was determining disputed issues of fact, will rule on Friday whether the legal issues should now be considered at a judicial review hearing in February, which would also involve the Secretary of State for Health. Lawyers for Mrs Tracey's family said this would clarify whether there is a legal duty to inform patients with capacity whether a DNR has been placed on their notes. Mrs Tracey, a care home manager, died following a transfer to Addenbrooke's Hospital after breaking her neck in a car crash on 19 February - two weeks after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. The first notice, on 27 February, was cancelled on 2 March, while a second was imposed on 5 March, two days before she died. Her husband, a retired engineer, said his wife believed she was being \"badgered\" into making a decision about resuscitation options. But Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has said the claims are unsound and unfair. It said cardiopulmonary resuscitation would have been wholly inappropriate and not in the best interests of Mrs Tracey, who also had pneumonia and required ventilation. Mrs Justice Davies said the failure to inform or involve Mrs Tracey had \"minimal causative effect\", as the notice was cancelled five days later when her family objected.", "question": "A woman with a broken neck and cancer was not informed or involved in a decision to put a \" do not resuscitate \" notice in her @placeholder , a high court judge has ruled .", "option_0": "constituency", "option_1": "body", "option_2": "flat", "option_3": "family", "option_4": "records"}
{"id": 1772, "article": "Eddie Jones' side play four Test matches in as many weeks, with Argentina and Australia still to come. \"The autumn is pretty intense and is probably little bit harder mentally to stay focused,\" Marler told BBC 5 live. \"Eddie mentioned it's very similar to a World Cup [in terms of] the intensity you have to go through in order to get through your pool.\" Ahead of Saturday's match with the Pumas, Marler says the England squad have spoken this week about the challenge of staying mentally refreshed after being in camp together for over a month. \"We have discussed how this could be a tough week for boys who are missing home a bit,\" the Harlequins forward added. \"It's a collective buy-in from boys to help each other out. We haven't got a specific senior leadership group, but there are boys who have been around long enough. \"The Six Nations brings a lot of history and tradition but you get those two fallow weeks in the middle of it that breaks it up a little bit more - you get more of a change of environment and maybe a couple more days to get home and see the family. \"It is tough, but it's part and parcel of rugby life, and you get on with it.\" However, Marler insists that the facilities at England's training base in Surrey means the players have no excuses around their preparation. \"We haven't exactly got it hard, the accommodation and facilities we have here are incredible,\" the 26-year-old said. \"They are here for a reason, and that's for us to improve as players and as a team. We have the best facilities; there is no excuse.\" Marler also says he has learnt from his past experiences, and is now able to act as a mentor to the younger members of the England squad, such as his Harlequins club team-mate Kyle Sinckler, who recently made his international debut. \"Kyle Sinckler has been brilliant for the past 18 months and has finally got his shot, but there have been times with Kyle when I've had to sit down with him and say 'what are you doing?'\" Marler said. \"He'll listen and nod, but part of me also thinks is he saying 'what are you going on about Joe, you have done this and that before, you were bad once?' \"I was once, but I like to think I am working on that now. \"So it's little things like that, just to help each other out. It's all about that experience.\" Hear more from Joe Marler on 5 live Rugby from 20:00 GMT on Thursday. For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "question": "England 's autumn international schedule mirrors the intensity of a Rugby World Cup , according to @placeholder Joe Marler .", "option_0": "show", "option_1": "historian", "option_2": "beat", "option_3": "prop", "option_4": "data"}
{"id": 1773, "article": "The Gower Society wants new caravans to be \"more sympathetic\" to the surroundings by blending in. It was the UK's first area of outstanding natural beauty in 1956 and has dozens of caravan sites. \"We're not saying existing caravans should be painted,\" chairman Robin Kirby said. \"We're not saying they should be replaced either but when the caravans are upgraded, new caravans should be painted in darker colours so they blend into the countryside.\" \"The society has been concerned for some time with the colour of static caravans which are light in colour. We believe they should be darker.\" Mr Kirby told BBC Radio Wales' Jason Mohammad programme some static caravans are \"the wrong colour.\" \"They should be juniper green or rustic brown,\" he said. \"The surroundings are obviously green and brown and at the moment, they don't blend into the countryside as well as they should. \"There are not local rules but we are concerned that there should be. \"We are not opposed to caravan sites because caravans provide accommodation and enjoyment for many families to explore the Gower, which is beautiful. \"And in fairness, when some caravan parks introduce new caravans they are more brown. \"I feel their responsibility is when caravan parks do replace old ones, they consider the new ones are of a more acceptable colour.\"", "question": "New static caravans on the Gower Peninsula should be painted brown or green , a Gower @placeholder protection group has said .", "option_0": "land", "option_1": "trade", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "lobby", "option_4": "heritage"}
{"id": 1774, "article": "Victims were fooled by emails asking them to divert payments into criminals' accounts, leaving the genuine recipient unpaid. The number of cases of the scam - also known as \"mandate\" or \"invoice\" fraud - is up 71% on the previous year. Losses in the UK totalled ¡ê126m, according to police figures compiled for Radio 4's You & Yours. Police said people need to be suspicious of any persistent emails that suggest a change of bank account details. Georgia Morandi, from Carmarthenshire, lost ¡ê2,514 to this sort of scam after having a wood burning stove installed. She received messages - apparently from her stove fitter's email account - asking for the money she owed him to be paid into a different bank account. \"The timing of it was perfect because, of course, it was a bill that I inevitably had to pay,\" she said. But the messages she had received were not really from her stove fitter. It is thought his email account had been compromised and somebody posed as him online. \"It was a massive shock because I could instantly see that it would be an issue trying to get the money back,\" said Ms Morandi. \"I went into a bit of a panic wondering how it was going to end. I couldn't afford to pay for the stove twice; the stove fitter couldn't afford to be out of pocket. It was very difficult to know who is responsible for that stolen money.\" In the end, Ms Morandi's bank refunded the money she had sent to criminals. But they called it a goodwill gesture and not everyone caught out in this way will get their money back. The police recorded 5,480 similar cases in 2015, compared with 3,206 in 2014. Of those affected, 36% of them said it had a severe or significant impact on them, meaning it affected their health or their ability to make ends meet. The scam tends to happen in two main ways. The first is where a company's IT system is infected with malware allowing criminals to spy on emails and then contact customers. The second is where a criminal pretends to be someone senior in a company and emails a junior member of staff asking them to make a business payment, known as CEO fraud. \"Junior people in very large organisations need to feel comfortable to ask the question of someone senior whether or not this is a real transaction,\" said Commander Chris Greany from City of London Police, which monitors and investigates fraud across the UK. \"Sadly email is just not safe and you cannot trust it all the time.\" Commander Greany thinks more people need to be suspicious of emails that ask for payment particularly if they are persistent and include new bank account details. \"The best thing for any individual to do is to pick up the phone and speak to the business they are dealing with,\" he suggested. For more help, see the BBC iWonder guide \"How do I avoid being ripped off by a scam?\" Have you been affected by this story? Are you a victim of fraud? Share your comments and experiences. You can email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "question": "More than 5,000 people were conned into sending @placeholder payments to fraudsters ' bank accounts last year .", "option_0": "planned", "option_1": "message", "option_2": "race", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "cash"}
{"id": 1775, "article": "Readings showed that the water level in the canal connecting the river to the plant was going down rapidly. Water is used to produce steam to run the turbines and for cooling vital equipment of coal-fired power stations. By next day, authorities were forced to suspend generation at the 2,300-megawatt plant in Farakka town causing shortages in India's power grid. Next, the vast township on the river, where more than 1,000 families of plant workers live, ran out of water. Thousands of bottles of packaged drinking water were distributed to residents, and fire engines rushed to the river to extract water for cooking and cleaning. The power station - one of the 41 run by the state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation, which generates a quarter of India's electricity - was shut for 10 days, unprecedented in its 30-year history. \"Never before have we shut down the plant because of a shortage of water,\" says Milan Kumar, a senior plant official. \"We are being told by the authorities that water levels in the river have receded, and that they can do very little.\" Further downstream, say locals, ferries were suspended and sandbars emerged on the river. Some 13 barges carrying imported coal to the power station were stranded midstream because of insufficient water. Children were seen playing on a near-dry river bed. Nobody is sure why the water level on the Ganges receded at Farakka, where India built a barrage in the 1970s to divert water away from Bangladesh. Much later, in the mid-1990s, the countries signed a 30-year agreement to share water. (The precipitous decline in water levels happened during a 10-day cycle when India is bound by the pact to divert most of the water to Bangladesh. The fall in level left India with much less water than usual.) Monsoon rains have been scanty in India for the second year in succession. The melting of snow in the Himalayas - the mountain holds the world's largest body of ice outside the polar caps and contributes up to 15% of the river flow - has been delayed this year, says SK Haldar, general manager of the barrage. \"There are fluctuations like this every year,\" he says. But the evidence about the declining water levels and waning health of the 2,500km (1,553 miles)-long Ganges, which supports a quarter of India's 1.3 billion people, is mounting. Part of a river's water level is determined by the groundwater reserves in the area drained by it and the duration and intensity of monsoon rains. Water tables have been declining in the Ganges basin due to the reckless extraction of groundwater. Much of the groundwater is, anyway, already contaminated with arsenic and fluoride. A controversial UN climate report said the Himalayan glaciers could melt to a fifth of the current levels by 2035. Emmanuel Theophilus and his son, Theo, kayaked on the Ganges during their 87-day, 2,500km journey of India's rivers last year. They asked fishermen and people living on the river what had changed most about it. \"All of them said there had been a reduction in water levels over the years. Also when we were sailing on the Ganges, we did not find a single turtle. The river was so dirty that it stank. There were effluents, sewage and dead bodies floating,\" says Mr Theophilus. The waning health of the sacred river underscores the rising crisis of water in India. Two successive bad monsoons have already led to a drought-like situation, and river basins are facing water shortages. The three-month-long summer is barely weeks away but water availability in India's 91 reservoirs is at its lowest in a decade, with stocks at a paltry 29% of their total storage capacity, according to the Central Water Commission. Some 85% of the country's drinking water comes from aquifers, but their levels are falling, according to WaterAid. No wonder then that conflicts over water are on the rise. Thousands of villagers in drought-hit region of Maharashtra depend on tankers for water; and authorities in Latur district, fearing violence, have imposed prohibitory orders on gatherings of more than five people around storage tanks. Tens of thousands of farmers and livestock have moved to camps providing free fodder and water for animals in parched districts. The government has asked local municipalities to stop supplying water to swimming pools. States like Punjab are squabbling over ownership of river waters. In water-scarce Orissa, farmers have reportedly breached embankments to save their crops. Back in Farakka, villagers are washing clothes in the shallow waters of the power station canal and children are crossing by foot. \"We would dive into the canal earlier for a swim,\" says a villager. Not far away, near the shores of the Ganges, fisherman Balai Haldar looks at his meagre catch of prawns and bemoans the lack of water. \"The river has very little water these days. It is also running out of fish. Tube wells in our village have run out of water,\" he says. \"There's too much of uncertainty. People in our villages have moved to the cities to look for work.\" It is a concern you hear a lot on the river these days. At the power plant, Milan Kumar says he is \"afraid that this can happen again\". \"We are being told that water levels in the Ganges have declined by a fourth. Being located on the banks of one of the world's largest rivers, we never thought we would face a scarcity of water. \"The unthinkable is happening.\"", "question": "On 11 March , panic struck @placeholder at a giant power station on the banks of the Ganges river in West Bengal state .", "option_0": "out", "option_1": "people", "option_2": "display", "option_3": "tanks", "option_4": "engineers"}
{"id": 1776, "article": "In South Sudan, a country of some 11 million people, there are only two trained psychiatrists. Dr Atong Ayuel is one of those two, and the new head of mental health care in South Sudan. The country's third trained psychiatrist apparently lives in London. A stocky, determined mother of three, Dr Atong is ambitious about what she, and her team of just 20 trained mental healthcare professionals, can achieve. However on our visit to Juba's main public hospital, there were only 10 patients undergoing treatment, despite the fact that the people of this land have suffered so much. The short history of South Sudan, which three years ago became the world's youngest nation, is scarred by violence. \"The scale of the problem is huge,\" says Dr Atong. During the current civil war, which broke out in December, thousands have died and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes. They now live in camps, often in squalid conditions. It is in that context that Dr Atong says the number of patients is increasing and she simply does not \"have the resources or manpower\" to treat them all. What is more, there was conflict in this land for decades before South Sudan's independence in 2011 and it has taken its toll on the people here. Drive through the capital Juba, and you can spot men walking naked through the streets. \"Some men are becoming violent, they start shooting each other,\" says Dr Atong. \"Some of them are having a full-blown post-traumatic stress disorder.\" What is shocking to many outside of South Sudan is that mentally ill people are kept not in a hospital, but at Juba's main prison. Human rights organisations have criticised the government and have campaigned for their release or transfer to another facility. While we were in Juba, Dr Atong started working at the prison in order to assess those patients being kept there. She told us some of them have already been released. Officials at Juba prison did not allow the BBC team inside. But they told us that there were still 150 people with mental health problems, being kept at the prison. Dr Atong rejects the criticism from human rights organisations and foreign journalists. She argues that the patients are not kept in the prison as criminals, but for their own safety, and that of others. \"Mentally ill patients are people who are not predictable,\" she says. However, the fact that the authorities in Juba say they have to keep patients in the prison because there is nowhere else safe enough to house them underlines how basic South Sudan's mental health system is. The sight of dozens of policemen in military-style uniforms, with riot shields and long police batons, heading out to pick up the men with serious psychological problems who wander Juba's streets also seems primitive, when compared to the sensitivity shown towards the issue of mental health in more developed nations. We accompanied the squads on their patrol through the streets of Juba. But the role of the police is seen as an important part of the South Sudanese government's strategy of tackling mental health. Only they can safely remove men, whose behaviour can be unpredictable from the capital's dusty streets, and take them to the hospital, where they can be treated. At one point I ask Dr Atong, who is out on this patrol, whether the police have spotted a possible patient. She replies that the police saw a scruffy man wearing overalls, but it turned out \"he was a mechanic\". And when I questioned a senior police officer on the patrol about how he and his colleagues were able to tell if someone was mentally ill, or not, he said, with some confidence, that it was \"because of the way someone was dressed, and the way they moved\". But aside from such sensitivities, when addressing the issue of mental health, Dr Atong and her small team of mental health care professionals are trying to tackle a gargantuan task. In a dilapidated corridor of Juba Hospital's mental health ward, I meet George who is visiting his wife. He explains that a few days ago, his wife turned violent and was threatening to burn their house down. But in some way they are the lucky ones. Reports suggest that other people in South Sudan, whose relatives suffer severe mental health problems resort to tying them up at home, because they have nowhere to take them for treatment. Aid agencies also warn that treating mental health is crucial for South Sudan's future. Heke Huisman, from the medical charity Doctors Without Borders, argues that if people who experience violence are not helped, then they themselves are more prone to turn to violence. \"If someone has been abused in his life, he becomes the abuser,\" she says. And stories of trauma and tragedy are alarmingly common in South Sudan. At a camp on the edge of Juba, where 1,700 people live who fled the recent fighting, we meet 12-year-old Mary. In a sweet, innocent, high-pitched voice she recalls how both her parents and her two brothers were killed in the violence earlier this year. Many believe that if South Sudan is to break-away from a self-destructive cycle of war, it must address the psychological cost of so much violence.", "question": "South Sudan is desperately in need of mental health facilities to treat people brutalised by decades of conflict , writes the BBC 's Tom Burridge after visiting the world 's newest @placeholder .", "option_0": "announcement", "option_1": "prison", "option_2": "hospital", "option_3": "city", "option_4": "state"}
{"id": 1777, "article": "This would see average bills fall in real terms by about ¡ê20 from ¡ê396 to ¡ê376. However, consumers will still pay more, as the companies are allowed to add on inflation, as measured by RPI. RPI is typically higher than CPI inflation, and is currently running at 2.3% a year. Nevertheless the Consumer Council for Water (CCW) said it was good news for consumers. \"Most water companies and the regulator have listened to customers and delivered a deal which reflects the services they want, at a price most find acceptable,\" said Tony Smith, the chief executive of the CCW. After two years of deliberations, Ofwat has now determined the levels at which all 18 water and sewerage companies can set their prices for the five-year period beginning in April 2015. Thames has been told it will have to cut charges by 5% in real terms, United Utilities must cut by 3%, and Bristol Water - a water-only company - must cut charges by 21%. Ofwat said the ruling will allow water companies to invest ¡ê44bn over the next five years, or ¡ê2,000 per household. \"With bills held down by 5% and service driven up over the next five years, customers will get more and pay less,\" said Cathryn Ross, Ofwat chief executive. For water and sewage charges, Anglian customers will see the greatest percentage drop in yearly bills, down 10% to an average of ¡ê390 by 2019-20. Northumbrian customers will see the smallest change in their bills, dropping 1% to ¡ê382. The main factor behind Ofwat ordering a drop in bills has been the sustained period in low interest rates. This has allowed water companies to borrow much more cheaply for infrastructure projects, which are among their main costs. Companies have two months to accept Ofwat's decision, or seek a referral to the Competition and Markets Authority. Both Thames Water and United Utilities said they would look at the ruling carefully before coming to a decision.", "question": "Household water bills in England and Wales will fall by an average of 5 % - not @placeholder inflation - by 2020 , the regulator Ofwat has ruled .", "option_0": "based", "option_1": "backed", "option_2": "growing", "option_3": "including", "option_4": "built"}
{"id": 1778, "article": "A journalist with more than 13 years' experience covering stories of terror, violence, attending inquests, carrying out death knocks and focusing on the emerging field of \"trauma journalism\", there came a point last year when I was ready to take a step back and deep dive into the world of peace and conflict, which had come to underpin every bit of storytelling I was doing. So earlier this year, I took three months' unpaid leave to take up a Rotary International peace fellowship at Chulalongkorn University, in Thailand. This is a professional development programme for mid-career workers interested in understanding peace and learning conflict-resolution techniques. Fifty people from around the world had been selected for a funded scholarship this year, after a two-part face -to-face interview process and a long paper application system. Global education Get in touch with the Global education series. An article I had written for BBC History several years previously, on why people destroyed cultural heritage, had instigated a real interest in identity politics. The destruction of heritage sites Palmyra, in Syria, and Nimrud, in Iraq, was of real interest - how had we reached a point where monuments were under attack and why? My three months would be spent examining the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan, in 2001, the role the media had played and lessons for the future. Peace and conflict study courses are on offer at universities and educational centres around the world - it's a popular subject. In 1948, peacemaker Gladys Muir established what is believed to be the world's first undergraduate programme in peace studies, at Manchester College, in Indiana, in the US. A quick online search for \"peace fellowships\" brings up a plethora of opportunities across the globe. King's College London is currently offering a fellowship for African women, while the United States Institute of Peace has schemes too. The peace fellowship in which I enrolled receives $3.4m (?¡ê2.6m) from the Rotary Foundation each year, although the running costs are more than that. Rotary International president John Germ says the organisation invests in the fellowship programme because it gives students \"a tool, to use and pass on - to build a world of hope and peace for all of us\". The foundation also funds master's courses at peace centres in Tokyo, Uppsala, North Carolina, Brisbane and Bradford, but the centre in Bangkok is currently the only one hosting this mid-career certificate. Taking two cohorts of up to 25 a year, the classes are intense and operate on a pass-or-fail basis. My 23 classmates came from 17 different countries and a wide variety of backgrounds - a farmer, development consultants, lecturers, a lawyer, women's rights activists, a government official and people with experience in the United Nations and smaller scale NGOs - all with the same intention of developing our experiences in this field and learning from each other. We had to live together in the same university accommodation and spend a lot of time together. But, as US classmate, Travis Burke, a consultant with experience in Afghanistan, Somalia and Ukraine, said: \"The value of different voices and thoughts can't be underestimated when tackling these major issues.\" This particular Thai peace course began as a pilot in 2005. It has been running ever since, producing 203 male and 220 female peace alumni from 78 countries. Each cohort goes on a domestic and international field trip. Class 22 visited Chiang Rai, in northern Thailand, to examine the fight over the Mekong River. We then travelled to Sri Lanka to look at the after-effects of the civil war, which came close to devastating the country. People on all sides, from villagers to fishermen to military staff to government officials, all wanted to share their experiences. The course lecturers include lawyers, Buddhist monks and peace activists. The fellowship also uses its network of alumni as a resource - so who knows which of my classmates will be back in Thailand soon to pass on their expertise. We examined military approaches, the role of storytelling and the media, how women were integral to peace, mediation and human rights, within the designated modules. But the world is moving on, and cyber-warfare is becoming a norm. With fellows raising issues around disinformation and the role of fake media and technology in obstructing peace, the deputy director Vitoon Viriyasakultorn says changes to the course curricular are afoot. \"As well as the changing political environments and emerging issues around the world, it is the right time to revisit the programme to make it more attractive and responsive to the world's changing environments and technologies,\" he says. For some of my classmates, the scholarship has already instigated change. Dan Noel Odaba, who teaches international relations at the United States International University Africa, in Nairobi, is using the skills he learned to help young people in slum areas to learn how to resolve conflict. Sharada Jnawali, from Kathmandu, has 15 years' experience in the development field. For her, the programme provided an immediate networking pool and some theoretical tools to complement the practical experience she had already accumulated, while Jill Mann, a peace activist from Leeds, says it's made her rethink how communities approach peace and conflict. Maybe soon we'll find the words of Benvolio, Tybalt's counterpart in Romeo and Juliet, will be far more influential in a world where conflict dominates the news agenda: \"I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword, Or manage it to part these men with me.\" Follow Dhruti Shah on Twitter: @dhrutishah", "question": "\" What , @placeholder , and talk of peace ! I hate the word . \" And with that , in Act One , Scene One , Tybalt , the violent \" Prince of Cats \" in William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet begins a fight that could possibly have been avoided .", "option_0": "blood", "option_1": "say", "option_2": "encompassing", "option_3": "drawn", "option_4": "fish"}
{"id": 1779, "article": "Matthew and John Hargreaves admitted participating in a fraudulent business, while Jean Hargreaves admitted engaging in an unfair commercial practice. The trio, from Knutsford, Cheshire, sold the product at the Royal Welsh Show in Builth Wells, Powys, in 2013. The two men got 18 months in prison and Jean Hargreaves received a six month sentence, suspended for two years. Sentencing the three, Judge Philip Harris-Jenkins said: \"You put personal greed ahead of public safety.\" Merthyr Crown Court heard the family made ?¡ê3.4m from the venture - a figure disputed by defence counsel - with John Hargreaves, 69, playing a leading role until handing over to his son, Matthew, 44, in 2010. Jean Hargreaves, 71, was said to have played a lesser role than her husband and son. Powys council's trading standards team launched a three-year, ?¡ê400,000 investigation into the three after tests on the products at the agricultural show showed the hydrogen peroxide levels were \"harmful\". The council's investigations led them to 30 victims across the UK, including one who required hospital treatment. Investigators found the three had tried to sell the whitener at about 150 venues, including shopping centre, as well as online. The council said numerous unsubstantiated and false claims were discovered on banners at the Royal Welsh Show, including claims the product was \"ideal for any age group\" and was \"used by leading dentists throughout the UK and Europe\". The product was 11% hydrogen peroxide. It is legal for anyone to treat themselves with an over-the-counter kit, provided it contains less than 0.1% hydrogen peroxide. A dentist can legally use 6%. Excessive levels of the chemical compound can cause blistering, burns and other damage. Prosecutor Mark Wyeth QC said the whitening had \"harmful levels of hydrogen peroxide, thereby putting at risk the health of anybody who happened to buy this product\". The court heard the family would change the name of the company they operated under and dissolve businesses in order to evade unhappy customers and the authorities. The father and son's involvement stretched from 2007 to 2015, while Jean Hargreaves' crime was carried out between 2013 and 2015. The family have refused to disclose where the whitener was manufactured, as well as the supply chain. Mr Wyeth said since the broadcast of BBC's Fake Britain programme featuring the Hargreaves was broadcast, Walsall council had discovered Matthew Hargreaves was still trading in teeth whitening products. The court heard John Hargreaves, who accepted a caution in 2007 for selling similar teeth whitening products at Manchester Airport, used his wife to \"provide a layer of protection against investigation\". It was also told the two men had aspirations of producing even stronger products with hydrogen peroxide content of 22-38%. Sukhdev Garcha, defending Matthew Hargreaves, said he played a subordinate role but had accepted his actions and expressed remorse. Representing John Hargreaves, Amos Waldman said: \"His involvement reduced towards the end - he effectively retired. He accepts entirely he was dishonest.\" Anthony Barraclough, defending Jean Hargreaves, said: \"This lady would never have condoned the sale of dangerous chemicals. She has been devastated by all of this.\" Jean Hargreaves was disqualified from being a company director for five years while the two men were banned for 10 years.", "question": "A father and son who sold teeth whitener with 110 times the legal limit of hydrogen peroxide , have been @placeholder .", "option_0": "sued", "option_1": "unveiled", "option_2": "announced", "option_3": "murdered", "option_4": "jailed"}
{"id": 1780, "article": "On mine, some were fatalistic, others nervously pragmatic - one passenger told me he could not afford to change expensive, long-laid travel plans, however grim the news. Some were more openly apprehensive. Egypt sees itself as a regional power in the front line of a war against global jihadism and its strong-man President, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, portrays himself as the hammer of political Islamism at home. Privately many Egyptians appear to worry that might make their country an obvious target for jihadists - the fear being that a long-bubbling Islamist insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula might escalate elsewhere in Egypt. You do not find those fears reflected in the mainstream media, which sees its role in Mr Sisi's Egypt as cheerleading for the state where possible and downplaying criticism when necessary. But the fears are nonetheless real - most Egyptians firmly support the idea that their country should be a strong regional power but there is a genuine anxiety about the price tag such a role might ultimately carry. For the relatives of the missing gathered at a Cairo hotel, the absence of concrete information must be almost unendurable. They now face a very personal and agonising search for answers that cannot really begin until the search for the bulk of the missing wreckage yields results. The Egyptian air force has now reported finding debris in the Mediterranean somewhere between 125 miles (200km) and 185 miles north of Alexandria. That is a start, but the task of recovery remains immense - this is a search not just for evidence of what caused the crash but for the bodies of those who died in it. The performance of Egypt's armed forces and intelligence agencies will be closely scrutinised. If the loss of flight MS804 turns out to be the result of a terrorist attack, as most Egyptians now assume, it will raise further questions about the quality of security surrounding EgyptAir operations. A competent and efficient process that quickly identifies who did it and how, may go some way towards restoring that reputational damage. Alongside the mood of national mourning and a feeling that the grief of the passengers' families is widely shared here, there is also a sense that Egypt is once again the subject of hostile foreign scrutiny and part of the reaction in the media reflects a deeply felt resentment at any criticism. That has been reflected in part on social media where the Arabic hashtag \"I will only fly EgyptAir\" was created in the hours after the plane was reported missing. The defensive tone was also taken up by a television presenter who appeared on screen dressed in an EgyptAir pilot's uniform to decry criticism of the airline. He was careful to add, though, that he did not want to imply such criticism amounted to a \"conspiracy\". Conspiracy theories abound at moments of crisis in Egypt and they are particularly likely to flourish when there is a lag between speculation and concrete official information. No event creates those circumstances more starkly than the loss of an aircraft at sea, when there is a lag between the sort of speculation and interpretation which floods the internet and the dearth of hard, official information. There are now signs that the first evidence is being recovered but everything depends on finding the aircraft's black-box flight recorders which should include the details of its final, fatal moments. Nowhere is that evidence awaited more keenly than here in Egypt. There is sensitivity to outside criticism here but that is is vastly outweighed by a shared sense of shock and grief.", "question": "On Egypt Air flights arriving in Cairo since flight MS804 disappeared from radar screens over the Eastern Mediterranean , one finds a mix of @placeholder .", "option_0": "life", "option_1": "attitudes", "option_2": "evidence", "option_3": "songs", "option_4": "culture"}
{"id": 1781, "article": "Fire crews were called to the farm, in the village of Quothquan, near Thankerton, at 22:45 on Wednesday. They used four hose jets to contain the fire to one section of the building. The farmer removed livestock and about 150 bales of hay to allow firefighters better access. An investigation into the cause of the blaze is under way. Crews worked through the night to extinguish the blaze and a single crew remained at the scene on Thursday morning to continue dampening down operations. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it was \"liaising with police to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident\".", "question": "A farmer in South Lanarkshire was able to lead 35 livestock to safety after a fire broke out at a building @placeholder machinery and hay bales .", "option_0": "washed", "option_1": "storing", "option_2": "beach", "option_3": "processing", "option_4": "waste"}
{"id": 1782, "article": "Forced to check into a hotel he found himself in a situation he had already experienced several times while travelling in India. \"The receptionist was sleeping,\" he says. \"Sockets did not work in the room, mattresses were torn apart, the bathroom was leaking, and at the end they wouldn't let me pay by card.\" \"I felt if this was my problem, this had to be a problem for many travellers. Why can't India have a good standard of hotel rooms at a reasonable price?'' Four years later, at the age of 21, Mr Agarwal is now the founder and chief executive of Oyo Rooms - a network of 2,200 hotels operating in 100 cities across India - with monthly revenues of $3.5m (?¡ê2.3m) and 1,500 employees. The firm works with unbranded hotels to improve their facilities and train staff, rebrands them with its own name, and from then on takes a percentage of the hotel's revenues. The owner of the hotel benefits from a higher occupancy rate, thanks to Oyo's branding. And as part of the business, Mr Agarwal has also developed an app, which guests can use to book rooms, get directions to the hotel, and once they have arrived, to use the hotels amenities, for example to order room service. Tough journey Despite such rapid growth, he says the early days were \"extremely difficult\". \"No one would believe that this could be a technology business in the future,\" he says. But some people did believe in him. A similar idea - which eventually evolved into Oyo Rooms - won him a coveted Thiel Fellowship - a programme sponsored by PayPal co-creator and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel - which pays for 20 teenagers each year to stop studying and try to set up a business instead. He used the funding from the fellowship to start the business. The firm launched in June 2013 with just $900 (?¡ê586; a??799) a month, working with one hotel in Gurgaon near Delhi. \"I used to be the manager, engineer, receptionist for this one hotel and also deliver stuff in hotel rooms,\" says Mr Agarwal. \"At night I would write codes to develop our app and improve our website. But alongside this I was also building strong teams because I knew I wanted to scale this up. '' But the only way he could persuade investors that it was a worthwhile idea was to show them just how bad some budget hotels in India were. \"I took our first investor to the hotel we had developed and the other hotels where there were many problems. He saw the conviction in us and felt good about investing in something which he saw could make a difference.'' recalls Mr Agarwal. Now the business has grown, it has become much easier to attract investors, and the firm recently secured $100m from Japan's Softbank. Nonetheless when Mr Agarwal started the company, lots of people told him he was crazy. \"But because it was crazy, it was doable. It's true:  if you think crazy stuff that is when it becomes a lot more doable.\" The journey from college dropout to business owner may appear smooth, but he says starting a business at 17 was not easy. Mr Agarwal says normal things like getting a bank account or hiring staff were more challenging. Plus some people saw his age as a chance to take advantage. '\"There were some people who took me for a ride to achieve their short term goals. But I also met some very good people and experiences with them far superseded all the other problems,\" he says. Mr Agarwal was always ambitious, even from a young age. He grew up in Rayagada a small town in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, and started writing computer code at the age of eight. \"I used my brother's books, and it was the first time I saw stuff happening on the computer, because of the things I had done. That is when I first felt the excitement of creating stuff from scratch and it never stopped.\" By the time Mr Agarwal was 13 he started helping people in his town design websites. He also wrote a book on engineering colleges in India when he was 17 years old, aimed at helping students choose the right course and college in India. Now his ambition shows in his plans for the firm, which Mr Agarwal wants to expand overseas. He hopes to create the world's largest network of hotel rooms. But he admits it won't be easy, saying recruiting the right people when it is growing so rapidly is tough. Currently, his focus is on making improvements based on customer feedback, and he remains optimistic about expanding the company at home, saying India's increasing smartphone and internet penetration offers \"huge potential\". For those keen to emulate his success, his advice - perhaps unsurprisingly - is to \"start early\". \"Start really fast and, if you fail, you will learn and the chances of success in the next venture will increase,\" he says.", "question": "One night , 18 - year - old Ritesh Agarwal was @placeholder out of his apartment in Delhi . It was an unfortunate minor incident that was to change his life .", "option_0": "walking", "option_1": "taken", "option_2": "walked", "option_3": "locked", "option_4": "pulled"}
{"id": 1783, "article": "Pictures went viral showing PIA ground staff slaughtering a black goat next to an ATR-42 aircraft which was about to leave for a domestic flight. It was the first such flight since PIA grounded its ATR fleet for tests after a 7 December crash killed 47 people. In Pakistan killing a black goat is supposed by many to ward off evil. But the move by ground staff in Islamabad prompted hoots of incredulity once it was established the images were genuine and had not been photo-shopped. A Pakistan International Airlines spokesman was swift to point out the goat had been slaughtered by employees on their own initiative and the airline management had no hand in it. The Dawn newspaper covered the event in a front page story headlined \"PIA: on a wing and a prayer\". The headline of the Express Tribune newspaper read: \"PIA lampooned for bizarre goat slaughter\". The Express Tribune commented that the \"ritual sacrifice shows fear besetting the PIA employees associated with flight operations, especially those assigned to ATRs\". Comments on social media were mixed - while many mocked PIA for indulging in superstition, others defended the slaughter as a practice endorsed by Islam. \"Good move. Fresh mutton on flight menu,\" joked Nadeem Farooq Paracha, a Dawn blogger and columnist, in a tweet. Another journalist, Fasi Zaka, tweeted: \"PIA sacrifices a black goat before resuming ATR services, they take their historical nickname 'Please Inform Allah' (PIA) very seriously.\" Television anchor Ejaz Haider tweeted: \"When Charles Perrow was working on his theory of normal accidents, he totally missed out on 'kala bakra' [black goat] as a hedge against accidents.\" Meanwhile, one Twitter user by the name of MisBis spoke for many when she wrote: \"There's nothing wrong in giving Sadqa [sacrificial offering]a€| Sadqa bari balao se bachata hai [it hedges against many troubles]a€| stop making it a joke\". PIA had 11 ATR-42 planes in its fleet - the one that crashed in the Havelian region on 7 December killed all those on board. Days later, the pilot of another ATR had to abort take-off due to a malfunction in one of the engines, leading PIA to ground the rest of its ATRs for tests. This affected PIA operations to smaller destinations such as Chitral, Gilgit, Gwadar and many other destinations in Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab where small air strips and lack of technical cover do not allow larger planes to land. Did Sunday night's sacrifice help? All we can say is the flight departed safely for Multan, and later returned to Islamabad.", "question": "Pakistan 's national airline has been mocked after a goat was sacrificed to ward off bad @placeholder following one of the country 's worst air disasters .", "option_0": "air", "option_1": "luck", "option_2": "winds", "option_3": "karma", "option_4": "nights"}
{"id": 1784, "article": "Election manifestos are written with single party government in mind. What is their place in elections where no single party wins a majority? At the 2010 general election all the contending parties fought campaigns based on published manifestos that set out for electors the policies they intended to pursue in government. But every party lost that election. The hung Parliament that resulted produced the first peacetime coalition government in the United Kingdom for 80 years, and one committed to a programme based on a coalition agreement. The Lib Dem cabinet minister, Vince Cable, summarised the difference in 2010 when challenged about breaking the party's manifesto commitment to abolish tuition fees. \"We didn't break a promise. We made a commitment in our manifesto, and we didn't win the election. We then entered into a coalition agreement, and it's the coalition agreement that is binding upon us and which I'm trying to honour.\" But it was the Lib Dem manifesto that helped attract 6.8 million votes to the party in May 2010, not a coalition agreement that none of them had heard of, let alone seen. How could they? It was the result of a post-election deal. Such arrangements are quite common in many countries, especially those where proportional voting systems make single party government infrequent. But they lie outside the experience of voters in first-past-the-post Westminster elections. But why is there all this fuss about manifesto commitments? The late Labour politician Peter Shore once described manifestos as \"a party's contract with the electorate\". He did not mean a legal contract but rather a moral contract between MPs and voters based upon the programme the MPs committed themselves to implement if elected to government. And the potency of the mandate given to a government's election manifesto was recognised by the Salisbury convention. During the post-war Labour government, the Conservative leader in the House of Lords, the Marquess of Salisbury, formulated the doctrine that Conservative peers could use their inbuilt majority to amend legislation that the electorate had clearly voted for, but not defeat it. And manifestos, certainly in the post-war period, have held a special status among civil servants. Not only are these documents closely studied within every government department, but the commitments contained within them carry a distinct authority as far as the civil service is concerned. But where did all this come from? In 1834, whilst on holiday in Rome, Sir Robert Peel was invited by King William IV to form a minority government to replace the Whig administration of Lord Melbourne. The law at that time required him to resign his seat of Tamworth and seek re-election as a Minister of the Crown. He published a manifesto in the resulting by-election, stating: \"I feel it incumbent on me to enter into a declaration of my views of public policy, as full and unreserved as I can make it\". One reason for publishing it was his opinion that voters required \"that frank exposition of general principles and views... which it ought not to be the inclination, and cannot be the interest of a minister of this country to withhold\". Peel was robust about the terms on which he would accept re-election and government office: \"I will not accept power on the condition of declaring myself an apostate from the principles on which I have heretofore acted.\" His manifesto reflected the political issues of the day and the restricted electorate whose votes he was seeking - currency, criminal law, the Reform Bill, municipal corporations, Church reform. At the end of this 2,300 word Tamworth Manifesto, Peel felt able to declare that he had said enough \"with respect to general principles and their practical application to public measures, to indicate the spirit in which the King's government is prepared to act\". Peel set out the essence of a party manifesto that we can easily recognise nearly 200 years later: a full and public declaration of policy that a party aspiring to government offers for the verdict of the electorate. Party manifestos have certainly developed since 1834 and not least in respect of the changing priorities addressed in them. In 1900, the Conservative election manifesto amounted to 887 words and contained (at a stretch) four pledges. The party's 2010 manifesto comprised 27,835 words and contained 620 pledges. But the Peel Principle remained unchallenged throughout this period: namely, voters are entitled to know what politicians intend to do in government before they cast their ballots.", "question": "As Westminster 's largest parties launch their general election manifestos , here is a guide to the significance and @placeholder of these much -scrutinised documents .", "option_0": "scope", "option_1": "relevance", "option_2": "history", "option_3": "branch", "option_4": "freedom"}
{"id": 1785, "article": "Media reports suggest he may have been preparing a yacht to flee by sea to Russia - perhaps with the help of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, which has a naval base on the strategically placed peninsula. This fuelled fears that the majority ethnic Russian Crimea, which enjoys autonomy in Ukraine, could become the next flashpoint in the ongoing political crisis. Crimea's post of president has been abolished, and instead it has a presidential representative from Kiev. The local government is led by a prime minister appointed by Ukraine's parliament. Tensions have been rising on the peninsula in recent days, with pro-Moscow politicians and activists organising rallies and urging Russia to help defend the territory from advancing \"fascists\" from the rest of Ukraine. Over the weekend, a crowd tore down a Ukrainian national flag in the eastern Crimean town of Kerch, replacing it with the Russian tricolor. And only last week, the speaker of the Crimean parliament, Volodymyr Konstantynov, warned he did not rule out separating from Kiev if the situation in the country deteriorated further. There are concerns that the current turmoil could offer the Kremlin a perfect chance to assert its claim on Crimea, a territory which many Russians believe is theirs anyway and has only come under Kiev by a bizarre twist of fate. Crimea was transferred from Russia to Ukraine in 1954 by the then Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, himself an ethnic Ukrainian. Before the Soviet times, it was known as \"the playground of Russian tsars\" because of its warm climate and the sea. Russian President Vladimir Putin has himself in recent months raised eyebrows in Ukraine and the West, when he seemed to question the territorial integrity of Ukraine. True, the Kremlin can count on a pro-Russian sentiment in Crimea. And Russia's own Black Sea Fleet has its base in Sevastopol - the \"city of Russian glory\" as it has been referred to by many Russians since the Crimean War in the 19th Century. But the territory is not as staunchly pro-Russian as it may seem at first glance, and several key factors may come into play. Although ethnic Russians are still a majority (58.5%), there are also a significant Ukrainian (24.4%) and Crimean Tatar populations (12.1%). And it is the latter two which have formed an unlikely alliance, resisting any secessionist attempts. They have their separate reasons to distrust Moscow. Many ethnic Ukrainians have natural loyalties towards Kiev and are happy with the territory's status quo. Meanwhile, the Muslim Tatars still remember the horrors of the mass deportation under Stalin in 1944 on the pretext of mass collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. Tatar national leaders have warned they will resist any attempts to transfer Crimea to Moscow. And then there is mass corruption. In 2011, the last time I visited Crimea, I was shocked by how many people there had a feeling of outrage towards what they described as corrupt authorities on every level. Cab drivers, fruit sellers, hotel managers - ethnic Russian, Ukrainian or Crimean Tatar - everyone was disgusted. The hope is that this could gradually start to change with \"people power\" and the pledge of war on corruption spreading from Kiev's Maidan. Many also believe that a promised association with the EU will help root out corruption. Finally, Ukraine is not Georgia, where the Russians fought a war in 2008, in support of the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Despite the present revolutionary chaos, Ukraine - Europe's second biggest country (by area) - still has capable armed forces, particularly its anti-aircraft defences. One may also count on many thousands of battle-hardened Maidan activists joining in to defend the country. And facing growing Western warnings, President Putin may think twice about whether Crimea - as well as Ukraine's south-eastern regions - is worth a fight.", "question": "In fleeing revolutionary Kiev on Friday , Ukraine 's now ex-President Viktor Yanukovych @placeholder to fly to his stronghold in the south - east of the country before heading to Crimea in the deep south .", "option_0": "decides", "option_1": "forces", "option_2": "chose", "option_3": "managed", "option_4": "prepared"}
{"id": 1786, "article": "It built its reputation on the ability of its estimated 5,000 artists to paint cheap, well-executed copies of famous Western paintings. But in the last year, even the copy-art market has started to feel the impact of the global economic slowdown. Many of the painters are finding ways of adapting their brush-strokes to the change in demand, reflecting a more general economic shift in a very visual way. You know at once when you enter Dafen. Just a few minutes' walk from the main road, oil paintings appear on all sides. They are displayed from floor to ceiling in the windows of every shop, hanging three or four deep along the walls of a labyrinth of alleyways. In the past, Dafen artists churned out endless copies of iconic Western art. They were shipped mostly to buyers in Europe, especially Germany, and the United States. There are still versions of Van Gogh, Monet and others on show, many set in heavy gilded frames. But now the European staples are increasingly being replaced by Chinese traditional art. Source: Dafen Oil Painting Village website Ye Jianhong used to run a workshop of 500 artists. Then the global crisis hit. Now he has reduced his staff to about 30 and taken a job in sales to supplement his income. He spoke to me in a well-stocked shop. On one wall, there was a small selection of Western reproductions. Many of the pictures, though, were large-scale canvases of misty lakes, pagodas and jagged mountain tops, portraits of cheeky Chinese boys or archly posing Chinese beauties. \"We used to export a lot to overseas markets,\" he said. \"But now there's a big slump in sales. So we're shifting our focus to the domestic Chinese market. Chinese people are getting richer and richer.\" He pointed to a pile of small canvases. An artist could typically paint 10 such copies a day, he said. He could knock out 20. Now he was encouraging his artists to take time and improve the quality of their work. I heard the same story again and again as I spoke to artists of all ages and styles in the village. Overall figures were hard to verify but one local newspaper report said that exports fell by more than 50% in the first half of this year because of a collapse in Western orders. Further on, in a back alley, I bumped in to Weng Yuguo, a fashionable 27-year-old with spiky hair and trendy earrings. He was drawn to Shenzhen from his native Hainan Island and has been painting since he was 16. His speciality? Classical Western still life oil paintings of flowers in Grecian urns. When I first saw him, he was clutching a wet portrait of poppies, just finished, which he clipped to the wall to dry. Other examples of his work hung round it on the bare brick. Each one, he said, took about three days to paint. \"Before I had some Western customers,\" he told me. \"Now all my clients are Chinese.\" He paused, looking from the wet pink poppies to the rather depressing tones of the old school classical flowers. Was there a relationship between the shift in global purchasing power and his artist's palette? \"There is a difference in taste,\" he said at last. \"I'd say that Westerners prefer classical pictures which tend to be very dark. Chinese people like bright colours.\"", "question": "Dafen oil painting village is one of the Shenzhen 's key attractions , well known to @placeholder and foreign visitors .", "option_0": "show", "option_1": "answer", "option_2": "acclaim", "option_3": "sleep", "option_4": "mainland"}
{"id": 1787, "article": "Vice-President Mike Pence spoke at the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity on Wednesday morning. \"We want to hear the voice of the American voter,\" he said. \"Because that's really what this is all about.\" That morning, members of the commission described their mandate: they'd examine registration and voting processes that were currently in place across the US. They said they would also look at vulnerabilities in the electoral system that could lead to improper voting. President Donald Trump established the commission with an executive order in May and spoke briefly in the room on Wednesday morning, describing the meeting as \"very, very important\". The presidential order stated that the commission would hold public meetings. But although its first gathering was live-streamed, it took place on the third floor of a Washington DC secure facility that is off limits to members of the public. The commission has a dozen members: voting experts as well as state and local officials, Republicans and Democrats, from across the US. The vice-chairman of the commission, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican, is running for governor of his state. As they met at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, near the White House, they talked about the importance of voting. One of the members, the Heritage Foundation's Hans von Spakovsky, said his mother grew up in Nazi Germany and taught him the value of the democratic process. The room was filled with people who worked for the White House, ranging from senior aides (Sebastian Gorka and Omarosa Manigault were there) to interns. Many of the interns had been invited at the last minute, one of them told me. \"I don't know how they selected them,\" a White House staffer said, quietly, while glancing at them. Reporters watched the proceedings from behind a thick blue cord in the back of the room. Altogether about 115 people were in the viewing areas. None of them appeared to be ordinary citizens, men and women who hadn't been screened by security or outfitted with security badges. Critics of the administration said that holding the meeting behind closed doors violated democratic principles: transparency and openness. Lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit earlier thi, saying the commission was required to hold open meetings under the federal advisory committee act. Even worse, said the critics, the commission was created in bad faith - largely because Mr Trump claimed he won the popular vote. \"For months and months he has been trying to sell this lie,\" said the ACLU's Sophia Lin Lakin. Mr Kobach said this morning that the goal of the commission was to look at the electoral process and not to determine who'd won the most votes in 2016. He also told me the meeting had been held in \"broad daylight\". Anyway, said Mr Spakovsky, it was not a big deal. \"It was simply an organisational meeting,\" he told me afterwards. Ms Lakin disagreed. She said that important issues were discussed. Besides that, she said, \"scrutiny\" can only occur when members of the public are in the room - not simply watching online (as she and her colleagues did). Those who observed the proceedings online could see the speakers - but only a glimpse of their surroundings. During the meeting, Mr Kobach sat at a long table with a wooden gavel in front of him. He and others discussed voting equipment, voter IDs and US census bureau surveys. Many people wanted to attend the meeting but weren't allowed in. Yet most of those who were invited didn't seem all that interested - or at least not enough to stick around. By the early afternoon Mr Gorka, Ms Manigault and most of the others had left - and dozens of chairs were empty.", "question": "A commission on elections was created so American voters could be heard . But critics @placeholder the first meeting was held in a secure building with invited guests only .", "option_0": "complain", "option_1": "claimed", "option_2": "attended", "option_3": "become", "option_4": "delivered"}
{"id": 1788, "article": "The EcoHelmet is designed for people who use bike-sharing schemes and might not always have a helmet with them. Designer Isis Shiffer is delighted with the win but admits that a paper helmet may be a \"tough sell\". She describes herself as an \"ardent but slow\" cyclist and came up with the idea when she was using bike-sharing schemes around the world. \"When I was exploring new cities I had no access to a helmet and I didn't want to spend $30 buying one,\" she told the BBC. She decided to design one, made of cheap, recyclable materials that would cost less than $5. The helmet uses a honeycomb structure to protect the head which, according to Ms Shiffer, is \"incredibly good at absorbing impact\". The design was tested at Imperial College in London. \"They have a test rig for helmets and the professor in charge of the lab let me test out a lot of materials. It turns out it was a lot of fun. There is a frame with an anvil on the bottom and an accelerometer to measure speed and impact,\" explained Ms Shiffer. \"It is so solid and everyone who had held it in their hands is surprised about how solid it is,\" she said. The helmet is coated with a material that makes it rain resistant for between three to four hours. She admitted that it may be a \"tough sell\" convincing people that it works. Since 2002, the James Dyson Award has been open to university or recent design graduates across the world. Ms Shiffer will receive ?¡ê30,000 to further develop the helmet. Describing it as \"the holy grail\" of design awards, she said that she was \"astonished\" to win it. She hopes to pilot the new helmet in New York in the spring, possibly offering it free to bike-share users at first. The helmet is designed for a limited number of uses and will deteriorate and weaken over time, especially if carried around at the bottom of a bag. The final design is likely to have a visible stripe that will wear off when it is time to throw it away or a clip that ceases to work after a certain amount of time. The UK's Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said it was unable to comment as it did not know enough about the product and whether it would meet safety standards. The two runners-up for the award were Respia, an Australian group that has designed an asthma management system that tracks and records user's respiratory health; and a smart contact lens designer from Canada. Each will receive a prize of ?¡ê5,000.", "question": "A recyclable , @placeholder cycling helmet made of paper has won this year 's international James Dyson Award .", "option_0": "head", "option_1": "folding", "option_2": "show", "option_3": "modern", "option_4": "leather"}
{"id": 1789, "article": "It doesn't look like a business in turmoil and many regular customers are surprised to hear that its future is in doubt. \"It's always busy,\" says Nayeli Gonzalez as she bags her groceries with her two young children. \"It's convenient. I can walk from home. Otherwise I have to take a train.\" When Britain's largest supermarket chain opened in California six years ago, there was talk of revolutionising the way Americans shop and bringing fresh, wholesome food to all neighbourhoods, rich and poor. The stores had only self-checkouts, for example, an unusual concept in the US where Americans were used to being helped by a clerk, and typically having someone bag their groceries for them, or at least offer to help. Tesco's exit from US to cost ??1.2bnPeston: Tesco to lose its crown? But on Wednesday, Tesco announced it would be abandoning its 199 Fresh & Easy stores, which are all on America's West Coast. Critics say the chain miscalculated the market and failed to cater to American tastes. It has been an expensive mistake, costing Tesco ??1.2bn. \"My sense is that what they tried to do was make a European model,\" says Prof Anthony Dukes, at the USC Marshall School of Business. \"Europeans tend to make more frequent trips to grocery stores, maybe every day or every other day, where Americans are used to going for bigger trips less frequently,\" he says, adding that busy Americans prefer to buy in bulk. Nearly half of British retailers believe the US remains the hardest market in which to achieve commercial success, according to the findings of a survey released by Barclays last week. Despite a shared language and heritage, Britons view the US as more difficult to master than China, which ranked second in the survey. \"The mistake many British retailers have made is to treat the US as one country,\" says Richard Lowe, head of retail at Barclays. \"The US is a little bit like Europe. When you go there you have be more targeted. \"Different states are not exactly like different countries, but they have very different markets.\" According to Prof Dukes, Fresh & Easy's shop-more-often convenience store format may have worked better on the East Coast of America. \"The East Coast is denser and has perhaps more pedestrian traffic, on the West Coast we have more cars. That might make a difference,\" he says. But some UK retailers have had great commercial success in the US, and getting the location right played a big part, analysts say. By Shanaz MusaferBusiness reporter, BBC News, New York Early lunchtime in Manhattan and the Pret on the corner of 29th and Seventh is already filling up. \"I come here every day,\" says one female customer. \"I work right down the street. It's easy and fast and healthy.\" Convenience and a healthier alternative to other fast food outlets make Pret a popular choice in New York. There is no noticeable difference with the portion sizes in the UK, despite Americans' infamous love of large helpings. Despite its French name, most people seem aware that the company is actually British, though few in this cosmopolitan city seem to care. Some point out that the prices aren't always that cheap, but as one customer puts it, \"This is New York, nothing's that cheap.\" Topshop now has four stores here including a new 25,000 sq-foot store in Los Angeles. Its boss Sir Philip Green has decided to concentrate on big cities and has said he hopes to turn the fashion into a $1bn US business in the next five years. And it is difficult to walk a few blocks in Manhattan without stumbling on a Pret A Manger restaurant. The chain has purposely grown gradually since it launched in 2000 and now has 34 locations in New York City, with another opening soon; seven in both Washington DC and Chicago and two in Boston. Pret A Manger's choice of New York as its entry point to America was a shrewd one, according to Faith Hope Consolo, chair of the retail group at Douglas Elliman Real Estate, which advises international retailers looking to enter the US. \"London and New York are so similar in many ways, both demographically and architecturally. Both cities are on the go, with a desire for quick meals, not fast-food,\" she says. \"Pret A Manger satisfies that. [It offers] quality food, but also the ability to grab it and go. \"They're a natural for any great busy city, so yes, they really did choose their entries well.\" The packaged sandwich chain has also tailored its UK products to the local market, according to its marketing director Mark Palmer. \"Rather than crayfish and rocket sandwich on sale in the UK, Pret has a Maryland spiced shrimp and spinach sandwich in the US,\" he tells BBC News. \"Pret has also learned that there is a distinctive difference in the coffee tastes in the US. In the UK Pret sells more cappuccinos and lattes than the US, the US customers prefer filter - or drip - coffee.\" Fresh & Easy did its homework. It hired anthropologists and studied Californians' eating and shopping habits. Its stores opened to great fanfare in neighbourhoods around California considered \"food deserts,\" dominated by the cheap, fast-food driving America's obesity epidemic. That noble goal to locate in gentrifying and poor neighbourhoods may have hurt their prospects, says Bryan Roberts, the UK-based director of retail insights for Kantar Retail. \"No doubt they made some fundamental mistakes in terms of store locations, merchandise and marketing,\" Mr Roberts says, adding that the recession played a big part in Tesco's failings in the United States. \"Not to absolve responsibility from Tesco but it was unfortunate timing. No one could have predicted the sub-prime crisis and the consequences of it. If they'd timed it five years earlier, it might have been a different story.\" It is also worth noting that the stores' smaller, neighbourhood market feel is one being adopted by mega discount retailer Wal-Mart. The big box chain plans to open a smaller store in LA's Chinatown - if it can get by a lawsuit filed by neighbourhood activists fighting its plans. The confirmation of Tesco's exit from the US puts the future of the stores in doubt, although it said it had received some expressions of interest from third parties. The Hollywood Fresh & Easy is one of the chain's busier branches and it is in an area with a lot of foot traffic, located on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. \"I love it because it's a neighbourhood market,\" says aspiring actor Yohan Lefevre, while enjoying his Fresh & Easy sandwich after working out at the gym next door. \"I like the size, there is not much else like this in Hollywood. I can walk here. If they close I will take a national day of mourning and mark it every year! I'm serious. I will be really sad.\"", "question": "Aspiring actors , tourists , mothers and @placeholder workers are packing the Hollywood Fresh & Easy supermarket , shopping for a quick sushi lunch , a post-workout protein fix , or their weekly grocery stop .", "option_0": "teeth", "option_1": "members", "option_2": "acts", "option_3": "office", "option_4": "sex"}
{"id": 1790, "article": "Adrian Lewis, 43, of Ebbw Vale, piled up waste, including \"asbestos in bags\" at his site in Nantyglo, Blaenau Gwent. He admitted breaching permit conditions, illegally dumping waste and failing to comply with an environmental enforcement notice. Lewis was jailed for eight months at Newport Crown Court on Friday. The court heard the site was only meant to be used to store waste before it was moved elsewhere. But Lewis kept adding rubbish, even after environment body Natural Resources Wales told him he had exceeded his 620-tonne limit and it posed a serious environmental risk. There were skips full of hazardous waste, while rainwater which leaked through the site could have contained harmful chemicals and could have reached streams, the court heard. Statements from neighbours read to the court included complaints the site looked and smelled bad and \"towered over\" property boundaries. The court was told money problems led Lewis to store the waste. In 2013, the site was targeted by arsonists and the fire burned for days. At the time, residents said the smoke discoloured their clothes and homes and left an unpleasant smell in the air. The court heard the clean-up cost will be ?¡ê1,354,000.", "question": "A man who @placeholder an illegal waste dump which was targeted by arsonists and burned for 10 days has been jailed for a series of waste offences .", "option_0": "used", "option_1": "discovered", "option_2": "lost", "option_3": "ran", "option_4": "supplied"}
{"id": 1791, "article": "His son, Emperor Akihito, has overseen the transformation of the imperial household into a friendlier, more engaged symbol of the \"unity of the people\", as the role is defined in the constitution. As he gives his strongest indication yet that he wants to stand down from ceremonial role, here are 10 things you may not have known about Emperor Akihito's life and reign. Born 23 December 1933, he is the 125th emperor of a line which is traced back more than 2,600 years, according to official genealogies. That would make it the world's oldest continuing hereditary monarchy. In keeping with ultra-formal royal tradition, he was raised apart from his parents in an imperial nursery from the age of two. The then Crown Prince Akihito married a commoner in 1959, ending a 1,500-year-old tradition. Their love story was dubbed the \"tennis court romance\" as they met over the nets. Together he and Empress Michiko have three children and four grandchildren. High-ranking Japanese families traditionally have a family emblem - in the case of the emperor's ancestors it was the chrysanthemum. Akihito took over the Chrysanthemum Throne in 1989 after his father, Hirohito, died. The formal enthronement ceremonies were not completed until nearly two years later, and involved rituals at Ise Shrine - dedicated to the sun goddess Amaterasu, from which emperors were traditionally said to be descended. Hirohito publically renounced his divinity at the end of World War Two, as part of Japan's surrender. The imperial household maintains he the \"symbol of the state\", as described in Japan's constitution, which was written by the Allies. Emperor Akihito used the term conspicuously in his latest speech. But there are still a small number of Japanese people who insist he is a god, or at least should be treated as such. The emperor has travelled to more places and met with far more world leaders than any of his predecessors. In 1998 he met Queen Elizabeth, despite protests by former British prisoners of war once held by Japan. He also played tennis twice against US President George Bush Sr. He beat him both times, though shortly after their game in Tokyo in 1992 President Bush fell violently ill at a state dinner, vomiting on Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa. The emperor had surgery for prostate cancer in 2003 and a heart bypass operation in 2012. Akihito has adopted a more informal, modern style, making efforts to draw the imperial family closer to the people by travelling around the country far more than his predecessors and interacting with the public face-to-face. The imperial couple also did not appear to mind when a schoolgirl took a picture of them and posted it to her Twitter account when they visited her prefecture - an action that divided opinion amongst the general public. Older generations saw it as hugely disrespectful, to many younger people it was just normal. His first-ever televised address was after the 2011 earthquake and disaster, which left about 20,000 people dead or missing and displaced tens of thousands. As with the latest speech, he spoke in polite but modern Japanese, rather than the courtly language unfamiliar to most of the public. \"I hope from the bottom of my heart that the people will, hand in hand, treat each other with compassion and overcome these difficult times,\" he said. With the understatement his office is known for, he said of the unfolding nuclear crisis at Fukushima: \"I hope things will take a turn for the better.\" He and his wife visited the disaster zone a month after the quake and were seen crouching down with evacuees, a move seen as hugely symbolic of their sympathy for the public. While World War Two was fought and lost in the name of his father, Akihito has moved Japan through an era of peace and non-confrontation. He said last year: \"Looking back at the past, together with deep remorse over the war, I pray that this tragedy of war will not be repeated and together with the people express my deep condolences for those who fell in battle and in the ravages of war.\" 10. He has a fish named after him The emperor's particular passion is marine biology and he is an expert on the goby fish, one of which is even named after him - the Exyrias Akihito. He has written several times for the Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, among others. He reportedly keeps part of the palace grounds in Tokyo wild and keeps note of the creatures he spots there.", "question": "Japan 's monarchy was once so removed from the public that in 1945 , people were shocked to even hear Emperor Hirohito 's @placeholder when he announced the country 's surrender in World War Two .", "option_0": "proclamation", "option_1": "behaviour", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "voice", "option_4": "name"}
{"id": 1792, "article": "The 26-year-old England World Cup player quit rugby union to return to his former club in rugby league. The deal was confirmed on 5 November but the Rabbitohs must release players in order to register Burgess, who helped them win the NRL title in 2014. \"The Rabbitohs look forward to the confirmation of Sam's contract in the coming weeks,\" said a club spokesman. Hooker Isaac Luke has already left Sydney to join New Zealand Warriors and Glenn Stewart has joined Super League side Catalans Dragons. On Thursday Souths also confirmed they were releasing Australia international Dylan Walker. The 21-year-old requested an exit after ending up in hospital after taking an overdose of painkillers. Walker and winger Aaron Gray were fined by Souths. Media playback is not supported on this device Former Bradford Bulls prop Burgess left Australia in November 2014 to switch codes and join Premiership side Bath on a three-year deal. He made his England debut only nine months later and was included in Stuart Lancaster's squad for the World Cup ahead of more experienced back Luther Burrell. Burgess had been used as a flanker for his club, but was played as a centre by Lancaster - a move that drew criticism as England failed to get out of the group stage. The player asked to leave Bath after the tournament, citing family reasons, and rejoined the Rabbitohs, where he will link up again with his brothers, twins Tom and George. South Sydney's first game of 2016 season is at Allianz Stadium on 6 March against Sydney Roosters, whose assistant coach is England rugby league boss Steve McNamara.", "question": "Sam Burgess ' move back to South Sydney Rabbitohs has @placeholder as it will take the club over the NRL 's salary cap .", "option_0": "withdrawn", "option_1": "stalled", "option_2": "dismissed", "option_3": "emerged", "option_4": "revealed"}
{"id": 1793, "article": "Brad Webster, a teacher in Unalakleet village, was out walking with a friend at a nearby Bible camp when he spotted moose antlers poking out of the ice. He said the discovery in western Alaska earlier this month was \"an interesting experience\". Autumn is moose rutting season and the animals were likely fighting over a female moose. Mr Webster speculated that one of the animals was wounded while the two were fighting. He said their antlers probably became locked together, dragging both to their death. Mr Webster shared his find with Jeff Erickson, a student activities director who took photos of the animals. Mr Erickson has hunted in the area for 50 years but told the Associated Press he has never seen anything \"frozen in time\". \"It was such a surreal sight - so serene and quiet, but a stark vision of how brutally harsh life can be.\" Mr Webster and Mr Erickson removed the moose bodies from the ice to use the meat for dog food and trapping bait. The two also removed the moose heads, now located in Mr Webster's yard. They plan to clean them and mount their bleached skulls at the Bible camp.", "question": "Two moose have been found encased in ice in a @placeholder while battling each other in a remote Alaskan village .", "option_0": "county", "option_1": "cabin", "option_2": "lake", "option_3": "lifetime", "option_4": "blizzard"}
{"id": 1794, "article": "Ibrar Ali, from Selby, North Yorkshire, was injured by a road-side bomb in Iraq and lost his lower right arm, but re-trained and returned to active service. He was part of the Walking with the Wounded trip which trekked to the South Pole with Prince Harry in 2013. The seven-day challenge starts on 23 January in Antarctica. Mr Ali, originally from Rotherham in South Yorkshire, is attempting the challenge alongside RAF veteran Luke Wigman, who he met while competing at the Invictus Games. The challenge will involve 295km of running and 59 hours of flight time. Marathon locations Mr Ali, who has been awarded the Military Cross, said: \"I'm certainly feeling like I can achieve it, but I'm incredibly nervous. \"I think this will be my most difficult challenge, just from the amount of travel involved and the wear and tear our bodies will go through.\" Money raised through the challenge will help fund the Defence & National Rehabilitation Centre, which is being built near Loughborough and will open in 2018. Mr Ali, who left the Army in 2013, said: \"Even though it's their summer at the moment, the temperatures in Antarctica will still be from -20C to -30C. \"As we travel around the globe and finish in Sydney, the temperatures will be around 30C, so that's seven days with 60C degrees of temperature change.\"", "question": "A former army captain is @placeholder to run a marathon on every continent in a week to raise funds for an armed forces rehabilitation centre .", "option_0": "poised", "option_1": "expected", "option_2": "aiming", "option_3": "going", "option_4": "prepared"}
{"id": 1795, "article": "Six people were stabbed in a fight involving \"50 or 60\" people in Faces bar and NU Bar on Bridge Street. No arrests were made during the incident at 04:00 GMT on Friday. Northampton Borough Council has suspended the licences of the two bars for seven days. Eight people were injured, with three being treated at University Hospital Coventry and the remaining five at Northampton Hospital. An urgent meeting of the council's licensing sub-committee on Friday suspended the bars licenses pending a full review. Northamptonshire Police's licensing officer, Sergeant Martin O'Connell, told the committee attempted murder was among the charges being considered. He said that weapons including metal bars, knives and bottles had been used during the fight. The trouble involved a number of people who had come to Northampton from London for a pre-arranged evening out, police said.", "question": "Police are looking to pursue charges including attempted murder , public @placeholder and wounding with intent following a mass brawl in Northampton .", "option_0": "injury", "option_1": "disorder", "option_2": "bodies", "option_3": "apology", "option_4": "health"}
{"id": 1796, "article": "The group, known as Iffley Open House, had previously occupied a former car showroom on Iffley Road, owned by Wadham College, on New Year's Eve. They were asked to leave and then moved into the disused Osney Mill site in February. The university said the former power station was unsafe won a  court order to evict the group. Creative Solutions It added that the building was due to be redeveloped by the Said Business School. Some of the squatters said they were offered sleeping space at a local church, but most will now be back on the streets, the group said. Volunteer Miranda Shaw said: \"One good thing is that it has created enough of a stir that there are big conversations happening. \"We will be coming together in the coming weeks to meet churches, councils, the university, service providers and police.  There is the intention to find creative solutions.\" Oxford University has always maintained that it is sympathetic to plight of the homeless and has been working towards resolving the situation.", "question": "Squatters who had taken over a disused power station owned by Oxford University have @placeholder the building .", "option_0": "attacked", "option_1": "plagued", "option_2": "vacated", "option_3": "lost", "option_4": "criticised"}
{"id": 1797, "article": "The assembly is due to return next Monday after the summer recess. First Minister Peter Robinson said after allegations of an IRA role in the murder of Kevin McGuigan Sr, it \"cannot be business as usual\". Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said he took strong exception to anyone who questioned his commitment to peace. The DUP's attempt to stall assembly meetings was overruled by other parties. Mr Robinson is meeting Prime Minister David Cameron and will ask him to intervene in an attempt to solve the crisis at Stormont. Their discussions will centre on the political fall-out from Mr McGuigan Sr's killing and the subsequent decision by the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) to leave the executive. Mr McGuigan, a former IRA man, was shot dead in east Belfast last month. The police believe IRA members were involved. In the wake of the shooting, the head of Northern Ireland's police service said that the IRA still exists. But the chief constable added that there was no evidence that the murder had been sanctioned at a senior level in the organisation. Speaking ahead of the meeting, Mr Robinson said: \"These issues will not be resolved unless there is a talks process, but to allow that talks process I think we have to recognise that we can't simply do business as usual in the assembly, nor will we. \"Our view is that the prime minister and the government should suspend the assembly to allow the talks to take place.\" Mr McGuinness said his party had a strong record of condemning violence and said those who went armed with a gun were \"no friend of Sinn F¨¦in\". He described the killers of Jock Davison and Kevin McGuigan as \"criminals\" and \"violent dissidents\". He also criticised the UUP's withdrawal from the executive and said Mr Nesbitt's party were \"playing fast and loose with the peace process\". He said the UUP action was \"all about the election\" and said if the DUP followed suite and left the executive it would show a \"massive failure of leadership\" which would leave a \"vacuum\" of a \"very real prospect of an increase in violence on our streets\". The DUP's proposal for an assembly adjournment was brought before Stormont's business committee on Tuesday. Stormont's power-sharing government returned in 2007, headed by then Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley as first minister and Sinn F¨¦in's Martin McGuinness as deputy first minister. The two men had been bitter enemies for many years, but the decommissioning of IRA weapons in 2005 and Sinn F¨¦in's endorsement of policing in Northern Ireland paved the way for Stormont's return. In the last assessment by the Independent Monitoring Commission, an official body that monitored paramilitary activity that was wound down in 2010, it said it believed the Provisional IRA had \"maintained its political course\" and \"would continue to do so\". With Northern Ireland's chief constable now saying the Provisional IRA still exists and some of its members were involved in the murder of Kevin McGuigan, renewed focus has been placed on the stability of the institutions at Stormont. Q&A: UUP withdrawal But it was opposed by the UUP, Sinn F¨¦in and the SDLP. UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said his party did not support it as \"other parties need to get on with governing\". DUP MLA Peter Weir said the UUP opposition was hypocritical. \"On the one hand, Mike claims to have withdrawn [from the executive] because of Sinn F¨¦in denials on the IRA while on the other he is happy to vote with them to continue a normal business approach,\" Mr Weir said. The UUP's sole minister Danny Kennedy submitted his resignation from the executive on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers met the Irish foreign and justice ministers in Dublin to discuss the crisis. She said it was important that political parties in Northern Ireland had \"real dialogue\" and worked together to resolve the future of the executive. She added that it was \"well worth considering\" bringing back a body similar to the International Monitoring Commission to monitor paramilitary activity. She also said it was important to bring paramilitarism to an end. After the two-hour meeting, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan said \"no best interest was served\" in allowing Northern Ireland's political institutions to collapse. He said \"a number of options\" were on the table over how to rebuild trust among the parties, and added that there was a need for them to re-commit to \"the spirit and the letter of the Good Friday Agreement\".", "question": "The Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) has been @placeholder in an attempt to adjourn the assembly for four weeks to try to resolve the current political crisis .", "option_0": "backed", "option_1": "deployed", "option_2": "summoned", "option_3": "defeated", "option_4": "held"}
{"id": 1798, "article": "Cameroon are in the final despite West Brom's Nyom and Liverpool's Matip being among eight players to refuse call-ups. \"I don't understand people turning down their country,\" former Senegal striker Diouf told BBC World Service. \"And like the legend Bob Marley always said 'if you don't know where you come from, you don't know where to go'.\" Cameroon beat Ghana 2-0 in Thursday's semi-final in Gabon to book a final meeting with Egypt on Sunday. Diouf, who played for seven British clubs including Liverpool, Bolton and Blackburn, featured in the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations final for Senegal, as well as the World Cup later that year. He added: \"Definitely they'll regret not playing in the Cup of Nations. After your career, what are you going to do? Stay living in Europe? To do what? \"It's always tough to be African, because you can be the best African coach but they'll never give you PSG, Barcelona, Liverpool or Manchester United. \"That's why I say to all the boys: don't turn down your country because the future of this world is in Africa.\" As well as defenders Matip and Nyom, other Cameroon players refusing call-ups were Andre Onana (Ajax), Guy N'dy Assembe (Nancy), Maxime Poundje (Bordeaux), Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa (Marseille), Ibrahim Amadou (Lille), and Eric Maxim Choupo Moting (Schalke) who pulled out after the initial seven.", "question": "Cameroon pair Joel Matip and Allan Nyom will regret missing the Africa Cup of Nations and should have @placeholder to Bob Marley , according to El Hadji Diouf .", "option_0": "responded", "option_1": "risen", "option_2": "turned", "option_3": "listened", "option_4": "contributed"}
{"id": 1799, "article": "Director Mark Andrews admits to feeling a little frustrated since the release of Brave. His colleagues have stopped asking him questions about one of his favourite subjects: Scotland. Andrews was Disney-Pixar's go-to man for all things Scottish, during the making of the film. Of Brave's US team of writers and animators, he had the most knowledge of Scotland's landscape, history and legends. His ancestors on his mother's side of the family came from Torridon, an area of towering mountains and dark sea lochs in Wester Ross. Since boyhood he's been interested in Scotland's long ago past, and in 1998 he and his wife spent their honeymoon in the Highlands. The film-maker revelled in the research trips he and other members of Brave's creative team made to Scotland, and he would turn up for meetings in the US wearing a kilt. Later, he helped to promote the film at events in Edinburgh and Inverness. Andrews said: \"I have learned all these new things about Scotland, but no-one is asking me questions any more. \"It's a bummer I can't share that knowledge.\" Andrews talks fondly of the Five Sisters, a range of peaks in Kintail, the landscape of Highland Perthshire and also what he calls the \"rainbow bridge\", the arching road crossing to the Isle of Skye. But his main fascination with Scotland lies in its misty past. \"I love the folklore and Celtic mythology of Scotland and also the time in history when the Romans were invading and building walls,\" he said. \"On our research trips to Scotland we took a ferry from Ullapool to the Western Isles and we could imagine how the landscape had changed little since the time of the Vikings.\" Andrews will return to Scotland next spring when he will teach storytelling through animation at Glasgow School of Art for two weeks. He said: \"My wife and our kids had a blast when they came with me to Edinburgh. I am really looking forward to taking them to Loch Lomond and running around Stirling.\" For producer Katherine Sarafian there have been feelings of great satisfaction, and also surprise, since the release of Brave. She said: \"There have been wonderful responses to the film and I was very happy people embraced Merida.\" But - spoiler alert - Sarafian was taken aback by other feedback to the movie's lead female character. The producer said: \"I was surprised by how many people asked why she didn't run off with her prince charming in the end. \"I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised as it has been the model we have been used for so long. There is nothing wrong with that and they are wonderful Disney films.\" Other Disney stories of princesses had set up this expectation of Merida - Snow White is found by her Prince Charming, Aurora rescued by Prince Philip, Tiana falls for the frog Naveen and Rapunzel sacrifices her magical hair for Eugene. Sarafian said: \"That people were surprised Merida did not find her prince charming shows Pixar did its job shaking things up a bit and telling something new.\" She added: \"But Brave is still a love story. It's about a girl falling in love with her family, and it's about a mother-daughter relationship.\" When the dust settles on Brave, the thoughts and attention of Andrews and Sarafian will turn fully to new projects. Sarafian said lessons learned from overcoming technological challenges in bringing Scotland to life in an animated film would help to guide the making of future Disney-Pixar features. For Andrews, he hopes some of his future work might lie in a galaxy far, far away, following Disney's acquisition of George Lucas'. A fan of the films since he was a boy, Andrews has written for the Star Wars: Clone Wars animated TV series, with one his stories helping its makers win an Emmy in 2004. Andrews said: \"George created this incredible universe and the way has been opened to continue telling Star Wars stories, and exploring some of the many other characters. \"Hopefully, I might be able to be part of that.\" Brave will be released on DVD on 26 November.", "question": "Ahead of the release of Disney - Pixar 's Brave on DVD , the director and producer of the animated film set in ancient Scotland about Merida , a flame - haired princess , @placeholder on life since the movie hit cinemas this summer .", "option_0": "crew", "option_1": "reflect", "option_2": "commented", "option_3": "clutching", "option_4": "unveiled"}
{"id": 1800, "article": "Omaree Lindsay, 19, of Cecil Road, Croydon, rode into Co-Op in Streatham Road, Mitcham, on 6 September. He appeared at Croydon Magistrates' Court on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to a number of offences. He was sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid work for offences including theft, failing to comply with a court order and driving a vehicle on the pavement. District Judge Adrian Turned also ordered Lindsay to pay ?¡ê150 in costs. The court order Lindsay had failed to comply with was an order to complete unpaid for work in the community issued on 28 of August for a driving offence.", "question": "A teenager who @placeholder a \" hoverboard \" to enter a supermarket and steal a crate of Lucozade , has been spared jail .", "option_0": "pleaded", "option_1": "lost", "option_2": "used", "option_3": "strangled", "option_4": "admitted"}
{"id": 1801, "article": "Consumer group Which? found that 49% of last year's deals that it tracked were not the cheapest on the day. This year Black Friday falls on 25 November - a day after Thanksgiving. Which? found that just 90 out of the 178 deals were cheapest on Black Friday. The group looked at 20 popular gadgets and appliances on Amazon, AO.com, Argos, Currys and John Lewis. It said it believed AO.com and Currys may have broken advertising rules in relation to \"numerous\" examples of offers that appeared to inflate the \"was\" price to make savings appear higher than they were. Rules require the previous price should be what the item was sold at for at least 28 consecutive days. In one example, Which? said Currys  reduced the Samsung UE40JU6740 TV by just ¡ê1 on Black Friday, even though the retailer reportedly claimed a saving of ¡ê101. The consumer group said the TV had cost ¡ê749 since 30 October 2015, before it was reduced to ¡ê748 on 24 November 2015. It said for 18 days in late August and early September customers could have bought it for ¡ê699. Currys disputed the investigation's findings: \"We fundamentally disagree with the approach taken by Which? in this report and comply fully with the government's pricing practices guidance, displaying a clear date from when the 'was' price was taken, allowing customers to make a fully informed decision.\" Which? said AO claimed there was a ¡ê200 saving on a Vax Air Classic Pet vacuum cleaner, which was advertised for ¡ê99 on Black Friday. It said the same model was ¡ê96.50 in the three months leading up to Black Friday in 2015 and had been sold for ¡ê69 the day before. AO said: \"We are always focused on offering the best price match promise all year and especially around Black Friday.\" Peter Morrey, Which? head of campaigns said: \"Shoppers might be surprised to learn that only half of Black Friday deals are actually cheapest on Black Friday. \"If you're thinking about starting your Christmas shopping around Black Friday, do your research as some 'deals' may not be all they're cracked up to be.\" Black Friday began as a 24-hour sale after Thanksgiving, but like the Christmas sales period some retailers are spreading it over a longer period. Amazon has started to offer discounts in mid-November. The online retailer said: \"Six of the eight products that Which? reviewed on Amazon.co.uk last year had our lowest price on Black Friday and, in response to customer feedback, we spread out great deals over several days.\" John Lewis said because of its never knowingly undersold commitment it matched its competitors' deals, while Argos said it worked hard to comply with regulations on pricing and had never knowingly misled customers.", "question": "Black Friday bargain hunters have been warned to do their research after an investigation found many of last year 's deals were cheaper in the months before and after the @placeholder .", "option_0": "event", "option_1": "tournament", "option_2": "region", "option_3": "game", "option_4": "burst"}
{"id": 1802, "article": "The leaders will play eight Premiership games before the turn of the year, with a final Champions League group fixture against Manchester City next Tuesday. \"You are playing every two to three days but we have a good squad here and they will all be needed,\" said Rodgers. \"It is a brilliant opportunity for us to accumulate a lot more points. That is the focus.\" Celtic, unbeaten domestically this season, are eight points in front of nearest challengers Hearts and Rangers, who have both played three more matches. Rodgers picked up his first silverware as a manager last weekend, with Aberdeen brushed aside 3-0 in the League Cup final. Gary Mackay-Steven was on the bench at Hampden after recovering from an ankle operation at the end of last season and the winger's return is an exciting prospect for Rodgers. \"I have a number of boys here who have been absolutely brilliant in training every day,\" he said. \"Gary Mackay-Steven is really up to speed in terms of his fitness and I am actually looking forward to seeing Gary play. \"It has been very difficult for him because he missed out over the course of pre-season and by the time he was coming back the team was up and running. James Forrest, Scott Sinclair, Patrick Roberts, these guys were really playing well so it was difficult for him to get a chance. \"The likes of him, Ryan Christie, Liam Henderson, Cristian Gamboa, Dedryck Boyata, these are boys who have been on the outside, working very hard but haven't had a lot of game time. \"But they are so important to what we are doing here as a squad because for us to be at our best, the players who aren't playing need to be at their best every day and that's what improves you as a player. \"So they will be critical for us in this period and I am sure they will get some game time. \"Every manager will say that it is a tough ask to play that many games in that period of time but if it is what is presented to you, you have to deal with it. \"We won't moan, we will get on with it and it will provide us with the opportunity to work our squad.\"", "question": "Manager Brendan Rodgers insists his @placeholder players will be \" critical \" as Celtic prepare for a busy December .", "option_0": "fringe", "option_1": "young", "option_2": "baritone", "option_3": "believes", "option_4": "counterpart"}
{"id": 1803, "article": "In November, Webb, 51, pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy, three of wire fraud conspiracy and three of money laundering conspiracy. The former president of Concacaf, who is from the Cayman Islands, was one of seven people arrested in Zurich in May last year before Fifa's annual congress. \"The final report was transmitted to the [ethics committee] adjudicatory chamber on 26 April 2016, with a recommended sanction of a lifelong ban from all football-related activities,\" Fifa's ethics committee said in a statement on Wednesday. Webb will now be invited to submit his version of the case to chief ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert, whose chamber will decide on sanctions.", "question": "Former Fifa vice - president Jeffrey Webb is facing a lifetime ban from football after Fifa 's ethics committee @placeholder proceedings against him .", "option_0": "ground", "option_1": "sex", "option_2": "opened", "option_3": "looks", "option_4": "suspected"}
{"id": 1804, "article": "Ospreys beat Treviso 47-10 in the latest round of games while Ulster won 46-17 at Zebre. Treviso are bottom of the table with Zebre one place higher, but guaranteed a European top-flight spot in 2016-17. \"I don't think at the moment that they offer anything to the Pro12,\" Davies told Scrum V. \"I don't think it's good for any of the sides in there and I don't think it's good for the Italian sides.\" Treviso have won twice in the Pro12 this season with Zebre having four wins - the same number as third-from-bottom Welsh team Newport Gwent Dragons in the 12-team competition. Two Italian teams - Treviso and Aironi - joined the competition in 2010. Aironi were replaced by Zebre in 2012. Davies added: \"You imagine being a Zebre player or Treviso player and getting walloped every week. It doesn't do your confidence any good, your attitude, and I just feel that it's not right for anyone.\" Ex-union and league star Davies says Italy's two professional teams would be better served playing in a French competition rather than facing Welsh, Irish and Scottish opponents. \"It's difficult for everyone else involved because of the Italians and I think they should look at somewhere where maybe they can develop the players and be competitive, and maybe that's in one of the French leagues.\" Davies also believes the rules that allow the highest-placed Italian Pro12 team to enter the European Champions Cup should be revised. He says both should play in the second-tier European Challenge Cup. \"They're not good enough - they should go straight into the Challenge Cup,\" said Davies.", "question": "Italian teams Treviso and Zebre should be dropped from Pro12 , according to Wales legend and BBC dual - @placeholder pundit Jonathan Davies .", "option_0": "code", "option_1": "style", "option_2": "player", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "weight"}
{"id": 1805, "article": "The report, for the Children's Play Policy Forum, found play improved children's physical and mental health, as well as their emotional well-being. It also found playtime in the school playground could enhance academic skills and attitudes and behaviour. Wednesday's report is published to coincide with the UK Playday. Now in its 27th year, the aim of Playday is to give children, parents and communities  an opportunity to highlight the positive impact of play. The report - the Play Return - reviews a wide range of research into the importance of play in supporting children develop essential skills and knowledge as they grow up. Source: NHS Choices Parents associated playing in playgrounds with family well-being and those who lived near playgrounds and visited them often reported higher levels of family happiness. The study also said play and youth facilities in public spaces had led to reductions in levels of anti-social behaviour and vandalism. The report also found families and communities benefited from play initiatives and wanted action to improve them. It said play initiatives often generated high levels of volunteering support and a sense of community spirit. The study found school playgrounds were one of the best ways of increasing children's levels of physical activity. They were also linked to a range of improvements in academic skills, attitudes and behaviour, and to improved social skills, improved social relations between different ethnic groups, and better adjustment to school life. \"There is good evidence that making changes to school playgrounds leads to an increase in children's levels of physical activity,\" the report said. \"Various forms of intervention have been shown to give this outcome, including changes to marking, the addition of play equipment, making available games equipment (such as balls and bats) and the introduction of loose materials such as scrap and recycled office equipment.\" Some studies suggested that children could be more physically active during free play than during sport or PE lessons, the report said. \"Physical activity programmes in schools can have positive influences on cognitive performance, with demonstrable positive results in academic attainment, concentration, memory and classroom behaviour.\" Report author Tim Gill said: \"At the core of the report is the message that not only does outdoor play impact significantly on the lives of children and young people, it also -  in many cases - can provide a basis for the transformation of wider communities. \"From the perspective of politicians and policy makers, the report highlights that investing in play can and does lead to multiple benefits including improved educational attainment, a healthier society and increased levels of tolerance within and between communities.\" To mark Playday 2014, thousands of  children and young people from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will take part in community events all over the UK.", "question": "Play helps boost children 's @placeholder development , problem solving , risk management and independent learning skills , a study reaffirms .", "option_0": "social", "option_1": "mainland", "option_2": "skills", "option_3": "language", "option_4": "wealth"}
{"id": 1806, "article": "Accompanying the Russian tweet was a picture of the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimea War - one of the great disasters of 19th Century British military history. It was, though, a curious choice of subject. Maybe the Russian embassy should brush up on their own history, for whilst the charge itself was a glorious failure, Britain and France  - who had gone to war with Russia ostensibly over an arcane dispute involving the Ottoman Empire and access to holy sites - did in fact win and Moscow had to back down. But there is another more important lesson from the Charge of the Light Brigade that is relevant to today's diplomatic crisis. The flower of Britain's Light Cavalry charged down the wrong valley directly into the mouth of the Russian guns because the message ordering them into action was not clear. The US struck at the Syrian airfield from where the Americans say the recent chemical attack was launched with impunity. They did so to reinforce a red line - drawn by the previous Obama administration - but one never acted upon. Of course the thing about red lines is that they need to be crystal clear. In the immediate aftermath of the strike this seemed to be the case. The message was: use nerve gas again and consequences will follow. But on Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer muddied the waters. Asked if air attacks with conventional weapons might also draw US punitive action, he said: \"If you gas a baby, if you put a barrel bomb into innocent people, you will see a response from this president.\" Barrel bombs, though, tend to be large canisters filled with explosives and shrapnel that are typically dropped by Syrian government forces from helicopters. In other words they are conventional rather than chemical munitions. So was Mr Spicer broadening the red line? Belatedly the White House had to issue a clarification noting that what he really was saying was that barrel bombs containing chemical weapons would draw a US response. This lack of clarity would not matter quite so much if it was not characteristic of the Trump administration's whole approach to foreign policy. And the stakes could not be higher. One crisis in US-Russia relations is already upon us. Another involving the unpredictable North Korean regime is fast building. These are the Trump team's first big foreign policy tests and so far they are gaining a very mixed report card. In the wake of the US strike on the Syrian air base, Trump administration officials - ranging from the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley and US National Security Adviser General H R McMaster, to the White House spokesman Sean Spicer - have suggested a variety of US policy approaches that extend from the relative isolationism of \"America First\" to a more strident interventionism. On key questions there seems to be little agreement. Is the US eager to remove the Assad regime? Does its priority remain the fight against so-called Islamic State? How does the strike against Syria that has enraged not just Russia but also Iran square with US interests in Iraq, where, unlike in Syria, Washington and Tehran find themselves on the \"same side\" in that they are both giving military backing to the Iraqi Government? The lack of clarity in the message is hampering America's allies as well. The British Prime Minister Theresa May has spoken of a \"window of opportunity\" to separate Russia from Syria's President Assad. But Tuesday's G7 group of nations meeting has pointedly failed to agree on the need for additional economic sanctions against Russia. Mr Tillerson is arriving in Moscow without the strong backing from America's key allies that he had hoped for. Yes, they all agree that Mr Assad cannot be part of the solution. They all agree Russia must exercise its responsibilities in Syria. But in terms of what to do, they are as much at sea as the Trump administration itself. What is still needed is a broad statement of US policy goals and the instruments that will be used to achieve them. Without that the growing militarisation of US foreign policy - stepped up strikes in Yemen; more troops to Syria and Iraq; and the punitive cruise missile attack in Syria - may worry both friends and potential enemies alike. There seems to be no central guiding brain behind the evolution of the Trump team's foreign policy. The US president himself has failed to articulate any clear approach. With regard to Syria that may be unsettling. With regard to North Korea, it could be potentially catastrophic.", "question": "Just a few days ago the Russian embassy in London responded on its Twitter feed to the British Foreign Secretary 's announcement that he was cancelling his @placeholder visit to Moscow .", "option_0": "returned", "option_1": "home", "option_2": "planned", "option_3": "adopted", "option_4": "push"}
{"id": 1807, "article": "The fourth and fifth nuclear tests this year generated a swirl of fearsome rhetoric - both Seoul and Pyongyang said they would turn the other into a heap of ashes. But can we see clearly what the actual scientific situation is? Stripping away the chest-thumping, what could Kim Jong-un's military actually do? And when might it be able to do do it? There are different components to a nuclear arsenal: it needs a warhead small enough to go on a missile, and to remain intact until it hits the target. And, of course, the missiles themselves, ideally small and mobile enough to avoid being destroyed pre-emptively if preparations for launch are spotted - hence the importance of submarines. Prof Siegfried S Hecker of Stanford University in California is a former head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US and has visited North Korea's nuclear facilities frequently. He says, following the fifth nuclear test on Friday: \"With the two successful nuclear tests this year, we must assume that the DPRK [North Korea] has designed and demonstrated nuclear warheads that can be mounted on some of its short-range and perhaps medium-range missiles. \"Its ability to field an ICBM (inter-continental ballistic missile) fitted with a nuclear warhead capable of reaching the United States is still a long way off - perhaps five to 10 years, but likely doable if the programme is unconstrained.\" This means that there is already a real danger in his view. Miscalculations in the region become much more likely as South Korea, Japan and the United States fear that nuclear attack in the region is possible - pre-emptive strikes become much more likely. Prof Hecker also worries that North Korea's technological ability increases the likelihood of the spread of nuclear weapons [technology and material] to \"non-state actors\" - or \"terrorists\" to you and me. He said: \"Much more troubling for now is that its recent nuclear and missile successes may give Pyongyang a false sense of confidence and dramatically change regional security dynamics. The likely ability of the DPRK to put nuclear weapons on target anywhere in South Korea and Japan and even on some US assets in the Pacific greatly complicates the regional military picture.\" He continues that we can't \"rule out that a financially desperate leadership may risk the sale of fissile materials or other nuclear assets, perhaps to non-state actors\". Prof Hecker visited the Yongbyon centrifuge facility (where material is produced) in November, 2010. Based on the equipment he saw and his assessment of stocks of uranium and plutonium, he thinks it plausible that North Korea has \"a stockpile of sufficient fissile material for approximately 20 bombs by the end of this year and a capacity of adding approximately seven per year\". One of the essential components of an effective nuclear arsenal is the ability to hide the missiles so they can't be destroyed before launch. Accordingly, the testing of submarine-launched missiles has particularly worried North Korea's enemies. According to the aerospace engineer John Schilling, who specialises in missile technology: \"The success of North Korea's latest submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test suggests the programme may be progressing faster than originally expected. \"However, this does not mean it will be ready next week, next month, or even next year. Rather, the pace and method of the North's SLBM testing would suggest possible deployment in an initial operational capability by the second half of 2018 at the earliest.\" North Korea is also making progress on missiles fired from land. Testing has been frequent this year and distances have been increased. In June, for example, it fired a missile that reached an altitude of 1,000km (620 miles). It probably fired high rather than long to avoid Japan (an action which would have been too provocative) but the distance travelled impressed Jeffrey Lewis of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California. \"That suggests the missile worked perfectly. Had it been fired at its normal angle, it would have flown to its full range,\" he said. There are other bits of the jigsaw, like being able to make heat-tolerant materials for warheads which would allow them to re-enter the atmosphere on the tops of missiles and explode on target. North Korea claims to have done this. The upshot of the most convincing scientific analysis is that North Korea may have the ability to launch nuclear attacks in the region at the moment but not to strike targets further afield, like the United States. But it's getting there and may have that ability from 2020, perhaps a few years later, although the scientists reckon it's no longer a remote prospect. Prof Hecker, widely viewed as the most authoritative expert, also has views on the politics of it all. \"The latest nuclear test demonstrates conclusively that attempting to sanction the DPRK into submission and waiting for China to exert leverage over Pyongyang's nuclear programme do not work,\" he said. \"Increasing sanctions and adding missile defences in South Korea to that mix will also not suffice and make China even less likely to co-operate. \"What's missing is diplomacy, as much as Washington may find it repugnant to deal with the Kim regime.\"", "question": "Amid all the bluster and sabre - rattling , how do scientists assess North Korea 's ability to launch a nuclear attack on its @placeholder or on the mainland of the United States ?", "option_0": "side", "option_1": "heart", "option_2": "neighbours", "option_3": "information", "option_4": "night"}
{"id": 1808, "article": "Thirty Conservative and nine Liberal Democrat MPs voted against the government's motion. Here are the reactions of Ed Miliband and David Cameron to the vote, followed by some of the key contributions from the House of Commons and the House of Lords earlier. Ed Miliband said: \"Can the prime minister confirm to the House that he will not use the Royal Prerogative to order the UK to be part of military action, given the will of the House that has been expressed tonight, before there has been another vote in this House of Commons?\" David Cameron replied: \"I can give that assurance. Let me say the House has not voted for either motion tonight. I strongly believe in the need for a tough response to the use of chemical weapons but I also believe in respecting the will of this House of Commons.\" He added: \"It is clear to me that the British Parliament, reflecting the views of the British people, does not want to see British military action. I get that and the government will act accordingly.\" \"Interfering in another country's affairs should not be undertaken except in the most exceptional circumstances. It must be a humanitarian catastrophe and it must be a last resort. \"But by any standards, this is a humanitarian catastrophe, and if there are no consequences for it, there is nothing to stop [President Bashar al-] Assad and other dictators from using these weapons again and again. \"Doing nothing is a choice.  It's a choice with consequences. And these consequences in my view would not just be about President Assad and his future use of chemical weapons.\" \"There will be some in this House who say Britain should not contemplate action, even when it is limited, because we do not know precisely the consequences that will follow. \"I'm not with those who rule out action - the horrific events unfolding in Syria do ask us to consider the options available. \"But we owe it to the Syrian people, to our own country and to the future security of our world to scrutinise any plans on the basis of the consequences they have.\" \"The sole aim is to, is to relieve humanitarian suffering by deterring and disrupting the further use of chemical weapons. \"Nothing more, nothing less. Not invasion. Not regime change. Not about entering Syrian, into the Syrian conflict. \"Not about arming the rebels. If I may, if I may just make little bit of progress. Not boots on the ground. President Obama's intentions are highly limited and so are ours.\" \"We cannot ignore the lessons of the calamitous Iraq war. We need safeguards to ensure that all is done to provide evidence about chemical weapons and support the United Nations and international law. \"We need a coherent and comprehensive strategy which fully takes in the consequences of intervention. What is currently a calamity for the people of Syria could worsen and become a conflagration across the Middle East.\" \"If they get away with what they have done, if there is no significant international response of any kind, then we can be absolutely certain that the forces within Damascus will be successful in saying we must continue to use these whenever there is a military rationale for doing so. \"There is no guarantee that a military strike against military targets will work, but there is every certainty that if we don't make that effort to punish and deter, then these actions will indeed continue.\" \"[The prime minister] sought to draw a distinction in his speech between 'our response to war crimes and taking sides in the conflict', I say however much he struggles to make that distinction, if we take an active part in military action, which I do not rule out... then let us be clear that we shall be taking sides, there's no escape from that and we shall be joining with the rebels, with all the consequences that arise from that, and not maintaining a position of neutrality.\" \"It seems to me that this matter turns on a single question: Do you take more risk, danger through acting or do you run a greater risk through lack of action?... \"The aim is to act as a bulwark to international law and above all to protect one of the few pillars of international law that has been in existence for 100 years or more - that against the use of chemical weapons and against gas.\" \"If we take action that diminishes the chances of peace and reconciliation, when inevitably a political solution has to be found whether in the near term or long term future, then we will have contributed to more killing and this war will be deeply unjust. \"In consequence, I feel that any interventions must be effective in terms of preventing any further use of chemical weapons. I have not yet heard that has been adequately demonstrated as likely.\" \"There is no compelling evidence, to use the leader of the opposition's words, that the Assad regime is responsible for this crime, yet. \"Not that they are not bad enough to do it - everybody knows they are bad enough to do it - the question is are they mad enough to do it? \"To launch a chemical weapons attack in Damascus on the very day that a United Nations chemical weapons inspection team arrives in Damascus must be a new definition of madness.\" \"I remain concerned about the impact of flouting international law. \"To intervene without the due resolution sends a message to everyone else that international law can be ignored when it's inconvenient and as the law of the jungle takes hold it will be increasingly difficult to condemn similar actions by others. \" \"In effect, it [the opinion that action is legal without a UN resolution]means the United Nations is now redundant and the humanitarian doctrine has legs of its own. \"It can be interpreted virtually any way the parties wish and I hope when the dust has settled from this affair, this House and the United Nations revisit the responsibility to protect because I believe at present it is not working the way it was intended.\" \"We have to ask, through the government, how many soldiers and managers of soldiers and officers would you need to kill in order to guarantee that Assad will not do it again? \"I fear when you have someone as mad and bad as Assad, the answer might be very high. The question is would we want to do that much, are we sure it will work?\" \"We do not want to be conned into a war in effect by actions designed just to do that. \"There are plenty of facts around, or at least reported facts, reported that the UN representative for human rights in Syria thought there was concrete evidence of rebels having sarin gas. \"Reports that the Turkish authorities arrested 12 al-Nusra fighters with two kgs of sarin gas. \"Other reports that Hezbollah fighters are in Beirut hospitals suffering from the effects of sarin gas. \"Now I think a number of people have said we must have clear evidence to show this House that if there is a casus belli (justification for war), it's real, not confected, not constructed, and that means perhaps a more aggressive disclosure of intelligence than we would normally have.\" \"We should be calling in the Russian ambassador and actually saying we are going to expel you from this country if you don't do something and change the attitude of Russia. \"Military action is a very, very last option and I do not believe it is something we should go down the line.\" \"I do support action but not a military solution. \"I want to make it clear that, unless we act with a wide international coalition with full and transparent internationally agreed law, I would not support a vote to take military action in the future.\"", "question": "The government 's motion calling for a \" strong humanitarian response \" with possible military action in Syria , following an alleged chemical attack near Damascus last week , has been @placeholder 285-272 in the House of Commons .", "option_0": "exposed", "option_1": "published", "option_2": "received", "option_3": "defeated", "option_4": "voted"}
{"id": 1809, "article": "More than once he tried to escape out of a first-floor window, convinced his teacher was criticising him. He is not alone - research among 700 children aged 10 and 11 for the mental-health charity Place2Be suggests almost two-thirds worry \"all the time\". Concerns about family and friends and fear of failing at school are the top causes of anxiety, says the charity. The school referred Tom and his mother for counselling sessions, run by the charity at the school. Tom felt he could not learn and his mother could not get a job as she was so worried about what would happen if he ran home from school and found her gone. Tom was taught breathing exercises to control his anger and reduce his anxiety - techniques he used for the rest of his school career. \"It helped me get through,\" he said. Eight years on he applied for a place on a performing arts course and says he owes his progress to the counselling sessions. Place2Be surveyed children in the top primary year at 20 schools across England, Scotland and Wales at the end of 2016. The entire year group in each school took part. Their top concerns were: In addition: There was a gender divide, with 36% of girls worrying about being bullied, compared with 22% of boys. More girls (28%) worried about their looks than boys (18%). But boys (24%) were more likely to worry about being angry than girls (16%). The most common coping strategies were talking to family members (72%) or to friends (65%), while 65% of boys calmed themselves by playing computer games compared with 39% of girls. Join the conversation - find us on Facebook More than 80% of the children surveyed said the best way for adults to help was to listen sympathetically and pupils said it was important to be kind to anxious classmates. . \"I give them a hug and tell them not to worry and everything is OK,\" said one 10-year-old. The charity's chief executive, Catherine Roche, said primary school was often characterised as innocent and happy. \"But in reality we know that young children can worry about a lot of things, whether it's something going on at home, with their friends, or even about bad things happening in the world. \"It's perfectly normal to worry from time to time, but if these worries become more serious or persistent, it's important that children know where they can turn for help. \"Schools and families play a crucial role in ensuring that children learn to look out for each other and know how to get help if they need it.\" Some names have been changed.", "question": "At nine , Tom was so worried about not being able to do his @placeholder work that he kept running out of the school gates .", "option_0": "watch", "option_1": "voice", "option_2": "name", "option_3": "class", "option_4": "daily"}
{"id": 1810, "article": "According to the Family and Childcare Trust, the cost of holiday childcare has increased by 4% since 2016 to an average of ?¡ê125 per week. The BBC has called on you, the experts, to send us your best advice for managing childcare costs in the summer downtime. Melanie Stevens from Cheltenham, Gloucester, suggests: \"In the summer holidays, I ask young students back from university to be our holiday nanny. \"My two boys are 11 and 12. I've got two lovely girls helping this summer, sometimes chilling at home and sometimes trips to the Lido, park and cafes. \"This works out cheaper than sending the boys to sporty holiday clubs and I have the luxury of not having to rush them out of the house. \"It does cost my entire salary for those weeks. I save ?¡ê100 per month towards this.\" However, Christine Castle from Reading, Berkshire, says paying for a club may be worth it: \"I can use up my holidays looking after my grandson but that would mean me losing time to spend with my husband as we both still work full time. \"I have paid for all the school holiday - less two weeks when my daughter is off work - for my grandson to go to a local summer club. \"He is educated and has fun whilst doing it so for me it is money well spent.\" Followers of Mumsnet's Facebook page have also provided these pearls of wisdom: Alison Cunningham suggests: \"I got a weekend job so, yes, we don't get a full weekend as a family but hubby gets quality time with our little girl and we don't have the worry of relying on family for childcare. We are fortunate that hubby's job allows me to only work a few hours at the weekend, though I know this isn't a possibility for everyone.\" Amanda Hobbs went back to the classroom for her solution: \"I got a job in teaching! Has its drawbacks because everywhere is so damn busy and I get no 'me time.' However, we don't have to worry about childcare.\" The conversation developed on @BBCBusiness as parents offered further advice. Continuing the family theme Bakehouse Cottage recommends: Startup Mums suggested self-employment might be the key, although it's not an easy option: \"A lot of mums start their own business because they want increased flexibility, makes holidays a little easier, but it is still a juggle!\" For Traynorbird, it all comes down to money: Meanwhile, Julie reminded us a friend in need is a friend indeed: And Karl Woolley offered a father's perspective: Tmckinnin has a solution: \"I quit and take time off.\" By Bernadette McCague, UGC and Social News team", "question": "Keeping your children @placeholder during a long summer holiday is never easy , especially when you 're on a tight budget .", "option_0": "crowd", "option_1": "lives", "option_2": "entertained", "option_3": "face", "option_4": "impressed"}
{"id": 1811, "article": "It was recorded less than two weeks before the first great earthquake struck and shows Nepali New Year celebrations in Barpak, a Himalayan hill town to the north-west of Kathmandu. There is traditional dancing for the adults, the younger people enjoy a huge open air disco. There is cheering and shouting, images of happy faces. Barpak has now been reduced to rubble. It was right at the epicentre of the earthquake that hit Nepal. And it remains completely cut off. Ten miles from Barpak and the road ends, the only way into the village is to hike. Yet a constant stream of helicopters have been ferrying out the injured, bringing food and shelter to the survivors. You will read many reports of the shortcomings of the aid effort but most of what I have seen has been positive. Two days after the quake hit I was flown by the Indian air force into one of the worst-hit and most remote Himalayan settlements. Tato Pani, to the far north of Kathmandu, is more than 100km (62 miles) from Barpak and right on the border with China. They evacuated people with some appalling injuries. One elderly man whose legs were hideously cut and grazed, was brought in a wheelbarrow. Another man sat in silence staring at the floor as we flew to the military hospital in Kathmandu. He had a blood soaked bandage on his head and trickle of blood from his nose. There is terrible devastation here, hillsides where every house has been levelled. One woman told us that there were still dead people in the wreckage of some of the homes. But Tato Pani, like Barpak, is cut off from the road.  How could rescuers be expected to get heavy digging equipment in here? The important thing is that no-one we spoke to had to go hungry. That is a huge achievement. Nepal is a mountain nation and access to remote areas is very difficult. They may not yet have cleared the road all the way to Barpak but when I drove up there yesterday the huge landslide that had closed the valley had already been cleared.  We passed diggers working to level other parts of the road. In Gorkha, the regional capital, we were shown a warehouse stacked with food.  Trucks and tractors were being loaded to take the food out to the villages. One local government official told us that there were about 30 small communities they still hadn't managed to reach, there may well be more. Some communities in the region where the quake hit say the official aid effort has passed them by, the only relief they have received has been from charities. And, because there has been so much destruction, many people are now completely dependent on hand-outs. But the most consistent complaint isn't about food, it is about shelter. The rainy season has started and nights are cold and grim. The Nepalese government says it has procured thousands of tents and tens of thousands of tarpaulins but clearly it is not enough. Even if their homes haven't been destroyed, many people choose to sleep out for fear another quake will bring down their already damaged homes. That's why you see vast tent cities. But, despite the horror and hardship, what has surprised me most is that many Nepalese people I've spoken to say they believe they have been lucky. They've grown up knowing that a big quake was inevitable. Seismologists say the pressure has been building in the tectonic fault that runs across this country for almost a century. The week before the tragedy struck earthquake experts at a conference in Kathmandu were discussing scenarios in which hundreds of thousands of people died. But the quake struck in daytime on a Saturday. Schools were closed, many people were not in their homes. And Nepal's shoddy buildings stood up to the tremors better than anyone expected. But as I wrote this, another aftershock rocked the hotel I'm staying in. The guests poured out into the cold mountain air. This tragedy is far from over.  The work of rescue and recovery continues. The people of Nepal may believe they have been lucky, but fear remains. They cannot know is whether this was the big one they'd dreaded - or is another great earthquake on the way?", "question": "Yesterday I was given an extraordinarily poignant @placeholder .", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "video", "option_2": "sight", "option_3": "ignorance", "option_4": "centre"}
{"id": 1812, "article": "They asked the High Court to authorise the changes at Wickford in Essex, saying taking action would have \"a devastating impact\" on 12 children. Basildon Council argued the five, all from the same extended traveller family, carried out illegal development in breach of an injunction. They were found in contempt of court and will be sentenced on 5 May. The site is two miles away from Dale Farm, which was Europe's largest traveller site until the council spent more than ?¡ê4m in a legal battle to evict 80 families from illegally-built homes. Thomas Anderson, Eileen Anderson, Winnie Anderson, Margaret Anderson and Arran Jones developed the land at Silva Lodge Kennels on Hovefields Avenue in Wickford, near Basildon. Their barrister Paul Clark said: \"The European Court of Human Rights recognises that the lives and culture of travelling people are under threat.\" They apologised for breaching the injunction and did not realise they were doing anything wrong, he added in court. During the two-day hearing, Mr Justice Kerr told the two men and three women it was \"a serious matter\" and upheld the original injunction granted to the council on 14 October preventing development. Phil Turner, leader of Basildon Council, said: \"We are pleased the High Court has stood by its previous judgement and reinforced the validity of the injunction.\"", "question": "Five people who replaced @placeholder caravans with static mobile homes have been told to dismantle them by a judge .", "option_0": "deal", "option_1": "empty", "option_2": "filled", "option_3": "touring", "option_4": "helped"}
{"id": 1813, "article": "The royal couple were among the guests invited to attend the global financial firm ICAP's 23rd annual charity day. Traders in London taught them how to close deals at the Central European interest rates desk. ICAP gives away one day's revenue and commissions every year, which enables them to fund philanthropic projects and research around the world. The event raises millions each year for charities that the duke and duchess are patrons of such as SkillForce, Place2Be and Sports Aid. Since ICAP's fundraising day was started in 1993, nearly ?¡ê120m has been raised for charity. The duchess danced in celebration after the couple closed deals worth millions of euros over the phone. The duke later joked about the \"dodgy\" outfits worn by some of the staff, which ranged from gangsters and molls to belly dancers and comic book characters such as Batman and Iron Man. He was guided through the trade by broker Dan Lebeau, who was wearing three-inch heels. Mr Lebeau said: \"He was saying to me, basically 'where did you get them from?' \"It was very difficult to find size 10 high heels in a normal shop.\" Also at the event were the prime minister's wife, Samantha Cameron, actor Jeremy Irons and broadcaster Jeremy Paxman.", "question": "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have @placeholder City brokers in fancy dress on the trading floor at a charity event .", "option_0": "captured", "option_1": "lost", "option_2": "raised", "option_3": "seized", "option_4": "joined"}
{"id": 1814, "article": "He had been due to appear on 24 April in his first BBC appearance since being dropped as a co-presenter of Top Gear, following an attacked on a producer. Clarkson has hosted the satirical news quiz on numerous occasions. Jimmy Mulville, managing director of show producers Hat Trick Productions, said he expected Clarkson to be available for a show later in the year. Mr Mulville said: \"\"On reflection, Jeremy Clarkson has decided not to host Have I Got News For You. We fully expect him to resume his hosting duties later in the year.\" Clarkson was suspended by the BBC on 10 March following what was described at the time as a \"fracas\" with Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon in a hotel in North Yorkshire. An internal investigation found Mr Tymon took himself to hospital after he was subject to an \"unprovoked physical and verbal attack\" that resulted in swelling and bleeding to his lip. Following the investigation, on 25 March the BBC announced Clarkson's contract on Top Gear would not be renewed. More than a million fans signed a petition to reinstate the presenter, but BBC director general Tony Hall said \"a line has been crossed\" and \"there cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another\". The BBC has said Top Gear will continue without Clarkson, however it is unclear whether co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond will remain. The new series of Have I Got News For You begins on Friday with actor Daniel Radcliffe as the guest host.", "question": "Jeremy Clarkson has pulled out of his @placeholder appearance as guest host of the BBC show Have I Got News For You .", "option_0": "home", "option_1": "position", "option_2": "planned", "option_3": "second", "option_4": "post"}
{"id": 1815, "article": "That could hurt many here, for whom a supermarket trip is not complete without stocking up on their beloved garish fizzy liquid. But University of Johannesburg third-year students Nomzamo and Precious tell me they are not about to give up their sugary treats. \"I  buy fizzy drinks because I love the taste,\" says 21-year-old Nomzamo as she surveys her options in a packed supermarket fridge. \"It's also convenient and I don't have to worry about preparing something to drink if I have people coming over.\" Precious, whose hand seems to be drawn to the bright orange Fanta, says the extra tax planned for next year will not put her off. \"We'll still buy them when the prices increase - we might buy less though but I don't see us stopping,\" she says. \"I think as long as you don't overdo it, there is nothing wrong with any one type of food.\" At an average of less than $0.50c (?¡ê0.36) for a 330ml can, sweetened drinks are affordable for the vast majority, and have become a regular feature of the weekly diet. And that is part of the problem. Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan introduced the tax on everything from carbonated soft drinks to flavoured water in February's budget speech, partly as a way to tackle the country's bulging budget deficit, but also to deal with people's bulging waistlines. South Africa has not been spared as obesity levels have soared around the world in the past couple of decades. According to a 2014 World Health Organization (WHO) estimate, one in four South Africans are obese. A 2013 study by the Human Sciences Research Council in Johannesburg pointed the finger at sugar as being one of the possible culprits, saying that one in five South Africans consume an excessive amount of sugar. The average South African, according to the results from a survey of 25,000 people, now have 17 teaspoons of sugar a day. And although not the sole culprit, high sugar consumption has been linked to the development of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, which all put a strain on the publicly-funded health system. South Africa's sugar intake may not be as high as Mexico, 35 teaspoons a day, or the US, 40 teaspoons a day, but it is a cause for concern as the WHO recommends no more than 10 teaspoons be eaten in a day. Despite the aim for this new \"sin tax\", some are sceptical about whether it is the right way to tackle the problem. \"I think it should be up to each person to regulate their sugar intake. I personally know not to drink sweetened juice every day if I want to stay healthy,\" says Lindi, from the south of Johannesburg. \"The government shouldn't take away people's rights to choose. They should instead look at making healthy food cheaper and not punish people for their choice,\" her husband adds. That is a line of attack chosen by the opposition Democratic Alliance. Perhaps more significantly, drinks manufacturers are likely to mount a campaign against the tax. The Beverage Association of South Africa (BevSA) has questioned why the government is targeting just drinks rather than the entire processed food industry. It argues that one food item cannot be blamed for the country's obesity issues. But tax expert Kyle Mandy from the accounting firm PwC says that the lesson from Mexico - which has also gone down the sugar tax route - is that corporate opposition can be faced down. Average daily sugar intake by teaspoons On the key question of whether the tax actually works, Mr Mandy says that in Mexico it \"has been relatively effective in reducing the consumption of sugary beverages\". Some argue that the tax could be a blow to poor South Africans who cannot afford better quality goods. but the tax expert says the health benefits need to be weighed against the costs. \"It does work, provided it is done well. South Africa will now need to determine the level at which they introduce the tax, it cannot be too low or too high,\" Mr Mandy says. He warns though that the country would need to adopt a comprehensive approach beyond just taxing sugary drinks. \"It needs be a package of measures looking at educational campaigns about adopting a healthy lifestyle, access to healthy options for the average South African and regulations on better food labelling,\" he tells me. Policy makers will need to carefully navigate some tricky water before the tax comes into effect in April 2017, one of which is to be sure that the tax will not affect the industry to such an extent that it needs to shed jobs. The South African Sugar Association says that one million people depend on the sugar industry for a living and it directly employs 79,000 people in the country. But it seems many agree in principle that the sugar tax is a good place to start to tackle some of the country's health problems. Water anyone?", "question": "South Africa has joined the battle against sugar , becoming the first African country to plan a tax on drinks @placeholder with the sweet stuff .", "option_0": "summit", "option_1": "associated", "option_2": "loaded", "option_3": "communicating", "option_4": "deal"}
{"id": 1816, "article": "Essentra's IP5 cartons plant, based at Imperial Park in Coedkernew, mainly makes gift boxes for the retail industry. The company has previously received more than ?¡ê500,000 from the Welsh Government to help expand its operations in the city. The Welsh Government said it was \"deeply disappointed\" at the news. Essentra said the site had an operating loss of ?¡ê3.4m from January to June and profitability was not set to improve. A consultation has begun on plans to stop production at the factory and, if agreed, work would cease by the end of the year. The proposal does not impact the firm's other Newport factory, IP4, which makes labels. The company said it understood the announcement would \"cause a great deal of uncertainty\" for staff and it would \"provide as much support as possible as matters progress through the consultation process\". Chief executive Paul Forman said: \"It is clearly with regret that we are entering into consultation on this proposal, and I and the project management team are committed to undertaking this process in an open, honest and respectful way. \"The possible closure of the IP5 site in Newport is in no way a reflection on the quality or commitment of our employees.\" One worker leaving the IP5 plant on Thursday said staff were still \"going through meetings with management\". \"The mood is very low,\" added another worker. \"I think everyone is the same, nobody wants to lose their jobs.\" Another employee added: \"It's quite bad. It's a job at the end of the day - we'll just have to get new jobs.\" Mohammad Asghar, Conservative AM for South Wales East, said the news was disappointing. \"The Essentra cartons plant has received substantial investment from the Welsh Labour Government to help expand its operations in the city,\" he said. \"This has clearly not succeeded - and down the line there will be some serious questions for ministers to answer. Jayne Bryant, Labour AM for Newport West, said she was \"concerned\" and has had discussions with Essentra's management and Economy Secretary Ken Skates. \"The business has been financially supported by Welsh Government and I have been advised that Welsh Government is now in touch with the company so they can discuss the implications of this announcement,\" she said. Steffan Lewis, Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales East, called the announcement \"troubling\". A Welsh Government spokesman said: \"This will be a worrying time for workers and their families and we will be working closely with the company and others to ensure employees are fully supported throughout this difficult period.\" Newport council leader Debbie Wilcox said it was \"extremely sad news for the city and especially for the employees and their families\".", "question": "About 150 jobs could be at risk under plans to close a @placeholder factory in Newport .", "option_0": "packaging", "option_1": "processing", "option_2": "glass", "option_3": "phone", "option_4": "trade"}
{"id": 1817, "article": "Her children, three-year-old Zach and seven-year-old Emily, were already asleep. That night someone cut phone lines, then poured petrol through the letterbox and started a fire which roared through the house. It killed her daughter and left Mrs Salvini and her son with burns and traumatised. The severed phone lines delayed rescue by the emergency services. Now 23, her son Zach Salvini says his experience of the fire is his earliest memory. He said: \"I remember my mum frantically swung the door open, it was like a wall of something hit her, a wall of white. \"I remember my mum screaming 'Emily' over and over again.\" Mrs Salvini said the fire \"blew, pounced into the room\". She could not even see flames, but instead \"hot sheets of pale yellow, sheets of white\". She managed to climb out of the window of her home and protect her son, as roof tiles dropped off the building. Emily, who was sleeping in another room in the house, was already dead from breathing in smoke and from carbon monoxide poisoning. Police have never found the person responsible for the blaze. In the weeks leading up to the attack in Reading, Mrs Salvini's father, who babysat his grandchildren on Thursdays, had his tyres slashed. Ten days before the arson attack, Mrs Salvini's phone lines were cut, and had to be replaced. But she had lived happily as a single mother in the Caversham area of the town with Zach and Emily. Now she is hoping a fresh appeal to the public will solve the 20-year-old mystery of who started the fire. \"I think it's really important for my whole family, it's important for Zach, it's important for them to know, but most of all it's important for Emily,\" she said. \"She was my beautiful little princess.\" Mrs Salvini spoke of her love for her first born child. She had her when she was \"young, newly-wed and straight out of uni\". \"I was living in Italy with Marco, Emily and Zach's dad,\" she said. \"I couldn't speak a word of Italian, and there I was aged 23 up a mountain on Lake Garda, with this wonderful baby girl and I fell in love with her straight away.\" Appealing once again for information, she said: \"I hope this will spark someone's memory. \"It could be the thing that could result in us finding out who did this, who did this horrific thing?\"", "question": "Twenty years ago , mother - of - two Katie Salvini went to bed after staying up late to watch TV news @placeholder of Tony Blair 's landslide general election victory .", "option_0": "analysis", "option_1": "control", "option_2": "acts", "option_3": "adaptation", "option_4": "members"}
{"id": 1818, "article": "Charnley, who will join Sale from Wigan at the end of the current Super League season, has made seven appearances for England's rugby league side. \"His ambition is to play at the highest level and his first obstacle is to get picked here,\" he told BBC Sport. \"If he does that and consistently plays well, then I'm sure the new England set-up will look at players like him.\" Diamond continued: \"We're getting an established international finisher. His strike rate is one try a game over 150 games, which is unbelievable. \"He'll fit in well. If he doesn't make it after a year or two, then he could always go back and be a top-class rugby league player.\" Jason Robinson made a successful transition when he crossed codes to play for Sale in 2000, after making 302 appearances for Wigan in rugby league. Robinson played for England in their loss to Australia in the rugby league World Cup final in 1995, but later won the rugby union World Cup with England against Australia in 2003. He earned 51 England caps in rugby union, as well as featuring five times for the British & Irish Lions, while at club level he captained the Sharks to a Premiership title in 2006. \"Nobody can compare anybody to Jason, but Josh comes with a fantastic try-scoring record and he's an unbelievable goal-kicker,\" said Diamond. \"He comes with the things we are looking for. We haven't had to break the bank, the money is the right money. It's all about ambition. \"He's got to get that switch in his brain, but we've done it with rugby league players before and we did it with Jason.\" Following Sam Burgess' short-lived and unsuccessful switch from league to union, Diamond is planning to play Charnley at full-back and on the wing - both positions that the 24-year-old has filled in rugby league with Wigan. \"He's got a bit of work to do on the conversion to playing rugby union,\" Diamond added. \"If he can work hard and make the transition, then we've got a gem on our hands. \"He's got a full skill set, we know he kicks goals but we'll not go down the path that other rugby union teams have done and try to play them in different positions. \"What happened with Sam was nothing short of a disgrace. He was played in one position by England and another by his club, you just can't do that.\"", "question": "Cross - code @placeholder Josh Charnley can play rugby union for England , says Sale Sharks director of rugby Steve Diamond .", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "international", "option_2": "players", "option_3": "coach", "option_4": "signing"}
{"id": 1819, "article": "Indeed, instead of punching up the applause lines, Theresa May looked slightly surprised when the audience clapped. A little like a modest but eager archaeology lecturer, testing a new theory about Pictish finds. There were other surprising cameo elements too. She listed the proclaimed characteristics of the United Kingdom. Those being \"solidarity, unity, family.\" Did that formulation sound just a tiny bit, well, Socialist? Or even Jacobin? Behave yourself. Mrs May was simply intent on arguing that there was more to the Union than purely an economic or trading arrangement. Not for the UK \"the transient and shifting benefits of international alliance.\" Which particular alliance do you think she had in mind? No, rather it was about \"the fundamental strength of being one people\". Now, this was more familiar ground. One or two of Mrs May's predecessors in Downing Street have had a bash at defining Britishness or British values. Not with universal success. One thinks of cycling and evensong. But Theresa May's attempt appeared to be more broadly grounded and thus more interesting. She spoke again of family, of shared endeavour, of common interests. Admittedly, some of her examples were less than utterly convincing. She talked of the Harry Potter books being written in an Edinburgh cafe by a Gloucestershire author. Thus, apparently, stressing the benefits of Union. Well, maybe. But George Frederick Handel composed many of his masterpieces in London. That did not mean that Britain and his native Germany were bound by musical or other ties. Still, it was a thoughtful speech, giving the impression of much more than a stock oration culled from party archives. She seemed to mean it, too. In essence, she was arguing for more Union. (No, not the European Union, do try to keep up.) More Union in the UK. A more intense, more active Union.  She deplored, for example, what she reckoned was a tendency in Whitehall to devolve power and then forget Scotland. On her watch, the UK government would be active participants in the concerns of the people of Scotland. Mrs May argued, further, that this was even more essential as we head towards Brexit (never forget that we have yet to leave.) Only a cynic would note at this point that this critical moment, apparently requiring redress, was created ultimately by a Conservative initiative. Two more thoughts. She signalled pretty plainly that the repatriation of powers over, for example, agriculture and fisheries will not, if she has her way, go directly to Scotland even though those sectors are already devolved. It was important to do things properly. To work out arrangements with the devolved administrations. To avoid \"unintended consequences\" for the UK. In short, it sounded like the creation of common agricultural and fisheries structures for the UK. Nationalists say that is a betrayal and a power grab.  Tories say it's practical Unionism. The view here at the Conservative conference, confirmed by Ruth Davidson on the wireless, is that ag and fish (and presumably other EU powers) return first to London, the seat of the departing member state - prior to apportionment thereafter. Again, Scottish ministers complain this is contrary to assurances given during the referendum. UK Ministers, like the Scottish Secretary David Mundell, say no powers will be withdrawn from Holyrood and some powers will be added. Then there is indyref2. Mrs May declines to say what she will/would do if and when Nicola Sturgeon demands a further Section 30 transfer of powers to Holyrood in order to hold a legitimate referendum. Indeed, the PM has become notably adept at sidestepping that particular question. But there is no shortage of advice from representatives here in Glasgow. Some say: veto indyref2. Some say: allow it on the lines of \"come and have a go if you think you're hard enough\". Some say set terms on timing and the question. Some are unsure. One option might be to say yes to the referendum - but to insist that it is not hold until the Brexit negotiations are complete. That is, presumably, 2019 or thereafter. We shall see.", "question": "It was a very different Prime Ministerial speech . Gone , mostly , were the seven - word sentences to which we became accustomed in the past . Gone too the @placeholder of soundbites , each demanding an ecstatic ovation .", "option_0": "accumulation", "option_1": "offspring", "option_2": "deaths", "option_3": "chorus", "option_4": "taste"}
{"id": 1820, "article": "Vice-President Joe Biden briefed Senate Democrats behind closed doors after Republicans and the White House agreed a plan. The Senate is expected to vote in the early hours of Tuesday morning, with the House to consider a bill later. Tuesday is a public holiday in the US, so no immediate effects will be felt. Analysts say if the effects of the fiscal cliff are allowed to take hold, they could spark a new US recession. But if a bill passes both the Senate and the House over the new year holiday, the impact is likely to be minimal. By Mark MardellNorth America editor The bad news is that America is going to go over the fiscal cliff. The good news is that it probably won't hit the bottom - and no one will feel the impact. We expect a deal to be done on Monday night and the Senate to vote on it. But the House has already gone home and will not say yea or nay to an agreement. That's why America will go over the cliff, at least technically. But New Year's Day is a public holiday. Markets are closed around the world. The US government is also shut. Likewise, tax rises won't be felt until people get their January pay cheques. If it is clear that the politicians are going to do a deal pretty soon, then no one will panic. At the moment, a deal seems to be close enough to touch. If it moves out of reach, then the ground will rush up to meet us soon enough. After a long day of negotiation on Capitol Hill, signs of a deal emerged hours after the House of Representatives was dismissed for the night. Earlier, President Barack Obama said a deal to avoid the steep tax rises and spending cuts was \"within sight\". Tax cuts passed during the presidency of George W Bush formally expired at midnight (05:00 GMT). But the proposed eventual deal appeared to extend tax cuts for Americans earning under $400,000 (¡ê246,000) - up from the $250,000 level Democrats had originally sought. A huge spending cut known as the sequester - that would see $1.2tn cut from the federal budget over 10 years - would be deferred for two months, reports said, allowing Congress and the White House to reopen negotiations on a wider deal. Earlier, Mr Obama said he would had preferred to resolve the fiscal cliff through a \"grand bargain\" that dealt with both long-term spending and tax issues. \"But with this Congress, that was obviously a little too much to hope for at this time,\" he said at the White House. What if the US goes over the cliff? Will the fiscal cliff affect you? Q&A: The US fiscal cliff Why is it called a 'fiscal cliff'? Amid some Republican disquiet over the president's barbed remarks, the party's Senate leader Mitch McConnell quickly calmed proceedings in the afternoon. He backed the president's assessment and said a deal should be done quickly. \"Let's pass the tax relief portion now,\" said Mr McConnell, who spent Sunday evening and Monday negotiating with Vice-President Joe Biden. \"Let's take what's been agreed to and get moving. We'll continue to work on finding smarter ways to cut spending.\" As well as the income tax rates and spending cuts, the deal under discussion includes: ?       Tax rates to rise on estate inheritances from 35% to 40% after the first $5m for an individual and $10m for a couple ?       Capital gains taxes - affecting certain income from investments - would rise from 15% to 20%, but less than the 39.6% it would rise under after 1 January. ?       Unemployment benefits would be extended for year, affecting an estimated two million people ?       Extending tax credits that help poorer and middle-class families for five years Any deal needs to pass the 100-member Senate, which is controlled by Democrats, before heading to the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold the majority. But no votes have yet been scheduled in either chamber. Also on Monday, the US Treasury said the federal government had hit its self-imposed borrowing limit, the debt ceiling Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sent a letter to lawmakers informing them that some pension and health benefits would be suspended in order to free up borrowing authority until the end of February. Mr Obama had asked for an extension of debt ceiling as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations, and correspondents say the issue is the next hurdle between Congress and the president.", "question": "The US has formally missed a @placeholder to avert spending cuts and tax rises - the \" fiscal cliff \" - despite a last - ditch tentative deal in the Senate .", "option_0": "proposal", "option_1": "race", "option_2": "chance", "option_3": "solution", "option_4": "deadline"}
{"id": 1821, "article": "A survey carried out by the States' Youth Service found 97% of respondents were happy with activities on offer at the island's youth schemes. However, the service said there was a number of responses calling for better IT hardware and more outdoor space. Mark Capern, principal youth officer, said it was important to use the survey to help improve future services. Jersey's Youth Service was used by 46,000 young people in 2012. The States offers 19 youth projects in locations around Jersey, as well as three island-wide schemes. Mr Capern said by offering a survey, young people were being given a say in the services that they use.", "question": "Better internet access and @placeholder opening hours for youth clubs are to be offered by the States of Jersey .", "option_0": "provide", "option_1": "identify", "option_2": "needs", "option_3": "raise", "option_4": "extended"}
{"id": 1822, "article": "The young star is 4,200 light-years from Earth and appears to be surrounded by a doughnut-shaped cloud of dust. That cloud slows down the hot, ionised wind that the star blasts into space, causing it to form an elongated column perpendicular to the dusty ring. The new results represent \"before and after\" glimpses of that column forming. They were captured by the Very Large Array, a battery of 27 antennae in the New Mexico desert, and are published in the journal Science. \"The comparison is remarkable,\" said first author Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The compact, rounded wind indicated by data from 1996 transforms - just 18 years later in 2014 - into a \"distinctly elongated outflow\". The infant star is about 300 times brighter than the Sun and goes by the catchy name of W75N(B)-VLA2. Being able to observe its dramatic growing pains in real time is unique, according to Prof Huib van Langevelde from Leiden University in the Netherlands, another of the study's authors. \"This object is providing us an exciting opportunity to watch the developments over the next few years, as this very young star develops the characteristic bipolar outflow morphology,\" said Prof van Langevelde, who also works at the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE). VLBI - very long baseline interferometry - is the method of comparing signals between widely-spaced antennae, effectively simulating one massive telescope. One of the major findings that has already emerged from studying W75N(B)-VLA2 relates to earlier work led by JIVE scientists, who in 2009 traced the large-scale magnetic field in that region of space and reported that the field surrounding the young star was neatly aligned with it. Now, it seems the elongated outflow that has burst forth in just 18 years is also aligned with that magnetic field - suggesting that magnetism is playing a crucial role in the star's formation. The team hopes to watch and learn more as the \"protostar\" continues its turbulent development. \"Our understanding of how massive young stars develop is much less complete than our understanding of how Sun-like stars develop,\" said Dr Gabriele Surcis, another co-author from JIVE. \"It's going to be really great to be able to watch one as it changes.\"", "question": "Astronomers have witnessed a key stage in the birth of a very heavy star , using two radio telescope views of the process @placeholder 18 years apart .", "option_0": "looming", "option_1": "taken", "option_2": "motor", "option_3": "being", "option_4": "occurring"}
{"id": 1823, "article": "Andrea Leadsom's accidental reference to Austen as \"one of our greatest living authors\" has sparked a barrage of social media merriment. The Conservative MP was speaking in parliament to welcome a new plastic ?¡ê10 note featuring Austen's portrait, days after the bicentenary of the author's 1817 death. As always, the internet reaction has been as merciless as it has been swift. Ms Leadsom's name has been mentioned in more than 17,000 tweets, and has featured among the top UK trends ever since her slip of the tongue. \"We are currently moving all our Jane Austen stock from Classics into Greatest Living Authors,\" japed booksellers Waterstones in a tweet shared thousands of times. \"Thanks Andrea Leadsom for the heads up,\" they added. Other social media users spotted an opportunity for political point scoring. \"Now Andrea Leadsom has established that Jane Austen is our greatest 'living' author at the age of 242, Tories declare her fit for work,\" joked 'Scoop Alley'. 'Scoop Alley' was having  a lovely time. They had already used the slip-up to poke fun at Ms Leadsom's Conservative colleague Jacob Rees-Mogg. For some Leadsom's blunder was a eureka moment, an epiphany allowing them to finally understand government policy (though the BBC can confirm that Archimedes, whose bath in about 250 BC gave rise to the entire concept of a eureka moment, is still indeed dead). \"Andrea Leadsom thinking that Jane Austen is still alive explains why Tory policies seem like they're from the 1700s,\" one social media user tweeted. Others were in a more forgiving mood. By now, though, author Jonathon Coe was fed up with the whole thing. \"What Andrea Leadsom said about Jane Austen was a simple slip of the tongue,\" he tweeted, \"like when she said leaving the EU wouldn't affect sterling\". Times Literary Supplement editor Stig Abell chose not to get involved at all. However Ms Leadsom, fortunately, appears to have taken it all in her stride (and proves that BBC journalists are not the only people who can furiously google Jane Austen quotes). By Chris Bell, UGC and Social News team", "question": "' For what do we live , but to make sport for our @placeholder and laugh at them on Twitter ? ' novelist Jane Austen ( almost ) wrote in Pride and Prejudice .", "option_0": "health", "option_1": "powers", "option_2": "lives", "option_3": "enemies", "option_4": "neighbours"}
{"id": 1824, "article": "Mr Rosales, who stood against Hugo Chavez in 2006, was arrested over corruption charges in October 2015 after returning from exile in Peru. The activists were arrested in 2014, during protests calling for the removal of President Nicolas Maduro from power. Opposition leaders say about 100 opposition activists remain in prison. What is behind the crisis in Venezuela? Opposition groups named the released activists as Skarlyn Duarte, Yeimi Varela, Nixon Leal, Angel Contreras and Gerardo Carrero, the AFP news agency reported. Mr Carrero led a group of anti-government protesters who camped for weeks outside the UN offices in Caracas, Venezuela's capital. Mr Rosales, of the small Nuevo Tiempo party, announced his release from house arrest on his Twitter account: \"I inform you the people of Venezuela, that I have been released along with other political prisoners,\" he posted in Spanish. \"We continue in the struggle for the release of all political prisoners and the return of the exiles,\" he added. Mr Rosales, a former governor of the state of Zulia, fled to Peru in 2009 amid corruption allegations, which he said were politically motivated. He was moved from prison to house arrest in October. Venezuela is struggling with a serious economic crisis, which the opposition blames on failed socialist policies of Mr Chavez and his successor, Mr Maduro. Dissident leaders had demanded the release of Mr Rosales, and freedom for other opposition leaders, during negotiations with the government.", "question": "The authorities in Venezuela have freed the former presidential candidate Manuel Rosales , along with five student activists @placeholder since 2014 .", "option_0": "devastated", "option_1": "spanning", "option_2": "held", "option_3": "ousted", "option_4": "imprisoned"}
{"id": 1825, "article": "Maybe that was because the fourth was a robot. Nobody batted an eyelid, as other people came and took a screwdriver to the humanoid device, but then this was Innorobo, Europe's largest robotics event, and here you get a flavour of a future where robots live amongst us. To anyone who's roamed the vast halls of tech events like the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas or Barcelona's Mobile World Congress this will seem a tiny, almost parochial, event. You can walk from one end of Innorobo to the other in five minutes - but in that time you will see more innovation packed into a small space than you will ever find in those gigantic shows. The show's focus has in the past been on industrial robotics, and there are plenty of advances on this front. I spotted a robotic arm delicately picking up individual chocolates and placing them in a box, air-quality robots that can wander a factory reporting back on pollution levels, and cupboards on castors picking a route through a crowd to deliver tools to workers at the other end of the hall. But the star of the show was undoubtedly Pepper, the most advanced domestic robot to go on sale to the general public. When this French-made humanoid robot companion was offered to Japanese consumers last month for quite a hefty price, it sold out within a minute. Meeting Pepper, I was not quite sure why. He or she - it seems you decide the gender - does not undertake any practical tasks, but is designed to engage with you on an emotional level. \"Pepper won't do the dishes\" explains Magali Cubier of Aldebaran Robotics, \"but if Pepper can see you are sad, then Pepper will propose a game to cheer you up.\" How does the robot know I'm sad? It is packed with sensors which can for instance detect a sad face or intonation in your voice, so this internet-connected device may decide now is not the moment to read out the news headlines. This robot is solely devoted to being your companion, sensitive to your every mood - it can even dance with you, though I'm not sure my moves impressed Pepper. Aldebaran's owners Softbank chose Japan as the launch market. knowing the idea of a relationship with a robot was more likely to fly in a country where technology is readily accepted in homes. Elsewhere, there may be less enthusiasm. Across the show floor I found the veteran British robot engineer Will Jackson was sceptical about devices like Pepper invading the home any time soon. He thinks the cost and dubious utility of a one-to-one robot will be a barrier. But he does see a growing role in the commercial world for products like his Robothespian and Socibot, robots that can entertain and interact on some level with humans, taking over some roles in service industries. \"Walk into a supermarket in a few years time, and a robot will know who you are, your complete shopping history, and may try to help you or to sell you stuff.\" It is facial recognition technology that will enable robots to recognise us - and that's just one of the controversial issues hanging over this fast growing industry.  As well as privacy, there are concerns about safety, with the tragic news of the death of a worker crushed by a robot at a Volkswagen factory.  Until recently, all industrial robots were locked behind cages to prevent this kind of accident because they were not smart enough to detect a human in their path. Now they are getting more sensitive, but releasing them from their cages may bring added risks. And then there's the question of jobs. One firm here is showing off an autonomous forklift truck, effortlessly shifting pallets without the aid of a driver. The driver is the most expensive element of a forklift, so the product pays for itself within a year, according to Fabien Bardinet of Balyo, the company behind the autonomous driving technology. But I put it to him that we should worry about the threat to the workforce. \"Forget about it, - they are going to help us, make jobs simpler,\" is his response. His thesis is that by making companies more competitive, adopting robots will create jobs rather than destroy them. And he points out that Germany, which employs far more industrial robots than France, has a lower level of unemployment. Let's not exaggerate the threat from the robots - they are still very bad at things we find easy, like climbing stairs or telling jokes. But over the next few years we could see them gradually filling more human roles, from sales assistants to child minders to taxi drivers. And we - the humans - will have to decide how far  this robot revolution should go. Read about more robots destined for the home", "question": "Sitting eating a hot dog outside Lyon 's @placeholder centre , I could n't help noticing the group at the next table . Three young men were chatting while a fourth sat completely immobile , not saying a word .", "option_0": "town", "option_1": "home", "option_2": "exhibition", "option_3": "health", "option_4": "attitude"}
{"id": 1826, "article": "Like a sort of officially sanctioned graffiti, the initials of the housing department of Rio de Janeiro were sprayed on homes marked for demolition. Almost 900 families, many of which lived on Rua da Esperanca (Hope Street), were facing eviction because their houses stood in the way of the planned route for the Transolimpica bus rapid transit system (BRT). The extension of the BRT is part of the upgrades planned ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games, which the city is hosting. The new 25km (15 mile) rapid bus route is expected to carry 70,000 passengers a day. It will link Barra da Tijuca, which will host the athletes' village, to Deodoro, the venue for several Olympic events. Rio City Hall intended to relocate the families from Vila Uniao to small social housing apartments or offer compensation packages. But many residents did not want to leave their 30-year-old community. After two years of uncertainty and a small yet vocal campaign of resistance, they have managed to save it from demolition. Instead of running straight over the neighbourhood, the new $555m-bus system (?¡ê370m) will now cut around Vila Uniao. This means only 191 families will need to be relocated, a 78% reduction in the original number of expected evictions. \"We're celebrating a lot because it was 900 families and now it's 191,\" said Robson da Silva Soares, one of those leading the resistance to the demolition of Vila Uniao. But the victory was bittersweet for the residents, who, in 2012, had been promised investment as part of an initiative to improve the city's poor neighbourhoods by 2020. Months later, the Transolimpica project was announced and along with it, the need to relocate hundreds of families. Many of the homes earmarked for demolition were bigger than the government-funded apartments residents were being offered, explained 68-year-old Francisco Gabriel. \"I've been here 20 years and if it's a choice between leaving for the [government-funded] Colonia Juliano Moreira apartments or staying here, I'd prefer to stay here,\" he said. \"The homes there are smaller.\" According to Rio City Hall, plans for the Transolimpica were redrawn to reduce the impact on Vila Uniao. \"We managed to get public land belonging to the federal government to alter the project and attend to the needs of the residents,\" a spokesman said. Rio City Hall said the project, while causing disruption to some, also had huge potential to improve the lives of locals by linking their neighbourhood to other public transport lines. \"The future corridor will benefit the population leaving a huge legacy of mobility: a fully integrated transport network with the Transoeste and Transcarioca BRTs already opened, and the rail network in Deodoro,\" officials said. But while the reduced number of evictions was welcomed by the majority in Vila Uniao, it did not satisfy everyone, leaving the community divided. Cintia Neves, who runs a lunchtime cafe in the neighbourhood, has lived here almost her whole life. The 26-year-old shares the house her late father built when she was six months old with her mother and brother. \"The vast majority [in the community] think the change is good but there are some who wanted to leave,\" she says, explaining that some homes in Vila Uniao were barely more than hovels. \"We are staying for now\" she said about her family. But even though the relief of those residents whose homes have been saved is palpable the new route is still likely to affect the community. There is the local football pitch, for example. The original plan spared it but the new project runs over it instead. Rio City Hall said it was in talks with the owner of a local football ground to provide a new pitch. There were also concerns that those moving to the new social housing would lose the community feel they enjoyed in Vila Uniao. \"I grew up in the community with my parents and four brothers,\" Mr Soares said. \"There's a market, a bank, a school. But the place where the families are moving to doesn't have any of this. They have to start everything again.\" Mr Soares said he and his fellow campaigners would not give up: \"My house was in the path of the BRT and now I don't have to leave. \"But even so, I will continue with the same fight because independent of me, we're fighting for residents to have their rights.\" And he is confident he can drive down the number of those facing eviction even further. \"We see the possibility of removing fewer still than 191,\" the 37-year-old electromechanical technician said.", "question": "Nearly all of the chaotically built homes in the small community of Vila Uniao in the @placeholder of Rio have \" SMH \" painted onto their walls .", "option_0": "state", "option_1": "middle", "option_2": "west", "option_3": "heart", "option_4": "region"}
{"id": 1827, "article": "He played a long, dogged innings, and though he could not lead his team to victory, he has avoided a defeat. His party has emerged as the largest in the north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, a region that has borne the brunt of attacks by Taliban militants. He has also won one, and may win another, of the 12 parliamentary seats from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), a strip of land adjacent to KP where Taliban militants fighting the Nato forces in Afghanistan have sanctuaries. It wasn't until final results were released that it emerged that Mr Khan had only narrowly missed out on securing the legally important position of leader of the opposition in the national parliament. For many, however, his has been a remarkable achievement, and one which will see his party make further inroads into the Punjab heartland from where it bagged a substantial amount of votes, though fewer seats. But that will depend on how quickly he can recover from the back injury he sustained when he fell off a fork-lift during an election rally last week. He suffered three minor fractures in the spine but his nervous system was unharmed. His doctor has told the BBC that Mr Khan will have another two weeks of bed rest before walking again with the help of a brace. He is set to make a full recovery over the coming weeks, his doctors say. In an end-of-the campaign speech from his hospital bed last week - which was broadcast to a rally in the capital Islamabad via a video link - he seemed to open his heart to his audience when he talked about the long struggle which was about to come to fruition, and the sacrifices he had had to make, including the pain of losing his wife. \"My wife, poor woman, she had to leave me because they wouldn't let her live in peace,\" he said in an emotional moment. An international cricketing celebrity, Mr Khan led Pakistan to its cricket World Cup triumph in 1992. But he made a shaky start of his political innings back in the mid-1990s. He was harassed by the conservative and Islamist circles who accused him of being a \"Zionist agent\". This was because he had married an English heiress, Jemima Goldsmith, whose father, Sir James Goldsmith, came from a Jewish background. The marriage lasted nine years and produced two children, both boys. To the electorate, he came across as a political lightweight who had no ideological moorings and only ambiguous views on crucial issues. His message of Islamic values and the formation of an Islamic welfare state that would not be a slave of the West were interpreted by many as the ramblings of a \"playboy-turned-puritan\". He suffered an early scandal when a widely respected welfare activist, Abdus Sattar Edhi, took temporary refuge in London, saying he was being threatened by a group that included Mr Khan and Hamid Gul, a former chief of Pakistani intelligence (ISI). In a 2010 interview, Mr Edhi explained: \"They wanted to topple [Prime Minister] Benazir Bhutto's government, and wanted to fire their guns from my shoulder. When I refused, they threatened to kidnap me. I'm not the political type, so I caught a flight to London.\" The charge was denied by Mr Khan's party which said that Mr Khan only wanted Mr Edhi to join him in a pressure group \"to push the government into spending more on health, education and welfare\". More recently, there were allegations that another former ISI chief, General Shuja Pasha, helped boost his political support, a charge the party denies. Despite his celebrity appeal and hero's status, he could only win one seat in the 2002 elections. He boycotted the elections in 2008. But during the last couple of years he seems to have burst into aggressive batting, and has suddenly caught the fancy of the crowds. He has done this by promising a \"new\" Pakistan, and getting rid of the old guard who he says have been \"fixing the matches so that they can take turns at power\". As election results show, he holds greater appeal in the north-west - inhabited by ethnic Pashtuns - presumably because he himself comes from the Pashtun Niazi tribe, settled in the Mianwali region of Punjab province. And his opposition of the US-led war against militancy has also touched a chord with the people of this region. His argument that militancy in Pakistan is the direct result of the American invasion of Afghanistan, and that it would end once the Western troops leave that country, has gone down well with the youth in the north-west. His rhetoric to shoot down the American drones also appealed to the Pashtun people in the tribal areas, who have been at the sharp end of the drones for several years. Whether he will interfere with Nato's 2014 exit through Pakistan if he is able to form a government in KP is a question that only time will answer. One thing is clear. He is going to have a solid block of votes on the opposition benches in the national parliament and he will use them to maximum effect to pave the way for a victory in the next elections. He is just 61 years old and generally in good health. If nothing serious has happened to his back, he will soon be back on his feet. The match is over, but the series is on.", "question": "It has been like a @placeholder test match for Pakistani cricket hero - turned - politician Imran Khan .", "option_0": "serving", "option_1": "disabled", "option_2": "drawn", "option_3": "perfect", "option_4": "name"}
{"id": 1828, "article": "Lauren, 18, previously won silver at the 2015 World Rowing Championships having only taken up rowing earlier that year. She is also a former wheelchair track racer who represented England at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Here, Lauren answers questions set by BBC News School Reporters from Aston Manor Academy in Birmingham. If you weren't an athlete, what would you want to be and why? I would definitely like to be a radio presenter/ DJ. I have a passion for music and listening to new artists, therefore I have always wanted to have my own radio segment to show people new and current music. Also the perks of being an athlete mean that you get to do radio interviews with stations such as the BBC and whenever I  go into the studios and see the presenters doing their job I always get a buzz off it. And I'm a real chatterbox so I could talk all day on the radio and never run out of topics to talk about! What or who made you get into sport? I have participated in sport since a young age. I think my real passion for sport stemmed from my love of competition. In middle school I was in every sports team and I just loved competing against other schools - when my mother saw this passion she devoted her spare time to taking me to athletics training and my swimming lessons after school. It was my involvement in the clubs outside of school that made me want to pursue a career in sport. What keeps you motivated to train? Before competing in Rio my sole motivation was to win a gold medals - there was no other focus other than becoming Paralympic Champion. However, after achieving my dream I find that my motivation to get me through the exhausting winter months is actually my motivation of self-development. At this time of year, it is hard for me to visualise the next competition and winning, so a big part of my motivation is sourced from a vision of a better me. There is always room for improvement and there will always more speed, strength and technique to be gained. What do you think is the biggest myth about being a successful sportsperson? That it's not as easy as it looks! Paralympic sport in particular is only ever in the public eye every four years and, being the great sporting nation that we are, everybody sees the success of the athletes. I would say that because we are such a successful team many people now expect you to keep winning gold medals and that winning is easy for some athletes. The reality is that it just gets harder. To keep competing and achieving at this level you have to keep pushing yourself that extra one per cent every season and you have to make one more sacrifice each time. Describe what a typical day of training is like for you A typical day for me would be to wake up at 5.30am, get dressed and eat breakfast before heading down to the gym for 6am and spend 30 minutes stretching and warming up ready for my aerobic session on the ergometer (the actual name for a rowing machine). I usually spend 60 minutes physically rowing on the ergometer before getting changed into fresh kit and head to my strength and conditioning session which will consist of an hour of lifting weights and then 30 minutes of strengthening my core. I usually finish training before 10am. I will then attend lectures at University all day. In the evening I like to spend some time stretching again to release all the built up tension from training in the morning. My training days depend on the time of year. At the moment I will train between two or three times per day with one day off per week. Ellie Downie (Gymnastics) Sophie Ecclestone (Cricket) Keelan Giles (Rugby Union) Tom Hamer (Para-swimming) Ellie Robinson (Para-swimming) Georgia Stanway (Football) Jess Stretton (Para-archery) Rebekah Tiler (Weightlifting) Amy Tinkler (Gymnastics) Read more about shortlist What was your favourite subject at school and why? My favourite subject at school was always PE. I was always the one pupil who thought sports day was the Olympic Games! Who is your biggest inspiration? My mum! Growing up it was just me and my mum so we have a very close bond and I always remember her working extremely hard and still coming home and take me to whatever sports training I had on that particular night. She's worked incredibly hard all her life and even though she isn't my sporting hero, she's the woman I aspire to be. Do you have a certain ritual or routine you follow before a competition and if so what? Before every competition we will always have a physical routine in place to get us prepared for the race and that routine may be different for every race. However, before every race I will always listen to the same playlist of songs which I've titled 'Time to win gold' and I will always listen to a series of short motivational videos that are on my phone. The combination of the music and videos makes me mentally ready for the race and really focuses my mind on the end goal and the end result. How do you feel before a major event or competition and how do you manage your nerves? Managing your nerves before a major competition I find extremely difficult. Before my Paralympic final I was a bag of nerves from the moment I woke up! I just like to get in the boat and start rowing. As soon as I get on that start line I am focused and relaxed because I know that I have practised every single stroke hundreds of times over. Once I begin to row I don't think about anything, my body just sets into auto drive and the nerves disappear. What is your 'golden moment' so far in your career? My 'golden moment' is quite literally the three minutes and 55 seconds it took to row to win my Paralympic gold medal! There is no higher achievement in my sport than winning a Paralympic Gold and when you achieve that the sensation is indescribable. I still gaze at my medal and just sit and wonder how a picture of that medal was once my phone wallpaper for months and months and now it belongs to me!", "question": "Para-rower Lauren won the gold medal at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in trunk - arms mixed double skulls , with her boat partner 25 - year - old Laurence Whiteley . They recorded a world best time in the @placeholder .", "option_0": "event", "option_1": "county", "option_2": "history", "option_3": "process", "option_4": "class"}
{"id": 1829, "article": "\"My friend had gone to bathe in the river when he discovered there was a body in the river so he called me\". Jackson (not his real name) looks out across the Ol Donyo Sabuk River about an hour-and-a-half outside the centre of Nairobi. He and his friends quickly called the police. It was not the first time they had come across corpses in the river. This time, however it was a more high-profile case. \"Shortly after, we saw a sack floating in the water,\" he continues. \"We went to look at it and I noticed the outline of a head so we opened the sack.\" Days later they found a third body - the three turned to be a missing lawyer, Willie Kimani, his client, Josephat Mwendwa and their taxi driver, Joseph Muiruri. Post-mortem reports have revealed signs that the men suffered severe torture. The case sparked nationwide demonstrations, with protestors accusing the police of being behind the killings because Mr Mwendwa had brought a case against an officer. Campaigners say this highlights a wider trend of unlawful executions by the police. The force has distanced itself from the case of the dead lawyer, describing it as an isolated incident relating to a rogue policeman. Four officers have been arrested but not charged. In Nairobi's Mathare valley, brown tin roofs are interspersed with electricity and light poles - the lights were set up to help improve security in this notorious slum. Crime is rife here, fuelled by high unemployment but residents say the police are too heavy-handed in their attempts to maintain order. \"It's like it's a crime to be a young man here,\" says Juliet Wanjira. \"Stop Police Executions\" says the slogan on her T-shirt. \"We are losing our young men,\" she continues. \"We're left with so many wives and mothers looking for their men.\" Ms Wanjira is a campaigner with the Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) which has been documenting the cases of young men shot by the police, they say unlawfully. Anthony Mburu, another campaigner with MSCJ says he once witnessed four teenagers being shot by police officers. \"They were chased by about six policemen. The youths split and ran in different directions but they were each followed by the police,\" he says. \"One ran to a kiosk and he was shot before he could enter. Another one pleaded for mercy but the police shot him in the stomach. He did not die immediately. As he was struggling for life, the policeman shot him twice.\" One mother lost her son also in Mathare last August. She sent her son to check on his brother who was in police custody but she never heard from him again. After searching for three days, she found his body in a mortuary. Witnesses told her that the police had shot him. \"He was shot in both eyes, in his cheek and the left side of his chest,\" she told me. \"We reported it to the police and to the different agencies but I've not got any help. They tell me they'll get back to me but they don't.\" While she has sought justice, others think they will never find it. Another mother who has lost her son in similar circumstances says she did not bother to report her case. \"Here in Kenya, who am I to take the case forward?\" she asked. \"Look at me. I live in Mathare slum. If big people are killed and their cases just disappear, then what about me? If I speak I'll be killed like a chicken. I've left it all to God.\" There have been similar cases reported across the country. The non-governmental watchdog Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU) says the police killed 97 people in 2015 alone. More recently the group says eight suspected robbers, aged between 15 and 26, were shot at close range in April, either while kneeling or lying on the ground. Police crackdowns in the fight against Islamist militants have targeted predominantly Muslim communities around the country in the aftermath of major attacks. Last year, a report by the Kenya's official rights body described it as \"fighting terror with terror\" and reported 25 killings. Between 2012 and 2014, three prominent clerics believed to have had links to al-Shabab were killed in the coastal city of Mombasa. Their supporters say police \"death squads\" killed them. The spokesman for Kenya's Interior Ministry, Mwenda Njoka, told the BBC that the Kenyan government is against extrajudicial killings. \"It is against the law and that's a point we don't need to belabour,\" he said. \"We have a legal mechanism through the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) and other legal forums to address legal measures employed by security agents.\" The Mathare campaigners say that of the 40 cases reported to IPOA this year, only one has been dealt with. That adds to the dozens more they say have been unresolved. Kenya's police spokesman Charles Owino dismisses the activists' claims, saying they ignore important facts. \"The police are there to protect the common man. So we cannot allow a situation where a group of criminals move around with arms. \"These are the people you want to move around with arms and shoot innocent citizens? And then we say there's no law and order?\" He says there might be rogue elements within the police, who are then charged and punished, but insists that the force generally abides by the rule of law. Police reforms have been ongoing but even President Uhuru Kenyatta has expressed concerns that the process has been slow. The perceived culture of police impunity has many worried ahead of next year's elections, often a time of increased violence.", "question": "The recent killing of human rights lawyer Willie Kimani and two others has once again put the Kenyan police in the spotlight . The police have been accused of running death squads , a claim they deny . The BBC 's Tomi Oladipo @placeholder the growing public mistrust of the police , especially among young men .", "option_0": "investigates", "option_1": "considers", "option_2": "blamed", "option_3": "reflects", "option_4": "following"}
{"id": 1830, "article": "Kevin Friend pointed to the spot after Norwich's Sebastien Bassong collided with Dele Alli in the box, and Harry Kane converted to put Spurs 2-0 up. \"The penalty was an extremely poor decision,\" Neil said. \"Dele Alli gets a shot at goal, if he ends up putting it in the net it's a goal.\" Neil continued to BBC Radio Norfolk: \"Bassong has no bearing on where the ball's going to go - as he hits it, he has a free shot at goal, (goalkeeper) Declan Rudd gathers the ball and then there's a collision of bodies. \"It happens all over the pitch on a regular basis and there's very few times you see a free-kick given - for him to make such a key decision in such a big game was really frustrating.\" Neil was also unhappy with Kane's second goal just before full-time, which came after Christian Eriksen dispossessed Martin Olsson. \"The ball's on the wrong side of him, Eriksen's come in from the back and he's bumped Martin as he's tried to play the pass, put him on his backside and then runs through,\" he said. \"Nine times out of 10, the defender would get the benefit of the doubt with that one. \"There was one in the first half with Youssouf Mulumbu that happened with their defender and we didn't get a free-kick for it. I feel like nearly all the 50-50 contentious decisions went in their favour.\" Following the defeat, Norwich - who have lost their last five games in all competitions - could find themselves in the bottom three on Wednesday if Newcastle beat Everton.", "question": "Norwich manager Alex Neil described Tottenham 's penalty in Tuesday 's 3 - 0 loss at Carrow Road , as \" probably the weakest penalty \" he has seen all @placeholder .", "option_0": "changes", "option_1": "formats", "option_2": "term", "option_3": "status", "option_4": "show"}
{"id": 1831, "article": "In winning she also set a new Paralympic record and was joined on the podium with compatriots Jo Frith and Vicky Jenkins taking silver and bronze position to make it a clean sweep for Great Britain. This year she's been balancing her sporting achievements alongside successfully taking her GCSE exams, studying for A levels and representing her school Boccia team in regional and national competitions Here, Jess Stretton answers questions set by BBC News School Reporters from Aston Manor Academy in Birmingham. If you weren't an athlete, what would you want to be and why? I would be an English teacher because I love the subject and want to help others enjoy it as well. English Literature is my favourite subject and allows me to need to read a book for study purposes and also gives me another excuse to be able to read when I'm on the shooting line! Describe what a typical day of training is like for you I get to the shooting range around 9am and shoot until 11am, doing 72 or 78 arrows in the morning. I then have an hour study time and lunch before shooting again in the afternoon until I have done my arrow volume for the day, which is usually 120 arrows. Then I go to the gym before going home. What keeps you motivated to train? The feeling I get when I shoot my bow is one of the best feelings in the world - it is only me, my bow and the target! Also knowing the success that can bring. What kind of support network do you think you need in the sports industry? I think you need to have very flexible and understanding family and friends who are able to (particularly on bad days) remind you why you get up in the morning to train. It does not matter if you have connections in the big companies at the start, that will come with time and with the places you go to. Ellie Downie (Gymnastics) Sophie Ecclestone (Cricket) Keelan Giles (Rugby Union) Tom Hamer (Para-swimming) Ellie Robinson (Para-swimming) Lauren Rowles (Para-rowing) Georgia Stanway (Football) Rebekah Tiler (Weightlifting) Amy Tinkler (Gymnastics) Read more about shortlist Who is your biggest inspiration? John Stubbs is my biggest inspiration because he is a multiple Paralympian and someone I aspire to be like. Who do you think is a brilliant role model for aspiring athletes? I think Jessica Ennis-Hill is a great role model because she is a brilliant athlete and a really good person to aspire to be like. With the success she's had it is easy to look at her and think 'I want to be like her one day'. What do you think is the biggest myth about being a successful sportsperson? That you will win everything. This isn't true as anything could happen - you could get an injury, have an equipment failure, or just have a bad day at the time. What advice would you give to other young people wanting to get into competitive sports? Find a club or sports \"have-a-go\" day and just try it out! Take every opportunity that comes your way until you find something you either really like or are good at and keep at it. Do you have a certain ritual or routine you follow before a competition and if so what? I usually just plug in my headphones and pick up my book to relax and just get away from the reality of what is happening. This means I can focus more when the time comes to shoot in thinking it is just another shoot and that the outcome will only come after each separate arrow. What is your 'golden moment' so far in your career? I would have to say being on top of the podium in Rio at the 2016 Paralympics with the three GB flags in the air, signifying the clean sweep that my team mates and I achieved!", "question": "Jess , 16 , won the gold medal in archery ( W1 individual ) at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games where she was the youngest competitor in the archery @placeholder .", "option_0": "direction", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "table", "option_3": "events", "option_4": "process"}
{"id": 1832, "article": "Organised by the Fire Brigades Union, the first draw of the Firefighters 100 Lottery will take place later. Funds raised will also be used to promote education in fire safety. Sue Veevers, whose son Stephen Hunt died in Manchester in 2013, said the scheme was \"much needed and very welcome\". Mr Hunt, 38, from Bury, Greater Manchester, died after a fire at Paul's Hair World in Oldham Street. Earlier this year an inquest jury concluded it was probable two 15-year-old girls deliberately started the fire after smoking cigarettes at the rear of the building. Ms Veevers said: \"No-one could imagine the hell our family went through after my son died. \"People assume that families such as mine are looked after following such a tragedy, but it's not always the case.\" Mr Hunt was among 60 firefighters called to the hair salon blaze. Along with a colleague, he entered the building but was later found collapsed and could not be resuscitated. He died later that evening. Police said the case is to be reviewed to determine if any further action should be taken. A Manchester street was named in memory of Mr Hunt in September.", "question": "The mother of a firefighter who died tackling a blaze has praised the launch of a charity lottery to support relatives of @placeholder rescue workers .", "option_0": "struggling", "option_1": "fallen", "option_2": "acts", "option_3": "targeting", "option_4": "people"}
{"id": 1833, "article": "\"That,\" she said, gesturing towards the sweets, \"was to celebrate the birth of the 102nd baby.\" The baby in question had been born under the Jiyo Parsi scheme, a federal government initiative launched in 2013 to stem the decline of the India's Parsi population. Dr Gandevia is senior member of this initiative. Every baby born is a moment for celebration in the dwindling community that traces its ancestry to Zoroastrian refugees who landed on the coast of the western Indian state of Gujarat around the 8th Century. Fleeing Islamic persecution in Persia, the new arrivals integrated with the local populations, whilst maintaining their distinctive ethnic identity. As a highly-educated and prosperous community, their success and influence has been far in excess of their size. And that size is ever-shrinking. With each census, the number of Parsis has dropped, even as India's population of 1.3 billion people has grown. The latest 2011 census put the number of Indian Parsis at 57,264, a fall from 1,14,000 in 1941, and extinction has increasingly become a reality. Jiyo Parsi is an ambitious plan to halt that. For its first phase - which will conclude in a few months - the scheme received 100 million rupees ($1.5m;?¡ê1.1m)  to defray costs of fertility treatments for Parsi couples earning less than 2m rupees a year. The campaign also sought to encourage Parsis to go forth and multiply through advertising, counselling and outreach efforts, . That flipped the script on family planning, a key part of Indian government policy for decades. When it was first announced in September 2013, the scheme quickly became both a headline and a punchline. It's quirky outreach included ad campaigns that urged couples to \"Be responsible, don't use a condom tonight\" and told young men to cut the umbilical chord and marry because, \"isn't it time you broke up with your mom?\" But even though some objected that the campaign reduced women to their uteruses, it appears to have made a dent. \"The scheme created an enthusiasm and a buzz,\" Ms Gandevia told the BBC. \"People were pessimistic but this has been a ray of hope.\" Most of the babies have been born in Mumbai, which has India's largest concentration of Parsis.  The number includes five pairs of twins and a roughly equal number of boys and girls. One woman who declined to be identified claimed she had given up on having a child after repeated efforts which drained both her patience and money, but said that the financial assistance and counselling under the Jiyo scheme helped her conceive. Another woman said: \"At the age of 41 when most women start experiencing the symptoms of menopause, I am experiencing the symptoms of a long-awaited pregnancy. At the end of every tunnel there is light.\" Before she became a coordinator for the scheme, Ms Gandevia, a social scientist and Parsi herself, had studied this tightly-knit group for more than a decade. She says the first cause for alarm was in 2001, when census figures showed a sharp drop. \"That was the time the bells should have started ringing. the writing was on the wall,\" she said. More than 30% of Parsis don't marry, and an equal proportion are more than 60-years-old. The total fertility rate for Parsis- the number of children a woman has - has dropped to 0.8. The average for India is 2.3, and 2.1 is the figure at which a population remains steady. Read more about Zoroastrianism A combination of factors has been responsible for this: marrying outside the community or not at all, divorce, couples having only one child and late marriages. Furthermore, women who marry outside the community are not allowed to raise their children in the faith. Hence, the two-pronged efforts of the team, which believes that talking to people, without lecturing them on reproducing, can be a powerful motivator. \"It is all because of the advocacy work that I decided to have a second child,\" said a Mumbai-based woman who is in her first trimester. \"In whatever way, it is my small contribution.\" The woman said she initially decided not to have another child to focus on her career. \"But maybe subconsciously I wanted another kid,\" she said. \"All of us are happy.\" Emphasising community pride and the joys of kinship has been another thrust area - a new advertising campaign launching later this month will focus on family. Impressed by their efforts, even the Japanese government - a country where the population is rapidly aging and the fertility rate has fallen to 1.4 - has approached Parzor Foundation, an implementing partner, to decode the success of the campaign. \"When we started, we were going into unknown territory,\" Shernaz Cama, the foundation's director told the BBC. \"This had never been attempted by an urban, educated community before. Now we are seeing interest from all over.\" Although the initial euphoria is palpable, it is too early to estimate any demographic impact it has had on the fertility rate. \"But 102 babies were born that would have otherwise not been there if Jiyo Parsi hadn't provided support,\" said Ms Gandevia. \"That is a fact.\" She added that the real effects would be visible a generation from now. Still, there are currently more Parsis dying than are being born every year. In Mumbai, for instance, about 750 Parsis die annually, and 200 children are born, pointed out Jehangir Patel, the editor and publisher of Parsiana, a community-focussed publication in the city. \"Even five or 20 more births per year more won't change the demographics,\" he said. \"It's a good endeavour helping couples who might have otherwise not been able to have children but it won't drastically change the picture.\" Bhavya Dore is a Mumbai-based journalist", "question": "A jubilant Katy Gandevia passed around a box of celebratory sweets she had received in her @placeholder at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai .", "option_0": "participation", "option_1": "era", "option_2": "office", "option_3": "classroom", "option_4": "event"}
{"id": 1834, "article": "Alison Willis said she had asked the officer why police were not letting people out and told them: \"There's people dying in there\". Ms Willis told  the inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans how the police response was \"utter chaos\". She said the crush was \"unbearable\" and she struggled to breathe. Ms Willis, who bought a ticket for the 1989 FA Cup semi-final from a tout, described how the congestion began to build in the Leppings Lane end of the stadium ahead of kick-off. Asked what the pressure was like, Ms Willis, said: \"It was unbearable, absolutely unbearable. I've never felt anything like it in my life.\" She said it was \"terribly\" painful and she found it \"hard to breathe\". Profiles of all those who died The inquests, held in Warrington, Cheshire, heard how she was helped to climb out of the crush in pen four into a \"sterile area\" in pen five, before escaping on to the perimeter track. Ms Willis said an officer used foul language and ordered her to go back into the terraces. She told the court: \"I said 'why wasn't they letting people out - there's people dying in there'. He told me 'get back in you fucking Scouse bastard'.\" The court heard Ms Willis had not mentioned the exchange during evidence she gave to the Taylor public inquiry into the disaster, or at the original inquests. She said: \"I think the first time I went to the Taylor inquests (sic), to be honest I don't even think I had got my head around what had happened to me.\" Ms Willis said she and four others had been able to get into the Leppings Lane terraces with other Liverpool fans, despite having tickets for the opposite end of the ground. Sam Green, a barrister who represents the Police Federation, said: \"Officers on the ground, for whatever reason, wholly failed to appreciate that what was unfolding before them was a fatal disaster and that they thought - they were stuck in a mindset - that what they were dealing with was a crowd behaviour issue.\" Ms Willis replied: \"When I was stood on that running track they could see exactly what I could see. \"If they had been to football matches, they would have known that was not crowd trouble.\" Ms Willis, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, at the time, was later interviewed by West Midlands Police. She said she was questioned inside a cell in a Mansfield police station. \"I was told there was no room anywhere else,\" she said. \"It was so intimidating. They was very focused on alcohol and on fans' behaviour.\" A Court of Appeal judge also gave evidence during Tuesday's hearing and said he felt there was no clear police plan to deal with the mounting crowds. Sir Maurice Kay, who was a Liverpool season ticket holder and a barrister at the time, attended the match with his son. Pete Weatherby QC, a barrister for 22 bereaved families, asked Sir Maurice: \"Is it right that in effect the crowd and the congestion was so large that the police had lost control of it?\" Sir Maurice replied: \"That's how it seemed to me.\" The judge described the situation around the turnstiles as \"uncomfortable\" and \"potentially dangerous.\" The jury also heard from a Sheffield Wednesday fan who had tickets for Hillsborough's South Stand on the day of the 15 April match. Mark Dawson described the fans outside the Liverpool end of the ground as \"abrupt\" and some were \"drinking heavily\". The jury heard that in a statement he gave in 1989 he said it was \"drunken fans who were still on the road that were pushing causing the problems\". Asked if he still maintained that, he replied: \"Yes.\" The inquests continue.", "question": "A Liverpool fan was @placeholder at by a police officer and told to \" get back in \" after escaping the Hillsborough disaster crush , a jury has heard .", "option_0": "sworn", "option_1": "caught", "option_2": "attacked", "option_3": "threatened", "option_4": "abducted"}
{"id": 1835, "article": "The 518 mixed copper coins, found near Leominster, had been placed in cloth bags and hidden in the ground in a leather satchel. Experts believe the coins were deliberately buried because of unrest or fear of robbery. The British Museum said it was very rare to find hoards so well-preserved. The hoard was found in July 2013 by paramedics and metal detector enthusiasts Jeremy Daw and Martin Fulloway. The news of the find has only just been made public by the British Museum. Mr Fulloway said: \"We thought it might be a horse shoe or something rubbish. \"As we were digging down through the soil with our hands, I spotted Jeremy had a handful of Roman coins. \"I said, 'Stop. I think we've got a hoard.'\" Mr Fulloway said four of the coins were stuck to a stone, while others were in the loose soil. \"It's not quite the Staffordshire hoard but for Herefordshire it's nice. For me to have my first Roman hoard, it's a dream come true.\" Mr Daw said the coins were possibly buried during a time of unrest in the Roman empire. \"It's been in the ground for 1,700 years and we are the first people to touch it,\" he said. \"We looked at each other and punched the air.\" The earth was x-rayed at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and then examined by the British Museum. The coins range from from AD 260 to circa 290 and include eight coins of the Britannic Empire. The hoard was declared treasure trove in June by the Hereford coroner and will now be valued by the British Museum. The value will then be shared with the two finders, landowner and Hereford and Leominster Museum. Peter Reavill, a finds officer for the British Museum, said: \"This is one of the best-preserved coin hoards I have seen.\" He said he hoped funds would be raised to keep the collection in the county.", "question": "A hoard of more than 500 Roman coins was found by two metal detector enthusiasts in a Herefordshire @placeholder , the British Museum has revealed .", "option_0": "centre", "option_1": "field", "option_2": "house", "option_3": "area", "option_4": "barn"}
{"id": 1836, "article": "According to documents, Mr Lee became angry after the man, Donald Bolding, flashed a graphic tattoo at the people in Mr Lee's car, including his fianc??e. He later returned with an accomplice and beat Mr Bolding with a tyre iron. Mr Lee, 49, co-founded Pinkberry in 2005 but left the company in 2010. He was arrested in January 2013 at Los Angeles International Airport on \"outstanding charges.\" Prosecutors said Mr Bolding was struck twice in the head and suffered a broken arm, before passerby stepped in to stop the attack. Mr Lee faces up to seven years in California state prison. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for 14 January.", "question": "Young Lee , co-founder of @placeholder yogurt chain Pinkberry , was found guilty by a California judge of beating a homeless man in Los Angeles in June of 2011 .", "option_0": "including", "option_1": "leaving", "option_2": "producing", "option_3": "frozen", "option_4": "disabled"}
{"id": 1837, "article": "A welfare officer made the discovery at a property in Surrey after being contacted by a distressed homeowner in December. It is a one of a string of calls made to the animal welfare charity where people have mistaken objects for living creatures. The RSPCA is urging the public to double check before raising the alarm. Other call outs include a report in November that an owl had been sitting on a roof for more than four days and appeared unable to move. Inspectors discovered that the creature was in fact made out of plastic. A month later animal collection officer Alan Farr was asked by a homeowner to help find a trapped bird which was making a \"peeping noise\" in her loft. \"After searching around and unable to find the mystery bird, I then went into her front room and found a smoke alarm beeping after the battery had gone flat,\" he revealed. Others include: The charity's 24-hour cruelty line received 1,153,744 calls in 2016, 3% more than the previous year. It has urged the public to make sure they have a genuine problem before getting in touch. RSPCA spokesman Dermot Murphy said: \"We know that people mean well and most of these calls are not made in malice, and although we would like to be able to help everyone, we simply haven't got the staff to personally investigate each and every issue that the public brings to us. \"We must prioritise to make sure we get to the animals most in need.\"", "question": "The RSPCA was called out to catch a stray @placeholder in a loft which turned out to be a child 's cuddly toy .", "option_0": "rat", "option_1": "body", "option_2": "recovery", "option_3": "snake", "option_4": "toy"}
{"id": 1838, "article": "Loganair will continue to operate the route with ?¡ê800,000 of funding supporting the six-month extension. The UK and Scottish governments and Dundee City Council agreed to extend the current public service obligation contract. Loganair operates two daily flights each way each weekday, with a further flight on a Sunday. The UK government funding is through the Regional Air Connectivity Fund, which aims to maintain connectivity between London and smaller regional airports, where routes are at risk of being withdrawn. Scottish government Transport Minister Derek Mackay said: \"The extension of the public service obligation on the Dundee-Stansted route is a welcome and important step for the future of the airport. \"All parties have worked together to reach an agreement that will see the route safeguarded in the immediate future, with a view to reaching a longer-term solution in due course. Dundee City Council leader Ken Guild said: \"I am pleased that the partners in this route have agreed that the backing for it will be extended. \"We will continue to work with them to encourage as many people as possible to use the service.\"", "question": "Flights between Dundee and London have been secured until the end of the year @placeholder a new deal .", "option_0": "signing", "option_1": "proposed", "option_2": "suffered", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "following"}
{"id": 1839, "article": "Froch was recently stripped of his WBA super-middleweight belt and was thought to be close to ending his career. But Hearn said the 37-year-old is tempted by the prospect of one last big-money fight at Wembley Stadium. \"We have already opened negotiations with Golovkin's people and they are very keen,\" Hearn told the Daily Mail. \"I only want Carl to take it if he's genuinely motivated because it is a high-risk fight. \"Golovkin is the most feared fighter in the world and Carl doesn't need this fight. But he says he is intrigued by how he would deal with him. He's crazy that way.\" Hearn later told BBC Radio 5 live that any bout would only take place if Froch was happy to get back in the ring, and stressed: \"It really comes down to his hunger and desire to fight again.\" Kazakhstan's Golovkin, 33, is the WBA middleweight champion and is unbeaten in 33 professional fights, including 30 knockouts. Last Saturday he stopped American Willie Monroe Jr in Los Angeles and in his previous fight he beat Britain's Martin Murray, also inside the distance. But he has struggled to secure big-money fights at middleweight and his promoter, Tom Loeffler, says he is willing to move up to 168lb to land a lucrative match with Froch. Froch has not fought since knocking out domestic rival George Groves in front of 80,000 at Wembley last summer. He has already confirmed he is not interested in fighting the winner of Saturday's IBF super-middleweight title fight between Britain's James DeGale and Andre Dirrell in Boston.", "question": "Britain 's Carl Froch could fight middleweight king Gennady Golovkin rather than @placeholder , according to Froch 's promoter Eddie Hearn .", "option_0": "lose", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "retire", "option_3": "engaged", "option_4": "seconds"}
{"id": 1840, "article": "Dreamland in Margate, which went into administration last month, is scrapping entry charges and charging per ride or for a rides wristband instead. The plan coincides with the first anniversary of the attraction reopening after an ?¡ê18m restoration. Designer Wayne Hemingway said the park was underfunded from the start. \"It cost about ?¡ê18m which is only just over twice what Thorpe Park and Blackpool Pleasure Beach spend in a year in marketing and PR alone,\" said Mr Hemingway, who was Dreamland's artistic director. \"It was maybe too ambitious but it still can work.\" Dreamland features vintage fairground attractions from funfairs around the UK. But its star attraction, the Scenic Railway, was not ready for the reopening on 19 June 2015 and was not running for another four months. Chief executive Eddie Kemsley said it had been a tough year. She said finding out the railway would not be ready two weeks ahead of the opening was the hardest day she has faced. \"It was incredibly tough,\" she said. \"We gave away thousands and thousands of tickets to people who had thought the scenic railway would be open.\" Ms Kemsley said the new pricing structure was tried out at Christmas. \"The success we had showed us it absolutely the right way to go,\" she said. Thanet District Council has said Dreamland had cash flow problems because it failed to get enough customers through the gates. The Dreamland Trust, which worked with Thanet District Council to resurrect the park after it closed in 2005, said it hoped the new prices would make the park more accessible to local people and visitors to Margate.", "question": "A theme park which called in administrators after reopening in a blaze of @placeholder is changing its prices in a bid to attract visitors .", "option_0": "tears", "option_1": "publicity", "option_2": "activity", "option_3": "excitement", "option_4": "criticism"}
{"id": 1841, "article": "Luke and Hazel Robertson estimate the expedition will take about 80 days and will cover more than 2,000 miles. They plan to kayak, cycle and run the distance and will travel through rainforest, glaciers, mountains, tundra desert and the Arctic Ocean. The expedition will begin in May. Last year, Luke became the first Scot to complete a solo, unassisted and unsupported trek to the South Pole. The couple, originally from Stonehaven, told the BBC Scotland news website: \"It will be a real privilege to journey through this unique land. \"We're actually excited by the physical endurance challenge that comes with an expedition of this scale. We will be out there for almost three months, which will be tough both mentally and physically, but very rewarding too.\" The Robertsons will need to contend with the presence of bears while in Alaska, but they will also be wary of another, perhaps surprising, companion. \"There are much smaller things to worry about - midges,\" the Robertsons added. \"They are plentiful over there in the summer months to say the least, so we'll be well prepared for those too.\" The couple, who are both 31, are keen to engage young Scots as part of their journey, which will be called Due North: Alaska. As well as regular filming and social media updates, they will work with the Scottish government body Education Scotland with the aim of engaging young people with wildlife. Luke was inspired to undertake his first expedition, entitled Due South, at the end of 2015. He raised money for Marie Curie after undergoing brain surgery to remove a suspected tumour. During his journey, he received tweets of support from First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale and Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, as well as adventurers Mark Beaumont and Levison Wood. Luke spent Christmas and New Year  at the South Pole as part of the 39-day trek but for this expedition, there will be different challenges. He said: \"Skiing to the South Pole was an incredible experience and so heading into another big wilderness seems like the next logical step. \"It will be much tougher distance wise - we're travelling about three times the 730 miles that I skied to the South Pole and this expedition will take at least double the time.\" Mr Robertson added: \"Because we are effectively cycling the length of the UK, kayaking the distance from the UK to Iceland, and then running 30 marathons - all back to back - fitness levels have to be greater too, and so we've been building up the strength and fitness required. \"It'll be nice to have some company - 40 days by yourself is a long time - so I'm hoping not to hallucinate quite so much. \"Antarctica is a beautiful and very special place, but it'll be great to see a little more varied scenery and wildlife, as well as having someone to chat to other than my sledge.\"", "question": "An Edinburgh couple are aiming to trek from the southernmost tip to northernmost point of the Alaskan @placeholder in what is thought will be a world first .", "option_0": "outbreak", "option_1": "public", "option_2": "valley", "option_3": "mainland", "option_4": "events"}
{"id": 1842, "article": "Shahana Siddiqui knew the owners of the Holey cafe, in Bangladesh's capital, which was attacked last Friday. Through the night, she was in touch with them and got a blow-by-blow account of the horrifying events. So who were the men who carried out the country's worst ever militant attack? They were all Bangladeshi but the one fact that has transfixed this nation is their personal history. They were almost all from affluent backgrounds and had studied in some of the country's top schools and colleges. Some of the hostages who were freed described them as well-dressed and English-speaking. The Facebook account of one of them, Nibras Islam, is filled with pictures of him with friends. There is even one showing him meeting a Bollywood actress. Another of the attackers has been identified as Rohan Imtiaz. He studied at one of the country's best private schools, Scholastica, described to me by one Bangladeshi as \"Dhaka's equivalent of Eton\", a reference to the top English school. His father, Imtiaz Khan, is a politician with Bangladesh's governing Awami League party. Rohan had apparently disappeared in December and his father filed a missing person's report with the police a month later. \"I am stunned to learn this, dumbfounded,\" he told the BBC. \"There was nothing at home, no books or anything to indicate he was leaning that way. Mr Khan is still not sure how his son became a radical. \"Perhaps through the internet,\" he added. On the face of it, the suspects appeared to have led normal lives, typical of people from similar elite backgrounds. One of them played football, another enjoyed listening to music while a third was fond of racing his car through Dhaka's streets at night with his friends. But at some point, all of them changed, became reclusive and then disappeared from public view. The North South University is the country's first private university and is located in a quiet, leafy neighbourhood. This is where Nibral Islam studied. After a lot of attempts, I finally track down one person who knew him. He agreed to speak to me but only on the phone and after I promised not to reveal his identity. \"I used to see him on campus. I've run into him a few times in the canteen,\" he tells me. I ask him if he could tell me what he was like. \"Very normal, just like anyone else.\" He then told me that there are several Islamic radical groups who discreetly approach the students. \"It's very harmless at first. They ask them if they pray regularly and things like that.\" Students who respond are then given literature and asked to attend discussions. \"Eventually they are told: 'This is no life. Join the jihad.' Those who get indoctrinated slowly withdraw from public and then simply disappear.\" Bangladesh is not new to militant violence. But many agree that this attack marks a new and dangerous direction. \"This is only the beginning,\" says Brig Gen Shakhawat Hossain, a retired army officer and security analyst. \"There's more to come.\"", "question": "\" These are not men who did this in any random manner . These were people who were @placeholder and knew exactly how to instil fear . \"", "option_0": "injured", "option_1": "knocked", "option_2": "killed", "option_3": "trained", "option_4": "removed"}
{"id": 1843, "article": "The University of Aberdeen team said the findings were especially true of couples without a shared social circle. They compensate by \"adopting\" the on-screen social groups - such as in Game of Thrones - as their own. The researchers said the more frequently couples watched box sets or films together, the more highly they rated their relationship commitment. The research measured the extent to which people shared programme viewing with their partners, whether they had a lot of friends in common and how they rated their relationship. The university said the results showed that when people did not share many friends with their partner, sharing media strongly predicted greater relationship quality. Dr Sarah Gomillion, who led the study, said: \"Relationships are a very big contributor to our physical and psychological health. \"So understanding how relationships can be better and how you can improve relationships can also improve our physical and psychological health. \"What these results suggest to us is that when people have a hole in their social network that they share with their partners they might become more motivated to share media as a way to compensate for that deficit. \"Watching TV with a partner or watching a movie you both like is a really easy way to improve relationship quality and anyone can do it at any time so if this is something that is good for relationships, it might help us identify an intervention that can improve relationship quality.\" The study has been published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.", "question": "Couples who watch box sets of a @placeholder together can see it improve their relationship , according to researchers .", "option_0": "heart", "option_1": "series", "option_2": "television", "option_3": "secret", "option_4": "woman"}
{"id": 1844, "article": "The planned move - aimed at kick-starting the fracking industry - will be included in the Queen's Speech as part of an Infrastructure Bill. The companies will still need planning permission to drill for shale gas. But they will be able to install pipes to transport the gas under private land without fear of breaking trespass laws. Prime Minister David Cameron has also indicated that the government could cut subsidies for land-based wind farms when it has \"built enough to meet all our targets\". Ministers fear landowners and anti-fracking protesters would use existing law to block shale gas extraction in the UK, as it suggests prior permission is needed to run pipelines thousands of feet below private land. BBC political correspondent Iain Watson said the Infrastructure Bill would make clear that putting pipes under private land would not constitute trespass - but it would also give the affected landowners the right to compensation. Ministers are worried that other countries - especially in eastern Europe - have been making fracking there appear more attractive to investors than Britain. They believe a clarification in the law will send a positive signal to companies. The prime minister's official spokesman confirmed the government was looking at ways of making test drilling easier and to ensure there was not \"an overburden of red tape and regulation\". He added:  \"Fracking is something that is very new, certainly in this country, which is why we are looking to see whether there are particular obstacles to the test drilling.\" A conference on the potential economic benefits of fracking is to be held in Blackpool on Thursday. The Infrastructure Bill would also give new freedoms to the Highways Agency in a bid to get more roads built, and planning changes to fast-track developments, according to The Financial Times. Mr Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne joined forces on Tuesday to promote the UK's construction programme. The pair, who visited road building schemes, claimed more than 200 rail, road, local transport, broadband, airport and waste management projects were due to start construction over the next year, creating more than 150,000 jobs. Downing Street said the jobs figure had been calculated using Office for National Statistics data. The government says ¡ê36bn is being spent on the projects, which include flood damage repairs. That figure is made up of ¡ê5bn in public investment, ¡ê21bn private and ¡ê10bn in joint funding. Mr Cameron said: \"This government is backing business with better infrastructure so that more jobs and opportunities are created for hardworking people, meaning more financial security and peace of mind for families.\" He also indicated that the government could look at cutting subsidies on land-based wind farms in the future. Visiting the UK headquarters of the construction group Skanska, in Hertfordshire, the prime minister said: \"We have now got the largest offshore wind farm anywhere in the world built off the coast of the UK and another one coming on stream almost as big very, very shortly. \"In terms of onshore wind, obviously there will come a time when we will have built enough to meet all our targets and so I've always said with subsidies, we shouldn't keep subsidies for longer than they are necessary and so that's something we'll be looking at.\" Labour said the government's \"reheated announcements\" about infrastructure masked a failure to deliver and the lowest level of peacetime housebuilding since the 1920s. Shadow Treasury minister Chris Leslie said: \"We need action not words on infrastructure if we're to get a recovery built to last.\" According to the Office for National Statistics infrastructure spending fell 11.4% in 2012 but went up by 2% last year. Before the twentieth century it was assumed a land owner's rights extended from the centre of the earth to the top of the sky. But a series of key court cases have challenged that notion. 1931: US court rules that a sewer 150ft deep was not on land belonging to the home owner above. 1946: US Supreme court rules that transcontinental flights do not trespass on land below. 1978: High Court of England and Wales says aerial photography plane was not trespassing. 2010: UK Supreme Court rules that diagonal drilling down to 2,800ft from an adjacent plot of land is still trespassing under the surface.", "question": "Ministers want to give energy companies the right to run shale gas pipelines under private land , Whitehall @placeholder have confirmed .", "option_0": "sources", "option_1": "experts", "option_2": "organisations", "option_3": "authorities", "option_4": "state"}
{"id": 1845, "article": "Jason Gates, 36, who was reported missing on 17 March, was seen in Aviemore and then near Drumnadrochit at Loch Ness. The latest searches follow earlier efforts involving police, the RNLI and coastguard. It is believed Mr Gates' dog was found last week near Drumnadrochit. The dog was taken into the care of Police Scotland after it was involved in an incident at a farm near the village in which three sheep died. Local residents and visitors to Drumnadrochit and the surrounding area have been asked to look out for Mr Gates. Ch Insp Jennifer MacDonald said: \"Although no public searches are being organised at this time, we would like to thank the public for their support to date and would appeal to local residents in the area to check outbuildings, sheds and holiday homes in case Jason has taken shelter locally. \"Also, we know the area is popular with walkers and would ask that anything that may assist the search effort is reported to police, even if it seems insignificant.\" Mr Gates is described as being about 6ft 3in tall, of slim build, with short, cropped, greying hair and stubble. It is not known what clothes he was wearing, but police said he was known to often wear black jeans, a T-shirt, a black padded jacket or a tweed jacket.", "question": "Police , RAF Mountain Rescue Team @placeholder and search dogs have been involved in a fresh effort to trace a Hampshire man missing in the Highlands .", "option_0": "night", "option_1": "information", "option_2": "members", "option_3": "aged", "option_4": "helicopters"}
{"id": 1846, "article": "Owner Derek Gamble was traced after the item - which still contained its original contents - was found inside a railway carriage being restored. Train driver Michael Massey told the Eastern Daily Press he discovered the wallet on the North Norfolk Railway. Mr Gamble said the contents \"brought back memories of 30 years ago\". An old ?¡ê1 note and a handful of coins, as well as documents bearing the name Derek B Gamble and his former address in Rugby, Warwickshire, were inside the wallet. It was discovered by Mr Massey, from Ely, while he was putting together exhibits for a display to be shown at Holt railway station in Norfolk. He turned detective to find the wallet's owner, eventually tracking down Mr Gamble's son in Northampton. \"He [Mr Gamble] doesn't remember losing it, but thinks it must have been when the carriages were on the Great Central Railway at Loughborough,\" Mr Massey said. Mr Gamble, now in his 60s and living in Northampton, said: \"I am pleased and not a little surprised to be reunited with my wallet. \"Its contents bring back memories of what my family and I were doing over 30 years ago.\"", "question": "A man has been reunited with a wallet he lost more than 30 years ago after it was found stuffed down the back of a train @placeholder .", "option_0": "wagon", "option_1": "seat", "option_2": "train", "option_3": "body", "option_4": "ground"}
{"id": 1847, "article": "Dr Christopher Davies, who works for the the Royal Berkshire Hospital, said a matron later purchased the item for ¡ê22.95 from Homebase instead. Dr Davies, a respiratory consultant, said it was then fitted for free by in-house staff. A hospital spokesperson said the quote was reviewed and \"firmly rejected\". Dr Davies said the blackout blind \"must have been gold plated\" to warrant such a price, the Mail on Sunday reported. He wrote: \"So many posts about inadequate funding but here's an example of how the money is used... maybe it's not just about poor funding.\" In a statement issued to the BBC, the hospital said: \"In line with NHS requirements, the trust sought quotes for a blind which meets fire and infection control regulations. \"This particular quotation was reviewed by the management team and firmly rejected.\" NHS England has been approached for comment and said it was looking into the situation.", "question": "A senior doctor has @placeholder out after his hospital was quoted ¡ê 855.80 for a blackout blind by its official NHS contractor .", "option_0": "moved", "option_1": "ruled", "option_2": "carried", "option_3": "spoken", "option_4": "pulled"}
{"id": 1848, "article": "Three chicks have hatched at the Tweed Valley project this year. Volunteers watching the nest first saw the adult male osprey bringing them fish but then a \"cheeky jay\" appeared. It was seen picking up items from the back of the nest, thought to have been leftover fish, and eating them. Information officer Diane Bennett said: \"A fish supper at the jay residence must be a welcome break from acorns! \"The ospreys are not concerned that these morsels have been taken from the nest and clearly don't perceive the jay as a threat, which is strange, as the jay is certainly capable of taking the tiny osprey chicks at this stage of their life. \"Maybe, the clean-up operation to remove fish debris discarded by the osprey family is welcomed for now, particularly as the chicks would never intentionally be left alone while they are so small.\"", "question": "A jay has been caught on CCTV cameras pinching its own \" fish supper \" from an osprey nest being @placeholder in the Scottish Borders .", "option_0": "monitored", "option_1": "spotted", "option_2": "erected", "option_3": "kept", "option_4": "discovered"}
{"id": 1849, "article": "Mr Warmbier died without recovering on Monday, having been brought back to the US last week. His family blames the North Korean authorities for his death. US President Donald Trump called the North a \"brutal regime\". A spokesman in Pyongyang was quoted by Reuters as saying Mr Warmbier's death was \"a mystery\". Mr Warmbier, 22, a student at the University of Virginia, had been travelling with a tour group when he was arrested at Pyongyang airport in January 2016. Accused of stealing a propaganda sign from a hotel, he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour. His family had no news of him until 13 June when Pyongyang announced he had been in a coma since his trial, attributing it to botulism. More than 2,500 family, friends and well-wishers gathered for his funeral in Ohio on Thursday. The North Korean spokesman quoted by Reuters suggested the student had returned to the US \"in his normal state of health\". \"The fact that Warmbier died suddenly in less than a week just after his return to the US in his normal state of health indicators is a mystery to us as well,\" he said. Accusations that the student died because of torture and beating during his captivity were \"groundless\", he added. A North Korean spokesman quoted by AFP news agency accused the US of mounting a \"smear campaign\". \"Our relevant agencies treat all criminals... thoroughly in accordance with domestic laws and international standards and Warmbier was not an exception,\" a spokesman for the National Reconciliation Council said. \"Those who have absolutely no idea about how well we treated Warmbier under humanitarian conditions dare to utter 'mistreatment' and 'torture'.\" They say he suffered a \"severe neurological injury\", the most likely cause of which was a cardiopulmonary arrest that had cut the blood supply to the brain. They say there was no evidence he suffered from botulism. A post-mortem examination was not carried out at the request of the family. The family maintain he died as a result of \"awful torturous mistreatment\". Mr Warmbier's death heightened tensions between the two countries, already at loggerheads over the North's nuclear and missile programmes. Pyongyang has called Mr Trump a \"psychopath\". President Trump has said he is determined to \"prevent such tragedies from befalling innocent people at the hands of regimes that do not respect the rule of law or basic human decency\". North Korea was already high on President Trump's agenda, the BBC's Steve Evans reports from Seoul. This death and the public condemnation by the Warmbier family on television keeps the regime's behaviour squarely in front of the American public, our correspondent adds. Meanwhile, North Korea is holding three other Americans as well as six South Koreans.", "question": "The North Korean government has @placeholder mistreating US student Otto Warmbier , who fell into a coma while being held in prison in the communist state .", "option_0": "defended", "option_1": "denied", "option_2": "prompted", "option_3": "started", "option_4": "released"}
{"id": 1850, "article": "Mr Ruto denies murder, deportation and persecution charges during violence that followed the 2007 elections in which about 1,200 people were killed. His lawyers want the case to be terminated due to a lack of evidence. Mr Ruto is one of the most senior politicians to be tried by the ICC. The prosecution case against him has been dogged by repeated setbacks. In February judges at the ICC barred the use of recanted testimony, meaning that prior recorded witness statements could not be used by prosecutors. Several key witnesses in the case have changed their statements, which prosecutors said was due to intimidation and bribery. Mr Ruto's lawyers say he should be acquitted because so many key prosecution witnesses have either dropped or changed their original statements. ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has acknowledged that the loss of witnesses has weakened the case against the deputy president - but she has argued there still remains enough evidence to proceed with the trial. A spokesman for the ICC has told the BBC's Anna Holligan in The Hague there are a number of possible scenarios. The judges could clear Mr Ruto of all the charges, they may ask the prosecution to consider changing the charges or they could reject the defence team's arguments and allow the trial to continue. In 2014, the prosecutor dropped similar charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, alleging that witnesses had been intimidated to make them change their testimony. The future of the case now appears to depend on whether the prosecution has proved that it has sufficient evidence to offset a no-case-to-answer move from Mr Ruto's lawyers. The use of prior testimony falls under Rule 68 of the Rome Statute, which set up the ICC. But William Ruto's defence team argued this was unfair because changes to the rule were brought in after the case against him and his fellow defendant, the journalist Joshua arap Sang, had started. Presiding Judge Piotr Hofmanski ruled that prior-recorded testimony was delivered without an opportunity for the accused to cross-examine the witnesses. Mr Sang, who is accused of using his radio show to organise attacks in the election aftermath, said at the time that the decision was \"one step to our freedom\". Mr Ruto and Mr Kenyatta were on opposite sides of the 2007 election, but formed an alliance that won the 2013 election.", "question": "Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto is due to find out whether a crimes against humanity case against him will be @placeholder out by judges at the International Criminal Court ( ICC ) .", "option_0": "read", "option_1": "played", "option_2": "wiped", "option_3": "thrown", "option_4": "ruled"}
{"id": 1851, "article": "English is one of the advantages India has which are said to be propelling it to economic superpower status. There are all those Indians who speak excellent English. It's the mother tongue of the elite and effectively the official language of the central government. Then there is the growing number of parents who now aspire to give their children an education through the medium of that language. But is the craze for English an unmixed blessing? Back in the sixties the British regarded Indian English as something of a joke. The comic actor Peter Sellers had mocked it so comprehensively that I found it well nigh impossible to get the BBC to allow anyone with even the faintest Indian accent on the air. In India, we native English speakers laughed at quaint phrases like \"please do the necessary and oblige\", or more simply \"please do the needful\", and \"it is suggested that the meeting be preponed\", which appeared regularly in Indian official correspondence. A senior British diplomat once suggested that his PA should find some less geographically specific way of answering the telephone when he couldn't take the call than saying, \"Sahib is not on his seat\". Much to the diplomat's dismay a colleague told him that his PA had misunderstood the instruction and been even more specific. He'd told the colleague, \"Sahib is in the lavatory.\" Now with Indian writers carrying off the major literary awards, and Westerners in the IT and BPO industries talking of being \"bangalored\" when they are replaced by English-speaking Indians, Indian English is anything but a joke. But could the very success of English in India \"bangalore\" India's own languages? The linguist Professor David Crystal speaking in Delhi said: \"A language is dying every two weeks somewhere in the world today. Half the world's languages will no longer be spoken in another century. This is an extremely serious concern, and English has to share the blame.\" Others put it less politely, describing English as a killer language. But should India worry if English kills off some of its 22 officially recognised and hundreds of its not-so-official languages? Perhaps the answer is no. In his book comparing the future of India, China, and Japan, the former editor of The Economist, Bill Emmott, said India fell short of China in almost every measure except the ability to speak English. So why shouldn't India build on its one advantage? One practical reason is because, looking back over the history of India since it became independent in 1947, it is clear that any threat to Indian languages has the potential to provoke a violent backlash. Mark Tully is a writer and former BBC India correspondent. This is an edited extract from his new book,  Non Stop India, published by Penguin Books, India", "question": "Whether the government , the private sector or NGOs should deliver @placeholder is a question which will not have much relevance unless India 's wealth continues to grow to pay for that development .", "option_0": "membership", "option_1": "grace", "option_2": "services", "option_3": "show", "option_4": "development"}
{"id": 1852, "article": "The photograph of the memo was posted on Twitter by photographer Steve Back. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said the government was looking at a \"range of options\" on reform. Channel 4 commented that its \"not-for-profit model enables it to deliver significant public value to viewers and the UK economy.\" The \"official - sensitive: commercial\" document is dated 24 September 2015 and headed \"Assessment of Channel 4 Corporation Reform Options\". It says there has been a \"recent meeting\" between Cabinet Office minister Matthew Hancock and two unnamed secretaries of state. The document reads: \"You agreed that work should proceed [to] examine the options for extracting greater public value from the Channel 4 Corporation (C4C), focusing on privatisation options in particular, whilst protecting its ability to deliver against its remit. \"This submission outlines the options we propose to explore.\" In response to the photograph, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said: \"Channel 4 has an important remit and we are looking at a range of options as to how to continue to deliver this, including options put forward by Channel 4.\" Channel 4 was launched in 1982 as a publicly-owned, commercially-funded public service broadcaster. It does not receive public funding and has a remit to be \"innovative, experimental and distinctive\". In August, culture secretary John Whittingdale said a sale of Channel 4 was not currently being discussed. \"The ownership of Channel 4 is not currently under debate. Do I say there are no circumstances in which I would ever consider it? No I don't,\" he told the Edinburgh International Television Festival.", "question": "The government says it has made no decisions about reforming Channel 4 after an official was @placeholder holding papers that proposed its privatisation .", "option_0": "discovered", "option_1": "pictured", "option_2": "declared", "option_3": "branded", "option_4": "fined"}
{"id": 1853, "article": "Now, a week into her new job, she is getting used to choosing the hours she works and even how much leave she takes. \"My friends can't get their heads around how we work,\" she says. \"But, as I don't have someone watching over me all the time, I just get on with it. It means I want to work harder.\" She works at Paycircle, a payroll software provider to small businesses, which is one of a rising number of firms with a liberal attitude to working practices. In fact, they are so flexible, you could call them yoga employers. Questions persist about such an approach: How successful can it be? Is it open to abuse by staff? Are bosses actually using it as a smokescreen to ensure staff are never off duty? Paycircle and its umbrella company Optimal Compliance have 15 staff, four of whom are women, with an average age of 27, excluding the founders. There is no company handbook, the job interview process usually involves the whole team and holiday entitlement is entirely self-controlled. Flexibility extends to hours and attendance at the office in Ascot or the \"company apartment\" in London. \"It is based on trust and maturity. Colleagues are trusted to get the work done and there is respect, so you do not let down the other 14 people,\" says co-founder Catherine Pinkney, an evangelist for non-traditional working. \"We are not totally hippyish. This is not a playground. We work to tight deadlines.\" Staff are expected to attend a Monday morning meeting, but then work when and where they please. One software engineer divides his time between the UK and Italy. Others spend more time near the office where they can find the company payment card for use in team coffee rounds or trips to the pub. Ms Pinkney says only one employee in eight years has been told to go after a \"loss of respect\". He \"could not grasp the culture\", she says. The current crop of young staff appear to support the system. James Edwards, 30, says he \"no longer thinks about working hours\". Yazmin Cooper, 22, says the work-life freedom can only be matched by self-employment. \"My worst nightmare is to go back to a traditional corporate, with a uniform and no mobile phones,\" she says. That phone, and a laptop, allows such a flexible approach to function. Staff are connected via a chat app and many check emails and other messages during the evenings and weekends. Therein lies an apparent danger in this way of working - an inability to switch off. Staff may be allowed to take a week's holiday at a day's notice, but they are also expected to ensure things operate smoothly without them. There is no requirement to logon from the beach, but at times it may be a necessity. After all, pay rewards are based, in part, on the amount of responsibility individual members of staff take on for themselves. They also receive a slice of the company's profits every three months. Every employee in the UK has the statutory right to request flexible working after 26 weeks of employment. \"A poor balance between an employee's work commitments and their other responsibilities can lead to stress, high absence and low productivity,\" says conciliation service Acas. \"Employees who have a better work-life balance often have a greater sense of responsibility, ownership and control of their working life. If an employer helps an employee to balance their work and home life this can be rewarded by increased loyalty and commitment. \"They may also feel more able to focus on their work and to develop their career.\" Source: Acas Could flexible working for all backfire? Flexible working urged for teachers The millennial generation shaking up the workplace rules The danger of virtual presenteeism is highlighted in the Quality of Working Life Report, published by the Chartered Management Institute in January. The report recommends that employees should have \"the freedom, trust and autonomy to make their own decisions about how they work\". \"Hold people accountable for the outcomes of their work, but do not be prescriptive about how they work,\" it suggests. Yet, its research also suggests managers themselves work an hour's overtime every day - by accessing work via a smartphone. That equates to 29 working days, cancelling out the typical amount of annual leave. Dr Maire Kerrin, director of the Work Psychology Group, says anyone embarking on flexible working requires self-discipline. It is easy for someone moving to a four-day week to see their work seep into evenings and weekends. For their part, employers must properly assess how effective a flexible approach will be, rather than simply be drawn by the appeal such a policy has for staff recruitment and retention. \"The practical application [of flexible working] requires discussion. The common mistake is assuming that it has the same benefit for everybody,\" she says. Dr Kerrin argues that such a policy of unlimited flexibility is easier in a big organisation than in a small business. The hours of those who take more holiday may be balanced out by the work of those who are early in their career and want to \"plough on\". Ultimately, she argues that the need for employers to compete for the best talent, and a culture of employees increasingly asking for more flexibility will drive more flexible working. The idea of an unlimited holiday allowance for staff, without the need for approval, is being implemented by a host of employers. One of the most high-profile - Richard Branson's Virgin Group - adopted the policy for headquarters staff in 2014. \"It is left to the employee alone to decide if and when he or she feels like taking a few hours, a day, a week or a month off,\" wrote the billionaire on his blog at the time. \"The assumption being that they are only going to do it when they feel 100% comfortable that they and their team are up to date on every project and that their absence will not in any way damage the business - or, for that matter, their careers!\" The BBC News website called and left messages with Virgin, to ask whether the policy has proved to be a success or not. With more than a hint of irony, nobody has been available to return the calls. Flexibility, perhaps, can extend too far.", "question": "When 22 - year - old Roisin Gray asked about the finishing time for the day , her colleagues in the office simply @placeholder .", "option_0": "race", "option_1": "room", "option_2": "laughed", "option_3": "nodded", "option_4": "show"}
{"id": 1854, "article": "A total of 22 households had to be evacuated from Crossway Point in King's Road after a burst water main left many flats \"uninhabitable\". Now 18 of the families have been able to return, according to the housing association that manages the building. Catalyst Housing said it was \"very sorry for all the distress that this flood has caused\" to residents. Spokesman Neil Cross added four households currently remain in temporary accommodation. He said: \"Our hearts go out to all those who have been affected by the flood at Crossway Point - at what should have been a happy time of year. \"Some of the homes are still very wet, but we are continuing to do all we can to make these homes as comfortable as possible. \"As well as doing all we can to support our residents, we are also investigating exactly what caused this flood.\"", "question": "Families forced to leave their homes on Christmas Eve due to flooding have returned to their @placeholder .", "option_0": "home", "option_1": "lives", "option_2": "demand", "option_3": "properties", "option_4": "villages"}
{"id": 1855, "article": "The new concise paper, which will cost 20p, will share the same editorial staff as The Independent. The Independent's owner, Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev, also owns London's Evening Standard newspaper. Independent executive Andrew Mullins said the new paper was selling out in some shops. But he said they were hoping the paper would not be a threat to the Independent itself. He said: \"The problem is that some of the (Independent's) audience don't want to read the full 'Sunday roast' variant during the week. They have a very busy lifestyle and they need something more concise and distilled. \"We think that if you provide something which is an essentially daily briefing it will bring people back to the quality newspaper market and then they may well trade up to the main Independent when they have more money and time. We are hoping to grow both (papers).\" Last year the Standard became a freesheet and has seen its readership increase sharply as a result. There had been much speculation that the Independent and the Independent on Sunday, which Mr Lebedev bought in March from Irish company Independent News & Media (INM) for ¡ê1, would also become free papers. \"Time-poor newspaper readers, and especially commuters, have been telling us for years that they are inundated with information and just don't have the time to read a quality newspaper on a regular basis,\" said Mr Mullins. Send us your comments Evgeny Lebedev, the son of Alexander Lebedev and the chairman of Independent Print Ltd which publishes the British titles, said he was confident that launching i would be a success. \"We have shown by our investment in the London Evening Standard that, even in these highly competitive times, it is possible to revive a brand,\" he said. The UK's 11 major national daily newspapers have seen their circulation shrink an average 5.75% in the last year to 10.3 million copies a day, according to industry figures. The more expensive quality papers have suffered more than the cheaper tabloids. The Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Guardian have each suffered a drop in circulation of more than 10% over the last year. Sales of The Independent, which costs ¡ê1, have fallen to just over 186,000 a day from about 250,000 three years ago", "question": "The Independent newspaper has launched a new daily title , @placeholder i , aimed at attracting \" readers and lapsed readers of quality newspapers \" .", "option_0": "dropping", "option_1": "citing", "option_2": "part", "option_3": "called", "option_4": "leaving"}
{"id": 1856, "article": "The 25-year-old man was on his parents' property in Sydney when he plunged into dense bushland late on Sunday night, sparking a complex rescue operation. He was winched to safety almost five hours later and treated for shoulder and chest injuries, paramedics said. The man remains in a stable condition. New South Police Sergeant Peter McMaugh said it was remarkable the man was alive. \"Police and paramedics were able to abseil to the man and administer first aid,\" Sgt McMaugh told Sydney's Daily Telegraph. \"Firefighters have had to trek through bushland. The terrain is very rough, making it complicated for rescuers and difficult to traverse. \"The male is very lucky at this stage that his injuries are not life-threatening.\" Police said the backyard of the Bonnet Bay property, in Sydney's south, backed on to the rock face.", "question": "A man has survived falling 20 m ( 66 ft ) down a @placeholder in Australia , police say .", "option_0": "beach", "option_1": "river", "option_2": "cliff", "option_3": "waterfall", "option_4": "well"}
{"id": 1857, "article": "A scrutiny committee has called on the council cabinet to give up on the controversial project, first mooted in 2015. Under the proposals, owners would allow their dogs to have cheek swabs taken and their details put on a database. The council has also been looking at creating designated areas for dogs. The scheme has already proved successful in parts of the United States and has been introduced in a London borough. Barking and Dagenham council saw a reduction in dog waste in its pilot area and is now expanding the scheme. In Flintshire, an existing requirement, known as a Dog Control Order, requires owners to remove their dog's waste from public areas. However, the authority has been looking at the creation of a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) which provides an \"opportunity for enforcement against other designated offences\", such as the complete exclusion of dogs from a defined area like children's play areas. But a meeting of the authority's environment overview and scrutiny committee on Wednesday agreed to recommend the idea was shelved. However, members of the council's cabinet could still approve it when they next meet.", "question": "A bid to use dog DNA to find and fine people who do not clean up after their pets in Flintshire has been recommended to be @placeholder out .", "option_0": "thrown", "option_1": "broken", "option_2": "worked", "option_3": "sought", "option_4": "taken"}
{"id": 1858, "article": "The shadow justice secretary told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show the cabinet changes had been \"an amazing distraction\" from the country's issues. Three shadow ministers quit on Wednesday in protest at the reshuffle. And MP Alison McGovern has resigned from a party policy review group saying she could not work with the leadership. Lord Falconer insisted the Labour Party remains a \"broad church\" but to be effective that broad church must not be \"at war with itself\". \"The country needs an effective opposition,\" he told the BBC. \"The floods, the junior doctors about to go on strike for the first time in 40 years, what's going on with Britain's support for the justice system in Saudi Arabia, these are issues that we should be focusing on. They are just examples. \"We as a party, in the wake of the reshuffle, which is an amazing distraction from all of these issues, need to be coming together and doing the work to provide an alternative to this government, which is a very bad government.\" When Lord Falconer was asked if he would have made the same decision as Mr Corbyn in the sacking of Pat McFadden from the shadow cabinet, he said: \"The decision as to who is in and who is out of the shadow front bench team is entirely a matter for the leader.\" But when pushed on the issue again, Lord Falconer said: \"I certainly wouldn't have fired him.\" Mr McFadden was given his marching orders from his role as shadow Europe spokesman for apparent disloyalty. Lucy Powell, MP for Manchester Central, told the BBC Two's Daily Politics: \"We need to draw a line under last week's events and move on.\" Labour should \"realign our fire not on each other... but on this government,\" Ms Powell said. She said the resignation of Ms McGovern - MP for Wirral South and chairman of Blairite pressure group Progress - from a child poverty policy review was \"a shame because I think she has a huge amount to offer\". Ms McGovern's decision comes after junior shadow ministers Jonathan Reynolds, Stephen Doughty, and Kevan Jones quit.", "question": "The Labour Party needs a \" @placeholder of calm \" in the wake of resignations during Jeremy Corbyn 's cabinet reshuffle , Lord Falconer has said .", "option_0": "period", "option_1": "decade", "option_2": "majority", "option_3": "ring", "option_4": "amount"}
{"id": 1859, "article": "London, Reading and Aldershot had the highest wages, according to the report. It suggested the north-south divide is \"wide as ever\" and that salaries across the UK have fallen by ¡ê1,300 a year. The lack of affordable housing is putting pressure on workers in the South-East of England, it warned. In its annual report, Centre for Cities, highlights the link between low wages and the need to top up people's incomes with welfare benefits. It looked at the UK's 63 largest cities and found that there was a difference of ¡ê253 in average weekly incomes from the highest to the lowest paid. But the amount claimed in benefits was roughly the same across the cities covered by the report. Hull had the lowest weekly wage at ¡ê376, Blackburn was second at ¡ê404 and Blackpool was a little higher at ¡ê414. The leader of Hull City Council Stephen Brady said: \"We understand the need to address and boost skills within knowledge intensive, digital and professional industries.\" He said the city was seeing high levels of investment from the offshore wind industry and that being named UK City of Culture 2017 would help create new jobs in the region. The cities with the highest salaries were London at ¡ê629, Reading at ¡ê591, and Aldershot at ¡ê571. They also saw the fastest jobs growth. But in the areas where salaries were near the top of the scale, the high cost of housing meant many were still having to claim benefits. The report says the lack of affordable homes means the government's plans to reduce the welfare bill would be difficult to deliver. Only one in four places was delivering a \"high wage, low welfare\" economy, the report said. Alexandra Jones, chief executive of Centre for Cities said: \"One of the most pressing issues is the need to tackle skills gaps and improve school attainment. As well as investment in infrastructure the top priority should be on addressing housing shortages.\" On a more positive note the report shows that 14 UK cities have hit the target for \"high-wage, low-welfare\" economies.  It calls on the government to give local councils more power to invest in employment programmes, which if successful, would reduce their need for benefits.", "question": "Hull , Blackburn and Blackpool have the lowest average weekly wage , according to a report from the think tank Centre for Cities , which @placeholder the health of the UK's top 63 city - economies .", "option_0": "relate", "option_1": "examined", "option_2": "destroys", "option_3": "narrowed", "option_4": "reached"}
{"id": 1860, "article": "Omar Famuyide was spotted on the website's \"people you may know\" feature by the victim of a knifepoint car robbery in Birmingham. Detectives then linked him to a string of other robberies and firearms offences. The 21-year-old, of Highgate, Birmingham, was jailed for 17 years at the city's crown court. More on this and other Birmingham stories He was found guilty of robbery, attempted robbery, possession of a firearm and possession of a knife after a trial. Among his crimes, Famuyide was one of two men who forced entry into the Ambassador's Relaxation Suite in Florence Street last July. Once inside, the men threatened women with a metal bar and a handgun, before escaping empty handed. A month later, Famuyide stole a car at gunpoint from a man in Highgate. The vehicle was found two days later with the handgun that was fired in the relaxation suite a month earlier, and keys to another vehicle stolen at knifepoint. The victim of the second robbery recognised Famuyide by coincidence on Facebook, and he was later arrested. Det Con Rhiannon Daff said the Facebook information was \"a crucial part of the investigation\" and \"the final piece of the jigsaw.\"", "question": "A robber who was @placeholder after one of his victims recognised him on Facebook has been jailed .", "option_0": "died", "option_1": "stabbed", "option_2": "caught", "option_3": "chased", "option_4": "attacked"}
{"id": 1861, "article": "The loophole came to light during the prosecution of a driver allegedly found to be more than twice over the limit. On Monday, the High Court ruled police must give test results in both English and Irish for prosecutions to be valid. The minister has since amended the law to state either language can be used. The legal uncertainty first emerged earlier this year in the case of 29-year-old Mihai Avadenei, from Swords, County Dublin. His defence team argued that he should have been given a written statement of the results of his alcohol breath test in both English and Irish, and because this had not happened, the test results were inadmissible as evidence. His case was then referred to the High Court, where a judge ruled that the bilingual requirement was stipulated in legislation. Irish broadcaster RT?¡ë reported that Mr Justice Seamus Noonan had said a breath alcohol test \"is not a valid piece of evidence if it is in English only\". Road safety campaigners expressed concern at the ruling, and its possible impact on those injured or bereaved by drink-drivers. Within 24 hours of the High Court ruling, Minister for Transport Paschal Donohoe amended the relevant legislation, namely the Prescribed Form and Manner of Statements Regulations 2011. In a statement on Tuesday, Mr Donohoe said: 'The advice of the attorney general's office was sought in respect of the need for amending legislation on foot of the judgement in relation to the language of the forms produced by evidential breath testing machines in Garda [police] stations. \"In the interests of road safety, I have moved immediately to provide the new legislation deemed necessary regarding the form of the statements to be provided under section 13 of the Road Traffic Act 2010.\" A spokesperson for the Department of Transport confirmed the change had taken effect immediately. \"The minister has now signed into law a replacement statutory instrument which provides that the statements may be produced in either the English or the Irish language which was always the objective of the legislation,\" they said.", "question": "A legal loophole that may have allowed drink - driving suspects to avoid prosecution because their breath test results were not given in Irish has been @placeholder by the transport minister .", "option_0": "affected", "option_1": "dropped", "option_2": "identified", "option_3": "backed", "option_4": "closed"}
{"id": 1862, "article": "Or maybe you've headed into Manchester on the 04:22 from Glasgow Central. On average, 410 people are trying to fit into 191 seats at about 08:20 most mornings. I can't tell you exactly how many people have to stand up or indeed sit on the floor on the UK's trains every day. But there are some government stats that give a big clue. One looks at peak-time crowding in the biggest English and Welsh cities. The other lists the 10 most overcrowded peak time trains. To save you ploughing through them, here's what they tell us, although if you commute regularly, you'll have worked this out for yourself: Today's trains are carrying record numbers of people and no-one saw it coming. In the 1960s, just about everyone thought that the car was the star, so the government closed thousands of miles of rail line (you've probably heard of Dr Beeching). They actually closed 3,000 miles of line in the 1950s too. Even when the network was privatised in the 1990s, most people assumed it was about managing decline. \"Of course some trains are overcrowded, but that's because we've doubled passenger numbers since privatisation and they travel on thousands more services,\" says Nigel Harris, editor of Rail Magazine. \"It's part of the price we pay for a walk-up railway. The alternative is reservation only or you don't travel - which is often the case on the European railways, which critics often say are so much better than ours. They aren't!\" There were nearly 1.7 billion British train journeys last year. That's more than twice the number in 1994-95. A Victorian network, starved of funds for decades, was never going to be able to cope with that kind of rise. The government says it's now investing a record ?¡ê40bn which will deliver 3,700 extra carriages by 2019. That's why the fares keep going up, by the way. To pay for billions of pounds of upgrades. Up until recently, the Labour Party shied away from wanting to renationalise the network, but Jeremy Corbyn has made the issue binary again. He wants the whole system put back into public hands. It's hardly a surprise that the country's most famous entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, waded in on Tuesday to defend his private company's reputation for running the East Coast line.", "question": "If you 've ever @placeholder the 06:57 Brighton to Bedford train , you 'll know all about overcrowding . At 08:20 on any given morning , there are about 960 people playing musical chairs for 420 seats .", "option_0": "caught", "option_1": "witnessed", "option_2": "became", "option_3": "finding", "option_4": "visited"}
{"id": 1863, "article": "He is accused by Ukrainian officials of embezzling millions of dollars in public funds. Mr Yanukovych was ousted after clashes between police and protesters in Kiev left dozens dead, mainly demonstrators. Afterwards, Russia moved to annexe Crimea from Ukraine and conflict broke out in parts of eastern Ukraine. Russia has denied fomenting the violence in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, where a frequently violated ceasefire is in place. Ukrainian military officials said on Monday that there had been an increase in rebel attacks on their positions. Germany's foreign minister is due to meet colleagues from Russia, Ukraine and France in an attempt to reach an agreement on a potential summit of leaders in Kazakhstan this week. Germany has stressed that a summit will only take place if it leads to \"concrete progress\". A red notice for ex-President Yanukovych appeared on Interpol's website on Monday. Under a red notice, Interpol's role is described as assisting a national police force in \"identifying and locating these persons with a view to their arrest and extradition or similar lawful action\". Mr Yanukovych, 64, was last seen in a photograph with US film director Oliver Stone, which was said to have been taken in Moscow in December, BBC Kiev correspondent David Stern reports. An unconfirmed report by Interfax news agency said Russia was likely to decline a request for his extradition. The decision to issue the notice was taken by a special Interpol commission, according to Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, after months of reasoning from the authorities in Kiev. Similar red notices were also issued for ex-Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and Iurii Kolobov, a former finance minister, as well as Georgii Dzekon, ex-chairman of Ukrtelecom. Mr Avakov said a warrant had been issued for Mr Yanukovych's son Olexander, although that could not be confirmed on the Interpol website. Ukraine's new government accuses the former president of ordering snipers to fire on protesters, although he rejects the accusations against him.", "question": "Interpol has placed deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on its wanted list , almost one year after he fled to @placeholder Russia .", "option_0": "retire", "option_1": "neighbouring", "option_2": "reduce", "option_3": "address", "option_4": "join"}
{"id": 1864, "article": "The star only changed costume twice, letting her music do the talking in a 12-minute, hit-laden set. She opened with Woody Guthrie's civil rights anthem This Land Is Your Land, a gentle but pointed rebuke to the Trump administration; which she reinforced by performing Born This Way - her hymn to acceptance and inclusion. \"No matter black, white or beige... I was born to be brave,\" she sang to an expected US TV audience of 110 million. But Gaga refrained from overt sermonising, simply saying: \"We're here to make you feel good\" (and, later on, \"hello mum\"). Ahead of the Super Bowl, the star said her show would be \"inclusive\" and celebrate \"the spirit of equality\". Sponsors Pepsi simply said it would be \"uniquely Gaga\". And, while she didn't hatch from an egg (as at the 2011 Grammy Awards) or smear herself in blood (2009's Monster Ball tour), it was certainly spectacular. Gaga first appeared 79 metres above the crowd, as a swarm of drones hovered behind her; twinkling in the sky before adopting the colours of the stars and stripes during Woody Guthrie's left-wing anthem. \"One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,\" said the star, who promptly did a swan-dive from the roof, landing on a towering, torch-like structure several storeys below. There, she launched into a dizzying medley of hit singles including Poker Face, Just Dance and Telephone, backed by an army of dancers. Her vocals were strong and resonant throughout - although the intricate choreography left her out of breath for the set's sole ballad, Million Reasons. Fans who flooded the pitch were given torches that flashed in time to the music, spelling out lyrics and making elaborate, co-ordinated patterns. BBC Sport presenter Mark Chapman revealed that the entire stadium - including his commentary booth and the public toilets - had been plunged into darkness to make the visuals work on television. Gaga ended the set with Bad Romance, backed by 40 dancers, dressed in blinding white costumes inspired by American Football uniforms. Finishing the show atop a staircase, Gaga shouted \"Super Bowl 51,\" dropped her microphone and jumped into the crowd holding a glittery silver football. \"This is for you Monsters,\" the star tweeted to her fanbase. \"I love you.\" The last time the Super Bowl was held in Houston the half time performer was Janet Jackson, whose infamous \"wardrobe malfunction\" made the NFL wary of hiring young, edgy pop stars for several years. Gaga posed no such problems, taming her worst excesses to deliver a streamlined, spectacular show that reminded many fans why they love her. And while her performance lacked the political punch of Beyonce last year; or even a gif-able meme like Katy Perry's \"left shark\", there wasn't a single mis-step or misfiring moment. The star was invited to play the half time show after singing the National Anthem at the 50th Super Bowl in California last year. She said she had studied the greats (name-checking Michael Jackson, Diana Ross and Bruce Springsteen) before beginning work on her show in September. \"I want every guy's girlfriend in his arms; I want every husband and wife kissing; every kid laughing,\" she told Radio Disney last year. \"In my mind they're having this really powerful family experience watching the Super Bowl.\" According to CNN, the drone light show required special permission from the Federal Aviation Authority - which had established a 34.5-mile-radius \"no-drone zone\" around the stadium during the game for safety and security reasons. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "She jumped off the roof of Houston 's NRG stadium and bathed in the light of hundreds of drones - but Lady Gaga 's Super Bowl show was fairly restrained ... by her @placeholder .", "option_0": "constituency", "option_1": "night", "option_2": "husband", "option_3": "side", "option_4": "standards"}
{"id": 1865, "article": "Stanley May, 74, died two days after hitting his head on the floor in the Truro branch of the supermarket in July 2015. Truro Crown Court heard the chiller had been faulty for 44 hours but customers could still enter the wet area. The Co-op previously pleaded guilty to a Health and Safety offence of failing to protect customers. More on Co-op death and other Cornwall and Devon stories Engineers had tried to fix the chiller two days earlier, but it had continued to leak on to the vinyl floor. A yellow \"wet floor\" sign had been used, but the affected area extended beyond it. Judge Simon Carr said what happened was \"so easily avoidable\". He added: \"The company tried to address the problem but did so inadequately.\" Mr May had three children and six grandchildren and was described as \"an exceptional man in good health\" by the judge. The former chairman of St Enoder Parish Council, he was a member of the Co-op and used to visit their shops most days. Speaking outside the court, Mr May's daughter Victoria Parsons said: \"We'd just like everybody to learn that this was so easily avoided; if they had kept an eye on that water my dad would still be alive today.\" The defence read a statement from Christopher Whitfield, retail and logistics director at the Co-operative Group, in which he said: \"He (Mr May) should have been kept safe while walking in our store. \"It is a matter of utmost regret that he was not.\" The court awarded ?¡ê50,000 in costs to Cornwall Council which brought the prosecution.", "question": "The Co -op has been fined ? ¡ê 400,000 over the death of a man who @placeholder on water leaking from a faulty sandwich chiller .", "option_0": "disappeared", "option_1": "slipped", "option_2": "stranded", "option_3": "collapsed", "option_4": "stood"}
{"id": 1866, "article": "The big change affects 4.5 million people with Defined Contribution (DC) schemes. With this type of scheme your monthly pension savings go into a big pot, which will eventually be used to buy an income for your retirement. You can now access that pot freely from the age of 55 (57 from 2028), taking out as much as you like, subject to tax. Some people with Defined Benefit (DB) pensions - which promise a particular annual income - will be able to swap them for DC schemes. You can take 25% of your pension pot as a tax-free lump sum. Or you can take out smaller amounts, of which the first 25% will be tax free on each occasion. But you will have to pay income tax on the amount you withdraw over and above the 25% tax-free allowance. If that amount, added to the rest of your income, exceeds ¡ê42,386 (2015-16), for example, you will pay tax at 40% or more. If the amount exceeds ¡ê100,000, you will begin to lose your personal allowance, resulting in an even higher tax charge. If you buy an annuity (an income for life), or you take income drawdown (leaving your pension pot invested), you will only pay tax on the income. Anyone with total income below ¡ê10,600 in 2015-16 will not pay anything. The new rules make it easier. If you die before the age of 75, the pension pot can be passed on tax free. If you die after 75, and your descendants want the whole pot as a lump sum, they will have to pay 45% tax, instead of 55% previously. However, the government is considering whether to reduce this to an individual's income tax rate - known as the marginal rate - from April 2016. Those who draw down income from an inherited pot will, in any case, pay tax at their marginal rate. State pension calculator DWP Combined state, workplace and DC calculator, from Standard Life Should I delay buying an annuity? Hargreaves Lansdown How much can I earn from a DC pot? Money Advice Service The pension changes mean that many people who would have bought an annuity, will not now do so. Income drawdown is a more flexible option for many. In fact it has not been compulsory to buy an annuity since April 2011. Nevertheless, for many people, annuities will still be the best option - or a mixture of an annuity and drawdown. In the Budget of March 2015, the chancellor said he would make this possible, and the government will now carry out a consultation. This could allow you to swap your annuity for cash, from April 2016. However, no one knows how much demand there will be for second-hand annuities. Many suspect that those selling their annuities will find it hard to get a good price. In theory you can - if your employer allows it. Transferring to a DC scheme means you could get your money out more easily, and pass it on to descendants. But again, you may not get the best value. DB schemes usually offer inflation proofing, and the ability to pass some of the income on to a spouse. They also have a particular advantage if you are getting close to the maximum amount you are allowed to have in a pension pot (see below). From 6 April 2016, the maximum you can have in a pension pot will be ¡ê1m, reduced from ¡ê1.25m. This figure will rise with inflation from April 2018. The government says the change will only affect wealthy people. But a 60 year-old spending all their ¡ê1m pension pot on an inflation-linked annuity could - according to current annuity rates - expect a maximum annual income of around ¡ê27,000. You can have a larger pension pot if you wish, but you will pay 55% tax on any withdrawals. However, anyone in a DB scheme will be treated more generously. Such schemes have a notional capital value, calculated by multiplying the annual income by 20. So if the scheme pays an income of ¡ê10,000 a year, the notional value of the pension pot is ¡ê200,000. Given that the maximum pot will now be ¡ê1m, members of DB schemes can therefore expect annual incomes of up to ¡ê50,000. The annual allowance for pensions savings remains at ¡ê40,000. Yes. From 6 April 2016. The additional state pension and part of pension credit is being abolished, to be replaced with a single-tier state pension. The rate will rise from ¡ê113 a week to around ¡ê155, but the precise amount will be set towards the end of 2015. However, most people will not qualify for the full pension, as their schemes were contracted out of the second state pension, and they paid lower National Insurance (NI) contributions as a result. To qualify for the full pension, you will now need 35 years of NI contributions, instead of 30 previously. Free guidance - not advice - is available through the Pension Wise website. Those aged 55 or above can book a telephone interview with the Pensions Advisory Service, or a face-to-face interview with Citizens Advice. The service will give general guidance, but cannot advise on specific pension policies or investments. The number to book is 030 0330 1001. Otherwise advice can be had through private providers, which will usually be chargeable.", "question": "What the government calls \" pension freedoms \" will be in place from Easter Monday . But anyone @placeholder retirement would do well to note the drawbacks , as well as the advantages .", "option_0": "nearing", "option_1": "said", "option_2": "develop", "option_3": "considering", "option_4": "designed"}
{"id": 1867, "article": "The woman's bones, including a skull and teeth, were discovered at Achavanich in Caithness in 1987. Known as \"Ava\", an abbreviation of Achavanich, she is the subject of a long-term research project managed by archaeologist Maya Hoole. Forensic artist Hew Morrison, a graduate of the University of Dundee, created the reconstruction. Ava's remains, along with other artefacts found with her, are held in the care of Caithness Horizons museum in Thurso. Unusually, the Bronze Age woman was buried in a pit dug into solid rock and her skull is an abnormal shape which some suggest was the result of deliberate binding. It is believed Ava was part of a much wider European group known as the Beaker people. Short and round skull shapes were common amongst this group, but Ms Hoole said the Achavanich specimen is exaggerated and of an abnormal, uneven shape. Mr Morrison, a graduate of Dundee's Forensic Art MSc programme, specialises in creating facial reconstructions. He used an anthropological formula to calculate the shape of Ava's missing lower jaw, and also the depth of her skin. Mr Morrison also used a chart of modern average tissue depths for reference. A specialist examination at the time of the discovery in the 1980s suggested that the skeletal remains were that of a young Caucasian woman aged 18-22. He said: \"The size of the lips can be determined by measuring the enamel of the teeth and the width of the mouth from the position of the teeth.\" Mr Morrison created the reconstruction by rebuilding the layers of muscle and tissue over the face. He drew on a large database of high resolution images of faces to recreate the facial features. The individual features were then adjusted to fit with the anatomy of the skull based on the underlying facial muscles. The features were then \"morphed together\", using computer software to create the reconstructed face. Mr Morrison said: \"Normally, when working on a live, unidentified person's case not so much detail would be given to skin tone, eye or hair colour and hair style as none of these elements can be determined from the anatomy of the skull. \"So, creating a facial reconstruction based on archaeological remains is somewhat different in that a greater amount of artistic licence can be allowed.\" He added: \"I have really appreciated the chance to recreate the face of someone from ancient Britain. \"Being able to look at the faces of individuals from the past can give us a great opportunity to identify with our own ancient ancestors.\" Ms Hoole said: \"When I started this project I had no idea what path it would take, but I have been approached by so many enthusiastic and talented individuals - like Hew - who are making the research a reality. \"I'm very grateful to everyone who has invested in the project and I hope we can continue to reveal more about her life.\"", "question": "A facial reconstruction has been made of a young woman who @placeholder more than 3,700 years ago .", "option_0": "attracted", "option_1": "sold", "option_2": "died", "option_3": "disappeared", "option_4": "sparked"}
{"id": 1868, "article": "Yet the sophisticated image of the Grand National is far removed from the images in newspapers the day after of women falling over, or with underwear showing after being caught by gusts of wind. It is something that Liverpool women academics, stylists and commentators are tired of, and the fight back has begun. Liverpool fashion student Hannah Ramsay, who now lives in London, said that people there regard her accent as something \"hysterically funny\". She wrote a paper on the north-south fashion divide as part of her degree course. \"I think the gap is closing between the north and the south in terms of fashion,\" she said. \"There are always going to be people who want to do Liverpool down and resort to stereotypes no matter what we do, there are people who want to rip it to shreds.\" She said she will not go to Ladies' Day as she does not want to judge other people subconsciously. \"People in Liverpool do want to look good and not adhere to the norm,\" she added. Gemma Ahearne, a sociology and criminology lecturer and PhD student, said the negative coverage is part of the \"vilification of the working classes\", who are \"not regarded as being worthy of being at the races\". She used Aintree as a case study when she examined how the media portrays women and she believes it targets women and defines them as \"Chavs\" who are held up as \"defective\" and to be mocked. Ms Ahearne said: \"I don't go to the National as it's cruel to the horses, but I have friends who go and hate how women are treated and portrayed as caricatures,\" she said. She believes the media are \"misogynistic and disapproving of women who are hyper-confident, and such coverage aims to regulate their behaviour\". \"The comments below the line on these articles are disgusting and you get a differentiation at Cheltenham and Ascot, where the language and semantics talks of fashionable fillies,\" she added. Jennina O'Neill, manager of the Met Quarter shopping district in Liverpool, said it was disappointing the press focus on the same stereotypes year after year. She said: \"It's important to celebrate individuality, but the focus should be on style, it would be nice to see more stories showcasing some of the great looks at the races.\" Interestingly, she does not believe it has a major impact on the city as she said \"every city has to deal with certain stereotypes.\" She agreed that women in Merseyside take pride in their appearance, but said there were lots of different looks in the city. \"One thing we notice from our shoppers is the appetite for individuality\", she added. Andy Heath, the deputy managing director of Merseyrail, said they had seen a marked change in the behaviour of racegoers - for the better - over the last four or five years. \"There is a well-trodden stereotype of Ladies' Day that people turn up in their finery and stagger out at the end of the day,\" Mr Heath said. Merseyside Police Supt Paul Wilson said anti-social behaviour would not be tolerated and he asked people to treat the area with respect. Last year, there were just 16 arrests during the three-day festival - five on Ladies' Day. None were women, the force said. Merseyrail has introduced bylaws that prevent people who are extremely intoxicated travelling. Music is played and coffee sold in pop-up stores to create a good atmosphere. Over the three days, Mr Heath said the rail company transports 100,000 people - half on Saturday and 30,000 on Ladies' Day. Trains double in frequency to every seven minutes and 12,000 flip-flops are handed out. The flip-flop giveaway also prevents escalator accidents at Liverpool stations, Mr Heath added. While not denying that people may indulge too much, he said they were \"a very small minority.\" \"You don't get this sort of publicity at other events such as York or Ascot,\" he added. \"It's a very jaundiced and unfair reflection on women in Liverpool.\"", "question": "It is a day when women from Merseyside are @placeholder to dress in their finest clothes and enjoy a day at the races at Ladies ' Day .", "option_0": "aiming", "option_1": "encouraged", "option_2": "confined", "option_3": "prepared", "option_4": "allowed"}
{"id": 1869, "article": "One of the finds at Must Farm quarry in Cambridgeshire were pots with meals still inside. According to Selina Davenport, an archaeologist who helped uncover the Bronze Age dwellings, the find suggests that the pots were being used to make pottage. \"Think porridge and add a few extra herby things, and if you were lucky you might have had honey to dollop in the middle. It isn't a great meal, and if someone put a bowl in front of you, you wouldn't light up,\" says Chris Gosden, Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford. \"What people mainly ate was vegetable based dishes, so the discovery of pottage isn't a great surprise, as meat was something saved for special occasions.\" \"This site has provided evidence of things we didn't have evidence for before, like the Bronze Age people's amazing woodwork skills and knowledge of timber,\" says Duncan Garrow, an associate professor of archaeology at Reading University. The finds include sophisticated woodworking joints and evidence of woodland management. According to Mr Gosden they show the Bronze Age inhabitants were skilled carpenters able to construct really complex settlements in tricky environments. \"We know people in the past were incredibly skilled, but this gives us a sense of the range of skills these people had and in an environment we would find very difficult to work in, they are totally at home with. The thing about wood is you need to think ahead. If you're going to build a house you need to have planted the right trees and have the right material. In these dwellings, there's evidence of a whole managed landscape and people's ability to plan and think ahead.\" The discovery of textiles made from plant fibres such as lime tree bark suggests those living in the Bronze Age were skilled in the use of a range of different materials. \"Making things with this fabric is more technological and complicated, and is something we didn't expect,\" says Ms Davenport. An earlier excavation at the Must Farm quarry uncovered these \"exotic\" glass beads that formed part of a necklace and, according to archaeologists, \"hinted at a sophistication not usually associated with the Bronze Age\". Ms Davenport says the beads, which look similar to Roman beads, suggest trading between continents was further spread than initially proved. \"These beads confirm a few of our suspicions. Using the signatures within the glass, we can tell they came from the Balkans. We know there were some established trading routes coming from near continents to Britain at the time, but this is spreading that territory even further,\" says Ms Davenport. The settlement discovered at Must Farm quarry is made up of circular wooden houses, built on stilts, and dates from about 1000-800 BC. A fire destroyed the posts, causing the houses to fall into a river where silt helped preserve the contents. Archaeologists at the site think they have found five houses but are not yet certain. \"It's like a snapshot, a moment in time,\" says Mr Gosden. \"We've known for a while that in both the Bronze and Iron Age, people burned down and abandoned their houses for physical reasons. There doesn't seem to be any physical reason as to why they had to abandon this house and go somewhere else,\" he says. \"It was some other reason. The question is, what? The sorts of things that might be the case is the death of a significant person or a major trauma to the community - something social and cultural within the life of the community.\"", "question": "At a quarry in Cambridgeshire , archaeologists say they have discovered Britain 's \" Pompeii - a number of well - preserved dwellings dating back to the Bronze Age . The @placeholder found there reveal new details about the period between 2500 and 2000 BC and those who lived through it .", "option_0": "questions", "option_1": "findings", "option_2": "horrors", "option_3": "object", "option_4": "artefacts"}
{"id": 1870, "article": "On Monday, Mr Horgan announced that he had the support of the BC Green Party to oust Ms Clark's Liberal Party. The Liberals won 43 seats in a recent election, the NDP won 41 and the Greens won three. Ms Clark said she is unlikely to survive a confidence vote, but will not resign pre-emptively. \"If there is going to be a transfer of power in this province, and it certainly seems like there will be, it shouldn't happen behind closed doors,\" she said on Tuesday during a brief press conference. Under Canadian law, she does not have to resign, since her party won the most seats in the legislature. She said she expects the legislature will test the confidence of the government in \"short order\", possibly as soon as early June. If her party fails this vote of confidence, than it is up to to the province's lieutenant governor, who is appointed by the Queen, to either call another election or call on the NDP to lead. Ms Clark said she would not request another election so soon after May's election, but that it is in the hands of BC Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver said his party will support the NDP for four years in a \"stable minority government\". Mr Weaver was careful to stress it would not be a coalition government and the Green Party would not have any seats in cabinet. After 16 years in power, the BC Liberal Party has struggled recently amid high-profile donation scandals and a strong environmental movement in the province that vehemently opposes the oil and gas industry. Mr Weaver said the Liberals' support of the Kinder Morgan pipeline was one of the main reasons why he decided to back Mr Horgan instead of Ms Clark. He and Mr Horgan say they will use \"every tool available\" to stop the pipeline's expansion. The provincial Liberals are not related to the federal Liberal Party, which is led by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.", "question": "British Columbia Premier Christy Clark says she wo n't resign , even after an @placeholder takeover of power from NDP Leader John Horgan .", "option_0": "appeal", "option_1": "acclaimed", "option_2": "state", "option_3": "attempted", "option_4": "announced"}
{"id": 1871, "article": "The Gunners had numerous chances but were unable to break down a resilient Saints side, who have now gone four games without conceding. Away keeper Fraser Forster was superb, making a string of impressive saves, including two to deny Mesut Ozil. Arsenal are now winless in four league games and drop to fourth in the table, five points behind leaders Leicester. Arsene Wenger's side are also now two points behind both second-placed Manchester City and north London rivals Tottenham, who are third and have a superior goal difference. Worryingly for the Gunners boss, who opted not to recruit another striker in the recent transfer window, his side have now gone three Premier League games without scoring. The result is further proof of the resilience Ronald Koeman has instilled in Southampton, who won 1-0 at Manchester United 10 days ago and are seventh in the table after picking up 10 points in their last four matches. On Boxing Day, Arsenal lost 4-0 at Southampton - their only truly heavy defeat of this league campaign and a result that cost them the chance to go top of the Premier League at Leicester's expense. The Foxes' victory over Liverpool on Tuesday meant that Arsenal would not have gone top even with a win over Southampton, but this will be just as frustrating a result as the one they suffered at St Mary's. Credit must go to Koeman's side for their defensive display but that does not excuse the Gunners for their pedestrian start and the chances they missed. Ozil should have scored twice in the first half but Forster was alert and nimble to block his close-range shots and in the second half a host of players had good opportunities, including Olivier Giroud, who had a shot and header tipped away, and Laurent Koscielny who headed over from six yards out. Alexis Sanchez was typically lively in his first league start since the end of November, but was also unable to find a way past the Saints keeper as the Gunners made it three games without a goal for the first time since February 2009. It is no coincidence that Southampton's recent resurgence and newfound resilience began with the recovery of Forster from injury. Prior to the England keeper's return, the Saints had lost eight of 10 games in all competitions, conceding 19 goals, but have since kept three clean sheets in winning three and drawing the other of their four matches. On the evidence of his stellar performance at the Emirates, the 27-year-old will be challenging Joe Hart for a starting spot in the England team at this summer's Euro 2016. During the course of the game he made 10 big saves and dominated his area. In front of him, Jose Fonte and Virgil van Dijk were also superb, keeping the physical Giroud at bay while Victor Wanyama and Oriol Romeu restricted the space available to Ozil, Sanchez and Joel Campbell, who was later replaced by the equally anonymous Theo Walcott. The only negative in Southampton's performance was their inability to make the most of their chances to attack, with Sadio Mane particularly wasteful in a performance that stretches his run of games without a goal to 10 in all competitions. Media playback is not supported on this device Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger: \"We put the energy level in and created chances. I cannot fault the team on that front. It is not only luck. I don't believe too much in luck. We feel disappointed and guilty. In a game like that when you create chances you want to win. We had the chances to win it. But their keeper kept them in it. \"You have to always think the opponent will play well and despite that still score. We had all kind of chances and it looked like it would come. But sometimes you lose these games.\" Media playback is not supported on this device Southampton boss Ronald Koeman: \"One point away at Arsenal is a good result. To get a good result you need to be lucky and we had that on our side. We had good defending and great goalkeeper. But we needed to create more. \"He is a fantastic goalkeeper. Sometimes you think you can't score because he is massive. Maybe today was his best performance. We are happy he is the keeper of Southampton.\" Arsenal are away at Bournemouth in the Premier League next Sunday, while Southampton host West Ham the day before.", "question": "Arsenal lost further @placeholder in the Premier League title race as they were held to a goalless draw by Southampton .", "option_0": "form", "option_1": "matches", "option_2": "ground", "option_3": "display", "option_4": "lost"}
{"id": 1872, "article": "The new measures, which will ensure compensation is paid to victims, are contained in the Modern Slavery Bill, which was announced in the Queen's Speech on Wednesday. The bill would change the maximum jail sentence from 14 years to life. The Home Office wants the bill to become law before the general election. The initial version of the bill, published last year, was criticised by a parliamentary committee for being a \"cut and paste job\" of existing offences. Since then that committee, led by Frank Field MP, has made a series of amendments which place a much stronger focus on victims. Under the proposed law, courts will be able to demand that offenders with assets pay compensation for the exploitation and loss of dignity that slavery victims have suffered. The bill could also enforce a statutory defence against the prosecution of victims who have been compelled to commit crimes after being trafficked or held against their will. The Anti-Slavery Day Act 2010, which established an annual anti-slavery day to raise awareness of the issue, described slavery as including: Currently victims are liable for prosecution if there is evidence to prove that they have been involved in illegal acts such as prostitution or cultivation of drugs. Modern slavery can include men, women and children who are brought into the country from overseas and forced to work in illegal brothels or immigrants who are forced to work in cannabis farms, the Home Office said. It can also include vulnerable people forced to work in any number of industries, from farms to nail bars, against their will. \"Sandra\", 24, was 13 when her grandmother died. She was taken to work for a woman in Uganda as a housemaid but soon found herself being regularly raped by the lady's husband. When she was 17, a friend of the couple she was living with took Sandra to England. She was told she had to sleep with men and could not return to Uganda until she had paid back the cost of bringing her to the UK. A few months later, she was taken to another house by a man who said he had paid for her. Other men would visit the house regularly and she was only allowed to leave her room to go to the toilet. The man later abandoned her on the side of the road when she fell pregnant. It was the first time she had been outdoors in the UK. She was helped by a passer-by and given help by the Salvation Army. You can listen to an interview with Sandra here. The independent think tank Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) welcomed the bill being included in the Queen's Speech. Its director Christian Guy said: \"There are high hopes that this new bill will force modern slavery from the shadows and bring Britain's fight against it into the 21st Century.\" A Home Office spokesman echoed his sentiments and said: \"We want to ensure that victims of this horrendous crime get the reparation they deserve. \"The bill will also strengthen action against the criminals involved in this disgusting trade in human beings to prevent them from ruining any further lives.\" The new measures - which the Home Office has said will be the first of its kind in Europe - will only apply specifically to England and Wales, but ministers have previously said they wanted it to have the \"broadest UK-wide effect\". A consultation process on slavery and human trafficking has recently closed on 15 April in Northern Ireland, and the results are yet to be published. The UK and Scottish governments have also previously agreed to work together while ensuring Scotland's \"distinctive approach\" to the issue is maintained. The plans for a Modern Slavery Bill were first unveiled by Home Secretary Theresa May in August 2013 and the government want to see it enforced before the 2015 general election. The Queen's Speech is designed to outline the government's proposed policies and legislation for the forthcoming parliamentary session of 2014-15.", "question": "Courts in England and Wales are to get new @placeholder to protect people who are trafficked into the UK , held against their will , and forced to work .", "option_0": "evidence", "option_1": "amounts", "option_2": "statutes", "option_3": "regulations", "option_4": "powers"}
{"id": 1873, "article": "Backbench Tory MP Chris Davies had asked the Welsh secretary if the UK government should have the power to put the Welsh Government in special measures. The leader said it was not his policy. Dai Lloyd, a Plaid Cymru AM, suggested that devolution was under attack following the EU referendum vote. Andrew RT Davies told a news conference: \"I disagree with Chris's comments, full stop. \"What Chris is advocating is from the position of a backbencher in Westminster of an opinion that he hears expressed in his constituency on a regular basis. \"It's not government policy, it's not Welsh Conservative policy.\" \"Our policy is very very clear. Devolution needs to be respected. It is here. It is permanently here,\" he said. \"We are the government in Westminster that is delivering the Wales Bill that will see a huge transfer of responsibility,\" he said. He added: \"Of course this place shouldn't be put into special measures. Ultimately it is for the politicians who are democratically elected here to actually be accountable to the people of Wales, whether they are in government or are assembly members. Mr Davies asked Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns at the Welsh Affairs Select Committee on Monday: \"Do you not wish there would be a mechanism in there to take powers back to this place to be able to sort out, just as the Welsh Assembly have the powers to put local authorities under special measures and hospitals into special measures. \"Don't you think there should be an opportunity for us to do the same?\" But Mr Cairns said people would be able to have their say at the assembly election over the devolved matter. Chris Davies, speaking on BBC Radio Wales, said he thinks education \"should\" be unravelled from devolution. He told the Good Morning Wales programme that \"we have to be careful\" and look at May's assembly election. \"We had a party, a party I do not support, the Abolish the Welsh Assembly party, which started from nothing, from nowhere. \"In just a matter of weeks, they took 4.5% of the vote,\" he said. \"We need to be careful out there, because just before we know it there may be a massive tide, a massive swave across Wales who decide they don't want the assembly any longer.\" Dai Lloyd, of Plaid Cymru, called Mr Davies's suggestion that UK ministers could become involved in education in Wales a \"crass idea\" and a \"Conservative attempt to wheel back powers from this place to London\". \"We're under attack from all places now, post-Brexit,\" he said. \"We have Andrew RT Davies saying we can't cope with agriculture here, keep it up there. Now we have Chris Davies... also suggesting something equally ludicrous.\" \"People keep saying we've got to respect the result of the referendum,\" Mr Lloyd said. \"The corollary of that is that we need to respect the result of every referendum, particularly in the context of this place.\" Vale of Clwyd Conservative MP James Davies tried to widen the debate on Monday, suggesting in a tweet that the UK government should perhaps intervene in the Welsh health service as well. In reply to a tweet about Chris Davies' comments, Mr Davies said: \"What about NHS performance? \"I have constituents in despair most days of the week over the inequity between Wales and England.\"", "question": "Comments suggesting UK ministers should be able to intervene on education in Wales have been @placeholder by Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies .", "option_0": "rejected", "option_1": "unveiled", "option_2": "published", "option_3": "defended", "option_4": "approved"}
{"id": 1874, "article": "Her resistance and eventual escape in 2013 triggered a Metropolitan Police investigation that has now led to the conviction of cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan. No-one knew she existed. She left the cult a 30-year-old who had been denied any kind of independent life, with limited experience of the outside world. She was, despite being highly intelligent, unable to perform basic tasks. Her name is not Fran. In fact, the name she asked the BBC to use is not the one Balakrishnan gave her at birth, or the one she used during her years in the cult. Or the one she intends to use in future. She wouldn't give us this name. But with it she is starting a new life. College, friends, a growing interest in somewhat more mainstream politics than the revolutionary communism she's grown up with. She seemed bright, despite her limited education. Someone who knows her own mind, despite the years during which Balakrishnan spent brainwashing her. Fran was born in 1983. Her mother was Sian Davies, a cult member who had a long-term relationship with the married Balakrishnan, whom members called \"Comrade Bala\". She has a stunning memory, perhaps due to the fact that she did so little which was memorable. Small events took on huge significance, and were recorded in her extensive diaries. She can tell you the exact date she was allowed to watch a particular film, or visit a shop. Always accompanied. But her memories are filled with unhappy moments. \"My thoughts and feelings were mainly of fear,\" she told the BBC, \"because I saw other people in the house being quite violently treated. Lots of shouting - and I myself was beaten up as well.\" She was taught to venerate Balakrishnan, whom the cult treated as a deity. \"My mother used to say he is god and he is the star of our lives so we have to worship him.\" The cult told Fran her birth parents were deceased. Her father was said to have been a Peruvian revolutionary who died in combat and her mother an Englishwoman who died in childbirth. \"This story was what I was meant to tell other people,\" she remembers. \"I didn't know exactly who I was. The feeling was like I was a waif or on the wayside being picked up by Bala and now he's my mum and dad.\" During his trial, Balakrishnan justified this deceit by saying he wanted Fran to grow up without the concept of a traditional family. \"The collective was literally the opposite of a nuclear family,\" he said. The collective was founded in the 1970s and its initial creed was a form of puritanical communism based on the thoughts of China's Chairman Mao. But the group's beliefs became ever more bizarre, taking in supernatural elements, eventually placing Balakrishnan at the centre of world history. Fran says: \"It was how he was going to rule the world and this was like a 'pilot unit' to test whether that will work.\" Balakrishnan came to believe there was a \"mind-control machine\" called Jackie that had the power of life and death over cult members. \"He said that Jackie would help him to rule the world.\" Jackie was \"capable of doing whatever his master, which is Bala, wanted it to do, so all the earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, all the natural disasters were because of him, as well as terrorist attacks\". \"I used to think 'my God how am I ever going to escape',\" Fran said. \"'If the whole world is like this place, how am I ever going to escape?' And the only way to escape was to die, so I used to feel like killing myself. \"I remember when I was aged six I wanted to be run down by the Tube.\" Cult members were encouraged to spy on each other and listen only to Bala. Until 2013, Fran had only been out alone once in 30 years. Sometimes over a year would pass between tightly controlled trips outside. \"I remember being told that I'd be struck down by lightning or spontaneously combust if I went out on my own.\" She never saw a doctor, went to school, or played with other children: \"I wasn't allowed to mix with them,\" she says. \"I was even told not to look out of windows because it was bad to look out of windows, but sometimes I did and I used to see other children playing.\" In one property she remembers: \"The neighbour had a party for the little boy and there were balloons and slides in the garden. I was told not to look at that. But I did look and I used to feel that I'm missing out.\" She was educated at home by her father and other cult members. \"I was taught to write all about him. What I first learnt to write was I love beloved Comrade Bala. That's what my mum got me to write.\" Her education also consisted of diaries criticising herself for failing to live up to Bala's ideals. Her mother oversaw the writing of the diaries and they played a role in Bala's trial, providing a record of beatings and indoctrination. Her mother Sian died in 1997 after falling from a window at a house the cult then occupied. Fran also remembers another member, Oh Kareng, dying in mysterious circumstances in 2004. Three other members left and eventually only six people remained. Fran eventually saw through her father's lies. \"Once I saw the light I couldn't un-see the light,\" she says. She longed for freedom, but did not escape until 2013. She was in need of medical attention and convinced another member, Josephine Herival, to contact a charity and the police. When finally taken to a doctor she was found to be suffering from severe diabetes. The first people she met when she left the cult were Gerard Stocks and Yvonne Hall of the Palm Cove Society, who have supported her ever since. They describe her progress as \"outstanding.\" But adjusting to the world has been hard. Fran describes the feeling as being \"like a goldfish bowl effect where I feel there's an invisible barrier between me and everybody else because nobody can understand what I feel like.\" Fran is now studying at college and is leading an ever fuller life. She wants to \"show love to other people in the way that love was not shown to me\". Of Balakrishnan, the man who imprisoned her, Fran says: \"I forgive him.\" \"I would like to reconcile with him in the future, if he wants that. Because hatred does no good to anyone.\" She abhors violence and conflict, having experienced so much of it herself, and refuses to be hateful. \"If I leave the place with anger and hatred and bitterness then I'm still in prison - and I don't want to be in prison that way.\"", "question": "She is the woman who refused to be hidden . For three decades Fran was imprisoned in a cult , led by her father , that sought to mould her @placeholder to his radical views .", "option_0": "according", "option_1": "image", "option_2": "hand", "option_3": "birth", "option_4": "name"}
{"id": 1875, "article": "The UK network suggests the move will particularly benefit people who fail to get a connection or experience dropped calls in their homes and offices. Other firms already offer a similar service via apps, but EE says its scheme is \"seamless\" as users are not required to do anything to switch between 3G/4G and wi-fi. However, there are potential pitfalls. EE said its Wi-fi Calling facility would initially be limited to pay monthly subscribers using Samsung's Galaxy S6 and S5 phones and Microsoft's new Lumia 640, although the BBC understands the iPhone 5S and newer Apple handsets will also be supported. Since it requires specific mobile data components to be built into the devices, it cannot be extended to other older models. However, EE said it would soon offer a compatible own-brand budget smartphone. To join the service, users send the firm a single text message. \"We have worked more than a year to make sure that everything works like a normal phone connection,\" Olaf Swantee, EE's chief executive, told the BBC. \"So, the ringtone, the voicemail, the quality of the conversation - all of that is exactly the same with our solution. \"I think that's essential as customers don't have the time to figure out whether they should be using an app. \"They want to simply know the network will switch from one technology to the other without customer intervention.\" He added that he expected five million people would be able to use the service, which also supports text messages, by the summer. Even if a personal wi-fi network is used, the phone's owner will still be billed as if they had made the call in a normal manner. Furthermore, they cannot use it to make cheaper calls from abroad. But one industry watcher said the scheme still had appeal. \"One of the complained about factors with mobile phones is just making a voice call, and perhaps an approach of getting the fundamentals of connectivity right can act as a differentiator for the firm,\" said Kester Mann from the telecoms consultancy CCS Insight. \"Vodafone will also be launching a similar wi-fi calling service in the summer.\" The UK's other two leading networks, O2 and Three, offer apps instead: Tu Go and Three inTouch. Third-party services, including Skype, Whatsapp, Viber and Apple's iMessage, also provide ways to make voice calls over wi-fi. One of the limitations of EE's Wi-fi Calling is that it cannot switch from one service to another mid-call. So, if someone walks out of a wi-fi covered zone into an area where there is 4G coverage, or vice versa, they still face their call suddenly ending. EE is marketing the service as a way to make calls in the home or office, where it believes this is unlikely to be a common problem. It also boasts that it will make it easy for people to make and receive calls on London Underground platforms, and other wi-fi enabled places without network coverage. However, it acknowledges that users many need to manage their experience. Because phones will automatically switch to wi-fi where it is available, if users log into a congested hotspot they could face poor call quality. They would then need to go into their settings menu to temporarily turn off the wi-fi connection or Wi-fi Calling facility to opt back into 3G/4G. \"It's going to depend on the quality of the public wi-fi, and if that's a poor quality service in a coffee shop, shopping centre or wherever, that will be a challenge,\" said Mr Mann. \"It's very much tailored to the private wi-fi that people have in the basements of flats, rural homes and other places with poor mobile coverage.\" EE recently beat other networks in terms of average 4G download speeds and the number of UK premises with coverage, in a study carried out by the regulator Ofcom. The company - which is currently owned by Deutsche Telekom and Orange - is in the process of being taken over by BT, which plans to let customers boost reception within buildings via a separate technique involving additional radio spectrum that it owns. There is, however, opposition to the acquisition. Consumer rights advocate Which? has written to Ofcom highlighting that the two firms have fared poorly in customer satisfaction surveys, and suggested that the merger could exacerbate the situation. However, Mr Swantee insisted customers would benefit from the tie-up. \"The purchase of EE for ?¡ê12.5bn is very much going to further innovation,\" he said. \"In-market consolidation can really help to drive investment. \"And when you look forward to technologies like 5G - which we will get in 2020, maybe - they require incredible investment.\"", "question": "EE is to begin switching some of its customers to wi - fi enabled calls to help combat mobile @placeholder dead spots .", "option_0": "protection", "option_1": "night", "option_2": "service", "option_3": "signal", "option_4": "produce"}
{"id": 1876, "article": "Police said a silver Peugeot 207 was driven into a furniture shop on Cowley Road shortly after 07:00 BST. There have been no reports of any injuries. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue said the impact had made the shop's structure unsafe. A road closure was put in place on Cowley Road close to the junction with Chapel Street. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue said crews used metal props to support the roof and prevent it from falling in on the shop while the vehicle was removed. Station manager Simon Belcher said it showed the \"varied nature\" of crews' work. Cowley Road has since reopened and a cordon remains around the shop. Thames Valley Police are working to establish who was driving the vehicle.", "question": "A man and woman made off on foot when the car they were in ploughed into the @placeholder of a shop in Oxford .", "option_0": "area", "option_1": "end", "option_2": "side", "option_3": "island", "option_4": "space"}
{"id": 1877, "article": "The MPs are members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has roots in political Islam. Last month, Turkey lifted the headscarf ban in a number of state institutions. The ban was one of the most contentious laws in Turkey, pitting backers of the secular constitution against those who favour Islamic rights. \"I will no longer take off my headscarf,\" Gonul Bekin Sahkulubey, one of the four MPs, was quoted as saying by Turkey's Milliyet newspaper. \"I expect everyone to respect my decision.\" A number of fellow MPs gathered around their colleague to take pictures. Supporters of the women said their move was yet another step towards normalising the wearing of headscarves. But the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) accused the governing party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of undermining the country's secular traditions. The CHP also said the move was an election gimmick ahead of municipal polls next March. This is the first time MPs have worn the headscarf in parliament since an abortive attempt in 1999. Back then, lawmaker Merve Kavakci arrived in the assembly in a headscarf for her swearing-in ceremony - only to be booed out of the building. The reversal of the ban was part of major political reforms - including new Kurdish rights - announced last month by Mr Erdogan. He described the move as \"a historic moment\". However, the headscarf ban remains for judges, prosecutors, police officers and members of the armed forces.", "question": "Four Turkish women lawmakers have @placeholder in parliament in Ankara wearing headscarves - for the first time since 1999 .", "option_0": "seized", "option_1": "appeared", "option_2": "served", "option_3": "been", "option_4": "held"}
{"id": 1878, "article": "The blast, which took place in a busy area in the capital Imphal on Friday night, reportedly targeted migrant labourers from another state. No group has so far said it was behind the attack. The region near the Burmese border is home to many militant groups and has seen decades of separatist violence. The area is ethnically and culturally remote from Delhi, correspondents say. Locals accuse politicians of ignoring the state, saying it has not received the investment and development given to the rest of the country. Police officials said the \"high-intensity bomb\" was planted in a makeshift tent occupied by non-Manipuri construction workers who had all worked for the same company. The government condemned the attack as an act of cowardice. Labourers are frequently brought in from Assam, Bengal and other states to work on government projects. The remote state has long been affected by insurgent violence, with separatist rebels viewing India as a colonial power.", "question": "At least nine people have been killed and more than 20 @placeholder in a bomb explosion in the north - eastern Indian state of Manipur , police say .", "option_0": "captured", "option_1": "homes", "option_2": "missing", "option_3": "died", "option_4": "wounded"}
{"id": 1879, "article": "After its sharp fall two years ago, the barrel price has been swilling around the $50 mark - on raised, then lowered, expectations that OPEC will cut a deal on reducing supply to raise the price. The exporters' cartel meets in Vienna on September 26th. With a Gulf Arab nod here, an Iraqi wink there, a gnomic comment from a Russian official and an update on the state of America's oil stocks, the price gyrates a dollar or two, or three. In the past week, it's been to the downside, most recently spotted below $47. Longer term, the consensus is on a recovery in price, partly as demand is expected to pick up, and also because low levels of exploration inevitably mean a low level of replacement reserves. In Stavanger last week, as the offshore industry gathered for biennual Nordic bash, there was talk of exploration being as low as it's been. It's the easy bit of a budget to chop. (Aberdeen's Offshore Europe event alternates with Offshore Norway in Stavanger - I've just checked next September, and hotel rooms start at ¡ê200 a night, with several establishments not taking bookings. Get planning!) But because a big slump in exploration activity drives down the price of exploration, with rigs at bargain basement prices (unless they've run aground on the Isle of Lewis), those with deep pockets and an appetite for risk can get spudding the seabed with drilling bits. (Spudding, in case you're wondering, is the act of breaking through the seabed.) Statoil is such a player. It told the industry last week that it is eyeing up prospects for the Barents Sea, in inhospitable waters to Norway's north. It becomes more attractive as seabed compression technologies replace platforms, and as drilling is now done at much lower prices, and in only half the time it was taking in 2013. Analysis by the Edinburgh-based energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie points to a whopping $50bn of offshore investment put on ice by Norwegian developers since the price tanked two years ago. It suggests companies should take the advantage of development prices bottoming out in the middle of 2017 before prices begin to pick up again. By the middle of next decade, we could see much higher costs as the price for going with the cyclical downturn we're seeing just now. Some development still goes ahead.  The Johann Sverdrup field is a giant, discovered amid extensively-developed areas of the Norwegian sector and not far from UK waters. It is a huge investment programme, but with the driving down of contractor costs, the scale of the field is such that costs are now down to $25 per barrel. Britain's exploration is in a worse position. The UK government has been urged to provide tax breaks for exploratory drilling. It hasn't chosen to offer a targeted allowance, but it has found ¡ê40m over the past two years to fund seismic surveying. That can now be sourced at very low prices. It's a technology that involves ships trawling up and down a section of sea like a ploughing tractor, blasting air bubbles at the seabed and using long lines of floating sensors to pick up the reflected marine wave patterns, mapping the seabed and rock formations below it. Much of the money is being targeted at new surveying of areas east of Shetland and around south-west England. But some is being used to look again at areas that were previously surveyed. Being under water, such data can get a lot of noisy distortion. So it's worth spending a bit on cleaning it. That's why ¡ê2.5m was contracted last week by the Oil and Gas Authority in Aberdeen, to spend on taking oldish data, and applying new techniques to it. It is then made available to the industry for next-to-nothing. That includes seismic mapping from the early 1990s in the Minches and Firth of Clyde. Other existing data getting another look is around Cornwall, Devon and the Bristol Channel, Cardigan Bay in west Wales and Celtic Sea, Morecambe Bay and the east Irish Sea and also the seabed platform east of Shetland, which has more recently been the subject of big investments on the Mariner heavy oil field. If the inland waters around Scotland are to see further drilling, it will be for the Scottish government to decide if it can happen. Much is made of the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil, as the key indicator in the energy market.  Gas can sometimes be overlooked. But there are interesting moves afoot in that market.  Wholesale prices have fallen significantly, such that gas-fired power stations have become a different economic proposition in comparison with the high price that would be guaranteed for new nuclear capacity at Hinkley Point. That could be part of the calculations - both financial and political - being weighed up in Downing Street on whether to go ahead with the giant plant. Energy experts reckon that, due to maintenance on both storage and on the links from Norway to continental Europe, exports from the UK through the gas pipeline to Belgium could hit a record level this week.", "question": "It 's a brave commodities trader or government finance minister who bets the farm on the future @placeholder of the price of Brent crude oil .", "option_0": "peninsula", "option_1": "direction", "option_2": "estimate", "option_3": "parts", "option_4": "rest"}
{"id": 1880, "article": "The small community is based in woodland earmarked for housing, and eviction notices have been served. They call themselves Diggers, after a group of land activists who occupied St George's Hill in 1649. Photographer Daniella Zalcman stumbled upon the group in February this year, and, after a few phone calls, began to visit every week or so. Zalcman was made welcome very quickly. \"I was lucky to get to know most of the villagers before they were served an eviction notice at the end of March, when local journalists began to descend on the place en masse,\" she says. \"I've slept there, I've eaten there, I've helped to do the dishes and take out the garbage. So I think my access and my relationship with the group is a little different and a little more intimate.\" That is something that really comes across in the work. Zalcman's pictures invite the viewer into the community. The soft, shallow depth of field produced by the Yashica D TLR she uses for much of her work helps in that respect. \"It's been pretty amazing to watch the forest transition from winter to summer,\" she says. \"In April, the entire hill was coated in bluebells. Now, the terraced permaculture space in the centre of the village is full of vegetables and greens.\" The community consists of those who have been on site for a number of years and others who drift in and out. Magna Carta outlined some basic human rights, including a fair trial and limits on taxation - the principle being that no-one was above the law, including the King, and it is seen as the birth of our modern democracy. Ieuan Davies, a resident from the beginning of the community, says: \"I'm unemployed, and I've reached a point in my life where I need a sabbatical from everything. \"I worked for 20 years as a violin restorer, but I want something different now. \"I want to live with fresh air, and I want to be free. \"I'm doing this because I can. \"We just want fairness and freedom. \"People want us living in boxes, working jobs, paying taxes. \"We're not doing any of that. We'll be here for the celebration of Magna Carta, freedom under law. That's ironic, isn't it? \"I don't use money much. I eat food that's been thrown out [in supermarket bins], and I can survive for weeks without money. I've achieved a stress-free life.\" The date for the court hearing to settle eviction is set for 15 June at Guildford County Court., the same day that the Queen and other dignitaries will be celebrating the anniversary of Magna Carta, a short distance from the village. Here are a selection of Zalcman's pictures from her series entitled To Make a Wasteland Grow. You can see more of Daniella Zalcman's work on her website or her pictures of Sunday Soldiers that I published last year.", "question": "The 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta by King John at Runnymede , on the banks of the Thames , is on Monday , 15 June . Today , the site , between Windsor and Staines , is part of the National Trust - but @placeholder it , a group have set up what they call Runnymede Eco - Village .", "option_0": "fearing", "option_1": "group", "option_2": "holds", "option_3": "bordering", "option_4": "titled"}
{"id": 1881, "article": "Officials have confirmed that of the 184 inmates that escaped, 70 have been captured, leaving 114 still at large. Among those on the run is Brayan Bremer, who posted pictures of himself on the run on social media. About 100 federal officers have been sent to Amazonas to boost the search. Amazonas governor Jose Melo requested the help of the federal government on Sunday, saying Amazonas were \"at their physical and psychological limit\". The prisoners escaped from the Anisio Jobim jail in Manaus and the neighbouring Antonio Trindad prison as a deadly riot was under way in the former. Brazil prison riots: What's the cause? The director of the Anisio Jobim jail, Jose Carvalho da Silva, has since been suspended over allegations he took money from the Familia do Norte gang in exchange for turning a blind eye to drugs and weapons beings smuggled into the jail. Investigators say the Familia do Norte instigated the riot and specifically targeted members of rival gang First Capital Command (PCC). Mr Silva is also accused of allowing inmates to flee the prison in exchange for money. He had been put in charge of the jail on 28 December in an interim capacity, after serving as deputy head. Two inmates made the allegations against him in separate letters sent to the authorities three weeks before the riot. In the letters, the inmates say that Mr Silva had threatened to move them from a secure area of the jail into a \"general population\" area, even though they had received death threats and a judge had ordered they be kept separate from the general prison population. The two were among the 56 inmates killed during the riot on 1 January.", "question": "Police in Brazil are @placeholder up their search for more than 100 prisoners who are still on the run after escaping from adjoining prisons in the northern state of Amazonas on 1 January .", "option_0": "locked", "option_1": "following", "option_2": "stepping", "option_3": "continuing", "option_4": "searching"}
{"id": 1882, "article": "The Baggies turned down four bids from Tottenham for the 22-year-old striker, including two on 1 September. He went on Twitter to indicate he would never play for Albion again but he came on against Southampton on Saturday. \"The lads have given him some stick. Sometimes it's the best way because it takes away the tension,\" Fletcher said. \"When somebody comes in and there is a little bit of banter, I'm sure he feels like one of the lads again.\" Scotland midfielder Fletcher, who is not on Twitter, said: \"It's about emotions really. \"You can do silly things and when you're on Twitter it allows you to voice your opinions. If he had sat quietly for 48 hours he wouldn't have done it.\"", "question": "Saido Berahino has faced West Brom dressing room \" banter \" about his threat to go on strike on @placeholder day , says his captain Darren Fletcher .", "option_0": "anzac", "option_1": "opening", "option_2": "deadline", "option_3": "occasions", "option_4": "horseback"}
{"id": 1883, "article": "The Lord's side only avoided relegation on the last day of the season. \"Everybody's careers have highs and lows but at times we play some careless, soft, sloppy cricket,\" Fraser told BBC London 94.9. \"There are questions being asked about a few players in our side - is there really a steely backbone to them and are they tough enough?\" Middlesex won four of their opening six County Championship games of the season but then failed to win any of their remaining 10 first-class matches of the campaign. The north London club were sucked into the Division One relegation battle and only retained their top-flight status after securing draws at Somerset and Lancashire in the final two matches of the season. \"There is so much talent in the dressing room and so many gifted cricketers but the frustration is when we don't get it out of them,\" Fraser said. \"We made lots of mistakes throughout the year. We can play well for long periods of time but we spoil it with a bad session. \"Our target every year is to build on what we have achieved previously and to improve on it. This year we haven't and we've gone backwards. \"We need to make sure we start performing to the levels we know we're capable of and have shown in this division in previous years. \"We have got to sit down and analyse everything we are doing for next season to make sure that if we do get in a rut that somehow we can find a way out of it.\" Meanwhile, Fraser says one of his immediate concerns is identifying a replacement for captain Chris Rogers next season. The 37-year-old batsman, who scored 1,333 Championship runs at an average of 55.54 this season, is set to be away for much of 2015 because of international commitments with Australia. Australia have a tour of West Indies next May and then come to England for an Ashes series, which will run until late August. \"I can't see Chris not being selected for Australia,\" Fraser said. \"We will undoubtedly see him back in a Middlesex shirt again in years to come. \"Filling the void that he potentially leaves is something that is going to take quite a player to do. \"We have got to try to do that and get more out of the players in the dressing room on a more consistent basis to fill that void.\"", "question": "Middlesex managing director of cricket Angus Fraser has queried the @placeholder of some of his side 's players .", "option_0": "advantage", "option_1": "experience", "option_2": "team", "option_3": "resolve", "option_4": "performances"}
{"id": 1884, "article": "The visitors took a sixth-minute lead when Josh Vela's fierce right-footed shot from the corner of the box took a deflection off Stuart Sinclair to wrong-foot Rovers goalkeeper Steve Mildenhall. And it was 2-0 after 26 minutes. Tom Lockyer was penalised for a foul 25 yards out and Jay Spearing found the top corner to Mildenhall's right with a sweetly-struck free-kick. Rovers struggled to create a clear first-half chance, despite some neat approach play. But they got back in the game on 57 minutes when Lee Brown's left-footed free-kick from 20 yards was brilliantly tipped onto a post by Mark Howard, only for Ellis Harrison to fire home the rebound. Having made three attacking substitutions, two of them at half time, Rovers boss Darrell Clarke saw his team almost snatch a point on 86 minutes when Jermaine Easter fired wide from Billy Bodin's pass. But they were unable to find an equaliser as they lost at the Memorial Stadium for the first time since being beaten by Stevenage on 24 November 2015. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Bristol Rovers 1, Bolton Wanderers 2. Second Half ends, Bristol Rovers 1, Bolton Wanderers 2. Conor Wilkinson (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Conor Wilkinson (Bolton Wanderers). Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing. Attempt missed. Conor Wilkinson (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from long range on the right is close, but misses to the right. Attempt saved. Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Corner,  Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Stuart Sinclair. Mark Davies (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers). Attempt saved. Jermaine Easter (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Conor Wilkinson replaces Gary Madine. Foul by Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers). Jermaine Easter (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Lewis Buxton (Bolton Wanderers). Daniel Leadbitter (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers). Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers). Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Stuart Sinclair (Bristol Rovers). Jay Spearing (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Cristian Monta?o replaces Lee Brown. Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Zach Clough replaces Jamie Proctor. Attempt missed. James Clarke (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Foul by Mark Davies (Bolton Wanderers). Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Chris Taylor replaces Liam Trotter. Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers). Dean Moxey (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers). Attempt saved. Jay Spearing (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers). Goal!  Bristol Rovers 1, Bolton Wanderers 2. Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Attempt saved. Lee Brown (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Liam Trotter (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.", "question": "Recently - @placeholder Bolton made it maximum points from their first three League One games after inflicting a first home defeat in nine months on Bristol Rovers .", "option_0": "fought", "option_1": "relegated", "option_2": "formed", "option_3": "rated", "option_4": "rescued"}
{"id": 1885, "article": "England are aiming to complete a 3-0 series whitewash this weekend. \"He has got a lot of knowledge, a lot he can teach people,\" Jones said. \"We have two outstanding young number 10s in Owen Farrell and George Ford and we want them to keep learning. They'll definitely learn things [from Johns].\" Australian Jones, who took England to train at his old club Randwick, added: \"For those guys to have that lesson this afternoon is invaluable, they will remember it for the rest of their lives.\" Earlier this year Jones recruited former Wallaby flanker George Smith as a breakdown consultant, while another former Australia player, Glen Ella, is working as England's skills coach on the tour. Jones believes \"100%\" that rugby union players can learn from the 13-a-side game - and a more permanent role for former Australia Test half-back Johns is a possibility. \"Guys like Andrew Johns touched the ball 50 or 60 times in a game, had to fix defenders, knew when to drift and be straight, how to use your eyes, where to position your hands,\" Jones added. \"I've always admired his skills as a player, and we've been chatting for a while about the possibility of him coming in and doing a little bit of work.\" Only flanker James Haskell and winger Jack Nowell were unable to take part as England trained in Sydney. Haskell has a foot injury and is a major doubt to be fit for Saturday, but Jones says the Wasps forward has an \"amazing capacity to absorb pain\" and could yet be in contention. Winger Nowell is going through return-to-play protocols after concussion, with Jones set to name his 23-man squad on Thursday. \"In terms of selection we always pick our best 23, and we will be doing that. It's the third Test of the series so we are going to need energetic, physically aggressive players.\" Find out how to get into rugby union with our special guide. Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "question": "Australian rugby league great Andrew Johns helped England with their \" attacking @placeholder \" as Eddie Jones ' side trained before the third Test against the Wallabies in Sydney .", "option_0": "title", "option_1": "detail", "option_2": "side", "option_3": "status", "option_4": "signing"}
{"id": 1886, "article": "Once, there was rarely a better way for wealthy gents to subtly boast about their riches than to proclaim their status via their neckwear. Although not a common method now, having been replaced by showy watches and designer labels, in the late 19th Century it was all the rage for the well-connected and well-to-do to slip on the \"gentleman's accessory of grandeur\" - an ascot tie - to demonstrate their affluence. Firstly, though, is an ascot different from a cravat? An ascot - also known as a \"day cravat\" is the form of cravat we're familiar with today. It's a neckband with wide pointed wings, folded over, and fastened with a stickpin. The ends are typically tucked inside the collar of a shirt and although it's a bit fiddly, there are plenty of tips on how to tie one. Traditionally made from pale grey patterned silk, the ascot is now more commonly seen in bright - some might say lurid - colours. Named after the racing gala Royal Ascot, it would be easy to assume the royal enclosure is overflowing with male throats clad in silk. But the ties, they are a-changin' and since 2012, the event's dress code stipulates: \"Gentlemen are kindly reminded that it is a requirement to wear either black or grey morning dress which must include a waistcoat and tie (no cravats)\". According to the Academia Cravatica - a Croatian organisation dedicated to the preservation of the cravat, a cravat is merely \"a scarf or piece of fabric worn around the neck\". Why are the Croatians bothered? Because that's where cravats come from. Croat soldiers serving under the French army during the reign of Louis XIII wore military kit which included picturesque scarves distinctively knotted at the neck. Enlisted soldiers were likely to have a coarse cloth, while officers might swaddle their necks in fine linens and silks. The fashion spread through France and Regency dandy \"Beau\" Brummell - made it popular with the English. Thus the cravat became a way of displaying both sartorial elegance and wealth. By the time Victoria came to the throne they were well-established staples for the suave. The increase in influence of the industrial businessmen towards the end of the Victorian era saw middle-class men eschewing stiff neckwear and adopting a less formal form of tie. Off they went to watch the horses at Royal Ascot with their loose necktie. It became quite the thing to wear at the meeting and eventually \"ascot\" became its name. According to the Gentleman's Gazette, - motto \"helping you look dapper and dandy\" - this kind of neckwear was accessible even to the middle classes, while also allowing upper-class gentlemen to express their wealth in details, such as expensive tiepins. The further a man had climbed the social scale, the quieter and more subtle his neckwear was, whereas the lower he was placed, the brighter and more varied his neckwear became, according to the gazette. Throughout the years, fashions changed in how the tie appeared perhaps coincided with the mod and psychedelic movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Perhaps the golden years of the ascot were best portrayed by the likes of the Duke of Windsor, Pablo Picasso and David Niven, but these were sadly superseded by Terry Thomas-alike Brits abroad, lecherous men at parties and drama teachers wearing them with heavy irony. And of course, Alan Partridge. So what's a chap to do if he can't wear his ascot to Ascot? There's a bit of a resurgence. According to fashion journalist Julian Bennett, \"the ascot tie, which was a symbol of wealth during the 19th Century is still heavily used in everyday fashion today and can still be seen on the catwalks from top designers around the world\". If you've got just a minute, you might take a leaf from Nicholas Parsons' sartorial stylebook. He describes himself as \"a dedicated wearer of the cravat\". And according to the Cravat Club (yes, there is one), gentlemen should try \"experimenting with their ascot, such as tucking it into a polo shirt\". \"Why not wear it on the outside of the shirt paired with a tailored suit, waistcoat or fitted jacket?\", the club asks. Why not indeed?", "question": "As Royal Ascot comes to a close and the finery and frippery of the royal enclosure is packed away , one item of clothing will not have to be replaced in the @placeholder - because it is banned . Ascot ties - once the neckwear of choice - are not allowed to be worn at Ascot . What 's the story of their rise and fall ?", "option_0": "opening", "option_1": "wardrobe", "option_2": "shadow", "option_3": "middle", "option_4": "world"}
{"id": 1887, "article": "Media playback is unsupported on your device 23 January 2014 Last updated at 07:28 GMT The massive yellow statue is more than six metres high and around 10 times the size of an ordinary rocking horse! The Chinese zodiac follows a 12-year cycle. Each of the years is named after an animal and this is the year of the horse. \"The reason we decided to make the rocking horse is that it's something everyone has played with in their childhood,\" said head of Sanxing township, Huang Yang-yong. Chinese New Year is the most important holiday in Taiwan and many are decorating their homes with horse-shaped ornaments and red banners. People also celebrate by lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes. This year Chinese New Year falls on 31 January. Officials hope the horse will bring good fortune, prosperity and many smiles to the town.", "question": "This giant rocking horse has been @placeholder in Taiwan to help celebrate Chinese New Year .", "option_0": "built", "option_1": "introduced", "option_2": "exhibited", "option_3": "sold", "option_4": "named"}
{"id": 1888, "article": "For just over a year when I was 14 years old, I suffered from anorexia nervosa. Weighing a tiny amount, I bought children's clothing and consumed fewer than 500 calories a day. Anorexia nervosa is far from just a battle of wills to resist eating a chocolate bar. It's a serious mental illness. A possession. As though developing a split personality?-yourself and the anorexia. In fact, that's exactly what happened to me. Prior to the illness, I'd been a happy girl and enjoyed a great relationship with my parents, but that deteriorated when anorexia embedded itself in my head. I developed techniques and deceptive ways to make it look like I'd eaten when I hadn't. I'd dispose of food in literally any way I could. I became sneaky and desperate, and I'd lie constantly, dreading any time away from school because home-time meant food time. 'I've eaten' techniques included sprinkling toaster crumbs on a plate to make it look like I'd had toast. I'd hide any food down sleeves, in pockets, in bras, in my cheeks, anything to avoid swallowing it. I'd mop up milk from my cereal with tissues. For a girl who loathed maths more than she currently hated life, I became highly adept at calorie calculation. For a girl who loathed maths more than she currently hated life, I became highly adept at calorie calculation. And I knew how much EVERYTHING provided me with. My mum was immediately on my tail when I started to get thin. I'd exercise compulsively?¡ª?literally anything to burn calories. I'd relish any chance to get away from my parents so that I could burn calories exercising. I remember running laps of the playground during Girl Guide hours in the evening because it was the only time I could run and burn calories. My patrol must have thought I was very strange. Now that I was below a healthy weight, my periods had stopped and I was attending weekly appointments at the Youth Hospital seeing a dietician and a psychologist. I was clinically depressed and spent every day being force-fed by my parents while I screamed and cried like a banshee at the threat of being fed two spoonfuls of ice cream. I could see my thighs were bigger in the mirror after eating anything calorific. That delusion to me was as real as the glass itself. The body dysmorphia was terrible. I could see my thighs were bigger in the mirror after eating anything calorific. That delusion to me was as real as the glass itself. I believe that I still suffer from this dysmorphia a little even now, over ten years later and at a much healthier weight. My recovery was largely down to my mum, whose persistence in monitoring my every move eventually forced the voice in my head to say 'I can't win this', and slowly begin to shrink back. I remember that moment vividly as though the anorexia actually admitted defeat and resigned. To this day, I can see a girl in the gym and know that she's struggling. I think it's in the arms. There's one at my gym right now. I see her working her tiny limbs like a demon on the spin bike, only she barely has any real muscle to power herself. The fight to create a more versatile fashion and beauty industry is still one which is continuing relentlessly today. ALL healthy bodies are beautiful in any shape, any size and any form. It's not about banishing sample sizes from the runways, TV and magazines, it's about creating body diversity. Young girls need to see models walk down the catwalk with healthy bodies resembling that of the average woman. They shouldn't have to be labelled as 'plus size', because they're not. They're just women. Note: BodyPositive has removed some of the more sensitive aspects of this story.  For help and advice please visit your doctor and/or one of the charities listed below.", "question": "Warning : This article contains information which may be @placeholder for those with eating disorders .", "option_0": "praised", "option_1": "triggering", "option_2": "braced", "option_3": "honoured", "option_4": "appropriate"}
{"id": 1889, "article": "The FTSE 100 closed up 1.62% at 6,032.24 points. The index had fallen 2.8% in the previous session after commodity-related shares were hit by worries over global growth prospects. However, investors shrugged off another survey suggesting China's manufacturing sector was continuing to contract. A similar survey for the eurozone indicated that activity among businesses in the bloc continued to expand this month, although at a slower rate than in August. The preliminary reading of the Markit purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the eurozone was 53.9 in September, down from 54.3 last month. A reading above 50 indicates expansion. British Airways owner IAG topped the FTSE 100 risers board, closing up 4.7% to 594p after Morgan Stanley raised its price target for the stock. The news lifted shares in Easyjet, which ended the day 3.4% higher. Energy stocks were bolstered as the price of oil steadied. Shares in BP ended the day up 1.3%. Shares in Smiths Group ended up almost 1% after the company reported full-year results and said Andrew Reynolds Smith would take over as chief executive from Friday. In the 12 months to 31 July, revenues at the engineering group dropped 2% to ¡ê2.89bn, but pre-tax profits rose 3% to ¡ê459m. Drinks giant Diageo closed higher by 0.96%. The company said that recent currency fluctuations would cut operating profits by about ¡ê150m, but added that the financial year had begun well and \"performance is in line with our expectations\". United Utilities shares closed the day 1.48% higher, after the water firm's latest trading update. The company said its profits would be hit by about ¡ê25m after it had to pay compensation to about 300,000 households in Lancashire following the discovery of a parasitic bug in water supplies. On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.81% against the dollar to $1.5242, and dropped 1.09% against the euro to €1.3657.", "question": "( Close ) : UK shares closed higher , recovering some @placeholder lost on Tuesday , despite further signs of weakness in China 's manufacturing sector .", "option_0": "data", "option_1": "profits", "option_2": "ground", "option_3": "jobs", "option_4": "cash"}
{"id": 1890, "article": "She adds it to her other world record, from 2015, when she proved her great paw-eye coordination by catching 14 balls in one minute. Purin's not the only talented dog out there, so we've been looking back at some of our favourite record-breaking pooches... Purin footage from Guinness World Records Blockbusters Jiff, a Pomeranian from Los Angeles, America, won fans in 2014 for an unusual talent. Despite having four legs, Jiff prefers to get around on just two - he stands up on his back legs, or balances on his front, like a handstand. And as if that wasn't enough, he's speedy as well! He can travel 5 metres in just under 8 seconds on his front paws, and is even quicker on his hind legs, doing the same distance in less than 7 seconds. Otto skated his way into our hearts in 2015, when he skateboarded through a 'human tunnel' of 30 people. The bulldog was cheered by a huge crowd in Peru, and was given an official certificate for his achievement. It took 270 dogs to set a new world record in 2016. The dogs and their owners stretched and twisted in an hour-long 'doga' (dog yoga) session in Hong Kong, China, to be part of the biggest ever doga class. They beat the previous record of 265 dogs, set in San Diego, America, in 2015.", "question": "A Japanese dog @placeholder Purin has won her second world record , by travelling 10 metres on a ball , in just 11.9 seconds .", "option_0": "nicknamed", "option_1": "based", "option_2": "called", "option_3": "containing", "option_4": "drug"}
{"id": 1891, "article": "Mr Bright can still remember the \"terrible\" stench of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the concentration camp where he arrived on 12 October 1944. \"It was the stench of death,\" he says. \"People had the power of life and death over you. It was hell on Earth.\" Mr Bright was living in Prague when he was sent to Auschwitz with his mother a fortnight after his father. He made it out. They never did. His parents were among an estimated 1.1 million people killed at the camp in Poland during World War Two. He has never forgotten their fate, and is determined that no-one else does, either. Now retired and living near Ipswich, Mr Bright still visits schools in the area to share his own terrible experiences with students. Born Frank Brichta in Berlin in 1928, he was brought up as the only child of Hermann and Toni Brichta. The Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, but it was not until 1938 that the Jewish family decided to leave. \"Things started to get pretty bad. I remember a newspaper vendor on the corner had cartoons on his stand which were anti-Semitic,\" Mr Bright says. \"The Nazi newspapers showed Jews with big noses either dressed as Russian communists or American capitalists in top hats. Either way you couldn't win; you were a menace.\" The family fled, but by Mr Bright's own admission, went \"the wrong way\". They headed east to Czechoslovakia because his father, who was born there, had a Czech passport, rather than attempting to emigrate to western Europe, the United States or Palestine. They settled in Prague when Mr Bright was 10, but the Germans were not far behind, occupying Czechoslovakia in March 1939. As Jews, the family faced restrictions on what they could do, although Mr Bright did attend a Jewish school until its closure in 1942. In July the following year, they were sent to the Jewish ghetto created in the military fort of Teresienstadt, north of Prague. By then aged 14, he was living in a separate part of the fort from his parents and working as a locksmith, although he was still allowed to meet up with them. But in October 1944, his father was put on a train to Auschwitz as the mass evacuation of the ghetto's inmates to concentration camps began. It was the last time Mr Bright saw him. A fortnight later, he and his mother made the same journey. Upon arrival, mother and son were separated. Mr Bright was declared fit for work, but he believes his mother was sent straight to the gas chambers. \"My parents were murdered there: my father first and then my mother on the day she arrived there with me,\" he says. \"I was turned to the other side for people chosen to work: not to work properly, but to be worked to death. \"At the time I didn't know what was happening - we were confused, but I think my mother had an idea.\" A few hours later, when he spoke to fellow prisoners, he learned what the chimney fumes and smoke signified. \"I remember wondering which came from my mother,\" he said. \"As a method of mental preservation, an emotional curtain comes down - it doesn't sink in. \"There were no tears at the time - you couldn't afford them if you wanted to survive. \"My grieving came later in life.\" He left Auschwitz five days later to be put to work in a propeller factory in Friedland in modern-day Poland. \"The aim of the SS was to kill us, too. The fact that they wanted to make use of us wasn't out of the goodness of their hearts.\" After seven months of slave labour, the 16-year-old was freed in May 1945 when Soviet troops pressed west and the Germans retreated. After making his way back to Prague into the care of the Red Cross, he eventually secured his passage to London where he was able to live with distant relatives, who he had only met once before. Eventually he was able to build a life for himself as a civil engineer in Canada before returning to the UK to work with local authorities, including Suffolk County Council. He married an English woman, Cynthia, and the couple have two daughters: Toni (named after his mother) and Miriam, who are both in their 50s. But his traumatic childhood experiences left an indelible mark. \"My life was turned upside down, because it wasn't normal: you wouldn't normally spend your youth being marked as a Jew with a yellow star and you normally have an education, of which I was deprived,\" he says. \"You aren't normally split from your parents in a ghetto where they are themselves split from one another. \"You're not normally on your own after that in a slave labour camp. \"When liberated, you know full well you have no parents left; you're on your own with no education and life will be very difficult.\" Mr Bright has no grandchildren, but for several years he has been sharing his experiences in schools. It \"keeps me going,\" he says. The Holocaust is a compulsory part of the school curriculum. \"It is extremely important that it is still taught, because it is the modern history of Europe and it can help you judge what Europe and Brexit is all about,\" Mr Bright says. \"I'm very depressed about the current state of the world, because obviously people haven't learnt and, as some philosopher said, if people don't learn from the past, they will repeat their mistakes.\" Holocaust Memorial Day is on 27 January each year - marking the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.", "question": "Aged 16 , Frank Bright was taken to Auschwitz . He @placeholder the gas chambers , but his mother and father did not . Now 88 , he visits schools in the UK to talk to pupils , in the hope that future generations will learn from the mistakes of the past .", "option_0": "feared", "option_1": "dominated", "option_2": "describes", "option_3": "avoided", "option_4": "visited"}
{"id": 1892, "article": "Construction company Wills Bros John Paul JV had sought a way to make further use for cones damaged or surplus to its requirements. The firm is building new dual carriageway on the A9 near the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig. For several years, the park's staff have used old cones and hard hats as toys for its bears and tigers. Food can be stuffed into traffic cones for the animals to work out how to retrieve. The park near Aviemore has three polar bears called Walker, Arktos and Victoria. Work on the new dual carriageway between Kincraig and Dalraddy was commissioned by Transport Scotland and started 10 months ago. Keith Brown, secretary for economy, jobs and fair work, has welcomed the construction company's decision to put unwanted gear to new uses. He said: \"The contractor should be congratulated for exploring opportunities to dispose of this material in such an innovative way.\"", "question": "More than 50 traffic cones have been @placeholder as playthings for a zoo 's three polar bears .", "option_0": "constructed", "option_1": "treated", "option_2": "shortlisted", "option_3": "described", "option_4": "donated"}
{"id": 1893, "article": "Brian Parker, who represents Marsden ward, told Pendle Council he wanted to sit as an independent on Wednesday. The Lancashire councillor, who won his seat in 2006, has told the BBC he is now again representing the BNP. The BNP said it was \"pleased to reassure members\" that the councillor \"has taken up the party whip again\". In a statement, the BNP said Mr Parker \"remains the most successful record-breaking BNP councillor in history\". Pendle Council confirmed the development but said it was not commenting on the matter.", "question": "The British National Party 's only district councillor in the United Kingdom has returned to the party - a day after he @placeholder .", "option_0": "died", "option_1": "quit", "option_2": "retired", "option_3": "disappeared", "option_4": "arrived"}
{"id": 1894, "article": "The British Army regiment were thanked for their \"loyalty and devotion\" to the Queen and her mother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. The monarch granted the armoured cavalry regiment a suffix, making them \"The Royal Lancers - Queen Elizabeths' Own\" at a ceremony at Windsor Castle. The Queen said the Lancers were a \"force without match\". She symbolically touched the flag known as a Guidon to signal its handover. \"In the short time since I attended your amalgamation, you have established yourselves as a unified regiment and a force without match\", the Queen said. \"It gives me much pleasure to present to you your new Guidon. The Guidon symbolises sacred loyalty to your Sovereign, your country and to all of the officers and men with whom you serve. \"Your loyalty and devotion to duty have been tested over more than 300 years and never found to be wanting.\" The Queen's Royal Lancers and the 9th/12th Royal (Prince of Wales's), amalgamated to become The Royal Lancers in May 2015. The 9th/12th Lancers were the last cavalry regiment in Afghanistan and The Queen's Royal Lancers the last regiment to operate Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance in Afghanistan.", "question": "The Royals Lancers have been @placeholder by the Queen in tribute to their service to the Royal Family .", "option_0": "renamed", "option_1": "raised", "option_2": "revealed", "option_3": "honoured", "option_4": "inspired"}
{"id": 1895, "article": "The 60-year-old was questioned for seven hours on Friday evening. He had been transferred to hospital for check-ups after being arrested on Tuesday. Investigations are continuing into the case, and Mr Hussain is due to report to police again in July. The police say Mr Hussain's move back from hospital to detention earlier on Friday was agreed after consultation with Wellington Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment. Thousands of his supporters have been staging a protest rally in Karachi - Pakistan's biggest city and the MQM's power base. The news of Mr Hussain's release prompted wild celebrations in in the city, reports say. The British and Pakistani authorities have in the past expressed concerns that any arrest of Altaf Hussain could lead to violent protests. Mr Hussain has lived in the UK since the early 1990s, saying his life would be at risk if he returned to Pakistan. He has since become a British citizen. Pakistan's powerful but absent politician Mr Hussain, his party, as well as some of his associates and relatives are currently the subject of a number of British investigations. One is looking into the question of whether he has incited violence in Pakistan in his televised speeches. Mr Hussain denies the accusation. Another is into whether the MQM has paid its UK taxes correctly. The most high-profile investigation followed the 2010 murder in London of senior MQM leader Imran Farooq. No-one has been formally charged with his killing. The MQM is often accused of extorting money from businesses in Karachi and shipping the money to the UK.", "question": "Altaf Hussain , the @placeholder leader of Pakistan 's powerful MQM party , has been released on bail by police in London after being arrested on suspicion of money laundering .", "option_0": "body", "option_1": "outgoing", "option_2": "serving", "option_3": "exiled", "option_4": "shadow"}
{"id": 1896, "article": "The Electoral Commission confirmed it has now received two invoices for the monument, which listed the party's election pledges, totalling ¡ê7,830. They include ¡ê1,575 haulage costs, and ¡ê270 for a stone mason to erect it. Labour blamed an \"admin error\" for failing to submit the invoices before data of 2015 election spending by all the parties was revealed this week. Much of the subsequent reporting of the various parties' election campaign spending highlighted that the \"Ed Stone costs\" had not been revealed. Labour said there had been an \"administrative error\" and that it would be quickly rectified. The Electoral Commission has said it will investigate the late submission. The maximum sanction the Electoral Commission is able to impose for a breach of the rules is ¡ê20,000. Ed Miliband unveiled the 8ft stone carving on the final weekend of the 2015 General Election campaign, saying that it would be installed in the garden of Downing Street to remind the party of its duty to honour its six main election promises. The move was met with near universal derision and what happened to what became known as the \"Ed Stone\" has been unclear. Various unconfirmed reports have suggested it is in a warehouse in London or has been destroyed. The Electoral Commission told the BBC that it would be looking into the issue of the receipts being submitted late \"in line with its policy\". It was unable to confirm how long the investigation might take, saying sometimes it has to go back and ask for more information, and each incident is dealt with on a case by case basis. Spending on the stone was not included in the Electoral Commission data released on Wednesday. Labour said at the time: \"Due to an administrative error these invoices were not included with other items of campaign spend. We have informed the Electoral Commission and will seek to rectify this error as soon as possible.\" Labour spent ¡ê12m on the campaign, the watchdog's figures show, compared with ¡ê15.5m spent by the Conservatives. In total, ¡ê39m was spent by the UK's six largest parties on the campaign, an increase on the ¡ê34.4m spent in 2010 but lower than the record ¡ê42m spent in 2005. Although comfortably outspending Labour over the regulated period - between 23 May 2014 and 7 May 2015 - the Conservatives spent less than in 2010, when their budget was ¡ê16.6m. In contrast, Labour spent more than in 2010, when their total outlay was ¡ê8m. A breakdown of the figures show the Conservatives spent 27.7% of their budget on \"unsolicited material\", such as flyers, and 23.2% on advertising while Labour spent 61% of their budget on \"unsolicited material\" and 7.6% on advertising. Unsolicited material: ¡ê15.04m Market research and canvassing: ¡ê7.61m Advertising: ¡ê6.86m Rallies and other events: ¡ê2.49m Overheads and general admin: ¡ê2.02m Transport: ¡ê1.67m Campaign broadcasts: ¡ê866,000 Media: ¡ê329,713 Manifestos: ¡ê318,880 Source: Electoral Commission Spending on rallies accounted for 13% of Labour's total expenditure compared with the Conservatives' 5% while the Conservatives spent 30.1% of their budget on market research and canvassing, against Labour's 7.7% outlay. The Conservatives spent ¡ê1.2m on advertising on Facebook in the year before the poll while Labour spent just over ¡ê16,000. The figures do not cover some administrative spending, for instance on staff, while spending by individual candidates is reported separately. The SNP reported the biggest rise in spending compared with 2010, when their expenditure totalled ¡ê316,000. In contrast, the Lib Dems' spending fell from ¡ê4.7m in 2010 to ¡ê3.5m last year. The UK Independence Party spent ¡ê2.8m while the Greens spent ¡ê1.1m. UKIP spent the least per vote gained while the SNP spent least per MP won.", "question": "The Labour Party is to be investigated for being late in submitting receipts for its widely - @placeholder \" Ed Stone \" .", "option_0": "publicized", "option_1": "style", "option_2": "dubbed", "option_3": "anticipated", "option_4": "mocked"}
{"id": 1897, "article": "The 2017 Sunday Times Rich List reveals that their collective fortunes have increased by 9% in the past year. Its compilers say the list \"shatters the myth\" that Scotland's economy runs on oil alone. And it reveals that the Grant-Gordon whisky family is the richest in Scotland, with a fortune of ¡ê2.37bn, up ¡ê210m since last year. The Banffshire whisky distiller posted record profits in 2015 amid booming overseas demand for premium spirits and surging sales of the flagship Glenfiddich single malt and Hendrick's gin, the rich list said. The rich list highlights the wealth of billionaires living in Scotland, or with substantial business interests north of the border. Second on the Scottish list is former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed and family, who own an estate in Scotland and whose fortune has held steady at ¡ê1.7bn. Mahdi al-Tajir, who owns Highland Spring, saw his wealth fall by ¡ê65m in the past year, but he sits in third place on the list with an overall fortune of ¡ê1.67bn. Fourth on the Scottish list is Trond Mohn, the founder of a Norwegian pump firm, and his sister Marit Mohn Westlake, who are worth ¡ê1.62bn. Others in the Scottish top 10 include oil industry leader Sir Ian Wood and family with wealth of ¡ê1.6bn, and the Thomson family, owners of publisher DC Thomson, who are worth ¡ê1.285bn. With the largest increase in wealth this year, John Shaw and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw have now entered the realm of the billionaires as a result of their Bangalore-based biopharmaceutical firm Biocon. They boast ¡ê1.15bn to their names, earning a wealth increase of ¡ê530m in the last 12 months alone, largely off the back of the surging value of Biocon, and rank joint seventh position in Scotland alongside retail chief Philip Day, who owns Langholm-based Edinburgh Woollen Mill. The Clark family, of the Arnold Clark car dealership, and Jim McColl, of Clyde Blowers, take ninth and 10th spot, with fortunes of ¡ê1.1bn and ¡ê1.07bn respectively. Robert Watts, the compiler of The Sunday Times Rich List 2017, said: \"This year's larger-than-ever rich list lays bare how the fortunes of Britain's 1,000 wealthiest individuals and families have fared amid the astonishing events of the past 12 months. \"Our Scottish list of 10 billionaires shatters the myth this country's economy runs on oil alone. Scotland is a place where 10-figure fortunes can be built from whisky, car dealing or even bottled water. \"This reflects the changing nature of wealth in 21st-century Britain. \"Gone are the days when the rich list would be dominated by finance, property or manufacturing. Greater diversity of entrepreneurial success is good news for the wider economy, and ultimately us all.\" The 160-page special edition of The Sunday Times Magazine reveals the wealth of the 1,000 richest people in Britain and will be published this Sunday, May 7.", "question": "The 10 richest individuals or families in Scotland have a @placeholder wealth of ¡ê 14.71 bn , according to a new study .", "option_0": "record", "option_1": "doubled", "option_2": "net", "option_3": "combined", "option_4": "growing"}
{"id": 1898, "article": "The agent for Andrew Turner, David Walter, asked to leave his position, claiming it had become \"untenable\". In a letter seen by the BBC, Mr Walter raised concerns he had about campaign funds and management. Mr Turner said Mr Walter's opinions were \"not shared by other members\" of the campaign team. Election agents are legally responsible for their candidate's campaign. Under Electoral Commission rules they cannot resign, instead the appointment has to be revoked by the candidate. In the letter to Mr Turner, Mr Walter said: \"I have for some time been unhappy to continue as your nominated election agent.\" He said he was concerned about \"significant anomalies and ambiguities\" relating to financial aspects of the campaign. In a statement, Mr Turner said: \"David of course is entitled to his opinions, but they are not shared by other members of the team, the Conservative Association's officers or the majority of voters I have been speaking to every day. \"Naturally, this is disappointing, but with only 10 days to go to the election I will be concentrating on the issues that islanders are concerned about and working with my tremendously supportive campaign team towards a victory.\" Mr Turner, who was first elected as the island's MP in 2001, survived a vote of no confidence earlier this year from within his own party. The other candidates for the constituency are: Stewart Blackmore (Labour) David Goodall (Liberal Democrats) Vix Lowthion (Green) Iain McKie (UKIP) Ian Stephens (Independent)", "question": "The election agent for the Isle of Wight 's Conservative candidate has been @placeholder , just over a week before polling day .", "option_0": "condemned", "option_1": "lifted", "option_2": "replaced", "option_3": "suspended", "option_4": "cleared"}
{"id": 1899, "article": "France's highest military honour was meant to be posted to former soldier Joseph Carter, who was part of the Normandy landings in 1944. But no postcode on the package meant it was delivered to Costco in Waterloo Road, Liverpool 3, instead of to Mr Carter at Waterloo Road, L22. Costco passed it to the Royal British Legion who found Mr Carter on Friday. On being told about the attempts to find him, Mr Carter quipped: \"I bet you thought I was dead, didn't you.\" The French embassy, who posted the medal, has apologised for the error. A spokesman said: \"The embassy uses the addresses which are given by the veterans themselves when they send their application.\" Prior to Mr Carter being found, Bill Sergeant, from the Royal British Legion, told BBC Radio Merseyside he wanted to hand over the medal in time for Remembrance Sunday. He said it was found by staff at the store in their mail last month. Mr Sergeant added: \"It has been lingering around in Costco for a couple of weeks now, waiting for the French consulate to collect it. \"I was selling poppies there last week when one of the managers asked if I could help. \"I've tried hard and failed miserably, I've used up one pair of shoes tramping around trying to find this address without success.\" A few hours after Mr Sergeant said he was \"throwing it open\" to see if anyone could help, the veteran was found. A worker at the Costco branch said they had kept the medal for about four weeks and contacted the French embassy. In 2014, French President Fran?ois Hollande announced the honour would be awarded to all British veterans who took part in military operations in France between 1944 and 1945.", "question": "A L¨¦gion d' Honneur medal destined for a World War Two veteran was instead @placeholder by staff at a supermarket .", "option_0": "dominated", "option_1": "received", "option_2": "beaten", "option_3": "criticised", "option_4": "stolen"}
{"id": 1900, "article": "The Coastguard said they had received a call at about 13:45 from a member of the public who was concerned about the kayakers. The two men - who were both in the same kayak - were making their way from Fisherrow Nest to Musselburgh. Following a search, the men were winched into a helicopter and taken to hospital. A spokesman for the Coastguard said they appeared to be suffering from mild hypothermia. Their condition is not thought to be life-threatening. Before their rescue, the men were last spotted at about 14:45 north-west of Fisherrow and drifting towards Joppa. South Queensferry, Fisherrow and North Berwick Coastguard rescue teams and the Coastguard search and rescue helicopter based at Prestwick were sent to the scene. Kaimes Beasley, from HM Coastguard, said: \"This was a very swift water rescue and, given the conditions at sea today, these two men are extremely lucky. \"We are grateful to the member of the public who called us to report this incident - they did exactly the right thing when they saw the weather conditions were poor. \"This incident shows you how important it is to be prepared for your water activity, and have several means of contacting the Coastguard or raising an alarm, if you're heading out to sea.\"", "question": "Two kayakers have been rescued in rough seas @placeholder to their upturned boat in the Firth of Forth .", "option_0": "linked", "option_1": "exposed", "option_2": "clinging", "option_3": "forced", "option_4": "according"}
{"id": 1901, "article": "In a video posted on YouTube, Yibram Saab read out a letter to his father in which he condemned \"the brutal repression by the country's security forces\" of opposition protests. He posted the video after a student was killed at an anti-government march. Almost 30 people have been killed in protest-related violence since 1 April. Under the Venezuelan constitution, the ombudsman's office probes complaints against the government and is independent of the executive, legislative and judicial powers. But opposition leaders have accused ombudsman Tarek William Saab of siding with the government of President Maduro. The video in which his son openly condemns the security forces was widely picked up by opposition websites. Speaking directly into the camera, Yibram Saab referred to the latest person to be killed in anti-government protests. \"Juan Pablo Pernalete, a 20-year-old university student, was killed through the terrible and inhumane use of teargas when he was hit [by a teargas canister] in the chest,\" he said. \"That could've been me!\" Yibram Saab said neither he nor his younger sister had been threatened and that he was speaking out \"freely\". \"I'm doing this motivated by the principles and values which my dad taught me, which I'm grateful for.\" The president's son, Nicolas Maduro Guerra, has criticised the video on Twitter. He wrote that Yibram Saad, his childhood friend, was being manipulated by the opposition and reminded him that \"the enemies of the nation\" were still the same. \"Your three minutes of fame could have been something different,\" wrote Mr Maduro Guerra. \"You could have picked up the phone and spoken to your father, conveying with love your apprehension and listening to him.\" The latest wave of anti-government protest was triggered when the Supreme Court announced on 29 March that it was taking over the powers of the opposition-controlled National Assembly. While the Supreme Court reversed it just three days later, government critics argued the original ruling had undermined the country's separation of powers. Opposition lawmakers have since been demanding that the judges responsible for the ruling step down. They have organised a number of protest marches and tried to reach Tarek William Saab's office to demand that he investigate their complaints against the Supreme Court. They are also calling for presidential elections scheduled for late 2018 to be brought forward as they blame socialist President Nicolas Maduro for the political and economic crisis engulfing Venezuela. On Wednesday, the regional body Organization of American States (OAS) voted in favour of convening a meeting of foreign minister to consider the situation in Venezuela. Angered by what it called the OAS's meddling, Venezuela announced it would start the process of withdrawing from the organisation on Thursday.", "question": "The son of Venezuela 's rights ombudsman , Tarek William Saab , has called on his father to \" stop the injustice which has @placeholder Venezuela \" .", "option_0": "gripped", "option_1": "sunk", "option_2": "targeted", "option_3": "claimed", "option_4": "denied"}
{"id": 1902, "article": "Dinosaur Zoo's cast of large-scale puppet creatures will be in Inverness next week when it takes the stage at the city's Eden Court. Meat-eater Australovenator and the giant Titanosaur will be among the dinosaurs represented in the live show. Fossils of both beasts have been found in Australia. But the rocks that make up the Highlands also hold clues to a menagerie of strange and ancient animals. Fossils of fish that lived in a tropical lake 385 million years ago have been found in stone quarried at Achanarras in Caithness. Called Lake Orcadie, those ancient warm waters' predators included the 50cm (20in)-long sharp toothed Glytolepis and also armour-plated Coccosteus. Other early marine creatures - ammonites and bivalves - have been uncovered on the banks of the River Brora in Sutherland. Many fossil discoveries in the Highlands were made by Hugh Miller, a skilled stonemason and writer, who was born in Cromarty in 1802. His study of fossils and rocks around his home on the Cromarty Firth has been credited with contributing to a greater understanding of the history of the Earth. Miller made the first discovery of Pterichthyodes, a fish with distinctive box-like armour, at Achanarras. Pterichthyodes is thought to have been a bottom feeder that sought out food in the muddy shallows of Lake Orcadie. The Isle of Skye, however, is where some of the most exciting finds have been made. In 2008, scientists revealed that the earliest turtles known to live in water had been discovered on the island. The 164 million-year-old reptile fossils were found on a beach at Cladach a'Ghlinne, on the Strathaird peninsula in southern Skye. The new species formed a missing link between ancient terrestrial turtles and their modern, aquatic descendants. The discovery of Eileanchelys waldmani, which translates as \"the turtle from the island\", was reported in the Royal Society journals. Evidence of dinosaurs and ancient large reptiles from other periods have also been found on the island. Many have been studied by Dr Neil Clark, of University of Glasgow's Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, who has described Skye as one of the world's most important palaeontology sites. The fossils include more than 100 marks left by a lizard called Isochirotherium - also known as the hand-beast - 270 million years ago. Skye also provides the Highlands with its link to Australia. Palaeontologists have used dinosaur footprints found at Valtos to help explain what happened at the Dinosaur Stampede National Monument in central Queensland. The monument is a former quarry where, since the 1960s, as many as 4,000 dinosaur footprints have been uncovered. In 1984, the tracks were identified by scientists as being the result of small creatures fleeing from a larger animal, possibly a predator similar to the Tyrannosaurus rex, about 95 million years ago. Others suggests the tracks were left by dinosaurs on their tippy toes as they waded through water. New theories may follow in the future, and \"walking\" with dinosaurs on Skye might again help add weight to those fresh ideas.", "question": "Dinosaur Zoo , a new show from Australia , is @placeholder for the Highlands , an area with a rich prehistoric past of its own and an unusual link to the fossil record of Down Under .", "option_0": "set", "option_1": "screened", "option_2": "continuing", "option_3": "remembered", "option_4": "headed"}
{"id": 1903, "article": "Tom Alexander, who will leave the chief executive role on 31 August, said he wished \"to pursue other interests\". He will be replaced by Olaf Swantee, who is currently executive vice president at France Telecom. Everything Everywhere is a joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom. It started operations in May 2010 when the two companies merged their UK operations. Telecoms analysts have questioned whether the merger has been carried out as smoothly as had been intended. Mr Alexander was Everything Everywhere's first chief executive. He had previously held the same position at Orange UK from 2008. \"It's been my privilege to serve Everything Everywhere these past twelve months, and Orange before that,\" he said. \"Olaf will be an excellent chief executive and leader for Everything Everywhere moving forward.\" Mr Alexander will continue in an advisory role at the company until the end of the year. Mr Swantee is already on the board of Everything Everywhere. Prior to joining France Telecom, he worked for computer maker HP. Everything Everywhere is the UK's largest mobile phone network operator, with about 28 million customers across the Orange and T-Mobile brands. It has 16,000 employees and 700 stores. Its number of new contract customers slowed in the first quarter of 2011.", "question": "The boss of Everything Everywhere , the parent @placeholder of UK mobile phone networks Orange and T - Mobile , is standing down for \" personal reasons \" .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "state", "option_2": "head", "option_3": "version", "option_4": "death"}
{"id": 1904, "article": "The Oxford quintet emerged, bathed in white light, to the haunting piano refrain of Daydreaming, from last year's A Moon Shaped Pool album. Two hours and 25 songs later, they closed with Karma Police, singing: \"For a minute there, I lost myself.\" It felt like a perfect metaphor for the band's power to transport an audience. The performance came on the 20th anniversary of Radiohead's first headline set at Glastonbury. That show, which took place just weeks after they released OK Computer, has often been called the festival's best ever. However, frontman Thom Yorke recently told BBC 6 Music he had been on the verge of walking off the stage, after the band's monitors exploded, meaning they could not hear each other. \"I just went over to Ed [O'Brien, guitarist] and said, 'I'm off mate, see you later,'\" he recalled. \"He turned around and went, 'If you do, you'll probably live the rest of your life regretting it.' I went, 'Good point.'\" There were no such problems on Friday night, as the band embarked on a career-spanning set that held their experimental and anthemic qualities in perfect balance. Airbag was thrilling, Pyramid Song devastating, and Everything In It's Right Place a pulsing, twisted Radiohead version of a club classic. They even pulled out the much-maligned Creep - the angsty, teenage anthem that gave them early success, but became a millstone around their necks as they matured into a fearlessly experimental art-rock outfit. Things got political - briefly - during No Surprises, where the lyric \"bring down the government, they don't speak for us,\" elicited a huge cheer from the festival's left-leaning audience. As the song ended, Yorke commented: \"See you later, Theresa. Just shut the door on your way out.\" That aside, the frontman rarely spoke during the set, except to thank Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis \"for having us at your lovely farm today\". \"Thank you very much for coming to this field to listen to us this evening,\" he added during the encore. \"Probably we'll see you in some other fields over the weekend.\" Radiohead were preceded on the Pyramid Stage by indie-dance band The xx, whose spiralling, hypnotic songs soundtracked dusk on Worthy Farm. Immediately before them, rock group Royal Blood celebrated with champagne on stage as their second album, How Did We Get So Dark, entered the charts at number one. Speaking to the BBC, singer Mike Kerr said the band were bowled over by the two events converging. \"We definitely have a sense that this is a one-off thing. It's something I'll look back on as a very special time.\" Elsewhere on Friday, there were sets from Sleaford Mods, Clean Bandit, Dizzee Rascal, The Lemon Twigs and Flaming Lips. On The Other Stage, pop star Lorde began her set \"trapped\" inside a clear plastic box that tilted back-and-forth above her band. Once she emerged onto the stage, she dedicated a recently-released song, The Louvre, to anyone in the audience who was harbouring a secret crush. \"Shut your eyes and listen to the song, and just will it to happen,\" she said. \"Maybe they will kiss you tonight. Who knows?\" Actor Bradley Cooper appeared on the Pyramid Stage to film a scene for his new movie, a remake of the musical A Star Is Born. He then introduced Kris Kristofferson, who was watched from the side of the stage by fellow Hollywood star Brad Pitt. Johnny Depp also joined the singer-songwriter, who was 81 yesterday, playing guitar on one of the songs. Depp caused controversy on Thursday, as he joked about assassinating Donald Trump during an appearance at Glastonbury. He has since apologised. Former footballer David Beckham also made his first visit to Glastonbury, to help organiser Michael Eavis launch a new social housing project. He planted a tree at the development in the nearby village of Pilton, before heading to the event with his 18-year-old son, Brooklyn. If they stick around until Saturday, they will see acts including Stormzy, Katy Perry, Liam Gallagher and headliners the Foo Fighters. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will also appear on the Pyramid Stage to introduce US rap act Run The Jewels. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "Absorbing , challenging and achingly beautiful - Radiohead @placeholder a typically Radiohead sort of set for Glastonbury 's opening night .", "option_0": "delivered", "option_1": "set", "option_2": "wrote", "option_3": "holds", "option_4": "shaped"}
{"id": 1905, "article": "The place is familiar from thousands of miles of pre-season testing. And 25 years of races, dating back to its famous debut in 1991, when Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell duelled wheel-to-wheel, centimetres apart, sparks flying, down the long pit straight. That first race on the Circuit de Catalunya was in some ways a misleading debut. Held in early autumn, rather than the since-traditional spring date, it rained, and there was action aplenty. In its new date, the race is nearly always dry - remarkably, the last wet one was Michael Schumacher's brilliant first Ferrari victory in 1996 - and the racing is rarely scintillating. The track is a marvellous test for a grand prix car - all long, challenging corners, which put a premium on aerodynamic excellence, and give the tyres a tough time - but that makes overtaking difficult. No matter. Bold and beautiful Barcelona down the road. The place packed with fans worshipping their hero Fernando Alonso. Filigree seed pods drifting on the breeze. Some great fast corners - Turn Three, Turn Nine - to watch F1 cars and drivers at their best. It is a weekend to savour. BBC chief F1 writer Andrew Benson. Never want to miss the latest Formula 1 news? You can now add F1 and all the other sports and teams you follow to your personalised My Sport home.", "question": "A quick hop to the Catalonia coast . A short drive north to the Valles @placeholder above Barcelona . The Pyrenees on the horizon . Going to the Spanish Grand Prix feels a little like coming home for the Formula 1 fraternity .", "option_0": "region", "option_1": "team", "option_2": "era", "option_3": "world", "option_4": "estuary"}
{"id": 1906, "article": "Radio 1 DJ B Traits, 2 Many DJs, Tensnake and Eli & Fur also performed at Groove Loch Ness. The 5,000-ticket event was held in a field at Dores near Inverness used by the RockNess festival, which has not been held since 2013. Groove Loch Ness was organised in just eight months by four people working in the music industry in Scotland. Groove Armada closed the festival which ran through until 02:00. Police estimated about 4,500 festival-goers attended the event, which they said passed without significant incident. Officers carried out 31 positive drugs searches over the course of the day and dealt with only one report of minor disorder.", "question": "Groove Armada have @placeholder a new dance music festival on the shores of Loch Ness .", "option_0": "announced", "option_1": "opened", "option_2": "released", "option_3": "signed", "option_4": "headlined"}
{"id": 1907, "article": "One-time gains in the quarter helped offset losses caused by cheaper imports to India and Europe from the world's top steel producer, China. Net profit at Tata Steel, which is part of a conglomerate of firms, rose to 15.29bn rupees (?¡ê152m; $233m). But in the UK, Tata Steel faces a \"structurally challenging environment\", it said. Analysts had forecast a second-quarter net profit of 11.8bn rupees for the firm. But profit was helped by 28bn rupees earned from the sale of investments during the quarter, Tata said. However, the firm was gloomy in its outlook for its UK business. \"Weak domestic manufacturing demand, surging imports, a strong pound and steep regulatory and business costs\" were all challenges in the UK, the firm said. In October, it announced nearly 1,200 job losses at its plants in Scunthorpe and Lanarkshire. Nine hundred jobs will be lost at the firm's plant in Scunthorpe. The remaining 270 jobs will go in Scotland.", "question": "India 's Tata Steel has reported a surprise 22 % rise in second - quarter @placeholder net profit .", "option_0": "consolidated", "option_1": "called", "option_2": "show", "option_3": "neighbouring", "option_4": "affecting"}
{"id": 1908, "article": "This year, he starts as a genuine title contender and with a recent clay court record second to none. The Italian Open champion has won more matches than both Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal in the three clay Masters events leading up to the French Open. Crucially, Murray is now able to play his natural game. He is no longer compromised by his back or by his movement, he trusts himself on clay, and the results have been remarkable. Murray has always felt he needed to play himself in on clay, but, all too frequently the courts changed to grass just as he was getting his eye in. He was also hindered by that lower back injury, which started troubling him as early as 2011. Clay puts greater strain on the back. It is a slow surface, which requires greater rotation to impart the same amount of power. Murray was too often in discomfort, so he decided surgery was the answer. The operation in the autumn of 2013 was a success and opened up possibilities on a surface that had appeared likely to remain his weakest suit. Fast forward to Munich last May and the sight of Murray donning a pair of lederhosen to celebrate his first clay court title. He then beat Nadal on home soil to win the Madrid Masters the following week, then won all three of his matches on clay as Great Britain beat Belgium in November to clinch the Davis Cup. After a semi-final exit in Monte Carlo this year, Murray has faced Djokovic in the final in both Madrid and Rome. His victory at the Foro Italico was his first over the world number one on any surface for nine months. Murray's run of success may have been unexpected, but it was not achieved without hard graft. \"I worked a lot on my movement last year,\" Murray told BBC Sport. \"I didn't play Monte Carlo last year and I did a training block in Barcelona where I spent loads of the time working on my movement. \"It's a big strength in my game on the other surfaces, then on clay it was something that was letting me down. I wasn't sliding well or timing the slides properly.\" Success has also stemmed from a decision to treat clay more like a surface for all seasons. \"I worked a lot on it the weeks before the World Tour Finals and Davis Cup,\" Murray added. \"I've been trying to spend more time on the clay throughout the year rather than just a six-week period, so I'm not forgetting how to play on the surface. That's helped.\" Practising with British number two Aljaz Bedene on indoor clay at The Queen's Club before the Davis Cup final paid dividends. Murray also has the green clay courts of The All England Club to call upon. He is a fabulous returner, a master of constructing a point and, on his better days, a formidable practitioner of the drop shot. In other words, he should be a natural on a surface that encourages long rallies. Some extra muscle on his forehand in recent weeks has also helped curtail some rallies, while his beefed up serve gives him an opportunity to win points more quickly than he is accustomed to on clay. With Djokovic's recent dominance and Nadal looking more like the player who has won nine French Open titles, it is no surprise Murray starts as third favourite. But if he can maintain his recent form and sustain his intensity over five sets, then the Scot has the credentials of a clay court Grand Slam champion. And I never thought I would write that. Twice a French Open runner-up, Murray first called on Spaniard Alex Corretja to help improve his clay court game during the 2008 season. The pair eventually parted company in 2011 with Murray still searching for an elusive title on the surface, but five years on Corretja believes the Scot is showing more consistency in his game. \"I always felt he had a great game to play anywhere,\" the former world number two told BBC Sport. \"He can adjust very well to the surfaces. \"He is more mature, more calm - he understands the game better. This year he came into the clay court season knowing he has a good chance. \"Right now I see him - in the best of five [sets] - as someone very difficult to beat. Physically he is very strong. Mentally, I see him as much more consistent now.\" Corretja, who won 17 career titles, has also recognised a change in Murray's approach. \"He doesn't need to be talking to his box the whole time,\" added the 42-year-old. \"He loses focus, he loses energy and he doesn't think about playing the next point. \"I talked to him a lot about that, and I'm very happy the way he is controlling his emotions right now because I think it's much better. \"When we worked together we never had this feeling that he was arguing too much - but it was the way he was. \"I see him now and his focus is better for his game, because he doesn't spend that much time thinking about the past point. He is more thinking about the present and the future.\" Corretja feels surgery on Murray's back towards the end of his time as coach may also have helped the current world number two \"appreciate the game he has\". \"When you get through difficult situations and moments in your career, that is when you realise you can do a lot of things and maybe you were not doing things properly,\" he added. Corretja, a Sydney Olympics bronze medallist, says Murray will head into Roland Garros with confidence after beating both Djokovic and Nadal on clay this season. \"Now I see him with much more patience on clay. He knows that he can be on there for a long time but he doesn't care. He's a very tough opponent right now,\" he said. \"Against Rafa, sometimes tactically it's a little easier, because he can play up to Rafa's backhand and then step in and go inside out, or even step in and hit a cross-court backhand,\" he added. \"Against Djokovic, he faces someone that is similar to him. Very consistent, tough to win points, tough to hit winners, tough to hit even serves. Djokovic returns very well. \"For him mentally, beating Djokovic in the final in Rome helps him to get into the French Open knowing he can beat anyone on clay - even if it's Djokovic or Rafa.\" We've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter ahead of the Euros and Olympics, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here.", "question": "Three years ago , Andy Murray did not even make it to Roland Garros because of a persistent back injury which had @placeholder up in Rome 10 days earlier .", "option_0": "shown", "option_1": "picked", "option_2": "set", "option_3": "locked", "option_4": "flared"}
{"id": 1909, "article": "NTS has appealed to its members for donations to pay for almost ¡ê250,000-worth of upgrades to a path, bridge and visitor centre at Glencoe and Dalness. The trust said that in 2013-14 it expected to spend ¡ê600,000 in total looking after its areas in Glencoe. Scenes with actors Dame Judi Dench and Daniel Craig were shot in the area. Anna Preuss, NTS's filming manager, said last month that the film's crew were \"absolutely blown away\" by the landscape and red deer stags that appeared during the shoot. The upgrades are planned for the next two years. NTS said it had planned to spend ¡ê140,000 on a replacement boiler for the visitor centre, but a cheaper repair had been done instead.", "question": "The National Trust for Scotland has @placeholder new funds to help it look after landscape that was used as backdrop for new James Bond film Skyfall .", "option_0": "sought", "option_1": "spent", "option_2": "reported", "option_3": "seen", "option_4": "offered"}
{"id": 1910, "article": "The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, headbutted and punched PC Gwen Louden in the court's foyer on Thursday. It is understood that the officer had facial injuries X-rayed at Dundee's Ninewells Hosptal. The girl admitted a charge of assault to injury at a hearing on Friday. The teenager had been thrown out of the building's main courtroom as a result of her behaviour while other cases were being heard. She was then asked to leave the court entirely before confronting PC Loudon and another officer. David Duncan, defending, said: \"The only question here is her status between now and sentencing.\" Sheriff Alistair Carmichael granted bail and deferred sentence until February for social work background reports and an update on an existing community payback order", "question": "A 16 - year - old girl thrown out of Dundee Sheriff Court for misbehaving @placeholder to the building and attacked a police officer .", "option_0": "powers", "option_1": "moved", "option_2": "returned", "option_3": "linked", "option_4": "insulting"}
{"id": 1911, "article": "Campbell, 29, previously played for the club on loan in the 2007-08 season, scoring 15 goals to help Hull win promotion from the Championship. He scored once in 13 appearances for Palace last season before leaving when his contract expired on 30 June. BBC Sport also understands Hull have been given permission to speak to Liverpool midfielder Kevin Stewart. The 23-year-old, who signed a new four-year contract in November, has left the Reds' pre-season tour of Hong Kong to hold talks with the Championship club over a transfer which could be worth ¡ê8m. Hull manager Leonid Slutsky told the club website: \"Each transfer is difficult work and it is like having two jobs at the moment - one as a coach and one having conversations with potential new players. \"There are a lot of negotiations going on right now and we are very close to more.\" Meanwhile, goalkeeper Eldin Jakupovic has signed for Leicester City for an undisclosed fee, joining Tom Huddlestone, Josh Tymon and Curtis Davies in leaving the Tigers this summer. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "question": "Striker Fraizer Campbell has @placeholder Hull City on a two - year contract after being released by Crystal Palace .", "option_0": "prop", "option_1": "rejoined", "option_2": "agreed", "option_3": "side", "option_4": "retired"}
{"id": 1912, "article": "Fermanagh man Elliott won by 1.99 seconds from the Carrickfergus rider to stretch his championship lead over Seeley to 22 points. Glenn Irwin was fifth and seventh in the Supersport races with Andy Reid sixth in the opener. Michael Laverty was fifth in the opening Superbike race. Tyco BMW rider Seeley started on pole for the Superstock event and held an early lead at the Lincolnshire circuit. However, Elliott moved ahead on the third lap on his Morello Racing Kawasaki and stayed in front to take maximum points. Irwin remains third in the Supersport standings but is now 91 points behind leader Luke Stapleford, who won both races. Jordanstown rider Reid, who retired in the second race, is back in sixth place. Toomebridge man Laverty crashed out of the second Superbike race and lies fifth in the series.", "question": "Josh Elliott @placeholder out Alastair Seeley in Sunday 's British Superstock 1000c showdown between the Northern Ireland riders at Cadwell Park .", "option_0": "carried", "option_1": "edged", "option_2": "sought", "option_3": "missed", "option_4": "sets"}
{"id": 1913, "article": "Two Syrian nationals provided first aid to National Democratic Party (NPD) member Stefan Jagsch who was injured in the accident in Hesse state, DPA news agency said. It said the refugees - who happened to be passing at the time - had left by the time police arrived. NPD members have taken part in a series of anti-immigrant marches in Germany. However, regional NPD official Jean Christoph Fiedler praised the two refugees for \"a very good, humane act\", the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper reported. Germany's constitutional court is currently considering whether to ban the NPD. The federal upper house (Bundesrat) of the parliament took the case to the court, by arguing in a petition that the party is racist and anti-Semitic, and poses a threat to Germany's democratic order. A previous attempt to ban the NPD failed in 2003 because the judges dismissed evidence provided by state agents who had infiltrated the party. The NPD's anti-immigrant stance is part of widespread German anxiety about the influx of non-EU migrants, many of them Muslim Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans fleeing war and human rights abuses. Germany moves to cut asylum claims What next for Germany's new migrants? German anti-migrant protests 'shameful' Migrant attacks reveal dark side of Germany", "question": "A far - right German politician has been @placeholder by refugees after he crashed his car in a tree , German media report .", "option_0": "rescued", "option_1": "shot", "option_2": "backed", "option_3": "launched", "option_4": "sacked"}
{"id": 1914, "article": "His voice is a little weaker but he draws energy from large fired-up crowds who break into chants of \"USA! USA!\" In St Augustine, people were queuing from 10:00 for a 15:00 speech. As the Trump team bounces from campaign stop to campaign stop, sweeping along cleared highways escorted by outriders, some advisers accept that crowd sizes don't necessarily translate into votes. And yet they wonder at the 12,000 (their figure) who turned out on Monday night in Tampa for a candidate some have written off. Whether Trump goes down to defeat, he has built a formidable following. There can be a dangerous edge to the passion of his supporters. He speaks with the help of a prompter but he rarely sticks to his text. To his supporters his refusal to be scripted, to stick to the customs and niceties of political debate is a mark of his authenticity. His core message remains; that a corrupt elite is running America for its own interests while the little guy is left behind, sacrificed on the altar of globalisation. One Republican insider said that if Trump had just stuck to his economic pitch it might have been a different race but, to a degree, he has run against himself, his thin skin, his flaws and his sense of grievance. Despite Trump's comments about women and the string of accusers who have come forward with allegations of sexual assault, they appear to have had little impact among his crowds, among his believers. He has - at least among his own supporters - defused a dangerous issue by promising to sue his accusers. Instead, he focuses on what he calls the lies of \"crooked Hillary Clinton\". On Monday night, he declared \"she lies more than any other human being\". His crowds relish it, interspersing cries of \"lock her up!\" with boos at the mere mention of her name. If she wins, many in the country will doubt her legitimacy. Trump's base, his core support, is holding up. His believers are impervious to revelations. They believe in a great conspiracy: that powerful corporations, wealthy donors and the media are taking the country from them. They may not understand this web of power but it rings true to them. In St Augustine, Trump turned on the media depicting them as \"these thieves and crooksa€| the media, they're almost as crooked as Hillary. Without the media she would be nothing... They're disgraceful.\" At that point a section of the crowd turns towards us on the media platform shaking fists of rage. The undercurrent at the rallies is Americanism, of America first. The crowds are praised for their patriotism. You won't find chants of \"USA! USA!' at Clinton rallies, they are told. For a candidate behind in the polls one constant muse is Brexit. Trump often talks about it. It offers hope that somewhere out there among the rolling hills of the Republic there are hidden pools of voters, too shy to acknowledge they are Trumpeteers, much like the Leave campaign found during the referendum campaign in the UK. In the patient lines standing in the Florida sun waiting for access to the amphitheatres there is a willingness to talk. Time and again I asked whether the election could be rigged as Donald Trump has suggested. Many believed it. Fewer said they would not accept the result if it went against them but some were ready to resist. One man told me the situation was \"scary\". For months audiences have been told, \"Don't let the establishment elites steal the election\". There are many people pumped up, primed to contest an election that may go against them. It is easy inside the bubble of the Trump campaign to forget the mountain he has to climb to secure the electoral college votes to win. His campaign has unleashed something powerful, something suppressed, something pent up: a deep longing for an America his supporters fear has been taken from them. The maths of the electoral college suggest Hillary Clinton is going to win but Trump's crowds, undeterred by polls, makes one pause in a season of political upset.", "question": "It is the final stretch of a brash , improbable campaign . Donald Trump is rolling through Florida 's campaign stops ; places like St Augustine , Tampa , Sanford , Tallahassee . It is a @placeholder he must win if he is to have a chance of claiming the White House .", "option_0": "fight", "option_1": "game", "option_2": "war", "option_3": "remark", "option_4": "state"}
{"id": 1915, "article": "Karen Black, from Worksop in Nottinghamshire, was last seen in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, on 10 November 2006. A case review in 2015 saw four men arrested on suspicion of murder in July 2016, but they were later released without charge. Her niece Roxanne Davis said \"no one in the family can be at peace\". Mother-of-one Ms Black, 34, was seen on a train from Worksop to Cleethorpes and then stayed at a guesthouse in the town. Nottinghamshire Police and Humberside Police changed the case from missing persons to a murder investigation in 2008 but it was a review in 2015 which lead to the arrests. For more on this and other Nottinghamshire stories The four men arrested, aged 40, 45, 54 and 58, were all from the Cleethorpes area. Ms Davis said: \"It is mind-blowing. You can't imagine that someone in your family could just one day be there and then the next minute you don't know what has happened to them. \"No one in the family can be at peace with it because we don't know what to think, whether she is alive or something bad has happened to her - it is just awful.\" Det Insp Andy Bateman of Nottinghamshire Police said they hoped new lines of enquiry and the appeal would find the culprit. He said: \"This is a heart-breaking appeal from a girl who loved her aunt very much and I'm now appealing to the people of Cleethorpes within this tight-knit community. \"I do believe that someone somewhere has that piece of information that could provide the assistance we need and subsequently the closure for the family.\"", "question": "The family of a woman missing for 10 years has appealed to the \" tight - knit \" community where she @placeholder .", "option_0": "doubled", "option_1": "is", "option_2": "slept", "option_3": "vanished", "option_4": "remains"}
{"id": 1916, "article": "The men died after inhaling poisonous gases that had collected in the well in Haryana state, a local official said. Much of India is in the grip of a severe drought, which has killed at least 300 people. Haryana and two other states were last week criticised by India's Supreme Court for failing to acknowledge the water shortage problem. Some local reports said the men, from the Jind district of Haryana, had decided to try to get the well working again to alleviate an acute shortage of drinking water in the area. But local deputy police chief Virender Singh denied that they needed drinking water, saying the men had been hoping to use the well for bathing and washing purposes. \"The well had not been in use for about five to six years and a poisonous gas had formed in its depths,\" he told the AFP news agency. \"The five men inhaled that and died\". India's water refugees who live in cattle camps Searching for water in drought-hit India Is India facing its worst-ever water crisis? Haryana, along with Gujarat and Bihar, was heavily criticised last week by the Supreme Court for failing to declare a drought in their regions, while a significant number of their people were suffering from a lack of water. At least 330 million people are affected by drought in India, which is taking place as a heat wave with temperatures in excess of 40C extends across much of the country.", "question": "Five villagers in a drought - hit part of northern India have died while trying to @placeholder a disused drinking well .", "option_0": "restore", "option_1": "fill", "option_2": "enter", "option_3": "undergo", "option_4": "obtain"}
{"id": 1917, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device On a freezing, rain-soaked night that provided trademark conditions for an FA Cup shock, a dismal United allowed League Two side Cambridge United to deservedly bridge a 76-place gap between the clubs to earn a fourth-round replay at Old Trafford. And such was the bankruptcy of United's performance that Van Gaal was left in the undignified position of making excuses for the failure of a superpower lying fourth in the Premier League to see off a team lying 12th in the fourth tier of English football. If Van Gaal admitted they were \"twitching our ass\" during some games, there was nothing here that would calm his concerns about United's current condition. The chatter about formations that surrounds much of Van Gaal and United's work this season is acting as a figleaf to disguise a more uncomplicated truth about the way their season is unfolding. As in recent games such as away to Yeovil Town in the FA Cup third round, the home defeat by Southampton and the win at QPR, United's play has been so laboured as to stand on the verge of slow motion. This was never more evident than in the first half at The Abbey Stadium. Predictable, ponderous and without imagination, Cambridge United looked the livelier side and any potential threat United did pose was produced at such a pedestrian tempo it was easily snuffed out. Radamel Falcao's search for goals has been highlighted but he was not at fault here. United's failure to even get in position to deliver the final ball, let alone deliver the final ball, gave him little chance apart from one second-half opportunity. The concern is that this was a United side costing ¡ê183m, containing ¡ê59.7m British record buy Angel Di Maria, Falcao and the great hope Adnan Januzaj, who is currently suffering a fallow period. Even the introduction of ¡ê83m worth of substitutes in the shape of Robin van Persie, Ander Herrera and Luke Shaw could not make the difference. United had 75.2% of possession - 78.8% in the second half - and yet it seemed they were only able to exert their superiority and pose a threat when fatigue set in for Cambridge. United played 587 passes to Cambridge's 192 but could not make it count. When the season started, with the acquisition of the likes of Di Maria and Falcao, it looked like Van Gaal was front-loading his side with goals to compensate for an uncertain defence in pursuit of a top-four place. This led to plenty of excitement in the opening months but momentum has been lost recently. United have won only three of their last eight games, including that victory at Yeovil, scoring just nine goals. The influence of Wayne Rooney, rested on Friday, was sorely missed. He would have relished the sleeves-up battle. When United enjoyed their successes, pace was a key ingredient of their recipe. Where is it now? United may be in fourth place in the Premier League and overwhelming favourites to reach the FA Cup fifth round, but there is no doubt the great Van Gaal revolution that was the hope when he replaced sacked David Moyes has shown signs of stalling. And while Van Gaal's honesty has rightly endeared him to many, he did not cover himself in glory with a succession of lame excuses after United were held to a goalless draw by Cambridge. Pointing out flaws in the pitch is an old one in FA Cup combat but it was more Van Gaal's unexplained grievance (he declined the offer to explain) about referee Chris Foy that carried the whiff of desperation. No-one could recall any serious injustice to United and yet Van Gaal announced \"everything is against us\" without actually producing a shred of evidence to support his claim. Media playback is not supported on this device Make no mistake, had Moyes used similar deflection tactics he would have been criticised so Van Gaal can expect no different - in fact even less so given the money he has been allowed to lavish on his restructured team. And had Moyes deputed Phil Jones to take United's corners he could have expected a bucket of caustic soda to be emptied over his head, so why is Van Gaal overseeing this piece of misplaced innovation? Surely United have better set-piece operators than a defender who showed few of his supposed strengths in an undistinguished display, let alone a hitherto undetected (and so far unfulfilled) talent as a set-piece expert? It did not sit well to hear the manager of Manchester United clutching at straws for failing to beat a team that only returned to the Football League this season. This carried all the classic ingredients that still makes the FA Cup special - a Premier League giant facing the minnows under lights in grisly weather conditions with potential for an upset. And Cambridge United made a nonsense of their lowly status to fulfil their part of the bargain and give the city known around the world for its university a night when it could take pride in its football team. Head coach Richard Money revealed he had told his players: \"Look at that Manchester United shirt. Look at that badge - and then stick your chests out and go out and play.\" And play they did. Two different footballing and financial worlds coming together. Cambridge's players were even warned they would be forking out ¡ê39.99 for a new shirt at the club shop if they fancied a spot of souvenir swapping with the likes of Van Persie or Di Maria. In the event they were all wearing their sweat and rain-soaked Cambridge shirts amid wild celebrations at the final whistle, deserving all the acclaim. Coach Money also deserves credit. Cambridge were superbly organised and motivated. He identified United's defensive weakness and made no secret of his plan to exploit it, with seven players sent into the six-yard box for corners, creating a confusion that almost brought a first-half goal for Josh Coulson. Before tired legs took their toll, Cambridge matched United stride for stride - and then dug in through some nervous closing moments when the likes of heroic keeper Chris Dunn and defenders Coulson and Michael Nelson manned the barricades. They will have their day again in the replay at Old Trafford and may need to dig even deeper. They and the fans who gave them such unswerving backing deserve to savour every moment. Richard Money's tongue may have only been partially in his cheek when he claimed Cambridge chairman Dave Doggett would have been unhappy had they deprived themselves of that trip to Old Trafford by scoring a late winner. Manchester United - according to the Deloitte list published this week - are the second richest club in the world with a revenue of ¡ê433.2m in 2013/14. Cambridge, in contrast, have a turnover of ¡ê1.6m and have flirted with extinction in the last decade. Money admitted the financial difference the replay at Old Trafford would make is \"mind blowing.\" The game may be worth up to ¡ê1.7m, more than Cambridge's annual budget on top of the reported ¡ê500,000 already raked in from this first game. A small part of Cambridge will decamp to Old Trafford on 3 February and, with the possibility of a crowd in excess of 70,000, this well-deserved draw has played its part in further securing Cambridge's financial future. United's annual wage bill is in excess of ¡ê200m - Falcao earns ¡ê265,000-a-week as part of his loan deal from Monaco - while Cambridge's outlay is ¡ê1.1m. To watch Cambridge's players throwing themselves behind goalkeeper Dunn when it looked like Di Maria might snatch a late goal was proof that the FA Cup meant more than money to these players - but there will have been plenty of smiling faces in the boardroom at The Abbey Stadium.", "question": "Louis van Gaal demonstrated a colourful command of the English language this week to @placeholder just how nervous some of Manchester United 's performances this season have made him feel - and it was very unlikely he was sitting comfortably in Cambridge .", "option_0": "hand", "option_1": "illustrate", "option_2": "ensure", "option_3": "celebrate", "option_4": "resign"}
{"id": 1918, "article": "Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School confirmed there was a \"medical emergency\" at about 13:00 BST. Police said detectives were investigating as it was believed the victim was assaulted. An 11-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm (GBH) and is currently in custody. The victim is in a stable condition in hospital, police said. Det Insp Nick Watts appealed for any witnesses or anyone with mobile phone footage of the incident to come forward. \"I would like to reassure the community, particularly the young people who may have witnessed this incident or have been affected by it, that we take incidents of this nature seriously and are in the early stages of conducting a thorough investigation and they will be offered support,\" he added.", "question": "A 12 - year - old boy has been airlifted to hospital after he was seriously injured and @placeholder in a school playground in Reading , police have said .", "option_0": "resulted", "option_1": "collapsed", "option_2": "punched", "option_3": "robbed", "option_4": "killed"}
{"id": 1919, "article": "Lawmakers spent the night refusing to yield the floor, sharing stories of how gun violence had affected their voters and posting on social media. The protest comes in the wake of the recent shootings in Orlando, the deadliest in modern US history. Republicans, who control Congress, dismissed it as a \"publicity stunt\" more interested in making headlines. Earlier on Thursday they adjourned the chamber early with no more votes until after the 4 July holiday. But the protest continued for a few more hours until Representative John Lewis, a civil rights veteran, brought it to an end at about 13:00 local time (17:00 BST). At its height on Wednesday evening, congressmen had chanted \"no bill, no break\" and sang 1960s-era protest songs on the floor of the House of Representatives. Depending on one's perspective, the sit-in was either a shameless publicity stunt in advance of a dangerous piece of legislation or the purest expression of democracy and civil disobedience since the 1960s. But as Democrats chanted, waved signs and sang in protest, there was no debating it was a historic break with congressional traditions that has little precedent in modern times. The display seems unlikely to alter the dynamic in a House dominated by conservatives overwhelmingly opposed to new gun regulations. If anything, after a night of sniping and rancour across the partisan divide, the two sides may be even more deeply entrenched. Republicans view the use of the terrorist watch list to prevent firearm purchases as giving the government the power to suspend due process with next to no judicial oversight. Democrats counter that it's a common-sense first step towards addressing rampant gun violence. Both see their position as guided by principles to be defended to the end, a prospect that makes this dispute likely to be settled only at the ballot box in November. \"While the Americans don't always expect us to win, they do expect us to fight,\" said Democratic Rep Al Green. Scores of gun-control advocates and protesters remained fixed outside the Capitol to support the demonstration. The Democrats' protest follows the gun attack on 12 June, when a man claiming allegiance to the so-called Islamic State group, Omar Mateen, killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Congress has not passed significant gun control legislation since 1994. About two dozen gun control advocates were gathered outside the Capitol building on Thursday morning, tired but intended to stay put while a dwindling group of Democratic House members continued a sit-in inside. Honora Laszlo, from Arlington, Virginia was touched by gun violence at 15, when her mother's best friend was killed by her estranged husband at age 47. In another instance, her close family friend was shot to death in front of his family over an argument over baseball. Most people here say the Newtown school massacre in Connecticut, in which 26 children and adults were killed, is when they got involved in gun control advocacy, she said. But for Ms Laslzo, it was something different. She said the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida was indicative of National Rifle Association \"culture\", and that's what compelled her to act. Ms Laslzo said the time has come to \"make trouble\" to force legislation on gun control and it is no longer acceptable to quietly ask for change.", "question": "US Democrats have ended their sit - in protest over gun control after more than 24 hours @placeholder Congress .", "option_0": "drugs", "option_1": "occupying", "option_2": "planned", "option_3": "change", "option_4": "team"}
{"id": 1920, "article": "British Land is disposing of the Riverside Retail Park in Coleraine, Lisnagelvin shopping centre in Londonderry and a retail unit in Craigavon which is leased to Tesco. It is understood that the sales are part of a broader strategy rather than due to a negative view of the Northern Ireland market. British Land is selling some of its smaller retail parks to free up capital to invest in larger assets. Riverside Retail Park is one of the main retail developments in the north of Northern Ireland and is anchored by Sainsbury's and B&Q. The Lisnagelvin shopping centre is anchored by Tesco and Primark.", "question": "One of the UK 's largest @placeholder firms is selling the three retail assets it owns in Northern Ireland .", "option_0": "property", "option_1": "rate", "option_2": "group", "option_3": "world", "option_4": "trading"}
{"id": 1921, "article": "A snap poll of 700 members of the Institute of Directors found a \"dramatic drop\" in confidence following the hung parliament. Members saw no clear way to resolve the political impasse quickly, the IoD said. However, it found there was \"no desire\" for another election this year. Going to the polls again before Christmas would have a negative impact on the UK economy, which was already facing global headwinds, the IoD said. The loss of the Conservatives' majority in the Commons has led Theresa May to seek the support of MPs from Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party to govern. The resulting political uncertainty could have disastrous consequences for the UK economy, said Stephen Martin, IoD director-general. \"The needs of business and discussion of the economy were largely absent from the [general election] campaign, but this crash in confidence shows how urgently that must change in the new government,\" he said. The main priority for the new government should be striking a new trade deal with the European Union, according to the IoD. The 700 members who responded to its survey wanted a rapid agreement with the European Union on transitional arrangements for Brexit, along with clarity on the status of EU workers in the UK. A separate survey of more than 50 medium sized businesses and trade associations by the Harvard Kennedy School of Business found that \"almost all\" expressed a preference for remaining in the single market and customs union. The report, by former shadow chancellor Ed Balls and Peter Sands, previously the boss of investment bank Standard Chartered, found that all companies questioned were concerned about potentially rising costs from tariffs and customs controls while many were worried about the UK leaving the EU without a deal at all. Mr Sands told the BBC: \"When it comes down to it most would prefer to be in the single market - that makes it easier for them to do business, and if they can't get that they want a free trade agreement or something as close to the single market as possible.\" Andy Silvester, the IoD's head of campaigns, told the BBC he now expected to see more flexibility and pragmatism around the Brexit negotiations. The IoD survey echoed comments by Paul Drechsler, president of the CBI, who said the UK needed to quickly agree transitional arrangements and guarantee EU citizens' rights before focusing Brexit talks on future trading relationships. \"To succeed, the UK needs to build the best partnership seen anywhere in the world between its business and the new government, not just on Brexit but on other issues fundamental to the foundations of our economy,\" he said. Meanwhile, companies have been urged to better prepare for a fall in migrant labour following Brexit. A survey of 500 business leaders by the Resolution Foundation found that almost one in five expected no change to freedom of movement for EU nationals to the UK, while nearly a third believed that the system would be maintained for those with a job offer. The foundation warned that lower migration, along with a higher minimum wage and a tightening jobs market, could mean the end of cheap labour for many UK firms. In Theresa May's cabinet reshuffle, Greg Clarke remains Business Secretary and Philip Hammond stays as Chancellor, while Michael Gove was brought back into the cabinet as Environment Secretary.", "question": "The uncertainty caused by the general election has led business confidence to @placeholder \" through the floor \" , according to a lobby group .", "option_0": "sink", "option_1": "control", "option_2": "force", "option_3": "grow", "option_4": "emerge"}
{"id": 1922, "article": "Hirst, 27, became the first British rugby league player to come out as gay while still playing professionally when he made the announcement last month. Naming fan Jordan Coyle on its website, the club said he would no longer be allowed in the Fox's Biscuits Stadium. \"There is no place in our sport for homophobic abuse,\" it said. \"Since Keegan publicly confirmed his sexual orientation we have been delighted by the response and support he has been given by everybody at the club and indeed throughout our sport,\" it said. \"This is the first and hopefully the last time we witness such unpleasantness.\" The statement added: \"We wish to send out a clear message that if you engage in such behaviour we do not want you to attend our stadium.\" Mr Coyle has been contacted for a comment.", "question": "Batley Bulldogs have @placeholder a fan for sending homophobic tweets to club captain Keegan Hirst and his friend , Coronation Street actor Anthony Cotton .", "option_0": "gained", "option_1": "imposed", "option_2": "become", "option_3": "banned", "option_4": "lodged"}
{"id": 1923, "article": "For as long as I have been covering French news, which is more than 20 years now, there has been a constant refrain that it is time to move away from the old idea of what they call here La Francafrique. La Francafrique was the network of interests that France left behind in Africa when it pulled out as a colonial power. At its best, it was a benign attempt to extend the benefits of trade and development, and keep French-speaking Africa part of France's cultural sphere. Listen to the programme Download the programme At its worst, it was a rotten system that served established interests - in France as well as in African states - with, at its heart, a devil's bargain: you stay tame and send us your minerals, and when we need it, under-the-counter cash. In return, from time-to-time, we will send in French troops to save your presidential mightiness from the mob. As I said, for the last 20 years it has been the cry of every government that this system was immoral and outdated and had to come to an end. Jacques Chirac was a dyed-in-the-wool Gaullist, and La Francafrique was in its essence a Gaullist enterprise, but even Chirac paid lip-service to the notion that times had changed. President Nicolas Sarkozy, a would-be iconoclast, went further and explicitly set out to rewrite the contract. He started scaling back French troop contingents in Africa, and in a famous speech gave deep offence on the continent, when he basically said it was time Africans started doing things for themselves. Sarkozy being Sarkozy, the message came out all wrong and tactless - but the direction of his thought was sound: that the old cosy contacts with France were holding Africa back. And now we have Francois Hollande, who as a good socialist has drunk deeply of the anti-colonialist potion and genuinely feels embarrassed about much of France's past involvement on the continent. Only a couple of weeks ago he was in Algeria and actually got applauded by the Algerian parliament for coming as close as any French leader ever has to saying sorry for taking the place over in 1830. So yes, now we have a socialist leader, a man who has promised to keep downsizing the military commitment in Africa. A man who has made it a point of honour that France will not any more be regarded as the gendarme of Africa, as it was for so many years. And what is he doing, this harbinger of change, this paragon of post-colonial international egalite? What he has been doing this week is sending soldiers back in to Africa. To do what? To help a not-especially-democratic regime in Mali. Single-handedly (because yes, allies from West Africa are going to help, but let us be honest, they are not there yet and even when they are, who knows if they will be any good?) taking on an Islamist rebel army in territories once occupied by romantic white-kepied officers from the Foreign Legion operating out of Beau Geste mud-brick fortresses. I am afraid, though he will hate to admit it, very much being once again the policeman (or - why not? - the gendarme) of this benighted, impoverished corner of the world. And the kicker of the tale is that throughout the momentous events of the last few days with France in effect walking back into its former backyard - the one it gave back to its rightful owners 50 years ago - no-one has said: \"This is neo-colonialism in the garb of the politically-acceptable.\" No-one has said: \"You French, any excuse and you are back in your old haunts, protecting your special friends.\" As far as I can see, just about everyone is behind the French on this one: the Americans, the Europeans, the Africans, even the Algerians. Of course, none of them is actually doing very much - with the honourable exception of the UK and its C17 transport plane that broke down on day one. But they are all cheering France on from the sidelines, and broadly saying: \"Thank goodness one of us still has forces pre-positioned in Africa and a good knowledge of the terrain... and the experience and the backbone to put one in the eye for Aqmi, Mujao, Ansar Dine and the rest of the Sahel's Islamo-narco-terrorists.\" All of which simply goes to show that history is full of ironies. Where a few years ago the notion of France sending in troops to fight a war in a former colony would have provoked howls of contempt - not least from the French Left - today with the rise of Islamism and the threat we all face, the rules have been re-written. For honourable reasons, modern France wants to get away from La Francafrique. For honourable reasons, modern France finds itself going back in. The world has changed. How to listen to From Our Own Correspondent: BBC Radio 4: Saturdays at 11:30 and some Thursdays at 11:00 Listen online or download the podcast. BBC World Service: Short editions Monday-Friday - see World Service programme schedule. You can follow the Magazine on Twitter and on Facebook", "question": "The French President Francois Hollande has this week sent more soldiers into Mali , despite his previous promise to downsize their military presence there . The situation @placeholder France 's complex with the West African country .", "option_0": "acknowledges", "option_1": "writes", "option_2": "reflects", "option_3": "charting", "option_4": "sample"}
{"id": 1924, "article": "In January 2008, three teenagers Adam Swellings, 19, Stephen Sorton, 17, and Jordan Cunliffe, 16, were jailed for life for the murder. Cunliffe's mother Janet claims that although he was present at the scene he did not take part in the murder. She has told Newsbeat that her son was wrongly jailed. All three were convicted under a law called joint enterprise. His mother is campaigning against it. The law allows for several people to be charged with the same offence, even though they may have played very different roles in the crime. Joint enterprise can apply to all crimes, but recently it has been used as a way to prosecute homicide - especially in cases involving gangs of young men. Figures, obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) using Freedom of Information requests, showed that between 2005 and 2013 there were 4,590 prosecutions for homicide with two or more defendants. Prosecutions for homicides involving two or more defendants meet the Crown Prosecution Service's definition of joint enterprise. Gary Newlove was kicked \"like a football\" by the youths, the court heard during the trial. But Ms Cunliffe told Newsbeat that she doesn't think her son deserves to be in prison. \"Jordan wasn't actually confronted by Mr Newlove, so he didn't hear any argument and he didn't have any argument with Mr Newlove,\" she said. \"From Jordan's point of view, as a visually disabled person, because at the time Jordan was blind, he didn't see the incident and obviously because he didn't have an argument with anyone he didn't hear anything that happened. \"We were pretty confident that he hadn't murdered anyone. The evidence proved that he hadn't murdered anyone and we were pretty confident that we could prove that.\" She also told Newsbeat that she didn't know anything about joint enterprise or what it involved before the case, which saw two other youths found not guilty of Mr Newlove's murder. \"Jordan never denied that he was present at the scene,\" she said. \"He knew he must have been in the location when it happened but he didn't have any involvement - but that doesn't seem to matter when it comes to joint enterprise.\" Janet Cunliffe is campaigning to have the joint enterprise law changed or scrapped completely. \"There are occasions when the law can be used and it can be used appropriately,\" she said. \"My point is if someone hasn't actually murdered anyone, someone hasn't planned the murder and hasn't taken part in it, then how can you be put in prison for murder when you haven't actually done anything?\" Former Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips told the BIJ that the law could cause injustice and that joint enterprise needed reform as it was \"capable of producing injustice, undoubtedly\". But Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders said joint enterprise was a vital prosecuting tool. She said: \"In some cases it's not very clear because of the circumstances of the case exactly who did what, but if we know that everyone was participating in the crime then it helps us to be able to prosecute them, and to put those facts before the court. \"If you're just standing there, we won't prosecute you.\" The wife of Gary Newlove still believes all those prosecuted \"are as guilty as the person doing the act\". The Ministry of Justice says the joint enterprise law has allowed some of the most serious offenders to be brought to justice and there are no plans to change it. Jordan Cunlffe's case is being supported by the writer Jimmy McGovern whose recent drama, Common, was inspired by his case. It's available on iPlayer. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube", "question": "Garry Newlove was attacked in August 2007 after he confronted a @placeholder outside his house . He died two days later .", "option_0": "community", "option_1": "neighbour", "option_2": "message", "option_3": "horror", "option_4": "group"}
{"id": 1925, "article": "The documentary, Diana: In Her Own Words, is due to be aired ahead of the 20th anniversary of her death. The tapes, recorded by her speech coach, have never been seen in the UK. Channel 4 said they \"provide a unique insight\" - but Diana's close friend Rosa Monckton said they were a betrayal of the late princess's privacy. Mrs Monckton is writing to the broadcaster to ask them not to air the tapes. She told The Guardian: \"This doesn't belong in the public domain. \"It is a betrayal of her privacy and of the family's privacy.\" The footage was recorded by Peter Settelen, who was hired by the Princess of Wales between 1992 and 1993 to help with her public speaking voice. She was filmed at Kensington Palace and is seen talking about her marriage to the Prince of Wales, their sex life and how she confronted him about his affair with Camilla Parker Bowles, now the Duchess of Cornwall. Former royal spokesman Dickie Arbiter told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that Channel 4 was \"laughing all the way to the bank\". He said: \"These tapes were recorded in private as part of a training session. Anything done behind closed doors remains private.\" Royal biographer Penny Junor added: \"I think it is quite obscene that they are showing this - and immoral, frankly. \"Diana, when she made them... the marriage had just come to an end, they had broken up - she was in a very bad way.\" The princess \"never intended these tapes to be heard by any living soul\", she added, describing the broadcast as \"exploitation\". The tapes were returned to Mr Settelen in 2004 after a dispute with Diana's brother Earl Spencer, who said they belonged to him. They had initially been held by Scotland Yard after being seized in 2001 in a raid on the home of former royal butler Paul Burrell. Excerpts were broadcast in the US later in 2004 after being sold to American broadcaster NBC. The BBC was reportedly planning to show the tapes as part of a documentary in 2007, the year of the 10th anniversary of Diana's death, but scrapped the project. Marcus Rutherford, Mr Settelen's lawyer, defended their broadcast. He told BBC 5 live: \"The claim to privacy actually fails because the police looked at them, the Spencer family looked at them, Paul Burrell look at them presumably and so what was private to Peter as much as to Diana was actually lost in the process. \"So I don't think it's right to say that now, 20 years later after her death, they remain private any more.\" He added that Diana was separating from her husband at the time and \"wanted the world to know what she was going through\". Channel 4's deputy chief creative officer Ralph Lee described the tapes as an \"amazing historical document\" that \"allows us to create a new portrait of Diana\". He told the BBC that \"20 years is a significant amount of time for something like this to now come to light and be aired\". A Channel 4 spokesman said the subjects covered in the tapes were \"a matter of public record and provide a unique insight into the preparations Diana undertook to gain a public voice and tell her own personal story\". Diana died in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "question": "Friends of Princess Diana have urged Channel 4 not to broadcast controversial @placeholder tapes of her talking about her troubled marriage .", "option_0": "statements", "option_1": "interview", "option_2": "traces", "option_3": "growing", "option_4": "video"}
{"id": 1926, "article": "The now-former FBI director was dragged into the headlines for his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email - an issue that she blamed for her shock election defeat against Donald Trump last November. His surprising dismissal by Mr Trump, less than halfway into his 10-year term, came after revelations that he gave inaccurate information about the case to Congress, although that was not mentioned as a reason. Senior Justice Department officials concluded he had violated department procedures by publicly discussing the Clinton investigation. The president, who had previously praised Mr Comey as brave, said the 56-year-old was \"unable\" to lead the FBI. But Mr Comey had also been leading the investigations by the FBI into allegations of Russian interference in favour of Mr Trump in the election - and Democrats say that is the real reason behind the move. At first, Mr Comey grabs attention by his height: 6ft 8ins (2.03m). But he has also been highly regarded for his credentials: the New York native has been circulating in political and legal circles at the highest level for three decades. As US attorney for the South District of New York, he is said to have attracted a following among many ordinary New Yorkers for his determination to go after the wealthy and powerful. In 2003, he became deputy attorney general. He was the one who led the prosecution of lifestyle guru Martha Stewart. He also led the high-profile case against Wall Street broker Frank Quattrone. Mr Comey came further into the spotlight the following year when, as acting attorney general, he revealed a tense showdown with top officials of President George W Bush's administration when then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was ill in hospital. Mr Bush's White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andrew Card pressed him in his hospital bed to re-authorise a controversial programme allowing federal agents to eavesdrop on phone conversations without a warrant. Mr Comey, who was acting as attorney general in Mr Ashcroft's stead, rushed to the hospital and intervened. Changes were subsequently made to the programme and Mr Comey drew wide praise. After leaving the Bush administration, Mr Comey was general counsel for Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund in the US state of Connecticut. He now lectures at Columbia University law school in New York. In July 2013, he was nominated as FBI director by President Barack Obama, who described him as \"a man who stands up very tall for justice and the rule of law\". And in September, he was posted as the seventh director for a 10-year mandate. At the 2016 presidential election, Mr Comey was centre stage. He made two interventions during the campaign to make pronouncements about the investigation into Mrs Clinton's emails. He said in July the case should be closed without prosecution, but then declared - 11 days before November's election - that he had reopened the inquiry because of a discovery of a new trove of Clinton-related emails. During a Senate hearing last week, Mr Comey said that Mrs Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin, had forwarded \"hundreds and thousands\" of emails, \"some of which contain classified information\", to her then-husband. But the FBI later conceded that only two email chains containing classified information were send by Ms Abedin to her husband for printing. Hours later, he was fired, but it does not appear - officially - that this row seems to have cost him his job.", "question": "James Comey has been usually described as a highly - skilled political @placeholder . But his reputation has had seriously blows recently , with his name embroiled in controversy .", "option_0": "culture", "option_1": "operator", "option_2": "activity", "option_3": "divide", "option_4": "school"}
{"id": 1927, "article": "So it is hardly surprising that people continue to wonder why this personification of the American dream does not just move his other football team to London too, particularly as that team has already got a change of clothes in Wembley's wardrobe and toothbrushes in the bathroom. The Pakistan-born billionaire, who became a US citizen in 1991, is visiting England's capital again this week, catching up with Fulham's faltering efforts to return to the Premier League. He will also be watching the Jacksonville Jaguars' latest attempt to win an NFL game at their \"home away from home\" when they meet the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. \"I'm from the colonies, so I remember when the sun never set on the British Empire,\" said the 65-year-old auto-parts tycoon, when I asked him about his links with the city. \"I have a huge affinity with London and I have a lot of relatives here, now and before I was born. I pretty much look at London as the centre of the universe.\" Does this sound like a man who would take much persuading to own two of London's \"football\" teams? The north Florida-based team, bought by Khan in 2011, are almost three-quarters of the way through an initial four-year deal to play one home game a season at Wembley until 2016. That agreement was stretched until 2020 on Thursday as part of a wider five-year deal to play two NFL games a season at English football's national stadium, with an option to extend that to 2025. Given the fact Khan has recently hinted to reporters in Jacksonville that he wants to play one home game a year in London until 2030, it is safe to say that he will be pushing for that option to be exercised. If it is possible to have an anchor tenant in an agreement to rent temporary space at a different sport's national stadium, in a different country, the Jaguars are that tenant. This is no small matter in a league that only guarantees its 32 franchises 10 home games a year, of which two are what we would call pre-season friendlies. Can you imagine how Arsenal season-ticket holders would feel if shareholder Stan Kroenke told them he was taking two or three Premier League games a season to Missouri? And that is before you consider what any Premier League club's local sponsors might have to say about potentially losing more than 10% of the value of their deals, or what the shift in time zones might do to broadcast rights, or that the Jaguars are the long-term anchor tenants in a publicly financed stadium in Jacksonville. When it was suggested to the NFL's head of global expansion, Mark Waller, that US sports fans must be more understanding than British football fans, the British-born, Spurs-supporting executive quite rightly scoffed. \"Trust me, they get angry too,\" said Waller. But the Jaguars are not a typical NFL team, just as Khan is not a typical NFL team owner and the NFL is no longer thinking like a typical US professional sports league. Taking that last point first, it is perhaps worth explaining some of the background to what one journalist at Thursday's announcement described \"as one of the most boring sagas in British sport\", the NFL's coy game of footsie with British fans. With annual revenues of about ¡ê8bn, the NFL has been the world's richest sports league for a long time, a status built on its dominance of the world's most valuable TV market. If you want to sell anything in the States, from cars to carpet cleaner, you have to advertise during its games: last year, 45 of the top 50 most popular TV programmes in the US were NFL games. The league's bosses have frequently made fools of those who have predicted that the NFL cannot get any bigger at home but most experts would suggest it is time for this apex predator to look for new hunting grounds. And that explains the advent of the \"International Series\". Having tried to export the virtues of America's favourite sport with pre-season games and second-tier leagues, the NFL decided only the real deal would do, so Wembley was hired and we got to see a game a year from 2007 to 2012, two games in 2013 and then three games last year and this season. Finding teams to cross the Atlantic has been done on a voluntary basis and has required some gentle persuasion and cold, hard compensation. All but one of the International Series games has sold out (the only one that did not was in 2011 when a labour dispute delayed the announcement of the game, leaving little time to sell the 84,000 tickets¡­they got close, though). And every game has provided what one Wembley executive described to me as \"epic spends\" on food and merchandise. But the NFL is still making a loss on these games as it reimburses any lost revenues at home, as well as covering the significant travel costs. For the league, however, this is an investment and Waller was justifiably proud to say all 32 owners recently voted to continue the experiment until 2025 and to start looking for new territory to conquer, with Germany and Mexico next on the list. London will remain the priority, though, as the extension to the Wembley deal follows a commitment to stage at least two games at Tottenham Hotspur's new White Hart Lane from 2018, providing it is finished. As Waller explained, four games a year in London is half a season, and having two venues should make life easier for the NFL's schedule-makers. Currently, any team that plays here gets the next weekend off, and 'bye weeks' are only possible during the middle eight weeks of the regular season because of the time it takes to ship equipment here (and get it back) and concerns about compromising the competition. That window of opportunity also happens to coincide with two banks of international football, and even the Jaguars still get trumped by the Three Lions. A second stadium, however, means London and the NFL's relationship can take the next step towards full cohabitation: persuading a team (and we are looking at you, Jacksonville) to play back-to-back weekends here, once as a home team, once \"on the road\". From there the next stage will be to do away with the automatic bye, then it will be to persuade those teams who have not yet volunteered for missionary duty, then to try three games abroad in a season, a play-off game, the Super Bowl¡­sorry, I am getting carried away again. Not that I am the only one. British Chancellor George Osborne and London Mayor Boris Johnson are just two prominent domestic cheerleaders for the idea of a full-time London franchise. They have seen the numbers. When asked at what point the NFL will decide it has sold out Wembley enough times, seen its international TV revenues rise sufficiently and flogged enough replica jerseys abroad to be confident it can sustain a permanent overseas presence, Waller did his best Walter Payton impression. \"As you know that's a decision which rests with the 32 owners and it's definitely something that takes a lot of consideration,\" he said, swerving skilfully. \"But our commitment has always been to make sure we have a fan base here to support a team so when the ownership is ready to take that decision the fans and the stadiums will be ready. \"We're in good shape, though. The fact that we can sell out three games in the middle of the Rugby World Cup and with a fascinating and intense Premier League season going on is a testament to that.\" He also reminded me of the saga that is arguably the USA's most boring sports story: which franchise is going to move into the vacant Los Angeles market. Once upon a time, as team president Mark Lamping pointed out, the Jaguars would have topped an internet search on the LA question. Not anymore. Both he and Khan believe this is because of the \"stabilising\" effect that playing games in London has had on the Jaguars in Jacksonville. Their rationale is that they bought a struggling franchise, on and off the field, with a relatively small local fan base. But becoming the NFL's \"international team\" has increased revenues (the London game is worth 15% of their annual ticket income) and boosted the team's profile. Their website, for example, has gone from being the league's least visited to one in the top 10 for hits, with most of that new traffic coming from abroad. All true, no doubt, but it is also true that when you do an internet search for the teams most likely to move to London, the Jaguars come top: a point Lamping acknowledged with a shrug and a smile. Which brings us back to where we started: look what playing one game a year in London has done for a team like the Jaguars - imagine what eight games would do. \"I think imagination is a crazy thing and that's what makes the world go around,\" said Khan, who is far too smart to make a decision of this magnitude on such flimsy evidence. \"But it's been great thing for us to play a game here and to continue doing so for the near future.\" So Jaguars fans in Jacksonville can rest easy for the time being, and British NFL fans will just have to accept that this is going to be a long-distance relationship for the foreseeable future.", "question": "Shahid Khan grew up studying @placeholder of London 's transport system , has family there , owns one of its football teams and considers it to be \" the centre of the universe \" .", "option_0": "criticism", "option_1": "head", "option_2": "nature", "option_3": "maps", "option_4": "sides"}
{"id": 1928, "article": "The key development after four days of intense discussions under the supervision of the conciliation service ACAS is that the British Medical Association and the Government side feel able to get around a table for substantive talks. That hasn't happened since October 2014. It has taken months of recriminations, protest marches, an overwhelming vote in favour of strikes and three days of planned walkouts to get the two sides to this point. Trust had been eroded and, until ACAS brokered a way forward, neither the BMA nor NHS Employers could conceive of a way of starting negotiations. So now the serious talking over the fine print of the proposed new junior doctors' contract is getting underway. A detailed memorandum hammered out under the guidance of ACAS has set out the terms of trade for this new round of talks. This is a significant step forward from the megaphone diplomacy and publication of open letters and angry rebuttals which had characterised the acrimonious exchanges of recent weeks. The BMA feels that one its main concerns in the proposals has been addressed, namely the perceived lack of robust safeguards to prevent junior doctors being made to work excessive hours by trusts.  \"Contractual safeguards for safety are paramount,\" says the memorandum, \"and we therefore commit to develop a jointly selected and supported guardian role to oversee the hours of work of doctors in training.\" For his part, the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt feels that there are now at least talks over a new contract which he argues will enhance NHS services at weekends. The document thrashed out with ACAS includes these words: \"The parties support the commitment to patients to ensure that the quality of care and patient outcomes (including appropriately adjusted mortality rates) are the same every day of the week.\" It is a requirement of an ACAS process that participants agree not to air their differences in public.  Neither side is crowing over making the fewest concessions. Calm has descended. That may remain the case as the talks process gets underway today and in the next couple of weeks. But sources close to each side have made clear there is no guarantee of success. The precedents are not favourable - there were two years of talks over a new junior doctors' contract which then broke up in 2014.  There is not much more than three weeks before the Christmas holiday period. The BMA has the right to call a new wave of strikes up to January 6th (giving the statutory one week's notice of action no later than January 13th). So there may not be much of a seasonal holiday for the negotiators. ACAS has done its bit for now. The two sides must see how they get on together without a referee in the room. The ACAS process has helped the negotiators get to know each other and rebuild trust.  A lot is now riding on their discussions, not least the ability  of the NHS to cope with winter without the possibility of strikes hanging in the air.", "question": "It 's all quiet on the junior doctors ' front . The protagonists in this bitter dispute have agreed to sit down for detailed negotiations . Hospitals in England , expecting a strike until late yesterday evening , are running normally albeit with some @placeholder operations and out patients appointments . So how long will the talks go on without a war of words erupting in public and what are the chances of success ?", "option_0": "control", "option_1": "messages", "option_2": "suggesting", "option_3": "carrying", "option_4": "cancelled"}
{"id": 1929, "article": "The 28-year-old shared a century stand with captain Alastair Cook in his first outing as an opener in the drawn first Test in Abu Dhabi. Moeen, who also took two wickets with his off-spin, told BBC Sport: \"It would be good for the team if I can do that - for the balance of the side. \"You could always play two spinners.\" The Worcestershire all-rounder saw off competition from Alex Hales to open during the tour of the UAE and knows he will have to score heavily to hang on to the position for the trip to South Africa, where batting conditions are likely to be much tougher. \"In the first innings I really enjoyed it,\" said Moeen, who made scores of 35 and 11. \"It was a little bit slow but I felt it was about getting the team off to a good start after Pakistan had got 500-plus. \"It was great to come off the field and go straight out to bat. \"My role is to score runs at the top of the order, get the team off to a good start and then hopefully bowl the opposition out. \"I just want to keep giving England a good start, which is really important here.\" Moeen and leg-spinner Adil Rashid returned combined figures of 0-284 in the first innings in Abu Dhabi, but shared seven wickets in Pakistan's second innings as England almost secured an unlikely win. Rashid picked up five wickets on debut to become the first England leg-spinner to take a five-wicket haul since Tommy Greenhough in 1959. \"We grew up together and we are a similar age,\" said Moeen of Rashid. \"We are pretty tight, but it's about doing a job for England. \"With the one-dayers in the summer we kind of got used to it a little bit but it's nice to have another spinner, just so we can speak to each other and rub off each other a little bit.\" Rashid also earned the praise of captain Cook after bouncing back from first-innings figures of 0-163, the worst by a Test debutant. Cook said: \"He's obviously had a tough introduction, the first day and a half not getting a wicket, bowling on probably the worst wicket you'd ever want to make your debut on as a leg-spinner when you lose the toss. \"We know that leg-spinners come into the game later on. To get his rewards like he did, and bowl like he did, really sped up the game.\" The pitch for the first Test in Abu Dhabi was widely criticised for offering minimal assistance to the bowlers. It took until the final morning for the first two innings of the match to be completed, as Shoaib Malik and Cook ground out double centuries. And although England almost forced an unlikely win, Mooen hopes to see more pace in the wicket in Dubai. \"It would be nice in terms of my bowling,\" he said. \"Batting would be tougher but I don't mind that and it would be good for the game and good for the people watching.\" Pakistan will have leg-spinner Yasir Shah in their side after he missed the first Test of the three-match series with a back spasm. Shah, 29 and the fastest bowler to reach 50 Test wickets for Pakistan, is expected to replace seamer Rahat Ali. Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq said: \"He is back and that's a good sign for us. We missed him a lot in the first Test and his return will give us that boost in the spin bowling. \"We really need to pull up our socks and the kind of fight England put in, we need to match them. I have confidence in my players that they can do that.\" Pakistan have also recalled off-spinner Bilal Asif as cover. Asif was reported for a suspect bowling action in Zimbabwe on 6 October, but can play pending a report on his action, which is expected to be completed in two weeks. However, Pakistan are likely to be without batsman Azhar Ali, who returned home following the death of his mother-in-law and may not receive a United Arab Emirates visa in time. England all-rounder Ben Stokes has had a stomach upset but will be fit to play. Pakistan squad: Misbah-ul-Haq (captain), Ahmed Shehzad, Shan Masood, Azhar Ali, Mohammad Hafeez, Fawad Alam, Asad Shafiq, Younis Khan, Shoaib Malik, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Yasir Shah, Zulfiqar Babar, Wahab Riaz, Imran Khan, Rahat Ali, Junaid Khan, Bilal Asif. England squad: Alastair Cook (capt), Moeen Ali, James Anderson, Samit Patel, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ian Bell Stuart Broad, Jos Buttler (wk), Alex Hales, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, James Taylor, Mark Wood, Chris Jordan.", "question": "Moeen Ali wants to open the batting for England on a permanent basis as the tourists @placeholder to face Pakistan in the second Test in Dubai on Thursday .", "option_0": "continued", "option_1": "were", "option_2": "continues", "option_3": "prepare", "option_4": "struggled"}
{"id": 1930, "article": "Mr Jones said leaving the EU would have \"devastating consequences\" for Wales, and asked what Mr Farage had done to help steel in his role as a Euro MP. Mr Farage claimed membership of the EU had left the first minister \"impotent\". He argued the UK would have more control of its economy outside the EU. The UKIP leader opened the debate in Cardiff on Monday by asking if the UK wanted to \"regain our independence as a nation state\" or if it was happy to be a \"subordinate member of the club\". Mr Farage claimed it was \"scaremongering\" to say trade would cease and jobs would be lost upon a British exit from the EU. The first minister replied by saying membership of the UK and EU was vital to Welsh prosperity. Claiming 200,000 jobs in Wales relied on EU trade, Mr Jones said \"pulling up the drawbridge\" would have \"devastating consequences\". Focusing on the fate of steel, the first minister said the industry's problems were \"nothing to do with the EU\". A glut of steel on the world market, the strong pound and high energy costs were hurting the industry, he said. Mr Jones said he met Tata Steel bosses in December, adding: \"Not once did they mention the European Union as being some kind of obstacle.\" Mr Farage responded by claiming British politicians in Wales and Westminster had been unable to protect the steel industry from cheap Chinese exports. \"You didn't do it, not because you don't want to, because you haven't got the power to do it because we've given that away to Brussels,\" he said. If the EU referendum campaign is going to be anything like this, it's going to be a lively affair. It was breathless stuff - within minutes both men were trading insults. And perhaps surprisingly it was jobs and the economy - not immigration - that dominated. At times it was a tough night for the first minister with Nigel Farage bossing big chunks of the debate. Carwyn Jones based his claims on the dangers of taking a risk - in other words, better the devil you know. Nigel Farage's rhetoric was based around the need to reclaim control of our borders and our laws. On the issue of immigration, Mr Farage said \"the biggest benefit\" of leaving the EU would be the UK's ability to set up an Australian-style points system to accept immigrants based on their skills, lack of criminal convictions and ability to speak English. However, Mr Jones dismissed the suggestion that EU membership had \"anything to do\" with immigration, saying if the UK was not a member, France would simply allow refugees camped at Calais to pass through. \"Would it be in our interest to turn our backs on our European partners, or isn't it better to work together to find a European solution to what is a European challenge,\" he asked. The first minister also attacked the UKIP leader's record as a Euro-MP, saying he had only attended one out of 42 meetings of a fisheries committee in the European Parliament. \"The reality is you don't stand up for Britain,\" he told Mr Farage. In reply, the UKIP leader said: \"If I spent every living moment there I wouldn't have even been allowed to debate or vote on the issues that affect fisheries - the parliament hasn't got that power.\" Eluned Parrott, Welsh Liberal Democrat spokesperson on Europe, said that \"neither person came out of this shouting match particularly well\", claiming hers was the only UK party united in favour of EU membership. \"Carwyn Jones was right to be arguing the importance of the UK remaining in the EU,\" she said. \"Yet, his views are in stark contrast to his party in London, where [Labour leader] Jeremy Corbyn remains ambivalent on this major issue.\" Plaid Cymru AM Elin Jones was critical of Mr Jones, tweeting: \"Well, for the case for Wales staying in EU, that was a set-back. Mustn't be repeated. #IWADebate.\" Before the debate, a spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives dismissed the event as having the feel of a \"rather gaudy PR spectacle\", saying Mr Jones had failed to invite rival party leaders to similar debates about Welsh issues under his control. A referendum on whether the UK should remain within the EU or leave is set to be held before the end of 2017. On Sunday, Prime Minister David Cameron suggested the vote could be held as early as this summer.", "question": "First Minister Carwyn Jones and UKIP leader Nigel Farage have clashed over the fate of the steel industry in a head - to - head debate on the UK 's @placeholder within the European Union .", "option_0": "integration", "option_1": "future", "option_2": "role", "option_3": "powers", "option_4": "community"}
{"id": 1931, "article": "Boycott said on BBC Test Match Special: \"There was some really, really bad cricket. Three of them were out pulling or hooking. \"You need to know when to attack and when to defend, but England have committed hara-kiri.\" England have already won the series but Australia lead this game by 374 runs. Boycott continued: \"If I was the chairman of England cricket, I'd be going in to talk to the coaches. I'd want to know what you're going to do about this. Because if you don't solve it, I will - I'll get somebody else. \"England will follow on tomorrow and it will be all over by Saturday night.\" The hosts had reached 46-1, having lost captain Alastair Cook when he was bowled by a turning delivery from Nathan Lyon for 22. But that was the cue for his side to lose seven wickets for 46 runs in 22.3 overs - with the manner of nearly every dismissal drawing Boycott's ire. \"Adam Lyth grafted and played nicely, but Peter Siddle came on, his second ball was a loosener, a lollipop outside off stump and he went to pull it and it looped to mid-on. Your career is at stake here,\" he said. \"Jonny Bairstow came in and they set the trap for him - they put two back and he knocked it straight down his throat. \"Then Ben Stokes came in - almost every second or third ball he was whooshing at it, almost as if he was trying to win the match. \"Jos Buttler is like a rabbit caught in the headlights of Ashes cricket. A seven-year-old schoolboy would have played better. He hasn't made a run all series. \"He hasn't shown any application whatsoever. It looks to me like his mind and confidence is shot for Test cricket - it's pathetic.\" Pace bowler Steven Finn, the only England man yet to bat, said: \"We had a very poor day, there is no hiding away from that. \"We have to make sure tomorrow is a very good day to make sure we stay in this game.\" With the Ashes gone, Australia batsman Steve Smith, whose 143 put the tourists in the driving seat, hopes his side can give retiring skipper Michael Clarke a good send-off by winning this game. \"It is disappointing that we can't win the series but Michael said before this Test match that he wanted a lot of fight and character from us,\" said Smith. \"The way we batted and grinded out in the first innings showed that, and to have them 100-8, it's been a very good couple of days for us.\" Meanwhile, Boycott also felt England were guilty of \"believing their own publicity\" after their limited-overs success against New Zealand earlier in the summer. \"After they played well in the one-dayers, they said we're going to play positive, attacking, aggressive cricket,\" he said. \"We want application, we want fight, we want some adaptability to the conditions.\" Watch every episode of Pint-sized Ashes Listen to Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott review each day on the TMS podcast.", "question": "Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott blasted \" a pathetic display of batting \" as they @placeholder to 107 - 8 on day two of the final Ashes Test at The Oval .", "option_0": "reacted", "option_1": "continues", "option_2": "prepare", "option_3": "collapsed", "option_4": "listen"}
{"id": 1932, "article": "Monaco 1984 is one, so is Donington 1993. Then there's Barcelona 1996, Silverstone 2008 and Nurburgring 1968. All wet-weather races. All exceptional. Mention these grands prix to F1 devotees and they will nod approvingly, because these were occasions when a driver delivered something remarkable that marked him out as a cut above his peers. In the case of Brazil 2016, we may well have another entry to that list - and the man responsible was a 19-year-old named Max Verstappen. \"We witnessed something very special,\" Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said of his driver. \"The way he drove was outstanding. It stands out to me like Ayrton Senna in Monaco and other great drives in history.\" High praise indeed for a man occupying the third step of a podium. Verstappen dropped to 16th after a pit stop with 16 laps to go but fought back to finish on the podium in treacherous wet conditions. Yet his drive was about more than this late climb through the field. He also overtook Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen early on and produced a superb pass on Mercedes' Nico Rosberg to take second place midway through the race. He would have finished there, behind winner Lewis Hamilton, had Red Bull not put him on intermediate tyres at a crucial point. The decision turned out to be an error and Verstappen had to pit again for extreme wet tyres, prompting his climb back. He also rescued a huge spin on the pit straight, preventing the car from hitting the wall and managing to hold on to second. He said it was \"50-50\" between skill and luck. Horner said: \"His move earlier in the race on Rosberg was brave, skilful and totally courageous and later in the race the inter tyre looked like the tyre to be on. \"We could see others starting to go quicker and we took the gamble and then the rain just intensified slightly, particularly around Turn 12. We had to abort that and fit a new set of extreme and then it was over to Max.\" Verstappen looked completely out of the picture when he pitted under the safety car for extreme wet tyres late on. But Red Bull knew what their man was capable of, and so did he. \"Can you make your way through the field on full wets?\" came the question from the pit wall. Verstappen said he could and dived in for fresh boots. What followed was hugely impressive, to say the least. The midfield runners were swiftly dispatched and, within a couple of laps, Verstappen was up to 12th place. That became 11th when he passed the Williams of Valtteri Bottas, while team-mate Daniel Ricciardo had no answer either as the teenager moved back into the points. Daniil Kvyat was next, then Esteban Ocon's Manor and the Sauber of Felipe Nasr. Nico Hulkenberg? No problem. Sebastian Vettel? Done in a few corners. Verstappen even rudely ran the Ferrari off the track for good measure. Carlos Sainz was his next victim as he moved into fourth, and then came the podium-clinching move on Sergio Perez - a gutsy, around-the-outside pass at Turn 10 that he completed in Turn 11 having corrected a big slide on his way through. The Mercedes were too far up the road to do anything about, but Verstappen had made his point. Thirteen places made up in 16 laps. Job done. \"It was a lot of fun, with some scary moments,\" Verstappen said. \"I was a bit disappointed after the last pit stop, but I kept my head down and just kept pushing and I went for it. To come back on to the podium was amazing. \"It was crazy. I thought 'now my race is over'. But the car was great. We had great grip. All the race we had good pace. We could have definitely fought for second but to come back in such a style is also a lot of fun.\" Verstappen said it was \"one of\" his best races and his \"best ever\" in the wet. But he said that his win in the Spanish Grand Prix in May would have a bigger place in his heart. \"Barcelona will always be better because it is a race victory but to come back from 16th felt like a race victory.\" Nico Rosberg on Verstappen's amazing half-spin: \"I arrived in the straight and saw him pointing 90 degrees towards the wall - I was thinking, 'what the hell?!'\" Jos Verstappen, Max's father, who started 106 Formula 1 races: \"I have never seen something like this, he has surprised even me. I have seen many races he did, but today it was incredible. He did himself proud. It is what we want to see more of in F1.\" Mercedes team boss Toto Wolf: \"It was the Verstappen show. It was really unbelievable driving, great entertainment. Physics are being redefined.\" Mercedes non-executive chairman Niki Lauda: \"Verstappen was outstanding, the way he passed everybody so it was an interesting race.  I knew the guy is good but he proved to everybody what he can do.\" Horatio McSherry: Max Verstappen is driving like a man possessed. Utterly extraordinary. One of the greatest drives I've seen in nearly 30 years of F1. Lauren McCarthy: This driving by Verstappen is simply ridiculous. How on earth is he 19, absolute genius. JavelBleach: Wow. Best race I've seen from one driver for a very long time. Ayrton Senna - 1984 Monaco GP A race remembered as the moment Ayrton Senna truly announced his arrival in the sport. Starting 13th on the grid, the Brazilian, in only his sixth F1 race, came through the field in atrocious wet conditions, passing established front-runners to sit second behind Alain Prost's McLaren when the race was brought to a premature halt on lap 31. It was just a second place and only half points were awarded, but a statement had been emphatically made. F1 had a new star. Ayrton Senna - 1993 European GP Fast-forward nine years and Senna was at it again. By now his reputation as master of wet conditions was legendary, but even so his charge from fifth to first place on the opening lap at Donington had jaws on the floor. It is routinely held up as the best single-lap performance in the history of the sport - and to back it up he won the race by over a minute from second-placed Damon Hill, and by a lap from great rival Prost. Michael Schumacher - 1996 Spanish GP The drive that gave Michael Schumacher his first Ferrari win and earned him the reputation as a legend in the wet. Just two weeks earlier he had slid out of the lead on the first lap at a wet Monaco, but in Barcelona - with the rain pounding down once again - he delivered one his most celebrated drives. The Ferrari was a long way from the best car in the field, but on this day and in Schumacher's hands it was peerless. He took the chequered flag by 45 seconds from Jean Alesi. The 'Regenmeister' had landed. Lewis Hamilton - 2008 British GP We knew Lewis Hamilton was good by midway through 2008, but maybe it took this race to tell us just how good. Hamilton trailed Ferrari's Felipe Massa in the drivers' championship heading into the ninth race of the season, and the two could not have had more contrasting fortunes on this soggy Silverstone day. Massa spun five times en route to a miserable 13th place, two laps down on race winner Hamilton, who judged the conditions to perfection, keeping the car on the island and winning by more than a minute from the chasing pack. Come season's end, he would be champion by a point from Massa, and this was arguably the race where the tide turned. Jackie Stewart - 1968 German GP A truly startling drive from a man who in a few short years would retire from Formula 1 as a three-time world champion. On 4 August 1968, Jackie Stewart had no world titles and just two wins to his name, but by the end of the day the sport had a new superstar. In wet and foggy conditions at the unforgiving 14-mile Nurburgring, and sporting a broken wrist, Stewart produced a performance of immense skill and bravery to win by four minutes from Graham Hill. Stewart later described it as \"a tremendously satisfying race to win, but I was very pleased to get it over with\".", "question": "More than 900 Formula 1 races have been held since 1950 , yet very few are @placeholder in the collective consciousness of fans .", "option_0": "drowning", "option_1": "gathering", "option_2": "accumulated", "option_3": "rooted", "option_4": "published"}
{"id": 1933, "article": "They say it is the unfortunate but unintended consequence of what have otherwise been very successful efforts to improve air quality. It turns out the filters put on vehicle exhausts to remove fine particulate material have also unbalanced the chemistry behind ozone formation. Chemical reactions that would normally remove ozone have been subdued. The insight comes from a study looking at London's air quality records. \"Peak ozone levels have come down since the 1990s, but we haven't had the gains we expected on ozone,\" said Dr Erika von Schneidemesser from the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany. \"The data we've got from monitoring sites in London, and also the modelling work we have done, has helped us understand why ozone has behaved the way it has - at least in London,\" she told BBC News. Dr von Schneidemesser was speaking here at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, the world's largest annual gathering of Earth scientists. Ozone  in the lower atmosphere (troposphere) is regarded as a serious pollutant that can cause respiratory problems, and even damage masonry and agricultural crops. The principal originating source is the emissions from road vehicles.  These include the exhaust gases such as nitrogen oxides (NOx), non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs), and carbon monoxide (CO). Ozone is the product of these gases' participation in a complex series of chemical reactions where sunlight and heat act as catalysts.  Summer months are generally worse for O3. Dr von Schneidemesser and colleagues used the data from London's dense network of air quality monitoring sites to try to assess the performance of the ozone-producing reactions over the past 15 years. They found that although the ozone precursors have been falling, the ratio of two NOx gases in the atmosphere has changed. In constant conditions, there is a neat cycle in which nitrogen dioxide (NO2) helps to form ozone and nitric oxide helps to break it apart. This cycle appears to have been perturbed by control measures that were actually intended to remove the fine particles and black carbon (soot) in vehicle exhausts. The measures achieved the desired outcome but also altered the relative emissions of the different NOx gases. \"There's this balance between the NO and nitrogen dioxide NO2, and the diesel filters that we've been retrofitting on to things like buses mean that we now have a larger amount of primary NO2 and so you get a reduction in NO that is much greater than the reduction in NO2.  This means basically you are taking away some of the ozone suppression,\" said Dr von Schneidemesser, who is also affiliated to the University of Leicester, UK. Whereas NO in the atmosphere has been reducing by 5-20% per year, NO2 has been falling by just 1-5% per year. \"As these levels continue to go down, we should then eventually see a reduction in ozone. It's just that the initial steps have had the opposite effect.\" Further work is required, but the researchers' suspicion is that London's experience is not unique. The big traffic-choked cities of Europe will all suffer from similar emissions inventories. The one rider here is that southern European cities will have more sunlight and heat to drive ozone producing reactions. But the London observations are unlikely to be the whole story.  Scientists say it's also that European ozone levels are being influenced by what is happening in other regions of the world. \"There is an import of ozone and precursors from outside, and this influences what we call background ozone; and that's going up as global pollutants, particularly in Asia, go up.  And that's affecting European ozone levels,\" explained co-worker Prof Paul Monks at the University of Leicester. \"So, for something like ozone, we've probably got to move to a more global treaty-like situation. We've got to look at control measures in other countries as well as our own. \"Peak ozone has gone down since the 1990s, but it has bottomed out now; and it's remaining fairly flat despite emissions reductions.\" Ozone's NOx cycle (1) The Sun's ultraviolet light breaks oxygen atoms off nitrogen dioxide molecules (2) Oxygen atoms then react with oxygen molecules in the air to produce the ozone (3) But ozone is destroyed by nitric oxide, reforming molecular oxygen and nitrogen dioxide Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "question": "Scientists think they have @placeholder one key reason why ground - level ozone remains stubbornly high in Europe .", "option_0": "seen", "option_1": "seized", "option_2": "identified", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "stunned"}
{"id": 1934, "article": "Sir David Normington said plans to allow ministers to choose people deemed unsuitable by advisers were \"worrying\". The former Commissioner for Public Appointments said the role risked being reduced to that of a \"bystander\". Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock said appointments had to be speeded up and ministers fully engaged. Officials said changes stemming from a review by the businessman Sir Gerry Grimstone would strengthen current procedures and that transparency and accountability would remain \"key elements\". It comes amid reports of increasing intervention by ministers over appointments to key positions, including on behalf of those with links to the Conservative Party. Sir David, who retired from the role of Commissioner last week after five years, told MPs that the current system allowed departmental ministers to choose their preferred candidate from a selection of people judged \"appointable\" by an advisory panel. However, the former permanent secretary at the Home Office said the government was considering allowing ministers to ignore the panels' recommendations and choose candidates from \"below the line\". Ministers would also, he said, be able to appoint without an open competition without first seeking the approval of the Commissioner. \"I am absolutely clear that these are ministerial appointments and ministers must choose,\" he told the Commons Public Administration Committee. \"There is absolutely no question about this.\" But he said he was worried that the \"good intentions and principles\" espoused by ministers about ensuring appointment on merit and robust safeguards were not being \"carried through\" in the government's proposals. \"It looks like there is an intention to allow ministers to say 'well I know the committee did not approve that person but actually we think they ought to be appointed'. \"I am not quite sure about the practicalities of that. I don't think I would want to be someone who the panel had said was not suitable and the minister then appointed. That looks a very difficult proposition.\" He said the proposed changes, in the round, looked \"like a very big shift in the direction of ministers\". \"The thing that worries me is that it dismantles the current system. I am very concerned about it. I almost never speak out publicly on these matters but I am very concerned about this.\" Sir David is due to be succeeded in the role by Peter Riddell, a former political journalist who has been head of the Institute for Government. Asked about how the role - which was created in 1995 - may change in future in light of the government's proposed changes, Sir David said. \"I am a little fearful about what may happen here. I have tried in my role to head things off before they get out of hand. \"I think what may happen here is the appointment is made and the commissioner has no option to pop up and say the appointment is not acceptable.\" Activist websites such as ConservativeHome have been urging Conservative supporters to apply for key public appointments, arguing Whitehall has been dominated for the past two decades by those with a New Labour background and outlook on the role of the state. The government has said political activity should not be a bar to being considered for public appointments but candidates would be expected to be open about \"significant\" levels of party involvement or support. Sir Gerry Grimstone, the chair of Standard Life, told MPs that ministers were sovereign but \"appropriate constraints\" on their behaviour were written into the rules - which he said were designed to secure the best and most diverse appointments. \"I have given the Commissioner very strong powers of intervention,\" he said. Mr Hancock. who has ministerial responsibility for the civil service, said the current system of public appointments was \"much too bureaucratic, unclear and too slow\", with \"good people being put off\" as a result. \"We need to improve the system because my ultimate goal is to get the very best people we can,\" he told MPs He said the Commissioner's role, as it was originally envisaged, was as a \"regulator and auditor of the process not someone actually running the process\" and the Grimstone review had clarified this. The Cabinet Office has said ministers must be free to reject advice from their advisory panels on the merit of candidates. In such cases, the recruitment process would either by re-run with a new panel or ministers would be able to choose someone themselves as long as they \"explain their decision publicly\". The proposed changes will be incorporated in a governance code, setting out the new public appointment principles.", "question": "Ministers are seeking to \" dismantle \" the existing system for making senior appointments to public @placeholder , a former top civil servant has claimed .", "option_0": "office", "option_1": "bodies", "option_2": "service", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "information"}
{"id": 1935, "article": "Slade has begun to recapture the form he showed before he broke his leg against Wasps in December 2015. The 23-year-old has been linked as replacement for George Ford, who has been tipped to leave the Rec. \"I've had a couple of chats with Henry and we've had a bit of a joke about the rumours flying around,\" said Baxter. He told BBC Sport: \"There is no truth in the rumour about him having any interest in going to Bath.\" In July, Slade agreed a deal with the Chiefs until 2019. England head coach Eddie Jones was critical of Slade's form late last season, saying it was difficult to judge if he had the quality to be a Test player because of the position he was starting for Exeter. \"Also, if he does end up playing at 10 it won't be because we're being told by Eddie Jones that he needs to play at 10,\" added Baxter of versatile Slade, who has predominantly played at centre for the Chiefs because of the form of fly-half and captain Gareth Steenson. \"And he won't be playing 10 because I'm worried that if we don't play him at 10 he'll go and play for Bath because they're losing George Ford. \"It's not unsettling to us as a club, to me or to Henry. I don't believe for one instance it's unsettling for Bath or the other clubs that get linked into their rumours. \"I don't know anything about the George Ford scenario, but Bath will know what's going on. \"It won't be unsettling for them about what's happening with George Ford because they'll know exactly what the scenario is, just like us it's not unsettling for me to read anything about Henry because I know he's under contract here, I know he's fully committed to us, he's desperate to do things for us, play well for us and to win things.\"", "question": "Exeter head coach Rob Baxter says he and Henry Slade have @placeholder about rumours linking the England back with a summer move to Premiership rivals Bath .", "option_0": "faced", "option_1": "written", "option_2": "admitted", "option_3": "laughed", "option_4": "raised"}
{"id": 1936, "article": "Nottingham-born Woodburn, 17, received a first squad call up for the World Cup qualifier on Friday, 24 March. Wales boss Chris Coleman has rejected suggestions that Woodburn being eligible for England was a factor in the player's call-up. \"I don't know why Chris is denying it,\" said former Wales striker Saunders. \"You can't buy or sell players and we're only a small country. \"If someone is eligible for us and there's a bit of potential there then he's (Coleman) done the right thing. \"He's Welsh and he's playing for us. It's good news for the squad.\" Media playback is not supported on this device Woodburn is eligible for Wales through his maternal grandfather and has already played at under-16, under-18 and under-19 level. The forward has made seven appearances for Liverpool this season and become the youngest scorer in the club's history with a goal against Leeds United in the EFL Cup in November. \"He's got a good attitude and nothing fazes him. Top players have that sort of attitude about them,\" former Liverpool striker Saunders told BBC Radio Wales Sport. \"He doesn't look like a rabbit in headlights when he plays for Liverpool. He's a talented player and scores goals.\" Wales are third in Group D, four points behind Martin O'Neill's Republic of Ireland, who are top and Coleman said Woodburn's inclusion is not a spur of the moment decision. \"He's been in our system for five years, so we know all about him,\" Coleman said. \"He's done well this season. We are looking forward to having him on board\" \"If we want to put him on for tactical reasons, it would be for that, but not because we are worried about anyone else looking at him.\"", "question": "Liverpool teenager Ben Woodburn must be @placeholder by Wales against Republic of Ireland to tie him to the national team , Dean Saunders says .", "option_0": "inspired", "option_1": "signed", "option_2": "capped", "option_3": "affected", "option_4": "forced"}
{"id": 1937, "article": "The prime minister and his wife attended the Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara in Gravesend on Saturday. He took part in the nagar kirtan (procession) and was given a tour of the Gurdwara, which is thought to be one of the largest outside India. It was Mr Cameron's first visit to Kent during the general election campaign. Vaisakhi is the Sikh New Year festival and is one of the most important dates in the Sikh calendar. It also commemorates 1699, the year Sikhism was born as a collective faith. Up to 10,000 people were expected to take part in the festivities, which saw a procession set off from the temple at about 11.30 BST and then make its way through the town before returning to the Gurdwara. Gurjit Bains, of the Gudwara's executive committee, said: \"This will be our biggest ever. Every year we've grown, we've got people from the Medway towns and some of our stallholders are from Birmingham as well so it's a big mix of people. \"There are not only people from the Sikh community here, they're from all walks of life. \"We have so many people who are not Sikh coming [to the celebrations] and it's really, really nice to see that.\" Anne-Marie Bunting (Liberal Democrat) Tan Dhesi (Labour) Adam Holloway (Conservative) Mark Lindop (Green) Sean Marriott (UKIP)", "question": "David and Samantha Cameron @placeholder thousands of people celebrating the Sikh festival of Vaisakhi in Kent.", "option_0": "joined", "option_1": "remaining", "option_2": "have", "option_3": "control", "option_4": "estimated"}
{"id": 1938, "article": "The northern districts of Port Loko and Bombali, and Moyamba in the south, will in effect be sealed off immediately. Nearly 600 people have died of the virus in Sierra Leone where two eastern districts are already blockaded. Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama has said the world needs to act faster to halt the West Africa Ebola outbreak. \"There is still a significant gap between where we are and where we need to be,\" Mr Obama told a high-level United Nations meeting on Ebola. In other developments: Mr Koroma's announcement follows a three-day nationwide lockdown that ended on Sunday night. Two eastern districts have been isolated since the beginning of August and the extension of the indefinite quarantine means more than a third of Sierra Leone's 6.1 million population now finds itself unable to move freely. Source: Afri-Dev.Info Ebola drains weak health systems During Sierra Leone's three-day curfew, more than a million households were surveyed and 130 new cases discovered, the authorities say. President Koroma said the move had been a success but had exposed \"areas of greater challenges\", which was why other areas were being quarantined. Only people delivering essential services can enter and circulate within areas under quarantine. In a televised address, the president acknowledged that the blockade would \"pose great difficulties\" for people. \"[But] the life of everyone and the survival of our country take precedence over these difficulties,\" he said. According to WHO, the situation nationally in Sierra Leone continues to deteriorate with a sharp increase in the number of newly reported cases in the capital, Freetown, and its neighbouring districts of Port Loko, Bombali, and Moyamba, which are now under quarantine. The BBC's Umaru Fofana in Freetown says Port Loko is where two of the country's major iron ore mining companies operate and the restrictions are likely to hamper business. The WHO said despite efforts to deploy more health workers and open new Ebola treatment centres in the worst-affected countries, there was still a significant lack of beds in Sierra Leone and Liberia, with more than 2,000 needed. The situation in Guinea had appeared to be stabilising, but with up to 100 new confirmed cases reported in each of the past five weeks, it was still of grave concern, it said. Ebola virus: busting the myths A new BBC Ebola programme with the latest news about the outbreak is broadcast at 19.50 GMT each weekday on the BBC World Service.", "question": "Sierra Leone 's President Ernest Bai Koroma has widened a quarantine to @placeholder another one million people in an attempt to curb the spread of Ebola .", "option_0": "include", "option_1": "kill", "option_2": "deliver", "option_3": "protect", "option_4": "join"}
{"id": 1939, "article": "The European champions looked in control when Ronaldo scored twice in the first 18 minutes. His opener was a penalty and his second was a header from Nacho's cross - his eighth La Liga goal in four games. But Carlos Carmona pulled one back and Duje Cop missed a penalty for the visitors with 13 minutes left. The Croatia international, who appeared to check his pulse just before taking the kick, fired high and wide after Nacho was penalised for fouling Victor Rodriguez. Real went seven points clear briefly, but Sevilla beat Valencia 2-1 on Saturday evening to trim that lead by one point. Champions Barcelona can take it back down to four points on Sunday at Real Sociedad (19:45 GMT). Ronaldo's double takes him up to 10 La Liga goals for the season, two above Barcelona pair Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez in the golden boot race. Match ends, Real Madrid 2, Sporting de Gij¨®n 1. Second Half ends, Real Madrid 2, Sporting de Gij¨®n 1. Corner,  Real Madrid. Conceded by Lillo. Attempt blocked. Isco (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cristiano Ronaldo. Attempt saved. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Isco. Corner,  Sporting de Gij¨®n. Conceded by Nacho. Attempt blocked. Marco Asensio (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Isco. Attempt saved. Duje Cop (Sporting de Gij¨®n) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Isma L¨®pez with a cross. Substitution, Sporting de Gij¨®n. Nacho Cases replaces Rachid. Substitution, Real Madrid. Isco replaces Mateo Kovacic. Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Duje Cop (Sporting de Gij¨®n) right footed shot is high and wide to the right. Duje Cop should be disappointed. Nacho (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Penalty conceded by Nacho (Real Madrid) after a foul in the penalty area. Penalty Sporting de Gij¨®n. V¨ªctor Rodr¨ªguez draws a foul in the penalty area. Substitution, Sporting de Gij¨®n. V¨ªctor Rodr¨ªguez replaces Moi G¨®mez. Substitution, Sporting de Gij¨®n. Borja Viguera replaces Carlos Carmona. Foul by Marcelo (Real Madrid). Lillo (Sporting de Gij¨®n) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. Lucas V¨¢zquez (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Cristiano Ronaldo with a cross following a set piece situation. Substitution, Real Madrid. Marcelo replaces Sergio Ramos. Substitution, Real Madrid. Marco Asensio replaces James Rodr¨ªguez. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Lillo (Sporting de Gij¨®n). Attempt missed. Luka Modric (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Mateo Kovacic. Foul by James Rodr¨ªguez (Real Madrid). Rachid (Sporting de Gij¨®n) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Carlos Carmona (Sporting de Gij¨®n) is shown the yellow card. Pepe (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Carlos Carmona (Sporting de Gij¨®n). Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Luka Modric with a cross following a corner. Corner,  Real Madrid. Conceded by Jorge Mer¨¦. Attempt blocked. Mateo Kovacic (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pepe. Danilo (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Moi G¨®mez (Sporting de Gij¨®n). Attempt saved. Nacho (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cristiano Ronaldo. Rachid (Sporting de Gij¨®n) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Mateo Kovacic (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Rachid (Sporting de Gij¨®n). Foul by Lucas V¨¢zquez (Real Madrid). Isma L¨®pez (Sporting de Gij¨®n) wins a free kick in the attacking half.", "question": "Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice but Real Madrid rode their @placeholder to beat Sporting Gijon and go six points clear at the top of La Liga overnight .", "option_0": "lives", "option_1": "tribute", "option_2": "luck", "option_3": "home", "option_4": "bikes"}
{"id": 1940, "article": "A few minutes earlier, I had received a rather brusque phone call from a man called Major General Joseph Zoundeiko, who wanted me to come and see him immediately. Gen Zoundeiko is the army chief of staff of what his headed notepaper describes as the \"Forces Republicains\" of the Central African Republic. To you and me, he is a rebel leader - part of the loose alliance of mostly Muslim forces known as Seleka which ousted CAR's president last year and held power until January. Trying to understand the political power dynamics here is not easy. The fact that the general represents men with guns - how many is unclear - gives him a certain status, but in conversations with government officials, diplomats and experts here, I have not been able to determine whether he is a minor pawn, an emerging threat, or a measured heavyweight. The only certainty about politics in CAR is the breathtakingly transparent cynicism of almost every single person involved. This is a game of thrones in which the fate of one of the world's poorest nations is seldom even acknowledged. Towns like Bambari, and its desperate population, are incidental factors in a narrow contest for power, and access to resources, in the only place that counts - the capital, Bangui. The general's aide ushered me into the villa, clutching a yellow dossier with a statement that Mr Zoundeiko intended to read out to me. It concerned the recent cease-fire announcement negotiated abroad - this is a country whose fate always seems to be determined elsewhere - and supposedly now in force across CAR. Gen Zoundeiko mumbled his way a little hesitantly through the script - his French is a bit rusty, and the document clearly was not his work - but the overall message was clear. The ceasefire would not be respected by the Seleka military, which had not been consulted properly or involved in the ceasefire negotiations. So they were rejecting their political leaders' directive. \"We want peace. We don't want war. But we want sincere negotiations,\" he announced. Then the general went further. For a long time the rebels have been muttering about the possibility of partitioning CAR along religious lines - dividing it into two independent countries as was done recently in neighbouring Sudan, with Muslims taking over the north-east, and Christians getting Bangui and the south-west. It has never been clear the extent to which this is a serious suggestion, or merely a bargaining ploy. Or a bit of both. It seems monumentally unpractical on many levels, and given the current mess in South Sudan, the international community is unlikely to back another break-up. But tens of thousands of Muslims have been forced out of their homes, with many fleeing into Cameroon or Chad, and in Bambari most Muslims I spoke to felt partition was the right policy. Gen Zoundeiko was adamant. \"This state - this nation - is finished,\" he told me. The words hung in the air. I suggested it was a pity that Muslims and Christians could not be reconciled and share one country. \"Yes. But we've been chased away by our Christian brothers,\" he said. \"Today you'll find no Muslims in Christian neighbourhoods. But in Muslim neighbourhoods you'll still find Christians living under the protection of our soldiers.\" I asked him where he proposed drawing a new international border - and whether Bambari, previously a predominantly Christian town, would become the capital of a new northern Muslim country. \"That's for the future to decide,\" he said abruptly. And with that, we left Bambari for the 10-hour drive back to the capital. More militia checkpoints. Another puncture, and a few hours at a roadside tyre-repair stall. It struck me that for CAR's political class, Bambari is simply a bargaining chip - a spot on the map to be haggled over, along with ministerial posts and salaries, at any future peace talks. In contrast, I thought of Joseph Bama, the tireless doctor coping with a steady influx of wounded civilians at Bambari's dilapidated hospital. I called him on the phone from Bangui. \"Three more cases yesterday, another casualty this morning. \"But I'm an optimist. You have to be,\" he said hurriedly before rushing back to the wards. Read Andrew Harding's previous reports from his trip in CAR:", "question": "On a dirt side - street between the @placeholder petrol station and the hospital in Bambari in the Central African Republic , five well - armed soldiers were standing guard outside the tall gates of what must once have been a rather grand colonial villa .", "option_0": "tables", "option_1": "balance", "option_2": "deserted", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "crowd"}
{"id": 1941, "article": "Such access has a major impact on people's ability to prepare for, survive and recover from disasters. In the Philippines, for example, 99% of people can access a mobile phone. Text messaging and Twitter saved many lives in a 2012 typhoon, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent says. Other examples of technology helping save lives or aid recovery include the use of text messages to deliver hurricane warnings in Haiti and a computerised barcode system to monitor the distribution of humanitarian supplies in Syria. The author of the IFRC's annual World Disasters report notes that while \"the overall number of people affected by disasters decreased in 2012, the number of people affected in the poorest countries increased, with over 31.7 million people affected\". \"They are also often the ones with the least access to technology,\" said Patrick Vinck. IFRC Secretary General Bekele Geleta expressed hope that \"governments and affected people in disaster-prone countries can take advantage of innovations such as weather prediction software, satellite imagery and mass alert systems, increasing their resilience to disasters and their ability to recover quickly when they do happen\". \"Typhoon Bopha affected 6.3 million people in the Philippines, and thousands of lives were saved because 99% of the population have access to a mobile phone and could receive early warnings and information on staying safe.\" he said. However the report also warns that humanitarian agencies should not make the mistake of listening only to those who are connected and excluding those who are not. It urges the private sector, humanitarian organisations, governments and local communities to work together to ensure access to technology for such populations.", "question": "Some of the countries most prone to natural disasters also have least access to life - saving @placeholder and technology , a major study says .", "option_0": "communications", "option_1": "sustainability", "option_2": "activities", "option_3": "food", "option_4": "services"}
{"id": 1942, "article": "\"Why should I feel any pain or trouble in cutting off the hand that was raised against the Holy Prophet?\" Those are the words of 15-year-old Qaiser (not his real name) who chopped off his right hand just a few days ago believing he had committed blasphemy. Many believe fellow villagers started shaming the boy after the local cleric had made the accusation of blasphemy - and that is why Qaiser felt the need to prove his love for the Prophet Muhammad. On 11 January, Qaiser was attending a celebration of the Prophet's birth at a mosque in his village in north-eastern Punjab. The cleric hosting it worked the crowd into a fervour and, a few hours into the celebration, called out: \"Who among you is a follower of Muhammad?\" Everyone raised their hands. He followed it with another question: \"Who among you doesn't believe in the teachings of the Holy Prophet? Raise your hands!\" Qaiser, mishearing, inadvertently raised his hand. Witnessed by about 100 worshippers, the cleric immediately accused him of blasphemy and the boy returned home to prove his love for the Prophet - by cutting off his own hand. For a 15-year-old, Qaiser looked exceptionally frail when I met him. But his fight with pain and fear was outweighed by a sense of religious righteousness. \"When I raised my right hand unwittingly, I realised I had committed blasphemy and needed to atone for this,\" he told the BBC. It appears it didn't matter to him whether it was a mistake or not - he couldn't live with the shame of the accusation without punishing himself, so had to undo it. \"I came back home and went to the grass-cutting machine, but found the place dark so I took my uncle's phone to point some light at my hand. I placed it under the machine and chopped it off in a single swirl.\" Qaiser picked his severed hand up from under the machine and, bleeding profusely, placed it on a tray and took it back to the mosque, less than 100 metres from his home. Asked about everyone's reaction, he said: \"They didn't say anything. A few people came forward to take me to the hospital, before I passed out.\" Religious fervour did not only override empathy among the villagers - even Qaiser does not seem disposed to self-pity. \"I didn't feel any pain when I chopped it off so why would I feel any now? The hand that commits blasphemy should be chopped off,\" he said, with a restrained smile. His entire village is celebrating the act of expiation. The extreme nature of this \"devotional\" act has made Qaiser into a revered figure. He is being heralded among the villagers, and to a certain degree by himself, as a righteous hero. Most of his fellow villagers are illiterate and belong to an extremely conservative Islamic sect - their profoundly religious life is reflected in the mosques you find every few paces in this part of Pakistan. But Qaiser's act has even drawn admiration from surrounding villages. Farooq, a man in his mid-thirties, was one of those who came to pay his respects. Appearing at Qaiser's home, he took the boy's left hand, kissed it and pressed it against his forehead. Following local custom, he also placed some cash in the pocket of the teenager he hails as a hero. \"I heard that a boy sacrificed his own hand for the love of our Prophet. I came here to meet him.\" \"The boy's gesture to show his love for the Prophet is unmatchable. I'm here to encourage him and to pay homage,\" he continued, his eyes brimming with tears of affection. Qaiser is the youngest of five children and the first to continue his school studies into his mid-teens. He had always been known for his strong religious convictions. While Qaiser was having his wounds dressed in a poorly-equipped clinic, his father told us: \"I hardly make ends meet.\" Breaking down, he added: \"I don't even have money to pay the nurse. I also want a new hand for my son. My only solace is that he did for the Prophet.\" The cleric has been arrested under anti-terrorism laws, and denies charges of inciting hatred and violence. But the family does not want the cleric to be punished. That Qaiser punished himself so severely after being accused of blasphemy is unprecedented in Pakistan. But some say he may have been spared a worse fate in an increasingly conservative country, where people accused of blasphemy, or those who defend them, can end up victims of mob violence and lynching. In 2011, Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was murdered by one of his own bodyguards in the capital, Islamabad, after criticising Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws and voicing support for a Christian woman sentenced to death for a blasphemy charge she denies. Another outspoken critic of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, Shahbaz Bhatti, the country's first minorities minister and a Christian, was also shot dead in 2011. Many will find the story of what Qaiser did to clear his name disturbing but it highlights the extreme sensitivity around the issue of blasphemy in Pakistan. What may have started as a simple misunderstanding went on to have life changing consequences for a child.", "question": "After a Pakistani boy cut off his own hand following a public accusation of blasphemy , BBC Urdu 's Iram Abbasi travelled to his village in Punjab province to find out what happened . She is the first international broadcaster to speak to him . Some readers may find the @placeholder that follow disturbing .", "option_0": "details", "option_1": "message", "option_2": "episodes", "option_3": "news", "option_4": "recommendation"}
{"id": 1943, "article": "Tiles Bar gave up trying to spell the club's name and instead went for \"A German Team\" on a sandwich board advertising the Champions League clash against Celtic a fortnight ago. The German team changed their English language Twitter handle to match. The bar now has a sign saying: \"A German Team v A Glasgow Team\". Borussia Monchengladbach face Celtic in Germany on Tuesday evening in their second Champions League meeting. The Germans won the first game in Glasgow 2-0. Ahead of the match, Gladbach fans were so desperate to get hold of merchandise referring to their club as A German Team that 2,000 scarves sporting the branding sold out within two days. Speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland Radio programme, the man who wrote the sign, assistant manager of Tiles Bar, Brian Pickering, said: \"It's been crazy. It just exploded. It snowballed so quickly. \"A lot of the local newspapers seemed to pick it up, then it got on to the TV stations, Match of the Day and CNN. It's just incredible.\" He added: \"The team took it in great spirit. We had a bit of a joke about it on Twitter.\" Borussia Monchengladbach also used \"a German Team\" on their teamsheet on social media. The club's head of corporate communications, Markus Aretz, told BBC Radio Scotland scarves were in such demand the team ordered another 2,000 to sell ahead of the latest fixture. He said: \"When we came back from Glasgow everyone was so enthusiastic about our travel to Glasgow. All the supporters were happy with the result, of course, but also happy with the way they were welcomed in Glasgow and Scotland. \"We thought about doing something for the match when they come to play here so we produced the scarves and within two days they were sold out.\" He said he knew lots of people struggled to pronounce the side's name but that they liked to see the \"funny\" side of it. Mr Pickering said the fuss over the sign had been attracting German fans to the Edinburgh pub. He added: \"We've shown the last three Monchengladbach games in the pub and it seems to be that some of the Germans in town make their way here to watch the game. It's been a great response.\"", "question": "An Edinburgh pub which went viral after it gave German football team Borussia Monchengladbach a new title has updated its @placeholder ahead of the latest match .", "option_0": "name", "option_1": "criticism", "option_2": "title", "option_3": "identity", "option_4": "signage"}
{"id": 1944, "article": "Around 2,900 staff had been due to walk out from Friday in a long-running dispute about pay and benefits. BA had said the crew's pay and rewards are in line with competitors but Unite said the action was about benefits not being reinstated for crew who took part in earlier industrial action. The union says talks will now be held at conciliation service Acas to reach an agreement. Unite said the cabin staff, who work on both short and long-haul routes as part of the airline's \"mixed fleet\" agreement, are paid less than other BA crew. \"Mixed-fleet\" cabin crew have staged 26 days of strikes so far, and Unite says that as a result, 1,400 of its members have had their travel benefits taken away. BA had called the new strike \"completely unnecessary\" adding it \"had reached a deal on pay, which Unite's national officers agreed was acceptable\". But the union said action had come about because the airline had treated staff who had participated in earlier strike action unfairly. \"Punishing staff for using legitimate industrial means to reach a wage deal is a culture that Unite cannot accept,\" it added. It comes after the airline suffered an IT failure which left 75,000 passengers stranded over the bank holiday weekend.", "question": "British Airways cabin crew have suspended a @placeholder four - day strike .", "option_0": "full", "option_1": "suspended", "option_2": "second", "option_3": "renewed", "option_4": "planned"}
{"id": 1945, "article": "The trunks of two pines on West Cliff Green, Bournemouth, were each drilled up to 15 times last June. A third pine was damaged the following month and a \"crystal-like\" substance was discovered on its bark. Tests revealed the substance was the herbicide glyphosate, the borough council said. Residents have said they are \"appalled\" by the loss. Nick Colledge, from Bournemouth Borough Council, said the samples from all three trees \"tested positive for very high levels of the herbicide glyphosate\". In a bid to prevent further damage and save the pines, the holes were plugged with wooden dowels to stop any other substances from being poured inside, and CCTV was installed in the area last October. But two of the trees have now died and the third is in a poor condition, the council said. Chris Colledge, of West Cliff Green Residents' Association, said: \"Residents and a number of hoteliers along West Cliff are absolutely appalled that someone should take the law into their own hands, with a motive of whatever purpose, and target these beautiful trees.\" The council now plans to plant six new trees around the existing damaged trees. Dorset Police is investigating the damage, but no arrests have been made.", "question": "Two of three pine trees that were deliberately drilled and had @placeholder poured into them have died .", "option_0": "poison", "option_1": "stones", "option_2": "blood", "option_3": "burst", "option_4": "holes"}
{"id": 1946, "article": "HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has announced a voluntary redundancy scheme affecting staff in four of its offices in NI. The offices affected are in Enniskillen, Londonderry, Newry and Belfast. An HMRC spokesperson said the redundancies were necessary as more customers choose to do business with them online. The number of staff eligible to apply for redundancy is 24 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh; 77 in Londonderry; 134 in Newry, County Down, and five in Belfast. The HMRC spokesperson said: \"An increasing number of customers are choosing to do business with us through our online services, which has reduced our need for physical sites. \"This change has seen the nature of our work shift away from the mass processing work of the past to the more specialist, but less labour-intensive, roles required in effective policing of the tax system. \"As a result some areas of our work do not require as many staff.\" The spokesperson added: \"We are not closing any offices today.\" Sinn F??in MPs Conor Murphy and Michelle Gildernew, along with SDLP MP Mark Durkan, are to travel to Westminster to press the UK government to reconsider the job losses. Mr Murphy, MP for Newry and Armagh, said: \"This has come out of the blue for the workers. \"They have been told they have to agree to a voluntary exit scheme by 18 December, and are adamant there is no opportunity for redeployment.\"", "question": "Almost 250 civil service jobs could be @placeholder in Northern Ireland .", "option_0": "discussed", "option_1": "established", "option_2": "launched", "option_3": "doubled", "option_4": "lost"}
{"id": 1947, "article": "When we arrived in darkness all was calm and quiet. We were greeted courteously by men carrying copies of the US constitution, who told us they were unarmed. They had draped the US flag over a sign at the entrance to the wildlife refuge and they offered us a cup of coffee. The guards told us that the armed men inside were not taking visitors at present but would be happy to come out and meet the media face to face in the morning. One of the men tried to give me a small US Fish and Wildlife Service sign from the building \"as a souvenir\". \"It's mine,\" he said, \"I paid for it,\" making a reference to his taxes. A short distance away, down a slope in the darkness, sat the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge itself, a collection of more than a dozen buildings which serves as the headquarters for a sanctuary established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908. A spot popular with birdwatchers keen to catch a glimpse of a greater sandhill crane may seem an improbable symbol of oppression but the men here insist the federal government has overreached its authority and has no right to this land. The refuge abuts property owned by the two men whose incarceration sparked this whole protest, Dwight Hammond and his son Steven. Their lawyer told the BBC that the Hammonds, who have already served time in prison for setting fires which spread to public land, had travelled to California on Sunday to hand themselves in after federal prosecutors won an appeal that resulted in lengthier jail terms. Publicly they have distanced themselves from the action, taken by people who are not neighbours or locals. But some people in the community around the town of Burns say while they do not approve of the methods, they are in tune with the sentiment. Back at the bird reserve, the mood changed slightly as the day dawned, the birds started singing and the winter sun struggled to pierce the hazy clouds. The media were now at the gate in force and the men there were more reluctant to talk. \"We need to stick to the narrative,\" one told us as he explained why we needed to wait for their leader Ammon Bundy. Down a slight hill, we could now see the headquarters clearly, the red roofs of the sheds standing out against the snow. Several dark-clad figures moved around in the complex. At the top of a metal observation tower two men surveyed the surroundings. There was not much for them to see apart from satellite trucks, camera crews and a solitary, unexplained drone. For miles around there was no sign at all of any law enforcement officers although the word in Burns, some 30 minutes away, is that the hotels are packed with FBI agents. Critics of this occupation are putting pressure on the federal authorities to enforce the law and end it. They have accused the occupiers of this building of being domestic terrorists, using force to impose their will. Those involved insist they are patriots and they claim they have the law on their side. The US constitution prohibits the federal government from owning this land, they say. When Mr Bundy emerged to speak to the media he refused to tell me how many people were inside the bird sanctuary or how many were armed but, after the news conference, camera crews were given a limited tour of the site. Several children also came along although the militia men said the youngsters were visitors who were not staying on the site. We were told we would not be shown anything relating to \"operational security\" or anything that would \"put lives at risk\" and, indeed, we were kept away from any weapons on the site. A number of US government vehicles sat in the car park, covered in snow. We were not allowed into most of the buildings and saw no more than a dozen men and one woman inside. We were taken into a building where one of the protestors said he had been sleeping. It appeared to be a gym for the federal employees who usually manage this land. There were cans of chicken noodle soup, oranges, apples and other food. Through a glass window we could see a man and a woman cooking food in a kitchen. The site appeared to be in good condition. Not all of the men here were keen to talk but those who were have urged supporters to take up arms and join them to assert the rights of ranchers in the American west, rights which they say have been trampled by a federal government over-reaching its authority. They say they are prepared to stay here for years to make that point and, so far, there is no sign at all of them leaving or being forced from this land. But with the absence of law enforcement this is not a stand-off. Not yet anyway.", "question": "The latest clash between Washington and the west is playing out on a snowy desert @placeholder in the wilds of Oregon .", "option_0": "night", "option_1": "present", "option_2": "plain", "option_3": "ridge", "option_4": "cloud"}
{"id": 1948, "article": "Security researcher Hugo Teso was able to \"hijack\" the systems to feed false navigation information to a simulated jet that made it change course. Mr Teso built his simulator using spare parts from real jets for sale on the eBay auction site. Authorities say actual flight computers are not compromised by his work but want to find out more. The loopholes in the flight management system were detailed by Mr Teso during a presentation to the Hack In The Box conference in Amsterdam. Mr Teso, who is also a qualified commercial pilot, said he had spent the past four years investigating the many different computer and data systems found on aircraft which help them fly and navigate safely. \"I expected them to have security issues but I did not expect them to be so easy to spot,\" he said. \"I thought I would have to fight hard to get into them but it was not that difficult.\" Mr Teso set out to find a way to subvert the flight management systems (FMS) found on many different aircraft. He planned to feed them fake or booby-trapped data via well-known radio communication systems. Old aviation equipment was bought via eBay to help Mr Teso interrogate the code these systems ran. This hardware was used to build a simulated aircraft that ran many of the systems found on commercial aircraft and could swap data via radio with the air traffic and navigation systems used in the real world. The lab work produced an attack toolkit that could influence the FMS of the simulated aircraft as it was \"in flight\". \"I can influence the guidance and navigation of the aircraft,\" he told the BBC, adding that the system had \"limitations\". \"It requires some careful planning and timing to achieve results,\" he said. Despite this, he said, publicity about the talk had led the European Aviation and Safety Agency (EASA) and the US Federal Aviation Administration to get in touch seeking more details. Now, he said, Mr Teso and n.runs, the German security company he works for, are setting up meetings to pass on his findings. In a statement, EASA said it was aware of Mr Teso's work and presentation. \"This presentation was based on a PC training simulator and did not reveal potential vulnerabilities on actual flying systems,\" it said. \"There are major differences between a PC-based training FMS software and an embedded FMS software.\" The version used on flight desks was hardened to avoid many of the loopholes found in the training systems, it added. Mr Teso said there was little risk that malicious hackers would be able to use what he found. \"You would have to have solid knowledge of aviation and its protocols and that's not easy to get,\" he said, adding that he planned to keep on with the research. He said there were lots of other \"approach vectors\" for hacking aircraft systems.", "question": "Aviation agencies in Europe and the US are keen to quiz a hacker who @placeholder flight deck computers .", "option_0": "has", "option_1": "knocked", "option_2": "targeted", "option_3": "spent", "option_4": "fled"}
{"id": 1949, "article": "Mrs Brooks said she \"didn't think anybody, me included, knew it was illegal\". She told the Old Bailey she felt \"shock and horror\" after she discovered murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked. Mrs Brooks, one of seven defendants on trial, denies four charges. She said she was never asked to sanction the accessing of voicemails for a story during her time as editor of the newspaper. \"No journalist ever came to me and said 'We're working on so and so a story but we need to access their voicemail and we need to ask for my sanction to do it',\" she said. \"Even though I didn't know it was illegal, I absolutely felt it was in the category of a serious breach of privacy.\" Mrs Brooks denies conspiring to hack phones, conspiring to commit misconduct in public office, and conspiring to cover up evidence to pervert the course of justice. Mrs Brooks said she knew nothing about the tasking of the convicted phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire to access 13-year-old Milly's voicemails in 2002. She told the court she only became aware Milly's phone had been hacked on 4 July 2011. The NoW was closed later that month following the revelations. Asked about her reaction to hearing the schoolgirl's phone had been targeted, the 45-year-old said: \"Shock, horror, everything. I just think anyone would think that that was pretty abhorrent, so my reaction was that.\" The court heard Milly's mobile phone was hacked between 10 and 12 April, when Mrs Brooks was on holiday in Dubai with her former husband, Ross Kemp. Her barrister, Jonathan Laidlaw QC, asked: \"Was that ever brought to your attention at any point, firstly during your holiday in Dubai?\" \"Absolutely not,\" Mrs Brooks said. \"Or thereafter?\" Mr Laidlaw asked, to which she replied \"No\". Mr Laidlaw also questioned Mrs Brooks about how often she was on her phone during the Dubai holiday. He referred to past evidence given by William Hennessy, who was at Dubai at the same time with Dean Keyworth, a friend of Andy Coulson, and who spent some time with Mrs Brooks and Mr Kemp. He had said he remembered Mrs Brooks walking away to take a call about \"the missing Surrey girl\". Mrs Brooks said she did not remember saying that, and that had she referred to Milly, it would have been by name and not as \"the missing Surrey girl\". The court heard that Mrs Brooks made four calls to the editor's desk at the NoW on 12 April, sent four texts to Mr Coulson's mobile and received a call from his phone. Mr Laidlaw asked her if that was an unusual number of calls to be making while on holiday. She said it was normal given it was a Friday night - when she would usually check to see \"how the paper's going\" before it went to print. Taking Mrs Brooks through call records between her phone and the NoW editor's office, Mr Laidlaw also asked her what she would have done had someone told her on the Thursday or Friday that they thought they had a lead on Milly's whereabouts. \"Tell the police,\" Mrs Brooks said. \"I would have assumed probably that they would have told the police before me. If they had not, I would have told them to do so.\" The court also heard that a full transcript of a voicemail message mistakenly left on Milly's phone by a recruitment agency had been included in the first and second editions of the NoW that weekend - 14 April 2002. But references to the voicemail were omitted from the third edition, which was the main selling edition of the paper, the court heard. Mrs Brooks, who was in Dubai until the Sunday, said she played no part in the change. She also denied having anything to do with pushing the story from page nine to page 30 of the third edition. The Old Bailey earlier heard details of a contract which agreed to pay convicted phone hacker Mulcaire ?¡ê1,769 a week, or ?¡ê92,000 a year, to supply information. Mrs Brooks said she had not seen the contract, which started on September 1, 2001. Read profiles of the defendants Mulcaire was jailed in 2007, along with the the NoW's then-royal editor, Clive Goodman, after admitting intercepting voicemails. Mrs Brooks said a lot of investigators were used during the late 1990s and early 2000s, adding that it was \"pretty normal\" in Fleet Street. She said investigators did the \"leg work\" for journalists, citing an example when the newspaper traced convicted paedophiles living in the community. She said she had \"never heard the name of Glenn Mulcaire\" before his arrest. All seven defendants deny the various charges against them.", "question": "Rebekah Brooks has told the phone - hacking trial she did not realise the @placeholder was illegal when she was editor of the News of the World", "option_0": "case", "option_1": "phone", "option_2": "name", "option_3": "attack", "option_4": "practice"}
{"id": 1950, "article": "Ajer, 17, will join the club on a four-year deal in the summer, after agreeing personal terms following a trial. The midfielder has captained and been a regular for IK Start in Norway, but recognises he has to develop further to succeed at Celtic. \"I come here as a 17-year-old that surely no-one has heard about, so I need to prove myself,\" he said. Media playback is not supported on this device \"I expect much from myself.\" Highly-rated in his homeland, the Norway Under-17 cap revealed his decision to join the Scottish champions was influenced by the presence of his compatriot Ronny Deila as Celtic manager. The midfielder did not seek assurances about Deila's long-term future at the club before committing to a contract, though. \"He's the manager now and that's what's important,\" Ajer said. \"You don't know what will happen. Ronny's a great manager and I am really sure that he will be manager for a long time. \"Back in Norway, he won the Premiership and I will prove that I am good enough to play. \"I'm a full member of the A squad. I need to prove myself, develop and be good in training. Hopefully I will play a lot, that's my goal. \"I'm a holding midfielder that likes to be on the ball and win it back again. I've had many role models who I've seen on YouTube, such as Patrick Vieira - a great player in that position. \"At Celtic, there are holding midfielders who are so good that I need to learn from. I can't wait to start training with them and learn everything. \"I've played almost 50 matches in the Premiership in Norway and I felt I was ready to come to such a big club as this and develop as much as I can.\" Ajer admitted other teams had been keen to sign him but that Celtic was his \"number one club\", explaining: \"I wanted to come here. \"My parents have my whole life told me to keep my feet on the ground and never think you are better than someone else, you have to prove yourself,\" he added. \"I will [now return home to] take the driving licence and finish second grade at my high school, so I have many things to do back in Norway.\"", "question": "Kristoffer Ajer says he has joined Celtic to show he can @placeholder at a higher level .", "option_0": "achieve", "option_1": "stay", "option_2": "fight", "option_3": "perform", "option_4": "feature"}
{"id": 1951, "article": "There will also be daily reports after each session and contributions from the 5 live F1 team from the second test - as well as a special 5 live season preview show coming from Barcelona on March 3. The 2016 season gets under way on 20 March, with the first race in Melbourne, Australia. Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona - 22-25 February Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona - 1-4 March Ferrari - launched Haas - launched Force India - launched Renault - launched McLaren - launched Mercedes - launched Red Bull - launched Sauber - 1 March Toro Rosso - launched Williams - launched Manor - launched", "question": "You can @placeholder Formula 1 testing on BBC Sport live , with track updates , expert analysis , social media reaction , debate , voting , the latest pictures and more from Barcelona .", "option_0": "improve", "option_1": "access", "option_2": "build", "option_3": "follow", "option_4": "avoid"}
{"id": 1952, "article": "The deadline set by Aberdeen City Council for claims related to Hazlehead Crematorium passed at 17:00. Baby and adult ashes were mixed together at the crematorium and given back to relatives of the adult. The parents of the infants were told there were no ashes. Thompsons Solicitors told BBC Scotland they were dealing with 171 cases. Aberdeen City Council said it could not confirm the number of claims it had received. The council announced in December last year that it had approved a new financial compensation scheme for those affected. BBC Scotland revealed in 2013 that no ashes had been offered to the families of infants cremated in Aberdeen over a five-year period.", "question": "A solicitors ' firm acting for families affected by the baby ashes scandal in Aberdeen has @placeholder 171 cases for compensation .", "option_0": "lost", "option_1": "suspended", "option_2": "abandoned", "option_3": "submitted", "option_4": "prompted"}
{"id": 1953, "article": "Amina Al-Jeffery, 21, who has dual British and Saudi Arabian nationality, claims her father Mohammed Al-Jeffery locked her up after she \"kissed a guy\". She has described \"metal bars\" on her bedroom and being a \"locked-up girl with a shaved head\", her lawyers said. They are asking the High Court in London to come to her aid. Her father disputes his daughter's allegations. Ms Al-Jeffery was taken to Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia, by her family four years ago, Mr Justice Holman was told. Barristers representing her said it had been difficult to receive instructions from her - but she had spoken to a member of staff at the British Consulate in Jeddah. She told them there had been a \"practice\" of \"locking her in her room\", and her younger sister had been told she was an \"evil girl\". A sister had seen her in Saudi Arabia and found \"a locked-up girl with a shaved head\", she told them. She also said \"metal bars are no longer in her room\" but \"she is still locked up in the house\" and \"not allowed to use the phone or internet\", her lawyers said. She spoke of being \"prevented from going to the bathroom\" and being \"forced to urinate in a cup\", and said her father had hit her, the court heard. Lawyers representing Ms Al-Jeffery said they have taken legal action in London in a bid to protect her. Her father, an academic in his 60s, had objected to her returning to the UK, Henry Setright QC said. Her mother and siblings were back in South Wales, he said. \"She has expressed a wish to return to England but has been prevented from doing so by her father,\" he argued in a written document give to Mr Justice Holman. Her father's treatment \"has extended to depriving her of food and water, depriving her of toilet facilities, physical assault and control of her ability to marry who she wishes and creating a situation in which she feels compelled to marry as a means of escape\", he added. He said it amounted to a breach of her \"fundamental human rights\". The judge, Mr Justice Holman, said on Wednesday that issues raised were \"important and difficult\" and that he had to consider whether he had the power to make orders relating to a woman abroad. The \"right thing\" might be to order that she was taken to the British Consulate in Jeddah, he said. If she sought sanctuary, Foreign Office staff would then have to make decisions, he added. Mr Al-Jeffery, who disputes the claims against him, had written a letter earlier this year refusing to return his daughter to the UK, Mr Setright said. \"I am unwilling to do this as I fear she will go back to her old destructive lifestyle,\" he wrote. \"As her father, I fear for her health and safety and only want what is best for Amina, so she may focus on her education.\" His lawyer, Marcus Scott-Manderson QC, said none of the claims against his client were \"remotely admitted\", and urged the judge to proceed with caution when deciding whether to make orders. He said the Saudi government was paying Mr Al-Jeffery's legal bills, via the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Neither Miss Al-Jeffery nor Mr Al-Jeffery have been at the hearing in London, which is expected to end on Thursday.", "question": "A Swansea woman has been @placeholder by her father in a house in Saudi Arabia for four years , a court has been told .", "option_0": "hiding", "option_1": "raised", "option_2": "targeted", "option_3": "imprisoned", "option_4": "kidnapped"}
{"id": 1954, "article": "Hilary Benn will be shadow foreign secretary in the new Labour leader's first shadow cabinet. Lord Falconer will be shadow justice secretary, Angela Eagle will be shadow business secretary and Lewisham MP Heidi Alexander will oversee health. Chuka Umunna said he was leaving the front bench by \"mutual agreement\". Mary Creagh, shadow international development secretary, said she was also returning to the backbenches. Ms Eagle was also announced as shadow first secretary of state and will deputise for Mr Corbyn at Prime Minister's Questions when David Cameron is away. Seema Malhotra has been named shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, while Diane Abbott - a high-profile supporter of Mr Corbyn - is shadow minister for international development. It was confirmed earlier that Rosie Winterton will continue as chief whip and Ian Murray will continue as shadow Scottish secretary. BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Corbyn has achieved part of his first goal as leader - to include people from the centre of the party, including well-known names. But our correspondent added many MPs will find the appointment of Mr McDonnell - a key ally of Mr Corbyn on the left - \"very hard to stomach\". In other developments: Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson had urged MPs to back Mr Corbyn. But the other leadership candidates Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall, as well as Ms Creagh, Tristram Hunt, Rachel Reeves, Chris Leslie, Jamie Reed, Emma Reynolds and Shabana Mahmood said they would not serve in Mr Corbyn's shadow cabinet. Ms Cooper will, however, chair a new party taskforce on refugees. Mr Umunna - who pulled out of the leadership race days after declaring his candidacy earlier this year - described leaving the shadow cabinet as one of the most difficult \"personal political decisions\" he has had to make. \"Whilst there is much on which Jeremy and I agree, there are a number of key points of difference on policy which I believe it would be dishonest to deny exist,\" he said. He added he would \"find it difficult to abide by the collective responsibility\" of being in the shadow cabinet - \"not least on the European referendum\". Mr Corbyn has said he is not content with the EU as it stands, but wants to stay to fight for a \"better Europe\". He had previously refused to rule out campaigning to leave. Few MPs backed Mr Corbyn in the leadership contest - which he won with 59% of the vote - but his deputy Mr Watson told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show there was \"zero chance of a coup\". He did however concede that he had differences with Mr Corbyn over the leader's desire to scrap the Trident nuclear deterrent and take the UK out of Nato. But he said his message for those refusing to serve in the shadow cabinet was \"there's always someone else that can do a front bench job\". What the media says about Corbyn Business reaction to Corbyn win Beginner's guide to Corbyn Who are Jeremy Corbyn's main allies? 24 things that Jeremy Corbyn believes The Jeremy Corbyn Story", "question": "Jeremy Corbyn has named John McDonnell shadow chancellor and @placeholder leadership candidate Andy Burnham shadow home secretary .", "option_0": "proposed", "option_1": "defeated", "option_2": "announced", "option_3": "attacking", "option_4": "delivered"}
{"id": 1955, "article": "Seamus James Laverty, 58, of Deer Park Road in Toome, pleaded guilty to 16 counts of fraud by false representation at Antrim Crown Court. Laverty sold ordinary glass as fire safety glass between 2010 and 2013 when he worked on the factory floor of Glassworks Ireland. The fraud totalled ¡ê145,000. The glass was sold to the construction industry and later used in buildings across Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and England. These include the Ulster Hospital, Strathearn School in east Belfast, Lisburn Road Methodist Church in Belfast, Magherafelt High School in County Londonderry, Carrickfergus Primary School in County Antrim, Tallaght Hospital in Dubin and Manchester University. A whistleblower, who was a competitor of Laverty, became suspicious of his company's cheap tenders and acquired a sample of fire safety glass from Glassworks Ireland. He discovered it was, in fact, ordinary laminate glass which had been stamped as fire resistant. The whistleblower alerted police and an investigation began. The court heard that Laverty had his own glass business but had gone bankrupt, so the company was taken over by his son under a new name. He was an employee of his son's business when the fraud occurred. A judge described the case as \"chilling\". Referring to potential harm to members of the public in a fire, he said: \"By the grace of God it was avoided but that's no thanks to you.\" The judge added that because of the extreme financial pressures Laverty had been under and mental difficulties he had experienced because of those, he was prepared to \"temper justice with mercy\". Members of Laverty's family wept as he was sentenced to two years - one year to be served in prison and the other on licence. A police spokesperson said Laverty's actions were \"absolutely reckless\". They added: \"\"This was a fraud designed to make large amounts of money but which put lives, many of them vulnerable lives, at risk.\"", "question": "A County Antrim man has been jailed for a year for selling fake fire safety glass that was later @placeholder at schools , universities and hospitals .", "option_0": "wounded", "option_1": "buried", "option_2": "held", "option_3": "installed", "option_4": "abducted"}
{"id": 1956, "article": "A CCTV image of the men, believed to be working with others, has been released by Sussex Police. Victims' purses and wallets were stolen as they left stores and cash withdrawn from nearby ATM machines before they became aware of the theft. One one occasion they targeted a person in a hospice shop. There have been 22 such reports in Sussex since November last year, mostly in supermarkets, but also from pubs and fast food restaurants. The amounts stolen vary but have reached as much as ¡ê3,500. The men are described as being of Eastern European appearance, one bald and the other with dark hair. Investigator Kayleigh Bartup said: \"We are working with the large supermarket brands to raise awareness about these incidents among staff and customers. \"Be alert and aware of strangers when shopping and never leave your bag or trolley unattended at any point. Try not to be distracted by strangers, and also be alert for any suspicious activity around your vehicle. \"It appears that these men, and others, may strike up to twice a day in different towns, and then lay low for a while, so we need to maintain awareness even when there are no reports.\"", "question": "Two men are suspected of stealing nearly ¡ê 20,000 from shoppers by watching them enter their Pin @placeholder and then stealing their bank cards .", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "codes", "option_2": "windows", "option_3": "crowd", "option_4": "counterparts"}
{"id": 1957, "article": "Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouly said the project would cost $45bn (?¡ê30bn) and take five to seven years to complete. He said the aim was to ease congestion and overpopulation in Cairo over the next 40 years. The announcement was made at an investment conference that aims to revive the Egyptian economy. The gathering, in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, has attracted pledges worth $12bn (?¡ê8bn) in aid and investment from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Mr Madbouly said the population of greater Cairo, estimated at about 18 million, was expected to double within 40 years. The Egyptian parliament and its government departments and ministries, as well as foreign embassies, would move to the new metropolis, he said. \"We are talking about a world capital,\" he added. Developers say the new city - the name of which has not been revealed - would include almost 2,000 schools and colleges and more than 600 health care facilities. They say the project will create more than a million jobs. It is planned to be built over 700 sq km (270 sq miles) and house about five million residents. Planners say the proposed city's site \"is situated along the corridor between Cairo and the Red Sea, providing linkages to significant shipping routes. It will be built by Capital City Partners, a private real estate investment fund led by Emirati Mohamed Alabbar.  Dubai businessman Mr Alabbar built the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. \"It is a natural extension for the city of Cairo,\" Mr Alabbar told the BBC, saying that the new development would sit on the edge of the existing city. \"It is a wonderful opportunity to be able to design something from scratch, and to design it keeping in mind the needs of the Egyptian people and the Egyptian government.\" He said that the builders would be deploying the most advanced design techniques on the project, and that the city would breed \"confidence\" and \"pride\" in Egyptians. The new capital is as yet unnamed, but it sounds like an Egyptian version of Shangri La. It's being billed as a smart sustainable city, on a grand scale. If and when it's completed  - and that could take years - it will be about the size of Singapore, with an airport larger than Heathrow. The idea is to lure Egyptians away from the chaotic sprawl of Cairo - where congestion and pollution seem as constant as the waters of the Nile. The authorities say it will spark a renaissance in the economy. Perhaps, but many here recall other flagship projects - which stalled in the past. Egyptian bureaucracy can be as enduring as the pyramids. President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi can't afford this to fail. Without tangible economic progress there could be more unrest ahead. The move follows those of a number of other countries, including Brazil and Nigeria, that have shifted their capital cities. The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has praised recent economic reforms in Egypt, and urged businesses to invest in the country. Mr Kerry was also attending the economic conference in Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss ways to revive the Egyptian economy. Dozens of major infrastructure projects have been unveiled, attracting billions of dollars' worth of outside investment.  Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have each pledged $4bn of investments in Egypt, The conference comes after years of political upheaval and severe, ongoing, tensions in Egypt. Foreign investment contracted after the 2011 uprising, from $13bn in 2007-2008 to just $2.2bn, and annual economic growth fell from 7% to about 2%. The International Monetary Fund now envisages 3.8% growth for the financial year to July 2015, and 4.3% in 2015-2016. Foreign direct investment was $4bn in the previous financial year, and Investment Minister Ashraf Salman says it be $8bn in this financial year.", "question": "The Egyptian government has announced plans to build a new capital to the @placeholder of the present one , Cairo .", "option_0": "south", "option_1": "size", "option_2": "depths", "option_3": "construction", "option_4": "east"}
{"id": 1958, "article": "The Jamaican Defence Force said the plane went down about 14 miles (22km) north-east of Port Antonio. The US had earlier scrambled two F-15 fighter jets when the plane failed to respond to air traffic control. The two people known to be on board have been named as Larry Glazer, a property developer from Rochester, New York, and his wife Jane. The couple were both licensed pilots. The plane's pilot had indicated there was a problem and twice asked to descend to a lower altitude before permission was granted, according to a recording of the radio conversation with US traffic controllers. Contact with the plane was lost a short time later. Maj Basil Jarrett of the Jamaican Defence Force told reporters that an oil slick had been spotted about 14 miles north-east of the coastal town of Port Antonio but there was no sign yet of any wreckage. He said search and rescue teams were scouring the waters for possible survivors. As darkness fell, Jamaica suspended the search until first light on Saturday. The plane, a Socata TBM-700 built in 2014, took off from Rochester at 08:26 (12:26 GMT) en route to Naples, Florida. The North American Aerospace Defence Command (Norad) was alerted to the unresponsive plane about an hour into its flight and sent two fighter jets to monitor it. A spokesman said it was not possible for the fighter pilots to see inside the plane as the windows were frosted or fogged over. A tweet from Norad suggested the pilot or pilots could have been be unresponsive due to \"possible hypoxia\" - oxygen deprivation. On a recording made by LiveATC - a website that monitors air traffic control recordings - and quoted by the Associated Press, the pilot can be heard saying:  \"We need to descend to about (18,000 feet). We have an indication that's not correct in the plane.\" A controller replies: \"Stand by.\" After a pause, the controller tells the pilot to fly at 25,000ft. \"We need to get lower,\" the pilot responded. \"Working on that,\" the controller says. Controllers then clear the plane to descend to 20,000ft and the pilot acknowledges the command. Minutes later a controller asks the plane to identify itself. There is no response. According to FlightAware, the plane never carried out the last descent to 20,000ft. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo paid tribute to the couple. \"The Glazers were innovative and generous people who were committed to revitalising downtown Rochester,\" he said. The couple's three children said in a statement they were \"devastated\". The US Federal Aviation Administration said it co-operated with Cuba air traffic control in monitoring the plane, despite the countries not having full diplomatic relations for more than half a century. Cuba said it had authorised the US military to fly a C-130 cargo plane and two fighter jets over its airspace to investigate the incident.", "question": "An unresponsive private plane has crashed in the sea off Jamaica , officials on the @placeholder have said .", "option_0": "grounds", "option_1": "night", "option_2": "island", "option_3": "scene", "option_4": "team"}
{"id": 1959, "article": "There's an elephant in the room. Well, not an elephant as such. Not an elephant at all, in fact. A bulldog. The football chat is parked for a minute until we figure out why all these bulldogs are hanging about in his office at McDiarmid Park. There are bulldogs on a calendar behind his desk. There's talk about a bulldog called Winston - and there's a toy bulldog draped in a union flag beside his telephone. There's a story that goes with that, he says. That's Jack, the desktop bulldog from Skyfall, the chap that M bequeaths to Bond upon death and which James is still in possession of in Spectre. Are you following this? Jack is memorabilia now. The 007 people have probably made fortunes selling replicas to bulldog lovers everywhere, such as the Wrights of Perth. \"My wife, Anne, got me him for Christmas,\" said the 53-year-old St Johnstone manager. \"We have a real one of our own - Winston. Born on the day we won the Scottish Cup final. A pedigree dog. Has cost us thousands in vet fees. \"I've got asthma and I'm allergic to him, but he's fantastic. The boys here say he looks just like me. \"Actually, I might bring him in next week. He can go and chase Murray Davidson around for a bit.\" Wright lords it over McDiarmid Park like a colossus, a big bear of a man who continues to do an outstanding job. On a budget as tight as a gnat's behind, St Johnstone have, of course, gloriously and historically won the cup on his watch and have finished sixth, fourth and fourth in the league in his three full seasons. They currently sit fifth, just one point off Hearts in fourth and only six behind Rangers in third. They go to Ibrox on Wednesday night. We can add layers to that. In all competitions, St Johnstone had a win percentage of 48% in season one under Wright, then 39%, then 43% and now 44%. They are two points ahead of where they were this time last season, which is a fair old feat in itself given that the league is stronger now than it was then. The numbers would be better had they not lost to Kilmarnock on Saturday, a performance that had Wright fuming. Killie, for some bizarre reason, have become the unlikeliest of bogey teams, beating St Johnstone in four of the last five meetings. Wright rated it as the worst performance of the season and maybe even the worst performance of his time in Perth. That's one thing about him - he doesn't mess about. No sugar-coating, no soft-soap. Saints are in an awkward little run, losing three of their last four, including a cup exit to Partick Thistle, but only a daftie would bet on this continuing for much longer. They've been in ruts before and have dug themselves out. We look at them now and almost take top-four for granted. Wright doesn't, but it's understandable why many others do. \"You mentioned the 39% from three seasons ago - we lost Stevie May, scored 34 goals (only relegated St Mirren scored fewer), finished fourth and got into Europe,\" he recalled. \"It may not be pretty, but we had a lot of injuries, so we adapted, we were ruthless, we won games 1-0, we won games from 1-0 down. To me, that was an achievement because somehow we managed with 34 goals to do what we did. \"The year we won the cup, we played 50 games and the 50th game was our 23rd clean sheet. People say you're organised. I don't see what's wrong with being organised. \"I'm not surprised, but I never take it for granted because you have to work so hard in this league. I'm pleased where we are.\" Wright arrived into English football with Newcastle pretty late, as a 24-year-old out of Ballyclare in Northern Ireland. \"I always felt I was behind the eight-ball a little bit and people were questioning my ability,\" he admits. \"I had that attitude that I was going to prove people wrong. You can't have success without a great work ethic, it doesn't matter how much ability you have. \"If you look at Celtic's quality this year - the work ethic of that team has gone up maybe 20 to 30%. \"I don't go on about philosophy. Maximise what you've got, that's it. \"We're mentioned as a long-ball team and we're not. How do you play long ball with Blair Alston, David Wotherspoon and Danny Swanson in your team? \"It's a perception of what we are. We're a strong team, we have players who are strong characters who want to win and put their bodies on the line. \"We all know it's a challenge to get top-six, but there's that fear of not getting it that drives me on.\" There's an in-joke about Wright at McDiarmid Park, a gag that gets a new airing anytime there's a big job available in Scotland or in the Championship in England. \"That'll be the gaffer away,\" the dressing room says. \"Removal men coming today, Tommy, aye?\" Wright is going nowhere, not yet anyway. After Mark Warburton exited Ibrox, he got some mentions as the type of strong leader that Rangers need, but the Glasgow club look to be heading in a different direction. \"When are you leaving?\" is a question he gets a lot to the point that he wishes people would stop asking it. It's flattering and all of that, but it's hypothetical. Wright is more nose to the grindstone than head in the clouds. \"It's become a wind-up in here,\" he says. \"With this dressing room, it's just constant ribbing. \"Somebody left a black bag outside my office the other day. (Stevie) MacLean says Anne was in to clean up my stuff. It very quickly passes - and they get plenty in return, trust me. \"The one thing I do know is that, if a club knocks on the door and wants to take me away from St Johnstone, I'll be ready for that. \"I've done the work, I know I'm capable of making the step up and that's no disrespect to the club I'm at, because I love it here. But I'm ambitious and if I wasn't ambitious then my chairman would be worried. \"I'm proud of the work we're doing. There's different aspects to management. There's the tactical side, but then there's getting the best out of people, man-managing people, exhausting every ounce, squeezing everything you can out of the resources you've got. \"The chairman can never say he doesn't get value for money, because I'll squeeze everything out.\" On Wednesday, St Johnstone visit Ibrox. Win that game and they move to within three points of third place. Lose it and the gap rises to nine and maybe that chance of third goes out of the window. It's a hard one to call. Saints are in a bit of a dip, but Rangers are in a trough. They've met four times in Wright's spell in charge and it's been a win apiece with the most recent matches ending in a pair of 1-1 draws. \"I look at Rangers and they have a lot of gifted footballers and they have a lot of possession of the ball and the one criticism would be that they don't turn that possession into enough goals,\" Wright suggests. \"They're still a good side that can hurt teams, particularly at home, because they have so much of the ball. I'm almost waiting for them to turn a team over, but it hasn't happened. \"I got on really well with Mark [Warburton], but it always looked like there was something just not right. Whatever that is, only Mark could tell you. \"I felt there was too many stories linking him with other clubs. Either somebody was being mischievous or it was genuine, but he probably had to answer too many questions about his future for too long. I was surprised when he went, though.\" Wright picked up on some chatter linking him with the job at Rangers and he was flattered, of course, but he was hardly drumming his fingers on his desk and waiting for the phone to ring. \"I'd take that call, but it hasn't happened,\" he admits. \"I'm very happy here. \" Not news to the St Johnstone fans, of course, but surely music to their ears nonetheless.", "question": "You want to concentrate on Tommy Wright 's words . You want to listen to him as he talks about the values of his St Johnstone team and how he likes to think that it 's built in his own hard - working @placeholder , but there 's a problem .", "option_0": "style", "option_1": "image", "option_2": "conditions", "option_3": "history", "option_4": "effect"}
{"id": 1960, "article": "The free school, planned for September 2017, will use staff and educational expertise from Highgate, where pupils pay ?¡ê18,705 per year. Spurs will be the school's main financial sponsor and provide premises. Highgate's head teacher says it will allow the school to offer an education to poorer families \"on our doorstep\". The proposed London Academy of Excellence Tottenham plans to offer A-level courses in the London Borough of Haringey, subject to a four-week consultation which begins next week. Highgate has already been involved in Stratford's London Academy of Excellence, which has been successful in getting pupils into top universities. That school has provided the model for the Tottenham school and has been supported by other schools such as Eton. The plan for the school promises an \"academically-rigorous curriculum\" aimed at pupils living in Tottenham from \"disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds\". Haringey council leader Claire Kober welcomed the proposal as a \"significant step in our ambition to ensure that young people in Tottenham have access to the same level of opportunity as any of their peers in London\". Adam Pettitt, Highgate's head, said the school would enable \"bright local children, especially those with disadvantaged backgrounds, to access a high-calibre academic education and first-rate preparation for university and employment\". \"Although Highgate School is situated in an affluent area of London, some of the least affluent and most challenged parts of the whole city are on our doorstep.\" Donna-Maria Cullen, executive director for Spurs, said the project would help to regenerate \"one of the poorest parts of Britain\". \"What has become evident to us is both the thirst for teaching at the highest level and a real need to retain the brightest schoolchildren in Tottenham,\" she added.", "question": "Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and a leading private school , Highgate School , are proposing a @placeholder sixth form in north London .", "option_0": "second", "option_1": "state", "option_2": "night", "option_3": "permanent", "option_4": "community"}
{"id": 1961, "article": "An image of a Kyrgyz passport purportedly belonging to the suspect circulated on social media. But Kyrgyz authorities said they had questioned the man and that he had played no part in the attack. Turkish media have run images of a suspect, saying they were given out by the police. But the police have given no official details of the search for the suspect. The passport image circulated on social media shows a similar-looking man to the suspect, but the head of the Kyrgyz security services told the BBC that the passport holder was not involved. Rakhat Sulaimanov said the man had been questioned by both their agents and Turkish security and that he had nothing to do with the attack. The Kyrgyz authorities say they were not contacted by their Turkish counterparts about the possible connection. Tairbek Sarpashev from the Kyrgyz state registration service, said they only started to investigate the man in question after seeing the media reports. Turkish media have said the man police are investigating is from Central Asia and had rented a flat in the central city of Konya with a woman believed to be his wife and two children, who have been detained. As more details emerge about the Istanbul nightclub gunman, it looks increasingly likely that - unlike most of the attacks in France and Germany last summer - the murderer had at least some rudimentary military training. Like the IS gunmen who attacked Paris in November 2015 and the jihadists who attacked Mumbai in 2008, he arrived on the scene with several full magazines for his assault rifle, each containing 30 rounds. Reports from the scene say he fired more than 100 rounds, shooting at the wounded and setting off explosive devices as a distraction as he reloaded. After nearly six years of civil war in Syria, and a still-active insurgency in Iraq, governments in both Europe and the Middle East are deeply concerned that fanatical jihadists who have spent time in those arenas will try to import their lethal skills into other countries. Some reports suggest police have gathered details of the man from calls he made on the mobile phone of the taxi driver who took him to the nightclub. However, nothing has been officially confirmed as Turkish authorities have given no details. The only official statements came from Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus, who said on Monday that authorities had fingerprints and a basic description of the suspect. Twelve people were arrested on Monday and another two foreigners were detained at Istanbul's Ataturk airport on Tuesday. Late on Tuesday, Turkey's parliament extended a state of emergency imposed following a failed military coup in July.  It will now be in force until at least mid-April. Mr Kurtulmus said the extension was necessary as followers of the US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen - whom the government blames for instigating the coup - were still active in public institutions. He added: \"Regardless of which terrorist organisation they are (...) and regardless of their motivation, we are determined to fight all terrorist organisations in 2017 and we will fight till the end.\" The Islamic State (IS) group has said one of its militants carried out the Istanbul attack and a huge manhunt is now underway to find him, with officials at airports and border crossings on high alert. The gunman arrived at the club by taxi early on Sunday, before rushing through the entrance with a long-barrelled gun he had taken from the boot of the car. The attacker fired randomly at people. About two-thirds of those killed were foreign, according to local media. The victims 20 August 2016: Bomb attack on wedding party in Gaziantep kills at least 30 people, in an attack claimed by IS 28 June 2016: A gun and bomb attack on Ataturk airport in Istanbul kills 41 people, blamed on IS militants 19 March 2016: Suicide bomb kills four people in shopping street in Istanbul. IS blamed 12 January 2016: 12 Germans killed by IS bomber in tourist area of Istanbul 10 October 2015: More than 100 killed at peace rally outside railway station in Ankara; blamed on IS 20 July 2015: 34 people killed in bombing in Suruc, near Syrian border; IS blamed", "question": "Kyrgyzstan has @placeholder out a suspect named in media reports in connection with the new year attack on an Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 people .", "option_0": "struck", "option_1": "ruled", "option_2": "turned", "option_3": "thrown", "option_4": "singled"}
{"id": 1962, "article": "It replaces defective genetic material in the egg in order to eliminate rare mitochondrial diseases. After the consultation into \"three-person IVF\", ministers will decide whether to allow it in patients. A ?¡ê5.8m centre at Newcastle University, funded by the Wellcome Trust, will investigate the technique's safety. Mitochondria can be found within almost every human cell, and provide the energy they need to function. Like the nucleus of the cell, they contain DNA, although in tiny quantities. Approximately 1 in 5,000 babies is born with inherited defects in their mitochondrial DNA, the effects of which can be very severe, or even fatal, depending on which cells are affected. Scientists believe they have found a way to substitute the defective mitochondria and hopefully prevent the child from developing a disease. They take two eggs, one from the mother and another from a donor. The nucleus of the donor egg is removed, leaving the rest of the egg contents, including the mitochondria, and is replaced with the nucleus from the mother's egg. The resulting embryo has properly functioning mitochondria from the donor, and should, in theory, be healthy. This replacement is like replacing a battery and therefore has no impact on the DNA that determines other factors, such as appearance. Even though the child would have a very limited genetic contribution from the third person, there is still opposition from some groups, who say such genetic manipulation carries risks. Currently, a change in the law would be needed before it could be offered to patients. Announcing the consultation, David Willetts, minister for universities and science, said: \"Scientists have made an important and potentially life-saving discovery in the prevention of mitochondrial disease. \"However, as with all developments in cutting-edge science, it is vital that we to listen to the public's views before we consider any change in the law allowing it to be used.\" It is hoped the consultation will be complete by the end of this year. Sir Mark Walport, from the Wellcome Trust, said the technique might prevent previously incurable diseases. \"We welcome the opportunity to discuss with the public why we believe this technique is essential if we are to give families affected by these diseases the chance to have healthy children, something most of us take for granted.\" Prof Doug Turnbull, from Newcastle University, added: \"Every year we see hundreds of patients whose lives are seriously affected by mitochondrial disease. \"We want to make a major difference to the lives of these patients.\" Groups representing patients and their families also welcomed the announcement. Alastair Kent, from Genetic Alliance UK, said that the impact of mitochondrial disease could be \"devastating\". He said: \"It will be quite a long time before this is available as a clinical service, and our primary concern is to make sure the technique is safe. \"But it would be sensible and reasonable to offer it to prevent these conditions.\"", "question": "Public opinion will help decide the @placeholder of a controversial genetic technique to stop serious conditions being passed from mother to child .", "option_0": "authenticity", "option_1": "future", "option_2": "experience", "option_3": "subjects", "option_4": "merits"}
{"id": 1963, "article": "BBC London has learned that 823 staff took redundancy while 54 left for other reasons such as retirement when the offices closed in 2015. The TSSA union said it was a waste of money as 325 jobs were reintroduced following a review. The cost was \"significantly less\" than the savings that were made, TfL said. The plan, announced in 2013 by then mayor Boris Johnson, has prompted numerous strikes. TfL wanted to close the offices to help pay for the 24-hour Night Tube service which is marking one year in operation this Saturday. When Sadiq Khan became mayor, he ordered London Travelwatch to carry out a review which found that staff were not visible enough and more were needed. Ben Stevenson from the TSSA, said: \"As a union we didn't want anyone to be made redundant as it is one of the most stressful situations anyone can go through.\" He said it was right staff were paid what they were legally entitled to but that too many people left the company. \"Our objective was to get as many jobs back as possible to ensure the safety of the public and the service,\" he added. TfL said it had always planned to review staffing levels following the ticket office closures. A TfL spokesperson said: \"The one-off voluntary severance costs associated with the closure of ticket offices in 2016 are significantly lower than the hundreds of millions of pounds we will be saving across our business plan from these changes. \"We are now undertaking the biggest overhaul in our history which will save ¡ê4bn over the next few years and enable us to deliver a modern, affordable and accessible transport network for all Londoners.\"", "question": "About ¡ê 45 m was @placeholder by Transport for London ( TfL ) making more than 800 people redundant over the controversial plan to close Tube ticket offices .", "option_0": "removed", "option_1": "criticised", "option_2": "spent", "option_3": "forced", "option_4": "backed"}
{"id": 1964, "article": "The 6ft-long (1.8m) Arctic wolf, worth ?¡ê32,000, is thought to have been poached in the early hours of 3 August. Three men, who are being hunted by police, were invited back to the Chelsea apartment and reportedly left at about 05:00 BST. All three suspects are white and believed to be in their early 20s. The wolf was bought six years ago from a taxidermy shop and has yellow glass eyes and white fur with black speckles on its back, shoulders and ears. Det Sgt Sean Lyons, from Kensington and Chelsea CID, said: \"This is a unique item and I am appealing to anyone who may know the three suspects or have information about the stolen arctic wolf to contact police.\"", "question": "A \" snarling \" stuffed wolf was stolen from a London flat after the owner and her friend @placeholder with a group of men they met on a night out in Soho.", "option_0": "seized", "option_1": "collided", "option_2": "begun", "option_3": "escaped", "option_4": "returned"}
{"id": 1965, "article": "The RT-branded box contains food packaged in laboratory bottles, such as Medonium honey - \"med\" being honey in Russian and Meldonium a performance-enhancing drugs taken by athletes. There is also raspberry jam tagged \"anabolic\" in reference to steroids also banned in sports. \"Not everyone realised this was a humorous present from RT,\" the broadcaster said. It has consistently denied and ridiculed allegations of a state-sponsored doping programme in Russia. One of the gift boxes was sent to Yulia Efimova, who won two swimming silver medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics. A photo posted on Russia's leading social networking website VKontakte shows a smiling Efimova with test tubes and vials apparently containing food, such as jam, honey and condiments. On its website, RT gave further details of its gift pack which it suggested had also been sent to other people. The website carried a video from the Twitter account of blogger Evgeny Kozlov showing one of the kits being unpacked. People from RT are \"unbelievably creative\", he said. The kits also include cards said to be based on drawings by children from an orphanage. \"A New Year's card that you will never throw away,\" said Yulia Ostroukhova, apparently another recipient of the gift box. \"Very nice. Many thanks for the delicious Medonium, too,\" she said on Facebook. It is not clear how many kits were produced or how many recipients there were. In July, an investigation commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) said Russia's sports ministry \"directed, controlled and oversaw\" manipulation of urine samples provided by its athletes. A number of Russian athletes were banned from competing at the Rio Olympics, but no blanket ban was imposed. Another report later in the year alleged more than 1,000 Russians benefited from a doping cover-up between 2011 and 2015. Russian officials have strongly denied there has been a state-sponsored doping programme. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "question": "The Kremlin - @placeholder international broadcaster RT , known as Russia Today , has produced New Year gift boxes branded \" Russian doping \" .", "option_0": "controlled", "option_1": "funded", "option_2": "wing", "option_3": "paid", "option_4": "run"}
{"id": 1966, "article": "Ann Barnes dealt with an \"ill-advised\" TV documentary, a probe into her car insurance, and youth commissioners who both had to step away from their role. But she said she judged her time as PCC as a success. She said Kent Police was now target-free, provided quality service and put victims at the heart of its work. \"Apart from one or two things I'd rather not have happened, I've really, really had a good time,\" she said. Referring to incidents that led to adverse headlines, she said: \"You have to accept what life throws at you and deal with it.\" Mrs Barnes, who is not standing for re-election, said the Kent force was recognised nationally after latest HMIC reports. \"[Kent Police] genuinely puts victims at the heart of what it does. There are no targets, people don't chase targets. They just look to do a quality service,\" she said. On her youth commissioner appointments, Mrs Barnes said: \"You can't interview for the unexpected.\" Kent's first youth commissioner Paris Brown resigned over comments she had posted on Twitter, and Kerry Boyd had to stop public engagements while reports of a relationship were investigated. Mrs Barnes said Ms Brown handled things well after making mistakes when younger, and Ms Boyd did a good job and could have continued but turned down an extended contract. After Ms Boyd left, the youth commissioner was not replaced. Mrs Barnes said she was most proud of Kent Police's \"open and transparent\" culture. And she said a new victim centre was providing \"a wraparound service\" to victims and witnesses, and she believed it would become a blueprint for delivering victims' services. Voting for Kent's next PCC will take place on 5 May, with six candidates standing.", "question": "Kent 's @placeholder high - profile police and crime commissioner ( PCC ) has said she is proud of her achievements four years after being elected .", "option_0": "state", "option_1": "estranged", "option_2": "beat", "option_3": "planned", "option_4": "outgoing"}
{"id": 1967, "article": "Kieron Dyer led an Ipswich Town veterans side for the match against Newmarket Town, for Shaun Whiter and Joey Abbs. Mr Whiter, 27, had both legs amputated after he was struck by a car while helping friend Joey Abbs change a flat tyre in Newmarket, Suffolk. Newmarket player Mr Whiter and Soham Town Rangers player Mr Abbs attended. Mr Whiter was discharged from Addenbrooke's Hospital on Friday, while Mr Abbs, who also suffered a serious leg injury during the crash on 1 July, was released from the hospital after six days. \"You don't think this is ever going to happen to you but unfortunately it has,\" Mr Abbs said. \"It has been a horrible, horrible thing... but everyone's been brilliant and shown their support.\" Ex-England manager Terry Butcher also played for the Ipswich team in the game at Newmarket's ground, which is thought to have raised around ¡ê15,000. A fundraising page set up by Mr Whiter's fianc¨¦e, who he is due to marry next July, has already raised nearly ¡ê73,500 of its ¡ê120,000 target. Reg Winch, partner of Mr Whiter's mother, said: \"It's been overwhelming and it's restored our faith in human kind. \"His aftercare is incredibly expensive and is very long-term. The prosthetics - while being amazing now - are also amazingly expensive. \"Plus, there are alterations to his living conditions and occupational health for work.\" Cambridge United has also revealed plans to host a fundraising day in aid of the footballers on 9 October. A 40-year-old man from Haverhill, Suffolk, has been charged with two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and is due at Cambridge Crown Court on 8 August.", "question": "An ex-England footballer has @placeholder a charity team to raise money for two players seriously hurt in a car crash .", "option_0": "suspended", "option_1": "sent", "option_2": "captained", "option_3": "scored", "option_4": "criticised"}
{"id": 1968, "article": "Time is \"running out\" for Theresa May, says the Scotland on Sunday. Inside, Euan McColm says she has \"neither the competence nor the authority\" needed to continue as prime minister. \"Her days as the occupant of 10 Downing Street are numbered,\" he adds. Mrs May is \"in office but not in power\", says The Sunday Telegraph's headline. It reports that the resignation of her two chiefs of staff failed to halt a backlash from her MPs and she has been left increasingly \"isolated and undermined\". Boris Johnson is being urged by a number of fellow ministers to oust Mrs May, according to The Sunday Times Scotland. It reports that five members of the Cabinet contacted the foreign secretary on Friday and told him they would support him in any leadership bid. The Scottish Mail on Sunday carries a similar story, adding that Mr Johnson's supporters say he will not take any action while Mrs May remains in Downing Street - but it could be considered \"destabilising\" that his supporters are actively briefing about his virtues. Mr Johnson has denied the stories however. In a tweet, he described the story as \"tripe\" and insisted the prime minister had his backing. The Sunday Herald looks at the plans of the minority Conservative government to work with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). It says Theresa May is being accused of tying the government to a party \"tainted with terrorism, in a desperate attempt to cling on to power\". The Sunday Mail describes it as a \"toxic pact\" and a \"coalition of chaos\". After concerns were raised about the DUP's attitudes to LGBTI issues, David Mundell - the openly gay Scottish secretary - told the paper that \"you have to do business with people even if you don't agree with them\". He added: \"There is absolutely no way they can influence social policy in the rest of the UK. That will not happen and it is not acceptable for that to happen.\" Tory plans to scrap the pension \"triple lock\" could be blocked by the DUP, report The Sunday Post. Its says a party source has told the paper they would not support such a move - and as all the opposition parties oppose the change, \"the plan is finished\". Meanwhile the Scottish Sun on Sunday leads with Gordon Strachan's reaction to the result of Scotland's World Cup qualifier against England. After a last minute Harry Kane goal cost Scotland a win, the teetotal manager joked: \"I think this might be a good night to start drinking to be honest.\"", "question": "Politics is again the focus of Scotland 's front pages , as newspaper editors @placeholder the fall - out from the general election result .", "option_0": "announced", "option_1": "examine", "option_2": "continues", "option_3": "exposed", "option_4": "lashed"}
{"id": 1969, "article": "About 140 search warrants were issued by some 40 forces during the UK-wide raids, led by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. Most warrants related to downloading and sharing indecent images. Some 80 children were removed from harm, including 20 found at raided properties. Operation Tharsley took place over 48 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday, with support from the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca). Those arrested include a pathologist, a firefighter, an activities instructor, government employees, and a referee. Known offenders who had breached the conditions of the sex offenders register were also held. Forty-two forces from around the UK made the following arrests: Officers seized laptop computers, USB storage devices, and digital cameras, according to Ceop's deputy chief executive, Andy Baker. Mr Baker said pictures would be scrutinised to see identify victims using clues in the background. \"Every image is a crime scene,\" he added. Meanwhile,             Ceop published a report  on risks posed by people who download indecent images of children. It reported a correlation between the viewing of abusive images and sex attacks being committed against children. Principal analyst at Ceop, Kate Fisher, said abusive internet images were becoming \"more extreme, sadistic and violent, and feature increasingly younger children\". Ceop called for police to prioritise investigating suspects who had easy access to children. Christian Sjoberg of NetClean, which aims to prevent child sexual abuse content, said: \"As police cuts hit home and case volumes increase, crime-fighting agents attempting to tackle the problem are finding their resources stretched.\" \"Sophisticated internet use makes the job of child protection increasingly complex, but technology can also hold the key to finding and preventing those who create and distribute this kind of material.\" The raids come as the UK government announces a draft bill to allow details of internet use to be stored for a year, enabling intelligence services to track crime with modern technology. Home Secretary Theresa May said: \"Communications data is vital for the police in their fight against crime, including serious offences such as child abuse, drug dealing and terrorism.\"", "question": "A retired teacher , @placeholder of the armed forces and a scout leader are among 99 people arrested in raids targeting online paedophiles .", "option_0": "captain", "option_1": "members", "option_2": "version", "option_3": "head", "option_4": "analysis"}
{"id": 1970, "article": "The Dulais Valley practice in Seven Sisters will lose two of four doctors. As a result the Coelbren branch clinic is closed to GP appointments this week, and faces further future restrictions. Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board said it was not possible to maintain the level of local service. Lindsay Davies, head of primary care and planning, said: \"Like many other local practices, the partnership will shortly introduce a call management and telephone consultation system. \"This will help them manage demand more appropriately, particularly if they are successful in recruiting alternative clinical staff.\"", "question": "Talks to try and maintain high - quality GP services in Neath Port Talbot have been taking place , amid concerns the health board there will struggle to @placeholder departing doctors .", "option_0": "join", "option_1": "reduce", "option_2": "find", "option_3": "accommodate", "option_4": "replace"}
{"id": 1971, "article": "During the month, 61,760 mortgages were approved - just over a thousand more than in January. It was the third month in a row that approvals have risen, and the highest figure since August 2014. Even though the rise was small, economists said it indicated that the housing market had bottomed out, and was now facing a steady improvement. Nevertheless the number of approvals is still well below the recent peak of 75,453 in January 2014. \"Housing market weakness has bottomed out, and activity is now gradually turning around,\" said Howard Archer, chief UK economist with IHS Global Insight. Last week the Nationwide reported that annual house price inflation had fallen from 5.7% in February to 5.1% in March.", "question": "The number of mortgages being @placeholder across the UK hit a six - month high in February , Bank of England data shows .", "option_0": "pushed", "option_1": "granted", "option_2": "caught", "option_3": "closed", "option_4": "approved"}
{"id": 1972, "article": "The straight-talking leader won by a landslide on the back of promises to tackle crime and corruption, and remains popular domestically for his hardline policies. But he has increasingly earned criticism from the international community and rights groups that say his policies amount to human rights abuses. The hallmark of Mr Duterte's administration so far has been a relentless crackdown on drug dealers and users. He has urged citizens and the police to conduct extra-judicial killings of suspects. More than 3,000 people have died in a campaign which Mr Duterte controversially compared to the Holocaust in September. Noting that there are three million addicts in Philippines, he has said he would be \"happy to slaughter them\". Read more: The woman who kills drug dealers for a living The United Nation, the Roman Catholic church, the European Union and the United States have repeatedly condemned his policy as a violation of human rights. Domestic activist groups have also protested the killings. But Mr Duterte has said a hardline stance was necessary to wipe out the illegal drugs trade and remains undeterred, vowing to kill \"every last one\" of the traffickers. The police has said the campaign has worked in reducing overall crime, with hundreds of thousands of suspects turning themselves in - although homicides and murders have gone up. Faced with mounting criticism, Mr Duterte, known for making brash off-the-cuff remarks, has been bellicose. He has threatened to \"separate\" from the UN - which he later said was a joke - and called UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon \"a fool\". He also called the EU \"hypocrites\" during a September speech and showed the middle finger. He famously referred to US President Barack Obama as a \"son of a whore\", but later expressed regret when Mr Obama cancelled a meeting. Earlier he called the Pope \"the son of a whore\" in a largely devout Catholic country, and joked that when he was still the mayor of the southern city of Davao he should have been the first to rape an Australian missionary murdered in a prison riot. Read more: Duterte in quotes Rodrigo \"Digong\" Duterte was born in 1945 into a family closely tied to local politics. His father was once a provincial governor and the family had links with the powerful families in Cebu province, where his father was once mayor. Mr Duterte trained as a lawyer and rose to become state prosecutor, eventually becoming mayor of Davao in 1988, ruling the city for much of the past 30 years. He built his reputation fighting some of the biggest problems facing the Philippines - crime, militancy and corruption. All three dropped significantly during his time leading Davao, making the city one of the safest in the Philippines. He has vowed to replicate his efforts in Davao at a national level. Self-styled as both a socialist and a reformist, he has promised to change the country from a centralised system to a federal parliamentary form of government, to better share wealth. His foreign policy direction, vague during campaigning, has continued to flip-flop. Mr Duterte had previously hinted at taking a stronger stance against China, which the Philippines is engaged with in maritime disputes in the South China Sea. He famously said he would ride a jet ski to a disputed island claimed by both countries and stick a flag on it. But since becoming president he has emphasised a desire to move away from the US  - the Philippines' former colonial ruler turned military and economic partner - and pivot closer to China and Russia, sparking concerns from investors. His tough approach has earned him the nicknames \"The Punisher\" and \"Duterte Harry\". He said in a televised debate that he would kill his own children if they took drugs. All have burnished his strongman image among many in the Philippines as someone who will do what is necessary to get things done. A July poll saw him earning a historic 91% approval rating. But horrified opponents have continued to castigate him, comparing him to US presidential Republican nominee Donald Trump. Mr Duterte has rejected the comparisons, saying that \"he is a bigot and I am not\". Married twice, he has four children, one of whom - daughter Sara - took over as mayor for a term before he resumed office. He is now officially single, but has claimed to have several girlfriends.", "question": "Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has @placeholder intense controversy for a bloody drug war and undiplomatic remarks since he took office in June 2016 .", "option_0": "announced", "option_1": "defended", "option_2": "dismissed", "option_3": "called", "option_4": "attracted"}
{"id": 1973, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device Barker, 22, won the women's 25km points race having previously claimed two silver medals in Hong Kong. British Cycling have admitted it had not paid \"sufficient care and attention\" to riders' wellbeing. \"It's about time they had good press about all the good work they do,\" Barker told BBC Radio Wales Sport. An investigation into the culture at British Cycling was launched last year after ex-riders complained about their treatment. In March, British Cycling apologised for any \"failings\" in its performance programme and promised to be more caring to riders following accusations of sexism and bullying. But Wales' Barker, who won silver medals in the madison and scratch races at the championships, said she could not have achieved her success in Hong Kong without the support of British Cycling. \"I said I wanted to win the points race about six months ago,\" said Barker, who won women's team pursuit gold at Rio 2016. \"I went into the British Cycling offices, had a meeting and said 'what do you think I could do to win this?' \"They completely changed my training, changed all my focuses and the coaching and staff were absolutely fine with that. \"I felt so incredibly supported, probably as supported as I did in the lead up to Rio. \"I've been supported throughout my career.\" Great Britain won five medals in Hong Kong compared to the nine they won at the previous year's Championships in London. Barker does not consider the Championships to be a disappointment and said the team was undergoing a transitional stage. Olympic champions Joanna Rowsell Shand and Sir Bradley Wiggins have retired while fellow Rio 2016 gold medallists Jason Kenny and wife Laura did not compete in Hong Kong. \"The big medal winners weren't there so we didn't expect to have a similar medal haul this year,\" Barker added. \"We never went in with massive intentions. We took a very young team just to get the experience. \"There were some really positive performances. \"If you just look at the times or the attitudes and the way everybody presented themselves you wouldn't think it was a young team. \"I think they're going to go a long way.\"", "question": "Olympic champion Elinor Barker has @placeholder under fire British Cycling following her victory at the Track Cycling World Championships .", "option_0": "gone", "option_1": "criticised", "option_2": "questioned", "option_3": "praised", "option_4": "admitted"}
{"id": 1974, "article": "He never followed the beaten path, carving out his own niche as captain.  He remained calm on the field, both in moments of triumph and defeat. His style made him \"the captain cool\" for his fans. If legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar is the \"god of cricket\", then Dhoni is the \"Buddha of cricket\". His fans will miss his unorthodox decisions after his resignation as India's limited-overs captain on Wednesday. Dhoni resigns as India one-day captain Why MS Dhoni's place in cricket history is assured Dhoni decided to step down on Wednesday ahead of the ODI series against England, which begins on 15 January. Here are five of his decisions that shocked many, but won crucial matches for India. Dhoni led a young Indian side in the inaugural World Twenty20, and not many expected his team to do well in the newest format of the game. Yet he not only won the 2007 tournament, but also used it as a platform to showcase his unorthodox style of captaincy. The final was played between arch rivals Pakistan and India in Johannesburg, South Africa. Pakistan needed 13 runs in the last over with one wicket in hand, but an in-form Misbah-ul-Haq looked set to score the winning runs. Now any captain would go for the most experienced bowler in the team, but Dhoni did the opposite. He picked Joginder Sharma, who was playing his fourth Twenty20 match, for the job. The decision paid off and Sharma dismissed Misbah (43 runs) with his third ball. Pakistan lost by five runs, India won the tournament and Dhoni announced his arrival as a captain in the world of cricket with style. Before clashing in the final of the inaugural World Twenty20, India and Pakistan also played a group match. Games between the two sides are always tense but not many would have predicted the dramatic finish of this clash. The match went into a bowl-out after Pakistan matched India's score of 141, but couldn't cross it. Pakistan picked trusted bowlers Yasir Arafat, Umar Gul and Shahid Afridi for the bowl-out, but they all failed to hit the stumps. Dhoni went for batsmen Robin Uthappa, Virender Sehwag and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who all knocked off the bails. While Sehwag had some bowling experience, Uthappa had rarely bowled in international matches. Dhoni won the ODI World Cup in 2011 for India for the first time since 1983. The hosts looked comfortable chasing Sri Lanka's total of 274 in Mumbai, but when Tillakaratne Dilshan dismissed Virat Kohli, India's chances looked uncertain at 115-3. Dhoni, who had struggled throughout the tournament, unexpectedly promoted himself ahead of in-form Yuvraj Singh and played the innings (91 not out) of his life to finish the chase with a thundering six. Not many Indians will ever forget the six that ended the country's long wait for a World Cup victory. Hosts England looked set to win the Champions Trophy in 2013 against India with 28 needed off 18 balls, and set batsmen Eoin Morgan and Ravi Bopara at the crease in Birmingham. At this stage of the game, Dhoni turned to pacer Ishant Sharma, whose earlier overs were very expensive. Once again, his gamble worked. Sharma, who had leaked 32 runs in his first three overs, dismissed both batsmen and ended England's prolonged search for an international one-day title. India secured a thrilling one-run victory against Bangladesh last year to keep their campaign alive in the World Twenty20. Bangladesh needed one run to win off the last ball in Bangalore, and that's when Dhoni told Hardik Pandya to bowl a bouncer to tailender S Hom. Dhoni expected the batsman to miss the ball and go for a run, and that's exactly what happened. The batsman went for a single, but Dhoni, who had removed one glove in readiness for the final ball, ran out non-striker Mustafizur Rahman.", "question": "Mahendra Singh Dhoni is loved by millions as a batsman but as a captain , he is simply @placeholder .", "option_0": "revealed", "option_1": "understands", "option_2": "misunderstood", "option_3": "worshipped", "option_4": "dismissed"}
{"id": 1975, "article": "About 59 million people - nearly half the population - are eligible to vote for governors and regional parliaments. But the main opposition Democratic Coalition has only been allowed to stand in one region, Kostroma. The coalition includes the parties of murdered politician, Boris Nemtsov, and protest leader, Alexei Navalny. Navalny cannot run for office as he is serving a suspended prison sentence in an embezzlement case that he argues was fabricated. The Duma has been stripped of any real opposition under President Vladimir Putin, whose approval rating remains consistently high. The elections will reveal the mood of Russians after more than a year of financial hardship caused mostly by low oil prices and Western sanctions over Moscow's alleged military role in Ukraine. Opposition struggles with smears and isolation The Democratic Coalition's campaign has not been easy - with minimal coverage on the state media and accusations that they are working for the US, reports the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Russia. Coalition candidates were barred from participating in legislative contests in the Kaluga, Magadan, and Novosibirsk regions. The opposition say this was because of technicalities cited by officials in a politically motivated bid to prevent them from standing. On Saturday, Navalny posted on Facebook (in Russian) about a crackdown on opposition members in Kostroma, north-east of Moscow, saying he expected \"major falsifications\" in Sunday's polls. Russia's main opposition groups combined forces in April, nearly two months after the murder of Mr Nemtsov, who was shot dead while walking with his girlfriend near the Kremlin. The coalition, campaigning under Mr Nemtsov's party name Parnas, hopes the the regional elections will be a springboard for the 2016 national parliamentary vote.", "question": "Voters across Russia are @placeholder to vote in regional elections on Sunday that are seen as a gauge of public opinion ahead of parliamentary polls next year .", "option_0": "prepared", "option_1": "welcome", "option_2": "invited", "option_3": "gathering", "option_4": "set"}
{"id": 1976, "article": "Mohammed Akhlaq was beaten to a death in the district of Dadri in September over rumours he had consumed beef. Hindus consider cows to be sacred, and for many, eating beef is taboo. The slaughter of cows is also banned in many Indian states. A lab test cited widely in the aftermath of the killing said the meat allegedly found in his refrigerator was mutton and not beef. However a new lab report, revealed by the lawyers of 18 people on trial for his murder, said that the meat in question was in fact beef. Later, it was also revealed that the meat was never in his house, but found inside a bin near his home. Although police are adamant that the type of meat is irrelevant to the case, the defence team is using the new test results to demand the release of the 18 suspects, on the grounds that they were \"provoked\" into attacking Mr Akhlaq. The court will hear a petition on Monday demanding that charges of cow slaughter are brought against Mr Akhlaq's family. Why was there a discrepancy between the two lab tests, and why it has taken so long for a second report to come out? Soon after the incident many media reports had claimed that police had taken meat samples from Mr Akhlaq's fridge. But police told the BBC that they had never collected meat samples from his home. Now, eight months later, the investigating police officer, Anurag Singh, has clarified that the meat samples were collected from the place of the mob attack, about 100 metres (330ft) away from Mr Akhlaq's house. \"The body of Akhlaq was lying near a transformer near his house and that is where we found some meat and took samples of it,\" he told the BBC. The first report, released soon after Mr Akhlaq's death, said the meat in question was mutton and was widely reported in India media. However, Mr HC Singh, in-charge of the Mathura forensic investigation laboratory which released the second report, told BBC News that the preliminary test was only based on a \"physical examination\" of the meat samples. The examination was carried out by a veterinary physician, but even he had recommended that it be sent to a lab for further conclusive testing, he added. \"Ours is the only laboratory that is equipped to do such analysis,\" Mr Singh said. According to Mr Singh, his laboratory had known that the meat was beef as early as October. However the test results were only submitted to the police in December. Mr Singh attributed the delay to a \"lack of postage stamps\" at the laboratory and the fact that they did not have a chairman for three months - excuses that have not convinced many people. Correspondents say the delay has led many to speculate that the laboratory was pressured into not revealing the test results, given the tensions brought about as a result of the incident. The lab report was only revealed to the public in June after lawyers for the 18 people accused of Mr Akhlaq's murder asked the court for a copy. Tensions in Bashara village, where Mr Akhlaq lived with his family before he was murdered, are high. The latest lab report has spurred relatives of the arrested men to petition the court, demanding that a case of cow slaughter be filed against his family. The few hundred Muslims who still live in the village say they live in fear. Reports of cow vigilante groups attacking people ferrying cattle, Hindu extremists holding arms training sessions, and reports of private Hindu armed groups operating in the region have heightened their fears. Some talk of leaving the village for good. Prem Singh was Mr Akhlaq's neighbour and both families got along well, celebrating festivals together and attending one another's weddings. But now he is listed as an eyewitness to Mr Akhlaq \"killing a cow\" and two of his grandsons are among the 18 men arrested. His wife is angry at the arrests, and told me: \"Would a Muslim tolerate it if we kill a pig and throw it outside their house?\" The court and police have consistently insisted that the new lab results will have no bearing on the case. The police investigating the case told the BBC that \"this has nothing to do with the investigation of the murder of Akhlaq by a mob.\" And Ram Sharan Yadav, one of the lawyers for the accused, said that the court had turned down their request for a copy of the second lab result. The lawyer for Mr Akhlaq's family said that \"in any case there is no law in the country that says a man can be murdered because he slaughtered a prohibited animal\". Uttar Pradesh is one of the 10 Indian states where the slaughter of cow, calf, bull and bullock is completely banned. However the slaughter of buffaloes and the sale and consumption of its beef is permitted. The defence lawyers are insisting that the mob was \"provoked\" and want all charges against them dismissed. It is unclear if this will work as a line of defence - police stand firm on the fact that the two things are unrelated, and the courts have also indicated that this is not a factor that they will take into consideration.", "question": "Last year , a Muslim man in northern India was killed in a mob lynching over allegations that his family had been @placeholder and consuming beef at home . The case sparked widespread outrage and a furious debate about religious tolerance . Now , there 's a fresh twist in the case that has raised questions over the investigation - and highlighted tensions over beef in India .", "option_0": "cooking", "option_1": "repaired", "option_2": "smoking", "option_3": "storing", "option_4": "buying"}
{"id": 1977, "article": "Business leaders had wanted to raise ¡ê1m to buy Spy Booth, by 16:00 BST. The work, depicting men \"snooping\" on a telephone box, appeared on a Grade II* listed house in April. On Thursday it was confirmed it was being removed but the council has warned planning permission may be needed first. Angela DeSouza, from the town's Women's Business Club, said the owner had told her he would be willing to consider an \"attractive offer\". But, following a number of pledges of money from small businesses and individuals, Mrs DeSouza said the target had not been reached. \"There has been a lot of support but we are really looking to gather the ¡ê1m from one person,\" she said. \"It is definitely not something we are going to rest on. We are going to get it done.\" John Joyce, from scaffolding firm Q, confirmed on Thursday that the property's owner contacted street art collector Sky Grimes to sell the piece, a week before Banksy confirmed he had painted it. He said that part of the work would be removed \"on Friday\" and part of it \"on Sunday or Monday\", ahead of it going on show at a London gallery for a month on 4 July. But the council warned both the property owner and Q, that it may be an offence if work is carried out \"to remove the fabric\" of the listed building without consent. \"The council is aware of plans to repair the render and make it safe, but not of anything more substantial,\" said Jane Griffiths, from Cheltenham Borough Council. \"We hope that, by highlighting the planning act, the owner will halt any works that may be planned and instead submit a listed building consent application for our consideration.\" At the beginning of June, Banksy admitted painting it - three miles away from the government communications headquarters, GCHQ.", "question": "A bid to raise ¡ê 1 m to keep a Banksy artwork in Cheltenham has failed to hit its target within a businesswoman 's self - imposed @placeholder .", "option_0": "team", "option_1": "future", "option_2": "confines", "option_3": "show", "option_4": "deadline"}
{"id": 1978, "article": "Nottingham City Council makes ¡ê60 from each penalty charge notice (PCN) issued in Shakespeare Street in Nottingham - or ¡ê30 if the fee is paid early. The Institute of Highway Engineers said the signs could be confusing and the council was on \"dodgy ground\". But the council insisted its signs were up to standard. It said in a statement: \"The Shakespeare Street bus gate was only introduced last year, is properly signed and we would expect to see the numbers drop as people get used to the changes.\" Although this part of the road is not used by any scheduled bus services, the council said it was used by buses taking students to Nottingham Trent University. The western end of Shakespeare Street is described as a \"Pedestrian Zone\" at both entrances but other signs warn there is \"24 hr Bus Lane Enforcement\". When asked what this was classed as, a council spokesperson said: \"There's a bus gate on a section of Shakespeare Street which means only buses are allowed through. This therefore creates a pedestrian zone beyond.\" The council explained: ?A bus lane generally runs alongside other traffic on a road allowing buses to gain priority over other traffic ?A bus gate is an entry point across a road which means only buses are allowed to go any further ?A pedestrian zone is an area where most vehicles are not allowed Richard Hayes, chief executive of the Institute of Highway Engineers, said Nottingham's signs could be confusing. He said the \"box brownie\" camera symbol on the approach to bus lanes should also have the words \"bus lane cameras\", like those used in other cities. \"I do think we owe a duty of responsibility to any motorist, whether they be from the local area or from outside, to make sure we sign and line in a standard format,\" said Mr Hayes. \"If that's not being done, then I think they are on very dodgy ground in terms of trying to enforce those restrictions.\" Last year Dr Stephen Sutcliffe from Liverpool won an appeal against a fine for using the lane, on the grounds signs were not clear. He said: \"Since we were there they have put a temporary sign at one end of the bus lane in addition to the fixed signage that was there at the time, which suggests a tacit admission to the assertion the signage is inadequate.\" Nottingham City Council said: \"There is absolutely no doubt the signs warning motorists about camera enforcement in Nottingham are up to standard, comply fully with Department for Transport guidelines, and that areas enforced by cameras in the city remain fully enforceable. \"Motorists have a duty to observe all road signs and must comply with the restrictions - the vast majority do and are not issued with fines.\" It added it had challenged the ruling in Dr Sutcliffe's case and the matter was subject to judicial review. You can see more on this story on BBC East Midlands at 18:30 GMT on BBC One on Wednesday 8 February or via iPlayer afterwards.", "question": "More than 11,000 @placeholder have been fined in one year for going through a so - called bus gate that is not on any public bus routes .", "option_0": "teams", "option_1": "units", "option_2": "forces", "option_3": "team", "option_4": "drivers"}
{"id": 1979, "article": "Alice's family had asked for the scope of the inquest to include why Arnis Zalkalns was allowed to live unchecked in the UK. The chief suspect who was jailed for murdering his wife in Latvia, Zalkalns was found hanged in west London. Alice's parents said they welcomed the coroner's decision. The full inquest, to be held in front of a jury, will start in June. Alice, 14, went missing on 28 August last year having last been seen alive on the Grand Union Canal towpath near Hanwell. Her body was found on 30 September after Scotland Yard's biggest search operation since the July 7 bombings in 2005. Builder Zalkalns, 41, is believed to have killed Alice in a sexually motivated attack and then dumped her body. He had been imprisoned in Latvia for murdering his wife but was released and travelled to the UK in 2007. His body was found in woodland in Boston Manor Park. Police said he would have been charged with Alice's murder had he lived. Alice Gross investigation - timeline The Gross family lawyer asked at a pre-hearing in October that the inquest should cover whether there was any failure by the authorities to implement statutory safeguards to protect the public under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights - the right to life. Sitting at the High Court earlier, Coroner Dr Fiona Wilcox said she accepted the submissions, adding that witnesses would be called to determine \"how he (Zalkalns) came to be in the country in the first place, given his convictions for murder and firearms offences\". The inquest will also look at \"the systems that were in place at the time, and whether appropriate checks were carried out\". Katerina Laiblova, Zalkalns' girlfriend, could be called to give evidence to the inquest about his mental state prior to his death, Dr Wilcox added. In 2009 Zalkans was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a teenage girl but no charges followed. At the time of that alleged offence it appeared he was still subject to a supervisory or probationary arrangement in Latvia, that hearing was told. A statement from Alice's parents, Ros Hodgkiss and Jose Gross, said they were pleased \"at the range of information that the coroner is willing to put in front of the jury\". They also said it was their hope that the coroner \"will be able to make recommendations to prevent this kind of thing happening again\". A further pre-inquest hearing is scheduled to taken place in April.", "question": "The inquest into the death of Alice Gross will examine whether failures by the government and police @placeholder to her death , a coroner has ruled .", "option_0": "attributed", "option_1": "contributed", "option_2": "reacted", "option_3": "relating", "option_4": "according"}
{"id": 1980, "article": "The 20-week pilot study is thought to have been the first of its kind in the UK, although similar experiments have been carried out elsewhere. It used five years worth of historic data, but the idea would be to analyse up-to-date details if it is deployed. Civil liberty campaigners have voiced concerns. But Accenture - the firm that developed the software - highlighted the potential benefit it offered. \"You've got limited police resources and you need to target them efficiently,\" said Muz Janoowalla, head of public safety analytics at the company. \"What this does is tell you who are the highest risk individuals that you should target your limited resources against.\" The software works by merging together data from existing systems already used by the Metropolitan Police and carrying out predictive calculations. Types of information ranged from previous crimes to social media activity. \"It's previous offending and various different sources that are used for intelligence, in terms of who they are involved with and who they associate with,\" explained Sarah Samee, a spokeswoman for the Met's Trident Gang Crime Command. Mr Janoowalla added: \"For example if an individual had posted inflammatory material on the internet and it was known about to the Met - one gang might say something [negative] about another gang member's partner or something like that - it would be recorded in the Met's intelligence system. \"What we were able to do was mine both the intelligence and the known criminal history of individuals to come up with a risk assessment model.\" The study used data gathered about known gang members across London's 32 boroughs across a four year period to forecast their likelihood of committing further violent acts. This was then compared to known acts of aggression that took place in the fifth year to give an indication as to whether the software was accurate. Mr Janoowalla said the intention was to identify groups of gang members that were at the highest risk of reoffending rather than singling out specific individuals. He said that he was confident the experiment had been a success, but added that he was not allowed to disclose the exact criteria on which the software was being scored. Privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch has asked for more information to be made public. \"The police need to be very careful about how they use this kind of technology,\" said research director Daniel Nesbitt. \"Big data solutions such as this can run the risk of unfairly targeting certain groups of people and potentially making them feel stigmatised as a result. \"The Metropolitan Police must ensure that they are fully transparent about how they intend implement this technology and what type of information will be used in the process.\" In response Mr Janoowalla noted that the Ministry of Justice already operated the Offender Assessment System and Offender Group Reconviction Scale (Oasys) - a computer-based system used to predict the likelihood of different types of released criminals reoffending. He said the key difference with Accenture's software was that it was specifically tailored to tackle gang violence. While Accenture and the Met believe this is the first test of its kind in the UK, the company has carried out other crime-prevention analysis elsewhere. In Spain it has tried to identify locations where crimes are most likely to happen, and in Singapore it has tested software that monitors video feeds of crowds, traffic and other events to alert the authorities to potential risks. Other companies are pitching rival tools. IBM has explored how factors including weather patterns, past crimes, and surveillance efforts can be combined to predict threats. And police in Kent, Greater Manchester, the West Midlands and Yorkshire have all trialled software from PredPol, a US start-up, to help tackle street crime. However, campaign groups have warned against the danger of police gathering too much personal data. \"It is clear that harnessing and analysing vast data sets may simplify the work of the police,\" said European human rights group Statewatch earlier this year \"However, this in itself is not a justification for their use. There are all sorts of powers that could be given to law enforcement agencies, but which are not, due to the need to protect individual rights and the rule of law - effectiveness should never be the only yardstick by which law enforcement powers are assessed. \"The ends of crime detection, prevention and reduction cannot in themselves justify the means of indiscriminate data-gathering and processing.\"", "question": "Police in London have tested software @placeholder to identify which gang members are most likely to commit violent crimes .", "option_0": "linked", "option_1": "race", "option_2": "relating", "option_3": "designed", "option_4": "struggled"}
{"id": 1981, "article": "It said net profits for the financial year to the end of March were likely to come in at 17bn yen (?¡ê150m) rather than 35bn yen. Nintendo says that the surge in the value of the Japanese currency has shrunk the yen value of overseas earnings. The company makes about three-quarters of its total sales overseas. The yen has enjoyed a haven status among investors worried by the turmoil on international markets, and has gained some 15% against the dollar since last summer. Nintendo sales were already falling towards the end of 2015. It is now reducing its sales forecasts for the whole year, due to sluggish demand for its 3DS portable gaming system and its Wii U console. However, Nintendo says that its new games, Splatoon and Super Mario Maker, were \"blockbusters that vitalised the Wii U platform\". Next month it is launching Miitomo, its first iOS and Android app, and is expected to release its new NX gaming platform around the middle of the year.", "question": "Video game giant Nintendo has halved its full - year profit forecast , @placeholder slow sales and the strong yen .", "option_0": "including", "option_1": "leaving", "option_2": "causing", "option_3": "ending", "option_4": "blaming"}
{"id": 1982, "article": "After 12 years at the musical helm of the company, he is moving on, but not before he leads the orchestra through four operas and 15 hours of some of what he calls the most \"physical\" music on offer. \"One of the biggest things in Wagner is seeing the wood for the trees,\" he says. \"Even just doing one component of The Ring, say Das Rheingold which is two and a half hours of continuous music without an interval, you have to create a huge arch from beginning to end musically. \"One gets obsessed and concerned about the little detail, but you have to have this big macro view when you get to perform it. \"When you're doing the whole Ring, you are talking about a huge symphony of four different movements, [which are] essentially remoulding the same thematic material from start to finish, so creating this big span that makes an overall satisfactory musical and dramatic effect, that's the biggest challenge.\" For first violinist David Greed, the leader of Opera North's orchestra, The Ring Cycle is a \"tremendously fitting finale\" for Farnes, who he says is an \"extraordinary\" conductor. \"Normally, with a conductor, you find faults everywhere, but Richard is the complete package. \"He's secure and clear, there are no needless gestures in his conducting, and his ear is extraordinary. \"If you think of Wagner and The Ring Cycle, he has over a hundred musicians sitting in front of him and if there's a wrong note, he'll find it straight away, be it in the second clarinet or the third tuba. \"As a leader, it makes me a bit redundant. With Richard on the box, I don't have to pick up the pieces, because he does it all with great ease and precision.\" The company's general director Richard Mantle says while Farnes is a superb conductor, what raises him to even higher praise is his studious interest in what goes on beyond the orchestra pit. \"He does have this supreme knack of getting under the skin of the operatic canon in a way that not all conductors do. \"He takes a huge amount of interest in what's happening theatrically and has led a drive to enhance our casting, and that's certainly paying dividends.\" Soprano Giselle Allen, who takes the roles of Freia and Gutrune in the production, says that interest in the dramatic side sets Farnes apart from others that take the podium. \"He's one of the few conductors who really understands the singer. \"He's always there for you, looking up at you - if something goes a bit wrong on stage, you know that Richard's there getting you back in again. \"He also understands the need for singers to breathe and the drama that's going on, on stage. \"You feel that all the little cogs in the watch all work together, that you're not fighting with somebody in the pit who wants to do things his own way. \"Richard has no ego, he's very much a team player.\" Greed agrees that Farnes' interest in the whole production and lack of ego are unusual and welcome traits. \"I think this is the reason why some great conductors actually don't succeed in the opera theatre. \"It's a really complicated medium and Richard is incredible - yes, he stands in the orchestral pit, but his soul is also on the stage and taking care of the singers. His care is all round. \"And he has no flounce or ego about him at all - and we see a lot of ego, sitting in front of conductors.\" Farnes says he would \"find it odd to conduct an opera without being involved with the dramatic side\". \"You have to question why did the composer do this? Why did he write this chord, this gesture, what's the purpose of it? \"Ultimately, what goes on in the pit is very much supporting dramatically what is going on, on stage. \"The pieces I enjoy conducting most are usually those that have a very dramatic orchestral role - where it's not decorating or merely supporting the singers, it's leading them dramatically.\" For Mantle, The Ring is an \"entirely fitting\" work to mark Farnes' departure, \"because what we have discovered through working on Wagner over the last five years, is that we, the UK - maybe Europe and maybe the world - has got a new very fine Wagnerian conductor\". Farnes says he \"wouldn't want to consider myself as a Wagner conductor\" as his \"experience of Wagner is still very limited\", but admits he does love the German composer's work, so much so that the hours fly by. \"I find I get lost in it and I love the storytelling aspect of The Ring. \"Wagner tells a fantastic story and the music is so physical, as physical as anybody since Beethoven, who Wagner admired a lot. \"That backs up the storytelling and I find my mind tracing the storyline in a performance. It doesn't feel nearly so long when you're doing it.\" And, as for his future, he says he has \"freelancing and guesting around\" planned - and a good rest. \"I have a lot of Verdi ahead, who people think of as the antithesis of Wagner. \"I think we will all need a good holiday after six Ring Cycles, which is far more than most companies would ever do. \"I don't think any of us - singers, orchestra and conductor - could do it without adrenaline. \"You begin to realise how important a quality adrenaline is when you do things like this.\" Opera North play Wagner's The Ring Cycle across four nights at Leeds Town Hall from 24 May, before moving to venues in Nottingham, Salford, London and Gateshead.", "question": "There can be few more challenging tasks as a conductor than taking on the whole of Wagner 's The Ring Cycle - but that is the one that has been @placeholder to Richard Farnes for his final assignment at Opera North .", "option_0": "added", "option_1": "returned", "option_2": "sold", "option_3": "referred", "option_4": "handed"}
{"id": 1983, "article": "Armed Forces Day, now in its ninth year, aims to give people the chance to thank people serving for their work. First Minister Carwyn Jones and Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns attended the Caerphilly event which included a Spitfire flypast. Events also took place in Swansea, and a service and parade in Wrexham. Chief of defence staff Sir Stuart Peach said: \"The day is a chance for people to say thank you to the extraordinary men and women, stationed across the globe, who dedicate their lives to defending their country and keeping British people safe.\" At present, armed forces are involved in more than 20 operations in more than 25 countries across the world. Armed Forces Day also recognises the work done by reservists and cadets. In Wrexham, a parade led by the Royal Welsh Band left Hightown Barracks for the town centre and a service was held at the parish church. The Armed Forces Day flag were flown on Ceredigion County Council buildings on Saturday. And an all-day event was held at Swansea's Castle Square. A parachute display in Caerphilly had to be cancelled due to cloudy weather. North Wales Armed Forces Day event was held in Caernarfon last weekend. The 10th Armed Forces Day national event in 2018 will take place in Llandudno, Conwy county, Defence Minister Earl Howe has announced. He said: \"Llandudno represents a superb venue for next year's celebrations and I'm sure the town will bring together the whole nation in celebrating our Armed Forces. \"Wales was the proud host of the national event in 2010 when thousands of people celebrated in Cardiff. \"The support from the Welsh Government and local communities, coupled with the rich and vibrant history of Llandudno, means that the town is the ideal choice to make the event even more successful in 2018.\"", "question": "Servicemen and women from all branches of the Armed Forces are being @placeholder across Wales .", "option_0": "honoured", "option_1": "stretched", "option_2": "pushed", "option_3": "transformed", "option_4": "published"}
{"id": 1984, "article": "The account was one of a number gleaned from survivors of the downed German Heinkel aircraft in Victoria Road, Clacton, on 30 April, 1940. Frederick and Dorothy Gill both died when the plane landed on their home. Sunday's service will take place at the refurbished memorial site nearby where a commemorative stone is to be placed. The memorial works have been funded by an air disaster fund originally set up in 1940 but forgotten about following the war. The original fund was established by the Rev HG Redgrave, then chairman of Clacton Urban District Council (CUDC), after the crashed German bomber caused \"severe damage and considerable distress\". The council added ¡ê10,000 to the existing ¡ê1,700 fund to improve the landscaping around the memorial bench and plaque. After 1946, the fund was deposited into a Post Office Savings Bank Account. The amount of ¡ê243, 13 shillings and six pence held in the account in 1950 is now worth around ¡ê1,700. Items preserved from the scene of the crash 77 years ago will be brought to the service by the Clacton VCH Group (Clacton at War) group. In March, the council asked for relatives or those who remembered the crash to come forward. Although they have not been named, the council said a number of people had come forward to share their memories of the crash. Michael Talbot, the council's cabinet member for environment, said: \"We had a good response to an appeal for anyone connected - or with family connected - to the plane coming down in 1940 to contact us. \"Through the appeal we have received eye-witness accounts and we are hoping that some of those who came forward will be able to turn up on Sunday for the ceremony.\"", "question": "An eyewitness account of a plane crash that caused the first World War Two civilian deaths on the British @placeholder will be read out at a memorial service .", "option_0": "mainland", "option_1": "body", "option_2": "ground", "option_3": "soil", "option_4": "coast"}
{"id": 1985, "article": "And, if the past two years have set a precedent, Vladimir Putin will turn up on Sunday and sit with F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone proudly overseeing his creation. The aim? To make the host city the highest-profile and most glamorous resort in the region. The setting is attractive enough. Sea? Check. Mountains? Check. Theme park? Check. It's not, though, likely to go down in history as a great grand prix circuit. The track may wind around the Olympic stadiums, but it is largely featureless - flat, some long straights, some largely right-angled corners, a technical challenge to the drivers but not much more. One blessing of its ultra-low abrasion surface, though, was a race last year in which drivers could push their tyres hard throughout. That led to an incident-packed event more obviously on the edge than many others these days. And if that carries on into 2016, and what is intended to be the last year of Pirelli's heat-sensitive, high-degradation tyres, it cannot be a bad thing. Andrew Benson, chief F1 writer Russian Grand Prix coverage details Media playback is not supported on this device Never want to miss the latest formula 1 news? You can now add F1 and all the other sports and teams you follow to your personalised My Sport home.", "question": "The Russian president ensured a reputed $ 50 m a year is @placeholder to make it happen , building on the 2014 Winter Olympics as part of a branding exercise for the Black Sea resort of Sochi .", "option_0": "promising", "option_1": "paid", "option_2": "prepared", "option_3": "returning", "option_4": "expected"}
{"id": 1986, "article": "Golf spectators may get the same health benefits as the players, in terms of longevity, physical and mental health, according to Dr Andrew Murray, a sports medicine doctor at Edinburgh University. He is leading a five-year project to assess the health benefits of golf for players and spectators, and will be carrying out research during the Paul Lawrie Matchplay at Archerfield Links in East Lothian from 4-7 August. \"With golf, people tend to wander the course following their favourite players and potentially doing useful physical activity,\" he said. \"When I was at the Open this year, there was an army of spectators walking the five miles around the course with the likes of Henrik Stenson. \"I noted my wife, who is 35 weeks pregnant, had racked up 12,000-odd steps, so we are looking to assess whether this is the exception, or perhaps the norm. \"There are absolutely top class golf and sports events in Scotland each year, and I guess many people don't appreciate that by watching in person and getting these steps in, your health can benefit as well as getting to watch the big names.\" Golfing bodies are starting to promote the health benefits of being a spectator. During the Ryder Cup an Active Scotland initiative, Walk the Course, encouraged spectators to walk to all areas of the venue by offering prizes for those who checked in at points around the course. By the end of the event, Ryder Cup fans collectively walked more than four times round the world, according to organisers. At the Paul Lawrie Matchplay, spectators are being encouraged to compare their steps with the players - who are likely to take 10,000 to 12,000 steps. Paul Lawrie said: \"We know that regular exercise is one of the best things that you can do for your health. \"We think that golf may be unique, in that spectators can walk the course, see the action and get some exercise which we know helps people live longer and happier. \"We're urging spectators to come to the Paul Lawrie Matchplay, watch some of the best in Europe, and potentially benefit their health.\" Mr Murray said the project, which is being supported by the World Golf Foundation, would also assess injuries and illnesses that afflict golfers and how to reduce their risk. Are you a sports spectator who has found a way to get health benefits from being a fan, or have you been to an event which encouraged spectators to be more active? Perhaps you throw yourself into the Mexican Waves and dance moves orchestrated by event comperes? Maybe you walk to get the benefit of two or three vantage points during long distance running, swimming or cycling events? Or do you leave you car at home and walk to the home games of your local team? Tell us about it by emailing getinspired@bbc.co.uk with 'Fit fan' in the subject heading. If you fancy trying golf, have a look at our activity page on the sport.", "question": "Being a sports fan can be an unhealthy pastime - sitting for long @placeholder , eating junk food and raised blood - pressure . Unless , that is , your sport of choice is golf .", "option_0": "periods", "option_1": "behaviour", "option_2": "stretches", "option_3": "generations", "option_4": "minutes"}
{"id": 1987, "article": "By anyone's estimations, the general election of 2015 was an immense piece of administration. Forty-five million ballot papers were printed to reflect 650 separate candidate lists for the election. Forty-three thousand polling stations were staffed for 15 hours by 120,000 people. And the total cost of it came to ?¡ê98,845,157. But all that was organised with five years' notice - the duration between the previous election and the date of the 2015 poll. The time frame for the 2017 ballot, which takes place on 8 June, is little more than seven weeks. One Conservative member of staff told the BBC she was completely taken aback. \"I have friends who work for ministers and even they didn't see it coming until the Cabinet meeting took place.\" The clock is already ticking, and there is much work to be done. A Labour aide working for an MP described the past week as \"very stressful\". \"In my own time after work I've been contributing to campaign materials and arranging to uproot myself from London so I can go back to the constituency.\" While general elections are about putting MPs in Parliament, it falls to councils to organise the nitty-gritty of voting and counting. Venues for polling stations and counting centres will need to be earmarked and reserved for 8 June. And that needs to happen before polling cards can be sent out. This work is carried out by local authorities' electoral services divisions and overseen by returning officers. John Turner, chief executive of the Association of Electoral Administrators, predicts this election will be particularly onerous for two reasons - the compressed time scale, and the fact local elections are already taking place in many areas in less than two weeks. \"Many polling stations aren't publicly owned,\" said Mr Turner. \"They're church halls or community centres, and a lot rests on returning officers' ability to persuade the owners to move things around and make the space available.\" As for staffing, electoral services departments maintain databases of temporary workers. But \"in this case some of them may already have made other plans or booked holidays\". \"Although returning officers are helped by permanent teams, this varies a lot. In some district councils it will only be two or three people and colleagues from other departments will have to pitch in. \"It's going to be an intense time for many of us, working 12-hour days.\" Mr Turner is confident, however, that it will all come together in time, noting: \"We're a bit like the duck paddling away beneath the water but serene on the surface.\" There's equally little hope of sleep for those in charge of political policy making. They will be working around the clock on putting together manifestoes. It's a particularly stressful time for the party in government, says Nick Pearce, head of the No 10 policy unit under former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. As well as existing government duties, staff will be working \"flat-out\" to get the document finalised. \"A minister, usually from the Cabinet Office, takes overall responsibility, working with political staff from different departments to draft sections and liaise with the prime minister and her chief of staff,\" he explained. Ministers, lobbyists and Treasury staff also get heavily involved, trying to place pet projects and ensure big-ticket items are properly costed. \"There's huge pressure not to get anything wrong,\" said Mr Pearce. \"But working quickly like this there is certainly potential for that to happen.\" And what of getting the message out? Seven weeks is \"a very, very tight time frame\" for organising a marketing and advertising strategy, said Rachel Hamburger, an advertising executive and former Lib Dem campaigner. \"I'd be very surprised if we saw any nationwide broadcast campaigns comparable to famous ones of the past such as the Blair 'devil eyes',\" she said. \"With a long run-up, parties could be expected to run focus groups, market research and analysis of what is most important to their campaign before deploying adverts. This time, she believes. parties will \"concentrate resources on individual seats and simple messages\". Elsewhere in the media, broadcasters are preparing for election night. The BBC is reassigning hundreds of researchers, producers, camera crews and local reporters to put together its results programme. Parties, meanwhile, have to deal with the small matter of ensuring there are candidates in place in 650 constituencies for people to elect. Labour and the Conservatives have both altered their normal selection procedures to speed things up, while all 54 of the SNP's existing MPs are expected to stand again. The other parties are in varying states of readiness. The Lib Dems say they have about 100 candidates still to pick. UKIP and Plaid Cymru will adopt the bulk of their candidates next week, while Greens' selection is under way with local electoral alliances under consideration. None of Northern Ireland's parties are thought to have selected candidates, as talks continue about restoring devolved government. Most candidates will not have had a chance to allocate resources. It has already led some to take the unusual step of appealing for online donations. Regional party offices will provide MPs and activists with support, but the prevailing mood could be described as one of apprehensiveness. When asked to sum up how things were going, a fretful Conservative source said: \"Everything is basically on fire.\" A Labour campaigner replied with a series of distressed crying and screaming emojis. However, on a purely technical point, it's worth noting the 50-day gap between announcement and polling day is actually the longest since 1983. What's different this time is the lack of preamble, and thus preparation. As the BBC's former head of political research David Cowling put it: \"Everyone was lulled into a false sense of security by assurances... and we're now completely stunned.\" Sign-up to get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning", "question": "When Theresa May announced on Tuesday she was seeking an early general election , scores of people saw their weekends and half - term holidays @placeholder in a giant puff of electioneering , manifesto - writing and the mammoth admin task of staging a nationwide ballot .", "option_0": "passed", "option_1": "deals", "option_2": "vanish", "option_3": "network", "option_4": "ending"}
{"id": 1988, "article": "Underlying annual profits for 2015 fell 2% to ¡ê5.4bn. The bank said it would cut its dividend by more than half to 3p per share in 2016 and 2017. Barclays also announced a further ¡ê1.45bn provision for PPI mis-selling. It said it wanted to form two, main core divisions - Barclays UK and Barclays Corporate and International. The bank said it would slim down its 62.3% stake in its Africa business in the next two to three years. Barclays said it would split the company into Barclays UK and Barclays Corporate and International by 2019. The UK's big four banks are having to make these changes to comply with tougher new banking regulations designed to prevent ordinary customers suffering from decisions made by investment bankers in the event of another credit crisis. Barclays, like most of the world's major banks, has been tainted by - and fined for - rigging prices in both foreign exchange and Libor interest rates. It confirmed it was assisting both the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in their investigation about Barclays's hiring practices in Asia, which centre on allegations jobs were given to people with influence. In the UK, the bank said it had put aside a further ¡ê1.45bn this quarter to meet compensation claims for mis-selling payment protection insurance (PPI). That brings the total for this year to ¡ê2.77bn. Barclays has so far set aside ¡ê7.42bn for wrongly selling this insurance for loans. Mr Staley told the BBC his main aim was to restore the bank's reputation. \"We are working at Barclays to change conduct,\" he said. \"I am truly dedicated that Barclays rests itself on the foundations of integrity and engenders trust from our clients, so the conduct issues will be a thing of the past. \"I do believe that trust is returning to our institution. \"But we will never rest, we are never done. \"We have to focus on building that trust every day.\" Mr Staley said the bank's decision on Africa, where it has had a presence for more than 100 years, had been \"very difficult\". \"The reality is, in this new regulatory environment, we carry 100% of the liabilities, but we only own 62% of Barclays Africa,\" he said. \"It truncated possible returns from investing in Africa.\" Barclays has more than 12 million customers across 12 nations in Africa. \"You go to places like Uganda and Kenya and the brand of Barclays is as strong there as it is in the UK,\" Mr Staley said. \"But we have to make some very difficult decisions if we are going to get Barclays into focused, clear, compelling business model that generates returns for our shareholders.\" Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the new boss was clearly taking a big broom to Barclays's operations in an attempt to dramatically simplify the group. \"When the dust has cleared, the bank should have two high-quality financial services divisions, and the potential to offer investors a decent dividend, but it is going to take some elbow grease to get there,\" he said. Mr Khalaf said the move to reduce its interests in Africa made sense as it would \"free up capital and get rid of an unwanted distraction as the bank continues its clean-up operations\". The news that Barclays intends to retreat from Africa after 100 years of doing business there was one of the most eye-catching lines from the Barclays boss. In recent years, former chief executive Antony Jenkins and before him Bob Diamond had described Africa as an important growth market for the bank. Barclays Africa employs 45,000 people in Africa, so it is not an easy thing to sell, and the list of potential buyers is not a long one. At the top of that list of potential buyers might be ex-Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond. Read more from Simon Barclays also said its bonus pool for staff in 2015 had shrunk 10% to ¡ê1.67bn. Mr Staley, who took up his post in December, told the BBC the bank was competing on an international level. \"In the last four years, Barclays bonus pool has been cut in half,\" he said. \"This is a dramatic move - but we need to pay competitively. \"Whether it is a bank manager in Manchester or a banker in New York, we need to pay our people competitively for Barclays to be competitive.\" The annual report shows former chief executive Antony Jenkins, who was sacked in July, was paid ¡ê3.4m last year, of which ¡ê500,000 was a bonus payment.", "question": "Barclays shares closed down 7 % after reporting a drop in full - year profits , a dividend cut and a restructuring @placeholder reducing its stake in Africa .", "option_0": "including", "option_1": "pledge", "option_2": "raised", "option_3": "doubling", "option_4": "affecting"}
{"id": 1989, "article": "Ashley Gamble, from Leicester, told the Sun that dozens of the creepy-crawlies emerged from a cocoon on the fruit. There is speculation they were Brazilian wandering spiders, a bite from which can cause an \"extremely painful\" erection and possible death. Asda said finds like this were \"rare\" and it was investigating further. Mr Gamble, who moved his family out of the home for a brief period, said it was like \"something out of a horror movie\". \"All our bananas are washed and sprayed before they are transported to the UK and every single piece of fruit is manually checked for quality and stowaways,\" a spokeswoman for Asda said. \"We sell one billion bananas every year and the chance of finding a spider is incredibly low, but very occasionally one hangs around to give us a fright.\" To rid the property of the spiders a pest control firm heated the house up to 60?¡ãC to neutralise them. Paul Gale, from the company, said Brazilian wandering spiders were \"potentially lethal\". \"They are from a humid, moist climate.  The heat we're putting in is a dry heat and they are unable to live.\" Matthew Holden, from the Nottingham Reptile Centre, said their venom could cause an \"extremely painful\" erection. However, he added that the \"spiders in fruit stories\" could be \"blown out of proportion\" as they were probably more likely to be harmless and from the UK. There has been no independent confirmation of what species was found at the house.", "question": "A family have had their home fumigated due to an infestation of \" deadly spiders \" they say @placeholder in a bunch of bananas from their local Asda .", "option_0": "dumped", "option_1": "beaten", "option_2": "arrived", "option_3": "live", "option_4": "played"}
{"id": 1990, "article": "Nicholson has remained hopeful of agreeing a new deal with the 31-year-old, who scored three goals in 18 league games last season. \"Funds are very low at the moment,\" Nicholson told BBC Sport. \"Shaun, as is his right, needs a certain amount to be able to carry on playing for us.\" Nicholson says a lot of work is being done to generate extra money for the National League club - which is still the subject of an ongoing takeover bid - to enable him to sign the former Northampton, Notts County and Bury forward. \"We're trying to raise as many funds as we can through sponsorships and through the players' fund so that maybe I can go back to Shaun and offer him something that can get him to come back,\" Nicholson added. \"But at the moment we're stuck in a little bit of a stalemate as I haven't got enough money to offer him, but I don't want him to leave. \"So until I take the deal away or until he signs a with somebody else, I've still got hope on that one. \"I get on really well with Shaun, so we both know exactly where we stand, but I'm having to put some work in to try and raise some money.\"", "question": "Torquay United manger Kevin Nicholson says the club may @placeholder out on the chance to re-sign striker Shaun Harrad due to a lack of finances .", "option_0": "hold", "option_1": "ruled", "option_2": "lose", "option_3": "walk", "option_4": "called"}
{"id": 1991, "article": "Colm Cavanagh has recovered from a knee injury that he sustained in a recent club match and remains at midfield with Conall McCann. David Mulgrew also starts after being a late inclusion for the Donegal game. Down make one change from their semi-final win over Monaghan with Joe Murphy replacing Peter Turley at wing-forward. Twelve different players got on the scoresheet in Tyrone's hugely impressive nine-point victory at the semi-final stage. Cathal McCarron wore the number six jersey against Donegal but lined out at corner-back and he is named in the full-back line with Padraig Hampsey selected at centre half-back. Media playback is not supported on this device Harte accepts it will be a challenge for his side to play any better, but insists there is still room for improvement. \"We did a lot of things very well but we made mistakes as well,\" said Harte. \"We were opened up for a number of goal chances in that game. \"It was a very good performance but I wouldn't say that it was a complete performance because we can be better at some aspects of our play. \"That is the six million dollar challenge for us now to get to that standard at least plus more the next day. \"I would rather be dealing with that than wondering could we play well. You can't have it every way. \"You can't do things and then worry about doing them. \"I now know that we can play that well so if we can repeat that then we will be in a good place.\" Harte is attempting to win his sixth Ulster SFC title in charge of Tyrone, and a first back-to-back since 2009-2010. Down have not won the Anglo Celt Cup since 1994 and last appeared in the final in 2012, losing to Donegal. They have caused Tyrone plenty of trouble during Harte's 15-year reign, however, taking them to Ulster Championship replays in 2003, 2008 and 2014, winning once after extra-time in 2008. Those experiences have made Harte wary of a side still regarded as rank outsiders despite impressive victories over Armagh and Monaghan. Media playback is not supported on this device \"It has always been a battle between us and them and because they are a people who have a strong tradition of playing quality football the evidence is there. \"Form points to the fact, that in theory, we should win this game but form doesn't win games for you. \"It is how you prepare number one and how you deliver on that preparation and that's our challenge. \"If we can deliver on the best of our own preparation to the best of our ability then I'm confident that we can win this game.\" Tyrone: N Morgan; A McCrory, R McNamee, C McCarron; T McCann, P Hampsey, P Harte; C Cavanagh, C McCann; D Mulgrew, N Sludden, K McGeary; M Bradley, S Cavanagh, M Donnelly. Subs: M O'Neill, L Brennan, R Brennan, M Cassidy, R Donnelly, D McClure, D McCurry, Justin McMahon, C McShane, C Meyler, R O'Neill. Down: M Cunningham; N McParland, G McGovern, D O'Hagan; D O'Hanlon, C McGovern, C Mooney; K McKernan, N Donnelly; J Murphy, C Maginn, S Millar; J Johnston, C Harrison, R Johnston.", "question": "Tyrone manager Mickey Harte has @placeholder the starting line - up which beat Donegal for Sunday 's Ulster SFC final with Down at Clones .", "option_0": "dismissed", "option_1": "retained", "option_2": "named", "option_3": "defended", "option_4": "coached"}
{"id": 1992, "article": "The former South Wales Police officers are suing the force after corruption allegations were made over the Lynette White murder investigation. In 2011, they were cleared of perverting the course of justice following the wrongful conviction of three men for her 1988 murder. The review's findings are due in 2016. On 14 February 1988, 20-year-old Lynette White was found stabbed more than 50 times in the Cardiff docklands flat where she worked as a prostitute. South Wales Police launched an investigation and Stephen Miller, Yusef Abdullahi and Anthony Paris, who became known as the \"Cardiff Three\", were jailed for life in 1990 after being convicted of her murder. But their convictions were quashed on appeal in 1992 after judges were told they had been \"fitted up\" for the crime. A new investigation was launched by the force but it was not until 2003, 11 years after the Cardiff Three were freed, that the real killer was identified. A breakthrough in DNA techniques led detectives to Jeffrey Gafoor's Bridgend home. He was arrested and later admitted her murder. In the years that followed, questions were raised over the initial investigation into her death ultimately leading to eight former police officers being charged in 2011 with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. But the trial later that year collapsed in dramatic fashion when prosecutors lost confidence in the disclosure process and the case was abandoned. All eight were cleared of any wrong-doing and have since launched civil action against South Wales Police. And on Thursday at a pre-case hearing at the High Court sitting at Cardiff, it was said that the findings of the review into the matter would be made public after the the civil action is concluded. Richard Horwell QC, who was appointed by the Home Secretary to head the inquiry, had initially been due to report his findings by the summer but due to the civil action under way is now not expecting to complete his inquiry until the spring of 2016. The civil action by the former officers is due to be heard in October.", "question": "A review into why the UK 's biggest police corruption trial collapsed is to report its findings after civil action by eight officers involved @placeholder .", "option_0": "night", "option_1": "there", "option_2": "ends", "option_3": "events", "option_4": "here"}
{"id": 1993, "article": "Ivan Rakitic deflected Guilherme Siqueira's cross-shot into his own net to give Valencia a shock lead. Santi Mina then finished a terrific move by slotting in a second goal in first-half stoppage time. Messi ended a club goal drought of 515 minutes, but Barcelona now only lead Atletico Madrid on goal difference. Luis Enrique's side began April with a nine-point lead over second-placed Atletico, but their season has crumbled since then, with defeat against Real Madrid in El Clasico marking the start of a dreadful run. It was Atletico who ended Barcelona's chances of retaining the Champions League in midweek, and who drew level at the top of La Liga with a comfortable 3-0 victory over Granada earlier on Sunday. Barca, playing the 53rd match of a draining season that included a trip to Japan in December to win the Club World Cup, looked weary and short of ideas as they attempted to fight back from a 2-0 half-time deficit. They could lose top spot if they fail to win at Deportivo La Coruna on Wednesday, with Atletico visiting Athletic Bilbao on the same night, and Real Madrid - just a point behind in third place - also in action, at home to Villarreal. When Messi scored for Barcelona in a Champions League victory over Arsenal on 16 March, few expected he would have to wait more than a month to find the net for his club again. The forward did score his 499th career goal in the meantime - a penalty for Argentina in a 2-0 World Cup qualifying win over Bolivia on 30 March. But his form for Barca has dipped at the same time as their fortunes, and he has suffered his longest run without scoring for Barcelona since 2008. Messi was denied three times in the first half as the home side created a host of chances without taking advantage. Eventually, he did score - turning in Jordi Alba's pull-back from the left - but with Barca two goals down by that stage, there was little reason for the reigning world footballer of the year to celebrate his landmark achievement. This was some transformation for a Valencia side humiliated 7-0 on their last visit to the Nou Camp, in the first leg of a Copa del Rey semi-final on 3 February. Pako Ayestaran, who replaced the sacked Gary Neville as manager on 30 March, put out a line-up with far more discipline and spirit than they showed on that miserable night. Shkodran Mustafi, once part of the youth set-up at Everton, was pivotal to their victory. The German centre-back was outstanding in frustrating Barcelona's much-vaunted forward line for much of the evening - as Ayestaran's side climbed to 12th place. Siqueira, on loan from Barcelona's title rivals Atletico Madrid, also had a significant role to play for Valencia. The Brazilian full-back broke forward on to Andre Gomes' pass and looked as if he would be credited with the opening goal as his delivery from the left was fumbled in at the near post by Claudio Bravo. Television replays, though, showed that Rakitic had got the decisive touch. Mina, who scored when the reverse fixture ended 1-1 in December, then took advantage to place Dani Parejo's through pass inside Bravo's far post as Sergi Roberto failed to track his run. Valencia's victory, and Barcelona's troubles, could be boiled down to a tale of two players called Alves - one who started, and one who did not. Diego Alves, the visitors' goalkeeper, rivalled team-mate Mustafi in terms of influence on the result, making a hat-trick of saves to keep out Messi, and showing sharp reflexes to deny Neymar and Rakitic too. In the Barcelona line-up, there was no place at right-back for Dani Alves, dropped to the bench after a bizarre post on Instagram that made light of his team's midweek Champions League exit at the hands of Atletico Madrid. The defender put on a wig and impersonated his girlfriend, model Joana Sanz, to give a tongue-in-cheek reaction to Wednesday's 3-2 aggregate defeat. His replacement, Sergi Roberto, is primarily a central midfielder, and looked uncomfortable in the full-back position - which was a significant factor in Valencia's second goal. Barcelona coach Luis Enrique: \"We have to remain strong. We need to win the last five games and I know we can do it. \"We were better than Valencia in every aspect apart from our finishing. We created a lot of chances but we were unlucky. \"We've dropped three points that we could have taken but football is like that.\"", "question": "Lionel Messi 's 500th career goal could not prevent @placeholder leaders Barcelona suffering a third successive La Liga defeat for the first time since 2003 .", "option_0": "stumbling", "option_1": "shock", "option_2": "control", "option_3": "cup", "option_4": "scored"}
{"id": 1994, "article": "\"With new cover of French paper, a new set of fears,\" says the New York Times on its front page, adding that there is a \"dread that Charlie Hebdo may prompt further violence\". In an op-ed piece in the paper, Turkish writer Mustafa Akyol calls on the Muslim world to ease its concept of blasphemy. \"Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity,\" he says. \"The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.\" Many Muslim Middle Eastern newspapers - even moderate ones - strongly criticise the magazine's front-page cartoon of Muhammad. \"Charlie Hebdo continues its provocation,\" reads a headline on the front page of Jordan's establishment daily Al-Dustour. In the Algerian daily Echourouk, Habib Rashdin criticises the French government for helping to fund the new edition of Charlie Hebdo, saying this \"violates all red lines, and is an open crusade against Muslims\". \"It has become every Muslim's right today to file a lawsuit against the country's ambassadors over charges of 'insult and contempt for religion',\" he adds. The front page of another Algerian paper, the anti-Islamist Ennahar, features a large picture of a sign saying \"Nous sommes tous¡­Mohamed\" (\"We are all Muhammad\"), in a reference to the ubiquitous declarations of \"Je suis Charlie\". Iran's official rolling news TV channel IRINN describes the cartoon as \"an act of provocation\". Showing part of the cartoon but without Muhammad, Iran's English-language international channel Press TV warns that the cartoon \"will stir up more hatred\". In Turkey, Yeni Akit - a paper that supports the Islamist governing party - launches a strongly-worded broadside against Charlie Hebdo and the West in general, under the headline \"Ignominy continues\". \"Despite the perilous events, the arrogant magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Western media, under the thumb of Zionist powers, carry on their cowardly attacks against Muslims and the Islamic world,\" it thunders. But secular opposition Cumhuriyet reprinted four pages of the Charlie Hebdo edition as an act of solidarity, albeit without the front-page cartoon of Muhammad. The daily's plans prompted a police raid on its printing house on Tuesday evening, although the edition was allowed to go ahead once it was clear that no images of Muhammad would be published. Two columnists from the newspaper included a smaller version of the cover in their columns online. Several commentators urge France and other countries to outlaw the insulting of religions and religious figures, saying that failing to do so will only encourage Islamic extremism. \"I look forward to a French law that protects people's sanctities and beliefs from attack and ridicule,\" Idris al-Driss writes in the Saudi daily Al-Watan. \"Freedom of expression should end at and not cross the limits of offending others over their colour, race or religion,\" he adds. \"Insulting religions should be legally treated as racism.\" In the Lebanese daily Al-Anwar, Raouf Shahouri accuses the West of double standards. He says some countries penalise expressions of anti-Semitism while \"seeing no crime in attacking the prophet of Muslims and hurting the feelings of more than a billion Muslims around the world\". \"This pattern of half-blind western justice is the major source of terrorism,\" Mr Shahouri says. In France itself, the sales success of the new Charlie Hebdo edition is front-page news for many papers, which pay homage to the satirical magazine. Many of their websites include pictures of Charlie Hebdo's cover. The front page of the left-wing daily Liberation is covered with small copies of the front-page cartoon of Mohammed, with the superimposed headline \"Je suis en kiosque\" (\"I am on sale at the newsagent's\"). Le Point magazine looks back at the history of Charlie Hebdo, with numerous cartoons from \"over 55 years of impertinent illustration\". But liberal Le Monde strikes a more questioning note, referring on its website to the arrest of controversial comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala for allegedly voicing support for terrorism. \"'Charlie', Dieudonne - what are the limits of freedom of expression?\" it asks in a headline. In Germany, the front-page of the left-wing Berlin daily Tageszeitung features nothing but a huge image of Charlie Hebdo's front-page cartoon. At the top of the front-page of the liberal Sueddeutsche Zeitung, is an image of Charlie Hebdo editor Gerard Briard brandishing the new edition at the magazine's Tuesday news conference. The daily's website features a zoomable image showing a two-page spread from the new Charlie Hebdo edition. In China, state-controlled media voice alarm at Charlie Hebdo's decision to feature a cartoon of Muhammad on its front page, saying it unnecessarily provokes Muslims. An editorial in the tabloid Global Times describes the cartoon as \"inappropriate\". \"If Charlie Hebdo remains defiant on issues regarding Islam, it will probably put the French government in a difficult position,\" it adds. A counter-terrorism analyst interviewed by the paper strongly criticises the West's approach to other cultures in general, saying its \"pride and arrogance do not conform to the objective reality that we live in a multicultural society\". In Russia, a commentary in business daily Vedomosti links the debate about Charlie Hebdo and free speech with the West's conflict with Russia. It says the attack on Charlie Hebdo has united western European public opinion in defiance and has proven that the Kremlin's hopes of turning Europeans away from \"open society values\" and towards its emphasis on \"traditional values\" are futile. \"Russia has found itself in isolation in the company of marginal politicians and terrorists offended by cartoons,\" it says. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "question": "Newspapers across the globe @placeholder to the \" survivors ' edition \" of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo - featuring a cartoon of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad - with a mixture of anger , concern and solidarity .", "option_0": "respond", "option_1": "strapped", "option_2": "wrote", "option_3": "moon", "option_4": "according"}
{"id": 1995, "article": "Brewer Tennent Caledonian said it was part of its commitment to promote responsible drinking. Last year, the UK's chief medical officer recommended that adults should drink no more than 14 units of alcohol a week. The revised guidelines will start to appear on 24 packs of 440ml, 500ml and 568ml Tennent's cans later this month. The new label comes almost a year after the brand started publishing calorie information on its packaging. Sales director at Tennent's, Alan Hay, said the labelling would help drinkers make \"informed decisions\". He said: \"Including the latest weekly unit advice on our packaging was the logical next step following our decision to be the first alcohol business in the UK to display calorie content on our products in 2016. \"Consumers are increasingly more interested in their food and drink intake. \"We are a business committed to responsibility around our brands and believe it's important to communicate this information so our drinkers can make informed decisions about their alcohol consumption.\" The new labels will also include a warning to avoid alcohol if pregnant or trying to conceive and direct consumers to the Drink Aware website. C&C Group, which owns Tennent's, will also include the guidelines on other brands, such as Magners Cider over the next year. Scotland's chief medical officer, Dr Catherine Calderwood, called on all drinks manufacturers to follow suit. She added: \"The UK chief medical officer guidelines give the public the latest and most up-to-date scientific information so that they can make informed decisions about their own drinking and understand the risks alcohol may pose to their health.\"", "question": "Cans of Tennent 's lager are to carry @placeholder weekly alcohol consumption guidelines in an industry first .", "option_0": "down", "option_1": "growing", "option_2": "risk", "option_3": "updated", "option_4": "spend"}
{"id": 1996, "article": "Often dubbed as the \"Monaco of the East\", the red dot has beaten a path to steady economic progress and prosperity since the 1970s. Much of the city's success can be attributed to the vision of one man - Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister who died this week. He was in office from 1959 to 1990. The tenure made him the world's longest-serving prime minister in history. Singapore broke away from neighbouring Malaysia and gained independence in 1965. About half a century ago, Singapore was an island without any natural resources to call its own. Since then, it has pulled off a dramatic transformation - boasting two casino-integrated resorts and an airport that has frequently topped the \"world's best\" list. In addition, the central business district is crowded with skyscrapers that rival neighbouring Hong Kong and mid-town Manhattan in far-flung New York. Mr Lee was not one to shy away from his achievements for Singapore. The second volume of his published memoirs carries the title, From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000. To help sum up his economic triumphs for the city state, several experts shared their views on Lee Kuan Yew's economic legacies for Singapore. Lee Kuan Yew's emphasis on growth, the thrust on making Singapore attractive as a destination for  investment as well as the focus on drawing world class manpower; building state of the art infrastructure and excellent air and sea linkages; a low and transparent tax regime; clean and efficient bureaucracy; a strong regulatory and legal framework; a neutral diplomatic policy which has ensured it is an ally of the US as well as China; and developing a clean and green city, have ensured Singapore's stupendous economic success. These factors have led to the emergence of Singapore as a powerful and wealthy financial centre. A trained lawyer, this visionary leader was Singapore's chief architect in harnessing social cohesion despite ethnic and religious diversity; and in engineering an economic miracle. His defining economic policy is arguably uncompromising standards for a universally accessible, top-flight public education system - astutely identifying human capital as Singapore's key competitive advantage - supplemented with rigorous application of meritocracy. This understated principle accelerated economic ascendancy by unleashing the forces of upward social mobility for all, with little tolerance for complacency or corruption. Complemented by a fair and transparent judiciary, businesses thrived. But above all, Mr Lee's principled approach to nation building forged his legacy as a luminary. Lee Kuan Yew performed a miracle transforming Singapore from one of the poorest countries in the world in the 1960s to being among the most advanced today. His main contribution, and the key to his success, was that he understood that in order to put Singapore on a sustainable growth trajectory one needs much more than sound economic policy. Any policy can be reversed, any incentives for growth can be dismantled. Mr Lee built a country whose institutional set-up is unparalleled. This includes the rule of law; efficient government structures; the continuous fight against corruption; and overall stability. Lee Kuan Yew's vision was to build an economically sound country that would be robust enough for future generations. But he knew Singapore had limitations. To achieve his dream, he had to change the mindset of its then population of around two million people. Singaporeans had to be more welcoming to immigrants if the country were to grow. The population needed to expand by continually attracting high-calibre people who would create employment, bring in much-needed capital and most importantly, pass on their key skills. It is thanks to Lee Kuan Yew's vision that Singapore is as welcoming to immigrants today as it was 50 years ago. But it is the integration of foreign and home-grown talent that has allowed the country to enjoy decades of economic growth. The economic value of every person in Singapore today is as high as that of the US. After the separation from Malaysia, Lee Kuan Yew developed a highly technocratic government which led to competitive, meritocratic and results-based economic policies. Some key decisions were the development of Changi Airport as a regional transport hub after Singapore outgrew the previous Paya Lebar airport, which was a state-of-the-art facility when it opened in the 1950s. The air hub and the aggressive defence of Singapore as a sea freight trans-shipment hub - as well as the technocratic foundations of transparency and good governance - led to Singapore's position as a natural hub for multinational businesses in Asia. Other key positive economic policies included the Central Provident Fund, Housing Development Board flat ownership and integrated education, which all helped Singapore transition from a village setting towards towns and the highly sophisticated cosmopolitan global city we see today. With such high praises, what does the future hold for Singapore? Can it sustain the pace of development amid the current economic turbulence in Europe and while America is still finding its footing for growth? While some see continued success, others are warning of a changing landscape. Singapore is one of the most competitive economies in the world today. In order to maintain rising wages and improving living standards, Singapore will continue to transform its economy towards higher-value-added industries with strong productivity growth. Key growth drivers for Singapore over the next decade will be Singapore's role as one of the world's leading financial centres; its competitiveness as a logistics, shipping and aviation hub; and its role as a regional HQ for global multinationals. The long-term outlook for Singapore remains very bright. There are downside risks to growth which stem from rising income inequality and restrictions on free speech. There is an attempt to widen the social security net, which could partially ease signs of unrest in a local population grappling with the high cost of living. The government will have to strike a fine balance between being fiscally prudent and expanding welfare schemes, in order to retain its high sovereign ratings. A population that is social media savvy is also more politically engaged and this will mean that a higher proportion of younger voters will demand the right to dissent. Gradually, the political system and the economic regime put in place by Lee Kuan Yew will unwind and become less and less effective. This is partly because of changing circumstances over which Singapore has no or little control, but also because Lee has left in place a broken system of elite regeneration. In short, his system only works with someone as smart and ruthless as Lee Kuan Yew at the top. My fear is that his successors might be able to bring themselves to be as ruthless as Lee, but not as smart. This would be the worst of all worlds. A better scenario would see a more flexible and open political system that is less ruthless and has much more public accountability.", "question": "At one @placeholder north of the equator , tropical Singapore has become a hotspot known for its efficient infrastructure , rooftop bars , chilli crab , and host city to the only night race on the Formula 1 racing calendar .", "option_0": "home", "option_1": "time", "option_2": "degree", "option_3": "mile", "option_4": "group"}
{"id": 1997, "article": "Police said they were called to the \"sudden death\" of the Bournemouth University student, aged in her 30s, at a house in Gillet Road. Officers discovered \"unknown chemical substances\" at the property. Neighbours left their homes while the substances were removed on Thursday. The death is not being treated as suspicious and next of kin are aware. The university described the death in the student village on the edge of its Talbot Campus as \"an isolated incident\" and said it was \"making support available for any student who has been affected\". Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service also attended the scene.", "question": "A student has died and homes have been @placeholder after chemicals were found at university accommodation in Poole .", "option_0": "launched", "option_1": "evacuated", "option_2": "killed", "option_3": "released", "option_4": "revealed"}
{"id": 1998, "article": "The Nikkei closed up 1.3% at 20,376.59. Stock markets around the world had fallen on Monday in reaction to the \"no\" vote in Greece's referendum, but the declines were not as bad as feared. On Tuesday, Greece is expected to present new proposals at a eurozone emergency summit. The plan is said to include a demand for Greece's debt to be cut by up to 30%. The European Central Bank (ECB) is maintaining its pressure on Greek banks, refusing to increase emergency lending and ordering them to provide more security for existing emergency loans. On Monday, the main share indexes in the US all closed down about 0.3%. In Europe, London's FTSE 100 slipped 0.8%, France's Cac 40 dropped 2% and Germany's Dax index lost 1.5%. The euro had dipped at first against major currencies on Monday, but then recovered later in the day. Speaking on Monday, Neil Williams, chief economist at Hermes Investment Management, said: \"Markets have yet to be convinced in full either that the [Greek] exit door will be open or that the extent of any contagion from this could be irreparably damaging to the system.\"", "question": "Japan 's Nikkei index rebounded slightly on Tuesday , a day after stock markets had fallen in the wake of Greece 's decision to reject the @placeholder of an international bailout .", "option_0": "ground", "option_1": "remains", "option_2": "subject", "option_3": "notion", "option_4": "terms"}
{"id": 1999, "article": "\"Boys were hit, force-fed sick, slippered, beaten in the sports barn,\" said Niomi Gabrielle, a former pupil of the now-closed Oakwood School, in Stowmarket, run for boys with emotional and behavioural problems. The school, which operated from 1974 to 2000, has been at the centre of a Suffolk Police inquiry into allegations of excessive physical abuse. Two former teachers admitted two offences each this week, while other charges against them, and two other teachers, were dismissed at Ipswich Crown Court. Corporal punishment was made illegal in UK schools in 1987. Brian Alliban was at a mainstream primary in Bury St Edmunds but was moved by the authorities and his parents to Oakwood, from the age of eight, until he left in 1986 when he was 16. He had gender reassignment surgery in adult life and is now known as Niomi Gabrielle. She watched the Oakwood trial from the public gallery at court. \"There were teachers who were very demanding and very violent in the way they treated other boys and elements of that have traumatised me ever since,\" said Ms Gabrielle. \"The punishments which were meted out were legal to a point, but when it got to the stage of whacking someone's head against a canoe for example, that is over the top in terms of how a child should be treated by a member of staff.\" She said one of her worst memories was being forced to eat liver at mealtimes, which she she did not like and then being forced to eat her own sick when she vomited. She said she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder as an adult, as well as gender dysphoria. \"I already had emotional problems, interpersonal and learning difficulties but certainly the physical abuse that happened at Oakwood and a lot of things I've struggled with since, are a result of being there.\" Ms Gabrielle is one of more than 100 former pupils who are mounting a civil legal case for damages against Suffolk County Council, which ran Oakwood. Speaking at the end of the trial at Ipswich Crown Court, a Suffolk County Council spokesman said: \"[When individuals came forward] we immediately contacted the police who initiated a complex and detailed investigation into these allegations. \"We are very glad this investigation has now reached a conclusion and that the voices of the people involved at the time have been fully heard and hope they feel justice has been done. \"We would strongly encourage anyone who has previously experienced such treatment to bring it to our attention at the earliest possible opportunity.\" The two teachers, along with a former head teacher, are due to be sentenced on Friday. Ms Gabrielle said she had some good memories of Oakwood. \"The school wasn't just full of bad people violating boys - there were also good teachers,\" she said.", "question": "After two teachers admitted abusing children at a state boarding school , a former pupil has said she was left \" traumatised \" after being forced to eat vomit and @placeholder serious violence .", "option_0": "witnessing", "option_1": "distributing", "option_2": "protect", "option_3": "tortured", "option_4": "drugs"}
{"id": 2000, "article": "It is exactly a year since the last nuclear reactor was switched off at Wylfa on Anglesey. But staff told BBC Wales it had been 12 months of both personal and technical challenges to overcome. It includes the loss of over 200 jobs at the plant over the period, and more to come after de-fuelling ends. \"There's been many challenges and there's times you have felt really uncomfortable,\" said site director Stuart Law. \"You can see individuals you have known and worked with for many years coming to terms with the situation we are in. \"We have so many good people across this site, and people who have left, and their knowledge was about how this all ran. \"Today, it's about the de-fuelling process and how you take it apart. It's a different mindset and difficult to get your mind around.\" When the second of two reactors at Wylfa was turned off on 30 December, 2015, there were about 550 people working at the site. A year on, the roll-call of those working for Magnox at the Anglesey plant stands at 344. But the head of the Wylfa site said the firm had been \"really fortunate\" and had been able \"to meet the aspirations of lots of people\" - whether through voluntary redundancies, retirement, or redeployment at other Magnox sites - including Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd, which is also undergoing decommissioning. \"Remember, we have a job to do, and that job is to do the de-fuelling,\" he said. \"So we have kept a large number of staff as well - 344 today is still a big employer on Anglesey.\" It has meant people such as Gareth Jackson have had to rethink their roles. The senior production technician is one of many at the plant who have had to switch from working regular day shifts to a 12-hour pattern, as the de-fuelling operation runs around the clock. It has been a steep learning curve for him, as he trained for the new skills needed in the task. \"I'm starting all over again,\" he said. \"It's been a good change in many respects. Initially, I had just six months work - now I've got until when the fuel goes out of the reactor. \"It's job security - and that's what we all need in the end.\" However, the task at Wylfa remains enormous. Since de-fuelling began at Easter 2016, about 25% of the total spent fuel used at Wylfa has been recovered and removed. But it still means there are 74,389 Magnox fuel elements on site that need to go for reprocessing. And it will require nearly 500 more journeys of specially constructed nuclear flasks from Anglesey to Sellafield in Cumbria.", "question": "All nuclear fuel at a former Welsh @placeholder plant should be off the site within two years , specialist teams have said .", "option_0": "network", "option_1": "unit", "option_2": "power", "option_3": "military", "option_4": "centre"}
{"id": 2001, "article": "The sectarian nature of Syria's conflict is not just played out on the battlefield, but in the calculations of wealthy Gulf powers: the Sunni monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula are acutely aware of the opportunity in Syria to remove a Shia leader in Bashar al-Assad. But while they share this mutual interest in removing Mr Assad, their usually co-ordinated response is being severely tested, as respective Gulf leaders pursue different paths. Qatar openly supports the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, and is thought to provide money and arms to many different groups inside Syria - including al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra. Saudi Arabia meanwhile has been chiefly concerned about Iran's role, and has been much more cautious, choosing instead to back its own carefully selected groups so as not to help Islamists that may pose a threat to its own security. Bahrain, conscious of its own majority Shia population that has rattled the leadership with months of clashes, has taken a more conciliatory tone, calling on Iran to withdraw its support for Assad, but hoping that a \"new page\" could be opened with the country following its recent presidential election. Kuwait's position has until now been one of neutrality, but the ancient tribal networks that link it with Syria, and concerns about extremists in the country, means it too has had to tread more carefully, focusing instead on aid efforts. These different approaches to the crisis reflect the different priorities and concerns inside each country. It is the same Sunni-Shia divide leaving scores dead in Syria that colours Gulf responses to Syria's war. The most active of all the Gulf states has been Qatar because it is not concerned about the consequences of its foreign policy on its domestic stability. Its internal dynamics are not being rocked by sectarian divides, and the dangers of political Islam and religious extremism are much more acute elsewhere in the Gulf. Qatar also need not worry about placating or managing an angry Shia population as the Saudis or Bahrainis do. But the active role some of these Gulf States have taken in trying to remove President Assad and their financial and political commitments to the opposition, seem at odds with their commitment to UN aid efforts. An international aid conference in January, hosted by Kuwait, saw the US, European countries and a number of Gulf states pledge a total of $1.5bn (?¡ê985m) to help the millions of Syrians forced from their homes. But while most Western pledges have been made - and were added to at the G8 summit last month - Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE are among the Gulf States who have yet to meet their targets. According to the UN, Qatar has donated just $2.8m of the $100m it pledged in January, while only $23m of the $78m Saudi Arabia promised has so far materialised. Kuwait's minister of state for cabinet affairs Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah al Sabah called on his neighbour states to contribute the promised funds. He told the BBC Kuwait was \"honoured\" to have met its $300m target, and that he was \"sure our Gulf brothers will be at the forefront of this call to honour their pledges also.\" Sheikh Mohammad insisted his country remained neutral on the issue of arming Syria's rebels. \"We are apolitical,\" he said. \"We have been apolitical since the start of this crisis. We are not for or against arming.\" He refused to be drawn on Qatar's more aggressive policy, making clear that Qatar is \"an integral member of the GCC,\" adding that Kuwaitis \"are very close to our Qatari brothers.\" But Sheikh Mohammad warned that violence will continue as long as Syria remained a \"theatre\" for regional power games.", "question": "As sectarian loyalties and foreign powers push Syria deeper into its bloody conflict , it has also @placeholder the competing interests of Gulf States , some of which have large stakes in the war .", "option_0": "targeted", "option_1": "announced", "option_2": "criticised", "option_3": "exploited", "option_4": "exposed"}
{"id": 2002, "article": "Kearan Tongue-Gibbs, 11, from Redditch, is a spin bowler who grips the ball in the fold of his arm. He has been identified as a talented young disabilities player by the England and Wales Cricket Board. Volunteers from WellChild's Helping Hands project have cleared a space in Kearan's back garden and installed cricket nets. Kearan, who uses no artificial aids when batting and bowling, plays alongside able-bodied children at Walkwood Middle School and at Astwood Bank Cricket Club. His mother, Carrie, said her son's talent was first noticed when he was playing beach cricket on a family holiday. \"At the time Kearan's uncle was playing cricket for his university and he said that Kearan had a knack for playing and that we should do something about it.\" Kearan lists England batsmen Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott among his cricketing heroes. He regularly attends special training sessions for cricketers with disabilities at Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham.", "question": "A young cricketer born with no hands or forearms has had @placeholder facilities installed in his garden by a charity .", "option_0": "its", "option_1": "toilet", "option_2": "brain", "option_3": "modern", "option_4": "practice"}
{"id": 2003, "article": "New admissions to the unit at University Hospital of Wales (UHW) stopped on Thursday because of a \"cluster of infections\". Cardiff and Vale University Health Board said infected babies had been treated and their condition was improving. Other babies who need neonatal care will be referred to other hospitals. The health board said enhanced infection prevention control measures had been put in place to prevent the infections - Acinetobacter baumanii and Enterobacter - spreading. Ruth Walker, director of nursing at the health board, said the hospital was looking to provide extra cot space elsewhere within its maternity services. There are 15 babies at the unit, which has 30 cots for intensive care, high dependency and special care. There are plans to expand the unit to 50 cots as part of proposals to centralise hospital services in south Wales, which would see more babies being treated at UHW. A health board spokesman said it recognised \"capacity is being stretched\" and work to refurbish the unit was due to start within months. Earlier on Friday, Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Community Health Council (CHC) claimed \"poor infection control measures\" had led to the closure of the unit. A CHC spokesman said it had expressed concerns about the space available in the unit following a visit in February. Chief officer Stephen Allen said the \"most pertinent\" of these was the fact staff were changing in toilets and equipment was being stored in an isolation room. Mr Allen called on the health board to urgently create a brand new facility, saying: \"The unit is so cramped there's not enough space for barrier nursing if a patient becomes infected. \"For far too long we have had a poor facility which provides excellent care, we need to re-balance that.\" Ms Walker told BBC Radio Wales that staff could change in toilets if they wanted to but it was \"not necessarily something we would be promoting\". \"There is nothing to suggest that there is a cross infection issue if staff change in a bathroom facility, but it's not the optimum approach. The key here is hand hygiene,\" she said. Staff would change into disposable uniforms when dealing with infections, she added.", "question": "Twelve babies have tested positive for bacterial infections which have @placeholder a neonatal unit in Cardiff .", "option_0": "closed", "option_1": "contaminated", "option_2": "disrupted", "option_3": "lost", "option_4": "entered"}
{"id": 2004, "article": "Funding now comes from local councils, the Clinical Commissioning Group and the Police and Crime Commissioner. The new service will be run by charity P3, which takes over from previous contractor St Mungo's. P3 said it would \"not offer a one-size fits all service\" and aimed to help people \"rebuild their lives\". Mark Simms, from P3, said: \"Our first and foremost priority is to ensure that current clients accessing services are informed and engaged with, making the transition as smooth and positive for them as we possibly can.\" The funding will \"mainly pay\" for the outreach team who have been commissioned to \"find and assess people who are new to sleeping on the streets, or who are longer-term rough sleepers with complex needs, and to support them into accommodation and support as quickly as possible\". The money is expected to fund the service for the next two years.", "question": "Rough sleeper outreach teams in Gloucestershire are to get ¡ê 312,000 to be able to continue services after a central government grant @placeholder .", "option_0": "revealed", "option_1": "request", "option_2": "scheme", "option_3": "shows", "option_4": "ended"}
{"id": 2005, "article": "Media playback is not supported on this device The 2014 Commonwealth Games champion lost to France's Kilian Le Blouch after a penalty in golden score. \"People say to me 'you're only 33', but 33 in judo is old. In February I was almost on the verge of not wanting to come,\" the Norfolk athlete said. \"I had a good few months, won European silver, but now it's time to reassess and see what comes next.\" He continued: \"I never say never (about competing at Tokyo 2020). I think my staff may say it's a bit out of reach, maybe British Judo will look to youth for the next four years and maybe they're right to do so.\" Neither Oates nor his opponent scored a point in the match, and Oates was eight seconds from victory before being penalised by the referee to level the scores and taking it to a golden score, where he was penalised again. Oates continued: \"I left it down to the referees, unfortunately. It was a scrappy fight, it's his style of fighting, he doesn't really want to score, he wants to win on shidos (penalties) and I played into that a little bit. \"The worst thing is I've been feeling the best I've ever felt going into these Olympics but I've not produced the performance I think my training and work ethic has deserved.\"", "question": "Judoka Colin Oates says he is considering his @placeholder after losing in the 2016 Rio Olympic - 66 kg first round .", "option_0": "counterpart", "option_1": "emotions", "option_2": "return", "option_3": "post", "option_4": "future"}
{"id": 2006, "article": "The blaze at Bucharest's Colectiv club on 30 October was started by fireworks that ignited foam on the club's walls. On Sunday, four more people died of their injuries, bringing the number of deaths to 45, officials say. The drummer of the band playing the venue died after his condition worsened on a military plane taking him for treatment in Switzerland. The plane turned back to Romania but Bogdan Enache died soon after it landed. Another nine deaths were announced on Saturday. The fire led to mass protests and the resignation of Prime Minister Victor Ponta's government. Read more: Protesters prompt Ponta's fall More than 30 people remain in a serious or critical condition in hospital, Romania's health minister said on Sunday. The ministry says 21 people are being treated in hospitals across Europe and in Israel. The Nato plane left Romania late on Sunday to transport 12 burns victims to the UK and Norway, Emergencies Minister Raed Arafat said. It was not stated how many victims were being taken to each country. Three owners of the club have been arrested amid allegations that the venue was overcrowded, lacked the required number of emergency exits, and may not have been authorised to hold such a concert. Concerns that safety at the club was compromised because of corruption - a long-standing issue in Romania - have further fuelled public anger against the political elite. Hundreds of protesters continue to hold rallies in Bucharest. The demonstrations have now entered their sixth day. President Klaus Iohannis has called for a \"sea change\" in Romanian politics in the wake of the government resignation. He attended a protest on Sunday night in Bucharest's University Square, and wrote on his Facebook page afterwards: \"I told people to stay involved, that only together we can all make Romania the country we want it to be.\"", "question": "Twelve victims of the Bucharest nightclub fire have been @placeholder by Nato to hospitals in the UK and Norway .", "option_0": "condemned", "option_1": "sent", "option_2": "targeted", "option_3": "flown", "option_4": "forced"}
{"id": 2007, "article": "When Lewis Kinsella was released by Aston Villa at the end of last season, he thought he would struggle to find a club before the new season began. The 21-year-old defender worked for his uncle as a plumber before he was signed up by League Two side Colchester United. \"I was working part-time to earn a bit of cash over the summer in case nothing happened,\" he told BBC Essex. Kinsella began his career as a trainee with Arsenal before moving to Villa, where he failed to make a first-team appearance in five years with the club. Despite the drop down to the fourth tier of English football, Kinsella is happy to be playing senior football after just two loan spells during his time with Villa. \"I think I was held back a bit [by Villa] but they've changed,\" he continued. \"A lot of players there are getting out on loan and I think that's the best thing for young kids, they need to get out and play as many games as they can. \"When you're playing in League Two, at the end of the day it's their jobs, they've got to play for their families. If they drop down one more league then there's a chance that you could go part-time.\"", "question": "\" I am so happy I 've got everything @placeholder now . I 'm a better footballer than a plumber . \"", "option_0": "experience", "option_1": "interest", "option_2": "deals", "option_3": "sorted", "option_4": "back"}
{"id": 2008, "article": "Concern over Mr Trump's protectionist policies hit the US currency, helping sterling rise 0.89% to $1.24860, a one-month high. Meanwhile the benchmark FTSE 100 index shed 47.26 points to 7,151.18. A stronger pound can hurt multinational firms, as overseas profits are worth less when converted back into sterling. The biggest faller in the FTSE 100 was bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair. Its shares dropped 4.38% after it said revenues had been affected by a run of \"customer friendly\" results. The company said football results in December and Donald Trump's surprise US election win had cost it about ?¡ê40m in the final quarter of 2016. Electronics giant Dixons Carphone fell by 2.58% ahead of a trading update on Tuesday, however airline Easyjet - which will also update the markets - gained 3.07%. Miner Antofagasta was the best performing stock, climbing 3.6% and leading other basic resources shares higher. Rival Fresnillo also did well, gaining 3.42%. Despite its recent gains, the pound is still down by about 17% against the dollar since the Brexit vote in June 2016.", "question": "( Close ) : UK stocks closed lower on Monday as the pound gained against the dollar following Donald Trump 's inauguration @placeholder .", "option_0": "weekend", "option_1": "speech", "option_2": "deadline", "option_3": "markets", "option_4": "growth"}
{"id": 2009, "article": "But she hopes to be a fairly frequent guest as the principal Opposition leader at Holyrood. Consider the strategy here, born of a combination of external circumstance and internal calculation, of both facing reality and seeking to reshape it. Ruth Davidson's pitch to be the second party at Holyrood is, of course, predicated upon a presumption of who will be first. She is positing the return of Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister. Given the SNP's apparent lead in the polls, that would seem to be at the very least a working proposition. So how to gain ground for the Tories? The strategy here is to position the Conservatives as the bulwark standing in the way of the SNP. The Tories calculate that there is a significant section of the electorate who either dislike or distrust the SNP - or, perhaps, simply wish their power to be constrained. Who are seeking balance. The Tories believe there is a mood there to be tapped. So, in that sense, their pitch derives from the referendum result, however much they may state that they wish Scotland to move on from the referendum period.  I believe that desire to be genuine but, nevertheless, the Tories hope to derive a legacy. The SNP have contrived to corral the 45, the Yes voters, to remain in their camp for the UK General Election and quite possibly the Holyrood contest. In similar fashion, the Tories hope that a substantial section of the 55, the No voters, can now be recruited to pitch the Conservatives into the role of guarding against untrammelled SNP power. To do so, the Tories, of course, need to overtake Labour.  Rather a big ask - but that is their objective. They pursue this in a range of ways. Firstly, they suggest that Labour - and the Liberal Democrats - are no longer true, unalloyed Unionists. They make this point by noting that both parties have signalled that members would be free to campaign for independence, should they choose, in a future referendum. I would suggest that this argument in its pure form is relatively weak.  Firstly, Kezia Dugdale and Willie Rennie are not actively encouraging Yes campaigners in their ranks. They are simply acknowledging their potential presence. Secondly, the Conservatives are pursuing just such an open policy with regard to the referendum on the EU - to the extent that Cabinet members in the UK Government are openly on competing sides. However, the Scottish Tory pitch may work in another way. If there is a constituency which distrusts the SNP, if that same constituency dislikes the concept of a second referendum, then the Tories may well be able to depict themselves as the most stalwart in standing against that notion. Then there is the tax question. Ruth Davidson was hugely, hugely tempted to offer an eye-catching tax cut in her manifesto for May's elections.  And she insists she remains an advocate of small government and low tax. But she ruled out the prospect for a series of reasons, having tested the water on the doorsteps. She found that a tax cut was not trusted, not believed. Further, it risked prompting questions about possible cuts in service provision - tricky territory for the Tories. Thirdly, the ground shifted when Labour and the LibDems proposed a penny increase in income tax for Scotland. The Tories could undercut them without changing the tax rates. They could depict their MSPs as a phalanx against higher tax. Incidentally, the Scottish Tories will suggest that Scotland should match the plans by the Chancellor for an increase in the threshold at which folk enter the upper rate. That, they suggest, would amount to a tax cut in Scotland - but without altering the parity with the UK upon which they lay stress. In essence, the offer to the voters from the Tories is transactional. It is a deal, a bargain. They are saying:  vote for us and we will stand firm against a second independence referendum and against tax rises. We will be a bulwark against these plans. There is a further factor underlying the Tory offer. And that is Ruth Davidson herself. It was intriguing to notice how often she talked of electing \"me and my team\". Once an ing??nue, she has now gained experience and - the party believes - a reputation for determination and diligence. It is still a tough sell pitching for the Tories in Scotland. Nobody denies that. But the party strategists believe that she wins respect and, perhaps, can win votes. The electors will decide whether the strategy is successful. But will it all be subsumed by the European debate? That topic was everywhere at conference. On the floor, on the fringe, in gossipy groups. The divisions may be honourable within the Tories. But they are stark and they are real. There was, though, some evidence of anger at any who attempted to be over-partisan on this topic at a conference where the immediate objective was to focus upon the Holyrood elections. The party leadership in Scotland must simply hope that they - and the voters - can operate in silos; can keep the European choice in reserve, pending the Scottish elections on May 5.", "question": "She is not , we are told , measuring the curtains at Bute House just yet . Ruth Davidson , that is . The Scottish Conservative leader told her party 's conference at Murrayfield that , much as she would like to @placeholder the First Minister 's official residence , she thought it unlikely .", "option_0": "adapt", "option_1": "dominate", "option_2": "enjoy", "option_3": "occupy", "option_4": "solve"}
{"id": 2010, "article": "Leicestershire Police is also said to have known Mark Cummings and Katie Leong were meeting in breach of a restraining order. On Tuesday, Leong was sentenced to a minimum of 17 years in prison after being found guilty of attempted murder. The force said it is co-operating with the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). More on this and other stories from Leicestershire In July last year Daniel Rotariu was attacked with 96% pure sulphuric acid while he slept in his bed in a property on Turner Road, Leicester. The attack left him blind and with burns to 32% of his body, for which he still requires treatment. Leicester Crown Court heard Leong had become fixated with carrying out an acid attack. In his evidence, Mr Cummings told the court he had raised concerns about why Leong wanted to buy the acid to his probation officer. A spokesman for the IPCC said a referral from Leicestershire Police was received in August last year, and an investigation can now proceed following the conclusion of the trial. IPCC commissioner Derrick Campbell said the investigation would examine \"whether the police response to the information received was appropriate\". A spokesman for Leicestershire Police confirmed the referral was made after the attack \"into what the force may or may not have known and how we responded to information about the two defendants\".", "question": "A police force is being investigated over claims it knew acid had been bought for use in a @placeholder attack .", "option_0": "deal", "option_1": "mortar", "option_2": "planned", "option_3": "beach", "option_4": "neighbouring"}
{"id": 2011, "article": "15 February 2016 Last updated at 13:02 GMT The actions of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris made Columbine a byword for the phenomenon of school shootings. For 17 years, the parents of the Columbine killers have kept their silence. Now Sue Klebold, the mother of Dylan Klebold, has written a book, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of the Columbine Tragedy. All of her proceeds will be donated to research and charitable foundations focusing on mental health issues. In an exclusive interview, she spoke to BBC Newnight's Kirsty Wark. More: The longer version of BBC Kirsty Wark's interview with Sue Klebold will air on BBC Newsnight on Monday 15 February at 22:30 GMT and on Our World on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News (click for transmission times) My life as the mother of the Columbine killer", "question": "The Columbine High School massacre in 1999 , which killed 13 @placeholder and injured 24 others in Denver , Colorado , had a seismic impact on the US .", "option_0": "teenagers", "option_1": "food", "option_2": "classmates", "option_3": "deaths", "option_4": "people"}
{"id": 2012, "article": "In a statement, the WHO said the deaths had occurred in January to March, with 151 suspected cases recorded. There was, it said, a \"serious risk of further spread of the disease\" in DRC. The acute, mosquito-borne viral disease has killed 225 people in Angola and infected about 1,600 there. The WHO said the DRC health authorities had set up a national committee to respond to the outbreak, including \"screening and sanitary controls\" on the country's borders. People travelling to Angola will now be vaccinated against the disease, it added. The WHO statement says that the DRC's health ministry has in addition activated a contingency plan which includes more community engagement to fight the disease and better training of health workers. Yellow fever is a virus that can cause bleeding, jaundice and kidney failure, It is spread by mosquitoes, usually the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the same species that spreads the Zika virus. It is endemic in tropical regions of Africa and South America. A vaccine can prevent infection but there is no specific drug treatment for people who are infected.", "question": "An outbreak of yellow fever has killed 21 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) says , @placeholder some cases to an outbreak in neighbouring Angola .", "option_0": "group", "option_1": "following", "option_2": "including", "option_3": "leaving", "option_4": "linking"}
{"id": 2013, "article": "That's what the rhetoric is suggesting. But details of the ground-breaking announcements on health and social care in Greater Manchester are still patchy. The jury will be out for a while, but opinion formers in the health world are favourably disposed at this stage. News of such significance is often trailed in a controlled way with a few outlines released in advanced followed by the full package at a pre-planned press conference. It was nothing of the sort this time. The announcement was a genuine surprise  - there had been no nudges and winks in preceding weeks. It was leaked by over-eager councillors in the Manchester area briefing BBC Radio Manchester and the Manchester Evening News.  Well done to them on a fine scoop. I gather NHS England chiefs were livid that their thunder had been stolen by local authority sources in Manchester. They had planned to unveil the plan in the city today once the memorandum of understanding had been signed. The merger of health and social care for 2.7m people will be one of the most significant developments on Simon Stevens' watch. Understandably he wanted to be in control of the announcement. The Chancellor George Osborne, unsurprisingly, was smiling as he delivered a brief TV clip after the story broke. It fits in well with his Northern powerhouse agenda and the devolution of power and money from Whitehall to Manchester which he set in train last autumn. Cynics might think it all looks rather convenient with the election barely two months away. But I am told that his contacts amongst Greater Manchester councillors were important in facilitating an agreement. A Chancellor of the Exchequer has the clout across national and regional government to make things happen. So with the Chancellor and Simon Stevens of NHS England unveiling the plan in Manchester today, what have we learned? The first thing which has been made clear is that this is a joint initiative involving local authorities and the GPs who head the local health commissioning groups. The idea that ¡ê6 billion was being handed to local councillors was always wrong. A new strategic health and social care partnership board will have representatives from the councils, hospitals and other providers, clinical commissioning groups and local NHS England management. It has been emphasised that the deal does not amount to another reorganisation of the NHS. The new structure in Manchester will have to work to standards on care and patient rights and meet statutory duties set out in the NHS Constitution. Even so Simon Stevens described it as the greatest integration and devolution of care since the creation of the NHS in 1948. The ¡ê6 billion annual budget which has been much talked about includes a mix of money already provided to the local health economy and funds devolved from the centre by NHS England. About ¡ê1.5 billion currently spent by NHS England will be handed to the new Greater Manchester body. This includes money spent on specialised commissioning, for example treatments of rare diseases, and on GP services. The ¡ê6 billion pooled budget will also include funding for public health and social care at present held in town halls. There is no doubt of the excitement amongst health and civic leaders in Greater Manchester, with \"defining moment\" and \"unprecedented agreement\" spicing up the press releases. There is a genuine conviction that the new arrangements will help move the region from one with some of the worst health outcomes to the best. Joined up thinking and spending, its argued, will promote prevention and care outside hospitals which can only improve the lives of residents. And yet.....it will be a huge undertaking. The structure, we are told, will be in place by April 2016 and fully functional a year later. Remember, this has never before been tried in England.  It will be on a bigger scale than the integrated health and social care system in Northern Ireland which has been operational since the 1970s. There are suspicions in the health world that local councillors will distort priorities for the NHS. A former clinical director of an NHS drug and alcohol service warned in The Guardian today that devolving this service to a local authority had resulted in it being outsourced because of local government competitive tendering rules. Few doubt that the prize of genuine health and social care integration is well worth striving for.  But delivering it is a big ask. There will be unintended consequences and continued questions about whether this is the beginning of a fragmentation of the NHS in England. Perhaps the old cliche is applicable here - only time will tell.", "question": "It has been a potentially momentous week for the NHS and the @placeholder of regional government in England .", "option_0": "equivalent", "option_1": "balance", "option_2": "details", "option_3": "influx", "option_4": "future"}
{"id": 2014, "article": "At the end of this decade Japan will stage the 2019 Rugby World Cup, and the next year the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held in Tokyo. Japan has already joint-hosted football's 2002 Fifa World Cup, but the size of the task ahead is of a much greater magnitude. However, the country sees there being equally strong economic, touristic, and sporting benefits. Progress this autumn has been a mixture of highs and lows, with the excitement of the Japan rugby team's showing at the recent Rugby World Cup being counterbalanced by controversy around the 2020 Games logo and stadium. Both those projects have gone back to the drawing board, but Yukihiko Nunomura, chief operations officer of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, tells me he believes these issues are \"slowly starting to recede\". \"Both the stadium and logo are in the process of selection for new designs,\" he says. \"When it comes to the logo, previously this was limited to designers who had [won] an award, however those limits have been taken off. The process needs to be open and involve the public. It is now a much wider selection process.\" One of the major targets for 2019 and 2020 is to see an upswing in tourism to the country, with hopes that the number of tourists will rise from 15 million last year to 20 million by Olympic year. \"It is not an unachievable target,\" says Mr Nunomura. \"It would bring great economic benefits, not just to Tokyo. \"We have very rich attractions across Japan, including food and natural beauty, to cutting edge technology.\" Mr Nunomura also says more than 20 major local firms have already signed up as 2020 partners, including Asahi, Asics, Canon, Eneos, NEC, Fujitsu, ANA and Japan Airlines. \"A lot of Japanese companies are already putting their hands up to be involved with the Olympic Games,\" he says. Other plans currently in the pipeline include a programme of cultural activities around the Olympics and Paralympics. And, for the period after the sporting events, a post-2020 legacy plan is also set to be launched next year, looking at areas such as Japanese traditional crafts and sustainability, among others. Mr Nunomura's sporting tourism goals for 2019 and 2020 are shared by Masanobu Mikami, executive director at the London office of the Japan National Tourism Organization. For the Rugby World Cup he says there are target markets such as the UK and Australia, but that Japan will be looking to attract visitors from other competing nations, and elsewhere. The 2019 RWC is being hosted from the north to south of the country, and will ensure sports fans visit a number of regional cities, including such as Fukuoka, Sapporo, Oita, Kobe, and others. And, for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games a year later, Mr Mikami hopes that visitors will not restrict themselves to the two tourism hotspots of Tokyo and Kyoto. \"Obviously with the RWC being a year before, it gives us a very important opportunity to emphasise the appeal and attractiveness of regional cultures across the country,\" he says. \"In 2020 we would again like to focus on the attractiveness of regional cities, and different parts of the country. It is really important that we get visitors to visit all parts of Japan.\" Despite the media attention in the West given to elements of youth culture such as manga and anime, and characters such as Hello Kitty, Mr Mikami says that \"most people who visit are interested in traditional things, such as temples, the tea ceremony, culture. \"But of course younger people who visit us are interested in these other things,\" he adds. \"This current image we have is not a bad thing.\" Mr Mikami says that one of the biggest cheerleaders for the country during the two events can be the Japanese public. \"We have to explain to them the importance of international visitors, and that if we welcome them with open arms, and get them to spend money then that will be of benefit to the whole country. \"That mindset needs to be encouraged, and if visitors to the Rugby World Cup or Olympic Games experience enough hospitality in Japan, we are hoping they would be back afterwards to enjoy the experience again.\" The responsibility for a meaningful sporting legacy for 2019 and 2020 rests with Daichi Suzuki, head of the Japan Sports Agency, whose role is to integrate all the nation's sports administrative bodies under one umbrella. A former swimmer, who won gold in the 100 metres backstroke at the 1988 Olympic Games, he has ambitions for sporting progress in both the elite and general public spheres. Indeed, he says the two areas are related, as if Japan can grow the number of teams and athletes capable of winning on a global stage, that can inspire citizens to take part in sport. \"One of the goals is for the general population to be fitter and take part in sport,\" he says, adding that at present there are no set targets regarding public sporting participation, although this could change. Conversely, he says there are specific targets for Japan's elite athletes, with a goal of finishing among the top three medal winning nations at the 2020 Games. \"Medals are very important,\" he says. \"In London we got seven gold medals, in Rio 2016 we hope to win more than 10. So Rio will be very important for Japan.\" Looking to the 2020 Paralympic Games, he says they can help integrate disabled people more into Japanese society, and put a focus onto issues which affect them, and also ones which affect the nation's elderly population. Mr Suzuki says the country has a strong background in swimming, judo, wresting, gymnastics, and athletics, while there have been encouraging signs recently in archery and cycling. In addition, team sports - such as rugby and football - are important too. \"We [Japanese] are very good at taking action in a group,\" Mr Suzuki says, and he hopes that seeing Japanese teams doing well will encourage the public to take part in sport. \"Japan spends 40 trillion yen on health care. That is very high, that could break Japan itself. It is very important to protect your own health and be fit. \"Sport is fun when you start participation, and make friends - there is a real sense of community.\"", "question": "To host one major global sporting event might be considered good @placeholder , but to host two in a couple of years shows not luck but planning and ambition .", "option_0": "entry", "option_1": "decline", "option_2": "change", "option_3": "fortune", "option_4": "business"}
{"id": 2015, "article": "The woman with the most paintings in the collection is the Victorian botanist Marianne North. Born in 1830, North devoted her life to travelling the world and painting plants. There is a gallery at Kew Gardens in south-west London dedicated to her work. North had no formal training, according to the Kew website. However, she put her natural talent to \"prolific\" use on her travels. During an eight-month stay in Brazil, she finished more than 100 paintings. Instead of painting individual plants, her work typically showed landscapes and natural habitats. The Marianne North Gallery contains 833 paintings by the artist, showing more than 900 species of plant. North approached Kew and offered to build the gallery in return for her life's work being displayed in it. It opened in 1882. The Stuart king's execution in 1649 enshrined his status as an object of fascination for artists. There are more than 200 paintings of Charles in the collection, about 40 more than his son, Charles II, who was restored to the monarchy in 1660. Andrew Ellis, director of Art UK, said: \"It does not surprise me that Charles I is the monarch with the most portraits. \"Not only was he the greatest of royal patrons and collectors of art but he was also keenly interested in how art could promote the image of kingship. Some of the portraits date from after his death including one in King's Lynn Town Hall, which was the subject of a sonnet written for Art UK by the poet John Fuller.\" Maritime trade, sailing and naval power have long captured the imagination of artists. We counted up the words used to describe the paintings in the collection. Boat (12th), sailing (14th), mast (16th), ship (17th), wave (18th), sea (22nd), sail (25th) and rigging (42nd) all feature in the top 50. Pieter van der Merwe, the general editor of the National Maritime Museum, said the emergence of the seascape as an art form in England was imported from the Netherlands in the 17th Century. \"It's a British taste, but where did we get the taste for maritime art? We did not invent it ourselves, we got it from the Dutch,\" he said. We may be a nation of dog lovers, but there are more horses than dogs in the collection, according to the list of the most popular tags. The horse is the most popular animal tag (49th), followed by dog (132nd), bird (138th), cow (140th), sheep (172nd) and fish (200th). Pictured is the Scottish painter George Harvey's depiction of a horse from 1836. John Everett's 1,058 oil paintings form the largest collection by a male artist. Dorchester-born Everett, a well-connected Edwardian, was a graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art who lived his life according to his dual passions - painting and sailing. His life and work remained relatively unknown until art historian Gwen Yarker began researching his biography. The majority of his art lies in the storerooms of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, while his landscapes can be viewed at Dorset County Museum. Ms Yarker said Everett shunned fame, was ambivalent about exhibiting and reluctant to take the limelight. \"Art history has not been kind to him,\" she said. Works of art can be handed over instead of inheritance tax. Under the scheme, the government accepts the item at market value, and hands it over to a public museum or gallery. Andrew Ellis said: \"We are aware that we are still missing key information for many of the paintings on the site. Who is the artist? Who is the sitter? Where is the landscape? \"The Art Detective sub-site of Art UK is helping to fill in some of this missing information with the incredible help of the general public.\" BBC News examined the dates of the paintings in the collection. The median year was 1910, meaning half of the paintings we have a creation date for came before that date, and half afterwards. However, we could only ascertain dates for about half of the 214,000 artworks. Some 74,000 paintings had no year at all, and another 27,000 used either date ranges or other descriptions. Earlier works are less likely to be dated as record-keeping was poor. Andrew Ellis said: \"At the other end of the scale, some 50% of the collections on the site have fewer than 10 paintings.\" What is Art UK? The data analysed relates to the artwork in Art UK's digital archive. Photo credits for collage picture: City of Edinburgh Council, Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Tate, Jersey Heritage, Budleigh Salterton Town Council, Wolverhampton Arts and Heritage, Ferens Art Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery Reporting team: BBC England data unit: Pete Sherlock, Paul Bradshaw", "question": "Horses are a more popular artistic subject than dogs - that 's one of 10 @placeholder facts unearthed by BBC analysis of Art UK 's digital archive , which catalogues more than 200,000 of the nation 's oil paintings .", "option_0": "show", "option_1": "hand", "option_2": "acclaimed", "option_3": "helped", "option_4": "illuminating"}
{"id": 2016, "article": "Instead, it was a little busier than normal. On Saturday, she released a previously unannounced new single, with a politically charged video. On Sunday, she performed at half-time of the 50th Super Bowl, American football's end-of-season extravaganza and the most-watched television event of the year in the United States. Soon after, she announced a 40-date world tour that will start in late April in Miami. But it was her Super Bowl show in California, referencing celebrated black figures of the past and recent black history, that gained the headlines. Super Bowl 50: Denver Broncos beat Carolina Panthers Formation is Beyonce's first new solo single in 14 months. In it, she refers to the Black Lives Matter movement, details what it is to be black in 2016 United States and sings: \"I like my baby hair with baby hair and afros, I like my Negro nose with Jackson 5 nostrils.\" In what mic.com described as \"one of the most political music videos in recent memory\", she is seen lying on top of a New Orleans police car that sinks into water, a clear reference to Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged mainly black communities in 2005. New South Negress journal wrote that, in the video, Beyonce \"becomes every black southern woman possible for her to reasonably inhabit, moving through time, class, and space\". It was this song she launched into at the Super Bowl. Beyonce surprises with 'Formation' Black Lives Matter seen through a lens Why do US police keep killing unarmed black men? Even before the performance, when images of the backing artists were posted from backstage, plenty of people picked up on the visual reference - the berets of the Black Panther Party. A militant organisation that rejected the non-violent ideals of Martin Luther King, the party was set up 50 years ago to defend black people against violence. The group was established in Oakland, barely 40 miles (64km) from the stadium in Santa Clara where Beyonce performed on Sunday. At one point, the singer and her backing dancers raised a fist into the air, mimicking the Black Panthers' salute. The reference did not go unnoticed: At the end of the musical segment, which also featured Coldplay and Bruno Mars, a compilation aired showing some of the most memorable Super Bowl performances of the past. Among them was Michael Jackson's show in 1993, but in truth, that performance had been marked by Beyonce already. Beyonce has hailed Jackson's influence in the past, saying \"Michael Jackson changed me, and helped me to become the artist I am\". At one point, Beyonce and her dancers formed a large 'X' shape. They also formed an arrow, straight lines and a triangle, but it was this particular formation that people noticed. Malcolm X, the black civil rights leader, was shot dead in 1965. Three years ago, Beyonce's sister, Solange Knowles, was seen carrying a placard quoting Malcolm X in protest against the decision to acquit George Zimmerman of the murder of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida. It wasn't strictly part of the performance, but images later did the round on social media of Beyonce's dancers holding a sign while in the centre of the field. Mario Woods, 26, was shot dead by police in San Francisco in December. Pressure by civil rights groups has led the US Justice Department to open an investigation into the shooting. Police in cities throughout the US have been subjected to intense scrutiny for using excessive and lethal force against suspects, many of them black.", "question": "As one of the world 's leading entertainers , Beyonce would have been @placeholder in seeking the weekend off .", "option_0": "justified", "option_1": "held", "option_2": "interested", "option_3": "highlighted", "option_4": "dumped"}